The Daily Titan - November 28, 2011

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November 28, 2011

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Faculty strike California Faculty Association held a day-long strike over salary negotiations with the CSU CAMYRON LEE & MIKE WHITE Daily Titan

After two weeks of informational picketing by both students and faculty, the California Faculty Association (CFA) fulfilled its promise of holding a strike Nov. 17.

Thousands of students and faculty converged at Cal State University Dominguez Hills to express their disapproval of broken agreements and unfair management of CSU funds. They came from as far north as Fresno and battled the hot weather to make sure their message was seen and heard.

A strike bearing the same message was also held at CSU East Bay. The CFA provided buses to transport faculty from surrounding CSUs to the event. The strike was held from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. at CSU East Bay and 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at CSU Dominguez Hills, with both campuses holding main rallies at noon.

The number of people joining the strike grew as the afternoon progressed and the day’s classes ended.

Passing cars honked their horns in approval of the CFA effort held on every outside corner of the university. A sea of red shirts was worn by both students and faculty to show support and unity. They blocked the entrance to CSUDH. CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan Protesters, made up of students, staff and faculty on strike, stood in the hot weather Nov. 17, expressing their disapproval of how the CSU has handled a salary negotiation with the CFA.

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ShakeOut exposes alarm flaws Officials say they are addressing possible problems that could occur in an emergency CANDACE RIVERA Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton participated in the Great American ShakeOut Oct. 20 and aside from preparing students and faculty for a potential quake, the drill brought to light problems CSUF could have in the event of a real emergency.

According to the Southern California Earthquake Center website, California has a 99.7 percent chance of having a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years.

Southern California is 37 percent more likely to have an earthquake compared to Northern California, which is 15 percent likely.

A mass text message was sent notifying students and faculty of the drill, telling students to drop, cover and hold. At 10:20 a.m. alarms were sounded in buildings to alert individuals.

However, some students did

not receive a text message, certain alarms in buildings did not sound off and cell phone reception was not found.

During a potential real disaster, lack of cell phone reception and faulty alarms are elements that could result in confusion and chaos.

CSUF emergency manager coordinator and exercise coordinator for the ShakeOut, Sue Fisher, explains why some students did not receive the mass text message that was sent.

“The emergency notification system uses the phone numbers with which students registered … cell phone reception is difficult to predict because of where the providers’ cell towers are and where you are in a particular building,” she said.

Fisher says students have the opportunity to change their information on Prepare.Fullerton. edu/emergnotif2. She states it is an important link for students to take note of during campus emergencies.

ALVIN KIM / Daily Titan File Photo Students, faculty and staff participated in the Great ShakeOut, a state-wide earthquake drill intended to prepare Californians for a possible quake. The drill revealed faulty alarms and bad cell phone reception in some locations on campus.

When Fisher and her team tested the voice and fire alarms, they noticed one overrode the other and that circumvented the fire alarms.

“While it might have led to confusion during this drill, it did allow us to learn something that is important,” Fisher said.

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CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan The Yost Theater in Santa Ana’s historic district hosted Orange County Fashion Week, a four-day event giving local designers a spotlight.

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The venue: Santa Ana’s historic Yost Theater. The time: 9:15 p.m.

The event: the Orange County Fashion Association’s second, biannual Fashion Week.

The 200-or-so guests in the theater stuck to the conventional Orange County uniform: sport coats and jeans for men and tight, short dresses and staggering heels for women. The 20-somethingyear-old girls were in flannel shirts and mary janes and the guys in Volcom T-shirts and black Converses.

For four days, the spotlight was on OC with the launch of Orange

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County Fashion Week. From Nov. 17 through 23, the Orange County Fashion Association celebrated local designers and the style that sets Orange County apart on the runway.

The culmination of the week was the presentation of the designer collections Nov. 19 at the historic Yost Theater in downtown Santa Ana. After the red carpet event and the cocktail party ended, guests were shuttled into the theater and led to their assigned seats as dance music pumped through the air.

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$52.4 billion spent on Black Friday

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Technology, explained that the lack of cell phone reception is due to the thick concrete walls that interfere and weaken the signal reception from nearby cell phone towers.

WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan Millions of Americans shopped on Black Friday, looking for discounts on goods such as clothes, electronics and furniture. The nationwide sale, which started even earlier than usual, brought in a record $52.4 billion.

Black Friday started early this year with some stores opening up at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving to shoppers.

Retailers saw record sales over the fourday weekend.

Shoppers spent a record of $52.4 billion, a 16 percent increase from last year’s $45 billion, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation (NRF) released Sunday.

The average holiday shopper dished out $398.62, up from $365.34 in 2010.

Even the number of shoppers who shopped Thursday to Sunday increased, from 212 million in the 2010 weekend event to 226 million people this year, according to the NRF. Both numbers reflect in-store and online shoppers.

The NRF foresees holiday retail sales to increase between November and December to $465.6 billion.

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participants.

As many as 30 participants lined up at one time to take their shot at the prize. Sarah Alai, a kinesiology major, said the event’s debut was a success.

“This is the first time they had turkey bowling and I thought that it was very innovative and creative and I really appreciated it and I thought it was a good idea,” said Alai.

Titans were given a raffle ticket for every strike bowled to enter in an opportunity drawing to win the Nintendo Wii. Steven White, a history major, bowled three strikes.

“I usually hang out right there next to the bowling alley so I was walking by and I see people throwing turkey so I’m going to stop by and look at what’s going on and it seemed like a pretty good time to stop by,” said White.

More than 200 people participated in the event and there were only 20 tickets in the drawing. There was a strategy to bowl more strikes, Alai said.

“You have to put the turkey in the bag and have a good grip on the bag, and you want to get momentum by swinging your hand back and forth and literally throw the turkey up in the air so it will slide a little bit, and with the momentum it will hit pins and you will get a strike,” Alai said.

At the end of the event, Hernandez randomly selected a ticket from the opportunity drawing.

Though neither Alai nor White won the prize, they said they both enjoyed the ASI production.

Holland and Hernandez were very pleased with the outcome of the event and hope for this event to be continued next Thanksgiving.

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Titans threw frozen turkeys down the Titan Bowling Alley for a chance to win a Nintendo Wii for the first ever “Frozen Turkey Bowling” event.

The event was held in the TSU Bowling Alley Nov. 17.

ASI Union and Special Programming Coordinators Katie Holland and Sara Hernandez have been planning the event since August.

