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The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Student-run public relations agency received advertising award for work with the city of Anaheim.

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President García to leave CSUF After six years, she will go on to head a national association.

JASON ROCHLIN News Editor

On Jan. 22, 2018, Mildred García will no longer be the president of Cal State Fullerton.

After serving nearly six years as the head of the university, García announced she was offered and accepted the presidency of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) in an open letter to faculty, staff and other employees Monday morning.

“This is a pretty bittersweet, emotional day for me,” García told the Daily Titan.

The final contract was signed Friday afternoon, though García said she had been interviewed for the position during the AASCU’s annual conference that took place from Oct. 21 to 25.

The AASCU is a national association based out of Washington, D.C. that represents nearly 420 institutions by advocating for public policy, helping create educational programs and offering workshops to support professional development for university presidents and other executives.

García said she was a beneficiary of programs put in place by the association.

“There’s an amazing program called the millennium program that actually prepares underrepresented individuals to think about becoming presidents,” García said. “I was in their first

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CSUF President Mildred García announced Monday that she will be leaving CSUF in January to start as the president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White will visit the university soon to determine who will serve interim and who will serve as an eventual permanent replacement.

graduating class in 1999, and I was the first person to become president when I graduated from that program.”

According to an AASCU statement, García will be the first Latina to lead a higher education association

in Washington, D.C. The Oct. 31 appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos at CSUF postponed the president’s decision to take a new position, but she said the association was “very understanding” of her diverted attention and focus.

“I know that she and all of us were really focused on the speaking engagement that happened last Tuesday,” said CSUF Chief Communications Officer Jeffrey Cook.

CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White will visit CSUF “in

the coming weeks” to meet with García, university officials and the local community so he can get an impression of what the campus is looking for in a new leader.

White will appoint an interim president when García leaves and will lead the

search process to find a permanent replacement. García said she has no inclination as to who will be replacing her, or whether or not the successor will come from the CSU system.

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CSUF confident it can win Big West Vintage fashion comes to Disney

The Titans’ close bond may be their ticket to a conference title.

HARRISON FAIGEN

Dapper Day pays homage to the park’s 1950s roots on Sunday.

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Junior guard Kyle Allman led Fullerton in free throws and was one of five Titans to have a double-digit average for points per game last season.

since 2012 — and a thirdplace finish in the Big West — the Titans were picked to finish third again this season in the conference’s preseason media poll.

Titans Head Coach Dedrique Taylor thinks the team can be better than that.

“We’re going to aim for the top, and I expect us to be at the top, but at the end of the day it doesn’t mean anything,” Taylor said. “You’ve still got to play the game, and that’s what we’re focused on.”

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Last year’s team built most of its success on a relentless, hounding, passing lane-closing defense that gave the Titans the third-best defensive efficiency in the conference last season, only allowing their opponents to score 97.2 points per 100 possessions. Furthermore, they forced opponents to cough up turnovers on a Big Westbest 20.8 percent of their possessions.

They want to get even better.

“The good thing is that the group of guys that we have

back, they were all part of that run that we put together, and they understand the importance of us being able to defend,” Taylor said. “They understand that if they can defend and they rebound, they can get out of transition and run.”

If the Titans are going to be better, they’ll need improvement from players individually as well as whatever collective improvement or maintenance of the status quo the team can muster.

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In the past six decades, Disneyland’s style has evolved from a place of swing dancers with suspenders and petticoats to one of selfie-taking tourists wearing pin-filled lanyards and mouse ears. On Sunday Nov. 5, parkgoers took a stylish step back in time by participating in Disney’s Dapper Day, a biannual event dedicated to embracing the refined fashion of the past.

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It brings back how old times used to be before phones and everything else, where people are complimenting and starting conversation.

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As training camp for Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball ended and the start of the season drew closer, Titans guard Kyle Allman came to a realization.

Rather than going their separate ways after practice or focusing on themselves while on the floor, the Titans were coaching each other up and playing to make each other better.

Even off the floor, the team would meet for practice every day after their classes ended. When their time in the gym concluded, the Titans would eat together before heading back to Allman’s apartment for endless hours of “NBA 2K” games and do it all over again the next day.

