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Farragut North opens Fri-day at Grand Central Art Center. With its complex plot twists and ambitious politi-cians, the play is not only a true behind-the-scenes view into the cutthroat world of politics, but also a compelling story of a character who spins out of control.

Farragut North was written by playwright Beau Willimon in 2008 and is an honest and vulgar political drama which reveals the good, the bad and the ugly about being involved in presidential campaigns.

The play is directed by Pro-fessor Christopher Shaw. It is Shaw’s first year of teaching at Cal State Fullerton.

Farragut North takes place over two days, yet various twists challenge not only the characters involved, but also targets the audience’s emotions as they react to

the devious actions of the characters.

The play focuses on Ste-phen Bellamy, an ambitious young man in his mid-20s who is the press secretary for the U.S. Democratic Primary Elections.

As the play continues, the audience gets a chance to see how living in the daily life of politics can destroy a person.

Bellamy starts off as a charming, yet cocky charac-ter who knows what the peo-ple want.

However, his drive to do whatever it takes to win caus-es him to spiral out of con-trol and betray his own eth-ics as he begins to worry that the election won’t be in his favor.

Kenney Selvy, 21-year-old senior acting major, plays the devious Bellamy and thinks Bellamy is a cocky young man who is a lot of fun to play. Selvey enjoys getting to tap into his vulgar side.

This will be Selvey’s fourth production at CSUF and he is

excited for opening night so that he can finally let go and enjoy acting.

Arash Fakhrabadi, a 19-year-old sophomore gen-eral theater major on the act-ing route, plays Tom Duffy,

a campaign manager for the opposing party.

Duffy is in his mid-40s, which has been challenging for Fakhrabadi to tune into, but has been rewarding at the same time.

Fakhrabadi thinks this is a great play because it expos-es the daily life of politicians and shows their hard work in-stead of just the end result.

Cal State Fullerton’s new-ly-implemented slogan is taking the university’s stra-tegic plan to new heights.

“Titans Reach Higher” became the university’s offi-cial tagline last month, but the slogan was created a lit-tle more than a year ago at the start of President Mil-dred García’s tenure.

It’s the first tagline the university has used since its 50th anniversary in 2007 with the phrase “Discover, Innovate, Achieve.”

Jeff Cook, CSUF’s chief communication officer, said the tagline is important be-cause it sets CSUF apart from the other 22 campuses in the CSU system.

“It leverages the power and meaning of the term “Titans,” and is reflective of the growing institutional ethos that we can and do go further—we reach higher,” Cook said.

The slogan also elevates the goals and visions of the university’s strategic plan, Cook said.

The strategic plan, which was implemented in 2013, is one of the ways CSUF is trying to raise itself to be a nationally-recognized institution.

The plan aims to raise graduation rates, heighten student participation in a global society and boost the hiring of a well-trained and diverse faculty—among a number of other goals.

Cook pointed to Student Success Dashboard and curriculum redesign efforts as two of the ways CSUF is working to reach those goals.

The Student Success Dashboard, a collaborative effort between information technology and academ-ic advising, tracks student success in real time by an-alyzing data.

Advisors will be able to see the most up-to-date in-formation about a student and how they’re performing through the program, which is currently only in the test-ing phases for a small group of faculty.

The university is also working to improve grad-uation rates by address-ing the issue of bottleneck courses.

The Student Success Ini-tiative, which raised stu-dent fees by $181 per se-mester and was approved in the spring, included pro-visions to expand course offerings.

“We’ve accomplished a great deal in the planning phase, thus the “Reaching Higher,” and now we con-tinue to move forward in the implementation,” said Mary Ann Villarreal, di-rector of strategic initiatives and university projects at the president’s office. “So really building on that tag-line to demonstrate that as a community as a campus that we continue to strive to achieve our goals.”

University Police re-ceived another report of a rape from 2011, the second in two weeks, according to campus crime logs.

The nature of the rape in the Elm Residence Hall, which occurred Sept. 25, 2011, is classified as a rape with the victim incapable of consent.

A rape which occurred on Sept. 24, 2011 was re-ported a few weeks ago. The nature of that rape was by force or fear.

No arrests have been made in either case, said University Police Capt. John Brockie.

Until investigations are complete, speculation of a possible connection be-tween the two rapes is un-founded, Brockie said.

University Police encour-ages rape survivors to re-port when they are ready to

report. “Everyone is different,

so reporting times vary,” Brockie said.

Recent legislation, such as the “Yes Means Yes” law that requires California schools to adopt an affir-mative consent standard in sexual assault policies, has increased national focus on the issue and will increase the likelihood that a rape will be reported on col-lege campuses nationwide, Brockie said.

Many locations on cam-pus can provide resources to survivors of rape or sex-ual assault.

