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The manhunt for two robbery suspects ended at 11:51 p.m. Wednesday, and as the coalition of SWAT and other law enforce-ment agencies cruised away from campus, so went their steady stream of updates and intel.

Since the campus-wide lockdown Wednesday, police have released little new information on the at-large suspects. One

was believed to have fled into Steven G. Mihaylo Hall and the other went south, but their whereabouts remain unknown.

The two splintered from three oth-ers after a high-speed chase that began in Moreno Valley culminated in a crash on Nutwood Avenue and Folino Drive. The other three were eventually apprehended by police.

According to Sgt. Jeff Stuart of Fullerton Police Department, Riverside County Sher-iff’s Department is heading the investigation.

“Because the shooting and the robbery and everything occurred in their jurisdiction, ev-erything has a nexus back to them. They’re the

lead agents. They took the bodies, and they get the investigation,” said Stuart.

Sgt. Lisa McConnell of the Riverside County Sheriff ’s Department confirmed the department is taking the case.

“We’re still actively involved in the case,” she said. “(But) I don’t have any updated informa-tion on what they’re working right now.”

Moreno Valley Police Department, which partnered with the sheriff ’s depart-ment, is leading the investigation, headed by Investigator Ed Rose of Moreno Valley’s Robbery Suppression Team.

Fullerton Police Sgt. Jeff Stuart speaks to reporters Wednesday at one of several press conferences in front of Mihaylo Hall.ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

LOCKDOWN: SUSPECTS STILL AT LARGE

The Cal State Fullerton campus continues its administrative transi-tion as a new Director of Athletics was named in a press conference Friday. The five-month search con-cluded with Jim Donovan, former director of athletics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Donovan, 53, has vast experience in athletic administration with 21 years under his belt. With the ap-pointment he becomes the 11th Di-rector of Athletics at CSUF in the school’s 55-year history.

University President Dr. Mildred García began the press conference by appointing Donovan as the Di-rector of Athletics.

“Following an extensive and very tight and competitive search, it is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Mr. James Donovan as the next Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Cal State Fullerton,” said García at the press conference.

In order to make the decision, a nine-member search committee conducted a nationwide search. Amir Dabirian, vice president for Information Technology, chaired over the committee.

After García’s introduction and appointment, Donovan got to the podium and thanked members of the committee that presided over the decision and all those in attendance. This appointment is a homecoming for him, as he grew up in the area and remembers picking up his father from engineering classes, who graduated from CSUF in 1970.

Proposition 30 passed as a bill hailed by the California State Uni-versity as essential in patching bud-get woes California’s higher educa-tion systems have endured over the past five years, but details of the proposition’s effects on students’ ac-counts have blurred.

The law will increase personal in-come taxes for earners over $250,000 for the next seven years and raise sales tax by a quarter-cent for four years in order to raise $6 billion to help stabi-lize the state’s bleeding budget.

Since its passage in November, Proposition 30 was promised by the CSU Board of Trustees to refund students about $500 into two differ-ent packages: a $249 refund for the fall 2012 semester and another $249 tuition reduction for spring 2013.

The information about the details of the measure came weeks after the Nov. 6 decision. No information was released beforehand.

Forms were required for quali-fied students at Cal State Fullerton to receive the refund as an option to pocket some of the money. If the form was not filled out and re-turned by what at first was Nov. 30, then Dec. 21, the university said it would automatically credit students a tuition reduction.

The fine print of the refund said students funded by Cal Grant (A or B) or the Pell grant or students who receive the University Grant are not eligible for the refund because part or all of their tuition is already paid by the state or the university.

Refund details blurred

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One of Cal State Fullerton’s prominent fraternities has been of-ficially stripped of its accreditation after months of investigation con-ducted by the university in partner-ship with a national representative of the fraternity.

Sigma Phi Epsilon, one of the seven fraternities on campus, was removed as a chapter from the inter-fraternity council Dec. 5, following allegations of underage drinking at an off-campus unsanctioned event as well as allega-tions of hazing, according to Maricela Alvarado, the Greek Life Coordinator.

Alvarado received a police report in September from the Fullerton Po-

lice Department indicating that an incident had occurred involving un-deraged drinking, which required the hospitalization of a young female.

“We take our reports very serious-ly,” Alvarado said.

Upon receiving the report, Alvara-do and the chapter’s national govern-ing council took it upon themselves to further investigate the allegations.

“Their national headquarters decided to send a representative to investigate and determine the status of the fraternity, and whether or not they will be pulling their charter,” Alvarado said.

According to Alvarado, the for-mer fraternity chapter had been on suspension previously, last spring, due to violation of policies both un-der university and Sigma Phi Epsi-lon nationals’ policies.

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Proposition 30 refund: Students left in the darkImagine that while Christmas shopping

this season, you came across a new refrigerator that you are in dire need of; your current icebox is on the fritz. To your surprise, the refrigerator is advertised as $500 off, a deal just too good to pass up.

This was how Proposition 30 was pitched to our student body.

Much was made by school administration during this year’s election of the importance of Proposition 30’s passage. There was an implied understanding—if not an outright statement—that if Cal State Fullerton students supported the school by backing this measure, our veritable backs would in turn be covered; a near $500 refund for helping stave off drastic cuts.

Yet now, with the semester closing, there appears a relative indifference to delivering on what was promised. To put it another way, it seems that the $500 off the fridge was really a mail-in rebate, putting the burden on you as the consumer to obtain your own savings.

Granted, students still receive a credit towards their next semester regardless, but the implication was a monetary refund.

Simply put, information passed on to

students on how to get their Proposition 30 refund has been lacking; the discrete steps taken to inform students paled in comparison to the amount of effort expended campus-wide on getting students to vote in favor of the measure in the first place.

Qualified students were given just over 20 days to complete and turn in a form to claim their money and, additionally, have until this Friday to clarify how they would like their refund to come in. This is, of course, dependent completely on students seeing emails sent out to their campus addresses.

Not to mention students needing to be eligible for the much-desired refund, those requirements remaining unknown until after Proposition 30 had already passed, leaving several students with Cal Grants, Pell Grants and University Grants high and dry.

There simply seems to be a disconnect from administration, student financial services and the student body they’re supposed to be serving—claiming to have handled the situation thoroughly despite even student leadership suggesting otherwise evinces this.

Even the Daily Titan’s own survey, though

hardly a scientific poll, skews towards almost 50 percent of students being ignorant of how to get the Proposition 30 refund, or that there even was one in the first place.

Perhaps there was simply not enough work put into a contingency plan if the proposition passed. But the point remains that for as much faith and support that students placed in their administration, they have done a poor job in reciprocating that.

In the future, administration needs to do a more thorough job on making sure students know what they are getting (and what they are getting into) if another opportunity like this arises. Emails alone will not suffice, rather we should be using all of the resources available to us to get the word out: Social media, the CSUF website itself and even encouragement to staff to let students know what steps they need to take would all be effective solutions.

Without an earnest effort to get the word out, enticing students to vote seems cynical and self-serving rather than helpful. If effort is expected from the students to vote for school funding, effort should be expected from the school to give students what they were promised.

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President Barack Obama ar-rived in Newtown, Conn. Sunday afternoon to meet with the parents of the 20 children who were killed along with six other women at an elementary school shooting Friday.

The president met privately with the families at Newtown High School, where he was also sched-uled to speak at an interfaith vigil to mourn the victims, most of whom were just 6 or 7 years old.

Obama also met with the first responders of the incident behind closed doors.

As the vigil began, the first re-sponders of the incident received a long standing ovation from at-tendees as they entered the high school auditorium.

In his speech, Obama con-ceded that no words could match the sorrow of the tragedy that had occurred at Sandy Hook Elemen-tary, but pledged that change must come in the wake of it.

“Newtown, you are not alone,” said the president, ac-cording to NBC News. “This job of teaching our children and keeping them safe is something we can only do together.”

Brief by DOMINIQUE ROCKER

Gregory Saks has been named vice president of ad-vancement for Cal State Fuller-ton. Saks was previously vice president of advancement for Cal State Dominguez Hills.

With more than 15 years of experience in creating and imple-menting fundraising programs for universities, Saks will take his po-sition as vice president starting in spring 2013.

Saks will take up leadership for CSUF’s Philanthropic Foundation as executive director. In addition, Saks will be responsible for alum-ni relations, fundraising, govern-ment relations, major events and communications.

“His wide range of experience and advanced skill set will help us continue advancing the University for many years to come,” President Mildred García said upon announc-ing his appointment to the campus.

Saks earned his bachelors de-gree in history from Cal State San Bernardino and his master’s de-gree in higher education adminis-tration from Miami University.

Brief by ADREANA YOUNG

A gunman fired more than 50 rounds at the Fashion Island shopping center Saturday in Newport Beach, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The suspect, Marcos Gurrola, 42, used a semi-automatic hand-gun to fire into the air before he was taken into custody, authorities said. No one was shot, although authorities said one person was hurt fleeing the scene.

Gurrola remains in Orange County Jail on a charge of shooting at an inhabited dwelling.

Gurrola allegedly began shoot-ing outside a Macy’s at about 4:30 p.m. Because there was already so much security on the premises to control the holiday shopping, po-lice were able to find the suspect almost immediately.

Gurrola allegedly put his gun down and his hands in the air, and was arrested without incident.

As investigators worked Sun-day to determine a motive, Newport Beach Police Deputy Chief David McGill characterized Gurrola as someone who was “unhappy about a lot in life and decided this was his best way of releasing his tension.”

