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Tuesday February 17, 2015 Volume 97 Issue 11The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Alumnus to give lecture on morality and science

Alumna breaks into the illustration industry

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CSUF receives teaching grant

Baseball off to subpar start

Project promotes global citizenship

MSA emphasizes “All lives matter”

Titans go 1-2 on opening weekend in Florida

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Funds to go to improving teacher preperation

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An illustration in the works of a child from the Dominican Republic that will soon be sent to her to keep as a memento from the students participating in the Memory Project at Cal State Fullerton.

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There are many different ways people can make an impact on the lives of the less fortunate, sometimes its about more than a mon-etary donation.

Students enrolled in the Cal State Fullerton multi-ple subject credential pro-gram are taking part in a meaningful portrait series better known as the Mem-ory Project, introduced to CSUF in the fall semester of 2013.

Their efforts serve as a unique opportunity for students to create a tangi-ble keepsake for children and teenagers around the world. It’s also for children who have been neglected,

orphaned or disadvan-taged in hopes of provid-ing a special memory of their childhood, according to the Memory Project’s website.

Students enrolled in EDEL 437—curriculum and instruction in elemen-tary school teaching—so-cial studies, are currently working on portraits for children in the Dominican Republic and Paraguay.

The portraits are distrib-uted by professors to their students to complete and sent back into the hands of the kids. Although stu-dents do receive some art instruction, it is primari-ly based off of grid draw-ing to recreate a likeness of the child. This semester, lecturers Kristine Quinn and Andrea Guillaume de-cided to use the theme of pop art to instill bright pat-terns and colors into the portraits.

Michelle Stewart, stu-dent and participant of the

Memory Project, is cur-rently working on her por-trait of Yaniris from the Dominican Republic.

“They don’t have photos, they don’t have images of themselves, so it’s a spe-cial way that we can treat these kids to having some-thing to look at themselves and just appreciate them-selves,” Stewart said.

Kristine Quinn, an asso-ciate professor of elemen-tary and bilingual educa-tion believes that this is a project built around ser-vice learning and the idea of connecting with other people in the world, while serving others without ex-pectations in return.

“I think that it reinforces the idea of global citizen-ship and this idea that it is everybody’s responsibility to take care of the world’s children,” Quinn said. “I think that it is an exercise in looking deeply and try-ing to see someone.”

Quinn is leading the

project with Ginger Gef-takys and Andrea Guillau-me, who initially stumbled upon the idea and proposed it to the multiple subject credential program.

Guillaume teaches many courses in the multiple sub-ject credential program, with mathematics and science methods being her focus in the Memory Project.

“There is a significant amount of science that goes into this project, from the way the structure is put together, to the anatomy of the human face and how to reproduce that in a joyful kind of way, Guil-laume said.

The Memory Project was developed in 2004 by Ben Schumaker.

Post graduation, Schumaker found that he did not know what he wanted to do with himself, but did know he wanted to spend some time volun-teering with kids.

Illustration project helps reinforce self appreciation

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Cal State Fullerton’s base-ball team started the 2015 season this weekend with two heartbreakers and a big win at the Opening Weekend Chal-lenge hosted by the University of South Florida.

The Titans opened their season Friday afternoon against tournament host USF, off the back of a strong out-ing from junior Thomas Es-helman (0-1), who faced 23 hitters over six innings and gave up only five hits and one walk. Eshelman’s walk was only his 12th in 245 ⅓ in-nings pitched. Eshelman also recorded 10 strikeouts while allowing only two earned runs. Senior reliever Tyler Peitzmeier also performed well, striking out all six bat-ters he faced.

The Titans took an early 1-0 lead in the third inning after junior outfielder Tyler Stieb got hit by a pitch before be-ing brought home on a two out RBI single by sophomore third baseman Taylor Bryant.

Unfortunately for the Titans, that’s all USF’s All-Ameri-can Athletic Conference first team starter Jimmy Herget al-lowed, who went five innings and struck out nine with four walks allowed. Reliever Joe Cavallaro picked up the win after the Bulls rallied a string of hits to plate two in the bot-tom of the sixth inning to go up 2-1.

The Titans had a chance to tie it up in the top of the ninth against Bulls closer Tommy Peterson. Titan outfielder Da-vid Olmedo-Barrera started a one out rally, but Fullerton fell short after junior pinch hitter Dalton Blaser struck out to end the game. The re-sult handed the Titans their first loss of the season.

Cal State Fullerton has been awarded a $230,000 grant to help enhance teacher preparation.

The grant, donated by the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, will be allocated for the Titan Pride project. It aims to pro-vide mentoring and assistance to teacher candidates.

The project is led by princi-pal investigator Jennifer Pon-der, professor of elementary and bilingual education, and co-principal investigator Kris-tin K. Stang, professor of spe-cial education. Faculty from elementary, special and sec-ondary education departments are all invested in the project.

“This project takes many state-set programs within our college we’re already doing and allows us to try to create a pilot project where all of these things we might be doing in isolation we could all share,” said Stang.

The Titan Pride project has been approved to run for 18 months, but potentially could span five years. It be-gan during the Spring 2015 semester and will last until the summer of 2016. It is part of a statewide teacher prepa-ration initiative—Preparing A New Generation of Teach-ers for California. The money will not only give the program a chance to improve the prac-tices already in place, Ponder said, but will hopefully bring attention to the importance of what it does.

“I hope on a larger scale that it also raises the standards and raises the public’s perception of the very important work that teachers do,” Ponder said. Teaching is incredibly com-plex, and teaching is not some-thing that just anyone can do. It’s lifelong work to continue to grow.

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Hate crimes exist. They existed in A.D. 46 and they exist in 2015.

Luckily, at Cal State Fullerton, hate crimes are a rare occurrence, but should one encounter prej-udice, despite their culture or race, the CSUF Mus-lim Student Association is there.

The Muslim Student As-sociation has been on cam-pus for more than 50 years. They have nine active board members and nearly 80 members.

