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Fidel Castro’s daughter talks about life in communist Cuba

Despite setbacks, building expected to open Feb. 2017 MONSE RODRIGUEZ Daily Titan The Titan Student Union expansion encountered problems last September due to a wrongly assigned seismic code, which is expected to cost approximately $375,000, said Stephen Chamberlain, senior project manager of Capital Project Management.

Parties involved in the planning learned last semester that the seismic code under which the building was designed changed by the time the bidding process started.

The plans’ redesign was projected to cost $45,000, with $331,000 allocated for the necessary steel and concrete.

Initially, the expansion cost $650,000, but the construction company waived some of CSUF’s fees.

A letter was sent to the CSU chancellor’s office early January requesting to cover the extra cost through a seismic self-insurance fund.

The seismic self-insurance fund is set apart in case a building, while under construction, is damaged due to an earthquake. The seismic self-insurance fund essentially covers all uninsured and unbuilt buildings.

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Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro’s daughter, fled Cuba in 1993 so that her daughter could have a better education in the United States. Fernandez returned to Cuba after her mother passed and found that the new generation seemed more open to change.

AICA hosts Alina Fernandez for Social Justice Week JASON ROCHLIN MONSE RODRIGUEZ Daily Titan Alina Fernandez, daughter of former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, spoke

about her experiences in Cuba during her father’s rise to power Monday at the Titan Student Union Pavilion B&C. Cal State Fullerton’s Association for InterCultural Awareness (AICA) hosted Fernandez as part of their Social Justice Week. AICA executive board chair Chris Afgani introduced Fernandez and promoted other upcoming events, giving

a brief overview of what the guest speaker would be talking about.

“She is a witness with a unique vision, not only of her father and how the country changed after the revolution, but of Cuba’s rapidly changing climate right now,” Afgani said. “Ms. Fernandez grew up in a convulsive Cuba, living with the ongoing threat of invasion by American troops.”

After joking about needing vodka to help her get through her speech, Fernandez went right into her story by describing why she doesn’t go by the last name “Castro.”

“My name is Alina Fernandez Revuelta … Revuelta comes from my mother’s side, and it means ‘revolted,’” Fernandez said.

“Even if my last name is Fernandez, I am still the

daughter of Fidel Castro.”

Fernandez went on to explain how her mother, Natalia Revuelta Clews, met and grew close to Castro.

Both Clews and Castro were married to other people when Castro began his political opposition to Fulgencio Batista. Fernandez’s mother offered to use her home as a meeting place.

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Student following Sanders’ campaign trail CSUF senior postpones classes due to politics CINTHIA PASILLAS Daily Titan Cynthia Montes was one semester away from graduation, but the Cal State Fullerton senior potentially postponed her graduation and left everything behind to become a member of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.

Montes is a 21-yearold student double majoring in political science and communications, with a concentration in journalism. She is a member of the Latino Communications Initiative (LCI), and through the organization’s Facebook page, she first saw a post about an

internship to follow Sanders’ campaign.

She is also a first-generation student, born and raised in La Habra with her three siblings.

Montes is involved in several clubs and organizations on campus, including Al Dia, CSUF’s first Spanish newscast, and Phi Sigma Alpha, a political science honor society.

Montes does not receive financial aid and had to begin working to pay for her education. Since 2013, she has been working for Sephora, a cosmetic company. Montes also worked at the government and community relations office on campus. At the beginning of this semester, she began work as a student assistant for Inez Gonzalez, director of LCI. She asked faculty members like Meriem Hodge, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science,

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to help her review her internship application. After Montes sent the director of the internship program her application, Gonzalez called her point of contact and found that there were no longer any positions available.

“She had applied the last day of the deadline and I said ‘Well, lesson learned.

You really need to submit your application as soon as you can,’” Gonzalez said.

Three days later, the director of the internship program called Montes to schedule a group interview over the phone.

Gonzalez said it is incredible that Montes was offered the position the same day of her interview. Excited and nervous, Montes did not hesitate to make a decision. “It wasn’t hard, because this is like my dream job,” she said.

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Cynthia Montes, CSUF senior, learned about the opportunity to work on Bernie Sanders’ campaign through Facebook. After being hired onto the campaign, she dropped her classes to follow her dream.

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Lizette Duarte, 21, communications major, attended the event and was able to ask Alina Fernandez questions at the end of her talk. Fernandez spoke about the importance of education and the need for our students to stay compassionate toward others.

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When Castro was arrested for a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953, he and Clews began writing letters back and forth and fell in love. After Castro got out of jail, they met in secret and soon had a child together: Fernandez.

“My mother began to write to him, and he answered,” Fernandez said. “Do you know how powerful a letter can be? The texture … the smell of a good old letter.”

Fernandez did not discover that Castro was her biological father until she was 10 years old.

She delved into the tie-ins between her personal life as a young child and Castro’s rise to power after Batista fled the country. Clews’ first husband took Fernandez’s older sister and escaped, leading to consistent visits from the Cuban dictator.

“One morning, my sister wasn’t in her bed. I was told that they (Clews’ first husband and her sister) were traitors. Worms. Gusanos,” Fernandez said. “That’s what they called Cubans that left the island.”

Fernandez’s speech included a discussion of how Cuba changed as she grew up. Among other things, Castro became the chief of

the army, executed any potential enemy of the revolution to erase thoughts of resistance from Cuban minds, almost started a nuclear confrontation and inspired national hate for America.

However, she did acknowledge that Castro established new schools.

In 1977, Fernandez had a daughter. Sixteen years later, in December 1993, the two escaped Cuba and moved to the United States so that her daughter could get a better education. According to Fernandez, they “celebrated New Years in freedom.”

“It’s strange because when a woman gives birth, it’s a happy moment … Mine was more like ‘what did I do?’” Fernandez said. “I got the chance to fix it 16 years later.”

She ended her talk by discussing her visit to Cuba following her mother’s death, where she found that the new generation growing up seemed much more open to change.

The audience of over a hundred people asked Fernandez questions at the end.

A number of the questions came from members of Cuban-American families who wanted her to take on arguments over Obama’s open trade policy with Cuba.

“This administration is

trying to (help out) in a nice way, but I don’t know if they are going to accomplish anything,” Fernandez said. “At least they are trying.”

Other questions Fernandez received included those about the religious restrictions during Castro’s regime and what incentives there were to prioritize higher education in Cuba.

One audience member asked what advice she would give to students who want to be advocates for social justice.

Fernandez replied, “Never, never lose that love in your heart because thats what makes you fight for others and yourself.”

After the Q & A, AICA gave Fernandez a gift and audience members spoke with Fernandez one-on-one after the event.

“It’s always hard to get a little deeper. Hispanics aren’t really emotional …

You don’t ask about certain things,” said Cariñosa Robles, CSUF junior accounting major. Robles felt that listening to Fernandez helped her understand what friends of her father experienced while fleeing Cuba.

AICA’s Social Justice Week will also include a Social Justice Fair on Tuesday in the quad and the “Tunnels of Oppression” event on Wednesday, Afgani said.

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The man was reportedly driving south on Magnolia Street in Garden Grove when he hit a vehicle heading in the same direction, which caused him to lose control and hit two parked cars, also crashing into both a tree and an apartment complex gate.

A father was trapped in one of the parked vehicles that was flipped due to the crash, while his daughter was knocked away from the car and broke her hand. Both were brought to the Garden Grove Medical Center for treatment.

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Valley State Prison is the fourth prison to receive a failing grade as the state tries to regain control of medical treatment after 10 years of federal control.

Inspectors gave the prison a failing grade in nine of the 14 benchmarks used during the review. Medical records were missing, misfiled, incomplete or illegible and examination rooms lacked basic equipment and supplies.

The inspector general also found that prisons in Delano, Susanville and Vacaville are not providing adequate care to prisoners. Seven other prisons have received passing grades.

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Uber driver admits to shootings Jason Dalton, the Uber driver suspected in the shootings in Kalamazoo, Michigan, admitted to the crime Monday, according to Fox News.

The rampage took place Saturday over a span of six hours and resulted in six dead and two critically injured.

Matt Mellen, Dalton’s last Uber passenger before the shootings began, said that Dalton became very erratic after a phone call and began driving recklessly.

