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Hosting a historic holiday ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ stays traditionalArboretum to present 1940s-themed Christmas event

Lighthearted musical opens in the Little Theatre with conventional staging

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Kathleen Iwuoha (33) and Chante Miles (5) led the Titans to a pair of wins on the road against Weber State and New Mexico State.WINNIE HUANG / DAILY TITAN

The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team won two of three games on the road last week, putting their regular season record at 2-4.

The Titans began Thanks-giving break on a rough note, losing 50-43 to Villa-nova at Titan Gym on Nov. 21.

Senior point guard Chante Miles led the offense with 14 points and converted 5-of-8 shots from the field.

It was the second time this season that Miles played all 40 minutes in a game.

Fullerton out-rebounded Villanova 39-26, but turned the ball over 19 times.

The Titans shot 43.9

percent compared to 29.8 percent for Villanova.

Sweden native Amanda Tivenius had five of those turnovers and Tailer Butler had four off the bench for CSUF.

Caroline Coyer had 15 points and converted 3-of-8 3-point attempts for the Wildcats.

The Titans did not have much time to recover from the loss, as they embarked on the first leg of a six-game road trip Monday at Weber State.

A career-night from Miles guided the Titans to their first victory of the season. She had a career-high 35 points, along with six assists and three rebounds.

“Chante was amazing to-night, she was the best play-er on the floor,” Head Coach Daron Park said in an in-terview with FullertonTi-tans.com. “She played with

composure, ran the team and she just wanted to win. You could see it in her eyes and it was special to see.”

The Titans also had offen-sive contribution from soph-omore Samantha Logan, who scored 12 points and made four 3-pointers.

Butler also had 12 points on four 3-pointers and had four steals on the defensive end.

Senior Kathleen Iwuoha had 10 rebounds and added seven points.

After the win, Park’s squad flew to Las Cruces,

New Mexico to play in the Hotel Encanto Thanksgiving Classic.

Iwuoha had a huge game against Eastern Michigan in the first game of the Classic, but the Titans fell 78-74 to the Eagles.

She had a double-double, posting 24 points and 11 re-bounds and shot 9-of-14 from the field.

It was the first double-dou-ble for the Titans this sea-son. Miles added 23 points and made five 3-pointers.

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Cal State Fullerton singers took to the stage Nov. 21, per-forming alongside an inter-nationally recognized vocal-ist to jazz up the evening.

The concert took place in the Meng Concert Hall at the Clayes Performing Arts Cen-ter. It featured the Clockwork Jazz Singers, who performed various jazz selections, some holiday tunes and multiple duets.

Clockwork is a 12-voice ensemble under the direction of Grammy-winning com-poser John Proulx.

Clockwork was joined by multiple instrumentalists in the Pro Jazz Trio, composed of Ed Zack on piano, Alex Frank on bass and Kend-all Kay on drums, as well as guest student saxophonist and flutist Nathan King.

The night opened with the full ensemble perform-ing Steve Allee’s song Art’s Groove, arranged by Jenni-fer Barnes. It featured mul-tiple singers and King on saxophone.

During the next song, the ensemble was joined by spe-cial guest vocalist Rosana Eckert.

Eckert is currently a pro-fessor at the University of North Texas. She is known as a live and studio vocal-ist, songwriter, arranger and a voice-over talent. Eck-ert has released four studio albums.

Many of the selections per-formed by Clockwork were arranged by Eckert, which she performed alongside the group.

One of the pieces ar-ranged by Eckert was John-ny Mandel and Paul Francis Webster’s A Time for Love, which stood apart from all other pieces because it was performed a capella.

CSUF singers are joined by Clockwork Jazz Singers, Pro Jazz Trio and Rosana Eckert

ALEXANDER DOMINGUEZDaily Titan

A senior accounting stu-dent has launched a web-site that provides discounts on local food exclusive-ly to Cal State Fullerton students.

Andrew Liu and business partner Chris Wong started building ThePopNom.com, a Groupon-style website, in 2012. While interning at DreamWorks, the studio’s system of free food for em-ployees reminded Liu of the convenience of pre-pur-chased food at the Gastro-nome, sparking his idea for the site.

The deals work the same way traditional coupons do, enticing businesses to provide discounts with the promise that more custom-ers will come through the door and possibly buy oth-er products. However, the Internet allows for a guar-anteed minimum number of customers using the cou-pons, which can result in extremely high discounts.

Wong taught himself how to code over the sum-mer and launched ThePo-pNom.com two weeks ago and has since had a handful of customers.

Wong reaches out to lo-cal restaurants to see if they would like to partner with PopNom to provide discounts, and some restau-rants provide discounts only to CSUF students.

“Sometimes they give us special deals that are just for students. It’s not even on the menu. Other times, they’ll just knock off the price a little bit,” Liu said.

Promotions vary on a weekly basis from restau-rant to restaurant. Current partners include Tokyo Kitchen, El Pollo Fino, 85 Degrees Bakery and B & B Donuts.

Exclusively serving CSUF students, ThePopNom.com provides discounts on food

CYNTHIA PLEITEZDaily Titan

President Mildred García briefed the Academic Sen-ate on progress made on the University Strategic Plan during her State of the University address Nov. 20, including a higher-than-ev-er graduation rate and the launch of a new website centered on the plan.