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As a recognized social fraternity on campus not only are these young participants to abide by university policies but they are also governed by national guidelines such as maintaining a 2.5 minimum GPA, philanthropy, no consumption of alcohol during recruitment, no hazing, etc.

“They are expected to obey and meet these criteria,” said Alvarado. “Defying these policies could range in referral to a warning all the way to expulsion.”

Dean of Students Lea Jarnagin, Ed.D., added that the students who participate in these social fraternities and sororities must abide not only by Cal State Fullerton’s student conduct policy, but also by Title 5 in the Code of Regulations of the California Dept. of Education.

When an allegation of some sort is brought be-fore the Dean of Students office, a thorough inves-tigation is issued as students have the right to a fair judicial process.

Jarnagin said her office looks into any kind of al-legation or concern and investigates possible viola-tions of school or educational codes. If a violation is found, the office investigates who is responsible.

“In other words, we have to take a student indi-vidually or a student organization, a fraternity or sorority through a process that allows for the most comprehensive and as objective as possible review of the case as presented and then make a determi-nation if policy has been violated,” said Jarnagin. “It’s a long process because you want to ensure the rights of students. You don’t want to go on some-thing that doesn’t have some validity to it.”

As for allegations and concerns of hazing under university policy, these allegations were not taken lightly. The university has a zero-tolerance policy for hazing in any form, or conspiracy to haze.

“We don’t want students subject to harm. A concern or report made to us about hazing—we absolutely will investigate it,” Jarnagin said.

In a statement from the fraternity’s headquar-ters regarding Sigma Phi Epsilon’s California Omega chapter at Cal State Fullerton, the de-cision was made in partnership with university administrators.

“Despite volunteer, staff, and university sup-port, the chapter was unable to implement the necessary changes to provide a safe and positive experience for its members. Sigma Phi Epsilon’s mission is to build balanced men, and its leader-ship programs and educational efforts are based on the value of respect for self and others,” the statement said.

“Behavior that is not consistent with the Frater-nity’s mission and values is not tolerated. When the cultural issues within a chapter that conflict with our

mission and values are too deeply rooted to effect change, we have no other option but to withdraw the chapter’s charter,” the statement continued.

As a result, according to Alvarado, by pulling their charter, students of the organized social fra-ternity are no longer able to promote their frater-nity by displaying their letters, nor are they al-lowed to host events on or off campus.

“As for the fraternity house, the house is owned by a housing corporation and they will decide the future of the residence,” Alvarado said.

Student reaction amongst the Greek Commu-nity has maintained a respectful ambiance in this time for their fellow students.

President of the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) Rory Gallagher, 19, a business administration ma-jor and a member of Phi Kappa Tau, said the loss of a fraternity is a hit to all IFC men and members of the Greek network.

“It’s extremely tough for all Greeks to lose a chapter as involved, passionate, and crucial to the Greek community as Sigma Phi Epsilon has been at Cal State Fullerton. Regardless of the situation, we as IFC urge all students to pass on respect to the gentlemen of Sigma Phi Epsilon for their extraordinary contributions to the uni-versity,” Gallagher said.

Fellow Greek Community member, Cody Le-ong, 21, a communications major and a member of Phi Kappa Tau, said it is unfortunate to lose a good chapter on campus.

As for the future of the now expelled charter, according to the Sigma Phi Epsilon National Fra-ternity Headquarters, “Sigma Phi Epsilon looks forward to re-establishing a chapter at Cal State Fullerton that aligns with the values and expecta-tions of both the fraternity and university.”

Sigma Phi Epsilon, a fraternity at Cal State Fullerton, is suspended for allegations of underage drinking and hazing after months of investigation.

“My understanding is that all of the stu-dents have been receiving messages and those messages include the process for you to receive your refund,” said Vice President of Student Affairs Berenecea Eanes.

She said the larger university system has been in communication with each campus, advising each one to do what they need to do individually to carry out the decision by the Board of Trustees.

“Most everybody since the election has been very clear of that because of the outcome of the proposition that there is a change,” said Eanes.

However, in an online survey by the Daily Titan, out of 370 responses to “Did you submit your application for the Prop. 30 refund,” the majority—45 percent—marked “What refund?”

Eanes said she wasn’t sure why the survey yielded so many negative responses.

According to Eanes, the university did everything it could to inform students about the details of the refund and that ev-ery department handling the refund should be “one song, not a diversity of songs—ev-eryone should be getting the same message.”

“We sent several emails and have sent up-dates; and the students that this issue ap-plies to have received messages. There was really no need send canvas-general messages

to everyone because it doesn’t apply to ev-eryone,” Eanes said.

If a student has a complaint or has been re-ceiving differing information, they should re-port it to the Student Affairs office, Eanes said.

Brian K. Jenkins, associate vice president of finance agreed that communication with students has been effective.

“Numerous texts, emails and portal com-munications were delivered to students, including communications specifically re-quired by the Chancellor’s Office, and ad-ditional reminder notices developed by the campus,” Jenkins said.

Associated Students Inc., vice president Katie Ayala said most students were con-fused about qualifying for the refund as there were provisions that barred them from receiving the refund at all.

As a result, Ayala said, there was some confusion by students to turn in the form and receive a refund.

“I was pleased about the quick turn-around to getting the refund out,” said ASI president Dwayne Mason Jr., but there were some “hiccups” in communication of the details to students.

“I’m a student and I didn’t check my email,” Ayala said, highlighting the fact that many other students do not check their emails as fre-quently as administration would like.

Ayala said there was also some confusion

in the financial services office as there were some faculty members who were directing students to the wrong places. But the uni-versity “did the best they could,” Ayala said.

Mason said there were reports of some mix-ups of qualified students expecting a refund who turned in the proper paperwork

and still didn’t get it.Qualified students who have had a “mix

up” can send an email about their account to [email protected] and their request will be processed by Dec. 21.

Anders Howmann and Ian Wheeler con-tributed to this report.

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“It’s extremely tough for all Greeks to lose a chapter as involved, passionate and cru-cial to the Greek com-munity as Sigma Phi Epsilon...”

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Inter-Fraternity Council

ACCREDITATION: Hazing allegations hurt brotherhood

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“The reason I am so pleased to be here is because CSUF has improved so much … A very good athletic program that’s going to get better. The other thing that also attracted me was the school, the school has improved so much,” said Donovan at the press conference.

Among those Donovan thanked at the press conference was Stephan Walk, Ph.D., whom he takes over for, as Walk was appointed as Interim Di-rector of Athletics in July. Walk said that he thinks the appointment of Donovan is fantastic and a perfect fit.

“Jim Donovan is exactly the right person to take our program forward, I fully support him … He brings a skill set to our program that is an exact fit for the kinds of things that we need to do going forward,” said Walk.

Donovan said that Walk has done a phenomenal job as the Interim Direc-tor of Athletics.

“I think being the faculty athletic rep for so long, he really got to under-

stand how the department worked… I really like his pick in the softball coach Kelly (Ford), thought he did a great job with that. So I’m looking forward to working with him, he’s a good guy,” said Donovan.

Also in attendance were various coaches and players throughout Titan athletics. Member of the women’s soc-cer team Christina Burkenroad was among those in attendance.

“I think he (Donovan) really seems like he’s trying to reach out to the school and his main priority is the athletics and just trying to help us,” said Burkenroad.

Donovan’s short-term plans include meeting with all the head coaches and senior staff and then working with ad-ministration to figure out how to ac-complish what the coaches and staff feel they need to be successful.

“I promise you, there is going to be a strong conversation between what’s need and what’s want because there is a difference there. After we get the needs worked out, then we’ll start working on the wants,” Donovan said.

Reasons that Donovan expressed interest in the job include Garcia’s ap-proach in taking and understanding athletics as the most visible part of the university and the wealth of talent within a 50-mile radius in every sport.

“We’re training year round here in Southern California and so having that talent that’s within a driveable pe-riod with the cost of education that’s skyrocketing across the country. That will actually become a competitive advantage for us because we’re a Cal State school and it’s a value for them to come to Fullerton maybe versus some-one else,” Donovan said.

Having so much experience at Ha-waii, Donovan boasts an impressive resume as in his tenure with Hawaii he administered over 21 sports, 120 full-time staff, 200-plus part time staff and 450-plus student athletes in the athletics department from 2008-12. There was a focus on academics in his term of office as the athletic program exhibited an improvement in both Academic Progress Rate and overall grade point average.

Edison International has award-ed the Cal State University system a $200,000 scholarship to fund low-income transfer students.

The Edison Scholars Program will help fund first-generation and community college students trans-ferring to the CSU.

The scholarship program is de-signed to assist students majoring in science, technology, engineer-ing and mathematics (STEM).

Cal State Fullerton, the coor-dinating campus and other CSU campuses including Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, Northridge and San Bernardino, were among the award recipients.

Flor Tolley, community invest-ment manager at Edison, said the company was looking at awarding scholarships to CSUF for students that had been disadvantaged from

community colleges in applying to CSU campuses.

Edison had previously awarded the scholarship five years ago. The scholarship from 2007-2011 was $150,000, but increased to $200,000 in 2012, said Tolley.

Each individual scholarship was $3,000 per year for a two-year pe-riod, Tolley said.

This year, Cal State Fullerton and all but one other school will award scholarships to 14 students at each campus. At Cal State Dominguez Hills, 10 students will receive scholarships, according to a press release.

To be eligible for the scholarship, a student must be transferring to one of the five participating CSU cam-puses from a community college in the local Southern California Edison area. They also must be studying one of the STEM majors, said Kandy Mink Salas, associate vice president of student affairs.