The WoMen’s Center, which acts as a victim advo-cate center, can be reached at (657) 278-3928.

For Counseling and Psy-chological Services, dial (657) 278-3040.

Rape can be confiden-tially reported to either CAPS or the WoMen’s Center.

University Police can be reached at (657) 278-2515. In an emergency, dial 911.

Making it in show busi-ness takes hard work and serious dedication. Not many people succeed in being the next great re-cording artist or film director.

However, for Reynold Levaron, a Cal State Ful-lerton student and enter-tainment industry veter-an, his time to shine has

finally come.Levaron was born

and raised in Los Ange-les. From an early age he dreamed about being a fa-mous recording artist. He idolized performers he saw on MTV like Cindy Lau-per, Prince and Michael Jackson.

His Latin roots also made him a fan of Spanish artists like Angelica Maria and Maria Victoria.

At 8 years old, he began his career by performing in his first play. Levaron took off from there by singing

in choirs and performing solo acts that consisted of him singing popular hit songs.

Levaron was a part of the Conservatory of Fine Arts at Cal State Los An-geles during his years in high school, which gave him the opportunity to per-form even more.

During that time, he also attended Hollywood Per-forming Arts High School where he worked on sing-ing and writing music.

CSUFslogan aims higher

Grand Central gets political

Titan gets his big break

The first university tagline implemented since 2007 sup-ports strategic plan goals

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Farragut North opens Friday at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. The political drama stars students from Cal State Fullerton like Kenney Selvy and Arash Fakhrabadi. The play was written by Beau Willimon and was the inspiration for the film The Ides of March.

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Political drama to open soon at Grand Central Art Center with new faculty director

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University Police receive second report of rape that allegedly occurred in dorms

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CSUF student Reynold Levaron works with Latin music icon, Maria Victoria on anthology

JEFFREY BARNERFor the Daily Titan

Second 2011 rape reported

Reynold Levaron and Maria Victoria have been working together to release an anthology of 65 years worth of music.

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Cal State Fullerton Professor Christopher Shaw is the director of Farragut North. This is his first year teaching at CSUF.

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ISIS gains ground in Iraq

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The Islamic State (ISIS) gained more ground in Iraq Tues-day, but were halted in Syria, according to CNN.

In the Anbar prov-ince of Iraq, ISIS fight-ers surrounded the Ein Al-Assad military airbase, while fighters in Syria were prevent-ed from completely taking over the border city of Kobani.

The Ein Al-Assad airbase is located halfway between the towns of Hit and Hadi-tah. Fighters are pre-paring to launch an attack on the base. If successful, they would be one step closer to Baghdad.

In Kobani, ISIS mil-itants blasted their way through the city, but were stopped from advancing any further by airstrikes from the U.S.-led an-ti-ISIS coalition.

Orange Coun-ty saw a spike in the amount of drowning calls this year, the Or-ange County Register reported.

In 2014, there have been 74 drowning calls and 32 fatalities in Orange County. Of the fatalities this year, 19 have been of peo-ple 50 or older.

In 2013, by com-parison, there were a total of 73 drowning calls and 37 deaths recorded.

In 2012, the worst year for drowning deaths this decade, there were 93 calls and 53 deaths.

The most recent drowning death in Or-ange County was in Newport Beach, when an unidentified man in his 20s died.

The Conrad N. Hil-ton Foundation has pledged $12 million to the Corporation for Supportive Housing for both new estab-lishments and adap-tion of private units for the homeless pop-ulation of Los Ange-les County, accord-ing to the Los Angeles Times.

The money will be split equally between a grant and a loan, and the foundation said it should create 780 new housing units.

With this new de-velopment, the yearly cost of hospitalization, jailings and emergen-cy room visits for the county are expected to drop from $63,000 to $17,000 per chron-ically-ill homeless per-son living in perma-nent housing.

The Orange County and Inland Empire Small Busi-ness Development Center (OCIE SBDC) at Cal State Fullerton has received a $320,000 grant from the Governor’s Office of Busi-ness and Economic Devel-opment (GO-Biz).

The SBDC Network pro-vides free consulting and low-cost training to small businesses in Orange, Riv-erside and San Bernardino Counties.

California will also match the grant amount, the first time the state has done so since 2010.

The money will help go toward helping small busi-ness owners with capital in-fusion, which in turn aids job creation and retention, along with other factors, said Katrina Smith, asso-ciate director of the OCIE SBDC Network.

Before the funding came in, the network had been looking for support from other sources, Smith said.

“(Prior) to that, we had been working with our leg-islators, our state assembly-men and house represen-tatives to advocate for our centers,” Smith said.

