Monday April 2, 2018

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Monday April 2, 2018

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Students march for gun control Orange County takes part in nationwide demonstration.

BREANNA BELKEN Asst. News Editor

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The Japanese Tea Ceremony is traditionally hosted in modest attire, typically with unpatterned kimonos, as it was performed at the expo.

Japanese Culture Club brings vibrant traditions to the TSU The club’s seventh annual expo activities included dancing, flower arranging and calligraphy.

BROOK FARIEN Staff Writer

Delicately-worn silks, vibrant flowers, stories passed down from generations and the roar of Japanese culture greeted students as they wandered into the Titan Student Union Pavilion at Cal State Fullerton on Saturday.

The Japanese Culture Club held its seventh annual Japan Culture Expo to showcase some of the many interactive activities

and performances of Japanese tradition.

“It’s a place where people who enjoy Japanese culture can come around and make friends with each other while learning about aspects of Japan that they didn’t know about,” said Jarrel Olivares, vice president and treasurer of Japanese Culture Club.

Olivares is responsible for sourcing sponsors and volunteers to enhance the expo’s interactive appeal and said he appreciates their desire to help out the Japanese Culture Club during the expo.

Ikebana, or flower arrangement, was one of the sponsored events and gave guests the chance to learn the art and take home their very own arrangement. Beautiful, fresh

flowers and dainty branches littered the table as students gathered in an assembly line and brought the art to life.

Sogetsu Ikebana, a Japanese flower arranging school that has a branch in Los Angeles, sponsored the workshop and brought volunteers along to explain the process and significance of flower arrangements.

“In the Japanese style of ikebana, you’re creating an open space and harmony in nature. So the flowers face forward, you are the audience, so you want to have an appreciation for the flowers,” said Marilyn Drageset, director of Sogetsu Ikebana at the Los Angeles branch.

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Students, teachers and activists came together in Santa Ana at Centennial Regional Park on March 24 to demand stricter gun control as a part of “March for Our Lives.”

Organized by the survivors of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the march held its main demonstration in Washington, D.C., with over 800 sister marches across and outside the U.S, according to the movement’s website.

Michael Davidson, a senior at Laguna Beach High School, said he’s been at multiple protests and marches because he finds political activism important.

“I think there’s too many people sitting on the couch saying ‘I hope something does change,’ but your vote and your voice counts,” Davidson said.

Mazayari and Tukiama Sanchez, middle school students from Santa Ana, came to the march with a sign that read “Girls clothing in schools is more regulated than guns in America,” criticizing their school district’s dress code.

Both said they participated in a Women’s March and enjoy being politically active.

“Seeing everyone together and us showing our voices in a peaceful way is incredible, I’m speechless,” Tukiama Sanchez said.

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Congressional candidates gather for political forum The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was a major point of contention between Orange County hopefuls vying for Rep. Ed Royce’s seat.

AMANDA CHACON Staff Writer

Immigration, international trade and health care were a few of the polarizing topics explored at a forum of six candidates running for representative of the 39th Congressional District.

The forum, held Thursday evening at the Fullerton Community Center, was organized by the North Orange County Chamber and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The candidates present at the forum were Republicans Bob Huff, Shawn Nelson and Young Kim, and Democrats Sam Jammal, Andy Thorburn and MaiKhanh Tran. The forum was moderated by Rick Reiff, editor at large for the Orange County Business Journal.

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I thought it was despicable what the Orange County Board of Supervisors did this week by demonizing immigrants.

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All candidates raised their hands when asked if they wanted to find a solution to fix the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but Huff and Nelson said there should be more laws to focus on legal immigration, while Kim called for immigration to be handled in a humane way.

Jammal challenged Nelson, member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, on the Supervisors’ decision to sue California to overturn the state’s sanctuary laws, which was met with applause by the audience.

“I thought it was despicable what the Orange County Board of Supervisors did this week by demonizing immigrants,” Jammal said.

Rieff also prompted the candidates to share their opinions on trade agreements, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Thorburn called international trade complex but that it is always better to be diplomatic before threatening countries.

