Daily Titan November 29, 2010

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

November 29, 2010Vol. 88 Issue 45

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OPINIONHippie Health: Altering the state of food........................................4

FEATURESBiannual Patchwork Festival comes to Santa Ana........................................5

SPORTSWomen’s basketball claim their first two home games........................................8

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World record attempt raises cancer awareness

Supporters of the Spot A Spot project gathered on campus Nov. 20 to break the Guinness World Record for most people applying sunscreen in one location at one time.

There needed to be 252 partici-pants, but there were only 152.

Despite pouring rain, Spot A Spot representatives from UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton and sponsors set up booths and handed out infor-mation to those who came for the event, or those who walked by.

“The purpose of this is to raise awareness of the effects of sun dam-age and the need to wear proper sunscreen,” said Tricia Trimble, 41, president of Suntegrity Skincare, sunscreen sponsor for UCI’s mela-noma walk.

Trimble started the company be-cause her mother died from mela-noma.

Despite the rain, 152 participants gathered on campus Nov. 20 in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most people applying sunscreen at the same location and time.

JONATHAN GIBBY / Daily Titan

See RECORD, page 3

Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and all of the Thanksgiving fixings were served to hundreds of needy people Tuesday at the St. Bernardine Medical Center: Family Focus Cen-ter in San Bernardino.

This program began 16 years ago when two St. Bernardine Medi-cal Center: Family Focus employ-ees, Linda McDonald and Crystal Wright, felt that they were very blessed in their lives and wanted to give back to those who were less for-tunate in their community.

The Family Focus Center Thanks-giving dinner had small and simple beginnings with only 50 guests in attendance. By the end of Thanks-giving night, however, 90 volunteers served over 700 meals to those in need.

The Thanksgiving festivities be-gan at 4 p.m. and lasted until the last serving of mashed potatoes were scooped. Families began lining up in the cold as early as 12:30 p.m. for their meal.

Before the program began, vol-unteers were led in prayer by head coordinator, McDonald.

“Gratitude,” McDonald said as she began the prayer. “To enact grat-itude is generous and noble. But to live gratitude is to touch heaven.”

See THANKSGIVING, page 2

Providing for those in needSt. Bernardine Medical Center serves 700 Thanksgiving mealsJESSICA RUBIOFor the Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball junior guard Orlando Brown (left) attempts a lay-up as Toreros’ senior guard Matt Dorr rises up to defend him. Brown finished with six points and two steals as the Titans went on to win 62-59.

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A small grin was written across his face as he left the locker room. After a game like today’s who wouldn’t be smiling?

Cal State Fullerton’ men’s basketball senior guard Devon Peltier couldn’t help but smile as the final score read 62-59 over the San Diego Toreros at the Jenny Craig Pavilion.

After a slow start in the opening minutes in the first half, Peltier didn’t hesitate to attack the basket and came out with a team-leading 10 points at the half.

“My teammates told me to keep shooting, and once I had those guys behind me, it urged my con-

fidence to keep shooting and find my way to the bucket,” Peltier said.

The first half was a relentless battle for the ball and it didn’t even seem to phase each team that there were no points in the paint or on the fast-break. It was all a battle over who wanted it more, the Titans (1-3) or Toreros (1-3).

Redshirt junior forward Orane Chin’s 11 points, eight rebounds and three steals showed how hungry he was. It didn’t even seem to matter that he was fouled out, because everyone on the floor felt his presence with or without the ball.

“My focus today was (to) hustle. To get loose balls and rebound and help my team win,” Chin said.

The Titans hadn’t seen this team in over a decade, and yet it was like no tomorrow as CSUF started four guards and one forward, as if playing with two

post players recovering from injuries wasn’t hard enough.

The Titans, came away with 11 points off the bench and an eight second-chance points for a 28-21 lead over the Toreros in the first.

The second half was led by Chin, who put away six unanswered points in the opening minutes, as the Titans would follow him in his footsteps.

The Toreros found a way to make it difficult for CSUF to play smart basketball as the Titans com-mitted a total of 22 personal fouls, three Titans fouled out. San Diego to gained momentum and charged back from 12-point deficit to take the lead with a tremendous three-pointer from senior guard Matt Dorr on the left wing with 4:03 remaining.

TITANS TAKE TWO As the men’s basketball team creeps into the regular season, the squad prevails on the road and at home with a total of 201 points in three games

Despite budget cuts and tuition hikes, retired Chief Information Technology Officer Michael Parker now holds the position interim direc-tor of university planning at Cal State Fullerton.

After spending most of his career working at CSUF in various posi-tions, Parker was asked to return once again to CSUF in 2008 by President Milton A. Gordon.

“(University planning) is anticipat-ing what we should do in the face of uncertainty, to maximize the value we bring to students and the community with no real sense of how the budget is going to go,” Parker said. “We are always working in a realm of really large uncertainty - all I really know for next year is that if we let students in, we make a commitment to gradu-ate them.”

According to an article posted by CSUF’s Inside - the official online news and information newsletter for CSUF - on Nov. 11 2008, the direc-tor of university planning is, “respon-sible for managing and coordinating a comprehensive and ongoing uni-versity strategic planning process that further advances Cal State Fullerton’s commitment to excellence… also is expected to measure planning out-comes and monitor progress of the strategic plan.”

Parker, who retired in 2005 after 31 years of work for CSUF, returned to serve as interim director in a part-time capacity. There are currently no plans to hire someone to be the full-time director due to the budget cuts and recession.

“I agreed to come back, to do this while we are having the budget crisis and until things stabilize enough so that they can go search for somebody full time,” Parker said.

According to a database of state worker salaries in the Sacramento Bee, Parker made $165,104 in 2009 for his work as interim director – a consultant position.

“He is our Halliburton,” said Ma-hamood M. Hassan, an accounting professor and Faculty Rights Repre-sentative for CSUF for the Califor-nia Faculty Association. “The federal government complained about the military giving all of these contracts to Halliburton, of which Cheney was the CEO - it’s the same thing.”

See PARKER, page 2

Planning for UncertaintyMichael Parker’s controversial return to Cal State Fullerton

KEITH COUSINSDaily Titan

For the first time in school history women’s volleyball wins conference and takes home Coach and Player of the Year

See VOLLEYBALL, page 8

Save ethnic studies tour comes to Cal State FullertonCampus hosts event to raise awareness and repeal an Arizona bill that bans the teaching of ethnic studies courses.

See ARIZONA, page 3

See MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 8

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INTERNATIONALEU completes $113 billion bailout of Ireland

U.S. blurred lines between diplomats and spies

Prison overcrowding case heads to Supreme CourtCALIFORNIA – The suicide rate in California’s overcrowded prisons is

nearly twice the national average. One inmate dies every eight days from in-adequate medical care.

These are just two indicators cited in the 15-year legal battle over whether the state’s prisons are failing to provide humane medical care for 165,000 in-mates.

On Tuesday the problems of California’s prisons will move to a national stage, when the Supreme Court hears the state’s challenge to an extraordi-nary court order that would require the prison population to be reduced by one-fourth in two years. That could mean releasing or transferring more than 40,000 inmates, state lawyers say.

