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Titans defeat Dominguez Hills, win five in a row
West Point geologist first of three finalists ERICA BUESA Daily Titan Interviews for the search for the Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics began Tuesday afternoon with geologist Marie Johnson, Ph.D., being the first of three candidates to speak in an open forum as part of the hiring process. Johnson received her undergraduate degree in geology from Harvard, and her master’s degree and doctorate in geology from Brown University. Johnson currently serves as the environmental program director at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she has been teaching for the last 21 years. Before working at West Point, she was a research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University for five years. Johnson said she loves her day job, as it was her dream to be a scientist when she was 8 years old. She wanted the audience to know about the importance of education in her life. “I’m a child of schoolteacher parents and my parents taught me at a young age that education is the way forward,” she said. SEE SCIENCE
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In what would be a repeat from last year, the Titans obliterated the Cal State Dominguez Hills defense, outscoring them by 32 points after two halves to improve to five wins in the regular season.
Men’s basketball repeats last year’s result, routs Toros AARON VALDEZ Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team improved to 5-1 as it blew out the Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros 88-56 Tuesday night.
The Titans are off to their best start since their 20072008 season, when they began the year at 4-1. CSUF and the Toros don’t share a long history together, having only met twice, with the Titans edging out the Toros on both occasions. The most recent matchup came last season in an overwhelming win for the Titans, who beat CSUDH 72-50. In terms of scoring, the Titan guards have been more
efficient under Head Coach Dedrique Taylor, as the team has three players averaging double figures this season. The top scorers include redshirt junior Tre’ Coggins, redshirt senior Malcolm Brooks and freshman Khalil Ahmad, who average 17.2, 12.3 and 11.8 points, respectively. Coggins was recently named the Big West Conference Player of the Week for recording back-to-back
career-high 25-point games that helped propel the Titans over Southern Utah University and the University of Nevada last week. The 6-foot-3-inch guard is currently shooting 40.5 percent from the field, 40.4 percent from beyond the arc, grabbing over four rebounds per game and dishing out two assists per game. The first half of Tuesday night’s game completely
belonged to CSUF. The Toros scrambled to answer Fullerton’s crisp ball movement, ultimately leading to a balanced scoring effort from the Titans. The Titans firmly implemented their style of play from the start, holding the Toros to a mere 27 points while accomplishing their highest-scoring first half of the season with 42 points. SEE WIN
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Hiroshima survivors share stories Panel held to talk about effects of nuclear war GRAHAM MCTAGUE Daily Titan
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Richard Fukuhara (left) created the nonprofit Shadows for Peace, which works with Hiroshima survivors like Kaz Suyeishi (right) to educate Americans about the destructive effects of nuclear war.
Hiroshima survivors Junji Sarashina and Kaz Suyeishi, along with Richard Fukuhara, creator of nonprofit organization Shadows for Peace, talked about the devastating effects of nuclear weapons at a panel hosted by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Fukuhara began the discussion by introducing his nonprofit, “Shadows for Peace, for the Sake of the Children: The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Experience,” an organization he described as “a program that promotes world peace, understanding through
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forums, video interviews, writings, artworks, music and dance.” “Shadows for Peace’s mission statement is to educate and engage high school students, college students and citizens of the historically destructive power of nuclear weapons and work towards world peace,” Fukuhara said. Fukuhara read from his work, “The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Experience,” which described the events and aftermath of the nuclear explosions. He talked about “Little Boy,” the 9,700 lbs. bomb that killed over 80,000 in Hiroshima when it fell at 8:15 a.m. Aug. 6, 1945. Fukuhara continued with the events behind the second nuclear bomb, “Fat Man,” which was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killing around 40,000 more. “Weeks, months, years later, thousands of additional
citizens had died from various radiation-related diseases from Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” Fukuhara said. Following Fukuhara’s presentation, Junji Sarashina — who was just a 16-year-old high school senior the day Little Boy dropped — gave a vivid recollection of his experience. “Younger generation … freshmen and sophomores, were in the city of Hiroshima,” Sarashina said. “They were wiped out, either evaporated, melted, disintegrated or disappeared. That is the effect of the atomic bomb.” At the time, Sarashina was working at a factory about a mile-and-a-half away from the epicenter of the explosion. He remembers being knocked flat on his back with debris flying around him as the building collapsed. SEE STORIES
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