Daily Titan: Monday, February 22, 2010 by Daily Titan

February 22, 2010

Vol. 87 Issue 9

Cartoon characters color comic convention Comic Expo brings artists, writers, creators and publishers together for fan gathering in Long Beach. Superheroes and villains come out to whet their appetites for Long Beach Comic Con in October. NEWS, Page 2

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Editorial: Tiger should step up and return to golf OPINION, Page 4

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

No place for their ‘hate’ Stories By Christine Amarantus Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Thousands of counter-protesters flooded 10th Street in Long Beach as members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) attempted to leave after picketing across the street from Woodrow Wilson Classical High School Friday, Feb. 19. The Topeka, Kan.-based church known for their countrywide pickets against homosexuals, Jews, military troops, liberals and Americans, were in Southern California Feb. 19-21 to picket the Jewlicious Festival in Long Beach. “That’s sort of what got us here, but once we’re here: we picket, therefore we are,” said Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the WBC’s leader, Fred Phelps. Other pickets for the weekend included Long Beach’s Ragga Muffins Festival, convention center, police department, the Golden Dragon Parade in Los Angeles and a handful of churches, temples and schools in the area. With the church’s schedule of planned protests available online, counter-protests began to organize against the WBC. The largest response revolved around the picket at Wilson. Cal State Fullerton student and Wilson alumna Allison Anderson, 22, said she found out about the counter-protest a month ago from a friend at Cal State Long Beach. “It just got me fired up ... it upset Photo By christine Amarantus/Daily Titan Staff Writer me,” the American studies major said. Shirley Phelps-Roper pickets across from Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, “It just makes me angry that a whole surrounded by counter-protesters carrying signs ridiculing the church’s protest Friday. church is coming from miles away and coming into our city and is complain- the intersection of 10th Street and Xi- counter-protester and Long Beach resiing about the way we live. I’m totally meno Avenue. As the WBC set up on dent Ethan Hackett, 29, of the massive for protesting when it’s for something the northwestern, hundreds more ar- numbers. that you feel strongly about, but for rived to support the counter-protesters. While the five WBC members’ something like When Wilson signs read, “God hates Haiti,” “Fags this ... it’s just let out at 2:50, are beasts,” “America is doomed,” “The not right.” the numbers Jews killed Jesus” and “You will eat The WBC’s See interviews with the counter- exponentially your babies,” a multitude of signs and picket for Wilson increased. banners with statements such as “Long was scheduled for protesters at DailyTitan.com/ “I’m actually Beach is for lovers,” “Dog hates flags,” 2:45-3:15 p.m. WestBoroProtest pretty happy “Sell Alaska now,” “God hates shrimp,” At around 2:20, about it. We “Frankenstein hates fire” and “Nuke when Phelps-Roper and her daughters were at the Jewish Community Center Iceland” were displayed by the counterarrived to picket, approximately 40- on the other end of town earlier, and it protesters. 50 counter-protesters stood with their was 20 or 30 people and coming here See ‘HATE,’ Page 3 own signs on the southeastern corner of ... there’s hundreds of people here,” said

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Shirley Phelps-Roper, 52, makes her way to the corner. She dons a tattered and bloodied American flag as an apron and pulls out her four signs with different messages of God’s wrath from a padded carrying case, holding them up like butterfly wings on either side of her. She guides her youngest of her 11 children, Luke, who is wearing a blue shirt with anti-homosexual sentiments, to stand beside her. “We’re just here to tell you faithfully what the scripture says and to tell you also that your destruction is imminent,” said Phelps-Roper, daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church’s leader, Fred Phelps. A man with a megaphone on the other side of the street chants, “USA! USA!” Phelps-Roper answers back, “IED! IED!” (short for improvised explosive device). Such devices have been known to kill American soldiers in the Middle East, which the WBC says they rejoice in. The group has been known to picket at funerals for American troops along with picketing Jewish temples and celebrations and anything remotely tied to homosexuality. Their next scheduled picket in Southern California will be at the Academy Awards in Hollywood. “Protests, such as those organized by WBC, do not reflect a compassionate response to the human condition,” said Dr. Janet Bregar, a professor from Cal State Fullerton’s comparative religion department, “because they create harm and pain to those who are in a vulnerable state of grief, are not requested by those in grief and are forced upon those in situations where the excuse of free speech is used to coerce and force one worldview upon another in a public space.” See WBC, Page 3

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Photo By Nick Marley/Daily Titan Photo Editor The Steve Miller Band performed Feb. 20 at the Honda Center for CSUF’s annual Front & Center event.

By Jennifer Karmarkar Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Classic Rock legends The Steve Miller Band rocked a crowd of an estimated 9,000 people at the Honda Center Feb. 20, with their high-energy music and a surprise announcement: Miller will donate $25,000 to Cal State Fullerton’s student scholarship program. Miller and his band were the headline performers at Front & Center 2010, CSUF’s annual community outreach and scholarship fundraising event, which also showcased musical performances by students from CSUF’s College of the Arts. CSUF theater arts graduate, actress Kirsten Vangsness, served as master of ceremonies. Miller’s announcement came after the band finished their third number. “If you can do it, so can I,” Miller told the audience, who greeted the announcement with wild applause and a standing ovation. “You guys are the happiest people on the planet. We need more of that, so keep up the good work.” Proceeds from Front & Center go toward President’s Scholars, a merit-based scholarship program that rewards four-year academic scholarships to local incoming freshmen. The program has provided scholarships to more than 400 students. CSUF President Milton Gordon said this is the first time in the event’s 15-year history that the Front & Center entertainer is going to give money back to the university. “It was certainly a surprise to me. I had no idea he was going to do that,” Gordon said after the show. “And (Miller) actually said, ‘If you need me to come back and help you out, let me know.’ So this was great.” Gordon said they received more than 600 applications for President’s Scholars this year, so they will have to wait to see how many they can bring in to CSUF in the fall. “But this is encouraging,” Gordon said, adding that he planned to sleep well that night. See STEVE MILLER, Page 2

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For the record

Signs were scattered around campus Thursday to promote a March 4 protest about budget cuts.

By Katie Rossomano

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Students and faculty from Cal State Fullerton and more than 100 different schools, unions and organizations will meet at Los Angeles’ Pershing Square March 4 to march to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office for a rally to protest budget cuts, which continue to affect California’s public education system. The march is sponsored by the Southern California Public Education Coalition and will include participants from all 23 Cal State University campuses. The march is just one of many state-

wide “Mobilization for Education” planned events that will occur on the same day at or around all 23 CSU campuses, according to the California Faculty Association (CFA). Other planned events include sit-ins, rallies and demonstrations. In addition to the events planned for California on March 4, groups from 17 other states will be holding demonstrations, including New York, Alabama and Michigan. This is the first time that members representing all areas of public education will unite to demonstrate against the state-wide budget cuts. Participants will include students and educators from

K-12 schools, community colleges, UCs and CSUs. Tatiana Pedroza, a senior sociology and women’s studies major, said that students and faculty who are not traveling to Pershing Square, but still want to discuss the budget cuts and other issues affecting CSUF, will gather for an informal meeting on campus at the central quad. Pedroza has been involved in protesting the budget cuts in the past. “I really believe in our education system and really feel like it has taken a big hit recently,” Pedroza said. According to the CFA, student fees at CSUs have tripled since 2002, and among all of the states, California is 47th

in public spending per student. The governor proposed $300 million each for the UC and CSU systems in his most recent state budget proposal but CFA feels that is still not enough, considering that the CSU has lost $1 billion in funding over the past two years. Alice Sunshine, CFA’s communications director, said that over 800 students and faculty from across California met at University of California, Berkley last fall to determine a day for all segments of public education to actively protest what they feel has been an attack on the public education system. See MARCH 4, Page 3

In the Feb. 9 issue of the Daily Titan, DISPLAX was incorrectly identified as the developer of the “transparent thinner-than-paper polymer film.” In fact, Visual Planet are the manufacturer of this thin film technology, which has been part of its ViP Interactive Foil since 2004. The Daily Titan apologizes for this inaccuracy.

