The Daily Titan - February 27, 2012

February 27, 2012

Vol. 91 Issue 14

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CAMPUS | Smoke-free ban

CALIFORNIA APOLOGIZES

ASI approves new resolution

Academic Senate votes to ban smoking on campus and ASI supports the decision SEPIDEH NIA Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton is about to see some changes in the coming months and it won’t just be in tuition.

Associated Students, Inc. has voted to support the resolution that would ban smoking on campus.

The Academic Senate met earlier this month to discuss new regulations regarding smoking on campus. The current rule states that smokers must be at least 20 feet away from all buildings and campus parking structures.

The focus of the Senate meeting was a complete ban on smoking.

However, students are unsure about whether or not a complete ban is necessary and if it would even be successful.

Kaori Suda, a junior business finance major, thinks there should be a campus wide ban on smoking.

“I just don’t smoke or anything and I don’t really like the smell,” said Suda.

The lingering smell of smoke from both the cigarette and on the smoker are a contributing factor in the campus’ smoking debate. Pat Cici, a junior history major, thinks the smell is just as much of a nuisance as the physical act of smoking.

“Smokers think that once they are done smoking they are done stinking, but it lingers on them and in their breath,” said Cici.

Other students, like Adam Piestrzeniewicz, a senior geological science major, favor more restrictions like designated smoking areas, but not a complete ban.

“I know there are a lot of nonsmokers that don’t enjoy walking through smoke everywhere they go around campus so it would be nice to get a designated area for smokers that non-smokers can avoid it if they want to,” said Piestrzeniewicz.

Michael Alpert, a senior marketing major, shares Piestrzeniewicz’s belief that there should be a designated smoking area.

“People use that as a stress relief and it is also an addictive habit. Sometimes it’s not up to (the smoker) to stop right away, and why should we make it inconvenient for those students who do smoke?” said Alpert.

Many students don’t think that the ban will stop people from smoking on campus. Except it may work for Calvin Tran, a senior accounting major and smoker.

“I actually don’t mind (the ban), I think it’ll help me stop,” said Tran.

The decision of banning smoking is not the only problem; enforcing it is another issue that officials will have to face.

Some students think that, like the 20-feet limit from buildings, students would still smoke on campus at their convenience.

“It’s basically like telling somebody not to speed on the freeway. There is a limit, but that doesn’t mean we all do it,” Alpert said.

Sharon Chong, a liberal studies major, had some ideas on what the school can do to regulate the ban, if passed.

“Tickets, like how we enforce the biking system. I think they should do $30 at first or a warning and then make them pay for smoking anywhere on campus,” said Chong.

See SMOKE, page 2

Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, holds the hands of Emilia Castañeda’s, one of the many deported during the forced removal of Mexican American’s during The Great Depression. Many special speakers were present, including civil rights activist Dolores Huerta (far right), who, along with Cesar Chavez, co-founded United Farm Workers.

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Academic Senate says ‘Yes’ to ban Academic Senate unanimously votes for a smoke-free campus MICHAEL MUNOZ Daily Titan

The Academic Senate, in a unanimous 39-0 vote, decided that Cal State Fullerton will be a smokefree campus, beginning Aug. 1, 2013.

The decision stems from the last

Academic Senate meeting, during which the Academic Senate voted to implement a ban on smoking. The executive committee then drafted a final resolution, based on the prior total ban vote, which states that CSUF will be a smoke-free campus.

“I don’t see this as anything radical other than movement towards a healthier workplace and a healthier environment for the students,” said Kenneth Walicki, Academic Senate

vice chair, on the move of a smokefree campus.

Walicki also addressed some concerns from those opposing the smoking ban that came up during the last Academic Senate meeting; that the rights of the smokers were being violated.

“It has been addressed that (the ban) is limiting the freedom of smokers, which is true, but freedom always has responsibilities and

there is freedom for the other side of people who don’t smoke and we have to balance that out,” Walicki said. “Nothing in here says that people who do smoke have to stop … It’s just (that) they can’t smoke on the campus. Just the same as most restaurants: you can’t smoke, but you can walk outside.”

See SENATE, page 2

SPORTS | Feature

LOCAL | Reef relief

New golf technology introduced

Save the west coast native Olympia oyster Marine ecologist leads project to restore habitats in local coast

The LA Golf Show exhibited new gadgets and programs to improve golfers’ performance

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A maze of booths was set up for the LA Golf Show at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Exhibits showed the newest technology in golf and training tools, top golf name brands and countless golf courses and resorts. Patrons were able to stroll the floor and test equipment.

Doug Sumaraga, CEO and president of Igolping, demonstrated an indoor simulator that was named Best Simulator at the 2011 Professional Golf Association Expo in Las Vegas. The Igolping system consists of highspeed cameras that record the golf swing and a video screen to replay the swing.

The user can analyze different aspects of their swing through the software that shows ball trajectory, speed and acceleration and a plot of combined shots, among other things.

Golfers can also choose club analysis that shows the plane, angle of attack and path of the clubface.

The most impressive part is the technology.

The multi-phase radar tracks the ball up to 250 yards worth of data when used outside. In the

ERINN GROTEFEND / Daily Titan Attendees glance over one of the several exhibitors at the Los Angeles Golf Show held at the Anaheim Convention Center this past weekend. The items exhibited were aimed to improve a golfer’s performance.

gaming aspect, a 3-D engine is used for ball flight to give a real life feel.

“If you hit a tree, it knows what a tree is supposed to do and the angles that you are coming in on the tree and it will react that way,” said Sumaraga.

Up to eight users are able to play on a virtual golf course during a round. Users can change the settings to fit their golf game. Settings include gender, tee location, right-handed or left-handed and handicap. Players select if they want to play all 18 holes, only the front nine or

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only the back nine.

Players can choose from 70 courses around the world. Users can also hit play and a default course will be selected. The time of day, weather, ground conditions and pin difficulty can also be set.

“We’re taking all the best technologies that exist and putting them together for the ultimate golf experience,” Sumaraga said.

See GOLF SHOW, page 6

Ostrea lurida. That’s the scientific term for the Olympia oyster, the only oyster native to the West Coast of the U.S. The Olympia oyster isn’t commonly found on restaurant menus in Orange County. In fact, it’s not likely to be found at any restaurant in Southern California that doesn’t offer specialty seafood items. That’s because the Olympia oyster population was nearly wiped out in the early 20th century, primarily due to overfishing.

A project is currently underway in Newport Beach that is working to restore the native oyster habitats that once thrived off the Southern California coast. The project will evaluate different methods of restoration to determine the best environment for the Olympia oyster reproduction.

The study is led by Cal State Fullerton’s marine ecologist Danielle Zacherl, who has researched the Olympia oyster for several years.

“It just occurred to me that, wow, if you wanted to restore the (lurida) oyster, you probably should do it in Southern California where their remnant populations are still present and they’re regularly reproducing successfully,” said Zacherl.

Zacherl credits her inspiration for the restoration project to former graduate student, Maria Polson, who conducted extensive research on Olympia oyster populations across the West Coast. Polson traveled from Baja California to the Alaskan coast identifying existent populations of the native oyster and the densities in which they remain.

“Her data (was) really surprising to us because all of a sudden we realized that the densities were as abundant here (in Newport Bay) as they were in places where restoration efforts were fully underway,” Zacherl said of Polson’s data research.

Polson conducted the first large-scale survey of the remaining populations of the Olympia oyster and found encouraging numbers of native oysters still clinging to survival despite their situation.

See OYSTERS, page 2

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SENATE: Hagan expected to approve resolution ...Continued from page 1 The rationale behind the total smoking ban is that many faculty and students don’t follow the current smoking policy. The Senate found that the current policy and any stemming policies are difficult to enforce, so a total ban was necessary.

