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CAMPUS | Physics

Obama unveils budget proposal

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The proposal provides $71.2 billion in funding to the Department of Education

and that’s our plan, to try and hit another ball just as hard,” said Lorenzen, who leads the team in home runs with seven. “I got down to two strikes, I shortened up a little bit and he left a change-up up and I was able to hit it out.”

Matt Chapman finished the big inning, singling in Chad Wallach, who doubled in the previous at-bat.

The only Titan with multiple hits on the night was Jefferies, who went 2-for-2 with a walk and run scored.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Cal State Fullerton assistant professor of physics Joshua Smith a $450,000 grant for the extensive research of gravitational waves.

His proposed project, “Gravitational-wave Detector Characterization and Science Education in the Advanced LIGO Era,” has earned financial support for the school’s physics program over a five-year period.

NSF, a federal government agency, provides about $7 billion annually to science and engineering education.

The program’s website claims it accounts for approximately 20 percent of all federally-supported basic research conducted by American colleges and universities.

Its 24-member National Science Board, which meets bimonthly to establish NSF policies, is appointed directly by the president of the United States.

The Early Career Development Program award, won by Smith, is NSF’s most prestigious honor for early career research and teaching.

Two other Titans have also won the award: Barbara Gonzalez, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in 2002, and Kiran George, assistant professor of computer engineering in 2012.

“I was extremely excited,” said Smith. “I was a little surprised, not because I don’t believe in what we were doing, but because it’s very competitive and I by no means expected to get it. I was pleasantly surprised by that.”

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President Barack Obama rolled out his new budget proposal for 2013-14 which will pump almost 5 percent more money into the Department of Education in order to help schools at every level through new initiatives presented Wednesday.

The proposal provides $71.2 billion in funding to the Department of Education in an effort to build upon the “significant gains” made through major K-12 programs, the White House’s budget stated.

The money allocated toward education is seen by Department of Education officials as another positive step in Obama’s efforts to prioritize education.

“We must continue to build on the reforms already transforming classrooms across the country,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in a statement.

“Strategic investments in our educational system will not only provide more opportunities for millions of Americans, but they will strengthen our nation’s workforce as well.”

For college students, the budget ensures that the maximum amount, $5,645, which rose $915 in 2008, will stay that way through the 2015-2016 academic year.

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Right-handed pitcher Koby Gauna winds up against the USC Trojans at Goodwin Field. The sophomore has a 2.41 ERA and 21 strikeouts this season.

Titan baseball slays Trojans

Titans score four runs in third inning, beat USC 6-4 to sweep season series JOHNNY NAVARETTE For the Daily Titan

One inning worth of runs would be all that the fourth-ranked Cal State Fullerton baseball team needed in a 6-4 non-conference victory over USC Tuesday night, completing the season sweep of the Trojans at Goodwin Field.

Trailing 2-0 in the third inning,

the Titans (29-4) got things started when freshman Jake Jefferies singled to leadoff the inning. After an A.J. Kennedy single and Richy Pedroza fly out, USC starting pitcher Sean Adler hit Austin Diemer with a pitch that loaded the bases and set the stage for sophomore J.D. Davis.

With two outs, Davis connected for a monster shot to left field, to which the Trojans outfielder could only turn and watch as the ball sailed over the fence for a grand slam, putting the Titans in front 4-2.

“Coach wanted me to wait for

a fastball, see if I could put my best swing on it and just relax up there,” said Davis. “I was hoping to hit it right back at him, but I got it a little bit early and put my best swing on it.”

Davis’ home run was his third of the year and brought his RBI total to 31 on the season.

With the crowd still abuzz from the previous at-bat, junior Michael Lorenzen stepped up to the plate and belted a home run of his own to extend the lead to 5-2.

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Spotlight: Behind the curtain

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Friday night, the Little Theatre in the Clayes Performing Arts Center will be shaking, rattling and rolling opening night of All Shook Up, this spring’s mainstage musical.

Months of rehearsal and preparation are leading up to a three-weekend run of this Elvis-meets-Shakespeare musical production.

I spent what is known as “Tech Week,” which happens in the days leading up to opening night, with the production team of All Shook Up for a behind-the-scenes look at what really goes into putting on a Cal State Fullerton theatre production.

There is a process in the theatre.

Once it is decided that a show will be put on, a team is assembled.

Each member of the team takes a specific task, usually having to do with a design or technical aspect of the show.

The casting and rehearsal process begins and the team goes to work. After theories and logistics are sorted out, they all come together in what is known (and not necessarily loved) as “Tech Week.”

Sets, lights, sound, costumes, makeup, actors and a director are just a few of the elements that go into building a theatrical produc-

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Actors and members of the production team rehearse at the Little Theatre during “Tech Week.”

tion. All Shook Up is a large-scale musical that relies heavily on all of these elements.

The show features 29 cast members, countless wigs, costumes, automated set pieces, lights, sound equipment, a full band, 24 big music numbers and 13 choreographed dance numbers.

At the heart of all of this is director Patrick Pearson. Pearson, a CSUF alumnus, acts as the master collaborator in bringing the show to life onstage.

Pearson described Tech Week as an “avalanche.”

“It’s all these things converging at once. The designers [and I] have all been having meetings and talking for months ... We started working on this back in October-September even. It’s been a long time that we’ve been working to prepare this, but now is the point when it all finally does come together,” Pearson said.

“It’s exciting, it’s a little bit terrify-

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ing and mind blowing what we are able to accomplish in such a short period of time.”

The cast and crew encountered a unique situation called a “split tech.” Their Tech Week began Thursday before spring break, took off the following Sunday through Saturday and returned the day before classes resumed.

Some designers were able to use the break to tweak or resolve issues that showed up in the early stages of Tech Week.

The official first dress rehearsal was the first time the actors traded in their rehearsal clothes for 1950s style costumes.

Blocks and imaginary props are replaced with real moving set pieces and tangible objects.