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LONDON – European officials rescued their second country in seven months Sunday, offering financially strapped Ireland a bailout package worth $113 billion in a bid to shore up confidence in the battered euro.

Dublin quickly accepted the lifeline, hoping to calm investors ahead of the opening of international markets Monday. The move was a humiliating conces-sion by the Irish government, which had insisted for weeks that it did not need outside help to deal with its crushing public debt and crippled banking sector.

The EU-IMF loan package allocates $46.6 billion to prop up Ireland’s banks, with about $13 billion to be taken immediately and the rest held in reserve.

WASHINGTON – U.S. diplomats have been asked by Washington to gather detailed financial data on their foreign counterparts, including the kinds of information usually sought by spies, according to diplomatic cables made public on Sunday.

The cables, part of a massive release of secret U.S. dispatches by the activist website Wikileaks, show that U.S. diplomats have been asked to gather foreign diplomats’ credit card, frequent flier numbers and iris scans, as well as informa-tion on their internet identities and the telecommunications networks they use.

The activities are laid out in dispatches that describe how the diplomats must fulfill their obligations under a previously undisclosed program called the “National Humint Collection Directive.”

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Parker’s salary ranks him in the top 10 highest paid of all CSUF employ-ees for 2009.

“In my view, a full-time director of planning should be earning about the same amount of money as an academ-ic dean - that would be in the neigh-borhood of $150,000 to $160,000 per year,” said Mark Shapiro, an emeritus physics professor. “Thus, a half-time director of planning should be receiving no more than $75,000 to $80,000 per year.”

David Allen Dowell of Cal State Long Beach, who serves full time as director of Strategic Planning (a simi-lar position) as well as vice provost and a professor of psychology, earned $157,489.96 in 2009, according to the same database.

According to Parker, however, the salary total is not accurate because the database salaries are judged based on a calendar year, starting Jan. 1 and end-ing Dec. 31. His actual salary is based on the academic year, which starts July 1 and ends June 30.

This accounts for the dramatic dif-ference in pay Parker received from 2008 and 2009. In 2008 his annual salary was reported as $40,996.

“(President Gordon and Parker) made an agreement about what it would take to have me come out here and cover my costs,” Parker said. “My

home is in Arizona - I am paying for a home out there as well as a home out here while I do this. My job was to cover my cost and actually see if I could come out ahead. I think this year I will actually make a few bucks. But up until this year I haven’t made any money at all.”

Due to his status as an annuitant – a former state employee who earns a retirement allowance, in Parker’s case $105,129.84 a year, according to California Pension Reform Database – Parker cannot work more than 120 days a year by law.

Parker, however, said he is free to donate his time to University Plan-ning and often does because he wants to.

“I want the people of California to have the next generation be more educated and more capable than the generation before,” Parker said. “For the last 30 years we have been kind of slipping – it’s not healthy for the state. My colleagues and I are just in-tent upon, we are going to make this work one way or another.”

Parker’s colleagues, such as Gor-don, cited his years of experience working for CSUF as not only the reason he was asked to take the posi-tion, but the reason he is excelling at it as well.

“Mike had served in a number of capacities on the campus for 31 years and had been involved many ways

with campus planning,” Gordon said. “I think Mike has done a great job of communicating and developing the planning process to the entire campus over the last two years.”

Andrew Lopez, vice president of Associated Students Inc., also ex-pressed similar satisfaction to the role Parker has played at CSUF as interim director.

“Mike Parker has excelled in his position as interim director of Uni-versity Planning,” Lopez said. “I think he is a good fit for this position be-cause he works well with all levels of the campus community, and he is not afraid to challenge current processes.”

However, Hassan expressed con-cern with Parker’s qualifications for the position.

“What does he know about long range planning? He is not a business professor; he is a counselor,” Hassan said. “They could have hired one of our business professors to do (long-range planning), people who actually teach it in the management depart-ment - they could have said ‘You are a professor, you normally teach four classes a semester, well we are going to give you two classes and the other two classes you do this work he is doing.’”

Hassan added that the general cri-teria for hiring a part-time lecturer is around $5,000 per class and that the salary being paid to Parker could have been used to offer more classes.

Student frustrations during class registrationKEVIN COGANFor the Daily Titan

Thanksgiving dinner was provided to those in the community who were without food. St. Bernardine Medical Center distributed clothes as well.JONATHAN GIBBY/Daily Titan

Monday

WednesdayAnnual Glass and Ceramics Show: Grand Central Art Center Sales Gallery, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., ongoing

Caribbean Nights Event: TSU Pavilion C, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament: Titan Bowl and Billiards, 4 p.m.

ThursdayAnnual Glass and Ceramics Show: Grand Central Art Center Sales Gallery, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., ongoing

Open Mic Night: Garden Cafe at the TSU underground, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

ASIP Snow Day: Quad, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Trojan Woman: Grand Central Theatre, 8 p.m.

Flute Ensemble: Recital Hall, 8 p.m.

FridayAnnual Glass and Ceramics Show: Grand Central Art Center Sales Gallery, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., ongoing

Equus: Young Theatre, 8 p.m.

Rent: Little Theatre, 8 p.m.

Jazz Ensemble: Meng Hall, 8 p.m.

Cello Choir: Recital Hall 8 p.m.

SaturdayAnnual Glass and Ceramics Show: Grand Central Art Center Sales Gallery, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., ongoing

Men’s Basketball vs. San Diego: Titan Gym, 6 p.m.

Symphonic Winds: Meng Hall, 8 p.m.

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Titan Toy Drive: TSU Main Lobby, ongoing through Dec. 9 Patrick Merrill: revelation: Begovich Gallery, 12p.m. to 4 p.m., ongoing

TuesdayAnnual Glass and Ceram-ics Show: Grand Central Art Center Sales Gallery, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., ongoing

Mila Gokhman: Grand Central Art Center Project Room, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., ongoing

Joe Sorren: Interruption: Grand Central Art Center Main Gal-lery, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., ongoing

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As soon as the prayer ended, the volunteers rushed out the hot trays of food and began serving the meals. Guests moved through the line of food with huge smiles and grateful hearts as they sat at festive linen cov-ered tables with floral centerpieces.

Food baskets, free flu shots, den-tal screening, nutrition information, games for children and jackets were also offered for every visitor.

Jackie Kimball, the community health nurse, distributed about 70 flu shots. This was Kimball’s sixth year distributing flu shots to guest and volunteers at the Family Focus Center Thanksgiving Dinner.

“It makes me feel happy to be avail-able to these families because it helps the people with no access to health care,” Kimball said. “As a nurse, I’m doing something to help and prevent people from getting sick.”

As the mini health fair continued, guests were offered free sweaters and jackets at the holiday boutique. The clothes were donated by the St. Ber-nardine Medical Center employees and others in the community.

San Bernardino residents, mother and daughter Billie Jo Danowski and

Ruby Gonzalez were more than grate-ful for all that they received at the din-ner. Their family of seven was stocked with a food basket for Thanksgiving and sweaters to fit all of the children in their family.

“We were really in need this year,” Danowski said. “We called our local church when we had no food and they directed us here.”

