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Academic Senate recommends making Asian American Studies an official department.

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Review: ‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure’ fails to conclude the dystopian series.

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CSUF community honors Men’s basketball Martin Luther King Jr. ends losing streak Cal State Fullerton lost to Santa Barbara but rallied to beat Hawaii.

JARED EPREM Sports Editor

From chalk to poetry, the renowned civil rights leader is celebrated for a week.

AMY WELLS News Editor

Coinciding with the first week of the spring semester, the Cal State Fullerton community honored civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a weeklong commemoration filled with events.

“MLK Week 2018” was hosted by the African American Resource

Center, Associated Students, Inc., Black Student Union and Student Life and Leadership.

On Tuesday, students and faculty gathered in the Quad to write their dreams on the cement with chalk.

Positive affirmations such as “unity” and “you are not alone” were laid across the ground as the campus community took time to reflect on King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

“My dream is that one day I can live in an America where everyone is seen for their value as a human being, and that people are really

valued for who they are,” said senior human services major Shannon Carter.

Carter appreciated seeing the campus come together to recognize King’s accomplishments and his devotion to diversity and inclusion.

“The week itself has a lot of importance to me. I’m really glad that my campus is recognizing someone like MLK, someone who has done so much for African-Americans, of which I am,” Carter said.

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I let the game come to me, play off my teammates and feed off our energy.

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CSUF President Framroze Virjee was a frequent presence at the series of commemorative events hosted by the African-American Resource Center, Black Student Union, Associated Students, Inc. and Student Life and Leadership.

Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball dropped its third straight game to the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos on Thursday but rebounded on Saturday thanks to a historic night from Kyle Allman to defeat Hawaii on the road.

Against Santa Barbara, the Titans led for the entire game until a 3-pointer from Max Heidegger gave the Gauchos a lead with 4 minutes and 20 seconds to play. The two teams exchanged leads until a few empty possessions and quick fouls from Fullerton put Santa Barbara at the line to seal the deal.

“We just gotta finish games.

Tonight, we didn’t finish. We let them get some 50-50 plays and loose balls, particularly some rebounding opportunities for themselves to convert,

AUSTEN AWOSIKA Point guard

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and they executed,” said Titans Head Coach Dedrique Taylor.

CSUF’s defense led the way in the first half. It held Santa Barbara, the Big West conference leader in points per game, to 24 points in the first half, tying the team’s lowest first-half point total of the season.

The Gauchos also turned the ball over nine times in the first half, which almost matched their 9.6 turnovers per game rate they held in Big West play, the fewest in the conference.

However, they cleaned it up in the second half and ended the game with only two additional turnovers.

Fullerton point guard Austen Awosika returned to the starting lineup for the first time since the season opener against University of Southern California. He looked good in the team’s loss, coming up with 14 points to go along with six rebounds, four assists and no turnovers.

“I think I stuck to what I’ve been doing. I let the game come to me, play off my teammates and feed off our energy,” Awosika said.

After maintaining the lead for a majority of the second half, shooting struggles began to plague the Titans. Of the nine field goals attempted in the last eight minutes of the game, only two fell.

During this stretch, the Gauchos went on a 26-13 run.

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Students Fullerton fails to secure championship bond by brawling in the TSU The dance team’s streak of eight consecutive national titles comes to an end.

KATHRYNE PADILLA Asst. Sports Editor

The CSUF Smash Club hosted a gaming tournament open to all.

BRIAN ALVARADO Asst. Lifestyle Editor

Beyond their shared interest in Nintendo characters like Mario, Donkey Kong and Pikachu, gamers in the Smash Club of Cal State Fullerton have another reason to gather around GameCubes and tube-screened televisions to engage in battle every week — community.

These devout players come together at the Titan Student Union Underground, not to see who can be the best, but to bond through virtual combat.

“It’s kind of cool that we all have this one hobby. So, I guess that’s what made me passionate about wanting to get more involved into the game,” said Joseph Badal, Smash Club event coordinator.

Packed with over 20 gamers waiting for a chance to play, Smash Club (a club based around the fighting video game, “Super Smash Bros.”) kicked off its weekly tournaments on Tuesday night.

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Returning its 17th title at the Universal Cheerleading Association (UCA) and Universal Dance Association (UDA) college national championship, the Cal State Fullerton dance team fell short of the top spot in both pom and jazz, taking home two second place trophies.

“You put all this hard work into it, and at the end of the day, we know we all tried our best,” said senior Valerie Gaitan.

Fullerton traveled to Orlando, Florida in hopes of achieving its ninth straight win in jazz, but the team was just under the line of perfection as the University of Delaware came up over both CSUF and Hofstra University for first place.

The Titans began practice in September, about two to three times a week until Christmas when it changed to seven days a week. Practices were between four to eight hours with only New Year’s Day off in order to create routines that were at a level surpassing precision in the judges eyes.

CSUF also took advantage of an unoccupied Titan Gym following women’s and men’s basketball home games in December to get in as much practice as it could.