Fluorescent lights were replaced with theatrical lighting from the show’s lighting designer, Joseph Weldon. Jacob Kaitz, the show’s sound designer, fits the cast and

band with mics that will provide surround sound.

What were once ideas begin coming to life before everyone’s very eyes.

“It’s much more wonderful than it is scary,” Pearson said.

Although each actor, designer and technician has their own personal vision, they are all working within the director’s artistic vision for the show as a whole.

“I as the director have ideas in my head of what I think things will look like and what I want them to look like but then ultimately, I’m not the designer,” Pearson said.

“My job is to communicate to them my ideas and they then integrate that with their own vision and then we bring it together and hopefully come up with something better than either of us ever could have come up with individually.”

A professor from Pomona College discussed her research directed at discovering basic cell biology processes aimed at developing new therapies that can help humans during a seminar in McCarthy Hall on Wednesday.

Sara Olson, an assistant professor of biology, is looking specifically at the eggshells of the caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegan), a free living nematode (roundworm), in her research.

According to the Pomona College Department of Biology website, Olson’s work is meant to address “how extracellular barriers

are built to protect newly-fertilized embryos from their environment.”

The website included that this is relevant because the eggshell is a “potential drug target to combat parasitic nematode (roundworm) infection.”

“Not much is known about egg shell formation and just because something isn’t known a lot in the literature doesn’t mean that it’s not important and shouldn’t be studied,” Olson said. “So if we can study these processes we can actually have a real world impact.”

Understanding how the eggshell assemblies of a C. elegan works can possibly help fight the diseases that come from parasitic worm infections.

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5 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS CUT CABLE

People watching programming on mobile devices or the internet–not on television:

2 million people in 2007 5 million people in 2013 Cable in homes:

87.3% of homes in 2010 84.7% of homes in 2013

The growing number of cable and satellite subscribers cutting the cord caused TV ratings agency Nielsen Co. to create a new category of viewers called “Zero TV,” last month, according to USA Today.

Zero TV households go against what the agency has historically considered a TV-viewing household.

While they do not have cable or satellite subscriptions, many of these households still watch shows through other mediums.

The group of Zero TV households has grown from 2 million in 2007 to 5 million today. Seventy-five percent of these households have at least one TV set in the home.

These households are still watching, but in a different way, such as streaming through Netflix, downloading from Amazon.com and buying DVDs.

DTBRIEFS Unlike when programs are viewed on TV, broadcasters receive no advertising revenue from streaming, meaning Zero TV households give them zero cash flow.

Zero TV households can be further split into three groups: “Cord-cutters,” “Cord-shavers” and “Cord-nevers.”

Cord-cutters have formerly subscribed to cable or satellite, but have decided to cut the cord.

Cord-shavers reduce the number of channels they subscribe to, or reduce the number of rooms which receive the broadcasts.

Cord-nevers are the youngest group, the newest households formed when young people move out on their own. This group is more likely to set up a high-speed Internet subscription, but a landline telephone and traditional TV subscription are absent in these households.

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Breakthrough brain scans measure pain Scientists reported being able to see pain in brain scans, measure the level of pain and tell whether a drug was relieving pain in a study released on Wednesday, according to USA Today.

The new study, published in the New England Journal, was led by Dr. Tor Wager, Ph.D., a neuroscientist from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Currently the scans are only able to show pain on the skin, and more studies will need conducting to see other common types of pain, such as headaches and sprained ankles.

Scientists are hoping that this new breakthrough will help lead to the development of new drugs that can help ease pain and addiction.

This is the first study to show all three levels of pain in brain scans, even though scans were able to detect only pain before, according to USA Today.

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The U.S. Postal Service has forgone its plan to stop delivering mail on Saturday as of summer, according to the New York Times.

The Postal Service’s Board of Governors said it will continue to deliver mail six days a week due to a measure passed by Congress in March, according to a statement released Wednesday.

The measure required the Postal Service to continue delivering mail six days a week, as opposed to the proposed five days.

In February, the Postal Service announced the ending of Saturday mail delivery to save about $2 billion a year.

The Postal Service lost nearly $16 billion this past year and came up with this plan after Congress failed to pass any reforms to help ease the deficit.

The board said it would like to make its own decisions on the matter rather than Congress interfere in the process after it failed to come up with any solution.

Saturday mail will continue to be delivered through at least Sept. 30.

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Most scientists describe gravitational waves as ripples in the fabric of space-time caused by moving masses such as dense stars, black holes and planets orbiting the sun, according to NASA. Albert Einstein was the first to announce the existence of gravitational waves in his theory of general relativity in the early 20th century, explaining that spacetime is affected by mass.

With the grant, Smith will support the advancement of detecting these waves with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Detection sites exist in Hanford, Wash. and Livingston, La., and both were funded by NSF. Smith said he has two important reasons for studying them.

“I’d say the first is pure physics— understanding Einstein’s (theory of ) general relativity and checking it— and the second is astronomy, learning what else is out there.”

Smith is currently a member of LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which describes itself as a group of scientists attempting to “make the first direct detection of gravita-

tional waves, use them to explore the fundamental physics of gravity and develop the emerging field of gravitational-wave science as a tool of astronomical discovery.”

He also chairs its detector characterization working group.

Smith and his department are hopeful that the first such detection will occur by 2016—the 100year anniversary of Einstein’s published theory.

“Although, we would also be very happy if it happened 2018, which is the year that Einstein published a slight revision of his paper,” Smith added.

Under Smith’s direction, CSUF opened the Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Center in September. He, along with his students, have been seeking ways to improve the quality of data in the field.

He added that the students check in with him on what they have completed, and everything his group has accomplished since 2010 has been mostly driven by student research.

“I wouldn’t have gotten this award without the work the students have done, and the research we plan to do and have done would not be possible without their work.”

Detecting gravitational waves will help physicists and astronomers understand some of the most fundamental laws of physics, states NASA. They may also explain the dynamics of large-scale events including the death of stars and perhaps even the creation of the universe.