The students will continue to receive the money as long as they stay eligible by maintaining a good GPA, Mink Salas said.

Mink Salas said the scholarship money allows students to work less hours, so they can focus on their studies.

According to a press release, CSUF President Mildred García thanked Edison officials for their continuing support.

“They are true friends and sup-porters of our campus and stu-dents,” said García, adding that the gift will make a lasting impact on the lives of those pursuing higher education.

Garcia is a first-generation col-lege student, and understands the impact that a degree has on fami-lies.

“It touches their family and en-tire generations after them when they earn a college degree and go on and do great things,” she said.

Newly-appointed James Donovan addresses the campus in Titan Gym at his first athletic event Thursday.ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

DIRECTOR: ‘Exact fit’

Consumer Attorneys of California and other trial lawyer associations are aiming to prevent potentially fatal toy-relat-ed injuries during the holiday season by warning parents to take preventative care when it comes to children’s toys.

This action was brought on after more than a quarter of a million serious toy-related injuries were recorded in 2011, according to a press release.

The main concern for the attorney group is providing public awareness on the issue, said Brian Kabateck, president of Consumer Attorneys.

“We’re trying to avoid anything bad happening in the first place. So generally we want people to be aware of what toys have been recalled and we want … the mer-chants and the distributors to be aware of the problem, so that those recalled toys don’t even reach the shelves in the first place,” Kabateck said.

Kabateck is part of a lawyer group that helps prevent po-tentially dangerous toys from being put onto shelves. Their organization is made up of lawyers who represent injured people and their families.

Toys are usually recalled for having lead paint. He said toys that are made in China don’t have the same restrictions the United States has.

“Or it could be a toy that’s potentially innocent looking, but when you hand it to a small child, they end up swallow-ing it and it causes them to choke. In some cases, death,” Kabateck said.

He suggests that parents do their research to see if a toy had any recalls.

“They will usually pull up very easily with a simple search,

or there may be blogs that identify (certain) toys,” he said.Parents can protect their children from hazardous toys

by “100 percent supervision, 100 percent of the time”, said Jenny Taylor, director of the Cal State Fullerton Children’s Center.

Taylor described toys that pose a choking hazard to be smaller than a paper towel or toilet paper roll.

She said most toys have labels on them, and that parents can take preventative care by reading these.

“Everything pretty much has labels on it, so just being diligent about labels and not removing labels from toys.”

She said when the recalls do happen, a lot of it has to do with the preventative measures and not watch-ing the children.

“So it is a little tricky, because the toy may not be the problem, but the supervision might be,” she said.

Although, she did not want to place the blame on any-body, she said. “The government does a great job of making sure that toys get recalled when they need to be.”

Chyra Christensen, a Norco resident and a mother of three, agrees with government regulations.

“Luckily the government keeps such strong guidelines over stuff. There aren’t that many hazardous toys out there, that I have ever come across,” said Christensen.

She said Toys R Us has a glass case near the entrance of the store, it shows notices of recalled toys.

“So I’ll normally look at that, to see if there’s anything that I’ve purchased that has been recalled,” Christensen said.

She said her main concern is the paint on toys and making sure that it doesn’t chip off, because babies chew on things.

“I don’t want them eating paint chips, whether they say it’s non-toxic or not. It’s still not going to be good for them,” Christensen said.

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Thanks to the efforts of the Cal State Fullerton University Police and members of the community, sev-eral needy families will be enjoying a full holiday dinner, complete with canned vegetables, potatoes, ham and possibly a turkey.

The University Police just finished a month-long food drive in a joint ef-fort with Mercy House Transitional Living Center to provide dinners for needy families during the holidays. The aim of the drive was to provide several families with a complete holi-day meal through the donation of canned vegetables, potatoes, gravy, rice and gift cards for markets.

Capt. John Brockie said the num-ber of donations has been impressive and that the success could prompt another food drive.

“I think it’s successful,” said Brock-ie. “We had people from our com-munity who don’t work at the police department that have brought in items. Also, the news spread a bit and it seems like a successful campaign.”

University Police spreads the word of the food drive largely through word of mouth between friends, fam-ily and the community as well as the CSUF website, which outlined the types of foods that were acceptable.

This marks the department’s first time accepting food donations for Mercy House. The idea for the drive originally came from Officer Katie Cappuccio, who wanted to help the homeless that sometimes visit campus.

“I just thought it would be some-thing we could do for the holidays to help out the community,” said Cappuccio. “So I thought that or-

ganizing something like that would impact some of the people we see on and around campus. We have a lot of homeless people that frequent our campus and I thought it would be a good way to give back to those types of people.”

After Cappuccio saw the CSUF students were giving donations such as toys, clothes and blankets to various foundations, she decid-ed to contact Mercy House to set up a plan for donations.

“What we’re going to do is sepa-rate all the food and create individual boxes that the Mercy House will then distribute to families that need to pre-pare a family dinner. So each box will include the ingredients necessary to do that,” said Cappuccio.

Cappuccio added that the food drive received enough food to make an estimated eight to 10 family dinners.

Interestingly enough, Mercy House was not the first choice for a joint donation from the University Police and Cappuccio was also recep-tive to the possibility of future dona-tions to other organizations as well.

“We were trying to partner with the Women’s Center to see if we can do something for the battered and abused children and women, but the donation process with them was a little more complicated for the time I had to plan,” said Cappuc-cio. “We may try hooking up with a different organization for Easter (or other holidays).”

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University Police Capt. John Brockie stands by the University Police Christmas tree and the food donation box for their food drive.

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Rose was unavailable for comment, but McConnell said police there are fo-cusing on the jewelry robbery.

“What happened at Fullerton is being handled by the Fullerton Police Department and we’re handling what happened over here,” McConnell said.

Stuart said that his last update was that the entire investigation had been entirely switched to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

“(Riverside County law enforce-ment are) taking the lead on it because it all stems from a robbery at a jewelry shop up in their city in their jurisdic-tion,” Stuart said.

“The only thing we would be taking if we did take anything would be the second carjacking and that suspect is in custody, so anything else, we’re not handling,” he added.

Capt. John Brockie, of Univer-sity Police, agreed it is Riverside’s investigation now.

“Fullerton may have a supporting role, but it’s the Riverside Sheriff’s Department’s investigation at this point and they would be the lead as far as searching for the two out-standing (suspects),” he said.

Brockie headed the campus investi-gation during the incident at Cal State Fullerton Wednesday as the incident commander, an emergency position focusing on five areas: incident com-mand, operations, planning, logistics and finance and administration, ac-cording to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

An incident commander cannot also serve as a communications officer, so Stuart stepped up as the night’s pub-lic information officer, Stuart said.

Even though SWAT scoured the campus, University Police headed the operation, Brockie said.

“It’s our jurisdiction and it’s our responsibility, so they’re there to as-sist and I think we worked extremely well and when SWAT gets there, we still have control of the situation,” Brockie said. “They handle the spe-cifics of tactics, but we’re still guid-ing the investigation or search.”

Only Mihaylo Hall and the Edu-cation Classroom Building under-went a “methodical and complete search,” Brockie said. In other cam-pus buildings, which were not fully searched by police, the degree of the searches varied from scanning appearances to checking IDs.

University Police were informed of the suspect situation late, Brockie said.

“We found out (about the situa-tion) by the CHP officer that pushed

the emergency blue phone that went to our dispatcher,” Brockie said.

According to NBC Los Angeles, the phone was pulled when a California Highway Patrol officer caught one of the suspects and realized he did not have radio communication.

Brockie arrived on the scene eight minutes after being notified, he said.

“We would have liked to have known that that was going on beforehand, but sometimes you don’t and when you’re in a situa-tion where you’re going 100 miles an hour, there’s a lot of things that are going on and a lot of things to think about,” Brockie said.

According to one student, part of the early confusion centering on Steven G. Mihaylo Hall may have been caused by someone pulling the fire alarm.

The fire alarm was pulled at 3:58 p.m., according to David Wooding, 20, a business major who was sitting in the second floor of Mihaylo Hall, about to attend a class.

“It is my understanding that if there is an armed suspect on campus, then the protocol is to immediately place the campus on lockdown, not to pull the fire alarm,” said Wooding. It is un-known who pulled the alarm.

A police officer directed students toward the orange grove and foun-tain south of Langsdorf Hall, then a police SUV pulled up to the door in Mihaylo Hall overlooking the grove and a policeman holding a rifle stepped out, Wooding said.

“Many people were not tak-ing the evacuation seriously, but it seemed that attitude changed when

everyone saw the police with weap-ons drawn,” Wooding said.

In McCarthy Hall, one class pre-pared for the worst.

“We barricaded the door at the front of the room and posted guards at each entrance,” said Ray-mond Jacobs-Edmondson, 23, a biology major and EMT with the San Bernardino Mountain Search and Rescue.

The 96-member biochemistry class in MH-121 distributed a few canisters of pepper spray to the three door guards and was prepared to subdue the suspect by sheer num-bers, he said.

Jacobs-Edmondson said people’s at-titudes shifted from annoyed to scared as the night wore on.

Students began leaving the class-room at 9 p.m., and by the time they were officially released at 10:20 p.m., Jacobs-Edmondson estimates the class was only half or two-thirds its original size.

They began walking out after hearing reports of other students who left safely, he said.

Sergio Rocha, 20, a pre-business major sheltered in the Titanshops bookstore, said 20 of the 40 stu-dents locked in left at 8:15 p.m., before the building’s lockdown had been lifted.