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Freshman pitcher Taylor Dockins notched the first save of her collegiate career in the Titans 14-6 win over the Gauchos.

Titans dominate Gauchos

Cal State Fullerton softball defeats UC Santa Barbara to start Big West play 3-0.

JARED EPREM Sports Editor

Cal State Fullerton softball closed out its three-game series against UC Santa Barbara at home on Saturday with two walk-off victories and final scores of 14-6 and 8-0.

Paired with Friday’s win, the Titans swept the Gauchos

for the first time since 2010.

Fullerton recorded a season high in hits (14), runs (14) and RBIs (12) in the first game against Santa Barbara on Saturday.

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MONDAY APRIL 2, 2018

Orange County Animal Care opens new facility

A 33 million dollar project upgrades shelter to accommodate animals.

COLE GRAVES Staff Writer

Hundreds of furry faces gained a new reason to wag their tails as Orange County Animal Care celebrated the grand opening of its new shelter March 24.

OC Animal Care moved from its 4.5-acre facility in Orange, to a new 10-acre shelter in Tustin, outfitted with more accommodations for the animals, like play areas and air-conditioned kennels.

Since 2016, OC Animal Care has taken in over 25,000 cats and dogs and carried out more than 17,000 live releases.

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No-kill shelters are any (shelter) above a 90 percent live release rate.

We are currently at a 96 percent live release rate for dogs.

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SONDRA BERG OC Animal Care manager

“No-kill shelters are anything above 90 percent live release rate. We are currently at a 96 percent live release rate for dogs,” said Sondra Berg, manager of OC Animal Care. “There’s a lot of different things to a ‘nokill,’ but we do consider ourselves to be right up there.”

Cats at the shelter have a 43 percent live release rate, but with new programs in the works to help raise kittens, that number is expected to rise, Berg said.

“We have programs coming up where we are actually going to be providing the public with kits so that they have everything they would need to raise those kittens and then they could bring them in and we could adopt them,” Berg said.

Inside the main building, past the front desk, are cat condos, which house groups of cats separated by gender and personality.

Each cat has their own sleeping area and access to an outside litter box and “catio,” a patio-like outdoor set-up with a large fenced enclosure equipped with scratching posts.

For the dogs, six isolated kennel buildings will house dozens of dogs and include indoor and

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At the OC Animal Care shelter, which has moved from Orange to Tustin, more cats are euthanized than dogs.

outdoor kennels for large dogs.

However, dogs and cats aren’t the only ones benefiting

from the new facility. The main building also features separate kennel rooms for hamsters,

rabbits and reptiles, most of which are expected to arrive in the coming days.

Man falls from balcony

Fullerton police say case is still open, but there is no officer assigned to it.

JASON ROCHLIN Asst. News Editor

The Fullerton Police Department is not suspecting foul play in an incident involving a 19-yearold man who fell from a third floor balcony at the University House apartments near Cal State Fullerton on March 24, said Fullerton Police Lt. Michael Chlebowski.

The victim, who is not a CSUF student, did not live at the apartments and was visiting friends, Chlebowski said.

The man may have been on recreational drugs and scared the residents of the apartment, who locked themselves in a separate room and called the police, Chlebowski said, who was the watch commander during the night of the incident.

Witnesses in the parking structure that overlook the third floor balcony told officers there was no sign of an altercation because the 19 year old was alone at the time, and they could not tell whether he had fallen or jumped.

“The people in the apartment did everything right,” Chlebowski said. “They called the police, they put themselves in a position of safety. The guy did what he

did, but when there are other factors involved affecting your judgement, things happen.”

Because there was no sign of foul play, Chlebowski said the case is listed as a “public accident” and there are no plans to investigate the incident further.

The 19 year old was brought to a local Orange County hospital after the Fullerton Fire Department rendered aid. His condition was “critical, but not life threatening” Chlebowski said, but Fullerton police have not been informed of any further details.

