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University Police Capt. John Brockie looks over the security camera tapes of the Dec. 12, 2012 CSUF lockdown inside his office Thursday.ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

FOOTAGE SHOWS SUSPECTS IN MIHAYLO

Police release lockdown tapes

An armed robbery suspect who prompted an eight-hour campus-wide lockdown in December may have walked through the Steven G. Mihaylo Hall lobby half an hour before police called SWAT onto campus, believing he was still in the building, according to po-lice and new documents released to the Daily Titan.

The man, considered to be the fifth at large suspect in a Moreno Valley pawn shop armed robbery and high-speed pursuit that landed on Cal State Fullerton’s doorstep Dec. 12, may have only been inside the main Mihaylo Hall building for less than 20 seconds.

He made his way from the south entrance overlooking Nutwood Av-enue to the north entrance into the plaza next to the Mihaylo statue, ac-cording to police and footage from two security cameras in the first-floor Mihaylo Hall lobby.

The security footage, made available to the Daily Titan through a Public Records Act re-quest, show who police deem as two “likely” candidates for the outstanding suspect who evaded police detection as officers from seven different agencies, including three SWAT teams, swarmed the campus.

Both candidates for the out-standing suspect walk through Mihaylo Hall’s south entrance that overlooks Nutwood Avenue at around 3:46 p.m. on the cam-era tapes and head to the north entrance leading to the Mihaylo plaza area.

It is unknown if the suspect—if one of the people shown on the tapes is the suspect—stayed in the Mihaylo Hall area or, if he fled, when he left the area and what di-rection he headed, said University Police Capt. John Brockie.

They were last seen exiting the north Mihaylo Hall entrance eight and a half minutes before Univer-sity Police initiated the Mihaylo Hall evacuation and 34 minutes before authorities called SWAT, according to Brockie, who served

as the incident commander for the day’s events.

He led a coalition of Orange County law enforcement that in-cluded an arsenal of snipers, ar-mored transports, helicopters, a medical staging area and two mo-bile command units.

It was the first time SWAT has been called to campus, Brockie said.

Police are unable to positively identify either man, both of whom appear to be wearing dark cloth-ing, as the outstanding suspect since the cameras are far away and an accurate facial description is not possible, said Brockie.

However, it is likely that one of them is the suspect, Brockie said.

“It’s likely that they could have been, that they were one of the suspects,” Brockie said.

Both people are not seen on the security footage again, he added.

Police believe that when the robbery suspects crashed in front of the Marriott, three fled south down Folino Drive.

Of the three that went south, one was apprehended outside Col-lege Park, one allegedly carjacked

a vehicle and was apprehended in Watts after a subsequent police pursuit, and the third fled on foot into Fullerton and was caught two weeks later.

Police believe two fled north-west onto campus into the south entrance of Mihaylo Hall.

There are two security cameras in the Mihaylo lobby area. One is located in the southwest end of the Grand Foyer that overlooks the south entrance and the Starbucks.

The second, in the west wing of the lobby, looks to the main north entrance that opens toward the Mihaylo statue and plaza.

At 3:46:05 p.m., a male with a stocky build wearing a white shirt and baggy jeans is seen ca-sually walking through the south entrance of Mihaylo Hall.

Based on his clothing and build, he is “more than likely” to be Je-rome Allen, the suspect who a California Highway Patrol officer apprehended minutes later in the area between Mihaylo Hall and the Carl’s Jr. on campus, accord-ing to Brockie.

Suspect may have left Mihaylo 30 minutes before SWAT was called

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SPORTS | Big West Tournament

CAMPUS | Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Women’s basketball run ends vs. Pacific

The eighth-seeded Cal State Ful-lerton women’s basketball team battled toe-to-toe with top-seeded University of the Pacific, but their “Cinderella” run in the Big West Tournament was ended by a late three-pointer to down the Titans 54-51 on Friday at Honda Center.

The Titans looked confident to get another upset going into their match-up with the Tigers. CSUF got the first basket of the game 58 seconds in from forward Kathleen Iwuoha, who had her best game in a Titan jersey. That would be the only lead of the night for the Titans despite the fact that it was a tightly contested game.

Erica McKenzie hit a three-point-er on the Tigers’ next possession; that became a theme for the Tigers throughout the game. McKenzie hit another three-pointer in the Tigers next possession and another three minutes later. McKenzie’s third three-pointer opened up a double digit lead for Pacific at 14-4 six minutes into the game. The Tigers’ ball movement early in the game broke down the Titans’ zone defense and allowed for open shots. The Titans were forced to switch their defensive game plan.

“The zone didn’t go so well to start the game and so we had to try and defend them man-to-man, and it’s a tough team to play like that,” said Head Coach Marcia Foster. “They space, they shoot, they attack and kick out and they came out with a different set than what we normally see from them versus the zone.”

The man defense worked well for the Titans in the next 10 minutes. The Tigers were held without a field

goal which allowed the Titans to get back within four with 5:56 remain-ing in the half. Forward Kendall Ro-driguez broke the Tigers’ field goal drought with a three-point shot at the 4:09 mark after a stretch of 10:17 without a field goal. Rodriguez’s shot put the Tigers back up by eight, but Iwuoha countered by scoring on the next three CSUF possessions to bring the Titans within two with 2:24 to play in the half. McKenzie hit her fourth three-pointer of the half on the Tigers’ next possession before the Titans could tie it.

The Tigers led at the end of the first half 25-21. Iwuoha led the Titans with 12 points and eight rebounds and McKenzie led the Tigers with 12 points, all from shots behind the arc.

The Titans began the second half strong and tied the game at 29 with 17:20 remaining. The next eight minutes were tightly contested and the Tigers never led by more than five until they got a six point lead at 41-35 at the 9:13 mark from a layup by McKenzie. The Titans got back within two from a bucket by forward Mya Olivier and a pair of free throws by guard Tailer Butler.

The Tigers stretched their lead to seven with 5:40 to play off of a la-yup from guard Gena Johnson and a jumper and free throw from McK-enzie. The Titans refused to go away and once again brought their deficit down to two over the next minute.

The Tigers owned a five point lead with only 55 seconds remain-ing. Guard Annie Park hit a mid-range jumper to bring it to a one possession game at 51-48 with 29 seconds remaining.

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ASI advocates for undocumented students

The ASI Board of Directors passed a resolution last month in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Ar-rivals (DACA) in a move continuing advocacy on behalf of undocumented students and students with temporary residency in the United States.

While the resolution is simply a statement of ASI’s position, Kayla Coriaty, a senior political science major and ASI chief governmental officer, hopes the resolution will make students aware of DACA as well as the large undocumented population on campus.

“It’s really about awareness and education and ensuring that we are able to move forward strongly as an organization that supports these students,” said Coriaty.

DACA, an executive order signed

by President Obama in June 2012, allows young adults who arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16, are under 30 years of age and attended a U.S. high school, to apply for a work permit and a two-year renewable re-prieve from deportation.

According to the ASI resolution, about 10 percent of CSUF students identify themselves as undocumented and more than 700 students who have attended the university in the past four years have applied for DACA.

Coriaty said this information was gathered through CSUF grad-uate studies and Student Academ-ic Services.

