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Volume 105 Issue 13

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Sales center hosts Marriott job fair Titans in search of victory

Students met with major corporations to discuss future employment. CHARITY CLARK Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton Sales Leadership Center hosted a career fair at the Marriott Hotel, which offered full-time jobs and paid internships. Students were able to take advantage of networking with hiring sales recruiters. This event was hosted at the Marriott Hotel on the corner of Folino and Nutwood, directly across the street from CSUF. The first 25 students who entered the event were able to receive a leather pad planner from the Sales Leadership Center. Other incentives, such as completing a stamp card, were provided to motivate students to engage with different businesses and with each other. If a student received a stamp from each booth, they were entered into a giveaway for a mystery prize. Although this event was tailored towards business students who want to go into sales, the center encouraged other majors to connect with a variety of businesses. “It’s going good. It’s definitely a lot higher volume than the fall. We have a lot of companies recruiting, so it’s nice,” said Kayla Schneller, a full-time administrative assistant for the Sales Leadership Center. Although the Sales Leadership Center hosts this event every semester, factors such as students

CSUF women’s basketball will face UC Santa Barbara Thursday night. MATTHEW MENDOZA Daily Titan

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Over 30 companies participated in the Sales Leadership Center’s career fair, offering jobs and internships.

graduating and possibly looking for summer internships make the spring career fairs more successful than the fall. Anthony Gomez, a human resources major, took advantage of this opportunity. Gomez said that although he

is not going into sales, he still wanted to use this chance to connect with hHuman rResources representatives. “I think it’s great. I really like that Fullerton is offering that to our students. It gives me a good

look at them. I’m seeing a lot of different friends here as well, so it’s really good to be in a room full of energy of people really wanting to make a name out of themselves,” Gomez said.

Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball will look to end their six-game losing streak Thursday night when they host UC Santa Barbara. The Titans sit at seventh place in the Big West, and hope to close the gap on Cal State Long Beach who is a halfgame ahead of them with six games left in the season. The Titans’ last four losses have all been by less than 10 points. Center Daeja Smith leads the Titans in scoring with 13 points per game. Smith has struggled during the Titans’ skid, averaging 10.7 points per game during that span. UCSB is led offensively by guard Coco Miller, who is averaging 11.3 points per game in her last six games. Miller is also leading the Gauchos in minutes per game with 34.1, while guard Denae Miller is behind her with 32.6 minutes per game.

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Professor’s self-discovery through art

Ann Phong’s most recent art pieces focus on environmental issues.

After escaping Vietnam, Ann Phong paints to reflect on her past. ANGELINA DEQUINA Daily Titan

In the Titan Student Union, a vibrant canvas emblazoned with red and gold paint rests in the hallway near the information center, glowing under a reflective glass frame and lit by bronze candlesticks painted on the bottom. The painting, which was bought by Cal State Fullerton in 1995, holds a place in the artwork

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collection that lines the walls of the TSU. But the story behind the artist doesn’t start there. An artist’s cursive signature occupies a dark corner of the painting. It reads: Ann Phong. An Escape Phong was born in South Vietnam and grew up in what was previously known as Saigon, but is now known as Ho Chi Minh city. While she was in high school in 1975, the South Vietnamese government collapsed under North Vietnam. Phong said her family stayed

Ann Phong spends free time painting in her kitchen.

in their home because they hoped they would be safe among the locals there. She then decided to pursue her love for art by applying to the only art school in South Vietnam, but was rejected twice. Phong changed her approach on pursuing art, instead choosing to get her teaching credentials. She spent her days telling her junior high and high school students fairytales they never got to learn, such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Snow White.” At the age of 22, Phong escaped. She travelled from the city to the countryside of Vietnam to meet

with a 13-year-old student she had grown close to, as well as a group of people. When she got there, she found out that her student had been caught and put in prison. “The night we escaped was a night that had no moon, nothing. It was so dark that the police couldn’t catch us. That’s how we got out of Vietnam,” Phong said. The shoreline of Malaysia was the first thing Phong saw after three days at sea. Here, she would spend the next year of her life in a refugee camp. She wrote to her older sister, who had escaped three years prior to her, in hopes of

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moving to the United States. The Turning Point Phong moved to Connecticut after being sponsored by her older sister’s church, but once she realized how cold the weather was, she flew to California in 1982. The biggest barrier for her was language. Over the course of her life, she learned Chinese, Vietnamese and French, but when she arrived to America she had to relearn everything in English. SEE JOURNEY

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2 News

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Crimes on campus in the month of February Incidents include a missing person, invasion of privacy and drug activity. HOSAM ELATTAR Daily Titan

Crime activity on campus in the month of February includes a missing person incident, marijuana possession, public intoxication and invasion of privacy. Missing Person On Feb. 16, a mother reported her daughter missing to University Police. The two-year-old daughter went missing in the Arboretum. Police immediately contacted Arboretum staff and extra resources from Fullerton and Placentia police to support the search, said Capt. Scot Willey of the University Police. The space was put on lock down. One gate was left open with a community service officer and police officer posted to monitor it. Within approximately half an hour the child was found by a volunteer near an outhouse by the Heritage House, Willey said. “She had gone in there and when she was trying to come out, the door had locked on her from the outside. She wasn’t able to open the door from the inside. The people who were walking by looking for her heard her crying from the inside. They were able to get her out,” he said. Arboretum staff closed down that outhouse to figure out what had occurred, and prevent it from happening again. Invasion of Privacy On Feb. 6, University Police released the details of a male subject wanted for an ongoing invasion of privacy case that occured in Pollak Library. The subject was described as Asian or Hispanic, approximately 5 feet, 10 inches tall and about 160 pounds. University Police has yet to find the subject but have leads, Willey said. “We have quite a few, probably around a dozen that we’re looking at,” Willey said. “We’re going

to keep following the leads. As of right now, we don’t have anyone in custody or anybody that we could tell you that is our person of interest.” Willey said he could not provide more details regarding the investigation or the case until the subject is in custody in order not to jeopardize it. Marijuana Possession Two students aged 18 and 19 were reported smoking marijuana in a dorm structure and in possession of 28.5 grams of marijuana on Feb. 12. The individuals were given disciplinary notices. “That was probably mostly for violating a smoking policy, because right now marijuana is not illegal. It’s more about them smoking on a campus that doesn’t allow smoking,” Willey said. “If it’s the first time, it’s not an issue.” Public Intoxication University Police reported an individual intoxicated in the Titan Student Union on Feb. 11. They do not deal with incidents like this all the time, Willey said. “We don’t have a bar right now in the TSU and so that’s not something that we really see a lot from there. It kind of depends on what the holiday is and if there’s people coming back from parties where we might run into drivers that are DUI But again, most of those are off-campus people that we deal with,” Willey said. Spring Crime Willey said that a higher crime rate usually occurs during fall and spring because people know most students are not on campus during summer and winter. “During the semesters are when things kick up. The criminals out there know when our students come back. They know when they’re going away on vacation or spring break. They know when it’s finals week, and they know that students are really focused on their studying and may not pay attention to leaving a laptop around,” Willey said.

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ASI meeting amends bylaw change

Policies will be altered at the Titan Student Center following the discussion. ESMERALDA FIGUEROA Staff Writer

The Associated Students Inc. Board of Directors have decided to approve several legal changes to the Titan Student Centers’ policies and bylaws. The Titan Student Centers consist of the Titan Student Union, the Student Recreation Center, Irvine Fitness Center and Student Lounge. They serve as a hub for cultural, social and intellectual activities and services, while bringing students, staff and faculty together. ASI Executive Director Dave Edwards said that some of the bylaws had to be changed into policies to simplify the language by eliminating redundancies between the bylaws and policies. “It’s more of an administrative process where language from the ASI bylaws regarding the Titan Student Centers’ operations were put into a policy state. In cleaning up the bylaws, it is determined that some of that language really should be in a policy statement instead of in the bylaws,” Edwards said. Bylaws are the rules that are used to govern the organization. They are a set of guidelines that determine the structure and operations within the organization, including specifications for each board member’s role. Policies, by contrast, are rules actively put in place by the board concerning operating procedures and limiting the activities of each member. Both are available on the ASI website for students to view. Bylaws are not meant to change as often as policies

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The bylaws are rules for governing the Associated Students, while policies are actively implemented to monitor and restrict member activities appropriately.

because they are put in place as long-term guides for the organization to follow. Policies generally have much more information than bylaws, said Maria Linares, the vice chair secretary for the ASI Board of Directors and member of the Titan Student Centers Governing Board. The TSC Governing Board is in charge of ensuring that all the centers are appropriately used by students, staff and faculty. Linares said she was actively

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involved in the process of proposing the bylaw and policy changes and helped in catching the language discrepancies. “I caught a lot of the pronouns. Basically I had asked them if some of these bylaws had been changed before and they had looked at pronouns.I guess some of them didn’t catch them. I brought it to their attention and they edited it,” Linares said. The TSC Governing Board is in charge of ensuring that

all the centers are used appropriately by students, staff and faculty. The board had an attorney look over the proposed changes, revising and giving feedback. After the TSC Governing Board approved the changes, they were sent to the ASI Board of Directors for final approval, said Linares. Board of Directors Chair Tristan Torres said that the changes are purely legal and that one of these changes

includes how long a board of directors member will serve. The changes in the policy will have no major external effect on the TSC, Linares said. “We wouldn’t ever make these major changes without student feedback. For me personally, it’s really important to get student feedback. I wouldn’t want to make huge major changes that are not involving the students, that’s something I don’t feel comfortable with,” Linares said.

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Cal State Fullerton students getting to network with potential employers.

1 There was a wide selection of businesses present at the career fair, including popular brands like Verizon, Pepsi, Nationwide and Target. A total of 30 company recruiters came out today to connect with students interested in seeking future fulltime opportunities or paid summer internships. Ezequiel Pena, a third year sales major, appreciated this event, as it was geared towards the field of work he would like to go into. Pena shared that he was thrilled with the variety of businesses that he was able to connect with. “(The event) brought a lot of good companies, they brought a lot of their corporate sponsors. Every person had really good things to say about the CONTINUED FROM

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company, so it’s going to be difficult making choices for internships this summer,” Pena said. The Sales Leadership Center hopes that students will take advantage of their free resources outside of the career fairs, Schneller said. Schneller said that this resource center is more than just pushing careers in sales; they also work on personal development and assist in boosting career opportunities. “We’re open to all students on campus. Even some alumni have received our resources, so you just have to be a student who wants some resources,”Schneller said. The Sales Leadership Center is located in Steven G. Mihaylo Hall, and is open from 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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4 Opinion

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Serial killers don’t deserve sympathy Romanticizing gruesome crimes is unacceptable.

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Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson — these and several others have become household names. They aren’t heroes; they aren’t even anti-heroes. So stop treating them like they deserve a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Don’t sympathize. Don’t romanticize. Don’t encourage fandom — these serial killers aren’t celebrities or villians in a novel. They are real people who caused real pain. These murderers are exactly what they are labeled, murderers, so stop sugarcoating their actions and trying to make them relatable to a larger audience. Countless documentaries, movies, TV shows and novels have been written about these people. The appeal of understanding a serial killer, their motives, the investigation; all aspects of this can be morbidly fascinating. But if someone is buying a shirt from Etsy that reads “Ted Bundy” and “Heartbreaker” surrounded by hearts and is showing him portrayed as an innocent character, then that’s when people need to recheck their morals. One of the reasons why Americans are interested in serial killers is because their appearances and reality of their personas don’t match up, according to the History channel website. An example of this is Bundy; he was seen as a charming and charismatic guy, who also happened to confess to killing 30 women, but is suspected of killing more than 100. He carried around this facade that