A growing number of diverse tenure-track fac-ulty and a graduation rate among transfer students that has climbed 3.4 per-cent to 75.4 percent were included in her address as examples of the plan’s success.

García touted the prog-ress of her five-year stra-tegic plan. “We are doing things now, not just plan-ning,” she said.

CSUF has had to cope with a state allocation to the California State

University system that was nearly $100 million low-er than what was request-ed by the system’s Board of Trustees, García said. Of the 23 CSU campuses, CSUF is the lowest fund-ed per student, an issue which she is advocating to be remedied.

The funding issue was the first thing she ad-dressed with the CSU Board of Trustees during a meeting about the Student Success Fee, García said.

At the conclusion of the Thursday meeting, the Ac-ademic Senate passed a resolution that addressed the funding formula that determines CSUF’s state funding level. The resolu-tion pressures CSU Chan-cellor Timothy White and the CSU Task Force on a Sustainable Financial Model for the CSU to re-solve inequities in state funding distribution.

“We don’t have a whole lot of money,” said Dan-ny Kim, vice president for administration and finance

and CSUF’s Chief Finan-cial Officer, during his first-ever Fiscal State of the University address.

A $19 million increase in state funding, and an-other $19 million—$9 mil-lion from university-wide reserves and $10 million in one-time tuition reve-nue—increased the total CSUF budget by nearly $39 million.

While the budget has im-proved, it is still recover-ing from massive budget cuts made during the eco-nomic recession which be-gan in 2007. Compared to the 2008-2009 fiscal year, a much higher proportion of the university’s oper-ating budget is now com-prised of revenue from tu-ition when compared to allocation from the state.

However, state allocation is on the uptick, increasing by more than 10 percent this year from $130 mil-lion to $144 million with revenue from tuition grow-ing by 3.2 percent, or $6 million.

The systemwide budget next year includes a $119 million baseline increase

from the state’s multi-year budget plan,17 percent low-er than the increase of $142

million this year.

Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García addresses the Academic Senate during her State of the University address on Thursday, Nov. 20.

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50 ISIS militants killed

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The United States-led anti-Islamic State coa-lition launched anoth-er series of airstrikes late Saturday and ear-ly Sunday, according to The Guardian.

The coalition launched at least 30 airstrikes in and around ISIS’ de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria and the Di-vision 17 airbase, which ISIS militants captured earlier this year, said the Britain-based Syri-an Observatory for Hu-man Rights.

The Local Coordi-nation Committee also confirmed the strikes, but neither group had gathered casualty fig-ures at the time of this writing.

At least 50 ISIS mil-itants were killed be-tween the combina-tion of the coalition-led airstrikes and sepa-rate confrontations with Kurds, said the Observatory.

A Los Angeles cou-ple remains in Qa-tar following an ap-peals court ruling that threw out charges of child endangerment in the death of their 8-year-old daughter, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Grace and Mat-thew Huang were not allowed to pass immigration con-trol at a Qatar air-port, according to a tweet from a family representative.

Advocates for the couple said the in-terracial adoption of their daughter was framed as human trafficking by Qatari prosecutors.

The Huangs were convicted on child en-dangerment charges and spent months in jail following the death of their daughter in 2013.

At least 40 peo-ple were left dead af-ter the Islamic State launched another at-tack on the Syrian border town of Koba-ni, according to CNN.

The deaths were a result of multiple bombings from ISIS fighters around the perimeter of Koba-ni. Casualties includ-ed ISIS militants and members of the Peo-ple’s Protection Units, a Kurdish group that has been combatting ISIS for control of the city.

One attack included five suicide bombers who detonated their explosives near the city. Another attack came from the west, where ISIS used tanks to enter Kobani, firing at least 110 shells on the city.

Novelist and memoirist Reyna Grande will visit Cal State Fullerton’s Titan Dreamers Resource Cen-ter to speak about her own battles living as an undoc-umented immigrant grow-ing up in poverty.

“I will share with the students my experience of growing up poor in Mexi-co, then coming to the U.S. as an undocumented child immigrant ... and the chal-lenges I faced in becom-ing the first in my family to graduate from college,” Grande said.

In her memoir, The Dis-tance Between Us, Grande tells the story of her life as an undocumented child with two siblings as they pursued a better life.

At the age of 9, Grande left her hometown in Mex-ico to enter the U.S. ille-gally. Grande will speak

on the obstacles she faced, and how young immigrants today can overcome those barriers.

An award-winning au-thor and finalist for the National Book Critics Cir-cle Awards, Grande has had her works published in countries including Norway and South Korea. Grande currently teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension and is in the process of publishing her next novel.

Grande was invited to speak to the dreamers by Monica Hanna, profes-sor of chicana and chicano studies after Hanna chose The Distance Between Us as one of her course read-ing requirements.

“I have a first-hand ex-perience with poverty, with marginalization, discrim-ination, adversity. I know how hard it is to pursue the ‘American Dream,’” Grande said.