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February 22, 2010

IN OTHER NEWS Comic heroes take over Long Beach

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Marines and Afghan troops close in on insuregents NAWA, AFGHANISTAN, and KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Backed by fighter jets and attack helicopters, U.S. Marines and Afghan troops closed in on an insurgent-ridden sector of Marja on Sunday, the ninth day of a coalition bid to wrest control of the southern Afghan town from the Taliban. The fighting, concentrated in northwestern Marja, took place amid what NATO called “determined resistance” from holdout fighters in various locations in and around the town. Advancing coalition troops faced a continuing threat from small-arms fire and improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, the Western military said in a statement. “We’re still pushing through the city,” said Lt. Josh Diddams, a Marine spokesman. Some of the remaining pockets of insurgents consist of only a handful of fighters, the Associated Press reported.

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Schwarzenegger speaks on California’s economy WASHINGTON - Despite the state’s high unemployment rate, California’s economy is making a slow comeback and “the worst is over,” said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday. “We’ve seen that the foreclosure rate has slowed down,” the Republican governor said in an appearance on national television. “We’ve seen that the house sales have picked up. We’ve seen people are getting back to work, especially in the green sector. So there’s signs all over.” Schwarzenegger, who will meet privately with President Barack Obama on Monday, is in Washington for the winter meetings of the National Governors Association (NGA). He made his remarks in an interview broadcast on ABC’s “This Week.”

STATE UCSC looks to lizards for species development SANTA CRUZ - A peek at some colorful lizards is giving UC Santa Cruz biologists clues on how new species form from old ones, and they’re finding the route to new lizard species is some 15 million years old. The side-blotched lizard, native to California and the Southwest, has a genetic element that leads to orange, blue or yellow throats, and the throat color is tied to a particular mating behavior patterned after the game rockpaper-scissors, where one form dominates other, and is in turn dominated by a third. As populations of the animals develop, some animals undergo genetic changes, losing throat color and the concomitant mating behavior, forcing the gamers to develop traits outside the side-blotched lizard orange-blueyellow norm. Lead author Barry Sinervo, professor in the UCSC department of ecology and evolutionary biology, said their findings, based on DNA testing that allows them to order genetic changes on a family tree of sorts, show a 15-million-year cycle of throat color-based population dominance.

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Despite only being one day, Long Beach Comic Con’s baby convention, Comic Expo, which teeters on the halfway point between their last and upcoming conventions, attracted more an a thousand fans and collectors on Saturday, Feb.20. Though weather forecasts predicted rain, it was nothing but sunshine and cool breezes for Superman, Batman, Darth Vader and other cosplayers (fans who came in costume). “Our costumes are custom-made ... specifically for being screen accurate, to look as close to the characters as possible,” said Franklin Teng, who came dressed as Kato from “The Green Hornet.” “I see cosplayers and I think it’s going to be great. I’m impressed,” Teng said of the convention. Although Comic Expo was relegated to a single ballroom on the south side of the Long Beach Convention Center, and some of the guests, like Lou Ferrigno, did not appear, everyone made the most of it. Captain America, Spiderman and Superman cosplayers took up an empty table and pretended to be “American Idol” judges as a con-goer crooned for their listening pleasure.“So am I going to Hollywood?” he asked, jumping up and down. Exhibitors, like Los Angeles’ Golden Apple Comics, were present to provide comic fans with fuel for their collecting addictions. “This Long Beach show has been a lot of fun. I think it had a bet-

ter turn-out than expected,” said Golden Apple owner Ryan Liebowitz. “The room’s a little bit smaller than people were expecting, but we crammed all of the good stuff from one of the big cons into a small con, which is kind of fun. You’ve got guys like Mike Mignola over here ... It’s amazing what you can (do) with a small ballroom with a bunch of passionate people about comic books.” Mignola, the creator of the comic book series, “Hellboy,” now a major motion picture with its own sequel, sketched and signed comics at the convention. “You live in the shadow of the movie version of your thing,” he said “I’m not complaining. It’s great that there’s something out there that makes the character known, and you do hope that a certain number of people will discover the character from having seen the movie and end up picking up the books ... It’s something to elevate your thing from the zillions of the other comics on the rack.” Regarding the convention, Mignola said it was small and “cute.” “It’s a lot less stress than the major shows I’m used to doing, so it’s a very pleasant show,” he said. Fellow comic book creator Stan Sakai also remarked on hearing great things about last October’s Comic Con in Long Beach, which hosted Comic Expo, and jumped at the invitation to the single-day convention. Sakai’s creation, “Usagi Yojimbo,” turns 26 this year. He said that when he started, he had trouble thinking of what story to write and draw for

photo By Christine amarantus/Daily Titan Staff Writer It’s not a bird. It’s not a plane. Superman enjoys the sunshine while taking a break from adoring fans at Comic Expo in the Long Beach Convention Center on Saturday, Feb. 20.

the following month. “Now I’m thinking I’ve laid down groundwork for stories I’m going to tell five years from now,” he said. Sakai hinted that he would like to put out a six issue miniseries for the more futuristic “Space Usagi,” and a “War of the Worlds” story. “What if Martians had sent out a scout ship a couple centuries earlier and it landed in Japan?” he said. “There will be giant robots and all kinds of things.” Comic Expo, while short, was also a great source for bargains. Graphic novels that normally run $15-30 were knocked down to $5 all around. Hardcover books were knocked as low as 80 percent off. Bins of 25 cent comics ruled the day for treasure hunters. The only real criticism came from

Superman, a fan donning the tights and cape of the “man of steel,” who only further identified himself as Kal-El. “(Comic Expo)’s pretty decent. It could be better,” he said. “You’ve got a lot of writers and artists, not a lot of stars. Lou Ferrigno, get your butt out here next time.”

