By week’s end, the Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team may very well have clinched a post-season berth to the Big West Conference Tournament, which begins March 10.

Whether or not that hap-pens may be influenced by two big games this week, as the Titans host Cal State Northridge Thursday at 7 p.m. and rival Long Beach State on Saturday at 4 p.m.

The Titans currently sit seventh in the Big West with a 10-15 overall record and a 4-8 mark in confer-ence. The conference’s top eight teams all earn a bid to

the tournament.With four games remain-

ing this season, Fullerton could punch its ticket as early as Thursday, should the Titans defeat the Mat-adors and if last-place UC Santa Barbara loses to UC Davis.

Defeating Northridge, however, will be a chal-lenge as the Matadors (18-9 overall, 8-5 Big West) are heading into Titan Gym on a four-game win-ning streak that began Feb. 7 with an 82-51 win versus Fullerton.

This year’s Northridge squad is historically one of the program’s best, as the team’s 18 wins are already the most in a single season this century.

Northridge is led by se-nior Ashlee Guay, who is also looking to write her name into the Northridge history books.

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A curious and excited au-dience waited patiently to be seated for the taping of the pilot episode of Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser, a mod-ern serial opera, inside the Yost Theater of Santa Ana on Monday night.

Vireo is an artist residency

project made possible with the help of Grand Central Art Center director and cura-tor, John Spiak. KCETLink’s Artbound and the Andy War-hol Foundation for Visual Arts are both partners of the project.

Vireo is an up and coming opera series with a science

fiction twist, created for a broad audience. It combines the imagination and fantasies of a young witch and a teen-age girl embodied in one, named Vireo.

“The opera provides a thoughtful, and sometimes humorous, look at the univer-sal issues of gender identity,

perception and reality,” ac-cording to a Grand Central Art Center press release.

Kis Knekt, a prop design-er and coordinator for Vireo, briefly explained the plot of the opera.

“This young woman has vi-sions and extraordinary abili-ties, and the world around her

is trying to contain that and quantify it, study it and possi-bly suppress it,” Knekt said.

Supporters from all around the Santa Ana com-munity RSVP and joined Vireo’s first taping session at the Yost Theater.

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Cal State Fullerton alum-nus Kevin Costner stars in the heart-warming sports

film, McFarland, USA, which opened in theaters Friday.

Costner plays real-life cross country coach, Jim White. The film portrays White’s inspiring story of transforming a passionate team of down-on-their-luck cross country runners into a team that won nine state championships.

Coster was familiar with White’s story long

before making the film, Coster said.

“I read a story about Mc-Farland in Sports Illustrated about Coach White and I was just thinking, ‘Wow, what a great story!’” Costner said.

In the film, White goes to great lengths to get his run-ners to reach the potential he sees in them.

“If Jim didn’t stand his ground, didn’t have the

integrity to say no, this isn’t the way we’re gon-na do things, then the goals that these young men were able to achieve would never have been possible,” Costner said.

The real people of Mc-Farland, California are very pleased to see this movie be made.

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Associated Students, Inc. plans to increase civic en-gagement on campus and will be kicking that effort into high gear over the coming weeks by increasing outreach to students and changing de-bate formats in preparation for its 2015-2016 elections.

Along with the general outreach changes to increase participation, the organiza-tion will change the way the debates are conducted on campus.

In previous years, there have been two debates, one for the president and the vice president, and one large

debate for the Associated Students board of directors’ candidates.

This year, Associated Stu-dents plans to have multiple sessions. There will be one large debate for the positions of president and vice pres-ident campaigns and sev-eral smaller debates, each focusing on two different colleges at a time, with two exceptions.

The Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Eco-nomics and the of College of Humanities and Social Sci-ences will have their own de-bates because these colleges tend to have more candidates running for elected positions, said Victoria Gomez, As-sociated Students elections commissioner.

Debates for representatives for the College of Communi-cations and College of Educa-tion will be held together, and another debate will feature

candidates for the College of Arts and the College of Hu-man Development.

The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and College of Engineering and Computer Science candi-dates will face off in a sepa-rate debate.

This format will make the debates more college-orient-ed and give students more of a connection to the election process, Gomez said.

With changes to the de-bate structure and an in-crease in outreach, Associat-ed Students hopes to increase the voter turnout for the elections.

Student participation has been on an upward swing since 2012, when only 4.8 percent of students partici-pated in campus elections—the third-lowest turnout on record.

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Associated Students, Inc., which has rarely seen voter rates above 10 percent over the past decade, will be revitalizing efforts to increase turnout among students.

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Inspiring sports film McFarland, USA opened in theaters Friday. The movie stars Cal State Fullerton alumnus Keniv Costner as the real-life cross country coach Jim White. The film is a heart-warming story about family and determination.

