Vo l u m e 9 2 , I s s u e 1 9 d a i l y t i t a n . c o mM O N D AY, O C T O B E R 8 , 2 0 1 2

What’s Inside:NEWS 3Hollywood Sign gets a makeoverOPINION 4Presidential debate a rhetorical danceDETOUR 5Victoria Justice in new movie Fun SizeSPORTS 8New softball coach namedNHL lockout affects Anaheim Ducks employees -

Failure to reach agreement has canceled 82 games.

Online Exclusive

CONTACT US AT DTNEWSDESK@GMAIL.COM

Police arrested a wanted parolee Saturday following a standoff that lasted more than eight hours at a Ramada Hotel along Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, said authorities.

Steven Fishel, 51, of Huntington Beach, was ultimately taken into custody about 6:45 p.m. and is expected to be booked on suspicion of vio-lating his parole, as well as an assault with a dead-ly weapon that occurred in San Diego County in September, said Anaheim police Sgt. Bob Dunn.

Two women who were holed up with Fish-el inside the hotel room at the Ramada, 2141 S. Harbor Blvd., were unharmed, he said. Though officials initially feared they may have been hostages, they appeared to have been in the room of their own accord.

Parole agents from the California Depart-ment of Corrections and Rehabilitation re-quested help from Anaheim police about 10 a.m. “apprehending a parolee-at-large who was armed and dangerous,” Dunn said.

Touting the efforts poured into the funding and building of the long-awaited Fullerton Commu-nity Center, Mayor Sharon Quirk-Silva and other community officials spoke to a large crowd Satur-day and officially opened the site to the public.

The community center, located at Amerige Park on Commonwealth Avenue, combines the Boys and Girls Club, Senior Center and Parks and Rec-reation programs all in one location.

“I find that my greatest joy comes from see-ing the dreams and aspirations of our citizens realized through the improvements that we have made in Fullerton,” said Quirk-Silva in her speech before she and other youths cut a ribbon,

unveiling the new center. The city programs were combined in an ef-

fort to bring families together rather than having youths in one building and seniors in another, Quirk-Silva said.

One of the highlights of the center, where a band played for the grand opening, is the 5,000-square-foot Grand Hall, complete with a formal perfor-mance stage and full-service kitchen.

Also, the new building houses an indoor Olym-pic-sized swimming pool, a computer lab and a

small gym equipped with treadmills, billiards ta-bles, a basketball gym and other amenities.

With the new pool, the Fullerton Aquatics Sports Team (FAST) will organize a variety of swim classes and other aquatic programs for the community.

At the grand opening, FAST coach Jon Ur-banchek and other Community Center organizers described the programs.

Cal State Fullerton men’s hockey team faced the visiting San Diego State Aztecs in their home opener at KHS Ice Arena in Anaheim on Saturday night. The Titans fell to the Aztecs 4-2.

KHS Ice Arena was packed with CSUF fans ready and enthusiastic for the game to start. The Titan hockey team, however, did not look ready to play.

The first period began with con-stant puck control by the Aztecs. They won several faceoffs in a row and maintained possession of the puck. San Diego State was also very effective cycling the puck. The Ti-tans had trouble getting out of their offensive zone as a result of passes that kept misconnecting.

The Aztecs fired multiple shots at Titans goaltender Brandon Heethuis. He managed to make several outstanding saves in the first period to keep the team in the game.

About midway through the pe-riod, however, the Titans started skating better and managed to put

some pressure on Aztec goaltender Alex Corbin.

The line of Taylor Castle, Alec Censullo and Sean Saligumba won a huge defensive faceoff and main-tained possession of the puck. De-fenseman Jacob Brummett gave a nice outlet pass to Taylor Castle. On a two-on-one breakaway, Castle fired a slap shot and scored, giv-ing the Titans a 1-0 lead. The goal came at 9:18 of the first period.

The period ended with CSUF’s Adam Brusig taking an interfer-ence penalty. On the penalty kill, Heethuis made several huge saves. The period ended with the Titans taking a 1-0 lead into the locker room.

San Diego State began the sec-ond period with tons of offensive pressure. They scored their first goal just 42 seconds into the period. Eric Anderberg scored the goal with Eric Stelnick getting the assist.

CSUF responded to the goal. Sal-igumba brought the puck into the Ti-tans’ offensive zone and gave a quick pass to defenseman Payne Sauer. He in turn gave a sweet pass to Castle who buried the puck from right in front of the net. The second goal came at 4:21 in the second period.

Castle, a junior, discussed the second goal.