The Titan Dreamers Resource Center is de-signed to provide support for undocumented CSUF

students. The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, the Chicana and Chicano Resource Center and the Titan Dreamers Resource Center will spon-sor the event.

Drawing on her own past to connect with students, Grande’s goal is to help motivate these students to continue their education and follow their dreams.

“It is possible to thrive despite the hardships we endure,” she said.

Grande will be read-ing from her latest mem-oir Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Pollak Library North Rooms 170 and 171.

Reyna Grande will draw on ex-perience as an undocumented immigrant during event

KATHERINE PICAZODaily Titan

Swing dancing, classic cars, bow ties and victory rolls will bring the ’40s back to the Ful-lerton Arboretum at The Ful-lerton Victorian Society’s an-nual Christmas event.

“A Sentimental Journey: Christmas 1945” will take visitors back to a time when World War II had just end-ed and soldiers were return-ing home to towns preparing for their Christmas holidays. The Victorian Society has pre-pared a night of time-period activities for visitors to enjoy, including interactive dramatic productions, singing, dancing and a comedy show.

Heritage House, a restored 1894 structure that serves as a museum in the Arbore-tum, will be featured as part of an interactive theatrical tour. Staged as a home for sale, visitors will be able to walk through the house with

costumed docents to view vi-gnettes in various rooms. In each scene, actors will por-tray neighbors and potential buyers, said Carol Reynolds, a representative of the Fullerton Victorian Society.

The Christmas event is the main fundraising event for the House Beautiful Fund, which allows the Victorian Society to repair, restore and preserve the 130-year-old Heritage House and its furnishings for visitors.

The house, as well as the actors, will be dressed in pe-riod attire and guests are en-couraged to dress in costumes from the mid-1940s.

“Our costumes will be from the 1945 era, so we are all practicing putting our hair into victory rolls, and the gen-tlemen will be wearing bow ties and other things from the period. It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Reynolds said. “We would just love that if (visitors) would dress from the time pe-riod, that would be terrific.”

Another part of the presen-tation will take place at the Arboretum’s pavillion, where

the popular comedic radio program, Fibber McGee and Molly from Christmas 1945 will be recreated, Reynolds said.

The night will cap off with a USO-style party featur-ing swing dancing, singing and an appearance by Father Christmas.

“It is something that will

not appeal just to the baby boomers, but to people of all ages who have an interest in the past or who are interested in the retro thing,” Reynolds said.

This event is one of many holiday events the Arboretum hosts throughout the year. The Arboretum’s Halloween event was cancelled this year due

to lack of funding and volun-teers, but the organization re-sponsible for that event, The Friends of the Fullerton Ar-boretum, is separate from the Victorian Society, said Brad Weldy, the Arboretum’s Web and Communications Coordi-nator. That separation makes the holiday event unlikely to run into the same issues.

Arboretum gets ‘Sentimental’

Novelist to speak at Dreamers Center

Christmas event will take guests back in time to post-World War II holiday

AMBER UDDINDaily Titan

The Christmas event at the Arboretum this year will include singing, dancing and actors dressed in costumes appropriate to the 1940s.

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In the long term, the uni-versity is preparing for a pos-sible drop-off in funding as a result of the sunsetting of Prop 30 and possible changes in state funding equity.

Following the addresses, Mohamood Hassan, Ph.D., an accounting professor and the president of CSUF’s chapter of the California Fac-ulty Association, encouraged

García to use her authority as president to increase faculty wages at CSUF.

An agreement adopted by the CSU and the facul-ty union slightly increased wages for CSU faculty, but grants campus presidents the authority to further in-crease faculty wages at their campus.

Hassan read from a list of presidents at other CSU campuses, including San

Bernardino, Fresno, San Diego, Sonoma and Long Beach, who have committed funds to wage increases for faculty.

García said the universi-ty is still analyzing the is-sue and will get back to Hassan.

Updates on the imple-mentation of the strategic plan can be found at reach-higher.fullerton.edu, which launched last week.

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University: García addresses funding

When • Wednesday at

4 p.m.Where

• Pollak Library North Rooms 170 and 171

REYNA GRANDE

Academic Senators and people in the gallery listen on as Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García explains progress made on her five-year University Strategic Plan and other updates.

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Associated Students, Inc. has chosen Titan Student Centers Director Kurt Borst-ing as its interim executive director. Borsting was ap-pointed after an internal search process and will fill the post while a committee searches for a permanent replacement.

The position makes him a non-voting member of the Titan Student Centers Gov-erning Board, a committee of students and staff that de-velops policies for the Titan Student Union, Student Rec-reation Center and Irvine Campus Fitness Center.

In his current role, Borst-ing has had a hand in the de-sign and completion of the Student Recreation Center as well as a role in the $20 mil-lion expansion of the student union, which is scheduled to begin Summer 2015.

As interim executive di-rector of Associated Stu-dents, however, his respon-sibilities will be expanded to deal with all aspects of the organization.

“In addition to working with the Student Union and

the Recreation Center, it in-cludes the programming functions of the Associated Students, working with the student government itself, the Children’s Center oper-ations, our accounting func-tions (and) human resources office,” Borsting said.

