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Volume 104 Issue 35

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

CSUF operating at budget deficit Cisneros wins 39th District The school has been working off of reserves for two consecutive years. AURIELLE WEISS Staff Writer

President Fram Virjee said Cal State Fullerton has been functioning at a budget deficit for about four years, during the biannual Fiscal State of the University presentation at the Academic Senate meeting on Nov. 15.This is the second consecutive year the school has worked off a budget deficit and has been working off its reserve money in order to continue its programs, Virjee said. “We still are operating at a deficit (of) $1.1 million for this year, using our reserves to cover that,” Virjee said. “We can’t live off our reserves year after year or there won’t be any, and they are diminishing as you all know.” CSUF’s operating budget includes money given from the state and money that the campus and campus programs generate. This year’s budget was $589 million, according to Danny C. Kim, vice president for administration and finance/chief financial officer. Virjee and Kim methodically broke down the funds beginning with their ongoing costs. Virjee said about $20 million of CSUF’s annually given baseline funding was used for salary, benefits and fixed costs, stressing that it was “simply not enough.” “It won’t be a surprise to you that that was spent before we got it, fully absorbed by the mandatory costs that we had over last year. They ate up that before it ever even came to us,” Virjee said. Even though Virjee said he

The district was the last of the seven Orange County districts to turn blue. CAITLIN BARTUSICK Managing Editor

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President Fram Virjee presented the fiscal budget at the Nov. 15 Academic Senate meeting.

feels the budget doesn’t reflect what the campus deserves, CSUF did receive supplemental funding, $1.2 million, for increasing the average course unit load. He added that the number was, “about the same as our deficit.” Kim said that because enrollment is down, partly due to the

lower graduate student registration, that translates to a loss of about $3 million. The headcount of graduate students getting a master’s or doctorate enrolled at CSUF has steadily gone down since 2015, according to CSUF student data. Between the fall of 2015 and 2018, CSUF

saw a decrease of 460 graduate students. In addition, Kim said Graduation Initiative 2025, the CSU’s effort to graduate more students in a timely manner, comes with two ramifications: finance and access. SEE FINANCE

Democrat Gil Cisneros has defeated Republican Young Kim in the race for the 39th Congressional District seat, marking the last of the seven Orange County congressional districts to turn blue in a historically conservative region. The race was called by the Associated Press on Nov. 17 at 6:03 p.m. Cisneros leads his opponent by nearly 6,350 votes at press time. On Nov. 7, the day after Election Day, Kim was leading by 8.6 percent. Throughout election night, the race remained close and undecided, yet Cisneros’ supporters remained optimistic. Mail-in ballots counted in the days following helped Cisneros take his first lead on Nov. 15 by a narrow 941 votes. After that, his lead continued to grow until Kim officially conceded on Saturday night, ending her bid to be the first Korean-American woman elected to Congress. SEE POLITICS

ESPN writer speaks on campus Julie

Virjee’s journey

Baxter Holmes talked about his career and the stops he’s made along the way. MEGAN GARCIA Sports Editor

Editor’s Note: This story has been reprinted due to an error that put the wrong story in its place in the Thursday, Nov. 15 issue. Writing a story on certain aspects about an athlete or sport that are unknown to most people — such as a hydrogen bomb that miraculously didn’t detonate during 1961 in a city known for producing the most NBA players in America — requires more than putting a pen to paper. From the NBA’s addiction to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, to Brooklyn Nets point guard D’Angelo Russell’s profound relationship with dogs, Baxter Holmes wasn’t fatigued by any storytelling when he spoke to the Society of Professional Journalists chapter at Cal State Fullerton. A week after signing a multiyear contract with ESPN, the NBA national-feature writer shared his words of wisdom with college journalists about finding a story and how to tell it. Harrison Faigen, president of Fullerton’s SPJ chapter, invited Holmes to the biweekly meeting for students to learn about his personal journey and how to write daily beat coverage. “He finds these angles that no one else finds and tells these stories that no one else is telling, and I think that’s what makes him such a unique and talented writer,” Faigen said. Holmes didn’t start his reporting career in the most traditional