“I applied for a job (at the book-store) in there, while I was waiting,” said Rocha.

Stuart addressed the media flurry with five press conferences through-out the night in a makeshift media briefing area in the middle of the Nutwood and Folino intersection.

“When something’s evolving like that, we’re trying to get information out as quickly as possible … I know that some people may have thought that some of it was conflicting, but the feedback that we’re getting over-all has been positive,” Brockie said.

The first university message sent, to shelter in place, was sent at 4:17 p.m.

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Timeline of eventsWEDNESDAY(All times approximated)

3:40 p.m.Crash at Nutwood Avenue and Folino Drive. Five suspects flee car, three through Lot S. One suspect carjacks a vehicle; a second pursuit begins. California Highway Patrol and other officers arrive on campus.

3:41 p.m.One suspect arrested near College Park.

3:58 p.m.Steven G. Mihaylo Hall begins evacuation as fire alarm is pulled; one suspect is believed to have fled into the building.

4 p.m.Second suspect arrested near campus Carl’s Jr.

4:17 p.m.CSUF sends first notification: “This is University Police. Please shelter in place until further notice. There is a danger-ous suspect on campus in the Langsdorf Hall area. We will update you as soon as possible.”

4 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.Police begin evacuating people between McCarthy and Langsdorf halls on campus

4:49 p.m.SWAT team arrives, en route to Mihaylo Hall. Police shut down Nutwood and Folino of traffic.

5:10 p.m.Helicopter hovering over campus begins flooding Mihaylo Hall with a searchlight.

9:10 p.m.Some students leave Pollak Library basement on their own will against police orders.

5:45 p.m.Two snipers cross Nutwood Avenue en route to The Marriott Hotel to monitor Mihaylo Hall.

10:17 p.m.Police confirm Mihaylo Hall, which began evacuating at 10 p.m. has been cleared, as students continue to be moved to staging area to have IDs checked.

11:51 p.m.All buildings cleared, campus message confirms.

Moreno Valley police respond to a robbery at a pawn shop in Moreno Valley. California Highway Patrol pursue a gray Lexus.

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“The state of christendom is a state of transition” was the banner of an idea I was determined to fly overhead last semester when this column began.

Later, it became the hill I was will-ing to die on—to encourage students and community members to engage in theological discussion to challenge sta-tus quos and deconstruct mispercep-tions and ill-conceived presumptions.

Cross Reference attempted to foster the environment of informed discourse and subjectivity so together, we could wrestle with the nuance that permeates all complex concepts such as theology, psychology and science.

It was my goal to highlight common “immaculate misconceptions” about Christianity potentially unforeseen by secular and even spiritual communi-ties.

It was also my goal to raise questions about the validity of some claims and present the kerygma, or “proclama-tion witness” of Jesus, a.k.a the Gospel. That “good news” in its earliest, cohe-sive and potent form: That there was a man, Jesus, who lived, died, was buried and raised from the dead to reunite hu-manity with God through sacrifice and selflessness.

The blur of horrible and inconceiv-able acts done by Jesus’ fan club are inexcusable, but also should not be the plumb line at which every Christian or professed follower of Jesus should be measured against.

In a time of polarized political points of view brought to us by the presiden-tial election, I wanted to discourage the use of religious filters to inform one’s vote; I aimed at exploiting the miscon-ception that Jesus wants us to vote for him and that each candidate, although inspired by religious beliefs, were pri-marily driven by religion.

I went toe-to-toe with the argu-ment that science and theology can inform each other and with scien-tist/theologian Kenneth Miller, and killed the notion that there is over-lap between the two spheres—be-cause if there is, they are parametri-cally limited and should not be seen beyond those boundaries.

Ultimately, my intent was to provide a perspective from an in-formed and educated point of view by my minor in biblical studies from Hope International Universi-ty, and share the nuance that is lost in overgeneralizations that plague today’s society.

I was also tired of basic ques-tions asked of Christians that

could be asked of God. Scripture, and not me, could answer those. The stories of the Bible chronicle tales of God interweaving his char-acter in the lives of both men and women, usually ordinary people like you and me.

There are tales of those dis-traught, lonely, angry, miserable, joyful, blissful and so on. The theme of the Old Testament Hebrews is a discovery of that character—one that bleeds into the New Testament with Jesus and to us today.

It is only my hope and prayer is to seek Jesus and keep up the discus-sion of the validity and implications of his sacrifice.

“You, Lord, are forgiving and good,

abounding in love to all who call to you,” says Psalm 86. “Hear my prayer, LORD; listen to my cry for mercy. When I am in distress, I call to you, because you answer me.”

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Ending with a hope and a prayer

What are boys made out of? What are girls made out of?

This is something that I’ve thought about a lot, not only throughout this semester as I be-gan to write for this column, but various times throughout my life when I was faced with decisions that would drastically affect the perception that others had on my-self, my gender and my sexuality.

I eventually learned that we hold no specific set of traits that really demonstrate our gender, just like how as people we all have our own distinct qualities that sepa-rate ourselves on a very basic level. Even interests such as the music we listen to and the clothes we wear—those are all things that we still interpret and feel in our own way.

We are all inevitably ourselves.But by living according to the

standards of our society and by the judgment of our peers, we still struggle to try and fit in some-where. We label ourselves to show alignment, to show strength and to believe that we are not so alone be-cause we possess feelings that only we ourselves know how to feel.

At the beginning of the year, I began to debate if I wanted to transition into becoming a girl; whether or not pills, surgery or simply the clothes I wear would determine that outcome, I wasn’t sure. All I knew was that I was at a loss for who I was.

Simply, I don’t feel right being a boy or calling myself one. When people say that it feels like the mind does not fit the body, that is a somewhat accurate statement to make. Sometimes such a thing shows off in mannerisms and other perceivable actions. But for many, that feeling remains buried deep inside, rattling inside your head, making you feel emotionally strained and weak. At times you catch a reflection of yourself and you quickly delve into conflict.

You wonder why you had to be born this way, and at the very least, why can’t people at least ac-cept who you want to become?

I’ve felt like that during mo-ments in my life, but this past year was the first time where I’ve tried to come face to face with that feeling and actively taken steps to-wards accepting my body as the opposite gender. Since the incep-tion of my column, I have done things I had never thought of do-ing before because of the shame that I thought would come with it. I took a step back, and realized that I needed to love myself and that those who judge should not hold me back.

I began to crossdress.I was happy to have the support

of a lot of friends, while others seemed to only avoid speaking of my habits. But whatever it is that people think of you, to be yourself is all one can really do to appreci-ate life and make the most of it.

Because of those actions, I’ve la-beled myself as “transgender,” but I feel as if that term means both nothing and everything.

“Transgender” means nothing because I’m an individual. With ‘transgender’ already being such an umbrella term, people have implemented their own interpre-tation as to what being a transgen-der entails, and I loathe the pro-cess of explaining it or even being challenged that I’m not the person I think I am.

“Transgender” means every-thing because to be accepted by a community that is in the same situation as yourself helps to dis-tinguish such clarity.

But if I have to prove myself to such a degree, are those the sort of people I want to be associated with? I don’t want to have to prove that I am human and have these feelings—that should all go without saying.

So as I still continue to discover who it is I am and what I want, I’ll disregard the labels. I know who I am and I have people around me who are honest with themselves as well. Even though they are not struggling with the same things I am, we relate at a basic human; empathy is what it takes for people to accept and love one another.

I am a girl who has been con-fined to the body of a boy. Mental-ly I can believe that, but my physi-cal self shows otherwise. I struggle with the steps I wish to take, but I know that with every step I’m be-coming more honest with myself, which is the most important thing to do with as a transgender or any other person of any orientation.

Boys and girls, they’re made out of the experiences they gain. The things they feel, the people they meet. They’re made out of the things they love, and the things they hate, but most importantly, they’re made out of their own per-ceptions of themselves.

So no matter who people tell you who you are, stand proud and be whoever you believe you are, whether that be a boy, girl or any-thing else.

The country is heading toward the fiscal cliff, with taxes threatening to skyrocket for everyone. Politi-cians are hacking it out with the usual strategies and it’s not always for the best.

A poll by Colby College and SurveyUSA found that a solid majority of Americans say it is more im-portant for a politician to find compromise solutions than to stick to principles.

To ask whether or not compromise is a healthy trend is a tricky tightrope. There are certain, obvious principles to never back down from. Congressman Boehner doesn’t seem to think that maintaining tax cuts for the wealthy would be one, as CNN reports about an alleged source from his camp.

Then there is Grover Norquist, who clings to the freeze of tax rates as his bible. If his disdain toward increased revenue isn’t apparent, his hatred of govern-ment should be.

“I’m not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub,” he said to 60 Minutes last year, truly putting ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater’ to shame as a go-to phrase.

The government can certainly be a bit childish, to put it mildly. We have had politicians wanting to build bridges to nowhere, a presidential candidate’s full-out lie about where Jeeps are made and a former governor proclaim that the lack of religious discus-sions in schools has lead to more violence.

All of this doesn’t mean that there aren’t hard working American leaders out there that deserve the funding they ask for. There are politicians that have a decent head on their shoulders, like Kyrsten Sinema, who told CNN that “faith is a deeply personal issue that individuals should deal with in their private lives.”

It really pounds home the difficulty of politicians having issues with compromising on policies. Having such a diversity of opinions creates this; the United States has 50 states with different needs, demograph-ics and societal standards.

What is there to do? The most cold and calculating way is popular vote.