The policy also states that students coming to CSUF are generally transitioning from high schools and community colleges where smoking is not allowed, so the ban will be nothing new to them. Many on the Senate said students are already conditioned to non-smoking campuses and hope there will be a smooth transition in which smoking will never become a habit.

According to the written resolution, the bill will give the university administration an 18-month window, starting Aug. 1, 2013, “to create awareness and education programs as part of changing the campus culture.”

As more campuses around the country institute smoking bans, the focus of the education will be geared toward foreign students who are not used to smoking regulations.

The Academic Senate also discussed the potential loopholes smokers might find in the policy, such as students or faculty smoking in their vehicles. The concern was that because vehicles are

private property, smokers can smoke in their cars with the windows up, making cars sovereign to the regulation.

Interim President Willie Hagan assured the Senate that when he signs the bill, the policy will address vehicles and therefore, will not be exempt.

“If they’re in their car and the windows are down, it is the same thing as if they’re not in their car,” Hagan said. “My perspective would be that it doesn’t matter. Smoke-free is smoke-free. You cannot isolate the car because on general principle someone is going to roll down the window just to test it out.”

Hagan admitted that the underlining issue of the ban will be its enforcement.

Academic Senator Lynda Randall was worried that the car situation would derail the policy, but was glad that an agreement was made. “... Because of this long process, that I worried (that) we might go back to the drawing board,” said Randall.

“That we might have to sort of reinvent this policy and in the process lose this momentum that seems to be the students are for it … the campus in general is for it. I was glad we were able to resolve that because if we worry too much how we are going to enforce that we are going to worry ourselves out of a policy.”

UC schools are banning smoking by 2014. Jack Bedell, Academic Senate

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president, is looking forward to CSUF being the first CSU to be smoke-free.

Other unanimously approved proposals include two new programs: one for a masters of science in statistics (online) and the other for a certificate in clinical trials project management (online).

Both programs will be implemented for the 2012-2013 academic year. The programs are aimed to supplement the demand of each respective field’s job market. The M.S in statistics will be a 30 unit program and the certificate in clinical trials will be a four-course certificate program.

SMOKE: Some students doubt ban will be effective ...Continued from page 1 While the decision to ban smoking is on its way, there are other matters that are also changing on campus. ASI also voted to raise the health fee to pay for more mental health services.

The Campus Suicide Prevention Task Force is pushing for a campaign that would raise student health fees to hire more staff in the counseling center.

Students currently pay a $45 health fee in their tuition which pays for basic physical and mental health

services. Some students don’t know about the free or cheap health services they pay for on campus.

“I wasn’t aware of this and I think that they should announce it more.

I think they should make people and students more aware of those enforcements,” Chong said.

The proposed raise in the health fee has come as quite a shock to some students, especially since some don’t use the center’s services.

“I have my own health care provider and I don’t make use of the health center, so it’s kind of unfair for those who don’t really take advantage

OYSTERS: Experts seek to restore native population ...Continued from page 1 She discovered dense populations in Southern California that had previously been overlooked by researchers whose focus of the native oyster had centered in Washington and Oregon prior to her study.

Polson published her findings in the Journal of Shellfish Research shortly after her study and noted that “all Southern California sites (studied) could present favorable opportunities for restoration projects.“ At one point, the Olympia oyster was the oyster of choice on the West Coast. According to Polson’s article, the native oyster was widely used by American Indians long before modern Americans exploited it. By the early 1930s, the majority of the Olympia oyster populations were depleted due to over-harvesting and pollution. As a result, “the attention of the oyster industry was diverted away from the Olympia oyster” and the larger and more profitable American and Japanese oysters took over the oyster market.

The experts said that restoring the Olympia oyster populations would not only benefit fishery interests, it would also benefit the environmental landscape of the Southern California coastline.

“The oysters aren’t just like a food source, they’re also creating a whole habitat,” Zacherl said.

Polson pointed out in the article that the key reason to restoring the native oyster is because, “they are considered ecosystem engineers. They create a whole habitat, a whole ecosystem just with their cementing action.”

The Olympia oysters spend their entire lives attached to their reefs. They pile upon each other to create their vast reefs and then other organisms are able to make their homes in the many cracks and crevices formed by the oyster shells.

Fish species essential to marine life, like crabs and juvenile fish also call the oyster reefs home.

“The idea is you restore not just one species, but you

restore a whole habitat,” Zacherl said.

Zacherl received the green light for the restoration project in June 2010 when a Orange County Parks grant funded her with a $18,000 grant to begin her research in a designated area of the Newport Bay. The grant was to fund a two-year pilot study in an attempt to rebuild the native oyster habitat.

In August 2010, the restoration project broke ground at the Castaways Mudflat in Upper Newport Bay with the help of several volunteers. Shannen Crossen, a recent CSUF graduate, worked closely with Zacherl as her research assistant.

“The field work was very challenging,” said Crossen. “We had to have a semi-truck deliver (the oyster shells) and we had to use a forklift to unload it.”

Seven thousand pounds of dead oyster shells were delivered from an oyster bay in San Diego. These shells serve as the foundation for the reef that Zacherl and her team installed in the mudflat of the bay.

The manmade reef was built using five different habitat types in order to compare which habitat would be more effective in restoring the Olympia oyster. They laid the shells at different densities (thick or thin) and were placed either loose or bagged.

The team evaluates the site every six months to examine the amount of oyster settlement, recruitment, growth as well as that of the other organisms settling in the reefs.

Many Southern California natives aren’t aware that there is a West Coast-native oyster.

“I’m glad they’re doing restoration because that’s where I’m from,” said Catherine Mann, 18, a Newport Beach native and undeclared major. “I want nature to be preserved over there, but I honestly had no idea.”

Zacherl will discuss the results of the study, one year into the project, at a talk on Feb. 28 presented by the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Colleagues Colloquium.

The presentation will take place at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Fullerton at 7 a.m. and is open to the public.

Deportations remembered State apologizes for wrongful deportation of two million Americans VANESSA MARTINEZ Daily Titan

More than 250 people gathered in a private ceremony at La Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles Sunday to witness the unveiling of a permanent plaque serving as an apology from the state of California for deporting approximately two million people of MexicanAmerican descent.

Prominent figures in the Chicano movement attended the event, including actress Eva Longoria, President and General Counsel of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) Thomas Saenz, Supervisor Gloria Molina, civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, Assemblyman Gil Cedillo and U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.

“La Plaza was founded to keep the Mexican-American culture alive and it’s proud to be the permanent home for the monument,” said Longoria, who was the MC of the event, with Saenz.

During the 1930s, of the two

million people deported to Mexico, about 1.2 million were U.S. citizens, from which an estimated 400,000 were from California.

When introducing Solis, Longoria said that while in congress, Solis “co-authored legislation with representative Luis Gutierrez that called for a commission to study the deportation and coerced immigration of U.S. citizens and legal residents.”

Solis said it is important for students to be aware of the history for a better tomorrow.

“Have knowledge about where you come from and who you are, it’s so important because it helps to lead you to your future,” Solis said. “...

Things that were said today give us an indication that we have to come together because we still have a lot of challenges and battles before us.”

“You see discrimination occurring in places like Alabama, Arizona, still in the workplace. We’re still fighting for that value that we place in the constitution, that everybody should be treated equally. So, we need to have good leadership, we need people to be better educated in this country including our own community, the Latino community, and to be proud of who we are.

‘Cause to know your past is to know your future,” she said.

Christine Valenciana, an associate professor in the Elementary and Bilingual Education Department at Cal State Fullerton, was one of the attendees whose family was directly affected by the deportations.

Her mother, Emilia Castañeda, a deportee, spoke at the event.

Castañeda said from 1935 to 1944 she was “forced to live and work in a foreign country, but I always wanted to return home to Los Angeles, my home.”

