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Volume 97 Issue 1

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

The turn of the tango

Gastronome Inspection Reports A

For: -Storing sliced and diced tomatoes at improper holding temperatures - Unlabeled food containers in prep area - Equipment stored in containers not approved for storage - Storing used wiping cloths out of sanatizing solution - Improperly storing mops

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For: - Improper water temperatures at handwash sink in main kitchen area - Unlabeled food containers in the prep area - Unsecured cylinders in the dry storage area - Lack of thermometer in self-service cold unit in Late-Night Cafe

For: -Storing shredded cheese, alfredo sauce and hot dog sausages at improper holding temperatures.

-Improper logging of times at the waffle station and salad bar area.

-Containing a cluster of fruit and house flies at non-critical food areas.

For: -Inadequate water temperatures at handwash sinks throughout facility - Storing sausage, beans, cream cheese and garden burger at improper temperatures - Pasta cooling in cold holding at improper temperature - Inadequate sanitizing solution concentration - Final rinse temperature below required temperature at mechanical warewashing machine - Lack of signage to instruct customers to take a new plate at salad bar - Accumulation of dirt on fan unit in walk-in coolers - Inadequte air gap next to mop sink - Lack of lid for dumpsters

Alvin Rangel Shines a Light on a Traditional Dance Grading Scale A B C D F

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Gastronome inspection grades jumped from a 72-point “D” to a 95-point “A” in 2013, but have since declined to just one point above a “B” after a Sept. 15, 2014 inspeciton by CSUF’s Environmental Health and Safety.

Dining issues simmer Gastronome inspection grades on downward trend

Campus dining continues to address minor violations

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More than one year since the worst food inspection grades in its history, the Gastronome has seen significant improvements, but issues with the inspection process still remain.

Orange County allows Cal State Fullerton to conduct its own food inspections through CSUF’s Environmental Health and Safety, with inspections based on rules approved by the California Retail Food Code.

While Orange County utilizes a pass/fail system, Cal State Fullerton’s Environmental Health and Safety uses a points system ranging from “A” to “F.” An “A” falls between 93 and 100 points, a “B” between 85 and 92 points, a “C” between 78 and 84 points, a “D” between 70 and 77 points and an “F” at 69 points or fewer.

In 2013, the Gastronome earned 72 points—a “D” rating—during two of three inspections that year. During the following three inspections, the Gastronome earned 95, 95, and 93 points, respectively.

During a Sept. 15, 2014 inspection, the Gastronome received 93 points—an “A” grade—but was only one point away from a 92-point “B.” During that inspection, the Gastronome lost three points for storing shredded cheese, alfredo sauce and hot dog sausages at improper holding temperatures. Potentially hazardous foods should be maintained at or above 135 degrees Fahrenheit or at or below 45 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the California Retail Food Code.

Some of the most popular restaurants on campus received “A” grades on their food inspections this year, a far cry from the 2013 grades when some campus restaurants had poor food inspection grades.

Some issues, like food being held over proper holding temperatures, still exist according to Environmental Health and Safety food inspection reports. However, these are not classified as “major violations,” according to the reports.

An accumulation of minor violations earned the Gastronome two consecutive “D” grades in 2013. Those included keeping hot foods like pork, sausages and beans below the base temperature of 135 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, and holding cold foods, liked sliced tomatoes and cheese, above the minimum temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit or below, parameters set by the California Retail Food Code.

Although neither Environmental Health and Safety or Housing received any official reports of foodborne illness from students in 2014, some students have still had negative experiences with campus dining.

Andalee Motrenec, 29, an English graduate student, reported getting food poisoning shortly after eating food from the Panda Express in the Titan Student Union.

The Panda Express was cited during its most recent inspection for improperly cooling containers of white rice, which were discarded by the restaurant’s management.

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TSU hosts annual student art show

Three separate exhibits display student art

KATELYNN DAVENPORT Daily Titan Students wanting to avoid the stress of the first week of school can stop by one of the Titan Student Union’s three art galleries to view student artwork for the TSU Art Program’s Annual Student Art Show.

Part of the art show is in the Center Gallery on the ground-level of the TSU, next to the Mainframe Computer Lounge.

Inside that gallery is a wide array of artwork, including paintings, ceramics and drawings from more than 15 students—some students showcasing multiple works.

The Center Gallery currently features student artwork such as Under the Manhattan Bridge, a colored pencil drawing by animation

major Juan Burgarin and Reproduction by art major Jacob Lane.

These pieces display representations of urban cityscapes and luscious nature scenes.

Although participating in the art show was free, three of the student artists will have a little more money in their pockets when the contest winners are announced.

The prizes that will be awarded are $250 for best of show, $150 for second place and $100 for third.

Given the high cost of art supplies, these prizes will be something any of the winners can be thankful for.

However, getting to showcase one’s art was reason enough to submit work to the art show.

Art major James Doyle, 23, has an original photograph on display in the art show and is simply pleased to see his art getting exposure.

“I actually wasn’t interested in the cash prize,” Doyle said.

“Since coming to CSUF, I’ve seen the art show every year and have always wanted to

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Students participate in the Titan Student Union Art Program’s Annual Student Art Show. Cash prizes will be given out to the students who submitted the best art.

participate with the talented artists on campus. I also love showing my work and having gallery exhibitions. It’s the main reason I make my art.”

Doyle submitted a photograph—viewable in the Center Gallery—to the show with

ease.

“The submission process was hassle-free,” Doyle said.

Exhibition coordinator, Kimberly McKinnis showed Doyle where to drop off his work and made sure to get all the correct information for the

didactic on his photograph.

All of the submitted works will be reviewed by the Art Acquisition Committee, whereupon purchase recommendations will be made.

The annual show is currently on display until Feb. 27.

FIONA PITT Daily Titan Stage lights illuminate the faces of Alvin Rangel and dance partner Ricardo Garcia on a calm, dimly lit stage. One man’s right hand supports the small of his partner’s back as the other follows, tracing and feeding off each other’s motions. Their stern, intense movements sharply rip them apart, and then just as quickly bind back together to the fiery crashing notes of accordions and violins. It is the tango.

Cal State Fullerton’s Dance and Theatre Professor Alvin Rangel performs his dual-choreographed piece Tango Vesre (Spanish for “inverted tango”)— shining a light on this century-old dance’s hidden queer history.