On Wednesday, Muslim Student Association Pres-ident Bayanne Kanawa-ti, held a candlelight vigil along with Hanna Jalanbo, a Berkeley graduate,

honoring the three Mus-lim students who were murdered Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 5:11 p.m. in their con-do in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

“Our community calls for peace and resilience in the face of violence,” Kanawati said in an email regarding the North Caro-lina shooting. “We encour-age all individuals affected by violence to come to-gether in solidarity against this horrific act.”

The purpose of Mus-lim Student Association is clear for Kanawati: “For me it’s to make sure that all Muslims don’t feel left out and for us to be here as a community to strength-en Muslims with their re-ligion if their lacking cer-tain things,” Kanawati said. “We’re all here from different backgrounds … we’re all here equal, help-ing out each other to do good. Also, (to make) non-muslims aware of what Islam really is.”

The Muslim Student As-sociation conducts an annu-al Islamic Awareness Week in late March where they answer questions about Is-lam, host events and last year brought extra hijabs for students to try and see what it’s like to wear one for a day. Whether Muslim or not, the reactions were mostly positive.

“They felt like the whole world was staring at them,” Kanawati said.

a few of those students were not part of the Muslim faith and wore short sleeves and had tattoos—paired with a hijab was quite an unordinary sight.

Others who tried out wearing a hijab felt that people judged them more on what they said rather than what they looked like, Kanawati said. “Some peo-ple rock it more than we do,” said Mouminat Damer, a Muslim Student Association board member.

Muslim students stand against racial violence

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Halla Tabbaa, a communicative disorders, holds up a sign at the candlelight vigil last Wednesday held by MSA president, Bayanne Kanawati, commemorating three slain Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North

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Egyptian airstrikes hit ISIS

Gunman at LAX false alarm

Earthquake hits near Japan

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Following the killing of 21 Egyptian Chris-tians, Egyptian war-planes performed a second round of strikes against Islamic State targets in Libya, according to CNN.

The first wave struck training and weapons areas and Islamic State camps.

The first and second round of airstrikes came after the Islamic State released a video showing men who ad-mitted to being Chris-tian being beheaded on a beach.

The video came af-ter 21 Egyptian Chris-tians who reported-ly had moved to Libya to find work were kid-napped from a coastal city in Libya in Decem-ber and January.

A false alarm about a gunman sent dozens of people running out onto the tarmac out-side LAX Monday, ac-cording to a Los Ange-les Times report.

The commotion be-gan at about 9 a.m. when a person inside of one of the airport’s terminals stated there was a man with a gun nearby.

In actuality, police were apprehending a man who was appar-ently attempting sui-cide. The man led po-lice on a chase before stopping outside Ter-minal 2 of the airport.

People ran outside using emergency ex-its before being shep-herded back inside at a later point in time.

There did not ap-pear to be a gun in-volved, and it was not clear who made the announcement in the first place.

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit off the Japanese coast Mon-day, CNN reported.

An initial tsunami warning from the Ja-pan Meteorological Agency was later can-celled, and there was no tsunami threat is-sued by the Pacif-ic Tsunami Warning Center.

This quake comes after a magnitude 5.0 earthquake shook the Tokushima Prefecture earlier this month, ac-cording to the Japan Times.

There were also no reports from the To-kyo Electric Power Company of damage or abnormalities to the nuclear power plants that were damaged and melted down after the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011.

Each of the campus-es in the 23-campus Cal State system submitted a proposal with the objec-tive of improving teacher preparation, and each had an opportunity to receive a maximum of $230,000. However, not every school was granted the money.

“We have a really strong team — a leadership team that works together — and I’m honored to be a part of that team and to be leading this with Dr. Stang,” Pon-der said.

The clinical preparation portion of teaching and K-12 partnerships will be emphasized in the project. Every teaching candidate

must be a student teacher in addition to their course-work, and the project will emphasize both parts of the candidate’s education.

“I think that the project will help us to strength-en the clinical experience piece and align it in differ-ent ways with the course-work that we’re already doing on campus,” Ponder said.

The dual emphasis will help students to be more prepared for the jobs they take after graduation, Stang said.

“We want to strength-en the district’s capacity by putting well-prepared teachers into that district pipeline for a potential hire,” she said. “It’s great

for our teacher candidates because they have potential jobs but it’s also great for the districts because they are able to work with can-didates that then might be-come their employees.”

The program will also put an emphasis on the co-teaching model, which pairs a veteran teacher with a new educator, Ponder said.

“It’s a scaffolding way of really helping candidates really get in and learn how to co-plan and to teach and then reflect after they teach under the guidance of that mentorship,” Ponder said.

The co-teaching program is in the process of being implemented college-wide, Ponder said.

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Founder of Skeptics Society to give lecture

Council to address budget, park plans

Science and morali-ty will take center stage during a lecture hosted by an alumnus whose research indicates that the two sub-jects are far from mutually exclusive.

Michael Shermer, Ph.D., will present on the major themes of his latest book The Moral Arc: How Sci-ence and Reason Lead Hu-manity toward Truth, Jus-tice and Freedom.

Shermer is the founder of The Skeptics Society, an organization that consults various experts in relevant fields to investigate the validity of certain pseu-do-scientific claims. He is also a founding publish-er and editor-in-chief of Skeptic magazine, a publi-cation put out by the Skep-tics Society.

His lecture will focus on his research, which tracked moral progress, particular-ly the idea that science and reason have led to an in-creasingly moral society,

he said. “Once we know how

to affect social changes...we’re morally obligated to spread a liberal democra-cy, the granting of rights to more people,” Shermer said.

The timeliness of Sher-mer’s research made the author a good candidate for the lecture series, said Howard Seller, chair of the activities committee for the Patrons of the Library.

Shermer’s work tends to probe controversial issues, Seller said, and his lec-ture will give students an opportunity to participate in a discussion with the author.

“I would hope that they would get maybe a great-er sense of Dr. Shermer’s view of what the basis of moral and ethical behavior is,” Seller said.

Shermer said he hopes that, through his lecture, students will become more aware that the world is be-coming a better place be-cause of science.

“It’s for scientists, it’s for professional scholars, it’s for students, it’s for the general reading pub-lic,” Shermer said, adding that he tries to “write in a way that is accessible to

everybody.”Shermer received his

master’s degree in experi-mental psychology at Cal State Fullerton in 1978.