“I tell my stories so that others know of the injustice that I and

many others suffered,” Castañeda said to those who attended.

Valenciana’s husband, Francisco Balderrama, Chicano and Chicana studies and history professor at Cal State Los Angeles, is the co-author of Decade of Betrayal, a book about the Mexican repatriation in the 1930s.

“These people were unconstitutionally deported in the 1930s,” said Balderrama. “It’s now 2012. They’re suffering their dislocation, the tragedy of their situation is finally being recognized.”

Cedillo said it’s important for students to be aware of this history.

“It’s important because we have to remember history can guide us in addressing the problems we confront today,” said Cedillo.”

Cedillo also said there is a similarity between the current state of the nation and the way it was in the 1930s.

“So we know, for example, in this case, in the ‘30s there was a bad economy and people were very hysterical,” Cedillo said. “It’s very similar to today. We know that we divided families, we separated families and kicked Americans out of their own country, and we know that was wrong, but that’s going on today so, what it teaches us is that if we know that that happened before, we don’t have to repeat that...”

Rosario Ordonez-Jasis, a CSUF professor in the Reading Department, and her family were also affected by the repatriation/expatriation in the 1930s when her stepfather was one of the many deported when he was 10 years old.

Although the plaque will not erase the past, Ordonez-Jasis said it is a “step toward healing for the survivors and for the families.”

“It’s long overdue and I think that he’d be very proud and happy to be here today if he were alive,” Ordonez-Jasis said.

CORRECTION For the record, the article, “Moving forward in higher education,” misidentified F. King Alexander as Alexander King.

In the article, “Political activism encouraged,” John Belleci’s surname was misidentified as Bacall.

of the health center to have to pay for the fee increase,” Piestrzeniewicz said.

“But then again, on the other side, I see the importance of having a place for people who don’t have a place to go to get health services.”

If there are an overwhelming number of students that need more mental health services on campus, some students, like Alpert, think that the increase would be a justified use of their money.

“If that’s where it needs to go because we see that mental health is an issue on this campus, then we need to address that,” Alpert said.

DTBRIEFS Afghans Protest Quaran Burning, Death Toll Climbs One demonstrator was killed and several U.S. service members and Afghan police were injured Sunday in Afghanistan as demonstrations over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base turned violent, CNN reported.

U.S. officials and President Barack Obama apologized for the burning, calling it inadvertent.

A U.S. military official told CNN that the materials were from a detainee center’s library and contained inscriptions that looked to be used to “facilitate extremist communications.”

These statements have not stopped protests from Muslims over the burning of their sacred book, a book they believe to be the word of God. Sunday marked the sixth day of protests.

Demonstrators attacked a police chief ’s office and a U.S. military base in northern Kunduz province.

The violence came a day after a gunman killed two U.S. military officers in the heavily guarded Afghanistan Ministry of Interior.

Brief by Sean Viele

Gulf Oil Spill Trial Delayed, BP Seeks As efforts to settle the multibillion-dollar litigation intensify, the Gulf oil spill trial has been delayed for a week.

Judge Carl J. Barbier of the Federal District Court, who is in charge of the litigation, issued an order that pushed the opening day to March 5, reported The New York Times.

Barbier said the court pushed the trial to be judicially efficient, as well as allow the involved parties to progress in their settlement discussions.

BP has settled with hundreds of thousands of potential plaintiffs through a $20 billion fund created, as was requested by the Obama administration.

The decision was made by the court alone, said Barbier, and was not influenced by a request from any party.

The order was given after Barbier and the involved parties had a conference call, after which BP and the steering committee of plaintiffs’ lawyers issued a joint statement saying they had been given more time to attempt to reach an agreement.

Barbier has issued pretrial rulings that limit the scope of the vast amounts of evidence collected. Barbier is willing to hear the case without a jury, but is not willing to hear testimony about previous BP incidents. He has also allowed for punitive damages for some plaintiffs.

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SERIAL KILLERS William G. Bonin Courtesy of MCT

He preferred to end his victims’ lives by strangling them with their own T-shirt, leaving a large bruise around their neck, marking his handiwork.

According to the victims’ families, who saw Bonin during the trials, he did not show remorse. Instead, he seemed to enjoy the emotional pain that he caused among the family members.

Lavada Gifford, the mother of one of the victims, said in an interview with a San Francisco Chronicle reporter that Bonin had described how much fun he had killing her son Sean, “because he was such a screamer.”

Bonin was the third prisoner to be executed in California since capital punishment was reinstated in 1977, and the first man to die by lethal injection since death by gas chamber was found to be a cruel and unusual punishment in 1994.

Rodney Alcala • “The Dating Game Killer” • Convicted in 2010 for the murder of 4 women and a 12-year-old girl • Currently under indictment for 2 murders in New York Courtesy of MCT

With an IQ of 160, equal to Albert Einstein’s, and a personality that a New York investigator described as personable in an interview with a New York Post reporter, Rodney Alcala is considered to be one of the worst serial killers in history.

“This guy is the devil,” the investigator said.

Prosecutor for the Orange County District Attorney Matt Murphy said, “the man took a delight in killing.”

When asked by prosecutors if he had killed more women, Alcala merely smiled.

After Alcala was convicted of five murders, a stash of hundreds of photos found in a Seattle storage facility could link Alcala with dozens of other murders. Investigators suspect that he has been on the hunt for 30 years. He is also in the process of being indicted for the murder of two

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The transient killings in December and January hit many close to home — literally. With all of them occurring only miles from Cal State Fullerton, they comprised one of the largest serial killing sprees in Southern California’s recent history.

However, in the 1980s and ‘90s the term “serial killer” entered the public discourse and terrified

people nationwide.

Throughout the ‘90s and early 2000s, four other men have been charged in the Superior Court of Orange County; all receiving the death penalty.

Some were considered by many to be the worst serial killers in history, one in particular who may be considered worse than Ted Bundy, a serial rapist who targeted young women in the ‘70s.

Bundy confessed before his execution that he had committed over 30 murders.

Charles Ng

• “The Freeway Killer” • 21 confessed murders • 14 convicted murders in 1983 • 13 years spent on death row Known as the “Freeway Killer,” William Bonin targeted young boys between the ages of 12 and 19 in the 1980s. He was known for sadistically torturing and raping his victims before killing them.

He confessed that he had killed a total of 21 young men and was convicted of 14 murders in 1983.

According to a New York Times article published Feb. 22, 1996, Bonin was born in Connecticut, raised in an abusive family and spent two years living in an orphanage. He moved to California when he was 14 and later served as a truck driver in the Vietnam War. Following his discharge, he began committing a series of sexual assaults. Bonin was convicted for a number of them and spent time in prison and in a mental facility. Soon after his release in 1978, he began a long series of killings that would terrorize parents and children alike.

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women in New York.

As a photographer, Alcala would entice his victims with smooth words and offers to take their photos. He would then assault them, rape them and toy with them until he finally killed them. He would strangle his victims until they fell unconscious, wait until they revived and then strangle them again. Sometimes he would do this repeatedly.

He was even a contestant on The Dating Game, and won with his charm and good looks. However, the woman did not go on a date with him, and his appearance on the show is what allowed an Orange County detective to arrest him, according to the New York Post.

He is currently on death row in San Quentin State Prison.

• Thought to have killed 19 • Convicted of 11 murders in 1998 • Took 13 years to bring him to trial in the U.S. Courtesy of MCT

In a video that was principle to Ng’s conviction in 1999, he said to a victim that he was about to execute, “You can cry and stuff like the rest of them. It wont do you any good. We are pretty cold-hearted.”

In a biography comprised from the information that Ng and his supporters posted on CCADP.org, Ng calls his trial and subsequent conviction, “a travesty and outrage of mistreatment and miscarriage of justice.”