Gonzalez could not be happier with all of the food she ate that night, the cornbread stuffing was her favor-ite item.

“As I took a bite of the stuffing, I was taken back to my childhood,” Gonzalez said. “Now, this is Thanks-giving.”

The back lot of the Family Focus Center was bustling with guests and volunteers as food baskets, boxes and bags were carried out to each family.

The donated food baskets were filled with canned food, stuffing, mashed potatoes, frozen turkeys,

bread and pasta, everything a family would need for an abundant Thanks-giving meal.

Long-term volunteer, Debi Brew-er, greeted each family with a food basket and gift certificates to Stater Bros. Brewer has been volunteering at the Thanksgiving dinner for 10 years. Her most memorable experience was when she served at the buffet line.

“Everyone was just so thankful and grateful,” Brewer said. “Making a dif-ference for one person makes it all worth the while.”

Brewer has volunteered each year to help with every aspect of the din-ner. From cutting pies to serving corn, she claims that there is nothing better than the feeling you get when helping others in need.

The St. Bernardine Medical Center Thanksgiving Dinner proved to be a success for all. Hundreds of families and their volunteers left well fed, sup-plied, warm and happy.

Students are constantly compet-ing for classes during their registra-tion window every semester, which causes multiple people to scramble for whatever spaces are left. But there are better ways to cope with this challenging process.

Getting assistance from the Aca-demic Advise-ment Center may be the key to registering successfully. All students are en-couraged to uti-lize their Titan Degree Audit as a guide.

“It is the path-way to a degree and helps students choose potential courses for next semester,” said Dina Bartoloni, aca-demic adviser.

New techniques on Titan Online are being used to help make regis-tration easier for students. Though it is important that every student

have backup classes in mind, in case their first choices are filled up.

“Using the additional search cri-teria function, students can locate an entire section of general educa-tion courses at one time,” Bartoloni said. “Students can search for web classes and lecture courses at a fast-er pace, without sifting through a whole department of classes.”

School cutbacks have resulted in less classes being offered and an

increase in tu-ition costs. If students, how-ever, prepare in advance, enrolling in courses be-comes easier.

Flexibility is helpful and ob-taining general

education and major advisement a few weeks prior to registering will help students keep track of courses needed for graduation.

Often times, despite prepara-tion, some students will still not be able to register into classes that they want or need. Many students,

however, are finding new ways to get into some classes like establish-ing a personal relationship with the teacher who may help reserve space in a course.

“Be willing to be flexible with your schedule,” said Gilbert Va-lencia, 20, a public administration major. “If you’re not sure about a class, e-mail the professor before-hand.”

Valencia also emphasized the im-portance of checking the student portal to make sure no holds are placed on your account.

In order to confirm your regis-tration date and time, click on the “details” link in Titan Online.

Students should remember that classes will be held for 72 hours, so be sure to pay all fees within the al-lotted time.

“Always check your campus e-mail for any updated information regarding campus fees and events,” said Michelle Samadi, Financial Aid office analyst. “If a student has any questions regarding registra-tion, don’t wait till the last minute. Always think ahead and ask early before it is too late.”

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Spot A Spot is part of a cancer prevention program for young people, which goes to high schools and middle schools to teach youth about the dangers of sun damage to the skin, said Lennie Sender, 52, director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program at CHOC Children’s Hospital and UCI.

“Melanoma, which is the most malignant skin cancer, the most dangerous skin cancer, occurs in young people,” Sender said. “Skin cancer is the number one cause of death as a disease under the age of 40.”

The project was started to honor a UCI second-year medi-cal student, Joel Myres, who died from melanoma in 2001. Since its foundation, the group has spoken to thousands of students in Orange County, according to the Spot A Spot website.

Although it was founded at UCI, Spot A Spot has spread to CSUF as well. Part of the UCI chapter and the CSUF chapter worked together to put the event on.

“We started working with a

group of CSUF students. They call themselves Kinergy. They had this idea of; why don’t we try to break a world record just so we can get Spot A Spot out there and let the public know that Spot A Spot is here,” said Amelia Ahmed, UCI Spot A Spot chapter representative.

However, with the weather hit-ting near 60 degrees and the rain at a constant shower, as well as the event taking place the first day of Thanksgiving break, the turnout was less than expected.

Regardless, the 152 students and supporters gathered in a roped off area in front of the Student Rec-reation Center and applied sun-screen under hooded jackets and umbrellas for two minutes.

“Maybe we could just break a record of how many students put sunscreen on in the rain,” Ahmed said.

Although the record was not broken, the Spot A Spot represen-tatives were optimistic about the information they handed out. To them, if any life can be saved, it is a job well done.

“I think there’s a lot of people who go out and bake in the sun and don’t think it’s any big deal, and in essence, there’s foundations

that have started for girls who have died at age 20 because of melano-ma skin cancer,” Trimble said.

As the president of Suntegrity Skincare, she has developed a non-toxic version of sunscreen that also has an internal vitamin D3 supple-ment.

To get involved with the Spot A Spot or the National Melanoma Awareness Project at CSUF visit SpotASpot.org.

RECORD: APPLYING SUNSCREEN


Students and supporters gathered at Cal State Fullerton and attempted to break a Guinness World Record by applying sunscreen at the same time. Although the turnout was not as big as expected, Spot A Spot sought to teach youth about the dangers of sun damage.


Despite the rain, 152 people applied sunscreen to raise awareness of skin cancer.


Arizona loses ethnic studies

The sound of social justice echoed through Cal State Fullerton’s campus Nov. 18 as the Save Eth-nic Studies Tour of Tucson, Ariz. brought aware-ness to students and fund raised to repeal the HB 2281 bill in state federal court.

The HB 2281 bill was passed May 11 and banned the teaching of ethnic studies courses, mainly Chicano studies, in grade levels K-12. HB 2281 was created a few weeks after SB 1070 passed, which legalized racial profiling.

The bill will be implemented January 2011 and those schools who violate the bill will lose 10 per-cent of state funding.

Save Ethnic Studies Tour was created by 12 educators to fight for academic freedom against the bill that deems ethnic stud-ies as “promoting resentment toward a class of people,” and “promoting the overthrow of the U.S. government.”

The event began with an opening ceremony by Xipe To-tec, who preformed traditional Aztec dances that have been passed down for 800 years, and drew in a large crowd of onlookers.

The main speaker of the event was the Director of Mexican American studies of the Tucson Uni-fied School District, Sean Arce.

Arce said before the presentation that the group has filed for a conjunction of the bill in the Fed-eral Court of Arizona and the national tour is to help bring awareness and raise money for the de-fense fund.

Arce also explained why it is crucial to students’ education to continue with ethnic studies.

“Virtually the bill eliminates the program of 2,500 kids in Chicano Studies classes which has demonstrated in the past 10 years a highly edu-cated model that eliminates the drop out rates, 56 percent of those being Latino students,” Arce said.

Throughout his presentation, Arce provided

clear statistics of how ethnic studies have influ-enced the community of Latinos in Arizona and throughout the nation.

He stated that throughout the nation, only 24 percent of Latinos go to college.

For those students who go through the ethnic studies program, 80 percent go to college.