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Students from CSUF’s College of the Arts kicked off the evening with a medley of old-time rock and roll hits, with the lyrics tweaked to poke fun at the headliners. Between performances, Gordon presented the 2010 Orange County Titan Award to the Auto Club of Southern California. The Auto Club has been a strong supporter of the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, where CEO Thomas McKernan serves on the board of directors. Then the night belonged to the Steve Miller Band as they powered through one hit after another, opening the set with “Swing Town” and “Abracadabra.” Their 1976 iconic song “Fly Like an Eagle” came about halfway through the set and lasted nearly 10 minutes, giving each band

member a chance to showcase their individual talents. Miller continually switched the pace throughout the 90-minute set, alternating high-energy numbers like “Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma” from his 1973 album The Joker, with some blues covers and slower acoustic tunes. During his acoustic rendition of pop hit “The Joker” the audience sang along, enthusiastically shouting the words “I’m a midnight toker!” with each refrain. And there were more surprises toward the end: Miller asked the CSUF performers to join him onstage to perform the encore song, “Jet Airliner.” “It was absolutely incredible,” said Lindsey Kelly, 20, musical theater major. “We actually didn’t know we were going to get to do it until the last minute. They were amazing guys. They asked ‘don’t you all

photo By nick marley/Daily Titan Photo Editor Students from the College of the Arts join The Steve Miller Band on stage during the encore performance, Saturday Feb. 20, at the Honda Center.

wanna come up?’ and we were like ‘Yesss!’ ” Kelly said they have been rehearsing for the Front & Center show for about six weeks, with a dress rehearsal at Honda Center the night before. She proclaimed the show ‘the most incredible experience’ she ever had. “When we finished I didn’t know if I should cry or just explode. It was really overwhelming,” she said. Musical theater major Maxwel Corpuz, 21, agreed.

“It was an amazing experience and an honor to perform with such a prestigious band that has given back so much as far as education goes.” Corpuz was ‘most grateful’ for the $25,000 donation from Miller, saying that’s what Front & Center is all about. “It’s a big event to help further education and especially at Cal State Fullerton,” Corpuz said. “So what better?”

February 22, 2010

‘Hate:’ church chased around southland From Page 1

chanted, “Go home! Go home! Go home!” The crowds erupted in A man in a white rabbit suit stood screams and cheers as the WBC beside Phelps-Roper with a sign members’ van pulled away. Geoff Maddox, 29, Long Beach’s reading “Welcome 2 Long Beach, now go homo.” Another man, Hate Crime Awareness founder, indressed as a robot, carried a sign sisted the counter-protesters turn that simply read, “Tea party with their backs on the WBC members. Many did so cupcakes and while displaying giggles and middle fingers. dresses.” Maddox startStudents ed one of the from Wilson five Facebook held a banevent pages ner declaring guiding users to “Hate is not come protest the welcome in our WBC’s Wilson school.” picket. Some of W i l s o n the events had sophomore names like “Not Emily Ha was In My Town” or one of the “Steal This Prostudents positest.” tioned behind “You’ve got the banner. all these peo“I just don’t ple that all got like this. I went together – it through Prop 8 started on Face... that was the book,” Maddox worst ordeal to said. “(The progo through,” test) ended up she said. being really sucAs more and cessful. Nobody more coungot hurt. Evter-protesters erybody voiced stood around their opinion the WBC, and it went reblocking their ally, really well.” signs with their CSUF alumown and elicitnus Steve Reeding honks from er brought a many passing trombone to vehicles, the several of the church members decided to A rabbit-suited man attends a counter-protest counter-protests throughout the cut their picket in front of the Long Beach Convention short and start- Center against a scheduled picket by Westboro day with the inBaptist Church members, who ended up not tent of disrupted to head back coming, Friday, Feb. 19. ing the WBC to their van, only to be encircled by hundreds in whenever they would sing some of the Long Beach Schools Financial their parody songs. “The protest has been more fun Credit Union parking lot. “That high school was a mob and laughing at them,” he said. “I scene, just shy of a riot. You raised think that they were not expecting your kids to be God-hating brutes, this. They’re usually expecting peo& so they are,” wrote Phelps-Roper’s ple to be more aggressive and we’ve just been having fun all day.” daughter, Megan, on Twitter. The WBC did not appear at a Long Beach police officers eventually intervened, keeping the 7:15 p.m. scheduled picket against a Phelps-Roper family in the center of Martin Lawrence show at the Long 10th Street while counter-protesters Beach Convention Center.

PHOTOS BY CHRISTINE AMARANTUS/Daily Titan Staff Writer Above: Counter-protesters gather in front of Woodrow Wilson Classical High School to picket a planned appearance by the Westboro Baptist Church Friday, Feb. 19. Below: Protesters follow WBC members to their van parked on Ocean Boulevard Saturday, Feb. 20. The WBC attempted to picket in front of the Long Beach Convention Center but were surrounded by Ccounter-protesters, who danced and sang around the church members and shouted comments at the Phelps-Roper family.

WBC: values analyzed From Page 1

views contradict each other and create a sit ation of moral insecurity Bregar is expertised in Chris- for those people whose orientation tian thought and world religions is conservative and oriented toward and is a revscriptures as ‘dierend at Vilrect revelation’ lage Lutheran from God,” she Church in said. “There is a Brentwood. freedom to make Groups like a personal choice the WBC try about what is to “stoke the moral or not and fires of reacusually allows for tivity” by immoral nuances plying that an and changes “apocalyptic in truth claims situation will – Shirley Phelps-Roper which result in occur” in orWBC member more complex der to gain a decision making larger memand a moral valbership, Bregar said. ue upon individual authority and “The differing perspectives of choice.” religious traditions and worldProtected by the Bill of Rights

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The first amendment is one of the jewels ... one of the beautiful ornaments that God gave us.

to assemble, worship and say what they wish, members of the church have been arrested in the past for destruction of American flags. Phelps-Roper, who is also an attorney, has argued that these acts are constitutionallyprotected. “The first amendment is one of the jewels ... one of the beautiful ornaments that God gave this nation,” she said. “They have no respect for it, and they won’t long have it.” Phelps-Roper and her father have been banned from flying into the United Kingdom, where they intended to protest a production of “The Laramie Project” last year. The play, based on a true story, details the life of a young homosexual man who was beaten to death in Wyoming.

Photo by Tatiana Pedroza/For the Daily Titan Banners promoting the March 4 protest, which many educational institutions will take part in, were mounted on the Humanities building and in a tree Thursday Feb. 18.

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March 4: Cuts spark unrest From Page 1

“Students who are eligible are being turned away from college. At CSU, they have increased costs and limited the number of classes,” Sunshine said. Sunshine said that March 4 was chosen because public schools of all levels are in session that day and also because they wanted the protest to take place before the

Photo By Christine Amarantus/Daily Titan Staff Writer Members of the Westboro Baptist Church head off to picket on the corner of 10th Street and Ximeno Avenue, diagonally across from Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach.

governor’s budget revision, which occurs May 15. Chuck Marchese, the CFA representative who is helping organize CSUF’s involvement, said that while students and faculty can travel to Pershing Square on their own, they also have the option to reserve a seat on a bus that CFA has rented. The bus can hold 55 people.

Marchese said that seats that are not reserved will be filled on a first-come first-serve basis. The bus will be leaving from in front of Langsdorf Hall at 2 p.m.