Timothy P. White, Chancel-lor of UC Riverside, was elected to succeed Charles Reed as the new Chancellor of the Califor-nia State University.

Reed, who held the position for 14 tenured years, announced his retirement in May and the search began shortly after.

A committee, formed exter-nally from the CSU Board of Trustees, met a few times to se-lect White as Reed’s successor.

Behind closed doors, the com-mittee met at the CSU Chancel-lor’s Office in Long Beach and

reviewed multiple applicants.The last meeting was held

Wednesday as the long-awaited decision to hold the reins for the top spot in the largest state univer-sity in the country was weighed.

White was educated in the California public higher educa-tion system from the communi-ty college level to his doctorate at UC Berkeley.

Born in Buenos Aires, White is said to bring a diverse multi-cultural background with first-hand knowledge of the intricate 23-campus CSU system.

His term is set to start early next year, after the decisive Nov. 6 election occurs. Reed will con-tinue his duties as chancellor until the end of the semester.

Two SWAT officers watch for activity down one of the alleys near the Ramada Hotel on Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim.WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan

PAROLEE ARRESTED AFTER HOTEL SHOWDOWNCSU names

new chancellor

STATE | Chancellor selected

SPORTS | Men’s hockey

LOCAL | Community center

SEE TOMORROW’S ISSUE FOR FULL STORY

Chancellor of UC Riverside selected to take Reed’s place at end of fall semester

DAVID HOODDaily Titan

A Titan player attempts to break away with the puck from SDSU Aztec defenders. The Titans were able to score two goals but lost by two.

ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

Men’s hockey loses in heartbreaker to SDSU

New center opens for residents of all ages

The men’s hockey team came out strong but lost to San Diego State, 4-2

GABY MARTINEZDaily Titan

SEE HOCKEY, 8

Fullerton Mayor Sharon Quirk-Silva cuts a ceremonial ribbon to mark the opening of the center.Courtesy of City of Fullerton

Standoff ends peacefully

SEE STANDOFF, 3

SEE CENTER, 3

Local politicians join residents to unveil the much-anticipated and hard-fought community center

DANIEL HERNANDEZDaily Titan

A SWAT officer moves equipment outside the hotel during the eight-hour standoff.ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

A wanted man and two women emerge from barricaded room at the Ramada Hotel in Anaheim

BRIAN DAYDaily Titan

NEWSPAGE 2THE DAILY TITAN

OCTOBER 8, 2012MONDAY

CONTACT US AT DTNEWSDESK@GMAIL.COM

The Daily Titan is a student publication, printed every Monday through Thursday. The Daily Titan operates independently of Associated Students, Inc. College of Communications, CSUF administration and the CSU. The Daily Titan has functioned as a public forum since inception. Unless implied by the adver-tising party or otherwise stated, advertising in the Daily Titan is inserted by com-mercial activities or ventures identified in the advertisements themselves and not by the university. Such printing is not to be construed as written or implied sponsorship, endorsement or investigation of such commercial enterprises. The Daily Titan allocates one issue to each student for free.

EDITORIALAnders HowmannGilbert GonzalezDavid HoodIan WheelerKymberlie EstradaRaymond MendozaAdreana YoungVanessa MartinezNereida MorenoAlvan UngBlanca NavarroTim WordenPeter PhamAndie AyalaWilliam CamargoRobert HuskeyRae RomeroEleonor SeguraMatt AtkinsonRicardo GonzalezErinn GrotefendSima SarrafYvette QuinteroAdrian GarciaJustin EnriquezAngel MendozaGabrielle MartinezCara SeoPatrice BisbeeJanelle ArballoJulissa RiveraEthan HawkesDavid McLaren

Holly Ocasio Rizzo

Editorial Fax (657) 278-2702dteditorinchief@gmail.com

Editor-in-ChiefManaging Editor

News EditorNews Editor

News AssistantNews AssistantNews Assistant

Layout EditorLayout EditorLayout Editor

Layout AssistantCopy Editor

Copy AssistantContent Editor

Photo EditorPhoto Editor

Photo AssistantPhoto Assistant

Opinion EditorOpinion Assistant

Detour EditorDetour Assistant

Features EditorFeatures Assistant

Sports EditorSports AssistantSports Assistant

Multimedia EditorMultimedia Editor

Multimedia AssistantMultimedia Assistant

Web EditorWebmaster

Adviser

Main Line (657) 278-5815News Line (657) 278-4415

ADVERTISINGAmanda FessendenKimiya EnshaianTiffany LeHugo ArceoJerry KouLizeth LuveanoEric Van RaalteJessica MartinezSarah NguyenAna GodinezIvan NgChelsea NorrupKailyn TopperHouston Whaley

