Review: ‘A Quiet Place’ The thriller’s use of silence in place of dialogue is stunning Lifestyle The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Wednesday April 11, 2018
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Spoken word echoes poet’s pain Culture Week kicked off with a performance by artist Kit Yan in the TSU. AMANDA CHACON Staff Writer
Bibee struck out seven batters in his 4.1 innings pitched and Workman ended all three of the batters he faced. “I went out there and didn’t think about anything except getting one hitter out, not really thinking ahead. It’s been helping for a while,” Bibee said. Cardenas said the pitching staff played great in the win, a sentiment Titans Head Coach Rick Vanderhook shared following the game, saying the pitching is the only aspect of the game he wants to carry over to the next games.
Each time slam poetry performer Kit Yan used the phrase, “Something is broken” on Monday night, the mantra boomed from the speaker like a cry of pain while he explored the different types of heartbreak he has encountered. Cal State Fullerton’s Association for Inter-Cultural Awareness invited Yan to CSUF as the kick off performance for its three-day event, Culture Week. Yan performed at the Underground Pub in the Titan Student Union where he read a few of the poems he had written for his book, “Queer Heartache” and spoke about his experience as a queer, transgender, Asian-American growing up in Hawaii. “I strung (the poems) together to create this show to go on a journey, like a character does, of discovering identity and to grapple with the issues of being queer,” Yan said.
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Freshman Tanner Bibee struck out seven batters in the 4.1 innings he pitched in the 3-2 victory over Pepperdine on Tuesday.
Baseball wins 6th game in a row
Cal State Fulleton achieved a winning record for the first time this season with a 3-2 win over Pepperdine. JARED EPREM Sports Editor
Second baseman Hank LoForte’s sacrifice fly to right field in the bottom of the seventh brought first baseman Jake Pavletich home, giving Cal State Fullerton baseball a 3-2 lead and eventually the win against Pepperdine. The victory extended Fullerton’s winning streak to six games, earning the Titans a
winning record for the first time this season. “Tonight’s win was big, even though we didn’t play our best baseball. We answered back when they scored and that’s the best thing we could’ve done,” said right fielder Ruben Cardenas. The contest was tied 2-2 when “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” played during the seventh-inning stretch. Despite encouragement from the announcer to sing along, the crowd stayed silent. To relieve starter Timothy Josten, pitchers Tanner Bibee and Blake Workman gave up one hit and no runs over the final three innings to seal the deal.
University explains why it dissolved the ALP
CSUF administration predicted program’s financial unsustainability. AMY WELLS BRANDON PHO News Editors
The Cal State Fullerton administration decided to axe the American Language Program and lay off 14 faculty members by the end of May, deeming the program financially unsustainable and making CSUF one of the the few CSUs without an intensive language program. “I know (President Fram Virjee) is new to this university and so he really doesn’t know our history, but he has the power to give this program another year,” said ALP faculty member Carolyn Dupaquier. In an April 4 interview, Virjee said the vast majority of ALP students have “no interest” in enrolling at CSUF after finishing the program. “These are not CSUF students,” Virjee said. “This isn’t a Cal State Fullerton program.” Out of the 129 students currently in the ALP, at least 28 have expressed interest in enrolling at CSUF said Chris Swarat, interim associate vice president of University Extended Education. Hussam Qassim, a CSUF master’s student and ALP alumnus, detailed his heartbreak in a March 5 letter to Virjee after learning the university would terminate the program that gave him “excellent reading, writing and speaking skills” when he arrived to the U.S. from Iraq. Qassim’s letter was one of many sent by ALP students and alumni
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Students and faculty of the American Language Program have implored CSUF President Fram Virjee to reverse the university’s decision to dissolve the program.
imploring Virjee to keep the program alive. Virjee said he read every letter he received, but has no plans to respond to them because they were letters “that did not ask for responses.” He also said the letters did not give him a new perspective, or tell him anything he didn’t
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already know. “Those letters were confirming for me that for the years the ALP has been in place, it’s been doing a good job doing what it was intended to do,” Virjee said. “Not all the people want it because they want to go to college, some just want it because they want to be English-language proficient.”
On April 5, several ALP students and faculty took to the Quad to protest the university’s decision to close the program. “I think closing the ALP is a bad decision because I think it will reduce our international student community,” said Paul Taofan, an ALP student from China. Swarat said the ALP has been
in a “significant downturn” since the 2015-2016 fiscal year, which created a deficit the following year. Bruce Rubin, ALP faculty member, said the program has experienced setbacks before throughout its 32-year history. SEE DEFICIT
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