Outside of writing, Sher-mer has made various tele-vised appearances on The Colbert Report, Charlie Rose, 20/20 and other me-dia outlets.

The lecture will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28 in Pollak Library room 130. The lecture will be free and open to the public.

Speech will address the role of science in increasing morality

RAYMOND PELAYOFor the Daily Titan

The Fullerton City Coun-cil is expected to approve a midyear budget review Tues-day that was rejected at its last meeting.

The budget was pulled off the consent calendar at the last meeting by Councilman Bruce Whitaker over several concerns, one of which was the $1.32 million increase in appropriated funds.

The council will also be dis-cussing the start of Phases One and Two of the Hillcrest Park Master Plan, which will begin the reconstruction of Hillcrest Park on Harbor Boulevard.

On Feb. 4, the council ap-proved a nine-part conceptu-al phasing plan for Hillcrest Park improvements.

The preliminary cost of Phases One and Two is $5.4 million, according to the pro-posed agenda.

The development of the construction-related docu-ments for these two phases alone is $402,000.

As of now the Hillcrest Park reconstruction project has been allocated $2.2 million.

If the council approves the 2015-2016 capital improve-ment program budget, the project could also receive $6 million from Park Dwelling funds for the first two phases.

Based on the most current account of available funding, Staff and the Advisory Com-mittee recommended moving forward with the project.

The funding for these ser-vices will also come from the Hillcrest Park Rehabilitation project.

The first two phases of the project include reconstructing areas in the front lawn, foun-tain, frontage sidewalk and the Pine Forest stairs.

The council directed city staff to seek professional de-sign services from Mia Leh-rer and Associates, an interna-tional landscape architecture firm, and also asked staff to complete documentation for the first three phases of construction.

Fullerton’s Director of Parks and Recreation Hugo Curiel will ask the council for authorization to begin service with Mia Lehrer and Associ-ates for Phases One and Two of the plan.

Hillcrest Park is approxi-mately 30 acres and was also placed on The National Reg-ister of Historic Places in 2005.

The park holds three rental buildings and sever-al outdoor facilities. The park is also home to sev-eral war memorials that are dedicated to Fullerton veterans.

The meeting will take place Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers.

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Shermer Lecture

What• Lecture on science

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• Michael Shermer• Founder of The

Skeptics Society• CSUF alumnus

Where• Pollak Library

North room 130When

• Feb. 28• 2 p.m.

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Not everyone is born with a green thumb, but for those who would like to gain one, the Fullerton Arboretum is offering a series of garden-ing courses.

The “Eat the Yard” cours-es are designed to instruct beginning to intermediate gardeners on how to suc-cessfully construct an edi-ble garden.

Jonathan Duffy Davis, a farmer and homestead-er, is the instructor for the courses.

Davis owns a 20 acre farm in Aguanga, Califor-nia, where he plants about 60 different varieties of ap-ples, peaches, apricots and other fruits and vegetables. He teaches the class be-cause he hopes people will benefit from home garden-ing, he said.

“The diversity of food that a home garden can bring is the best reason to do it,” Davis said.

Students will also take away valuable informa-tion from the classes, said Miguel Macias, Arbore-tum educational program manager.

“These classes are great for a background in sus-tainability,” Macias said. “You’ll know what you’re eating, you’ll know what you’ve planted, you’ll know what you’re growing.”

The first course took place Saturday, the two re-maining courses are sched-uled for March 7 and April

25.The first course covered

how to properly design an edible landscape and select a desired crop.

The course, which last-ed two-and-a-half hours, included an indoor lecture and a tour of the Arboretum to discuss and observe what the trees and crops will look like once planted.

Rachel Lockman, a for-estry alumna of Cal Poly San Louis Obispo, attend-ed the class because she had questions regarding a new collection of raised beds be-ing built in her communi-ty college’s environmental

sciences department. “We don’t know a lot of

the farmer-central infor-mation,” Lockman said. “It was really nice learning the range in seasons, all these different variations, the best tasting fruit—I learned a lot.”

Each course is indepen-dent within the series and can be attended without having attended the other two courses.

Anything needed from a previous course will be re-viewed, Davis said.

The March 7 course of the series will focus on summer vegetable gardens, raised

bed construction and com-panion planting, according to the Fullerton Arboretum website.

The April 25 course, the final installment of the three-course series, will focus on pest control, soil management and overall garden maintenance.

More information and registration is available on the Fullerton Arboretum’s website at FullertonArbore-tum.org or by calling (657) 278-3407.

The courses are $25 for the public and $20 for Fullerton Arboretum members.

From backyard to homestead Arboretum event teaches art of home gardening

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Johnathan Duffy Davis, a farmer from Aguanga, California, showed people what crops would look like once they grew during a lesson at the Fullerton Arboretum. LEON ROMERO / DAILY TITAN

What • Courses teach novices to grow edible gardens

When • Courses are scheduled for March 7 and April 25

Information • More information can be found on the

arboretum’s website at FullertonArboretum.org or by calling (657) 278-3407

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The Muslim Student Association President Bayanne Kanawati encourages all individuals affected by the racial violence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to come together in solidarity.

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MSA: Strengthens the community

However, not every-one takes the hijab or the niqab, a scarf that also covers the face, so well outside of CSUF. Adam Houri, a Muslim Student Association board member, said they’re lucky living in Orange County where citi-zens are educated and lis-ten before they make ac-cusations. But off campus, especially when traveling, “You get held and asked a lot more questions coming into the U.S. or Canada,” Houri said.

“It’s usually funny to me, because it just shows how people are so ignorant to things,” Damer said. She recalled a time on an airplane when an older woman looked at Damer’s mother and said to her hus-band, ‘I don’t feel safe’—“It’s one of the most cliche things,” Damer said.

The point of wearing a hijab or niqab is for mod-esty and to not “attract at-tention,” but in America wearing the hijab or niqab ends up attracting more attention, reversing the intentions.

“It’s a step above if you chose to wear it, because it’s very difficult. You can call it ‘attracting attention,’

but it’s generally harder for them (women who wear niqabs). They’re the ones who probably get the most derogatory comments, said Ali Parekh, Muslim Stu-dent Association vice pres-ident. “They have to go through the most struggle because people fear what they don’t know or they don’t understand.”

To avoid such misjudg-ment, Muslim Student As-sociation feels that ed-ucating others is key.

Unfortunately, they feel this is not happening, es-pecially in younger gener-ations and in high schools where bullying is already so prevalent.

“My brother had a proj-ect, at school: ‘if anoth-er 9/11 happens, that we should do what we did to the Japanese and put them in concentration camps,’”

Kanawati described her younger brother’s expe-rience, as a sophomore in a Corona-Norco Uni-fied School District high school. “And during the end of the semester they decided that they should do concentration camps for Muslims if a 9/11 happens again in the U.S.”

“If there are people out there that are are strug-gling in their classrooms here on campus, we’re here to help them. That’s what we’re here for,” Kanawa-ti said. She also said how blessed they feel to not go through discrimina-tion on CSUF’s campus, but she knows other larg-er campuses do have that discrimination.

“Even though we’re not as big of a Muslim Stu-dent Association, it’s ac-tually a positive thing be-cause we’re very close and it’s more like a family en-vironment,” Parekh said. “We’re always there to help everyone out and always joking around.”

How do we bring about the education is the ques-tion, Parekh said, but look-ing around the deep ma-hogany desk at the seven present Muslim Student Association board mem-bers was his answer.

ALI PAREKHMSA Vice President

They have to go through the most struggle because people fear what they don’t know or they don’t understand.

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CSUF alumna turns passion into illustration profession

Ben then decided to vol-unteer at an orphanage in Guatemala, where he had a life changing encounter with a man who expressed the fact that he did not have any photos or keep-sakes from his childhood.

The man told Ben that after he develops his pho-tos, he should send cop-ies of the photos back to the children at the orphan-age, Schumaker said in an email.

From that single con-versation, a lasting project sprouted.

“That really struck me very deeply, because it was an entire different need. I had been overwhelmed by the kids’ needs for bet-ter nutrition, healthcare, and so on, but this need to

have a personal keepsake was one that I could actu-ally do something about,” Schumaker said.

When Schumaker re-turned to Wisconsin he immediately started con-tacting high school art teachers, and the project

began. He never would have imagined that the Memory Project would have become his full-time

job, Schumaker said in an email.

It was not until 2006 that it all started becoming very real, when Katie Couric broadcasted a story about Schumaker and the project on the CBS Evening News.

With all the contribu-tions entered from all over the world, this year’s CSUF credential students are com-pleting 123 portraits. “This will make CSUF the larg-est donor to the project as far as largest number of portraits of any other insti-tution combined,” Quinn said.

“That really inspires me, because it makes me feel that the happiness we expe-rience in life may have much more to do with our core hu-man spirit than external fac-tors like wealth and privi-lege,” Schumaker said.

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KRISTINE QUINNAssociate Professor

It reinforces the idea of global citizenship and ... it’s everybody’s responsibility to take care of the world’s children.

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Students come to Cal State Fullerton with the hopes of getting an opportunity of a lifetime after graduation.

Heather Collins was a trans-fer student from Fullerton Col-lege and a 2014 CSUF grad-uate who ended up breaking into the entertainment indus-try as a background illustra-tor for Titmouse Animation Studio.

Collins, 26, now works on the show China Illinois on Adult Swim, a show that takes place at the fictional Universi-ty of China, Illinois that’s been labeled the “worst college America.”

Her journey to get into the industry was all based on the idea of “being the lucky one,” she said.

Art runs in the Collins fam-ily—her mother is a graphic designer and her father paint-ed motorcycles.

Collins began drawing in elementary school where she would constantly get in trouble for being too encompassed in her art and not in the lessons.

She eventually took all the art classes that she could pos-sibly take in junior high and high school, and figured out that this would be the direction she’s going in for a career.

But like most college stu-dents, she did not know the exact route within art that she wanted to go.

Once she came to CSUF, she discovered the animation and illustration emphasis with-in the art department. There they were pushed to paint dig-itally and Collins decided to

pursue it as a career.As a requirement for the il-

lustration department, Col-lins needed to complete an internship.

Collins went above the re-quirements and pursued two internships, instead of one, during the same semester. One at Nickelodeon and the other at Titmouse Animation Stu-dio, where she now works.

Collins commuted two hours to and from Burbank and juggled both intern-ships while taking classes at

CSUF.“It was worth it,” Collins

said.Collins completed her in-

ternship and made a mark on the Titmouse team as she networked and kept in touch with their human resources department.

Once she graduated, she contacted Titmouse asking if there were potential opportu-nities to come back and work as an employee.

She was later offered a posi-tion as a temporary reception-ist, not her ideal place within the industry.

“You do what you have to do to get your foot in the door,” Collins said.

She was then asked to do numerous jobs within Tit-mouse, which included draw-ing storyboards for various shows, became a production assistant and finally got into what she was wanting to break into—background designs.

She described the journey as a slow build up to get where she wanted.

“It is challenging … it’s such a hard industry to get into,” Collins said. “I’m very lucky, honestly.”

While she is currently at Titmouse, she is also working on her own side project of cre-ating a childrens book or even pitching the idea for a show.

She is drawing her inspira-tion for the childrens book or show from her dog, which she describes as ridiculously ugly and awful but once people see him, they instantly fall in love with him.

Collins ultimately wants to create characters and creatures for horror movies.

Recently, Collins was se-lected to create the caricature, Charlie the Clock, for the City of Brea’s 98th birthday this month.

She created Charlie the Clock for the Face of Brea contest run by the Brea Old and New Facebook page cre-ator, Carolyn Campbell who described Collins as “an amazing artist.”

The Edwards Brea Stadium East 12 has a cutout Charlie the Clock character on display for individuals to place their head as Charlie’s face and take pictures.

The top five winners of the contest will win an un-disclosed prize from the Brea Old and New.

As for what the future holds for Collins, she hopes to branch out and get into a bigger, more well known studio in order to give her more opportunities to pitch her show.

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Banning abortion continues cycle of poverty

On Jan. 22, 2015 the House of Representatives passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015.

This bill prohibits any federal funds from being used for any health bene-fit coverage that includes abortions with the excep-tion of terminating preg-nancies that are the result of rape or incest or if the woman suffers from an

injury, illness or physical disorder.

This kind of legislation that attacks women’s health isn’t a new thing.

It has been lurking around since 1976, as the Hyde Amendment, a provision that bans federal Medicaid funds for abortion except when the woman’s life is endangered by the pregnancy.

It’s an oppressive provi-sion that’s gotten pinned on onto annual bills every year since.

It’s ritualistic in a sense, like an annual pinning cer-emony to commemorate pa-ternalism and having con-trol over what a woman does with her body.

This bill further rein-forces a woman’s role as an

incubator and baby factory. It’s hard not to feel that

the government has once again reduced a valid med-ical procedure to a dirty, shameful thing that’s only necessary in traumatic cir-cumstances where a wom-an is a damsel in distress.

Passing this bill affects all women negatively, es-pecially low income wom-en who need medical cov-erage the most.

The Guttmacher Insti-tute reports 58 percent of women who seek abortions are in their 20s, 61 percent have one or more children, 56 percent are unmarried and not cohabiting, 69 percent are economical-ly disadvantaged and 73 percent report a religious

affiliation as the reason.This data reflects charac-

teristics not uncommon for women seeking abortions: young, single and poor.

These women are in a dif-ficult situation where hav-ing a child would be a trying hardship they could never sustain.

And the reality is that sometimes that is the only choice.

But that’s the keyword: choice.

Women should be able to decide.

Being at a particularly low point in one’s life doesn’t mean a woman won’t able to rise up and succeed in the future.

But she needs to be given that chance first.

What this bill’s passing really does is take away the opportunity for young women to improve the quality of life they grew up in.

Having a child is lifelong commitment that requires a huge amount of sacrifice and financial resources.

Taking away the medical coverage of this important procedure is taking away a critical choice from these young women.

It also puts lives at risk by making women re-sort to unsafe measures of abortion in times of desperation.

In the grand scheme of things, it continues the cy-cle of poverty by making it unlikely these women will

be able to afford higher ed-ucation for themselves and their unborn children.

Women who have bright futures ahead will not have a chance to better themselves.

They will have to wor-ry about earning enough to support not only them-selves, but their child.

This will leave them no time to pursue a degree, ac-cept a higher paying job that’s more demanding or time to emotionally mature in order to provide the nurture and care every child deserves.

Not giving women a choice will successfully ensure they permanently remain in a helpless posi-tion, for both themselves and their children.

New House bill banning federally funded abortion is unjust

DANAE RODRIGUEZDaily Titan

Everybody likes to save time and make the most out of what’s offered at school.

Something many students are opting for today are online classes.

Online classes offer students the same amount of credit for a class that’s done entirely through a computer.

Sounds great to most peo-ple, but is the quality of educa-tion being sacrificed for a scant amount of convenience?

66 percent of faculty sur-veyed believed learning out-comes of online courses were inferior to traditional ones, ac-cording to a study by Inside Higher Ed.

Worse yet, 58 percent of the faculty respondents expressed a feeling of fear rather than excitement with the trend of online classes, worrying they might replace the need for live professors in the future.

If professors are seeing on-line education this way, they certainly won’t treat it like a traditional class, meaning stu-dents will get the short end of the stick.

Sure, not all professors look down on online classes, but there’s something to be said

about the absence of every-thing else that comes with a brick and mortar education.

Having a live teacher pres-ent material is an immersive experience.

Sure, they can record the same lecture and post it on-line, but there won’t be an op-portunity for class discourse or further examples to bolster the concept.

Students aren’t able to in-teract with each other and that leaves the material squarely at an arm’s distance.

Some may argue about the inconvenience of traditional learning, how it requires time and energy, the high cost of transportation and the lack of quality professors in some cases.

Though those are all valid points, the pros still outweigh the cons.

Columbia University’s Community College Research Center conducted a five-year study on Washington state community and technical col-lege students.

The study discovered those who took a higher amount of online classes were less likely to obtain degrees or transfer to a four-year university.

Online courses may seem easier, but they are in fact, the complete opposite. They re-quire high amounts of dili-gence and independence.

There are no teachers around to remind you of up-coming assignments, no stu-dents to form study groups

with and no direct access to the professor for personal, one-on-one help.

“Courses delivered solely online may be fine for highly skilled, highly motivated peo-ple, but they are inappropriate for struggling students who make up a significant portion of college enrollment and who need close contact with in-structors to succeed,” an ed-itorial read in the New York Times.

There’s also the lack of social bonding that comes along with sitting in a class-room. Networking with fel-low classmates, meeting a new friend or gaining a mentor in a professor are all the rewarding and en-joyable parts of classroom education an online student would miss out on.

Understandably, it’s more realistic nowadays for many students to enroll in online courses.

It allows a flexible time schedule, learning materi-al at a personal pace and sav-ing time and money on trans-portation. It’s more common to find students who take a blend of both traditional and online courses and that’s an option that has helped many students.

But don’t write off class-room learning the next time you’re registering for classes. Keep personal study habits in mind and don’t choose an on-line class just because it ap-pears to be the easy route.

Online classes lack what traditional classrooms provide

VIVIAN CHOWDaily Titan

One of the best and most novel innovations of the online age has been the creation of online classes, otherwise known as dis-tance education courses.

This alternative type of education offers ad-vantages not found in the traditional, in-person classroom.

12.5 percent of the to-tal U.S. student population were enrolled exclusive-ly in distance education courses in the fall of 2012, according to a 2014 report by the U.S. Department of Education.

A further 13.3 percent enrolled in at least one dis-tance education course, bringing the total of stu-dents enrolled in at least one online course to 25.8 percent.

For many students, dis-tance education courses of-fer the distinct advantage of being flexible to their personal schedules.

Picture this: You’ve got a full-time job.

You commute to cam-pus, so you have to sched-ule early-morning classes

in order to have time to get to work.

Now it’s 7:30 in the morning and you’re grog-gily staring up at your professor, words going in through one ear and out the other because you haven’t had time to sleep.

Such situations are not uncommon for college students.