Robert Sage

Editorial Fax (657) 278-2702E-mail: ads@dailytitan.com

Director of AdvertisingAsst. Director of Advertising

Production ManagerProduction Designer

National Sales & PromotionsClassifieds Manager

Account ExecutiveAccount ExecutiveAccount ExecutiveAccount ExecutiveAccount ExecutiveAccount ExecutiveAccount Executive

Distribution

Adviser

Main Line (657) 278-3373Advertising (657) 278-4411

FOR THE RECORDIt is Daily Titan policy to correct factual errors printed in the

publication. Corrections will be published on the subsequent issue after an error is discovered and will appear on page 2. Errors on the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. Corrections will also be made to the online version of the article.

Please contact Editor-in-Chief Anders Howmann at 657-278-5815 or at dteditorinchief@gmail.com with issues about this policy or to report any errors.

A Fullerton man, who dragged a Garden Grove police officer with his car while fleeing from a traffic stop nearly a year ago, admitted the as-sault in court Thursday and was im-mediately sentenced to six years in state prison, authorities said.

Marcos Gonzalez, 28, plead-ed guilty to assault on a police officer, Orange County District Attorney’s officials said in a writ-ten statement. Additionally, he admitted the special, sentence-enhancing allegations of causing great bodily injury and a previous a felony conviction–possession of a controlled substance.

The officer suffered “significant back injuries” as a result of the Nov. 2 incident, according to the district attorney’s office statement. The of-ficer pulled Gonzalez over about 9:30 a.m., smelled marijuana and ordered Gonzalez to exit the car.

Gonzalez complied at first, but ran back to his car when the officer called for backup, knock-ing the pursuing officer down with his car door.

Gonzalez then began to drive, officials said, dragging the officer several feet before he fell to the ground. Garden Grove police ar-rested Gonzalez three days later.

Brief by BRIAN DAY

The Philippines made a prelimi-nary agreement with Muslim rebels Sunday after decades of militant insurgency in the nation’s southern region.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), an Islamist group formed in the 1960s that has fought for an independent Islamic state in southern Philippines, has been blamed for many attacks in the area.

After 15 years of negotiations between the Philippines and Mus-lim rebel governments the new deal described as a “framework agreement,” establishes a new self-governing region which will be implemented by Muslims in the south.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said that the framework agreement calls for peace in the region. “It brings all former seces-sionist groups into the fold; no lon-ger does MILF aspire for a sepa-rate state.”

The new autonomous region in the south will be named Bangsam-oro, which symbolizes and honors the struggles in Mindanao, the for-mer name of the region.

The new deal marks a major milestone after 15 years of talks with MILF to bring an end to an in-surgency that killed thousands.

Bangsamoro is expected to replace the current region, Min-danao, by 2016, when Aquino’s term ends.

Brief by KYMBERLIE ESTRADA

The first commercial flight to the International Space Station lifted off Sunday night carrying an un-manned cargo capsule, according to CNN.

The rocket, SpaceX, is the first of a dozen NASA-contracted mis-sions to resupply the International Space Station. The flights will cost $1.6 billion.

The shipment is packed with about 1,000 pounds of everything from low-sodium food kits to com-puter hard drives and is expected to return with 2,000 pounds of cargo in late October.

The next shipment will include equipment for experiments.

The shipment flights are critical to sustaining the space station ISS Program Manager Mike Suffredini told CNN.

Brief by IAN WHEELER

DTBRIEFSFullerton man to serve six years

MILFs seek separate state

SpaceX shuttle takes off to station

Bright orange lanterns swayed around the sun-filled stage, creat-ing an illusion that oranges were floating in the air. Metal instru-ments clinked, words echoed from the microphone and multi-colored lights flashed all around the stage. All were getting ready to make Or-angeFest come to life.

Cal State Fullerton’s first Or-angeFest music festival kicked off with music and free food Friday at the Becker Amphitheater. Hun-dreds of students lined up for tick-ets to get free food. People gath-ered, cozied up in blankets and played soccer to pass time.

The delightful scent of flour torti-llas and fried potato wafted from the steaming food trucks. Dos Chinos, a Latin and Asian cuisine truck; the Spudrunners, an American potato-based food truck; and Calbi, a Ko-rean Mexican fusion truck, catered to the hungry attendees.

DJ Reflex turned up hit club mixes, booming bass beats that kept the party going.

Students nestled on the grass in blankets enjoying the live bands and free food.