Several politicians helped the OCIE SBDC Network receive the grant, but Smith said State Assemblyman Jose Medina was a standout advocate.

Even though the OCIE SBDC Network office is

located at CSUF, Smith said their office services are available to students and non-students alike. Any-one looking to start a busi-ness, and even current small business owners in the Or-ange County, Riverside or San Bernardino region can receive assistance from the network, Smith said.

“(OCIE SBDC) can help them with their marketing plan, market research, busi-ness plan, financial plans or anything they might need help with from start to fin-ish with their business.”

Small business center gets grant

“Titans Reach Higher” can be seen on banners around campus. The slogan was implemented last month as part of Cal State Fullerton’s Strategic Plan.

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A $320,000 grant will fund capital infusion to small businesses in Orange County

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Villarreal will be facilitat-ing a town hall meeting later this month that will discuss the slogan, the strategic plan and what they represent in a more in-depth capacity.

The town hall will bring up mandatory advising, a university-wide assessment

plan and policy and efforts to build relationships be-tween students and the uni-versity, she said.

“It’s important to have a student voice at that table,” Villarreal said.

The town hall will take place from 12-1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27 in the Titan Student Union.

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The California DREAM Loan Act will provide over $9 million for students eligible under the state DREAM Act. The program is expected to be implemented by next year. YUNUEN BONAPARTE / DAILY TITAN

Colleges from California, Arizona and Nevada will compete in the Friendship Games this month. WILLIAM CAMARGO / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO

Over 4,000 students from California, Arizona and Ne-vada will chant, dance and march on campus Oct. 25 when the Pilipino Amer-ican Student Association (PASA) hosts the 29th an-nual Friendship Games.

PASA is expecting as many as 6,000 attendees from more than 40 different colleges.

The event will take over the Engineering and Com-puter Science Lawn to play a series of picnic games. How well the campuses do in the picnic games and perfor-mances will ultimately de-cide which campus receives the coveted eight-foot-tall trophy for having the most “SPUF”–Spirit, Pride, Uni-ty and Friendship.

The road to the trophy isn’t an easy one. Partici-pants must compete in a se-ries of relay races like the “Alpine Green,” which re-quires four people on one set of skis to traverse the lawn in unison without fall-ing down.

Competitors will also try to best each other in “The Conveyor.” Seven peo-ple lay down in a line and roll across the field to cre-ate a human conveyor belt to move an eighth player across the field.

The CSUF team has been training for the games this semester with weekly team relay. They work on their theme, props and chants during SPUF practice.

Each school has a theme, which is kept under wraps until the initial roll call the morning of the games, when each team introduces them-selves with a dance or skit.

Even when themes over-lap, there’s still the vari-ations in how the teams choose to portray the themes, said Abigail Aviles, a biology major and one of the coordinators of the games.

“I’m interested to see how the different schools with the same theme are going to approach it in dif-ferent ways, that’s what I’m most excited about,” Aviles said.

The Friendship Games was founded in 1985 at CSUF and is one of the longest student-run events

in the nation, according to their website.

Although PASA is a Fil-ipino organization, and the games have a Filipi-no theme, the club is ethni-cally diverse and has many members who come from different nationalities and cultures.

The event, Aviles said, is about bringing people together.

“We are trying to find a common thing and be able to come together. It’s something that’s not exact-ly school related, it’s good, clean fun and I don’t know of another place where you can do what we do,” she said.

The games begin at 7 a.m. on Oct. 25 and will end at 6 p.m. After the long day, many of the students plan to join together for an after party at the Grove in Ana-heim at 9 p.m.

All are welcome to come and watch the games, en-joy the show and the food, although a photo ID or a guardian’s permission if under 18 years of age is required.

For more information, visit PASA’s website at CsufPasa.com

Event will bring together attendees from over 40 colleges for friendly competition

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PASA picnic aims to fosterfriendship among thousands

Gov. Jerry Brown has approved the California DREAM Loan Act, setting aside $9.2 million in state funds to create a student loan program for students without legal residency.

Senate Bill 1210, which was authored by state Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gar-dens, allows California State University and University of California schools to issue loans of up to $4,000 per ac-ademic year to students who

are eligible under the Cali-fornia DREAM Act.

Eligibility for the CA DREAM Act application was expanded that same weekend with the passage of Assembly Bill 2000, which amended the Educa-tion Code to include atten-dance at California elemen-tary schools to the minimum three year in-state education requirement.

The state will begin loan-ing money to qualified stu-dents July 1.

Prior to this new legisla-tion, undocumented students were ineligible for state funded loans and received limited financial aid through

private grants, scholarships and work study.

At Cal State Fullerton, Di-rector of Financial Aid Ce-cilia Schouwe and the De-partment of Student Affairs, which oversees financial aid, will be working with the Chancellor’s Office and vari-ous state offices to implement the new program by next year.

