Wednesday March 20, 2019

Wednesday March 20, 2019

Volume 105 Issue 26

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

ASI approves new executive job Baseball

falters in San Diego CSUF falls in midweek match-up with the Toreros, 6-2.

MATTHEW MENDOZA Asst. Sports Editor

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Mark Stohs, Rebecca Hesgard, Lorren Baker, and Ana Aldazabal debate the institution of the chief inclusion and diversity officer position.

Chief inclusion and diversity inclusion and diversity officer or administrators to provide so- position for the upcoming year cial justice trainings, ally train- in order to support students of officer position established effective Fall 2019.

According to Ana Aldazaings, identity trainings, for the all ages, genders and ethnicities for next semester.

ESMERALDA FIGUEROA Staff Writer

The Associated Students Board of Directors approved the resolution to establish a chief

bal, ASI president and CEO, the chief inclusion and diversity officer will act as liaison for historically marginalized communities and oversees the social justice and equity commission.

“They’ll be in charge of facilitating and bringing in faculty

ASI student leaders,” Aldazabal said.

Out of the 23 Cal State University campuses, only 16 have a student leader position dedicated to inclusion and diversity on their respective campuses.

ASI plans to establish this

to promote more inclusivity on campus.

Deliberation for the first chief inclusion and diversity officer will begin after the elections conclude this week, according to Aldazabal.

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A five-run second inning was all the University of San Diego baseball team needed to win as they defeated Cal State Fullerton, 6-2, on Tuesday night.

Freshman Joe Magrisi made his first career start for the Titans, as the San Diego native was given the chance to start in his hometown but his night was cut short after 1.2 innings pitched.

Magrisi was given the loss on a brutal outing, surrendering five runs, and earning three.

The freshman right-hander struck out just one batter, giving up three hits and three walks.

The Toreros’ second inning spark came from Jeff Houghtby. After leading off the inning with a walk, Houtby stole second and scored on a one-out RBI single by Caleb Ricketts.

Magrisi loaded the bases on back-to-back walks and the Toreros didn’t let up.

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‘Bao’ brings inclusivity to the table “We hope to have a great diAssociation of InterCultural alogue.

Feel free to add to the Awareness hosts workshop discussion. We don’t want it on ethnic identity. to be just one-sided with folks NATHAN NGUYEN Lifestyle Editor

KIM PHAM

Asst. Lifestyle Editor

A discussion on cultural identity and food was presented at the Diversity Initiatives and Resource Center’s “Bao: Expression of Love and Care” workshop on Tuesday.

As part of the Association for InterCultural Awareness’ Social Justice Week, the Association of Chinese Students and Vietnamese Student Association began the workshop with a viewing of Oscar award-winning animated short film, “Bao,” directed by Domee Shi. Following the viewing was a Q&A session with a panel of representatives from both associations.

Jacob Chacko, coordinator of the Asian Pacific American Resource Center, led the conversation and encouraged audience participation between panelists and other attendees.

from the panel. We want to hear from everyone’s experiences as well,” Chacko said.

“Bao” is about a mother who experiences empty-nest syndrome as her son disconnects with the family’s cultural identity. At first, the film introduces the story through the mother’s perspective as she keeps a hovering hand over her precious child.

Metaphorically molding her son from dough, the mother controls every interaction in his life instead of letting him experience them on his own.

From riding the bus and going to the market, to doing tai chi in the park together, the theme of “Bao” emphasizes family values and relationships in traditional Asian culture.

As he grows older, the son drifts away from his family as he naively assimilates into Western culture, forgetting his mother’s instruction.

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From left to right, Randy Ear, Julia Kong, Milan Le and Lauryn Dang represented Asian clubs at the Q&A panel.

From closet creations to elaborate Lego animations

Devil’s Advocate: Being in a relationship or being single

Huxley Burg, a first year cinema and television arts major, makes stop-action videos on YouTube that have gone viral.

Love can be found in a multitude of ways.

Happiness comes from being content with either another person or yourself.

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 2019

NUFF brings community leaders together Mayor Silva shares his vision for the future of downtown Fullerton.