“I tell them that we have different score sheets from everybody else and they have high expectations, and if we’re not perfect,

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The Titans had secured eight championships in a row and 16 total championships before their most recent second-place finish in the UDA National Dance Championships.

we won’t win,” said 1997 alumna and CSUF Dance Adviser Jennie Volkert.

Hofstra University took the 2018 national champions title for Division I Pom, a category Fullerton has failed to place first in since taking on the

competition in 2012.

The announcement of placing second rang through the arena at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and left a mark on the Titans. However, the time and commitment they put into their routines could be seen

in their performances.

“We left the floor knowing that this is the best we can do. It’s a subjective sport. It’s what the judges like and they just didn’t like us,” said senior Hayley Roy. SEE DANCE

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2 News Trump Administration’s pro-Israel actions spark outrage in the region

MONDAY JANUARY 29, 2018

CSUF Professor analyzes the developments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

BRANDON PHO News Editor

Members of the Cal State Fullerton community expressed skepticism and disapproval following a series of developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that kicked off with President Donald Trump’s Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a large-scale move for the U.S. in its position as a conflict mediator.

Israel and Palestine both lay claim to parts of the city of Jerusalem.

Following the Palestinian National Authority’s refusal to meet with Vice President Mike Pence in protest of his trip to the embattled region, Trump threatened to cut off further U.S. aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that specifically funds Palestinian refugees.

The Trump Administration already decided in early January to withhold as much as $65 million from the agency out of an available $125 million installment.

For some Palestinian refugees, such as those in the Shuafat district of Jerusalem for which UNRWA is sometimes the only tangible form of

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We’re talking about millions of people who are deeply impoverished and need this assistance as a lifeline. This is not just an additional source of aid. This is the source of aid.

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SCOTT SPITZER Associate Professor of political science

government service, the withholding of aid to the U.N. agency could mean life or death.

Over a million registered refugees live in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip combined.

However, the funding cuts would also affect the 450,000 registered refugees in Lebanon, the 526,000 registered in Syria and the over two million in Jordan.

Although the U.S. State Department’s overt stance is that the United States wants to see “revisions in how UNRWA operates,” CSUF associate professor of political science Scott Spitzer said he believes the Trump Administration sees UNRWA’s aid to the refugees as somehow supporting radical anti-Israel activity.

“They don’t say that directly, but I think that’s sort of the assumption. Why else would they be cutting this,” Spitzer said.

“We’re talking about millions of people who are deeply impoverished and need this assistance as a lifeline. This is not just an additional source of aid.

It’s the source of aid.”

In 2016, the U.S. spent upward of $355 million toward UNRWA’s operations, including $95 million for the West Bank and Gaza Emergency Appeal, according to the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem.

While Spitzer does not blame Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for spiting Pence during his trip, he said a foreclosing of any kind of conversation “is a mistake.”

“I think they are better off having a meeting,” Spitzer said.

The CSUF professor noted that the surrounding Arab countries seem to be reacting in a muted way.

“There’s been some protests,” Spitzer said. “Jordan is not abdicating its peace treaty. Egypt is not stopping its trade with Israel. They’re not changing their attitude to the U.S. They still

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CSUF professor Scott Spitzer said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to meet with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is a mistake. Abbas refused to meet Pence in protest of Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.

want assistance from the U.S. There’s a way in which the Palestinians are even more isolated now than they have been in a long time.”

Some Palestinians have not been so measured in their response. On Saturday, a video surfaced of Palestinians in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem hanging and burning

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CSUF Students for Justice in Palestine plan to release a statement denouncing Trump’s recent actions.

Amid all the conflict, Spitzer said it would not be hard for Trump or his administration to walk back on his remarks.

“Instead, they’re raising the stakes,” Spitzer said.

Suspicious person reported in library

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effigies of Trump and Pence in a mock execution.

38 percent of Palestinians surveyed from the West Bank and Gaza Strip support waging an armed struggle against the Israeli occupation and less than half of the Palestinians surveyed support the two-state solution, according to a December poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy

Man suspected to be watching pornography is asked to leave campus.

JASON ROCHLIN Asst. News Editor

University Police responded to a phone call Thursday regarding a male non-student who was believed to be watching pornography on the second floor of the Pollak Library’s north side.

The suspicious person call came at about 5:30 p.m. and was investigated by two officers. University Police Captain Scot Willey said they did not find anything on the man’s computer, but the call was enough to have him escorted off campus after the officers identified and interviewed him.

“They just asked him to leave, which he did. He complied. By that point the reporting party had left, so we weren’t able to interview them to see what he or she had seen,” Willey said.

While officers could not find anything substantial enough to administer a seven-day Stay Away Order, the suspicious individual is now logged in the University Police system so appropriate actions can be taken, should any calls be made about him in the future.

The seven-day Stay Away Order University Police officers can administer comes in accordance with California Penal Code 626.6, which states any person unaffiliated with a school or university that isn’t required to be there and is committing or intends to commit an

act “likely to interfere with the peaceful conduct of the activities of the campus or facility” can be directed to leave so long as the directive does not impact one’s freedom of speech or assembly.

