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Titans bounce back with sweep of Indiana

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Theme weighs on 5 nights of sound, healing and light

EMILY DIECKMAN Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García announced the creation of the President’s Commission on Equity and Inclusion (PCEI) Feb. 4. in response to a campus-wide climate survey conducted among faculty members from March to April 11 in 2014.

The committee is designed to facilitate a university-wide conversation about diversity, equity and inclusion for all campus members.

The 76-question survey was given to faculty and staff members to determine their levels of comfort and inclusion on campus. It allowed for respondents to provide information about their personal experiences with regard to climate issues and work-life experiences, perceptions of campus climate and perceptions of institutional actions on campus.

A Campus Climate Evaluation Team was created in October 2014 to evaluate the results of the campus-wide climate survey.

“The PCEI taps into our aspiration to address the historical and social legacies of inequity that have impacted our state and nation.” García said in a campus-wide email.

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Sophomore infielder Tristan Hildebrandt (right) high-fives Coby Kauhaahaa in a win over the Indiana Hoosiers. Hildebrandt was one of three Titan players to hit a triple in this weekend’s home-opening series.

Offense lights up in first games at Goodwin Field RYAN WHITEHEAD Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton baseball team played its first series at home this weekend, sweeping the Indiana Hoosiers and improving its

overall record to 4-2.

Fullerton shined offensively, scoring 17 runs in the series, compared to the five runs scored in last weekend’s series against Stanford.

The series began Friday night with the Titan home opener, where five Fullerton players had a multi-hit game.

The team scored three runs in the third on two Hoosier errors and a Tristan Hildebrandt triple.

CSUF batted around in the

seventh, scoring four runs with the help of a home run by catcher Chris Hudgins.

The homer was Hudgins’ first in his Fullerton career.

With the 8-3 victory over the Hoosiers, junior pitcher Blake Quinn earned his first Titan win, allowing three runs on two hits through five innings.

Saturday’s game turned into a 14-inning, 3-2 series-clinching win for the Titans. Hudgins hit his second

home run of the season in the second with a towering solo shot.

Down 1-0 in the eighth inning, the Titans took advantage of two errors by the Hoosiers, as pinch runner Dakota Wix scored the tying run from second base. Wix also ended up forcing in the winning run, getting hit by a pitch from Hoosier reliever B.J. Sabol.

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CSUF playoff-eligible despite record Gauchos lasso Titans in twelfth conference loss BRANDON ROSS Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team dropped the ball against the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos 80-62 at Titan Gym on Saturday, but its loss holds no consequence for the team’s playoff chances.

Regardless of its last place standing, CSUF is still headed to the Big West playoffs.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Cal State University Northridge Matadors are ineligible for the 2016 Big West Conference tournament due to alleged academic fraud, resulting in Fullerton’s automatic eligibility for postseason basketball.

With the loss to the Gauchos, Fullerton (10-18

overall, 3-12 Big West) remains in last place in the Big West Conference. UCSB (15-12 overall, 9-5 Big West) resides in fourth place.

CSUF entered Saturday on the back of a dramatic 7877 win on the road against the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mustangs.

“I thought the San Luis Obispo win would kind of give us a little momentum coming into tonight,” said Head Coach Dedrique Taylor.

The beginning of the matchup against the Gauchos saw the Titans come out flat with an early 13-9 deficit with 15 minutes and 37 seconds to go in the half. Sophomore forward Jamar Akoh led an early charge for CSUF with four points in the first three minutes.

“We are disappointed in our effort tonight (Saturday),” Taylor said. “We didn’t execute very well once it got past the eight-minute mark in the first half.”

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Redshirt junior Tre’ Coggins (left) led Fullerton’s offense in its 80-62 loss to Santa Barbara on Saturday. Coggins scored a team-high 24 points, five more than any Gaucho player.

Dominique de Williencourt takes a seat center stage in Meng Concert Hall in the Clayes Performing Arts Center. Illuminated by the warm glow of the lights, he stares at his instrument. He takes his bow and touches it to the cello, playing the first notes of the 15th annual New Music Festival.

“Sound, Healing and Light: Ancient and Contemporary Practices” was a five-night event hosted by the College of the Arts that featured various musicians and singers. For this year’s theme, the School of Music invited composers who look at sound and its impact on the body, said festival director Pamela Madsen, Ph.D. The festival has trapped into the idea that music can be presented in sounds that are influential, educational. Madsen chose performances “designed to create an ambiance of sound and resonance,” she said to the audience.