“At this point, the financial aid office is awaiting guid-ance and instructions from the Chancellor’s Office,” said Associate Vice President of Student Affairs James L. Ro-dríguez, who oversees finan-cial aid.

The recently-opened Titan

Dreamers Resource Center, the first center of its kind in the CSU system, will be mak-ing sure students are aware of the available loans and talk to the right people at financial aid, said Lea Jarnagin, the as-sociate vice president for stu-dent affairs.

“We are looking to build a cross-sectional team so that if a student walks into the Titan Dreamers Resource Center, they will get the same infor-mation as if they walked into financial aid,” Jarnagin said.

It is impossible to know ex-actly how many undocument-ed students are on campus, but CSUF has received and filed about 800 applications

for exemptions of out-of-state tuition for undocumented stu-dents provided by the Assem-bly Bill 540, which passed in 2001.

Henoc Preciado, the Dreamers Center coordinator, said about 2,000 students have visited the Dreamers Center this semester so far. In the last few weeks alone, somewhere between 70-80 students have confided in him their undoc-umented status. In cases like these, Preciado said he sits down with the students to ex-plain to them what resources are available on campus.

Jarnagin said that all staff, student and profes-sional, across all diversity

initiatives and resource cen-ters are trained to welcome questions related to the CA DREAM Act, and then refer those inquiring to on-campus specialists.

Jarnagin and Preciado both said that collaboration with external community resourc-es, such as legal aid, immi-gration services and non-prof-it organizations are in the works.

Preciado said it would still be some time before any such partnerships would be formed because he wants to be certain of the quality and type of care each institution will provide.

He said student safety was a top concern.

Gov. approves DREAM fundingCampuses will be allowed to issue up to $4,000 per year to eligible DREAM Act students

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“I really like the play be-cause you kind of see all of these things that happen. You would never think about it ... you never know what really

happens,” Fakhrabadi said. In 2011, Farragut North

was adapted into the ma-jor motion picture The Ides of March, which starred Ryan Gosling and George Clooney.

Farragut North will be-gin showing at the Grand Central Art Center, Grand Central Theatre on Fri-day and runs through Nov. 1. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Clayes

Performing Arts Center box office.

For more information about tickets, contact the Clayes Performing Arts Center at (657) 278-3371 or visit fullerton.edu/arts.

Contemporary pianist and performance artist Kathleen Supové is known for breaking the boundaries between per-former and audience. As an acclaimed and versatile musi-cian, she is continually rein-venting what being a pianist, keyboardist and performance artist means.

This dynamic pianist will perform at Cal State Ful-lerton with Neil Rolnick, a

composer and pioneer who began using computers in mu-sical presentation in the late ‘70s. The duo is set to take the stage on Saturday in the Meng Concert Hall from 8-10 p.m.

Supové has performed around the world with her vi-sually and aurally intriguing performances. After she won the top prizes in the Gaude-amus International Compe-tition for Interpretation of Contemporary Music, she was a guest artist at the distin-guished Darmstadt Festival in Germany. This marked the beginning of her career.

Supové has annually per-formed a series of solo con-certs called The Exploding Piano, according to her web-site. She premiered works of established and emerging composers like Missy Maz-zoli, Michael Gatonska, Anna Clyne, Dan Becker and Ran-dall Woolf in this series.

A Yamaha artist since 2001, Supové created The Ex-ploding Piano as a multime-dia experience, championing music of strong virtuosity and audience connection by using electronics, vocal rants, the-atrical components, staging and collaboration with artists

from other disciplines.“This isn’t electronic mu-

sic in the familiar beep-boop mode—it’s utterly idiomat-ic piano music ingeniously touched up and played to dex-terous perfection,” said Josh-ua Kosman in a review for the San Francisco Chronicle.

In 2004, Koch Internation-al Classics released Supové’s Infusion, an enhanced CD that includes four works by composers Woolf, Carolyn Yarnell, Marti Epstein, and Elaine Kaplinsky along with a video of her live performance. Some of Supové’s more recent projects and collaborations

include Pictures of an Exhi-bitionist by Phil Kline, Del-ta Space by Lukas Ligeti and Gameboy sounds by Bubbly-fish, to name a few.

Supové’s performance part-ner, Rolnick, frequently com-bines unexpected and unusual materials in his music, mak-ing him an appropriate addi-tion to the Saturday concert. He is an international per-former who explores forms as various as digital sampling, interactive multimedia and acoustic vocal, chamber and orchestral works.

Rolnick also developed the first integrated electronic arts

graduate and undergraduate programs in the U.S. at Rens-selaer Polytechnic Institute’s iEAR Studios in Troy, New York. He developed these programs throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. Much of Rolnick’s work joins music and tech-nology, making it experimen-tal, yet highly melodic and accessible.