“There’s a limit to what you can learn with light, but gravity can pass from the earliest moments of the universe,” Smith said. “When everything was moving very hot and moving very rapidly, there were a lot of gravitational waves produced, and those have over time kind of caused the background of gravitational waves that we could, in principle, detect today.”

Smith added that as an assistant professor, he is relatively new and hopes to have the possibility of working with students on this discovery.

Smith earned his doctorate in gravitational physics at the University of Hannover, Germany in 2006 and conducted postdoctoral research at Syracuse University in New York.

He became a CSUF faculty member in 2010.

Smith’s research has now received $1.5 million in grants.

Senate committee approves bills aimed at youth Three bills designed to help foster youth were passed Wednesday out of the Senate Human Services Committee, and will be heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee in upcoming weeks, according to a statement.

SB 342 will allow social workers to visit foster youth in the foster or group home opposed to the previous way, which required foster meetings to be outside the home.

Foster youth will also be able to request private discussions outside of the home.

SB 343 ensures that foster youth, of at least 16-years-old, be provided documents such as their Social Security card and a copy of their birth certificate.

The bill will provide 18-yearolds with information such as the youth’s dependency history, a death certificate of the youth’s parents and advance health care directive form.

SB 528 would prioritize access to subsidised health care, while also expanding access to pregnant and parenting teen conferences to assist parents in utilizing all resources available.

The bill will direct the Department of Social Services to start collecting data on parenting and pregnant youth, while providing age appropriate reproductive health education.

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But most lawmakers, including some on the president’s staff, agree that the government is spending too much on Pell Grants despite its badly-needed relief to families trying to put their kids in college.

Ron Haskins, a former White House advisor on welfare issues and co-director of the Brookings Center on Children and Families and Budgeting for National Priorities Project at the Brookings Institute said too many students are entering college, racking up a lot of debt and then dropping, forcing families to pay for an incomplete (and expensive) education.

“We haven’t had any remarkable proposals that I’m aware of from the leadership on either side of the aisle but this is definitely a growing problem,” Haskins said.

In a speech Wednesday morning, Obama told the nation that the government, under his leadership and budget, will reform high schools and job training programs to “equip more Americans” with skills to com-

pete in the global market and help “more middle-class families afford the rising cost of college.”

Coupled with keeping Pell Grant levels relatively high, Obama said his administration will keep subsidized Stafford loan interest rates from doubling this summer from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.

“At a time when the economy is still recovering and market interest rates remain low, the Budget proposes a cost-neutral reform to set interest rates so they more closely follow market rates, and to provide students with more affordable repayment options,” the budget document says.

In addition, the education budget is supposed to “ensure” access by 4-year-olds to high-quality preschool education through a new initiative in partnership with the States.

To fulfill the mandate, the budget states that the money will come from other mandatory resources elsewhere in the budget but that it will be fully paid by raising taxes on tobacco products.

The State-Federal partnership is

vaguely described, but indicates the federal government will provide incentives for states through outreach programs and make policies for fullday kindergartens.

“To help workers earn the skills they need to fill those jobs, we’ll work with states to make highquality preschool available to every child in America. And we’re going to pay for it by raising taxes on tobacco products that harm our young people,” Obama said. “It’s the right thing to do.”

Tobacco companies will hurt even more with a 94-cent tax hike per cigarette pack, almost doubling the current $1.01 current tax to raise about $78 billion over 10 years.

Moreover, $750 million, or just more than 1 percent, is going towards grants called Preschool Development Grants to ensure States’ commitment to access for fouryear-olds.

For older students, the budget allots $659 million to School Turnaround Grants, a program aimed at pushing low-performing schools to improve and expand the

capacity of school districts.

Also nestled in the $71.2 billion is a $240 million increase in funding for the program called Promise Neighborhoods, an initiative that supports “high-need communities” that have services that guide children from “cradle-to-career” services.

The increase in funding is intended to provide assistance from the federal government to local leaders in what the White House calls “breaking down barriers” to create jobs, leverage private investment, increase economic activity, reduce violence and improve educational opportunities. “(Obama’s) been an ‘education president,’ even more than Bush.

Bush was a good ‘education president,’ but this president has really done amazing things, I think, especially with taking on the unions,” Haskins said. “I think he’s done a lot, and I think his message is that everybody in America needs more education. I think he’s doing the right thing (for students).”

Cody Leong contributed to this report.

EDM ARTIST TO HEADLINE SPRING CONCERT

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Associated Students Inc. Productions announces A-Trak and Wavves as the headliner and opener of this semester’s Spring Concert.

Associated Students Inc. Productions announced that A-Trak, a Canadian DJ, and Wavves, a San Diego rock band, will be performing at this semester’s Spring Concert during an unveiling ceremony Tuesday.

DJ Carisma, of Power 106, joined ASI Productions and Cal State Fullerton students to announce A-Trak and the Wavves, headliner and opener respectively.

DJ A-Trak (Alain Macklovitch) is an electronic dance music artist who has worked with Kanye West during his North American tour and other projects, according to his biography.

He also produced tracks for rapper

Kid Sister, and appeared on albums

by Drake and Kid Cudi.

DJ A-Trak is the first to win all three major championships: International Turntablist Federation (ITF), Disco Mix Club (DMC), and Vestax World Extravaganza; and win five worldchampionship competitions, according to his biography.

The surf-rock band Wavves consists of members Nathan Williams, Stephen Pope and Jacob Cooper. The band has released four studio albums since 2008 and has toured throughout the United States and Europe.

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of this year on the independent music label Mom + Pop Music.

The Spring Concert will take place on Friday, May 3, at 7 p.m. in the Titan Stadium, according to the ASI website.

Tickets will be available for pickup up at the Information and Services desk in the TSU Lobby starting April 15. Students are allowed one complimentary ticket, but additional tickets can be purchased for $10.

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Sara Olson, an assistant professor of biology at Pomona College, speaks to students about her research in nematode (roundworm) eggshells.

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An example of an infection includes elephantiasis, which is the “enlargement of the arms, legs, or genitals to elephantoid size,” according to the Medical Dictionary.

Other examples include African river blindness (onchocersiasis) and anemia.

According to Olson, her research is important for both biological research and for helping people.

“Whatever we can do, that’s the goal of the funding sources for national institutions of health is to help the human condition, so if we can tie those two things together, even better,” Olson said.

Olson has been interested interest in studying embryo development since she was young.

She studied other forms of biology throughout her life, but found that her research always brought her back to developmental biology.

“I’ve always been interested in how embryos develop. Ever since high school, I started doing summer programs, working on embryonic development and in college took developmental biology classes,” she said.

“There just something about early cell division and early embryos that just always intrigued me. I always wanted to get into developmental biology, but my path to get there was kind of twisty-turny,” Olson added.

Merri Cassem, a tenured professor in the Department of Biology, invited Olson to speak at the seminar after she discovered that they both share an interest in researching eggshells.

“I met Merri at the Cell Biology Conference in December and she

has an interest in spider egg shells and not many people study eggshells,” Olson said. “And so when you find another person that does that you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, cool,’ so she was kind enough to invite me over to give the seminar.”

Since the research is similar to her own, Cassem said she found the information interesting.

Cassem also expressed her appreciation for how Olson’s students go about conducting research for her classes.

“I really love that she’s using her students in integrating really authentic scientific research into a classroom environment and really getting the students engaged and involved in things that are real and not just cookbook labs,” Caseem said.

Olson also hoped that speaking at the seminar would get people excited for biology and hopefully inspire them to study whichever field they want to pursue.

“I was always trying to convince people that what you’re doing is important, so now we’re at a phase where (you should) follow the things that intrigue you and don’t always do what other people tell you to do,” said Olson.

Olson said she believes research completed in varying fields of biology can be pooled together to create new ideas and advancements.

She added that students should study what is exciting to them so different areas of expertise can be brought together.

“Bringing the carbohydrate biochemistry with the fluorescent microscopy with the developmental biology so all of the things that are happening in biology now are at the interface of many different disciplines,” Olson said.

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Laying my cards on the table While I usually take the time to speak about things of the digital realm, some of my compatriots and I have experimented with several tabletop games in recent months.

Boards, cards, plastic figures, cardboard tokens and extensive rule books are the name of the game in today’s column.

Now tabletop games are not a new interest of mine, but the amount of them I’ve been playing certainly has increased. The zeitgeist amongst my group of friends has resulted in the rash purchase of several games that we have delved into at a fairly brisk pace, moving on to the next after playing a few times.

For those who are curious about tabletop games or looking for new games to add to your own collection, you might like some of these.

They range from simple to complex, but the learning curve is short and discovering a new game with friends is all part of the fun.

The start of this recent wave began with Android Netrunner, a two-player competitive card game set in a dystopian future where global corporations rule. One player plays the corp while the other plays a hacker—called a runner—attempting to bring them down. It’s interesting because, unlike most card games where the two sides are roughly equivalent, the two players have completely different play styles and victory conditions.

From there, we moved on to another card game.

With the third season of the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s book series recently starting, we prepared ourselves by playing A Game of Thrones: The Card Game. Each of the players (up to four) takes control of one of the noble houses of Westeros in an attempt to out-plot the other

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players and claim as much power as they can.

While this is a card game, it’s notable for being one that is not strictly one-on-one; alliances and rivalries can be created and dropped as the game goes on. Though it’s one of the more complex games of the ones we’ve played, it creates a great tension of strategy.

Should you attack player one, since he’s vulnerable this round, even though that would, in-turn, leave you wide open for player three? This kind of strategy is what makes this game so interesting.

Moving from fantasy and back to reality, we discovered A Few Acres of Snow. Playing as either the French or British in early colonial America, you’re tasked with beating back your opponent, even though the army and infrastructure to do so has not been fully developed at this point in history. Designed to mimic the slow pace of war movements and bureaucracy of the time, the game does an excellent job of making you feel like you never have enough moves to do all you want to. At some point you’ll have to lose some ground somewhere.

Finally, I had been sold enough to make a purchase myself.

I chose Risk: Legacy. As the name implies it’s a variant of the classic Risk game we all know, but adds rules that allow the game to go in a completely different direction. Rath-

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er than seek total world domination, the goal is always to capture specific strategic points to claim victory.

Craziest of all, however, is the ability to permanently alter the game board. I don’t mean permanently for that game, I mean permanently. Certain territories can be fortified or weakened. Cities can be placed and named on the map. The winner of each game gets to sign the board themselves. Even the rules change as the games go on, as the box contains extra cards you aren’t supposed to open until certain conditions are met!

So why would I sit here and describe my new nerdy pastime to you?

To get you interested! Many people see tabletop games as something only for advanced nerds and always seem to think every game is Yu GiOh or Dungeons and Dragons, but that’s not always the case.

If any of these games have caught your interest at all, I highly recommend you to check them out. If you like Cyberpunk, lookup Android Netrunner. For fans of A Song of Ice and Fire or the HBO adaptation, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game is a great experience. If you’re looking for something a little more familiar, but with a crazy twist, give Risk: Legacy a shot.

Tabletop games don’t have to be intimidating. Take the first step and see some of the great multiplayer challenges there are out there.

Sex has always been a topic that makes people uncomfortable. What makes people even more uneasy about the subject is when individuals distribute objects that have to do with sex; either for pleasure or for safety.

Since 2009, a group called the Boston College Students for Sexual Health has been distributing condom packages to students at Boston College, a private, conservative, Catholic university.

These packages that are being distributed throughout the college contain condoms, STI facts and birth control choices that will help educate the person about the dangers of sex.

Students are not obligated to take one if they do not want to and it is all free.

With all of this said, however, the campus still does not want them to hand out the packages.

Students should have the right to ... promote safe sex and to educate others about the topic.