“Since I’ve been here, this is the closest-knit team that I’ve been a part of,” Allman told the Daily Titan. “This year, I think we definitely have the most collective chemistry.”

That chemistry might have also resulted in the best Titans roster Allman has been a part of. Coming off of their first postseason appearance

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casually dressed guests by wearing vintage-inspired attire. The event allows partakers to experience the sense of community and class that is a part of Disney’s roots.

“Dapper Day means the ability to return class to the park when most people don’t really dress more than the average, ordinary shlub,” said Tami Elder, 38, a Dapper Day attendee since 2015.

“It’s a wonderful thing to participate in because people have much more manners. The park is much nicer to visit when people are dressed nicely and it’s a great place to be.”

The event is not associated with the Walt Disney Company, and is promoted and planned by outside organizers and sponsors.

The first Dapper Day was in February 2011 when Justin Jorgensen organized a Disneyland Park gathering to give people a reason to deviate from casual tourist attire and dress to impress. A Dapper Day Expo is additionally hosted at the Disneyland Hotel with a $10 admission fee.

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• One in five American adults experienced a mental health issue.

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At CSUF President Mildred García’s 2017 Convocation Address, she announced that the university’s new strategic plan would be unveiled during the 2018 speech. She will continue to work on preparing the new plan until she starts her new job on Jan. 22.

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“I encourage faculty, staff and students to be at those meetings and tell the chancellor about the kind of person they would like to see first as interim and then in the permanent presidency,” García said.

She said as of now, no one in the CSUF administration will be following her to the AASCU. García’s departure comes amid CSUF preparing its next strategic plan, which she previously said would be unveiled during her 2018 Convocation Address.

The new four-year plan is set to be completed by May or June, García said, and veteran faculty members who helped with the first plan will be involved with the new one.

Because of this, García expects the plan’s emphasis on

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The university was fabulous and great before I got here, and it will be fabulous and great after I leave because of the people that work here.

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promoting the Graduation Initiative 2025 program, creating strong academic programs, hiring diverse faculty and raising more external funds for the university to remain even after she is gone.

“That is core to our mission and core of who we are, so we will continue working in that direction,” García said. “I do not believe anyone interim will come and stop the trajectory and the movement that is happening at Cal State Fullerton ... I am still working here.

I am still the president until I leave, and we will continue to work very hard for the benefit of our students, faculty, staff

and community.”

García will continue to work with senior leadership on preparing for CSUF’s Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) reaccreditation and on events celebrating the university’s 60th anniversary.

Cook said even if this is “an emotional day,” García is leaving a legacy that gives CSUF a firm footing, especially given that “institutions are bigger than any one person.”

“This is an incredibly strong organization that, while we are certainly sad and there will be a deficit

for us without her leadership, this is an institution that’s not going to stand still,” Cook said.

García said that while she won’t be present for events after January, like commencement, she will return to CSUF “if I’m invited and I can make it.”

“This university was fabulous and great before I got here, and it will be fabulous and great after I leave here because of the people that work here,” García said. “I would tell my potential successor to embrace an institution that loves the over 40,000 students we serve. To take the energy this university has and take it to the next level, to take it to even higher heights.”

Zack Johnston and Harrison Faigen contributed to this report.

Students win advertising award Campus advertising and public relations agency recognized.

RAYMOND PELAYO Staff Writer

Practical Advantage Communications, a student-run advertising and public relations agency on campus, won a MarCom Award for its spring 2017 campaign proposal for the city of Anaheim.

“I’m proud of my fellow classmates that were able to produce this work so we could win this award,” said PRAD Art Director Ida Johnson.

Presided over each year by the Association of Marketing and Communication professionals, 2017 marked the first year PRAD won a MarCom

Award, which includes a trophy and a certificate.

The award honors communication firms that show creativity within the industry, according to MarCom’s website. PRAD received the gold award – the second highest honor of the MarCom Awards – for creating a planning book for the city of Anaheim.

The planning book aimed to help increase efficiency in how Anaheim’s human resources interacted with employees. The student agency also helped rebrand the department by redesigning logos and improving how information is disseminated between workers.