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made him seem like just another innocent young man, although his actions clearly said otherwise. But some people are taking it to the next step. They aren’t just fascinated by the way these people lived — they are fans. People who have become too infatuated with these serial killers have turned the man behind a horrifying series of events into a fun, teenage crush. But the appeal should be nonexistent, since there isn’t anything to admire. Was it cute when Manson and his followers killed Sharon Tate and her unborn child in 1969? It must have been really hot in 1978 when Bundy broke the jaw of survivor Kathy Kleiner Rubin in three places, before killing two of her sorority sisters. Fans who are trying to romanticize these serial killers are

disgusting, they even got the attention of Netflix, as it recently released “Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and bought “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” which stars Zac Efron as Bundy. Netflix had to remind its viewers that Bundy isn’t hot, he’s a serial killer and his actions are inexcusable. But these instances of giving serial killers the celebrity treatment aren’t the first. In the 1980s, the media decided to capitalize on the idea of serial killers, as serial killers began to make their way into pop culture, whether it be through books, movies, TV shows or anything else, according to the History channel website. In today’s culture, this phenomenon continues to be exploited in the media. The Columbine shooters were televised everywhere,

everyone knew their names and what they did. The media glamorized them, resulting in mentally distraught individuals who began to see these murderers as heroes in a lonely tale. These so-called stars have become famous through their exposure in the media, and obsessed followers are doing more than just buying T-shirts. A 2015 study published in PLOS ONE, which is a peer-reviewed science journal, stated that strong evidence suggests that mass shootings are contagious for about 13 days. They found that most mass shootings came as an immediate response to a recent similar past event. From copycat killers, to women who are professing their undying love to a man they believe can be fixed through affection (or land them a movie deal in Hollywood),

to people who sympathize with the killers’ experiences, such as Dahmer’s troubled childhood, there is never an excuse to feel remorse for these people. Although being empathic for someone is normal, don’t let it cloud judgement. Derf Backderf, writer of the comic book “My Friend Dahmer” who met the serial killer in high school said, “Dahmer was a tragic figure, but that only applies up until the moment he kills,” according to Vice. When watching documentaries, reading books and looking at memorabilia, make sure to learn about these serial killers. The public has a right to educate themselves, to know that there are people who are living in the dark and not everyone is who they seem. But leave the weird fetishes for cutesy boy bands, and don’t create another serial killer fan club.

Column: Giving birth naturally is not for me The desire to carry a child has never been a priority in my life.

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I can’t wait to have a child! Raising a mini-me is going to be so much fun! I’ve heard statements like this throughout my life, and everytime it leaves a sour taste in my mouth to think that the so-called “miracle of life” is rooted in such an ego-driven belief. No matter one’s viewpoints or plans, childbirth is a sensitive subject that is arguably hard to discuss given its emotional influence and direct impact on one’s life. For me, childbearing has always been a responsibility I’ve considered to be too large to place on both my morals and abilities. I’ve never felt the strong desire to procreate, and after considering the environmental cost of bringing a child into a world that many describe as overpopulated, I knew I would never deliver a child into this civilization. When you take into account the impact of future children, having one fewer child than planned would save 58.6 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year. In comparison, eating a plant-based diet saves about 0.8 tons of carbon dioxide per year and living car-free saves about 2.4 tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to researchers from Lund University. Given those statistics and the fact that I’ve never considered rearing VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

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a child in the first place, I’ve contemplated taking such drastic measures as getting my tubes tied. When I’ve explained to others why I would take control in such a dramatic way, I’ve been met with expressions of dismissal, claiming it was too radical, or declarations

that I’ll eventually change my mind. While it’s true that I may reconsider, I believe that it is more of a reason to get the procedure done in the first place — so that I don’t have that option in the future. On any given day, there are nearly 438,000 children in the U.S.