Barring an upset by the electoral college, the presi-dential candidate wins with the majority of ballots. State propositions don’t even use the college.

Individual states rights help, but those can infa-mously clash with federal ones, like with marijuana passing in Washington and Colorado yet still being illegal nationally.

President Obama’s reaction to it has been some-what indifferent though, as told to ABC’s 20/20.

“It would not make sense for us to see a top prior-

ity as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it’s legal,” he said.

This is a leader, the big cheese, refusing to play cat and mouse with these jurisdictions. He’s making pri-orities clear in this instance, yet he hasn’t always in the past on this issue which is a constant problem with politicians in general.

Indeed, that is a trap with compromise. We don’t always know what a person is about when they are just putty in the hands of their opponents and even their allies. It goes without saying that there is a bal-ance to be maintained here. Even then, bending can look like a breaking to some, like Grover Norquist.

Representative Peter T. King, a Republican from New York, could end up on his hit list with one of his latest quotes.

“A pledge is good at the time you sign it. In 1941, I would have voted to declare war on Japan. But each Congress is a new Congress. And I don’t think you can have a rule that you’re never going to raise taxes or that you’re never going to lower taxes. I don’t want to rule anything out,” said King, seemingly turning his back to the Norquist pledge for no tax changes.

It’s strange that he signed the document in the first place if he felt this way, which makes it look like a sway in the wind of public opinion.

Compromise or not, maybe it’s that breeze that will be most gentle for a harsh reality of few clear winners.

‘Compromise’ is not a dirty wordThis country wants politicians who can work together for the good of all, rather than stubborn politickers

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I have been going back and forth on whether or not I should send this email, because I have writ-ten for the paper in my capstone and greatly respect the work put into the paper, but I feel there are things that need to be addressed.

As a student with only an in-ternship to fulfill this semester, I only read about the lockdown and kept up with the updates during it. The Daily Titan’s handling of the situation, I think, was good overall and the paper the day after was an example of that. However, I hope this event brings to atten-tion your publication’s online and social media presence.

It was alarming to continuously see very specific tactical positions and movements of SWAT teams as they entered the campus. For as unlikely is the chance of the criminals finding out about the Titan’s tweets, to even take that chance, even if it was for the good intention to inform the reader, was incredibly foolish at best and potentially life-threatening at worst. These tweets proved to be extremely controversial in the comments that preceded it, which brings me to the second point.

I understand that the Daily Ti-tan has the right to moderate its comments, but to see comments

of outraged students completely disappear is alarming. While the tone might not have been agree-able, I do not believe they war-ranted a deletion. If this were to happen in a larger publication, the Streisand Effect would certainly chew through it, but I digress. Watching comments get scrubbed out has damaged some of the in-tegrity that I thought Daily Titan once had. I don’t trust in the Daily Titan to allow me to have a pub-lic discourse with others anymore and couldn’t you argue that that’s what the whole point of journal-ism is?

To start a conversation. To have

the community interested and be willing to communicate because they are informed.

Looking back at my opening paragraph, it seems that I am be-ing disingenuous when I said the coverage was “good overall,” but I do mean it. There is some striking photography and a strong design sense that drew me to the articles itself and the articles were well-informed and written, but I urge you to look at and reevaluate your online presence and learn from events like these.

Thanks Christopher for your hon-est critique.

As a staff, we hope that we were of service to the campus and the surrounding community through-out the lockdown and subsequent manhunt on campus Wednesday. Our only intention was to provide as much information as possible to students and faculty who were stuck in their classrooms and offices.

Save for one tweet disclosing that SWAT officers were clearing the fifth floor of Mihaylo Hall and some of the tweets that were published ear-lier in the evening, the Daily Titan took care to give students informa-tion about what was going on out-

side without putting police in im-mediate danger; we realized that the information that we were publishing could be of use to an armed robbery suspect hiding in the buildings and stopped tweeting exact positions im-mediately.

In the future, the Daily Titan will take much greater care to limit the information that is tweeted if CSUF undergoes another lockdown due to a similar occurrence. We take full re-sponsibility for this mistake.

As for the comments that were posted on our website, we deleted two Thursday afternoon that had been posted the previous evening. One was a comment by one of our

broadcast reporters, identifying themselves as CSUF Broadcast, who was defending the coverage from individuals who made critical com-ments. We believe that this action by this reporter was unprofessional. After he responded, the individual replied back. We deleted both com-ments in order to end a petty argu-ment. Deleting only our reporter’s comment would have created a con-fusion as to whom the response was directed towards.

We recognize the misunderstand-ing as well as our mistake in deleting these comments. At this point we should have kept both in place.

However, the Daily Titan does

maintain the right to moderate and approve all comments on our web-site to ensure civility and discus-sion free of harassment. As such, we regularly approve comments criticiz-ing the paper, but deny approval to those who attack individuals rather than their work.

The student body has the right to criticize our reporting, but we will not allow malicious attacks on people.

We urge the student population, to keep it clean on our site. Com-ments are for the purpose of intel-ligent discourse. We cannot improve our coverage if the criticisms we re-ceive are personal insults.

RE: CSUF lockdown coverage by the Daily Titan

EDITORIAL RESPONSE: Lockdown coverage

It all started a year and a half ago when I decided to return to journalism after symbolically retiring my notepad, pen and digital voice recorder to a spot at the back of my desk drawer.

After high school I’d decided to pursue a degree in physics, but as it became apparent, no matter how hard I tried, it wasn’t for me. So I returned to my first love—journalism. As with any good student journalist, I made my way to College Park 670 the week I changed my major.

Little did I know when I entered the room with all the awards and en-shrined monuments to student report-ing I would be spending nights and weeks-worth of hours laboring on a product meant for the campus I have grown to love: Cal State Fullerton.

I moved from the graphics desk at the Daily Titan in 2011 to Washing-ton, D.C. in January 2012 to intern as a business reporter. From there, I returned to my home on the sixth floor of College Park as a news editor.

At the News Desk, it was our goal to bring CSUF the most hard-hitting, relevant, accurate, reliable and impar-tial news that was humanly possible for senior college students. Our grades suf-fered but our coverage excelled.

We, as a news team and newspaper as a whole, dedicated ourselves this past semester to providing CSUF valu-able and relevant information about the elections and campus events while

highlighting student success in aca-demics, sports and other activities.

Our hearts broke when forced to re-port on the death of a student or facul-ty member that occurred this semester. But we fulfill our duty to inform, not instruct, you: our esteemed audience.

The lockdown event that happened Wednesday was a demonstration of the Daily Titan’s dedication to providing timely, accurate and relevant informa-tion to all who were locked in class-rooms or wondering what was going on. The campus provided safety—we offered information.

It is my goal as new Editor-in-Chief to lead this newspaper to continue to bring relevant information in our news pages, informed subjectivity in our opinion/editorials, stories of successes and humanity in our features, fun and valuable reviews in entertainment and up-to-date coverage of Titans toiling on our courts or in our fields.

The Daily Titan is here. We encourage your voices, perspec-

tives, anger, happiness, praises, but most of all, your criticisms. At the top of the front page, “The Student Voice of California State University, Fuller-ton” is printed everyday. And it is our mission to continue to represent that voice fairly to the campus, the state, and to the country.

Christopher ParkPrint Journalism

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Locked up: Stuck behind closed doors

Recognition awarded to historian for book

The historian’s prestigious award rests on a bookshelf in her office at Cal State Fullerton, one row below a biography about Russian Tsar Nich-olas II—a young ruler of a nation on the brink of a revolution.

Associate professor of Russian history Lynn Sargeant, Ph.D., whose office is saturated with Northern Eurasian literature, brought home the Béla Bartók Award last month for outstanding ethno musicological work in her book Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life.

“The book and the award is an example of the basic research that all of the faculty on campus do, and the kind of research we do ... All of that comes back to the class-rooms,” Sargeant, who is also the history department vice chair, said.

Although the professor called the last Russian Tsar a nice fam-ily man, she said he was a terrible ruler, reigning during a time when the Eastern European country be-gan to discover the value of music and its effect on culture.

Tapping into this same era, her book studies organizations, such as concert halls and music schools, dedicated to building the institu-tions for Russian musical life.

“During the 19th century for Russia … having a really well de-veloped musical life is something they haven’t had before,” she said.

Sargeant accepted the musical literature award in New York last month at the ASCAP offices across the street from the Lincoln Center.

Her book, which expounds de-tails about the study of Russian musical society in the 1900’s, drew praise from critics for detailing the effects of the establishments creat-ed for music in Russia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

“This is a book written by a his-torian who was a professional mu-sician,” Jochen Burgtorf, Ph.D., a professor of medieval history said.

Sargeant’s knowledge of music combined with her scholarly work in the field of history, Burgtorf suggests, allowed her to communi-cate in the elements of both stud-ies, making her book attractive to a wider audience.

“Very often when we think of

Russian history, we think of the revolution. We think of, in mod-ern Russian history, communism. We think of the Tsar as this op-pressive emperor of everything,” Burgtorf, who is also the history department chair, said.

But some of the greatest com-posers in the 19th century were Russian, Burgtorf said.

Sargeant’s book explores this aspect of cultural life in Russia during the time period, conveying a human element to the country, which has been much demonized for its grueling dictatorships relat-ed to its communist past.

Sargeant grew up as a scholar who studied the intricacies of music.

Her training and her expertise in the art of music toils in the classical realm, but her soft spot for a certain type of music—stemming from her youth—lay tender in her heart.

The historian confessed to being a fan of heavy metal when she was younger, touting bands like Iron Maiden and Def Leppard.