“This year we focus, actually, on low sounds,” Madsen said. The instruments were played with a calm and simplified approach.

The opening night featured a variety of performers beginning and ending with cellist de Williencourt, accompanied by flutist Jean Ferrandis, for the night’s final performance.

Thursday night featured pianists Kathlene Supové and Eleonor Sandresky.

Sandresky said her etudes were meant to “create (a) building sound, pushing sound out into the hall, maximizing sound in different ways.”

The festival featured New York City music group Loadbang, in celebration of contemporary music.

Loadbang strives to spread the idea of unique type of music that includes the use of instruments such as the clarinet and trumpet, accompanied by baritone voice.

The group presented simple yet captivating pieces that embodied the festival’s theme of “sound, healing and light.”

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System for deciding delegate ties is broken

Women’s tennis stacks on another win

The Iowa and Nevada caucuses show the flaws of an antiquated system for deciding a split 5 delegate

Titans remain dominant in doubles play, capturing their sixth consecutive win against UC 8 Riverside

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Academic Senate talks textbooks Faculty members debate about new textbook policy KATE JOLGREN Daily Titan The Academic Senate discussed the creation of a new University Policy Statement regarding textbooks and undergraduate curriculum Thursday.

UPS 100.001 will allow faculty to select instructional materials, placing each department in control of the materials used, rather than having a centralized mandated course textbook.

The Academic Affairs Committee drafted the policy from the “ground up” as a response to issues stemming from associate mathematics professor Alain Bourget, Ph.D., allowing students to use a less-expensive math

textbook rather than the common textbook used by certain disciplines in the math department during fall 2015.

“A number of the faculty wanted a simple statement that says, ‘faculty alone has the right to choose the material,’” said John Patton, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and member of the Academic Affairs Committee. “This was kind of a balancing act of recognizing that there were concerns the departments have because of accreditation, prerequisites and other things.”

The draft does not mandate that departments must come up with a textbook policy. It only mandates that there must be a policy in place if the department makes the decision to not give individual faculty members the choice of their own particular textbook or course material, Patton said.

The course materials covered in the draft include any textbooks, additional readings

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or software needed to teach a particular course.

Some members of the Academic Senate were not pleased with the departments ability to choose a required text.

“From a teaching and learning standpoint, a policy like this assumes an incredible amount of homogeneity amongst students and teachers,” said Michele Barr, Ed.D., kinesiology professor. “It’s like trying to teach using somebody else’s Powerpoint.”

Merri Lynn Casem, Ph.D., professor of biology, said that certain biological sciences are electing to use a single textbook over the course of four years to alleviate student costs.

Reyes Fidalgo, Ph.D., Spanish professor, said that the policy is concerning to him if there is a department-wide policy regarding textbooks.

“What happens if you, as the instructor, do not find the text useful and you have other materials that work better?” asked Fidalgo.

As the first reading of the by-laws, the Academic Senate postponed its discussion regarding UPS 100.001 until its March 10 meeting.

Academic Senate Chair Emily Bonney, Ph.D., also welcomed Peter Nwoso, Ph.D., associate vice president for Academic Programs, and Alison Wrynn, director

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The new university policy regarding textbook use was discussed at the Academic Senate meeting Thursday

of undergraduate studies and general education, to discuss the Office of Academic Programs’ latest investigation of undergraduate curriculum planning.

Of the several advancements, the Office of Academic Programs is investigating the accuracy of course prerequisites and their accuracy to the course catalog, Course Management System and Academic Program files, and the possibility of post-enrollment drop, a policy that would alert faculty to students enrolled in their courses who did not successfully complete the prerequisites for the course.

This system would take effect in fall 2017 and would

allow teachers to contact students prior to the first day of classes rather than automatically dropping the student from the course.

The office is also re-evaluating enrollment possibilities in upper division courses typically taken in junior or senior standing. Reports found that several freshman and sophomores are currently enrolled in these courses, thus leading to impaction in classes, Wrynn said.

“This is something that we need to discuss working with the senate, working with the various departments, particularly those colleges and departments that are impacted quite heavily,” Wrynn said.