Born in 1960 in Hong Kong, Ng is the only Chinese prisoner on death row at San Quentin State Prison. He was convicted of 11 counts of first degree murder for killings committed throughout the 1980s.

He served as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps and, according to a book published by Don Lasseter on the killings of Ng and his accomplice, Leonard Lake, Ng was dishonorably discharged when he was caught stealing machine guns and heavy weaponry.

Ng and his partner are suspected of murdering up to 25 victims at Lake’s ranch in Calaveras County, which lies in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

According to an article in The Scotsman, when police raided the ranch they found 45 pounds of burned bone fragments, jewelry and clothing thought to belong to

the victims, a dead body in a sleeping bag, a videotape of two women being tortured and a six-by-three-foot cinder block bunker with a two-way mirror looking in.

Ng was taken into custody in 1985 in Calgary, Canada, starting a 13-year ordeal that would keep Ng out of California courts until 1998. In order to avoid extradition to the U.S., Ng used the threat of the death penalty to delay his U.S. trial by six years until Canada’s highest court finally ordered the extradition. Also being charged in Canada, Ng sued nine separate court-appointed defense lawyers for malpractice. His case was eventually closed in Canada, eliminating a large amount of evidence that would have been useful in his trial and conviction in Orange County.

Ng currently takes part in activities such as “origami, spirituality, self-study, exercises, writing, reading and drawing.”

He is currently looking for a pen pal with whom he can ”build an enduring and meaningful companionship with — someone with whom I can share good times, bad times, life, thoughts, feelings, experiences and passions from this dark hole of humanity,” according to the article.

Alejandro Avila • Convicted of the murder of a 5-year-old girl in 2002 • Sentenced to death July 22, 2005 Courtesy of MCT

Authorities allege that Alejandro Avila, 27, could have become a serial rapist had they not caught him within three days of the murder of 5-year-old girl, Samantha Runnion.

According to an article in the Sunday Mail, Runnion was abducted while playing with her friend outside her home.

Her naked body was found miles away on a trail near Lake Elsinore.

A joint task force of FBI, Los Angeles Police and Orange County Sheriff officers arrested Avila in his apartment complex, which was just miles from his victim’s home. The jury found Avila guilty of kidnapping, sexual assault and special circumstances.

He was sentenced to death in July of 2002 and is currently on death row.

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February 27, 2012

OPINION

Taking unwanted penetration to a whole new level A recently terminated ultrasound law brought us that much closer to violating women’s rights SHEILA DEL CID Daily Titan

If making the decision to abort an unborn baby wasn’t difficult enough, Virginia State Senate had originally passed a bill requiring women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound.

Not your usual jelly-on-the-belly ultrasound; a transvaginal ultrasound.

A procedure that consists of a tube-shaped probe inserted into the vaginal canal that is covered by a lubricated condom.

“I kind of have mixed feelings about the ultrasound,” said Holly Gardner, 22, a business major. “If it is to check how safe the abortion might be, then it sounds like a good idea. But if it is not completely necessary for the safety of women, (then) it seems like it would be extraneous.”

Traumatized already from the unplanned and unwanted pregnancy, the procedure is invasive.

How is undergoing a transvaginal sonogram making anything better? Is the procedure supposed to make an individual change their mind about getting the abortion?

Yes, the transvaginal ultrasound is more accurate in determining the stage of the fetus. But it should be an option.

You won’t give women the right to choose whether or not they undergo this procedure, but they are given the option to look at the sonogram and listen to the heartbeat. Gee, thanks. It shouldn’t be a medical necessity to undergo the procedure.

Gov. Bob McDonnell and GOP state lawmakers terminated the bill Wednesday requiring the transvaginal ultrasound.

McDonnell, a Republican, drew back from his original stance in supporting the bill and said, “Mandating an invasive procedure in order to give informed consent is not a proper role for the state. No person should be directed to undergo an invasive procedure by the state, without their consent, as a precondition to another medical procedure.”

He was an advocate for the law requiring women pursuing abortions to go through the intrusive process.

The Washington Post reported that earlier this week, more than 1,400 people locked arms in protest outside the Capitol, and petitions bearing more than 30,000 names were presented to McDonnell by women’s

Courtesy of MCT Up next on the conservative political agenda: An attempt to discourage women from having abortions by giving them means to be able to easily listen to a heartbeat and watch their fetuses move.

groups.

It is safe to also thank Jon Stewart from The Daily Show for bringing awareness to the intrusive type of sonograms.

“During the entire wand forcibly inserted in your most private area experience, you still have complete total control over what direction your head is turned,” said Stewart “Women might consider this bill a TSA patdown inside their vagina.”

Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather go through a TSA pat-down for my safety but having someone do something against their will?

How about passing a bill that requires males to have a cystoscopy against their will? Why don’t they have to have an instrument pushed up their penis? Sounds like a good time, right?

The individual has made her decision to go through the abortion procedure. Let doctors do their job. They know when it is safe or unsafe

to have an abortion. I don’t understand how shoving a wand up a woman’s vagina is supposed to make a difference in her choice.

Last time I checked, penetration of a woman’s vagina without her consent is sexual assault.

Seriously, men coming up with laws on what women should do?

Women have come a long way to gain respect, and this is just another law targeting women’s rights.

The Texas Tribune reports, “Texas law is more strict: It requires women to have a sonogram at least 24 hours ahead of an abortion, and the doctor to play the heartbeat aloud, describe the fetus, and show the woman the image, unless she chooses not to view it.”

It is very interesting that the legislators are trying so hard to get rid of abortion, yet they are quick to get rid of subsidies for low-income families and aid for single mothers.

Fear Factor gives us what we want Don’t hold the onions, please!

HAILEY MORAN Daily Titan

Chomping on bull testicles, downing some donkey semen and nibbling on cow hearts — evidently our gag reflex is not a factor for Joe Rogan and his Fear Factor producers.

The stunt that has sent everyone over the edge recently involves a donkey, urine and semen.

That’s right.

Contestants had to drink two big glassfuls of donkey fluid.

According to the Daily Mail, NBC executives replaced the episode featuring twin sisters, Brynne and Claire Odiosio, drinking donkey semen and urine with a rerun on Jan. 30.

Now you could ask, “Who would want to watch that?!”

Actually, you could realize that what you really want to know is: “Who is the crazy person that is actually going to do this?!”

We all want to see people

willing to push themselves to the extreme fight back tears, grip their stomachs and eventually gag until they pass out.

The crazier the stunt, the better the reaction and the more exciting it is for the viewer.

While it may be abusing our time, our stomachs and our tooth enamel, there is no way Fear Factor should be banned or boycotted for animal abuse.

This is what we want to see and this is absolutely why we watch this show.

Everyone wonders how far people are willing to go to get some money but what are people’s limits?

What are they not willing to do?

How much donkey semen can one guzzle before they decide it’s not worth it?

No one is watching the show and wondering what happened to the bull with the missing testicle or the heartless cow.

No one feels bad for the

stinging, pinching scorpion that was squished between a contestant’s teeth.

No one wonders how the world is going to survive without those big, juicy, terrifying Madagascar beetles.

We all want to know what is going to happen in the next round, when someone is going to try and escape from a car either on fire or submerged underwater.

Or even more, we want to know what those crazy guys at Fear Factor are going to have people eat next. There are only so many animal testicles left to munch on before we throw the species on the endangered list.

What would Fear Factor be without its infamous second round?

While we love seeing people balance themselves on a piece of wood on top of a 200-story building, safely staring death in the face, we stay for the main event, the entree; the Big Kahuna.

We stay to see people throw caution, taste buds and health concerns out the window all for the chance to win some money.

If we get rid of that, Fear Factor is not the show we have grown to

love to watch. At least, not while in the middle of a three-course family dinner — with grandmother, of course.