That’s where online courses can help.

Where in-person cours-es may require mandatory attendance, courses tak-en online allow students to learn without the stress of knowing they have to at-tend a mandatory lecture to which they might not even be paying attention to due to tiredness.

Online courses also offer commuters the advantage of saving money on gas.

Furthermore, it is all-too-common for an in-class discussion to be tak-en over by a select few individuals.

Online forums, however, ensure that all students are able to participate in the learning process.

These forums also of-fer the advantage of allow-ing students to thoroughly think about their response before posting, as opposed to saying anything just to get participation credit.

Students taking distance education courses can also take advantage of the

technological aspects of online coursework.

While in-person courses often include readings sup-plemented by lectures, on-line courses can offer easy access to search engines for further research, video lectures from the professor (which can be paused for more thorough note tak-ing), check up quizzes to ensure students are keep-ing up with coursework and even games to aid in the studying process.

However, online courses are not for everyone.

These types of classes require a certain level of self-discipline on the part of each individual student in order for learning to be effective.

Even with that level of self-discipline in mind, a growing number of stu-dents and professors are turning to online cours-es for their distinct advan-tages over the traditional classroom setting.

In 2012, the amount of students enrolled in at least one distance education course had grown from 20 percent in 2007/2008, to 25.8 percent according to a report from the Depart-ment of Education.

The increase in the num-ber of students taking on-line courses shows both the popularity and ef-fectiveness of distance education.

Distance education is a great choice for many students

RUDY CHINCHILLADaily Titan

Devil’s AdvocateStudents choose the finer path of learning

Classroom learning benefits students

Online courses are convenient and effective

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Titan hoops continues skid

The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team extended its losing streak to five games after falling to UC Davis Thursday night and to the Big West Confer-ence leader, Hawaii, Satur-day evening.

Senior guard Chante Miles carried the Titans against UC Davis, leading all scorers with 33 points and scoring 15 of her team’s first 30 points. Miles’ point production, however, wasn’t enough to lift the Titans over the Aggies and Sydnee Fipps, who lead Davis with 27 points.

The game was a close contest throughout, with six lead changes and five tied scorelines.

The Titans fell behind by as much as seven points in the second half, but with Miles’ hot hand and Kath-leen Iwuoha’s defensive presence, CSUF was able to take a four-point lead when the team went on a 17-6 run with 5:48 left in the game.

In the end, the Aggies proved to be too much to handle, outscoring CSUF 12-5 in overtime to secure the 74-67 victory.

“We showed emotion and we showed passion and we showed fire. The problem is good teams don’t just do

it in spurts; good teams con-sistently do it. We haven’t learned that yet,” said Head Coach Daron Park.

Iwuoha, who lead the Ti-tans in rebounds Thursday night with eight, was helped off the court in the game’s closing minutes due to cramps. Iwuoha returned in the final minute of overtime, but the Aggies lead was too much to surmount.

“We didn’t execute as well as we should have,” Miles said.

Looking to execute more effectively on Saturday, Ful-lerton stayed even with Ha-waii through the first 10 minutes of action.

After the game was knot-ted at 12, Hawaii ramped up the physicality on defense and went on a 10-2 run to open an eight-point lead, the same amount by which they led at halftime. Miles shoul-dered the load once again for the Titans, tallying 10 points in the first half.

“(Hawaii is) big, they’re physical, they play hard, they really get into you and defend and they do a real-ly good job disrupting what you’re trying to do,” Park said.

The Titan defense was gritty as well, holding Ha-waii to under 40 percent shooting and no free-throw attempts. Even more impres-sive, Fullerton held Hawaii’s leading scorer Shawna-Lei Kuehu to just two first half points.

However, Kuehu was not to be denied in the second half. In the final 15 minutes, the senior scored 15 points.

“(Kuehu) looked at our team and she said ‘All right,

let’s see if you can stop me,’” Park said. “She put her head down and she went and she got what was hers and she finished. That’s what gutsy, tough kids do.”

Fullerton made several runs to cut into the lead, but the stout Hawaii de-fense denied the come-back effort and cruised to a 54-43 win. The Rainbow Wahine compiled eight blocks and held the Titan offense to just three assists on the night. The main weapon for Fullerton, the

3-pointer, was ineffective against Hawaii, as the Ti-tans went 1-for-8 from be-hind the arc.

“Sometimes you just got to say ‘I’m better than you today, I’m going to go get what’s mine,’” Park said. “We lacked that mentality, some of us. The difference tonight—I thought Hawaii had that mentality.”

Miles led all scorers with 21 points on the night, her 21st consecutive game scor-ing in double figures. Iwuoha posted a double-double with

13 points and 13 rebounds.With the pair of losses,

Fullerton drops to 9-14 on the season and 3-7 in confer-ence play.

The Titans will look to snap their losing skid on the road against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Thursday.

Freshman guard Portia Neale and the Titans dropped their last two games against UC Davis and the University of Hawaii, bringing their overall record to 9-14 and their Big West Conference record to 3-7. CSUF is currently suffering a five-game losing streak.

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The Titans squared off against the Alabama State Hornets on Saturday af-ternoon for their second of three games over the week-end. Fullerton squandered another early lead, losing to the Hornets, 3-2.

CSUF jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the bot-tom of the fourth, led off by freshman catcher Chris Hudgins’ single to right. Hudgins’ leadoff hit was followed by a bunt single down the third base line by freshman outfielder Scott Hurst, before Bryant and junior outfielder Josh Var-gas both collected RBI sin-gles to bring them home.

In the sixth inning, the Hornets stung back with three runs of their own. The CSUF relievers came apart at the top of the sixth, hitting two batters, giv-ing up a walk and allowing three runs on three hits.

Senior reliever Willie Kuhl drilled Hornets shortstop P.J. Biocic for a free pass before giving up an RBI double to Einar Muniz, which cut the Titan lead to 2-1. Redshirt sophomore Miles Chambers ultimately got the loss after issuing a two-out walk and a passed ball that moved two Hornets into scoring position. The runners were brought home by a Hunter Allen single to go up 3-2 and give Alabama State their first victory of the season.

