The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Thursday December 6, 2018
Volume 104 Issue 43
Lions maul Titans 59-49 in Titan Gym
Wednesday marked the first home loss for men’s basketball this season. JARED EPREM Sports Editor
Cal State Fullerton basketball suffered its first home defeat of the season Wednesday night, losing to Loyola Marymount University 59-49. Since the start of the 2017 season, the Titans have failed to score 50 points on only two other occasions: last season’s road opener against USC and the NCAA Tournament first-round game against Purdue. “(Loyola Marymount) played a different brand of team basketball. The shots that they took were the shots that they wanted to get. The shots that we took were non-aggressive ... versus working to get the kind of shots that we know we can take and make,” head coach Dedrique Taylor said. CSUF shot 34.8 percent from the field and hit only two of its 19 3-point attempts. SEE DEFEAT
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Guard Kyle Allman led Cal State Fullerton with 14 points. He was one of two Titans to reach double figures in the game.
CSUF puts on ‘Winter Carnival’
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Decline in international students The drop comes the same year as the closing of a CSUF language program. AURIELLE WEISS Staff Writer
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Students sit on bean bags and pet puppies during the ‘Winter Carnival.’
Student Association holds an event on campus to help students destress. JESSE LIMA Staff Writer
With the temperature dropping below 60 degrees outside, the scene was set for a winter carnival at Cal State Fullerton. The winter-season celebration entertained with carnival games, bunnies and puppies. The “Winter Carnival” was held by Associated Students on Wednesday in the Student Recreation Center. The event was used to help students relieve stress and take their minds off of finals, as well as highlight how several cultures celebrate the holidays. Cultural organizations and clubs at CSUF had booths set up to inform other students how they
celebrate the holidays during the winter season. The Japanese Anime Club was one of the booths open to students, and Andrew Funkhouser, club president, said he enjoyed how the “Winter Carnival” had separate booths for students who were interested in learning more about other cultures. “We were having a mix of American and Japanese culture. We had a mix of an American Christmas tree and we had a wishing tree, which is a Japanese tradition where people take a piece of paper and write a wish they want to come true and they hang it on a tree,” Funkhouser said. Keanne Matsuno, a member of the Japanese Culture Club, attended the “Winter Carnival” event and appreciated the exposure to different cultures. “It promotes more of a global understanding of the world, and I
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think that is very important. The only other times we would get that exposure are during Discoverfest and events like that,” Matsuno said. Elizabeth Rizzotto and Nicholas Smith, union and special programming coordinators for Associated Students, were responsible for setting up the “Winter Carnival” from start to finish. “The main purpose of what we wanted to do was to first of all give a little bit of de-stress for the finals coming up, and let people know that ASI understands that we are here for you,” Smith said. Free shirts, beanies and food vouchers were handed out to students. Many students were interested in the items handed out, especially two freshmen roommates, Viridiana Cisneros and Paulina Sarmiento. “I follow ASI on Instagram and I saw their story, and they were
giving out free stuff. My favorite part was making the snow globes because it is a cute little gift for someone,” Sarmiento said. With many holiday activities, including making snow globes, the third court of the Student Recreation Center was filled with holiday spirit and people of all different backgrounds. “I wasn’t even thinking about school, I was just thinking about making the snow globe and having fun,” Cisneros said. With finals week approaching fast, Smith said Associated Students will be busy during the month of December, especially with the all-night studies planned for finals week. Caitlin Bartusick contributed to this article. SEE DE-STRESS
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The number of international students enrolling in universities in the United States decreased by almost 7 percent last year and another 1 percent in 2018, according to The Power of International Education. Cal State Fullerton has taken a fall with a loss of over 1,000 international students in 2018. In the fall of 2017, 3,158 international students from 86 nations were enrolled. In fall of this year, 1,975 international students from 79 nations were enrolled at CSUF, according to CSUF Strategic Communications. The drop comes the same year the 32-year-old American Language Program at CSUF, also known as the ALP, was closed in the 2018 spring semester. The program aided international students in learning English to help them pass the language test required to officially enroll at CSUF. The American Language Program allowed them to take courses meant to familiarize the students with American life through “conditional enrollment.” The CSUF administration said the decision was made due to funding issues, even though the program was self-supported. SEE WORLD 3 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM