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Felz to Titans end season hot face charges Former city manager to be arraigned for DUI, hit and run.

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Kyle Allman (center) is averaging 9.8 points per game on the season while shooting 70.5 percent from the field. Allman scored a season-high 28 points in Saturday’s 86-78 victory of CSU Northridge.

Men’s basketball finished the season with its best overall record (16-13) since the 2011-12 season.

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With Jackson Rowe sitting in street clothes and a walking boot for its last two games, Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball was forced to go without its most efficient scorer and most prolific rebounder during its final two games of the regular season.

However, the Titans didn’t

let insult add to injury, beating UC Santa Barbara 65-54 on their Senior Night Thursday and came back from CSU Northridge as victors as well, beating the Matadors 86-78.

“There are some things that we can clean up, but it gives us a different level of

confidence within ourselves to continue to play better,” said Titan Head Coach Dedrique Taylor. “This time of year it’s not about being perfect, it’s about progression, and I thought our group got better.”

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TitanTHON raises over $54,000 Dance Marathon helps fund OC children’s hospital.

ANGIE SUK Daily Titan Students walked through streamers and onto a red carpet that led into the TSU Pavilions Friday for the fourth-annual Miracle Network Dance Marathon hosted by the TitanTHON club.

Dance Marathon is a movement to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and is hosted by 350 schools across the country, said Haley Watkins, senior public relations and cinema television arts major who is on the executive board for TitanTHON. “(TitanTHON) started with a group of Cal State Fullerton students who knew that they wanted to make a change for the hospital, so they reached out to Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) to see if they had any fundraising opportunities, and then they found Dance Marathon as way to come onto campus,” Watkins said.

Attendees danced from 6 p.m. to midnight to upbeat

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TitanTHON executive board member Haley Watkins said one of the ways the Children’s Hospital of Orange County raises money is through Dance Marathons that are hosted by 350 schools across the country.

music and learned a dance routine throughout the night. The event also featured a magic booth, a caricature booth, a photo booth, games and a card-writing station so students could write messages to the kids

at the CHOC. Alexis Goldring, the assistant director for Cause Marketing and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals at CHOC, said the dance marathon had over 400 attendees, the largest turnout

in the four years they have hosted this event.

The event, which raised over $30,000 last year, raised over $54,000 Friday to go directly to CHOC, which exceeded the set goal of $51,000. Senior

public relations major Elizabeth Wilbur, chair of TitanTHON, said $12,000 was raised Friday while tearfully thanking everyone at the end of the night.

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Former Fullerton City Manager Joe Felz will face hit and run and driving under the influence charges at an arraignment on April 3 for hitting a tree with his minivan on election night, according to an Orange County District Attorney press release issued Friday.

Felz faces up to one year in county jail for the misdemeanors, according to the press release. The city has “no official comment on the matter,” said Interim City Manager Allan Roeder in an email Sunday.

The announcement comes almost four months after the Nov. 8 incident.

The on-scene police officers decided not to give Felz a Breathalyzer test despite him “emitting an odor of alcohol,” according to a Nov. 9 memo from Fullerton Police Chief Dan Hughes. The handling of the situation sparked public outrage.

Barb Pollinger said at the Nov. 15 Fullerton City Council meeting that she lives in the house Felz crashed in front of and witnessed the aftermath.

Pollinger said she heard a loud sound and screeching tires and saw a white minivan mostly on the curb.

“The driver, with full power, tried to move forward and backward so I called the police because I felt it was my responsibility,” Pollinger said. “They did not get out of the car.

They did not look for damage. They did break free and then immediately left the scene.”

While Pollinger said that she believes the crash was an accident, everything after it was “intentional indiscretions.”

On the night of the crash, multiple Fullerton city council members said they saw Felz in Downtown Fullerton. He bought a beer for himself and Mayor Bruce Whitaker at the sports bar JP23 BBQ and Smokehouse shortly after 1:00 a.m. The accident occurred around 1:30 a.m., according to the memo.

“The city manager apologizes for the negative attention this has brought to the city,” Whitaker read in a letter Felz submitted to the council at the Nov. 15 meeting.

Sunday Series gets students swinging

Holocaust-denial books need regulation

Softball drops three of four over weekend

Students learned how to dance in the fashion of the 1920s while wearing fancy threads on Dapper Day.

Amazon CEO responds with silence as members of the public call the online retail giant to stop the selling of controversial books.

The Titans were unable to get victories over top-25 ranked teams in the first three games of the Judi Garman Classic.