Mellen exited the vehicle when it came to a stop and alerted police of the driver.

Dalton has been charged with murder and attempted murder. He is being held without bond.

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“It’s an unusual use for that fund, but we are basically asking the chancellor’s office if that fund will help us with this cost,” said Carol McDoniel, interim TSU director.

Willem van der Pol, facilities operations director, said the letter is under consideration at the chancellor’s office and that an answer is expected in the next few months.

Should that money not come through the chancellor’s office, it would be allocated from the project’s phase-two fund or from the ASI reserve fund, Chamberlain said.

ASI maintains a reserve fund for equipment and furniture every year for the three facilities they handle: the TSU, the Children’s Center and the Student Recreation Center.

Edwards estimates there is about $300,000 to $400,000 in the ASI reserve fund for the 2015 -2016 academic year that covers both the SRC and the TSU. “The downside of that is we are not able to use those funds for their intended purpose,” Edwards said.

Chamberlain said that this money could be arranged to fit the seismic setback by scoping out the design from the plan and possibly returning to build them in the future.

“We’re married to the footprint, to the design of the building, but the miscellaneous stuff like signage, weight finding, branding … we can come back and do later,” Chamberlain said.

The university does not plan to raise student fees to allocate funds for the TSU seismic code issue.

The addition of a third Starbucks, which would be located in the basement of the TSU, seems very possible, Chamberlain said.

Concrete will be added to the basement and first floor this Friday, Chamberlain said.

Despite the monetary setback and rain, TSU construction is still on schedule. The TSU expansion is expected to open spring 2017. “We are months ahead of schedule,” Chamberlain said.

While the contract completion date is Feb. 27, 2017 Chamberlain expects to be finished with construction this year.

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The Titan Student Union expansion project is looking for sources of money to pay for additional construction costs due to wrongly assigned seismic code.

Spring Concert expected to cost about $389k ASI expected to sell twice as many tickets as last year’s concert RYAN WHITEHEAD Daily Titan Every year, Associated Students, Inc. organizes and books various artists to perform in the Spring Concert at Cal State Fullerton, one of the most anticipated events of the year.

Last year’s Spring Concert was scheduled to feature two popular hip-hop artists, Tyga and Wiz Khalifa. However, Khalifa canceled his show and ASI was forced to book Ludacris instead.

ASI lost around $900 when Khalifa canceled. The money was used to replace advertising materials with Khalifa’s name on it, said Brian Miles Garibay, this year’s ASI Spring Concert coordinator.

Shannon Franklin, last year’s ASI Spring Concert coordinator, explained that there is a high possibility that an artist can drop out if the artist gets another offer.

The artist is paid after the show and not upfront, she said.

“The contract was signed on both sides. Other than that, there was no money that he (Wiz Khalifa) owed us,” Franklin said. “There was just money promised

after the show.”

Garibay said that ASI goes through a booking agency in order help them in situations similar to last year’s.

“As far as getting artists, artists are people. It really depends on themselves how things will turn out,” Garibay said.

Garibay said ASI goes through all the necessary contracts and paperwork to try to prevent what it can on its side.

Franklin said ASI did not find out until a week before the concert that Wiz Khalifa had canceled his performance. “We found out he was doing Saturday Night Live,” Franklin said.

Franklin was thankful she had a good team with her, including the talent agent, who helped run things smoothly, she said.

A similar situation happened when rapper Kanye West was scheduled to perform in 2007 and dropped out last minute, Garibay said.

However, Franklin said this situation is normal for concerts on college campuses. “There was nothing wrong on our part,” Franklin said. Popular artists are more likely to drop, Franklin said.

About $389,000 will be spent on this year’s Spring Concert, compared to $300,000 spent last year.

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Associated Students, Inc., plans on spending almost $100k more on this year’s Spring Concert. ASI lost money last year when rapper Wiz Khalifa canceled one week before the concert took place.

ASI expects to sell twice as many tickets this year compared to last year, Garibay said.

Stephanie Martinez, a kinesiology major and senior, attended the concert last year.

Martinez thought the

concert last year was “too open,” and she eventually lost interest in the performance.