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Fernando Sanchez and his girlfriend Jessica Gascon were sentenced to 20 years and nine years in prison, respec-tively, Tuesday morning after pleading guilty to multiple offenses, includ-ing attempted murder, according to a district attorney press release.

Sanchez plead guilty to attempted murder, assault with a semi-au-tomatic firearm, criminal threats and shooting at an inhabited house.

Gascon plead-ed guilty to assault with a semi-automatic firearm.

Charges stemmed from an incident in which Gascon told Sanchez that a man they had been socializing with made unwanted sexu-al advances toward her. That eventually led to the couple driving to the victim’s house and, once the victim left his home, Sanchez opened fire.

The victim and oth-ers in the area were uninjured.

A Metrolink train plowed into a truck that was stuck on the tracks at 5:46 a.m. Tuesday, causing four passenger cars to derail in Oxnard, according to the Los Angeles Times.

More than 25 people were hospitalized and four more are in critical condition as of Tuesday evening.

The driver, Jose Alejandro Sanchez Ramirez of Yuma, Ar-izona, was taken into custody by Oxnard po-lice on suspicion of a hit and run.

He was found 1.62 miles from the accident scene. Ramirez claims that his truck got stuck on the tracks.

Assistant Oxnard Po-lice Chief Jason Benites told the LA Times that the truck was stuck on the track, but police are not sure how long the truck was there.

Congress reached a settlement that will prohibit Internet ser-vice providers from utilizing paid fast lanes, The New York Times reported.

The Federal Commu-nications Commision is expected to approve the new plan to clas-sify the internet as a public service Thurs-day, giving the commis-sion the power to en-force net neutrality.

Various internet communities opposed the use of paid priori-tization that broadband companies, such as Comcast and Verizon, created to increase profits.

The FCC’s vote on Thursday will determine the future legislation.

One person was injured shortly before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in a two-vehicle collision in the 3-way inter-section at Nutwood Avenue and Commonwealth Ave-nue,Fullerton Police Sgt.

Kathryn Hamel said.The driver of a black

Toyota 4Runner was turn-ing left onto southbound Commonwealth and turned in front of the driver of a white Toyota Prius, Hamel said.

The Prius broadsided the 4Runner, which came to a rest in a center median on Commonwealth Avenue between Hope Internation-al University and the Col-lege Park building.

Police officials, including

one officer and two park-ing control officers, ar-rived on scene and were joined by members of the fire department. An ambu-lance arrived on scene to transport one of the driv-ers, who complained of pain, to a local hospital, Hamel said.

Hamel could not confirm whether either party in-volved in the accident was a CSUF student or facul-ty member. Neither driver had passengers, she said.

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Symposium to focus on diaspora

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Two cars colided at theintersection of Nutwood and Commonwealth Avenues Tuesday. One person was injured, but officials could not confirm if either driver was a Cal State Fullerton student.

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Nearly 15 depart-ments and organizations on campus will come to-gether to host the second Southeast Asian Legacies Symposium.

The symposium will at-tempt to educate students and the community about the heritages, experienc-es and history of these di-asporic communities, said Eliza Noh, Ph.D., associate professor of Asian-Ameri-can studies.

Diasporic communi-ties are those made up of people who have moved away from an ancestral homeland. The sympo-sium comes 40 years af-ter the fall of Saigon and other wars in Southeast Asia, and will aim to in-crease global awareness of diasporic communities all over the world from those regions of the world like Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

“(I hope attendees will leave with) a feeling of cel-ebration and appreciation of this historic moment of 40 years, particularly of Southeast Asian-Ameri-cans living in the U.S. and an understanding of that community,” Noh said.

The keynote speaker,

Viet Nguyen, Ph.D., from the University of South-ern California department of English and American studies and ethnicity, will be reflecting on the signifi-cance of this historic occa-sion, as well as looking at the progress of these com-munities within the United States.

The day will focus on students with panels, roundtable discussions, exhibits and films. The Southeast Asian Legacies made the symposium a valuable resource for stu-

dents with many student run discussions that include local oral history projects and archives that can be used for their own research and understanding.

Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Ph.D., associate professor of Asian-American studies, organized three of the var-ious panels that will take place.

One, titled Alumni Ex-periences: Intergenera-tional Dialogue, will be a roundtable discussion on alumni involvement in campus and community or-ganizations and how that has shaped their careers.

Accompanying the alumni will be their parents, who will share their experienc-es of their child’s education at Cal State Fullerton.

“I am really excited to hear about not only the historical experiences—there is going to be a lot of panels focusing on the historical aspects of the migration—but I am re-ally excited to hear from the student perspectives, what they are doing now and how they are negotiat-ing Southeast Asian histo-ry and learning about what

they can do to make a differ-ence in their communities to-day and moving forward into the future,” Nguyen said.

Other panels will feature local, community-based or-ganizations to give students an opportunity and the re-sources they need to become more involved in the South-east Asian community.

