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Men’s soccer routs Cal Poly, advances to championship game RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team entered Wednesday night’s semifinal game against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo looking to make its second consecutive appearance in the Big West Conference Tournament championship game. The Titans were left reeling as they faced a rearing Mustangs team that would not stop bucking in the opening half of the game. But despite giving up the opening goal, Fullerton was able to recover and punch its ticket to the Tournament final thanks to a 3-1 victory at Titan Stadium. Head Coach George Kuntz set his team up in a 4-1-4-1 formation to start the game, but the Titans were getting sliced open by a Mustangs team playing with wingbacks in a fluid 3-5-2 that often morphed into a 3-6-1. From the get-go, Cal Poly was the aggressor, overwhelming CSUF in the middle of the pitch and exploiting the wings as Fullerton struggled to keep up and track runners. “On our right side, I was frustrated,” Kuntz said. In the fifth minute, John Chronopoulos found himself inside the Fullerton box and fired a cross-goal shot to the left post, but Raul Elias was able to tip the ball around the post, albeit the referee did not see the save to call a corner. Fullerton tried to respond three minutes later when Oscar Torres spotted Carlos Troncoso’s overlapping run on the left, but Cal Poly’s Wade Hamilton did well to collect the ensuing cross. The Mustangs quickly went on the attack again in the ninth minute. On the left, George Grote cut right to create space between himself and Michael Lopez. Grote aimed for the top far post, but his effort went over the bar. In the 29th minute, however, both Mitchell Bell’s and Michael Lopez’s lax defending gifted the Mustangs the first goal of the game. Troncoso was responsible for the first error, his attempted clearance heading goalward to an onrushing Chronopoulos. Bell got to the ball first and tried to play out toward the right, but he failed to notice George Grote running in. Lopez, for his part, did not track his runner, and Grote finished the gift from close range to make it 1-0. SEE SOCCER
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Faced with a rising cost of living and a widening gap between faculty and administration salaries, the California Faculty Association is fighting for a 5 percent General Salary Increase and a 2.65 percent Salary Service Increase from the Cal State University administration.
Professors call for five percent General Salary Increase BREANNA VASQUEZ Daily Titan This is the first of an ongoing series investigating faculty salary issues. A survey, conducted by the California Faculty
Ph.D., Cal State Fullerton associate professor. “But that’s just not a reality.” The CSU system is losing some of the youngest and brightest up-and-coming faculty because faculty salaries cannot meet the cost of living in Fullerton, forcing potential faculty to leave and teach elsewhere, said CFA Vice President Michele Barr, Ph.D., full-time lecturer at Cal State Fullerton.
Ten years ago, Barr would have recommended her graduate students apply within the CSU system. Today, that recommendation is irrelevant. “We’re actually falling out of the middle class,” Barr said. THE FIGHT FOR A 5 PERCENT INCREASE The CFA is determined to fight for a 5 percent General Salary Increase (GSI) and a
2.65 percent Salary Service Increase (SSI). The union has rejected a proposed 2 percent GSI offered by the chancellor. “It’s very demoralizing for the administration to offer two percent, when, on a relative scale, we are the lowest paid professors at public universities,” said Robert Castro, Ph.D, associate professor of criminal justice. SEE FACULTY
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Freshman orchestrates success Violinist pursues her dream of a career in music MICAH AUGIMERI-LEE Daily Titan A sea of orchestral players takes the stage in the Clayes Performing Arts Center at Cal State Fullerton. At the center of it all, a focused 17-year-old girl diligently bows her violin. The epic musical piece is “O Fortuna,” by German composer Carl Orff, and the young, center-stage violinist is Samantha Vuong, a freshman music education major at CSUF. The performance was part of the School of Music Dedication Celebration, which featured performances by the University Orchestra, which Vuong is
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Association (CFA) earlier this year, found that 79 percent of faculty who responded to the survey would not recommend their jobs within the California State University system to students or colleagues at other institutions. “You have aspirations that when you get a Ph.D. — when you become a professor — you will be able to afford to buy a home,” said Matthew P. Llewellyn,
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a part of, along with distinguished alumna Deborah Voigt. Although Vuong is young, she has taken the stage with seasoned professionals before. Most recently, Vuong was invited to play with the Dream Orchestra of Los Angeles, a professional musical ensemble that started an apprenticeship program this year in which 10 high school and college students are selected by invitation or recommendation. She has also been involved with the Claremont Symphony Orchestra, Youth Symphony West and the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra, which she performed with in Prague and Vienna. “It felt like a regular performance but the halls were really beautiful,” Vuong said. “It was kind of surreal.” SEE VIOLIN
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Samantha Vuong, a freshman at Cal State Fullerton, has traveled the world and played with wellesteemed orchestras. She’s continuing her musical journey with CSUF’s University Orchestra.
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