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Latino Titans’ offense erupts for 33 runs reporters’ struggle CSUF softball hit nine home runs during the Judi Garman Classic. ARNULFO GONZALEZ Daily Titan

Journalists elaborate on investigating drug trafficking and murder. HOSAM ELATTAR MEGAN GARCIA Daily Titan

The smiles and laughter from Latino journalists did not mirror the struggles they have faced leading up to the InquireFirst conference hosted by the Latino Communications Institute at Cal State Fullerton and the Latino Journalists Club. The past week served as the first instance InquireFirst and CSUF collaborated to host the annual conference (previously held at Stanford University), which trains Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. journalists who report for Spanish-language media. “Our objective at InquireFirst is to provide training for Latin American journalists in areas like investigative journalism, journalist safety, digital storytelling, science health and environmental coverage. It’s really important to support our colleagues in Latin America,” said Lynne Walker, the president and executive director at InquireFirst. SEE RISK

Cal State Fullerton softball won three of their four games during the Judi Garman Classic to improve their home record to 8-2. The Titans outscored opponents 33-8 during the tournament. The Titans defeated the No. 20 Oregon Ducks, 3-2, Thursday afternoon in the inaugural game of the 2019 Judi Garman Classic. The Ducks, along with 12 other softball teams, travelled to Fullerton where the Titans hosted the annual weekend softball classic named after Judi Garman, former Fullerton head coach and NCAA National Champion. Sophomore right-hander, Taylor Dockins, got the start in the circle for the Titans, making it her sixth game start of the season and 18th career start. Dockins spent the first three innings keeping the Titans out of trouble, giving up two hits and a walk without allowing any runs. Dockins was replaced by freshman Sophie Frost, who allowed Oregon to score two runs. With the bases loaded at the top of the fourth for the Ducks, CSUF head coach Kelly Ford

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Cal State Fullerton softball win three of the four games during the Judi Garman Classic.

opted for pitcher Dani Martinez to pull the Titans out of a jam. With her back against the wall, Martinez mustered up a strikeout and had defensive help from her teammates to take care of the other two outs in the

fourth inning. As the game wound down, a pitching battle ensued between Martinez and Oregon pitcher Jordan Dail, as both sent backto-back scoreless innings into the game’s final frame.

A run would give the Titans a much-needed win after taking losses against the University of California and the University of Oklahoma. SEE SCORES

Grand Central Art Center celebration

The Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana celebrated its 20th anniversary and CSUF partnership with 20 cakes, art, music and live performances.

A night was dedicated to feature CSUF’s hidden art gallery in Santa Ana. NATHAN NGUYEN Daily Titan

Cakes, ceramics, art creations and the sound of a buzzsaw could be heard from the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana on Saturday night. The center, which partners with Cal State Fullerton, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a special event reception

that included live performances, interactive demonstrations and a plethora of creative art presentations. Despite a downpour of rain Saturday night, over 2,000 people walked through the gallery’s doors to peruse and photograph the art, said John Spiak, the director and chief curator. News of the event was featured on the CSUF website leading up to the event. “We have been pulling our teeth to get the word out to Cal State Fullerton,” Spiak said. Every hour, the first 20 guests

who entered the center received a free, limited-edition copy of artist-in-residence David Greenberger’s project, “It Happened to Me.” Greenberger created the 60song LP after speaking with the elderly population in Santa Ana and recording their conversations to compose a piece that captured their cultural identity. Next to the entrance, a short film titled, “Layers of the City” by Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, played on repeat in a dark, intimate room.