While fear may not be a factor for lucky contestants who only have to endure so little to win so much, it seems like changing the channel is never an option for the viewers.

When it made its triumphant return to NBC after a six-year hiatus, it was one of the top two shows watched in its time slot.

This is no coincidence.

Our love for Fear Factor outweighs our love for animals like scorpions, spiders and other creepy-crawlies that we all complain about anyway, not bigeyed puppies or klutzy six-week old kittens.

Our affinity for the gross, the gag-inducing and the over-thetop is what drives a show like Fear Factor to be the water-cooler topic of choice every morning the night after it has aired.

The blood, the guts, the brains, the other random limbs and organs they recycle for our enjoyment are all ingredients that make up the perfect hour-long reality show that we just can’t stop watching.

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Eating while driving is just as distracting and dangerous as sending a text MAEGAN CASTRO-FLORES Daily Titan

Be careful the next time you’re driving and eating a quick meal.

It doesn’t matter how badly you’re craving something artery clogging at In-N-Out before your work shift — it just may cost the same kind of ticket that you would receive if you were caught texting and driving.

California Highway Patrol is cracking down on distracted drivers and the tickets are costing anywhere between $145 to $1,000 per violation.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the CHP crackdown targets distracted drivers who are caught eating behind the wheel, along with other activities that can impair driving.

Drivers who talk on the phone, text, apply makeup or read textbooks (these would mostly apply to students who put the “pro” in “procrastination”) while behind the wheel are targeted and ticketed.

Since California’s law requiring hands-free devices took effect in 2008, according to the article, the CHP has written 518,161 citations statewide. They have written 11,634 tickets for texting while driving.

You see distracted drivers every day, and I’m pretty sure all of us have been guilty of it at one time or another.

While we know the law prohibits using our cell phones, we still continue to play with fire and just simply drop our phone when a police officer drives by on the street or freeway and feign our innocence.

Eating, although a very basic action, can be more distracting than talking on the phone while driving.

If we grab anything on the go, there are always actions we have to take that take our attention off the road and into our laps.

Condiment packets have to be opened and put into our food.

When we spill or drip, we are reaching into the bag trying to find the extra napkins so it doesn’t stain our car seats.

Hot coffee has to be handled with care and sipped with caution.

Ice cream melts and we end up trying to catch every last drop of ice cream before it gets on our shirts or pants.

There is too much going on if you are eating and driving simultaneously.

There is also the fact that we can be such picky eaters. “I didn’t want tomato,” so the tomato is taken out. “I said no mayo,” and the mayonaisse gets scraped off with a napkin.

Before we know it we are creating our personalized food order while were driving to work, school or home.

One time I saw a mother with a van full of kids who was eating and driving. The mommy-on-the-go was so focused on her food and the kids, it looked like she forgot that she was driving. Driving became her third priority as her food and kids grabbed her attention. She was going into other lanes, braking suddenly and not stopping in time for the red light, leading her to speed through it.

It was a scary situation, and I spent only two minutes while driving beside her.

I decided to take another street because I did not feel like I needed to have this level of anxiety while driving to school.

People may think, “Isn’t talking on the phone while driving just as dangerous?”

Anything a driver does while driving that takes the attention off the road is dangerous.

When compared to eating and driving, talking while driving seems to be not as dangerous as eating.

Now we have the luxury of hands-free headsets and speaker phones. But as convenience would have it, if we “forget” to use our hands-free headsets, then we pick up the phone and just start yapping our mouths.

We can get wrapped up into our conversation at times while talking on the phone but we can still drive.

We’ve gotten so used to talking on the phone while driving that it has almost become second nature to us.

When we first started to drive, our parents gave us a cell phone to use “just in case of an emergency.”

For new drivers, talking while driving simultaneously became a way of life.

Both situations are very dangerous, but food can just consume so much energy and time while we are driving. Food can make a mess, spill, stain and even burn us.

Now instead of just saying, “I got a ticket while talking on the phone!”, we can now embarrassingy add, “I got a ticket for eating a Double-Double!”

February 27, 2012

DETOUR

Alumna takes the finalist stage Kacie Yoshida made it to the OC Music Award Showcase finals as the fan vote winner MAEGAN CASTRO-FLORES Daily Titan

The OC Music Awards have helped recognize local artists for 11 years, and this year was no exception. A weekly showcase of free music lasted from January until February, leading up to the awards show March 3. The acoustic showcase finals, held Feb. 22 at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, had Orange County’s most promising acoustic solo artists and bands.

One artist, who played with a band for the first time, was Cal State Fullerton alumna Kacie Yoshida.

“Before (getting on stage) I was super nervous. Once you’re on stage, you’re in a whole different world,” said Yoshida.

It was Yoshida’s time to shine, and she took to the stage first.

Her first song, ”Where Do Ya Flee To,” was played by Yoshida on the piano. When she got to her third song, Yoshida’s band came on stage. After five songs, Yoshida and her band walked off stage and away from the wonderful set that had just been played.

“Getting off the stage, we had the biggest sigh of relief because we just added the bass player a few

days ago. I’ve only played with the drummer three times and Chris (the cellist) and I have played a handful of times,” Yoshida said.

Yoshida was very selective with the people she chose for her band.

“I’m only so good, so I needed a really strong backing band, and I think I got it,” she said.

Friends and family came out to support Kacie Yoshida and her band in the finalist showcase. In the audience was Yoshida’s sister Jamie Sasaki, and mother Sheryl Yoshida.

This was Sheryl Yoshida’s second time seeing her daughter perform.

Sheryl Yoshida and Sasaki were excited for Kacie Yoshida and not nervous for her finalist showcase.

“It’s kind of a shocker (about Yoshida making it to the finals).

We knew she loved music, but we didn’t know she was performing for a very long time. When she left for college, we didn’t know she was a performer. We didn’t know she could play music,” said Sasaki.

“She’s really a quite person, so we didn’t know that (she played music) … so this is huge,” said Sheryl Yoshida.

“Her being on stage is huge,” Sasaki added.

Kacie Yoshida’s music is something that just comes to her, sounding as if writing music is a gift for this talented young artist.

“Some songs are true life and some songs aren’t. Some of them I was just trying to write to get a song out to the band, like ‘Basket of Daisies.’ I literally just wrote

that on a whim because we needed a song, and I wrote that in an hour,” Kacie Yoshida said.

Kacie Yoshida’s sound has a unique and relaxed vibe like John Mayer. In fact, John Mayer’s song, “Bigger Than My Body,” inspired her to pick up and learn the guitar.

Her musical influences range from Bob Dylan to Ryan Adams.

“I just saw Ryan Adams this weekend and he is probably on of my biggest influences right now.

He’s just got this voice — just a perfect pitch,” Kacie Yoshida said.

After Kacie Yoshida played, four more bands took the stage: Tully James Wilkinson, Parker Macy Blues, Allensworth and Moonsville Collective.

From the bluesy sound of artist Park Macy Blues, to the folk-rock stylings of Tully James Wilkinson, the range of music was unique and beyond enjoyable.

The big winner of the OC Music Awards acoustic finals was Allensworth. The rock quartet — which played with percussion instruments and the soulful voice of Jamie Allensworth — not only wowed the crowd, but the judges as well. It was a tight race, and the points were a close call for all the finalists, but Allensworth came out on top.

Allensworth won a four-day recording session at the Red Bull Studio, among other prizes.

The OC Music Awards will be held at the City National Grove of Anaheim on March 3 at 8 p.m.

Crystal keeps viewers addicted SEPIDEH NIA Daily Titan

The most important night in film was kicked off by host and comedian, Billy Crystal. The 84th annual Academy Awards celebrated the best in film, and unlike last year, the entertainment did not fail.

Billy Crystal started off the show with a comedic rendition of the films that debuted in 2012. With the help of Justin Bieber, George Clooney, Jonah Hill and Tom Cruise, Billy Crystal captivated the audience and made them laugh.