PRAD also received an honorable mention for its campaign to redevelop the social media presence of CSUF’s Center for Brand Values Communication and Research, as well as its mission

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The agency began in 2011 as part of the capstone class COMM 474 taught at CSUF’s Irvine campus by communications professor Pete Evanow. Brand Values Communication and Research, advertising, entertainment and tourism and public relations majors have the option to join the agency.

PRAD member Farid Hameditoloui said the class divides 20 students into four groups, who are then given a client to work with. Although they were not part of the Anaheim project, both Hameditoloui and Johnson were on

the team that submitted the proposal to the MarCom Awards.

“We looked through all of our campaign proposals, and we thought that was the strongest one,” Hameditoloui said.

PRAD works with new and returning clients. Occasionally, students will be hired by the organizations they worked for in the class after they complete the course, said PRAD copywriter Erendira Leal.

“We have the luxury of having a hands-on experience that you just can’t get from textbooks,” Hameditoloui said.

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A contract between the Academic Professionals of California and the California State University to increase the salaries of student service workers was extended to 2020, but still must be voted on by the CSU Board of Trustees. Should it be approved, employees will receive pay raises of 3.11 percent for July 2017 and 3 percent for July 2018 and 2019.

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An agreement has been reached between the Cal State University system and Academic Professionals of California on the extension of a contract raising the salaries of full-time, student service

employees by 2020, pending approval of the CSU Board of Trustees.

About 3,000 of these employees, who are represented by APC, provide students with professional academic guidance and a quality education in the CSU system.

Cal State Fullerton employs two APC-represented professionals, including scholarship chair Janette Hyde and graduation chair Rosalina Camacho.

If ratified by the board of

trustees, these employees will receive a retroactive salary increase of 3.11 percent for July 2017, 3 percent for July 2018 and once again for July 2019.

Full-time employees will also receive a $650 one-time employee recognition bonus while part-time employees’ recognition bonuses will depend on how long they have been employed, if the agreement is approved by the CSU Board of Trustees.

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CSU agreed on a contract extension for academic professionals.

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CSU spokesperson Elizabeth Chapin.

New employees will now have to serve 10 years in order to be eligible to retire at age 52 with full health benefits

under this new contract, while current employees are eligible after serving only five.

“It is really critical to recruit and retain quality employees and then those employees are critical to the success of CSU students,” Chapin said. “In APC, the employees, many of them are student advisors, so they directly contribute to student success.”

The CSU Board of Trustees will vote on this tentative agreement at its meeting in January 2018.

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MUSIC

Burger Records is a nostalgic success Cassettes allowed the local record label and music store to thrive.

GENE PIETRAGALLO Staff Writer

Just a stone’s throw from the train tracks of Cal State Fullerton, a record label has been hard at work breathing new life into the music scene. Burger Records, a label and record store combination, has stayed true to the definition of punk rock by doing its own thing; an approach that has led it to work with artists like Green Day, Weezer, Thee Oh Sees and psychedelic rock outfit, Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Burger Records’ specialization in punk and indie music has developed into its own niche since the label’s inception. Specifically, the resurgence of cassette tapes is where the label has found its home.

“When we first started making cassettes, nobody was making cassettes of records that were coming out at the time, so we said, ‘Why not us?’ and we did it,” said Sean Bohrman, co-founder of Burger Records. “Before we knew it, we were behind this cassette movement that was happening.”

The 2010s have been great

for cassette tapes. The format had risen in sales by 74 percent in 2016, according to Nielsen Music. With this trend, Burger Records has had the opportunity to bring its cassette itch into a new light. The label managed to release Green Day’s 1994 breakout album “Dookie” on cassette exclusively for International Cassette Store Day in 2015.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of cassette tapes filter their way through 645 S. State College Blvd. every week. Since its start, the independent label has pressed and released more than 500,000 cassettes and been responsible for more than 1,100 releases between itself and its subsidiary label, Weiner Records.

Burger Records was formed in 2007 by Bohrman and Lee Rickard, friends and bandmates who played alongside each other in Thee Makeout Party!, a punk rock group based in Fullerton.