Campus police receive calls regarding suspicious males touching themselves on average once every month or two, Willey said. This incident was the first call of its kind in 2018.

He said that because the Pollak Library is open to the public, it tends to attract a lot of similar activity with 99.9 percent of cases involving non-students.

“It’s a misdemeanor if that, so it’s something that our police officers have to see themselves in order to make an arrest. Otherwise, they have to have the person that saw it do a private person’s arrest,” Willey said.

Willey said that students, faculty and staff should be mindful of their surroundings when in crowded public places like the library, both for cases of indecency and potential thefts.

If someone is in a situation where people are “watching pornography or touching themselves” in the library, Willey recommends finding a safe spot and calling University Police.

He said it helps if the reporting party gathers as many details as they can once they call and stays to keep an eye on the suspicious person.

“We take that very seriously.

Even though it’s not a high-level crime, it’s a very, very creepy kind of thing going on in our area that we don’t like. We want to keep them away,” Willey said.

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Other events included a lecture on King’s legacy by associate professor of African American Studies Tyler Parry and a screening of the 2014 film, “Selma” which highlights King’s efforts to end racial discrimination and secure equal voting rights.

The week concluded with a spoken word event Friday in the Titan Student Union Underground Pub with readings by African American Studies associate professor Natalie Graham and CSUF student Amber Lambert.

Graham performed Morgan Parker’s “The President Has Never Said the Word ‘Black,’” a critical piece on former President Barack Obama, as well as a poem of her own.

“I think when you look at spoken word you have to look at the cultural significance, particularly within the black community. It truly is an art form that reaches a large variety of audiences,” said African American Resource Center graduate assistant, Erica Claybrook.

Claybrook saw the week as a spotlight for King’s work and his leadership in the civil rights movement, illustrating the true reach of his impact on society.

“It’s nice to see that Cal State

Fullerton is an advocate for diversity, education, and campus unity and representation of all students on campus,” said senior advertising major and African American Resource Center marketing lead, Yaa Asantewaa Faraji.

CSUF’s new president, Fram Virjee attended events throughout the week.

Lambert, African American Resource Center’s social justice lead, recalled being taken aback by Virjee’s opness when she met him on the first day of the semester, having pegged him as a professor during their conversation before he introduced himself as the president.

“He’s just himself and he’s always willing to come talk to you and take that extra moment. To me, it’s something I’d never seen before on a university campus,” Lambert said.

Almost brought to tears from their encounter, Lambert said she appreciated Virjee’s efforts to reach out to students.

“I hope these events continue and I hope he continues to attend them because it really shows their importance,” Lambert said.

As January comes to a close the African American Resource Center is gearing up for its events celebrating Black History Month in February.

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The weeklong tribute concluded with a spoken word poetry reading in the Titan Student Union Underground Pub following the “Chalking about MLK” event earlier in the week.

New department proposal reaches president

The Academic Senate moves to officialize Asian American Studies.

JASON ROCHLIN Asst. News Editor

When Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Kari Knutson Miller tossed her jacket at Academic Senate Chair Stephen Stambough for introducing her as “an older face in a new position,” she received a round of applause at the Thursday meeting, the first of 2018.

However, that moment was dwarfed by the uproarious cheers from the crowd all around Pollak Library North 130 when the consent calendar was approved.

The biggest item on the calendar was the Academic Senate’s recommendation to Cal State Fullerton President Fram Virjee to approve a proposal for the Asian American Studies program to become an official department in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

“They are one of the hardest working departments,” Sen. Alexandro Gradilla said. “Asian American Studies provided a model for which I was able to help rebuild Chicano Studies and eventually African American Studies.”

The Asian American Studies program was established in 1996 and hired its first full-time faculty member, Thomas Fujita-Rony, Ph.D., in 1998. It wouldn’t be until 1999 that an Ethnic Studies Bachelor of Arts degree in Asian American Studies was approved.

Fujita-Rony is responsible for the development of a lot of its existing courses, Program Coordinator Eliza Noh, Ph.D., said.

“There was actually no resistance. The administration was very supportive, the faculty were supportive. It happened pretty easily to get the first few courses and the minor approved,” Noh said.

The program began at the request of students, with Professor Emeritus Craig Ihara heading it as one of the first supporting faculty allies before any dedicated tenure-track professors were hired, Noh said.

Though he is no longer the program’s coordinator, Fujita-Rony now serves as a member of the Academic Senate and acted as a liaison between the two during the creation of the proposal.

“I think it’s a happy day for me. It’s a happy day for the University and certainly it’s a great feeling,” Fujita-Rony said.

Asian American Studies has

not tried to attain department status before because the faculty have been “working hard teaching and researching” and believed such a transition would be harder than it turned out to be, Noh said.

“Because we are already functioning like a department, we have our own budget, it’s just business as usual. People will just now see that it’s a more accurate description of what we do as an institutional structure within Cal State Fullerton,” Noh said.

She said the transition will grant the program more “institutional permanence” and allow the Asian American Studies curriculum to expand further, opening up more opportunities for community partnerships in the future.

The move has received support from four different Humanities and Social Sciences deans and two program performance reviews.