The project’s purpose was to portray the “spaces in Santa Ana, both inhabited and boarded up,” according to the exhibit’s title description. An interactive performance called “None of This is Real,” by Lucas Murgida allowed guests to break in and out of a room. As a professional locksmith, Murgida showed the secrets to lockpicking as he assisted participants breaking through an enclosed room with a buzzsaw. Next to the escape room, an animated video by Jennifer

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Levonian titled, “Lost Islands of Philadelphia,” showed the story of a girl who seeks to recapture the thrill of a fictional world she reads about in a book. It touched on themes including obsolescence and transience, the animations portray a dystopian world where death and destruction run rampant. The main gallery displayed work by Yevgeniya Mikhailik, an artist, educator and curator based in Orange County. SEE CREATE 4 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

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Risk: Event addresses media’s fight for freedom CONTINUED FROM 1 With different experiences in different countries and territories, the narratives from storytellers reflect the context-specific issues they were voicing. The detailed stories of drug trafficking and murder in small towns rippled through a conference room in the Titan Student Union. Inez Gonzalez, the CSUF Latino Communications Institute director, and InquireFirst’s Vice President Walt Baranger, who also is the advisor of Daily Titan, helped bring 12 journalists from Bolivia, Mexico, Panama and Paraguay to attend nine workshops over five days that covered the basis of fact-checking, cyber security and multimedia journalism. “A journalist from Mexico was saying ‘Well, you know there’s limitations of what we can do for fact-checking because you get killed if you get caught fact-checking a certain issue.’ I got chills just hearing that because it is a very dangerous career in some countries so these are the people that are risking their lives,” Gonzalez said. Among the keynote speakers was Ginger Thompson, an investigative reporter for ProPublica, who touched on her own yearlong experience investigating the 2011 massacre in Allende, Mexico fives year after it occured. In a ProPublica article, Thompson wrote about the drug operation sparked by the U.S., which led the Zetas cartel to flood the city within days to kidnap and/or murder men, women and children as they demolished the town. The attack was after the Drug Enforcement Agency interrogated a member of the cartel for information on two kingpins — intel the DEA later shared with the Mexican government. Soon after, the Zetas targeted anyone connected to the informants, according to Thompson’s article in ProPublica. While ProPublica was the only media outlet to publish detailed coverage on the massacre, they were not alone in the town. The New York Times made its presence known in Allende with a caravan of armed guards to protect their reporters. “I think for me, the moral of the story is when it’s necessary to go in heavy with armed guards, you should know that. There are war zones and times where it’s necessary,” Thompson said. Thompson said there are instances, like five years after the 2011 massacre in Allende, where the armed guards were not necessary and made reporting on the issue more challenging. “This town, covering this story, this way — I think armed guards made it hard. It

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Ginger Thompson, investigative reporter at ProPublica discusses reporting in hostile environments.

put up a barrier between the reporters and the people they were trying to write about,” Thompson said. Thompson’s workshop advised reporters on how to navigate the tricky waters of investigative reporting in high-risk situations. Enrique Dávalos, a Paraguayan news anchor and radio host, said he has experienced these situations firsthand. Dávalos’ team of reporters investigated someone who was impersonating a doctor and the impersonator went to prison. “Honestly, we had some fear at the time of publishing those materials or even after the fact with the consequences that can come with it. By luck, we still haven’t faced anything,” Dávalos said. The reporters worked, motivated by the belief that powerful politicians should be imprisoned if they’re not providing basic needs to the people of the country. Dávalos said Paraguay has enjoyed almost 30 years of democracy with the only real risk for reporters being in border cities and areas run by drug traffickers, where journalists are still being killed. “There are border cases where the risk is bigger for journalists stationed in those zones that they need private security because public security can’t be trusted. My work, is lucky enough to not run those risks,” Dávalos said. The fear of reporting in drug-trafficking countries without protection is warranted

among journalists, especially with the danger going unresolved. During his six-year presidential term that ended in 2018, about 60 journalists were killed under former Mexican President Enrique Peña-Nieto’s leadership. “It’s a devastating record and I think it speaks volumes to the kind of president he was and to the kind of relationship that his government had with the press. Almost none of those assassinations were resolved. A lot of journalists died and no one was held responsible for it and I think that’s his record. He should have to answer to that,” Thompson said. Drawing some similarities to Mexico, where the press was funded and controlled by the government, Paraguay has overcome that control by moving toward freedom with the media in the past three decades, Dávalos said. It was not until 1989 that freedom of the press resumed in Paraguay, after a coup removed dictator Alfredo Stroessner and newspapers were allowed to reopen their doors since they were closed by the regime. Stroessner had a reputation of having journalists jailed, tortured and beaten during his 35-year reign, according to the Los Angeles Times. The region itself has a history of media censorship, with journalists being targeted by dictators like Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Manuel Noriega