“We are always trying to come up with everything in the TSU, and we thought that this would be an interesting way to promote Titan Bowling and Billiards,” said Hernandez.

To make this event possible, Holland and Hernandez had to follow health and safety regulations.

“We needed to first approve it with the bowling alley to make sure that they would be OK with it and then we needed to talk to the health service to make sure what precautions we needed to take to make sure that everyone stayed safe and that it would just run smoothly,” said Holland.

The ASI Street Team covered the bowling lane with plastic tarp to protect the surface and they required all participants to wear gloves for sanitary purposes. Additionally, the turkeys were wrapped and placed in plastic grocery bags for easy handling.

The turkeys came in three sizes: 3 pounds, 5 pounds and 8 pounds. Near the end of the event, the turkeys were thawed and the bowling pins were moved closer to make it fair for the

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IVANA NGUYEN / Daily Titan Students go for strikes in the Titan Student Union using turkeys as bowling balls. Participants were entered into a drawing for a Nintendo Wii for every strike bowled.

Students work pro bono The College Legal Clinic provides free legal advice in order to gain experience JONATHAN WINSLOW For the Daily Titan

Though Cal State Fullerton students seem to be aware there is a clinic on campus that helps with coughs, sniffles and sneezes, not as many seem to know there is also a clinic for bankruptcies, lawsuits and legal troubles.

The College Legal Clinic is a service that was started in 1971 by a group of both students and faculty at CSUF. At the time it was established, the main goal was to free student protesters who had been arrested. The current College Legal Clinic focuses on offering free consultations to students in need of legal assistance.

The service is run entirely by student interns with the support of a panel of attorneys and a board of trustees, which consists of faculty as well as attorneys and other specialists. Working in the College Legal Clinic is one way for students to fulfill their pre-law internships. While the interns manage the clinic itself, the board handles organizational issues, including future direction. The board is also responsible for main-

taining the clinic’s bar accreditation, which is critical to its status as a legitimate legal resource.

For the majority of the week, the College Legal Clinic serves as a sort of referral service, matching attorneys to students with cases that fit their specialties. However, Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. the clinic offers free consultations with select attorneys. Students are given 15 minutes with an attorney to discuss their case and receive advice, completely free of charge, provided that they are

It takes a little while for students to know we’re here. I definitely think more students should be aware.

Amanda Erives College Legal Clinic Intern

a student at CSUF. Students at Cal State San Bernardino are also eligible, as CSUSB qualifies as a “member school” for the College Legal Clinic, though they are the only “member” at this time.

Should students decide to pursue the case, the matter of legal fees ultimately falls within the discretion of the attorney. It is not uncommon for them to charge their standard rates,

however interns in the clinic have pointed out that many attorneys in the program are graduates of CSUF and may give discounts or lower fees as a way of giving back to the school.

“It’s all up to the discretion of the attorney,” said Yusuf Pirzada, an intern at the clinic. Pirzada noted that while many of the attorneys will indeed give discounts, such a thing is not guaranteed, and as such the clinic does not advertise it.

Though the clinic has been providing its services for more than 35 years now, many of its contributors believe student awareness of the clinic could be much better than it is.

“It takes a little while for students to know we’re here,” said Amanda Erives, an intern at the clinic. “I definitely think more students should be aware.”

The clinic has tried various things to promote awareness.

“It could always be more,” said Stacy Mallicoat, Ph.D., professor of criminal justice and a member of the College Legal Clinic board.

Mallicoat pointed out that the clinic is attempting to raise awareness of Law Day, an event where a number of law schools and LSAT (Legal School Admission Test) groups come to visit the campus.

Law Day is hosted by the College Legal Clinic twice a year on campus, once in the fall and once in the spring. The next one will be held Feb. 8.

DTSHORTHAND Woman Pepper Sprays Shoppers The woman who allegedly pepper sprayed fellow Black Friday shoppers in a Porter Ranch WalMart turned herself in, police said Saturday.

The woman turned herself in Friday night at a police station in Northridge, said Bruce Borihanh, a police spokesman.

Customers were pepper sprayed during a frenzy to grab markeddown Xbox consoles, police said.

Firefighters treated 10 people for exposure to the agent.

The woman will possibly face charges. No action against her has taken place yet because detectives are continuing their investigation on the incident, according to CNN. Detectives will determine what action will be taken after interviews with the victims and witnesses have been conducted, Borihanh said.

Authorities are not releasing the Southern California woman’s name.

“We have her identity and we know who she is and where she is at. When appropriate action needs to be taken, we know where to find her,” Borihanh said.

The woman paid for her purchases and left the store before authorities arrived, said CNN. Brief by Jaryd Lucero

Sigma Nu Car Show Canceled Due to the unfavorable weather, Sigma Nu at CSUF has postponed its Second Annual Car Show fundraiser until next semester. The car show is now scheduled to be held Feb. 25 from 10 a.m to 3 p.m.

Members from the fraternity said the event will be moved to next semester because there was no time to reschedule it to another date for the fall semester.

The Car Show, which was originally scheduled for Nov. 12, was canceled due to the impending rain that was to occur. It ended up raining in neighboring Orange County cities, but ironically, not in Fullerton. At the event, 11 cars showed up, and it was a consensus that if nobody showed up by 11 a.m., they would close up shop.

“There was an 80 percent chance of rain, so we came to the conclusion if not many people showed by 10:30 a.m. or 11 a.m., we were going to postpone,” said Alan Ahmatovic, social chair.

About half the cars that showed up donated the money they spent to bring their cars to the show to St. Jude and agreed to pay another entry fee next semester. Sigma Nu decided to hang onto the money raised from these cars and donate all the money together after the car show in February.

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CFA: Teachers strike against CSU ...Continued from page 1 Many carried signs scribbled with messages of disgust about CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed’s handling of the CSU over the past 13 years.

An oversized caricature of Reed marched up and down the sidewalk, waving enormous bundles of money from his hands while faculty members chanted in unison, “We are, we teach the 99 percent.”

“I’m out here today because Chancellor Reed refused a reasonable settlement offer for a modest adjustment for a lot of faculty that are having trouble,” said Dave Bradfield, chapter president of the CFA. The CSU faculty have been working under an expired contract that ran from May 2007 to June 2010.