foster care system, according to Children’s Rights, a nonprofit advocacy organization. Within the foster care system itself there are unfortunately many cases of negligence and abuse. So when I imagine my future as a mother, it includes adopting a

child to get them out of a potentially harmful environment. Not only would my choice to not carry a child be beneficial for the environment and another child that is already alive, but my body would experience benefits as well. When I think about the reality of pregnancy, I get anxious because I recognize that my body may not be strong enough to handle the biological shift and process of childbearing. During pregnancy, women experience many changes in their bodies. One change occurs in the respiratory system, which results in an increase of respiratory rate and a decrease in functional capacity. As someone who has had asthma since a child, that fact scares me and leaves me out of breath. On top of my asthmatic worries, I have to consider the impact of pregnancy on my spine. I have a few bulging discs in my spine ranging in size from moderate to slight. Most notably in the region of my spine that is closest to my pelvis and tailbone, there is a slightly herniated disc which presses against my nerves and causes chronic pain in my back and legs. Pregnancy causes the body to go through a musculoskeletal adjustment, which, considering the chronic pain I experience, makes me nervous. Not only does the spine realign to maintain balance, but pregnancy creates an increase in the relaxin hormone which causes loose joints and adds to pre-existing back pain and pelvic problems. When taking the environmental cost, foster care statistics and my personal health into consideration, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that going through pregnancy and childbirth is simply not worth it. Parenthood is a test of principles and strength, and my choice to be an adoptive mother is one I make with pride.

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6 Lifestyle

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Journey: From the war to watercolors 1 When she first arrived in California, she made a living as a dental assistant. The job was something that she felt she was adept at because of her artists’ hands. Not long after she accepted her boss’ proposition to go to school to become a dentist, she was in a car accident that hospitalized her. Phong said she reflected on her unhappiness in the hospital, focusing on how she risked her life to come to America. In that moment, she said that if she were to die at the hospital, she would die unhappy. This ultimatum inspired her to change her major to art when she got out of the hospital. She moved from Cal State Long Beach to Cal Poly Pomona, where she would later teach. “I just think Ann is an incredible person. She’s been through a lot and yet she’s managed to really survive,” said Barbara Thomason, a retired parttime lecturer at Cal Poly Pomona who shared an office with Phong for close to 20 years. Phong currently teaches at Cal Poly Pomona. Before she started teaching there, however, she went to Cal State Fullerton CONTINUED FROM

for her M.F.A. Making Waves As a graduate student, Phong perused through CSUFs library in search of something that would shed light on the American perspective of Vietnamese people. She found magazines that labeled them “boat people.” This offensive term prompted her to look into her own identity for her thesis. She explored the notion of what it meant to be a “boat person” and expressed that in her artwork. Much of Phong’s art revolves around her 3-day journey to Malaysia, which caused her to fear the ocean for the first three years in California. “I couldn’t face the ocean at night because I was scared. I knew that at night when I was in the ocean if I fell down from the boat, nobody would have noticed anything happened. I would perish,” she said. The ocean is now a regular subject in her work. Phong said her personality reflected the temperament of the ocean; her happiness is represented by glistening colors and her anger portrayed through violent

brushstrokes. Phong graduated from Cal State Fullerton in 1995 and continued to paint about self-identity until ten years ago when she changed her subject to environmental waste. Along the way, Phong joined the Vietnamese American Arts and Letter Association (VAALA), where she met Ysa Le, executive director of VAALA. Le has worked with Phong since 2007 on various projects for VAALA, including a children’s art event. She said that Phong is someone she considered to be her big sister because of her artistic talent and wisdom. Today, Phong teaches at Cal Poly Pomona. She comes back to Cal State Fullerton to visit the art gallery and Mike McGee, a professor in the department of visual arts. “To me, I look back and I’m one of the boat people. I escaped with pride. Between life and death I had to choose, fifty-fifty, and I made it,” said Phong. Her paintings are filled with tantalizing color, but she said she hopes people will look beneath their surface layers and try to find her.

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Ann Phong’s large canvas piece “Jump” depicts the criticism she faced in college when a classmate said that Asian women only paint small things.