However, she admits to still hav-ing a secret fondness for AC/DC.

“I never did like pop music very much,” Sargeant said.

Except for her 10-year-old cat Tidbit, Sargeant has postponed fam-ily plans, keeping a disciplined focus on her career, and colleagues describe the author as a friend who has done tons for the history department.

Besides being innovative in her teaching methods, she is a prodi-gious researcher who is engaged in her service to the department of history, said CSUF professor Nan-cy Fitch, Ph.D.

“A lot of people think of history as names, dates and places. She looks at music and the develop-ment of musical societies and the development of musical education as a way of looking at new sensibil-ities of middle class culture in Rus-sia in the early 1900s,” Fitch said.

Fitch mentored Sargeant when she first began teaching at CSUF, and she accompanied her on a trip to Russia, which Fitch described as a wonderful but strange land.

Were it not for the multi-lan-guage-speaking Russian history professor, Fitch said she might not have been able to get around as well in the foreign country.

Sargeant is fluent in Russian as well as Ukrainian.

She also noted her modest knowledge of the French and Ger-man languages.

Fitch also praised the work Sargeant put forth in the award-winning book.

“I think it’s just a fabulous book. It’s very well written,” Fitch said.

Growing up in North Dakota, Sargeant has ventured far from her home state, stemming out to differ-ent European countries as well as different parts of the United States.

For periods of time she has lived in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ukraine, Seattle, Minneapolis and Los Angeles.

“Southern California climate is completely different from what I grew up with,” Sargeant said about the attractive climate while also poking fun at the demeanor of its inhabitants during a rainstorm. “It’s always 70 degrees and sunny or it’s the apocalypse.”

If given the opportunity, Sergeant said she would find time to live in Russia, North Dakota and Califor-nia, depending on the time of year.

Aside from working on the board of Advance Onto College, a non-profit organization in La Habra, Sargeant plans on writing another book focusing on Russian institutions called people’s houses, which were similar to today’s com-munity centers.

“These were little institutions to develop local community life in Russia,” Sargeant said.

Affecting the Russian culture enough to mold certain aspects of its society, the historian cannot say if music’s influence led to the Rus-sian revolution in the early 20th century.

Which might have forced the abdication of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and brought forth the new Soviet Union.

But people who were Russian musicians had a revolution because they were from Russia, she said.

“Even if we are not paying at-tention to it, music is shaping the way we view the world,” she said. “By strengthening the musi-cal aspects of just our society, you strengthen all of our culture.”

They have turned off the lights. All the doors are locked, the halls are empty,

everyone is speaking lower than usual. This is a lockdown.It was strange to walk into the newsroom—

a place that for most involved has become a second home, something of a safe-haven when home was too far and we needed a nap, we were hungry or just needed someone to talk to—and see it so on edge.

This wasn’t what any of us had planned for the evening.

I’m not one to normally believe in nonsensi-cal superstitions, but if ever I was tempted to believe in them, it was on Wednesday.

“12/12/12, something’s going to happen,” a friend of mine warned in the morning as I rolled my eyes. What a coincidence, I thought as updates came in on the lockdown, that this should happen today.

I realized later, however, that the reason that night turned out well in the end was due to the hard work and diligence of ev-ery party involved.

And no, that was not just pure coincidence.Like everyone else, I had an enormous laun-

dry list of to-dos planned for that night: proj-ects, papers, you name it.

But I couldn’t say no when a friend of mine, Adrian, suggested we consider going to cover a story we saw brewing up at around 4 p.m., right when we were starting our work.

Most of the reporters in our staff had al-ready scurried downstairs when word had

gotten around that there was an accident at the Marriott hotel across the street and that police were involved.

As journalists, we live for this kind of stuff. Hard-hitting stories with details to be col-

lected from witnesses, this is the kind of thing we hope and pray to happen anywhere near our campus, but is usually a futile aspiration given the typical dreariness of Fullerton.

“It will be just for a bit,” we said. “We’ll be right back.”

We didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into.

We couldn’t fathom at that time that the rea-son why this story would become so incredibly interesting would be because our school, our home, had become a place of danger.

Our friends, professors and mentors were suddenly not safe.

It was when we were collecting inter-views that we began to realize the inten-sity of the situation.

Someone was spotted with a gun. Students had been asked to evacuate.

As journalists, we felt an intense responsibil-ity at that time to get all the details we could, to keep the campus updated.

This is how I found myself with a group of five close friends from the newspaper stand-ing in front of McCarthy Hall, a slight driz-zle of rain falling, contemplating whether or not to listen to the commands from the school speakers to evacuate or to go inside and try to find a better view.

We opted with McCarthy.Having ran to the scene with the expectation

to be back in the newsroom in no more than

30 minutes, we found ourselves in the midst of a national story, incredibly underprepared and trapped in Dan Black Hall.

If it hadn’t been for a girl, a geology major, who not only offered to lend us a computer but allowed us into the geology lab where a group was working, I am certain the night would have gone much worse.

The students inside offered us a warm, safe place to work with a decent view of the campus from where we were, and food and tips on what was going on on campus that they were getting from their friends.

We were able to edit stories, communicate with the rest of our news crew and even juice up our phones so we could keep working.

At around 8 p.m., we got word from one of our photographers, William, that he was com-ing to the room that we were in and that we were going to get out of where we were and back into the newsroom.

Our staff needed help.We gathered our things, thanked our

new friends and quietly ran down the stairs of Dan Black and onto the street where it was dark and raining.

It was a bit scary, the notion of getting caught. But what was the worst that could have happened?

We ran side-by-side, keeping an eye out for each other as we crossed the street in the darkness of the night, hoping no police

would catch a glimpse of us as we hopped over walls, walked past dark parking lots and finally made it back to College Park.

A friend of ours opened the door in the base-ment stairs and we ran back home.

In the end, everything turned out alright. Thankfully, no one was hurt on campus.

There were students that said that the situ-ation was overdramatized, that the SWAT squads that were brought on campus were not necessary, that there was never any real danger.

I’m glad at least that students on campus felt safe, but I know that if it hadn’t been for the hard work of all the police, the professors and the students that were helping each other out, things could have turned out much differently.

The first sign of trouble was a car accident on Nutwood Avenue, a street frequently known to be the setting of similar fender benders. What followed the accident, how-ever, set the situation apart.

Not many students realized the gravity of the situation until si-rens blared and helicopters hovered loudly overhead.

Five men inside one of the ve-hicles involved in the accident were being followed by authorities, lead-ing them to try and flee the scene.

Things escalated quickly as several at Cal State Fullerton bore witness to the police chasing the men into campus.

Two were arrested on campus, while one was believed to have hid-den inside Mihaylo Hall.

CSUF was put on a campus-wide lockdown.

Nicole Anderson, a senior Eng-lish major, said the experience many students at CSUF had Wednesday was unbelievable and like something that would happen in a movie.

Many students thought it was just another drill, like business student Derek Smith.

He said it was not until CSUF was all over the news that he be-came concerned. He said it was a surreal experience.

Graduate student Ariel Carmona Jr. was in the basement of the Pol-lak Library at the time campus was locked down.

He was worried at first because stu-dents were instructed to stand against

the wall and away from the entrance by the building marshall because a school emergency was well underway.

“He didn’t say what was going on and my first thought was ‘Oh my God, it’s Virginia Tech all over again,’” said Carmona.

As a result of the lockdown, class-es were cancelled for the remainder of the evening.

The lockdown occurred at CSUF during the the last week of regular classes.

Some students at CSUF said the lockdown took away time from studying, completing assignments and preparing for final exams.

“I was personally most frustrated by the fact that I had my first final the next morning, but did not have any of my study materials to study with. I had left all my notes at home,” said Tiffany Santana, a senior kinesiology major who was in lockdown in the Titan Student Union.

Students locked down in the li-brary, a typically quiet environment, said they were not able to get any-thing done with the constant cir-cling of helicopters and widespread concern over what was occurring on campus at the time.

Anderson said that she was at-tempting to write a paper but that it was almost impossible because she was very distracted and un-easy––so much so that she took upon herself to leave before the end of the lockdown.

“I could not concentrate in the li-brary and was really on edge. I need-ed to get out of there because I had no idea how long the lockdown was

going to be going on for,” she said.People were active on social net-

working sites like Twitter and Face-book, posting their situations.

They also turned to the news via the Internet to get the latest on the situation.

Carmona said another difficult part of being on lockdown for over six hours was not being able to eat.

“I thought it was wrong to keep us locked up in classrooms with-out food for so long, I know it was for our own safety but that was the toughest part,” Carmona said.

Since the incident occurred right before 4 p.m., many were not able to eat lunch following their afternoon classes.

With no food and lack of a stu-dious environment, Santana said by the end of the night it was hard not to focus on the fact that she had lost so much study time.

“It was definitely frustrating to be stuck in that situation and then go to class the following morning to take the final knowing that I could have done better if I had used the extra seven hours of study time,” Santana said.

Overall, the situation set back many students from studying and put them in the center of a danger-ous situation, Smith said.

Despite having no food or study materials and being on lockdown until about 11 p.m., Santana said she was thankful that no one on campus was hurt.

“I am just thankful that no one got injured in the process,” San-tana said.

Studying put on holdStudents wait as officers search Steven G. Mihaylo Hall for a possible armed suspect. Titans were locked inside of classrooms at the expense of their studies with no food, water or restrooms.


Russian history professor received an award for one of her biographical works

DANIEL HERNANDEZDaily Titan

ANDIE AYALADaily Titan

“By strengthen-ing the musical aspects... you strengthen all our culture.”