At the end of the sympo-sium, there will be various cultural performances by stu-dent clubs and local commu-nity performance groups.

The symposium will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Titan Student Union on March 6.

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Fossils of leatherback sea turtles, a 9-foot jawbone of a whale, a seal and a walrus were all discovered during construction of a new high-way in San Clemente.

The find could provide valuable information on past climates, environments and the evolution of some of the species found, said James Parham, Ph.D., assistant pro-fessor in the Department of Geological Sciences and fac-ulty curator at the John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center.

“There is actually no re-search specifically on Cali-fornia leatherbacks or even West Coast leatherbacks,” said Katrina Awalt, a CSUF

alumna working with Par-ham to prepare a scientific publication on leatherback sea turtles specifically in the Orange County area.

Awalt graduated from CSUF in fall 2014 with her bachelor’s degree in geology.

Fossils like these are a rare find because the tur-tles don’t preserve very well, Awalt said. She added that the discovery will provide more information about the turtles.

Awalt is not sure she will include these new fossils in her publication, but hopes to have the chance to study them in the future.

“We have this very spe-cial animal here in Califor-nia still alive today, criti-cally endangered. We don’t know much about their evo-lution. These fossils, such as this new find from Orange County, are going to help us understand this type of ani-mal,” Parham said.

There are still a variety of

things to learn about the tur-tle, Parham said.

“They are definitely the most unusual turtle that’s still around, but we don’t re-ally know much about their evolution,” he said.

The new roadway is part of the La Pata Project and goes through San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano. Fossils have been found in three areas—San Juan Cap-istrano, San Clemente and an unincorporated area near-by, but most of the fossils have been found on the San Clemente side, said Nardy Khan, project manager for the La Pata Project.

California is requiring an environmental impact report to be done, identifying areas where fossils may be found before projects like roadway construction begin, and the possibility of finding items at these locations was there early on, Khan said.

The whale jawbone was cataloged, but the fossil was in pieces that could not be

recovered, Khan said. The 3-to-7-million-year-old tur-tle fossils, however, were ex-tracted and are waiting to be prepared for study.

Until the fossils can be removed from their jack-et of dirt or rock that hous-es them, officials won’t be certain if they’re examin-ing a full specimen or only fragments. A process that can take one to two years. It’s a slow process because they do not want to cause any damage to what’s there, Khan said.

Once prepared and curat-ed, the leatherback fossils will go to the Cooper Cen-ter, a research facility and partnership of CSUF and the County of Orange. They are responsible for the items found in Orange County and taking care of managing them to make them available to the public. They will facil-itate the research opportuni-ty for groups or universities interested in the leatherback fossils, Khan said.

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That jump is a result of changes in the number and quality of the candidates, the efficiency of candidates’ marketing strategies and the strength of outreach on the part of Associated Students election commissioner, said Associated Students President and CEO Harpreet Bath.

“That’s how the student body responds,” Bath said. “The more you see it, the more you want to (get involved) … we’re constantly looking at ways to increase awareness.”

This year, students will have the opportunity to vote off-campus through their por-tal and have a voting time frame of three days, extend-ed from the previous one-day window.

Associated Students rep-resentatives have been at nu-merous campus events, includ-ing Pizza with the President and Wednesday concerts at the Becker Amphitheater to generate a buzz around cam-pus and get students interest-ed in participating in the elec-tion process on both ends of the ballot. In addition to en-couraging students to vote, Associated Students has also

been encouraging them to run during this upcoming cam-paign season.

Club meetings have provid-ed the organization with an additional platform to encour-age students to vote. Represen-tatives have been informing InterClub Councils about the Associated Students structures and encouraging those in-volved in Associated Students organizations, including The Association for InterCultural Awareness, Street Team and Mesa Cooperativa.

The goal of the outreach is to increase the number of students involved on cam-pus, said Victoria Gomez, As-sociated Students elections commissioner.

“The thing that really pains us is when people say ‘Oh I didn’t know about it,’” Gomez said. “Sometimes you think you do all you can and some-times you need to think of different places (to reach out to).”

Associated Students will also conduct social media campaigns in addition to the traditional outreach methods.

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High school students will have the chance to sell stock, see their portfolio grow and gain knowledge on what’s going on in the business and economic world when they participate in The Center for Economic Education’s Cali-fornia Financial Literacy and Business Olympiad event at Cal State Fullerton.

The event was created to fill a hole that officials saw in the academic olympiad spec-trum, said Radha Bhattacha-rya, Ph.D., Director for Eco-nomic Education. Science and math olympiads are common, she said, but there weren’t events focused on business.

“Both the science and math olympiads go all the way up to high school, but I have not seen an economics and busi-ness olympiad,” Bhattacha-rya said. “It’s high time we had an olympiad for busi-ness, economics and financial literacy.”

