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Tuesday November 27, 2018

InSight Lander reaches Mars Pedestrian killed in car collision

‘Evening on Mars’ was held at the Anaheim Central Library to reflect on the landing. CAITLIN BARTUSICK Managing Editor

TYLER NELSON Staff Writer

A six-month 300-mile journey to Mars has come to an end for NASA’s InSight Lander and for it’s operators in Pasadena, California who erupted in cheers with the mission’s success. It is the first Mars landing since NASA’s Curiosity Rover touched down on the red planet in 2012, and the first liftoff to another planet from the West Coast at the Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc. In wake of the landing on Monday, NASA Solar System Ambassador, John Hoot, hosted an “Evening on Mars” event from the Anaheim Central Library to inform around 100 curious adults and children about InSight and its mission to Mars. “I was excited for the people who put so much work into the project. They succeeded in getting their instruments to Mars,” Hoot said. “Mars is hard. About half of all missions have failed historically. I think our batting average has gotten better but it’s still technologically a tremendously hard challenge.” The landing signals the start of a two-year mission to study the interior of Mars for clues as to how the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago. NASA has spent $814 million on the robotic lander. InSight will drill into the planet’s interior and take

A man was struck by a 2015 red Nissan Versa and a 2015 blue Nissan Rogue. CAITLIN BARTUSICK Managing Editor

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The landing signals the start of a two-year mission to study the interior of Mars.

measurements with a seismometer to study potential marsquakes or meteorites hitting the surface of the planet. It will also record its temperature to determine if Earth and Mars are similarly made. It is the first time the planet has undergone a “thorough health

checkup,” according to NASA. With past Mars missions, rovers have only been able to get through the first few inches of the planet’s crust, only scratching the surface, Hoot said. He said the InSight will provide an opportunity to learn more about what hasn’t been explored

beyond its crust. After hearing about the successful landing, Louis Vest, president of the Titan Rover Team at Cal State Fullerton, which constructs an analogous Mars rover, described feeling inspired. SEE NASA

A male adult pedestrian was killed Saturday at around 5:15 p.m. after two cars struck him as he was walking northbound on the 200 block of West Orangethorpe Avenue outside the crosswalk. Fullerton Police and investigators said drugs or alcohol does not appear to be a factor in the collision and the investigation is still ongoing. Officers performed life-saving measures on scene but the pedestrian was soon pronounced dead by Fullerton fire personnel. The coroner has not released the identity of the pedestrian yet, said Sgt. Carin Wright from the Fullerton Police. The pedestrian was struck by a 2015 red Nissan Versa and a 2015 blue Nissan Rogue, which were traveling westbound. No one was injured in the two vehicles, Wright said. Fullerton Police closed down both directions of Orangethorpe Avenue from Harbor Boulevard to Highland Avenue due to the fatal collision. The roads are now open.

Students prepare for exams Review: ‘Battlefield

V’ is visually striking

The controversial game may have its faults, but its gameplay is unparalled. WILLIAM ROBBINS Staff Writer

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The Peer Health University Network Club set up on Titan Walk to engage with students about destressing.

‘Rest Before the Test’ encouraged Titans to adapt habits that relieve stress. JESSE LIMA Staff Writer

With finals less than three weeks away, the Peer Health University Network Club held a “Rest Before the Test” event yesterday to promote healthy

sleeping habits and tips on how to relieve stress levels. The main focus of the event was to inform Titans on how to properly rest before finals week, said the club’s Sleep and Relaxation chair Rienne Medina, who was in charge of the event. “We want everyone to know their symptoms of test anxiety, stress levels and the ways to bring those down,” Medina said.