Current Associated Stu-dents Executive Director Fred Sanchez announced his plans for retirement in October, following a nine-year tenure in the position. During that time, Sanchez played a part in the opening of the Children’s Center and Student Recreation Center. He also helped create more leadership roles for students within the Associated Stu-dents. Sanchez will contin-ue to serve in this position through the end of the fall 2014 semester.

Although he only plans on acting as executive di-rector for approximately 4-6 months, Borsting said he looks forward to holding the position through the new year, when Associated Stu-dents goes through its annu-al budget cycle along with its lease and agreement renewal process.

Once the position is filled permanently, he plans on working to ensure a smooth transition for the new execu-tive director.

“The last thing that I real-ly hope to do is to continue to develop a really solid ex-ecutive transition for whoev-er is selected ultimately by the board for this position,” Borsting said.

In addition, he hopes to gain insight on the position

he normally reports to. The process of acting as tempo-rary executive director will allow him to determine if it would be a viable option for his future. If Borsting enjoys the interim position, he said he may consider applying himself.

“I’m looking forward to this as a great learning op-portunity,” he said. “It’s a great chance for me to work in this role to see if I could be successful.”

Borsting will begin his term as interim executive director Dec. 15 and will

continue to serve in the role until a replacement is ap-pointed. A committee com-posed of Associated Stu-dents and CSUF campus members will begin a na-tionwide search for San-chez’s permanent replace-ment immediately.

To access promotions, students create a free ac-count on the website us-ing their Cal State Fullerton email, browse current deals and pay online. A redeem-able voucher screen is shown

and students can present the screen to the restaurant. Stu-dents are encouraged to use their phones or other tech-nological devices instead of printing out the voucher, to ensure the voucher is being used only once.

With only $30 per year

spent for the website server and no startup or developer costs, the website was creat-ed on a low budget. Students can expect deals on a weekly basis.

“We try to stay under the $10 mark, maybe $8. And it’s always going to be from

four-star restaurants rated on Yelp,” Liu said.

Although the website is designed for students, any-one with an email ending in Fullerton.edu can access the page. Students can follow the company via Facebook on Facebook.com/popnoms.

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ASI appoints temporary director

Following a retirement announcement from current Associated Students, Inc. Executive Director Frank Sanchez, visible in the background, Kurt Borsting, in foreground, will serve as interim director during a search for a permanent replacement.

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Kurt Borsting will be interim director during Associated Students’ budget cycle

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ANDREW LIUCo-creator of ThePopNom.com

We try to stay under the $10 mark, maybe $8. And it’s always going to be from four-star restaurants rated on Yelp.

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This number was ar-ranged by, and also featured, Eckert.

The sound of each per-former’s voice echoed and reverberated through the Meng Concert Hall, im-pressing the audience.

The evening showcased the talents of every member of Clockwork. Each mem-ber participated in a duet throughout the night. The duets performed included fa-miliar songs such as Beyond the Sea by Charles Trenet and Jack Lawrence, and hol-iday classic Baby It’s Cold Outside by Frank Loesser.

One of the only hitches of the evening came during

the second duet of the night, when technical complica-tions caused one of the mi-crophones to cut out. How-ever, both Lauren Scudder and Madelyn Brown took the unexpected circum-stance in full stride, quickly

and professionally adapting to sharing the one function-al microphone, all while still managing to have fun and flaunting confident smiles.

After intermission, the spotlight turned to Eckert, who performed a few of her

own selections with the ac-companiment of the Pro Jazz Trio. The night closed with Charlie Parker’s Anthropol-ogy, arranged by Paris Ruth-erford. It featured King on tenor sax and Eckert as guest vocalist.

The performance was re-ceived seemingly well by the moderately-sized audi-ence, who snapped their fin-gers and tapped their toes along to each piece. Clock-work received cheerful and plentiful applause.

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The first, the best, or dif-ferent—Cal State Fuller-ton’s production of Kiss Me, Kate was none of these.

Cole Porter’s Tony Award-winning classic mu-sical has been performed more than 1,000 times on Broadway alone. Under-standably, the pressure to produce a show that is wor-thy of such a legacy must be immense.

Written by Porter nearly 70 years ago, Kiss Me, Kate is a lighthearted show about actors in a musical adapta-tion of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Un-fortunately, in this case, the performance was more light than hearted.

All of the actors proved talented singers and gave strong individual perfor-mances, but as a whole, the acting was just too exaggerated.

There is an overwhelm-ing tendency for directors working on Kiss Me, Kate to play it safe and do it as it has always been done. The characters are hammy and the musical numbers go on too long, but all this adher-ence to tradition only high-lights the play’s outdated nature.

Like many popular mid-century American plays and movies, the plot of Kiss Me, Kate has to do with show business.

Lilli Vanessi (Chelle Den-ton) and Fred Graham (Nick Gardner) are a divorced couple who discover that they are still in love when

they reunite to star opposite one another in a musical ad-aptation of The Taming of the Shrew.

The production was di-rected by Jeremy Lewis, a graduate student working toward his Master of Fine Arts in directing. Lewis’ di-recting is skilled and play-ful, but uninspired. Though sprinkled with genuinely funny moments and some impressive dancing, the show lacked ingenuity.