Rangel’s dance research, coupled with 10 years of dancing professionally in Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, provide him the knowledge and skills necessary to instill his students with high-level technique and professionalism. “[Rangel] imbues a sense of strength in his students,” said Jonathan Kim, a senior in Rangel’s Fall 2014 Modern 4 class.

Live Afrocentric drums build tempo during the Modern 4 class enlivening the atmosphere. Never ceasing the beat, the drums soften as Rangel demonstrates a thigh-gripping move, floating backwards on the balls of his feet, gently grazing the floor’s surface with his fingertips, barely adding weight before immediately switching hands.

“As a modern dancer [Rangel] uses the floor in an extraordinary way and the students had never had that. But because he’s new, the students started out a little scared, but now they’re just into it,” said Professor of Dance and former Director of Dance at CSUF Galdys Kares.

Kares and Rangel acquired a friendship when he first came to CSUF in fall 2012. She helped him during the transition from professional dancer to professor of dance. She described Rangel as, “A breath of fresh air.”

However, it was not Rangel’s first time in the classroom. Rangel first began teaching in his hometown of Ponce, a coastal town in Puerto Rico. Then again while finishing his undergraduate degree in education at the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico. There he taught dance and began his professional career dancing ballet and jazz.

Rangel spoke about his youth with gratitude. His parents never pressured him but always wanted him to do well. As the first in his SEE RANGEL

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Construction completed College Park project widened access to the south entrance CYNTHIA WASHICKO Daily Titan After more than a month of construction, a project to widen the south entrance of College Park is complete.

Work for the project was entirely exterior, and has resulted in a straightened handicap entrance and wider steps leading into the building.

In order to allow for the increased space, a planter that was previously near the south entrance was removed. The finished entrance will resemble the recently-remodeled entrance to the north side of the building, with the same finish and tile-work used on both sides of the building.

The project was carried out

by David E. Glenn Construction, the same company that renovated the north side of the building in 2013. Funding for the approximately $200,000

project came from the Auxiliary Services Corporation, which owns the building, university officials said.

The construction comes nearly two years after the north side of the building was renovated, although the two projects were completed for different reasons, university officials said.

The renovation of the north side of the building was carried out to increase safety by providing a walkway for pedestrians to prevent conflicts with cars in the parking lot.

On the south side of the building, however, that conflict is not as pronounced and there is no way to completely segregate pedestrians and cars, officials said.

The two sets of stairs that previously led up to the south entrance were not large enough for the number of people entering and leaving the building, officials said, and the new, widened configuration will allow visitors to more easily access the building from the south side.

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The south entrance to College Park underwent construction over the winter intersession break.

The steps leading to the entrance were widened and the handicap entrace was straightened.

improvement will be for handicapped visitors, officials said, with a straightened handicap entrance into the building. The overall project will allow students, staff and visitors easier entry and exit from the building.

Planning for the project began six months ago, with the Auxiliary Services Corporation board and management deciding on an initial plan for the construction which was then approved by campus administration through Danny

Kim, vice president for Administration and Finance.

The entrance, which was closed to visitors from both inside and outside the building as of Dec. 20, will be open for use at the start of the spring 2015 semester.

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Another two points were docked for improper logging of times at the waffle station and Salad Bar area, and the Gastronome lost another two points for containing a cluster of fruit and house flies at non-critical food areas.

Part of the reason for the improved score has been wholesale managerial changes and improved training for student employees, said Jennifer Wiggin, a 21-year-old anthropology major who worked at the Gastronome until the spring 2014 semester.

Student employees working at the Gastronome in 2013 lacked the training to do things like measure food temperatures, Wiggin said. Instead, she said, they relied on the chefs to conduct such duties.

However, new Aramark managers have arrived at the Gastronome to help ensure that student employees know proper food handling protocols, she said.

Wiggin mentioned understaffing as an issue that may lead to inspection violations.

“A lot of the people that close typically only have

an hour to clean the entire Gastronome, so we prioritize, so some things get left behind,” Wiggin said.

She added that some days there may be four to six employees on the floor, but the issue of understaffing is dependant on the Gastronome’s budget.

Despite the perceived understaffing, a university official said the 12-month record of facility inspections indicate that sanitation rules have been followed.

There are also questions about the randomness of the food inspections. The Environmental Health and Safety’s sanitation code states that unannounced inspections will be conducted once every four months.

However, Wiggin recalled an instance in which a Gastronome manager informed her of an upcoming food inspection a day in advance. A CSUF official, however, found fault with Wiggin’s account, saying that discrepancies with the inspection protocol were with Wiggin’s account.

While the Orange County Health Care Agency tries to help food vendors implement corrective

measures for violations, it can also impose sanctions ranging from a formal notice of violation to a referral to the district attorney if these vendors remain uncooperative, said Tricia Landquist of the Orange County Health Care Agency.

Environmental Health and Safety can impose similar sanctions, such as contacting the California Department of Health Care Services, which can suspend a facility’s operating permit, according to CSUF regulations. Despite previous “D” and “C” inspections, however, Environmental Health and Safety did not close the Gastronome.

Stephen Mackessy, a 22-year-old biochemistry major, felt that the Gastronome was cleaner and safer after word of its “D” rating got out.

Mackessy has celiac disease, a condition that leaves him unable to eat gluten. He said he got sick from food he ate at the Gastronome because of unsafe food practices, like cooking gluten-free bread on surfaces that had come in contact with gluten-containing food.

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Similar minor issues were found at other dining areas on campus, including the Togo’s in the TSU. It contained shelves that were deteriorating and required replacement.

After the most recent round of inspections for each dining area, the lowest grade was a 92-point “B”, awarded to Aloha Java. The coffee shop, inspected in December 2014, was cited for non-working thermometers, wiping cloths that were not in sanitizing solution and milk that was held at too high of a temperature.

A registered environmental health specialist on staff at CSUF oversees campus food inspections and gives each food establishment its letter grade.

CSUF requires all facilities to post an inspection seal denoting that the facility has satisfied California Food Safety

and Sanitation standards, and directs customers to a website where inspection reports can be viewed as well as how to report foodborne illness or sanitation concerns. The letter grades earned at each inspection report, however, are not required to be posted.