The five olympiad events offered will be the Stock Mar-ket Competition, Business Plan competition, Financial Video Competition, Finan-cial Literacy and Personal Fi-nance Knowledge Competi-tion and the Economics and Business News Competition. Students will have the oppor-tunity to participate in one or more of the five events.

Bhattacharya the high school students will enjoy

seeing their business knowl-edge applied in a practical manner while also learning new information, she said.

The Center for Econom-ic Education works closely with schools, the community, and other institutions to pro-mote economic and financial literacy.

The Center for Econom-ic Education at the Steven G. Mihaylo College of Busi-ness and Economics is also supported by the California Council on Economic Educa-tion and the Council on Eco-nomic Education.

Economic majors and stu-dents involved with the busi-ness and entrepreneurship centers on campus will serve as mentors for the participat-ing high schools students.

William Taormina, a CSUF graduate from the Center of Entrepreneurship, has worked with Bhattacharya on previ-ous events and is also the co-ordinator for the mentors for the olympiad.

Taormina is also a found-er for the National Start up League, a nonprofit that of-fers business, economic, and entrepreneur mentor-ship and guidance for low income schools.

It’s important for students to gain financial literacy and be able to understand the eco-nomics behind managing and operating a business and en-trepreneurship, Taormino said.

Taormino also wants to challenge students to push forward and approach prob-lems in a way where they can say ‘I can fix that,’ and create a sustainable business to fix that problem.

The event will feature high school students from as far as Bakersfield.

Wells Fargo and the Cal-ifornia Council on Eco-nomic Education will sponsor the event, which will be held March 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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A portion of the Financial Literacy and Business Olympiad will have high school students participate in a business plan competition. CSUF students participated in their own business plan competition earlier this semester, Feb. 20.

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Students share their ideas during the business bootcamp event that took place on Jan. 15. High School students will be tasked with sharing their own business ideas during the olympiad.

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Plans This Week?

Meng Hall to host music festival

The school of music will be hosting its 14th annual New Music Festival Wednesday evening through Sunday in the Clayes Performing Arts Center.

The festival will center on the theme Image-Music-Text, reaching across multiple cre-ative outlets. Each guest art-ist selected will perform with interaction and interarts col-laboration, meaning the per-formances will involve vid-eo projections along with the musical pieces.

The guest artists include Lisa Bielawa, Rabbit Rabbit, Laurie Rubin, Elliott Sharp, Either/Or, Divan Consort, the Cal State Fullerton New Mu-sic Ensemble in residence and festival director Pamela Madsen.

“(I hope students) will gain an awareness of what is happening in contemporary

music,” Madsen said.Madsen brings in artists

from all over the world in hopes that they will plant the idea in student’s heads that they can dance too Madsen said. She wants students to be able to see themselves follow-ing this path.

The 30 graduate students in the New Music Ensemble will perform alongside guest composers for an unforget-table learning experience that allows them to experi-ence the life of a professional musician.

The festival will include workshops, master classes, lectures and nightly concerts. The classes and lectures will be run by the guest compos-ers, giving the students one-on-one experience to learn from world class performers, as well as the opportunity to participate in lectures.

Carla Kihlstedt and Mat-thias Bossi from Rabbit Rab-bit, with composer and vocal-ist Lisa Bielawa will take the stage at the Meng Concert Hall this evening. The perfor-mance will be a fun, electron-ic experience for all who at-tend. Tickets to today’s event

are $5, and concerts Thursday through Saturday are $15.

The West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis will also be present on Satur-day during the festival, with many scholarly guest speakers from across the country. They will be giving an academic and networking opportunity to students and the public who may be interested in graduate school or different career op-tions in the field of music.

Sundays concert will be a free performance by concert ensemble Either/Or of Mor-ton Feldman’s iconic piece, For Philip Guston. This per-formance is a four and a half hour long piece that is praised for its musicianship and unique nature. It is rare-ly played because it is a feat of endurance for musicians. Au-dience members don’t have to stay for the whole four hour performance. It has an open door policy, allowing attend-ees to enjoy the music, take in the ambiance and view the videos that will be present outside of the room.

For tickets and more in-formation, visit fullerton.edu/arts/music.

“It means an awful lot to the community of Mc-Farland, myself included,” White said.

Costner took great plea-sure in working on the film and has a great deal of re-spect for White, he said.

“There’s a quiet dignity to him,” Costner said. “The part was written very well so I didn’t have to try to

invent little gags to make Jim interesting.”

Keeping the film as close to White’s actual ex-perience was very import-ant for Costner, he said.

“I don’t think the movie would have been success-ful if it were fiction,” Cost-ner said.

Costner and White stayed in touch during the making of the film, and White was instrumental in

Costner’s character devel-opment, Costner said.

“Jim would often come

to the set and we would have a time to either talk with him or his wife and

just walk around. And it was always more just about life in general, things

would circle back to Mc-Farland and his own histo-ry there and the boyhood,”

Costner said.The Field of Dreams star

knows the importance of making sure a story about sports is told right.

