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New Senate bill eases online education

Drug trade examined by panelists Professor took part in an ethnographic study in the late ‘90s and early 2000s

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California’s major higher education systems are expected to fuse their online programs together in an unprecedented push by state Sen. Darrell Steinberg’s new senate bill announced Wednesday.

The bill, Senate Bill 520, would force the state’s three higher education systems—the California State University, the University of California and the community college system—to work together to allow a higher quantity of transferrable online education classes.

“California would be the first state in the nation to offer college students a statewide system (of ) faculty-approved online colleges courses for credit,” said Steinberg (D-Sacramento), president pro tem, as he introduced the bill, which is co-authored by Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (DBell Gardens), at a conference and Google Hangout in the capital on Wednesday morning.

Steinberg said the bill would help alleviate the bottleneck that the state’s higher education systems have been suffering from as more students are being turned down due to overcrowding and budget cuts.

“No college student should be denied the right to complete their education because they could not get a seat on the course that they needed in order to graduate,” Steinberg said.

first half, the Titans were able to shake their pregame jitters and get on the scoreboard thanks to a bucket by forward Mya Olivier.

“At first we were a little iffy on what we needed to do on offense,” said Olivier.

After both teams traded baskets, CSULB managed to open a 16-9 lead with 4:49 remaining in the first half. But then CSUF held the 49ers scoreless until the intermission, enabling the Titans to bring the score to 16-13 going into the locker room.

A Cal State Fullerton professor explained his lengthy, in-depth ethnographic study immersing himself into the violent underbelly of the New York drug trade in the late ‘90s and early 2000s during the 2013 Sociology Symposium on Wednesday.

Randol Contreras, Ph.D., a sociology professor, discussed his work with the violent men whom he called “drug robbers” during a panel presentation on drug culture.

He grew up in the South Bronx at a time when social services cuts, arson and crack-cocaine began to ravage the city.

“These men I grew up with, they participated in the crack market, and to a large degree, they succeeded,” Contreras said. “They got it all.”

However, this period of crackcocaine profitability did not last long, he said. In the mid-’90s, the drug use declined dramatically and the end of the “crack era” came abruptly. The dealers who were at the top of their game felt a dramatic fall.

Drug dealers who lost their business began robbing and torturing the dealers who were able to maintain their fortune.

The research he conducted centered on the implications this violent turn had on masculinity.

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Titan forward Lauren Bushong jumps above a CSULB defender to shoot a jump shot in the Titans’ 54-48 upset over the 49ers during the first round of the Big West Tournament at the Bren Center in Irvine.

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The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team remained on track for a Cinderella story in the Big West Tournament after upsetting rival Long Beach State 54-48 in the first round on Tuesday.

The eighth-seeded Titans came into the game against 49ers with a record of 10-21, losers of three straight and without a conference tournament victory since defeating UC Irvine on March 10, 2010.

CSULB entered with a 16-14 record, seeded fifth.

But an empty bench on the sidelines inspired the

navy and orange—Monica Quan, the Titan assistant coach whose life was taken more than a month ago, is still missed by the team.

“Obviously we miss Monica tremendously, and we’ve had a lot of support from her parents,” said Head Coach Marcia Foster. “Her dad texted me yesterday and just said ‘Go win a game.’ Monica always believed this team had something special if we could just put together two halves.”

The game started slow, with both teams appearing hesitant. Two points by CSULB was the only scoring that took place in the first five minutes of the game. Finally, with 14:50 remaining in the

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A sign for the “Tracks at Brea Trail” project on Brea Boulevard explains the details of the renovation.

Brea to renovate railway land into trail The City Council plans to implement four miles of extended trails by 2015 LAUREN DAVIS Daily Titan

A railway splitting Brea, which has gone unused for years, will soon be destroyed as part of the city’s upcoming renovation focusing on the placement of a linear park or trails to help uphold Brea’s active lifestyle community.

The city has plans for new trails to be extended four miles from the Brea Canyon Flood Control Channel to Valencia Avenue, which should be completed in 2015.

According to Kathie DeRobbio, economic development manager for

Brea, the west side of the city has two active railways which makes it impossible to expand the trail farther.

“Someday, should that railroad become inactive, we would like to move the trail further west, and go to the city’s western border,” said DeRobbio. “Right now though, since it is active, and we really don’t have the financial resources to do that, we are focusing on these four miles.”

DeRobbio said the general plan to renovate the area began in 1986, though most railroad companies were not willing to give up or sell their railroads to the city at the time.

The Brea City Council approved the project in 2007, allowing the city to move forward with the renovation process.

About $14 million in grants and

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redevelopment bonds have been dedicated to the project, according to the Orange County Register.

The city has spent $12.7 million by purchasing the rights-of-way grants to the railway.

This gave the city rights to the area on either side of the tracks.

Brea City council approved $1.2 million to clean up used arsenic used in the past by Union Pacific to rid the railway of weeds, according to the Register.

Jeffrey Knott, a geological science professor at CSUF, said although it is impossible to completely rid the soil of arsenic because of its recurrent nature, the arsenic levels can be kept at bay through remediation.

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Saturday is a slow work day for Robert Moran. He arrives at the KABC-TV studios at 9 a.m., proudly sporting a blue “Good Morning America” baseball cap, along with a comfortable beige polo and blue jeans.

He checks his email on a computer running what seems to be an outdated Windows 95 operating system.

His organized workspace is just left of the breaking news desk in a small room that would terrorize a claustrophobic individual.

But today is different. An email confirms that Moran’s Saturday will be spent digitizing footage by inputting disc numbers and descriptions into a digital library.

He heads over to the library room for more footage to digitize.

The library, a small room with three large bookcases and just enough room for Moran’s body to get through, contains tapes with footage that ranges from Michael Jackson’s death trials to B-roll of LAX. He mistakenly grabs a handful of mini-DV tapes that have already been digitized, as the green dot on them indicate. Once realizing his mistake, he begins to reorganize them.

For 40 minutes, he looks carefully at the combination of numbers and letters on the cases’ spines.

One by one, he places them in alphabetical and numerical order on the second-highest shelf of the second-furthest bookcase from the door, where they belong.

To the average person, this tedious task would prove to be stressful or even annoying.

But Moran finds pleasure in do-

ing his work well, even if it means spending almost an hour arranging tapes and stretching to reach the shelf.

He can focus well on a task because he’s a perfectionist, he says, and he moves a mini-DVs’ shelf location. His strong focus is also a symptom of Asperger’s syndrome, which he was diagnosed with at age 15.

“When it comes to my particular disorder, there is a lot of ignorance that goes around and I’ve experienced it firsthand,” Moran said, rubbing his index finger and thumb together. “I’ve had people call me retarded, stupid, dumb.”

A welcome to “Aspie Land” But Moran, 35, is none of that.