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in Panama, Augusto Pinochet in Chile and more recently with Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. The conference took place the same week Univision reporter Jorge Ramos and his team were detained by Maduro at the presidential palace in Caracas after an interview. Ramos told The Washington Post that Maduro ended the interview after Ramos questioned him on the lack of democracy in the nation and showed him a video of young men looking for food in the back of a garbage truck. Ramos said his work was confiscated by Maduro in an attempt to censor the media. Mariana Mondragón Rodriguez, a general director of NotiGape Radio in Mexico, said what happened to Ramos did not surprise her. “I think that occurs a lot in certain countries in Latin America; the intent to deprive a journalist from publishing something that won’t be convenient to them,” Mondragón said. She said journalism is one of the most important jobs in the world. “I think without journalism, people won’t have access to real information. They’ll have information because it exists on social media, and everything else that deals with social media platforms, but they won’t have investigative journalism,” Mondragón said. She said that it is hard to conduct investigative journalism in Latin America with comparison to U.S. media outlets, and that American journalists in high-risk situations can go to someone with security, unlike in Mexico. “In Mexico, if a journalist is in a high-risk situation in terms of their profession, they can’t run to the police because they don’t know if the police are personally involved in that situation,” Mondragón said. With a lack of security and high risk of death, investigative reporting comes at a price for the Latino journalists who attended the InquireFirst conference, along with their colleagues in native countries. Marlene Del Carmen Testa, an investigative reporter for La Estrella de Panamá, emphasized that her family priorities outweigh the instability and low-salary of being a reporter. “I would die to be a journalist, I love my profession. But I also have three children in university. One goes to a private university, I also have a granddaughter who I love and I also have another child who needs to succeed,” Del Carmen Testa said. “I’m already thinking that in three years I’ll have to go to a different country to be a journalist because I also have to achieve my dreams.”

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Reporter teaches Unpopular technology that SPJ club about has failed since the 1990s current media jobs Notable mentions include Google Glass, Mobile ESPN and Galaxy Note 7. BAYLEE MAUST Staff Writer

New and advancing technology can be difficult, but these are a few technological fails that did not last very long on the market.

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The Washington Post audience editor discusses his career with students. ADAM MALDONADO Daily Titan

In a meeting space at their offices in Washington, D.C., Gene Park, The Washington Post’s audience editor, met with Cal State Fullerton’s chapter for Society of Professional Journalists through webcam to discuss his career path towards working as a digital journalist. Park uses a primarily online platform, mainly Reddit, to release content and directly engage with audience members of the Post. He began his career in his home island of Guam, where he interned for the local paper as a reporter during his years in high school. “I would always look at the floor like the Earth would fall away from me, never talking to anybody, but there I was getting paid to talk to people which was amazing,” Park said. “It helped me with my own personal development. I enjoyed what it did for me back then and I just really wanted to roll with.” Park graduated from CSUF in 2003. He recalls walking into the Daily Titan newsroom for the first time as a freshman looking to write a couple stories for the paper. By the conclusion of his college career, Park had been an editor for the Daily Titan and achieved internships at the Orange County Register as well as the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. After college, he returned home to report in Guam, he said. Park said he found his niche in the reporting industry while working for Civil Beat, a Hawaiian non-profit investigative news organization, and began experimenting with social media. He decided to digitally focus his content. His material soon circumnavigated the internet through digital outlets such as Facebook and Twitter, allowing his stories to reach a wider audience. His interest in the internet originated in high school where he interacted in chat rooms, online group message forums, and email forums. His tech-savviness has since evolved and adapted with the new mediums that have emerged over the past decade. He credits his achievements in his career due VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