The Peer Health University Network Club is a community outreach club that mainly focuses on holding presentations and events about sleep and relaxation, alcohol, marijuana and other drugs, nutrition, and sexual health. It hosts four different health topic events throughout the year, said Lynnette De Los Angeles, the club’s co-president. SEE FINALS

The attention to graphic detail and cinematic gameplay that “Battlefield V” has makes it a leading representative of modern-day gaming, but its apparent lack of development at launch makes it feel like it’s still at the beta phase. The game is the newest installment from EA DICE’s “Battlefield” franchise since its first-person shooter, World War l based game “Battlefield 1” in 2016. Following the success of its predecessors and a year after the world war installation for “Call of Duty,” “Battlefield V” hoped to dominate the market of historical war shooters with its World War ll setting but fell short. In addition to the in-game bugs that affect competitive multiplayer lobbies, there are multiple game modes at the home screen that are unavailable to players at this time. But players are still able to see the greyed-out modes that are coming soon, much like unlocked characters in a platform-based fighter series. The developing team at EA DICE also received a lot of criticism for attention to historical authenticity in pre-release footage and teasers of the game, particularly with the introduction of female characters in customization and story mode. This criticism prompted the #NotMyBattlefield trend on

social media, but developers stood defiantly by their decision to include playable women in their game modes. DICE general manager Oskar Gabrielson took to Twitter to defend the company’s stance. “The Battlefield sandbox has always been about playing the way you want. Our commitment as a studio is to do everything we can to create games that are inclusive and diverse. We always set out to push boundaries and deliver unexpected experiences,” Gabrielson said. But despite all of its shortcomings at launch, EA DICE sure knows how to make one hell of a game. Veteran Battlefield players are familiar with the game’s masterful ability to create a vast world of conflict around the player. Buildings, fortifications and safety are ripped away from every angle. Vast, dynamic battlegrounds cave and crumble to the chaos of war with every objective. Unlike many first-person shooters, “Battlefield V” allows for an incredibly large multiplayer map, with servers that host up to 64 console players. While blatantly dominating team members can determine the outcome of a match in other games, the open multiplayer gameplay of “Battlefield V” gives the impression that a single player’s attempts are futile and insignificant. It takes the cumulative efforts of the entire team, often a lobby of strangers, to heave their way across the sectioned objectives on the map to a well-earned victory. SEE WAR 5 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Finals: Club informs NASA: Mission Titans about stress relief to study Mars

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John Hoot, NASA Solar System Ambassador, hosted ‘Evening on Mars’ on Monday. CONTINUED FROM JESSE LIMA / DAILY TITAN

Members of the group offered relaxing activities, such as playing with Play-Doh and coloring, to students who stopped by the table. CONTINUED FROM 1 “There are two presidents and basically I just oversee everything and make sure everything goes smoothly. We facilitate the meetings and the leadership meetings, and we are there to help everything else go as planned. We are like the backbone by helping all the other chairs,” De Los Angeles said. During the event, members of the club gave tips for healthy sleeping habits, or offered relaxing activities, such as playing with Play-Doh or coloring. “We just try to empower students to make informed decisions. We are not telling them to do one thing or the other, we are just giving them the right information and hoping they choose what is best for them,”

De Los Angeles said. One activity at the event that students could interact with was to throw a ping-pong ball into small baskets. Based on which basket the ball lands in, a member of the club would read off a helpful sleep or stress-related tip. “We talked about not taking hour long naps, try to take 20 to 30 minute naps because (hour or longer naps) will mess with your REM sleep cycle, so I am taking that into consideration,” said freshman biology major, Ernesto Mendoza who attended the event. REM, which stands for rapid eye movement, is a phase during sleep in the brain cycle. REM sleep makes up about 25 percent of your sleep cycle

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and first occurs about 70 to 90 minutes after you fall asleep. REM sleep is part of the process that stores memories, according to National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Mendoza said he has maintained a healthy sleeping schedule, as opposed to his high school sleeping schedule. “I remember in high school I would only get like five hours, then during some classes I would fall asleep,” Mendoza said. The next event that the Peer Health University Network Club will be a part of will be Nov. 29, when they partner with Titan Wellness to promote sexual health in its “Sex on the Lawn” event on the Tuffy Lawn.

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“I’d like to enter the astronautical industry in the future. Seeing successes like this is a reminder that everything really is just beyond our reach and if we work hard and if we work thoroughly together we can achieve a lot of amazing things,” Vest said. The main part of the mission will not begin for a few months. First, the team will have to confirm the health of the spacecraft and deploy and calibrate its instruments. Hoot said he expects more details to be released around March. “Now the real fun begins and these missions are about science and improving our understanding of our solar system we live in and planet we live on,” Hoot said. “Much of space science is overshadowed in the media by the engineering triumph and very little is ever covered about

the actual science results.” Samantha Soto, president of the Women Engineers at CSUF, also found the landing an inspiring feat for space exploration and something that will attract more women to pursue a career in engineering. Both Vest and Soto look forward to the future of space exploration and hope to become involved in future engineering endeavors. Vest said the results that come from understanding Mars’ creation and development will ultimately impact humans’ understanding of their home planet. The InSight project is just one piece of a giant puzzle that it has been the human space exploration era,” Vest said. “It demonstrates that potential, passion and drive in human ingenuity can achieve absolutely amazing things.” Noah Biesiada contributed to this article.

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Event fosters student and dean interaction Titans were provided a platform to ask their deans college-related questions. WILLIAM ROBBINS Staff Writer

Cal State Fullerton students had an opportunity to mingle with the College of Communications’ board of deans on Monday at a Meet the Deans event. The event was held in the Becker Amphitheater outside of the Titan Student Union and was meant to bridge the gap between communication students and their leading administration members, said Paola Delgado, chair for the Communications Inter-Club Council. “This is our way for the executive board to showcase to the students and for them to meet the deans in a more casual way,” Delgado said. “We know this is a commuter campus, but we want students to actually know what’s going on and what they can get involved in.” The event was hosted by the Communications Inter-Club Council and provided live music from Titan Radio, free burgers and water for any student who talked to a dean or an associate dean. The dean of a college serves as the lead for the college and the associate dean supports the dean in that endeavour. The assistant dean is more for supporting students and addressing student concerns or club leadership, said Deanna Leone, associate dean for the College of Communications. “On occasion we have to deal with disciplinary or conduct issues, but really that’s 10 percent of our experience. Ninety percent of our experience is putting things in place that actually benefit and support students,” Leone said. Deans were eager to talk to

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The event was hosted by the Communications Inner Club Council. Free burgers were available and live music was provided by Titan Radio.

students, even those not within their college, and work on building communication between them. “It makes them seem more like people. Like actual teachers, too,” said CSUF senior Jean Pogue who is a theater design major. Students got to know their college deans and were provided a platform to ask questions in an environment that differs from where students and deans

traditionally meet. Meeting in an open place allows students to see deans as people that they can come to and approach. The location allows students to speak more freely and realise that “we’re not just scary administrators,” Leone said. “If we don’t come out in informal settings, then we can’t help to expose students to who we are and what we do. And vice versa, we don’t have a chance to know

what students need and want,” she said. There has been discussion about College Park beginning to draw the blueprints for a larger student success center within the building for advisors and students to use both professionally and recreationally, Leone said. “Right now we’re super excited that we have identified a space within College Park that we’re going to be able to renovate and develop into a true student

success center,” Leone said. Among the topics students talked about were graduation tips, school progression and what the deans’ roles were as administrative leaders of the college. “It was really informative. They knew a lot of the things I needed to do to graduate. They gave me a lot of information about where to go and who to see. It was also really interesting just learning about their job,” Pogue said.

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Review: ‘My Favorite Murder’ is wicked fun This chilling and whimsical podcast is the perfect way to kill time on the road. SOMMER CLARK Staff Writer

Between commuting from my Huntington Beach home to Fullerton for school and Irvine for work, I spend a lot of time in my car. Being stuck in traffic can get frustrating because of the mindless zombies on the freeways slowing things down and the radio stations that seem to be running commercials longer than playing actual music, so for my own sanity I discovered a true crime podcast called “My Favorite Murder.” “My Favorite Murder” is a true crime comedy podcast that covers real-life murder cases. It ishosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, two friends who found each other through their similar love for true crime and mysterious death. Each episode starts with updates or any corrections from the previous episode that needs to be announced. Once covered, each host presents a murder or true crime case they researched or watched on an episode of “I Survived...” The first half takes up most of the drive to work or school, about 20 to 30 minutes. At times this can be a random conversation about cats, dogs, mother-daughter therapy, upcoming events or merchandise. Sometimes, if the listener is in a hurry and eager to hear their favorite murder in the episode, this part can drag on. But often, as a listener, it is easy to get lost in the conversation, and find yourself hoping to get stuck in a little traffic so that you can hear one true crime story retold. If not, save it for later, because like a good book, you can continue where you left off. The podcast feels like the listener is transported into the conversation between the hosts. Kilgariff and Hardstark do not hold back on feelings or reactions, often resulting in raw emotional responses and all around great one-liners to live by. Some examples include:

“F--- politeness,” “Stay sexy and don’t get murdered (SSDGM),” “Pepper spray first and apologize later,” “If you see something, f---ing say something.” These are wise words that make listeners think about about their safety in a straightforward way while also destroying the conventional idea of politeness. “If you meet a person (and) you get the weird feeling in your gut, absolutely trust yourself and get out of there,” said Kilgariff in the podcast. The podcast is a wake-up call to the evils that are hiding in plain sight. It teaches us that while people are taught

to be polite, it can get them in trouble, or worse, murdered. The podcast validates gut feelings and acknowledges the terrifying possibilities of living alongside murderers. It has grown in popularity to the point that there are live showings for fans of the show, referred to as “Murderinos.” At these shows, the audience gets to encounter and interact with a retelling of Kilgariff and Hardstark’s favorite murders. The downside about any well-known podcast or broadcast is the commercials, and “My Favorite Murder” is no

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Review: Best Netflix shows for lazy days

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The streaming service has many gems worth a binge session at home. KORRYN SANCHEZ Layout Editor

Winter break is on its way, and with it comes plenty of time to snuggle up in bed and turn on some good shows. But the hardest part of that is deciding what to watch. The Netflix library is constantly expanding and its genre list is increasingly more diverse. There is a different show for every occasion and every type of viewer. No two Netflix audience members are the same. Some people are looking for a good storyline, while others just want some good background noise. Some people are looking to laugh so hard they cry, while others want to cry so hard they laugh. Background noise College students are busy. Between classes, homework, studying, work, hanging out with friends or simply trying to find time to sleep, it is

hard to keep up with the Netflix scene. Sometimes all you need is a good show that has an easy storyline to follow and a light-hearted tone so you can play it in the background while you do more important things, like eating or studying. These shows are perfect for that: “Friends” - This show was ahead of its time and can be referenced in almost any situation. It is so versatile that it can be used as background study noise or full-on rainy day binge-watching material. Nothing is better than watching Matt LeBlanc strut around the screen during his best years. “The Office” - The only show to ever give “Friends” a run for its money. The dry and sometimes almost unbelievably inappropriate humor will leave you speechless. Each episode can be watched as a stand-alone, and while you may not understand why Jim hates Dwight, the absurdity of it all will leave you laughing. “Parks and Recreation” This masterpiece starring Amy Poehler and Chris Pratt is the perfect show to watch while you shove Top Ramen down your throat at two in the morning because you forgot to eat all day.

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The storyline is easy to follow, but the character development and plot will throw you on an emotional roller coaster you didn’t think was possible for a series consisting of 30-minute episodes. Other shows that fit into this category and can be streamed on Netflix are “New Girl,” “The Ranch,” “Arrested Development” and “That ‘70s Show.” A good plot College students are smart. They may not even realize it, but students really know their stuff when it comes to a good storyline. Though, sometimes they can be overly critical. Thankfully Netflix has gotten it right and either produces good quality shows or adds top quality shows to its library. “Sons of Anarchy” - As Jax Teller rides around on his Harley, you can’t help but to be completely enthralled by the dramatic ups and downs of his life, and the life of everyone else in the motorcycle club. The storyline is perfect for someone who enjoys emotional highs and lows. “Mad Men” - This series surrounds Don Draper, a charismatic and attractive partner

working for a prestigious advertising firm. The mystery behind his past life and the reason why he is a compulsive liar slowly unravels throughout the show. New York during the 1960s is the perfect setting to watch Draper lay on his office couch while drinking too much whiskey and coming up with ingenious advertising campaigns. “The Walking Dead” - Who doesn’t want a post-apocalyptic TV show with a cop, a kid, a cheating wife and a motorcycle-riding introvert? This show details the devastatingly unfortunate story of Rick Grimes and his group of zombie-apocalypse survivors as they make their way from multiple safe havens trying to stay alive. Some other shows that fit into this category and can be streamed on Netflix are “Better Call Saul,” “Breaking Bad,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Lost,” “Riverdale,” “Pretty Little Liars,” “The Fosters,” “Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl,” and “Once Upon a Time.” Netflix Originals “The Crown” - This is a great example of a well-done Netflix show. Based upon the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the story

