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The eighth annual FYF Fest lured thousands to the Los Angeles Historic State Park to revel in a top-billed mu-sic experience Saturday.

Rife with time-honored mainstays (Canadian indie rockers Broken Social Scene, instrumental act Explosions in the Sky), reunited bands (punk leg-ends The Descendants, dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979) and rising talents (Chicago-based rock band Smith Westerns and pop rock act Cults), the festival improved on its shortcomings the previous year.

At last year’s FYF, many festival-go-ers were less enthused with scorching heat and dust due to the State Park’s landscape. However FYF, with the aid of concert promoter giant Gold-envoice, was better organized. Wood chips were in place to sustain the dust

and the addition of ample tents helped to protect fans from the heat. Golden-voice was even handing out free sun-screen near the entrance. Wait times in line were greatly decreased as well.

Another breakdown of 2010’s fes-tival was the lack of water, in which the supply was completely depleted by nightfall. This was greatly re-solved this year with a steady stock of affordable water. Patrons could even fill up empty water bottles at hydration areas.

Four stages with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle namesakes, as well as the aptly titled Splinter’s Den, accommo-dated various comedy shows and over 30 bands. FYF was a hodgepodge event with acts ranging from punk, pop, electronica, folk, rock and ev-erything in between.

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FYF festival revitalizes its Labor Day weekend event

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Playing host to colleges across Southern Califor-nia, the Cal State Fullerton cross-country team post-ed impressive showings in its first meet of the season.

Out of 19 schools in the men’s division and 20 in the women’s, CSUF finished second and fourth for the meet, respectively.

Both the men and women’s teams have been work-ing all summer in preparation for the 2011 season, which kicked off at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Carbon Canyon Park in Brea.

“Burr! It’s cold in here, there must be some Ti-tans in the atmosphere!” This is what the men’s team chants before every race while in a team huddle. The cold thoughts were needed.

Even in the morning, the heat was nearly impos-sible to escape and left the runners practically steam-ing as they ran their first race of the season.

The men’s team started the day off with its 8k race,

which is about 4.97 miles. The women followed with their 6k, which equals roughly 3.7 miles.

Junior John Carrell thought the day was a success.“I think I did good today; it was definitely a good

first race. I came prepared. I got a lot of sleep the night before, ate healthy and trained hard,” said Car-rell.

Carrell’s pre-race preparations showed. He ran a 25:24.8, placing second for CSUF and fourth overall.

Junior Brian Aleman has a lot of confidence in his team this year.

“This season we are a very young, healthy and fast team. I don’t see any reasons why we won’t be able to crack the top half of the conference and compete with the big schools,” said Aleman.

Aleman ran a 26:40.4, just missing his personal re-cord (26:39) by one second. But not only is the cross-country team racing well, their attitudes also

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Senior Grace Gonzales finished first among the CSUF women.

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Waves more than 20 feet high swept through Southern Califor-nia beaches over the Labor Day weekend, causing one of the most notorious and deadly waves to grab headlines across the country.

Even Cal State Fullerton stu-dents couldn’t stay away from the enormous swells.

Waves at Newport Beach’s The Wedge topped out at 22 feet Fri-day and Saturday. Bodyboarders, surfers and bodysurfers risked their lives in the massive surf.

With these water-men stealing the show, hundreds of spectators lined the sands of the Newport Beach harbor to catch a glimpse of the massive walls of water.

“I came out to watch,” said Trevor Scott, 18, a bystander. “No way would I even think about paddling out in that. Those guys can have it.”

Surfers and bodyboarders are allowed in the water from sunrise until 10 a.m.

After that, lifeguards raise the black-ball flag. This is a Newport Beach city ordinance forcing all people with a flotation device to exit the water immediately.

This opens the door for all bodysurfers to glide the massive swells without fear of getting hit by a loose board.

The most experienced life-guards patrol The Wedge when the surf reaches a certain height.

When waves reach 20 feet, life-guards become more alert to keep the beaches and water safe for the public.

“We have had to make two res-cues so far,” said Boyd Mickley, a lifeguard captain. “One was a camera man that was in the water trying to take shots. He was swim-ming with one hand and got tired. The other was a bodyboarder that lost his board in the surf.”

With hard currents and ex-tremely high tides during the peak of the swell, the Newport Beach lifeguards are being very cautious about who goes into the water at The Wedge.

“Anyone who goes out needs to have fins on,” Mickley said. “Not just the ones you get at Wal-Mart either, they need to be made spe-cifically for bodyboarding. Viper Fins, Duck Feet and Churchill are the best.”

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Students spend weekend at The Wedge

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I came out to watch. No way would I even think about paddling out in that. Those guys can have it.

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It is unlikely to find parking near Chapman Park during Cal State Fullerton school hours. Students have been trying to find ways to avoid buying parking permits.

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It is not uncommon to see “FULL” on Cal State Fullerton’s new parking availability signs.

As of Aug. 24, 17,494 parking permits for fall 2011 were sold, said Joe Ferrer, director of Parking and Transportation Services. How-ever, there are only 8,812 general student parking spaces, according to the Parking and Transportation website.

With parking being such a hassle, and permits not necessarily being cheap, students turn to free parking around campus.

The closest free parking where permit-less students can only hope to snag a spot is Langsdorf Drive and College Place, which surrounds the College Park Building. Parking here fills quickly. Students need to wake up early to get a spot here.

Parking is also available in neigh-borhoods all around campus. The only problem is that a lot of it is timed or permit parking only.

To the south of campus, students

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University sells more permits than available parking spaces

Maggie Miranda, an employee at The Cup in the Titan Student Union, died Aug. 20 due to heart failure. She was 28 years old and a mother of two.

Miranda was a supervisor at The Cup in the TSU food court where she had worked since the 2000s. She was well known around the food court by coworkers and students.

“(She was) always outgoing, very friendly (and) always trying to take care of the next person because she was a giving person,” said Christina Martinez, general food court man-ager. “(She) never showed any malice to anybody. All of the customers loved her.”

Born in Mexico Dec. 16, 1982, Miranda moved to Placentia, Calif. at the age of 7. She grew up in Orange County and completed her elementa-ry through high school education as a student in the Placentia–Yorba Linda Unified School District. After gradu-ating from high school, Miranda re-ceived her license in cosmetology and began working for Cal State Fullerton

at the food court.Miranda always stood out as being

approachable. “(She) was a person that people

could talk to and be comfortable talking to. Everybody loved talking to her,” said Uthai Thiranop, food court manager.

She had an intense focus for de-tails, Thiranop said.

“She knew customers by name,” he said. Both Thiranop and Martinez agreed she was a special face in the food court. She was a friend to every-one and a leader, they said.

Besides working at The Cup, Mi-randa was also known for being dedi-cated to her two sons: Danny, 7, and Mikey, 5.

“She was a really strong woman, even though she was going through hard times in her life. She was a single mother. She had two kids. She was al-ways there for them. She always had a smile on her face,” said Miranda’s sister, Alma.

Services for Miranda were held at the Hilgenfeld Mortuary in Anaheim. A donation box was set up to help with the services as well as care for Miranda’s two sons. Miranda’s family thanked visitors for their support.

Her influence on the campus is best described by the two pictures that her manager Uthai holds of Miranda in his office: one of her smiling with her two sons and another, hidden be-neath the first, of her in her casket.

“I hide this,” Thiranop said, “be-cause people don’t like to see it, but I think it’s important for people to remember her.”

Miranda suffered from a heart condition, which required her to wear a pacemaker that needed batter-ies regularly replaced. A week before Miranda died, her doctor informed her that she needed surgery in order to replace the batteries in her pace-maker. Her pacemaker failed that Saturday and she subsequently died of a heart attack, Alma said.

Miranda is remembered by her two sons, her family, her coworkers, and CSUF faculty and students.

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Students and faculty were shocked Thursday as ambulances arrived at the College Park Building after a student suffered from a seizure.

The student fell to the floor and started shaking violently due to un-known reasons.

Before falling into the seizure, the student asked his communications professor for help and shortly passed out afterward, according to a student who was in the classroom when the in-cident happened.

“The teacher did a great job. Myself and another student did a great job (as well) trying to keep him stable,” said John Erwin, a senior at Cal State Ful-lerton. “He seems to be doing OK.”

According to Lt. John Brockie of the CSUF University Police, campus police received a call at approximately 12:32 p.m. Thursday that a person, male and approximately 24 years old, was having a seizure in the College Park Building.

Police, firefighters and ambulances rushed to the aid of the student who was being helped by teachers and classmates.

The student became unconscious for a short period of time and recov-ered consciousness a few minutes later. He was taken to Placentia Hospital.

“Once there, we know they’re in good hands,” Brockie said.

Emergency officials took care of the student and were able to help him re-cuperate. The student is currently fine and recovering from the incident, ac-cording to Brockie.

A lot of things can cause seizures, said Robert Kersey, a kinesiology pro-fessor at CSUF.

“There are a wide variety of sei-zures,” said Kersey, who teaches sports medicine. “What most people think of as seizures includes violent motions and convulsions … but seizures can be very subtle, including what appears to be an unresponsive person.”

The most common type of seizures, according to Kersey, are epileptic sei-zures, but seizures can be caused by many things including heat illness, brain trauma and drug use, among other things.

“It’s hard to say what caused this,” Kersey said.

Without a medical history, it would be impossible to guess what caused the seizure, he said.

ASI Board of Directors unani-mously passed to spend $859.85 on two new task chairs for the Human Resources Department. The board also unanimously appointed the Camp Titan co-directors.

The request of the Human Re-sources Department for the alloca-tion of $859.85 will be for two YS72 ergonomic task chairs for full-time workers.

Each chair is $399 plus $61.85 tax.“This will be coming from the

$35,000 equipment reserve that hasn’t been touched yet,” said Mat-thew Badal, ASI vice president of Fi-nance.

One board member said thinking of the full-time workers’ health is in the best interest of ASI.

“Sitting in a chair eight hours a day can be extremely strenuous on the

back, on joints, on multiple parts of the body,” she said. “Instead of paying for a medical bill in the future, we’re buying a $400 chair.”

Lea Jarnigan, the university presi-dent’s representative, agreed. “You pay a little more in the beginning, you pay a whole lot less in the long run,” she said.

The board also unanimously passed the appointment of Anthony Padilla and Susan Bolter as co-directors of Camp Titan for 2011-12.

Padilla, who was co-director last year, said he has a passion for working with kids.

“It’s just a really gratifying experi-ence and it’s very rewarding,” he said.

This will be his fifth year volunteer-ing for the organization.

Bolter is excited for her second year of camp.

“I’m really looking forward to it because I am looking into going into social work,” she said.

Camp Titan is an annual summer camp for children that is staffed by CSUF students. Campers spend a week in the San Bernardino moun-tains learning life skills and participat-ing in confidence-building activities.

In other business, Miles Nevin, the executive director of the California State Student Association, gave a pre-sentation to the board on the bill’s de-tails. He asked for the board’s support of AB 970, which is CSSA’s priority-one bill, he said.

AB 970 addresses a number of is-sues regarding fee increases.

“It requires that the student asso-ciation in the CSU, or the student association of the UC, be consulted for a 90-day period before that seg-ment makes a decision on a tuition or fee increase,” said Nevin during the meeting.

Further restrictions to fee increases are also included in the bill.

“The fee cannot be implemented

(until) 6 months after it has been agendized,” he said. “Systems would have to report why the student fee increase was the best way to move forward (and) what exactly those fee increases are going to pay for.”

He added that opposition to the bill is strong among the public uni-versity system.

“The CSU and UC systems are vehemently opposed to this bill; we (CSSA) are vehemently in support of it,” Nevin said. “AB 970 is a piece of legislation that our Board of Direc-tors, last spring, unanimously voted to sponsor.”

One misconception that ASI Chief Governmental Officer Jessie Frietze does not want students to make is that AB 970 will not stop fee increas-es. “Instead, the real benefit is that it’ll give students time,” she said.

Board meetings are every Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. in the Legislative Cham-bers in the Titan Student Union.

can be found parking on Common-wealth Avenue. Farther south on Commonwealth, another popular spot to park, are streets surrounding Chapman Park.

Michael Hur-ley has been parking here since his first se-mester at CSUF.

He said pric-ing is an issue for parking permits. “It’s ridiculously expensive,” said Hurley, a politi-cal science ma-jor.

Hurley would much rather spend 15 minutes walking from the neigh-borhood than waiting to find a park-ing spot on campus. “From what I’ve heard, it’s probably less time than it takes to find a parking spot in the structures,” Hurley said.

Other students agreed.“It’s expensive,” said Vanessa Pro,

a psychology major, who has been parking near Chapman Park for two of her three years attending CSUF.

Walking the 15 minutes is better than paying $220 for a permit, Pro said.

Pro will consider buying a pass if she has to be on campus more often. “If I’m on campus all days, then yes, but if it’s just two days a week, then no,” she said.

Broadmoor, a neighborhood northwest of campus, is filled with CSUF students’ cars.

Kelsey McDonnell, a graduate stu-dent studying English, sees Broad-moor as an only option for parking. “If I didn’t have an 8 a.m. class, then I wasn’t going to find parking in the parking structures,” said McDonnell.

Like others, McDonnell doesn’t see the point of buying a permit.

“It’s too much money - not worth

it,” she said.McDonnell also takes safety into

account when parking 15 minutes away from campus. She bought a permit for one semester.

“I had a late night class. I didn’t want to walk so far at night,” Mc-

Donnell said.Residents in

Broadmoor find students parking in their neigh-borhood a bur-den.

“They park in front of my mailbox, and the mail carrier gets upset. It’s also not legal to block mailbox-

es,” said Claudia Wasser, a 26-year homeowner in Broadmoor. “It’s got-ten worse the past two semesters,” she added.

The students litter and are not courteous, Wasser said.

“At the end of last year’s school year, I came home from work only to find two students playing frisbee on my lawn,” she said. “That’s uncalled for.”

Wasser, a realtor for 35 years, said it is dropping the value of her prop-erty. “People don’t want to buy in a neighborhood that is strewn with cars all the time,” she said.

“We (residents) have asked the city to create a permit parking only or restricted parking,” Wasser said.

Wasser and other residents have started a petition and presented it to the Fullerton City Council. The City Council told them they needed 65 percent of the neighborhood to sign before anything can be done.

Parking isn’t just a hassle for stu-dents. If Broadmoor becomes per-mit parking only, a huge number of students will lose their primary parking area. They will have to look elsewhere, or find another neighbor-hood to park in.

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Teacher and students quickly react to seizure

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ANDREA AYALADaily Titan

At the end of last year’s school year, I

came home from work only to find two students playing frisbee on my lawn. That’s uncalled for.

Claudia Wasser Homeowner

CSUF employee and mother of two dies at age 28

Hospitalized student is doing OK

The ASI Board of Directors in a meeting in the TSU Legistlative Chambers unanimously voted to allocate more than $850 for two chairs in the Human Resources Department.

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Medieval sword fighting, archery and even a crew of break-dancers were at Cal State Fullerton’s Discoverfest, along with 200 clubs and organizations recruiting new members.

The event, which ran Wednesday and Thursday be-tween 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Quad, gave students a chance to learn about the many on-cam-pus clubs and organiza-tions and get involved.

“I thought this was going to be just a bunch of fraternities recruiting during rush week,” said Brandon Dybdal, 24, a history major. “I was blown away to see dudes break danc-ing and shocked to realize just how big the rugby players really are.”

The booths, which were scattered amongst white cano-pies, included on-campus clubs, Greek organizations, in-tramural sports teams and even an equestrian club.

Active members handed out fliers, candy and other re-

freshments to attract students.The New Student and Student Life Program coordi-

nators organize the event on campus twice a year so new students can find a way to meet new people with common interests and get involved on campus.

“The goal of Discoverfest is to promote campus involve-ment,” said Annabelle Cariaga, coordinator of New Stu-dent Programs. “Research shows that involvement in cam-

pus programs leads to a more successful college experience.”

The coordinators push for new students to get involved, create a well-balanced college lifestyle and build last-ing relationships with people who have simi-lar interests.

According to Peggy Bockman, assistant dean for Stu-dent Affairs, Discoverfest is a great opportunity for the leadership of these on-campus clubs to come together and find a way to learn from one another.

The event is a great way to see what brings successful recruitment for some organizations and what really doesn’t work for others.

WAVES: Massive swell attracts surfers over weekend

The Wedge got its famous name from a unique wave called the wedge, a wave that sets itself apart from all other waves in the world.

A wave reflects off the rock jetty on the west side of the Newport Harbor and causes it to meet up with the following wave.

This causes the waves to form a peak, which is often several feet bigger than all other waves in the area.

“It’s pretty cool to watch; you can see it coming from way outside but it doesn’t break until it gets right on shore,” said Nathan Freeman, a radio-TV-film major at CSUF.

These 20-foot monster waves break only 10 to 20 yards away from shore in only two feet of water. Injuries are common at The Wedge, ranging from sand burns to spinal cord injuries.

So far there have been no serious injuries, a trend that lifeguards and others hope will continue for the rest of the year.

Members of Cal State Fullerton’s American Marketing Association will join tens of thousands of volunteers for the 27th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day Sept. 17.

People across California will join to-gether in an effort to bring awareness and help clean their local beaches and waterways. Members of the American Marketing Association (AMA) are looking forward to arming themselves with sunscreen, reusable trash bags, water, towels and comfortable shoes to attack the Huntington Beach shore-line. The California Coastal Cleanup coincides with the 26th Annual Inter-national Coastal Cleanup which takes place on the same day.

“Trash just keeps coming,” said Josh Kloppenburg, 20, as he let his feet dan-gle off the side of lifeguard tower 12 in Huntington Beach. “It just makes our beach look bad.”

Looking down, Kloppenburg took

note of a plastic straw and cup less than three feet away from the tower.

According to the California Coastal Commission’s website, 82,500 vol-unteers helped remove 1.2 million pounds of trash in 2010. As first-time volunteers, the CSUF club is estimat-ing that 40 to 100 members will par-ticipate in the event. They’re currently in the process of organizing and have been in contact with coordinators and volunteers for the event.

“A lot of us like going to the beach,” said Eric Morgan, vice president of outreach for the AMA. They want to make sure that the beaches stay as clean as possible.

Many beach-goers don’t care about their trash and won’t bother to chase it when the wind blows it away, Klop-penburg explained. Five towers down, Mario Ahumada, 27, got up and walked around to offer his family an empty bucket of chicken to put their trash in.

“I do it, but not everyone does,” said Ahumada. “I told my son to go throw

away his chicken bone.”The city’s night crew that cleans the

beach does a good job, according to Kloppenburg, but admits that it’s not enough to stop the never-ending wave of trash.

“Maybe we can get a few more signs and make people aware (of the trash),” Kloppenburg said.