Dipping and climbing be-tween remarkable and bor-ing, Kiss Me, Kate was a children’s roller coaster. It

is likely to be appreciat-ed most by theater under-grads, parents and grand-parents, and those who are nostalgic for an antiquated and idealized past.

Denton’s vocal ability is great. With her impres-sive pitch and range, she is genuinely one of the bet-ter singers to have played Kate. Save for a lack of chemistry between herself and Gardner, her perfor-mance was admirable.

Emily Chelsea played Lois Lane and Bianca. Her portrayal of the sweet and dimwitted gold digger was

spot on and entertaining. Lamentably, her ill-fitting blonde wig washed her out, though her wonderfully ex-pressive face made up for the offense.

Some true talent could be gleaned from Garden-er’s portrayal of Graham and Petruchio. Though a fine performance, it was wholly unmemorable.

Matt Dunn, who played Calhoun and Lucentio, lent some able acting and sing-ing to the performance, but it was his dancing that re-ally dazzled. His tight lifts and panache showed his

strength as a dancer. Despite talent, excessive

mugging really weakened the show. It is true that flamboyantcy is a tenet of the craft of performing musicals, but Lewis’ Kiss Me, Kate stumbled on and over the fine line between playful and overcooked.

To boot, microphones cut in and out during a few numbers, most distracting-ly during Lucentio’s dia-logue and Paul’s (Antwone S. Barnes) performance of Too Darn Hot. A shame because Barnes’ voice was rich and full.

Overall, CSUF’s Kiss Me, Kate was not bad, just expected.

The sound of each performer’s voice echoed and reverberated through the Meng Concert Hall, impressing the audience.

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Jazz: Guest vocalist joins CSUF singers

Clockwork performed various jazz favorites as well as some holiday music during the concert with CSUF singers, Pro Jazz Trio and Rosana Eckert on Nov. 21 in the Meng Concert Hall.

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CSUF takes on Cole Porter’s Tony Award-winning classic, but lacks in originality

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CSUF students Chelle Denton and Nick Gardner star in Kiss Me, Kate as a divorced couple reunited as they perform in a musical adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. The classic musical is directed by Master of Fine Atrs in directing student, Jeremy Lewis. Kiss Me, Kate runs through Dec. 14 in the Little Theatre.

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As far back as we can tell, humans have need-ed the aid of tools to push into the future. The mate-rials these tools are made with have always fascinat-ed me.

Throughout history, uti-lizing materials for the sake of creating things has required risks. Today, we still use many of the same materials our ancestors were using, in addition to a vast amount of new mate-rials that have either been discovered or created. Pa-per, plastic and a better un-derstanding of semicon-ductors have furthered the world we know today.

The next material that holds promise is graphene.

Graphene, also known as the “wonder-material,” is composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, which are extracted from graphite; it exists as a sheet that is one atom thick.

As a substance, it is stron-ger than diamond, more conductive than copper and more flexible than rubber. It already sounds like some-thing taken straight out of the comic book world.

In the same way that ma-terials of the past have re-quired risk and investment, graphene is a substance that we should gamble on in hopes that it will pan out as a technology of the future. We should invest money in its research and

development, even if it might turn out not to be ev-erything we hoped it would be.

Graphene has been held in high regard since its dis-covery in 2004. It carries such promise because it has the potential to be very use-ful in a variety of different areas.

One possible use for graphene is body armor. This is because it is better than steel at absorbing im-pact and it also is flexible

and thin. However, it will still require some testing before becoming a viable form of protective armor.

Graphene can also help to make the car industry more environmentally friendly. Graphene can potentially improve the efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells, accord-ing to a recent study pub-lished in Nature. Sheets of the material could be used as a fuel cell membrane in cars, ripping hydrogen from air.

It can also be used to better improve solar cells and the working life of batteries.

There are medical bene-fits to the material as well, such as assisting in drug delivery and developing new tissue for regenerative medicinal use.

In spite of its promis-ing strength and electronic properties, graphene is still flawed. Its potential is hurt by the fact that it is thin and easily damaged.

There’s also a question about whether we should put so much funding into chasing this “wonder-mate-rial.” Some of the funding that has gone into graphene research has simply been in good faith that it will pay off. Both of these points forget gambling isn’t nec-essarily bad in the world of science.

Some have suggested that funding for graphene is the result of Concord Syndrome, or when the

public funds a project for its beauty even if it’s not functionally applicable. These critics point to all the money that has gone to this material all over the globe.

In 2013, The Europe-an Commission chose the Graphene Flagship to re-ceive a 10-year, €1 bil-lionFuture Emerging Tech-nology research grant. In 2014, Chancellor George Osborne announced as part of the new budget that will pour €74 million over five years into a graphene inno-vation center.

Even at this early stage, graphene has sparked in-terest in many governments and companies. With that in mind, there are more than 7,000 patents pertain-ing to graphene, and more than 2,000 of them are held in China. Samsung also holds more than 400 of them.

The risk is that even if it is not able to deliver ev-erything that it promises, graphene should at least hit a few marks, one being e-paper, which according to a Nature study we can ex-pect a working prototype of by 2015.