The Pomona native graduated from Cal State Fullerton with a B.A. in broadcast journalism in 2012 after he transferred from Chaffey College in 2005. At his community college, Moran discovered his passion for telling stories—a skill he now uses to inform his online readership about Asperger’s.

Asperger’s syndrome belongs to the higher-functioning side of the autism spectrum.

As defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, its essential features are impairment in social interaction and the development of repetitive patterns of behavior.

But, just as everyone is different, persons with autism are on their own spectrum, according to John Douglas Liverpool, learning disability/mental health specialist at the Disabled Student Services program’s office at CSUF. People with Asperger’s, in general, learn quickly because of their

ability to focus well. They also often excel in school.

“We deal with a lot of stereotypes,” Moran said. “That we’re all geeks and nerds; we wear the pencil protectors and things like that.

That’s exactly what people associate with Asperger’s … They think that’s exactly what we’re like and it’s like, ‘No, we’re not like that.

We’re all different.’”

Through his blog, “Welcome to Aspie Land,” Moran seeks to challenge and disprove the cookie cutter image of persons with autism, he said, by sharing his own life experiences and multimedia stories about other people with autism.

As an adult, he has overcome tasks that proved to be challenging for him, such as shaking hands at age 21.

“I had to learn how to properly shake a hand because the way I would do it is, I would do it according to my own height,” Moran says. “Because I’m tall, I’d stick my hand out straight across and (if ) someone’s like two feet shorter than me, they have to reach up to reach my hand.”

Aliah Mestrovich Seay, program coordinator of support services, works with students with autism who seek support and help to overcome such challenges. Studies of an interpersonal development group run by Seay showed that 75 percent of participants improved in engaging with others and involving themselves in extracurricular activities after attending group sessions.

Liverpool said that one reason students with Asperger’s seek help from DSS is because they want to overcome social interactive challenges.

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he first non-EuropeT an pope in more than a millenium was elected

Wednesday in Rome, according to the Associated Press.

Argentine Jorge Bergoglio, now known as Pope Francis, gave his first address from his balcony to a crowd of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

The new pope asked for prayers, both for himself and the now-retired Pope Benedict XVI. Bergoglio was chosen in a remarkably fast conclave.

Cardinals announced their selection less than 24 hours after they signalled the start

to their decision-making.

The 76-year-old leaves his post as archbishop of Buenos Aires to assume the royal seat in Rome.

Thousands of people who were posted outside the Sistine Chapel jumped for joy when white smoke billowed from the smokestack just past 7 p.m.

Bergoglio was chosen on the fifth ballot cast, one of the fastest decisions in years.

Italian and Vatican military bands played anthems to the crowd of at least 50,000.

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resignation came so unexpectedly, there was no clear frontrunner for pontiff.

Experts had been predicting the papal conclave to last as long as four days.

The church was thrown into upheaval and turmoil

by Benedict’s abrupt resignation, another factor which made the quick decision surprising.

In comparison, Benedict was clearly the front-running going into the 2005 election, which took just four ballots. It took two days to elect Pope John Paul II in 1978.

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“What I also found was that these men not only played on the masculinity of drug dealers to trap them in a drug robbery, but they reinforced their own masculinity in how they treated their female accomplice,” he explained.

A commonly used tactic was to lure successful drug dealers by using an attractive young woman to seduce them and bring them back to the waiting hands of the drug robbers, Contreras said.

Once the drug robbers had their hands on the target, he was brutally tortured using knives, electricity or even hot irons.

They were after drugs or money, he said, and they generally succeeded.

However, when they did not succeed, drug robbers saw this as a challenge to their masculinity.

Contreras found that a contest of masculinity begins between the drug robber and the drug-dealing victim during torture.

One study participant who Contreras referred to as Gus took this masculinity challenge literally during a particularly brutal encounter with a tight-lipped drug dealer who would not cooperate with the robbers.

Contreras said Gus threatened to remove one of the testicles of the drug dealer, but was stopped by another robber before he went through with it.

“What I realized was that Gus saw the dealer’s resistance as a masculinity challenge, and he wanted to chop away, literally, at the masculinity of his victim,” said Contreras.

His research concluded that the marginalized inner-city youth who lack traditional routes to demonstrate “manhood,” such as heading a household, see the drug market as a way to do this.

CSUF associate professor Jonathan Taylor, Ph.D., followed Contreras, theorizing the failures of

A male inmate received the death penalty today in Santa Ana for a 2007 murder, according to the Orange County Register.

Waymon Livingston, 29, was sentenced to death over life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder in addition to the rapes of three women and the aggravated assault of another during a two-year crime spree.

Livingston’s sentence is the second death penalty verdict in Orange County this year.

Deputy District Attorney Howard Gundy, said Livingston showed no remorse for his actions, and felt pleasure from humiliating the victims he attacked.

“The depravity of this man … is absolutely astounding,” Gundy told the Register.

Defense attorney Gassia Apkarian said that Livingston grew up in a terrible environment, a mother with four children that she could not handle, and an absent father.

Livingston was first arrested on Oct. 11, 2007 by Anaheim police after forensic examiners analyzed evidence from three rapes and matched genetic material left at the crime scenes to him.

He was later linked to the murder of Ana Gonzalez whose body was found in an Anaheim motel in 2007.

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Quake triggers warning system The small earthquake that struck Southern California early Monday served seismologists by showing the utility of the state’s new earthquake early warning system, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Although the 4.7 jolt passed quickly and caused no measurable damage in the Los Angeles area, hundreds of sensors embedded near its epicenter in Anza, Calif., sent an alert to seismologists at Caltech in Pasadena, 30 seconds before they felt the quake.

Computer screens flashed and gave an accurate countdown to when the shaking would hit the campus.

Seismologists noted that though the system overestimated the quake’s strength initially, the primary goal of the system is to alert people to a coming quake, not immediately measure its magnitude.

Scientists hope the early warning system, now a pilot project, will eventually be developed into a statewide network with thousands of sensors, which would trigger alarms to alert authorities to shut down potentially dangerous services.

Japan, Mexico and Taiwan have already implemented similar systems.

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Dow feasts on nine-day streak ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan Speaker Randol Contreras, Ph.D., a sociology professor, discussed his work on drug culture at the 2013 Sociology Symposium on Wednesday.

the War on Drugs.

“By any sort of measurable standpoint, the War on Drugs is a colossal failure,” said Taylor.

Taylor said there are three systemic reasons for failure. The first effect, he said, is called the balloon effect.

By suppressing drug production in one area, as the War on Drugs has generally done, prices are driven up and production is began in other areas, according to Taylor.

The second problem, he said, was a financial interest in continuing the War on Drugs due to profitability for governments, drug dealers and law enforcement.

Thirdly was what Taylor called “drug proxies,” which are drug regimes supported by governments for political reasons, the funding of Nicaraguan Contras in the ‘80s being one example.

