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The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Thursday March 15, 2018
ASI candidates disqualified Titans
gear up to face Purdue
Men’s basketball will face No. 2 Boilermakers in round one of NCAA tourney. JARED EPREM Sports Editor
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Moubayed and Eacobellis presented to the Sports Club Inter-Club Council at its last meeting on March 9, promising to give students a voice in their student government.
BREANNA BELKEN Asst. News Editor
Associated Students, or ASI, candidates Celine Moubayed and Colin Eacobellis were disqualified from the election Wednesday due to violations of the organization’s bylaws. On Tuesday, an unknown number of students received an email encouraging them to vote Moubayed for president and Eacobellis for vice president. The email, sent from Eacobellis’ student account,
provided a link to the ASI voting website and a message asking students to “consider Celine and Colin for your first choice!” Eacobellis and Moubayed declined requests for interviews with the Daily Titan. Moubayed serves as chief communications officer for ASI, and Eacobellis is president for the Interfraternity Council but does not currently hold a
Writer Janet Tashjian visited the Pollak Library to speak about her work.
story and many others that have transformed a split-second decision into an illustrious career. In 1993 Tashjian ended her career in sales. Twenty five years later, she’s published more than a dozen children’s and young-adult books, one of which helped inspire a Disney Channel movie, and has won several awards. During her talk, Tashjian emphasized the connections between her novels and personal life. Tashjian’s 1997 novel “Tru Confessions” is about a young girl named Trudy Walker who dreams of having her own television show, and wishes her twin brother would become un-handicapped,” according to Janet Tashjian’s website. Adapted into the Disney Channel movie of the same in 2002, the story was inspired by Tashjian’s husband whose brother is disabled. Another one of Tashjian’s stories that connected to her personal life is the “My Life as” series. When Tashjian learned her son, Jake, had a reading disability, she and her husband took him to a reading specialist. After seeing Jake’s progress, she said she wanted to share those improvements with children who may have reading disabilities as well.
position with ASI. The elections judicial council held a closed meeting at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Wednesday after complaints were filed to ASI. Those who filed complaints were invited to attend. As of this publication, it is unknown how many complaints were filed against the campaign. The council found the candidates were in violation of the bylaws and a notice was posted on the ASI elections website to inform voters of their violation and subsequential disqualification. According to the bylaws, the candidates sent a “spam” email defined as “using any means of unsolicited electronic
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They sent an email to me and I wasn’t sure how they got my information because I have no connection to either one.
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Celine Moubayed and Colin Eacobellis are now ineligible to become Associated Students president and vice president due to a mass email they sent to students.
MARIA LINARES Fourth year sociology major communication to campaign.” “The parties involved have the option to file an appeal of the decision with the ASI board of directors,” said Rachel Lagenfeld, director of ASI elections, in an email to the Daily Titan. SEE ELECTION
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Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball will travel to Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Friday for its first-round NCAA Tournament game against No. 2 Purdue University. The Titans are not focused on the ranking of their opponent. Despite being heavy underdogs against the Boilermakers, CSUF’s 4-0 record in neutral-site games gives them hope for a victory. “If anything, it gives us more confidence knowing that when we play in a neutral gym, we’re a better team. We just got to play hard. That’s all it is,” said forward Jackson Rowe. Defense paved the way in Fullerton’s quest to the Big West Tournament championship. In their three postseason affairs, the Titans allowed only 60.3 points per game. Purdue averaged 81 points per game this season while shooting 49.7 percent from the field and 42 percent from three-point land. CSUF is prepared to expend all of its energy to stop the Boilermakers from maintaining their averages. “There’s nothing to hold back anymore. We’re leaving it all out there to try and beat Purdue,” said guard Kyle Allman. Fullerton suffered multiple losses this season after crucial wins, including the three-game losing streak after the hot start to conference play and the loss at UC Riverside. Both Allman and Rowe said the team became complacent in those affairs. SEE NCAA
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Award-winning author shares story at CSUF PRISCILLA CARCIDO Staff Writer
Award-winning author Janet Tashjian worked in sales for years before realizing she had another calling in life. One day, she was reading “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien when she told her husband she had decided to end her 14-year career. “When I get letters from kids that say ‘Your book changed my life,’ I really know that can happen because (“The Things They Carried”) literally changed mine. I quit my job the next day. I went to CVS. I bought a stack of notebooks and a box of pens,” Tashjian said. In a talk sponsored by the Donoghue Children’s Literature Center at the Pollak Library on Tuesday, Tashjian shared this
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My son took a learning disability and turned it into something that has helped kids in 26 other countries and languages.
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JANET TASHJIAN Young-adult novelist
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