February 22, 2010

Center for sustainability is established following forum By Gina Baxter

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Debate addresses addiction By Juanita Vasquez

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Is addiction a disease or a conscious choice? Addiction expert Kevin McCauley discussed what he thinks is one of the most important questions about addiction before an audience of Cal State Fullerton students, educators and community members on the night of Feb.18. The event, hosted by the Substance Abuse Awareness and Prevention Student Association (SAAPSA), provided those who attended with a broader understanding of what triggers addiction and relapse. The debate sparked conversation about the different brain areas that are involved in addiction. McCauley, who works with The Institute for Addiction Study, advocated that addiction is a disease of choice. "Addiction," McCauley said, "is a disorder of the very parts of the brain that we need in order to make a decision." One of the first things McCauley explained was that addictive drugs stimulate the reward and "pleasure center" of the brain.

When this circuit is stimulated, the brain registers the value of these experiences and then triggers the release of a brain chemical called dopamine. Dopamine, he said, is the chemical used to prioritize things for survival. Amy Saunders, a SAAPSA officer, said that having McCauley speak at CSUF would provide information to students about substance abuse and more information about addiction. "We want students to be able to ask questions to challenge what they already know," Saunders said. McCauley emphasized that addiction is as important and as much a disease as diabetes or cancer. In his DVD, “Pleasure Unwoven”, McCauley explains that most modern scientists abide by a definition that a disease is a defect in an organ that leads to symptoms. McCauley said that the behaviors of addicts are symptoms of a disease, but because we don't understand that addiction is a disease, it is viewed in "moral terms." To explain this, he asked those present in the room what the difference was between a person who is killed by a diabetic driver and one killed by a drug addict. "The reason the addict goes to prison and the diabetic doesn't is because we understand diabetes!" Mc-

Cauley said. Sandra De La Cruz, 26, a CSUF alumna in the audience, later explained that the reason people don't think of addiction as disease is because of a lack of information presented to the public. "The one thing that society lacks is understanding of addiction," De La Cruz said. "They put substance abuse on the back burner. We don't really grasp the importance of it." Also listening to the discussion was Elaine Werner-Hudson, a 56-year-old Laguna Beach resident who lost her son to heroin addiction. "I think our medical people --doctors, nurses, everyone in the medical field-- should be really educated on it too," WernerHudson said. "When someone comes to the hospital and they overdosed on something, they're not there to give them the proper treatment that they need, they say 'just go home, he'll be OK,'" she said. If everyone is aware of how addiction works and that the root of the problem can be identified, De La Cruz said, steps can be taken to prevent people from falling into addiction.

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several artifacts on his display. "We test different samples using x-rays and lasers to examine the chemical composition of artifacts and natural sources of obsidian and we ... analyze ancient exchange networks." Matt Rice, a third-year anthropology student also working on the project, pointed out that CSUF has one of the best programs around for research in sustainability. By allowing students to have the most materials available for research, the university has been able to expand its reach. "We've tested about 58 samples so far, but eventually it will be around 700. We want to have the most accurate research possible," John Carroll Rice said. Other students Author used techniques taught in civil engineering classes to demonstrate how buildings have the potential to be built green, and the impact of such green buildings on the environment compared to other structures. Dr. John Bock, the discussion panel moderator and professor of anthropology, opened the first panel discussion of the day by introducing several of the speakers, including Director Willem Van der Pol, who oversees the physical plant operations at CSUF. Van der Pol, who manages the facility on campus, pointed out the little things that CSUF has been doing in order to leave a smaller carbon footprint on the world. "Every building has an impact on

Sustainability is living within one’s means at every scale-personally, regionally and globally.

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phto By Nick marley/Daily Titan Photo Editor Dr. Kevin McCauley, a specialist in addiction and the brain, conducts a panel disscussion about addiction as a disease on Thursday Feb.18 in University Hall

Cal State Fullerton President Milton Gordon welcomed a new Center for Sustainability, which opened Thursday Feb. 18, after the close of a forum discussing sustainability. Run by Dr. John Bock, the new center will provide CSUF an opportunity to become an educational leader in the field of sustainability. Students, faculty and graduates gathered together for the all-day forum to discuss the implications and future of sustainability in the Pollack Library. The forum, entitled "Sustainable Futures: Diversity and Green Initiatives in Graduate Education," was a collection of student exhibits, panel discussions and career opportunities for those interested in entering the field of environmental sciences. Students from various majors were present displaying their on-going projects regarding sustainability as it pertains to social, economic, cultural and educational aspects of daily life. Information regarding sustainability was projected onto the brightlycolored walls of the Salz-Pollack Room, where people gathered to view student and faculty research projects on sustainability. A quote by John Carroll illuminated exactly what the purpose behind environmental science is: "Sustainability is living within – one's means at every scale-personally, regionally, and globally." As professionals and students intermingled, graduate students walked amongst the exhibit, pointing out how their research could potentially help others lead more sustainable lifestyles. Anthropology and archaeology graduate student Richard George was on hand to discuss how his group's research project applied sustainable measures to analyze the history of trading networks between people living on the coast of California as well as inland. "We basically look at the behavior patterns of people through rocks," said George, pointing to pictures of

the environment," Van der Pol said. "This campus has doubled in size over the past decade, yet (by using sustainable measures) we have been able to cut energy consumption in half, and drastically reduce our carbon footprint." Several new buildings, including the Student Recreation Center and Mihaylo Hall, have been built using green technology. By using strategies such as conservation and cleaner energy sources, Van der Pol illustrated how CSUF has embraced sustainable measures in order to better the environment. Even little things, such as using electric cars on campus, have been implemented in order to lower pollution and promote sustainability. Fullerton Arboretum Director Greg Dyment also spoke about the efforts being made by the campus to be more sustainable. "We try to get people excited about flora," Dyment said during his lecture. He explained several of the classes that the Arboretum offers to learn about composting, gardening, and other landscaping techniques that can conserve water and energy, as well as encouraging people to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Brian Maddock, an environmental studies graduate student and representative of Associated Students Inc.'s Environmental Advocacy Committee, said that his hope was to engage more students in being aware of the environment. He highlighted the 2010 Earth Week, which runs April 19-22 on campus, as a way for students to get more information and to learn about living a sustainable lifestyle.