He also stated that Chicano students are out shinning the next highest student group test scores on the high school exit exam in all three areas of reading, writing and math.

Because the majority of Arizona’s population is of Mexican and South American descent, tak-ing away a program that positively influences the population’s education has led the community to be on the offensive.

“I hope there’s a heightened awareness and I hope I share some understanding on how it affects every one’s violation of the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment,” Arce said. “It’s an attack on humanity to resist the teaching of someone’s culture.”

While many states are al-ready starting to copycat the bill, Acre predicted that the bill’s influence will eventually make its way to college-level ethnic studies programs.

The funding for the tour will help to hire expert wit-nesses to help testify in court.

An expert witness at CSUF is Miguel Zavala, who teaches multicultural education and

has worked in the field of multiculturalism and social activism.

“Ethnic Studies is an interdisciplinary field that, historically, sets a precedent for other fields, precisely because it seeks to build from the knowl-edge of communities and redirect its studies and research towards the betterment of communities,” Zavala said.

The event was held by CSUF student group C@SA, Chicana and Chicano Studies Alliance. Internal Event Coordinator for C@SA, Damien Montaño, a junior Chicano Studies major, felt the event greatly impacted the CSUF students based on their feedback.

“What we want to do is support the idea that education should be equal,” Montaño said. “It just takes one person to connect the dots and conduct their own research and I feel we were successful.”

Gregory Christopher Brown, 51, a Cal State Fullerton criminal justice professor, grew up in South Central Watts. In order to survive, he en-trenched himself in school.

Brown now dedicates his life to helping others and enriching the minds of his students.

Brown jokingly said that his motto is, “Live hard, die hard” because of his tough childhood. Brown and his three siblings grew up in poverty, but he did not realize it at the time because he had enough food to eat and shelter over his head.

His mother would never let them go hungry, no matter what.

His mother and siblings were Brown’s strength throughout his life; he would lean on them for guidance. His stepfather died when he was a teenager.

Brown believes he and his siblings are successful because of their mother and that it was because of her that they survived South Central Watts.

A typical day for Brown growing up was going to school and having to al-ways be aware of his surroundings. He had to run from threatening people on more than one occasion.

Brown also remembers being shot at multiple times for no particular reason.

One of the first occasions occurred during his middle school years, when he was 12 years old. A shotgun was fired, and the shotgun shells fell onto Brown’s coat. Brown chalked it up to being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Brown vividly remembers that a couple years later, at the age of 14, a high school peer pulled a gun on him. The act of almost getting shot shook Brown up.

From his mother, Brown knew that education was his way out of the ghetto, but he never told his mother about the shooting incidents because she would worry.

Brown graduated from Centennial High School in the City of Compton. He graduated and attended UC Santa Cruz, where he received his bachelor’s degree in sociology. He also earned a

master’s degree and doctorate from UC Irvine.

Brown’s interest in criminal justice grew out of his childhood growing up in a rough area. He saw that very few escaped and many became involved with gangs, drugs and delinquent be-havior.

He wanted to learn how to solve and fix the problems of underprivi-leged children in unruly neighbor-hoods. Brown moved away from Watts for these reasons and started a life away from the troubles of his hometown.

Brown visits Watts as much as he can. However, he did have to leave his old friends behind as well as his home-town to make a better life, he said.

He has taught for 21 years and en-joys every minute of it. He has taught at UC Santa Barbara, Chapman Uni-versity, Cal State Long Beach and has taught at CSUF for the past six years. He has created a strong reputation for being an inter-esting and en-joyable teacher.

He enters the classroom on time and is dressed in a sharp suit every day. His tall stature makes him appear intimi-dating.

“I like him as a teacher because he keeps it interesting, and he is not bor-ing,” said Manny Garcia, 24, a criminal justice student. “His personal stories from his childhood bring the material into real life situations.”

Other students appreciate Brown for his professional style and upfront attitude.

“He makes class a lot of fun, but respect is key for professor Brown. He always tells us that he will never disre-spect us, as long as we do not disrespect him,” said Jairo Alonzo, 21, a criminal justice major. “That is why when you take one of his classes, if you pay at-tention, then it will make for a great experience.”

Even professors are fond of Brown.Max Dery, 49, a criminal justice

and political science professor, remem-bers the capturing of the pie thief. The Criminal Justice Department offices

were being burglarized and the thief was stealing items from faculty offices. Brown set up a camera and the thief was caught on tape leaving with one of Brown’s pies.

“Professor Brown is so relaxed, wel-coming and I thought he would be the last guy to hunt down a criminal be-cause he is so friendly,” Dery said.

Brown laughs at this story every time someone brings it up. He didn’t want to be known as a snitch but his colleagues see him as a detective and crime fighter.

Brown also prides himself on get-ting to know his students.

Stacy Larson, 25, a criminal justice major, remembers the time professor Brown found out she had a phobia.

“One day there was a spider on my desk and I screamed. From then on, professor Brown continued to

joke with me for the rest of the semester,” Larson said. “I really enjoy his classes and am currently in an-other one this semester.”

Brown might joke a lot but he

is a very caring and sensitive individual. His sensitivity has led him to become a born-again Christian. Brown consid-ers this one of his biggest accomplish-ments.

However, Brown is also a fierce competitor. He will challenge anyone to two of his favorite hobbies: basket-ball and dominoes. When he is not competing, Brown is making an im-pact on his colleagues and students’ lives due to his respect for others.

“I worked together with professor Brown at Chapman, where he was my boss. He was a great guy to work for and always treated everyone with respect,” said James Lasley, 47, a fellow criminal justice professor. “I encouraged him to apply for Fullerton and was really glad he got the job. He brings diversity (to) the major and a strong influence from the African American community.”

Brown believes treating others the way you would like to be treated are words to live by, and it is the way he treats he colleagues and students.

Watts inspires professorMATT PETROPOLUSDaily Titan

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CSUF criminal justice professor

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Cal State Fullerton hosts tour that fights for academic freedom JENNA WESTDaily Titan

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CSUF chicano studies student

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According to the Institute for Responsible Technology, “A genet-ically modified organism is the re-sult of a laboratory process where genes from the DNA of one spe-cies are extracted and artificially forced into the genes of an unre-lated plant or animal.

The foreign genes may come from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals or even humans. Because this involves the transfer of genes, GMOs are also known as “trans-genic organisms.”

I can’t speak for the rest of you but there is nothing appetizing about that definition.

Transferring genes across spe-cies? Really?

We live in an age of techno-logical advancements, but when it comes to using technology to alter the conventional state of our food, we might be taking it a little too far.

GMOs are used to supposedly enhance flavor, add nutritional health benefits, increase shelf life and increase productivity.

However, the only two “traits” seen in GMO products are the ability to tolerate herbicides in foods and the ability to produce pesticides in plants. Interesting. What happened to a plant just be-ing a plant?

According to the Institute for Responsible technology GM foods in the U.S. are:

–soy (91 percent), cotton (88 percent), canola (88 percent), Corn (85 percent), sugar beets (90 percent), hawaiian papaya (more than 50 percent), zucchini and yellow squash (small amount), and Tobacco (Quest brand).