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In the Feb. 25 article “Alumna helps drama victims” the Daily Titan incorrectly stated that Melissa Hoon studied abroad in South Africa as an undergraduate student, that she conducted research for the womens organization WEAVE and that her therapy program has, “expanded outward from victims of human trafficking to victims of all kinds of abuse.” She studied in South Africa as a graduate student, she facilitated a workshop for WEAVE and her program has always included survivors of all types of abuse.

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DTBRIEFS KKK rally in Anaheim gets bloody A Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim turned violent Saturday, resulting in three injuries and 13 arrests, according to the Los Angeles Times.

A group of five men and one woman representing the KKK planned to rally at Pearson Park at 1:30 p.m. Dozens of counter protesters arrived at 11 a.m. and confronted the KKK members who arrived in an SUV an hour later.

Three people were stabbed, one of which by the end of a flagpole, according to a witness.

Anaheim police were not present at the start of the rally and parkgoers demanded to know why there wasn’t a larger police presence, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Trump and Clinton win primary Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came out victorious at the South Carolina primaries Saturday night.

Clinton and Trump won 73.5 percent and 32.5 percent of their respective parties’ votes, according to Politico.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s Democratic opponent, lost by a landslide, winning only 26 percent of the Democratic vote. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio trailed Trump with 22.5 percent of the Republican vote.

The next primaries will take place on “Super Tuesday,” March 1, where thirteen states and one territory will participate.

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70 killed in Baghdad attack Two suicide bombings killed 70 people in Sadr City, Baghdad, on Sunday, according to Reuters.

The bombers were seen riding into a crowded mobile phone marketplace on motorcycles before setting off bombs that injured over 100 people, police sources said.

(ISIS) released a statement online following the attacks, claiming responsibility and deriding Shiite Muslims. Sadr City is a Shi’ite district within the Iraqi capital.

The bombing is the deadliest attack within the Iraqi capital this year.

“Government forces must do a better job repelling attacks launched by (ISIS),” said Jasim al-Bahadli, a security analyst located in Baghdad.

- CLAYTON WONG

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PCEI: Faculty weigh in on CSUF climate CONTINUED FROM

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The survey was completed by 1,574 faculty and staff members, yielding a response rate of 37 percent.

The survey showed that 27 percent of faculty and staff had reported experiencing exclusionary conduct based on differences in position, gender identity, ethnic identity, racial identity and sexual identity.

Seven percent, or 104 of the respondents, reported that they experienced sexual harassment. 71 percent of those who responded, however said they were “comfortable” or “very comfortable” with the climate on campus.

Additional thoughts and written experiences about various issues within CSUF were provided by 375 of the respondents.

About 8 percent of the 375 respondents elaborated on the relationship between faculty and administration.

One respondent noted that, “There is a huge disconnect between the upper level administration and the faculty,” and another said “Either the leadership is so caught up in itself that it has no clue, or it cares only about the image or ‘face’ of CSUF — not the people,” according to the Campus Climate Project Final Report.

About 9 percent of the respondents focused on diversity.

One respondent stated that he or she wished “the University would stop focusing so much on diversity (because) reverse-discrimination is still discrimination.”

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A campus climate survey conducted in 2014 found most faculty and staff members were comfortable with the climate on campus, however some still experienced exclusionary conduct and sexual harrassment.

About 13 percent of 200 respondents who chose to offer feedback in response to the survey said they were thankful for the “opportunity for faculty and staff to express their opinions freely.”

Emily Bonney, Ph.D, a member of the committee that organized the survey, said the survey took almost a year to conduct and put together.

The evaluation team spent the following year creating a framework to foster a transparent and welcoming campus,

that emphasized equity, inclusion and civility, García said in a campus-wide email.

Mary Ann Villarreal, chair of the steering committee for the commission, said that the creation of the commission is linked to goal number three from the list of strategic planning goals developed in 2012: to recruit and retain diverse, high-quality faculty and staff.

As of right now, the committee has only had one meeting, and planning for the

commission is still in the earliest stages, Villarreal said.

“It’s becoming more concrete as the invitations go out to subcommittees, and we start setting dates around those meetings,” Villarreal said.

The committee will include student, faculty and administrative representation, as well as representation for campus affinity groups, said Victoria Morris, Ph.D, director of professional and organizational development

for the Office of Human Resources, Diversity and Inclusion and steering committee member.

“It’s just a matter of making sure we get everybody that has a stake,” Morris said.

“Our external stakeholders, our internal stakeholders, and making sure that everyone has a fair voice in the committee.”