Tickets for the event cost $13 with a Titan Discount, $15 for the general public. Seating is still available.

For more information or to purchase tickets online, visit the Clayes Performing Arts Center website.

Kathleen Supové and Neil Rolnick will perform in the Meng Concert Hall on Saturday. Supové is well known for her visually spectacular concerts. She has performed all over the world giving concerts featuring electronic music, vocal rants, theatrical pieces and other innovative components to her performance.

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Multimedia concert comes to CSUF

Farragut: Political drama opens soon

Experimental performers Kathleen Supové and Neil Rolnick to perform Saturday

VIVIAN PHAMFor the Daily Titan

Farragut North is the story of Stephan Bellamy, an ambitious press secretary for the U.S. Democratic Primary Election. As the plot thickens, Bellamy becomes more corrupt and willing to do whatever it takes to win.

MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN

Levaron: Student works with icon

When high school was over, Levaron’s drive pushed him toward a field in the en-tertainment industry. He did anything he could to get his foot in the door and make a name for himself.

Levaron’s uncle helped him stay positive as he pushed for his dream. He told Levaron that to become the person on the screen, he had to first be the person behind the scenes. He said Levaron had to work his way to the top.

He took that advice to heart, and it eventually got him connected to people that would help him realize his dream.

Once connected, Levaron still had more obstacles to overcome. Once he was fi-nally involved in the Latin re-cording industry, he struggled to connect with his partners due to family members get-ting in the way and phasing him out of the productions.

Despite these obstacles, Le-varon kept pushing and even-tually was given the opportu-nity to work with one of his childhood idols, Victoria.

Victoria is a Latin screen legend and icon in Latin American music. For three years, he had been producing an anthology album called Triunfo Del Amor/ Love’s Triumph, which encapsu-lates Victoria’s entire 65-year career.

Levaron also did public re-lations for Victoria promoting the album. Since Victoria was used to her record companies taking care of promotions, Levaron took over respon-sibilities to help his partner succeed.

The album was released in September 2014 and Le-varon hopes its success will help him take a huge step for-ward in his career. He is cur-rently in his last year at CSUF majoring in public relations and also recording his debut album.

Levaron believes that the success of Triunfo Del Amor/ Love’s Triumph can change his life and he plans to nev-er quit reaching toward his dream.

Victoria’s anthology al-bum, Triunfo Del Amor/ Love’s Triumph, is available on iTunes.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Symphonic Winds is per-forming in the Meng Con-cert Hall at Clayes Per-forming Arts Center Saturday from 4-6 p.m.

The Symphonic Winds will be performing a num-ber of classics including Fanfare Canzonique by Brian Balmages, which is based on a Renaissance piece by Giovanni Gabrieli,

Fantasia in G Major by Jo-hann Sebastian Bach, a Baroque piece initially written for an organ, Diver-timento by Vincent Persi-chetti, a 20th century piece demonstrating 18th centu-ry structure, and Children’s March by Percy Granger, a wind band classic.

The pieces were chosen by the group’s conductor, Patricia Cornett. Cornett picked each piece based on how she planned to in-struct her students this se-mester, and what specific songs would improve their techniques.

Cornett likes to choose

simpler music toward the beginning of the semester that will prepare her mu-sicians for the more chal-lenging pieces at the end of the semester.

Cornett is currently in her first year of teaching at Cal State Fullerton, com-ing from SUNY Potsdam’s School of Music in New

York, where she worked for one year after completing her doctorate in conducting in Michigan.

One of the pieces being performed on Saturday has

caused particular excite-ment among the students.

“If I had to say what I think the group is most excited about, I would

probably say the Tiche-li-Blue Shades, because they get to kind of let loose at the end of the concert. It has a lot of different styles going on, there’s a lot of challenges, but it sounds really good and it’s fun, the audience will really like it,” Cornett said.

One particular student who favors the number is Andrew Owens, a trumpet player for the Symphonic Winds.

Owens is in his third year at CSUF, majoring in mu-sic performance for trum-pet, and hopes to become a professional trumpet player

who plays in the pit for mu-sicals and operas. He has a tremendous amount of re-spect for Cornett.

“She is amazing, she has almost everything I look for in a teacher,” Ow-ens said. “She maintains a high degree of teaching and professionalism, but also makes the class very enjoyable.”

Tickets for the perfor-mance can be purchased at the Clayes Performing Arts Center box office and are $10 for the general public and $8 for students, faculty and senior citizens with ad-vance purchase.