On Sunday, the Titan bats came to life as Fullerton jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in the first inning and nev-er looked back in their 8-6 vic-tory over No. 12 Louisville.

The Titans plated four in the first thanks to an RBI dou-ble by sophomore Josh Estill, who himself was brought in by a 2-RBI single off the bat of Hudgins. The Fullerton catch-er was in turn brought home by junior Dustin Vaught to make it 4-0.

Freshman starter John Gavin picked up the win for the Titans in his first start for CSUF, allowing only four earned runs on

nine hits and recording five strikeouts over 5 ⅔ innings. Peitzmeier also showed his dominance, striking out two while picking up his first

save of the season.Throughout the week-

end, the Titans (1-2) showed their potential for a winning season. They will

be looking to bounce back to .500 on the season and to regain a place in the top 25 against USC Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Goodwin Field.

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Junior pitcher Thomas Eshelman took the loss Friday in his first outing of 2015 despite tossing six strong innings, giving up just two runs on five hits and striking out 10 batters. Eshelman walked one batter, only the 12th base on balls in his Titan career.

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Conference woes continue for Titans

CSUF women’s tennis falls to UC Davis rally

Softball sputters in Sin City

The Cal State Fullerton softball team produced mixed results over the weekend, win-ning three games and losing two at the Wilson/Demarini Desert Classic in Las Vegas.

The Titans took on Boi-se State and the University of Nevada on Friday, beating the Broncos 15-4 before losing 6-5 to the Wolfpack. The next day was more kind to Fuller-ton, as the team won both of its encounters, first defeating Brigham Young University by an 11-0 blowout that only lasted five innings, and then downing the University of Utah 4-3.

The Titans then closed out the tournament on Sunday by falling 9-0 to Utah Valley Uni-versity in only six innings.

Day One

Friday’s first encounter against the Boise State Bron-cos saw the Titans garner an early lead they would not re-linquish. Fullerton was the first to score, after some woe-ful pitching from Boise State’s Mackenzie McGill in the first inning.

Fullerton’s Courtney Ro-driguez advanced from first to second base after a Mc-Gill pitch hit Eliza Crawford.

McGill then loaded the bases by walking Kylie Padilla, be-fore hitting Samantha Galarza with a pitch that allowed Ro-driguez to walk home and put the Titans up 1-0.

McGill walked two more Titans at the top of the second inning, forcing Broncos coach Cindy Ball to replace her with Nicole Wilson before the end of the inning. Wilson fared no better, though. Missy Taukeia-ho drove in Shianne Brannan, Delynn Rippy scored off Ro-driguez’s sacrifice fly, Padilla and Galarza scored off a field-ing error and Galarza walked home after Wilson’s pitch hit Brannan as Fullerton closed out the inning ahead 6-0.

Padilla hit a home run for the Titans in the top of the third, driving in Crawford in the process of extending Ful-lerton’s lead to 8-0. Gabri-elle Rodas made it 9-0 in the top of the fourth after an error from Boise State. The Broncos scored three in the bottom of the fourth, but the Titans re-sponded by scoring one in the top of the fifth and five in the top of the sixth to make it 15-3. Lindsey Nicholson scored once more for Boise State, making the final score 15-4 in favor of the Titans.

Jasmine Antunez took over pitching duties as the Titans took on the University of Ne-vada Wolfpack in Fullerton’s second game of the day. An-tunez’s time in the circle was short-lived, as she allowed four runs in fewer than two innings. Down 4-0 at the top of the second, Fullerton Head

Coach Kelly Ford substituted Antunez for Desiree Ybarra.

Ybarra gave up two runs in the next two innings, as the Wolfpack went ahead 6-0. The Titans finally came to life in the bottom of the sixth. Bran-nan, Rippy, Taukeiaho, Craw-ford and Rodriguez all scored to cut the deficit to 6-5. Neva-da failed to score at the top of the seventh inning, but so did Fullerton and the game ended 6-5 in favor of the Wolfpack.

Day Two

The Titans turned in a stel-lar performance in their first game on Saturday. Against BYU, the Titans took a land-slide 8-0 lead after only a sin-gle inning. Taukeiaho scored first and last in the inning, initially crossing home off a Crawford double to right field. Sandwiched between Taukeia-ho’s runs were two runs from Rodriguez and Sarah Moore. Taukeiaho smoked a grand slam at the end of the inning to drive in Rippy, Brannan and Melissa Sechrest.

The Cougars never recov-ered, allowing two runs in the third inning and one run in the fourth, while never scor-ing themselves. The game was mercifully halted after the top of the fifth, Fullerton winning 11-0.

The Titans won again in their next game of the day, albeit by a slimmer mar-gin. Playing the University of Utah, CSUF went down 2-0 in the first inning. Hanna Flip-pen scored first for the Utes

after a Taukeiaho throwing er-ror. Anissa Urtez then drove in Kate Dickman for the Utes’ second run of the inning.

The Titans responded at the top of the third after Craw-ford’s double to left field drove in Rodriguez, Taukeiaho and Rippy. The inning ended with Fullerton ahead 3-2. Utah pulled level at the bottom of the fourth, Kristen Stewart crossing home after a Heather Bowen double to right-center field. Taukeiaho’s homer to left field at the top of the fifth ce-mented the 4-3 Titan victory.

Day Three

Any momentum Fuller-ton gathered on Saturday was halted Sunday by a Utah

Valley team firing on all cyl-inders. Washington was again pitching for the Titans, but her morning in the circle ended af-ter giving up two home runs.

Washington pitched the first homer to Brittney Van-sway, whose grand slam to center field also drove in Jaylen Watson, Brianna Gat-lin and Haley Harrison to put the Wolverines ahead 4-0 in the top of first inning. Washington then pitched the second home run in the sec-ond inning; Brianna Gatlin’s bomb to center field drove in Harrison once more, and the Wolverines found themselves ahead 6-0.

Ybarra replaced Wash-ington in the circle be-fore the end of the second

inning. Both teams failed to score in the next three innings. Utah Valley, how-ever, resumed scoring at the top of the sixth when Taleigh Williams’ home run drove in Morgan Smith and Tinai Hensley and in-creased the Wolverine lead to 9-0. That scoreline held, as Fullerton failed to score at the bottom of the inning, forcing the end of the game courtesy of the mercy rule.