“This is my ninth time hosting the Oscars, so tonight, call me War Horse,” said Crystal.

The Academy Awards was held at what was once known as the Kodak Theatre, until the photography company’s bankruptcy troubles led to its name being stripped from the building, therefore causing Crystal to poke some fun at the now nameless theatre countless times throughout the night. “Tonight, here at the: yourname-here theatre, it’s been designed to look like the movie places of our youth.”

The Iranian film, A Separation, won best foreign film and its director, Asghar Farhadi, gave a moving speech about the people of Iran. “I proudly offer this award to the people of my country, the people which respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment,” said Farhadi.

However, the most moving moment was when Octavia Spencer won the award for Best Supporting Actress.

She was genuinely shaken and surprised. During her acceptance speech, an excited Octavia said, “Wrap it up, I’m sorry, I’m freaking out. Thank you world.”

“That moment for Octavia was what the Oscars are all

about,” Crystal said after the break.

Cirque du Soleil captivated the audience in an insanely remarkable performance about movies. “Wow, I pulled a hamstring just watching that,” said Crystal after watching the performance.

Oscar history was made when Christopher Plummer, at the age of 82, became the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award. Plummer held up his Oscar and asked it, “You’re only 2 years older than me darling, where have you been all my life?”

Michael Douglas gave out the award for Best Director, which went to predicted winner Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist.

But that wasn’t the only award for the French movie filmed in Los Angeles.

French actor Jean Dujardin won Best Actor for The Artist, and immediately said, “I love your country.”

Meryl Streep miraculously won her third Academy Award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the Iron Lady, beating out predicted winner Viola Davis. Streep has been nominated for an Academy Award 17 times. The last time Streep won an Oscar was in 1983 for Sophie’s Choice; it’s about time she gets another win.

Billy Crystal earlier called Streep, “The greatest actress of our time, or a really dedicated whore.”

Although The Artist and Hugo both tied in the amount of awards they received, the night belonged to the The Artist. It is miraculous and beautiful that a French, blackand-white, silent film won the Oscar for Best Picture.

The awards were pretty predictable for the most part, and with the help of Billy Crystal, more enjoyable than previously imagined. After the Oscars, I feel compelled to go out and finally watch both Hugo and The Artist … just to see what all of the hype was about.

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FRONT & CENTER | Heart headlines CSUF’s concert

Front & Center attendees go crazy for Wilson sisters Spectators flocked to the Honda Center for the 17th annual Front & Center concert hosted by CSUF VANESSA MARTINEZ Daily Titan

Multicolored glow sticks and loud cheers embraced the old, but familiar voices of two sisters who took the stage at the 17th annual Front & Center at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Saturday.

Heart, the well-known ‘70s rock band, graced the Honda Center stage and took the audience back in time with 13 songs, including two encores.

Students from Cal State Fullerton’s Theatre and Dance Department welcomed the audience with musicals of different genres edited especially for the show. They welcomed Heart by performing tribute songs to Heart, while screens displayed enthusiastic reactions from Heart members backstage.

The crowd cheered to familiar Heart tunes such as “Crazy on You”, “Never”, “Alone”, “These Dreams” and “Barracuda” and a new single, “Mashalla”, debuted live for this year’s Front & Center concert audience.

Jackie Delgado, 22, a Long Beach City College student, heard about the concert on the radio, and as a Heart fan, just had to attend.

“I thought it was an amazing performance considering their age,” said Delgado.

Delgado also said the student performers “did a really good job on their performance … keeping the energy alive,” but Heart’s 13-song set list was not enough for her.

“It was a really good show,” Delgado said. “I really, really enjoyed it. I wish I would have (seen) more Heart.”

Delgado also said she’s glad Heart was willing to take the time to perform at CSUF’s Front & Center concert and that CSUF picked Heart for their event.

Eric Perez, 19, a business administration major, said he enjoyed his first time listening to Ann Wilson’s gifted voice live.

“I thought the concert was great,” said Perez. “I think she had an awesome voice — it was great.”

Ed Arnold, managing editor and news anchor at PBS, said Heart’s performance was amazing.

“I was blown away by Heart,” said Arnold. “To have Ann sound as great as she does today, just blew me away.”

Heart ended their incredible performance with a second encore song, a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Misty Mountain Hop,” which put the audience on their feet

WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan Front woman Ann Wilson of rock band Heart played classic hits such as “Barracuda,” “Crazy on You” and “Magic Man.”

and made everyone dance.

Dashaun Young, a theatre and dance alumnus of Cal State Fullerton, who most recently performed as Simba in The Lion King on Broadway, returned to the Front & Center stage, performing alongside students during the performance before Heart.

Arnold said he enjoyed the student performance and that the concert stood out from previous Front & Center concerts.

“The student performers, every year, are wonderful,” said Arnold. “This year, I thought they were exceptional.

I’m talking about the overall talent; I’m talking about the dancing, the voices.”

The Front & Center benefit concert proceeds provide scholarships for students, such as the President’s Scholars program.

Previous featured guests at the event include Tony Bennett, Chicago, Natalie Cole, the Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins, Reba McEntire, the Steve Miller Band, Stevie Nicks and Earth, Wind & Fire last year.

The student performance and Heart’s performance made the concert one to remember. Young’s performance shows how much a Titan can accomplish.

CSUF constructs additional pylons MATT ATKINSON Daily Titan

It’s not uncommon for a university to have sports teams. Inter-school competitions have been common place for as long as there have been colleges. Cal State Fullerton is known for its baseball program, but it’s less likely that students will have heard of its StarCraft II team.

Yes it exists.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, commonly referred to as just StarCraft II, is a real-time strategy game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.

The game was released in 2010 and maintains a large fan base. The main draw for many people is the large competitive multiplayer community, which allows players to pit armies from one of the three races against each other until defeated.

CSUF’s StarCraft II team plays in the Collegiate Star League (CSL), and recently finished their main season with a record of 123. David Nguyen, 22, said when he started the team in the fall semester he didn’t expect many people to join.

“It turns out that a lot of people from CSUF requested to join the team on their own,” said Nguyen, who now coordinates a team of over 30 players. They don’t regularly meet

outside of the game, but had one get together in January. Nguyen said another will be planned soon. There’s no skill requirement for entry to the team, only a desire to play.

Five players recently participated in a CSL Regional LAN (Local Area Network) at UC Irvine, where they placed second against UC Davis, with matches available online for viewing.

The CSL matches are decided over four individual games: three 1v1 games and one 2v2. In the event of two wins each, a fifth game is played to determine the winner.

CSUF’s most recent match was against Washington State University on Saturday. The first two games were won in hard-fought battles

by Fullerton’s Travis Davisson and David Guest.

Davisson, 22, said he often learns from professional players by watching them online, but plays more casually outside of the team. “I try to not (to) take the game too seriously until money is involved or I am playing for CSUF,” said Davisson.

The third game was decided when the Washington State players could not show up for the match and had to forfeit.

“It doesn’t happen too often,” Nguyen said, “Sometimes things come up in life that are more important than StarCraft.”

Even Nguyen doesn’t play as much StarCraft II as he would like to. “I probably only play one or two games a week. I spend more time doing coordinator stuff like submitting lineups, than play StarCraft.”

In recent years, the new field of eSports have grown, with StarCraft II being among the most popular.

A Major League Gaming league was established in 2002 and now boasts 750,000 games monthly, both in their basic and pro circuit leagues.

The CSL has 240 schools involved in its tournament and has been growing over five seasons.

For those interested in learning the game, the best way is to play, said Michael Tang, 18, another player.

“Everyone starts somewhere.

If you lose, understand and fix your mistakes rather than just giving up,” said Tang.

Nguyen also encourages new players by saying, “If you need help, you can ask anybody on the team.”