to his social media influence, he said. “What differentiated me from my others peers is that I put myself out there all the time. I was always tweeting. I was always putting things on Facebook. I was always producing content,” Park said. “Truth be told, I was not the best reporter. I couldn’t find a job anywhere so I thought how I could differentiate myself more.” After conducting 17 job interviews, 15 of them in a row, Park was hired by The Washington Post. He said his time spent with The Washington Post has led him to become the the voice of the newspaper on Reddit. Park said his feed is filled with daily stories on the latest pop culture news, and he can also be seen consistently interacting with other Reddit users comments, often explaining how the news organization gathered their sources. “It’s such a bizarre track for a reporter to want to be something else because you want that byline, but I wanted to do something different,” Park said. One issue Park emphasizes through his reporting is transparency. He said in an era of “fake news,” it is not a surprise to see people questioning the accuracy of news organizations. What the Post’s audience is reading is both accurate and clear, even if they make mistakes, Park said. “As for The Washington Post, we get a lot of hate and what I would do is contact them directly. I understand as The Washington Post and as a journalism organization, I know that the correction won’t spread as much as far fake story and that’s why it behooves us to make sure we get it right,” Park said. Combating the negative stigmas, Park said there many misconceptions about journalism that the public have. For example, 60 percent of Americans believe that journalists pay their sources to get information, according to a poll conducted by Reuters. Park said he uses his platform to build a sense of trust between The Washington Post and readers, and to combat those misconceptions. “There is so much people don’t understand about our business,” Park said. “Social Media gives us that opportunity to let people know how we do our work.”

Google Glass: On April 4, 2012, Google revealed its first pair of Google Glasses. This new line of technology was named “Project Glass” and aimed to help users “explore and share your world,” according to its mission statement. With the Google Glass, a variety of tasks could be performed in front of a person’s face. Navigation, taking photos, along with making voice and video calls were some of the functions one could access by wearing Google Glass. With its release came many questions and concerns. Many people who were interested in the products were concerned about its compatibility with prescription glasses. People were also concerned about the safety of Google Glass wearers while driving or walking around in public. Some even questioned the health risk involved with having a Wi-Fi signal so close to their heads. With too many negative responses rather than positives, Google Glass discontinued the glasses product after Jan 19, 2015. The Galaxy Note 7: The Samsung Galaxy Note 7

is another product that quickly turned into a flop. The new Android phone was released on Aug. 2, 2016. Some of the phone’s new features included a dual-curved display, an iris scanner and the ability to burst into flames. Samsung said the cause of the sudden fires stemmed from the battery inside the phone. If the battery charged too fast, the lithium plates generated heat and created a short circuit, according to BBC News. A Note 7 phone even began smoking on a Southwest flight just before take-off on Oct. 5, 2016, according to USA Today. This was after Samsung had completed tests on the phones and designated them as being “safe”. After the incident, Samsung halted further production of Galaxy Note 7 phones as of October 2016. The existing phones were given a special update that connected all outgoing calls to Samsung’s customer support in an attempt to get users to return the faulty phones. Mobile ESPN: One year before the release of the iPhone, ESPN launched Mobile ESPN: a flip phone designed for sports news content. Mobile ESPN was a black and red flip phone that gave its users special access to score updates, browse ESPN and perform tasks a regular phone could complete. The product became a flop because the platform was inconvenient for users. The Mobile ESPN phone cost around $300, with additional payments ranging from $65 to $225 per month for sports content, according to VICE Sports.

The phone service had only one carrier option which was Sprint. If potential buyers had another service provider, they would have to switch to an entirely new company. Steve Jobs even told the President of ESPN that the phone was the dumbest idea he had heard of, only to release the iPhone about a year later. Mobile ESPN sales were nearly zero a few months after its launch, and were eventually sold at only a fifth of the list price. By the end of 2006, not even a full year after its release, Mobile ESPN service was discontinued. Nintendo Virtual Boy: Similar to how Mobile ESPN could have led to the future iPhone, Nintendo’s Virtual Boy was a first glimpse at virtual reality. Nintendo released the product on Aug. 21, 1995, and sold around 770,000 consoles during its short life span. Virtual Boy was unsuccessful for a number of reasons, one of them being poor marketing. The Virtual Boy was advertised as being a portable gaming console, but the bulky hard-plastic tripod structure did not make it suitable for travel, according to the Old School Game Vault. Another problem many people had with the console were the health concerns. People began to complain about their back hurting during use. The Virtual Boy box was even equipped with several warnings, including eye problems, headaches or seizures. Due to its unpopularity, Virtual Boy was discontinued in the United States on March 2, 1996.