“I think when you want a movie that has to do with sports, one of the keys is to not make it about too much of the sport. It has to be the backdrop,” Costner said. “It’s what gets said to peo-ple when they’re not actu-ally performing is what

really becomes the most interesting.”

Costner hopes movie-goers will get their money’s worth and appreciate the film’s heart-warming story.

“This is not a mov-ie about running. It’s not about cross-country. This movie is really about the American dream and the American dream in Mc-Farland is alive and well,” Costner said.

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Annual New Music Festival to incorporate visuals into concerts

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The annual New Music Festival begins tonight with a performance from Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi of Rabbit Rabbit. The festival will include other concerts as well as workshops.

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L.A. rock band to play the Becker

The Los Angeles alterna-tive rock band DECORA-TOR will perform at the Becker Amphitheater Thurs-day in continuance of the Associated Students, Inc. concert series.

The self proclaimed “in-fectious alt-rock band,” will play front and center at the Becker Amphitheater at noon, where Associated Stu-dents will provide free pizza for concert-goers.

Associated Students’ Pub Thursday series coordina-tor, Alyse Russell, said she discovered the band through a booking manager’s rec-ommendation, in hopes that their distinct sound will draw a diverse crowd.

Together the band dis-plays an array of musical in-fluences like Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley and John Col-trane intertwined with Lau-ryn Hill and Wu-Tang Clan,

according to the band’s website.

The website also men-tions that DECORATOR’s name originated from a Frank Zappa quote, “With-out music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of bor-ing production headlines or dates by which bills must

be paid.” The six member band is

comprised of three broth-ers and their friends. They include Miles Melendrez (main vocals), Alix Melen-drez and Matt Mumcian (guitar and vocals), Reece Melendrez (bass), Cameron Johnson (drums) and Mike Harris (keys).

The band’s origin can be traced to the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, which was founded by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Michael “Flea” Balzary.

In the summer of 2014,

the band launched their EP Transit.

Recently, the band head-lined at the Troubadour in December, and on Saturday they played the 2015 Los Angeles Chinese New Year Festival.

“There’s a lot of members in the band and I feel like

each of them is featured in some kind of way,” Russell said. “It’s not necessarily the lead singer as the front man, you kind of recognize them all.”

The group members’ in-dividuality can be heard in their first single Mad Cali Transit, a groovy and funk-influenced tune with a solid bass, catchy guitar and drums that compliments the soulful tone of Melendrez’s vocals.

“I think it’s familiar enough that people are going to enjoy it,” Russell said.

Inside the theater, the camera crew prepared for shooting as the audience whispered and waited.

Before the taping start-ed, Spiak gave an introduc-tion speech about the sto-ry, its cast members, the quartet, the chorus, Lisa Bielawa, the composer and producer, Charlie Otte, the director and Erik Ehn, the librettist.

Bielawa, was up on stage throughout the taping. She elegantly conducted the Kro-nos Quartet of San Francis-co, who provided the score for the entire pilot episode.

The San Francisco Girl’s Chorus angelically sang in unison with the quartet.

The camera man and his assistant started the scene with an up close shot of the quartet and main character, Vireo, played by Rowen Sa-bala, a 16-year-old sopra-no from the Orange County School of Arts.

The taping consisted of one scene shot three sepa-rate times to ensure the best quality. Each time the cast and crew ran through the

scene, they made sure to take advantage of the oppor-tunities for improvement.

As the public taping ses-sion concluded, the cast and crew continued working on the set as the audience exited

the theater. Suzana Pinkerton, a stu-

dio manager of Hipcooks, a cooking school located in-side the Grand Central Art Center, attended the taping session.

Pinkerton heard the op-era rehearsals for the past month inside the Grand Cen-tral Art Center, she said, and was inclined to see for her-self what all the commotion was about.

“I think it’s great, beauti-ful and incredible. The tal-ent that you see here, espe-cially with the young kids,” Pinkerton said after the

taping session. Vireo not only attracted

opera enthusiasts, but oth-er artists and creative minds throughout the surrounding

Orange County community. Vireo debuts on March 31

as a part KCET’s television Artbound Series. The pilot is a 25 minute episode of 14 in

the series. An online website which

features video content for all Artbound series content is available.

DECORATOR to bring their alternative stylings to CSUF

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DECORATOR will play the Becker Amphitheater Thursday at noon. The local alternative band gained recognition after releasing their EP Transit in 2014.

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The opera provides a thoughtful, and sometimes humorous, look at the universal issues of gender identity, perception and reality.

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Grand Central Art Center’s Lisa Bielawa began taping sessions for her opera series Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser Monday at the Yost Theater in Santa Ana. The pilot will premiere Mar. 31 for KCET’s television Artbound Series.