Brenda Lopez, a senior liberal studies major and DACA-approved applicant, said this resolution can be incredibly helpful for undocument-ed students trying to pursue their career after college.

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Ramon Silva and Oscar Rodriguez of Fullerton plant a tree as citizens observe Arbor Day on Saturday.ELEONOR SEGUA / For the Daily Titan

LOCAL | Fullerton

Community members and volunteers were able to get their hands dirty by planting trees at this year’s Arbor Day, celebrated on Saturday at Virgil “Gus” Gris-som Park in Fullerton.

In observance of Arbor Day, 15 trees were planted in the park.

Phil Kisor, Fullerton’s landscape supervisor, said the different types of trees planted this year included California Peppers, Redwoods, Af-ghan Pines and Raywood Ash.

Junior forward Mya Olivier looks to make a play in the Big West semifinal.ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

Community celebrates Arbor Day by planting trees

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Two suspects are being sought by authorities for shoot-ing a Fullerton police officer during a traffic stop early Sun-day, according to the Los Ange-les Times.

As the male officer was ap-proaching the suspects’ vehi-cle, the driver shot him several times with a handgun.

The vehicle was pulled over around 12:13 a.m., close to the cross streets of Woods and Knepp avenues.

The officer was able to return fire, but it is unknown if anyone in the vehicle was struck, au-thorities said.

Police said the officer was able to describe the vehicle as a dark-colored, four-door Pon-tiac.

The officer, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was trans-ported to a local hospital. He was in stable condition.

The seven-year veteran of-ficer is expected to survive his injuries.

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officer shot

GOP to invest in minorities

The Republican party will spend $10 million in an effort to reach out to minorities, His-panics and African-Americans in particular, according to USA Today.

Reince Priebus, GOP chair-man, said the party is known for reaching out to these communi-ties just before an election and now is the time to change that.

Priebus said on CBS’ Face the Nation that this would help to improve relations and assist them during a crisis within the party.

“If you’ve got unscripted mo-ments, and you’ve got no rela-tionship to explain anything, I believe, you’re a sitting duck,” said Priebus.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference that con-cluded on Saturday evening, many Republicans spoke in fa-vor of a sort of legalized status for immigrants.

While some conservatives are still in opposition for amnes-ty, CPAC organizer Al Cardenas said the shift in the party is “as-tonishing.”

Brief by REBECCA LOPEZ

After being listed for possible closure two years ago, the his-toric Orange Plaza Station post office will stay open for now, ac-cording to the Orange County Register.

The 78-year-old historic Old Towne post office had been at risk of closure due to the num-ber of other locations in the sur-rounding area that offer similar services.

There are four post offices, three contract locations and seven retail facilities in Orange.

“We’re moving away from consolidation of offices, and in-stead are looking at adjusting hours to help cut costs,” said Richard Maher, a spokesman for the Postal Service.

As a result of declining mail volume, the U.S. Postal Service is trying to find ways to cut down its $67 billion annual budget by roughly $20 billion a year.

According to Maher, the post office may face reduced hours throughout the week.

Located in on Chapman Ave-nue and Lemon Street, the post office was built in 1934 due to a grant from the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.

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Volunteers Matt Leslie, left, and Jane Rands, right, help plant a tree on Arbor Day at Virgil “Gus” Grissom Park.ELEONOR SEGURA / For the Daily Titan

TREES: One with nature

Kisor added that site survey, light exposure, park usage, topography and soil are all contributing factors when determining which types of trees and how many trees should be planted each year.

Along with creating a visually at-tractive and calming landscape, Kisor said planting trees in the community adds to property value, filters air and prevents soil erosion.

Fullerton Mayor Bruce Whitaker said caring for and replanting trees is the current generation’s obligation for future generations. He added that this holiday gives volunteers a great oppor-tunity to come together as a commu-nity to plant and care for trees.

Whitaker said he is involved with Arbor Day because managing the “ur-ban forest” within cities is important.

“Those who have space to plant and enjoy fruit trees preserve the original agricultural history of Orange Coun-ty,” he said. “In our increasingly urban existence, joining with nature is more important than ever.”

Whitaker added that trees not only transform Southern California into an

oasis, but they also provides a construc-tive example for others.

Nancy Spencer is the president of Fullerton Beautiful, a non-profit or-ganization created in 1985. The or-ganization was established to provide sustainable landscape to beautify Ful-lerton and educate residents of the im-portance of caring for their city. After plans were made to spruce up the com-munity, its slogan became “Spruce up, Fullerton, Company’s Coming.”

“Best thing about Fullerton’s Ar-bor Day is that it’s an educational project,” said Spencer. “Volunteers learn the importance of trees and plants in our community, as well as how to care for them.”

National Arbor Day is the last Fri-day of April; however, according to the Arbor Day Foundation website, many states observe this holiday on different days in accordance with the best time to plant trees in that particular state. In California, Arbor Day is usually ob-served between March 7-14.

Other participants in the event in-cluded park commissioners, Southern California Edison, West Coast Arbor-ist, Izaak Walton League, Boys & Girls Club and city staff.

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DACA: Candidates must submit requirements with documentation

Brenda Lopez, a liberal studies major, has lived in the U.S. without documents since she was 3 years old. ANDRES MARTINEZ / Daily Titan

Lopez, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1994, has lived in the U.S. without documents since she was three years old. Without a Social Se-curity card, she has not been allowed to work in the U.S.

“One of the benefits for applying to DACA is if you are a student who was in school and maybe has graduat-ed and you already have your degree, you will be able to apply to jobs or a career that is related to your degree.”

She hopes to pursue her masters de-gree and teaching credential after she graduates, but without a work permit or the ability to pass a background check, she would not have been able to pursue a career in teaching.

After President Obama signed the memo, Lopez began working on submitting her DACA application in October so she could apply quickly if Obama was re-elected.

She feared that Mitt Romney would have struck down DACA if he was elected, a resolution that was signed only months prior.

After digging up everything from her high school diploma to electric bills proving residency in the United States, Lopez was finally able to submit her application two days after the election.

Lopez was approved for DACA in February, four months after she submitted her application. Some of her friends who have applied have not been as fortunate.

“I even know some who haven’t

heard anything back since August, or since they were notified that they received their application,” she said. “So for me, I think it’s a case by case thing on the way that they release ap-plications. Some people’s applications go through faster and get approved faster and for some people it takes a longer time.”

She said this could be a result of the documents they provided and how their applications were filled out. The DACA application process requires the applicant to fulfill seven requirements that all must be proven with documentation that can come from a variety of different sources, including schools that the applicants attended and employment records.

Plus, applying has a price tag of $465. Lopez said she was required to pay additional fees in order to obtain required documents.

She added that many applicants go to lawyers in order to ensure their application is filled out correctly and that they have all of the correct docu-mentation. Lopez said she attended a variety of workshops that offer assis-tance. She also found a mentor that helped her put together her applica-tion free of charge.

Since receiving approval, Lopez has applied to Teach for America, an organization that recruits recent col-lege graduates to teach for two years in low-income communities. She will also be pursuing her masters degree.