University Police Captain Scot Willey said University Police could not comment on the case because they did not handle the call.

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Nelson disagreed that compliance is the best way to handle negotiations with other countries.

“If you negotiate from a position of weakness, you’re going to lose every time, but if you negotiate from a position of strength, you have a shot. This president has an unusual way of doing things, but he is a successful negotiator,” Nelson said.

The audience had a strong reaction to this statement, made evident by their laughter and yelling.

Rieff then turned the audience’s attention to health care.

All the Democrats said the

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Affordable Care Act was working well initially, but that it still needs minor adjustments like lower prescription prices and the establishment of a single-payer system.

However, the Republicans disagreed and said the Affordable Care Act is extremely flawed.

“It has given less than acceptable quality health care … This is an ability to keep the original intended promise. I will not ask for a complete repeal unless there is a solution that can be sensible and insure all Americans,” Kim said.

As a registered nurse, Tara Gray attended the forum in hopes of finding out how the candidates planned to deal with health care and immigration.

“I would like to see health care made affordable for everyone.

When working in the emergency room you can see patients come in that do not have health care, and yet they are entitled to have health care provided to them as anyone else,” Gray said.

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MONDAY APRIL 2, 2018

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Gavin Newsom, Lt. Governor of California and member of the CSU Board of Trustees, spoke at the rally before the march to show his support for students and advocacy for gun control advocacy.

“I wanted to come down here and make the case to the folks in Orange County. This place has been stubborn in the past in terms of the gun safety legislation,” Newsom said.

He emphasized the important role of politicians in preventing gun violence and commended the passing of California’s Proposition 63, which requires background checks for ammunition purchases.

“You have a voice, you are not bystanders in this world. We are not victims of gun violence if we can shape a different future,” Newsom said during his speech.

Porfirio Pineda, an Orange County resident, attended the

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It’s 2018. I have a right to education that shouldn’t be infringed upon by guns.

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HANNAH VOGUL Laguna Beach High School student

march to see perspectives that differed from his own. He wore a Second Amendment sweatshirt to the event, but said he did not want to argue with participants.

“I support liberty for everybody. I don’t agree with what was happening with the school shootings, but then again that doesn’t give the right for someone to come and say everyone else should pay the consequences for one person’s idiotic motives,” Pineda said.

Voting was an important topic at the march, and demonstrators were encouraged to register to vote. Davidson said voting is what gives him a voice in the government.

“As someone who holds a fulltime job while going to high school, I value where my taxpayer dollars go to. I don’t want that to go to people who lobby for large organizations such as the NRA and large gun manufacturers,” Davidson said.

Hannah Vogel, another student from Laguna Beach High School, said she finds the Second Amendment outdated because it was written for the past and not modern times.

“It’s 2018. I have a right to education that shouldn’t be infringed upon by guns,” Vogel said.

Harrison Faigen contributed to this report.

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Demonstrators chanted “never again” as they marched in Santa Ana.

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Students gathered in cities across the U.S. and worldwide to participate in March for Our Lives on March 24.

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After the march, speakers and performers took the stage to promote unity and encourage demonstrators to vote.

K-12 students propose environmental solutions

Schools from Orange County participated in CSUF’s Sustainability Showcase.

TRICIA LASHA Staff Writer

Food waste, alternative energy, bee preservation and global climate change were some of the issues tackled at the fifth annual Orange County K-12 Sustainability Showcase in the Titan Student Union.

The showcase hosted over 65 students from six different school districts, giving them the opportunity to present their ideas, class projects and sustainable inventions before an audience of parents and teachers.

“All of you are going to be our leaders. You’re going to be the people who do things and we need to see that challenges are not something to be afraid of, they’re something to engage in,” said John Bock, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Sustainability at CSUF. Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Sustainability hosted the event with the CSUF Urban Agriculture Community-based Research Experience and Science@OC, an organization that aims to encourage middle school students to explore Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education.

While addressing the students in attendance, Bock said “a lot of

responsibility for the future” will be put on the student’s shoulders once the older generation is gone.

