Wednesday February 20, 2019
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
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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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