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Create: Growth through conflict CONTINUED FROM 1 “The show is basically a parallel between looking at landscape, how landscape develops and also how humans develop on a much smaller scale,” Mikhailik said. Inspiration behind the work titled, “A Slow Conflict,” stemmed from a million different things but focused on environmental issues, climate change and the healing process. Mikahilik’s pieces “aim to evoke empathy toward the evolving natural environment in the same way we empathize with each other,” according to the exhibit’s title description. She emphasized the converting forces that come out of conflict. “You can kind of trace the

parallel to how we experience conflict and kind of how we grow out of conflict as well,” Mikhailik said. The Grand Central Art Center focuses on community engagement and the creation of projects through the artist’s perspective. “We are a part of Cal State Fullerton and not everybody knows about it,” said associate director Tracey Gayer. The Grand Central Art Center hosts opening receptions every first Saturday of the month at 125 N. Broadway St. in Santa Ana. “We’re still trying to figure it out, how we get to the students ‘cause we would love students to enter all the time,” Spiak said.

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Locksmith Lucas Murgida (right) shows participants how to break through a door with special tools.

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A watercolor titled ‘Alice’s Toys’ in the underground gallery.

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The main gallery featured a show by Yevgeniya Mikhailik titled, ‘A Slow Conflict.’

Food, prizes and rides at the ASI Carnival

Games, a juggler, a mime and a caricature artist charmed guests. CHRISTIAN AGUILAR Daily Titan

Crispy fries topped with shredded cheddar cheese, warm black beans and chili, sprinkled green onions and fluffy sour cream were menu items that students and faculty enjoyed during the second annual ASI Carnival. The Titan Task Force hosted the carnival event on March 1 at the student parking lot located near the Student Recreation Center. Associated Student members handed out vouchers to receive free food or desserts at participating food trucks: Chef Joe Youkhan’s Tasting Spoon, Spudrunners and Bakerytruck. The selection of food at Chef Joe Youkhan’s Tasting Spoon and Spudrunners’ ranged from teriyaki chicken rice bowls and barbecue pork sandwiches, to mac ‘n’ cheese filled bacon burgers and chili cheese fries. For those who wanted to satisfy their sweet tooth, brain freezes were at one’s fingertips with ice cream puffs and orange floats at the Bakerytruck. “I think it’s really cool. I think they put a lot of different themes, so like I really love all the games we’ve been doing the whole time and then the free food was a complete surprise with the free shirt. That was really cool. That got us pumped up,” said Angelica San Martin, a sociology major. A gray long sleeve, a stainless VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

steel water bottle, a dark purple fanny pack and a rally towel were the potential prizes eligible winners could win, on top of the chance to win a $100 Titan Shops gift card and swag bag from Associated Students. “I love the games, and I love how we can just come back and keep doing them. Even more than that, I love the prizes. They have some really decent prizes,” said Amaryah Tarkington, a child and adolescent development major. Depending on how active students were in the carnival, the number of hole-punches on their stamp card placed them in three categories: Teeny, Tiny and Titan. The varying levels ranged in quality of prizes. Even with the fun going on in the parking lot, Associated Students stressed safety first by having ride-goers sign consent forms before engaging in the carnival rides. Associated Students invited different performers to entertain the crowd as a juggler, mime and caricature artist made an interesting trio to keep people occupied from the food and games. “I love the carnival people. (Associated Students) have actually paid for people to come with talents,” Tarkington said. “I love it. It’s really fun.” Julia Cappelli, department of kinesiology adviser and faculty, brought her kids to the carnival after the Children’s Center promoted the event. “The event’s awesome. It’s fun for the whole family, and it was free. They’ve won lots of prizes and now, they’re learning how to juggle,” Cappelli said.

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Among the activities at the carnival were rides including a steep slide and swing ride.