The label focused on putting records to tape as a means of cost reduction without taking away the physical aspect of the music they were making. The duo started slow, but released their own music from Thee Makeout Party! through Burger Records in 2007 before carrying on to releases from other bands.

“We’re really tireless

workers and workaholics.

All we do is work on Burger and invest our money back into Burger. We don’t live extravagant lifestyles or anything,” Bohrman said.

The label describes itself as “a rock ‘n’ roll philanthropic quasi-religious borderline-cultish propaganda-spreading group of suburban perma-teen mutants” on its Facebook page.

For the Burger team and Bohrman, it has grown into a full-time job after Bohrman took out 401(k) to start the Burger Records store.

“I worked in an office for four and a half years before this, and that wasn’t great. It paid well, and I could have worked there my entire life, but it just felt wrong that I worked so hard through college and it led to a cubicle in Irvine,” Bohrman said.

“It just didn’t make sense. It didn’t add up.”

Burger Records now operates seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on top of hosting pop-up shops and DJing at music festivals like Growlers Six and Desert Daze. It has even hosted its own annual Burger Boogaloo music festival with headliners including Iggy Pop, Shannon and the Clams, and Buzzcocks, and evolved into a label with global recognition.

Over the last four years,

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In 2007, the founders of Burger Records, Sean Bohrman and Lee Rickard, originally from the band Thee Makeout Party!, opened the store in their hometown of Fullerton.

Bohrman, Rickard and the rest of the Burger team have flown all over the world to speak at music conventions and set up shop at music festivals. Last month, the label had the opportunity to speak in Germany and Columbia, and in November the team will head to Perth, Australia and Bali, Indonesia to DJ at a music festival.

“We just released a band on Wiener Records from

Iraq called Psychic Bloom who are really good. We had to send the tapes to somebody in Europe to drive them into the country to give it to (the band),” Bohrman said. “Pretty wild, I never thought I’d get to travel and stuff, but I’ve been all over the world, which is cool.”

There was a point in time where analog music lost its place in the music community, at least to the general

population. The introduction of the iPod and other MP3 players in the early 2000s focused on the concept of minimizing the physical size of music collections, but disregarded the intimacy and quality that comes with their tangible predecessors. Burger Records fought that idea and brought back what many diehards would consider the most important aspect of music —physicality.

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CSUF freshmen (left to right) Isabel Venegas, Helen Newton and Tessa Wong participated in Disneyland Dapper Day for the first time on Sunday, channeling their favorite characters with vintage clothing.

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The events have gained traction through Disney-related social media accounts, word-of-mouth and unplanned encounters.

Camille Santiago, 18, came to Dapper Day by accident last year. She participated in the event for the first time on Sunday by creating her ‘50s-inspired outfit with the help of Amazon and her grandma’s fashion expertise.

Because of its increasing popularity, the event drew in several Cal State Fullerton students.

“I’ve always admired ‘30s, ‘50s and ‘60s hairstyles, dress wear, music, everything. I’ve always told people that I was born in the wrong era because that’s what I go to most of the time,” said CSUF freshman Isabel Venegas.

Her fellow CSUF freshmen Tessa Wong and Helen Newton, decided to participate in the event together for the first time this fall.

“I love vintage fashion, the

hairstyles, and I also love the concept of DisneyBounding,” said Wong, who created a winter Belle-inspired outfit from “Beauty and the Beast.” “I spent a good few months prepping for the costuming, prepping for the hair and what I’m going to do.”

DisneyBounding is when fans create outfits inspired by characters in Disney films with items found in their own closets.

Adults often get around Disneyland’s no-costume policy this way on Dapper Day, fusing this idea with their vintage outfits.

Several participants threw together an outfit last minute, while others spend months prepping for the day.

“I think a lot of people might be held back by the feeling that they are pressured into dressing period appropriately, but it’s really not like that at all,” Newton said. “No one is going to judge you for not wearing pin curls and victory rolls and all that sort of stuff. It’s a very inclusive event.”

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for Disney and uncovers the connection that they share.