Recently, the Students for Sexual Health received a letter from the dean of students and the director of resident life telling them to halt distribution of the packages. The university has decided that the distribution of condoms goes against the school’s Catholic ideals and violates its campus policy.

They feel like the best way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies is by remaining abstinent.

Despite Boston College being a

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private university that can makes its own rules, disallowing a student sexual health group to advocate safe sex by passing out condoms is wrong. The university needs to understand that the student group is doing this to help make the campus STD and HIV free.

Students should have the right to be able to promote safe sex and to educate others about the topic.

And while, yes, abstinence is absolutely the best way to prevent these things, it is definitely not the most realistic thing to do. Abstinence is hard enough for adults to commit to; what would make the university think that students fresh out high school with newfound freedoms be able to live up to that standard?

A study done by Georgia Regents University shows that 80-90 percent of people have sexual intercourse while attending college, which goes to show that it is still going on in every campus nationwide. Since students are still doing it, universities should make sure that the students are doing it safely.

“Students are going to be having sex regardless, and unless they have the education to know that you need to use a condom every time—for pregnancy prevention, STI preven-

tion—and unless they have them available, they’re not going to use it,” said Lizzie Jekanowski, a senior and the chairwoman of the Boston College Students for Sexual Health, to the New York Times.

In addition, Jekanowski’s organization is an unofficial campus organization, which means that it does not have to hold to the rules and guidelines that every other club needs to.

Even though the school officials believe that by handing out condoms is putting the idea of sex in students’ minds, the group is in no way advocating students to go out and do it like wild animals. The argument is already an invalid defense, for society is already surrounded by sex—whether it is on TV, radio or in advertising.

Condoms play an instrumental role in life. Private universities such as Notre Dame, Boston College and Holy Cross need to understand this and should change their outdated beliefs as times change. With that being said Boston College needs to accept the Students for Sexual Health and let them continue to distribute condoms in order to keep a safer campus.

Students have the power to choose what they want to do with their lives. It is just up to them to live it responsibly.

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TOMS takes steps to make a difference The One Day Without Shoes event is meant to raise poverty awareness STEPHANIE MERCADO Daily Titan

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Jessica Deakyne, 29, will receive her master’s in public administration and has had many professional opportunities during her studies.

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first-generation college student, Jessica Deakyne graduated from UC Irvine with a bachelor’s degree in social ecology.

She took a position at the Orange County Transit Authority (OCTA) and now works as a community transportation coordinator.

After finishing her undergraduate degree, Deakyne said she had no real plans to go back to school.

Yet, after three years at Cal State Fullerton, the 29-year-old is now graduating with her master’s in public administration.

Deakyne found herself back in the classroom after taking time off when she finished her undergraduate studies when her boss gave her that extra push to pursue her master’s.

As the grad fest line stood still behind Deakyne, she spoke of the many experiences she’s had throughout graduate school.

Deakyne said she’s been able to lobby in Sacramento, read a book before it was published, gain mentors, who are accessible to her to whenever she has a question, and even publish a few articles of her own.

“I’ve gotten to do stuff that you wouldn’t be able to do as

an undergraduate and that you wouldn’t be able to get to do through work,” said Deakyne.

Deakyne said she believes her time in grad school has allowed her to gain the theoretical experience to go along with the practical experience she has gained in the workforce and is now better prepared for managing government institutions, like she plans to do.

She said the work she’s done in the classroom directly relates to the work she does at OCTA. “I think especially for this program, it bleeds outside of the classroom. All of our professors are really passionate about public administration and about ethical public administration and thoughtful governance,” Deakyne said. “For me that’s been really important in my job and figuring out what I want to be when I grow up.”

Deakyne said another benefit of grad school that she has really valued is the close relationships students are able to form with their professors.

Professor Shelly Arsneault, Ph.D., coordinator for the Masters of Public Administration program, said she has worked more closely with Deakyne than she has with any other student in the past 15 years.

They attended conferences for nonprofit organizations together

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and Arsneault said they even spent a few months writing together for an encyclopedia that will be published in 2014.

“Jessica is at the top of her graduating class,” said Arsneault.

“During the past year she has won three different scholarships and the opportunity to attend a week-long leadership conference in D.C. this summer. I think she will just keep doing amazing things.”

Like Deakyne, Derek Leininger is a first-generation college student. He said throughout high school all he wanted to do was skateboard.

“I was a punk when I was in high school. I didn’t care about anything,” said Leininger. “I mean, I got good grades, but I didn’t really care about school work. Really all I cared about was going skating all the time ... I never thought I would have (my) master’s degree—not in high school.”

But now, Leininger has skated his way to the finish line of grad school. He’ll be finishing up his master’s degree in public finance management in the Public Administration Master’s program this May. He said, like Deakyne, grad school wasn’t something he saw in his future.

But, after graduating from CSUF with a degree in politi-

cal science in 2009 and taking a summer internship in Washington D.C., Leininger found himself in the midst of a struggling economy with no real job prospects.

“I was working for a nonprofit firm (in D.C.) and they couldn’t afford to hire me, so after that summer I came back home and there was no work,” Leininger said. “Especially for someone with a political science degree.”

The lack of job opportunities is what really propelled Leininger back into school and into the master’s program.

In the future, Leininger says he has lofty goals of working in politics and wants to focus his efforts on ending wars.

In his first year of grad school, Leininger and a friend started the Young American’s for Liberty Club on campus.

Both Deakyne and Leininger said having their master’s will mean a lot for their future.

Deakyne said because she was the first person in her family to obtain a college degree, she is able to be a role model for the younger people in her family, which makes it that much more worthwhile.

“I regret nothing. I’ve really sucked the marrow out of this experience,” said Deakyne. “I have five weeks left and it’s really bittersweet.”

No shirt, no shoes, no service— it’s a cliché to store ownership and customer courtesy.

The restriction was a sudden concern on a day when one by one, the millennials and passionate trickled by barefoot, smiling in a setting that was less than beachy.

Hundreds of peaceful protesters walked barefoot in schools, malls and on sidewalks to make a statement and raise awareness of children growing up barefoot and the impact it has on their health and education.