Fourteen-year-old Rahi Patel from Dale Junior High School in Anaheim said he is looking forward to taking on this responsibility through sustainable inventions.

For the showcase, Patel and his groupmates, Jason Palomino and Michael Ngo, built a solar powered electric scooter.

“We all had a similar love of technology and found out about Tesla making sustainable cars, so we thought that since we can’t drive cars we could make a scooter that runs on solar energy,” Patel said.

With the help of their parents, the students bought a solar panel from Amazon, mounted it to the front of a scooter and “changed the flow of energy” by hooking up an external battery and solar wire to the internal battery to recharge it.

“The main reason why we wanted to build this scooter is really just to save energy for the world, because the world runs on so much unsustainable energy and it’s going to ruin the world if we don’t put a stop to it soon,” said Palomino.

Another presentation at the showcase called “Hungry Helpers” focused on reducing food waste.

Andreanela Ordoñez, a ninth grade student from Middle College High School in Santa Ana, collected her school’s trash for three days with her teammates and organized it into compost, garbage and plastic

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ANAPATRICIA CURIEL Middle College High School senior piles. They then weighed the piles and gathered data to inform their school about the quantity of food being wasted.

“We just want to have a pilot program to see what we can change at our school, and hopefully implement that later into other high schools,” said Anapatricia Curiel, a senior from Middle College High School.

Curiel said she also wants to begin collecting wasted food, store it in a fridge and redistribute it to homeless people and others in need in Santa Ana. Bock said the CSUF community can learn from the ideas presented by the K-12 students to help reduce the university’s carbon footprint, particularly regarding transportation.

“I would encourage everyone to think about not driving their own car by themselves, but also to consider public transportation options, bicycling and other sustainable transportation,” Bock said.

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MONDAY APRIL 2, 2018

MOVIES

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Sogetsu Ikebana classes mixed traditional Japanese practices with the evolving modern age methods.

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The film debuted at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

‘Ready Player One’ is gorgeous but flawed JASON ROCHLIN Asst. News Editor

When a movie opens with Van Halen’s “Jump” and features a three-way battle between the Iron Giant, Mechagodzilla and the RX78-2 Gundam mech — it can only be “Ready Player One.” Steven Spielberg’s new silver screen adaptation takes on Ernest Cline’s 2011 hit novel of the same name, and the film is as memorable for its construction of creative pop-culture mashups as it is for the brilliant visual design only Spielberg can deliver.

The screenplay written by Cline and Zak Penn, who co-wrote Marvel’s “The Avengers,” uses the book’s framework but deviates from the novel’s plot progression.

Even if there are a few too many egregious product placements and a somewhat lackluster leading cast, the movie is worth the ride.

“Ready Player One” follows downtrodden everyman Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) in the dystopian near future of 2045, where he and the entire population of Earth prefer to live in a virtual reality world known as the OASIS. In it, anything is possible and popular culture reigns supreme.

Wade and his allies race to gain full custody of the OASIS by completing three challenges the game’s deceased creator Halliday (Mark Rylance) programmed before Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) and his authoritarian company Innovative Online Industries, referred to as IOI, can turn it into a corporate machine.

What stands out the most about “Ready Player One” is the distinct visual divide between the real world and the OASIS. When characters are unplugged from virtual reality, each scene emulates the grainy cinematography found in ‘80s flicks like “E.T the Extra-Terrestrial,” and much of the advanced technology appears grungy, reminiscent of “Star Wars.”

However, the dystopian world everyone wants to escape from isn’t well presented beyond Watt’s home in the Stacks, a jenga-like stack of trailers in Ohio. Most of the other real-life sets beyond the lavish IOI headquarters appear like average downtown city blocks vaguely covered by loose sheets of paper.

Meanwhile the virtual world of the OASIS is as crisp and cleanly rendered as a modern-day video game, creating beautiful and wildly creative environments like a planet-sized zero-gravity dance club and literal endless hallways lined with fully adjustable dioramas representing real-life memories.