–Oils from soy protein, soy leci-thin, cornstarch, corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup among others.

Processed foods (packaged products you buy in your local su-per market).

According to the American Academy of Environmental Medi-cine, “Several animal studies indi-cate serious health risks associated with genetically modified food, including infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, faulty insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointes-tinal system.”

Although there have not been any studies done on humans, vir-tually every study done on animals has resulted in major health con-cerns.

FDA scientists have repeatedly given their concerns regarding GM foods and how they can cause serious health risks, and to this day they remain ignored.

The genes from viruses and bac-teria being transferred into our food are being introduced into the human food supply for the first time.

Since we have not yet been ex-posed, the risks are unknown.

Personally I would rather my food be grown the conventional way rather than having bacteria genes integrated with it.

Even though GMOs have not been directly proven to cause health risks and harm to the hu-man population, we know for a fact they are dangerous for ani-mals.

If reading this article has made you question our food supply, you can take action and stop GMOs.

Buying 100-percent organic food and buying non-GMO foods (some places specify) will provide you with a GMO-free food supply.

I want each of you to have a bet-ter understanding of what the food you are eating actually consists of, and in this case, what strands of DNA are being put into them.

Remember, as consumers we have the final say of what we will buy.

We have the power to take a stand and end GMOs.

Peace, Love and Recycle!

Say NO to GMOs

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“Please step out of the car” are words no one who took shots wants to hear when driving home.

I have labeled it “the DUI syn-drome” that plagues the younger generation.

There are the people who re-ceive DUIs and learn from their mistakes, but sometimes the issue is taken too lightly.

I feel DUIs are becoming so common among college students that they are viewed as just anoth-er infraction.

“I can think of two people that have gotten them and they really didn’t take it seriously once they could drive again they still would drink and drive. It is just like a consequence they deal with and don’t really think about after the process is over,” said Beth Velasco, 20.

When I hear the acronym “DUI” I hear: “My future will be tainted forever if I get one,” in my head.

Of course this is me being my dramatic self, but DUIs do stay on your record for more than a year

and that is enough incentive to keep me from drinking and driv-ing.

The question should never be whom the soberest person is leav-ing a party. The designated driver should never be just a little “buzzed,” be-cause although you don’t feel too drunk a b r e a t h a l y z e r could probably prove other-wise.

“I think it’s common with peo-ple our age because we really don’t know our limit and were used to getting trashed every night, said Autumn Peoples, 21.

Police officers don’t ask the driver whether or not they feel drunk.

They ask them to step out of the car and breathe into an instrument that calculates the truth of what they claim to have consumed.

So then you have to wonder whether DUI sanctions are appro-priate.

A first-time offender gets their licensed suspended for four to six months; second and third-time of-fenders get 24 months of suspen-sion.

Along with license suspension, come fines that vary from $390 to $1300 and possible probation and or jail time.

“My friend with a DUI would

drink more since she would never have to drive, it is more of a bur-den on the people around you be-cause you have to drive them every where and it gave her more of an ex-cuse to drink because she couldn’t

drive no matter what,” said Ely-se Matillo, 19.

Some peo-ple learn from their mistakes while others completely dis-regard the con-sequences.

A DUI seems like a small slap on the wrist for some and it is ob-viously more serious than that to others.

According to the Century Council, distillers fighting drunk driving and underage drinking, 214,828 arrests in 2008 were at-tributed to driving under the influence and 1,028 driving fa-talities were linked to alcohol im-pairment.

A DUI should serve as a wake-up call not just a temporary sanc-tion.

Sometimes while in college, you wrongfully feel invincible.

People may not be fully aware of how badly a DUI can affect their lives. They setback people’s lives.

It’s not until you see flashing lights and hear an officer directing you to pull over, that you realize big brother is watching you.

Make good choices.

“ Sometimes while in college, you feel wrongly invincible...

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Fear. It is the greatest and most powerful of all human emotions.

Jedi Master Yoda spoke about fear in The Phantom Menace saying, “Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”

As for real world America, we seem to be teetering on the edge of

hate and suffering. Islamaphobia has once again reared it’s ugly head and in one of the most sacred of Ameri-can traditions.

During the elections Nov. 2, vot-ers in Oklahoma overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill that banned state judges from considering Islamic Sharia law in court cases, according to ABC news.

Along with the still embattled “ground zero mosque,” as well as protests against mosques from Ten-nessee to Temecula, according to the New York Times, fear of Islam is driving the nation closer and closer to hate. Even the new, extremely invasive full-body security scanners

at the airport are a result of the fear that’s running the nation. Not only do these scanners blast you with ra-diation but also expose everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) for fear of another “underwear bomber.”

Is it too brash of me to point out that this Islamaphobia thing is really getting ridiculous?

Especially with regards to the Oklahoma law. I can understand the argument behind the ground zero mosque about sensitivity.

And I suppose the full-body scan-ner is rational if it actually catches someone, which it probably won’t, trying to sneak something not so nice onto a plane. But I draw the line at the Oklahoma law.

Stephen Colbert couldn’t have said it any better, in his own satirical way, “Just because something doesn’t exist doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ban it.”

Which is why I’m glad that a fed-eral judge has blocked the law until Nov. 22, when a court hearing will take place on the law’s obvious lack of constitutionality, hindering the freedom of religion.

We, as a nation, absolutely cannot continue to allow fear to drive us to irrational decisions.

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. And in the end, it will be American citizens who suffer.

Islamophobia must endOur illogical fear of Islam will ultimatelycause us sufferingCHRIS POTRYKUSDaily Titan

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An array of quirky, homemade plush dolls were available for purchase at the Patchwork Indie Arts and Crafts Festival by vendor V is for Violet. These dolls are just some of the many handmade goods that were out on display.ERIN BRADLEY / Daily Titan

Arts, crafts made with an indie twistLocal goods attracts craft admirers to the Patchwork FestivalERIN BRADLEYDaily Titan

Hundreds braved the cold tem-peratures and howling winds to browse through eco-friendly and locally made goods at the biannual Patchwork Festival.

Shoppers warmed up with or-ganic tea and coffee, bought hand-knitted scarves and beanies to get cozy, and beeswax chapstick to sooth their dry and cracking lips.

Over 80 vendors and hundreds more shoppers filled Buffalo Street in Santa Ana for the Patchwork fes-tival, an indie arts and crafts event that promotes local artists and handmade goods.

The event, hosted by the Road Less Traveled store in Santa Ana, was started in 2006 as a trendy, af-fordable and eco-friendly variation of the traditional arts and crafts fair.

Vendors sell food, artwork, cloth-ing, candles, glassware, stationary and more, all made locally around Southern California.

Jenn Gomez, who teaches work-shops at the Road Less Traveled Store, had a booth at the event for the first time, where she sold hand-made goods.

“This is my first show I’ve ever done, I’ve only done it online be-fore now, so I’m very excited,” said Gomez, who sells online at Tradi-tionallyUnique.etsy.com. “I’ve sold a few items. Now that the sun is shining and it’s getting warmer, it might get better.”

Gomez creates reusable dinner-ware, women’s clothing, accessories and jewelry, ranging in price from $8 to $88.

