Thursday May 2, 2019
Volume 105 Issue 48
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
First place softball to wrap up home games
JOSHUA ARIEF HALIM / DAILY TITAN
Outfielder Ari Williams has a career-high 36 RBIs on 51 hits with a batting average of .352 during her final year with Cal State Fullerton.
CSUF softball has won five consecutive games at Anderson Family Field. JORDAN MENDOZA Sports Editor
With six games left in the regular season, the Cal State Fullerton softball team will host their final three home
games against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo at Anderson Family Field this Saturday. The Titans enter the series at 32-16 overall, and their 12-3 conference record puts them in first place in the Big West, one game ahead of Hawaii. The Mustangs stand in seventh place with a 4-11 conference record and are 10-35 overall. Leading the way at the plate
for CSUF is freshman Alexa Neil, who is batting .366 in her first year with the Titans. In RBIs, senior Ari Williams leads the team with 36 RBIs this year, and is fifth in the conference. Williams also leads the conference with 19 stolen bases this season and is one of three Titans who has hit a team-leading six home runs. After the conclusion of the
doubleheader on Saturday, CSUF will celebrate the collegiate careers of Williams, a Gretchen Hom and Trish Parks, for the team’s senior celebration. More recently, the duo of catcher Julia Valenzuela and outfielder Kelsie Whitmore had led Fullerton during Big West play, with both hitting .400 in conference play. Valenzuela
has recorded a hit in her past five games, and in that stretch, is 6-for-13 with three RBIs and one walk. Before going 0-for-6 in her last two games against UC Davis, Whitmore was on a seven-game hit streak, going 9-for16 during that stretch along with seven RBIs. SEE HOME
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CSUF creates sustainability partnership A program called, “Fill It Forward” allows students to measure their water usage. RIVKA PRUSS
Asst. Copy Editor
Fill it Forward, a program that provides clean water to people in need, recently partnered with Cal State Fullerton at CSUF’s Earth Expo on April 23. Janet Purchase, utility and energy analyst, worked with student affairs to start the program on campus and said she was inspired after attending the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference, last October. “On this campus we are really about sustainability,” Purchase said. “This helps people understand why it’s important to reuse things as opposed to just not recycling them or just using plastic bottles.” Fill it Forward has a sticker that is placed on reusable water bottles to measure the campus-wide impact, according to Purchase. This complements the “Fill It Forward,” app which enables students and faculty to scan the barcode on the sticker and create a profile. After signing up, every time someone refills their water bottle they scan the barcode on the sticker. To track their footprint on the app, users must enter their water bottle’s liquid capacity in ounces. The app’s footprint feature shows users their environmental impact by listing how much
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ELIZA GREEN
plastic and waste they have diverted from the landfill, greenhouse gases emission reduced and energy saved, according to Purchase. Users can also see this data for the campus using the CSUF tab in the application.
Two cents are donated to a water project that helps countries with limited access to clean water every time someone scans a barcode. Facilities first gave stickers to the housing department, the
environmental health and safety department and the Symbiotic Earth Club among others to hand out stickers on campus. Facilities handed out 1,400 stickers and placed at all 74 water refill stations on campus..
Since the start of the week, the app recorded over 900 total refills on campus. SEE BOTTLE
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