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BRYANT FREESE Daily Titan The Titan baseball program raised over $125,000 this weekend as it welcomed keynote speaker Mike Scioscia, manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, to its annual Dinner with the Titans event Friday. Several professional ballplayers also returned Saturday for the annual Alumni game.
HAYLEY M. SLYE Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton University President Mildred Garcia sent out an email to the campus community Sunday in response to the executive order signed by President Donald Trump Friday. The order significantly restricts travel in and out of the United States for people from seven predominantly-Muslim countries. Garcia encouraged “faculty, staff and students traveling outside the United States to raise their level of caution,” and said the order “comes into direct conflict with our deepest values.” As of fall 2016, international students made up 8 percent of CSUF’s undergraduate, graduate and post baccalaureate student population, according to the CSUF Institutional Research and Analytical Studies website. Trump’s order suspends “immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States” for persons from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen for 90 days, according to a full text of the order provided by CNN. The order says its purpose is to “ensure that those approved for admission do not intend to harm Americans and that they have no ties to terrorism.” CSUF admitted one firsttime freshman from Libya and one from Iran in fall 2016 and three from Iran in fall 2015. “Thankfully, a couple of my family members actually came right before it happened. So in a sense, they’re safe, but you get a little bit worried about their well-being or their livelihood,” said Ahmad Kassem, president of the Muslim Student Association at CSUF. The order also suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions program for at least 120 days. Syrian nationals are banned from entering the country indefinitely. The order sparked protests at airports around the country. “I think the real issue is when we have countries where there’s a high degree of conflict and we’re letting people in without looking into their backgrounds, it presents a danger for the American people,” said CSUF Republicans president Christopher Boyle. “Personally, I don’t agree with barring people based on religion, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.”
Zack Johnston contributed to this story.
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Over the course of the three-hour long homeless count which started at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, volunteers scoured Orange County neighborhoods to survey those who were awake and willing to talk.
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Counting the unsheltered The 2-1-1 OC nonprofit organization coordinated the Point-In-Time Count for Orange County to assess the mental and physical needs of the homeless community.
JASON ROCHLIN SARAH WOLSTONCROFT Daily Titan A woman with tangled, greasy platinum blonde hair wearing a long, striped blue dress under an oversized brown sweatshirt looked down at her dirty feet, barely covered by an old pair of sandals. She was standing with a woman who was looking into a small mirror and using a red pen for eyeliner. “I have a bit of arthritis
and my feet are sensitive. I’ve been walking about 15 miles a day because my van broke down,” said the sandal-wearing homeless woman in Downtown Fullerton during Saturday’s Point-InTime Count homeless census. The 71-year-old became homeless in 2003 when she was no longer able to pay rent in Los Alamitos. Her anger problems caused her to quit 10 of her last 11 jobs, she said. She has been living out of her van for nearly
four years. “My biggest problem is going to the bathroom and finding a place to park,” she said on her way to Carl’s Jr. to use its public restroom. “I haven’t been able to make it as well without a home because I have none of the conveniences of a home.” The Point-In-Time Count is a nationally-administered biennial count that assesses the needs of the unsheltered homeless in each county to provide federal funding for outreach
programs and resources. The volunteers counted people who were living on the street or in cars, but not those staying in shelters and abandoned buildings. If the homeless weren’t asleep, they asked them a series of questions about their needs. Orange County counts non-English speakers but does not survey their needs, unlike Los Angeles County, which does both. SEE CENSUS
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Titan volunteers join census effort Nearly 300 counters were deployed from the Titan Gym. MICAH AUGIMERI-LEE Daily Titan At the steps of a Methodist church, census volunteer Jessica Allen discovered she had something in common with a Fullerton homeless man: They had attended the same high school. The coincidence made the encounter hit close to home, the 22-year-old Westminster volunteer said. Allen was one of the many volunteers to offer
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want to be able to help as many people as possible,” Rivas said. As soon as the count was complete, Rivas went straight to his second job. Rivas and his group scoured the city streets before deciding to split into groups of two to cover more ground. CSUF student Michelle Norwood, 36, stuck with Rivas to continue their search. Norwood is also in the Policing the City course. She said the course requires students to participate in service learning, which she is no stranger to.
Dinner with the Titans Hundreds of Cal State Fullerton alumni and donors packed the City National Grove of Anaheim Friday night to support Titan baseball as its 10th annual Dinner with the Titans, the program’s largest fundraiser of the year. “This is how our program kind of runs. We don’t have a bunch of funding from the state and we’re going up against schools that get a lot of money from football,” said former Titan pitcher and current Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer Thomas Eshelman. “This is basically how we keep going and keep competing with those types of schools.” Despite the competition, the Titan baseball program has no problem producing talented players and attracting big-name stars to attend the yearly fundraiser in 2016. Cal State Fullerton alumnus Kevin Costner was the keynote speaker at the event. Ranked No. 8 by Baseball America going into the 2017 season, the Titans decided to bring in Scioscia to speak to the audience about the expectations that surround the Fullerton baseball program. “Joe Maddon said it very well with the Cubs this year: embrace that bullseye. When you guys are going to play a team that you know wants to kick your butt, embrace it. You guys play your game, make them chase you, make them worry about what you’re doing,” Scioscia said. “Make them try to counter what you’re doing and play your game and do what you do the best and all of a sudden, that bullseye evaporates and you guys will have success.” Scioscia’s stories of being selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1976 MLB draft and his time with legendary Manager Tommy Lasorda had the crowd silent with anticipation at one moment and in hysterical laughter the next.
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their time in the early morning hours of Jan. 28 to help count the homeless population of Orange County. It was her first time. The biennial effort to count and survey the unsheltered homeless population of the United States relies on the efforts of volunteers from all backgrounds and experience levels. The last OC count drew around 800 volunteers, while the 2017 count saw approximately 1,200 volunteers, 297 of which were deployed from CSUF. Cal State Fullerton student Allan Rivas got off work at 12 a.m. before the count. Rivas understands what it
means to be poor. He came to the United States from El Salvador when he was 12 years old. Rivas said growing up in his home country, families lived on a few dollars a week. “I think that’s why I’m not afraid. I know what it’s like to not have a lot of things. I know what it’s like to just make it through,” Rivas said. “I see them as people just trying to survive.” Rivas signed up for the count as part of his Policing the City course. He hopes to enter law enforcement to further serve his community. “I think that’s the main thing that got me into law enforcement–that I just
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Career-high from Rowe lifts Titans The freshman big man’s strong effort powered men’s basketball past Cal Poly over the weekend. Sports
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