“When we’re writing recommendation letters, it’s much nicer to put it out on letterhead that says ‘Department of’ because it’s so widely recognized,” Fujita-Rony said.

The move to department status would also be good for showcasing the diversity of Cal State Fullerton, both Fujita-Rony and Noh said.

In the fall 2017 semester, 20.5 percent of the student body was Asian, according to the Institutional Research and Analytical Studies department. It was the second largest represented ethnic group on campus behind Hispanic students.

“It’s an important field for all students to have knowledge of.

It’s not just for Asian-American Pacific Islander students, everyone should have an understanding of who Americans are and where the U.S. is in the world,” Noh said.

The president’s office receives documents from the Academic Senate to approve about a week after a meeting, Stambough said. He could not comment on Virjee’s thoughts regarding the proposal, but mentioned that recommendations up to this point have been positive.

“Judging from his reaction, he’s going to sign. I can’t imagine any circumstance where he wouldn’t,” Fujita-Rony said.

Also approved as part of the Senate’s consent calendar was a series of 11 new program proposals, including a degree in athletic training for the Department of Kinesiology and a concentration in Intercultural Management for Mihaylo College of Business and Economics’ International Business Program.

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Asian American Studies Program Coordinator Eliza Noh, who drafted the proposal, initially thought the process to make the program a department would be harder than it turned out to be.

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The double-elimination tournament will continue every Tuesday of the semester from 5 to 10 p.m. It provides club members and students another opportunity and place to play outside of Wednesday meetings, which not everybody can always attend.

“People have fluctuating schedules, they have work, they’ve got classes,” said Adrian Nieto, president of the Smash Club. “It’s been working out for the people that can’t make it to one but are able to make it to the other.”

The tournament featured two brackets: one for “Super Smash Bros. for Wii U,” followed by another for the classic “Super Smash Bros. Melee.”

After five hours of up-anddown smash attacking, club members Austin Killough and Paul Lee came out victorious in “Smash for Wii U” and “Melee” respectively, winning prizes provided by the TSU which included a hat, lanyards, pens and notebooks.

Despite its intense, competitive start in spring 2017, the tournament has become a place for students to refine their craft rather than beat their fellow competitors.

Killough went undefeated in the 24-player bracket.

For him, the tournament is a place to enjoy the game in a more casual setting because he often attends larger-scale tournaments at venues like the Esports Arena in Santa Ana, where some of the top players in the world compete.

Nieto also considers the weekly

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Cal State Fullerton’s Smash Club held two double-elimination tournaments using Nintendo GameCubes and Wii Us.

free-for-all as a place for gamers of all skill levels.

“It’s friendly competition. It’s not too serious. This is kind of good training ground, I’d say, for people who want to get started,” Nieto said.

Badal found his passion for the series because it brings people together. He’s made some unexpected relationships with total strangers.

“I just love going out and seeing how myself and all these other people, people I’ve never met, that we all have an interest and it’s this,” Badal said.

Where games like “Overwatch” and “League of Legends” have players sit in front

of a computer screen and talk to each other through headsets, “Smash” requires players to sit right next to each other and talk in real life.

“It is very intimate. That experience isn’t something that we have a lot nowadays,” Nieto said.

The Tuesday tournament still ignited the intensity and the natural competitive nature was very much present.

But these tournaments are more than just playing a video game. It’s a community-driven series, one that is a staple in many of the club members’ lives.

“It’s kind of like this weird part of my life now, but it’s awesome, I definitely enjoy it,” Nieto said.

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ASI’s farmers market sweetens food choices From berries to bundt cakes, students can shop for snacks every other Tuesday.

BRIAN ALVARADO Asst. Lifestyle Editor

The commute through campus took a healthier and sweeter turn Tuesday as vendors like Eduardo Lopez & Bros., Sheefa Honey and Dolce Monachelli set up canopies lining the Humanities courtyard.

The farmers market, coordinated by Cal State Fullerton’s Associated Students, Inc., happens every other Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

One of its purposes is to provide alternatives to the typical cup of noodles or bag of chips that are common staples in a college student’s diet.

“Farmers market is a student-initiated program bringing local vendors to campus to provide a variety of food, healthier options of eating, as well as, we’re hoping in the future, some pretty cool products,” said Asha Nettles, a professional staff member and coordinator for ASI Leader and Program Development.

Eduardo Lopez & Bros., a company that harvests its own produce, brought its fair share of greenery to Tuesday’s market from their farm in Santa Maria.

They came prepared with cauliflower, broccoli, strawberries and blackberries, which employee Itzel Xuconoxtle said sold the best.

Dolce Monachelli’s, a family-owned bakery, provided students with bundt cakes to satisfy the sweet tooths on campus. They brought flavors that ranged from Italian Butter Rum to Whiskey Chocolate.

ASI does not have to go far to find vendors to participate in the three hour-long event. Sometimes, it doesn’t even have to look farther than a mile.

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Eduardo Lopez & Bros. sold strawberries and blackberries grown at their Santa Maria farm. This was their first time selling at the CSUF market.