Bonney, who serves as chair of the Academic Senate and member of the steering committee, said the

committee is working to educate itself on the best way to approach the new goals.

“I think what’s important about the president’s vision is that this is not a project that has a beginning and end,” she said. “It’s an open-ended and ongoing process so that whatever this commission puts together, we do so with the idea that we’re going to be always working at enhancing our diversity and the people’s sense of inclusion on the campus.”

Infidelity examined as a biological need

The study of human evolution sheds light on why people cheat SAVANNA CLEVENGER Daily Titan

The concept of cheating as a natural, animal instinct to find the best potential partner for offspring was the topic during Taboo Talks’ latest conversation about commitment Thursday.

Ingred Garcia, Taboo Talks coordinator, believes that there is some truth to the biological explanation to cheating, but using this as a justification for infidelity is unacceptable.

“Our situation has changed over the last hundred years, so I don’t think it’s an excuse to cheat,” Garcia said. “As we mature and get older, it’s something that we should have control over.”

Students debated whether emotional or physical cheating was more damaging to a

relationship during the talk.

The majority of students believed emotional cheating was the more harmful form of infidelity.

Ali Ulmen, Cal State Fullerton psychology major, said she understood why the majority of students thought this.

“You’re in the relationship because you love one another and are emotionally attached to each other,” Ulmen said. “So when that person is getting emotionally attached to another person, it’s like you’re starting up the beginning of a relationship with another person.”

A physical relationship can be physical and not involve any emotional attachment, Ulmen said.

Taboo Talks also tackled how some people may use tactics to keep their partners from cheating if they believe themselves to be the “less attractive” partner. This included showering partners with love and affection, or the opposite

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acting out with jealousy and constantly needing reassurance.

“I think that’s why there are some relationships where they (a partner) get very controlling,” Garcia explained.

She added that the knowledge of being the “less” or “more attractive” partner, as well as the tactics discussed, may be subconscious.

Garcia also presented studies that show women are more likely to cheat and get hit on while they are ovulating.

“I’ve seen the evidence behind it and there is a significant difference between when women are ovulating and when they’re not ovulating,” Garcia said.

She described a study in which a group of women were interviewed every day, not knowing their cycles were being tracked.

The study found that during ovulation, women tended to dress more provocatively. The study also showed that men

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Ingred Garcia (right), Taboo Talks coordinator, asked whether physical or emotional cheating was more damaging. The majority felt emotional cheating was worse.

tended to find women more attractive during ovulation.

“I think it’s absolutely natural to be attracted to

other people,” Bri Moya, CSUF art major, said about whether or not cheating is ultimately “natural.”

“You can’t help it. Guy

or girl, you have attraction,” Moya said.

Taboo Talks’ next meeting will be Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m., in the WoMen’s Center.

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Local rock bands jam at Feedback Festival The rock ‘n’ roll scene is making a comeback in OC VERONICA MARQUEZ-ESHELBY Daily Titan Orange County’s rock ‘n’ roll fans descended on the Wayfarer in Costa Mesa to attend a festival featuring up-and-coming bands Saturday evening.

The event showcased four local bands: Well Hung Heart, Them Evils, Thundergut and Joyous Wolf, as well as Kill Mama, who are based in Florida.

Audience members enjoyed draft beers and appetizers, as well as the modern ambiance of the newly remodeled Wayfarer bar.

The Wayfarer, formerly known as the Detroit Bar, seeks to continue the tradition of giving fresh bands from Southern California a space to perform and gain notoriety.

The Detroit Bar hosted rising musical talents such as Stereolab and Modest Mouse over the years.

The new bar opened last July and has already become a thriving hang-out spot for OC music lovers.

The bands that performed Saturday primarily played rock ‘n’ roll with their own unique styles.

The sold-out event also featured a mobile tattoo studio right outside the concert venue.

Listeners of all ages packed the intimate venue, eager to support the newer bands.

“It’s as if there’s a new budding rock ‘n’ roll world

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The Wayfarer in Costa Mesa hosts 2016 Feedback Festival, carrying on the musical legacy left behind by the former dive bar Detriot Bar.

out here, and it’s dead everywhere else, but Orange County seems like where rock ‘n’ roll lives right now,” said Jake Davies, guitarist for Of Limbo, who was not scheduled to perform but showed up to support the other bands.