TOMS and its One for One movement was founded in 2006

by Blake Mycoskie, after his experience travelling to Argentina, where he witnessed poverty and poor conditions, according to the TOMS website.

He transformed this culture shock into inspiration to help the children he watched walk daily without shoes to protect their feet from beaten paths and unpaved roads.

The One Day Without Shoes event then began with incredible enthusiasm in a sweeping trend two years later by college students to show people how simple items like shoes are taken for granted in society and to open up the merchandising industry to make the exchanges mutually beneficial.

The effort to support the One for One movement took off successfully, and by 2010 more than a quarter million people participated in over 1,600 events globally.

On Tuesday, TOMS will hold their sixth One Day Without Shoes, expecting to be fueled once again by college campuses.

Chapman University is ninth on TOMS’ top 10 drivers list, taking on the barefoot challenge with 81 and counting students signing up online.

While Cal State Fullerton has not yet had participation in the event among clubs and student organizations, some individuals may be looking forward to the day, but others said there are ways to promote poverty awareness while keeping their shoes on.

Rakesh Dadrah, 20, a kinesiology major and Pi Kappa Alpha member, said he will not participate in the shoeless march, but rather prefers to show his support of children worldwide in other ways.

“I don’t see how walking barefoot for a day does anything to help those kids. Maybe it should just be a day for us to go and buy another pair of TOMS so that we know someone receives one,” said Dadrah.

For every pair of TOMS shoes purchased, the company gives a pair of shoes to a child in need.

Shoes are donated to children

in Peru, El Salvador, Haiti and southern Malawi, to name a few.

Despite criticisms against the campaign, its foundation is in raising awareness that has proven successful in more ways than one.

Faustin Chopra, 21, a public relations major, has worn several pairs of TOMS throughout the years to join the efforts of the One for One campaign, but will not be joining the movement of One Day Without Shoes.

“A lot of people already know what TOMS is doing and it’s not just about kids’ feet,” said Chopra.

“They also have a One for One for prescription glasses (and) I honestly don’t know how they’d make a movement for that one, but raising awareness for that is probably more needed at this point.”

TOMS does not just focus on shoes, however. For every pair of eyeglasses purchased, TOMS will either donate a pair of sunglasses, support sight-saving surgery, or medical treatment to someone with vision problems.

Donations for eye wear and vision help are given to individuals in Cambodia, Guatemala, Nepal and the United States, among nine other countries.

It is a hope for more businesses, rather than consumers, to follow in the footsteps of TOMS to have their activities make more of an impact.

“Whether it be by answering questions while you’re walking barefoot, or going across the globe to deliver a pair of TOMS. ” SARAH WALLACE Human Services Major

The online campaign for the event states: “One Day Without Shoes is about more than being barefoot. It is about opportunities to improve children’s health. It is about partnerships and the power behind them. It is about walking with dignity and it starts with something as wonderfully simple as a pair of shoes.”

Sarah Wallace, 18, a human services major, said the world needs more humanity.

“Whether it be by answering questions while you’re walking barefoot, or going across the globe to deliver a pair of TOMS. I guess as long as we’re doing something to help,” she said.

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A journey through a mecca of culture YVETTE QUINTERO Daily Titan

The sunlight snuck through a crack in the thick blanket of gray clouds that coated the Roman sky. Almost too coincidentally, the light perfectly illuminated the side of the Colosseum that towered in front of us.

I don’t reckon I’ve ever felt so small or so young as I did standing before the ancient amphitheater.

My accomplishments, height, youth and maturity looked meek in the shadow of the intimidating buildings that stand as a testament to great human accomplishment, stature, age and wisdom.

Europe has a tendency to make me feel that way, or so I learned traveling through England, Italy, Belgium and Paris with my best friend, Yvonne. We walked, explored, learned, laughed, feasted and drank for 20 days on a tour of seven cities.

We began our journey in Oxford, a lovely town predominantly inhabited by students attending the various universities within the city.

Oxford is home to beautiful old buildings, cosy pubs and intriguing museums that house important historical artifacts.

The Eagle and Child pub is one of Oxford’s most famous pubs, where C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien and other writers would meet to discuss their literary works in a room in the back, which they called “the rabbit room.”

I indulged in a delectable meal of

the notoriously English fish and chips as I sat under a glass roof that revealed a starry night. At my side was a cupboard door labeled “Narnia.”

Our conversation was limited to half-hearted, superficial banter, so I couldn’t help but feel inadequate. C.S. Lewis discussed The Chronicles of Narnia under this starry sky, and somehow our plans for tomorrow fell short of beautiful allegory.

A couple of days later, we took off for London. Braving the snow the wind spit in our faces, we explored the city during a walk along the Thames.

London is a bizarre mixture of classic and avant garde.

While on one side of the river sits the Tower of London, on the other sits the modern oblong shaped city hall.

London itself is a city of pomp and circumstance, with a strong eclectic culture that is present in every corner of the city.

From Buckingham Palace to quirky Camden Town, Londoners strut with hipster attitudes and purpose in their step.

For those travelling to Europe soon, it’s important to step out of the tourist bubble and branch out by meeting locals. During one of our nights out, Yvonne and I met three Irishmen during karaoke night at a pub in East London.

The next day, they showed us around the city on a private tour and took us to a local show at a hip bar in Camden.

There we met a couple of their friends and enjoyed a fun conversation while

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The Colosseum in Rome, Italy, is located to the east of the Roman Forum. The city is full of remnants of ancient civilizations and historical artifacts.

sipping on cider and listening to the talented Liz Lawrence, whose music has been on replay since I got back.

We met a couple more people during our trip and there was a stark difference between the days we would go explore the city by ourselves and the days we had a tour guide.

Locals know all the ins and outs of a city and they definitely help navigate the confusing public transportation systems. Yvonne and I would have been lost trying to find our way through the

London Underground had it not been for our new friends.