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Letter to the Editor Response to “Unpaid Interns Short Changed”

Dear Editors:Jackie Tambara would

do well to avail herself of a COMM 495 academic in-ternship. Here’s what she could expect.

She would earn three units of academic credit for the equivalent of about a half-time position that would take place during one semester—probably her last one before graduating.

She would receive a min-imum of one hour per week of direct supervision, men-toring or training from an experienced professional who has agreed to focus on her learning objectives.

She will gain knowledge,

skills, training and/or expe-rience relevant to her major and intended profession.

She will have the oppor-tunity to use the knowl-edge she has gained in the classroom by apply-ing it to assignments in the workplace.

If she is adept, she will make professional contacts during her three months in the field.

What will set these con-tacts apart from her net-working introductions is that these people will have observed her abilities and skills on the job. If her work deserves it, their comments will reinforce her strengths and qualifications for a per-manent job.

If she is savvy, she will cultivate relationships with others at the site, and she’ll

build on those to develop her professional network.

She’ll learn about what it’s like to work in that in-dustry and at that particular site.

She’ll be on the inside track to hear about open-ings before they are made public.

When she applies for jobs, her résumé will in-clude professional experi-ence that she has acquired while enrolled in an aca-demic internship course.

When she enrolls in COMM 495 and searches for her placement site, she’ll know that any approved ac-ademic internship she ap-plies for has been vetted for relevance to her major, for appropriate duties and tasks, for quality supervi-sion and training, and for

learning outcomes that are connected to her studies and professional goals.

She’ll also have the as-surance that her safety and well-being have been tak-en into consideration be-fore the position has been reviewed for possible risks to her, the employer and the university.

As with all other cours-es she has enrolled in while still a Titan, she will know that her learning out-comes are largely her own responsibility.

But she has every expec-tation that her efforts will be met by equal efforts by the employer, who has agreed to provide her with opportuni-ties to increase her knowl-edge, skills and preparation for her career. In the case of academic internships, the

“job description” is a class syllabus like any other, with assignments, responsibili-ties, tests and an outline of the gains students can ex-pect to make if they meet all the requirements.

Likewise, supervisors agree to take on the role of instructor and are pre-pared to facilitate students’ growth and development throughout the internship.

Consistent with labor laws, interns must be com-pensated either in the form of wages or academic credit.

While some internships offer both, most do not, par-ticularly those in highly competitive fields. Paid in-ternships essentially are just part-time jobs if they do not also offer academic credit.

While the intern may

earn modest wages and may have opportunities to network, the employer has not agreed to invest in the intern’s growth in learn-ing, skills, or professional preparation. It’s the employ-er’s needs that will be met, not the intern’s.

We invite Jackie and her fellow Titans to educate themselves about all the dif-ferent kinds of career prepa-ration opportunities avail-able to them (credit-bearing or not, paid or unpaid) through the resources of the Center for Internships & Community Engage-ment, the Career Center and their academic advisors and departments.

We are here to facilitate your learning and career readiness! Stop by some-time, Jackie!

KATHLEEN COSTELLOAssociate Director of CSUF’s

Center for Internships

Lifting the Cuban embargo benefits all

It’s been decades since the U.S. first placed an em-bargo on trade with Cuba, it’s about time that embar-go was lifted.

In the ‘50s, Cuba and the U.S. had a better relation-ship. Unfortunately when Castro began nationalizing Cuban companies, some of which were subsidiaries of American firms, this rela-tionship began to worsen.

It didn’t help when the U.S. found evidence that Cuba was allowing the So-viet Union to plant nuclear bombs on Cuban soil.

But times are different now and there’s money to be made with Cuba.

Cuba is a worldwide tourist attraction; our prized writer Ernest Hem-ingway lived there for a number of years and the country gave him inspira-tion for what was arguably his greatest novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

Other countries are

currently openly trading with Cuba; trading goods as well as tourists, and in the mean time, America stands idly by.

There is money to be made in Cuba and Ameri-cans love money.

However, there are dif-fering opinions. Represen-tatives of the United Na-tions General Assembly believe that the embargo should be left standing.

This is a difficult belief

to agree with consider-ing that when the embargo was first set in place, it was done to weaken the Cuban government during tenuous times.

Now, the embargo is re-ally only hurting the civil-ian populace of Cuba.

Other’s argue that we shouldn’t trade with Cuba because of their form of government, but the U.S. trades with China, and that’s a communist nation.

As much as Uncle Sam would like, he cannot

possibly coerce every gov-ernment in the world into democracy—it can’t be done.

Policing should only be done when it’s vital, like in the Middle East, and the U.S. should take ad-vantage of potential trad-ing partners where there is opportunity.

There’s an economic up-side that can come from trading with Cuba.

The U.S. will benefit

from another trade part-ner and Cuban citizens will have access to wholesome red, white and blue goods. The economic benefits could just be the start.