Basically, graphene is a risk for all involved. Howev-er, it should not be ignored. Its vast potential for applica-tion is reason enough to con-tinue funding its research. With science, one never knows what’s going to hap-pen. It’s okay to go all in on a risk sometimes.

Investing in graphene as the material of tomorrow is a risky but worthy investmentGUSTAVO VARGAS

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Countless protests and acts of civil disobedience took place across the nation last week in response to a Missouri grand jury’s deci-sion not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wil-son in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

The Los Angeles Police Department deserves cred-it for their thoughtful han-dling of protesters.

Thousands of protest-ers have marched through downtown LA and other re-gions of the city in different acts of civil disobedience since the decision Monday.

The protests have includ-ed hitting vehicles in the

street, running through in-tersections and blocking traffic on U.S. Route 101. These acts have resulted in over 300 arrests in LA, ac-counting for around 60 per-cent of all Ferguson-related protest arrests in Califor-nia, according to a Reuters report.

“When they will no lon-ger comply with our re-quests and when it becomes dangerous, when they start running in and out of cars and put the public at risk, then we have to take ac-tion,” LAPD Chief Char-lie Beck said in an inter-view with the Los Angeles Times.

Acts of civil disobedience are always high-risk situa-tions for both protesters and police.

Protesters risk arrest and bodily harm depending on how much force is used by

law enforcement, while po-lice departments can only harm their reputation de-pending on how poorly they handle the protesters.

Beck authorized the re-lease of the 90 remain-ing incarcerated protest-ers Thursday morning so they would be able to spend Thanksgiving at home with their families. Had Beck not given that order, those protesters would have been forced to spend the weekend in jail if they were unable to post their $500 bail.

This was a small, but compassionate, gesture from a police department that has historically strug-gled with its public image. The gesture stands out even more when public hostil-ity toward police couldn’t be any higher, reminding us that despite all the riot gear and tear gas, police

departments can care about the people they serve.

This single act of human-ity does not detract from

the needed discussion of excessive violence from police toward the Afri-can-American community.

However, it does show that police departments can oc-casionally display a capaci-ty for tolerance.

The release of incarcerated protesters on Thanksgiving is a commendable act of kindness

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W Bball: Titans rack up MilesThe Eagles got 21 points

from Cha Sweeney and 16 from Jamaica Bucknor. They shot 45.6 percent from the field.

CSUF finished the

weekend strong, blow-ing out New Mexico State 66-51.

Fullerton dominated the game from start to fin-ish, shooting 45.5 percent from the field compared to just 29.5 percent for New

Mexico State. “I was really proud of

our effort today. To end the week with two road wins is a positive step for this team,” Park said in an in-terview with FullertonTi-tans.com. “Our players are

starting to feel more com-fortable on the floor to-gether and the results are showing.”

Four Titans finished with double figures in scoring. Miles led the effort with 18 points, Iwuoha had 15 and

Butler and freshman Daeja Smith each added 10.

Park has tinkered with the starting lineup since the opener and it appears the strategy is beginning to pay off.

Butler and Iwuoha have

replaced freshmen Lakyn Gulley and Tivenius. Each starter played over 27 min-utes against the Aggies.

The Titans begin the sec-ond half of their road trip Wednesday against the Denver Pioneers.

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Samantha Logan (11) is not afraid to shoot from beyond the arc. Thirty of the sophomore’s 34 shot attempts this season have come from downtown. She is shooting 36.7 percent on 3-point attempts. WINNIE HUANG / DAILY TITAN

While Cal State Fuller-ton students were on vaca-tion this past week, the Ti-tan men’s basketball team was extremely busy on the hardwood.

CSUF played five games in just seven days, compil-ing three wins while suffer-ing two defeats during the stretch.

In Fullerton’s first home game of the year, they took down the San Jose State Spartans 70-66, avenging last year’s loss to their West-ern Athletic Conference foes.

Senior Alex Harris led the

way against the Spartans, pouring in 20 points on the night.

The Titans could not build on their first win of the year, unfortunately, as they strug-gled all throughout their Tuesday night matchup with the USC Trojans, falling 53-49.

USC absolutely shut down Fullerton’s offensive attack, holding the Titans to 32 percent shooting from the field.

Junior Lanerryl John-son was the lone bright spot for CSUF, shooting 8-for-16 from the field while scoring 21 points on the night.

USC wasn’t much better from the field, shooting just 39 percent as a team, but they had just enough to sneak by the underdog Titans.

Just two days after falling to the Trojans, Fullerton be-gan play in the Spartanburg Marriott Upstate Classic in South Carolina.

Their first matchup came against the Wright State Raiders and was a back-and-forth affair that eventu-ally saw the Titans come out on top 67-62.

Johnson kept up his hot shooting, pouring in 27 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field while knock-ing down 10 of his 13 free throw attempts.

Senior Josh Gentry kept up his consistent se-nior campaign with a key 14-point performance off the bench to give Fullerton enough of a boost to pull away late.

Wright State was led by

junior forward JT Yoho, whose 20 points were not enough to earn his team the win.

Fullerton again was un-able to build upon a victory, falling to host University of South Carolina Upstate 79-64 despite having a three-point lead at halftime.