The contract stated that eligible Unit 3 CSU employees–which include faculty, librarians, counselors and coaches–would receive annual salary increases in 2008, 2009 and 2010. These salary increases were dependent on the amount of funding that was promised by the state to the CSU. In the Collective Bargaining Agreement, which was agreed upon by both the CSU and CFA, salary increases were subject to renegotiation should the state reduce funds promised to the CSU. The CFA and CSU have been

in collective bargaining over a successor contract to the one that expired June 30, 2011. The CFA can legally strike over issues regarding the equity increases never paid for 2008-09 and 2009-10, but cannot legally strike over issues in the new contract the two sides are still bargaining over.

The CFA bargaining unit is asking for a $20 million repayment for the year they did not receive their contracted pay increases. This, according to Erik Fallis, media relations specialist for the CSU, would affect about 40 percent of CSU faculty.

“We are doing what we can to keep the doors open for students and provide quality education, and we are doing that in an environment where our state support is getting thinner and thinner,” said Fallis.

“It is a matter simply of not having the resources to give a small group of faculty the $20 million that the union leadership is demanding.”

The CFA claims the results of two different third-party, neutral factfinders found the money was there and Reed should settle.

“There is money that was earned in the past that the Chancellor’s Office owes us and independent analysts have confirmed that the Chancellor’s Office does in fact have, but which they have not yet paid us,” said David Freeman of the CSU History Department.

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tool for college students and their parents/families who live in different states.”

The everyday messaging ability of “What R U up2?” is designed to take up less bandwidth than phone calls so they are more likely to get through in the event of an emergency. Since it can be used everyday, users will become more familiar with the app so there will be no confusion or hesitation to use it when it is most useful.

Users can choose who they would like the message to be sent to. When there is an emergency, the message will automatically be sent to everyone in the emergency contact list.

“When we have our quake, 23 million people will be trying to call each other. This way you are just pushing a few buttons to communicate what matters most,” Long said.

If you decide to purchase this app, Long suggests you perform the setup so you can fully comprehend the app’s capabilities and how to build messages. The app is compatible with iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 and 4S.

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Disaster app released for iTunes A post-disaster app titled “What R U up2?” is now available on iTunes.

The app was launched by Cal State Fullerton alumna Irene Long, one of the founding members of the ShakeOut campaign.

“What R U up2?” uses questions and large icons to construct a text message that communicates a person’s welfare status in the event of a natural disaster. Icons include “OK,” “traveling by ambulance,” “going to hospital” and “hurt or sick.” It can be used to locate loved ones using GPS coordinates.

Through the app, users can make an emergency contact list to communicate with the people they feel are most important. It is available in Spanish and English, and is user-friendly with little to no use of the QWERTY keyboard.

“Our greatest hope in getting a more disaster-prepared society lies in educating and training our youth and young adults,” said Long. “It is an especially useful

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“Campus Information Technology is actually working on a proposal for a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) to enable cell phones, mobile radios, pagers and other wireless devices to work throughout campus, no matter which building you’re in or which part of the building you happen to be located on,” said Hidalgo. “Unfortunately, until the DAS system is in place, cell phone coverage in certain areas on campus will continue to be spotty.”

Professor Freddi Bruschke was teaching a Geology 102 class in McCarthy Hall Room 637 when the ShakeOut drill began. She confirmed that in her classroom the alarm did not work. After the exercise she discussed the matter with her department chair, who was already aware of the issue and therefore reported it to facilities.

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“We live in an area where it can happen any moment so it is good to know where the exits are (in the event of an emergency),” she said.

When the “big one” hits, Fisher does have confidence that the campus is ready for an emergency. She said that even though every individual has a responsibility to be prepared, we are all components of the entire campus. She believes CSUF has students and faculty who are talented and dedicated enough to react in the correct manner if an earthquake does hit the campus.

“Talk to your students, friends and faculty about what you will do when the alarm sounds or an earthquake strikes. If a gunman walks onto campus, do you know what to do? One cannot rely on ‘instinct’ for these situations,” Fisher said. “You must practice and learn how to respond correctly.”

For more information on preparing yourself and others, visit Prepare.Fullerton.edu.

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ALARMS: Officials keep the possible “big one” in mind “My understanding, based on the two people with whom I spoke, was that the alarms in most of McCarthy Hall were working well,” said Bruschke.

Denisse Becerril, 19, a psychology major, was in Bruschke’s class at the time of the drill. She also confirmed the alarm did not sound off but she could faintly hear the alarms of the adjacent buildings.

She did not receive the text message that was sent before 10:20 a.m. notifying students and faculty.

In order to improve the cooperation of students in an earthquake drill in the future, Becerril stated that more information needs to be given beforehand, such as how long the drill is going to take, where people are lining up and general information on what will take place that day. However, she does agree that these exercises are helpful because they inform students and faculty of kinks in the system, such as the issues with the alarms.

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Arboretum adds new scenery Over 2,100 plants have been added to the new landscape MICHELLE TUYUB For the Daily Titan

The Arboretum is adding a new garden to its collection, the California Native Meadow, which is located across the Channel Island garden and next to the community gardens.

More than 2,100 new plants were added to the new garden, which measures 12,000 square feet.

The California Native Meadow was Greg Pongetti and Chris Barnhill’s idea.

Pongetti, who is an advanced gardener at the Arboretum, said this garden will appeal to anyone who likes being outdoors.

Currently open to the public, the garden has a small fence surrounding it to protect against rabbits.

Although new plants were added to this section of the Arboretum, a few were kept with the reconstruction of the garden, including apple, pomegranate and pear trees. Pongetti believed these trees would go great with the whole feel they are trying to capture with the garden.

The place where the meadow is located had always been fairly open

with an occasional annual garden.

The location is also fairly in the center and the entrance of the Arboretum. Although the meadow had always been an idea of Pongetti’s, they just started to work on it last year during the summer.

Some of the plants in the meadow were grown from seeds at the Arboretum but others were bought at the Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano. The funding for the new garden came from the Fullerton Garden Club. The club holds its meetings at the Arboretum. A donation of $4,500 was given to make the California Native Meadow.

The project was completed this year. “(It was) an incredibly insane amount of work,” said Derek Dobbs, a student worker who helped in the meadow. With the finishing touches the meadow was a great sight to see.

The garden will include flowers like irises, ranunculus and buttercups. The grass used is clump grass commonly found in meadows.

Many of the other flowers are also part of the iris family. Another type of plant in the meadow is sedges, which are grass-like plants. Another plant that is going to be found in the meadow is a soap plant, which was previously used by native Americans to make soap.

The California Native Meadow also includes trails and a few small rock benches. The reason for this is to appreciate the beauty of the plants. It is not a garden someone can cut through but will take some time to wander through.