Martinez preferred the concert in Titan Stadium two years ago because it was more interactive and she was able to feel the

vibe from everyone else, she said.

In order to avoid a sixhour line to purchase tickets like last year, students will now have the option to buy tickets online, Garibay said.

“We (ASI) signed a

contract with a vendor called Eventbrite, and they will be helping us sell them online” he said.

The ticket release date has yet to be announced, but students can expect them to go on sale in early-to-mid April, Garibay said.

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SRC helps strengthen bodies and careers From tumbling to towel folding, students beef up Rec Center SAVANNA CLEVENGER Daily Titan Behind a mound of dirty, sweaty towels is a group of students running the Student Recreation Center.

“We fold towels, a lot of towels,” said Chance Folan, CSUF senior and SRC front desk attendant. “We’re also checking in equipment … and making sure that our merchandise is stocked.”

From handling the building’s operations to running a group fitness class, SRC employees are primarily CSUF students working toward gaining work experience or jump-starting their fitness careers.

Simran Mayadas, CSUF senior, started working at the SRC as a fitness instructor.

Usually, most students are required to get an online certification in order to lead group fitness classes, but since Mayadas previously taught gymnastic classes for three years, she was allowed to bypass the requirement and landed an interview that was similar to an audition.

“I put together an outline of what I would teach and how I would teach it,” Mayadas said. “That was kind of my interview, almost in a sense of performing that for them, and they hired me as a group fitness instructor.”

Once she started, Mayadas was given the opportunity to pitch her own ideas

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Student workers at the Student Recreation Center range from front desk attendants to building managers. While some joined the SRC team to gain work experience, others joined to help build their fitness careers.

for classes.

“I started thinking, it would be really nice to have a gymnastics class,” she said.

“We don’t have anything like that. We have martial arts, kickboxing, we have all these other classes, but we don’t have anything like gymnastics or tumbling.”

Mayadas began instructing semiweekly gymnastics at the SRC. However, she soon wanted to move up the ranks and applied for a building manager position. Since SRC staff members are offered job

mobility, Mayadas was able to jump from an instructor to a building manager.

“It’s really fun, and it’s also very demanding,” she said.

“It’s a lot of work. You are pretty much in charge of everything in the building.”

For team members like Mayadas, a job at the SRC can open a lot of doors and possibilities for the future.

“I’m looking to get my personal training certificate this summer, so then I can not only teach the group fitness classes at other gyms, but

also do personal training,” she said.

Alison Wittwer, safety and aquatics coordinator, works with student lifeguards and personal trainers.

“To be a lifeguard or personal trainer here, it is pretty rigorous,” Wittwer said. “Our trainers are usually juniors, seniors and grad students, and our lifeguard and swim instructors are all ages.”

Students who act as lifeguards at the SRC must obtain certification through the American Red Cross or

another accepted lifeguard agency and “come in ready to be a lifeguard,” Wittwer said.

Students are then able to come in to train and practice in the water.

Outside of the water, SRC’s personal trainers are usually kinesiology majors, Wittwer said.

“I know that they have the scientific, academic background to do the job.

I know that we’re getting high quality trainers,” Wittwer said.

While the requirements to obtain one of the more demanding positions are strict, Mayada finds that seeing people reach their goals at the SRC is worth all the stress.

“For me, the best part is really seeing all of the students,” Mayadas said. “It’s really nice to see the people that are regulars that you get to know. It really makes my day better because I really like that interaction. That part is really rewarding.”

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Gonzalez recalled that although Montes had to drop classes and potentially postpone her graduation, she had already thought it through.

Michelle Ellis Vioreto, 21, Montes’ friend and fellow CSUF student, said Montes is “highly motivated and driven. She always had a goal in mind and she’d always done everything with a purpose.”

Montes is tasked with reaching out for the Latino vote for Sanders’ campaign.

“She always had this vision of helping people

based on women’s issues in the Latino community,” Vioreto said.

Montes said that she is excited to be a part of the campaign. “For me, it is a public service and I know I am doing this for something bigger than me, for the entire country.”

Montes’ friends and professors at CSUF expressed pride in her accomplishments.