First on the line up was Orange County reggae band, Seedless. Their set opened up with tropical beats, fast drumming, and acceler-ated progressive/dubstep mix. Seed-less had free CDs and T-shirts for the audience beyond their big ban-ner. In addition, they passed out three CDs to excite students even more, making the students throw themselves to obtain the CDs.

Next on the lineup was alterna-tive rock band The Neighbour-hood, who had the crowd explod-ing with energy with loud guitar strumming, heavy drumming and

head banging. Their song “What Do You Want

from Me” was inspired by the frontman’s ex-girlfriend, who fos-tered senses of chills and sadness that spoke to people. The Neigh-bourhood was interactive with the crowd bellowing sing-a-longs, or in this case, shout-alongs. They also offered beanies on the side of the stage.

Disco band Poolside had catchy beats and dancey organ instrumen-tals. Towards the end of their set, Poolside played more songs with colorful beats and mellow, electron-ic tunes that had everyone danc-

ing at center stage. Soon the Or-angeFest T-shirts were distributed, and more people followed suit and danced along.

For underground bands like Poolside, this was their first time experiencing this environment.

“We’re so used to performing in nightclubs, but today, we per-formed on a stage where everyone was sitting down on the grass and chilling to our music. I really liked this atmosphere,” said Filip Nikolic, Poolside’s lead singer.

People have varying opinions about the individual bands. Brendan Vuong, a child adolescent develop-ment studies major, particularly en-joyed the vibe from the Poolside and the rest of the bands.

“The concert has a variety of mu-sic. It’s not really an event to just sit and listen to music. You can dance, and it makes the experience a lot bet-ter,” said Vuong.

ASI Productions (ASIP) Director Andrea Orozco said past concerts usu-ally only attracted mainstream bands.

“This is the first time we invited indie bands. Faculty members who have been at Cal State Fullerton for ten or more years came up to me and said it was truly an awesome con-cert,” said Orozco.

The four-member band Poolside provided the headlining performance for OrangeFest. The electronic band was able to get students to dance.

IAN VERGARA / For the Daily Titan

Chill party sways BeckerASI hosts first annual Orangefest at the Becker Ampitheater Friday

JESSICA LAUFor the Daily Titan

Free food was provided by Dos Chinos, Spudrunners and Calbi food trucks to CSUF students who attended.

IAN VERGARA / For the Daily Titan

“The concert has a variety of music. It’s not really an event to just sit and listen to music.”

BRENDAN VUONGChild development studies

OMNEY

OMNEY

OMNEY

DEMS DEMS

WWW.BAR

ACKO

BAMA.CO

M

WWW.BAR

ACKO

BAMA.CO

M

PolitiCorner: ViewershiP for the first Presidential debate

67 watched the debatem

illio

n

that’s

15more thanmillion

4 ago

years

but still14million

record

short ofthe 1980

81

million

Source: The Washington Post

NEWS PAGE 3THE DAILY TITAN

OCTOBER 8, 2012MONDAY

VISIT US AT DAILYTITAN.COM/NEWS

Protesters marched Saturday morning in an effort to shut down the Hollywood Army Recruit-ment Center on the 11-year anni-versary of the war and occupation of Afghanistan.

The recruitment center was closed for the day, with police guarding the front entrances from the crowd of more than 100 people.

Several groups, including Oc-cupy Los Angeles and Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (AN-SWER), in Los Angeles, gathered

at the corner of Hollywood Boule-vard and Highland Avenue before beginning the march to the center.

The protesters were comprised of students, war veterans and mili-tary families who are demanding an end to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and other parts of the Middle East.

They called for the complete withdrawal of all troops from Af-ghanistan, an end to drone attacks and the redirection of all funding for wars to jobs, housing, educa-tion and health care.

Protesters said the U.S. spends over $400 million on the wars per day and said they believe that mil-itary recruiters take advantage of students and youth to send them to die for Wall Street.

There was also a demand for an end to the U.S. intervention in Syria’s internal affairs. The protest-ers called for the government to allow the Syrian people the right to decide their own future.

U.S. Army veteran Kevin Baker told Press TV that some of his friends and family members had been recruited and sent to “a war that the wealthy have created, that the wealthy have waged and they are not willing to partake in.”

The protesters held speeches out-side of the recruitment center, in front of imitation coffins with flags representing the different nations affected by the war. It was deemed a success by the demonstrators, who have protested the war on its Oct. 6 anniversary for ten years in a row.

MARCH FOR PEACE

Protesters march on military recruitment center in Hollywood

NEREIDA MORENODaily Titan

WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan

Some programs include Community Center classes for writing, reading and math development, gymnastics, salsa and Latin Club dancing, Mom’s Club and others.