The placard follows along the lines of Orange County’s pass-fail system, as opposed to Los Angeles County’s letter-grade system.

Some establishments, including Round Table Pizza, Panda Express and Baja Fresh in the TSU do not have this placard visibly posted.

Currently, there is nothing on the agenda of the campus’ Food Advisory Committee to change CSUF’s system from pass/fail to A-D letter grades.

Customers can find the current letter grade each establishment earned at the risk management website, or by asking each business for a

copy of their most recent inspection report, according to the California Retail Food Code.

Concerns or complaints about a restaurant on campus should be reported to Environmental Health and Safety by clicking the ‘Report a Hazard’ link on the EHS website RiskManagement.Fullerton. edu, emailing Safety@Fullerton.edu, or calling (657) 278-7233.

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The bags included a business card from the largest Klan organization in the U.S., the Loyal White Knights, according to ABC7 Los Angeles.

A neighborhood in Orange also received flyers from the same group six months ago in an attempt to recruit members.

Police continue to investigate both cases, but said that little can be done when the flier imposed no threat.

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Economy to be focus of address President Obama is expected to make America’s “economic resurgence” the theme of his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, according to an ABC News report.

Obama — who has been unveiling his plan for the coming year in segments — will talk about cutting mortgage insurance premiums, making the first two years of community college free for students and cutting taxes for the middle class while increasing tax rates for the wealthy, among other topics.

His speech comes at a time when 41 percent of Americans — the most in eight years — feel the economy is doing well, but the proposed policies will have difficulty passing in a Republican-controlled Congress, the report said.

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Man to face retrial for murder A man found guilty in 2012 of helping murder multiple family members of a friend’s ex-girlfriend will face a retrial following a successful appeal process, according to the Orange County Register.

Vitaliy Krasnoperov will face trial for the third time in connection with the murders of Jayprakash Dhanak and his daughter, Karishma Dhanak, who were both burned to death, and the attempted murder of Jayaprakash’s wife, Leela Dhanak.

The first trial Krasnoperov faced in May 2011 ended in a hung jury and, although he was convicted in November 2012 and sentenced to life without parole, a Santa Ana appellate court overturned his conviction after it determined that prosecutors improperly used information he provided.

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Brian Brady (right), a finance and accounting major, presents his business concept to fellow business boot camp participants at the CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship.

Atul Teckchandani, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, provided students advice on how to refine their business concept on Jan. 15 for the upcoming Business Plan Competition.

Students prepare for competition with professor and peers

problems,’ we’re looking for the kind where people are ready,” Teckchandani said. “They’re ready— ’here, take my wallet, take what you need, just give it to me.’”

Among those present was Phillipe Rodriguez, a 20-year-old physics major with an emphasis in business, who was attending his third business boot camp.

Rodriguez, a part-time youth soccer coach, presented his idea of arrow-shaped sports cones meant to solve the problem of confusion on the training pitch.

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Boot camp gets down to business RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan Pens, papers, laptops and suits in a large, air-conditioned room—not a typical boot camp.

In preparation for the Cal State Fullerton Business Plan Competition, the CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the first of two business boot camps Jan. 15. The boot camps are meant to help potential Business Plan Competition

participants better refine their ideas.

Despite being hosted by the Cal State Fullerton Center for Entrepreneurship, the boot camps and the Business Plan Competition itself are open to CSUF students of all majors. A maximum of five CSUF students per team will be allowed to participate in the competition.

“We’re trying to prepare the students to compete in the competition as effectively as possible, and it’s also to get as many students as possible interested in entrepreneurship,” said Travis Lindsay, administrative

coordinator for the Center for Entrepreneurship.

Atul Teckchandani, Ph.D., an assistant professor of management at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, led the boot camp, which gave attendees information on what ideas judges will be looking for at the competition, and how to answer the required business plan questionnaire.

The best ideas, Teckchandani said, are those that help solve “migraine problems”—those problems which customers perceive as a serious nuisance.

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the process of designing the shape of the cone. He said he felt that the boot camps provided a good sense of community for students who attended.

“You’re going to a place where you’re with like-minded individuals, people who are pursuing new ventures,” he said.

“And you’re not in it alone.

There are other people doing it and you can do it, too.”

Aside from being surrounded by like-minded people, students who attend the boot camps also gain more tangible benefits like access to mentors who

can help them develop their concepts, Rodriguez said.

“I see the potential that a mentor can provide and I’m looking forward to any advice that they have to give, just to make the concept better,” he said.

The next boot camp will take place Feb. 10 in University Hall room 246 from 4-6 p.m. The deadline to sign up for the Business Plan Competition is Feb. 20.

Semifinalists will be announced March 6 and they will compete March 20. The remaining contestants after March 20 will compete at the finals on April 7.

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As a new semester gets underway, the Department of Theatre and Dance is getting ready to put on a plethora of comedic and dramatic performances.

From stories of unlikely romance to real world struggles that many couples inevitably seem to face, these student productions will attempt to transport their viewers to new heights and new depths this season.

The Spring 2015 season will begin with The Merry Widow, a comedic operetta directed by Janet Smith and Mark Salters. A baron attempts to keep a wealthy widow from marrying when she travels to Paris from her native land of Pontevedro.

The baron fears that if the widow marries a Frenchman, her large finance will go to France.

The baron entreats a native Pontevedran, Danilo, for help. He hopes the widow will fall for Danilo, thereby keeping her money in Pontevedro.

The comedy will continue with Smash, an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s An Unsocial Socialist directed by Joseph Arnold, former dean of the College of the Arts, and director of last semester’s acclaimed comedy, Is He Dead?

In Smash, a man leaves his fiancee on their wedding

day to follow his dreams of overthrowing the British government.

While carrying out his plans, the man falls in love with a co-conspirator, who turns out to be the cousin of the woman he left at the altar.

Shakespeare’s shortest play, The Comedy of Errors, will be adapted for a CSUF audience and will be directed by Eve Himmelheber, an associate professor in the Musical Theatre program at CSUF. Himmelheber directed Legally Blonde, The Musical during the Spring 2014 semester but has said she is used to directing grittier subject matter.

The play tells the story of two twins who were switched at birth and spares no expense of grit as it deals with infidelity, thievery and betrayal.