“The LCs are very happy, everyone is very happy and very proud of her,” Gonzalez said. “How scary is that, right? To say yes, pack your bags and go to the East Coast.”

However, Gonzalez told

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Montes to not stray from her academics for too long. “She has to promise me that she is going to come back and graduate. It would be very heavy on my heart if she didn’t graduatwe, but she is very focused,” Gonzalez said.

Montes will be traveling around the country until June. Her work with Sanders’ campaign has taken her to Vermont, Burlington and Las Vegas thus far.

Montes hopes to graduate this May, then finish up her coursework during the summer, but it all depends on how the campaign will turn out, she said.

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Cynthia Montes brings a student and Latina voice to the Sanders campaign. She potentially delayed her graduation for the sake of working for the Vermont senator.

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The nation could greatly benefit, both technologically and financially, if the federal government makes a bigger commitment to space exploration. NASA, with the budget its already given, has made tremendous progress in establishing a human presence in space, but that pales in comparison to what could be accomplished if given more funding and resources.

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Space exploration needs more of an opportunity to grow ALAN BERNAL Daily Titan The National Aeronautics and Space Administration set a record for applicants earlier this month when more than 18,300 people requested candidacy for the organization’s astronaut program.

The previous applicant record was set in 1978, when 8,000 people tried their luck to be accepted into the historic program, according to NASA. Space exploration has

captivated people for many generations, yet in the United States, federal spending to facilitate research and development takes a back seat to most other programs.

Space exploration offers tremendous benefits, and the government needs to capitalize on the spike in interest by committing more resources to programs that can grow and advance the field.

The National Priorities Project (NPP), a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated nonpartisan and nonprofit research organization that helps make the federal budget and its spending easy to understand, reported that the federal budget for the 2015 fiscal year was $3.8 trillion.

Of that total, $1.11 trillion went into discretionary spending that includes budgets for the military, sciences, education, Medicare, health and more. From this discretionary budget, only $29.7 billion, or 2.67 percent, went into the sciences, which accounts for less than one percent of the entire spending plan.

Supplying the military with money should be considered a high priority. That same NPP report, however, also said that the military was given almost $600 billion, over half of the total amount allocated for discretionary spending and about 16 percent of the total federal spending.

That’s not to suggest

that the military should be the only sector to have its funding cut to supply space exploration, but the military’s budget does well to illustrate a huge imbalance of spending that could be spread more evenly to other areas.

More government spending allocated to programs like NASA would increase the possibility of a future with immense opportunities. Some of the more recent promising space projects include manned missions to Mars and asteroid mining.

As far-fetched as these endeavors may sound, they are not too far from the realm of possibilities.

In 2012, Planetary

Resources, a private company based in Washington state, estimated that mining asteroids could yield “tens of billions of dollars annually.” Chris Lewicki, president and CEO of Planetary Resources, says those kinds of missions are not expected to even begin until at least the mid-2020s, but the faster the U.S. can mine celestial rocks, the sooner it can reap the rewards.

The private sector has been progressing in terms of advancing technology to facilitate space initiatives. For example, a large problem with space exploration is that the vehicles leaving Earth are simply too expensive to make, and that problem is exacerbated if a rocket can

only be used once.

In December 2015, SpaceX was able to successfully launch, land, and reuse its Falcon 9 rocket, which cost around $60 million to make with $200,000 to refuel. The mission’s success potentially opened the door to cutting the cost of future rocket launches by 99 percent.

With technology to ease the financial burden of space exploration already in the making, huge financial opportunities with endeavors such as asteroid mining, and the latest increase of interest in the final frontier, the nation should look to space exploration not as a budgeting burden, but as an untapped natural resource.

Abortion laws fail the nation’s interests Legislation does not cater to the country’s majority view ZACK JOHNSTON Daily Titan The time for U.S. lawmakers to stop playing juvenile games with abortion legality is long overdue.

According to a 2015 Gallup survey, a majority of the people are in favor of at least some abortions being

legal. In the survey, 29 percent of the total 1,024 participants agreed abortions should be legal in any circumstance, 13 percent said in most circumstances and 36 percent think abortion should be legal only in a few circumstances.