Ty Green and Fred Mill-er led the way for the vic-torious Spartans, pouring in 29 and 25 points, respec-tively, which proved to be too much for the Titans to overcome.

The Titans again relied on the sharpshooting John-son, whose five 3-point bas-kets and 31 points were both game-highs.

No other CSUF play-er was in double figures as Fullerton made just 11

baskets outside of Johnson, who finished 9-for-17 from the field.

CSUF looked to bounce back in their final game in the South Carolina tour-nament, and they did just that with a key 64-61 win over Florida International University.

The Titans again got off to a fast start, leading 36-27 at the break.

However, the second half saw the Panthers close the gap to just two points, be-fore Fullerton pulled away down the stretch.

Harris stepped up offen-sively for the Titans, scoring 26 points to end the Spar-tanburg Marriott Upstate Classic on a high note af-ter his disappointing perfor-mances in the tournament’s

first two games.Johnson was the only

other Titan in double fig-ures, adding 11 points for CSUF.

With wins in two of their last three matches, the Ti-tans will be entering their Wednesday matchup against the UCLA Bruins with some confidence.

This will be the first meeting between the Bru-ins and Titans since 2009, when a gritty CSUF squad shocked the nation with a 68-65 victory at Pauley Pavillion.

The Titans will be looking for a similar result this time around, and with continued contributions from some of their high-scoring guards, an upset seems within the realm of possibility.

Fullerton comes up with wins in three of their five games over Thanksgiving break

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QUOTE OF THE DAY“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming

gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust

JOKES OF THE DAY

Q: Did you hear the one about the geologist?

A: He took his wife for granite so she left him

Q: What did Winnie The Pooh say to his agent?

A: Show me the honey!

Q: Why couldn’t the pirate play cards?

A: Because he was sitting on the deck!

ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

In your current quest for independence you could inadvertently set yourself up for conse-quences that you don’t understand.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

Your lack of attention to details may land you in trouble today, especially if you thought that you could somehow be in two places at once.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

Coworkers might be the primary source of your current headache today if they present you with an idea that appears attractive at first glance.

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

Your current goals could be based on your fanta-sies, making them nearly impossible to reach in the real world. You might even convince your-self that it’s a straight shot to your destination without realizing it.

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

Although you’re quite confident about your ability to persuade others to join your cause, things may not turn out as planned today.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

Your current inclination is to put a positive spin on everything. You could be wrapped up in day-dreams of romantic love only to be confronted by mundane events that must be decisively han-dled today.

LIBRA(SEPT. 23 - OCT. 22):

Expressing your feelings to a close friend is a good start, but it’s just not enough. You must sugar coat your words today for your message to have the im-pact you desire.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23 - NOV. 21):

Demonstrate your creativity today by seeking ways to manifest beauty in your interactions with oth-ers. It’s as if the Muse has come to visit and won’t leave until you recognize the magic that’s in you.

SAGITTARIUS(NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

Your romantic expectations may be so high to-day that your actual experience cannot be fully satisfying. Unfortunately, you could set a rela-tionship up for failure .

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

A sudden vision of your future could be the source of personal inspiration now, but it’s also the origin of a problem.

AQUARIUS(JAN. 20 - FEB. 18):

Emotional detachment typically helps you de-cide your course of action, especially when it pertains to mundane matters like making mon-ey. But your goals are fuzzy now and it’s tricky to sort out your priorities.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

It’s tough to know who your true friends are today because the incoming signals are compli-cated by your own illusions. You could become so confused that it’s hard to find your way back to the truth.

All good things must come to an end, and such was the case for the Cal State Fullerton men’s soc-cer team when they played the University of San Diego on Nov. 20.

The Titans entered the first round of the NCAA Tournament off the back of their Big West Tournament win, but they couldn’t get past San Diego, succumb-ing to the Toreros 2-1 in overtime.

The sting of defeat was compounded considering the fact that both San Di-ego goals came as a re-sult of converted penalty kicks.

“We won (the Big West

Tournament) on penalties. To lose this way, on pen-alties, is a travesty,” Head Coach George Kuntz said.

Despite the final score-line, things actually started off well for the Titans, who got the early lead in the 12th minute.

On the left flank, mid-fielder Spencer Johnson won the ball back for Ful-lerton after a corner and passed back to teammate Gabriel Quintero.

Quintero was given plen-ty of space by the Torero defense, managing a 20-yard cross to the far post, where Ian Ramos beat his marker and headed the ball into the back of the net, putting the Titans ahead 1-0.

From there, it was all Fullerton the rest of the first half.

The Titans played well, working as a cohesive

unit both in attack and defense.

In particular, the Nicolo D’Amato and Spencer John-son midfield duo was effective at breaking up San Diego at-tacks before they reached the Fullerton back line.

When San Diego did man-age to get into the Fullerton final third, the defense held their ground.

In attack, the midfielders and forwards also were doing a fine job pinning San Diego back.

Amara Soumah and Marc Vasquez reduced the width of the Torero attack by constant-ly tracking back to win the ball and surging upfield when they recovered it.

Despite controlling the game, the Titans had a dif-ficult time creating clear-cut chances, managing only three shots on goal in the first half.