Loose Ends will be the first dramatic production to open from the Theatre and Dance Department during the Spring 2015 semester. It will be directed by Mark Ramont, an associate professor who has directed a variety of performances across the country.

In November, Ramont directed The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, a play that explores the importance of activism and individualism.

Loose Ends, set in the ‘70s, is about Paul and Susan, a couple who finds their once happy relationship threatened when their wants and desires begin to clash.

The dramatic musical Spring Awakening will take the stage at CSUF in April and will be directed by Richard Israel. Israel directed

Kiss Me, Kate last semester.

Spring Awakening is a rock musical by alternative music artist Duncan Sheik, who reached widespread popularity for his song Barely Breathing in the ‘90s.

The musical–an adaptation of the German work of the same name–follows two 19th century German teenagers as they discover their sexualities.

Award-winning dancers and choreographers will display their talents on stage in a series of performances coordinated by Gladys Kares, a professor of dance at CSUF who has worked as a dancer and choreographer herself.

For additional information on ticket pricing and showtimes, visit fullerton.edu/arts/ theatredance/events.html.

Tickets can be purchased at the Clayes Performing Arts Center box office.

Spring Season The Merry Widdow • Feb. 13 in the Little Theatre Smash • Feb. 20 in the Hallberg Theatre The Comedy of Errors • March 6 in the Young Theatre Loose Ends • March 27 in the Hallberg Theatre Spring Awakening • April 17 in the Young Theatre Spring Dance Theatre • April 30 in the Little Theatre

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Los Angeles-based indie band is to play the Becker Amphitheater Wednesday at noon. Associated Students Inc. Productions will be offering free pizza to those who attend. Future performances for the Wednesday concert series are being finalized.

Watch For Horses to play CSUF

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The group is planning on a West Coast tour.

Cal State Fullerton is one of the first shows of the new year for Watch for Horses.

If concertgoers like what they hear Wednesday, they can see the band perform again at The Viper Room on Jan. 23, or download the band’s EP on iTunes.

As always, the show on Wednesday is free and will be from noon to 1 p.m.

“The first week of school, people need free food,” Muñoz said.

She and the rest of Associated Students Productions are working on making free pizza a normal perk at every concert.

Muñoz said she is in talks with a few other well known indie bands to play on campus, including one of the artists on this year’s Coachella lineup.

Associated Students Productions will be announcing the future acts as they are confirmed.

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family to finish college, Rangel acknowledged how surreal it is to be where he is today.

“It wasn’t until I left to the United States that I realized, ‘Oh, wow I was really poor and I didn’t really know,’” Rangel said.

“When you’re surrounded by love, you don’t really notice the other things. I saw that my life was full.”

Growing up, getting a job at a university was something Rangel never considered possible.

“I am always very present of what I’ve done and where I’ve been and where I’m going,” Rangel said.

While obtaining his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, Rangel delved into historical research on malemale tango. He visited the General Archive of the Nation and the Library of Congress to investigate the history and documentation of early tango.

“After reviewing a lot of tango literature, it mentions a lot of the male partnering, but there really wasn’t much investigation or questioning of why they were rehearsing, what were the dynamics,” Rangel says.

A large gay population in marginalized areas of Buenos Aires ran parallel to the birth of the tango in the late nineteenth century; undeniably influencing tango’s development, Rangel said in his master thesis.

After his academic research, Rangel choreographed and performed an original piece, Tango Vesre, affirming the continued practice of male-male tango today. The piece has since gained international attention and recognition.

Tango Vesre consists of two separate tango duets.

The first is Parallel Tango, choreographed by Alejandro Cervera, who Rangel said was a “godsend.” The second duet was Bound Tango, choreographed

by Rangel, which pulled

inspiration from current times in Buenos Aires, at milongas, or queer tango spaces.

He set the two duets in different time periods because both 1910 and 2010 brought “profound changes for the tango,” Rangel says.

In 1910, tango was finally accepted in Europe after being condemned by the Catholic Church. Then in 2010, Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage, creating lawful acceptance for queer tango to emerge from the depths of its history.

Rangel intends to stay with CSUF. Coming to work and seeing his students grow motivates him.

“His artistic statement gives us the ability to find our identity without conforming to his methods,” Cosmo D’Aquila, a student in Rangel’s Modern 4 class said. “I remember the reason I dance after leaving his class.”

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Alvin Rangel excetuting move in one of his recent solo’s performed in late 2014.

Grad still solving parking problem Upcoming app provides a parking alternative FIONA PITT Daily Titan With a parking situation as dire as Cal State Fullerton’s, one student went to great lengths to relieve the headache caused by the struggle to find parking.

Annoyed by continual tardiness caused by trying to find parking, Dhaval Bhatt, CSUF accounting graduate, built My Parking Buddy–which

connects students arriving to campus to students who are leaving. The pair of parking buddies trade spots once connected through the website.

Now, Bhatt is promising new features and the launch of a My Parking Buddy mobile app by fall 2015.

Some of the new features in the app will include a ranking system that allows students to rank their buddies and ascertain whether future buddies will be reliable, responsive and ready to share a parking spot. Also, a finals schedule, the most crucial week of the semester to get a parking

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spot, will be implemented into students’ My Parking Buddy account.

While at CSUF, Bhatt employed the “wait and stalk” technique, as many students still do, of camping out and waiting for students one by one to walk to their car, Bhatt said.

However, this practice is against Cal State Fullerton Traffic and Parking regulations Section 18.

Parking your car in an aisle of a campus parking lot can result in a ticket, whether or not your engine is on. “(Traffic officers) will first

honk at you and give you a warning and then if you still don’t move, they’ll come back and give you a ticket,” Bhatt said.

One busy morning in 2011, Bhatt asked a girl walking to her car if he could take her parking spot. She obliged, and Bhatt asked if he could continue to trade parking spots.

With a parking buddy, Bhatt felt better about coming to campus and not having to search for spots.

“When I received that help from her, I felt less stress; I felt like I saved a lot of time. I no

longer have to hunt for a parking space. So I decided why not spread the value to everyone and launch this website,” Bhatt said.