From Burbank to Rwanda, she has pursued a range of different interests. MATTISON CANO Staff Writer

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Baxter Holmes spent four years on the Los Angeles Lakers beat, much of which involved writing about Kobe Bryant.

way. As a teenager in Oklahoma, Holmes was a member of his high school’s basketball team. At some point, a teacher asked him to cover the team for the local newspaper. The days of game previews and recaps are now long gone for Holmes, as behind-thescenes stories of the NBA and even a James Beard Foundation media award are stacked underneath Holmes’ byline. Holmes has fixated himself in the nooks and crannies of the NBA’s on-and-off the court stories.

From tales of the league’s brightest stars frequenting the grapevines of a Napa Valley winery, to the chaos of Los Angeles Lakers’ legend Kobe Bryant’s farewell season, the smallest details are always noticed by Holmes. There’s a human element to basketball that is more than just filling a notebook with stats and play-by-plays of the athletes on the court. “I think people sense that I have a genuine curiosity about something that I am really trying to understand. I will commit the time. I will commit weeks,

months and sometimes years just trying to understand one thing to a degree where I can explain it,” Holmes said. Before anchoring himself to the Lakers for ESPN, Holmes joined the Boston Celtics beat with The Boston Globe. At the age of 25, Holmes was competing with reporters who had been on the Celtics beat longer than he’d been alive. “I thought ‘Man, they’re going to wipe the floors with me,’” Holmes said. SEE EXTENDED

California State Fullerton’s Julie Virjee is best known around campus for her role alongside the university’s president, but when Virjee introduces herself to people around campus, she’s not the university’s first lady, she’s just Julie. Virjee grew up in Southern California in the Burbank/ Glendale area and experienced a fairly normal childhood. She was involved with many activities, including the Girl Scouts, and piano and ice skating lessons. She tried everything she was able to. “My parents were very sweet and just let me try things that I have never tried before. It was fun,” Virjee said. Virjee loved family time and being goofy with loved ones. She was especially close to her father, a prominent surgeon, and looked up to him in many ways. “All of his lab coats had his name and said M.D. He always told me that M.D. stood for ‘my daddy.’ I really took that to heart; he was my everything,” Virjee said. SEE PASSION 5 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

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MONDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Politics: 39th congressional district goes blue

CONTINUED FROM 1 “This is my home and I remain committed to finding ways to work with others to improve the lives of the people of this district. Both sides worked hard in this campaign, but now it’s time to come together and find solutions and opportunities that move our community and country forward,” Kim said on Twitter. Cisneros will replace Ed Royce (R- Fullerton) who served as the 39th District incumbent for 13 terms after first assuming office in 1992. “I continue to be humbled by the outpouring of support I received throughout the campaign. (This) victory would not be possible without the thousands of volunteers who dedicated countless hours on my behalf. This is their victory as much as it is mine,” Cisneros said on Twitter. Cisneros served in the Navy for 10 years. After winning a $266 million lottery jackpot in 2010, he decided to give back to his community. Since then, Cisneros and his wife, Jacki, have focused their philanthropic efforts on funding higher education opportunities, like scholarships for Hispanic students.

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Gil Cisneros (left) and wife, Jacki Cisneros (right) remained optimistic through a close race on election night.

As the first in his family to graduate from college, Cisneros is supportive of Pell Grants and funding federal loan forgiveness programs to help students

pay off their college debt. During his campaign, he also advocated to protect Dreamers and the Affordable Care Act. Democrats targeted the 39th

congressional seat as well as three other seats in Orange County in hopes to flip them from red to blue in the midterm elections.