“It’s a different kind of environment when everyone is dressed up because more people talk to each other. It brings back how old times used to be before phones and everything else, where people are complimenting and starting conversation,” said Analise Trujillo, 22. “That’s what I love, the people.”

Trujillo dressed up with her mother Jennie Mendez, 42, and best friend Denise Balaoro, 22, as a ‘50s-style trio of kittens from “The Aristocats.” Her mother has been taking her to the park since she was a toddler, and calls Disneyland her home.

“We we raised here. Thanks to (my mom), we have all these awesome memories with our families,” Trujillo said. “Now, when I get older and if I have kids, I want to bring them back here to recreate that same essence.”

The next Disneyland Dapper Day will be held on April 22, 2018.

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2017 MOVIES

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ revamps the franchise The series’ third movie has ‘80s sci-fi vibes and is packed with humor.

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From the moment the first teaser trailer dropped in April, featuring the perfectly fitting Norse-inspired Led Zeppelin track “Immigrant Song” and neon title credits, it was clear that “Thor: Ragnarok” was going for a cinematic makeover for its franchise to give Marvel fans the portrayal of Thor they deserved.

The Norse mythology aspect of the “Thor” films has always been hard to make resonate with average moviegoers because its concepts are full of foreign and nearly unpronounceable terminology.

The third installment, “Thor: Ragnarok” seems to take a queue from the success of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” films as it incorporates more humor, vibrant characters and a colorful ‘80s sci-fi fantasy aesthetic.

In the film, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) comes back to his home world, Asgard, to protect it against a prophesied event called Ragnarok, which is the ultimate destruction of Asgard. Upon his return, Thor is reunited with his deceitful adopted brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) as they face one of the most threateningly psychotic villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Hela (Cate Blanchett), the goddess of death.

The pair first meet Hela when venturing on Earth in search of Odin (Anthony Hopkins). She appears out of thin air, casually destroys

Thor’s hammer and sends them to the planet Sakaar.

Hela claims the Asgardian throne in what serves as a suitably intimidating scene that establishes just how powerful and dangerous she is.

“Thor: Ragnarok” explores Thor’s character with depth the prior movies never attempted, as he is sent on a journey and must learn who he is without his hammer.

Thor had been overly reliant on his hammer in past films, but without it — and with the impending threat of Hela — he finally unleashes his true power and shows the world why he’s known as the god of thunder.

The relationship between Thor and Loki also progresses in this film. Loki is still the same deviant brother, often betraying Thor, but by the end, Loki proves his loyalty and redeems himself — for now at least.

Blanchett’s portrayal of Hela proves that women can outdo men in roles of powerful characters as she is the deadliest and most threatening Marvel villain seen to date.

Hela is bloodthirsty, ambitious and willing to kill anyone who gets in her way, and it should be noted that her costume is true to the comics and is beautifully designed, making her a strikingly beautiful yet brutal villain.

“Thor: Ragnarok” also gives fans more of the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) than they’ve ever seen before. He is more of a character than a computer-generated imagery prop, and his storyline is the closest to a true “Planet Hulk” movie that fans will ever get without him getting his own film. Director Taika Waititi succeeded in adapting the most successful

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The character Valkyrie debuts in the new film and helps the hammerless Thor defeat the goddess of death, Hela, by providing her knowledge gained from prior run-ins with the villian.

elements of the popular comics story and offered an exciting Thor vs. Hulk gladiator match fans have been dying to see.

A new addition to the cast, Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) is another example of a strong female lead who is way more than a cliché love interest.

Valkyrie was once part of the highly esteemed and powerful all-female Valkyries that fought to protect Asgard. When she is

introduced in the film, she does not hold the high position of power and merit that she did before, but having had prior history with Hela, she has her own motivations to help Thor put an end to her.

Each character showcased their own moments of humor, most notably with supporting character Korg (Waititi) and the scenes between Thor and Hulk. Much of the humor was technically unnecessary and did nothing

to move the story along, but still helped make the film’s characters and scenes more fun and enjoyable.

The Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum), a bizarre, quirky lunatic who runs the gladiator battles on Sakaar, is also worth noting because his awkward, random quips provide a majority of the unnecessary-yet-necessary humor in the film.