Students seem to be behind the idea, like former marketing accomplice and graduate, Dylan Mahr, a kinesiology major who helped Bhatt pass out flyers while they were both at CSUF. “I see it as a strong alternative for the time being, that matches up people to swap spots and cut down the time and stress of looking for a spot,” Mahr said.

Students can choose the

gender of their buddy, they can delete a buddy, or keep the same buddy throughout the semester.

“If someone can help you out 20 times, 25 times, 30 times, that’s better,” Bhatt said.

The My Parking Buddy app will be available to students in the fall 2015 semester, but for now, students who repeatedly find problems with the current parking system and want an immediate solution can sign up and connect with a parking “buddy” when the website goes live at myparkingbuddy.com.

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The high price of stress Professor researches how stress levels affect families BRITTANY PATKO For the Daily Titan

A Cal State Fullerton professor is looking to get funding for her research that will help families with children cope with stress.

Katherine Bono, an associate professor at CSUF, is working on researching the stress levels of parent’s and how it affects their children.

Her research is aided by students at CSUF and will aim to find out how parent’s stress levels spills over to their children and affects them in their daily lives.

Bono realized her interest in working with children at a young age. She originally planned on becoming a child clinical psychologist but after taking a research methods class during her time as an undergrad, she fell in love with the research. Bono joked that yes, that does happen to people every once in awhile.

Bono and her colleague, Professor Melanie Horn-Mallers, are working on researching parent’s stress levels by looking at how stress is carried over and transmitted from parents to eight to 10-year-old children.

“What we’re going to do is interview them on a daily basis for a week, both the parents and the children, to see if they had a stressful event that day.

Then, see if they’re having any symptoms, like mood or health symptoms. Then we are going to take, on four of those days, cortisol samples. We carry the stress hormone cortisol in saliva. You can check their biological stress levels that way,” Bono said.

Getting saliva samples is expensive and the two are currently revising a proposal to get funding from the National Institute of Health.

Besides interviewing the parents and children, Bono also strives to answer one of the most important question of the study concerning the closeness between the child and the parent.

“If parents and children are really close, do you see stress transmitting more from the parent to the child because they’re close, or is there less transmittal on a daily basis because the child is kind of protected from that?” Bono asked.

Though there is an application process, Cal State Fullerton students are helping every step of the way in hands-on research.

“They’ll be doing everything. Collecting the data, helping to recruit participants, doing the interviews, analyzing the data,

everything,” Bono said.

In the late ‘90s, Bono got her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of the Pacific. It was during that time that she realized she wanted to focus on developmental psychology.

She immediately enrolled in graduate school at Claremont Graduate University, and obtained her master’s degree in applied developmental psychology in 2002. From there, Bono started working on her Ph.D. in applied developmental psychology.

Even though Bono knew what she wanted to study, she still had times of doubt when she was studying in graduate school.

“It’s a pretty rigorous process to get through a doctorate program, as it should be,” Bono said.

Regardless, Bono earned her Ph.D. It was then that she met her future husband, a classmate of hers.

Bono and her husband hit it off and got married in 2002. They moved across the country to Miami, Florida, for her husband’s postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Miami.

While in Miami, Bono landed a job as the research director at an intervention center that dealt with babies born addicted to crack.

“It turned out the psychology department was a really good fit for my interest, even better for me than

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After interviewing both the parents and the children on a daily basis, a saliva sample is taken to test the levels in our biological stress hormore, cortisol.

[my husband],” she said.

Upon moving back to California, Bono got a job at Cal State Fullerton on a tenure track. She began teaching in 2006 and was recently promoted to department chair. Even though she is already fully occupied; her stress-level research is her passion.

Once Bono and Horn-Mallers get the funding they need, they are able to start delving into the research. They have a partnership with the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified

School District and plan to conduct their research on children and parents from schools there.

Since students are getting hands-on experience in real life research, they will be able to further their careers in the future.

Plus, the findings will help families.

“This is something that we’re hoping can be beneficial in terms of developing interventions or programs for families … maybe we don’t think that we’re transmitting our

stress to our kids, because we don’t think we show it.

Maybe we don’t even see it in our kids, but their cortisol is elevated. So, it’s helpful for parents to know that,” Bono said.

In the meantime, until the two receive funding, they are keeping busy teaching and working on other studies.

If they can’t receive funding, Bono said she plans to just do the diary part of the research, omitting the cortisol samples so that they can still find out about stress levels and help families.

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Opting for change in 2015 Resolutions in the new year make way for change KATELYNN DAVENPORT Daily Titan

Choosing a major should be a personal choice - period.

NEW YEAR, NEW ME!!

Oh, who am I kidding?

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A new year brings a new list of resolutions. Students who fall short of these resolutioins should not feel discouraged.

percent of resolution makers stuck with their resolutions, and up to 46 percent after six months.

If someone’s commitment to change was to lose weight, and they were actively working to eat healthier foods and exercise more—even if it just meant taking the stairs rather than the elevator—then that is a change worth being proud of, not the actual results.

We live in a society

addicted to instant gratification. Whether someone is working overtime toward their goals or a little here and there, results are desired right away.

“You can work hard and not see results or life can throw curve balls at you, but you have to be patient enough to know that you just got to keep going,” Kate Mueller said in an article for the Huffington Post about New Year’s

resolutions.

If we take a step back, we might notice that we’re on a different path than we began down.

This new path might only have subtle changes, like putting clean laundry away right after it comes out of the dryer, but a change is a change no matter how small.

If you made a resolution for 2015, there is no need to feel bad if you already

let the fire you had for it diminish.

The commitment to and end-of-the-year results from a New Year’s resolution should not determine how successful one feels about his or her strive toward change.

Realizing the need or opportunity for a positive change in one’s life is the real accomplishment of resolutions made at the beginning of a new year.

when parents start creating the destinies they see fit for their children, mind-

commence. Not to say this is at all bad, it adds to the overall “college ex-

definitely take a great pressure off knowing he or she wouldn’t have to worry about deciding which career path they want to follow, because the choice had already been made for him or her.

However, this resistance to one’s own creativity and curiosity is what stumps the growth of the individual. If someone spends seven or eight plus years studying a subject he or she has absolutely no interest in pursuing, he or she is hindering their individual progress.

The individual is blissfully unaware what other

opportunities the world has to offer.