The 9-0 loss to Utah Val-ley brought a close to to the Titans’ weekend. Fuller-ton will be back in action Thursday at 5:30 p.m. when they take on the University of Missouri at Palm Springs in the Mary Nutter Colle-giate Classic.

Titans mercy two of their foes, but suffer same fate Sunday

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Sophomore pitcher Christina Washington improved her record to 4-1 this weekend, earning wins against Boise State, BYU and Utah before being knocked around by Utah Valley on Sunday.

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Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team’s conference struggles continued this past weekend with losses to UC Davis and Hawaii.

The Titans entered Thurs-day’s contest against the Ag-gies (19-4 overall, 9-1 Big West) with a 1-7 Big West Conference mark, and they knew that it wasn’t going to be easy getting their second con-ference win against the Big West leaders.

The only respite the Titans were afforded was the absence of UC Davis’ Corey Hawkins, the leading scorer of the Big West Conference with 21.3 points per game. Hawkins also leads the nation in 3-point shooting percentage with a 52.6 percent mark, but has been sidelined recently with an injury.

As a team, the Aggies picked up the scoring slack left behind by Hawkins. UC Davis had five players score in double figures, with a game-high 18 points by Josh

Fox. The Aggies attacked the rim, getting many of the Ti-tan forwards into foul trouble and earning themselves 39 free-throws.

Freshman Jamar Akoh fouled out of the match, while Steve McClellan and Joe Boyd were flirting with an ejection with four fouls apiece. The Aggies converted 28 of their free throws to overcome the gritty Fullerton squad.

The Titans kept it close, with Alex Harris hitting a jumper to cut the deficit to four points with 6:57 to play. But from there, UC Davis went on a 10-1 run to put the game away. The Aggies would hold on for the 75-69 win, sweep-ing Fullerton for the first time in Big West Conference history.

Despite also having a bal-anced attack, the Titans strug-gled to find a consistent scorer in the game. Harris, Lanerryl Johnson and Josh Gentry all tied for the team-lead with 11 points apiece. McClellan, the Big West’s leading rebound-er, grabbed a game-high nine boards to go with his eight points.

The road trip continued with a flight to Honolulu to take on the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in a short-handed affair for both teams. The Ti-tans were without the services

of Harris, while Hawaii was missing the scoring produc-tion of Aaron Valdes.

With both teams’ leading scorer on the sideline, it was time to see who had the deep-er bench.

Johnson tried to fill the shoes of Harris with a 23-point effort, but the balanced Ha-waii offense outmatched the Titans. Gentry was the only other Titan scorer in double digits with 10 points, while the Hawaii attack featured four players in double figures, with Negus Webster-Chan’s 18 points leading the Rainbow Warriors.

The Titans went into half-time down by just two points. Any thoughts of upsetting the home team were quelled quickly with a 10-0 Hawaii run early in the second half. Fullerton would not cut the lead back into single digits after that point, as the Titans went cold in the final 20 min-utes. Head Coach Dedrique Taylor’s squad shot just 23.3 percent from the field, while Hawaii had their way with the CSUF defense, shooting at a 53.8 percent clip.

Hawaii lost two more play-ers to injury, had another foul out and another ejected af-ter two technical fouls. De-spite all the setbacks, Hawaii cruised to an 81-61 blowout

with a dominant second half. The Titans tumble to 1-9

in conference with the losses, and remain in last place. Ful-lerton still has time to find a way into the Big West Confer-ence Tournament, but the Ti-tans need to find rhythm and consistency and get Harris healthy if they want to avoid an early end to the season.

CSUF has a chance to right the ship against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Thursday at CSUF’s Titan Gym.

The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team came out firing early at the Titan Courts on Saturday, but fell late to a 4-3 UC Davis sin-gles rally, starting Big West Conference play 0-2.

After falling 0-3, the Aggies led a comeback by sweeping the No. 3 through No. 6 singles matches. The comeback was capped off with a dramatic three set bat-tle, won by Davis freshman

Kristy Jorgensen 6-3, 6-7 (4-6), 6-2 over Fullerton redshirt sophomore Emilia Borkowski, who had fought back from a set down.

The Titans started strong, sweeping the doubles match-es 8-3, 8-4, 8-4 and taking points from strong singles performances from soph-

omores Alexis Valenzuela and Camille De Leon, their No. 1 and No. 2.

Titan’s No. 1 Valenzue-la has been battling a back

injury, but looked to be al-most in full form during her straight set 6-3, 6-1 victo-ry over Aggie senior Layla Sanders.

“I just focused on my match and just tried to take care of business,” Valenzue-la said.

De Leon was in control

of her No. 2 singles match against Aggie freshman Lani-Rae Green from the get go, earning the point in straight 6-2, 6-1 sets.

“I felt like everyone gave out 100 percent as well, I saw a lot of the matches split sets and everyone fought to the very end,” De Leon said following the loss. “I just stayed positive, just stayed patient on the court, focus-ing on one point at a time and just visualizing before every point, which really benefitted me.”

With the loss, the Titans fell to 3-4 on the season, with a Big West Conference record of 0-2.

“Today was obviously a disappointing loss, but I feel like we competed and it came down to a few close matches towards the end,” said Head Coach Dianne Matias. “I mean, for us to

get into a situation where we were so close to taking the match, it was encouraging.”

Matias found valuable teaching points in the loss. “They made us play. Davis was tough, they didn’t real-ly give us anything, we had to fight for that, but when we do get into that situation, we need to embrace it more and want to be in that situation,” Matias said.

“Overall, we’re just going to think about the positive stuff from today and learn from it,” she said.

The Titans are now hop-ing to turn around their Big West Conference record. They will attempt to do so with a trip to Northridge, as they take on the CSUN

Matadors (3-0 overall, 1-0 Big West) Saturday at 11 a.m.

The Titans are confi-dent that they can end Northridge’s perfect record.

“We’re going to come out just as strong as we did to-day and we’re going to get that win,” Valenzuela said.

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Men’s basketball in danger of missing the Big West Tournament

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