In the second half, San Diego found its footing

in the game, as Fullerton was forced to employ more defensive tactics due to some of their players being “banged up,” according to Kuntz.

The shift in strategy was marked. Instead of win-ning the ball back in the Torero half, the Titans sat back more, allowing San Diego to pin them back.

In the 66th minute, To-rero Kyle Macleod was un-marked and volleyed from 10 yards, but Titan goal-keeper Jeff Salt made the diving save.

The walls were clos-ing in on the Titans, but as the clock wound down, it looked like they would still walk away with the victory.

But then the referee whistled a foul for a hand-ball in the Fullerton box in the 88th minute.

Keegan Smith converted

the penalty shot for San Diego, tying the game at 1-1 and forcing overtime.

The first half of overtime played out much like the second half of regulation.

In the 93rd minute, Dave Musambi beat Titan cen-ter-back Mitchell Bell and went one-on-one with Salt.

Musambi got his shot past Salt, but his low effort from the right to the far post went just wide.

Fullerton survived the first half of overtime and was given a lifeline in the 101st minute when Smith earned a red card.

The Toreros, however, left Fullerton no breathing room.

Less than a minute after they went down a man, San Diego forced another foul in the Fullerton box.

Musambi converted the spot kick, giving San Diego

the golden goal victory.The loss, however,

doesn’t dampen the suc-cess of Fullerton’s overall season, a season in which they finished with a 10-8-6 record.

“It’s such a great time looking back and com-ing in knowing everyone doubted us. Everyone rat-ed us last place, and it’s so great to be a part of coach Kuntz’s first season here,” Johnson said. “It was great being the Big West champs, it’s just a phenom-enal feeling.”

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Cal State Fullerton players were distraught after letting their lead slip against San Diego. Despite dominating most of the game, CSUF could not pull away and ended up losing on a pair of penalty kicks.MARISELA GONZALEZ / DAILY TITAN

Despite entering postseason play on a hot streak, CSUF couldn’t earn a win over USD

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The Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team wrapped up its 2014 season with a three-set loss at the hands of the No. 25 Long Beach State 49ers Saturday at the Walter Pyramid.

The Titans only managed to earn two Big West Con-ference victories and finished second to last in the confer-ence standings, ahead of only winless UC Riverside.

Fullerton entered play coming off a three-set loss to Cal State Northridge.

In that match, only one Titan recorded double-digit kills, and they recorded just a .139 hitting percentage.

Long Beach finished the season undefeated in Big West play and posted a 26-4 overall record.

They have swept each of their last six opponents and clinched the Big West Cham-pionship on Nov. 22.

They are the ninth team in Big West history to finish conference play undefeated.

Back-to-back kills from

freshman outside hitter Niki Withers gave the Titans a 3-2 lead in the opening set.

The 49ers rallied for six consecutive points thanks to four attack errors by Fullerton.

Long Beach won the first set 25-16.

Senior middle blocker Chi-som Okpala tallied six of her eight total kills in the open-ing frame.

CSUF had seven attack er-rors in the set.

Withers tallied four kills, but committed two ser-vice errors and three attack errors.

Fullerton hung with the 49ers at the beginning of the second set and was tied 4-4 after a kill by Withers.

Long Beach led the Titans 10-7 before going on a 13-1 scoring run, with five kills coming from outside hitter Alex Reid.

They never looked back and won the second set 25-10.

Things did not get better for the Titans after the break. Long Beach jumped to a 6-1 lead early in the third set.

The Titans lost their final set of the season 25-13 and suffered their 10th sweep of the season.

Long Beach hit .351 com-pared to the Titans’ -.011 per-centage for the match.

The 49ers had nine blocks on the night, five from Bre Mackie and four from Olpala.

The dominant blocking unit of Long Beach forced 22 attack errors by CSUF.

Mackie also had a team-high 12 kills.

Withers led the Titans with 12 kills.

It was the 12th consecu-tive match in which she re-corded double-digit kills, and her 26th match of the season with at least 10 kills.

She had 3.91 kills per set in conference play, which was the second best in the Big West.

Libero Paige Reed led the defense with 15 digs and Hol-land Crenshaw led the block-ing unit with two blocks.

Reed had 312 digs on the season and averaged 2.97 digs per set, both of which are career-highs.

Mackenzie Olsen dished out 16 assists in the match.

She had 182 assists on the season despite being on a team that struggled to score.

Her 9.55 assists per set was fifth best in the conference.

Senior Devin Ulmer had

10 digs in her final match in a Titan uniform.

Ulmer was third on the team in digs per set with 1.84 and had 13 service aces.

Long Beach will go on play in the NCAA Champi-onship Tournament.

They open the tourna-ment against the University of San Diego, who had a 19-11 record.

The Titans had a very dis-appointing conference season, but there are reasons to be op-timistic about the future.

The Titans had four fresh-man starters and were the youngest team in the Big West.

With only one senior graduating, the Titans will have an experienced roster next season.

Holland Crenshaw had a solid junior campaign for the Titans, hitting a team-high .292 in Big West play.MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO

Titans get swept for the 10th time in the 2014 season, falling to Long Beach State

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