It doesn’t go unnoticed, though - the honorable intentions parents have for their children to grow and thrive later in life—even if it means ignoring what it is the child loves most.

Certainly all parents could stand in solidarity over the desire to see their child succeed and possess everything in life they couldn’t.

Find an interesting subject and pursue it. Chase it to the ends of the earth and enjoy every minute of it.

Try new things, experiment and don’t be afraid to fail.

Majoring in Expectations

SABRINA PARADA Daily Titan Time and time again, so many students from all walks of life are plagued with the pain of high

expectations for the future and the agony of time possibly wasted on something he or she doesn’t enjoy.

Many friends and classmates haven’t had the chance to pursue what it is they truly love because they’re too busy trying to reach the high standards held above them by their parents.

It begins at a young age,

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Desperation for passing grades sets in, landmark moments are missed and the examination of one’s efforts begins.

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The beginning of a new year at the gym is like the end of a semester at Cal State Fullerton.

You walk in and think to yourself, “Who are all these people?”

Chances are you’ve probably noticed how much busier your workout facility of choice has become these last few weeks.

The increase in gym-goers is undoubtedly due to the number of people whom resolved to work out more in 2015.

On the other hand, maybe you haven’t noticed how busy the gyms have gotten because you were one of the people to make an active resolution, but that resolution did not stay active longer than three weeks.

New Year’s resolutions are made with good intentions, but often leave their creators feeling disappointed and inadequate. Making a resolution is a good

turn toward change; however, resolution makers usually have difficulty making it past that first step and with continuing down the path toward change.

People who do not stick with their declarations of change should not feel guilty, but should instead feel proud for recognizing the need for change—that is the key to these resolutions: they might not stick around for long, but the emergence of them is something to be proud of in itself.

Last year, 45 percent of Americans made a resolution for the New Year, with the number one resolution being to lose weight, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

The same study also found that only eight percent of people who made those resolutions actually were successful.

If only eight percent of those people were successful, that leaves a lot of people to potentially feel bad about themselves for not sticking it through.

But they shouldn’t.

The aforementioned study also shows that during the first week of last year, 75

lessly forgetting to consider the interests of the child.

Medical and law school, Ph.D.’s and multiple years spent trying to obtain a degree in a field that yields great financial stability and respect.

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Desperation for passing grades sets in, landmark moments are missed and the examination of one’s efforts begins.

On the contrary, having a major pre-planned could possibly provide some with a feeling of comfort, assuming the student passes all their exams. It would

Quitting social media was the best decision I’ve ever made.

I have never been a huge internet buff. I was one of the last middle schoolers in existence to create an instant messaging account, one of the last to finally pony up for a limited texting plan in high school and one of last to create a Facebook account.

As much of a technological laggard as I was, I had no clue how social media would affect my life in years to come. I don’t think anyone would have guessed how pervasive social media would become in our lives.

But has social media advanced or hindered our day-to-day lives? This question inevitably evokes a different answer depending on who you ask.

Young people will defend social media, swearing by its ability to keep distant friends, cousins, aunts and love interests in their lives.

Older folks will lament the absence of the good

old days, when people still called each other and kids played ball outside.

Both sides have their merits. On the one hand, I can’t deny the multitude of benefits of social media. I’ve kept in touch with friends who have moved away for college, kept up with major events in relatives’ lives, and stayed in contact with acquaintances.

This, no doubt, is highly convenient and was unheard of just a decade before. On the other hand, I, along with many other Facebook users, have suffered from Facebook Envy.

What is Facebook Envy?

Only the crippling realization of how lacking in awesome your life is compared to everyone else. For some, Facebook Envy may just be a fleeting moment of jealousy, for others like myself, the envy becomes a toxic mirror spotlighting all my insecurities.

If this sounds a bit melodramatic, I can assure you it’s very real. Multiple studies have been conducted to measure and understand this phenomenon, most notably a joint study by Berlin’s Humboldt University and Darmstadt’s Technical University back in 2013 confirmed the negative effects Facebook can have in our lives.

The study focused on

how certain incidents on Facebook were linked to certain emotions.

In a group of 1,200 respondents, one in three people felt dissatisfied or unhappy with their life after visiting Facebook. It was even worse if they didn’t contribute or if they browsed passively.

The biggest culprits of envy came from viewing vacation photos and comparing how many ‘likes’ a comment or photo received.

I never thought I could be caught in such a negative web, but it can happen to any of us; some of you may not even recognize the feeling. Slowly, I let photos of parties, vacations, weddings and sometimes even commonplace announcements affect my mood and self-esteem.

I felt I wasn’t good enough, my life was so mundane and less meaningful than everyone else’s.

That’s a toxic and scary road.

Some may think it’s crazy to not use Facebook; others think it’s heroic. It’s not like I deleted my Facebook account; I still use it to keep up with close friends once in a while or if a class requires me to join a group.

Otherwise, it stays out of my life and I’m all the happier for it. I’ve been able to

live my life at my pace and not worry about how I stack up to others. We all have different journeys to take, each one of us unique in our endeavors.

Don’t be afraid to log off and disconnect once in a while. Live your life and don’t worry about anyone else. If you’re daring enough, try quitting social media, just for a little bit, and see how you feel. You won’t regret it, I promise.

Social Media Stats • Over 80% of people ages 18-24 use Facebook • 1 in 3 people feel worse about themselves after visiting Facebook • Top culprits of Facebook Envy include vacation photos and numbers of ‘likes’ and comments.

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SPORTS Taukeiaho crucial to softball success

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After a successful 2014 season, CSUF aims for postseason RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan

Playing in an NCAA Division I school is no easy task, but after ending the 2014 season with their most wins in seven years, the Cal State Fullerton softball team is looking forward to a bright 2015.

Last year, in her second season at the helm, Fullerton Head Coach Kelly Ford oversaw a resurgence of sorts, leading the Titans to 33 wins, their most since 2007. Now, with the 2015 season ahead of her, Ford will look to push her team into the NCAA postseason.

For Fullerton to succeed in 2015, the team will have

to build upon a 2014 season which saw overall improvement in 10 different offensive categories.

Last season, the Titans’ batting average totalled to .300, a significant increase from 2013’s .263 batting average, and the highest batting average for the team since the 2000 season. Moreover, Fullerton also managed 303 runs off 431 hits, an impressive turnaround from a 2013 season that saw the team earn 199 runs off 378 hits. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, the Titans also managed 57 home runs, increasing their 2013 total by a whopping 33 homers.

In sports, fans and pundits often say that no individual player is indispensable. However, it’s also true that one individual can be the catalyst for a good season. Thankfully for Fullerton, third baseman Missy

Taukeiaho can be that player that inspires and leads by example. To say that the University of Washington transfer had a phenomenal 2014 season would be putting it lightly.

Taukeiaho’s 2014 season saw her post a .429 batting average, the highest out of the entire Fullerton team.

Aside from the outstanding batting average, her 2014 season exploits also included the breaking of various Fullerton records. Last season, the then-sophomore scored 62 times, making her the highest scorer in a single season for the Titans.

Her 19 home runs in a single season made her number two in the softball program’s history. Her 51 runs batted in also made Taukeiaho sixth-best in Titan history.

Her accomplishments on the field did not go unnoticed. Taukeiaho won

the Big West Softball Field Player of the Week a total of three times. She also played her way into the 2014 All-Big West Conference First Team, as well as earned the title of 2014 AllBig West Conference Player of the Year, the first Fullerton player to earn that honor since 2006, when Ashley Van Boxmeer won it.

Taukeiaho capped off her long list of accolades by making the 2014 NFCA All-West Region First Team, as well as the 2014 NFCA All-American Third Team.

The Titans, however, will have to rely on more than just one player if their 2015 season is to be a success, and they can look no further than junior shortstop Samantha Galarza and sophomore pitcher Christina Washington.

Galarza’s 2014 season earned her a place in the

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Missy Taukeiaho (33) will need to keep pace with her impressive 2014 stats if the Titans want to make a postseason appearance.

All-Big West Conference Second Team off the back of a third-best .329 batting average on the team. For her part, Washington was named to the 2014 All-Big West Conference Freshman Team after notching 55 strikeouts and earning a

team-best 3.56 ERA. Titan softball is certainly on the upswing, and the team will look to start the 2015 season off on the right foot when they take on the University of Purdue Feb. 6 in the So Cal Collegiate Challenge.

Titans poised to post first winning record since 1990-91 Chante Miles leads the women’s basketball team with 19.1 ppg TAMEEM SERAJ Daily Titan After a heavy road schedule to begin the season, the Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team has found its footing and has a shot at having the first winning season since the 1990-1991 season.

CSUF began the 20142015 season with a 3-6 record, with seven of those games away from Titan Gym. But once they returned home and finals

were over, the Titans started clicking.

Guard Chante Miles has been the anchor for the Titans offense all season, the senior from Compton averaging 19.1 points per game, good for second best in the Big West Conference.

CSUF’s first match during winter break came against North Dakota State on Dec. 19. Brooke LeMar led the Bison attack with 28 points, but her showing was bested by Miles, who torched North Dakota for 31 points.

Miles became the 23rd Titan to reach the 1,000 point milestone in the 86-79 win.

Two days later, Albany visited Titan Gym and seemed like they couldn’t

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miss. The Great Danes poured in 71 points off of 56.6 percent shooting. The Titan offense couldn’t keep up, posting only 49 points in the loss. Zakiya Saunders dropped 18 points to lead Albany, while Miles paced CSUF with 13 points.

After nine days of rest, the Titans took on the University of Missouri-Kansas City on New Year’s Eve. CSUF had a balanced attack in the 72-52 win, having four players score in double figures. Miles (18 points, 13 assists) and senior forward Kathleen Iwuoha (14 points, 10 rebounds) each posted double-doubles in the rout.

The Titans looked like they were going to head

into conference play on a sour note, trailing 35-20 at halftime to Seattle. CSUF showed a strong sense of resilience in the second half, and rallied to win 66-59.

Miles led the charge with 28 points, while Hailey King chipped in with 13 points.

The Titans began conference play on Jan. 8 against UC Riverside on the heels of winning three of their last four games. CSUF used their momentum to propel them to their first conference win of the season.

The Titans downed the Highlanders 58-49 behind 18 points from Miles and a career-high 17 rebounds

by Samantha Logan. The key to success was shutting

down Riverside’s Brittany Crain, who leads the conference with 23.6 points per game. Crain was limited to only 18 points in the match on 6-of-21 shooting.

After a week off, CSUF traveled to the Bren Events Center to take on UC Irvine. The Titans came out in the first half with a stout defense, allowing the Anteaters to score just 12 points through the first 20 minutes. The 12 points scored

by UCI is the lowest allowed in a half in program history. Daeja Smith and Tailer Butler paced the Titan offense with 13 points apiece as CSUF cruised to a 62-51 victory. Their fourth consecutive win improved the

Titans to 8-7 on the season.

The Titans were tested Saturday in their matchup with UC Davis. Neither team could build a double-digit lead in the closely-contested game. Fullerton went cold in the last five minutes of the game, making just one of their final 11 shot attempts. The Aggies went on a 9-0 run to close out the game and take the 64-59 win. Miles posted a team-high 23 points and Butler scored 19 points in the loss.

The Titans will look to bounce back against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Thursday on their quest for the first winning season in 24 years.

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Baseball looking to bounce back in 2015 The Titan pitching staff will be key to turnaround season RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan “Cal State Fullerton baseball” and “winning” go hand-in-hand like “Bubba Gump” and “shrimp.”

Last year Fullerton earned their 40th consecutive winning season. However, despite their winning record, the Titans’ 2014 season was still a major disappointment compared to their 2013 season. The team will have to step up big time if they are to be successful in 2015.

An overall record of 3424 and a Big West Conference record of 14-10 in 2014 was a major decline from a 2013 campaign that saw Fullerton finish 5110 overall and 23-4 in Big West play. In 2013, the Titans managed to score 370 runs from 584 hits, eclipsing their opponents, who only scored 181 runs from 461 hits. Furthermore, CSUF scored 35 home runs, more than doubling the opposition who only managed 17.

And while the 2013 offense was sterling, their pitching was just as good.

They ended the season with an earned run average of 2.47, a record at the time

for the program.

Last season, however, presented a steep decline.