Students recieve advice from Career Center conference at student union By Andrea Mena

For The Daily Titan news@dailytitan.com

Students received useful career information at the Career Jump Start Conference held at the Titan Student Union Feb.18. The conference was organized by the Career Center and the idea for the event came from Career Center Director Jim Case. Each semester, the center comes up with ways to remind students that the Career Center is there to help them, said Laura Neal, industry specialist in arts, entertainment and communication for the Career Center. “We hope that we can get students to be stirred to action,” Neal said. “So they will be motivated to take action, to prepare themselves for that college to career transition.” The event was open to all Cal State Fullerton students and alumni free of charge and featured a variety of services pertaining to a student’s career during their education and after they graduate. Services included guest speakers, advice from the Career Center about networking, as well as a resume and career clinic. “This was the first time I had my resume looked at,” said Anh Pham, 20, third-year finance major. “The person looked over my resume and gave me good marks for my objective but also advice on how I could

arrange the content better.” The opening session featured speeches from Case and Neal. Also speaking were Susie Arellano-Reed, recruiting manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Jim Wilson, executive vice-president for the same company. They presented tips, tools and techniques to conduct successful job

“Netiquette was designed to help students develop verbal and social skills,” Neal said. “These are the fluid parts of the job search that you cannot learn in a textbook. You have to practice it.” Internship workshops were available for many different majors. “I am interested in finding an internship that is applicable to my major,” Pham said. “ I would never have known this information if I had not attended.” Associate Director of the Career Center Sean Gil said the heavy recruiting period for companies is generally between March and April. This is a period where there is a high demand for workers, Gil added. “It is a challenging market,” Gil said. “Students are competing with last year’s graduates and other really experienced people. They have to get ready. They COURTESY OF THE CAREER CENTER must be prepared.” Despite the downand internship searches in the cur- turn in the economy, the Career rent job market. Center has not seen a noticeable in“This conference was very help- crease in concerned students reachful,” said Saffran Harris, 26, a gradu- ing out for career assistance. ate from the Music Institute in “We think that what happened is Hollywood. “What was said about the students were devastated,” Neal networking is very true. That is one said. “They felt so completely disof the reasons why I got my intern- couraged that they stopped trying.” ship and got hired. I networked and There are a series of job and inmade a lot of contacts.” ternship fairs this semester, the next Enterprise Rent-A-Car sponsored one is for the engineering and coman ice-cream social at the conference, puter science departments at the which gave students an opportunity ECS quad Feb. 25. “The worst thing students can do to network with one another. In addition, Neal and Debbie is to do nothing,” Neal said. “They Darling, another Career Center spe- should not assume that they are too cialist, both spoke at the Netiquette busy at the moment and wait until workshop about networking and eti- they are done with school to start figuring things out.” quette.

February 22, 2010

Kids These Days “Observing teen culture so you don’t have to”

You look great today by Danielle Flint

Daily Titan Copy Editor opinion@dailytitan.com

This column is dedicated to the self-conscious teenage girl inside of all women; the one who has the nerve to pop out and ruin your day when that skirt in the dressing room won’t quite zip all the way up. She hides behind every mirror, lurks behind every stare and turns green with envy when she sees an ad for perfume on the side of a bus. Every woman has that anxious and awkward voice inside the back of her head, whispering sweet criticisms at every single flaw as she stares hopelessly into her bathroom mirror. You’re too fat. You’re too skinny. You have bushy eyebrows. You have small boobs. Your eyes are lopsided. Is that cellulite? Nobody will ever love you until you get rid of that acne. Enough. It isn’t worth it. Caring that much about every little flaw is just too much work. There is no reason to spend hours in front of a mirror, meticulously applying foundation, eye shadow, blush and lipstick – all just to completely replace your real face with a false one. Your face is perfect. Stop painting on cosmetics that only allow strangers to identify just how unhappy you are with yourself. What happened to loving yourself? Who decided that you weren’t good enough just the way you are? Is it really that important to starve yourself for days to achieve your “ideal” body weight? “Oh, I’ve just got to lose five pounds. I’m sure I’ll be happy and

my life will be complete just as soon as I lose five pounds.” Forget it. That isn’t going to make you happy. Supermodels are skinny. Do any of them look happy? Open up any fashion magazine and pick one of the models. They are all really pissed off – probably because they’ve only had a grapefruit and a Saltine to eat in the last three months. Some women become so ob-

worth anything to anybody unless they can fit their waist through the eye of a needle. New: the jump off a cliff diet! Lose 100 percent of your body weight in seconds! Fad diets do nothing but add to the mass skinny hysteria, encouraging women (and the sad teen within) to throw away hundreds of dollars on package deals like “Nutrisystem” (It tastes like crap by the way – salted cardboard with a side of gray meat) that they’ll never finish. Diets do nothing but make you miserable and hungry. Most of the time, you’ll cheat half way through and end up binging on chocolate cake and Guinness. Impossible ideals don’t act as motivation for success, they’re setups for failure. I’m not advocating that you throw up your arms in defeat and live inside your fridge for a month – moderation and exercise are positive things – but spending half of your life obsessing over every pound and flaw is silly. Life is too short to waste valuPhoto By Christa Connelley/Daily Titan Photo Editor able time sucking your thumb over mild weight gain or a pimple in the sessed with their weight that they middle of your forehead. develop eating disorders. According You aren’t being judged as harshly to the South Carolina Department as you think. of Mental Health, one in every 200 If anything, others are more likely American women suffers from an- to notice your lack of self esteem orexia – about three in every 100 than the size of your dress. Quit suffer from bulimia. Of any men- hiding behind pounds of makeup, tal illness, eating disorders have the your push-up bra and a shaky selfhighest mortality rate. conscious smile. Think about it – is a size 2 (or Let that critical bitch inside of God help you, a size 0) really worth you go – listening to her won’t make dying over? your life better. It might just destroy Impossibly thin has become glam- your self-esteem. orized in American culture, urging You only look as good as you feel women that they’re not going to be and you look great today.

Global warming is still here, sorry politicians ue to fall on Southern California, many fail to recognize the shortage of snow in places where it is usually abundant. Vancouver was plagued by a lackluster amount of snowfall, halting some of the events that were scheduled for the Olympic games. “Portland, Maine, where snow is usually a given, had to cancel its winter festival for lack of the stuff,”

snow is a form of precipitation, and a great deal of snow seems to be a opinion@dailytitan.com great deal of precipitation. Hannity falls short of making The threat of global warming, the simple connection and realizing as it is now, has developed into a the effects of global warming are at worldwide panic. However, global work. warming has fallen under a heap Conspiracies against global warmof scrutiny from dozens of critics ing are becoming very popular and questioning its existence. The reason more prominent people are jumping behind the skepticism is the recent on the bandwagon. freezing weather and “(Global warming) frequent snowstorms in is a money-making deal places like Washington for Al Gore and some D.C. of his environmentalist According to Seth friends,” asserted forBornstein, a science mer Alaska Gov. Sarah writer for the Associated Palin. Press, on Feb. 12, snow But even as the confell on the United States spiracies continue to in 49 of the 50 states. pile on, none sound The Eastern seaboard more ludicrous than had so much snow that the one made by Laura John Stewart from the Ingraham on Fox News Daily Show cleverly Channel. called the phenomenon “(Global warming) an “Unusually Large Photo Courtesy MCT is about a concerted Snowstorm” to poke fun The White House on Feb. 10, 2010, just days after one of the biggest global effort to reduce of the ridiculous names storms in history dropped more than 20 inches of snow. the standard of living of – such as “snowpocaall Americans,” Ingralypse” – that the news is using. Bornstein said. ham said. “Bring us down so the rest One of the consequences of global The fact that there is record snow- of these countries can float up. And warming is an increase in tempera- fall in a certain part of the world that’s what this is about.” ture and the polar ice caps melting, does not automatically discredit “Nice try world. Pretty clever. Let both of which will cause future glob- global warming. In fact, snowfall in me tell you something world, these al devastation. Another repercus- places like Florida, Louisiana, Mis- colors don’t run. And if they do need sion is intense precipitation as well sissippi and the lack of it in Canada to go somewhere, we take the (Chevas frequent, strong tropical storms. bestows global warming with even rolet) Tahoe,” mockingly added John One of the key components of this stronger data supporting it. Stewart, host of the Daily Show. phenomenon is the out of control “It is the most severe winter So global warming is an internafluctuation of temperatures. storms in years, which would seem tional ploy to lower the standard of But despite the overwhelming to contradict Al Gore’s hysterical living in America so the rest of the amount of evidence supporting global warming theories,” said Sean world can pull alongside us? global warming, many have joined Hannity, contributor to FOX News. Drawing these conclusions from the skeptics in denying it. Hannity also said that he does not global warming has to be infuriat“Could it be that man-made glob- believe in global warming because “it ing, especially since it is coming al warming is the greatest hoax ever snowed in Houston” a few months from seemingly viable news sources perpetrated on the American peo- ago. that are broadcasted to millions naple?” asked Oklahoma Sen. James The Weather Channel has Hous- tionwide. Inhofe on CSPAN. “I believe it is,” ton’s average temperature in January The indication of global warmhe continued. as 54 degrees; 22 degrees above the ing is a real danger to the world, and The idea to question the existence freezing point. Snow should be a rar- it is disheartening to see that sevof global warming is absurd and only ity this time of the year and the fact eral inches of snow can the change delays the effort being made to be- that is present in Houston should the perception of many, and satisfy come environmentally friendly. not be praised as the defining end of those already in denial about such an While snow was pounding the global warming. overwhelming danger that impacts U.S. and heavy rainstorms continIt is rudimentary to know that so many. by Oscar Romero