As a member of Lobby Corps, Lopez has been a part of the gen-

eration and discussion of the DACA Resolution. Because CSUF has such a high population of students that identify themselves as undocument-ed, Coriaty and ASI Lobby Corps felt as though this issue warranted a resolution and outreach to the cam-pus community.

“When we were mapping out what we wanted to do in Lobby Corps, we established that as a goal was to re-ally express our support through this resolution, but also to back it up by providing physical support for our undocumented students,” Coriaty said. “We’ve done that in a couple ways already by helping support the AB540 conference which took place on our campus last semester.”

Dwayne Mason Jr., ASI Presi-dent and fifth-year studio art major, said ASI passed a resolution last year that advocated on behalf of undocu-mented students. Called “Drop the ‘I’ Word,” the resolution urged the campus community to refer to in-dividuals living in the U.S. without documents or authorization as “un-documented” instead of “illegal.”

Coriaty hopes this most recent resolution will broaden discussion of the issue between ASI, undocu-mented students and the rest of the campus community.

“For this resolution specifically I hope that our undocumented stu-dents feel that we are reinforcing our support from them and that our stu-dent leaders are here to hear any con-cerns that they may have,” she said.

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INVESTIGATION: Reviewing police responseAllen, as police identified him,

heads north through the lobby. With a slight glance behind him, he exits the north entrance of the building toward Mihaylo plaza at 3:46:21 p.m. He was in the build-ing for 16 seconds.

After Allen, two other people enter the building via the south entrance, followed soon after by a California Highway Patrol officer.

The second person, the first of the two possibilities for the outstanding suspect shown on the tapes, accord-ing to Brockie, enters the south end of the building at 3:46:15 p.m., 10 seconds after Allen.

He appears to be of a medium to tall build and is dressed in dark clothing, carrying something in his hand.

He glances behind him as he opens the north door and exits the building at 3:46:31. He too was in the building for 16 seconds.

The third person, the second of the two suspect candidates, enters from the south doors at 3:46:19 p.m. He appears to be a male wearing dark clothing—a hat ob-scures his face.

The man is wearing a backpack. He exits the building at 3:46:38 p.m. He was in the building for 19 seconds.

The CHP officer wearing a beige uniform enters the south doors at 3:46:31 p.m.

A man in line at the Starbucks and a man at the north end of the lobby at the couches both point to where the three previous men had gone at the north exit.

He exits the building at 3:46:44 p.m. He was in the building for 13 seconds.

Brockie said the second and third persons are considered a possibility for being the outstand-ing suspect since they are in close proximity to Allen and enter the same entrance that the CHP offi-cer said he saw the remaining sus-pect enter in.

“I’m agreeing that the other one (the second person; the one carry-ing something) is more likely (to be the suspect),” Brockie said.

“Because it’s (the camera) so far away, we weren’t going to hang our hat on any particular person,” he added.

The CHP officer quickly appre-hended Allen in the area between Mihaylo Hall and the Carl’s Jr.

“He (the officer) ordered him down to the ground at gunpoint,” Brockie said.

The suspect complied and the officer called University Police’s dispatcher from a blue phone lo-cated just southwest of the Carl’s Jr.

Since the officer’s focus was on apprehending Allen, he did not see the second suspect again, ac-cording to Brockie.

Mihaylo Hall branches off into three pathways at the north en-trance of the main building.

Heading out the doors, left heads west to Langsdorf Hall, cen-ter heads northwest to the Carl’s

Jr., and right heads north to the Eastside Parking Structure.

Since the CHP officer was ap-prehending Allen in the center pathway, there is a “very good pos-sibility” that the outstanding sus-pect headed left or right, accord-ing to Brockie.

“That is possible to conclude, yes, just like it’s possible to con-clude that he went back into the building (via a side entrance or stairs to a second-story entrance) or went back into (the island buildings north of the main Mi-haylo building),” Brockie said.

Brockie said the CHP officer who apprehended Allen told him that the outstanding suspect went into the main south doors of Mi-haylo just as Allen did. The de-scription given of the remaining suspect was that he was a male with a thin build, black and wear-ing dark clothing.

The CHP officer also told Brockie the suspect was still in the building after police set up a pe-rimeter.

Brockie, who normally serves as University Police’s public infor-mation officer, arrived to the crash scene at 4:08 p.m. and quickly took an incident commander role, meaning he led all aspects of the day’s emergency response.

“When I got here and took charge, the information I had was that there was a perimeter set up around this building, that it’s likely that he’s still inside the building, and that he was last seen entering that building,” Brockie said.

In addition, the officer told Brockie the man was “an armed murder suspect,” Brockie said.

Police later discovered that the group of five were robbery suspects who shot a pawn shop clerk—who was in stable but critical condi-tion—and that it was unknown if any of the suspects still carried the weapon from that shooting.

University Police set the fire alarm off at Mihaylo Hall at 3:55 p.m. and soon after sent an audio message inside the building saying to stay away from the south side of campus, according to Brockie.

As incident commander, Brock-ie said his first two focuses were sending out a campus-wide shel-ter-in-place message and calling in SWAT. The first message was sent at 4:17 p.m. and Brockie ini-tiated the SWAT call at 4:20 p.m., according to his police log.

“I believed that he was most likely inside that building because our response was quick, we had a perimeter set up and the eyewit-ness information that we had from the CHP officer, so that’s what I based my decision on to put out the shelter-in-place message and call SWAT,” Brockie said.

The security tapes made avail-able to the Daily Titan cut off at 4:40 p.m. since that is about the time when SWAT arrived to cam-pus, and SWAT tactics on how Mihaylo Hall would be cleared is confidential, Brockie said.

Later on, Brockie said the rea-son why the Education Classroom underwent a full SWAT scour-ing beginning around 8:55 p.m. is that a person reported a single gunshot fired inside the building.

Anaheim SWAT secured the building, interviewed hundreds of students and searched for expend-ed shell casings, and found the re-port unfounded, Brockie said.

University Police does not have any open investigations on the incident because there were no crimes committed on state prop-

erty, Brockie said.Moreno Valley Police Depart-

ment now heads the investigation since the crime of origin was in its jurisdiction.

Detectives from the department were unavailable for comment on the footage.

While one of the two people who enter Mihaylo Hall’s south entrance sandwiched between Al-len and the CHP officer may be a suspect, Brockie said there are too many unknowns for the footage to be useful.

He said the information gleaned from the tapes was not an integral part of his investigation as inci-dent commander.

“We looked at all the informa-tion that we had and it didn’t seem to give us a good enough descrip-tion of a person,” Brockie said.

It is unknown when either can-didate for the outstanding suspect

left the Mihaylo area or what di-rection they went, he said.

“You’ve heard the expression ‘hindsight is 20/20’ right? … OK, in this case it’s not,” Brockie said. “We didn’t find him in the build-ing, I’ll make that statement. We didn’t find him in the building.”

“There are a lot of possibilities,” he added.

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“When I got here and took charge, the information I had was that there was a perimeter set up around this building, that it’s likely that he’s still inside the building.”

JOHN BROCKIEUniversity Police Capt.

Suspect Jerome Allen, 23, enters the Mihaylo Hall lobby through the south entrance. He exits the north build-ing entrance at 3:46:21 p.m.

The second person, dressed in dark clothing and carry-ing a bag, enters the south entrance. He exits the north entrance at 3:46:31.