With this garden, Pongetti also wants to bring awareness to watersaving plants. All the plants found in the meadow are ones that need little-to-no watering. Although many people use lawn grass for their front yards, the type of plants used for the meadow can be replaced with that and can save a lot of water. Many of the plants only need rainfall.

Work for the California Native Meadow was done with the help of workers and many volunteers.

Sydney Harrington, a communications major and worker at the meadow, said she “liked big projects, (because people) work together, so many hands.”

Still it was worth all the effort, “seeing it completed (is) pretty phenomenal,” Dobbs, a music major, said.

The best time to visit this garden will be in the spring when many of the plants are full grown.

“People appreciate the beauty of them, (people) have written poems about them,” Pongetti said about meadows.

ANIBAL ORTIZ / Daily Titan Some plants in the California Native Meadow were grown on-site, while others were transferred from the Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano.

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November 28, 2011

It’s Cyber Monday!

A good way to avoid the ridiculous lines and crazy pepper-spraying shoppers in Wal-Mart

ROSS WATTERS Daily Titan

“Cyber Monday,” the Internet version of Black Friday, is much more worth your time, energy and money when it comes to getting deals and discounts for the holiday season.

While many lined up this past Thursday night and into Friday morning at the many retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy, I was getting some much-needed shut eye.

I wasn’t worried about being one of the first people to get into a store and receive discounts on a lot of stuff that I would be able to get online Monday.

I spent the morning watching and laughing at the madness networks were shooting footage of at stores all around the country.

Cyber Monday is the day where people can sit at home, work or school and take their time snagging up deals. The best part is that it is all online.

You don’t have to get up and wait in the cold for deals that are quite frankly not that good.

Websites such as Amazon, Half. com and many of the leading retailers will all have deals that are equal to or better than those offered on Black Friday.

The door busters are always the items everyone lines up for.

But I noticed the TVs, for instance, which are always one of the main door busters at each store, are always from the cheap secondrate brands.

A friend of mine, who works at a leading retailer that will not be named, stated to me that management finds it funny that people will line up all day in the cold and overnight to get deals on items such as TVs that are not up to par.

Meaning, we won’t be seeing any Sonys as door busters anytime soon.

This makes shopping online all the more worth it.

The ability to read reviews on the items you want before making the purchase makes the experience much more enjoyable.

Half of the TVs bought on Black Friday end up back in the store because of people returning them.

Cyber Monday is just more convenient and less stressful. I don’t have to worry about being pepper sprayed at home.

And Cyber Monday is also becoming the peak shopping day and the most lucrative for many retailers.

According to Amazon.com, some of their deals include an Xbox 360 bundle for $199 and a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX5V 10.2 MP digital camera for $199, along with other deals.

Moreover, according to Amazon, over 158 items were sold per second on Cyber Monday last year.

Other retailers such as WalMart start a Cyber Monday week, which runs through Friday. They are capitalizing on the convenience of shopping online and know the online shopping market is growing every year. Wal-Mart is offering more than 250 deals this year that are only for those shopping online.

The only downside to shopping online is the instant gratification so many pursue. Having the item then and there is very important to many.

But patience is, of course, a virtue and in most cases always pays off.

That tradition of getting up early with a turkey leg still in hand to wait for those door busters will continue for many, but shopping online is becoming more and more popular and less dangerous.

Cyber Monday just provides people like me great satisfaction to getting those deals and what you want without having to leave your house, argue with anyone, get frostbite or be robbed in the parking lot.

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WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan Black Friday and Cyber Monday may blow you away with the best deals of the year, but your wallet won’t stay fat forever. You still have to know when it’s time to call it quits.

Titan Money Matters

by GILBERT GONZALEZ

“Because your money matters”

Black Friday mischief Put the plastic down and step away from the counter.

I understand this is the sale of the year, and I get that you won’t likely find another Blu-ray player cheaper than a tank of gas, but for the sake of everything holy, please put the credit card down!

Judging by first estimates from market research firms like ShopperTrak, U.S. consumers came out in numbers unseen in years to purchase more than $11 billion on Black Friday.

Quite a feat, considering the country is going through one of the toughest post-recession recoveries in recent history.

But how can you resist the lure of decked halls and the lowest prices on everything you covet?

Retailers are aware how much customers love to shop after Thanksgiving, especially with gravy dripping off their chins during midnight doorbusters.

Each year, companies devise more and more ways to get you through their doors and put more and more of your cash in their corporate coffers.

(Coffers are like wallets, but for companies, if you were wondering, and as of August this year the cash and short-term investments held at S&P 500 non-financial firms exceeded $1 trillion. So let’s not burden the “job creators” whilst they count their beans as the unemployed millions eat their cans of beans over a dumpster fire by the tracks.)

Some of these efforts to get you inside and spending are applaudable.

I’ve always been a fan of the elaborate holiday decorations put on display by some of the larger stores, and you can’t deny a good sale when you see one.

However, one tactic I will never get behind is every chain-retailer’s favorite: the old, “If you sign up for a [insert company name] credit card, we’ll give you [insert insignificant percent] off from your purchase today.”

Let’s take this one from the top:

the store.

While the question is disguised by charm put forth by noble cashiers just doing their job, it seems benign to ask at the first store on your journey.

But if your holiday list has you trekking from one corner of the mall to the other, I promise you’ll tire of hearing the same question halfway between the Gap and Cinnabon (you know it’s a bad economy when you’re financing a cinnamon roll).

Next, the discount, or in essence the lack thereof. The usual offer is a reduction of 10 percent taken off at the register.

Sometimes the deal is tweaked a little, maybe by requiring a purchase of $100 or more, or it could be that the discount is for the next time you shop. But we’ll stick with the 10 percent off since it seems most common.

How much money are you really saving in the long run?

A mere 10 percent off is only enough to trim the sales tax and a little more.

If your cart is filled with $100 worth of goodies, congrats... You’ve managed to save $7 to $8 in taxes, depending on which county you shop in. Now that you’ve saved almost $10, what’s the likelihood that money stays saved?

If I were a betting man, I’d go all in and say that money is on a fast track to Cinnabon, again.

That reminds me, I shouldn’t type before breakfast...

For my own sanity, I’ll just assume you have a good enough head on your shoulders to avoid signing up for a card when the discount is offered on your next visit.

You need instant gratification!

Or at least that’s what the oldies are telling us is wrong with our generation.