Italy was a plethora of picturesque landscapes, with green hills as far as the eye could see. Before the fields though, we navigated the quaint canals of Venice.

Venice is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to. We got lost in the little streets and cringed every time we hit a dead end. We walked the length of Venice in one day and enjoyed pizza on a bridge near il Museo

dell’ Accademia.

Yvonne and I stood giggling before the svelte physique of Michelangelo’s David in Florence. In Rome, we stood giggling in the presence of the Vatican guards, who seem to be selected for their dashing good looks.

Brussels was the highlight of the trip in terms of food, yielding delicacies like steak and fries, Liege style waffles and the most delicious sugar bread I’ve ever eaten.

After dropping off our luggage at

the studio in Paris, which we found through the site Airbnb.com, we decided to go find the Eiffel Tower—the description on the site said it was about a five-minute walk away.

We stepped out the back door of the apartment building located in a street in Paris that houses multiple foreign embassies and turned a corner.

We stopped breathing as the sight of the massive Eiffel Tower startled us. Yvonne and I looked at each other and smiled.

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Bradley Lock, a CSUF alumnus who received his masters in costume and scene design, designed the set for the show.

Lock worked with fellow alumna and scenic designer Amanda Stuart and with Pearson to create the world the characters of the play live in.

An important collaboration for set designers is with the technical direction team. Assistant Technical Director Joe Holbrook described the relationship between the artistic and the logistic.

“If the scene designer is the architect, the tech director is the engineer,” Holbrook said.

All Shook Up features what is called automation, which is moving scenery. A team of tech and design students headed by faculty member, Bill Meyer, make up the technical direction crew in charge of automation during the run of the show.

Lock, Stuart and Pearson come together to decide how they want the set to work, and the technical

director makes it work. Tech Week is when the set meets the stage, and problem solving becomes a team effort.

In addition to the set, Lock was also the costume designer for the show that features over 120 costumes with countless costume pieces.

For many actors, the costume, hair and makeup are a big part of truly getting into character.

“It’s a show that takes place in 24 hours and everyone has four costumes at least, so it’s funny how that works out,” Lock said.

“There’s quick changes that are super tricky and trying to figure out where people need to go.”

Crew members who join the show during Tech Week help the actors with quick changes backstage so that transitions run smoothly and audiences can be transported an hour or a day in the span of 20 to 30 seconds.

Hair and makeup designer, Laura Young, 23, a senior in the theatre department, had the task of creating the look of each character in the show.

Members of the ensemble play

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multiple characters and for some, that meant donning multiple wigs or even wearing facepaint.

Young spends Tech Week teaching actors and crew members how to apply makeup and put on wigs to stay in place during the show’s dance numbers.

“That first dress is crazy,” Young said. “I have to worry about 29 people and make sure that they all look ready.”

Jonathan Castanien, the show’s stage manager calls nearly 400 cues during the show and during Tech Week. That number usually grows.

As a stage manager, it is up to Castanien to keep track of all of the different elements that collide during this arduous process and help ease the cast’s nerves.

“I think a stage manager can really set an atmosphere for a rehearsal or a Tech Week, just by how they present themselves throughout the week,” Castanien said. “If they’re stressing out and screaming and losing their mind, it’s going to be contagious.”

The beast that is Tech Week is not necessarily the most joyous

Courtesy of Francis Gacad Cast members rehearse a number from All Shook Up in preparation for opening night tomorrow.

part of putting on a production, but every show must conquer it in order to be successful.

On Friday night at 8:00 p.m., the lights will go down, the curtain will rise, the cast and crew

will take a deep breath and finally, All Shook Up will meet its match— the audience.

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Wrestlemania: It’s still real to me A couple of months ago, I was looking through old photo albums with my sisters and girlfriend when I came across a picture of myself as a child wearing face paint. The oddest thing about the picture was that it wasn’t Halloween, it was just a picture taken from a family trip to Las Vegas in the summer. I reminisced about begging my parents to pay someone at the Circus Circus hotel to paint my face like the professional wrestler the Ultimate Warrior. This made me remember how fanatical I was about pro wrestling growing up.

Though I grew older and my fascination with wrestling chipped away as I became interested in sports and girls, there is still one day out of the year that makes me feel like a child again. That day is Wrestlemania.

Wrestlemania XXIX took place on Sunday at the home of the NFL’s New York Jets and Giants, Metlife Stadium, in front of 80,676 wrestling fans. The number was the highest at a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) event since Wrestlemania III in 1987 and the

highest attended event at Metlife Stadium. The WWE also broke its live gate record by making $12.3 million that night, which was also a MetLife Stadium record.

The event was headlined by a championship match between pro wrestling’s main attraction John Cena and Hollywood action movie superstar and former pro wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

The mere fact that Johnson has returned to the company where he first gained fame by performing in his second-straight Wrestlemania speaks to what a spectacle the event still is as he is a big time movie star who has no trouble finding work.

Though the main event was reason enough for many fans to shell out $60 for the pay-per-view, I had a bigger interest in a bout featuring Wrestlemania staple the Undertaker and company rebel CM Punk. The 48-year-old veteran, the Undertaker, had a 20-0 undefeated at Wrestlemania streak on the line as well as honoring the memory of his late manager Paul Bearer, who passed away just a

couple of weeks ago.

Being the innovator that he is, CM Punk brought an emotional element to the match as he had interrupted the Undertakers tribute to Bearer shortly after his death a couple of weeks ago. Punk had not only interrupted the ceremony but also dumped out Bearer’s “ashes.” Many found this to be in poor taste, however, the organization did get the okay from Bearer’s family.

Punk’s “character” is the only reason I even began following pro wrestling again for the first time in years. He had a legendary fourthwall breaking “shoot” monologue in June of 2011. In the monologue he went after Cena, Johnson and even the owners of the WWE, the McMahon family. It shortly went viral and captured my attention as I had never seen anything like it before in all my years of fandom. I even had long discussions with friends that I didn’t even know liked wrestling about the monologue.