Gomez’s booth was tucked among nearly 100 other vendors, cramming the narrow street and adjoining parking lot. The thick crowd, bundled in winter coats and

The long road to Arizona gives insight to the many travelers who pass by on the rural life that exists outside of California.MARYANNE SHULTS / Daily Titan

On the road to Arizona

MARYANNE SHULTSDaily Titan

“On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha…” The lyrics to Bob Seger’s well-known ‘70s tune were playing in my head as I awoke from a daze. It was a lonely stretch of road, but I was not on a Harley with the wind in my face, nor was I east of much except stately saguaro cactus, sand and the oc-casional tumbleweed. I reflected on the weekend journey.

It began with my being compressed into a rented Pontiac Vibe, sequestered to the backseat because my husband John always insists on driving and Kenny, our 6’ 2” son just doesn’t physi-cally bend to fit in the back.

I didn’t mind squeezing into the allotted space, sharing the backseat with our overweight dog, Hunny, a 75-pound red-haired mix of Chow and Akita.

We headed to my aunt and uncle’s home west of Phoenix in Goodyear, Ariz. for the weekend. For most, driv-ing this route from the Orange County area, means a direct shot out Interstate 10 for about 350 miles.

Not so much for my family. My husband detests the interstate system. Since the invention of the mobile GPS, he will seek out an alternative route of-fering roads most would avoid. I was outnumbered on the testosterone me-ter and knew I’d be subjected to rural two-lane roads, pitted from neglect, offering a bumpy ride.

I committed to bringing dessert for Thanksgiving dinner, and since tradi-

tionally it’s pie, John decided we would take a detour to Julian Pie Company.

We left Mission Viejo in the morn-ing and headed south on Interstate 5 towards San Diego. Our first stop, at my insistence was an ocean overlook on Camp Pendleton just south of San Onofre. This picturesque rest area was the ideal place to stop and look at the ocean, breathe the fresh air and relax before continuing our journey.

Continuing south, we exited at route 78 and headed inland. The bedroom communities and commer-cialism slowly changed to rural sur-roundings, from sprawling ranches to the occasional tiny single-story home complete with three junked cars in the middle of the front yard.

Our first destination was the Julian Pie Company. Famous for their fresh, delicious apple pies, this small family-owned business started in 1986.

Julian offers the tourist a mixture of unique gift shops, but its history allows an assortment of antiques including old china, black and white movie stills wrapped in protective plastic, farm tools and discarded hubcaps.

With an apple, pumpkin and pecan pie tucked among the luggage, we con-tinued on route 78. The land changed from pine-strewn mountains into granite-capped hills jutting up from the desert floor as it heads east across the Anza-Borrego desert.

Lessons learned are bridges burned, or so the cliché says. Then why hadn’t I learned that if I drink a 24-ounce cup of coffee before a long drive, it means numerous, often desperate, stops for potty breaks. There are no fast-food

restaurants or gas stations, or even a rest area with a pit toilet out there. Note to self: bring toilet paper.

Second note to self: Do not bother to style hair and more importantly, do not use hairspray. Without landform breaks, the wind whips across the des-ert. My hair was now stuck on one side of my head.

The only people on the road with us were motor homes towing assortments of off-road toys as we neared Ocotillo Wells. The pavement was filled with sudden dips that tendered shouts of glee. These water bars, arranged strate-gically to allow runoff from the distant mountains during the sudden desert monsoon, have more g-force than the best roller coaster.

After passing south of the Salton Sea, the desert was filled with random-ly parked campers and eventually the infamous sand playground of Glamis.

Because this was sheer heaven for the males in our car, we stopped and chatted with the leather-clad recre-ationists driving everything from small go-karts to expensive custom dune buggies, sharing their weekend tales.

We continued on the desolate route 78 that often jogged north, then east. Eventually, we hit Interstate 10 in Blythe, Calif., crossing the Colorado River, and into Arizona.

I looked at the positive of the situa-tion — I could twist a bit, hoping the shoulder strap of the seat belt didn’t strangle me when the child lock en-gaged. I tucked a sweatshirt under my head, and did what I like best on a road trip — sleep. I’d seen enough for one day.

scarves, fought the biting wind to shop the booths in search of Christ-mas gifts, home décor and hand-made kitsch.

“The Patchwork festival is a little different, it has more of a design side than an art side,” said Hiromi Takizawa, a Cal State Fullerton graduate who sold hand-blown glass at the event. “It’s my first time having a booth, I’m a little ner-vous.”

Takizawa sells hand-blown flasks, ornaments and dishes made from recycled glass and ranging in price from $12 to $48.

Veteran vendor Marianna Gon-zalez has been selling her nautical-themed accessories and bags at craft

shows since she started sewing a couple months ago.

“I really like the nautical theme,” said 19-year-old Gonzalez, who goes to Fullerton College. “I know how to sew, and so I bought fabric and started putting stuff together.”

Gonzalez sells nautical style headbands, hair accessories, bags and laptop cases that range from $5 to $40.

“There’s more people (at Patch-work),” Gonzalez said, but more people does not necessarily guaran-tee more sales.

“She is a little bummed, because she’s not getting sales,” said Gon-zalez’ sister, Jari who has joined Gonzalez at other festivals includ-

ing Craft Riot, Patchwork Long Beach and the Foodie Festival. “It’s all about the experience. To me, it’s awesome, she should be proud of it. She thought of it on her own and she’s expressing her creativity, so I think it’s pretty cool.”

The Patchwork Festival creatively blends craft, design and art to pro-vide vendors a place to showcase their work.

It allows shoppers to buy prod-ucts that are conscious, eco-friendly and locally made, which supports the local economy, and gives money back to the artists.

Putting the artists in one place allows vendors to compare ideas and techniques, perfect their crafts and get feedback from others.

“I like meeting a lot of different, creative people, and getting inspira-

tion,” Takizawa said.For artists like Takizawa, and de-

signers like Gomez and Gonzalez, the Patchwork Festival is more than a place to sell their goods. It is a place of community.

For more information on the Patchwork Festival and the vendors at the event, visit PatchworkShow.com or visit the Road Less Traveled Store.

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Two friends, part of a race crew, change out tires and prepare their car, a Honda CRX-89 model, before a street race that is held during the night in San Bernardino. Street races are illegal but are still popular among 20-something-year-old crowds.ALAYNA DURAN / Daily Titan

The need for speedALAYNA DURANDaily Titan

As the sun goes down and the stars shine through, the engines start to roar. The loud synced exhausts from street racers are heard throughout the streets. The joy for cars is in their veins. They travel in packs with the passion to ride.

Fontana-based crew, I Track, is one of many crews down to race. Several days a week they meet up with differ-ent crews and set up races. The love for

cars seems to progress into the excite-ment to race.

“I have a 2000 Civic hatchback, and a ‘05 Audi,” said 21-year-old, Ed-win*. “You get butterflies when you’re racing, it’s definitely an adrenaline rush, and once you’re off it’s a whole different world.”

These adrenaline rushes can prog-ress into top-notch speeds. This type of illegal street racing has its conse-quences. Gavin*, 20, has experienced the down-fall that comes with street racing. “I was caught for street rac-

ing on the freeway going about 110,” Gavin said. His car was taken away, he was given a $1,000 ticket, plus an impound fee.