The seven-seat county has been represented by a Republican majority in the past. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton won Orange County by a comfortable margin in the 2016 presidential election, nearly 8 percent. She was the first Democrat to win Orange County in a presidential election since 1936. Now, every congressional seat for Orange County will be occupied by a Democrat. Getting Cisneros elected is a significant victory for Democrats, as the 39th congressional seat has been called a “Republican stronghold” for decades. Democrats won control of the 435-member House of Representatives by flipping 38 seats as of press time to establish a majority of 233-200 in the House with two elections still uncalled. Republicans dominate the Senate with 52 members against 45 Democrats with one race still yet to be called as of press time. Although Cisneros has taken the 39th District seat, the official results of the 2018 midterm elections won’t be certified by the California Secretary of State until Dec. 14.

Fraternity recertified after 20 years Tau Kappa Epsilon returns to campus after being revoked in the 1990s. NOAH BIESIADA Asst. News Editor

The Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was recertified as a member of the Cal State Fullerton’s Interfraternity Council after more than 20 years of being off campus. The fraternity’s school charter was originally revoked after several incidents in the late 1990s including several noise

complaints, a party of over 700 people spilling out into the street and an incident where a bottle rocket set a neighboring house on fire. Despite having its official charter with the school revoked, its nationwide charter still stood with the national Tau Kappa Epsilon association. The fraternity has been operating separately from the official fraternity system for the past 20 years and has continued to recruit CSUF students. The fraternity had been in the process of trying to return to campus for the last year and a half, working with school

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officials and the Interfraternity Council to work out an arrangement for how the group could return to CSUF. The group met with Fraternity and Sorority Life staff and agreed to attend educational and risk management programs, maintain its GPA at a certain level, as well as comply to a cease and desist period this past semester, said Chris Osmond, Tau Kappa Epsilon’s president. The fraternity agreed to cease and desist activity and recruiting for the spring semester of 2018. At the beginning of this semester, they were allowed to

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recruit the week after the Interfraternity Council community, bringing its total membership to 35. Osmond and Mark Mumford, the fraternity’s vice president, gave a speech before the vote, outlining the chapter’s charity work for St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital and its desire to return to the on-campus community to work with other fraternities. “We wouldn’t be going through this process if we didn’t want it and we didn’t think we were worthy,” Mumford said to the Interfraternity Council before the vote.

“We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t think we had something to offer.” After a short period of closed discussion, the council, which currently consists of eight fraternities, voted by secret ballot and agreed to allow Tau Kappa Epsilon to return to campus. “It’s time for celebration, but we’ve also got to think. There’s going to be a really big learning curve from going off campus to on campus. This current semester we’ve been doing a lot of transitory things. I think we’re ready to tackle it,” Mumford said.

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MONDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Professor talks life in Jordan Finance: University funds low Manal Alatrash has experience working in hospitals in the Middle East and the United States HOSAM ELATTAR News Editor

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For Manal Alatrash, new Cal State Fullerton tenure track professor in the school of nursing, it was difficult to decide what the best part of life was in the Middle East compared to life in the United States. “Living in Jordan is simpler. Living in America is definitely more complex. The opportunities you get in America, you never get a lot of them in Jordan,” Alatrash said. “I’m an immigrant. I’ve already got a lot of chances and opportunities to progress and to be productive.” Alatrash has spent half her life in Jordan, where she grew up, and half in the United States, where she has started a career. Talk of life in Jordan brought back memories for the assistant professor of what it was like growing up in the Middle East. “My dad spoiled the girls a lot. My mother was strict with everybody. At the same time, she cooked every day for us, she did our laundry. She took care of everybody, nine children plus herself plus my dad. She also used to take care of her mom,” Alatrash said. Despite her mother’s concerns, Alatrash decided to relocate to America at 21 years old to further her education and to expose herself to new cultures. “My mother was resistant. My other sisters got married a long time ago and I was the only daughter in the house. She had a lot of questions. She tried to talk me out of it. She was crying and telling me about bad dreams she’d been having,” Alatrash said. After she finally got her mother’s blessing, Alatrash was in the U.S within a month. She received a master’s degree in adult oncology from Georgetown University, and started working with leukemia patients in Georgetown Hospital. Now, she’s an assistant professor at CSUF after joining the faculty in August. Alatrash said she originally didn’t know she had a passion for teaching but found it after she started teaching at West Coast University in Anaheim, and she extends her office hours in an effort to not turn away any students.