BAYLEE MAUST Staff Writer

The Neighbors United for Fullerton (NUFF) hosted a forum on March 18 that brought together Fullerton Mayor Jesus Silva, City Manager Ken Domer and Executive Director for Pathways of Hope David Gillanders to speak about recent city issues.

NUFF is a nonpartisan organization aimed at getting Fullerton residents involved in city issues, according to Josh Newman, NUFF’s chair member, who moderated the forum.

Silva said that expanding on downtown Fullerton’s restaurants and businesses will hopefully attract new patrons.

“We want to bring people who are going to dine and walk around and enjoy the area. One of the priorities was, I do want to spruce it up,” Silva said.

Newman said the organization was founded fifteen years ago by a group of people who BAYLEE MAUST/ DAILY TITAN wanted to facilitate city conver- City manager Ken Domer, Mayor Jesus Silva, and David Gillanders, Pathways of Hope director discuss city issues with the public. sations and educate the Fullerton community. people in Fullerton vote for city of monetary endorsements to The Osborne Auditorium, just here for the information,” “I think it’s a nice resource council, or school board, they city council candidates during which seats the same amount Koskela said. for a city like ours to get people have a better look at the issues election season. of people, can be rented by the Koskela said although the intogether in a nonpartisan way, as well as who is engaged on Fawley said the organization same groups mentioned above formation the organization proto talk about issues that are fac- those issues and (have) solu- is currently looking for another for $83 per hour, also for a min- vides is beneficial, funding and ing the city and try to derive tions that might work for the space to host their forums be- imum of two hours. political action are necessary better approaches,” Newman city.” cause the Fullerton Public LiJeff Koskela, a retired Ful- to resolve Fullerton’s issues said.

The organization hosts up brary has increased the fee to lerton resident, has attended a with homelessness and road Joanne Fawley, a board mem- to four open forums a year, rent the space. few NUFF meetings because he infrastructure. ber, said NUFF remains non- usually at the Fullerton PubThe community room, which said they are more helpful than “It’s nice to have good feelpartisan and strictly informa- lic Library, according to their seats 125 people, can be rented city council meetings. ings about it but it’s more comtional during its meetings. website. at a rate of $165 per hour for a “This is more informal than a plex than all that. So all of a “We do informational items Forums are open to the pub- minimum of two hours for Ful- council meeting. There’s going sudden the fix isn’t going to be so that people have tools sim- lic, but an optional $25 mem- lerton individuals, nonprofit or- to be a vote from one group and easy, just like the homelessilar to what public interest bership fee pays for renting fa- ganizations and government another group and a bunch of ness won’t be easy. It has be groups do,” Fawley said. cilities, advertisements in local agencies, according to the Ful- arguing, sometimes you don’t addressed, but it’s difficult,” “When it comes time to have newspapers and a small amount lerton Public Library website. get so much information. I’m Koskela said.

For the Record On Monday March 19, 2019 the front page story “OC homelessness myths dismissed” incorrectly stated that the Orange County United Way conducted a homelessness survey. The County of Orange, City Net and 211 conducted the survey.

In the same story preliminary data of a homelessness survey was presented and that was not specified in the story.

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Vice Chair Secretary Maria Linares argues for changing the term “officer” to one that is more welcoming to minority communitities.

CONTINUED FROM 1 A major debate during the meeting revolved around the official title of the position. Maria Linares, the board of directors’ vice chair and secretary, said that the title should be changed from chief inclusion and diversity officer to chief inclusion and diversity facilitator.

“I feel like the word ‘officer’ can be triggering to some communities. I wanted to make it a little more friendly and welcoming to the communities that we are trying to reach out to,” Linares said.

Aldazabal said that it doesnot make sense to change the title of just one member of the executive team.

“If we are going to change the names, it should all be at the same time. We shouldn’t really have one officer with a different name,” Aldazabal said.

One of the concerns that came with the proposed title change was whether or not it would still command the same amount of respect for the student leader.

“I think it would cause a lot of confusion,” Aldazabal said. “I just feel like changing the name for one officer would be problematic for that person as for how they’re treated.”

Linares said that should not be the primary reason for keeping the current title.

“I don’t think we’re focusing so much on the position itself rather than the communities we’re trying to reach out to. It almost sounds to me like we’re saying, ‘Well if they

don’t have that name, the name officer, we’re not going to give them respect,’ which is not what it’s about,” Linares said.

Several board members said that there should definitely be more discussion on the issue.

“We need a larger conversation about the title of ‘officer.’ Maybe this could be the first of it and then everything else follows,” said Shayna La Scala, ASI representative for the College of Health & Human Development.

Linares added that “facilitator” is a better fit than any other title.

“This person is working with communities so this person is facilitating. I had a conversation with someone on the board about it and they said ‘Facilitator really is the only word that makes sense,’” Linares said.

Linares said that while there hasnot been any extensive research done into this issue, the organizations she spoke to, including Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán de CSUF and the Students for Quality Education, preferred “facilitator.”

“I didn’t go out and do the research, but we also didn’t go out and do research on if ‘officer’ gets you more respect. So we don’t have those statistics either,” Linares said.

The motion to change the title scattered across the board, with five motioning to change it to “facilitator,” eight voting not to, and four abstaining from the vote, leaving the title as officer.

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 2019

Don’t Lego of your childhood dream

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Using a camera and creativity, Huxley Berg transforms his desk into a live studio for Lego animations.

Huxley Berg makes stop-motion films using the building blocks of his imagination.

BAYLEE MAUST Staff Writer

Clothes and school supplies are among some of the items found in a standard college students dorm closet, but firstyear student Huxley Berg’s space is a full-fledged Lego animation studio.

Berg has over 100,000 subscribers on his Youtube channel, “Huxley Berg Studios,” which he has been accumulating since 2014.

“I got into it my freshman year of high school. It was after I had seen ‘The Lego Movie,’” Berg said.

Berg got his start by posting short videos on Flipagram account, but quickly made the transition to YouTube. When he decided to attend Cal State Fullerton, Berg said he was unsure if he would be vocal about his hobby.

“I wasn’t sure if I was going to bring my stuff. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to tell the people at college that I did this,” Berg said.

The secrecy did not last long. Noah Lee, first year student, was curious to

learn about his soon-to-be roommate and googled Berg’s name.

“I looked him up on Instagram first and I was like, ‘I don’t know about this guy.’ I thought he’d be really weird,” Lee said.

Lee said that once they ended up meeting each other, they instantly clicked and are now good friends.

“He took me back to his own house and I saw where he originally worked.

I was kind of shocked, I didn’t know it was all about this, so I learned a lot about what he does,” Lee said.

Berg said others were not as receptive to Lego animating. At the arts high school Berg attended, he said aspiring film students took Lego animating as a joke and did not respond well to it.

“The thing with Lego animation is people don’t get it until they see it. People won’t go out of their way to watch something,” Berg said.

Even Berg’s best friend, Kristofer Medina, said he was a little weary to Berg’s interest in Lego animation.

“It was kind of like, ‘OK, you play with legos all the time,’” Medina said.

Medina said after watching a few of Berg’s videos and seeing the improvement, his perspective had completely flipped.

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Berg brings his Lego hobby to life through YouTube videos.

“I started to appreciate it more animation-wise. It’s not like he’s just playing with Legos to have fun with it. He’s doing it as a job, he makes money off of it and it’s really smart way to spend his time,” Medina said.

Because Berg is studying cinema and television arts, he said his Lego animating abilities have taught him some of the skills needed for his future career.

“The Lego animation has taught me how to frame correctly, it’s helped me edit better, it’s helped me light things better. It’s like being on an actual film set but just way miniature,” Berg said.

In addition, Berg said that his work has also provided various Hollywood connections to notable actors and directors.

“Ryan Reynolds before has shared out some of my stuff. I actually personally know the creator of ‘Deadpool’ himself through the Lego videos,” Berg said.

“I had a really really close relationship with James Gunn who’s the director of the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ movies.

He shared out a lot of my stuff and we even talked through direct messages.

Mark Hamill shared one of my posters once, which was really funny.”

He added that he received many comments on his videos which encouraged

him to recreate an entire movie, and is currently working on a Lego recreation of the movie “Deadpool.”

Since Reynolds has shared Berg’s content in the past, he is attempting to cast Reynolds for the recreation.

Berg is aiming for the “Lego Deadpool” movie to be finished by April, but he said the college academic workload has been a big transition compared to high school, and he wants to prioritize his grades.