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College of Education Dean Lisa Kirtman (left) presented the Distinguished Education Leadership award to Joan Bissell (right) at the Honor an Educator awards Sunday.

Educators honored

Faculty receive awards for teaching and ‘inspiring’ students.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Honor An Educator Awards recognized and celebrated educators in the community Sunday at the TSU Pavilions.

“Teachers in particular aren’t recognized for all the hard work they do, so here is an opportunity for us to say, ‘Thank you for all that (they) do and all the difference that (they) make in the community,’” said Lisa Kirtman, dean of the College of Education at CSUF. The recognized educators worked hard in their fields as their way of giving back to the community even though it was not always reflected in their salary, Kirtman said.

“If we do not have strong teachers that do not have high morale and feel good about what they do, then we do not have anything,” Kirtman said.

During opening remarks, Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva discussed her experiences in education.

As an advocate for public education, Quirk-Silva encouraged all to support it since she said the stories of devoted leaders in education were often lacking in

the media.

“We don’t always see those stories portrayed in our newspapers, on our media, so it’s our job to be that voice,” Quirk-Silva said.

Quirk-Silva said this is a “terrifying” time for many students, especially those potentially affected by the current immigration policies. In such circumstances, she said teachers could play an important role in a student’s life.

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If we do not have strong teachers that do not have high morale and feel good about what they do, then we do not have anything.

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A woman who allegedly ran a red light died Sunday after she hit another vehicle and was ejected from her car due to not wearing a seatbelt, according to the Orange County Register.

Brea police said the woman crashed into a 2006 Ford Fusion on Imperial Highway around 2:50 a.m. The Ford’s driver and its two passengers suffered serious injuries that were not life-threatening.

Statistics for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that drivers who didn’t wear their seat belts were 30 times more likely to be ejected from their cars than those who did, said Lt. Darrin Devereaux.

LISA KIRTMAN College of Education Dean “When children misbehave, there’s a reason. Dig deep and find out why and that hug or that note to a parent can change a child’s life,” Quirk-Silva said.

The event recognized many educators who were honored by friends or colleagues. Professors from CSUF that were recognized included Ding-Jo Currie and Ronald Oliver, who were both honored by the CSUF Department of Educational Leadership, and William Hoese, who was honored by the CSUF College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Kirtman also honored her mother, Dianne Haydel-Lewis, who started as a classroom teacher and worked her way up to being a site administrator for child development centers.

In both positions, Haydel-Lewis educated and inspired thousands of students who were often marginalized as underachievers, Kirtman said.

“As an educator myself, I learned from her that commitment matters, heart matters, but most importantly, that students matter,” Kirtman said. “As my mother, she was my first and best teacher and the reason I understand the importance of what it means to be an educator that makes a difference.”

Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni of the Year award were CSUF alumnae Heather Bosworth and Leslie Hiatt. The Distinguished Education Partner award went to CSUF alumna Kristin S. Crellin.

The ceremony ended with Joan S. Bissell being awarded the Distinguished Education Leadership award.

Hiatt said she dedicated the award to her students at Bell Gardens Elementary School in the Montebello Unified School District.

“I feel very honored, but I totally share it with my students,” Hiatt said. “I love teaching. I love what I do.

I’ve always wanted to be a teacher and really seriously I’m not tired of it one bit.”

Northwood Little League debuted its first all-girls baseball team Saturday at its Opening Day parade in Hicks Canyon Park, according to the Orange County Register.

The players were inspired by the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own” to call themselves the Rockford Peaches.

Coaches said they are “mighty” and “full of energy.”

The team started because the daughter of the head coach wanted to play baseball but did not want to be the only girl.

Even if the all-girls team does not continue next season, its coaches said they hope this season will give the girls confidence to feel like they are as good as the boys so they will not be afraid to play with them in the future.

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Thousands stranded in Pakistan Thousands of Afghan visitors are stuck in Pakistan after their military shut its Afghanistan border following a suicide bombing at a shrine that killed more than 80 people on Feb. 16, according to the New York Times.

Afghan citizens say Pakistan’s military forces are ordered to shoot anyone who attempts to cross the border.

Each country is losing about $4 million a day because traders cannot send produce across the border.

The Afghan government will have to airlift its stranded people if the border is not opened soon, said Omar Zakhilwal, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan on Sunday.

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NEWS Black male CSUF experience discussed

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KAROL PERDOMO Daily Titan CSUF Male Success Initiative (MSI) director Vincent Harris, Ph.D., presented a recent qualitative study on men of color to the Academic Senate Thursday.

The study conducted by the MSI looked at 32 black male students in three rounds of focus groups: one in the fall of 2015 and two in the spring of 2016. Research questions revolved around the environment, barriers and strategies that black male students face while attending CSUF. A graph featured in the presentation showed the

six-year graduation rate of freshman at CSUF, highlighting to academic senate members the visible disparities among black male students in relation to any other cohort or gender.

“This quantifiable significant difference highlights the need to support our black male students more saliently than any other male or other color student group that we have here right now,” Harris said.

MSI strives to lead male success by empowering, mentoring and establishing a supportive network, according to its website.

The initiative, which was implemented in the fall of 2014 with funding from the Chancellor’s office, specifically seeks to help black male students at CSUF who face a lack of representation, Harris said.

Out of the 40,235 students admitted in fall 2016, only 306 identified themselves as a black male student in the survey conducted by MSI. Harris said based on these numbers, there is roughly one black male for every 130 students

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California,” Harris said.

Harris said that faculty should not distance itself from diving into the complex issues that black male students face on college campuses, referring to myths, stereotypes and misrepresentations.

This quantifiable significant difference highlights the need to support our black male students more saliently than any other male or color student group that we have here right now.

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Lack of representation examined at Academic Senate meeting.

VINCENT HARRIS Male Success Initiative director at CSUF. “They are present, they are here and the reality is if they are going into different industries, it might replicate Orange County, it might replicate Southern

In reading students’ responses from the study, Harris said he was reminded of his favorite novel “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison. He quoted Ellison and said, “I am invisible,

understand, simply because people refuse to see me. When they approach me, they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination. Indeed, anything and everything but me.”

Harris said this sentiment resonates with black male students at CSUF. He encouraged members of the senate to work in tandem with MSI in using the data collected in order to further help these students.

Treasurer of the Academic Senate and professor of chicano/a studies Alexandro Gradilla said he agreed with Harris’ evaluation.

“I think one of the things that we have to really point to is structured programming to do mentorship in very innovative ways,” Gradilla said.

Gradilla said his two-year

experience as chair of the African-American studies department allowed him to interact with African-American male students and meet them halfway. Gradilla said CSUF needs to do a better job of hiring faculty of color and reaching out to students.

Sociology professor Michael Perez, Ph.D., said although the presentation highlights what many faculty know to be true because the campus is a reflection of the community, CSUF can still achieve better by its students creating a space for their voice.

“The demographics are dismal, we know that, but the beauty of why we’re here is (that) we’re not constrained by the university walls, we’re not constrained by these institutions,” Perez said.

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Participants dance on stage at the fourth annual Miracle Network Dance Marathon in the TSU Pavillions Friday. Last year’s event raised over $30,000.

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“It goes to the Kids Care Fund at CHOC Children’s, and the Kids Care Fund is the greatest need of the hospital,” Goldring said. “It could be anything the hospital is in desperate need of.”

TitanTHON is particularly important to Wilbur because she has experience with a Children’s Miracle Hospital.

“I was treated at a different Children’s Miracle Network hospital when I was in second grade for a spontaneous brain hemorrhage,” Wilbur said. “This has been one of my favorite things: to raise money for this different Children’s Miracle Network hospital that’s closer to where I live now (while) going to college.”

CHOC miracle families, who became representatives of the hospitals after their experiences there, also attended the event and were able to share their stories throughout the night.

Marsha Hansen’s son Logan was one of the individuals who shared his story that night. Hansen said her 13-year-old son was born with a heart defect and was sent to CHOC 10 hours after he was born.

By the time he was 2 years old, Logan had three open

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The Miracle Network Dance Marathon lasted from 6 p.m. to midnight and featured dancing, a magic booth, a caricature booth, a photo booth, games and a card-writing station.

heart surgeries, Hansen said.

“He’s doing great. He just turned 13 and he’s on ASB at school and all those good things,” Hansen said.

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Hansen said she is “amazed” that students took time out of their schedules to participate in TitanTHON’s Dance Marathon and give back to their communities.

“I think it’s amazing. It gives me goosebumps to see all of these college students taking their time to raise funds for kids and hospitals today,” Hansen said.

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A&E Students turn ordinary space into art PAGE 4 MARCH 6, 2017 MONDAY

The Department of Visual Arts transforms into class exhibition.

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A bathroom mirror riddled with varying googly-eyes stares back. An elevator door opens to welcome riders to mints and a bouquet of flowers. Dark blue and red political party labels silently hover above water fountains.

The Department for Visual Arts became the backdrop for thought-provoking original art pieces Wednesday morning.

From the central courtyard where Richard Turner’s “Wall Gazing Gallery” lies to inside the “Exit Gallery,” no limitations barred students’ ability to create.

“No. 1: It helps students to think outside the box,” said Linda Kroff, photography and creative media chair. “No. 2: It teaches students how to take a risk.

Not to be embarrassed and actually see what happens from beginning to end.”

Backgrounds in creative photography, drawing, painting and animation armed students to transform spaces easily overlooked or dismissed as familiar locations into artworks.

“It’s a little difficult at times to come up with stuff, but I like the fact that we get to interact with our surroundings,” said Lizeth Garcia, senior creative photography major.

The “simple installation” is part of the ART 478 course Kroff teaches titled “Studio Expanded: Other Genre.” It is a chance for students to

explore beyond traditional studios and expand on performance and art installations with variety of techniques, according to the course description.

In this guerrilla-style project, each student sets up his or her installation in the early hours of the morning and left it to be displayed into the evening.

Garcia simply attached strings of baby blue yarn out of two water hose faucets for her piece, which posed viewers to question California’s drought. The yarn symbolized a lack of conservation but also the replacement of water to showcase the lack of it.

“It’s to show the students you can really make change and impact really quick with simple materials,” Kroff said.

Bystanders are able to interact with each piece.

Kroff also led an open discussion forum where classmates could question, comment and critique the work of others.

Niccole Ugay, a student in the MFA program for painting and drawing, explained to the class her internal process in constructing her piece entitled “Resist.”

“The inspiration was the Women’s March on Jan. 21 and I wanted to represent all the imagery that I saw, I wanted to represent each woman that marched, especially the fact that they marched peacefully,” Ugay said.

Ugay said she did not get to march herself, so her piece served as a penance.

“It was pretty methodical walking around thinking about the reasons of why people marched and the different things that

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CSUF art students find creative ways to use areas in The Department for Visual Arts to build installations for their ART 478 course with Creative Media Chair Linda Kroff.

motivated them and the things that would’ve motivated me, so it was my way of participating,” Ugay said.

Cherry Sandoval, a senior creative photography major, had a piece involving tied-up neutral white medium-sized balloons on metallic trees in order to summon people into the deserted space.

“Escaping the fakeness that surrounds us as college students. It’s just kind of playing off on tension and surrealism, how it kind of brings the opportunity for viewers to escape and enter a more surreal world,” Sandoval said.

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Cherry Sandoval’s piece for the ART 478 course involved tying balloons on metallic trees to draw attention to a deserted space on campus.

Titans go dapper Dapper Day teaches students how to swing dance with style.

SARAH EL-MAHMOUD Daily Titan The twirling dresses, the shuffling of feet, bow ties and pinup hair of a swing dance club of yesteryear came to CSUF with ASI Production’s Spring Dapper Day. Students strutted into the George G. Golleher Alumni House in swanky suits and flowing dresses to watch live music, grab free food and learn how to swing dance.

ASI program coordinator Susie Law brought another time transporting event to life after a successful first Dapper Day last semester.

This time, Law said she wanted to introduce students to a beautiful and historical location on campus by setting it at the Alumni House.

Michael Negrete, member of the CSUF Swing Dance, divided the courtyard into two lines of “leaders” and “followers” as the instructor. As he shuffled and stepped, students were encouraged to mimic him.

Soon after a few instructions, two lines converged into a circle of couples who seamlessly began hopping and stepping in unison after some practice.

Participants didn’t get too acquainted with their partners because followers were asked to rotate every few minutes, so they may get to try the steps around the dance floor. Confused laughter and awkward side steps ensued, but genuine smiles showed it was all in good fun.

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Students learned to dance like it’s the roaring ‘20s from the CSUF Swing Dance Club during Spring Dapper Day on Sunday.

people perform the moves and get them used to different styles,” Negrete said.

Negrete remembers how he fell in love with swing dancing after a bridesmaid approached him at a wedding and introduced him to his current-day hobby. He is the secretary of the CSUF Swing Dance Club, which meets every week.

“They made it really simple. I’ve never danced in my life, so it was really fun and easy to do,” said biology major Robert Vargas. “I’ve always wanted to learn, like all the old fashioned movies with all the crazy dance steps, and I figured if it is free lessons and close by, why not?”

Dapper Day began and ended with the Fullertones acapella group gracing the attendees with touching tunes “Young and Beautiful” by Lana Del Rey, “L-O-V-E” by Nat King Cole and “Can’t Help Falling in Love” by Elvis Presley.

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really exciting and fun to be a part of. This is like the first event that Fullertones has been invited to perform at under ASI, so we’re just really grateful to be at this event,” said Isaiah Acevedo, president of Fullertones.

Jonathan Nguyen of the Fullertones sang Bobby Darin’s “Beyond the Sea” because he felt it was a quintessential Dapper Day song.

During the bridge of the song, he joyfully invited an audience member to dance along with him up front.

The event ended with student participants sitting in suspense as raffle numbers were called out and ASI limited edition shirts and tote bags were awarded to students.

Even as ASI volunteers were packing up, a few experienced swing dancers still glided to the jazzy music on the dance floor.

“Having a special day like Dapper Day in order to help celebrate and relax is always very helpful for students,“ Law said.

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OPINION Amazon indifferent in midst of hate CEO ignores calls to hault all sales of holocaust-denial books.

RISHU BHARDWAJ Daily Titan Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has fallen silent after multiple letters asking him to condemn the proliferation of hate speech in the form of Holocaust-denial books available for purchase on the online retail giant. The best and only answer now should be to halt all sales of said books.

The age-old idiom that the pen is mightier than the sword has been both falsified and exemplified in the hate crimes that have transpired across the U.S. While it’s not fair to pin the cause of defaced Jewish cemeteries in New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis in the past month and bomb threats to Jewish communities on books sold on Amazon, the spreading of these ideas still makes waves.

Robert Rozett is the director of libraries at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial. He reportedly sent a letter to Bezos asking to stop the selling of the Holocaust-denial books on Amazon, according to the Jerusalem Post.

But Bezos has yet to answer or even speak out, prompting indifference rather than refusal, which seems worse in some respect. Indifference does nothing except ignore the entire problem.

Bezos is likely working with his Amazon team to try and modify its “Examples of Prohibited Listings” list so that it won’t include, “products

that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views.”

It is true that Amazon doesn’t legally have to stop selling the books since it doesn’t line up objectively with the stipulations above, considering that these books don’t directly incite hate speech. However, its duty as worldwide force on the internet is to relinquish any hateful and dismissive views on such a catastrophic event in history.

To stop the selling of just a few of the books that Rozett mentions surely wouldn’t hurt Amazon, as the industry giant had a net income of over $513 million for the first quarter of 2016, according to Wired. Certainly its target audience isn’t Holocaust deniers, however, books like this shouldn’t ever slip through the cracks.

“Bookstores have long refused to carry certain items with pornography being a prime example.

Holocaust denial is no different, legally speaking, from hardcore pornography,” said Robert R. Singer, the CEO of the World Jewish Congress in an Los Angeles Times op-ed.

The universal message that Amazon could send by denouncing this type of poisonous literature would mean everything to

those who have been affected by the hate spread by such ignorant deniers.

In a statement reported by the Times of Israel, Steven Goldstein, executive director of the U.S.based Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, wrote, “Amazon is a repugnant accomplice to Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism of historic proportions.”

It’s telling to think that Amazon can completely ignore the rise of anti-semitic crimes occurring in the U.S. To ignore this kind of issue is to promote indifference over the matter, which becomes highly problematic. This is an issue of morality, and the longer that Amazon keeps quiet, the worse its image gets.

The selling of books that ignore plain facts is in extremely poor taste. Amazon had in fact removed some of the books in countries where Holoc a u s t denial is illegal,

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like France, Italy and Germany. It would be the right thing to do and would show genuine respect to do the same universally.

These books are nothing but the promotion of false and d i s r e spectful information. There is no good reason to sell and falsely p r omot e this type of propaganda.

Letter to the Editor In response to:

‘Restrictions on sex offenders not strict enough,’ published March 2 That article was surprising, in that it ignored the empirical data and advocated for harmful social policy. The facts: The United States of America is only the country on earth with residency restrictions for sex offenders. They are truly abnormal based on international standards. The evidence indicates that, besides the catastrophic social harm (i.e. homelessness), these actually increase recidivism; that is why no other country does this. See University of Michigan law professor JJ Prescott’s study “Do Sex Offender Registries Make Us Less Safe?” The Florida experience was looked at specifically by Jill Levenson, an associate professor of social work at Barry University in Miami, Fla., who found significantly higher recidivism in Florida compared with states that have less draconian registries.

Public registries and residency restrictions do this as they cause homelessness, unemployment and social isolation and divert law enforcement from things that work. In addition, as JJ Prescott points out, it doesn’t even make sense that they would work as they are based on inherently flawed assumptions.

There really is no debate about this–among experts it is settled science with as much debate as whether or not the world is round. States like Wisconsin, Florida, Alabama and Oklahoma, are states with residency restrictions, which have created a homelessness crisis. This is because they prevent ex-offenders from living with friends or family.

It also makes people abscond. This is not theoretical: after residency restrictions came in in Oklahoma hundreds of registrants vanished into thin air. Whereas in Canada less than 3 percent of offenders fail to re-register on the private police-only registry.

In addition, due to aggressive statutory rape prosecutions in close-in-age consensual cases in the U.S. (something that no other Western country does), a shocking number of the people subject to this are Romeo-and-Juliet offenders, including California where the age of consent is 18 and there is no close-in-age exemption and if there is more than three years age gap that can trigger registration. The result: a 17-year-old girlfriend and her 20-year-old boyfriend with a June and a May birthday equals registration, or if the author of the opinion piece had her way, life on the streets.

Terry Evans

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SPORTS

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With 16 victories, the Titans have locked up the best single-season record of Head Coach Dedrique Taylor’s tenure with the team and won their most games since the 2011-12 season.

The team survived a surprisingly stout effort from last-place UC Santa Barbara during a rock fight in which both teams shot below 45 percent from the field and 30 percent on 3-pointers.

Fittingly, it was two

seniors who carried Fullerton to victory in their final game in Titan Gym. Tre’ Coggins scored a gamehigh 20 points, Lionheart Leslie added eight points, eight rebounds, six assists, four steals and zero turnovers, and the pair earned a standing ovation for their efforts in their last game at Titan Gym. “It was great,” Leslie said.

“I thought about it a lot–last home game. I was just going to give it my all.”

The Titans followed

up their gritty win with a high-scoring victory. After leading by as much as 17 points, CSUF held on late to

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scintillating performance from Kyle Allman, who made his first six shots and finished with a game-

I’m confident to play anybody. I just got to play the right way and take what the defense gives me.

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beat CSUN in its final game of the season.

They were able to do so in large part due to a

high 28 points in his highest scoring game of the season.

“I’ve been waiting for it

since I met him,” Taylor said. “His intensity and his attention to detail on defense was at a different level and I think it impacted his ability to score … I think he sparked us on both ends of the floor.”

Allman was unaware of his flawless first-half shooting until it was almost over.

“Toward the end I realized,” Allman said. “I was like, ‘Wow, I haven’t missed yet,’ and then they just kept feeding me.”

The Titans won’t have to wait long to get another shot at the Matadors. The two teams will get a rematch in the first round of the Big West Tournament at the Honda Center in Anaheim at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, a game Allman said he’d be confident about no matter how successful he was against them Saturday.

“I’m confident to play anybody,” Allman said. “I just got to play the right way and take what the defense gives me.”

Titans lose 12th straight, miss postseason

Fullerton drops last game and chance at conference tourney.

TODD HADLER Daily Titan

Despite coming back from an 18-point deficit, the Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team lost its last game of the season 69-62 Saturday night at UC Irvine, failing to claim the last spot in the Big West Conference Tournament.

The Titans entered the game with a disadvantage, only having two players available off the bench on the heels of Iman Lathan’s departure from the team last week.

The Anteaters wasted no time, going on an 18-0 run to start the game. Anteater forward Brittany Glassow scored 10 of those points, shooting a perfect 4-4 with two 3-pointers.

Sophomore center Daeja Smith put up the first point of the game for the Titans with a free throw. CSUF went 7-10 from the free-throw line in the first quarter.

It took until 1:51

remaining in the first quarter for the Titans to make their first basket with a Jade Vega 3-pointer. CSUF went a combined 1-16 from the field in the first quarter.

CSUF slowly started to come back at the start of the second quarter, going on a 7-0 scoring run. Vega was the star of the second, scoring eight points with two 3-pointers.

Behind Vega, the Titans cut the Anteaters’ lead to four points several times during the quarter. A pair of layups by Smith, assisted by Vega, ended the quarter with UCI leading 37-32.

The third quarter started much like the second one for the Titans, who went on a 10-3 run. During this run, the Titans got their first lead of the game when they led 40-39.

Both teams traded missed shots for a while, going four minutes without a single point scored. UCI’s Irene Chavez broke that streak and the Titans’ lead temporarily with a 3-pointer.