LYNN SARGEANTRussian history professor

IRMA WONGDaily Titan

Students walk out after being contained for hours inside various buildings. Some Titans trickled out before officers announced the campus lockdown was finished, disregarding campus warnings that they should stay sheltered in place.

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GALSThe Perfect Party Dress: La-

dies, we can spend hours upon hours searching for that perfect little black dress for New Year’s Eve. We can go through every store in the mall but still come short of finding “the one.” This holiday season, mix up the little black dress and play with different textures like lace, peplum and geo-metric cutouts.

Black Velvet: The soft fabric combined with a shimmering look adds spice to the “go-to” color, black. If you can’t seem to break away from the dark shade, try it in this fashion forward fabric. Black velvet is a sub-tle way to wear black, yet still stand out from the crowd.

Sparkle: Include metallics, se-quins and embellishments into your holiday outfit, just not all at once. This trend should be kept at a mini-mal and serve as a centerpiece for an outfit. Try a semi-sequined gold blazer over a little black dress paired with metallic-tipped shoes.

Tights: A holiday party essential. Go for a opaque material if you’re concerned about the winter cold. Sheer pantyhose are thinner, but still

a winter appropriate staple that adds sex appeal to an outfit without being too revealing.

Box Clutch: Although it’s as small as what you can hold in your hand, it’s big enough to store your most essential items. A box clutch will keep your lipstick, cell phone and other necessary items well pro-tected. If you’re not a fan of color, then accent your dark outfit with a bright statement clutch.

The Pointed Pump: Make sure the party is indoors before deciding to step out in these. The pointed pump is universal and can be worn even after the holiday season. They make great work shoes and can make a casual out-fit look more refined.

GUYSThe Perfect Jean: They

shouldn’t be baggy, nor should they be skinny. Although selvedge denim doesn’t come cheap, a perfect pair of jeans is an essential for the polished urban man. The thick raw material will keep you warm during the win-ter and its durability is guaranteed to last a lifetime.

Flannels: The Winter season reintroduces different types of wool like cashmere, tweed and merino, but the one that remains a crowd

favorite is flannel. The thick, cozy material is commonly worn in plaid. They’re also perfect for layering and popularly worn at Christmas parties for its color variation.

Overcoat : Be prepared to spend more for this item. Although, it can get pricey, an overcoat is a great in-vestment that will keep you warm

during the winter season. Step out-side of your everyday hoody and try on a fashion forward winter over-coat like a parka, a trench coat or a tweed blazer.

Bow Tie: A watch is probably as far as a man will go when it comes to accessorizing his wardrobe. A bow-tie is the perfect accessory if you want to

mix things up and steer from the stan-dard straight tie without losing a sense of formality.

Crewneck Sweater: A heather grey crewneck sweater is an icon among all other colors the sweater comes in. Its versatile color allows for functionality in whatever you de-cide to wear for the holidays. Wear it

plain or layer it over a collared shirt.

The Chukka Boot: Also known as the “universal” boot for the simple fact that it can take an outfit from cool and casual to formal and sophisticated. The Chukka boot is usually a suede or genuine leather material. It hovers just above the ankle area and has either two or three eyelets.

Pictured: Four button-fly selvedge denim, long sleeved plaid shirt, heather grey crew neck sweater and distressed brown chukka boots.

Pictured: A velvet lace little black drewss, a gold sequinned vest, metallic tipped pointed heel and an emerald green box cluch.


Fun essentials for all your holiday partiesKYMBERLIE ESTRADA

Daily Titan

Santa Ana’s Discovery Science Center teams up with the National Geographic Society to bring the ex-citing exhibit Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology.

The public can now see the exten-sive collection of Indiana Jones film material and props up close and per-sonal while learning about archeology with real artifacts from Penn Museum.

The exhibition is presented through a guided listening tour with a fancy set of earphones and a snazzy touch screen device.

The introduction of the tour is a delightful greeting from Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford.

With archeology, we have the ability to “discover who we are by discovering who we were,” said Ford in the introduction.

This exhibition is the best place for any Indy fan to dork out. Each film in the series is sectioned off in its own area so you can go through them chronologically.

The very first room has the signa-ture hat, whip and costume sported by Jones along with one of four paintings by comic illustrator Jim Steranko, who was commissioned by George Lucas.

This charismatic portrayal of Indy was created to capture the visual per-sona of Indiana Jones.

The franchise has had a loyal fan fol-lowing for three decades, and the story of this adventurous college professor has not been forgotten since.

There’s a sense of nostalgia walking through the exhibit and seeing props, costumes, paintings and clips from the films; let’s face it, a lot of you grew up with Indy.

One of the most exciting pieces in this exhibition is the Ark of the Cove-nant from Raiders of the Lost Ark where there is only a layer of glass between the viewer and this legendary film prop.

The listening tour has a special seg-ment on several Indiana Jones props that represent real historical items.

The segment is called “Fact vs. Fic-tion” and it takes the props such as the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol from Raid-ers of the Lost Ark and explains the his-torical significance of the real idols and how accurate the Lucas films really are.

Another exciting collection is the one with the outfits worn by Indy and Short Round in Temple of Doom at Club Obi Wan.

Yes, even the little wooden blocks worn on Short Round’s feet are in-

cluded in the collection; if that’s not precious, I don’t know what is.

This section also includes pieces such as Thuggee leader Mola Ram’s headdress and a small model of Indy, Willie Scott and Short Round in the mining cart sequence.

Filmmakers also received permis-sion from Disneyland Resort to close down the park for a full day to record audio on roller coasters to get the most realistic sounds for the mining cart es-cape scene from Temple of Doom.

These little teasers are just a few of many fun facts about the creation of the Indiana Jones world. There are fun and exciting stories that you wouldn’t have imagined before go-ing to the exhibition.

Lucas even had to sneak snakes into a country at one point to get the scenes he fully intended to shoot. Lucas you sly dog. Indiana Jones and the Last Cru-sade includes major film props such as the Holy Grail and tablets.

There are a couple of rooms that have true ancient artifacts found and studied by real archeologists, dating as far back as 2500 BC.

There are also photos from the 1940s of real findings by Matthew Stirling. He discovered mysterious and colossal basalt heads later named “Olmecs” for the location they were found in Mexico.

These Olmecs have an origin and fate that are still unknown. There are also photos from Hiram Bingham’s expedition to Peru in 1911 when he explored the ruins of Machu Picchu.

The last collection is from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Although it is widely viewed by fans as a subpar Indiana Jones film, the items are still really fun to look at with their historical accuracy.

Head shaping was a common practice among the Mayans, which explains the shape of the crystal skull. The exhibition goes into the extra ter-restrial theories and raises the origins of such reasoning.

Lastly is Henry “Mutt” Williams’ Harley-Davidson. It doesn’t matter if you liked Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or if it makes you cringe at the mention if its name—that Harley-Da-vidson will always be gorgeous.

The Indiana Jones exhibition is a fun way to geek out over a classic series of films while learning about the prac-tices of archeology.

It’s kid-friendly, offering plenty of games for the little ones and hey, who says adults can’t go treasure hunting as well.

It’s a great way to wind down from the madness of finals week. Tickets go for as little as $10, so go out and find an adventure!

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Popping the top of a Michelob Ultra, Terry Dipple repeats the question many people say when in dire need—“It’s 5 o’clock some-where, right?”

Terry, the owner of Ink’d Chronicles Tattoo and Piercing in Pomona, opened shop doors in 2007.

What started as a mere business opportunity has turned into a tat-too shop that helps the commu-nity in various ways.

“If someone would have told me ten years ago that I was going to live in Downtown Pomona and own a tattoo shop, I would have told them they were crazy,” said Terry.

Terry is not your average tattoo shop owner. He is not covered in body art.

In fact, he got his first tattoo ten years ago and does not tattoo customers. Instead, he works on the business side for the shop.

“You don’t want a tattoo from him,” joked Tess Dipple, daughter of Terry. “Unless it’s a stick figure.”

Ink’d Chronicles was a family business since the beginning. Tess has been piercing customers for four and a half years.

She claims that she never had the artistic style to draw and grasped onto the idea of piercings.

“I like the artists in this industry,” said Tess. “Artists come and go so it’s always cool to meet new people and see different styles of tattooing.

Terry has an appreciation for

tattoos as an art. He was mayor of San Dimas

and worked on the city council for 20 years. The experience he gained from those positions helped him get his shop approved.

“The art drew me to the idea of the tattoo shop,” said Terry.

Terry wanted a tattoo shop that would also include an art gallery that would fit with the vibe of the downtown area.

Tattoos are no longer for drunk-en sailors and bikers. Tattoos are a way for people to express their individuality and their life.

Four years ago, Terry’s fiancée Michelle Cowles was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Terry tattooed a pink ribbon on the side of his leg and Tess tat-tooed a pink ribbon behind her ear, to show their support.

Michelle went through treat-ment and was declared cancer free.

Wanting to help the cause, Terry formed a tattoo fundraiser called Tattoos for the Cure.

Overall, the shop has raised over $31,000 for the Breast Health Program at the Lewis Family Can-cer Care Center.

The shop hosts the annual fun-draiser in October during breast cancer awareness month.

Ink’d Chronicles was also in-volved in National Make a Differ-ence Day with the United Way at Garey High School.

The Ink’d crew, along with other recruited artists, spent days preparing the school to be painted and beautified.