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February 27, 2012

SPORTS

GOLF SHOW: Brand new technology and training tools are showcased and displayed at the LA Golf Show ...Continued from page 1

ERINN GROTEFEND / Daily Titan Los Angeles Golf Show attendees had the chance to interact with the new golf training system from igolping. The indoor simulator was named Best Simulator at the 2011 Professional Golf Association Expo in Las Vegas.

Dennis Palapallatoc, vice president of marketing for Krank Golf, and Sumaraga collaborated to create a company called American Golf & Fitness International Inc. (AGFI). This company plans to develop a golf fitness program.

“We’re developing a prototype so when you walk into a fitness center there is going to be a golf fit area,” said Palpallatoc. “There will be specific golf exercises and training.”

Palapallatoc will develop a certification for trainers to teach golfers different strengthening techniques. After the golfer is finished with their circuit training they will be able to use the Igolping system.

“They can actually hit balls and track their stats and see how they’re doing with swing speed and distance,” Palapallatoc said.

Palapallatoc plans to have these training areas in golf courses, golf resorts, private clubs and fitness centers. He will also put together packages for colleges to use this system.

“We want to be able to present this to golf teams that can’t practice outdoors during the season,” Palapallatoc said. “If they can practice outside, (Igolping) is mobile.”

Another way golfers can better themselves

are through practice lessons. GolfTEC is an indoor golf teaching facility that teaches about 25 percent of all lessons in the country said Forrest Blake, Southern California franchise owner of GolfTEC. “We help people using technology to see their swing and then we set up a plan to make them better golfers,” said Blake GolfTEC has systematic approach to teaching. Clients begin with a performance evaluation that shows them what they need to fix.

The instructor then puts together a comprehensive program based on their swing.

Clients can also have a personal club fitting to match their swing.

GolfTEC uses their patented technology called g-SWING. This technology has two high-speed digital cameras that provide frame-by-frame shots during lessons and records from the front and side. The system has waist and shoulder sensors that record every swing precisely from setup to finish. G-SWING also communicates to the user for positive or negative positioning by beeping.

“Golfers see their immediate feedback on

the video technology,” Blake said.

Blake said the benefit of having an indoor facility is that a lot of people are busy and do not have the time to hit balls during the day.

Customers can set up lessons with an instructor or go to the facility on their own for practice.

Kendall Thomas, vice president of National Business Development, explained a golftraining club called The Little One. The club received its name because it has a small face on the head of the club.

The purpose of this club is for game improvement and ball striking. Golfers can practice with it while they warm up on the range or around the putting green. The small face allows the golfer to hit their shot and focus on the sweet spot.

“It elevates your focus and awareness, so you can become more precise,” said Thomas.

Thomas said the sweet spot is essential for consistency with a player’s distance, direction and curvature of the golf ball. Consistently working with the sweet spot will produce a good golf shot.

“The more you improve your consistency, the lower your scores are going to drop,” Thomas said.

Women off to hot start Women’s hoops The CSUF women’s rugby team shut out Arizona to remain undefeated ANGEL MENDOZA Daily Titan

After getting off to a 4-0 start on the season, the Cal State Fullerton women’s rugby team continued its winning ways by knocking off the Arizona Wildcats 17-0 on Sunday.

Arizona was the No. 1 team in the league coming into this game, but the Titans showed that they’re out to win the league this season by their sheer aggressiveness and will to win.

Junior Megan Poosangtonchai was all smiles after the win and could not have been happier by the team’s play.

“I think out of all our games, this is probably the best game we’ve played defensively,” said Poosangtonchai.

“We held them every single time they were about to score. It feels really good to get this win.”

CSUF set the tone early in the game by scoring within the first 10

minutes. After a scrum and good ball movement, the Titans were able to get the ball in the end zone. They converted the kick and were up 7-0.

The Wildcats had their chances to score in the first half but were unable to get anything going.

The Titans kept the pressure on and were aggressive throughout, flying to every loose ball and asserting themselves against Arizona.

Things even got a little testy between Poosangtonchai and a University of Arizona player on the sideline.

“After I tackled her, I was still holding on to her and she shoved me pretty hard. I almost threw a punch, but was able to compose myself,” Poosangtonchai said.

Towards the end of the first half, CSUF scored a field goal and went up 10-0 going into halftime.

Oscar Santos, father of player Monce Santos, was a bit surprised by the kick.

“I’ve been to almost every game my daughter has played in the last three years and I’ve never seen a field goal attempt,” said Santos.

The second half started with the Titans dominating possession and playing sound defense.

After a great tackle, Fullerton broke the game open by scoring on a long run down the sideline.

The kick after made the score 17-0 and that’s where it would stay.

Arizona was in Titan territory at various points in the second half, but they were no match for the goal line defense of CSUF. “They had a good sized size so we really worked on technique, low body position,” said Head Coach Grant Anderson.

“That’s what wins these games, being able to come up in those clutch situations.”

The defense of the Titans was just on another level on this day.

The Wildcats were kept out of the end zone and obviously frustrated.

Players on the Arizona sideline were almost in disbelief about the inability of their team to score.

“The defensive effort was great today, they really turned up the heat on the defensive end,” Anderson said. “It’s something we’ve been working on in the past few weeks so it’s nice to see the fruits of what we’ve been doing in practice.”

The Titans will try to continue its winning streak when it plays at Cal State Northridge Sunday, March 4.

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win on senior night CSUF wins its second straight in the last game of the season at Titan Gym MIKE STOCKTON For the Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton seniors Megan Richardson and Lauren Chow shined as they lead their team past their conference rival UC Irvine, 58-44, on senior night forcing 26 turnovers.

Richardson finished with a gamehigh 19 points as she helped lead her team to an overall record of 11-16 and a 4-10 record in the Big West Conference.

With their main objective to control the boards and keep UC Irvine’s guard Kassandra McCalister in check, which resulted in her having three points, they did just that. Controlling everything besides the opening tip, the Titans rushed out to a 25-8 lead in the first 12 minutes setting the pace for the rest of the first half.

UCI made a few runs here and there, and while guard Kelly Meggs’ 3-pointer as the shot clock expired with 2:59 left

in the first half seemed to momentarily quiet the home crowd, they were never really able to climb out of the hole that Fullerton had put them in.

Lauren Chow said, “they needed to attack them early” and play with energy, and that was ever so visible from the start of the second half as they jumped out to a 11-4 run.

Trying to wipe the pale expression off its face, UCI started to make its run.

Led by the inside presence of Jasmine Bernard, the Anteaters cut the lead to 43-30, which was the closest they came to spoiling Fullerton’s final home game. Freshman Natalie Williams killed the run after she layed it up from a beautiful backdoor pass by Chow as she was fouled.

With seven losses coming from seven points or less in their conference, CSUF has shown that it can compete with these teams, but competing doesn’t get you into the NCAA tournament.

Coming off their second consecutive win, the Titans are peaking at just the right time as they strive for a seventh seed in the Big West Tournament with the intention of an automatic bid.

They will try to reach that goal as they continue their season against Long Beach State Thursday.

MEN’S HOOPS Loss Ends Streak The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team (19-8, 10-4) went 1-1 on its final road trip of the year as they fight for second place in the Big West Conference. Going into the road trip, the Titans had won six in a row and nine of ten.

In the first game of the trip against Pacific, CSUF won on a 3-point basket from sophomore guard Isiah Umipig with 13 seconds left in the game to grind out a close victory, 69-68. Umipig finished the game with 19 points, shooting 5-for-10 from behind the arc. The Titans had trailed the entire game prior to Umipig’s game-winning shot.

The second game in the trip didn’t work out in the Titans favor as they lost a shocker to UC Davis, 78-75. CSUF never led in the game and a late rally toward the end of the game wasn’t enough to overcome the deficit. Junior guard D.J. Seeley led the Titans with 21 points.