However, Vega came roaring back, scoring a jump shot and a 3-pointer to give the Titans the lead at the end of third quarter 47-45.

The score stood at 50-50 with five minutes remaining in the game. UCI regained its lead with a 3-pointer by guard Andee Ritter and a layup by forward Shereen Sutherland (who scored 10 points in the fourth quarter).

With a Big West Conference Tournament spot in sight, the last three minutes of the game featured an offensive flurry from both sides.

CSUF temporarily regained the lead at 58-57 with a layup by Smith, but it was the final lead for the Titans as costly turnovers killed any momentum going forward.

The Anteaters eventually won 69-62 behind Chavez’s eight points in the final three minutes of the game. The defeat was only the second single-digit Big West loss this season for CSUF. It was a disappointing end to a disappointing season for the Titans, who miss out on the Big West Conference Tournament for the second straight season. Fullerton ends the season on a 12-game losing streak, finishing with a 4-25 overall record and a 1-15 conference record.

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SPORTS CSUF snags win on last day of tourney PAGE 8 MARCH 6, 2017 MONDAY

Softball wins one game in four-game tournament.

ADAM CASTRO Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton softball went 1-3 in the Judi Garman Classic, with a walk-off win against Baylor on the last day of the tournament after dropping its first three games.

“Obviously we were 1-3, that’s not good. But we got better every game and that’s what I wanted to happen,” said Titan Head Coach Kelly Ford.

Arizona State The Sun Devils took the first game of the Judi Garman Classic 10-1 in six innings Thursday at Anderson Family Field.

“We did a poor job. Offensively, defensively, pitching, coaching, we put it all in one basket and that’s what you saw on the field. It was just a very, very lackluster effort in that performance tonight,” Ford said.

Titan pitchers battled control issues all night, walking a total of eight batters and allowing 10 earned runs.

Starter Trish Parks took the loss, only lasting three innings and giving up a home run in the process.

Offensively, the Titans only managed three hits off

Arizona State, highlighted by a Parks solo home run to dead center field. It was the Titans’ only run of the night.

“We have the talent. Player for player, we can match up with anybody, but we definitely need to work on our confidence all the way around,” Ford said.

Michigan The Titans played a much closer and cleaner game against the Wolverines Friday behind redshirt senior Kelsey Kessler in the circle, but silent bats cost them the 2-0 loss.

“We competed at a much better level today. It was a whole different vibe out there on the field,” Ford said.

“I think Michigan’s experience took over.”

Kessler threw a complete game for the Titans, going seven innings and striking out five against a double-digit win Michigan team. The right-handed pitcher took the loss but lowered her earned run average to 2.15.

The only blemish for Kessler was a fifth-inning tworun homer from Faith Canfield, which turned out to be the difference in the game.

“If we’re being honest, I did terrible,” Kessler said. “I had defense behind which was great, they really helped.”

Titan bats were once again silent, only mustering four hits while

leaving seven runners on base against Michigan pitchers.

UCLA The Titans’ lack of offense extended their losing streak to four games with a 2-0 loss to the UCLA Bruins Saturday. Fullerton had strong outings in the circle with Parks, Sydney Golden and Kessler, but could not manage to score against Bruin starter Johanna Grauer.

Fullerton has now lost four straight games to UCLA including two games last season which eliminated them from the NCAA tournament in the Los Angeles Regional.

A three-error sixth inning for the Titans proved to be the difference in the game. Two throwing errors put Bruins on first and third, then another one from Emily Randall allowed them to score.

“We had a play on and that play was in place to work perfectly but we threw a ball wild and it just got down the line and both (base runners) went across the plate,” Ford said. “Like I said, I just want to simplify it and play a good game of catch.”

Grauer threw a complete-game shutout for the Bruins and set down Titan bats quietly in the bottom of the seventh to end the game. Once again, Titan batters only managed four hits against opposing pitching.

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Cal State Fullerton softball lost the first three games of the Judi Garman Classic to extend its losing streak to four games before stopping the skid against Baylor in a 1-0 victory Sunday.

Baylor In the final game in the Judi Garman Classic, the Titans ended their four-game losing streak on a walk-off Irieanna Siofele RBI to give them a 1-0 win over Baylor.

Kessler threw another complete game, getting her sixth win while lowering her ERA to 1.83.

“What a complete

turnaround tonight,” Ford said. “(Our) pitching was brilliant by Kessler, our catcher Kylie Padilla throwing those two runners out were game changers right there, timely hitting at the end and defense just did a great job behind everybody.”