If trading goes well, the overall relationship be-tween Cuba and the U.S. might gradually improve.

With the easing of trav-el restrictions, Americans will be able visit Cuba freely, spend money and conduct business.

It’ll create a new sense of camaraderie between the two countries.

America has wasted too much time shutting out Cuba

ANTHONY BAGHDADYFor the Daily Titan

The U.S. will benefit from having another trade partner and Cuban citizens will have access to wholesome red, white and blue goods.

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Earlier this year in January, President Obama asked Congress to lift the embargo placed on Cuba during his State of the Union, opening up relations for the first time in over 50 years.

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Edberg wins at Spartan Invite

Crucial games await Titans

Softball set to face USD Toreros

Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball is currently rid-ing a five-game losing streak. They have lost by an average 11.4 points over the skid.

With only four games left in the regular sea-son, the Titans need some wins in order to make the Big West Conference Tournament.

Fullerton’s next two op-ponents are Cal State Northridge and rival Long Beach State.

The Titans (9-18 overall, 1-11 Big West) are current-ly trailing CSUN by half a game in the conference standings for the final spot in the tournament.

The Titans have a meeting with the Mat-adors on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Northridge at the Matadome.

The Titans’ last losing streak, six games, was bro-ken with a 16-point home win against CSUN on Feb. 5. This was the last time the two teams have met and the

Titans’ last victory. The Ti-tans will hope to repeat the past result in a game with tournament implications on the line.

The Matadors are com-ing off a 58-67 road loss to UC Irvine on Feb. 21.

Senior guard Stephan Hicks leads the Matadors in scoring, averaging 15.7 points per game.

A win against CSUN on Thursday will take the Ti-tans into eighth place and be granted a potential spot in the tournament. With the win, the Titans will also own the tiebreaker, in case the two teams were to have matching records at the end of the regular season.

A loss to the Matadors will put the Titans in a tight spot. They will be two games back in the win category with three games left in the season. With a loss on Thursday, the Ti-tans will tie their longest losing streak of the season at six.

The Titans average 64.4 points per game, while giv-ing up an average of 68.3 points. The Matadors score an average of 64.1 points and allow an average of 70.1 points.

The game against Long Beach, who is fourth in the Big West standings, will be

another road affair on Sat-urday at 4 p.m. The game will be streamed live on ESPN 3.

The last matchup be-tween these two teams ended in an overtime home loss for the Titans.

Both guard Mike Caffey (34 points) and forward David Samuels (22 points) had career-highs in scoring that night for Long Beach. They are the only two play-ers on the team averaging double digits in scoring.

The Titans have not played well on the road. They have only one road win, coming against Nevada.

The 49ers are also rid-ing a losing streak, drop-ping their last four contests, but have proven to play well at home. They have an 8-2 home record. They average 66.4 points per game and allow an average of 67.9 points.

Guard Alex Harris has missed the past two games with an injury. The senior leader has accumulated the most playing time and av-erages a team-high 16.1 points and 3.29 assists per game. The team can’t afford to have him miss any more games, as his offensive prowess will be a surge for the Titans as they near the end of the season.

A win over CSUN will give CSUF the last tourney spot

JUSTIN PATUANODaily Titan

Junior guard Lanerryl Johnson has been thrust into the starting spot with Alex Harris missing the last two games with an injury.

MATT CORKILL / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO

The Cal State Fullerton women’s golf team con-cluded Juli Inkster Spartan Invitational play Tuesday, finishing sixth place after a strong final day in San Jose.

After struggling in the first day of action, the Ti-tans all carded their best scores of the competition in the second day at the 6,143-yard, par-72 Almaden Golf and Country Club course.

The Titans began the third round in ninth place, but moved up three spots after carding a 299, the sec-ond-best overall team score of the day. Fullerton would finish the tournament with a 67-over 931.

The team may have played poorly through the first two rounds, but soph-omore Martina Edberg stayed in contention to de-fend her individual title at the Spartan Invitational. Entering Tuesday one stroke behind the leaders, Edberg shot a two-under 70 in the final round to earn co-med-alist honors with San Jose State’s Megan Osland.

Edberg and Osland fin-ished with a three-over 319 score. The co-medalist hon-or for Edberg was her sec-ond consecutive at the Spar-tan Invitational and her third career title.

Although 12-strokes be-hind Fresno State after the first day, host San Jose State captured the team win by carding an even-par 288 in the final round to fin-ish with a 33-over 897, just two strokes in front of the Bulldogs.

Behind Edberg, the next best performer for the Ti-tans was Brittany Farrell. The freshman finished with a 17-over 233, good for a tie for 23rd place.

Senior Tisha Alyn Abrea was the third Titan golfer, placing in a tie for 31st with a score of 237 (+21).

Junior Nadine Rivera rounded out the Titan golf-ers with a 42nd-place finish on a 26-over 242.