Space Yacht entrepreneurs give advice

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Space Yacht, a Los Angeles events collective, was invited by the Cal State Fullerton Music Industry Club on Tuesday night to share their story and answer questions relating to their success. Henry Lu, Rami Perlman and Ollie Zhang, the co-founders of Space Yacht, went from hosting parties that didn’t attract a crowd at the time of their start-up in 2015, to having lines out the door in 2017 and they continually tried to build up their reputation. The Los Angeles-based threeman party crew said they promise to deliver sensational clubbing experiences through “showcasing the next generation of dance music.” As partners of Space Yacht, Lu and Perlman gave advice to Fullerton students in McCarthy Hall. Twenty attendees made it to the event, and a Q&A session ignited an interactive discussion. With Space Yacht occupying the limelight for electronics music and LA party culture today, they also occupy the guest spot for the Music Industry Club’s inaugural master class. The CSUF Music Industry Club is one of the newer organizations on campus whose goal is to educate students on the music

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Space Yacht co-founder Remi Perlman discusses business tactics and trade in the industry.

industry through providing opportunities for students to meet and speak with professionals in the field. “We just want to bring different kinds of artists and professionals from the music industry to the campus so they can share their wisdom,” said Amani Roberts, CSUF Music Industry Club advisor and an adjunct business professor. Sharing their background, Lu and Perlman said they formed

Space Yacht through hanging out during late nights at work and blasting house music. As their business grew, they realized they didn’t want to be just a party, but rather a “discovery platform.” Since their establishment, they’ve endorsed other projects in addition to their weekly Tuesday Hollywood parties, including radio broadcasts, festivals and discovering new artists. Space Yacht has expanded their locations beyond LA to

reach audiences in San Francisco and Phoenix. Though their business started four years ago, Lu and Perlman know that their journey is just beginning. “We’re actually really energized by what we do, like we’re building I think one of the most exciting music companies in the US,” Lu said. Despite the successes that Space Yacht is experiencing now, the group acknowledges their climb to the top wasn’t

without sacrifice. In addition to working demanding 9-to-5 jobs, Lu said he worked for three corporate companies for about 11 years. In 2011, Space Yacht landed their first client, Steve Aoki, and built him into a brand that not only launched his career, but their business as well. As a result, they were able to work with other well-known artists like LMFAO and Kaskade. Finding hidden talents was just as important to Space Yacht as maintaining their brand with already established artists. Many up-and-coming artists create their music platform on Soundcloud, Lu said. The collective is also looking to Twitter to find the next big thing. Lu and Perlman also emphasized the importance of asking questions. Just as they welcomed students to ask them questions tonight, they didn’t stop emphasizing how much they were able to learn from the answers their mentors had given them. To conclude their talk, Lu and Perlman offered wisdom to those looking to work in the music industry. From taking advantage of peer mentors to practicing humility, Space Yacht emphasized that there’s more to this business than finding talent. “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. You want to surround yourself with smarter, more experienced (people),” Lu said.

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8 Sports

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Freshman ready for the spotlight

New Zealand native Amiee Book is second in the Big West in 3-point shooting. JORDAN MENDOZA Daily Titan

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Ranked second in the Big West in 3-point percentage, international student and freshman forward Amiee Book has not only played basketball at the collegiate level, but has also played for the New Zealand national team. At a young age, Book was surrounded by basketball. Both her parents played the sport, and her father reached the professional level. But even with the pressure of having a father who played professionally, Book said there was never any demand to play basketball. “I just like the competitive nature of it, and how there’s so much to learn so you can never master it, (there’s) always stuff to learn and ways to get better,” Book said. As a child, Book was coached by her father Ed Book, a member of the 2004 New Zealand Olympic team. After playing at Canisius College, Ed Book said that the experience he had in school would help his daughter decide which college she would attend. “So once she decided that this is the pathway she wanted to go, it was our jobs to prepare her for this,” Ed Book said. In her four years of high school, Amiee Book was a team captain and played for her country as part of the national basketball team in 2016 and 2017. During her last year with the New Zealand National team, Amiee Book’s trip to Guam for the Oceania Qualifiers with the women’s team drew the attention of CSUF women’s basketball head coach Jeff Harada. “(Amiee) was a tough kid, she was competitive. She had this international experience, playing against older, better players her whole life,” Harada said. After her international basketball experience, Amiee Book