Fullerton had 96 fewer runs, 66 fewer hits, 19 fewer home runs and 91 fewer runs batted in than in the 2013 season. Worrisome, to say the least.

The silver lining for the Titans heading into 2015 will be the fact that, despite the offensive shortfalls, last year’s ERA shattered the 2013 record. In 2014, Fullerton ended the season with a stellar 2.24 ERA. While they lost Phil Bickford, whose 2.13 ERA in 20 games for the Titans was one of the best in the team, Fullerton will still be able to count on the services of juniors Thomas Eshelman and Justin Garza.

Eshelman and Garza are no strangers to the Fullerton faithful. Most importantly, they know how to win. The 2013 season saw them make 17 appearances apiece, posting a 1.48 and 2.03 ERA, respectively.

For Garza, the 2014 season was a bit of a disappointment, the then-sophomore making five fewer appearances and increasing his ERA to 3.22 in 72.2 innings pitched. Despite that fact, however, Garza spent his offseason with the USA Collegiate National Team.

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his eight games saw him tally an ERA of 1.35, a confidence booster heading into the 2015 season with Fullerton, to say the least.

Eshelman, on the other hand, experienced an improved 2014 season. In 16 appearances and 123.2 innings pitched, Eshelman’s ERA dropped to an impressive 1.89. He too spent the summer with the USA Collegiate National Team, making eight appearances and three starts for an ERA of 2.14.

On the offensive end, Fullerton will be without the services of departing players J.D. Davis and Matt Chapman, who ended 2014 with batting averages of .338 and .312, respectively.

However, Tanner Pinkston, who had the next best batting average of 2014 at .298, will return for the 2015 season as a junior.

Furthermore, new recruits like freshmen Chad Bible, who batted .398 in his senior year at Valencia High School, and Jordan Hand, who batted a .438 in his senior year at Shadow Ridge High School in Las Vegas, will look to add to the beleaguered Titan offense.

It’s a 2015 spring of redemption for Fullerton baseball, and it all kicks off Feb. 13 against the University of South Florida at the Clearwater tournament.

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After finishing their non-conference schedule on a five-game winning streak, CSUF has dropped their first three Big West matches. They are the only remaining winless team in conference games.

Titans stumble out of the gates in conference play Alex Harris will be instrumental in Big West schedule TAMEEM SERAJ Daily Titan Many coaches emphasize the importance of playing tough opponents early in their schedules, even if those matches end in losses. In theory, those matches will lead to a better prepared and battle-tested team.

With tough early losses against the likes of USC and UCLA, Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball Head Coach Dedrique Taylor is seeing the payoff from those games.

Heading into winter break, the Titans won a pair of matches against Nevada and Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Senior Alex Harris led the team in both wins with 22 and 16-point efforts, respectively. The 65-55 win against Nevada on Dec. 13 marked the first road win of the season for CSUF and sent the Wolfpack to their seventh-straight loss.

Although just an exhibition game for Dominguez Hills, the 72-50 win on Dec. 18 counted toward the Titans’ record and put them on their first winning streak of the season.

With the stress of finals off their shoulders and the next three games being played at home, the Titans closed out their non-conference schedule with a bang. CSUF strung together a trio of victories to head into Big West play on a five-game winning streak, their longest since the 20112012 season.

Harris shined once again in the first game of winter break against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Dec. 22. The Richmond native matched his career-high points total of 29 in the 82-77 victory, while senior Steve McClellan chipped in with his second straight

double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds). The Titans’ 82 points marked a new season-high for the team, with four players managing double-digit scoring.

The Titans routed Cal State East Bay 77-45 on Dec. 30, their largest margin of victory this season. The win improved the Titans’ record to 7-7 and dropped the Pioneers to 3-7 on the season. Sophomore Jordan Mason led a balanced Titans offense that saw eight CSUF players score at least six points. On defense, the Titans hounded the Pioneers, allowing them to shoot just 28.8 percent from the field. The 45 points East Bay scored were the lowest allowed by the Titans this season.

Both CSUF and Seattle went into their Jan. 3 game with matching 7-7 records, meaning one team would leave with a losing mark. The Titans avenged their 75-71 loss from last season to the Redhawks with a 67-55 win. Harris had a team-high of 19 points and six assists, while senior Moses Morgan contributed 17 points and six rebounds. CSUF held former Titan Isiah Umipig to just 11 points. The win gave Fullerton their first winning record of the season at 8-7.

After securing four double-digit victories during their five-game winning stretch, the Titans appeared to be firing on all cylinders. They were hoping to carry that momentum into their conference schedule, but they have stumbled out of the gate, dropping all three of their Big West matches thus far.

CSUF struggled in the early-going against UC Riverside on Jan. 8, trailing by 13 at the half. However, junior Lanerryl Johnson caught fire in the second half, pouring in 26 of his team-leading 29 in the final 20 minutes. Johnson’s heroic effort sent the game into overtime, but the comeback

fell short in the extra frame.

The Titans fell 84-78, which snapped their winning-streak.

Harris chipped in with 25 points, while Taylor Johns led the Highlanders with 29 points. Harris became the 23rd Titan to reach the 1,000 point milestone in the loss.

The Titans had a tough test in their second conference match against UC Irvine, the reigning Big West regular season champions. Fullerton was chasing 16 points at the half, but made a surge in the second half. The Anteaters were held scoreless over a nine minute stretch, allowing CSUF to close the gap to five points. The Titans got as close as three points with under two minutes to play, but the Anteaters held on to win 63-58 on Thursday. Harris paced the Titans with 17 points and Will Davis II led the Anteaters with 21 points.

CSUF faced the surprising UC Davis Aggies Saturday, and suffered a 79-68 loss. The Aggies are 14-3 on the season and 4-0 in Big West play, both personal best marks for the program. UC Davis is led by the conference-leading scorer Corey Hawkins, who is averaging 20.9 points per game.

Hawkins was the star once more against the Titans. Davis opened up a 13-point lead at the half, off of 15 first-half points from Hawkins. The senior from Arizona finished with a game-high 26 points.

Harris had a team-high 20 points for CSUF. The Titans got within five points in the second half, but the Aggies quelled the comeback to remain the only unbeaten team in the conference. CSUF dropped to last in the conference as the only team without a conference win.

The Titans will look for their first Big West win of the season Thursday against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

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