WHAT THE TAPES SHOW:

3:46:05 p.m.

3:46:15 p.m.

The third person, with a hat and backpack, enters the south entrance. He exits the north entrance at 3:46:38 p.m.

3:46:19 p.m.

The CHP officer who caught Allen just north of Mihaylo Hall enters the south en-trance. He exits the north en-trance at 3:46:44 p.m.

University Police begins the Mihaylo Hall evacuation with a fire alarm.

The Mihaylo Hall Grand Foyer lobby is almost fully evacuated.

3:46:31 p.m.

3:55 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

“You’ve heard the expression ‘hindsight is 20/20’ right? … OK, in this case it’s not.”

JOHN BROCKIEUniversity Police Capt.

TOP LEFT: A man carrying something walks into the Mihaylo Hall lobby. Police consider him a candidate for the outstanding suspect.

TOP RIGHT: A man with a hat and backpack exits the north entrance of the Mihaylo Hall lobby. Police consider him a candidate for the outstanding suspect.

BOTTOM LEFT: A California Highway Patrol officer pursues the suspect. He caught suspect Jerome Allen, 23, soon after just south of Carl’s Jr.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Allen exits the Mihaylo Hall lobby right before the CPH officer apprehended him. He was charged with conspiracy to commit a felony, robbery, carrying a loaded firearm, attempted murder and violating state parole.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Associated Students Inc. (ASI) can do virtually anything it wants and most will never know. ASI has gone from being a respected nonpartisan organization that represents CSU Fullerton students to an established partisan group for the Cal State Student Association.

As a candidate for ASI President last spring, awareness was raised about some of the issues going on in ASI—not because it was anything personal, but because the system favors the culture of cronyism.

Current ASI Chief Administrative Officer, Sam Morales, is the fraternity brother of ASI President Dwayne Mason. He was responsible in running the ASI election operations last spring and was the debate moderator between the ASI presidential candidates.

In the real world, this would be considered a conflict of interest and would result in Morales stepping down from his post. Instead, Morales was appointed by Mason to his current position. Despite minimal resistance from the Board of Directors, he was confirmed, which means the Board of Directors is the establishment as well. The Board of Directors cooperate so easily with the Executive Branch because it has been stacked with establishment cronies.

Non-establishment students don’t bother running for Board of Directors because a lot of them think these are faculty positions. In most CSUs across the state, this group would be called the AS Senate so that students know it’s a non-faculty board.

It’s tied to the same reason why there is only 5 percent turnout in ASI elections. Unlike other CSU schools, students purposely aren’t given notifications or ballots through e-mail about ASI elections, which depresses turnout. Also, unlike these other CSUs, presidential candidates are required to run with a VP partner, which discourages non-establishment students from running.

This allows the establishment to control the whole process.Not only is the establishment powerful in ASI, it is carrying out a

radical agenda that is not in the interest of the students. The local OC Register is not one of the papers made available on campus in favor of unpopular bankrupt newspapers like the NY/LA Times. This is due to a survey that only the establishment knew about.

Their appointments of students like Brenda Lopez to the Titan Student Centers Governing Board Vice Chair (because of her immigration status) have become too political. The establishment also participated in the CSSA’s agenda of trying to pass Prop 30 through the registration of students who they know will register Democrat. The ASI VP Katie Ayala is politically linked with CSU Long Beach’s ASI President John Haberstroh who has vowed to run for a second term, which means the establishment candidate for this year could be Ayala once again.

The solution is to peacefully raise awareness of corruption that continues to goes on. Unfortunately most students will never know this because they don’t care, and rightfully so. I urge students to share any grievances at the Board of Director (Senate) meetings and urge Senators to stand up to the establishment in ASI.

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Not enough care taken in Ryan’s new plan

Despite the difficulties they will face, Republicans, led by Paul Ryan, plan to eliminate Obam-acare by issuing block grants to states and vouchers for those who prefer private health insurance.

Many attempts have been made by Republicans to repeal Obama’s health care plan, but such an idea seems too unrealistic to ever happen.

In a recent article about the is-sue, CNN correspondent Halimah Abdullah, said that a poll con-ducted shortly after the November 2012 election by the Kaiser Fam-ily Foundation found that only 33 percent of those who took part in the poll supported repealing Obamacare.

This raises the question of whether the repeal is something that people want and need, or an idea solely in the best interest of Republicans.

“This is what budgeting is all about, Chris. It’s about making tough choices to fix our country’s problems,” Ryan said to Chris Wal-lace on Fox News Sunday. “We be-lieve Obamacare is a program that

will not work. We believe Obam-acare will actually lead to hospitals and doctors and health care pro-viders turning people away.”

Obama’s two-year-old plan has received mixed reviews. A recent argument that has been raised is in regards to a $63 fee that came to surface. Beginning in 2014, a tem-porary fee will be placed on health plans in order to help cover peo-ple with pre-existing conditions. According to an article released by CBS News, employers are not happy about this fee, which will add up to tens of millions of dol-lars for larger companies, and a few hundred for smaller ones.

Employees are against the fee because the responsibility to pay for it will be placed upon them.

Yet despite the initial negative feedback, Obama’s administration hopes this fee will act as a cushion for health insurance companies who will hold the responsibility of covering those who are uninsured, benefiting society in the long run.

For people who are against this, Ryan’s plan which includes a waiver for those who prefer private insurance may be more appealing.

“For the third straight year we’ve delivered,” said Ryan at a news conference on Tuesday. Re-ferring to the fact that the the

GOP has approved a budget every year for the past three years, as op-posed to Democrats who usually have a difficult time coming to a consensus in regards to where to cut spending.

The Republicans’ plan, led by Ryan, has an ultimate goal of bal-ancing the budget in 10 years.

In an article released by USA Today, writer Susan Davis said the budget aims to achieve a balance between what the government spends and collects in revenues by 2023 by cutting $4.6 trillion in current spending.

Despite the arguments of good and bad ideas in the plan, there are a few that assure promising progress for the future, such as the authorization of construction of the 1,700-mile Keystone XL oil pipeline that will create approxi-mately 20,000 new jobs, and the endorsing of “fair value” account-ing for student loans and housing credit programs which will en-able a more comprehensive way to measure costs.

The proposal, just as any other, has its pros and cons, but seems to be more of an unrealistic approach than a progressive solution to re-ducing the national debt of over $16 trillion.

“Indeed, Mr. Ryan indulges the

fantasy of an income tax code with only two marginal rates, 10 per-cent and 25 percent, but doesn’t specify the deductions and loop-holes that would have to be elimi-nated to get there,” said the edito-rial board of the Washington Post in the article, “Paul Ryan’s budget: The good, the bad and the unre-alistic.”

Ryan’s plan would take money from government programs such as nutrition assistance and Medic-aid, which help low-income ben-eficiaries.

According to an analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy In-stitute, if the plan were to pass, the U.S. economy would shrink by 1.7 percent and more than two mil-lion jobs would be destroyed. The Senate Democrat also proposed a budget this past week which aims to raise $1 trillion in revenue in the next 10 years by eliminating tax loopholes and breaks that ben-efit the wealthy.