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Not all Girl Scout cookies are equal Ranking these delicious treats shows which ones are worth the annual wait.

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Though Girl Scouts may not be in college, their wondrous cookies still make it into the mouths of hungry college students. That could be because college students are absolutely enthralled with Girl Scout cookies, reminiscing in fond childhood memories filled with these trinkets of sweet goodness that are more nostalgic than “Rugrats.” Or maybe it’s just that these students are hungry and don’t care as long as they get food. Either way, since the season of Girl Scout cookies has now made it onto campus and nearby stores, it’s only right to test our taste buds with these nostalgic seasonal cookies — if not for these confident, kind-hearted entrepreneurial young girls, then for our own culinary spirit. Feel free to argue with us, but here’s a true and honest ranking of Girl Scout cookies, ranging from favorite delights to regrettable treats. Disclaimer: The following ranking has been determined by 8 editors and assistant editors from the Daily Titan staff who each tasted 3 cookies. A total

of 8 cookies were tested: Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs, Caramel deLites/Samoas, Girl Scout S’mores, Shortbread/Trefoils, Thanks-A-Lot, Thin Mints, Lemonades and Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-si-dos. 1. Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs One of the favorites among the taste testers, Peanut Butter Patties have just the right combination of the divine trio of sweetness: chocolate, peanut butter and cookie. It’s smooth and creamy, yet carries a crunch. It’s the all-star in the bunch, so definitely a delight. 2. Caramel deLites/Samoas Caramel deLites, also known as Samoas, are another favorite among the bunch, though not without criticisms. Taste testers agreed that the coconut-flavored chocolate caramel cookie was the most a e st h et ic a lly pleasing of the Girl Scout cookies and that it skillfully combined multiple flavors. It doesn’t quite compare to any other cookie in stores right now, at least to the knowledge of our staff, which makes it a noteworthy original. 3. Peanut Butter Sandwich/ Do-si-dos Let’s just admit it. Aside from one person with a peanut allergy, peanut butter is a favorite among staff members, so taste testers weren’t mad about eating this sweet simple cookie.

That being said, these cookies are easily comparable to Nutter Butter cookies, except less successful in its taste. Depending on one’s love for a ny t h i n g peanut butter, it can be either a hit or miss. 4. Shortbread/ Trefoils Shortbread cookies are simple vanilla cookies — that’s it. Crumbly and buttery, it’s not going to be a wild or crazy choice, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t good. For those who want something bold, stay away from this cookie or expect disappointment. For those who want something that is reliable and sweet (without chocolate), then this cookie is an excellent choice. Be careful with the crumbles though — it’s one of the messier choices because it’s one of the few options that doesn’t have a chocolate topping. 5. Thin Mints Ultimately, this cookie was difficult to place, meeting extreme reactions from our staff. For our original taste testers, the response was anything but positive. Most stated that this cookie should be avoided at all costs, unless you somehow enjoy eating toothpaste. Thin Mints, taste like minty gum and fail to have any legitimate flavor

whatsoever. Taste testers from this group agreed that nothing about this cookie was redeemable and that it should be forever banished from the Girl Scout cookie kingdom. Due to such a strong negative reaction from the rest of our staff members, we had this cookie tested again by second group of taste testers. This time with four editors and assistants tested the cookie and reacted more positively. They said the cookie was well-rounded and had a consistent taste. 6. Lemonades Lemonades are a little underwhelming and dry. It certainly isn’t the best of the bunch, but if you like lemon meringue then the sour burst of flavor is just for you. For one of our taste testers it brought a sense comfort that reminded them of their grandma, and eating the cookie upside down helped enhance the flavor. 7. Girl Scout S’mores S’mores easily gets lost in the crowd, since it doesn’t have enough distinct taste to make it differ from the other chocolate options. The marshmallow isn’t really there, which ruins the endearing camp spirit that it’s meant to inspire. It’s not a memorable option, so don’t feel bad if it’s the one cookie you avoid. 8. Thanks-A-Lot Thanks, ugh, not. Probably one of the most disappointing of the Girl Scout cookie varieties, Thanks-a-Lot cookies lack flavor. Essentially, it’s a Shortbread cookie with chocolate, but it lacks substantial chocolate taste, making it more like a generic lowgrade Hershey. To put it nicely, it’s not worth it, y’all.