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Tiger, step up and golf If you pay attention to sports, the tabloids or the 2-year-old daughter to school and stalked his mother news at any level, you have no doubt heard of Ti- for photos. ger Wood’s extramarital touring activities. You may Most importantly for his fans, he stated that he has have glanced at a headline or two about his wife, not abandoned his sport in the slightest. Elin Woods, getting violent after hearing of his not“I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don’t so-secret affairs. Now, after several weeks of drama, know when that day will be. I don’t rule out that it paparazzi shots, threatening letters and a wave of on- will be this year,” Woods said. line comments, forums and public chastising, Tiger This is by far the best thing he can do for himself. Woods has decided to step up to both privately and Sure, what he did cannot be forgiven, and sure, many publicly apologize to all the people who he has of- of his colleagues will still look at him in disdain, but fended and hurt. that first step in the road to recovery (which he obWill people still viously wants, accept him for since he inceswhat he is? More santly talks about importantly, can his rehab) is to he muster up the find a hobby that courage to swing is familiar and a golf club, take will make him part in the PGA feel stable again. tour again and What else is there attempt to regain for Woods than his status as a role to take part in the model athlete? PGA tour again? The 14 minute As for whether apology/speech or not he can be a was aired on many role model, well, news channels and I’ll let him explain Web sites and can with a quote from even be viewed in his apology about full on YouTube. his wife’s trust: In it, he discussed “My real apology a long list of topwill not come (to ics and apologized Photo Courtesy MCT her) in the form to a long list of Tiger Woods waits to putt at the 91st PGA Championship at Hazeltine of words, it will people, including National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. on Aug. 15, 2009. come from my behis wife, whom havior over time.” he made sure would not get blamed for any false Right now the incident it still fresh in the minds claims of violence. He talked about how he strayed of many fans, young and old alike. But in time, if he away from his religion and wants to focus more on shows the right amount of control and respect, you the Buddhist ideals of self control – such as control can bet people will be buying “Tiger Woods: PGA of sex addiction. Tour 2014” on the Playstation 4 without remorse or “Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside making a joke about his affairs. of ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search His acts cannot be forgiven or forgotten, and for for security,” Woods said. “It teaches me to stop fol- family members and friends the wounds will take sevlowing every impulse and to learn restraint.” eral years to heal. He apologized to his fans, his mother Kultida For now Tiger needs to man up and step back on Woods, his family, his friends and even his sponsors, to the green to do what he does best: – not gracing such as Nike. Nike has already decided to sponsor the cover of US Weekly or The National Enquirer, him despite his affairs. not getting chased around by paparazzi and definitely He also called out the paparazzi, who follow his not giving speeches – golf.

February 22, 2010

Men’s basketball holds off SIUE sports@dailytitan.com

The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team defeated the road weary Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville Cougars 78-74 in an ESPNU Bracketbuster game at Titan Gym Feb. 20. At first glance, the game seemed like an easy victory for the Titans as SIUE had only four wins this season coming into the game. The Cougars – a transitioning Div. II school in their second year of a four-year reclassification process to Div. I status – were not intimidated and kept the Titans on their toes for most of the game. “We did what we wanted to do, which was just to win the game because we had been struggling here,” said Titan Head Coach Bob Burton. “I don’t think anyone was really happy with the way we played.” The early start and the relatively quiet home crowd – 600 people in attendance – had an affect on the Titans. “I think this was the smallest crowd we’ve had all year,” Burton

said. “I think our kids feed off of Junior guard Devon Peltier’s threethat a little bit.” pointer at the buzzer gave CSUF a CSUF never trailed in the game 36-28 lead at the half. but could not put the Cougars After intermission, SIUE went on away. a 14-4 run and scored on six straight Senior forward Gerard Anderson possessions to cut the Titan lead had 20 points and 12 rebounds – down to 47-44. his fourth double-double this seaAfter a CSUF timeout, the Titans son – and sophomore guard Jacques went on a 7-0 run with quick strikes Streeter had his in transition. sixth game this SIUE respondseason with at ed with two least 20 points straight threeand five assists. pointers to cut The Titans had the lead down to no answer for four with 11:28 SIUE sophomore left in regulation. forward Mark “There were – Jacques Streeter Yelovich, who many gaps in Sophomore guard scored 32 points. the game where Only UC Riverwe just shut side junior fordown defensiveward Kyle Austin has scored more ly,” Streeter said. “In transition we against Yelovich this season. weren’t able to find their shooters The Cougars shot 22.9 percent and they spotted up and knocked from the field in the first half, but them down.” their hustle and nine offensive reThe Titans pulled away for the rest bounds helped keep the game close. of the second half and after a Streeter CSUF had a good stretch run jumper, CSUF had their biggest lead with three consecutive plays at the of the game at 13. hoop, which gave them a 10-point However, the Titans fell asleep cushion. once again and the Cougars caught

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Daily Titan Sports Editor

Hockey season ends with loss

photo By brian evans/For the Daily Titan Titan sophmore goalie Brandon Heethuis robs Long Beach State sophomore left wing Sean Hoang in CSUF’s 6-5 loss Feb. 20.

the CSUF defense off guard in the final minute. “We just couldn’t get stops. Our defense was real poor at times,” Burton said. “Our offense was good and bad, we’re very inconsistent again but I’m really glad that we won the game.” The Titans have not had a home victory since Jan. 30 against UC Irvine. “It feels good to win at home and get that momentum for the next game,” Streeter said. CSUF is still in third place in the Big West as they travel to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for their last Big West road game on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. – the game will be televised on Fox Sports West. In their first matchup Jan. 14, the Titans defeated the Mustangs 6854, which is the lowest points scored by a Fullerton opponent this season. “The next three games, like coach (Burton) said, are going to determine our lives,” Anderson said. “If we win the next three games we’ll have a better seeding in the (Big West) Tournament. I think everyone is starting to realize that it’s getting really serious now.” By brian zbysenski

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

Titan Ice Hockey fought to the finish, but fell short once again to the Long Beach State 49ers, as the season ended in a dramatic 6-5 overtime loss on Feb. 20. “It’s going to be a tough game,” said backup goaltender Greg Lewis, 34, a finance graduate student. Going into the game, the team had lost their previous two matches against the 49ers. The game didn’t start well for the Titans. A glance to the scoreboard with only 3:37 into the game showed that the team was already down by three goals The Titans then opted to use their 30-second timeout. Not only did this slow down the 49ers’ momentum, it let the Titans critique their strategy. This proved successful as the Titans recorded their first goal little over a minute later, when Titan sophomore forward Elan Dunaev took a slap shot that made its way past Long Beach State junior goaltender Ricky St. Louis. The Titans put another point up on the board with a little over two minutes left in the first period, when freshman forward Jacob Daniel stole the puck from a 49er defense-

photo By camille tarazon/Daily Titan Staff Writer Senior forward Gerard Anderson goes up strong for a layup in the second half.

man and skated from coast-to-coast to score a short-handed goal on a breakaway. The Titans trailed 3-2 at the end of the first period. With a total of 10 penalties in the second period alone, there was only one goal scored. Unfortunately, it was for LBSU. A little over two minutes left from an otherwise scoreless period, 49er sophomore center Matt Kresky scored on a rebound into an open net after the initial save was made by Titan sophomore goalie Brandon Heethuis. This was the first of two shorthanded goals scored by the 49ers. After entering the third period down 4-2, the Titans knew they would have to come out strong and aggressive to turn the game around, and they did. 2:30 into the period, Titan senior forward Blake Dorman took advantage of a power play when he put the puck into the net on a rebound while battling in front of the net. A few minutes later, Long Beach junior forward Brad Roberts earned his hat trick, scoring his third goal of the game. At this point, the game looked bad for the Titans, but they did not give up. Dorman scored his second of the game with another goal on the power play when he took a wrist shot that

floated over goalie St. Louis’ glove. The game got more and more intense as the Titans were only one goal away from tying it up. Incredibly, with only 1:13 remaining left in the game, Dunaev hustled hard and scored his second goal of the night. The Titan forward took a shot that was initially saved by the 49er net-minder, but the goalie fell backwards and the puck bounced into the back of the net. As the regulation time had run out and the two teams made their way into overtime, it looked as though it was going to end in another shootout. However, the 49ers had other plans. With only 50 seconds remaining in the overtime, 49er freshman defenseman James Robelotto put a loose puck behind Heethuis, destroying all hope for CSUF. The locker room was silent when Titan Head Coach Nick Moran said, “In my eyes, we won the game.” As everyone gave thanks to those around them for such an exciting season, those who are returning next season are already energized. Hockey ends the regular season with hopes of improvement. The team returns for their final game of the semester at the Honda Center in Anaheim versus hockey alumni March 7 at 9:30 p.m.

Men’s rugby dominates visiting SDSU Aztecs By nicolette grant For the Daily Titan

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The Cal State Fullerton rugby team slaughtered San Diego State’s Div. III team 46-5 Feb. 20. After having two weeks off due to rain complications, CSUF finally had a day of clear skies and a solid field to work with. With six different players scoring a try, hard work was certainly put forth. “They were a tough team,” said junior forward Kevin DeNatale. “When the forwards control the rucks, like we did today, it allows the backs to get the ball.” The Titans were indeed aggressive in controlling the pace of the game. Within the opening minutes of the game, a knockout from midfield was driven to the 20-yard line, causing a massive pile-up. Solid rucking by the forwards allowed the ball to find its way out of the mess and to be swung into the left corner for the first try of the game for the Titans. A couple minutes later, the hunt continued as Titan junior back Ian Forner jolted down the left-hand side at midfield. As Aztec players came charging at him head on, he made a smart play and kicked it ahead by popping the ball over the players. Sophomore back Jourdan Hilaire found the ball on the third bounce for a try. “We utilized our speed and back-play more than (before),” said freshman back Taylor Edwards, who scored the next try off a 20-yard line kick ahead by fellow senior back Pete Petty. Before the half, SDSU was able to score their one and only try for the game over a solid pile-

photo courtesy willow hadland Junior forward Kevin DeNatale throws the ball to a teammate on a line-out play.

up on the try line finally collapsed in coverage. CSUF did not allow the lead to affect their play, as they came rushing onto the field after halftime and set up Forner for an easy conversion. Despite kicking it back to SDSU, the ball seemed magnetized to the hands of CSUF players as senior forward and team captain Jonathan Arroyave got the ball back within moments. He ran into a ruck for a quick popoff pass to fellow senior forward Randy Odhiambo, who pitched the ball back out to Arroyave on the far left side, leaving a pile of stunned SDSU players on the ground and

an open path to take it in for another CSUF try. As much success as the CSUF squad had in the game, they always strive for more. Head Coach Phil Grieve still sees the team as having reached a mere 30 percent of its potential so far this season. “We still have a bit of an individual game out there and need more focusing, relaxing and technical support,” said Grieve, who hopes to lead CSUF from a Div. III to Div. II program this year. The next match for CSUF men’s rugby will be at Whittier College Saturday at 1 p.m.

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February 22, 2010

Former coach spoils Titans’ home opener sports@dailytitan.com

photo By camille Tarazon/Daily Titan Staff Writer Oregon Head Coach George Horton stands with Titan Assistant Coach Greg Bergeron.

Former Titan Head Coach George Horton and his Oregon Ducks took it to the Titans Feb. 19 at Goodwin Field, beating Cal State Fullerton 7-3 on a soggy and sloppy opening night, where the Titans honored Horton before the start of the game. “(Horton) thanked me a few times for the honor we gave him, but he deserved everything he got for what he did for this program and what he continues to do for this program,” said Titan Head Coach Dave Serrano said. The Ducks’ pitching staff stepped up, shutting down one of the most potent offenses in the nation, including junior shortstop Christian Colon, a 2010 Golden Spikes award prospect, and powerful sophomore first baseman Nick Ramirez, holding them to a combined two hits on the night. “What surprised me was he was so excited to go and he got a little emotional when he gave up the two runs early, but he stuck through,” Horton said about Oregon’s starting pitcher, sophomore left-hander Tyler Anderson. This was Horton’s first return to Fullerton since he left the Titans two years ago to become the highest paid coach in college baseball at Oregon.