The Titans will have a long break before next hit-ting the links on March 20, when they travel to Tuc-son, Arizona for the Moun-tain View Collegiate. The Mountain View Collegiate will be the last tuneup for the Titans before the Big West Championships begin-ning April 19.

The sophomore defended her title as the Titans finish sixth

TAMEEM SERAJDaily Titan

In an early season stacked with multiple tour-naments, the Cal State Ful-lerton softball team has a rare game outside of a tournament.

The Titans will travel to the University of San Diego Wednesday at 6 p.m. for a sin-gle non-conference game in the only matchup between the teams this season.

The Titans (9-6) enter on a two-game winning streak, having salvaged a tough Mary Nutter Clas-sic tournament by notching two wins after dropping the first three. Fullerton defeated Nevada, 9-1, and later Oklahoma State, 6-5, on Sunday in Cathedral City.

Perhaps the biggest driv-er of Fullerton’s success this season is the one-two punch of juniors Court-ney Rodriguez and Missy Taukeiaho.

Rodriguez, a transfer from the University of Ar-izona, has started red hot with a .469 batting average

and 23 hits, which has translated into 11 runs, nine RBIs, four doubles and two triples.

As for Taukeiaho, the third baseman leads her squad in runs (18), RBIs (12), home runs (6) and walks (13), while batting .429 with an on-base per-centage of .579.

Taukeiaho and Rodri-guez combined for four of Fullerton’s eight hits while scoring three of the team’s nine runs against Nevada.

Taukeiaho later crossed home plate with the game-winning run in Fuller-ton’s victory over Oklahoma State when she stayed alert to

score from second base on a wild pitch.

One of the team’s unsung heroes so far has been ju-nior pitcher Desiree Yba-rra, who tossed nine sol-id innings Sunday versus Nevada and Oklahoma State.

Ybarra (4-2) picked up two wins, combining for nine innings while allow-ing two runs on 12 hits.

In San Diego, the Titans face a team coming in on a two-game slide after get-ting swept at UC Riverside by scores of 7-6 (eight in-nings) and 10-2 (five in-nings) on Sunday.

Overall, the Toreros are

7-7 this season, but have notched a notable victory against No. 21-ranked Ari-zona State, 5-3, on Feb. 6.

San Diego has been nearly unbeatable when freshman Paige Von Spre-cken has seen time in the circle.

The Yorba Linda na-tive was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Week on Feb. 9 and is 6-1 this season with a 2.03 ERA in eight appearances, having started six games.

Offensively, freshman Kailey Hill is San Diego’s big slugger, batting .323 with three homers, 11 RBIs and 10 runs.

Guay is averaging a team-leading 15 points per game and is No. 2 all-time on the program scoring list with 1,623 points, which puts her right behind lead-er Ofa Tulikijijifo’s total of 1,632.

As for Saturday’s game, the Titans will be look-ing for revenge against the 49ers, who won the team’s first meeting, 74-70, on Jan. 31.

Long Beach State (20-6 overall, 7-5 Big West) heads to Fullerton in a bit of a slump as the 49ers have dropped five-of-eight after starting the season winning 17 of 18 games.

Sophomore guard Raven Benton is averaging a team-best 11.5 points per game for the 49ers.

Like Long Beach, Fuller-ton is also looking to bust out of a recent downturn as the Titans have dropped six of their last seven contests, dating back to the 49ers defeat.

The one victory during that stretch came Feb. 19 when senior guard Chante Miles turned in a stellar ef-fort in Fullerton’s 74-60 up-set win at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Miles scored a career-high 36 points in that contest, which now has the guard listed as No. 2 in the Big West in scoring, with an

average of 20.5 points per game.

Fullerton does boast one conference leader in senior Kathleen Iwuoha, the for-ward averaging 7.9 rebounds per game. Iwuoha has reg-istered nine double-dig-it rebounding efforts and is coming off a season-high 15 boards in Saturday’s 48-39 loss at UC Santa Barbara.

After Long Beach State, the Titans close out the home portion of their schedule on March 5 versus UC Irvine (5-22 overall, 2-10 Big West) before capping the regu-lar season with a trip to the Hawaiian islands to take on conference-leading Univer-sity of Hawaii (19-7 overall, 11-2 Big West) on March 7.

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Senior guard Tailer Butler attempts a free throw against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Jan. 22. Butler and the Titans can clinch their spot in the Big West Tournament with a win over CSUN Thursday.

AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO

Basketball: CSUF to host rival

The Titans need Taukeiaho and Rodriguez to suceed

DREW CAMPADaily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton softball team has a rare non-tournamount game when they travel to face the University of San Diego Toreros Wednesday at 6 p.m. The Titans will need contributions from the bats of Missy Taukeiaho and Courtney Rodriguez if they are to win. The Toreros will counter with their own slugger, Kailey Hill.

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