No matter the consequences these street racers still see the bright side. Their love for cars and the love for rac-ing doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

As the night progresses a helicopter begins to surround the car meet. The sirens soon crackle and the racers scat-ter.

* Names have been changed to pro-tect privacy.

Cars, like this Honda Civic, line up on the street prior to the race in the evening so there is less of a chance for the police to catch them.ALAYNA DURAN / Daily Titan

A racer sits in his Honda Civic earlier in the day to test out his wheels and make sure everything in his vehicle is working so that there are no hiccups in his race later on.

ALAYNA DURAN / Daily Titan

Lining the sidewalks, fans of street racing and friends of the racers bring lawn chairs to watch the nighttime races.ALAYNA DURAN / Daily Titan

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) If you can sway the opinion of one influential female, you win everything. Others will go along and think it was their idea. Imagine total agreement.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) Other people offer sug-gestions that come from three different places, yet all indicate how much they care about you. There’s love in each communication.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) An associate wishes you’d get to practical details early. You like to check the big picture, but the work goes faster if you focus on the task at hand.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Take time to revise your thinking about household changes. You have the chance now to refine the plan and choose better materials. Be sure to use the right tools.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) A partner poses questions relating to work, as well as opportunities relating to romance and recreation. Work first and then do some-thing fun together.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Recreational activities late in the day depend on you getting work done as quickly as possible. Stick to the most practical tasks. Keep it simple.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Allow your thinking to wander now. Blurred focus is just what you need, as you apply artistic talents. Use a light touch and a broad stroke.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) A previously steadfast female changes her mind dramatically now. It could be fun to just see what happens. Let it roll, unless others get singed.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) An array of choices lie before you. When addressing a friend’s question, don’t let your practicality sound insensitive. Listen well before offering advice.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You have a beautiful plan brewing. Take a deep breath, and move into action. You won’t see results until later. Still, you make visible progress.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Work in seclusion to find answers to burning questions. What first seems like an obstacle to practical actions turns out to mask an opportunity.

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However, the Titans didn’t let them escape. Titan junior guard Perry Webster found himself in the hunt for vengeance as he clawed his way to the basket to get fouled and knock down two clutch free throws. Seconds later he found himself on the defensive end for a steal, taking it down court, he settled his feet and drilled a three-pointer to silence the Torero crowd and take back the lead, 60-58.

San Diego only had the strength to come out with a single point from junior guard Darian Norris, who up until Sunday’s game was the team’s leading scorer with 11.5 points per game, one of two made free throws was all the Toreros had left.

The Titans took the opportunity they had at the charity stripe when Peltier knocked down two solid free throws to gain the three-point deficit. The last 28.8 seconds saw three shots go up and miss from an anxious San Diego team that was too little too late in a final heave from three-point land off Dorr’s fingertips to only rim out at the buzzer.

“The rebounding at the end of the game I think was just terrific,” said Titan Head Coach Bob Burton. “I couldn’t believe the shot that that kid got ... We got a good win on the road, we showed toughness and character.”


Junior guard Perry Webster pulls up for the jumper over Trojan freshman Maurice Jones. JONATHAN GIBBY / Daily Titan

Volleyball claims first Big West titleAARON GILLIAMDaily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team capped off its most successful season in its 30-year his-tory at the Division I level and did what many believed they couldn’t – win the Big West Conference. The underdog Titans have traditionally never finished higher than fifth place in conference play, but went 14-2 in the Big West this year, dethroning defending two-time champion and rival Long Beach State, automatical-ly clenching their first ever NCAA tournament berth.

“I’m really excited for our team winning the Big West Conference. It shows other teams that no team should be underestimated. Our team made a mission statement before our season started, and our main goal was to get to the NCAA tournament, so to achieve that goal is a great accomplishment. We will always remember that we were the first team in CSUF’s history to get first place in Big West Conference and to make it to the (NCAA) tour-nament,” said Erin Saddler, senior outside hitter.

The Titans are heading into the tournament with a record of 26-5 and are riding a nine-match winning streak into tournament play, a record for the Titans. CSUF was also nearly perfect at home and went 16-1 at Titan Gym – another school record.

Titan senior libero Cami Cro-teau also completed her quest for Big West dig dominance by becom-ing the Big West career digs leader (2171), dethroning Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s former libero Kristin Jackson. In her final match of the regular season Croteau accrued 38 digs resulting in her 583rd dig of the season – two more school records.

Croteau’s performance earned her first career Big West Player of the Week honor during the week ending

Members of the Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team and their families watch and celebrate as they hear the announcement of who they play in the NCAA Div. I tournament.AARON GILLIAM / Daily Titan

Titans scrap for two wins at home

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In a winning weekend for the Cal State Fullerton women’s bas-ketball, the team felt a scare on the court. On Nov. 18, playing against San Francisco, Titan senior forward Jenna Breite collided with one of the Dons, resulting in her being es-corted off the court with a concus-sion. She bounced right back three days later against the San Jose State Spartans. Breite played 20 minutes in the game, obtaining eight points, seven rebounds and two assists.

Forward shook up on the court

Brief by Michellee Cooper

The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team fell shy of break-ing the school record for the most three-pointers made in a game. On Nov. 21, the Titans made 12 three-pointers, where the current school record stands at 14. Titan guards junior Megan Richardson and se-nior Lyndsey Grove combined for 6-12 from beyond the arc. Titan senior forward Jenna Breite said they played well as a team and as for sinking all the shots.

Women’s deadly from the perimeter

Brief by Michellee CooperNov. 21, which gives the Titans their fifth of the year – another school re-cord.

Croteau and Saddler, as well as sophomore middle blocker Kayla Neto and junior outside hitter Tor-rie Brown were named to the All-Big West for – yes, you guessed it – a school record for the most Titans named to an All-Conference first team.

Winning a multiple All-Confer-ence nod seemed to be common for the Titans who have three players who have held the title more than once: Croteau (3), Neto (2) and Saddler (2), who was named Big West Player of the Year. Saddler, who received four Player of the Week awards during the season, was the obvious candidate for Big West Play-

er of the Year. By earning the title, Saddler joins the company of former Titan standout Brittany Moore, who was the first Titan to earn the award back in 2008.

“Winning Player of the Year is a huge honor (and) accomplishment. It shows that I stand out amongst the other players in our conference and that other coaches in our conference have recognized me. It definitely is a compliment to all the years I have been playing volleyball and all the hard work and sacrifices that I have made along the way,” Saddler said.

When you have a record-breaking season full of firsts and players getting all different types of amazing acco-lades, one must look at the coach as the “mechanism that keeps all the cogs in gear.” Head Coach Carolyn Zim-

merman is that mechanism. In her ninth year as head coach, Zimmerman did what many other coaches strive to do in a lifetime and won Big West Coach of the Year. This is the first time a coach at CSUF has won the award and is also her first award of the same name.

“You know what they say, records are meant to be broken,” Zimmerman said. “But I know that anyone of us would give up the recognitions and accolades to be able to go to the first round of the NCAA (tournament). So to have all of those personal accolades and then to have the team do well is just a dream come true.”