Those are some of the tangible disadvantages to the retail credit card, the things you’ll likely see at the register.

The hidden costs are the more dangerous aspects of getting tangled in debt for the holidays.

Did you know each time a creditor submits an application for credit, the inquiry on your credit history is tracked.

If this is news to you, you might also want to know that each inquiry lowers your score a bit (not as much as a late payment, but enough to be noticed).

If you said yes to every retailer trying to sign you up over the next few weeks leading to Christmas, the collective inquiries on your credit will make you look as if you don’t know how to handle your finances.

The rise in activity on your credit tells a story about a shopper without enough cash or credit and who desperately needs to raise limits or open new lines of credit to finance Christmas well into the new year.

Is this the story you want to tell when it comes time to get a good car loan or when you’re hoping to get the lease on that amazing one-bedroom?

I didn’t think so.

Don’t expect your friendly cashiers to be savvy about the implications of opening a retail credit card either.

All they know is that their managers have been hounding them all day about opening new accounts.

Retail cards help companies avoid merchant fees imposed by Visa, MasterCard and the other credit card companies. Even your bank has skin in the game, standing to lose debit card fees if you start using a retail card.

Knowing how much retail cards save company money, managers almost always offer their employees bonuses for opening more.

I worked for a company that wanted the business so bad, I was paid $5 on the spot for every application. The customer didn’t even have to be approved!

I rarely bought my own lunch during Subway’s Five-Dollar Footlong days, thanks to all the unsuspecting, savings-seeking saps I sweet-talked into signing up for an account.

With this advice in mind, hopefully you’ll be able to navigate the malls this shopping season unscathed.

If all goes well, you’ll politely decline the invitation to apply for a retail credit card, making sure you walk out with lots of goodies in your cart, money in your wallet, and most importantly, no debt.

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November 28, 2011

Go climb a rock in the SRC

CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan Students and faculty can enjoy the rock wall and other equipment the Student Recreation Center offers for free.

When mountains are too far, the SRC provides a fun way to stay fit ALEX FAIRBANKS For the Daily Titan

A CSUF student started climbing on the third rope, the “cliff hanger,” and rock by rock he climbed his way up. Twisting and turning his body and clinging on some rocks with just the tips of his fingers, he soon came to the ridge of the wall and was hanging upside down. This was the crux of the climb. He pushed off and up from the wall, lunging for the next hold. He reached a rock with his right hand and grabbed a farther one with his left. His feet were no longer on the wall. He hung there dangling, holding on by just his arms. He swung his body out,

then in, and raised his leg to grip a lower rock with his left foot. He pushed off that leg and continued to work his way up, easily working his way to the next ridge and soon reaching the top. He sounded the horn, signaling he conquered his climb and shouted down below, “Lower me.” The rope loosened and he slowly began his descent to the ground.

The rock wall located in the Student Recreation Center (SRC) offers Cal State Fullerton students an extremely good workout.

According to Men’s Health magazine, “Climbing is a total-body workout with extra mental and physical benefits that set it apart from other sports.”

Bonnie Sorensen, a rock wall instructor, said there’s a common misconception that rock climbing only requires upper body strength.

“In reality you have to use your entire body and mostly have to use your legs,” she said.

Rock climbing goes beyond the workout. It takes physical strength and requires participants to execute each move like a puzzle to get to the top.

The best part about climbing is that the staff and environment of the rock wall facility are very friendly and laid back.

“Climbing is a good way to blow off steam, and it is a great way to meet new people,” said Sam Gookin, 22, a business major and one of the staff members who works at the SRC rock wall.

The friendly staff is very supportive, which reassures beginning climbers to stay clam when dangling on a wall 30 feet off the ground.

Alain Bourgalt, the SRC rock wall coordinator, said there is nothing to fear if you happen to fall off the wall.

“The ropes can handle an impact force of 2,000 pounds,” he said. “It’s a great way to face fears.”

There was a recent rock wall challenge that some CSUF climbers conquered. It’s called the “Climb El Capitan Challenge.”

El Capitan is a 3,000-foot-high rock wall located at Yosemite National Park. It usually takes climbers about two to five days to climb. The SRC’s rock wall is about 30 feet high, and the challenge was to climb the wall 100 times by Nov. 18. In doing this, the climber would have completed the “Climbing El Cap Challenge.”

You may be asking yourself: How do I become a climber to enjoy the thrills of rock climbing? Just go into the SRC and steer to the right; you won’t miss it.

“The rock wall is part of your free membership to the SRC,” Bourgalt said.

The SRC provides a challenging rock wall for students, faculty and SRC members to climb and make a regular hobby out of. If you’re into challenging and fun workouts, don’t hesitate to conquer the wall.

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The presentation may not have taken place at New York Fashion Week, but the time schedule ran like it was, seeing as it was 30 minutes behind the start time of 8:45 p.m.

Regardless of the wait, the audience was happy. With a full bar at the back of the theater and plenty of acquaintances to chat with, it seemed like guests were enjoying the delay.

Finally, after the lights dimmed, the host of the event, actress Joelle Posey, stepped on the stage, welcoming the audience and introducing the first designer of the evening: Rohini Bedi.

Bedi’s resort collection opened with a beautiful baby-pink, sheer polyester sari that was draped on the model almost like a kimono floating around her frame.

The collection took a twist on the classic Indian sari and commercialized it by pairing all the looks with black leggings; she injected a wearable quality into her clothes and refused to compromise the wow factor of her pieces.

Each look, dotted with beautiful embroideries and constructed from sumptuous chiffons and wovens in devastatingly beautiful fabrics, was breathtaking.

The next three shows, two runway presentations by International Citizen and District and one Elden Black fashion short video, were less show-stopping. The two runway presentations primarily featured sportswear. Although they captured an authentic Orange County vibe, several of the attendees in the audience questioned whether or not they were worth presenting on the runway.

Dani Abcede, one of the guests of

the show, complained that the looks weren’t what one typically sees on a runway.

“They weren’t eye grabbing.

When you watch a fashion show, you should be captivated and I wasn’t,” she said.

Kamaria Tyus, another guest, was

There isn’t really a forum for OC designers. We want our talent to stay in OC. Army Nix Marketing Director

also concerned with the way the looks were styled.

“I like things put together a certain way, and that just didn’t work for me,” she said.

If the ooh’s and ahh’s of the crowd were an indication of how successful a collection was, then Coral Castillo’s collection surely redeemed the show.