One of the last things we need to do during this time of economic crisis is cut spending on programs that help the poor. The new bud-get should not focus on creating loopholes for ongoing government issues, but instead aim to create a strong plan that will work for ev-eryone in the long run.

Republicans unveiled a new budget plan March 12. The new plan, dubbed “Ryancare,” was presented Paul Ryan and would repeal Obama’s Affordable Care Act.Courtesy of MCT

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New York’s ‘Soda Ban’ had good intentions, but poor execution

It already seems to be a trending health habit to first cut out dark, syr-upy sodas when trying to cut calories. Even during Lent, many have revert-ed to giving up soda or coffee—both of which can often be high in sugar and low in nutritional value.

Alongside the headaches of one

caffeine-deprived, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pressuring state legislation against the recent striking down his proposition to ban large, sugary beverages.

“Bloomberg, who has made im-proving health a cornerstone of his mayoralty, made clear he was not backing down and said he had an obligation as mayor to save New Yorkers from their destructive hab-its,” read the Los Angeles Times ar-ticle by Tina Susman.

Although I am an advocate against soda and its scam of high-

priced and unhealthy drinks, I can-not side with Mayor Bloomberg to think that his appeal will actually win over the State Supreme Court. Judge Milton Tingling’s 36-page decision that stopped the ban to serve sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces in restaurants proved a thor-ough look into the law that just wasn’t sensical enough to pass.

“It is arbitrary and capricious be-cause it applies to some but not all food establishments in the city, it ex-cludes other beverages that have sig-nificantly higher concentrations of

sugar sweeteners and/or calories on suspect grounds, and the loopholes inherent in the rule ... serve to gut the purpose of the rule,” he wrote.

Because milkshakes would have still been allowed for the sake of dairy content, deemed nutritional enough to overlook the sometimes whopping 600-calorie count, it would make sense to limit these just as fairly in size to sodas if the ban were to go into effect; not to mention it would entertain the fact that people would have less to argue about.

Passing over hurdle No. 1, anoth-er fault is that 7-Eleven can still sell a 64-ounce Big Gulp, yet a struggling mom-and-pop restaurant would be obligated to spare an extra expense to replace all their cup sizes to one.

“Such an evisceration has the po-tential to be more troubling than sugar-sweetened beverages,” Tin-gling said about Bloomberg’s pro-posed beverage block.

The fight against the law seemed not so much of a struggle against personal soda-drinking rights than there was the principal.

Maybe if all opened beverages from convenience stores and res-taurants alike were limited in size, then the soda cut-off would make sense. Then I’d be pro-Bloomberg. I respect his ideals, but to push them on an entire city proves that through something so minor as this, his leg-islation may be just short of brash.

Just a few slight alterations to the proposed rule could have easily gained the respect of the court. Pro-moting healthier habits within the city by beginning with smaller por-tion sizes of certain beverages didn’t have to be as drastic as Bloomberg

made it out to be. I think because of the urgency and sense of pressuring business into prioritizing better nu-trition without regard to finances, Bloomberg came off as a kind of bullying health nut.

However with good intentions, Bloomberg’s approach toward legis-lation was just not enough to please the common good. There are too many loopholes and faults in the bill to respect it as something to truly better society. Instead, many have just rested on the fact that it is unfair to businesses and the indulgent.

“Beverage manufacturers, restau-rants and other business groups had called the so-called ‘soda ban’ an il-legal overreach that would infringe upon consumers’ personal liberty,” read a Reuters article.

There is already enough overexag-gerated moaning and groaning for just the effort of inconveniencing for better health to see that the rule wouldn’t benefit as much as it has already troubled. Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg, but no thank you.

Let’s just hope consumers can grow to be a little more responsible to choose for themselves their sugar-intake.

The fight ... seemed not so much of a struggle against personal soda-drink-ing rights than it was the principal.

Too many loopholes sunk Mayor Bloomberg’s well-intentioned health plan

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Before Dorothy and Toto, lions and tigers and bears (oh my) and Glinda the good witch’s arrival by bubble, the wonderful wizard ar-rived into the land of Oz.

Unfortunately, the wonderful wizard was dull in Disney’s latest film, Oz the Great and Powerful.

Nothing about the film seemed great or powerful. In fact, it was quite forgettable.

The prequel began in Kansas in black and white similar to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

Oscar Diggs (James Franco), also known as Oz, plays a woman-izing magician in a traveling cir-cus.

Oz is constantly booed off stage for being a phony and seeks more than riches, fame and women.

Viewers can sense a cheesy at-tempt at adult humor when Oz has a new female assistant in his room.

His friend Frank (Zach Braff ) bursts through the door and Oz scolds him for not noticing the sock on the door.

The goofy wizard’s desire for greatness was overshadowed by one-liners and childish comedy.

During a fight with a fellow circus performer, Oz escapes in a large hot air balloon. Sure enough, a twister whisked him off to a col-orful land that shared his name.

Upon his crash onto the land of Oz, he meets Theadora (Mila Ku-nis), a witch who is instantly taken back by his charm.

Theadora believes he is the wiz-ard spoken of in a prophesy that claims a great man will save Oz from a wicked witch.

The greedy Oz, who wishes to be the wealthy king of the land, agrees to travel with her to the Emerald City.

The jump from Kansas to Oz did not run smoothly because of the strangeness of the relationship between these two characters.

Instant romance at the begin-ning of the film seemed a bit rushed.

Although the point of rushing the romance may have been to illustrate the obsessiveness of Kunis’ character,

the scenes felt thrown together. In Oz and Theodora’s arrival

to Emerald City, the audience is introduced to another witch, Eva-nora (Rachel Weisz), Theodora’s sister. The sisters send Oz and his new friend Finley (Zach Braff ), a fuzzy flying monkey on an adven-ture.

Later the audience learns the truth about the witches and that Oz was sent to murder Glinda (Michelle Williams) the good witch.

Theadora realizes Oz was just a sweet-talking philanderer—this sways her broken heart in a dark direction.

Kunis’ performance as Theo-dora was flat. She played the in-famous wicked witch, but held no convincing terror.

Theadora seemed more like a spoiled brat than a vengeful, evil witch.

Michelle Williams was an ade-quate choice for Glinda the good. Her soft voice and pretty face were more convincing (and less annoy-ing) than the original good witch of the south. She captured the good without being corny.

The Great and Powerful Oz was mediocre.

While the film was not bad per say, it definitely did not fulfill its high expectations.

The film matched up with the original classic, however, the origi-nal contained dynamic characters and a very detailed plot.

In a long tradition of bland pre-quels, Oz the Great and Powerful was no different.

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Eric Tecosky, owner of Dirty Sue Premium Olive Juice, mixes a drink at Jones Hollywood, a Los Angeles bar. DAVID LEOS / For the Daily Titan

Behind bars: the perfect cocktail

When southland bar and res-taurant enthusiasts think of how the “Cocktail Revolution” came about, they draw a blank.

Eric Tecosky, owner and propri-etor of Dirty Sue Premium Olive Juice and 12-year veteran bar-tender at Jones Hollywood, can be held responsible for popularizing the art of mixed drinks.