A standard two-minute trailer can take Berg two weeks to a month depending on complexity.

The connections he made have been an exciting experience for Berg, but he said his most memorable connection was with the directors of “The Lego Movie,” Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

“It was a whole full-circle thing. Recreating a Lego thing and having the people who made ‘The Lego Movie’ (see it).

It inspires you to do stuff and share it out.,” Berg said.

Berg said encouragement from the people he looks up to has impacted him far more than his high school peers who once made fun of him behind his back.

“Anyone can have their opinion on it.

The people who really do care is all that matters to me,” Berg said.

Diversity: Workshop unites cultures together 1 Similar to how the son in “Bao” disrespected and disregarded his mother, audience members expressed remorse for not cherishing their relationships with their parents.

“Upon watching it a million times later the biggest thing that stood out to me was the intense feeling of regret,” said Julia Kong, an Association of Chinese Students member.

“Especially when the mom was crying alone, I felt regret because I feel like I definitely made my mom feel that way before.”

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The personification of the dumpling also serves as a direct representation of the importance of food in culture and family.

Whether it’s eating or making the dish, the memories that are associated with a certain soup or dessert is only conceivable through establishing unique connections with family.

“In all of our cultures we put a lot of effort and a lot of labor into food, and it shows the hard work that our parents or our grandparents put into the food that we eat,” said Milan Le, a Vietnamese Student Association member.

Ever since Le learned how to make traditional Vietnamese noodle soup, bún riêu, with her grandma when she was in elementary school, she said the experience was not the same when eating the same dish in restaurants because she prefers homecooked meals.

From pho and tamales to bò lúc lac and baklava, students from all ethnic backgrounds shared experiences of making food with family growing up.

Kong said watching films that support Asian culture makes her wish she could have seen them while she was growing up.

“Being in college and seeing these people be successful is a huge inspiration for (my friends) and me as well,” Kong said.

Randy Ear, an Association of Chinese Students member, also struggled to accept how his culture was a part of his identity as he shared how he was made fun of for speaking his language.

“I kind of shunned out my Cambodian culture,” Ear said.

However after viewing “Bao” and attending college away from his family, Ear realized how much he’s left behind.

“It sucks that I can’t make a lot of Cambodian food here,

but I still try to make the effort to make Cambodian food. It’s something that brings me back home,” Ear said.

Lauryn Dang, a Vietnamese Student Association member, emphasized that themes in “Bao” can be found in other cultures and from different ethnic backgrounds.

“Even though there’s different cultures here watching and learning, we also can relate to simple things such as making food or just being family and how traditions bring us all together, even though our lives can be so separate at times,” Dang said.

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 2019

Devil’s Advocate

Being in a relationship versus being alone

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to exclude personal ties to anyone other than their partner. Most of their research found that single people socialize more than couples do, and have more friends on average than those in relationships.

Don’t Drake and drive, folks. There is no excuse to listen to “Marvins Room” while driving alone.

People as a society worry so much about their relationship status, assuming that people in committed relationships are happier than those who are single. It’s all too common for single people to be labeled as sad and lonely.

A study by Natalia Sarkisian from Boston College and Naomi Gerstel from the University of Massachusetts was created to combat the idea that being single is an isolating experience. The study showed that being single can actually increase people’s’ social connections.

It claimed that, single individuals are more likely to frequently stay in touch with, provide help to and receive help from parents, siblings, neighbors and friends than the married.

Couples tend to rely on one another for their needs, which drives them away from turning to friends, family or neighbors as an emotional outlet. This raises the question of who is truly isolated, single individuals or couples?

The study noted that single people have a greater involvement with their community, whereas most people in relationships tend

HOSAM ELATTAR Asst. News Editor

The fear of dying alone is real.

But people in healthy romantic relationships don’t have to worry about that, as they tend to be happier than their single counterparts.

Love is everywhere. It can be observed in the couple holding hands as they stroll through the Arboretum, or in the halls where they exchange affectionate looks into each other’s eyes before leaning in for a goodbye kiss and walking away with innocent smiles on their faces.

And yet loneliness is also everywhere.

It can be seen in the eyes of a student sitting alone in the quad, head down, listening to Akon and people-watching.