Her collection consisted mostly of cocktail wear and evening gowns in glossy fabrics and glamorous shapes. Her collection was the most adventurous of the night. Her innovation was obvious in the final looks, a trio of black, floor-length ball gowns cut in mermaid silhouettes of sheer fabrics.

They weren’t the prettiest looks and certainly weren’t ball gowns made for princesses, but Castillo was able to get her point of view across to the audience.

The most successful look was one with dense patches of blue plastic appliques cascading down the tail of the gown and thinning out till they made a dainty arrangement toward

the hemline.

“It took me five years to make,” said Castillo in reference to the gown with the blue appliques, which were made surprisingly of shampoo bottles.

“My mom was a dressmaker,” Castillo, who is a student at the Art Institute of Orange County, said.

Although she grew up watching her mother create clothes for a living, Castillo cited European fashion houses such as Alexander McQueen and Chrisitian Dior as her fashion inspirations.

Castillo was featured in the show as part of winning an OC Fashion Association student designer competition.

Army Nix, marketing director of the association, said creating a platform for Orange County-based designers like Castillo is what OC Fashion week is all about.

“There isn’t really a forum for OC designers. We want our talent to stay in OC,” said Nix. In comparison to larger fashion weeks like New York or Paris, the OC Fashion Week doesn’t yet compare. Still in its first few seasons, however, Nix hopes the organization can find more sponsors and grow throughout the years.

With such precious talent in Orange County, it isn’t hard to imagine this event growing.

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YURIKO OKANO / Daily Titan Japan held a firework festival featuring 2,000 fireworks. The show is one like none other in America and features traditional food and a lot of games for people to enjoy.

CSUF student experiences traditional food and unique culture in Japan YURIKO OKANO Daily Titan

I just boarded the airplane which would take me to my favorite country: Japan. Despite it taking more than 10 hours to get there and how tired I was, when I got off the airplane and saw the sign reading “Welcome to Japan,” I was excited to see all of its beauties.

According to the Japan National Tourism Organization, 8,611,175 people visited Japan from all over the world in 2010. Most of the visitors came from Asian countries, but more than 700,000 Americans visited Japan last year.

What makes people want to visit Japan? There are a lot of reasons, such as delicious food, beautiful and historical architecture, a popular culture and much more.

I visited Japan last summer for a month and it was unforgettable.

I saw a lot of unique things that people would not experience in California and I really liked the food there. Many believe Japanese people eat sushi more than other foods; however, it’s not true.

Japanese people do not eat sushi that often since it’s so expensive and there’s a lot of other tasty food in Japan, like one of my favorites, okonomiyaki.

I ate it in Hiroshima and it’s a popular Japanese pancake containing different kinds of vegetables and meats. There are two ways to prepare okonomiyakis in

Japan: Osaka style and Hiroshima style. I tried Hiroshima style okonomiyaki, which consisted of the first layer as a pancake containing flour, the second layer was shredded cabbage, pork and other optional items, and the bottom was noodles. People sometimes layer sauce on top of okonomiyaki, cut it in four or six pieces and share with their family or friends.

I realized in Japanese cuisine that people share their food, unlike the American one-plate dish. People usually get two or more different kinds of okonomiyakis and share them. The Japanese cuisine motto can be identified as “sharing is caring.”

After eating okonomiyaki, I visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. This park has several historical buildings, including Peace Memorial Museum and A-Bomb Dome. If you go to this park, you will be able to understand what really happened to Hiroshima in World War II. In 1945, just before the end of WWII, the U.S. attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki with its two atomic bombs and more than 90,000 Japanese people died from the atomic bombing. This place is where the annual Peace Memorial Ceremony is held every year on the anniversary of the bombing so people don’t forget who died and suffered.

That was my second visit to the

park, but I was shocked when I found the Dome leaving me sad and feeling sorry for people who were attacked and died.

Besides food and memorials, I was also impressed by the Japanese fireworks. When I was in Kobe, which is south of Japan, I witnessed a huge fireworks festival featuring 2,000 fireworks. More than 2 million people were there for the festival. There were booths for people to buy food and play games too. The fireworks there were unlike any in California; they were really beautiful and enormous.

Being Japanese, I am very proud I come from a country with such a unique and exciting history.

I especially love the era of the country at war. It was a period of 100 years of constant warfare between feudal lords who were fighting over land, rice and power, and they perfected warfare; the castles they built can still be seen all over Japan’s landscape.

Japan also formalized martial arts and created schools specializing in different weapons and fighting styles. Today, many of these fighting arts are carried on through martial arts such as kendo, judo and iaido.

Japan, a beautiful country with a lot of delicious food, is the best place for a trip. The old city and country proves its time with its unique food, interesting buildings and culture.

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November 28, 2011

Last call for CSUF volleyball

from Neto.

The match hung in the balance for most of the third set as there were 11 tied scores and six lead changes.

Up 5-2, the Titans looked determined not to be another Bows victim as senior middle blocker Leah Maurer hit away at the unready back-row defenders.

DAVID HOOD Later in the game sophomore outside hitter Daily Titan Bre Moreland proved to be crucial in the TiThe Titan women’s volleyball team ended its tans’ back-row defense as two hussle plays kept season with a 3-1 loss to No. 3-ranked Univer- them in the game.

But at 14-16, while the Titans were within sity of Hawaii Friday in Titan Gym in a valiant effort to show the Rainbows and Big West it two, a huge block by junior middle blocker will be back next year full force and ready to Brittany Hewitt and freshman outside hitter Jane Croson shifted all the momentum to the upset the conference with renewed strength.

“It was one of those seasons where we had Bows. Croson proved too much for the Titans moments of greatness and at other times where in the third set as she had kills from all angles. we just couldn’t seem to put away matches that Down 16-23, the Bows traded sideouts with the Titans and took the set we knew we could take care 17-25. of … With it being a rebuildThe Titans seemed out ing season, moving players I think that we of gas in the fourth set after around and the challenges proved we can going neck and neck until with injuries, it ended up bethey tied at 6-6, when the ing a really great experience definitely play with them.

Bows took over with their for the key players,” said as- Now, we gotta get better so quick back ones and slides sistant coach Mike Gee. from the middles.

In the opening set, the Ti- we can beat them.

Down 7-14, the Titans tans came out with a lot of took a timeout to regroup energy and enthusiasm, startCarolyn Zimmerman but it proved fruitless. The ing the match with an excitCSUF Head Coach end seemed imminent two ing 5-1 run against the visitpoints later, when Head ing Bows.