With concoctions like the Groupie (citrus vodka and gin-ger beer), the Hendrix (pear-ba-sil margarita) and the Dirty Sue (Tecosky’s signature dirty marti-ni), the Syracuse alum has invent-ed some of the most refreshingly notable cocktails.

Tecosky, better known as “E.T.” to friends and co-workers, is rec-ognized as one of the best bartend-ers in Los Angeles.

Before the creator of the widely popular “Surfer on Acid” drink be-gan mixing fresh ingredients with liqueurs, bitters and spirits, Tecosky earned his stripes barbacking at The Opera Café in the early ‘90s.

He became familiar with old-school tricks from guys who believed a Jack and Coke was a fancy drink.

“An old-fashioned back then was muddling three neon cher-ries, some bourbon and a bunch of sugar,” Tecosky said.

He managed to land his first job bartending at C‘n’C Club in Hol-lywood.

After a short stretch working the server well, Tecosky was quick-ly promoted to the main room, the busiest part of the bar.

The ritzy Hollywood hangout was busy most nights, but when business was slow, Tecosky would stare down the bottles on the wall, brainstorming his very own con-coctions.

After a short stint co-owning and managing local nightclubs, Tecosky eventually settled in at Jones Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard.

Jones Hollywood features a full cocktail bar, Italian restaurant and lounge.

The speakeasy hangout hosts

a loud, dark and intimate atmo-sphere. At Jones, Tecosky quickly realized that Hollywood’s bar scene was stale and in need of a makeover.

Tecosky later joined an assem-blage of local bartenders on a trip sponsored by Grey Goose to ex-plore the art of cocktail crafting.

Tecosky learned that bars in New York and San Francisco were doing exciting and imaginative things that weren’t being done in L.A.

“They were all using fresh in-gredients; they were … revisit-ing classic cocktails, updating them and being really inventive,” Tecosky said.

Upon returning from the trip, Tecosky knew he had a decision to make—either proceed with the typical drinks or embrace what he had discovered abroad.

Tecosky chose the latter.“Jones is probably one of the

first bars in L.A. to start using fresh juices,” he said proudly.

Shortly after, hand-pressed cocktail bars began springing up all over L.A. and Orange County, sparking an insurrection that co-incided with the popular “food revolution.”

The cocktail revolution, now in full swing nationwide, exists de-spite a drab economy.

Nonetheless, the service indus-try has hit a proverbial crossroads

when dealing with cocktail-craft-ing as drink costs continue to swell; from 10 to 14 dollars per drink in some places.

According to Michael Neff, a writer for food blog SeriousEats.com, people fail to consider the painstakingly expensive processes in-volved in creating the perfect drink.

He writes, “every facet or run-ning a physical business in an ac-tual bar is factored into the price of a cocktail.”

Tecosky believes the solution to the problem is a balancing act: “Pleasing a customer is mak-ing them a great drink, but (it’s) also giving them some-thing great in a timely, ef-ficient manner.”

Matthew Gannon, a veteran bartender for more than 15 years (seven years at Jones), said the cocktail revolution demands efficiency in a tough economy.

“It’s about, ‘I’m mak-ing a great drink. It’s going to be (served in) under a minute, you’re going to love it and you’re go-

ing to order another one,’” Gan-non said.

One of Jones’ newest bartend-ers, 23-year-old Temecula native John Savage, said Tecosky’s ap-peal as a mixologist isn’t just in his ability in creating fantastic drinks; it’s in his work ethic.

“It’s like being an athlete—you have to build up every single mus-cle,” Savage said. “You need to do everything before you can do one thing really well.”

“All these things play into it and when you nail that, that’s why (a place like) Jones thrives,” Tecosky said.

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Even gods can slip; God of War: Ascension fails to reach the epic heights set by its predecessors.

The God of War franchise has torn up the video game charts as eas-ily as its protagonist tears apart his victims. Since releasing the original title on PlayStation 2 in 2005, the Greek mythology story of a Spartan warrior out for revenge against the gods has gained immense, critical, commercial and cultural success.

Ascension, a PlayStation 3 (PS3) exclusive by Sony Santa Monica, is a prequel that explains the origins of the tormented anti-hero, Kratos.

Ares, the first God of War, saved Kratos’ life by permanently chain-ing the notorious Blades of Chaos to his arms, giving him the power to destroy all of his enemies.

The story picks up with Kratos on a quest to break his blood oath to faithfully serve Ares, who is the reason Kratos wears the ashes of his dead wife and daughter, both of whom he was tricked into killing.

Before confronting Ares, Kratos must first defeat the Furies: three sisters that were born out of the great war of the Primordials.

The Furies are the powerful be-ings that forged the Earth and were given the task of protecting honor and punishing those they found

guilty. However, they have become corrupt, and are using Kratos for their plans of dethroning the Gods of Olympus.

Naturally, this upsets Kratos and he takes it out on all those who stand in his way, usually with ex-treme brutality.

For example, subduing the Ele-phantaur, a bipedal elephant enemy, will lead Kratos to repeatedly stab the beast until he rips open its skull and spills its brains.

The game easily earns its Mature rating with all the blood and gore fanfare the series is known for.

Controlling Kratos is also simple and will feel natural to fans of the franchise. Quick time events, where certain buttons are shown and must be pressed in succession, also make a return. But like God of War III, they are confined to the borders of the screen.

Also returning is the series cin-ematic camera. Although it is a third-person action game, the op-tion for seeing 360 degrees around is not available.

Instead, the game shows what it wants to highlight with fantastic results. The only problem is when it zooms out to give a gorgeous sense of scale, Kratos becomes dif-ficult to control.

A multiplayer option is intro-duced to the series, which allows online combat.

Once an allegiance to a god is chosen (either Ares, Hades, Zeus or Poseidon), each granting the warrior with their own special abilities, on-line game modes become unlocked.

Free-for-all, team deathmatch and capture the flag game modes are popular, as is the trial mode to test skills against waves of enemies.

Killing opponents, opening chests and completing objectives will yield experience that earns skill points, which can be spent to pur-chase different abilities, weapons and armor.

Arenas are varied depending on your game mode. The combat is as violent as the single-player cam-paign. It can be frustrating, as it takes time to master moves and learn when to use magical abilities.

Magic and elements come into play with Kratos’ story. Blades can be combined with fire, ice, light-ning or souls to perform powerful attacks. The weapons that enemies drop can now be picked up and used against them.

Puzzles and platforming segments break up the action and showcase the game’s graphical splendor and design as it pushes the PS3 to its limits.

With current games maxing out the PS3’s potential, Sony an-nounced its successor, the PlaySta-tion 4 (PS4), at a press event Feb. 20. While no console was shown or price point given, Sony did end the night with the words “PS4 COM-ING HOLIDAY 2013.”

What was shown was some of PS4’s new graphical abilities, packed with impressive gameplay footage and trailers from exclusive franchis-es Killzone and Infamous.

Also on display was the rede-signed DualShock 4 controller with a touchpad located on top and a new PlayStation camera with dual, wide-angled lenses.

The PS3 started slow by releasing a year later than Microsoft’s com-parable Xbox 360 and selling for $499—double that of the Nintendo Wii. Sony may have gained an ad-vantage as Nintendo’s next-genera-tion console, the Wii U, is not sell-ing nearly as well as its predecessor. Microsoft has yet to announce its inevitable future console.