The club plans to volunteer on the north side of Huntington Beach’s pier.

Morgan, who would like to see as many volunteers as possible, said only a maximum of 450 volunteers will be allowed at the location.

“The more the better,” Morgan said, adding that the AMA plans to enjoy its time at the beach, even after the event.

The marketing club focuses on helping with community work, net-working and putting on social events, Morgan said.

People who are interested in volun-teering can visit the California Coastal Commission’s website, Coastal.Ca.gov, to find cleanup sites and print out a re-quired waiver.

Intramural sports teams, cultural clubs, Greek organizations and academic clubs set up their booths Wednesday and Thursday. The event makes it easier for new students to find their niche on campus.

ALEXI PARKER / For the Daily Titan

The Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day is a statewide event where residents comb the beach for trash on their local beaches. Last year the event removed 1.2 million pounds of trash from the coastline.

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Business club to help clean coast

Over 200 clubs and organizations participate in Discoverfest, an event that is held every semester to increase student involvement

Members plan to participate in the 27th Annual California Cleanup Day

MIKE WHITEDaily Titan

I was blown away to see dudes break dancing and shocked to realize

just how big the rugby players really are.

Brandon DybdalHistory Major

A surfer and bodyboarder drop into a wave at The Wedge in Newport. The largest recorded wave was 22 feet as of Saturday.

VAN JOHNSTONE / Daily Titan

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Without a doubt, imaging tech-nology is cool. From radio astron-omy to life-saving CT scans, our ability to manipulate the electro-magnetic spectrum to create pic-tures has permitted mankind to see into distant galaxies and into the core of atoms. Such technology must always be used responsibly. The present usage of X-ray body scanners in airports is not respon-sible.

Before going further, let’s estab-lish a couple things: First, backscat-ter X-ray scanners used in airports do not work the same way as the X-ray machine your dentist uses. Dental X-rays penetrate the skin, whereas backscatter X-rays bounce off the skin to make the picture. Second, backscatter X-rays work at different energy levels than normal dental X-rays.

Another key difference between backscatter X-ray scanners and dental X-rays is that the exact health effects and operational pa-rameters are well established and known publicly for dental X-rays but not airport scanners. That should be cause for serious concern when you and your loved ones take a trip by plane.

You may ask, “But doesn’t the government thoroughly test prod-ucts before it uses them on mil-lions of people?” Yes, the govern-ment does often take great pains to ensure the quality and safety of the products we use as consumers. However, the TransportationSe-curity Administration (TSA) has not met its obligation in this case. How can we know this? We know because the TSA has not fully dis-closed all the operating and safety features of the backscatter X-ray scanner. In science and in public safety, the full disclosure of risks and side effects is crucial for con-sumers to make an informed choice about products. You wouldn’t buy milk, for example, unless you knew that it wasn’t contaminated with some horrible disease.

According to the TSA website, rigorous studies and examinations were published by Johns Hop-kins University’s Applied Physics

Laboratory in October 2009 with revisions added in August 2010. All well and good, right? Unfortu-nately, the names of the “authors” who wrote the report are censored. I guess we should just take their word that it was top men who worked on it... just like the “top men” at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Several portions of the study, including certain pictures of the device they tested, circumstances of the test and even the radiation warning label are similarly blacked out. For example, one portion lit-erally reads, “During this phase... (censored) ... are not monitored because as they are out of toler-ance.” I’d like to know what aspects of these X-ray scanners they did not choose to monitor, wouldn’t you? If so, we aren’t the only ones. In May, several scientists from UC San Francisco expressed concerns over the censorship of the names on the report as well as sections containing crucial portions of the experimentation.

The sloppy science doesn’t stop there. On the subject of an emer-gency stop switch, the conclusion of the TSA report states that of the units they tested, “...only one unit had an emergency stop but-ton and it was not wired, therefore functional performance could not be validated.” In other words, the TSA admits that they don’t really know if the emergency shut-off button on the X-ray scanner ac-tually works like it’s supposed to. Think of this being like testing the safety of a fighter jet with an ejec-tion seat, except the ejection seat was never hooked up, never tested and we should just take the com-pany’s word for it when it says it will work when your life is in dan-ger. Does that make you feel more confident?

This is all bad science. We should expect and demand better of our government. If they use these scan-ners under the pretense of protect-ing us, then we have the right to know if they will be potentially damaging to our health. Giving us that information would be the re-sponsible thing to do. As it stands now, censoring safety reports on X-ray scanners is not responsible.

For every thousand nitwits, buffoons or wast-rels that corrupt the collective intellect of the human species, there is one genius who sets the world afire with the guiding light of knowledge and innovation. Those of us who benefit from the products of a few hard-working minds often take for granted the sheer majesty of the wonders which these people have created, wonders that allow us to shape the very landscape itself.

This summer I flew to Asia, not carried by babbling birds or trumpeting angels as the su-perstitious ancients may have imagined, no. I was ferried across an ocean by a flying machine that represents the apotheosis of aerodynamics and human ingenuity.

Realizing the glory of this achievement, I un-derstood that the only thing keeping my frail mortal body from a brutal plunge into the blue ocean 40,000 feet below were a few thin sheets of aluminum. The airplane, a mechanical mar-vel now utilized by millions, has en-abled our wingless mammalian spe-cies to effortlessly fly with the birds, but faster, better, stronger.

Humanity en-circling the globe with wings of steel has flattened our earth considerably. When we reflect upon what this single invention has done for trade, travel and tactics, it should inspire us to have pride in the human species and the best that it has to offer: Pride in our engineers, who toil constantly to

give us the means by which we build and flour-ish; pride in our entrepreneurs, who forge the most distant dreams into dazzling reality; and

most important of all, pride in human-ity’s instinct to always grasp at the un-reachable.

Homo sapiens is an innovative spe-cies, with an irrepressible curiosity. Though we may be inundated with hordes of superstitious and ignorant people, one great mind is sufficient to create something new and valuable. Of new inventions, new technology, new machines, many will be risky enough to present a danger to the very survival of our species. The discovery of the method for splitting the atom is one poignant example. As the astronomer

Jill Tarter so eloquently put it, “The story of hu-mans is the story of ideas ... that shine light into dark corners.”

Even without risks on such a grand scale, the

quest for discovery has always been a perilous endeavor. What courage it must have taken for the few intrepid explorers to brave uncharted territories marked, “Here there be monsters!” In a reality filled with the constant annihilation of even the galaxies themselves, danger certainly lurks around every corner.