Other musicians shared the sentiment that the rock genre faces significant challenges in Southern California, where electronic music has reigned supreme at live events for the past decade.

However, they praised the amount of support they felt radiating from OC locals who attended their performances.

“People go crazy for it out here,” Davies said.

“Whereas if you go to Hollywood to see these shows, it’s a bunch of aging people or a bunch of tourists.”

Nick Reese, singer of Joyous Wolf explains characteristics that embody rock ‘n’ roll “This kind of music is dirty, loud, angry … It’s not soft, caressive indie pop. It’s not Katy Perry; it’s not Young the Giant,” he said.

He said that there are a lot of people who love rock ‘n’ roll but have nowhere

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to go. “If you build it, they will come,” Reese said.

Joyous Wolf, which has only been together for about 15 months, released its first album last September and has since garnered attention and praise from fans.

The band plans to perform with other acts in order to make the local rock ‘n’ roll scene more vibrant.

“We’re going to be playing mostly all of our shows together because when we all work together as a team, our shows are going to be cataclysmic,” Reese said.

“We make a lot more noise when all of us are there to do it.”

Luke Davies, also a member of Of Limbo and a spectator at the festival, shared Reese’s optimism.

“There is a movement of rock ‘n’ roll, of real, classic, passionate, authentic rock ‘n’ roll coming back … and it’s a performance, something to be witnessed (live).”

The same bands plan to play again at Slidebar in downtown Fullerton on April 1. The bands expect an equally successful turnout at that event.

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“We are also looking at the idea of resonance in sound,” Madsen said. With the baritone voice alongside the instruments, the pieces captured the idea of impacting the audience with its simplistic nature.

Scott Worthington is a composer whose works were performed by Loadbang Friday night.

“I was interested in very spaced out, super-calm music,” Worthington said.

The performance explored the idea that music does not have to be loud to have an effect on an audience.

Berkeley Rousseau, a student in Madsen’s composition class, attended the performance and was a tenor in the CSUF New Music Ensemble that

performed on the opening night.

He said that Loadbang used new techniques that left his “mind blown.”

Loadbang returned Saturday night along with the CSUF Collegium Musicum, graduate student conductor Chase Chandler and pianists Supove and Sandresky, to bring life to Madsen’s composition.

Saturday night featured a performance of “Luminous Etudes: Visions of the Black Madonna of Montserrat,” a piece inspired

by Madsen’s time spent abroad as a guest composer in Montserrat in the mountains of Barcelona, Spain.

The CSUF Collegium Musicum filled two rows in the center rear of the auditorium, while the two pianists took the stage for the first book.

Donald Kinda, CSUF alumna, has been to the New Music Festival in years past and said the staging of the performers was a refreshing alternative to the conventional use of the stage alone.

The music was accompanied by photos and videos of the blood moon.

Rousseau enjoyed hearing his professors work and seeing the influence of Montserrat where he has also traveled.

“Working with her (Madsen) one on one, and then being able to hear a lot of the stuff she tells me in my lessons and hear them on stage was interesting,” Rousseau said.

The festival wrapped up with a Sunday performance by the University Symphony Orchestra in the Meng Concert Hall.

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OPINION Ties are breaking democratic process PAGE 5 MONDAY FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Elections have ended with delegates being forfeited by chance KATE JOLGREN Daily Titan

In the history of democracy stretching back to Athenian times, an election’s tie may be broken by “drawing lots,” which can include drawing the highest card, pulling the shortest straw or flipping a coin.

Luck, at times, plays a factor in the run up to a presidential election, yet

the continued use of antiquated techniques like “drawing lots” should have died out by now, especially since it’s affecting the election of the next president of the United States.

For the next batch of presidential hopefuls, a crucial delegate decision may come down to something like a coin toss.

Republican primaries can allocate delegates in one of two ways. However, Democrats yield to a single method of determining the winner of a district.

The Democratic Party uses the proportional method, which awards delegates

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in proportion to the support they received in the state caucuses or primary elections.

Over the course of the four earliest state primaries — Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina — both Iowa and Nevada relied on antiquated tiebreakers to determine who would receive the majority of delegates in the state for their Democratic primaries.

This came into play when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders faced off in Iowa. Each received enough support

to tie the candidates and thus received nearly equal shares of the delegates.

However, nearly a dozen tiebreakers were determined by a coin flip, with Clinton snagging six wins.