A powerful machine with the support of big name exclusives, like Uncharted, LittleBigPlanet and, of course, God of War, could turn the tides in Sony’s favor within the vid-eo game industry.

Getting back to that last fran-chise, God of War: Ascension is a low point for the series. It may have all the right pieces, but it fails to have the same finesse of previous entries. However, it is still an enjoyable journey for fans and multiplayers.

The game easily earns its Mature rat-ing with all the blood and gore fanfare the series is known for...

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A day after upsetting No. 21 Virginia Tech 7-3 on Saturday af-ternoon, the Titans had no answers for the visiting Oklahoma Sooners as they fell 9-0 in five innings on the last day of the Judi Garman Classic this past Sunday morning.

The Sooners (27-1) showed why they are ranked No. 1 in both the ESPN.com and USA Softball Coaches poll as they hit three home runs off Titan pitching and allowed just two hits in five innings of play. Oklahoma pitcher Keilani Ricketts (14-0), retired the first 10 Titan hitters of the game before finally allowing a hit in the bot-tom of the fourth inning to Cal State Fullerton center fielder Ashley Carter.

“We competed, the scoreboard doesn’t show that, but we did a lot of things well,” said Titan Head Coach Kelly Ford. “It was a great experience playing the No. 1 team in the nation and we learned a lot from it; we just have to get better and you have to beat the best to be the best.”

The Titans (13-16) got down early as the Sooners were able to put two runs on the board in the top of the first when Jasmine Antunez (8-10) walked the second hitter of the game after get-ting a groundout on the first batter. Af-ter striking out the next hitter, Sooner catcher Jessica Shults hit a 1-0 pitch over the right-center field wall for the early 2-0 lead.

Fullerton was almost able to escape more damage in the top of the second inning when Antunez was able to get two outs after allowing two hits to put runners on first and second, but a bad hop on a grounder to shortstop Samantha Galarza allowed the inning to continue. That’s when Oklahoma’s

first baseman Lauren Chamberlain hit a huge three-run bomb to straight away center to put the Sooners ahead 5-0. The next batter, second baseman Georgia Casey, followed with line drive shot over right-center field to extend the lead to 6-0, which spelled the end for Antunez.

Antunez finished the game with six earned runs on five hits with three strikeouts and two walks in two in-nings pitched.

In the top of the fourth inning, with Fullerton’s Desiree Ybarra pitching, the Titans were able to escape unscathed with runners on first and second and one out, second baseman Lauren Ma-rio was able to turn a double play on a tough short hop and was able to touch second and gun down the runner at first to end the inning.

Ybarra was able to control the Soon-er offense for the most part in her first two innings pitched as she allowed just one hit before her third inning came around and that’s when the Sooners exploded once more for three runs.

“I just felt like we had nothing to lose so I just threw the ball around and let them get themselves out,” Ybarra

said.After back-to-back singles, a third

single by center fielder Destinee Mar-tinez drove in one run for the 7-0 lead. Right fielder Brianna Turang followed with a double to left center to drive in another run for the 8-0 lead. That spelled the end for Ybarra as senior Katey Laban came in-relief of her and after loading the bases, Laban walked in another run for the ninth and final run of the game.

The Titans weren’t able to get any-thing going offensively as Ricketts, one of the top pitchers in the nation, was just too dominating as she shut out the Titans with only two hits allowed while striking out 10.

“She’s the number one pitcher in all of softball right now so she pitched a great game,” Mario said. “She’s hittable but she knows how to hit her spots well and works to keep the hitters off balance.”

Cal State Fullerton has a week to prepare for the start of the Big West Conference play. The Titans don’t hit the field again until Saturday March 23 as they head up north for a three game series at UC Santa Barbara.

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The UC Davis women’s tennis team successfully held off an aggressive Ti-tan offense, 6-1, to remain undefeated against Cal State Fullerton since join-ing the Big West conference in 2008.

UC Davis snatched up two of the three doubles matches, with one being a back and forth affair. Seniors Tiffany Mai and Monica Rodriguez gave up the first and third games before taking the next three in a row.

Unfortunately for the Titans, they couldn’t keep their momentum go-ing and lost five of the next six games to end the match 8-5 in favor of Ag-gie opponents Tiffany Pham and El-lie Edles.

Kalika Slevcove and Morgan Mc-Intosh, on the other hand, kept op-ponents Nicole Koehly and Layla Sanders on the run. The Titans started strong by taking the first three sets before letting UC Davis take one for themselves. The Aggies kept pushing back, and picked up a couple more scattered games before the Titans put it away, 8-4.

All but one of the singles matches were determined in two sets. Slevcove faced a long game, after winning the first set 5-4 she lost the second one 4-5.

The tie breaker had both Slevcove and Aggie Melissa Kobayakawa con-stantly on the run, but Kobayakawa took the match.

Mai lost her first three games before she was able to pick one up for herself. As the set ended 1-5 favorably for UC Davis, but Mai reminded herself to stay patient.

In the second set, Mai again lost the first three games before she won one. Although the Aggies picked up the next set, the Titans took the next two, closing the gap to only 3-4 in favor of Davis.

Despite a smash ace that left op-ponent Megan Heneghan on her seat, Mai was unable to score enough points to win the set.

Rodriguez also didn’t let the Aggies run away with it, winning two of the seven games in the first set. In the sec-ond set, Rodriguez got a second wind and pushed for a battle to the end. She picked up three of the first four games before UC Davis Lauren Curry pushed back.

The scores went back and forth un-til the final blow by Curry ended the second set 5-6 for Davis.

McIntosh grabbed the only singles victory, shutting out her opponent Layla Sanders in the first set 6-0.

“I knew it was going to be impor-tant to start strong against my oppo-

nent, because I know from her his-tory that she’s one of few really tough matches,” said McIntosh.

The Titan junior put out two ser-vice aces before finishing the second set 6-1.

“It really just fell into my hands that way. I was really on and in the zone today,” said McIntosh.

With McIntosh picking up the only victory, the Titans finished the day los-ing to UC Davis, 6-1.

Coach Reynolds was not disap-pointed, congratulating the ladies on playing tough games, and stay-ing focused.

“We’re working more on the men-tal part of the game; being mentally strong on every point,” said Reyn-olds. “It doesn’t do good to play two or three points—really strong points, and then give two or three points away by relaxing, and not being intense. So we’re trying to work on being focused, intense, driven, on every point no matter what the score is.”

With the loss behind them, the Ti-tans look forward to their next match, a Wednesday home contest against Colorado State.

McIntosh said to get ready for the next match she will “just rest, for the rest of today and tomorrow and then get back out and practice on Monday and Tuesday, get ready for Wednesday.”

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The Tigers were inbounding the ball with 19 seconds remain-ing and it appeared as though the Titans were going to have to foul, but Butler dove to the ground, stole the ball, and kicked it out to Ol-ivier who hit the three-pointer to tie the game at 51 with 16 seconds left. The Tigers then moved the ball up the court quickly and McKenzie hit a three-pointer with five seconds remaining. On the ensuing pos-session, guard Chante Miles threw up a mid-range jump shot and it

clanked off of the back of the rim as the buzzer sounded and the Tigers won 54-51.