starts a little slow with a lot of background and history of the crown. However, as the season progresses, the show really gets into the struggles of always being in the spotlight. It does a great job of portraying the positives and negatives of a life a lot of people dream of having. “Peaky Blinders” - The Shelby family is the head family of the gang Peaky Blinders. Tommy Shelby is the definition of cool. The show is set just after World War I in England and follows the family as they rise to success under the leadership of Tommy. “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” - This is an example of a show that will make you cry so hard you laugh. Once you watch, you will remember how great the story of Lorelai and Rory’s loving mother-daughter relationship can be. Some other shows that fit into this category and can be streamed on Netflix are “Mindhunter,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Ozark,” “Black Mirror,” “13 Reasons Why,” “Stranger Things,” “Happy Valley,” “House of Cards” and “Dear White People.”

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CONTINUED FROM 1 Graphics for “Battlefield V” are definitely an improvement since the last game. Lighting has been retouched to make scenarios much less static and, of course, beautiful. Reciprocating surroundings have also been improved; tall meadows of flowers that sway with player movements and water reacts with the character. This, along with the dynamic sandbox-style environments, gives each map a feeling as if it were alive. The game also has in-game audio that complements the stunning visual gameplay with an incredible depth of sound: the crunch of debris and cobblestone paths beneath your boots, the distant crack of artillery against airplanes and the deafening whistles of bullets and shrapnel all around the player. VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

Mortars and explosions that land close to players knock them on their back, briefly disorienting them as they try to get back on their feet. While the game requires further development and patches for bug fixes, it’s not actually a major surprise. The majority of games that are release are criticized for lack of content in wake of future downloadable content, and seldom are games launched with minimal issues. The game’s potential for greatness has foundations in its sound, visuals and unconventional first-person shooter gameplay, all while still offering great theatrical entertainment despite its hiccups. With time, “Battlefield V” may be the greatest World War ll game to be released, and the one everyone has been waiting for. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Column: Xanax is a dangerous escape Self-medication is a bad way to cope with stress and anxiety.

TANYA CASTANEDA Lifestyle Editor

College is supposed to be a time of experimentation and learning one’s limitations, but society’s normalization of powerful prescription drugs, like Xanax, is not something to mess around with. The drug can help people with insomnia or some cases of anxiety, but taking it simply because it is easily accessible and a “quick fix” is unsafe and just plain dumb. I started taking it because I was worrying all the time. I would shake and hyperventilate regularly. The worst was when I would waste all night staring at a blank wall until birds would start chirping, and the sun was coming up. I knew I wasn’t OK, so I decided to self-medicate. At first, I told myself that as long as I only took a quarter of a bar, it would all be fine. I found myself sleeping through the night and I was suddenly hooked. I started taking bigger pieces to help me sleep longer, feeling that bang of relaxation that would completely overtake my body after just a single beer or two. I hadn’t thought about it too much until one day I realized that I was taking it to simply lay on the couch and watch a movie with my roommates.

But I did nothing to change my habits. The dependency began to take a toll on my health. I found myself showing more signs of depression. I told myself I was being hysterical, that I was simply taking it to get some rest. I could kick it to the curb at any time, right? My friend encouraged me to quit after I scared her one night, intoxicated and crying. I popped one of those suckers in and was out cold in bed for about 18 hours. She could clearly see that I wasn’t doing well. However, quitting only made my original symptoms worse. The insomnia came back, this time with more depressive tendencies and my heart felt like it was beating a million times a minute even when I laid in bed. I would shake excessively and all of it was too much to bear. I eventually reached the lowest point I had ever been in in my life. I had been diagnosed with depression before as a teen, but this time around, it felt different. Going back to therapy, I learned that the depression had creeped its way back and I was also diagnosed with panic disorder. My coping mechanisms weren’t healthy ones. “People get prescribed them all the time, how am I feeling worse instead of better now?” I constantly kept asking myself. The things I had heard about the drug were also eye-opening. For example, one of the most common outcomes is the dependency that users develop. Someone using Xanax can become hooked in less than a month, even if taken in small doses, according to the American Addiction Centers. As tolerance builds, users tend to begin increasing their doses little by

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little. Often times, those that suffer from anxiety are more susceptible to fall into depression. Prolonged use of the substance can actually deepen depressive symptoms, even after people stop taking the drug, which can also lead to higher suicide rates, the most serious side effect of Xanax, according to the American Addiction Centers.