“It’s amazing when you have four players make All-Conference and your coach is Coach of the Year and you have a teammate who gets Player

of the Year; you just know you’re on a special team, so it makes it so much easier when you have a team that you can depend on, even if you have an off game,” Neto said.

CSUF knows that making it to the tournament is only a small fraction of the battle. They know that they must come out harder, stronger and more mentally prepared than any other op-ponent they have faced. Zimmerman said it best, “It’s not just getting there, it’s getting there and competing to win.”

The Titans journey to Maples Pavil-ion in Palo Alto, Calif., to face Colo-rado State in the first round of the NCAA Division I Volleyball Cham-pionships Dec. 3. First serve is set to start at 4:30 p.m. but times are subject to change.

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida fought in the Octagon Nov. 20 for UFC 123 in Detroit, Mich.

The fight ended with a split de-cision leaving Jackson victorious and somewhat surprised. Jackson’s humbleness could lead to a risky ca-reer move since the victory brought him one step closer to a title fight.

Throughout the fight, Jackson’s aggressiveness in the ring left a huge impression with the judges.

Jackson emerges victorious in UFC 123

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Titan freshmen Jasmine Grayson and Yvont’e Neal scramble for the ball in a 69-66 win.CELIA LIRA / Daily Titan

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The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team played their first home game of the season Thursday Nov. 18, against San Francisco, taking home the victory with a final score of 69-66.

Through a lot of defensive rebounds and steals, the Titans were able to come back as they trailed behind San Fran-cisco early on in the first half.

It wasn’t until senior forward Jenna Breite made a shot that put the Titans ahead at 15-14, and another shot to put them up two more, followed by ju-nior guard Megan Richardson’s three-pointer that let the Titans hold off the Dons and maintain the lead.

The Titans were able to take posses-sion of the ball once again, where three more three-pointers increased the defi-cit, leaving the Dons straggling behind with a score of 23-18.

The Titans were able to move the ball smoothly going into halftime, but San Francisco trailed close behind the Titans 37-34.

Starting off the second half aggres-sively, senior guard Lyndsey Grove made the first three buckets, and a pair of free throws from Richardson helped the Titans to a 44-36 lead.

“We played in the zone, shot well against the zone, had opportunities to get open and were able to bang boards,” said Titan Head Coach Marcia Foster.

With 3:44 remaining on the clock, San Francisco made a comeback and the score was tied at 62. As the clock wound down, the Dons took the lead at 66-65. A foul on Richardson sent her to the line, allowing the Titans to get back up to 68. In the game’s final seconds, the Titans were able to hold off the Dons, taking the victory, 69-66.

Richardson said the team played well and they were able to capitalize on defensive opportunities.

“We played well defensively and to prepare for the next game we will prac-tice hard,” Richardson said.

CSUF was very well prepared as they blew past the San Jose State Spar-tans, taking home the victory with a final score of 76-45 Sunday Nov. 21 at Titan Gym.

Leading off the night, Richardson made the first basket, giving the Titans the lead from there on out.

Early in the first half, Breite, after suffering from a concussion in the previous game, nabbed a steal, paving the way for Richardson to score again. The Titans put on a strong defensive barrier, preventing the Spartans from scoring.

“There was a lot of good team ef-forts tonight and we’re able to shoot well against the zone,” Foster said.

Richardson, who made back-to-back three-pointers kept the Spartans from bridging the gap. But with a long three from the Spartans, along with a pair of free throws, San Jose State was able to put some points on the board.

Off the bench, redshirt junior guard Lauren Chow stepped in and made a clear three-pointer, followed by one from senior guard Ashley Richie, put-ting the score at 20-8. Grove made yet another three-pointer, followed by freshman guard Yvont’e Neal and Richardson’s, stretching the score to 34-17.

The Titans stood on top of their

game, heading in to halftime with a score of 45-27.

“We played aggressively and could barely miss our threes,” Breite said. “We were crashing the boards.”

Going into the second half, the Ti-tans hit more three-pointers all around the perimeter, increasing the deficit to 67-38. As Chow hit her second three, The Titans made 12 total, falling just two shy of the school record currently set at 14.

The Titans took home the victory with a final score 76-45.

Breite, who came in from a concus-sion just two nights before, started in the post and had eight points. Grove also started for the Titans and came away with 11 points and five assists.

The bench came away with 32 points on the night including Neal’s 10 points, two from three-point land and both Chow and freshman Jasmine Grayson in the post with six points re-spectively.

The Titans travel to Bowling Green, Ohio to play the Redhawks of Bowling Green State University, Sunday Dec. 4 at 2 p.m.

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The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team split a pair of games over Thanksgiving break losing to USC but winning their home debut against Cal State Bakersfield.

The Titans were only down two at the half at USC, despite being un-dersized in the post. After intermis-sion though, the Trojans came out gunning the lead by freshman point guard Maurice Jones who finished with 20 points.

The Titans were outscored 49 to 24 in the second half, but there was one bright spot in the game as redshirt senior forward Jer’Vaughn Johnson returned from injury.

Johnson was out six weeks with a banged up knee, but played 13 min-utes.

Titan Head Coach Bob Burton was not happy with the 81-54 loss for the Titans. He thought the team didn’t play hard in the second half.

“We played good defense the first half but our offense was terrible all night. We took bad shots and didn’t play together. We were able to get

Jer’Vaughn back so that was the bright spot for us tonight,” Burton said.

Burton also thought redshirt ju-nior forward Orane Chin had one of the worst games of his career, and he is one of the big keys to the season.

Senior guard Devon Peltier thought the team played a solid first half, but didn’t play a complete game.

“We need to play 40 minutes as a team. Our shots weren’t falling, and when that happens our defense needs to be better. That didn’t hap-pen tonight, and when we play a much bigger team that won’t be a good result for us.” Peltier said.

The Titans finally were able to play at home against Cal State Ba-kersfield, and won Saturday Nov. 27, 85-75. The win made the team 2-4 on the season.

The Titans were down by eight at the half, but outscored Cal State Ba-kersfield in the second half by mak-ing their free throws and playing much better defense.

Johnson scored 17 points, in only

23 minutes of play which is a great sign for the Titans. Junior point guard Perry Webster also had 17 points, and had no turnovers.

The Titans also hit the glass hard, out-rebounding Cal State Bakers-field 43-20.

The biggest part of the game was when the Titans came out of half-time with an 11-0 run and never looked back.

Johnson rebounded a missed three-pointer and was fouled while going up with the ball for a three-point play.

Johnson is thrilled to be back on the court finally.

“I’m happy to be playing. I haven’t been able to get a lot of practice in so far, but being out on the court with my teammates

feels like home. When I’m 100 per-cent we will be able to do some dif-ferent things,” Johnson said.

The Titans play Montana on Tuesday at Missoula, Mont. in the Dahlberg Arena and won’t be back home until Saturday when they play San Diego at Titan Gym at 6:05 p.m.

“- Jer’Vaughn Johnson

Redshirt senior forward

I’m happy to be playing. ... When I’m 100 percent we will be able to do some different things...

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