Taylor also debated the traditional stigmatization of illegal drugs such as marijuana and hal-

lucinogenic mushrooms, saying that, statistically, these two drugs are safer than even alcohol, tobacco and caffeine.

Dina Perrone, a criminal justice professor at Cal State Long Beach, presented her research on club drugs used by middle class adults in New York.

She conducted a 15-month ethnographic study on drug habits of a group of privileged, heterosexual, working adults.

Perrone compared these habits with drug habits of poorer users, explaining that they were more likely to partake in “harm reduction” activities, because they could afford it.

Poorer users are more susceptible to consuming dirty or tainted drugs because they do not have the luxury of being picky when it comes to the quality of the drugs they consume, according to Perrone.

The Dow Jones industrial average outpaced a sluggish economy Wednesday with a 5.22 bump, extending its positive trend for nine days, matching its record more than 16 years ago in November 1996.

Even in spite of the budget tug-o-war battles four hours south in Washington, D.C. and less than optimal consumer confidence numbers, the stock market is showing signs of life in a rebounding economy.

Hugh Johnson of Hugh Johnson Advisors told USA Today Wednesday investors are cautious about the recent rally, waiting to see if it will fall as quickly as it spiked in case of a dip or unexpected events.

The Dow closed at 14,455.28 and is expected to continue its run, despite the rare nature of big-time streaks.

In 117 years the Dow has existed, it has only risen nine or more straight days 42 times. It has only had a 13-day bounce twice before, the last time in June 1987, according to USA Today.

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GARCÍA DEDICATES COLLEGE PARK PLAZA After months of construction, the front parking lot of College Park has been completely redesigned to allow for better access to the building.

“It has been a fabulous transformation … isn’t it beautiful?” said President Mildred García at the ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday afternoon outside of College Park.

Executive director of Auxiliary Services Frank Mumford said the new additions to the building such as electric car plug ins, energy efficient lighting, low-water usage plants and recycled materials should make Cal State Fullerton greener.

The lights on the sidewalk will use about the same amount of electricity as a hair dryer, according to Mumford.

“I think for Cal State Fullerton, and for me personally, is that it is an inviting, environmentally great building for

our students, faculty, staff and community,” said García after her address. “This building is for students, it is a place where they can congregate.”

However, the renovations were ultimately significantly more costly than originally planned, according to Mumford. He said the university did support the decision to pay more to get the design they envisioned.

Edward Fink, Ph.D., chair of the Radio-TV-Film Department, said that he believes the building’s new look is a positive thing for students, and that it conveys a more welcoming feeling surrounding the building.

“Before it was OK, but it was inconvenient,” said Fink. “This ties us to the campus more.”

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President Mildred García cuts the ribbon to officially open the plaza at College Park on Wednesday.

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Matthew Gollub acts out a mosquito flying while demonstrating how he reads to kids on Wednesday.

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Award-winning children’s author Matthew Gollub demonstrated how incorporating rhythm, props and human interaction while reading to students results in a successful tactic to encourage students to read more often.

Gollub emphasized the importance of reading to young children during his presentation, “Drumming Up Readers at School and at Home,” on Wednesday at the Pollak Library.

Gollub merges his passion for jazz music with his multilingual background in English, Spanish and Japanese.

With a variety of instruments on hand–drums, a tambourine and a shaker–Gollub performed his musical stories to the audience by singing the story instead of reading.

He said adding musical elements to his style of reading allows children to participate in some way whether it is singing along, playing an instrument or clapping their hands.

Throughout his presentation, Gollub reiterated to the audience: “Always give kids something to do.”

“Appealing to students’ different senses and ‘intelligences’ essentially gives you more hooks as a presenter (and) more ways to get kids to take an interest in words and stories,” said Gollub.

Audience members consisted of students aspiring to be writers and teachers, employees of the CSUF Children’s Center and members of the community.

Martha Leonard, a member of the Victorian Society of the Fullerton Arboretum, is a writer who works as a children’s service librarian at the Fullerton Public Library.

Though she had taken a break

from writing some of her stories for over a year, Leonard said she felt inspired to continue after the presentation.

“I’m glad that I came here because that means motivates me,” said Leonard. “It’s very motivational when you hear another writer, so I’m going to be inspired.”

Gollub also discussed parents who do not find the time to read to their children.

One recommendation he made was for parents to have their children read a restaurant menu and identify a food item. From there the child should read aloud the dishes the item is used in. This activity is meant to help the child read and expand their vocabulary.

Gollub also suggested that children should watch television with subtitles on as well, allowing them to improve their reading and literacy skills.

He also focused on students’

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parents who may not be able to read as well due to low education levels.

Gollub recommended that students have their parents place bilingual Post-it notes and labels on various household items and home structures around the house.

This is meant to help both parent and child learn how to read in both english and a foreign language.

“Sometimes it’s not just Spanish,” said Gollub. “It might be Korean, or Punjabi, or Japanese.”

Cheryl Wood, 23, a single-subject credential student and future educator, said she enjoyed the presentation.

“I thought it was very entertaining,” said Wood. “I feel like there’s a lot of useful information that he gave me.”

Gollub is the author of 15 books and publisher of the Tortuga Press, an independent press that publishes children’s books.

The bill is accompanied by Senate Bill 547, authored by state Sen. Marty Block, which would have the academic senates of the CSU, UC and community college systems work together to develop transferrable online classes.

A nine-member panel comprised of faculty—three each from the CSU, UC and the community college systems—would coordinate the course choices, Steinberg said. About 50 classes will be included in the plan.

Steinberg said online learning and higher education systems are in “two separate worlds” and not operating in cooperation.

“If they are allowed to continue separately, we’re not going to maximize opportunity for students,” Steinberg said.

Block said online education is a viable solution for students facing problems like access, late graduation and overcrowding.

“What online education does is it opens up the possibilities for students. It creates access, it allows students to matriculate and graduate more quickly,” said Block.

Under the bill, California’s colleges would contract with massive open online courses (MOOCs), like Udacity, edX and Coursera, to develop the courses.

“I think it’s going to be a shift in the education for the state of California,” said Sebastian Thrun, co-founder and CEO of Udacity, via webcam at the Google Hangout.

Udacity implemented a pilot program at San Jose State in January with online classes that cost $150, or about the price a class at a community college

would cost, according to the university.

The California Faculty Association, a heavyweight lobby for CSU faculty in Sacramento, said it will support Steinberg’s push for online higher education.

“We will strive towards a bill that improves student success, while protecting the reputation of California’s public higher education system as the best in the world,” the CFA said in a statement released Wednesday night.

Steven Wehr, Ph.D., president of Cal State Sacramento’s CFA chapter, said he is wary of online education.

“As we’re talking about moving to online education, I want to take a very cautious approach and make sure that faculty are involved throughout the process,” said Wehr.

Wehr said he would not comment on the bill since he had not read it as of Wednesday afternoon, but said the shift to online is only one of several possibilities that must be considered.