Another factor is the intensified effects that the drug has when taken with alcohol, which can be deadly. Both substances are central nervous depressants and they amplify each other’s effects, which can cause many different harmful outcomes such as seizures and death. Several of my friends have taken the drug while simply hanging out and having a drink.

They felt sedated and were completely unaware of what others saw. They slurred their speech and had delayed reactions, which made interacting with them unpleasant. With so many other more natural remedies and options, it would be foolish to believe that Xanax is more beneficial than many other things on the market for relaxation. So stick to marijuana, kids.

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Memento comes from the imperative form of meminisse, a Latin verb that literally means “to remember.”

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Profound messages that seem to come from the center of your soul magically stream into your consciousness today. These spiritual missives might show up in your dreams, on a random subway ad, or in the lyrics of an unfamiliar song.

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Someone might trust you with confidential news today, which brings up thorny issues you can’t avoid. Perhaps you’re conflicted along ethical lines, even if you’re not personally entangled in the drama.

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Column: Big plays trump great games Thanksgiving week football created debate due to huge point totals. JARED EPREM Sports Editor

Last week, the NFL had its third-highest scoring game of all time and the NCAA saw the highest scoring game in the history of Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision. While writers and fans slotted both events in the “greatest games of all time,” debate for their respective levels of play, individual moments and plays will always be more memorable to me than huge point totals. The Monday Night Football game between the Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs was one of the most captivating contests I’ve watched in a while. Seven lead changes, two ties and a minimum of three scores in each quarter. It doesn’t get much better than 54-51. However, there were several other factors that elevated the storyline, including playoff seeding and the young quarterback duel. A normal loss for the Chiefs would have begged the question if they can still hold onto the top seed in the AFC. This game didn’t. The only thing I need to say about Saturday’s game featuring Texas A&M and Louisiana State University is seven overtimes. One missed extra point in regulation could have made this game 31-30. Instead, football fans were given a historic game with 146 total points scored. With all that being said, I still prefer single plays as opposed to a whole game of entertainment. Logically, this makes no sense. If asked, “Would you rather have 10 minutes of awesome or four hours of awesome?” I think most people, including myself, would take four hours.

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This just doesn’t translate to my sports-watching experience. Individual moments mean more to me than full games. My best explanation for it is the euphoria I receive from witnessing something crazy happen so quickly I couldn’t begin to explain it. My three favorite games of my young life are Super Bowl XLIX, Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals and the 2014 NFC Divisional Round between the

Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys. Why? Three plays: Malcolm Butler’s game-sealing interception, Ray Allen’s corner three, and Dez Bryant’s “catch.” Maybe the reason I prefer single plays is that they’re easier to remember. I watched the whole Rams versus Chiefs game. There were so many amazing plays that trying to remember all of them is exhausting and watching sports shouldn’t make

me want to nap. Another reason that great plays reign supreme over great games is memes. Please don’t stop reading. What is there to meme about a great game? Ultimately, most fans of the losing team aren’t going to beat themselves up because they were entertained for three-ish hours. However, individual plays can always be memed. Whether Lance Stephenson is blowing

the ball out of Bryant’s hands or the Titanic music plays as the Seahawks blunder away a Super Bowl victory, jokes stay undefeated. Fans might never agree on what game or play is the best of all time. However, one opinion they should concede is that the week of Thanksgiving 2018 provided some of the most memorable football games of all time because of these two games.

Women’s Basketball Team

Record

Winning pct.

UC Irvine

5-0

1.000

UC Davis

2-3

Cal State Fullerton

Men’s Basketball Team

Record

Winning pct.

UC Irvine

6-1

.857

.400

UC Santa Barbara

5-1

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2-4

.333

Hawaii

4-3

.571

Cal State Northridge

2-4

.333

Cal Poly

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UC Riverside

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Cal State Fullerton

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Long Beach State

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Long Beach State

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UC Santa Barbara

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UC Riverside

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Cal Poly

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Cal State Northridge

1-3

.250

Hawaii

1-7

.125

UC Davis

1-6

.143