Forward Amiee Book (13) has scored double figures in 15 of the 22 games she has played for the Titans.

decided to play for the Titans, where she fell in love with Harada’s vision for the team. “We are trying to create a family environment. For recruits like Amiee, it’s a home away from home,” Harada said. The opportunity to bond with teammates was an important aspect for the New Zealand native when she signed with CSUF. The skills Amiee Book refined in New Zealand paid dividends as her 10.5 points per game this season is the third highest scoring average on the team. Harada is a fan of her ability and experience, and the different dimensions her 6-foot height brings to their defense. While Amiee helps lead the Titans to victory, her family can’t cheer her on from the stands. Instead, her father settles for watching the games

via livestream, though that doesn’t stop him from showing emotion. “I still get quite animated at the TV screen, which is good so she probably can’t hear me. I think it’s great so that way I can see what she’s doing and we still have chats about what she can do better,” Ed Book said. “The coach in me is always there.” Her father said that he was inspired by his daughter’s work ethic from a young age, and she has applied it to her teammates by encouraging them to do their best, including helping them accomplish their best mile time. This drive to always improve was one she learned from a young age and from her dad, who she says is her toughest critic. “I don’t sugarcoat things for her; that’s her mother’s job. My job is just to tell her the way it

is. I always still tell her what she’s doing well and a lot of positive things,” said Ed Book. Amiee Book’s father also tells her what she needs to work on. “I’m there to say, here’s what you need to do. This is what you need to work on, and then support her with making those changes and ways that she wants to go,” said Ed Book. The freshman forward doesn’t mind the pressure or the criticism because she’s always looking to improve. Despite coming off the bench for the majority of the season, Amiee Book has played the fourth-most minutes per game on the team and has earned a spot in the starting lineup for the last five games. Head Coach Harada sees her as a leader for the team and attributes this to her hard work, saying that Book is a winner

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all-around and the kind of person you want to build a program around. While Amiee Book is only in her first year with the Titans, Harada said she has untapped potential, especially as she gets more accustomed to the American style of basketball. “Here, you’ve got freedom to play and create within the offense more,” Amiee Book said. Off the court, she plans to study in physiotherapy or kinesiology. After college, she hopes to be able stay close to the sport and play in Europe. Amiee saw her dad play in Europe, and it inspired her to visit. “I’ve just always wanted to travel, and I think that basketball is a great way to do that,” Amiee said, hoping to one day represent her home country of New Zealand.

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The Titans are in seventh place in the conference, with their last win coming against UC Santa Barbara.

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CONTINUED FROM 1 The last time the two teams met on Jan. 24, the Titans were victorious 59-52 behind Smith’s 18 points and 10 rebounds in 32 minutes in the Thunderdome. The Gauchos have lost seven of their last 10 games and whave not played well on the road this season, as they have lost their last five road games and have not won away from home since Dec. 21. UCSB center Natalia Bruening had a team-high 18 points on 8-of-12 shooting in just 13 minutes. Santa Barbara’s offense ranks last in the Big West, the

Gauchos average 56.8 points per game. The Titans rank third in the conference averaging 63.2 points per game. Two of the Titans’ three wins in conference play have come at the Titan Gym. One of those three wins came against Hawaii in the opening game of conference play. Since Big West play started, no one has shot the ball better than Bruening, who ranks first in field goals at 54.1 percent. Bruening has shot over 50 percent in each of her last three games. CSUF’s defense has been demonstrating discipline as its

14.1 personal fouls per game mark ranks first in the Big West. The Titans’ defense will have their hands full against the Gauchos, who do a great job at getting to the free-throw line. Santa Barbara ranks third in the conference in free throw attempts, however, the Gauchos do not shoot the ball well from the line. At just 69.5 percent, UCSB ranks sixth in free throw percentage as a team. Tipoff is scheduled for 5 p.m. in the Titan Gym. Arnulfo Gonzalez contributed to this article.