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With the home crowd gazing wide-eyed and ready for each atbat, a skimming single sent down the middle from third baseman, Deshea Hill presented junior outfielder Kelsie Whitmore with a chance to run for Fullerton’s fifth walk-off win of the season. For coach Ford, the win simply meant the Titans had “a little money in the bank.” She emphasized the importance of taking care of their next game, against University of Connecticut on Friday, “pitch by pitch.” Martinez started in the circle against UConn’s Jill Stockley. Martinez had seven strikeouts in four scoreless innings pitched

while Stockley allowed five runs on four hits in 1.1 innings of work. All three pitchers that took the circle for the Huskies surrendered a home run. The offense was clicking on all cylinders for Fullerton as they had 10 runs in the first three innings against UConn. The Titans were able to end this game early, via the run rule after scoring a run at the bottom of the fifth. “I feel really good about our team, I feel like we have a really good energy. Going into games I feel we really don’t care who we play we’re just playing the game of softball,”Williams said. CSUF’s game was cancelled on Saturday due to inclement

weather. The first game of the double header on Sunday saw them play against Washington for the second time in eight days. Titans head coach Kelly Ford was aware of the task on their hands as the last matchup between CSUF and Washington saw the Huskies win 1-0 earlier in the season. “To keep an offense like that contained to two runs, wow, that’s impressive. Taylor (Dockins) and Soph (Frost) did what they needed to do,” Ford said. This rematch did not bode well for the Titans as they lost to the Huskies 2-0 thanks to a big night from their starting pitcher Taran Alvelo.

Alvelo held Fullerton to three hits and zero runs while striking out 16 batters in a complete game. The three Titan hits came from just two players: Williams and Hill. The second game of this double header against New Mexico saw the Titans offensive struggles against Washington seem almost non existent. CSUF got the scoring started early in the bottom of the first due to an RBI double from Williams and a two run homerun from Sam Kennedy to keep the scoring going. Martinez now has four straight games with at least four innings pitched and four or more strikeouts after the outing against New

Mexico. After going seven games without registering a hit, first baseman Daisy Munoz hit two home runs for six RBIs in the bottom of third. “I was super relaxed. I totally cleared my mind from the previous 10 days and so I felt way more comfortable,” Munoz said. The Titans offense erupted for 10 runs in the bottom of the third inning with a combined three home runs from Munoz and Alexa Neil. “I felt comfortable. I know I had my team behind me and I knew we were going to bounce back after that Washington loss,” Martinez said.

CSUF notch first home win in series finale The baseball team produced six runs against Stanford on Sunday. JULIUS CHOI Daily Titan

After losing the first two games of the home series opener to Stanford, Cal State Fullerton baseball avoided getting swept by the Cardinal due to late game heroics by left fielder Jairus Richards on Sunday. Richards laced the ball to right field for the walk-off RBI single as the Titans won 6-5 in the series finale. Pitcher Michael Knorr set the tone early as he retired all three batters in the first inning with strikeout fashion. He would ultimately finish the game with five strikeouts in his longest outing to date. After both teams were not able to register a hit in the first two innings, the Titans’ bats came alive in the third inning to draw first blood. With runners in scoring position at the bottom of the third inning, shortstop Sahid Valenzuela notched a single to drive in second baseman Hank Loforte for the game’s first run. A few batters later, CSUF’s lead doubled after third baseman Brett Borgogno scored on a groundout by catcher Daniel Cope. The Cardinal kept the Titans on their heels as a solo home run by first baseman Andrew Daschbach in the seventh inning cut CSUF’s three-run lead to one. This resilience paid dividends for Stanford as it used a three-run eighth inning to capture its first lead of the game led by third baseman Nick Bellafronto who hit a two-run double to center field. The play, did not rattle the Titans who applied pressure back by

Left fielder Jairus Richards drove in the game-winning run on an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning.