As Graduation Initiative 2025 becomes more successful, it has the potential to bring financial burdens, according to Kim. CSUF’s budget is primarily based on fulltime equivalent students, which is factored by how many units the student is taking, as well as the head count (the actual number of individual students on campus). “As we become more successful, if we don’t receive additional enrollment increase from the state, then we would have to reduce our head count and that will impact our finance,” Kim said. “If you reduce head count, then that obviously impacts access to the university because we would have to decline admissions to even a greater number of students.” Kim said the risk comes if CSUF reaches 44 percent graduation rate for four years. At that point, he said the university’s budget can be impacted because the state controls the finances that are determined based on the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled. However, Kim said he is not convinced that CSUF is in danger just yet. According to the most recent data published on the university website, 25.5 percent of students graduated in four years in 2014. “Right now the difference is not big enough to make a significant impact on our financials. I don’t think we will ever achieve 100 percent four-year graduation rate,” Kim said. Virjee said the university must start setting aside funds for capital improvements because the state no longer pays for deferred maintenance for universities. He told faculty to be ready for a potential multi-billion dollar bond measure to be added to the ballot in the next few years for the CSUs and UCs. “We have to have a plan. We have to have these abilities studies done for renovating our buildings,” Virjee said. “We will devote some resources to that because otherwise we will get caught flat-footed and we will not share in that future and I don’t want that for our campus and I don’t want that for our students.”

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Professor Manal Alatrash said she extends her office hours to meet with her students.

Jennifer Oh, a second-year nursing student in one of Alatrash’s classes, said Alatrash makes time for her students. Following her time in Georgetown and New York, Alatrash returned to Jordan where she helped enforce policies, procedures and manuals for the Al-Hussein Cancer Center. She has also worked with the Dubai government in the department of health and medical services and taught as a professor in a nursing school there. Alatrash’s past experience also includes working at St. Jude, St. Joseph and University of California Irvine medical centers in California. In the last few years, the professor has been researching the prevention of breast

cancer, as well as smoking cessation. “She is very dedicated. We are very fortunate to have her. She comes to us with a large body of experience in teaching and research. She’s very energetic and enthusiastic, willing to learn new things as well as be part of this team,” said Stephanie Vaughn, director of the school of nursing. Alatrash credits her motivation, dedication and hard work to her parents and said it is what eventually led her to teach at CSUF. “This is the environment I grew up in, watching my parents work very hard, my mother in the house, my father outside to provide for us. That’s a big part of my personality right now,” she said. “With hard work everything is possible. That’s what I learned a long time ago.”

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MONDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2018

‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ sneak peek

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Andrew Feliciano, CSUF alumnus and Disney animator, spoke about his work on the movie.

Students peered into the work behind the new Disney movie. ANDRE SALAZAR Staff Writer

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Walt Disney animator and Cal State Fullerton alumnus Andrew Feliciano visited campus on Nov. 13 to give a lively presentation of the work he did for “Ralph Breaks the Internet.” Feliciano gave some insight into his relationship with Disney

and some of the things Disney has to offer aspiring animators. He also mentioned the premise of the film and described the use of the internet in the movie’s plot. Students were able to get a glimpse at behind-the-scenes footage of Feliciano’s process in animation, new characters in the franchise and clips from the film. “I got an email about ‘Wreck It Ralph’ and I was like ‘Oh, I want to see that’ and so I came and it was actually pretty good. It was bits and pieces of the