Fullerton was scoreless heading into the seventh

inning, until it put runners on second and third. Siofele hit into a walk-off fielder’s choice that scored the deciding run and gave the Titans their first win of the tournament.

The Titans (9-11) will play next on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Long Beach/Fullerton Tournament where they take on San Diego State.

Fuller ton ties Houston in two-game series Game three of the weekend series was canceled due to rain.

ERIC DOMINGUEZ BRYANT FREESE Daily Titan With a strong performance on the mound from pitcher Gavin Velasquez in the Lone Star State Saturday, No. 7 Cal State Fullerton baseball was able to split the weekend series with Houston 1-1 as Sunday’s game was canceled due to rain.

Game 1 Fullerton dropped the weekend opener to Houston 7-4. Junior Connor Seabold (1-2) took the mound for the Titans in game one, giving up five runs over six innings. Seabold’s third start of the season saw the Houston Cougars pounce early with four runs after two innings of play. Following the loss, Seabold has a 1-2 record with a 4.26 ERA. Fullerton cut into Houston’s lead after Taylor Bryant’s double to left center brought in Sahid Valenzuela to make it 3-1.

Houston answered in the

bottom half of the inning with a home run by Jared Triolo against Seabold to push its lead 4-1. The Titans battled their way back into the game with RBIs from Dillon Persinger and Valenzuela to make it a tworun game in the fifth.

Persinger has shown to be a top offensive threat for the Titans. The junior’s .433 onbase percentage is second on the team, scoring six runs in the seven games played.

Blake Workman was called upon in relief for the Titans in the seventh but saw a passed ball and wild pitch score two runs for the Cougars to go up 7-3. Workman has had some shaky appearances so far, seeing three runs scored (one earned) on four innings in two appearances.

The Titans plated one run in the top of the ninth with a RBI ground out from Hunter Cullen, but Fullerton failed to push another run across as Houston pitcher Joey Pulido quelled any threat of a rally.

Game 2 The Titans evened the series in game two by topping Houston 4-1 behind strong starting pitching

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and timely hitting.

Chris Hudgins started the scoring with a RBI ground out to put Fullerton up 1-0 in the top of the second. In the fourth inning, Hudgins produced once again for the Titans with his second RBI of the day to extend the lead 2-0. Although Hudgins has missed four of nine games following his surgery, the junior has batted in five runs over the past three games.

In the seventh inning, Fullerton added two more insurance runs with RBIs from Scott Hurst and Ruben Cardenas to go up 4-0.

Houston ended Fullerton’s shutout when Titan pitcher Brett Conine allowed a run in the bottom of the ninth to make it 4-1. Conine then got the next Houston batter to pop up to short to end the game.

“I thought we did a good job of battling in game two, Gavin pitched really well for us,” Titan Head Coach Rick Vanderhook told Cal State Fullerton Sports Media. “We need to stay ahead of our opponent and keep the pressure on them.”

Velasquez continues pitching dominance In his first start of the

season Saturday night, Velasquez (2-0) pitched a seven inning shutout gem while giving up three hits and striking out three batters.

“I just tried to go out there and help my team win. This was a big one for us and I’m glad we were able to pull it off,” Velasquez told Cal State Fullerton Sports Media.

The seven innings of work was Velasquez’ career-high on the mound in his Fullerton career with his longest outing previously being 5.1 innings after coming in for relief early in the game Feb. 25 at UNLV. The seven innings of work was Velasquez’ career-high on the mound In his four appearances and 17.1 innings pitched Velasquez has given up 12 hits while striking out 10 and has still not given up a single run, boasting a perfect 0.00 ERA. Bryant extends hitting streak Junior third baseman Taylor Bryant completed the series 2-8 at the plate, extending his hitting streak to eight consecutive games. Bryant has been Fullerton’s top offensive threat, leading the Titans in almost every major

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Redshirt junior third baseman Taylor Bryant leads the Titans with a .406 batting average, which ranks fourth in the Big West.

offensive category including batting average, on-base percentage and slugging. The redshirt junior has been hitting the cover off the ball this season, registering at least one extra base hit in the last four games.

Bryant’s .406 batting average leads Fullerton and ranks him fourth in the Big West Conference while his nine RBI’s ranks him first on

the Titans’ roster. His 13 total hits on the season in nine games is also first on the team while recording at least one hit in every game except the Titans’ opener against Stanford.

The Titans will travel to Arizona from Houston to play a two-game series against Arizona State. First pitch is scheduled for Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

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