For casual moviegoers who haven’t kept up to date with the “Thor” or “Hulk” films,

it is recommended that they either watch them before seeing “Thor: Ragnarok” or read the four prelude comics online that summarize the events prior to the film. Even without catching up, this movie promises a fun, thrilling time for anyone.

“Thor: Ragnarok” shakes up the status quo in the MCU heading into the summer premiere of “Avengers: Infinity War,” while also serving as undoubtedly the best “Thor” movie ever made.

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Letter to the Editor CSUF College Republicans irresponsible to invite Milo Yiannopoulos on campus The CSUF College Republicans club sold $35 tickets to an event that cost a lot more. Not much else needs to be said about Milo Yiannopoulos, as I am sure many of us have read about him before.

He was permanently banned from Twitter for targeted harassment of actress Leslie Jones. He claimed transgender people suffer from mental disorders (they don’t) and are dangerous to children (they’re not). He also defended sexual relationships between minors and adults, saying that as long as the minor has functioning sexual organs it is not pedophilia, and that such relationships “can be hugely positive experiences very often.”

These kinds of comments will surely invite protests from people of sound mind, and they have. His appearance at UC Berkeley cost $800,000 in security expenses and incalculable amounts of human dignity.

The things I have said thus far are no secret and are easily obtainable information. Yet the CSUF GOP chose to invite Yiannopoulos to the campus. Around this time last year, I met two members of the CSUF GOP on Titan Walk. Their views certainly differed from mine, and their support for President Donald Trump was ardent. Still, I would not have imagined that those same people who claim to be God-fearing and morally superior, would be the same people who invited and glorified a known sexual abuse apologist to Fullerton.

Yiannopoulos knows that he is a troll. He says things just to hurt people without giving thought to the kinds of actions he is encouraging. There is

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nothing to be gained academically from that. There is nothing to be gained from insulting the other party just to insult them. This event did not reflect the Republican values I was told they have. It is not as Republican as it is anti-Democrat and vindictive.

Sure, one may say I am a “snowflake” and that I am easily offended. Those who dare might even tease me to go and cry about it. What they do not realize is that these are things to cry about. Real people suffer real consequences from being harassed for their gender or ethnicity. The rhetoric that the CSUF GOP promoted that night scares members of marginalized communities. The threats that members of the LGBT community face, especially now for our transgender friends and relatives, are no laughing matter.

Condemnation from your own family and friends, an increased risk of self-harm and even medical ailments stemming from not being able to go the restroom – these are no laughing matter. Whether an immigrant child is taken from her parents tonight or tomorrow is no laughing matter. Whether your parents will be able to find a job, or maintain their current jobs that are at risk because of their immigration status, that is also not a laughing matter. Yiannopoulos was not the challenge we needed. He was not a challenge at all. Real political challenges come from rational arguments that actually try to achieve a real goal that is beneficial for society. Insults and bullying are not beneficial for society.

Of course, my fragile emotions are not the only things affected by this. Schools around the area closed early to avoid security risks. Most CSUF classes were

also cancelled by their professors. Campus services such as the Children’s Center, Student Recreation Center and the Titan Student Union were also forced to shut down.

The effects of this are more than just closed doors.

These are education hours lost, wasted tuition fees, parents having to leave work early or arrange for someone to take care of their children, wages lost and business lost. Even the library was shut down in the middle of the night. Titans who just wanted to study, prepare for midterms, work on projects, or meet with friends and classmates had to evacuate the library or face possible arrest.

Much of the outrage has been directed at Yiannopoulos’ provocative attitude. However, he did not simply force his way in the school – he was invited.

The CSUF College Republicans club freeloaded on taxes, student fees and businesses, just so they could force us to finance their political fetish.

In my early years at CSUF, a certain organization held a Taco Tuesday party which was heavily punished for a much smaller offense. Local schools, businesses and important services were prompted to shut down as a security precaution, yet the event was not immediately stopped and the organization was not penalized. An occasion far more destructive than the Taco Tuesday party should not be allowed to just pass by the Fullerton community without condemning its architects as well.