“It was just a special night and runs of their own in the bottom of Dave’s a good friend, and there aren’t the first as junior center fielder Gary many games I’ll remember by the Brown led with a single. date or the score, but this is one I’ll After a strike out, Brown adremember for the rest of my life and vanced to second on a fly ball to left my team was able to give me the gift field off the bat of Colon. Brown of a win,” Horton said. then stole third and an errant throw The Titans’ pitching staff did what from Ducks senior catcher Eddie they could to Rodriguez alkeep the Ducks’ lowed Brown to ... If we want to be offense at bay, score. but errors proved a great team we need to Ramirez costly on a night scored on a that included a (be) challenged and we single from se54-minute rain need to to work to get nior catcher delay. Billy Marcoe to “It was a better. give the Titans – Dave Serrano a 2-1 lead after a rough night for Titan Head Coach the Titans, but 37-minute first we get to wake inning. up and have anBoth pitchers other chance tokept the opposmorrow,” Serrano said. ing lineups scoreless, keeping the The Ducks were heavy underdogs score at 2-1 until the Ducks’ offense in the game, coming off a season found their groove, putting up three where they were just 14-42, while runs in the top of the sixth. the Titans were 42-14. With one out in the inning, freshOregon capitalized on Titan mis- man first baseman Ryan Hambright takes in the top of the first, starting singled to left to put runners on first with a hit batsman sending Oregon’s and second for the Ducks. leadoff hitter, sophomore shortstop Sophomore second baseman DanK.C. Serna, to first. ny Pulfer lined a two RBI double to Two passed balls sent Serna to right-center field to give the Ducks third, an error by Ramirez at first back the lead 3-2. base allowed the run to score, and it Freshman third baseman J.J. Algave the Ducks an early one-run lead tobelli followed with his own RBI without recording a hit. single to make the Ducks lead 4-2. The Titans countered with two The Titans began to eat away at

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Daily Titan Staff Writer

the Ducks’ lead in the bottom of the inning when freshman designated hitter Carlos Lopez walked and scored a run on an RBI single from the bat of freshman pinch-hitter Anthony Hutting, taking the score to 4-3 in favor of the Ducks. After a flat seventh inning, the Ducks came out in the top of the eighth, earning two walks in a row and a sacrifice bunt that resulted in a throwing error by Ramirez, scoring one run and moving runners to the corners with no outs. Altobelli stepped in and hit into a fielder’s choice to senior third baseman Joey Siddons, causing a pickle between home and third, forcing the out and leaving a runner at third. Serna smashed a double down the third baseline, scoring Altobelli and giving the Ducks a 7-3 lead. “It couldn’t have worked out any better, we want challenges and ... if we want to be a great team we need to (be) challenged and we need to work to get better,” Serrano said. Junior starting pitcher Daniel Renken finished the game with five and two-thirds innings pitched with four runs, seven strikeouts, two walks and threw 95 pitches in the loss. “We need to relax a little more. The excitement and jitters got the best of us tonight, but we’ll come back tomorrow and fix the problems and have to be more confident,” Siddons said.

Baseball shutout by Waves, bury 49ers By Nicholas Fortes and Brian Whitehead

Daily Titan Staff Writers sports@dailytitan.com

The Cal State Fullerton baseball team couldn’t find their offense after losing to the Pepperdine Waves 6-0 at Goodwin Field Feb. 20 -- which was their second loss in to start the season.

Pepperdine junior lefty Matt Bywater (1-0) shut down the Titans, surrendering only four hits while striking out ten in a complete game shutout performance. “I knew that my defense was behind me and it gave me the confidence to throw what I needed to when I needed to,” Bywater said. “And the offense showed up tonight too.”

photos By dave munoz/For the Daily Titan Sophomore pitcher Tyler Pill goes through his wind up against Long Beach State.

Titan sophomore right-hander Noe Ramirez (0-1) pitched six innings, giving up eight hits, allowing four earned runs and striking out nine. “Noe came out in the first inning and was as good as he’s been in career since he’s been here. The second inning he lost a little bit of focus, some balls got up and they made him pay for it,” said Titan Head Coach Dave Serrano. Six of the eight hits and all of the earned runs coming in the second inning. “Besides the second inning I felt real good. I felt confident with my change-up, which is usually the pitch I struggle with the most, but it was lights out,” Ramirez said. After a quick first inning, the Waves’ offense exploded for four runs in the top of the second. Back-to-back base hits from senior third baseman Colin Rooney and sophomore right fielder Aaron Gates gave the Waves two on with no one out. Following a strike out, Pepperdine had three consecutive hits to score four runs and give the Waves a 4-0 lead. After the turbulent second inning, Ramirez was able to settle down and keep the Waves off the bases. “My mechanics were off, I went back to my old style. I was too jerky and I wasn’t smooth with it,” Ramirez said. “I talked to Serrano after the inning and went back to being smooth, using my whip and pitching like I pitch.” The Titans’ offense only saw eight batters make it safely to first base, with runners reaching third only twice. In the third game of the weekend, sophomore right-hander Tyler Pill (1-0) struck out six Long Beach State batters in seven innings, as CSUF rebounded from back-to-back losses

Sophomore pitcher Tyler Pill throws to sophomore first baseman Nick Ramirez to catch a Long Beach State player off the bases.

to beat the Dirtbags 8-1 Sunday afternoon in front of a crowd of 2,027 at Goodwin Field. The Titans’ first victory of the 2010 season came after the school’s first 0-2 start of the season since 1987. “Our goal today was to come out and play Titan baseball,” said Titan Assistant Coach Greg Bergeron, who filled in for suspended Head Coach Dave Serrano. “The way we play, the way we pitch, we play defense, we got the offense rolling, it was more of the way we went about it than the end result.” The Titans finally found their offense to the tune of 12 hits and eight runs against rival LBSU. Junior center fielder and leadoff hitter Gary Brown led the Titan charge, going 3-5 with a double and two big RBIs. “We weren’t very aggressive early on in the game, so I was trying to be more aggressive, especially with

runners on,” Brown said. “I learned from my first at-bat and saw that they were going to try to get ahead with the fastball, and I didn’t let them.” Meanwhile on the mound, Pill dominated the Dirtbags, keeping them off balance all afternoon and only allowed one unearned run en route to his first win of the season. “He commanded both sides of the plate and set the tone for the day,” Bergeron said. “He never let them get the momentum.” Junior All-American shortstop Christian Colon led off the fourth inning with his and the Titans’ first home run of the season, belting a solo shot to left-center, giving the Titans an early 1-0 lead. “As soon as I hit it I knew it was going out. It felt good off the bat,” Colon said. “I was pretty excited rounding the bases ... I knew that’s just what we needed to spark the team up.”

The lead didn’t last for long, however, as LBSU tied the game with an unearned run in the top of the fifth, courtesy of a sacrifice fly by sophomore second baseman Derek Legg. After a walk to Colon, sophomore first baseman Nick Ramirez drove in Brown for CSUF’s third run of the game, cushioning the lead to 3-1. The Titans blew the game open in the 7th inning, tallying three runs on four hits and increasing their lead to an insurmountable 8-1. The Titans’ 3-4-5 batters (Colon, Ramirez and junior third baseman Corey Jones) fueled the offense, going a combined 5-11, driving in four of the eight runs. “We build off this, get used to this feeling, we hadn’t won a game in what was four straight losses back to Omaha until now,” Brown said. “It just feels good to win, especially on this field again. At the end of the game, being able to high-five your teammates feels good.”