Dolce Monachelli’s runs its bakery a mere 0.9 miles away from campus on State College Boulevard.

Ahmed Bibi, owner of Sheefa Honey and a business major at CSUF, discovered the market browsing around campus.

“I noticed there was vendors, I looked around for the market managers, and I said, ‘Hey man, you’re missing honey. I sell honey,’” said Bibi.

The farmer’s market is a space for Bibi to have his honey company showcase its eight flavors.

“Basically, what we sell is all local raw honey products from California, natural, unprocessed – the way it’s supposed to be,” said Bibi.

Chris Monachelli, owner of the local bakery, said that they participate in about 40 farmers markets around the area and were invited to do this one.

Other than fruits, cake and

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honey, Nettles said that ASI is looking to branch out to other categories.

“Someone wants to come and do art. So, we’re trying to also expand the variety because you hear ‘farmers’ and you’re like, ‘Okay, so we’re eating?’” Nettles said.

Off-campus farmers markets often provide people with a variety of goods and ASI hopes to do the same.

However, Nettles and ASI can’t give students the types of vendors they want without knowing exactly what they want.

The voice of the students is vital because much of what ASI decides depends on feedback.

All in all, the CSUF farmers market is an event where vendors are able to showcase their best products while students can enjoy them.

“It works out really well to come out and get people to know about us,” Monachelli said.

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Concluding the ‘Maze Runner’ trilogy, the third installment is littered with plot holes and cookie-cutter action sequences.

‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure’ flops

The final movie of the series storytelling and character development creates chaos and lacks originality, quality confusion. characters and depth.

Much like the second movie HANNAH MILLER Lifestyle Editor

An angsty leader who isn’t quite sure how to lead, a love triangle and a weird, self-gratifying group of adults hell-bent on torturing them — all the right ingredients for another generic movie adaptation of a young adult book.

“Maze Runner: The Death Cure” is the third and final installment of the saga based on the novels by James Dashner, but the film left more questions than answers. The movie picks up after Teresa’s (Kaya Scodelario) betrayal and the abduction of Minho (Ki Hong Lee) in the previous 2015 movie, “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.”

Set on rescuing Minho, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), the protagonist, and his friends are tasked with finding and infiltrating a city harboring the World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department (WCKD), an organization searching for the cure of a zombie-like virus called the Flare.

While Thomas and company do this, Teresa helps WCKD continue to experiment on humans in an attempt to save humanity.

From what started as a thrilling and interesting young adult series, “The Death Cure” falls short of the expectations set up by “The Maze Runner” (2014).

The first movie created questions surrounding the disease and state of the world. However, the finale left those questions unanswered. Instead, the filmmakers tried to bury the crater-sized plot holes with an excess of action sequences.

Although these scenes were suspenseful at first, ranging from a western-like train raid to escaping the infected, they all seemed to follow the same pattern. Finding themselves at the point of no return, the characters are miraculously rescued.

The filmmakers tried to pack every exciting moment from the book into a 2 hour, 22-minute film, but the lack of meaningful

in the series, Thomas stumbles upon a new rebellion that is inexplicably angry and acts without purpose, contributing to the intensity of the action scenes but ultimately stirring up more questions about the nature of WCKD and the disease it hopes to cure.

As a viewer, it is difficult to root for Thomas. His character isn’t compelling, but he somehow continuously rallies followers to help fight his battles, even when he is advised otherwise.

His bad decisions lead to a series of near-death experiences that could have easily been avoided.

Throughout the movie, Thomas’ expression and demeanor rarely change. His character remains stagnant throughout the entire series: a brave and serious leader who claims he wants to save everyone but is willing to sacrifice people to save his friends.

Although Thomas is supposed to be heroic, he comes off as whiny and more of a hindrance than an asset to his crew.

Thomas isn’t the only underdeveloped character. The remaining teenagers he originally met in the maze and the friends he makes along the way also have no personal depth.

Brenda (Rosa Salazar), a character introduced in “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,” is a fearless adrenaline junky willing to do anything for Thomas. However, her character is static and has no substantial backstory presented in the film. She shows up, saves the day, and that’s that.

Even Teresa, who has a backstory and is supposed to be spearheading the way to a cure, beats the rest of the cast in flat acting. Her character is so emotionless and doe-eyed for the majority of the movie that it almost seems as if she’s trying to win an apathy award against Bella Swan from the “Twilight” movies.

In the end, the movie adaptation of “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” leaves no lesson to be learned other than harvesting teenagers for the sake of others is probably not a great thing to do.

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MONDAY JANUARY 29, 2018

E-books fall short in comparison to print Physical copies hold more sentiment and cause fewer issues.

BREANNA BELKEN Asst. News Editor

Sitting down and flipping through a book, old or new, is a feeling that can’t be reproduced.

While reading e-books may allow a reader to be productive and take their books on the go, they don’t carry the same emotional value as physical copies do.

E-books have grown in the book industry. Twenty percent of readers in the United States read e-books more frequently than printed copies, according to a 2015 report from Statista, a statistics company. More than 221 million e-books were sold in 2015, demonstrating the benefits they bring to the book industry.

Physical books are still the biggest moneymakers in the publishing business, but its value is undermined by e-books and devices that promise storage and accessibility to millions of titles regardless of where a reader may be.

What these sales ignore is the emotional attachment between a reader and a printed copy of a book. E-books don’t capture the excitement a reader feels when turning a page or the suspense of not knowing what comes next.

Reading physical copies allow the reader to become immersed in a plot. As a result, a reader can recall more of the story, as seen in a small 2014 study conducted at Norway’s Stavanger University, which showed low-level retention among Kindle readers.

“When you read on paper you can sense with your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing, and shrinking on the right,” said lead researcher Anne Mangen in an interview with the Guardian.

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Though e-books have become more popular in the publishing industry, print brings in more money overall and has proven to be more beneficial for readers and authors alike. The digitalization of books has led to piracy and unhealthy reading habits.

In five to ten years devices like the Amazon Kindle may be rendered obsolete by new technology. Physical books can last forever and carry sentimental value; they can be passed down from person to person, generation to generation.

E-books make reading monotonous. It can hardly be considered reading when it’s just staring at a screen.

Whether it’s a phone, tablet or Kindle, readers focus on a screen — a task that isn’t easy on the eyes. Reading a book on a device for hours on end may result in eye irritation and fatigue, not to mention reading from a bright screen at night can be detrimental to a person’s ability to fall asleep. A reader should be awake because they can’t wait to turn the page and find out what comes

next in the story, not because the brightness of a screen is affecting their sleep.

Science aside, there’s still no better satisfaction than shelving a book after combing through its pages. Books are tangible, not pixels on a screen.

E-books have also been known to negatively affect authors and the entire book industry, despite their slight contribution to sales.

With the rising popularity of e-books there has also been a rise in book piracy.

The upsurge in piracy has coincided with authors who have seen their book deals slashed and sales dwindle.

Maggie Stiefvater, a best-selling fantasy novelist, has experienced the negative impacts of e-books and piracy. After a fan contacted her and confessed to

reading pirated copies of her novels, she began to see the problem. When e-book sales for her second book decreased and pirated copies were widespread, her publisher cut the number of physical copies to be printed in half.

To protest against the rapid spread of pirated copies she created and distributed a PDF containing the first four chapters of her book, repeated, and a message explaining how piracy negatively impacted authors.

“The effects were instant. The forums and sites exploded with bewildered activity. Fans asked if anyone had managed to find a link to a legit PDF,” Stiefvater said in an interview with The Guardian. “Dozens of posts appeared saying that since they hadn’t been able to find a PDF, they’d been forced to hit up

Amazon and buy the book. And we sold out of the first printing in two days.”

Other authors, however, are against what e-books do to the art of publishing. Jonathan Franzen, a National Book Award winner, wants readers to know authors work hard to produce physical copies. Reading from a screen doesn’t match the certainty of a hard copy — it lacks the tangible action of turning a page.

“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper,” Frazen said in an interview with The Telegraph. “A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.”

Conservative media shapes Trump’s leadership Fox News is an echo chamber for the president’s ego.

SOPHIA ACEVEDO Opinion Editor

To say that President Donald Trump prefers conservative media over others isn’t a far-fetched notion, it’s the sad truth. Whenever he can, Trump praises Fox News for its political coverage of him. Meanwhile, as proven by his 2017 “Fake News Awards,” released earlier this month, he hates just about every other media outlet.

Trump watches Fox News frequently, essentially live-tweeting its news coverage as Matthew Gertz points out in an article from Politico. In doing so, he has developed an endless feedback loop with Fox News, making it even more impossible for any of his outlandish promises to reach reality.

Trump acts like a lame former football jock reminiscing about his high school career, but instead of being the quarterback who threw the winning touchdown, he’s the player that was benched for the season.

In similar fashion, Trump isn’t one of the conservatives trying to achieve his nebulous promises. He is just keeping score of

his apparent successes by reiterating everything he hears in the news.

During his campaign, Trump promised a whole lot: the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the elimination of Common Core and the Affordable Care Act, and the construction of a massive border wall. So far, that hasn’t worked out too well.

Planned Parenthood and Common Core still stand tall and proud, as Trump has yet to realize the impact they have on two groups of people he’s proven he cares little about: women and children in the public education system.

His towering wall must be invisible because it’s nowhere to be seen. Congress has yet to approve it, and Mexico has yet to stop laughing at him for thinking its people would ever pay for it. At this rate, the wall won’t be anywhere close to finished during his hopefully short-lived presidency.

None of these promises have been delivered, and it’s due to Trump’s tremendous ego — a quality many people could see before his campaign even began.

In an attempt to feel like he has accomplished something noteworthy, Trump stays tuned into Fox News, engaging in a fantasy that ignores his shortcomings and replaces them with milestones of progress. After all, conservative news publications’ content tends to downplay a conservative president’s shortcomings and highlight minor successes.

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President Donald Trump has established a feedback loop with his favorite morning news show, “Fox & Friends,” effectively shutting out constructive criticism from other news sources.