loading the bases in the bottom half of the same inning. Right fielder Jordan Hernandez picked up an RBI on a sacrifice fly while a single by center fielder Mitch Berryhill brought home pinch runner Jairus Richards, and leveled the game at five runs apiece. Prior to the weekend series against CSUF, the Cardinals won seven of their first eight games. Due to weather conditions Saturday, the Titans and the Cardinal played a doubleheader Friday

night. After allowing no runs in his first two starts of the season, Stanford dealt pitcher Tanner Bibee his first season loss in the opening game of the Friday doubleheader, 4-3. Bibee’s streak of no runs allowed ended at 18 innings after center fielder Christian Robinson scored on a fielder’s choice by Cardinal second baseman Brandon Dieter. In game two, Stanford scored on a RBI single from Bellafronto

in the second inning. CSUF starting pitcher Timothy Josten struggled and walked Maverick Handley and Alec Wilson in back-to-back at-bats to give the Cardinal a 3-0 lead. Sophomore Landon Anderson gave up an RBI single to Wilson to give the Cardinal a five-run lead. The Titans got on the board the next inning thanks to an RBI single from LoForte, but that would be the only scoring the Titans would get for the rest of the

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night. Freshman pitcher Kyle Lucklam came in at the top of the sixth for the Titans and started off well by getting the first two batters out, but walked the next two. Wilson hit a two-run RBI single up the right side to extend the Cardinal lead to seven. The Titans will continue their homestand this week against another Pac-12 opponent, Arizona State. The two teams will play a two-game series on Tuesday and Wednesday night.

Costly turnovers rattle Titans in close contest The men’s basketball team allowed 20 points off turnovers to UC Davis. JORDAN MENDOZA Daily Titan

In their final road game of the season, Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team fell to UC Davis 66-59 Saturday night. The loss ended a four-game win streak against the Aggies and was the Titans’ second loss in their last three games. Turnovers proved to be the deciding factor in the game, as the Titans gave the ball up 17 times, compared to the Aggies’ nine. UC Davis was able to turn the giveaways into points, as they outscored CSUF 20-2 in points off of turnovers. CSUF (14-15, 11-5) is 2-6 when they give up at least 16 turnovers in a game. The Feb. 11 Big West Player of the Week TJ Shorts II led the way for UC Davis (11-17, 7-7), leading the Aggies in points (18), rebounds (8) and assists (5). Two other Aggie starters also scored in double figures. While Shorts II did not have

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Forward Jackson Rowe goes for a layup against Long Beach State defenders in Titan Gym.

the best shooting night, going only 2-for-7 from the field, the senior guard did his damage from the free throw line, making 14 of his 18 attempts from the line. CSUF guard Khalil Ahmad had 18 points, the team high for the Titans.

Forward Jackson Rowe led in rebounds for the Titans with 11. Rowe has led the Titans in rebounds in the past 12 games. Senior guard Kyle Allman Jr., who tallied 17 points, made CSUF history Saturday night, as he passed Gary Davis for the most games played in men’s

basketball history at 122. The night started off rough for CSUF, as they missed their first six shots, and did not score until Wayne Arnold 3-pointer over six minutes into the game. Arnold’s shot began a 14-5 run for the Titans and gave them a three-point lead.

The remainder of the first half was back-and-forth, with the Aggies leading 27-25. Despite being down two points, the Titans shot better than UC Davis, making 38.5 percent of their shots, compared the the Aggies’ 31 percent. The teams continued to trade baskets at the beginning of the second half but after four minutes of play, UC Davis went on a 12-2 run, giving them a 10-point lead and their largest of the game. The Titans played catch-up for the rest of the game, getting the deficit down to as much as four points with under two minutes left, and were down by two with 59 seconds left to go after a pair of made free throws by Allman Jr. However, Shorts II made a clutch jump shot and sank two free throws to extend UC Davis’ lead. Cal State Fullerton will close out their regular season with their senior night on Saturday against Hawai’i. With a win against the Rainbow Warriors, the Titans can secure the second seed in the Big West Tournament, which begins next Thursday. VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

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