Nineteen percent said abortion should never be legal, and 2 percent had no opinion.

With such a large portion of people surveyed expressing a pro-choice opinion in some way, shape or form, it

only makes sense for legislators to create laws that accurately reflect the attitudes of their constituents.

In some states, even when the law does allow for some abortions, the conditions can be far too narrow and stifling.

Several states have policies that impose unnecessary regulations on abortion clinics. States such as Indiana and Mississippi, regulate specificity of corridor width and the clinic’s proximity to, or relationship

with, a hospital.

These laws have contributed to about 70 clinics in 12 states closing as of 2010, according to PBS. Abortion legality is an issue that cannot be generalized, and there is no single form of conditional legality that will cater fairly to all women.

Trying to create a cookie-cutter set of rules for when any abortion is and isn’t legal is virtually impossible, and the attempts to make such a set of rules

have been futile.

In cases where a legal abortion is too difficult to obtain, some women resort to unsafe alternatives.

Furthermore, these findings only support the notion that whether to abort an unwanted pregnancy or not is a personal choice, the operative word being “choice.”

Even for the most God-fearing of conservatives, no matter how controversial it might be, going through with an unplanned pregnancy is still their choice.

Looking at the findings, it is fair to assert that Americans believe that it is not their place to decide what is best for all people, despite how they personally feel about the issue.

The morality of abortion as a general concept cannot possibly be determined.

A moral judgment can only be made on an individual basis, depending on one’s unique circumstances.

Many Americans believe this, and it’s time for lawmakers to open their eyes.

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Your life is running at a hectic pace these days, but you’re enjoying the challenge of keeping up with everything. Although the good times don’t suddenly stop, you’re beginning to realize that there’s some serious thinking in your near future.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20 - May 20)

Your world is about to open up, so think about your future while you still have time on your side.

Unfortunately, anxiety rears its head because of your uncertainty, especially if your hopes and dreams aren’t in sync with your current life circumstances.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23 - Sep. 22)

Creating ambitious goals now is essential to your future happiness.

However, rather than pushing ahead right away, you can benefit by taking time to look back on all you’ve accomplished since your last birthday.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19)

YYou don’t like feeling confused but no matter how you look at your life now, logic doesn’t explain your current feelings. Your day may be running out of control, even if you planned for every alternative contingency. There are unimaginable possibilites.

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GEMINI

(May 21 - Jul. 20)

You have a window of opportunity to redefine your place in the world. Thankfully, visualizing your way to success could produce positive results sooner than you expect.

LIBRA

(Sep. 23 - Oct. 22)

Although your creativity continues to shine, you don’t have to go out of your way to foster an artistic approach to your work. In fact, you’re better off now seeking ways to apply what you’ve already started.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18)

You might breathe a big sigh of relief today after the willful Sun leaves your sign and heads into the wide open seas of irrational Pisces. Unfortunately, you can’t tell where this new route will lead, no matter how many maps you read. Thankfully, the uncertainty will begin to dissipate once you’re happily on your way.

CANCER

(Jun. 21 - Jul. 22)

A much-needed emotional boost can change your outlook on life over the next four weeks. It’s not that you’re buzzing with excitement; it’s just that your confidence is high now that you’re back in your element.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23 - Nov. 21)

Your active imagination is a source of great inspiration now, directly connecting your heart and your head. Don’t worry if responsibilities are still weighing on your shoulders. Making time to express your inner joy will help to lighten your load.

PISCES

(Feb. 20 - Mar. 20)

The warmth of the Pisces Sun illuminates your imagination now as it swims through your intuitive sign. Your vivid fantasies are quite active, but you may have trouble expressing your visions to anyone else now. Cultivate your seeds of creativity now.

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SPORTS

PAGE 8 FEBRUARY 23, 2016 TUESDAY

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In the last matchup against the Rainbow Wahine, Jade Vega (center) scored six points off the bench in the 62-53 loss. The Titans took the lead 47-46 with six minutes left in the final quarter, but Hawaii made clutch free throws down the stretch to secure the win.

CSUF seeks vengeance against Hawaii Women’s basketball looks to avenge the prior nine-point loss BRANDON ROSS Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team seeks its second-consecutive win as it hosts the University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine in a Big West Conference matchup Thursday.