Patrol Council about funding for Trump’s wall and about a halfhour later Trump issued a tweet, as if his 280-character limit would suddenly be law of the land come to life.

By watching “Fox & Friends” and its updates on the border, Trump surrounds himself with affirmation, effectively ignoring the negligible progress of his wall. In reality, he’s nowhere close to being done as the effort does not lie in the plan but its approval.

Trump’s once praised experience as a businessman is now coming back to bite him, as government action is far more difficult to achieve than business transactions. Agreements need to be made between other branches of government,

specifically Congress, which can’t agree on anything. The recent government shutdown proved that.

Without a sufficient understanding of politics, Trump’s plans have not fared well in legislation as they were far more complicated than he believed. If he had known prior to his election, he wouldn’t have made so many blatantly ridiculous, impossible-to-keep promises.

If Trump learned from, or at the least paid attention to, his critics perhaps he would wake up and realize he is the U.S. president, not the businessman in a reality TV show who can simply fire whoever he wants.

True journalists will hold him accountable for his actions and outrageous claims and true

journalists will remind him that he has yet to understand the very real complexities of government.

Fox News would never destroy Trump’s fragile ego by criticizing him, and because of that, he loves them. However, if Trump continues to only listen to conservative pundits, he won’t be motivated to perform his duties as an actual president.

It’d be a miracle if Trump ever acknowledged any of his many faults. But by living in a feedback loop in which he praises Fox News and angrily tweets about fake news, he isolates himself from criticism. Maybe one day he’ll recognize that his only legacy as president will be his all-talk, no-action approach to leadership.

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Clutch: Titans finish strong in Hawaii 1

Allman, Fullerton’s leading scorer, finished with 24 points on the night. However, his turnover with less than a minute left in the game gave the ball back to Santa Barbara with a chance to go up three.

Allman expressed his frustration with coming up short in the clutch postgame, which goes hand-in-hand with Taylor’s resounding message of the team’s lack of concentration.

“In the first half, the ball was moving and everybody was touching it and we were driving it and getting pretty much what we wanted,” Taylor said. “In the second half, we lost our focus and attention to detail and didn’t execute that particular part of the strategy.”

Ten of UCSB’s final 26 points came from the free throw line, a trend that Taylor wasn’t fond of.

“I thought the officiating was suspect. I thought that helped them

a tremendous amount in getting into the bonus,” ” Taylor said.

On the road, the Titans took down Hawaii 69-66 behind a career-high 40 points from Allman.

“We were on a three-game skid so we just wanted to come out here on the road and prove to everybody that we’re not as bad as we’ve been playing,” Allman said.

The entire team had it going against the Rainbow Warriors.

Although Jackson Rowe was the only other CSUF player in double figures, they shot 27-44 from the field and converted on 53.3 percent of shots from behind the arc.

Trailing by 11 with 13 minutes and 30 seconds left to play, Allman took it upon himself to carry the team to victory by scoring whenever he pleased and finding open teammates when Hawaii sent multiple defenders his way.

Rowe, by design, was the beneficiary of Allman’s late dimes.

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KYLE ALLMAN Titans guard found him. I knew they were gonna swarm at me so I knew I had to find my teammates,” Allman said.

Despite nearly breaking the school’s single-game scoring record, Taylor was not surprised by Allman’s heroics.

“That’s Kyle. That’s the Kyle that we’ve grown to know. I think he scored a little more than we’re used to but we needed every bit of it,” Taylor said.

The Titans will have their first full week of practice since the end of December as they prepare for a rematch against UC Irvine on Saturday Feb. 3 in Titan Gym.

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Junior guard Kyle Allman led his team to victory over Hawaii, scoring a career-high 40 points and ending a three-game losing streak.

CSUF baseball takes win over alumni

The Titans competed and defeated their predecessors 6-3 in their annual face-off.

KAILA CRUZ

Asst. Sports Editor

Sporting orange jerseys and navy lids, the 2018 Titans baseball team faced off against alumni in their annual game Saturday looking to capture its ninth win in 10 years. The Titans were successful with a 6-3 win over their alumni.

“A game is a game, I thought we did okay. We weren’t great, we weren’t bad,” said Titans Head Coach Rick Vanderhook.

The alumni proved they hadn’t lost their touch the previous

year when the two squads met at Goodwin Field.

“They were all over us last year when they took the win so we were definitely coming back this year and taking the win, which is always how it’s supposed to be,” said infielder Chris Prescott.

This year’s team featured Oakland Athletics third baseman Matt Chapman, World Series champion and pitcher for the Houston Astros, Chris Devenski and Miami Marlins catcher Chad Wallach.

The starting lineup for the Titans included standout players from last season including all-conference performer Sahid Valenzuela and Andrew Quezada, who earned a spot on Baseball America’s Top 100

Prospects List.

“I thought it was a good first showing for us. Every time we go out on the field it’s competitive,” Quezada said.

The last organized contest Fullerton competed in was a fall scrimmage exhibition game against the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. The Titans fell to the Rebels 5-4 after ending the game with a man on third and leaving the tying run only 90 feet away.