The Titans pounded the Bows with 18 kills Coach Carolyn Zimmerman put in a few subin the first set alone. Their offense was un- stitutes to try slowing the Bows’ momentum. stoppable as right-side hitter Jennifer Edmond But the slide attack by sophomore middle Emwent 5-5 kills as she hit over, around, through ily Hartong and pipe attack by Croson drilled and even tooled the Hawaii block. Junior out- the Titan defense.

The Titans, seeing the end of their season, side hitter Kayla Neto with her fast approach went 5-14 hitting with only two errors, three attempted a shy comeback but were only able to gain two more points on Hawaii. But the of them at the end of the set.

The Titan defense seemed to put a scare in momentum was in favor of the Bows. They the Bows’ offensive line as every ball touched a won 9-25.

“I think that we proved we can definitely blocker’s hand, slowing the ball for the backplay with them. Now, we gotta get better so row players for easy digs.

The Titans put the Bows away with a strong we can beat them,” said Zimmerman. “...Now we’ve raised the bar to another level, based on 25-14 message: they came to play.

Unfortunately, the Bows woke up in the sec- the last couple of seasons. And that’s OK beond set with a combined 17 kills and 16 digs. cause we’re not satisfied, we know we could In addition, the Titans didn’t have an answer have been a lot better and we have a lot of work for the middles’ aggressive, quick one-attacks to do.”

Hawaii will go to the dance with a strong No. and shoot sets to the outside.

The Bows went firing on all cylinders, forc- 3 ranking, as it has had an impressive season, ing a CSUF timeout as the Bows went on a finishing 14-0 in its conference, 29-1 overall.

The Titans end their season at .500 in con5-0 run early in the set, putting them at 10-6.

The Titans were only able to muster another ference (7-7) and 13-16 overall.

“I felt this was a really good experience for 10 points as the Bows’ offense drilled away.

The end seemed imminent when senior set- us, a learning season, a rebuilding season … ter Andrea Ragan was called for a back-row at- I’m excited for what we have to bring next tack, coupled with an ace from Hawaii, crip- year; we grew as players, we grew as a team,” said Neto. “I expect a season with more expepling CSUF from any comeback attempt.

In the third set, the Titans came out strong rienced players, with that always comes with with hits from Edmond and two strong kills better volleyball.”

Titans fall to No. 3 Hawaii in their final game of the season and a preview of next season’s Big West newcomers

BRIAN YAMAMOTO / Daily Titan Seniors Leah Maurer and Andrea Ragan (pictured left) make a play at the net during the match Nov. 18 against UCI. Maurer (pictured right) prepares to serve the ball. The pair wrapped up their collegiate careers during the Thanksgiving break. Ragan finishes with the school record for career assists.

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In her last league game as a Titan, senior Leah Maurer’s spike was tipped at the net but still good for her 13th kill, and the Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team beat UC Irvine in four sets (25-21, 25-18, 27-29, 25-19) on Senior Night in Titan Gym. “I’m happy to have her on our team. It’s nice to have someone so tall that I could trust to put the ball away and play well,” said setter Andrea Ragan.

The two other senior players, Ragan (42 assist, 11 digs) and right side hitter Jennifer Edmond (11 kills, 12 digs, 3 blocks), each had double-doubles on their last league game as a Titan player.

“I’ve gone through this journey since fifth grade and to finally wrap it up is bittersweet,” said Edmond. “It’s so surreal.

I’m going to miss my teammates past and present. It was a good game to end on because you have to really push yourself in the game.”

Ragan’s Titan career has seen her atop the record books with 4,337 career assists and one more game remaining against No. 3 Hawaii.

“I’m so happy I came here. It’s really exciting that we won tonight to finish it off too,” Ragan said.

In the opening set CSUF jumped out to a 10-4 lead with a kill by Maurer. UCI was able to even the score at 14-14 with most of its points attributed to CSUF attacking errors. After a dump by Ragan at 18-18, CSUF was able to pull away to win the set 25-21. Maurer, Edmond and UCI outside hitter Aly Squires led their teams in attack with four kills each.

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The second set started off with both sides trading points and CSUF was able to get an edge at 11-10. Ragan then had a cheeky no-look dump to put CSUF up 12-10 with Ragan on the line to serve. Her serve was on fire, serving seven consecutive points to give CSUF a massive 19-10 lead. Sophomore middle blocker Ayana Whitaker and Edmond were key during the run, combining for two blocks and three kills. CSUF won the set 25-18.

“It’s nice serving when you have three tall people in the front so they can block. It’s a really good rotation for me to serve and their passing wasn’t very good tonight,” Ragan said.

The third set was a cagey game with both sides trading leads.

UCI would need five game points to take the match to the fourth set.

In the fourth CSUF didn’t give its opponents a chance to come back with sophomore outside hitter Bre Moreland on the line to serve. At 12-8, she served three straight aces to open a 15-8 lead. UCI would try to come back but four errors by UCI and a pair of points by outside hitter Kayla Neto, Edmond and Maurer ended the game 25-19.

Neto finished the night with 14 kills and 16 digs, giving her a double-double. Maurer had three solo blocks and junior libero Gabrielle Dewberry led the Titans with 24 digs. Moreland and Whitaker had seven and six kills, respectively.

“I mixed it up. I had a lot of hitters to work with tonight so that was nice. No one was playing bad or anything so it was fun to mix it up and set the veterans all the time,” Ragan said.

The Titans finished fifth in their conference with a 8-8 record.

“It’s definitely a journey this season, but I think we definitely grew as a team and finished really strong,” said Moreland.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Start getting practical. The next two days could prove quite lucrative. Figure out the finances first, and then make your move. Think it through, and prep your materials in advance.

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SPORTS

Not much for Titans to be thankful for during break LISA HOSBOYAR Daily Titan

ROBERT HUSKEY / For the Daily Titan The Titans were disappointed with their effort during the loss to Cal State Bakersfield Saturday. The team could not protect the basketball, turning it over 21 times.

Titans sloppy in defeat BLAKE FOGG Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton’s men’s basketball committed 21 turnovers in its loss to Cal State Bakersfield 73-76 Saturday night at Titan Gym. The loss could be attributed to the lack of court time the new players have together or the injuries to guards D.J. Seeley and Orlando Brown, but Head Coach Bob Burton and his players didn’t want to make those issues their excuse.

“The real problem is we’re not playing really good defense. We really haven’t bought into the defensive end of the floor and we’re not taking care of the ball,” said Burton. “Those are the two things that really cost us.”

“We weren’t together as a team offensively and defensively. We have to do a better job talking and communicating on the defensive end. That’s the main key. We didn’t talk on defense, and if we out-rebound and block-out, we win that game,” said Seeley, who was battling a knee injury but still managed to grab 10 rebounds.

“I think once we get things clicking defensively we’ll start being a much better team,” said senior forward Omondi Amoke. “Once we get that thing going and have chemistry we’ll start playing much better.”

The Titans’ up-tempo offense was met

by a formidable defense. CSUB was quick 48 percent and grabbing 15 offensive reto jump into the passing lanes to convert bounds to contribute to 19 second-chance points.

23 points off turnovers.

Five Roadrunners scored in double figThe Titans were outmatched in the paint 42-36, and the lack of bench produc- ures.

“I thought Bakersfield was terrific. tion proved costly, getting outscored 34-6.

The Titans were only down by five You talk about a guy who knows how to points in the first half despite 14 turnovers coach. They were tough, hard knocking, you could see that when the ball was up and getting out-rebounded 21 to 16. there on the C S U B boards they was up by We really haven’t bought into the were after as much as defensive end of the floor and we’re it. Our guys seven points we’re standin the half. not taking care of the ball. Those are the two ing there CSUF had things that really cost us. l o o k i n g ,” no answer Bob Burton Burton said against the CSUF Head Coach on CSUB’s 285-pound first-year reserve forward Andre Jackson, who had 11 first-half Head Coach Rod Barnes.

For CSUF, Amoke had a double-double points.

In the second half, CSUF trailed by as performance with 20 points and 10 rebounds.

His last basket was a poster-worthy dunk many as nine points. Junior guard Kwame Vaughn’s layup with 5:04 left put CSUF on a CSUB player.

“I was trying to run the floor. My teamahead 59-58 for the first time since the mates were finding me on the break so I just first half.

CSUB answered with 10 consecutive finished. That’s my game. Getting out runpoints to take a 68-59 lead with 1:01 left. ning and try to finish in transition,” Amoke At 70-64, Vaughn tried to get CSUF said.

Sophomore guard Isiah Umipig and within three points with 0:36 remaining but his three-point attempt went in and Vaughn each had 19 and 17 points, respecout. CSUB finished scoring at the free- tively.

The Titans’ (3-2) next game is in Kansas throw line to seal the victory.

CSUB (3-1) finished the game shooting against Wichita St. (3-2) Thursday.

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Titan Athletics had a disappointing Thanksgiving break as women’s basketball, volleyball and men’s basketball struggled during the week.

The Titans traveled to Louisiana and won two of three games in the Beryl Shipley Classic. Cal State Fullerton dropped Nicholls State in the opener before taking down host Louisiana-Lafayette in game two of the tournament. Despite losing to Houston Baptist in the finale, the Titans won the tournament via tiebreaker. D.J. Seeley was named tournament MVP with Orane Chin and Kwame Vaughn joining him on the All-Tournament team.

Men’s basketball was defeated Saturday night by CSU Bakersfield 73-66 in a nonconference game at Fullerton. The Titans were led by Omondi Amoke who had a double-double of 20 points and 10 rebounds, followed by Isiah Umipig with 19 points.

Bakersfield took control of the game with a 8-0 run in the first half, then having the biggest lead of the game at 4536. After a small second-half deficit, the Roadrunners had a 10-0 run to regain the lead with 1:17 remaining in the game.

The Titans never got closer than six points in the final minute and had 21 turnovers to Bakersfield’s 15. Center Andre Jackson came up with 15 points and six rebounds in 19 minutes of play for the Roadrunners, who nabbed their third straight win in a row. Head Coach Bob Burton explained Fullerton’s reason for losing.

“We have good players but they haven’t bought into playing defense yet. We have three issues: play defense, take care of the ball and play together. I don’t see any of those three happening. If we buy into those things, we will be competitive.

We’ve got new guys and a lot of injuries ... I just wish we had time to practice and learn one another and play together,” said Burton.

Fullerton will next play at Wichita State Thursday.

The women’s basketball team won Tuesday at home against Loyola Marymount 79-52 behind Megan Richardson’s 19 points before traveling to Dallas for the Hoops for the Cure Tournament.

CSUF fell to host Southern Methodist 75-63 in the opener. SMU had four players in double figures, led by Kristin

Hernandez’s 14.

The Titans suffered their second straight loss in Dallas Saturday to Tennessee State.

The Titans were held to just 28 percent shooting from the field while the Tigers won 61-48 in a consolation of the Hoops for the Cure Tournament.

Senior Megan Richardson finished with a game-high 18 points and was named to the All-Tournament team. Richardson played without leading rebounder Mya Olivier after she was injured in the loss Friday to SMU. Taking advantage of Olivier’s absence, Tennessee out rebounded Fullerton 56-39.

Tennessee State led by 15 at the break and had a 15-4 run midway through the half, making sure the Titans came no closer than eight points at 47-39 with 6:16 remaining in the second half.

Tiger Jasmin Shuler scored a team-high 17 points and was joined in double figures

by Destiney Gaston who had 10 points and seven rebounds coming off the bench.

Fullerton returns home for its next game against Gonzaga Friday at 7 p.m. at Titan Gym. This will be one of only two home games in the month of December.

Women’s volleyball concluded its 2011 season with a loss of 3-1 to the thirdranked Hawaii Rainbow Wahine in front of a record 1,026 fans at Titan Gym. Fullerton is now 13-16 overall and remains winless in 27 match-ups with Hawaii. The Titans took the first set 25-14 but lost the next three sets 25-16, 25-17, 25-9. The Rainbows won their 24th consecutive match of the year and improve to a 29-1 record heading into postseason.

The match was televised on ESPN3 for the first time from Titan Gym. Hawaiian Kanani Danielson had a match-high 20 kills and hit .326 as she led her team to victory. Titan Kayla Neto finished with 12 kills, six digs and three blocks while Senior Jennifer Edmond had 10 kills. Senior Leah Maurer contributed with nine kills and a match-high four blocks in her final Titan performance. Senior setter Andrea Ragan had 40 assists and 15 digs for the double-double. She finishes her Titan career with school records in total assists (4,377) and assists per set (11.05).

The two teams will be meeting next season as the Rainbow Wahines are set to rejoin the Big West Conference.