Like Icarus, will we venture too close to the sun? Shall we open Pandora’s Box? I submit glad-ly that it is inevitable.

It is in our genes to crave the ineffable secrets of the universe, and this above all is nature’s greatest achievement. Carl Sagan once wrote in one of his publications, “We are creatures of the cosmos and always hunger to know our origins, to understand our connection with the universe.“

With our unique minds and inquisitive spirit, Homo sapiens is presented with the same di-lemma that all biological life has been given; we must either conquer nature or be consumed by it. Naturally, I am one that prefers the former.

Creatures of the cosmos

Seeing as how about 12 percent of American women will develop in-vasive breast cancer at some point in their lives, I was under the impres-sion that breast cancer (and any other cancer in general) was a disease everyone took seriously.

But maybe I’m just a little naïve.Over the summer, I discovered that there is at least one dumb twat

walking around announcing to the female demographic that breast can-cer is a joke, via this Facebook message:

“Okay, ladies, it’s that time of year again, to support breast cancer awareness … You need to (update your status as) your shoe size … fol-lowed by the word ‘inches’ and then (a) sad face. Remember, last year many people took part and it made national news … Do NOT tell any males what the status means, keep them guessing! And please copy and paste this in a message to all of your female friends to see if we can make a bigger fuss out of this than last year!”

(Please note: If you’re going to throw a fit because I exposed the rules of this stupid game, my advice to you is to take a slow, long walk across the 57 to help cool your jets.)

For those of you who may have been living under a rock, an unknown source sent a viral Facebook message last January telling women to post the color of their bra as their status in an effort to raise awareness for breast cancer. The one ground rule was to keep it a secret from the men.

And nearly overnight, the game spread like wildfire throughout the female population around the world, including the United Kingdom, India and Nigeria.

The bra game was fun, clever and original. Even I participated, proudly announcing my color was beige. (Laugh all you want, but when your place of employment forces you to wear thin white shirts, you can’t be too crazy with coloration.)

And then a year later, my coworker forwarded me this disgusting chain

letter, obviously written by some bimbo who wanted her “creative” idea to go viral so she could also have her 15 minutes of social-networking fame.

I had already seen some of my friends leave posts like “8 inches :-(” and they had gotten numerous responses such as, “Dayyyyum girl, u like em big!” and “Don’t see a good reason for the sad face, lol.”

And I was appalled. So appalled, in fact, that I had no problem with publicly replying to the chain letter, “This is absolutely insulting” for my coworker and 80 of her other buddies to see.

Of course, my coworker was not happy with this response because she felt like I was personally attacking her. I later sent her a private message apologizing and clarifying that her choice to forward the chain letter to me wasn’t what was insulting, but the fact that someone wrote this think-ing it was appropriate. But her other chums weren’t having it either.

“Insulting?” replied a woman who had watched her mom barely sur-vive the disease and lose both breasts in the process. “No one’s asking you to run a mile (or) donate money. You post a status on (Facebook). Go walk in a hospital to humble yourself. Maybe then you will see that posting your shoe size is NOTHING!”

“Don’t trip,” another woman consoled my coworker. “Some people are ignorant about what’s real.”

“BITCH,” I so desperately wanted to chew her out. “Come over here and feel around for this gumball-sized lump in my left breast, and then look me in the eye and tell me again that I’m ignorant about what’s real.”

But because I do try to be careful with my choice of words, I didn’t ask these ladies what they were smoking and why they weren’t sharing with the rest of us.

Posting your shoe size, the word “inches” and a sad face? Give me a break. I dare you to do it and tell everyone it’s to raise breast cancer awareness. See how many eye rolls you get. If the status doesn’t make sense, the heartfelt message won’t be taken seriously.

It’s true that updating a status is cheap. However, wouldn’t donating a simple dollar online take the same amount of energy as posting a Face-book status, but actually make an impact?

Why don’t we encourage that, instead of updating our statuses to something that’s considered a sexual innuendo and has nothing to do with cancer of any kind at all?

If you want to help the fight against breast cancer, Facebook is of no help. But while you’re at your computer, you can make a donation, no matter how great, to Susan G. Komen For The Cure at ww5.Komen.org.

And please, ladies, take it from a woman who has multiple lumps in both her breasts—your life is too valuable to not get checked regularly. Make an appointment. NOW.

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What courage it must have taken

for the few intrepid explorers to brave uncharted territories marked, “Here there be monsters!”

by CHARLOTTE KNIGHT

“Let’s get personal”

Frisk Me

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FYF: Music festival revitalizes itself as an event not to miss

San Francisco rock group Girls ensnared throngs of fans with their retro pop sound. The duo of Chris-topher Owens and J.R. White had new additions to their brood as three backup singers helped to create a wall of sound on a new ballad, presum-ably from their forthcoming album Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Girls opened their performance with crowd-pleaser “Lust for Life” and finished their set with the shoe-gaze jam “Morning Light,” culminating into an enthralled Owens screaming, “F*** yeah!”

As the sun was setting, electronic artist Four Tet, also known as Kieran Hebden, had pulsating beats that

wielded many fans privy to nonstop dancing. Flashing lights enhanced Four Tet’s intensely frenetic jams, es-pecially on the hauntingly enchanted, “Angel Echoes.”

One of the most anticipated per-formances of the festival was that of reformed punk heroes The De-scendants. The quartet played to an overzealous mass as fans moshed, air-guitared and screamed alongside frontman and vocalist Milo Aucker-man. Among The Descendants’ il-lustrious catalog, many beloved tracks were played, including “Little Girl” and “Everything Sucks,” much to the delight of those bold enough to let out their aggression in the mosh pits.

Death From Above 1979 closed out Leonardo’s Stage with an earsplitting

performance despite technical sound difficulties and multiple respites. The duo, Jesse F. Keeler on bass and synth and Sebastian Grainger on vocals and drums, were keen to play and repeat-edly asked the audience if everything was copacetic, even with their own irritation over not being able to hear each other. Grainger’s pipes were well oiled for the amount of screaming he did over tracks like “Little Girl” and “Turn It Out.” At one point, Grainger even leaped into the crowd, leading one fan to grab the mic and ad-lib along.

With the downfalls of yesteryear safely absolved, FYF Fest has finally revitalized itself into the festival it al-ways aimed to be: the best day of sum-mer. F*** yeah.