Everyone’s diverse in-game

avatars emphasize the video game nature of the OASIS with slightly uncanny valley qualities, like the large eyes of Artemis (Olivia Cooke). To the film’s credit, these qualities feel intentionally implemented rather than being distracting technological limitations.

One of the more brilliant motifs on display throughout the movie is the dichotomy between the blue glow of Watt’s virtual character Parzival and the red glow of Artemis, his love interest.

However, in terms of visual creativity, the absolute best scene of the film is Spielberg’s breathtaking love letter to “The Shining” halfway through, which is absolutely worth the price of admission by itself.

Probably the biggest fault of the on-screen spectacle is its hitand-miss referential nature.

Like Cline’s novel, Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” takes deep cuts at ‘80s popular culture that mostly mesh and offer plenty of fun easter eggs to catch–a few carefully constructed yet overwhelming scenes warranting a rewatch with a pause button.

The film includes a lot more contemporary popular culture than the book, which sometimes fit in but other times stand out as obvious product placement.

For example, there’s a nauseatingly long flyover of a Minecraft-branded world within the first five minutes.

Spielberg’s movie differs from the source material enough that fans looking for a faithful recreation may be disappointed. However, his take on the book’s basic foundation is an interesting one that’s worth seeing thanks to the film’s new take on the three Halliday challenges.

The characters in “Ready Player One” unfortunately don’t shine as bright as the visuals.

Sheridan, Cooke, Mendelsohn and the supporting cast are serviceable in their roles, but aren’t memorable outside of scenes deeply inculcated in funny or clever references.

Sorrento’s hired mercenary I-R0k (T.J. Miller) was the most unexpectedly enjoyable character in the film. His intimidating design contrasted beautifully with awkward, geeky line delivery, making him a hilarious comic relief who brightened up every scene he entered.

“Ready Player One” is a movie that film lovers can watch over and over again as a visual spectacle from Spielberg with a myriad of references to pick out in each viewing. Despite some forced pop-culture references and a somewhat uninspired cast, “Ready Player One” also differs from Cline’s print counterpart in a unique enough way, making it just as worth experiencing as the novel.

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The expo also gave guests the opportunity to take pictures in traditional Japanese attire.

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Arrangements filled the room as student after student took their turns, clutching their finished products like trophies.

“I didn’t realize there was a process to arranging flowers,” said Madelyn Moss, a first-time visitor at the expo.

Guests were also able to participate in the Japanese Tea Ceremony, which was a highlight of the expo and scheduled in two parts. Students watched the volunteers walk around, bowing and mingling politely in traditional kimonos before the show.

It was a choreographed ritual of serving matcha, a Japanese green tea. The performance included the host and two guests, as it would be served in a regular setting. The entire ceremony is based on the host’s movements to prepare and serve the tea.

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It’s a place where people who enjoy Japanese culture can come around and make friends.

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Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation is an updated take on the virtual world.

JARREL OLIVARES Japanese Culture Club vice president

Executed in almost complete silence by moving the utensils in calculated patterns, the guests receive and also silently drink the tea.

“It’s mainly just a way to bridge that cultural gap,” said Erika Salgado, president of the Japanese Culture Club.

Salgado said many international students find their way to the club, which is mostly American, and are able to exchange and learn from each other.

CSUF student and Japanese volunteer, Kanako Hamano was in charge of shodo, the practice of calligraphy. Using just one brush and an ink pot, guests picked a meaningful character symbol to recreate on paper. Guiding their hands, pointing out the fluid motion and showing the correct sequence to make the character, Hamano helped many students perform the task.

Hamano said she doesn’t consider herself an expert, but remembers creating these beautiful marks on paper as a child and wanted to use the knowledge she had to help.

“I think that everyone doesn’t know Japanese culture or tradition,” Hamano said. “I want Japanese culture or tradition to be more spread out. I think it really helps with this program.”

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Arguments against plant-based diets lack teeth Choosing to become vegan isn’t as abnormal as people might believe.