movie but just learning about the animation behind it was really amazing,” said Kara Weber, a communication disorders major. Students from the class called CTVA 102: Inside the Movies attended the event to partake in a Q&A session with Feliciano. Professor Mike Dillon, who teaches CTVA 102, was responsible for putting the presentation together. “I partner with Disney on a lot of things including promotional screenings and giveaways. For the last three years, we’ve been

doing this sort of thing with whatever their fall release is,” Dillon said. Communications majors receive emails that let them know about advanced screenings because Dillon works directly with studios. He said it gives students the chance to go to promotional screenings or meet filmmakers. Feliciano, who graduated from CSUF in 2007, has been at Disney for almost five years, working on projects like “Moana,” “Big Hero 6” and the short “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure.”

He mentioned how Disney was a significant part of his childhood, naming films like “Aladdin” and “Jungle Book” as some of his favorite movies and even showing old drawings of Disney characters he had made. Feliciano also reflected on his experience coming back to CSUF to present his work. “I was so excited to come back here; I’m always excited coming back to Cal State Fullerton. I think they gave me all of the tools that were necessary to move into my career.”

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Passion: CSUF’s ‘First Lady’ shares her story

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Julie Virjee has a passion for students at Cal State Fullerton and Yambi Rwanda, her nonprofit. The elephant with the orange bow is a gift that symbolizes her dedication to Rwanda. CONITUED FROM

Virjee was torn between two universities after high school but ultimately decided on the University of California, Santa Barbara for her undergraduate degree. While at UCSB she joined a sorority and held multiple positions. She enjoyed her college years and said that it was there that she learned about her passions for philanthropic work. She is now immersed in her nonprofit, Yambi Rwanda, an

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organization committed to creating opportunities and helping the lives of the victims of genocide in Rwanda. “I am very drawn to Rwanda and I’m drawn to the beautiful people that I get to meet. If I can help one person each trip then that’s great. I get so much joy out of it,” Virjee said. Jeannie Mollenauer, financial manager for the president’s office, said Virjee is a fun, downto-earth person and described her as committed, hardworking and loving.

She also said that her philanthropic work is impressive. At a Halloween party at UCSB, she met Fram Virjee. They started off as good friends, which ultimately built the foundation of their relationship. “We have been married for 33 years but we’ve known each other for 40 years,” Julie Virjee said. Virjee is a family-oriented person and has three accomplished sons of her own who are now adults. She mentioned that the household was crazy when the boys

were younger as they also had two big dogs, a Saint Bernard and a Great Dane. “She’s raised some fine young men who I had the opportunity to meet at a couple of social events, and they are amazing, so you can see a reflection of her in her boys,” Mollenauer said. In addition to family time, Virjee also enjoyed entertaining guests at the El Dorado Ranch, the university-owned presidential home. Throughout the week Virjee has several guests over and said

the doors should be open. Her role as first lady of the university involves a packed schedule of meetings, appearances and speaking at several events. She loves to be out on campus and talking to students one-onone, which she says is her favorite part of the job. “I’ve been a volunteer in lots of different roles before and I truly believe that God was layering all of my passions and teaching me as I went along to kind of do what I’m doing now,” Virjee said.

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MONDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Column: White nationalism has no place in society Anti-Semitic crimes are a result of the toleration of hate speech in America.

AURIELLE WEISS Staff Writer

Crime lingers around white nationalism and as a Jewish-American woman, I feel terrified. For one thing, white nationalists aren’t hiding anymore, and for another, they have successfully changed their approach. Full disclosure, I’m only half Jewish. My mother is not Jewish so some may claim that I am in fact not really Jewish, but my status is not up for debate with white nationalists. To them, I have the blood so, therefore, I am tainted. “Alt-right” leaders like Richard Spencer have proudly and publicly declared themselves as white nationalists and Jared Taylor labels himself as a white advocate. These men no longer identify with Nazi, southern, or backwoods type folks that one may expect to see. However, don’t let their bourgeoisie clothes and attitudes fool you, they still associate with white nationalism. They are college educated as Spencer went to the University of Virginia and Taylor went to Yale. They formulate and articulate arguments using science or data. While their ideals are still old fashioned, their tactics are refined. Taylor does not use the same phrasing as his predecessors once did because of their