Film

Remake of a classic horror film fails to deliver the skin-crawling chills for anxious audiences

There’s plenty to be afraid of in Troy Nixey’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. Sure, there are a few unin-tentional, laugh-worthy moments and some pretty big gaps in logic, but if you can turn the dial on your brain to “non-skeptical” for a few hours you will find something genuinely spooky.

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark fol-lows a young girl named Sally (Bailee Madison) as she makes the move from her mother’s home in Los Angeles to her father Alex’s (Guy Pearce) project estate in Rhode Island.

We get a freaky glimpse into the house’s history during the first 10 minutes of the film when we watch the estate’s former owner tear out his housekeeper’s teeth in order to feed them to the mysteri-ous whispering voices behind the grate in his basement.

Yeah. He tore out his and his housekeeper’s teeth to feed them to the voices in his basement. Odontophobics may need to skip this feature.

The whole movie won’t be ru-ined for you, but Sally eventu-ally unleashes the light-fearing creatures behind the grate after they whisper a series of terrifying things to her (“Your parents don’t love you” and “Come play with us forever” were definitely among the phrases uttered) and the night-mare begins.

There are dozens of the crea-tures in the film and they are fre-quently shown scurrying about in all their wingless, hairy, hunch-backed glory.

Scenes where you only see a por-tion of the creatures, or when you just hear them, or when you know they’re in the room and you’re just waiting for them to stick a razor into someone’s ear prove to be the most genuinely scary moments, and there are enough of these scenes in the film to make anyone clench the cup holders on his or her theater seat.

The tension relaxes when the camera focuses on one of their little computer-generated faces and we’re reminded that they were added in the post-production phase of filmmaking.

Madison portrays Sally admi-rably and with more truthfulness and reality than one can expect from a child cast in an R-rated movie about a set of demented tooth fairies.

Several scenes where her char-acter suffers from an emotional breakdown have the viewer con-vinced that her character is real, even if the overall actions of the

character read paper thin.Here’s where the lapses in logic

come into play. If a foreign lump appeared at

the foot of your bed, would you get under the covers and crawl to-ward it? Probably not.

If your girlfriend told you that the last person who owned the house you’re staying in started painting freaky pictures of fairy gnomes (you know, the same one your child has been describing to you) a few days before he disap-peared, would you wave it off with a shrug?

The film operates on the “this can’t be real, the kid is just mak-ing it up to get attention” cliche and although it works for most of the film, the labor that it takes to uphold the illusion gets strained from time to time.

The film goes out of its way to annoyingly assure the audience that the adults never see head nor tail of the creatures, even though they are all over the house 100 percent of the time.

At the end of the day, the film is creepy enough to satiate the au-dience’s appetite for a good scare and at several points you will find yourself clenching your teeth in suspense.

It isn’t a film that will stick with you every night like a good horror movie does, but it is sure to give at least some people plenty of rea-sons to be afraid of the dark.

Amongst the vibrant atmosphere of Santa Ana’s Artists Village, the Cal State Fullerton Grand Cen-tral Art Center serves an eclectic menu full of charm sprinkled with a dash of chaos.

The GCAC held an opening reception for two of its newest exhibitions Sep. 3. The exhibitions titled Chaos Job: Restrain Order, by assemblage artist George Herms and Byblos: The Return to My Inspiration, by Lebanese artist Choucrallah Fattouh, fulfilled their purpose for the art center by bringing diversity to stu-dents and locals alike.

The reception, which was free to attend, saw more than 1,400 visitors from all over Southern California. Attendees had the opportunity to speak with the art-ists and immerse themselves in the artists’ work. Mike McGee, acting director and founder of the GCAC, presented a thankful mood when discussing the ex-hibits.

“I’m really happy that we’re able to host an artist from Lebanon, and George Herms is a really impor-tant assemblage artist in Southern California. He’s in a bunch of exhibitions for the Pacific Standard Time that the Getty is sponsoring so we’re really fortunate to be able to have him do a show here,” said McGee.

The Chaos Job: Restrain Order exhibition, which was displayed in the main gallery, was presented in conjunction with the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 exhibit at the Getty Center in Los Angeles where Herms also has pieces on display.

Herms, who was an adjunct professor at CSUF in

the 1970s, uses ordinary objects to produce his sculp-tures and art installations.

When asked about the inspiration behind the ex-hibit, Herms said that he thought about the balance between order and chaos.

“I thought about chaos and why do we have it. Well, because if order took over, it would be a disaster, so chaos’ job is to restrain order,” said Herms.

Herms hoped visitors would leave the exhibit revi-talized with life in some way. He compared the feeling to that of when he himself leaves a jazz club.

“I hope they enjoy themselves and that they love life when they leave here,” Herms said. “Like when I leave a jazz club, I’m about two feet off the ground af-ter hearing musicians blow. I would like people look-ing at my art to feel that great.”

The Byblos: Return to My Inspiration exhibition by Choucrallah Fattouh, which was displayed in the project room, was continuously filled with attendees. Fattouh is the current artist-in-resident at the GCAC and has had previous exhibitions in Europe, South America and Canada.

The exhibit is a tribute to his hometown of Byblos, Lebanon, which he considers a source for his inspira-tion and major influence for his work. Fattouh stated that he is enjoying his time in Southern California and enjoys interacting with the people.

“I have a new place for me, a new palette of peo-ple,” said Fattouh.

Both exhibitions will be on display until Oct. 16. For information about gallery hours, the GCAC part-nership with CSUF, and its exhibits, visit GrandCen-tralArtCenter.com.

Upcoming EvEnts

Wednesday September 7

Iggy and the Stooges at the Hollywood Palladium

The Soft Pack at Detroit

Thursday September 8

Larry David at Largo at the Coronet

Rancid at the Fox Theater

saTurday September 10

Ray Lamontagne at the Greek Theatre

The Kills at the Wiltern

sunday September 11

The National w/ Neko Case at the Hollywood

Friday September 9

Thievery Corporation w/ Fitz & The Tantrums at the Greek Theatre

Hello Seahorse! at the Echoplex

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Music fans rallied and celebrated at Los Angeles Historic State Park Saturday for the annual FYF Festival. The massive day festival was backed by powerhouse promoter Goldenvoice, which organized the event for the first time this year.