“We just needed a little more time to set it up. We tried to get Chante on the run and get a quick three up and I think we got lost in the moment and we didn’t get the shot we were looking for,” Foster said.

Iwuoha finished with 15 points and 13 rebounds, both career bests. McKenzie finished with 25 points for the Tigers off of 5-of-7 shoot-ing from downtown and Rodriguez chipped in 14 points and seven re-

bounds to help the Tigers advance to the finals.

The Titans have a lot to look for-ward to next season. The roster fea-tures only one senior, center Lauren Bushong. The rest of the team will return next season to compete for a Big West title.

“I am definitely ready to come back to this and ready for the next season. I’ll be a better player and we’ll have our team gel together as one, we’ll start early and not start late, and be back to this point and get further than this point,” Miles said.

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The eighth-seeded Titans’ Cin-derella story continued with a rout of third-seeded Hawaii, 66-51, on Wednesday behind a sparkling second half at UC Irvine’s Bren Center.

The game began much like their first-round matchup with Long Beach State—slowly—as the teams felt each other’s defense out. Through the first six min-utes of the game, the Titans led 4-3 thanks to baskets from guard Annie Park and forward Kathleen Iwuoha.

CSUF used zone defense to disrupt Hawaii, and it allowed the Titans to go on a 7-0 to take an 11-3 lead after the game’s first seven minutes.

Hawaii brought the game back to within three with a three-point-er and a pair of free throws with 11:40 to play in the half. Over the next five minutes, the Titans con-trolled the lead but never pulled away by more than four.

But after a 19-16 lead, the Ti-tans pushed their lead up to eight at 24-16 with a three-pointer by Park and a layup by Iwuoha. Ha-waii quelled the Titan run and controlled the final minutes of the half, tying the game at 25 going into the intermission.

Park led the Titans with seven points and three rebounds in the first half. Guard Chante Miles had four points in the half and five steals. Forward Kamilah Martin led Hawaii with eight points and

seven rebounds. Miles felt much more comfortable with her game.

“I’ve been injured for a little while and I’m just getting myself back to me so I’m doing what I’m doing and getting steals, playing tough (defense), locking them down,” Miles said.

The second half started well for the Titans with a pair of buck-ets from Miles to give the team a four-point advantage, but less than three minutes into the sec-ond half, forward Mya Olivier landed awkwardly on her leg after a battle for the loose ball. Olivier was limping and grimacing as she made her way to the sideline and into the locker room.

“I went up for a rebound and one of the girls kneed me in the front of my shin. It started cramp-ing and I had a dead leg,” Olivier said.

The Titans tried to rally without Olivier but eventually lost the lead to Hawaii at 31-30 with 15 minutes to play. But Olivier returned just seconds after Hawaii went ahead and scored six of the Titans’ next 10

points to help retake the lead. CSUF never looked back after Olivier’s pair of free throws gave the Titans the 38-36 lead.

The last 10 minutes of the game were some of the finest of the Ti-tans’ all season. CSUF ran away with a 14-2 run to give themselves a 12-point advantage over Hawaii with seven minutes remaining in the game. Hawaii brought the Ti-tan lead down to seven, but that would be the closest they would bring it before CSUF poured in 11 straight points to open the largest lead of the night at 63-45 with 1:28 remaining in the game.

The Titans hit 11-of-14 free throws in the final four minutes to seal the 66-51 victory and send CSUF to their first semifinals since 2009.

Olivier paced the Titans with 17 points, four rebounds, and three assists. Miles finished with 13 points and seven steals. Iwuoha added six points, seven rebounds, and five steals. Guard Tailer Butler scored all of her 10 points in the second half coming off the bench.

Martin chipped in 15 points, 13 rebounds, and five assists for the Rainbow Wahine.

“Tailer has been struggling the past few games and it’s great to see her come out of her shell. It was a good addition to our team and we needed it. We are very proud of her and it helped us win tonight,” Miles said.

The Titans shot a blistering 57.1 percent from the field in the second half on 12-of-21 shooting. CSUF outscored Hawaii 30-15 in the final 10 minutes to close the game. The Titans’ 66 points was the most they have scored since they put up 83 on Jan. 3, also against Hawaii.

“We’re super excited. On the drive down here we drove by the Honda Center and Coach Foster said ‘Imagine going through the players’ door and imagine being in that atmosphere’ so we are really excited,” said Olivier.

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Titan men ousted by Long Beach State

The Cal State Fullerton men’s bas-ketball team fought hard, but in the end it wasn’t enough to overcome key injuries to the team. A Long Beach State offensive assault by the top-seeded 49ers ended the eighth-seeded Titans’ season with a 75-66 victory in the opening round of the Big West Tournament at Honda Center.

CSUF started only four players on scholarship; seniors Sammy Yeager and D.J. Sealey were out with injuries, and the 49ers were able to take advantage throughout the game.

“Being undermanned this whole year, really to start the year and then down the stretch, I cannot tell you how proud I am of these guys and how hard they fought to the bit-ter end,” said Titan interim Head Coach Andy Newman. “They just overachieved every night … just the heart, the toughness and the fight they had in them was incredible.”

Both teams came out strong as the 49ers (19-12) were able to take the early 15-13 lead six minutes into the game, but Cal State Fullerton guard Alex Harris kept the Titans close with six of the team’s first 13 points.

Harris kept leading the way offen-sively for the Titans (14-18) as he put 14 points on the board to that point, but CSUF still found itself down 32-26 with five minutes left in the first half as Long Beach’s balanced offense kept things out of reach for the Titans.

A few costly turnovers by the Titans enabled the 49ers to capitalize and ex-tend the lead to 41-31 at the end of the first half.

CSUF wasn’t going to go away qui-etly as they came out swinging in the second half, cutting the lead to six after a pair of three pointers by guards Jor-dan Knox and Kwame Vaughn with 11 minutes to go in regulation.

With 7:31 left in the game, Knox knocked down a three from the cor-ner to cut the 49ers lead to four, 58-54, the closest the Titans got. Knox, a walk-on, finished with a career-high 12 points and five assists to go with five rebounds.

“When he made his first one, we knew his confidence was high so, af-ter he made the second one, we told him, ‘Every time you catch the ball and you’re wide open, shoot it,’” Harris said. “He played heart out and I wish he could come back and play again (next year). I love playing with him, great player on and off the court.”

The Long Beach size and defense took over late in the game and never let the Titans get close again.

“Long Beach had a good game plan, they box and two me and Kwame for the last two minutes, so we tried to let our other teammates shoot,” Harris said. “We played hard but we lost on rebounds to me.”

49er guard James Ennis, the Big West player of the year, took over late and finished the game with 15 points, nine rebounds and a couple of em-phatic jams that closed the door on the Titans’ season.

The Titans were outrebounded 37-18 that led to 13 second chance points for Long Beach.

“Obviously we need more size,” Vaughn said after the game. “I think we are just small and we need some bigs.”

The Titans look to improve next season as Newman has his work cut out for him with several key starters departing.

“We have great character from Coach Newman to the last per-son on the bench,” Vaughn said. “Great players, attitude, some positive energy, I think we have great game plans. The coaching staff does a great job, they can get great players.”

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