“I love to be involved because it makes your community better and that’s important,” said Terry. “Its not just about doing that tattoo on that person, it’s a bigger picture and we should be doing things like this.”

Sean Kreitlow, a tattoo artist at

the shop, has been tattooing for seven years. Once he got into tat-tooing, he fell in love.

“I like to do bold colorful tat-toos,” said Sean. “I like the tradi-tional aspect of tattooing—bold, clean designs. A tattoo should look like a tattoo.”

Terry’s vision of his shop is to be the Nordstrom of tattoo shops. He wants people to feel welcome but not pressured. He reiterates that the shop is not successful because of him.

“I tell my artists that were a part-nership,” said Terry. “I provide a quality space and nice environment, and they provide quality art.”

No matter what kind of tattoo a person decides to get, they all fit the Ink’d Chronicles slogan: “Ev-ery tattoo has a story.” So what will your tattoo story be?

To view piercing and tattoo portfolios by the artists, go to Ink-dChronicles.com.

The semester is soon coming to an end, which means it’s time for final projects, studying and snacking. These are top five finals week comfort foods that can be easily in the local area. Re-member to pick up extra treats for yout study group!

Protein: Foods rich in protein, such as peanut butter, are a go-to food for many students during exam time. Plus, who doesn’t enjoy snacking on peanut butter and soy milk while studying?

Other options include Ritz Bitz Peanut Butter, a Snickers bar or an old fashioned peanut butter sandwich.

If you would rather buy your PB & J than make it yourself, head over to Which Wich on Nutwood Avenue for an “Elvis Wich” which, according to their website, contains “peanut butter, honey, and banana, baby.”

Or, stop by Dairy Queen on State College Boulevard to buy a Reese’s Pea-nut Butter Cup Blizzard. Yogurtland also offers peanut butter flavored fro-zen yogurt for those looking for a low fat option.

Coffee: Whether students select a caramel macchiato, an espresso shot or a home brew, coffee is a must have for those in need of extra focus during their study sessions.

CSUF is home to several locations offering Starbucks coffee; this includes Mihaylo Hall, Nutwood Cafe and the Titan Student Union Food Court.

An off campus Starbucks is located

on North State College Boulevard. If you’d rather not be mainstream and avoid the Starbucks rush, try Aloha Java for your caffeine fix.

Even though it is renamed to Jay’s, the coffee shop formerly known as Tully’s Coffee on Nutwood Avenue is another option. Another off campus location is the Night Owl, located in downtown Fullerton, it has late night hours for those who don’t mind lots of chatter and a band playing in the cor-ner of the cafe.

Candy: Small candies such as M&Ms and Skittles are not only a great snacking food, but students also find fun ways to integrate them into studying.

When reading a long assignment, put an M&M at the bottom of every paragraph. Every time you finish a paragraph, you get to eat it!

For wrapped candy that is easily thrown in a purse or a backpack, try Starbursts, dinner mints, or Hi-Chews.

Granola bars: These are good for on-the-go and come in a range of fla-vors and brands for a low price.

The convenience stores on campus, including The Yum and The Brief Stop, carry a large selection of granola bars.

Students can pick up some crunchy Nature Valley granola bars at many of Associated Students Inc. All Night Study events or try a Kashi TLC bar from The Yum.

Quaker Chewy Bars are a classic, but Fiber One may be better if you’re looking for a healthier option.

The debate between the better gra-nola bar—crunchy or chewy—has been discussed for years. But just re-member: Chewy granola bars are less distracting in a study zone.

Ink’d Chron: Every tattoo has a story

Comfort foods help students get through exams

Ink’d Chronicles Tattoo and Piercing in downtown Pomona opend in 2007. The shop hosted their fifth breast cancer fundraiser in October for the Breast Health Program at the Lewis Family Cancer Care Center.

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Snacks like coffee, candy and granola bars will help students during finals week

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Discovery Science Center presents various film props and artifacts from the film

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After blowing a double-digit lead late in the second half last week, Cal State Fullerton’s men’s basketball team needed to give a complete effort on Thursday to make up for it.

They did just that.The Titans snapped a three-game

losing streak in a 66-53 win over the Idaho State Bengals, dropping the Bengals to 1-8.

Despite a slow start offensively from both teams and a seven-point deficit midway through the 1st half, it was the Titans who were up seven at the end of the 1st half, highlighted by a 17-3 run over a span of eight min-utes. A fancy spin-move layup going baseline by senior guard D.J. Seeley, a dunk by senior forward Sammy Yea-ger in transition and a smooth step-back jumper by senior guard Kwame Vaughn during the final two-minutes of the half gave the Titans momentum going into intermission.

Both teams needed the break and a fresh half of basketball after very cold shooting. The Bengals shot just under 35 percent from the field, and 20 per-cent from beyond the arc. The Titans, a small team built on their speed and shooting prowess, were even worse, shooting just 33 percent from the field and 14 percent from deep. Interim Head Coach Andy Newman felt his team was playing “timid,” “walking the ball up” and playing “boring bas-ketball” despite holding the lead after one half.

The second half began with a turn-over by D.J. Seeley, followed by a monster dunk in traffic by Idaho State center Jakub Kuskieruk, it looked like the Titans were on the verge of another second half collapse.

From then on, the Titans seized complete control of the game, going on a 17-0 run after the Bengals scored the first basket of the half. The Titans

led by as many as twenty-three points in the game. The Titans shot nearly 62 percent from the field and connected on half of their three-point tries in the second-half. They also outscored the Bengals 8-0 in fast-break points.

Sophomore guard Alex Harris had arguably the biggest impact on the game. He finished with 11 points, including three three three-pointers (all in the second half ), 2 assists, 6 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 enormous block, in which he chased down an Idaho State player on the break and spiked his shot directly to the hard-wood, causing a frenzy in Titan Gym.

“Basically, I’m just an energy play-er,” Harris said humbly when asked about his role on the team. “That’s what my job is … defense … I know my offense will come. I trust my teammates. They get me open shots, so I take them … luckily they went

in tonight,” he said.Sammy Yeager chipped in 14 big

points, highlighted by two dunks and a three-pointer that put the Titans up by 20 in the midst of their game-changing run.

“We ran the break and played some good defense,” Yeager said. “We got some rebounds, (but) we can do better on the boards.”

Even though the Titans were nar-rowly out-rebounded, the effort on the boards was good enough to push the Titans to a record of 4-5. Size in the interior is an attribute that the Titans will be on the wrong side of more often than not this season.

Alex Harris summed it up saying, “We’re a short team. So, when you’re short you’ve got to run ... When there’s five guards on the floor, we (can) run and get open looks. That’s what we did tonight.”

Men’s basketball runs by Bengals

Titan hockey rips Trojans

Titans put an end to their three-game losing streak, get past Idaho St. 66-53

ANDRE JONESFor the Daily Titan

Redshirt senior forward Sammy Yeager goes up for a dunk. Yeager’s dunk pushed the momentum in the Titans favor turning into a 17-3 run.


After a rough past two months, the Titans’ ice hockey team closed out their December on Friday with a 3-1 victory over the USC Trojans, avenging their previous loss to them earlier this month.

“The first part of our season didn’t really turn out how we wanted it to, so now’s the time to turn it around,” assistant coach Chris Houlihan said. “We had a big talk before the game about where we want our season to go. Right now we have 11 games left so it’s do-or-die. Kind of like how the Lakers are right now.”

Despite the rough past two months—the Titans dropped five in a row in November—the team ap-peared confident against the same foe that defeated them 4-1 earlier this month.

The Titans came out fast and aggressive to start the first period, swarming the Trojan zone and fir-ing off a volley of shots before a pair of penalties cooled their offense.

USC reciprocated by taking a pair of penalties themselves, with the Titans capitalizing while on the 2-man advantage to put them up 1-0.

A faceoff win in the offensive zone resulted in some back and forth passing between Taylor Castle and Zach Henderson before Castle ripped a snapshot past the Spartan goalie.

At that point, the Titans were clearly in control of the game, but their momentum was again halted by another penalty, allowing the Spartans to tie the game up on their power play.

Sean Saligumba crashed the net and tapped the

puck in to put the Titans back in the lead early in the second. Tempo slowed from that point on until Henderson scored to put CSUF up 3-1 half-way through the third.

“It started with Ryan Cruz on the half wall, and I just came shooting down the slot and luck-ily he found me with a great pass. The goalie came out pretty aggressively so I just kind of went around the net to open it up. I actually tried to find Taylor in front of the net, but lucky for me it bounced off the goalie and went into the net,” Henderson said.

When asked about the Titans’ chance to widen the lead, Castle said “I wish we would have. We missed a few quality chances, I missed an empty netter at the end there, but all-in-all we played well the whole game with only a couple of lapses.”

Despite the tight game, the Titans appeared to be having fun on the ice.

“We definitely wanted to keep the intensity up, and just be loud on the bench. Keeping it lively on the bench just helps us out,” Houlihan said.

Castle added that “when things start going your way, it starts becoming fun. Once you get back to the basics of the game, it becomes fun to play again.”

With 11 games remaining on the season, Castle, Henderson and Houlihan all agreed that the team needs to step its game up.

“We’re definitely not where we want to be. I think even with a win, there’s always room for improvement for us because we’re a pretty young team. You have to start with small steps,” Henderson said.

The Titans resume play on Jan. 4 when they face Illinois at 8:30 p.m. at the KHS Ice Arena.

ERIC FARRELLDaily Titan

A Titan player tries to control the puck against the USC defense in a game at KHS Ice Arena.ELEONOR SEGURA / Daily Titan

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