DIANE ORTIZ Staff Writer

“Veganism is unnatural.” “Humans need the protein from animals to survive.” “Vegans only eat salad.” The common misconceptions about veganism go on and on. These naive stances against plant-based diets usually come from individuals who simply can’t see themselves saying no to a lobster tail or eating breakfast without bacon.

However, these arguments lack research knowledge about what a vegan lifestyle looks like. Fortunately, with the recent rise in veganism comes a greater understanding of the lifestyle and how it helps shut down the flagrant comments made by mindless meat eaters.

Eating animals is a part of the natural circle of life. This common and probably ancient argument from meat eaters is usually backed up with examples of obligate carnivores in the animal kingdom, like lions.

But lions and other carnivorous predators have physical characteristics that differ from humans.

With mouths opening as wide as their heads, these innate carnivores are built with tools to hunt, kill and feast on other animals.

Deadly teeth are another indicator and resource that natural carnivores are born with. Their incisors are short and pointed because they are used for grasping and shredding. Unlike humans, their long, sharp canines are used for stabbing and tearing at prey.

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Though many might believe people share meat-eating traits with carnivores, humans actually share more physical similarities with herbivores.

humans’ closest cousins after chimpanzees and bonobos, all of which happen to be herbivores.

So naturally, humans’ genetic makeup is seemingly better suited for eating and digesting simpler foods like grains, vegetables and legumes.

Vegans also face the common misconception that humans need to receive their protein from animals, and therefore, never adequately receive enough without a daily dietary supplement.

While it is true humans require protein, consuming animal flesh

isn’t the only way to obtain it.

Contrary to popular belief, protein supplements are hardly necessary in the vegan diet.

Legumes, nuts and grains, like quinoa, contain plenty of protein and are significantly less harmful to the human body and environment.

While it provides individuals with necessary protein, meat can also be high in saturated fat and cholesterol.

Tofu is a safe and versatile source of protein, containing all eight essential amino acids while

also being an excellent source of iron and calcium, without the highly saturated fats, according to Jo Lewin, associate nutritionist for BBC Good Food. But vegans are no longer limited to the sponge-like white block of tofu that’s so commonly mistaken as a vegan’s staple ingredient.

As more people turn to veganism plant-based options have become more popular in most restaurants and grocery stores.

Vegetarian and vegan-only restaurants can be found in most big cities with delicious takes

on Italian and Chinese comfort foods. Gone are the days when a vegan would have to rely on ordering sides at a restaurant to meet their dietary requirements.

Luckily, even the most adamant of naysayers can see that being vegan is not an unachievable or easily dismissible feat.

The currently available resources make veganism easier than ever before. When considering the animal lives saved and personal health benefits, leaving meat off the plate is not hard, it’s only natural.

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6 Sports

MONDAY APRIL 2, 2018

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Right fielder Brooke Clemetson recorded four hits and three RBIs in the series against Santa Barbara.

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Third baseman Bryanna Ybarra connected on all four of her at-bats, which counts as her highest total hits in one game this season.

Catcher Julia Valenzuela tied her season-high record after contributing four RBIs against the Gauchos, which came from

a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the sixth inning to end the game.

The last time she reached that mark was in a game against North Dakota State in the Campbell/Cartier Tournament.

Three of CSUF’s 14 hits came from right fielder Brooke Clemetson, who tied her season high that was set against Long Island

University Brooklyn in the Mary Nutter Classic.

CSUF’s shutout in the second game of the doubleheader marks the first time the team has held its opponent to zero runs since March 20 against Cal State Bakersfield. It also stands as the sixth shutout of the season.

Pitcher Sophie Frost logged

her tenth complete game of the season in game two against the Gauchos, only giving up one hit and one walk in the contest.

Although she didn’t close the game on a grand slam like Valenzuela, utility player Irieanna Siofele closed the Gauchos’ coffin with a three-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning.

The sweep gave Fullerton a 3-0 start to Big West conference play and a share of first place with Long Beach State.