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Miko Marks took the stage with strong vocals and equally expressive guitar Wednesday at the Becker Am-phitheater. Wearing a pink dress and cowboy boots, Marks sang energeti-cally alongside guitarist Victor Cam-pos’ strapping chords to a small, but no less-engaged audience.

Alfred Aquino and Andrea Orozco are both members of ASI Productions, which organizes and promotes con-certs every Wednesday with its Con-certs at the Becker series.

Aquino, who is also a musician, knew he wanted to organize concerts for Cal State Fullerton when he decid-ed to join ASI.

“We try to find as many genres as we can,” said Aquino. “We look online for up-and-coming artists. This is the first time Miko Marks has performed on campus.”

The singer/songwriter belongs to the country scene. Her first album,

Freeway Bound, was released in 2005 and earned Album of the Year in 2007 by the Independent Music Awards. Her sophomore album, It Feels Good, was released in 2007. Marks has ap-peared in People magazine as one of Nashville’s hot new country stars, and Ebony magazine labeled her an artist who is “breaking the sound barriers in music.”

“I think she has a really strong voice,” said Andrea Orozco, 20, a busi-ness marketing major. “I don’t listen to country music that much but I like her. You can sing along with her songs.”

Marks’ first song choice, “Freeway Bound,” featured upbeat and catchy lyrics with a versatile sound that people of any age could likely enjoy. From then on she moved on to more mellow choices, such as “It Feels Good” and “Broken Heart.” Before getting into “Broken Heart,” she briefly explained when she too was in college and some-one broke her heart.

During the first half hour of her per-formance, she invited her audience to

dance in the sunlight and burn some calories while they were at it. However, no one decided to brave the spotlight. Students simply enjoyed the free music and ate their lunches underneath the shade near the amphitheater.

But Marks’ positive energy and en-thusiasm was contagious. Even from afar her bright smile lit the stage. Clap-ping her hands with the beat of the guitar, her passion and love for country music was more than apparent.

At one point Marks asked her audi-ence what song she was singing, saying she rewards those who pay attention. When a young woman responded with the correct answer, she was given a free T-shirt and walked away with a smile.

Yvette Aguilar, a member of the audience, said she tries to check out who is playing every Wednesday at the Becker Amphitheater.

“It’s very mellow, which is nice since last week was rowdy,” said Aguilar. “She’s very interactive and comfort-able. It feels like you are just hanging out.”

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As the 2011 Major League Baseball season

winds down, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim once again find themselves trailing the Texas Rangers in the American League West Division.

With the wild card spot as good as locked in to either the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox, the An-gels’ last chance for postseason hope is to get the No. 1 spot in the division.

However, the Angels should not be worried. Their sea-son is not yet over and in actuality is just starting.

This year will not be a repeat of the 2010 season. The Angels will be the division champion and will make it to the playoffs. They have the skill, the momentum and a promising schedule ahead of them.

The Angels have one of the best pitching rotations in the American League. Jered Weaver, Dan Haren, Ervin Santana and Joel Pineiro all have the talent to take this team to the playoffs and beyond. Weaver and Santana are clutch pitchers that come through in big moments.

There is no need to explain what Weaver is capable of and Santana’s late-July no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians proves he is having a career year that will not soon be forgotten.

With only 21 games left, it is very likely that their names will be heard on the radio multiple times and their highlights shown on SportsCenter.

Although the Angels have had to recover recently from tough losses, the momentum seems to be there. They are positive, playing hard, and most importantly, not giving up.

Youngsters like highly regarded prospect Mike Trout and Rookie of the Year candidate Mark Trumbo are to thank for that.

Since 20-year-old Trout was recalled from the Arkan-sas Double-A team Aug. 19, he is batting 9-for-22 with

four home runs and seven RBIs. He also has nine runs scored in just seven games through Friday’s games.

Trumbo leads the team in home runs and RBIs, and threatens Tim Salmon’s franchise rookie-record 30 home runs.

Scrap-heap find Jerome Williams has brought unex-pected stability to the back end of the rotation in his first few starts with the team. Williams had just his second Major League start since 2007, but looked great as he went 2-0 for the season and led the Angels to a 13-6 win over the Mariners last week.

The Angels are taking that momentum into an easier remaining schedule. The Angels have a better remaining schedule than the Rangers and have the potential to cre-ate a big winning streak.

Out of the 21 games remaining, 11 of them are in Anaheim. As of Sep. 3, the Angels are an impressive 38-29 at home.

Meanwhile the Rangers have 20 games left and 11 of those are on the road. As of Friday, the Rangers were 35-33 away. While over .500, it still has not been enough to knock the Angels completely out of the playoff picture.

This means that the Angels’ playoff picture could like-ly be decided in the last three games of the season, which happen to be against the Rangers. The Rangers got the better of the Angels in their last series, but this time they will be playing in Anaheim. The full game trade-offs should create a sold-out crowd of Angels fans and will be an advantage for the Angels.

Securing a spot as division champion will not be as easy of a task as the Rangers think it will be.

As of right now the Rangers are not very worried about the Angels, but are definitely aware of their pres-ence. They better watch their heels because the Angels are good enough to take them out of the playoff picture and take over as the American League West Division Champs. The Angels will make the playoffs.

The race for the AL West is all but finished

for the Angels. Texas held a 3.5 game lead over the Halos heading into Labor Day, which they haven’t given up since mid-May.

Fans will hope for a miracle down the stretch, but it won’t happen. The Angels are lacking in too many areas to make a late run and nip the Rangers for the AL West.

The biggest area of concern for the Angels is their pitching. The usually stellar starting three of Jered Weav-er, Dan Haren and Ervin Santana are wilting and getting hammered by opposing hitters.

In Weaver’s last five starts, he’s put up a 6.78 ERA and just got lit up for six runs against Minnesota Saturday.

Haren’s stuff has become less effective against hitters, and in his last five starts he’s posting a 5.14 ERA. San-tana is currently the best of the trio but he has been get-ting roughed up over his last few starts.

With the lack of productivity on offense, the An-gels starters have to hold it down for them to have any chance of winning.

The bullpen isn’t doing them any favors either. The only reliable option for the Angels in the late innings is Scott Downs.

There is no one else. Fernando Rodney is shot coming off the disabled list and was booed off the field Friday. Bobby Cassevah has been featured as of late, but is not a lights-out pitcher. All-Star closer Jordan Walden can only throw a fastball and he can’t locate that well enough.