CSUF (3-24 overall, 1-12 Big West) is coming off a 66-53 road win against the UC Irvine Anteaters (422 overall, 1-11 Big West) this past weekend at the Bren Events Center. This marks Fullerton’s first victory since its Nov. 17 game against the Loyola Marymount University Lions.

The victory against UCI also snapped a historic 24game losing streak for the Titans.

In the game against the Anteaters, junior guard

Samantha Logan came up huge for Fullerton as she notched 15 points and ambitiously crashed the boards, nabbing 14 rebounds. The Titans outrebounded the Anteaters 48-35 and outscored UCI in the paint 40-22.

The last time CSUF and Hawaii (16-9 overall, 9-3 Big West) met was at the Stan Sheriff Center on Jan. 28.

The Rainbow Wahine came out victorious 62-53 over the Titans.

CSUF freshman Michelle

Berry led in scoring as she contributed 22 points and 16 rebounds for the Titans.

Hawaii senior guard Destiny King led the way for the Rainbow Wahine starters with 12 points, while junior guard Briana Harris put up 12 points off the bench in an all-around team effort.

The win against the Titans began Hawaii’s current six-game win streak, making the team a potential threat in the Big West

Conference Tournament.

The Rainbow Wahine’s most recent contest came in a 70-50 home victory against the UC Davis Aggies (15-11 overall, 8-5 Big West) on Feb. 18.

Berry goes into Thursday’s matchup against Hawaii leading the Titans in scoring, averaging 14.7 points per game. She also leads Head Coach Daron Park’s squad with 9.3 rebounds per game.

Hawaii is led by King’s 10.4 points and 6.2

rebounds per-game averages. Sophomore center Megan Huff is a key contributor for the Rainbow Wahine with her 9.2 points and 6.5 rebounds pergame averages. Huff also has 24 total blocks on the season.

Tipoff for Thursday’s game between Fullerton and Hawaii is scheduled for 7 p.m. The Big West rivals will square off for a national audience as the game is streamed live on ESPN3.

Titans look to build on current hot streak Women’s tennis has won six of its last seven matches AARON VALDEZ Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team is preparing to take on the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles in a nonconference matchup Wednesday afternoon.

The Titans have been on a tear during the 2016 season, achieving an overall record of 6-1. They are off to their best start since 1981.

The team has flourished with a formidable 27-15 singles record this season under third-year Head Coach Dianne Matias.

Fullerton’s only loss came during its first road trip of the year at the hands of the University of San Diego Toreros by a narrow 4-3.

The Titans managed to edge the UC Davis Aggies 4-3 in their most recent victory, getting their first win of Big West Conference play. This marked the first time since 1995 that CSUF won its conference opener.

During the outing against the Aggies, the two sides split the singles matches 3-3, but the Titans ultimately showed their resilience by sweeping UC Davis 3-0 in doubles.

Fullerton’s two-time, allBig West Conference First Team player, junior Alexis Valenzuela, owns a solid 5-2 record in singles play.

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In the matchup against UC Davis, CSUF’s Masako Makiba sealed a win with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Tiffany Pham.

Camille De Leon, is undefeated at 4-0 in doubles action.

Freshman Sarah Nuno also looks to continue her impressive play in Wednesday’s match, as she boasts a 5-2 record with a four-game win streak.

As of now, every Titan player in the order has a winning record.

The Competition The CSULA Golden Eagles, from the California Collegiate Athletic Association (Division II), go into the match with a respectable record of 3-2 after their most recent 8-1 blowout against the Cal State University Stanislaus Warriors.

The Golden Eagles have earned a 23-7 singles record, led by top players Kayleigh Hall and Nozomi Matsuoka, who have mustered records of 5-0 and 4-1, respectively. Wednesday’s matchup will be CSULA’s first Division I opponent of the season.

In Big West Conference standings, Fullerton (6-1 overall, 1-0 Big West) is second only to Hawaii (6-3 overall, 2-0 Big West), due to Hawaii having completed more matches.

The Titans will try to extend their four-game winning streak as they face off against CSULA on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Titan Tennis Courts.

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