There always seems to be that one friend in the group who has a hard time accepting being alone, and refuses to be satisfied without the security of a significant other.

Relationships play an influential role in living healthy and satisfying lives.

It can teach values that are imperative to happiness: patience, loyalty and compromise. Relationships also give a gratifying sense of purpose or meaning to life and having a sense of purpose is .

Having no partner can give someone a cynical outlook on life. To a cynic, happiness seems to be elusive, like prey

hiding from its predator.

People want love and attention. They need to feel a connection with another person.

Being in a healthy relationship fulfills the desire to be accepted and to bond with someone in a way that is unique to other types of relationships.

Although humans’ basic needs are food, water, security and shelter, they also crave intimacy.

Being in a healthy relationship is one way of consistently receiving that intimacy.

People in relationships live longer, healthier and happier lives, accord-

someone decides to put their partner’s interests ahead of their own.

People change in numerous ways as they grow older; their likes, dislikes, styles, beliefs, priorities and are constantly evolving.

Perhaps having a partner during this period can skew one’s perspective as a form of compromise.

support system for each other, showing that they care by listening to each other and by helping work through life’s obstacles together.

There are loads of people who live fulfilled, healthy and happy lives that are not in committed relationships.

However, people who find themselves

in supportive intimate relationships are happier because they can share their life with someone.

It’s exactly like Lana Del Rey said, “The world was built for two/Only worth living if somebody is loving you.”

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Being single does not equate to being lonely or sad, but rather the opposite.

Relationships can be wonderful experiences, or downright dreadful. Being committed to another person requires emotional, mental and physical effort. Breakups are notoriously unpleasant, and heartbreak is seemingly unbearable. Staying single can mean avoiding this or greater turmoil.

Depending on how a person can handle being single, the experience can be great..

If someone spends their days moping and complaining about how much they would rather be with someone, then they are bound to find themselves in a situation filled with self-pity. Society seems to believe singlehood consists of feeling sorry for yourself, but that does not have to be true.

Making the best of being single will help you fall in love with being alone. Going out, meeting new people, making friends and dedicating time to doing what’s best for yourself can be fun and exciting.

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Relationships play an influencial role in living healthy and satisfying lives.

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Finding love with another person satisfies a natural craving for intimacy.

Married couples tend to stay in while single people go out more, possibly to find a potential soulmate down the line, according to the study.

Sarkisian and Gerstel conclude the study by calling single individuals the lifeline of the community that social policy should seek to sustain. If that isn’t enough to convince you that being single is nowhere near as awful as society makes it out to be, then hopefully a relationship like Ronnie and Sammi’s from “Jersey Shore” will prove this.

Being single does not equate to being lonely or sad, but rather the opposite. It can encourage a person to interact with new people and help lead a more socially interactive lifestyle. Most importantly, it can influence them to become their own biggest fan.

It’s not a negative experience because it serves as the best opportunity for one to learn more about themselves. Young adults, especially college students, still have so much self-discovery to do. Discovery that can be difficult to navigate if

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Staying single provides an opportunity to discover self-love and happiness.

ing to psychologist and author Melanie Greenberg.

But people who are lonely can follow with shorter life spans.

In a study done for the Royal College of General Practitioners, Helen Stokes-Lampard found that lonely people are 50 percent more likely to die early, and compares the effects of loneliness to long term illness, diabetes and high blood pressure.

Having a romantic partner allows two people to be a trustworthy REBECCA MENA / DAILY TITAN

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 2019

Open Letter

Opinion 5

In response to:

President Fram Virjee’s letter to the Orange Country Register discredits the Daily Titan Sports desk.

President Framroze M. Virjee, With all due respect, your open letter to the Orange County Register regarding their lack of coverage of Cal State Fullerton Athletics is disrespectful.

The Daily Titan takes pride in publishing daily stories about the Titans in their Big West matchups and friendly competitions.

You went out of your way to address a publication 6.4 miles away from you, while the Daily Titan sports desk sits four floors beneath your office.

Our circulation is not necessarily the highest, but as a whole, the Daily Titan and Titan TV productions cover topics that go unnoticed by the university. We provide a voice for CSUF students and its community.

In your tweet, you expressed your displeasure with the OC Register. You called for better coverage, but failed to recognize the hard-working students who already provide it.