In recent save opportunities Mike Scioscia has called on Downs to close games out. Angels fans will have to pray that their starting pitching can step it up and go at least seven innings if they have any chance of winning close games.

The biggest issue over the whole season has been the lack of productivity of the veteran players in Tori Hunt-

er, Bobby Abreu and Vernon Wells. All three have been performing well below their career numbers.

Abreu is in a season-long slump and has only hit six home runs from the middle of the lineup.

The $23 million man, Wells is currently streaking and bringing his batting average up to an impressive .220.

The Angels youth is playing well and keeping them in this pennant race, but it will be the seasoned veterans that will lose it for them.

The one thing the Angels do have going for them is their upcoming schedule, but that won’t be a picnic. The Angels’ record against their upcoming opponents is 32-31, which includes games against New York, Texas and the rest against teams below .500.

The remaining schedule is mostly against AL West teams and the Angels haven’t fared too well in their divi-sion compared to Texas with records of 22-23 and 28-14, respectively. The Angels have to improve their play against mediocre squads if they have any shot of catching Texas.

But it won’t make a difference. Texas’ squad is too deep and too powerful to give up

the division. The starting pitching–which was average during the season–is starting to come together.

Their lineup is just as scary. There is nowhere to hide. One through nine, Texas has guys who can mash. Texas’ offense is ranked in the top five in every major hitting category in MLB this season and it is only going to get better.

All-star thirdbaseman Adrian Beltre is coming off the disabled list and he led the team in offensive production before he got hurt. The Rangers are too good as of late and have proven to know how to win big games down the stretch.

The three-game series against each other at the end of season could be huge, but the division will be wrapped up before then.

YES: Alex Apodaca NO: Blake Fogg

Will the Angels make the playoffs?

Alberto Callaspo dives back into first base during a game earlier this season.

Peter Bourjos has played well in his first full season, providing Gold Glove caliber defense in center field along with respectable production at the plate.

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CROSS: Men finish second, women finish fourth

have improved.“There seems to be a new feeling this year,” Aleman

said. “There is a lot more team bonding going on.”Junior Tyler Reed finished second overall in the

men’s race with a time of 25:19.3 to lead the Titans. Long Beach State, led by individual winner Heath Reedy, finished first among the men’s teams.

While the men started their season off right, they weren’t the only ones to rack up the success for the

day. The women have been training just as hard and competed with the same intensity as their fellow male racers.

Freshman Tijerra Lynch, who was nervous for her first official college race, ran a 24:13.2, surpassing her hope of a finishing time somewhere in the mid-25 range.

“I think I did good for my first race,” said Lynch. “Right now I’m working on pushing myself to go fast-er in the middle miles.”

Grace Gonzales completed the course in 22:47.5 to finish eighth overall and lead CSUF.


Senior goalkeeper Trevor Whiddon had nine saves as the Cal State Fullerton men’s soc-cer team opened the Cal State Northridge Tournament with a scoreless draw against defending national champion Akron Thurs-day night.

The shutout was Whiddon’s second consecutive to begin the season.

Akron dominated possession but could not find a way through the Titans’ back four. Their mid-field worked heavy defensively to prevent many runs in the Zips’ attack, leading to an isolated forward which caused no serious danger to the Titans.

The Titans’ aggressive defense led them to be whistled for 28 fouls to Akron’s seven. CSUF also received five yellow cards across the match.

Offensively, CSUF had its chances in the second half. The Titans outshot Akron 9-4, in-cluding a 25-yard shot from Oscar Aguero that hit the post. Aguero finished the game with a team-high 7 shots, with two of them on goal.

Mario Alvarez also had two good chances from Aguero’s through-balls to put the Titans on board, but couldn’t finish.

Despite the offensive pressure in the second half by CSUF, the Titans were outshot by Akron 0-14, including 10-2 in the first half.

Akron entered the weekend No. 2 in the National Soccer Coaches Association rankings.

Brief by Rick Gomez

Men’s soccer ties defending champs

The Cal State Fullerton wom-en’s volleyball team finished the Wildcat Classic in Tucson, Ariz., going 2-1 with wins against East-ern Washington and Presbyte-rian. Its lone defeat was against tournament host Arizona.

The Titans started the tourna-ment with a victory over Eastern Washington by sweeping them in straight sets with a 25-20, 25-16, 25-20 score line. Sophomore Bre Moreland and junior Kayla Neto combined for 21 kills in the match. Senior Leah Maurer had nine kills along with two aces and freshman Amanda Yamate led the Titans with 16 digs.

CSUF would then lose its night match 3-1 to Arizona. The Titans dropped the first two sets 25-16 and 25-19 before win-ning the next set 25-12. Arizona would end up taking the fourth set 25-22 for its fourth win of the season. Neto and Moreland each had double-doubles in kills and digs. Yamate led all players with 20 digs and Maurer led the team in blocks with seven.

The Titans would cruise in their next match against Presby-terian winning in straight sets. Neto led the Titans with 10 kills in the 25-17, 25-12, 25-5 rout. Freshman Elle Moffatt led the team in blocks with five and Mo-reland contributed to the cause with 10 digs and served five aces, setting a career high.

CSUF will travel to Montana next weekend for a three-game tournament against Idaho, Mon-tana and South Dakota.

Brief by Blake Fogg

Volleyball goes 2-1 in tournament

The offensive explosion the Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team was waiting for finally arrived in its 5-1 rout against University of Nevada, Las Vegas Saturday night in the Cal State Northridge Tour-nament.

The victory gave the Titans the tournament championship on goal differential after Akron squeezed past Northridge, 2-1, in double overtime.

CSUF didn’t take long getting on the board when junior mid-fielder Oscar Aguero scored in the first minute after receiving a through-ball from junior forward Jameson Campbell.

Two minutes later, senior midfielder Kevin Venegas added more cushion to a lead the Titans would never give up.

Venegas finished the game with two goals and an assist. Ju-nior defender Jonathan Birt and freshman Ian Ramos each also scored a goal.

UNLV’s Bernal Salvador scored in the 13th minute on a through-ball from Jonny Espino-za. The goal given snapped senior goalkeeper Trevor Whiddon’s shutout streak and it was the first allowed this season.

Fullerton’s Venegas, Aguero, Bobby Reiss, and Michael Denny were named to the all-tourna-ment team.

CSUF will be traveling to Las Vegas where it will face the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, Green Bay and the University of San Fran-cisco in the UNLV Tournament beginning Friday.

Brief by Rick Gomez

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