Anthony Co CSUF undergraduate, B.A. psychology 2017

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way to the three-point line as he shot 34.1 percent from three last season.

Rowe knows he’ll have to find the right balance between his versatility and different skill sets this season.

“When I’m in the post, I’m playing way more aggressive,” Rowe said. “I’ve got to muscle my way to the basket, and then when I play at the four, it’s a lot more making quick decisions and trying not to turn over the ball.”

Collectively, the team is setting a goal to shoot 50 percent from the field and 40 percent from the 3-point line, and will be counting on internal improvement from their nine returning players from last year’s team to do so.

However, the Titans also have seven new players and lost valuable seniors like starting point guard Lionheart Leslie. It won’t be easy to replace them, but the team hopes Khalil Ahmad can take on a larger share of responsibilities on offense entering his junior season.

After his second year with the Titans got disrupted by academic ineligibility in the fall, Ahmad came down the stretch for CSUF, pairing with Rowe to form an uber-athletic and quick — albeit undersized — frontcourt that could outrun and outshoot opponents.

“It’s a good matchup because obviously they’re going to have a bigger, slower four on me and a bigger, slower four on Jackson,” Ahmad said. “Defensively, I think we’re both fast enough and versatile enough to be able to scramble around, crash the boards and get the rebound and be able to go.”

The Titans’ coaching staff knows Ahmad can score after he ranked second on the team in points per game last season.

This year, they also expect Ahmad to take on more playmaking duties with the team, telling him to focus more on looking for shooters in the corner and finding the roll man out of screen sets rather than focusing solely on finding his own shot.

Also aiding Ahmad and the Titans in those creation duties will be freshman guards Landon Kirkwood and Daniel Venzant, who

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Freshman guard Landon Kirkwood is one of two new squad members who the Titans believe will be vital in their search for a conference title.

were standouts for the team during camp and the team’s annual intrasquad Blue/Orange Scrimmage in which Kirkwood hit a few threes and threw down arguably the best dunk of the preseason exhibition, a bounding alley-oop in transition that showed off his copious athleticism.

Kirkwood said whether it’s dunking, shooting or defense, he just wants to do what he can to help the team.

“I’m just trying to win.

I’m trying to get to the Big West conference championship and win it,” Kirkwood said, although he has one notable individual goal in mind as well. “I just want to try and do Big West Freshman of the Year.”

Taylor likes what he’s seen from Kirkwood but still sees room for improvement.

“With his athleticism and his ability to get out in transition and finish at the rim and get to the free throw line, I do expect him to help

us score the basketball,” Taylor said. “If he ever figures out how to get in a stance, I really think he can help us defensively.”

The Titans are also buzzing about Venzant, who was nearly universally cited as the most pleasant surprise of training camp by those around the team after a year away following ACL and meniscus tears that ended his senior season of high school.

“It’s just been a real grind just to get back,” Venzant said. “Right now, I just feel like I’m bringing defense, just trying to bring a lot of energy. Coming in as a new guy, you’re just trying find your role. You know you’re gonna make mistakes. It’s just a lot of learning right now.”

Venzant acknowledges that the journey back wasn’t easy, but he hasn’t shown much rust or fear of another injury while tirelessly driving to the basket and drawing contact during

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Since I’ve been here, this is the closestknit team that I’ve been a part of ... This year, I think we definitely have the most collective chemistry.

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Allman is ready to deliver on the defensive front, and said the coaching staff has told him he’s going to defend every team’s best wing player, which is a challenge he relishes.

“It was a personal goal coming into college,” Allman said. “I was one of the best defenders on the team and (Taylor) pushes me. When I’m lacking in that area, he lets me know and I get right back on my game.”

If Allman can help the team get the deflections and transition chances Taylor wants to see more of, it could be one potential solution to their offensive woes from last season. CSUF had the third-worst offensive efficiency in the Big West last year — scoring just 99.6 points per 100 possessions — partially due to ball security issues.