“There’s the solution to move online. There’s also the solution to hire more faculty to teach more classes …

I’m sure that an appropriate response would be a mix,” Wehr said.

The bills would require a high degree of cooperation between California’s higher education systems. Steinberg said the systems’ responses are what he expected with the new bill.

“I think the reaction is what I expected, which is interest, excitement, opportunity, a little trepidation, maybe in some instances a lot of fear and trepidation,” Steinberg said.

The CSU and California State Student Association declined to comment on the bill since they have not concluded on the details and impact of it.

By diluting the arsenic to a lower concentration, the soil is safe to build upon.

With the first phase underway in the summer, the city will be working with independent firms.

Geologists and engineers that will be working on the soil remediation plan between the streets of Brea Boulevard and State College.

They will be testing soil and developing ways to clean it up.

The city plans to apply for more grants through EPA, Land and Water Conservation Funds, Habitat Conservation Funds among others.

The project will cost about $1520 million, the city plans to gather the rest of the funds from private foundations which community health.

Quion Juniel, a one-year Brea resident who runs the ride of ways three times a week said he was unaware of the upcoming renovation project.

“As an avid runner, I know that I will definitely use the spaces and opportunity for me to partake in my daily runs. ” QUION JUNIEL Brea Resident

“As an avid runner, I know that I will definitely use the spaces and opportunity for me to partake in my daily runs,” said Juniel.

DeRobbio also mentioned that although exercise classes, yoga and bike clubs are all very likely to be a part of the active lifestyles project, the city has not made any steps towards that yet.

The current right-of-way, or spaces beside the tracks, are 100125 feet wide and provide room for trails, according to DeRobbio.

Spaces for landscaping and possible outdoor exercise equipment could fill these vacant spots along the trails.

Samuel Mountjoy contributed to this report.

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Harsh truths are powerful tools in teen pregnancy prevention CHELSEA BOYD Daily Titan

Teen pregnancy: it is a fear for many, an impossibility for those in denial and a reality for others. While there are always exceptions and extraordinary circumstances, the general consensus is that teen pregnancy is something that should be prevented.

This seems clear enough. Young people are aware that pregnancy is not an ideal circumstance, and that there are condoms, birth control and abstinence. So there we go—problem solved, right?

Right?

Statistics show that although teen pregnancy rates have considerably decreased over the last decade, around 34 percent of women become pregnant before the age of 20. The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of all developed countries.

Problem not solved. Abstinenceonly and comprehensive sex education programs are taught in schools across the country, yet still we see this issue. Where is the disconnect here?

Education, both at school and at home, obviously plays a part in how teens handle sexual responsibility. But there must be something beyond that in order to resolve the issue of teen pregnancy. Some efforts have taken the issue out of the classroom, out of the home, and driven it into the streets.

New York City has devoted $400,000 to a teen pregnancy prevention campaign featuring street ads with harsh reality checks from spokes-babies for their hypothetical teen parents. The ads basically translate facts and statistics into personalized guilt trips in an effort to deter teens from becoming parents before graduating, getting a job and getting married.

Statistics about low marriage rates between young parents are paired

with statements like, “Honestly mom … chances are he won’t stay with you. What happens to me?” coming from a pensive toddler.

A blonde baby girl warns her father, “Dad … you’ll be paying to support me for the next 20 years” in conjunction with a fact about New York child support laws.

The ads are on bus stops around the city and are partnered with the city’s Human Resources/Dept. of Social Services website, where there is more information and video messages from real young people who became parents as teenagers.

... teenagers care more about what their peers think of them than what adults think of them.

The “Cost of Teen Pregnancy” ads launched earlier this week have made waves with Planned Parenthood, who said that while they agree with the aim of the ads, the messages actually do more harm than good.

Haydee Morales, a spokeswoman for the non-profit whose headquarters are in New York, told CNN the campaign “creates stigma, hostility and negative public opinions about teen pregnancy and parenthood rather than offer alternative aspirations for young people.”

Planned Parenthood is pointing toward more education and access to contraception as alternatives to this type of campaign.

The controversy raises the ques-

tion of whether or not confronting and essentially scaring young people with truths about teen pregnancy is an effective method of prevention.

So far, studies about the effectiveness of abstinence-only versus comprehensive sexual education have been pretty much inconclusive.

Mayor Bloomberg and the city of New York decided to take things into their own hands. Maybe they drew a connection with the coincidence of the drop in teen pregnancy and the rise in popularity of shows like Teen Mom and 16 & Pregnant. The quality of these shows and their actual effect on teen pregnancy statistics could be debated into the next millennium.

What cannot be debated is that teenagers are more likely to be affected (for better or for worse) by watching a girl, who could easily be sitting next to them in homeroom, care for an infant, than they are by watching a teacher put a condom on a banana.

It is universal knowledge that teenagers care more about what their peers think of them than what adults think of them. A campaign like the one in New York is running with that knowledge and painting the city with it. Planned Parenthood’s suggestions, while completely valid, also lacks the creative energy necessary for real change to occur.

Should teens who have become parents be made to feel outcast and ashamed? No, of course not. But those who are at risk should absolutely be confronted with the reality that lies ahead of them. The posters and website offer real statistics and real stories from real teens who really became parents. Relatability is the key to this campaign.

And relatability might be the key to preventing teenagers from being sexually irresponsible and having to go through an unplanned pregnancy that will likely affect them for the rest of their lives.

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Chick-Fil-A and the culture divide Almost a year ago, Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-A, galvanized both sides of the gay marriage debate when he sent a very strong message about his beliefs concerning the subject.

“I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,’” Cathy said. “I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.”

Cathy also presented Chick-filA as “supportive of the family— the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives.”

This man doesn’t like divorcees either? I hope Elizabeth Taylor never ate there.

Yes, this is another opinion piece about Bigot Chicken. There’s been a billion articles about it.

Hang with me here, because there is something deeper going on beneath the fryers. I’m not going to explain why I will never eat at one of these places, but I will say that Cathy’s statement isn’t what spurred my boycott the most.

As one of my Facebook friends once said so eloquently, “I don’t care that Chick-fil-A is against gay marriage. I care that Chick-fil-A donates to organizations that liter-

ally want homosexuals DEAD. AS IN NOT ALIVE ANYMORE.” What my compatriot referred to was the Family Research Council (FRC), which has spent $25,000 dollars lobbying the United States Congress to not condemn the infamous “Kill The Gays” bill in Uganda. Chick-fil-A donated to the Winshape Foundation, and in turn they donated to the FRC. This may be a few degrees of separation, but we have to wonder how accountable these organizations should be concerning where their money goes.

Furthermore, we should care about where our own money ends up as well. I’m not saying we should boycott every company that doesn’t have our political alignment; that is exceedingly impossible.