You are frustrated that the OC Register gave CSUF men’s basketball a 200-word spread about their Big West Tournament games, but Jordan Mendoza, a Daily Titan sports editor, wrote about the three games in three days, staying late at night in the Honda Center so they could be published immediately.

The CSUF versus USC baseball game where the Titans blew past the Trojans in a 10-4 win had a 485-word spread in the Daily Titan’s sports section. We published a recap with a one-minute, 21-second video on Twitter about the game, and how infielder Hank LoForte stretched his nation-best on-base streak to 59 consecutive games. At the time of this letter’s

publication, the tweet has six retweets and 20 likes — which is a lot for the Daily Titan Sports Twitter account which has almost 850 followers. This tweet was liked and retweeted by others, but we did not see any likes or retweets from you.

Last semester, Julius Choi, previously an assistant copy editor and currently a cosports editor, wrote a profile on cross-country runner Samantha Huerta after she was named Big West athlete of the week. That same weekend he covered the Big West Championships where a CSUF runner collapsed after crossing the finish line and suffered a seizure due to dehydration.

This semester, four reporters and a photographer woke up before the crack of dawn to drive over 350 miles to Scottsdale, Arizona to cover CSUF baseball in the inaugural weekend of the MLB4 Tournament.

We were at a constant state of sleep deprivation, hunger and subject to freezing that weekend as we reported from Salt River Fields at Talking Stick while the Titans took on Texas Christian University, Vanderbilt and the University of Virginia. Former CSUF baseball head coach Dave Serrano, who currently writes for Baseball America, praised the Daily Titan for sending reporters to the monumental weekend.

D e d i cated sideline reporter Brandy Flores

spends her weeks carrying camera equipment to CSUF games to highlight wins or losses for the weekly show production of Titan Sports. With a campus that is 241-acres, that camera equipment becomes tiresome quickly — especially when flights of stairs and wet grounds are involved.

Titan Sports works alongside us at every home game to ensure our community can truly experience Titan Athletics. Like us, Titan Sports is run solely by students, and they receive no academic credit. They are fueled by their desire to report the truth of sports on their campus.

Not only do we tell the stories of the athletes that represent CSUF, we tell the stories of fans who devote a majority of their time and spend their hard-earned money to attend games and exemplify their #TitanPride. The OC Register does not do any of this.

We understand the OC Register is being compensated by the university for their coverage, but the Daily Titan advertising department spends countless hours in the morning’s cold-calling businesses so the paper can continue its independent coverage of CSUF, the city of Fullerton and Orange County.

Although we are independent of the university, the Daily Titan spends late nights and early mornings covering every aspect of CSUF.

We get into the newsroom in the early afternoon and leave in the early morning. So why would the university pay for another publication to talk about the school, when the result of our labor at the Daily Titan has led to numerous awards, especially in the last three weeks.

The sports desk is present on social media, but we hardly see you like or retweet our content.

In your open letter to the OC Register, you attempted to defend the importance of the university’s teams. But in doing so, you offended the editors and reporters of the Daily Titan sports desk, along with the producers, sideline reporters and anchors of Titan Sports.

Last semester, Megan Garcia put her heart, soul and tears into the sports section.

She did not pass a class because rather than studying, she was sitting behind a desk and fact-checking countless previews and game recaps.

We prioritize CSUF Division I teams before our school work and well-being. Unfortunately, it seems that it has gone unnoticed by you, President Virjee, and we see where your priorities are.

Respectfully, Megan Garcia (Senior Editor, former Sports Editor) Brandy Flores (Executive Producer of Titan Sports) Julius Choi and Jordan Mendoza (Sports Editors) Arnulfo Gonzalez Jr., Matthew Mendoza, and Demetrious Herrera (Assistant Sports Editors)

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 2019

Fullerton College wins state title The Hornets defeated CCSF, 85-79, to clinch their fourth CCCAA championship.

JULIUS CHOI Sports Editor

On a night where championship hardware was up for grabs, the Fullerton College men’s basketball team outlasted the City College of San Francisco in the California Community College Athletic Association State Championships, 85-79.

Sophomore guard and forward Lance Coleman II was named the tournament MVP as he scored 18 points to go along with nine rebounds for the Hornets.