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Softball ends road trip 1-4 GREG WOODSON Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton women’s softball team hit the road Thursday to play five games over a three-day stretch in the Cathedral City Classic against Georgia, Boise State, New Mexico, Ohio State and Fordham.

The Titans went 1-4 in the five games and now have an overall record of 6-10 in the season.

Georgia’s power at the plate Thursday proved to be too much

for the Titans as the Bulldogs hit a total of six home runs, including two off the bat of junior Tess Sito, in their 12-5 victory over CSUF. With the game deadlocked in the top half of the third inning, senior Kristyn Sandberg hit a twoout three-run home run to put the Bulldogs up 3-0.

After the Titans were retired in order in the bottom half of the inning, Georgia blasted three more homers in the top of the fourth to extend the lead to 8-0.

CSUF would counter scoring four runs of their own in the bottom of the fifth after senior Adri Martinez’ RBI single started the rally, but the Titans could only gather one run to Georgia’s four over the last two innings of the game.

CSUF junior Aly Fascetti took the loss in the circle while senior Erin Arevalo got the win for the Bulldogs.

In Game Two of Thursday’s action for the Titans, Fascetti pitched a 10-hit complete game helping her team to a gutty 2-1 victory over the Boise State Broncos.

After Titan senior Nicole Johnson tripled, freshman Emily Vizcarra’s two-out RBI single tied the game 1-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning.

Titan sophomore Leesa Harris scored an unearned run in the

fifth inning to break the 1-1 tie.

Fascetti then got out of a no outs, based-loaded jam in the seventh to give the Titans their sixth victory in the season.

Coming off a split in Thursday’s action, the Titans lost in a 5-4 nail-biter to New Mexico in their only game Friday.

New Mexico jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning only to see the Titans scrap back to tie the game 4-4 in the top of the third.

The Lobos scored an unearned run in the bottom of the fourth when CSUF’s Vizcarra booted a ground ball off the bat of senior Jessica Garcia, which gave them a 5-4 lead.

Titan freshman pitcher Desiree Ybarra took the loss in a game where CSUF committed four costly errors.

New Mexico’s redshirt junior pitcher Kaela DeBroeck got the win as she pitched a complete game nine-hitter.

CSUF completed its play in the Cathedral City Classic on Saturday with losses to Ohio State and Fordham.

Buckeyes senior pitcher Mikayla Endicott pitched a three-hit shutout and Ohio State defeated the Titans 9-0 in five innings due to the eightrun mercy rule.

The Buckeyes put together 12 hits in the victory and scored seven

CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton infielder Lauren Mario leads off as she awaits the pitch in a game last year. The Titans will have their home opener against Maine Tuesday at 6 p.m.

of their runs in the bottom of the fourth after jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the first.

Junior Ashley Carter, redshirt freshman Eliza Crawford and senior Morgan LeMond were the only Titans to get a hit off Endicott.

CSUF lost another close game

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3-1 to Fordham in the last game of the trip for the Titans.

Back-to-back doubles in the second inning by Titans Johnson and LeMond gave the team an early 1-0 lead, only to see Fordham tie the game in the fourth on a lead-off blast off sophomore Gabby Luety.

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Fordham freshman Paige Ortiz’ fifth inning two-out, two-run home run put the Rams up for good.

The Titans will play their home opener, after 16 straight games on the road, against Maine Tuesday in Anderson Family Field at 6 p.m.

10 vs. UNLV – Long Beach, Calif. 3 p.m.

11 vs. Utah St. – Lakewood, Calif. 11:15 a.m.

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17 vs. Iowa – Anderson Family Field 5:30 p.m.

18 vs. Penn St. – Anderson Family Field 11 a.m.

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Titans leap over Horned Frogs TITANResults CSUF vs No. 15 TCU Feb. 24 - 26

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CSUF baseball wins series after a nine-run inning in final game makes difference GREG WOODSON Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton’s baseball team rallied for nine runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to overcome an early deficit and defeat the No. 15 ranked Texas Christian University Horned Frogs 11-10 Sunday in front of 1,810 fans at Goodwin Field.

The Titans took two out of three games in the series.

The game was decided in eight innings due to predetermined travel arrangements stating that no inning would be started after 2:15 p.m.

After a tough 3-2 loss Friday and a 4-2 win Saturday against the Horned Frogs, Sunday’s victory moved the Titans to 3-3 overall in the young season.

It also was the first CSUF home series win over the Horned Frogs since their annual series meetings began in 2008.

Head Coach Rick Vanderhook

said the series victory was big for his team.

“It feels good to get it. I mean, it’s the first one that we’ve gotten so far,” said Vanderhook. “To be able to get two out of three against a top-20 team is always good.”

TCU jumped out to an early 3-2 lead after three innings, but the Titan bats would not be silenced for long.

After Titan junior Casey Watkins started the bottom half of the fourth inning with an infield leadoff single to the shortstop, and two TCU errors loaded the bases for CSUF, the rally was on.

Sophomore Michael Lorenzen then came to the plate and banged a two-RBI single up the middle scoring Watkins and sophomore Keegan Dale giving the Titans a 4-3 lead.

After junior Richy Pedroza walked to load the bases again, junior Carlos Lopez’ RBI single off TCU starting pitcher redshirt freshman Trey Teakell extended the Titan lead to 5-3.

Junior Anthony Hutting was then hit by a pitch, after TCU brought in sophomore Nick Frey from the bullpen, bringing Lorenzen across home plate to

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ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton’s right-handed pitcher Dylan Floro throws a pitch against a TCU batter Friday night during the Titans’ home opener of the season. The Titans will host San Diego State on Tuesday at 6 p.m.

make it 6-3. Pedroza then scored on a wild pitch, making it 7-3.

But the flood didn’t stop there.

Lopez would score later in the inning after TCU sophomore first baseman Brett Johnson made an error on a routine play.

Then, a few batters later, sophomore Keegan Dale tripled to center past diving TCU junior Kyle Von Tungeln bringing in two more Titans to make it a 10-3 game before Lorenzen would strike again with an RBI infield single giving CSUF an 11-3 lead going in to the top of the fifth inning.

Lorenzen talked about the big

fourth inning and his hit that got the onslaught started.

“I told the guys we just need to stay fired up … you know me, that at bat I was just looking fastball, fastball, and I wasn’t afraid to get jammed. He threw me a fastball in, and I just let it get as deep as possible and trusted my hands and hit a little dinker up the middle for a base hit for two RBI.” TCU wouldn’t go down without a fight, though.

The Horned Frogs rallied to score four runs in the top half of the fifth inning, one in the sixth and two in the seventh to cut the Titans lead to 11-10.

TCU would then threaten to score in the top of the eighth, but Titan freshman pitcher Willie Kuhl, the sixth pitcher of the day who came out the bullpen in relief of freshman Tyler Peitzmeier, would work his way out of a jam.

After intentionally walking TCU sophomore Brett Johnson to load the bases with one out, Kuhl struck out Horned Frogs freshman Braden Mattson swinging on a slider away, but the pitch went wild to the backstop.

Titan catcher Watkins rushed back to get the ball, while Kuhl covered the plate and threw out TCU junior Josh Elander, who

tried to score from third base, on a bang-bang play at the plate for the final out of the eighth inning.

“The victory was huge … so it was pretty big for our home crowd here, to win it, you know, especially on Sunday after 1-1,” said Lopez about the victory over TCU. CSUF had 13 hits, 10 of them which came off the bats of Lorenzen, Lopez and Keegan.

Titan starting freshman pitcher J.D. Davis (1-0) got the victory and Kuhl got his first save, while TCU’s Teakell (0-1) took the loss.

The Titans will next host San Diego State Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. at Goodwin Field.