However, there are cases, like this one, where it is so clear cut that I don’t understand how anyone who cares about gay rights could have ever spent money at Chick-fil-A. There have been times where this frustrated me beyond belief, tearing down my temper like it was never there at all.

Just like that, this is where my commitment to staying a fair and peaceful activist starts to crack. It’s not what Cathy said or what most people of his same beliefs say, but what others don’t say that burns me.

With intolerance I know what to say.

It’s practically a reflex to debate with an opponent of equality.

It’s the indifferent people that render me frustrated because I don’t

know how to fight that, especially when it comes to friends and family. It feels strangely personal to have Chick-fil-A food bags cross the threshold of my house. I seem unheard when those close to me talk about how much they love their chicken nuggets. Loneliness sets in when others try forcing me to join the herd of the political indifferent.

Therein lies the distance between my passion and those around me—a difference which ideally would not exist. The greatest dream of a gay rights activist is that caring would become a contagious cure. In some ways it has, if the polls concerning gay marriage are any indication.

This still does not satisfy me. It never should. This conflict will never end because injustice does not die.

As I stated in my introductory column, gay rights is you. I still believe that, but it should always remain clear that you don’t have to agree. Would gay rights move forward even quicker if somehow everyone had to embrace it? Certainly. If everyone who accepted gay people stood up as one, my gay allies could breathe much better.

This won’t happen, but what can take place is a commitment on my end to treat non-activists with respect and autonomy. I don’t want to suffocate them and take away the right to control their own destiny.

I just wish that Dan Cathy and his ilk felt the same about the people I love and care about so much.

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The news media flocked to Harvard last fall after an email of private information was leaked by one of the school’s own faculty members about a cheating epidemic in one of its classes. Harvard retaliated by secretly searching the emails of 16 resident deans, betraying the very people who help the university thrive.

The invasion of privacy that Harvard committed did not help promote a positive image; instead created a negative one. The search through email, though an honorable attempt to protect Harvard against internal corruption, became a scandal within the school.

Faculty are placed in a situation in which they feel betrayed since Harvard never inquired about it openly.

While the search would be understandable, it went against Harvard’s faculty policy. According to the New York Times, the university’s policy states that the administration can search a Harvard faculty email account as part of an investigation, but they must notify the faculty member beforehand or soon after.

However, the faculty members were clueless for about six months.

Harvard is a dignified school and with a high level of respect, but it went behind everyone’s back instead of being honest with its intentions. While it’s entitled to its privacy policies as a private university—and a degree of power to alter this if it so wishes—Harvard may have crossed the line.

Richard Bradley, author and Harvard alumnus, wrote on his blog, “it’s an invasion of privacy, a betrayal of trust, and a violation of the academic values for which the university should be advocating.” He went on to chide the violation as “one of the lowest points in Harvard’s recent history.

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were accused and then charged with academic indecency be given the option to withdraw from an athletics program voluntarily, rather than face a year of ineligibility otherwise.

Harvard owes their faculty an apology for failing to notify them and betraying their trust. Reaction by the faculty, however, seems to suggest that is unlikely to happen.

“They don’t seem to think they’ve done anything wrong,” said Sharon Howell, senior resident dean, to the Globe.

Of course, one could say these searches were done to protect the students and their right to an equal and unbiased education. Yes, it would be a valid argument if such searches were out in the open instead of in secret, only letting those affected know they were finished with the emails.

Yet now this internal strife proposes something bigger and more troubling—that the privacy of the students themselves is in jeopardy,

and the privacy of the faculty’s emails is nonexistent. If this privacy protection was true, then why did Harvard go against its own faculty?

The search through emails without notice is like going to a person’s house without a search warrant and demanding them to comply to a thorough search; even if police do have a right to do this, they do not do anything positive to their public image by doing so.

Not only did this scandal affect the faculty, but it also affected the students by forcing them to withdraw temporarily from the school.

This leak of information about Harvard made it aware of how many things go on at a university under the radar of the public.

Regardless of Harvard’s intentions, they could only have tarnished their reputation as an esteemed school and cracked their professional image that so many associate with the university.

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Bright lights inspire a sense of purpose YVETTE QUINTERO Daily Titan

I found my legs in New York City.

Don’t get me wrong, they were never lost. I have always been blessed with lovely lower limbs and I’ve continuously used them the last 19 years of my life to kick, crawl, walk and run.

They have led me everywhere.

My legs have hustled in the rainy, flooded streets of Seattle and they’ve dragged through the quaint, cobbled roads of Monterrey, Mexico.

They’ve followed paths, skipped over puddles and paced through flower fields.

But I realize my legs hadn’t really walked until the day they led me back to New York City.

New York is a caffeinated, roaring monster. It is loud, energetic, vast and incredibly intimidating to those who hail from suburbia.

Hordes of tourists jolt to a stop every 50 steps to snag a photo and angry natives scoff at the groups blocking the sidewalks.

Cars rush by, subways rattle underneath—everyone is in a hurry.

In a world of fast paces, New York legs stride forward with purpose.

As I walked along Broadway toward Battery Park, about 70 blocks south of our hotel in Midtown Manhattan, I couldn’t help but pick up some of the purpose New Yorkers leave trailing behind them.

At first, purpose took over my stride tentatively. It began with small details––I adapted to my surroundings and as I got a hang of the practice, I began ignoring pedestrian signs in true New York fashion.

In California, ignoring the red hand would mean a hefty fine if you were spotted by a police officer. In New York, natives and acclimated visitors rush into the streets despite oncoming traffic at intersections and cross halfway through the street instead of at intersections.

In the city, tourists can be singled out by whether or not they follow pedestrian signals. Groups, families and appalled individuals can be seen on street corners, looking on in awe as crowds rush through the intersection as soon as there are no cars. Eventually, the puzzled onlookers snap out of their surprised state and follow the crowd.

I felt purpose trickle in a bit more upon transferring from Broadway to Lafayette Street. This street was less crowded, with only a couple of people walking by. While Broadway is brimming with aliens from all sorts of places and offered a cliché, artificial New York experience, Lafayette offered a calmer, less crowded alternative.

Lafayette Street brought me to the outskirts of SoHo, my favorite of all the neighborhoods in Man-

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Times Square is one of the main tourist attractions in New York City. It is home to bright lights, restaurants, clothing stores and specialty stores.

hattan. SoHo is lined with old brick buildings that tower overhead. It is home to New York’s artist population and so-called “hipsters,” housing high-end art galleries and clothing stores.

Located within SoHo is Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, a cosy thrift book store that doubles as a literary haven and coffee shop and serves the best hot chocolate in

this one stronger than the last: I had to live here.

Moving to New York has always been something I wanted to do. I almost did two years ago for college, and since then I’ve wondered whether I would have been better off if I had.

New York is bursting with noise, traffic and unfamiliarity.

To tackle it, you have to have

the right kind of weapons; the right kind of purpose.