Rodrick McCobb and Ronne Readus were named to the all-tournament team.

This marks the fourth state championship in Fullerton College’s history, and the first since 2006.

“Our focus was to make sure that we stayed in character. Sometimes people get into championship games and forgot what got them there,” Webster said. “We’ve always preached that defense wins championships. We were built to win that game.”

San Francisco’s No. 1 ranking did not waver the confidence of Fullerton College who defeated North Fresno City in the semifinals to earn the right to compete on the same court as the Bulls on Sunday.

The Fullerton Hornets made that message clear as a 3-pointer by guard McCobb capped off

a 7-0 run to begin to the game.

While the Bulls boasted the highest scoring offense in the league with 89 points per game average, the Hornets have demonstrated defensive prowess all season long, limiting opponents to 62.1 points per game.

It was no different during the title game as Fullerton forced San Francisco to attempt half of their field goals from 3-point range.

As a result, the Bulls made 18.8 percent of their 3-point attempts in the first 20 minutes of play before compiling 10 3-pointers by the end of the night.

The Bulls were pushed out of their comfort zone in the defensive end as the 35 fouls committed were uncharacteristic of their 2.4 season average, which Fullerton College took advantage of by making 36-of-46 free throw attempts.

Every Hornets player that played in the first half scored and shot a combined 50 percent from the field compared to San Francisco’s 32.4 percent.

Backup point guard Dylan Banks led the Hornets with 9 points on 3-of-4 shooting from the field in the first half.

The Hornets’ second-half offense was spearheaded by McCobb, who scored 17 points on 6-of-8 shot attempts.

When the Hornets lost the state championship game in 2017 to San Diego City College, Webster said he was able to build upon that experience from that point on.

“I’ve just been in those situations and in those games before

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Sophomore center Ronne Readus goes up for a shot against a City College of San Francisco defender.

but I think experience is so key,” Webster said.

“I gained valuable experience from losing that game two years ago. I was able to evaluate

myself and see where I could’ve been better.”

Since Webster’s arrival in 2015, the Hornets’ 30 wins this season are the most the

program has achieved under his supervision, and they have not lost more than eight games in a given season for the past four years.

Struggle: On-base streak extended to 63 1 San Diego added four more runs on an RBI single, an RBI groundout and a throwing error by CSUF shortstop Sahid Valenzuela that allowed two more to score, making it a 5-0 ballgame.

Timothy Josten entered the game during the second inning in relief for Magrisi, and put a halt on the Torero offense, retiring all 10 batters he faced. The CSUF bullpen would combine for 6.1 innings pitched, allowing just one run on two hits and two walks while striking out four.

USD starter Nick Owen kept the Titans’ bats silent, as Owen pitched four scoreless innings, allowing only three hits and striking out four. Pitcher Louie Crow took over for San Diego in the fifth inning and threw for 3.1 innings, allowing two unearned runs, one walk on just two hits and three strikeouts.

The Titan offense struggled through the first seven innings, as they stranded six runners on base, and recorded only four hits. CSUF finished the night with six hits and two walks, but struggled with situational hitting, leaving eight men on base.

Senior Hank LoForte sparked the offense and extended his CONTINUED FROM

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on-base streak to 63 games with a double to lead off the eighth inning. LoForte quickly advanced to third on an error pitched by Crow.

Mitchell Berryhill then brought in LoForte on a sacrifice fly to get the Titans’ first run of the night.

After Berryhill’s RBI, the Titans loaded the bases on a hit-by-pitch, a walk and a single. The Titans added their second run of the game after Jordan Hernandez reached on an error by Ricketts on first base.

Kameron Guangorena stepped up to the plate, representing the goahead run, but the Titans’ rally halted on an inning-ending double play.

San Diego quickly got a run in the bottom half of the eighth inning, with Houghtby leading off the inning with a walk and advancing to second on a fielder’s choice.

Chris Colarossi delivered for USD, scoring Houghtby on a two-out RBI single.

With the loss, CSUF drops to 8-10 overall, while San Diego snapped their two-game skid, improving to 15-6.

CSUF will open up Big West play on Friday night when they visit Long Beach State for a three game series. First pitch in Friday will be at 6 p.m.

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