Those split delegates typically wouldn’t have much of an impact, but with the Sanders campaign quickly closing in on Clinton, there can’t be any room for chance to influence the outcome for either candidate.

In order for the split delegates to matter, there would have to be two candidates with very close delegate totals, said Matthew Jarvis,

associate professor of political science at Cal State Fullerton.

There are 2,472 delegates at stake for GOP candidates and nearly double that for delegates of the Democratic Party, with 4,763 delegates up for grabs. While it may seem that such tiebreaker delegates would have more influence on the Republican side with fewer delegates to win over, there was initially a larger spread of candidates to support.

As Super Tuesday approaches on March 1, more states will vote in primaries, deciding “10 times more pledged delegates on one day than were selected in the four

early states so far in this campaign,” Sanders said. American Samoa and 11 states are holding primaries and caucuses, more delegates will be at stake than ever before in this election season: 865 for Democrats and 595 for Republicans.

With this many primaries and caucuses happening on the same day, there is potential need of another outdated tiebreaker to determine delegate allotment.

As the tiebreaking system for many districts is wholly inappropriate for modern times, there should be an updated method to deciding delegates.

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SPORTS Fullerton cools off in Palm Springs PAGE 6 FEBRUARY 29, 2016 MONDAY

Softball ends Mary Nutter Classic winning just one of five games HAYLEY M. SLYE Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton’s softball team had its first subpar tournament performance of the season during its weekend outing at the Mary Nutter Classic in Palm Springs.

The Titans lost four of five games, leaving their overall record at 9-6. The games were highly competitive, however, as three of them were decided by a margin of one run.

The tournament began Thursday in contests with the University of Utah Utes and the University of Georgia Bulldogs. During the first game, the Titans could not recover from a Utes’ offense that rallied four runs in the fourth and was assisted by two Fullerton errors.

The Titans went from losing 7-2 in that game to taking a hard-fought 7-6 loss in the following game to the then-undefeated Bulldogs. In the final three innings against the Bulldogs, Georgia pitcher Brittany Gray kept the Titans scoreless, allowing only one hit and recording seven strikeouts.

The bright spot of the Classic for the Titans was a 4-2 win against the Oklahoma State University Cowgirls on Friday night.

Senior left-handed pitcher Desiree Ybarra pitched

a complete game for Fullerton and gave up only six hits and two earned runs.

Behind Ybarra’s solid pitching and overall team defense, the Titans stunted the Cowgirls’ offense and managed to get out of a seventh-inning, bases-loaded jam.

The last day of the tournament did not go so well. The Titans dropped the first game 7-6 to the Brigham Young University Cougars, despite a seventh-inning rally that cut the BYU lead to one run.

The contest was the only one this season in which CSUF got 12 or more hits and lost. Freshman righty Sydney Golden picked up her first loss of the season in the game, making her 5-1 overall.

Ybarra was the star again in the 5-4 loss to the New Mexico State University Aggies on Saturday night. Ybarra pitched a complete game, struck out nine and almost single-handedly represented the Titan offense by going two for three with two runs batted in and a home run.

Overall, the Titan offensive front continues to be led by senior outfielder Courtney Rodriguez, who is hitting .380 in 50 atbats. Senior infielder Missy Taukeiaho follows, posting a .367 average in 49 at bats.

Junior catcher Alexis Gonzalez has also been impressive at the plate, batting an excellent .414 on the season leading the team in home runs.

Moore has also been an

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Senior outfielder Courtney Rodriguez recorded two hits in three at-bats with a run of her own in the Titans’ 4-2 win over Oklahoma State on Friday night. The victory marked Fullerton’s only win of the tournament.

offensive force, leading the team in runs batted in with 12.

Ybarra leads the team in strikeouts with 29, thanks in part to her performance at the Mary Nutter Classic.

She’s followed by senior reliever Jasmine Antunez, who has 18 in only 14.2 innings pitched.

Fullerton returns to Anderson Family Field in the Judi Garman Classic

this week. The tournament begins Thursday with matchups against Arizona State University and San Jose State University at 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively.

The Classic continues into the weekend with contests against University of Wisconsin, Northwestern University, University of North Carolina and Florida State University.

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Kennedy Esume (left) came off the bench to score four points and grab four rebounds in the contest against the UCSB Gauchos.

Regardless of the loss, CSUF is still in contention for the Big West Tournament championship.