The culture, the pace, the city lights have drawn so many to the city before, I can’t wait to walk in their footsteps.

My second visit to the Big Apple helped me find my legs. It helped me realize where I should go, where I want to go.

It helped me find my purpose.

ASPERGER’S: Storyteller expected to excell

Delectable trip leads back home

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DAVID HOOD Daily Titan

I have virtually memorized every mile of coastline from Monterey to San Diego. But upon reaching the Mexican-American border, I felt lost.

In addition, I had to turn my iPhone off to avoid incurring extra charges. As a result, I had no map and no sense of direction. I couldn’t tell where north was or even what coast I was looking at.

I was assured the vast expanse of water and darker shade of sand was the Pacific, but in my disorientation I couldn’t be too sure.

It was a sobering moment for my 23 birthday, being in a place I always wanted to go: where my mother, a Mexican, grew up.

I had visited Tijuana a few times growing up but I had never gotten past that. I’ve traveled all over the coastline of British Columbia in Canada, and grew accustomed to it.

Mexico was different.

Different in the sense of a pilgrimage, or paying homage to a place where as a first-generation United States citizen, I felt like I half-belonged.

The solemness and disorientation dissolved when my girlfriend’s family and I stopped at a small town called Puerto Nuevo off the main highway, about 20 minutes south of Rosarito.

The town was full of restaurants with outside agents competing for tourists’ money, trying to lure them in. After dodging a few of them, we made our way to the restaurant my girlfriend’s family usually stops at to eat.

It was a big, orange-colored building that towered over most of the others and gave a gorgeous south western view of the Pacific Ocean.

We ordered the house special: some whole-cooked lobsters with salad, beans, rice and tortillas and agua de tamarindo, my drink of choice.

The starter, some crispy tortilla chips and fresh salsa, was a treat I’ve been craving since I was last in Mexico more than 12 years ago.

“I miss this,” I thought, as a guitar trio showed up singing folk songs my mother used to sing to me as a child.

After the delectable meal, we continued south to a small tourist town

the city. A close second is the hot chocolate from Dean & DeLuca, a chain of upscale grocery stores.

Walking through SoHo, I saw myself spending hours after work with a good book and a hot chocolate on the tables upstairs at Housing Works. I saw myself walking toward Broadway to go find the latest fashions at Topshop and J.Crew. I found a new purpose,

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Lobster, frijoles, rice and tortillas are a typical dish in Puerto Nuevo.

an hour away called La Bufadora, which featured a natural geyserlike phenomena where the tide comes in and sprays water dozens of feet in the air, dazzling onlookers while soaking them.

It was around 7:30 p.m. when we arrived, so the sun had already set and the ocean spray shot up and shone among the stars, which I noticed looked exactly the same as they did back in the middle-of-nowhere home in Paso Robles, Calif.

It was an exotic place, but with the same blanket of celestial bodies I was still used to. “Yup, I’m still on Earth,” I thought.

It was the furthest south I had ever been.

But it won’t be the last, I told myself as we wound our way back up the road and into Tijuana, to the border where I had to cross by foot with my passport.

The day before we went to Tijuana for the day, exploring parts of the city, all different to me from the last time I was there more than a decade ago.

We went to two museums that showcased Baja California’s history in an authentic fashion with real artifacts preserved and on display.

It was hot and dusty with all the cars buzzing about like angry wasps, disorganized and chaotic as the streets rarely had lanes to separate the cars.

When it was time to cross the day before my expedition south in Tijuana, as aforementioned, I had to cross by foot. The line to get into the U.S. was very long and winding. I estimated about a few hundred people were trying to enter or re-enter the

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country by foot.

I was no different. I had heard of long lines in Tijuana or in other cities along the 1,200-mile border before, but I hadn’t expected it to be like that. There were homeless beggars and desperate vendors trying to sell off goods to people.

Without a dime between us, my girlfriend and I watched in agony as trucks of fresh $1 churros were selling by the bundle.

After two hours standing in line, we finally arrived at la frontera (spanish for “the border”). We crossed with ease, but it was a long and dusty line.

“I’ll be back,” I told myself. Next time with a little more money and a map.

Some people with Asperger’s also display a behavioral pattern, such as Moran’s finger-rubbing stimming motion.

“We feel emotions, but because we have less filters than most people do, we actually feel those emotions much stronger than people who don’t have autism, so we tend to stim a lot more,” Moran said.

Individuals with Autism on the higher-functioning side of the spectrum can also focus well on subjects they feel strongly about.

Sometimes this is noticeable in their speech.

“I have noticed that when I would engage with him in conversation, that he would talk for quite a while on certain subject matters,” said Craig Grossman, a CSUF alumnus and friend of Moran’s. “The fact that he talks for a long period of times about certain subject matters shows that he’s very knowledgable about those areas and that’s not a bad thing at all.”

An admiration for storytelling One of the things Moran feels strongly about is journalism.

Moran’s focus in his work and career shows in his accomplishments, said Grossman.

As a college student, Moran worked for Chaffey College and the Daily Titan. At CSUF, he also worked as a news anchor for his news/talk show on Titan Internet Radio and an anchor and reporter for OC News.

“Everyone has to pay their dues.

No task is without (its) rewards.”

ROBERT MORAN Journalist He and a small group of broadcast classmates were also winners in the Fox News Channel College Challenge, acquiring an internship at Fox News in New York City. As a college graduate, he interned at KABC-TV, where he would be hired in less than two years.

Now, Moran is a news desk assistant at ABC News, and segment/social media producer and arts/entertainment reporter at Crown City News.

He also freelances for Examiner. com.

“My journalism idol is Peter Jennings,” Moran said. “He’s the whole reason why I wanted to work at ABC News. He was the reason why I wanted to work for this company that I do, and it’s been my dream since I was 9.”

Moran became interested in journalism as a result of his admiration for storytelling. As a child, Moran listened to stories of his family’s history. He remembers learning that his family members are descendants of former Mexican president and general Plutarco Elías Calles.

The main reasons he has sought a career in journalism, Moran said, were his innate curiosity and listening to stories as he grew up.

The unpredictability and knowledge-searching journey of the job also attracted him.

Sorting and digitizing footage on a Saturday may sound a long way from Moran’s dream job of producing at ABC’s New York studio in the “nerve center of the newsroom,” but Grossman said he sees Moran going far in his career.

“I’m also confident that he will continue to overcome the naysayers and adversities that he’s been facing for such a long time,” Grossman said.

“I definitely see him working in a high-level position in a newsroom in the next few years. He’s very committed to his career goals, and knowing Robert for the last few years, when he commits himself to that certain area or subject matter, there’s no limit with him.

Everything that he touches turns to gold, so to speak,” he added.

The fact that he organizes and digitizes footage at work on Saturdays doesn’t bother Moran.