negative connotation. He uses newer terms such as race realist and white advocate instead of terms like white nationalist. He claims that diversity isn’t something to be celebrated, especially because white people are losing their majority status because of it. At most of his speaking engagements, he seems to remain calm and speaks softly, a much different ploy than what we’re used to seeing. And what’s horrifying about it is that it’s working. People have become fearful about criminalizing this movement because of free speech. I’ve heard many well-educated people, some of whom I love, argue that hate speech is still free speech and said that we shouldn’t eradicate ideals solely because others don’t agree. But, we already do that. As a country, we’ve established that some ideas are just wrong. For example, we’ve decided as a country that drugs are wrong; buying drugs, selling drugs or using drugs has a consequence. However, people associated with drugs may enjoy buying, selling or doing them, yet America has had no issue with criminalizing drugs. People get so caught up in protecting hate speech they fail to see that white nationalism has turned from movement to murder as seen with the recent Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. So why do we have an issue criminalizing this white nationalist movement? Not only is it universally wrong, but people continue to die. Data from a report by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino shows that this is the fourth consecutive year hate crimes in America have increased. Those statistics make me

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nervous. To know that there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world and in the country that I live in who have such immoral and guiltless ideals, is truly horrifying. These anti-Semitic crimes are literally being committed anywhere and everywhere. It’s

at our places of worship, it’s at our schools and now it’s in our White House as even our president has shown similar beliefs and recently declared himself a nationalist. Enough is enough, the time is now to make changes. Do not be fooled by this

white nationalism turned white supremacy. Be aware of hatred and unmask racism when it’s hiding. Be an advocate for diversity and listen to others with the intent of understanding them. But most importantly, be kind to everyone even those who don’t look like you.

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To set himself apart from the pack of veteran reporters, Holmes focused on feature stories within the realm of the Celtics. “I didn’t have the connections or what not, but I had a passion for feature stories and for enterprise reporting, so I thought the best way to help my coverage to stand out was to work on my coverage of those stories,” Holmes said. After immersing himself in the city of Boston for 22 months, Holmes made the move

from one city with a storied rivalry to another: Los Angeles. “I’m probably a unique reporter in that I covered both the Lakers and the Celtics. I don’t have allegiances either way. I’m not from either of those cities; I’m from a small town in like the poorest county in the state of Oklahoma,” Holmes said. A standout season for Holmes was the complexity of Bryant’s last season of his illustrious career. The tired body of a 37-year-old led to longer nights for the writer, who waited for Bryant to finish extensive

physical therapy treatments and receptions of celebrities. “Basically every night almost felt like a double or triple overtime game. The nights were very, very, very long,” Holmes said. Hailing from Oklahoma, Holmes said he wasn’t exactly raised in the extravaganza that surrounded Bryant’s career. The strenuous hours and days exposed Holmes to a different side of the basketball player, particularly in the last few days that led up to Bryant’s last game.

The 20-season career was catching up to Bryant, even more so when he ruptured his achilles during the 2013 season. Holmes detailed the few days leading up to the turning point in Bryant’s career. The dedication to winning on the court led him to watching the Lakers from the bench. “I hadn’t covered him for many years. I didn’t have a great and long time to get to know him, but during that final year I think I got to know him probably as much as I could,”

Holmes said. Holmes said fire for writing and information still burns within him, despite the long nights he endured with Bryant and the thousands of words he’s written since then. “It feels like Christmas morning almost every time getting great information, and I go back to the computer and I know I have a great story at my fingertips,” Holmes said. Jesse Lima contributed to this article.

Veterans edge cadets in annual flag football game

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Cadet captain Cale Quistgard watches veteran and cadet players partcipate in the Cal State Fullerton Veteran Resource Center’s annual flag football game on Nov. 14.

Comradery shines between players from the armed forces. JESSE LIMA Staff Writer

Every year, the Cal State Fullerton Army ROTC program and veteran students meet to play a flag football game at the Titan Track Complex, and this year the veterans came out on top once again in a close contest on Nov. 14. The veterans team rallied to defeat the cadets 27-21.

The main focus each year in this event is to build comradery between the two programs, according to veteran’s team captain Christian Velez. “We don’t really come together and do things, but doing events like this is something that brings us together and we build a connection where the ROTC cadets can ask veterans what our experience is like in the military. They can get some insight on what they could be expecting,” Velez said. The veterans team roster is filled with students who have served for the United States of America and decided to use

the benefits of enlisting to go to school and get their degrees, including Tony Martin, who is on track to graduate in the spring. “(My favorite part) was having the opportunity to beat future officers of the United States military. Being a former enlisted guy there’s always a little grudge, but still comradery and love,” Martin said. According to the Veteran Resource Center’s website, its mission at CSUF is to provide military-connected students with comprehensive academic, personal, and professional success support.

Martin highlighted that the Veterans Resource Center excels with the professionals they employ, the events, the food and resources provided, along with the bonuses of being in an environment of other people who are looking to serve. “They do a great job of ensuring that the students have everything they need to be successful,” Martin said. The Army ROTC team was captained by Cale Quistgard, who attends Whittier College and also participates in the Army ROTC program at CSUF. The purpose of the Army

ROTC program is to train students to become future officers in the armed forces as well as leaders in the professional business world. While on the losing side of the game, Quistgard enjoyed the night with the teams. “Getting to see the smiles on both the cadets and the veterans’ faces knowing we can come out here and enjoy a game of football, get a little physical with each other and really build that comradery,” Quistgard said. Natalie Medeiros contributed to this report.

Offensive struggles amplifed in loss

Men’s basketball couldn’t match Sacramento State’s scoring in overtime thriller. JULIUS CHOI

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Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball found itself in a seesaw battle that went down to the wire against Sacramento State, losing in overtime 87-82 on Saturday. The Titans have lost their second game in a row, finding just one win during the five-game road trip. Coming off a 80-71 loss to Hofstra University on Wednesday, CSUF men’s basketball was in a position to right the ship going into Saturday’s contest versus Sacramento State. A jumper by Jackson Rowe gave the Titans a 14-7 lead early to begin the game, capping off a 7-0 run by Fullerton. Even though CSUF was on a roll early on in the game, Sacramento State was able to establish a run of its own. The Hornets headed to the locker room during halftime leading by 5, thanks to a 10-point streak. Sacramento received a lot of help from the bench who made 29 points, with 14 of them coming from forward Ethan Esposito.

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CSUF guard Kyle Allman dribbles past a Sacramento State Hornets’ defender in a nonconference game at The Nest on Nov. 24.

Despite being second in the Big West for 3-pointers made, the well went dry for the Titans against the Hornets from behind the arc as they attempted 19 shots but were only able to make two. CSUF was able to rely on the scoring prowess of its most experienced players, Kyle Allman and Khalil Ahmad for the

beginning of this season. The senior duo, however, combined for 25 points on seven field goals made. Aside from Rowe’s 17 points, Fullerton found offense from an unlikely source. Johnny Wang, a two-year forward from China who is averaging 3.5 points per game this season, had a career night in a

reserve role for the Titans. Wang scored 11 points on 5-of-6 shooting from the field in 17 minutes of play. The Hornets capitalized on CSUF’s mistakes as they scored 21 second chance points compared to the Titans’ 8 points. They also outhustled the Titans on the glass as they snagged 17 of its 33 rebounds on the

offensive end. CSUF will play at home for the first time in three weeks when it hosts Cal Lutheran on Saturday, Dec. 1. The most recent game between these two teams was last season when the Titans defeated the Kingsmen 86-58 behind Allman’s 22 points.