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UCSB made its first major move of the game by pulling away with a 17-0 run, resulting in a 24-9 lead.

Redshirt junior guard Tre’ Coggins’ 3-point jumper kept the Titans in the game with just over eight minutes to go in the half.

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Santa Barbara entered halftime with a 41-30 lead.

Coggins led the Titans in first half scoring with 10 points, and junior guard Lionheart Leslie came off the bench to contribute with five points and three rebounds.

UCSB outshot the Titans 60 percent to 40 percent by the end of the half. The Gauchos passed the basketball well, recording 10 assists compared to only

three for CSUF. Santa Barbara came out firing to start the second half, resulting in an 18-point, 50-32 lead over the Titans with under 17 minutes to go in the half.

Gauchos senior guard John Green helped give the Gauchos their largest lead of the game with a 31-point lead over Fullerton.

UCSB won the game by 18 points. Coggins led the Titans in scoring with 24 points. As a team, the Titans struggled

shooting, making 37.3 percent (22-59) of their shots, compared to an impressive 55 percent (33-60) for the Gauchos.

The Titans are set to duke out the final regular season game of the season against Big West archrival the Long Beach State 49ers at Titan Gym on Wednesday. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.

“I think you have to acknowledge the rivalry. The energy in the building will be completely different,” Taylor said.

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Masako Makiba won her fourth straight in the shutout against UC Riverside, the Titans continued their historic (8-1 overall, 2-0 Big West) start to the season. Fullerton has won in doubles play in eight out of nine of its contests. The only loss came against the University of San Diego Toreros.

Fullerton sweeps Highlanders off court Women’s tennis defeated UC Riverside 7-0 AARON VALDEZ Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team continued its trend of lighting up the competition as it dismantled the UC Riverside

Highlanders 7-0 over the weekend.

The Titans went into their second conference match Saturday coming off a solid 6-1 nonconference win last Wednesday against the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles.

In doubles action against UC Riverside, CSUF junior partners Alexis Valenzuela and Camille De Leon handily defeated the Highlander

duo of Karlay Dulay and Tamila Vaksman for their sixth win on the season, improving to 6-0. The Titans would go on to earn the doubles point as partners freshman Sarah Nuno and sophomore Danielle Pham took down their opponents by a score of 6-1.

This marked the eighth time this year that Fullerton has sealed the doubles point against its opponents.

The only time the Titans have squandered the point was during their only loss of the year against the University of San Diego Toreros.

The Titans swept the Highlanders in singles play as No. 1 spot Valenzuela and No. 5 spot freshman Masako Makiba had the best performances of the afternoon, trouncing their opponents by set scores

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Freshman righty Colton Eastman took the mound in hopes of carrying over his solid performance against Stanford into Sunday’s game, a 6-1 win. Eastman pitched 6.2 innings and only gave up six hits, including a home run in the top of the third inning.

“Coming out starting as a freshman is a big deal,

and to start at home is an even bigger deal,” Eastman said.

On the offensive side, infielder Coby Kauhaahaa had quite a day as he batted .500 with two hits and three runs scored. Infielder Josh Vargas also contributed two runs with an RBI triple in the third inning.

Scott Hurst also contributed a triple in the bottom of the seventh to tally the

third Titan triple in the series.

Wix came up big for the Titans again in the fifth inning with a two-run double. Fullerton sealed the deal in the sixth inning as second baseman Tristan Hildebrandt hit an RBI single on which two more Titans came around to score.

Hildebrandt and Vargas are leading the Fullerton

offense thus far this season, hitting .300 and .304, respectively.

The Titans will head on the road on March 8 to play against the University of Arizona Wildcats and the Texas Tech Red Raiders before returning to Goodwin Field for a nine-game homestand against Arizona State, Wichita State, San Diego State and Maryland.

of 6-3, 6-1 and 6-0, 6-0, respectively.

Valenzuela improved her solo record to 7-2 on the season while Makiba, who is the current Big West Athlete of the week, extended her winning streak to three matches.

As a team, the Titans (8-1 overall, 2-0 Big West) are currently riding a six-game winning run, which contributes to their winningest

start in program history. The Highlanders, on the other hand, have had a lackluster start to their 2016 campaign, compiling a 3-6 overall record and a 0-3 conference record.

The Titans will look to sustain their winning ways as they host the University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine (2-0 overall) on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Titan Tennis Courts.

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