It is pro wrestlers like CM Punk that could bring the WWE back to its heyday of popularity in the late

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While I was watching the event, I was happy to log on Twitter and find that other sports journalists were also taking in the spectacle of Wrestlemania. Editor-in-chief of Grantland and ESPN analyst Bill Simmons was live tweeting through the entire event, making light of Undertaker’s Wrestlemania streak

by tweeting, “21 Straight for the (Under)Taker—he’s 12 away from the 72 Lakers and 35 away from (Joe) DiMaggio.”

ESPN boxing writer and television commentator Dan Rafael and the Orange County Register boxing writer Damian Calhoun also live tweeted showing that even real fight journalists have a soft

spot for the scripted pageantry of a WWE event. It goes to show that the spectacle of Wrestlemania still far outweighs the need for true sports realism.

Though I have grown up a lot and my taste in entertainment has vastly changed, I still look forward to that one Sunday in the spring where I can feel like a child again.

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Reliever Henry Omana (1-0) came into the game in the fifth inning and pitched two innings of three-hit ball to earn his first win of the season. Sophomore starter Koby Gauna went three innings, allowing two runs on three hits while striking out three in a no-decision.

Lorenzen closed out the game in the ninth, allowing one hit and striking out one, earning his twelfth save of the season.

The victory extended the Titans winning streak to eight games, and it was their 18th win in their last 19 games.

Also extended was CSUF’s win streak over the Trojans, which now stands at four, dating back to last season. While USC (12-20) may not be the perennial powerhouse it was back in the early 2000s, Head Coach Rick Vanderhook says victories over the PAC-12 conference are still important to the team, who are now 6-1 versus the conference this season.

“For us and our schedule, for our RPI (strength of schedule), beating the PAC-12 is a big deal. It sets us up a bit better for when the post-season comes around.”

Davis shared similar sentiments, but also said the importance lies

with the team’s psyche.

“It’s a little bit of a confidence booster. We are coming out with a little swagger, we beat UCLA, and now we just swept USC. It’s all coming together.”

Cal State Fullerton will look to take that swagger into this weekend’s Big West series with UC Santa Barbara, in what will be the first meeting of the season between the two teams. The Titans will look to improve their 6-0 Big West record when the Gauchos come in with a 17-14 record and are 3-3 in conference play. The two teams will begin its series at Goodwin Field on Friday night at 7 p.m.

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Megan Sandford hits a forehand in a match. She won both her singles and doubles matches against Loyola Marymount.

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The Titans put up a good fight on the tennis courts, but were simply outplayed and beaten by the Loyola Marymount University Lions, 5-2.

An early injury for the Lions halted an assault by Cal State Fullerton doubles team Kalika Slevcove and Morgan McIntosh.

The Titans had picked up the first three games before a knee injury left Lions player Claudia Razzeto lying on the ground for about five minutes.

After a brief intermission, the Titans lost their first game and two of the following three after that.

An aggressive backhand volley by McIntosh at the net sailed just outside the line, momentarily tying the set.

LMU picked up the next game, pulling ahead 6-7.

After scattered points for both sides, a service ace by McIntosh brought the score to another tie.

A short ball by Slevcove forced the Lions to pop up a ball for McIntosh to slam right back at them, causing CSUF to take back the lead.

A cross court battle between powerhouse McIntosh and LMU Adriana Radinovic resulted in over a dozen deep shots.

The long rally and the match both went to LMU.A similar result was seen with Monica Rodriguez and Tiffany Mai. The Lions picked up the first game, which Rodriguez and Mia responded to immediately.

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The two took turns smashing overhand balls at LMU players Miya Jin and Reka Rohonyi until Rodriguez put some heat on one that the Lions just couldn’t get to.

Mai quickly picked up another point charging a ball that rolled off the net, dropping it far in front of the LMU team. After racing for the ball the Lions smashed it into the net, giving a one-game advantage to the Titans.

With a 5-2 lead, Mai and Rodriguez were both playing close to the net when a high deep ball had both Titans reeling backward. Rodriguez got to the ball and, with her back to the net, smacked the ball high over her shoulder for the save.

As the fire drill alarm began to sound, LMU launched their counter-attack taking the next two points for themselves.

The next few points went backand-forth, tying the game at eight games each.

After a tough battle that included multiple match points, due to the back-and-forth points, LMU picked up the win.

On the other hand, Titan team Rebekkah Ermac and Megan Sandford won their match, only letting their Lion rivals pick up one of the nine games played.

The singles matches were filled with long rallies and a lot of deep hits.

Mai put up a good fight, picking up nearly half of the points awarded from deep rallies early in the game, utilizing her strong backhand.

Mai said, “Her backhand was weaker so I would hit a lot to her backhand.”

As the game wore on, Mai had trouble keeping the ball in play.

Many went just long or questionably close to the sideline.

Though nearly the longest match of the day, Mai claimed, “Today was actually not as long as normal because I’m a little sick, so I just tried to end the points a little bit.”

While the match went on, winds picked up.

Mai added, “the wind played a big factor,” concluding, “it was really windy and like the ball just kept moving.”

McIntosh seemed to have basically the opposite problem, her shots weren’t going long, they were actually falling short, many crashing into the net.

She lost her first set picking up just one game, and none in the second set.

Slevcove had to run all over the court. Her LMU opponent had a very low and strong cross shot that Slevcove couldn’t quite make it to, ending with similar results as doubles partner McIntosh, picking up only one game in the first set and losing the second.

Rodriguez lost her first set then came back to win the next game.

Unfortunately that was the only game she was able to pick up and was overtaken by her Lions adversary.

Sophomore Sandford picked up a win in singles, as did her doubles partner Ermac, bringing the days total to a 2-5 loss for CSUF. “As you can see the game—it’s 90 percent mental,” Assistant Coach Chico Bonner said. “The girls are playing well.”

With an upcoming match-up against the strong UCI team Bonner is optimistic saying, “It’s a great opportunity for us to go, you know, over there, battle and see where we stand.”

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