The Titans turned the ball over on a conference-worst 21.9 percent of their possessions last season, and the team lost Tre’ Coggins, who not only averaged a Big West-leading 17.5 points per game last season, but also only turned the ball over on 14.4 percent of his possessions, the lowest rate among the four most highly used Titans.

Partially solving that problem will be a larger role for sophomore forward Jackson Rowe, who only ranked sixth on the team in percentage of possessions used last season.

“We’re giving the ball more to the point guard, not letting other guards bring up the ball and in practice we’re working on making sure we’re making the right pass and not just throwing the ball away,” Rowe said.

Coming off of a season that saw him win Big West Freshman of the Year, Rowe was voted by the media as the only member of the Titans on the Big West All-Conference Team.

“I’m definitely going to have to step it up,” Rowe said. “If they need me to be in the post, I’ll play the five and if they need me to shoot I’ll play the four.”

He proved he could do both last season, scoring on putbacks and runs to the rim while flashing the range to threaten defenses all the

KYLE ALLMAN Titans guard camp and the preseason scrimmage, something that’s left his teammates impressed.

“He’s maybe six or seven months off of surgery. For him to be able to come back that quick and do the things he’s been doing is amazing,” Ahmad said.

The Titans have a tough nonconference schedule that begins when they face No. 10 USC on the road to tip their season Friday, but Taylor told his team at their annual tip-off dinner fundraiser there’s a reason he’s going to put them to the test early.

“There’s a method to the madness, and here it is: So, when you win our

conference championship at the Honda Center, the types of teams we’re going to play on Friday … Those are the exact same types of teams that we’re going to play when we get to the NCAA tournament,” Taylor said.

That would be further than the Titans have ever gone under Taylor, but their mandate is clear. CSUF now just has to see if its closest team in recent years can also be its best one.

Upon being informed that the Titans had placed third in the preseason media poll, Rowe was confident they can take the top spot.

“I thought we were No. 1 in my opinion, so we’ll see how that goes,” Rowe said.

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Titan Gym transformed into a banquet hall Sunday for a fundraiser dinner for supporters of Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball.

The event, hosted by Fullerton alumnus Cedric Ceballos, also featured former Titan Bruce Bowen as a guest speaker.

After a silent auction of gift baskets, Ceballos auctioned off signed jerseys from Bowen, James Harden and Kobe Bryant.

The auction also sold two Final Four coach tickets and “The Cedric Ceballos Experience,” which included dinner with the CSUF legend before going to a Lakers game with tickets from the Buss family, the Lakers’ owners.

While the guests enjoyed dinner and drinks, Bowen spoke about basketball and how he was taught the importance of character and hard work, from his first day at CSUF throughout his basketball career and playing in the NBA. Titans Head Coach Dedrique Taylor enjoys events like these where his players can interact with the community and spend time with people face-to-face.

“I like it for the engagement part.

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Bruce Bowen (left) and Cedric Ceballos (right), two former Titans and retired NBA stars, were invited to speak to student athletes and supporters.

these types of events allow our fans to get up close and personal and see what kind of young men we’re fortunate enough to be able to have in our program.”

Taylor is grateful for the time Bowen and Ceballos give back to CSUF’s basketball program, not just through the event, but also by motivating his players with advice and by coming to practice, where Taylor said Ceballos will still play with the current team.

“You’ve got a guy who’s played with some of the greatest players, and when I introduced him one time a couple years ago, I introduced him as a 1992 dunk contest champion and it dawned on me that they weren’t even born. So it’s good for them to be able to catch up with some history as far as our school is concerned, but with the game of basketball itself,” Taylor said.

As for the Titans, they enjoy having a chance to meet their supporters rather than just seeing them in the stands.

“It gives people a chance to get to know me personally, because they come to the games but they don’t really know me. So I get to interact with them, and it’s just a good way to give back to them for all the support that they give us,” said Titans guard Kyle Allman.

Having similar roots to Ceballos and Bowen is also a confidence booster for the players, allowing them to believe they can make it to whatever level of basketball they want to get to.

“Anything is possible. We’re a small school, but it’s possible to get to the big time leagues that they’ve been thriving in. If they can do it, anybody can,” said Titans guard Landon Kirkwood.

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