“Everyone has to pay their dues,” he said, as he cheerfully places a mini-DV between two others on one of the bookcase shelves in the library. He moves on to place another tape on the shelf.

“No task is without (its) rewards.”

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Nick Ballinger, 26, was diagnosed with an arteriovenous malformation in the back of his brain. He is studying to be a speech pathologist.

IDENTITIES: Titan overcomes brain injury Disabled Student Services assists around 800 Titans on campus with disabilities ADREANA YOUNG Daily Titan

The day Nick Ballinger was supposed to take his last final at Fullerton Junior College before transferring over to Cal State Fullerton, he ended up in the hospital instead.

Shortly after Ballinger turned 21, a blood vessel in his brain ruptured.

He remained in a medicallyinduced coma for six weeks after that, and stayed an additional 10 days for physical and speech rehabilitation.

He spent the next three months in a transitional housing program for continued medical support.

But even before this incident, Ballinger was no stranger to the hospital.

During his senior year in high school, he went blind due to a lesion in the back of his brain.

“I was actually one of the lucky ones,” said Ballinger. “They were able to diagnose me with this le-

sion a lot earlier than they otherwise would have.”

Ballinger, a communicative disorders major, said many people with an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) are not diagnosed until they are older. AVM occurs when a formation of blood vessels and arteries, most commonly in the brain or spinal cord, are tangled.

Ballinger underwent radiation therapy during 2003 and 2004 in an attempt to manage the lesion.

He was put on anabolic steroids to reduce the brain swelling the treatment caused.

“I was a pretty angry person when I started at Fullerton College,” Ballinger said. “I was just like, ‘how could this happen to me?’ I was just upset at life, you could say.”

While attending Fullerton College, Ballinger said he picked up drinking and smoking cigarettes and marijuana.

The smoking and drinking, according to Ballinger, is why the already pre-disposed blood vessel in his brain ruptured on the day of his final exam.

“Because I did smoke and I was

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“I was just like, ‘how could this happen to me?’ I was just upset at life.”

NICK BALLINGER Communicative Disorders Major going out to the club every weekend and drinking pretty hard, I ended up having this additional injury,” he said.

Now at 26 years old and having endured years of hospital stays, medications, radiation and a medically induced coma, Ballinger has reached his final year at CSUF. He is one of nearly 800 students registered with the Disabled Student Services program on campus.

Students registered with the program are offered services such as alternative test taking accommodations, Braille for the visually impaired, specialized textbooks for students with dyslexia, scribes (test writers) and sign language interpreters, to name a few.

The program’s office manager,

Rosalind Blackstar, said one of the on-going struggles she has seen is getting professors to accommodate the students registered with DSS. “We’re working on trying to educate faculty and professors on what it means to work with students with disabilities,” said Blackstar. “Sometimes professors are really receptive and interested, and sometimes they feel threatened, like we’re trying to assert authority over them or telling them how to run their class.”

After waking from his coma, Ballinger said he had one more class to finish at Fullerton College. That was when he really developed his relationship with the program.

“When I started, I probably needed more help. I was not cog-

nitively organized enough to … sit down and read the chapter, or at least look at the bolded terms in the textbook,” said Ballinger.

“I would go to class and it was difficult for me to take notes and understand.”

Of course, Ballinger is far from being the only Titan involved with the program.

After being struck by a semitruck, Juan Salas, 47, a Spanish and Chicano studies double major, said he began getting migraines.

Now he has difficulties studying and taking tests.

Salas said the opportunity to take tests in the program office has made all the difference in his education, but he has faced some stereotypes because of it.

“Everybody thinks that you get a preference, which is not true.

People think that teachers take it easier on you, which is not true either,” said Salas. “We’ve got to learn through our disability … then we’ve got to learn the regular way. So we’re learning double.”

After graduating, Salas said he hopes to teach Spanish at a high school.

He might pursue a master’s degree to be able to teach at a junior college.

Ballinger said his relationship with the program office on campus is mainly necessary because he undergoes radiation treatment, brain tests and MRI scans every now. When that happens, he has to miss class for four to five days at a time.

Because of this, Ballinger was able to get priority registration from the program office, and he said it has made a big difference as he finishes getting his degree.

With less than a year left until he graduates, Ballinger plans to become a speech pathologist before reapplying to medical school to become an ear, nose and throat doctor.

“They tell you that with brain injuries, the first three months is when you recover the most, and then you (recover) slower and slower, and it really starts to level off after that,” Ballinger said.

“But you never really stop getting better until like 10 years after the injury, so I’ve still got five more years that I can get better, and I still feel like I am.”

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The 13-point first half was the lowest scored in the 23-year history that CSUF has been in the Big West Conference. The Titans shot just 5-32 from the field, good enough for only 15.6 percent. The team also missed all six of its three-point attempts. Olivier lead the Titans in scoring with seven points, and center Lauren Bushong chipped in four points and five rebounds.

The Titans started much better in the second half as it took just 16 seconds for them to get their next basket. The teams countered each others’ scoring over the first seven minutes of the half. During that stretch, the game was tied three times and neither team held a lead greater than four points. But after the game was tied at 26, the 49ers went on a 9-1 run to take a 35-27 advantage with 10:46 to play.

The Titans quelled the Long Beach rally before the deficit could climb to double digits, and then CSUF went on a run of their own.

The Titans scored the next 10 points of the game, capped by a floater by guard Chante Miles that gave the Titans a 37-35 lead with 5:06 left on the clock.

“We knew they were going to go on a run. We wanted to make sure no matter what happened, we kept working and never gave up,” guard Alex Thomas said. “The zone (defense) worked really well for us, and we were talking and doing what we needed to do, so that definitely helped us get back in the lead.”

CSUF’s strong play continued as it opened up its biggest cushion of the night, eight points, to lead 46-38 with just 1:46 remaining in

the contest. The 49ers got back to within three with 41 seconds to go, but Miles and Thomas hit all four of their free throws in the final minute of the game to seal the 54-48 victory.

Olivier finished with 13 points and eight rebounds, and Bushong nearly had a double-double with 11 points and nine rebounds. Thomas chipped in with 11 points and three rebounds, and Miles added eight points, five assists and four rebounds. Devin Hudson dominated the boards for CSULB, but her 24 rebounds (13 offensive) and 17 points were not enough for the 49ers. She also blocked four shots.

“No matter what happened, we kept working and never gave up.”

ALEX THOMAS Junior Guard

The Titans next opponent is to be Hawaii Pacific University—the tournament’s top seed—in the quarterfinals at Honda Center in Anaheim. Hawaii (24-6, 14-4 Big West) has not yet played in the tournament.

“We’re definitely excited to get this win right now, but we know have to keep it going and it doesn’t stop here,” Thomas said. “We’re going to be ready for tomorrow.”

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This Just In JUSTIN ENRIQUEZ

‘Vino’ Bryant ages like fine wine Father Time is the only opponent of athletes that remains undefeated, but Kobe Bryant is doing a damn good job of keeping him at bay.

At 34-and-a-half years old, Bryant is a dinosaur compared to the 25.5 mean age of NBA players. However, Bryant still brings the ferocity of a Tyrannosaurus Rex every time he steps onto the hardwood.

Nothing makes this more apparent than his last week of play, which amounted to NBA Western Conference Player of the Week honors.

Last Wednesday, Bryant led the charge in a miraculous comeback on the road against the New Orleans Hornets in which his Lakers were down 25 points in the third quarter.

He scored 13 of his 42 points during a 20-0 run in the last 6:22 of the game, which gave Los Angeles a 108102 victory. Bryant also dished out 12 assists—this, combined with his 42 points, was something that hadn’t been achieved by a Laker since Gail Goodrich did this in 1971.

As if that performance wasn’t

enough for Bryant, he also lead a comeback against the Toronto Raptors on Friday. This time with the Lakers down by 15 at home (and as many as 11 in the fourth quarter), Bryant hit a trio of three-pointers in the closing minutes of regulation, sending the game into overtime. Then, in the extra period, the “Black Mamba” struck again by driving down the lane and throwing down the go ahead dunk with less than 11 seconds left. He scored 41 points in the game.

This wasn’t the first time that Bryant had a great performance against the Raptors in Los Angeles—few will ever forget the night six years ago when he dropped 81 points on a helpless Toronto Team. Bryant’s 81-point performance on Jan. 22, 2006 was the second highest point total of all time behind Wilt Chamberlain’s 100. However, some would argue that Bryant’s performance was more impressive.

Bryant’s 81-point game is one of the greatest individual performances in Los Angeles’ sports history, and he has given the city countless memories over his 17-year career.

At 34 years old, Bryant’s will to win

and strong work ethic is something of legend around the NBA. He has played through countless injuries and hasn’t missed out on significant time since his rookie season.

Last week, an athletic trainer named Robert shared an anecdote about Bryant’s work ethic on popular social news and entertainment site, reddit. The trainer was helping the US men’s national basketball team in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

The story begins with Bryant calling him at 3:30 a.m. hoping for some conditioning tips and drills, and the trainer obliged. Bryant had already been working out before he got there. They concluded the session at about 6 a.m.

Robert went to sleep only to show up back at the practice facility at 11 a.m., and he greets Bryant telling him good work exercising in the morning.

He proceeds to ask Bryant when he finished up in the morning to which Bryant responds, “Oh, just now. I wanted 800 makes, so yeah, just now.”

Apparently, much like money and New York City, Bryant never sleeps.

The story made it on reddit’s front page

for the day, has amounted over 2,500 upvotes and appeared in multiple blogs all over the Internet.

Bryant’s recent strong play has sparked a new nickname, “Vino,” which is the Italian word for wine. The nickname comes from the implication that wine “gets better with age,” much like Bryant seems to be doing, as well as the fact that he also spent many of his childhood years in Italy.

He may be in the twilight of his career, but he surely hasn’t shown it this year. As tumultuous as the 2012-13 season has been for the Lakers, Bryant’s performances over the past couple months have been nothing short of extraordinary. He has willed the Lakers from eight games under .500 to the eighth seed in the Western Conference, which means that if the regular season ended today, they would be appearing in the postseason with the NBA’s best.

It’s an amazing feat for Bryant to be performing at this level and we in the Southern California area must remember to cherish his strong play now because it’s uncertain how much longer the Black Mamba will slither across the parquet.

Softball comes up short vs.

Fighting Irish SERGIO GOMEZ Daily Titan

The Titans’ softball team lost a close one, 3-0, to the visiting Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the opening game of the Judi Garman Classic on Wednesday night.

One bad inning in softball can be the determining factor between a win and a loss, and that’s exactly what happened to the Titans (11-14) as one bad inning did them in for the loss in what otherwise would have been a great pitchers duel.

Fullerton’s freshman right handed pitcher, Jasmine Antunez, was dominating for the first four innings of play.

Unfortunately for the Titans, Notre Dame’s (15-6) junior right hander, Laura Winter, was just as dominant, if not more.

Both pitchers were matching pitch for pitch in the first four innings as Antunez (7-9) allowed just one hit while striking out four in the first four innings of the game. Winter (8-4) was even more impressive as she struck out the first seven Titan batters she faced.

Fullerton was able to put the ball on the ground with an attempted bunt single but Winter gunned down the batter at first. Winter would go on to strike out 10 Titan batters in the first four innings.

The Titans had a chance to put some runs on the board in the bottom of the fourth inning when catcher Ariel Tsuchiyama started off the inning with a ball that was hit just out of the reach of the shortstop that dropped for a double.

“I was just trying to take what happened in my first at-bat into my second and trying to make as many adjustments as I could,” Tsuchiyama said of connecting for the first Titan hit of the night. “I knew I had to put the ball in play no matter how it was.”

The next hitter, Ashley Carter, put down the sacrifice bunt but was able to get on base without a throw to put runners on the corners with no outs.

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Freshman Jasmin Antunez looks to receive signals from Head Coach Kelly Ford.

Carter then stole second base to put runners on second and third base with nobody out. CSUF succeeded to hit two straight pop-ups in the infield which then left second baseman Lauren Mario to try and drive those two runs in. She was called out on strikes to end the inning and leave the two runners in scoring position.

“We had two runners in scoring position with nobody out and we couldn’t score, and it was three easy outs,” said Titans head Coach Kelly Ford. “(Winter) is good; she did a really good job.”

That was the closest Fullerton got to putting any runs on the board against Winter as she went on to finish the game with 11 strikeouts on three hits in a complete game shutout.

Then came the dreadful inning in the fifth. After getting the first out on a flyout to left field, Antunez seemed to hit a rough patch when catcher Amy Butin hit a shot up the middle for a single. Antunez proceeded to walk the next batter to put runners on first and second base. Then Notre Dame’s Kathryn Lux hit a shot over center field for a standup double that drove in the first two runs of the game for the Irish.

“I just tried to give it my all but unfortunately they just got hold of one ball and that’s how they were able to score and I have to prevent that from happening,” Antunez said.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, after getting the first two outs, Antunez allowed another double that just missed going over the left field fence.

Antunez was taken out of the game and was replaced by Desiree Ybarra.

Two batters later, Buntin was able to drive in the third and final run for Notre Dame. Antunez finished the game with three earned runs allowed on five hits and had five strikeouts in six and two-thirds innings pitched.

“The pitchers are putting us in a position to win, they really are, but you can’t win if you can’t score,” Ford said. “Our offense has to pick up where our pitching and defense leaves off.”

The Titans look to rebound from this tough loss as they hit the field again Thursday, as they continue the Judi Garman Classic by taking on the red-hot Arizona State Sun Devils (25-1). First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.

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