The Titans will receive their first seven-day break of the season as they prepare to hit the road for the first time in over a month for their series against Cal State Northridge starting April 7.

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Shortstop Sahid Valenzuela came up empty in all four of his at-bats.

Baseball drops series to Gauchos Cal State Fullerton was unable to capitalize on its impressive game one win.

Vanderhook said.

The game went scoreless until the sixth inning when Santa Barbara took a 2-0 lead.

The Titans rallied to find KAILA CRUZ their way onto the board in the Asst. Sports Editor top of the eighth inning when third baseman Brett Borgogno After Cal State Fuller- grounded out to third, bringing ton baseball recorded its fifth in first baseman Jake Pavletich. no-hitter in program history in Andrew Quezada earned the its first game against UC San- start and faced 31 batters in his ta Barbara, the Titans failed to eight innings pitched. The jusecure the series on the road af- nior allowed 4 hits and 2 runs. ter losing the final game 2-1 on “I thought Quezada was exSaturday. cellent. He battled out there, but Titans Head Coach Rick Van- we just didn’t have enough on derhook attributed their loss to a the offensive side of the ball,” lack of offensive power.

Vanderhook said.

“We weren’t aggressive at Fullerton’s attempts came too the plate. We didn’t make their late in the game, leading Santa pitchers battle like ours did,” Barbara to claim a series win.

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Nine Titans earn Opening Day roster spots CSUF baseball’s legacy lives on as former players create careers in the MLB. MATTHEW MENDOZA Staff Writer

Major League Baseball kicked off the 2018 season last week, and Cal State Fullerton was well represented across the Opening Day rosters with nine former Titans listed on the lineups.

Khris Davis, who played with CSUF from 2007-2009, is entering his sixth season and coming off of a 43-home-run season.

This will be Davis’ third season with the Oakland Athletics.

Joining Davis is Matt Chapman, who kicked off his first Opening Day after being called up from the minor leagues for his debut last June. Chapman was drafted in the first round by the A’s after his third season at CSUF. Chris Devenski, who was with the Titans for only one season, began his third season with the 2017 World Series Champions, Houston Astros.

Justin Turner was placed on the disabled list after breaking his wrist on March 20 to start his ninth season in the MLB. He was on the Titans roster for four years and a member of the last Fullerton team to win the College World Series in 2004.

Joining Turner on the 2004 team was Kurt Suzuki, who entered his 12th MLB season, the most amongst active Titans in the Majors.

To start his fourth season, Michael Lorenzen was placed on the disabled list after he was shut down from throwing due to a right shoulder strain. Lorenzen was a first-round pick from CSUF after his second year as

a Titan.

J.D. Davis played on his first Opening Day roster after he was called up from the minors to the Astros last August. Although a member of the Astros last season, Davis was not a part of the Astros World Series roster. He was a Titan for three seasons.

After playing at CSUF for three years, Noe Ramirez entered his fourth season and first Opening Day with the Angels. He was claimed by the Angels last August, making this his first full season with the team.

Chad Wallach played in his first Opening Day with the Marlins after debuting with the Cincinnati Reds in 2017. Wallach, son of former Titan Tim Wallach, spent three years as a Titan and was claimed by the Marlins during the off-season.

Five former Titans will serve as coaches in the 2018 season including Mark Kotsay, Tim Wallach, Mike Harkey, Phil Nevin and P.J. Pilittere.

Kotsay, a Golden Spikes award winner at CSUF in 1995, will serve as the major league quality control coach for the Oakland Athletics.

Tim Wallach, also a Golden Spikes winner in 1979, will maintain his position as bench coach for the Miami Marlins, which he has held for the last two seasons.

Harkey and Nevin will both be coaches with the New York Yankees this season; Harkey returned to the Yankees for his ninth season as their bullpen coach. Joining Harkey with the Yankees is Pilittere and Nevin, the 1992 Golden Spikes winner.

Pilittere was a member of Fullerton’s 2004 team alongside Suzuki and Turner. He will serve as an assistant hitting coach for the Yankees.

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