Symphonic Winds to perform classical pieces hand-picked by new CSUF professor

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PATRICIA CORNETTConductor

It has a lot of different styles going on, there’s a lot of challenges, but it sounds really good and it’s fun, the audience will really like it.

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Local jazz club to host RagFest

Fullerton is once again ready to get ragged with RagFest 2014 this weekend. Steamers Jazz Club and Cafe in downtown Fuller-ton will be hosting the an-nual festival on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.

The event will be cele-brating and showcasing the sound of ragtime, which originated in the late 19th century.

Ragtime was a form of entertainment played by slaves when they lived on plantations.

“They would create a steady beat, and then against that steady beat they would do count-er rhythms that were off-beat. Eventually, that sort of technique drifted into, melted into American popular music in the late 1890s,” said Eric Marchese, RagFest’s founding artistic director.

As opposed to the last RagFest, this year’s festival will host a plethora of sets with few repeats on each day, which Marchese says is unusual for the event. Saturday and Sunday will have different rosters to keep audience members hearing a new rag sound.

“It’s the first time we ha-ven’t really featured a lot of the same people both days,” Marchese said.

Audience members can also expect to hear the vin-tage sounds of ragtime as

well as more contemporary works.

Marchese says audiences love the mixture they bring to the festival with works that were played 100 years ago as well as works that have been written and per-formed by modern ragtime composers.

“Our purpose is basical-ly to provide a showcase for those musicians ... who

specialize in ragtime mu-sic, and give the audience a place to come to, to hear these musicians and to give the venue a way to reach au-dience members that may not normally come to their place,” Marchese said.

In addition to the live music offered, viewers may even be able to take a piece of the performance home with them, as some

performers bring books or CDs to sell afterward.

For viewers who are not yet fans or privy to ragtime, the event will also have sets of great solo pianists, stream orchestra and even a pianist and banjoist duo spread out over the weekend.

“Everybody gets some-thing out of it. I think the most exciting thing to hear from an audience member

is that they not only real-ly enjoyed all the music they heard and loved every-thing, but that they learned something about what they heard, because each musi-cian usually tells a little bit of background before they play the piece,” Marchese said.

Now in its 14th year, RagFest has done its best to keep the event intimate

and comfortable for all in attendance.

This year, there will be no tickets for presale, but instead a $10 cover charge at the door. Payments can be made in cash or with checks made out to Friends of Jazz.

Keeping up with the event’s family-friendly na-ture, attendees 12 and un-der will be able to attend the event free of charge.

Steamers Jazz Club and Cafe celebrates historic music style with annual festival

KRISTINA HILLIARDDaily Titan

Jazz Steamers Club and Cafe in downtown Fullerton will host RagFest 2014, a two-day event celebrating ragtime music, on Saturday and Sunday. The festival will feature a greater variety of ragtime artists compared to previous RagFests.

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently said in an interview with KNX-AM (1070) that the possibility of an NFL team moving to Los Angeles by next season is “highly likely” and that “foot-ball is something a big city should have.”

Garcetti couldn’t be any more correct. It has been 20 years since LA last had a football team, and there is no reason why the second largest city in the nation should not have a team.

Since 1995, Oakland, St. Louis, Baltimore, Jackson-ville, Charlotte, Nashville, Cleveland and Houston have all welcomed NFL teams to their city either by relocation from another city or as an ex-pansion franchise.

LA is often characterized as a transient city that lacks the identity and civic pride of other places. However, there is no doubt a football team here would have vast support.

Excluding Houston, the combined population of the aforementioned cities is about 4 million, while Los Angeles’ population is approximate-ly 3.8 million—it’s clear that the city’s population isn’t an issue.

Los Angeles’ desire for football is so strong that they

already make up over 30 per-cent of San Diego Chargers’ local revenue, according to ESPN.

This means LA football fans are giving up close to $80 million a year to a team that is over 100 miles away. By bringing a team closer, it

would not only homogenize a fan base, but also generate business within the city in-stead of shipping it off to oth-er parts of the state.

There are few details re-garding which team would relocate here and where they would play, but the most

probable candidates include the Rams, Raiders and Char-gers. Each of the mentioned teams would be taking a large step up in market size and revenue if they decided to make the move to LA.

Even other NFL franchise owners are concerned by the

lack of an NFL team in LA. “I think ownership is col-

lectively very concerned that we don’t have at least one team in downtown LA,” said New England Patriots own-er Robert Kraft in a Los An-geles Times interview. “We’d like to do everything (we)

can to help facilitate that happening.”

There would be many is-sues that would arise should this plan move forward, but the biggest issue surrounding the building of a new stadi-um would undoubtedly be the funding of it.

The proposed stadium in downtown LA, which would be named Farmers Field, will cost an estimated $1.2 billion. Although the building of the actual stadium won’t be fund-ed by taxpayers, but partial-ly by Super Bowl revenue, the necessary improvements around the stadium likely will be paid by taxpayers.