The first five innings went scoreless, but the Titans made their way onto the scoreboard with a run in the bottom of the sixth. However, the alumni responded with a run at the top of the seventh inning.

“We started out slow but

eventually picked it up a little bit.

It’s fun to come out and compete, Overall, I think it was a good day,” Prescott said.

At the bottom of the seventh, the Titans took the lead after Valenzuela took a pitch to the back, bringing a man home.

A sacrifice fly to center field by Mitchell Berryhill brought another man in and a line drive by Ruben Cardenas brought the man on third home, taking the score to 4-1.

Fullerton alumni cut the lead in the top of the eighth after Taylor Bryant drove in Austin Diemer with a line drive down the rightfield line.

The 2018 squad had no problem answering with an RBI single to right field from Tyler Lasch

which took the score to 6-2 at the bottom of the eighth inning.

An incomplete double play on behalf of the 2018 squad led the alumni to take the score to 6-3 to close out the game.

CSUF alumnus, Scott Hurst, found that playing against guys who he once took the field with was a new but warm experience.

“It’s a little different. It’s always great to see them on the other side knowing that they’re going to be there with me someday on the alumni side,” Hurst said.

The next time the Titans take the field will be the season opener at Stanford University on Feb. 16.

“We’ve got a lot of things to work on and we’ll see where we go from there,” Vanderhook said.

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MONDAY JANUARY 29, 2018

Women’s basketball was not able to overcome Cal Poly’s defensive pressure.

JARED EPREM Sports Editor

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In the UCA and UDA dance competitions, the Titans compete in the jazz and pom events. However, their halftime performances feature hip-hop routines.

Dance: Seniors leave their legacy CONTINUED FROM KATIE ALBERTSON / DAILY TITAN

Hannah Thompson scored a career-high 22 points Saturday while only knocking down one 3-pointer in the game.

“Being a shooter, people close out really hard on me so that opens up driving lanes a little more. We ran other plays for me a couple times to get a good backdoor pass from our post who made a great pass to me,” Thompson said.

Although she fouled out, Smith finished with 15 points and seven rebounds. She still sits second in the Big West for double doubles (8), despite failing to do so against the Mustangs.

She believes her impact as a defender is minimalized when the referees blow the whistle as constantly as they did against Cal Poly.

“It’s tough. Rather than putting your hands on them, you have to play straight up defense and hope

the refs are in your favor,” Smith said.

With her on the bench due to foul trouble in the second half, the Mustangs were able to control the glass on both ends. The team grabbed nine offensive rebounds in the second half and finished the game with 15 total.

“Giving up the amount of offensive rebounds we gave up, giving extra possessions, you can’t give a team like that 15 extra possessions to score, especially when they have one of the highest scoring players in the conference,” Harada said.

CSUF will look to snap its four game losing skid at Titan Gym against UC Irvine on Wednesday Jan. 31 and will be televised on ESPN3 at 7 p.m.

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Volkert stressed that the mindset the coaching staff instills in its athletes is not just an “in it to win it” motive but more of a chance to demonstrate their skills.

“One thing we always keep in mind is we worry about ourselves,” said Volkert. “When they competed in the finals, they had so much fire. They were having the time of their lives out there because they basically wanted to show off all their hard work.”

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Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team dropped its fourth straight game in conference play 72-63 to Cal Poly Pomona on Saturday.

CSUF trailed by only one point at the half, but the Titans 18 second-half turnovers gave Cal Poly the possessions it needed to close the game out on top.

“Regardless of what press break we’re in, we still got to be more poised under pressure. We have to take care of the ball better and understand that it’s going to be tough,” said Titans Head Coach Jeff Harada.

Both sides played physically from the start. A combined 21 fouls were called in the first half, and the Titans went to the free throw line 16 times, five short of their 21 average attempts per game in conference play heading into the match.

“We knew they were aggressive defensively and we wanted to be aggressive by penetrating, driving and hopefully drawing some fouls, and I thought we did that,” Harada said.

CSUF started the second half on a 9-0 run led by Daeja Smith, Jade Vega and Hannah Thompson. When momentum had seemingly shifted in the team’s favor, Cal Poly met them with 10 straight points to regain the lead at 43-41.

In that period alone, the Titans turned the ball over nine times.

Thompson recorded a career-high 22 points in the loss and led both teams in scoring.

She gave credit to her teammates for her success despite only sinking one 3-pointer in the game.

VALERIE GAITAN Dance team member

CSUF dance team.

“You learn a lot throughout your four years. All three of us were different people and dancers when we entered and now that we’re leaving we’re older, matured and dance-wise, it has shaped us,” Roy said.

They hope to leave behind the legacy that the previous upperclassmen left them with as their collegiate dance careers come to a close along with their contribution to three of the 16 titles that CSUF holds.

“As the dance team in general, the spirit squad, there’s a name that we have in the community. We are well-respected,” said Gaitan.

Keeping close to the mindset formed by the team and their presence within the community, the seniors leave with “what it means to be a Fullerton dancer,” Roy said.

Jared Eprem contributed to this report.

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