Although a location for the proposed stadium has yet to be determined, a shortlist has been created. The loca-tions include the City of In-dustry, Hollywood Park, next to Dodger Stadium and at the top of the list and the most realistic location for the new stadium is downtown LA next to the Convention Center, which would require a lot of money.

In the meantime, during the stadium’s construction, Dodger Stadium could be used as a temporary home, according to a CBS Sports report.

It is clear there is more than enough support between the citizens, LA politicians, the NFL and its owners. There is no reason LA should not have a football team. Hopefully this time next year we will be celebrating our new and win-ning football team.

Parking is a problem at this school; there is no get-ting around that fact. It is an issue that seems to pop up every semester and admin-istration has done their due diligence to accommodate as many students as possi-ble with the stacked parking program, the pay by hour option, reserved carpool spots and more.

It is no secret that even with all of these programs in place, parking at Cal State Fullerton is still a ma-jor headache. What we’re not aware of is that CSUF is not alone in its parking struggles—the issue has be-come a CSU and UC-wide problem.

Similar to most UC cam-puses, CSUF’s parking ser-vices are self supporting, ac-cording to the Department of Parking and Transportation Services. This means they are completely run off the revenue of permit sales and get absolutely nothing from citizens’ tax dollars.

CSUF is made up of

11,291 total available park-ing spaces, and of the more than 11,000 parking spots only 8,640 are for students, while the remaining spots sprinkled throughout cam-pus are reserved for facul-ty, assisted parking, elec-tric vehicles and service vehicles.

This would be more than enough parking available anywhere else, but the re-ality is there were 38,325 students enrolled last year and that number continues to grow. During the day, there are about 10,000 plus students on campus, and al-though not all of them drive, it is still creating a logjam at every possible parking lot.

The semester parking pass is $229, and adminis-trators are planning to in-crease it up to $236 by July 2016. A daily permit costs $8, and the hourly parking on the first floor of the struc-tures is $2 for one hour and $4 for two hours. The Mar-riott Hotel has also found a way to increase its profits by renting out its parking lot for $7 a day. As mentioned before, new stacked park-ing has also been instituted throughout the surface lots, but it’s still not the answer to the parking nightmare.

It’s easy to remain skep-tical about CSUF’s han-dling of its obvious parking problems over the past few years, including the rising permit price, but in reali-ty the parking nightmare is not much better at any other CSU or UC.

Despite having less stu-dents, UCI’s parking pric-es are higher than CSUF’s. However, the higher cost does provide the Anteaters with an overflow of lots and shuttles coming and going every few minutes.

Cal Poly Pomona also has its fair share of park-ing problems, as students are not guaranteed parking even with the purchase of a permit. For the Broncos, a daily pass costs $6 and $118 for the quarter. They also have a shuttle sys-tem that has three different routes for students at their convenience.

The most surprising of the bunch is Long Beach State. Long Beach has ap-proximately 14,000 park-ing spaces available with a daily permit costing $5 and a semester pass costing $123.

Similar to CSUF, Long Beach’s parking program is completely self-supporting,

so it raises the question of why CSUF students are be-ing asked to pay more. The fact that CSULB has more parking spaces makes it logical to assume CSULB would require more revenue to maintain its parking and transportation services.

However, that assumption would be proved wrong, since Titans are being asked

to pay $100 more a semes-ter and $3 more a day, even with less available spaces.

Not accounting the prices students are pay-ing throughout Califor-nia campuses, parking is a limited commodity on all UC and CSU campus-es with each administra-tion doing its best to impli-cate solutions for the best

interest of students and faculty alike.

Without a doubt, CSUF does have a parking prob-lem that needs to be ad-dressed, as well as financial questions that need to be an-swered. CSUF is not alone in this parking epidemic, and at least for the foresee-able future, it seems like there is no help in sight.

The lack of parking at CSUF is an issue many other UCs and CSUs are also battling

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LA’s football fantasy could become reality

Los Angeles’ new football stadium will be built by Anschutz Entertainment Group. The company is one of the world’s largest owners of sports teams and sports events whose assets include Staples Center and LA Live.

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Despite having three different multi-level parking structures, it is still difficult to find parking at CSUF during regular school hours.

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The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team will be headed to San Diego this weekend to take part in the Intercollegiate Ten-nis Association’s Southwest Regionals.

CSUF will take on top competition two weeks af-ter their disappointing

performance in the sea-son-opening Beach Tennis Tournament at Long Beach State.

The Southwest Regionals are home to top talent from all around Southern Califor-nia and surrounding areas, so CSUF will need to bring their best against tough com-petition. Such difficult com-petition early in the season will be a legitimate measur-ing stick as to where the Ti-tans stand heading into the regular season.

The Titans will rely heav-ily on the pair of Alexis Valenzuela and Camille De Leon to keep them afloat early in the 2014 season. Outside of the dominant tan-dem, a majority of Fuller-ton’s squad remains relative-ly unproven.

In the Beach Tennis Tour-nament, Valenzuela and De Leon earned key victories on day one in both singles and doubles play. The duo strug-gled against their rival coun-terparts from Long Beach,

which should be concerning as the 49ers are a top confer-ence foe.

Danielle Pham and Mi-chelle Erasmus were the only other Titans to win a singles match, as CSUF fin-ished play in the Beach Ten-nis Tournament 4-13 in sin-gles action. The younger players will need to play a more important role in 2014 if the squad is going to have any continuity.

The Big West was not kind to the Titans last season, as

they finished just 1-7 in con-ference play. Long Beach State and UC Irvine look to be the toughest teams in the conference in 2014, and CSUF will need to improve drastically before taking them on in the spring.

CSUF will continue to play in various tournaments for the remainder of the fall season before individual team action begins in Jan-uary. The Titans will open their regular season against Cal State Los Angeles

Jan. 14 at the Titan Tennis Courts.

There is plenty of time for Fullerton to come togeth-er before the regular season begins.

Fullerton finished 8-15 last season with a young, un-tested squad, but have their sights set much higher this year. With the leadership of veterans such as Valenzuela and De Leon plus an influx of young talent, there is hope for improved play out of the 2014 Titans.

CSUF will take on top regional talent during their trip to San Diego this coming weekend

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Women’s tennis heads to Southwest Regionals

The Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team hopes to put an end to its six-game losing streak this weekend.

The Titans open the weekend with a match against the UC Davis Ag-gies at Titan Gym Friday.

The Aggies are 8-9 over-all, but have an impres-sive 3-1 record in Big West Conference play.

Their only conference loss came at the hands of No. 25 Hawaii.

Davis beat Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC San-ta Barbara, two teams that beat CSUF last weekend.

The Aggies are riding a three-game winning streak and are coming off a dom-inant 3-0 sweep over UC Riverside.

In that match, sophomore Kendall Walbrecht had 10 kills on 16 total attempts and didn’t commit any at-tack errors.

She was one of three Ag-gies to record double-digit kills.

The Titans are ranked just one spot ahead of the Aggies in the NCAA Wom-en’s Volleyball RPI poll at 172 and 173, respectively.

Despite the Titans’ high-er ranking, they sit in last place in the Big West stand-ings with an 0-5 conference mark, while the Aggies are in third place behind Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge.

Kaylin Squyres is the Aggies’ offensive leader. She is third in the Big West in kills per set with 3.69, right behind Titan outside hitter Niki Withers who is second with 3.70.

Squyres finished sec-ond on the team in kills last season as a sopho-more, and recorded six double-doubles.

Senior Megan Lancast-er is the star libero for the Aggies.

She is fourth in the con-ference this year in digs per set with 4.06, and had 26 digs in a match against CSUF last season.

The Titans have recently shuffled the deck at libero.

McKenna Painton served as the team’s libero up until last Friday against Cal Poly SLO.

In that match, she had a breakout offensive perfor-mance and posted her first career double-double with 15 kills and 15 digs.

She also set career highs in total attempts, hitting percentage and blocks.

Paige Reed and Rachel Brown have taken over libe-ro duties for Head Coach Carolyn Zimmerman.

Brown had 17 digs against UCSB Saturday.

The Fresno Pacific trans-fer had 104 digs for the Sunbirds as a freshman last season and recorded dou-ble-digit digs four times.

After the contest on Sat-urday, the Titans will trav-el east to take on the River-side Highlanders.

UCR is 0-4 in Big West play and is on a 10-game losing streak.

Their last win came against Savannah State on Sept. 6.

The Highlanders are near

the bottom of the Big West in every statistical category with the exception of digs, where they rank third.

Sophomore libero Mad-die Hubbell leads the team in that category with 226 on the season.

Ashley Cox is the

offensive leader for the Highlanders.

She has 2.98 kills per set, which is 10th in the conference.

She was named to the Big West All-Freshman team in 2012 and was seventh in the Big West in kills.

She will look to keep up the offensive production and do her part to help the Highlanders find the win column again.

The Titans hope to dig their way out of last place and contend in the compet-itive Big West.

The Titans haven’t had much reason to celebrate, as they are still in search of their first Big West win. CSUF will have two opportunities to change that this coming weekend.

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CSUF will look to play more consistently as they take on two conference foes this weekend

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Titans searching for first Big West win