The hours of operation for the center have been changed to seven days a week to increase the opportu-nity for people to participate in the programs available at the center.

Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson spoke about the importance of the planning that went into building the new site.

“This gave us an opportunity once to do it right for good,” Nelson said about the public policy that went into the planning. “We had an opportunity to fulfill the needs of the Boys and Girls Club (and) the senior center, and it was not easy to get it right for everybody involved.”

At the event, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez con-gratulated the mayor and the community with a plaque commemorating the opening of the community center.

Sanchez also spoke of the trials she and the mayor encountered in the process of obtaining funds from the

federal government.“Up until a few years ago, there was a process in the

Congress called earmarking. Now earmarking got a lot of bad press to it. But earmarking allowed some Con-gress people to actually fight for particular money for particular projects in their area,” said Sanchez about the politics that went into the funding. “The federal govern-ment put money into this project. I got beat up for it a lot… And they called us out on every earmark we made.”

The approximately 48,000-square-foot center is lo-cated next to St. Mary’s Catholic Church, whose priest began the event in a prayer.

The priest welcomed the new driveway entrances in-stalled for the church. The new pathways are meant to ease the traffic congestion into St. Mary’s, he said.

One noticeable group of people at the grand opening were the Fullerton Table Tennis Club members. Wearing blue polo shirts with a yellow logo, the group of senior citizens gathers three times a week at the senior center to show off their Ping-Pong skills.

Club member Hien Nguyen was excited to see the new facilities where his club will now meet.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

COMMUNITY: Center opens to the public

The famous Hollywood sign, one of the crown jewels of Los Angeles, will get a makeover for the first time since 1978. This remodeling will be in celebration of the sign’s 90th birth-day in 2013.

Sherwin-Williams and the Holly-wood Sign Trust, in benefit of the city of Los Angeles and the city’s Depart-ment of Recreation and Parks, will fund the massive project.

The process began Tuesday and will carry on for approximately eight to 10 weeks. The Hollywood Sign was torn down and will be painted using approximately 110 gallons of Pro Industrial Pro-Cryl Universal Primer and 275 gallons of Emerald Exterior Paint.

Duggan and Associates, a com-mercial painting company based in Los Angeles, was assigned with tak-ing down the sign, stripping the paint and applying the fresh new coat.

Originally known as the “Hol-lywoodland” Sign, it was built in 1923 by Los Angeles Times pub-lisher Harry Chandler as a billboard for his real estate development, costing $21,000.

The sign was originally built with small metal squares pieced to-

gether by scaffolding, pipes, wires and telephone poles. Each of the then 13 letters stood at 30 feet wide and 43 feet tall, according to HollywoodSign.org.

In 1978, the sign was torn down for three months and rebuilt and re-erect-ed with concrete, enamel and steel.

Some students agree that the “face-lift” of the Hollywood Sign can be promising, since its last remodel was almost 35 years go, as long as the sign stays where it is.

Melissa Strickler,19, an English ma-jor from Hope International Universi-ty, said she believes the change is good.

“I think it’s alright as long as it goes back up,” said Strickler. “It’s a Califor-nia landmark.”

The Hollywood Sign is one of the first things that come to peo-ple’s minds when they think of Los Angeles.

“Everybody recognizes it and I think that they need to keep it up,” said Aubrey Moore, 19, a child devel-

opment and math major at Cal State Fullerton. “I think it’s good for them to keep it clean and remodel it.”

Other students expressed uncer-tainty about changing the landmark and that it should be kept in its cur-rent state.

Atalie Pang, 19, a business admin-istration major, said she thinks the Hollywood Sign should be left the way it is.

“I don’t agree with it because it’s a signature landmark,” said Pang. “You can’t take down something that’s history.”

Evia Holtz, 45, a kinesiology ma-jor, agreed that the sign does not need the change and that it repre-sents a major work of art in Califor-nia and, as any other artists’ work, change is unneeded.

“Maybe when you repair it, (they) can look for a way to keep its original form,” said Holtz. “And I think they should do that.”

“You don’t alter Picasso, you don’t alter Rembrandt,” he added.

The sign is a part of history and be-cause movies are a big industry the sign should always be a symbol of where they originated from, Holtz said.

After the paint and restoration processes, the sign will be expected to return to its original location for all Los Angeles to enjoy, fresh and ready for its next century of movie history.

“I would say leave it there and leave it how it is,” Pang said. “That’s how it’s been made over time.

Hollywood Sign gets makeover

Though no weapon had been seen Saturday, Dunn said, author-ities considered him potentially armed because of his criminal his-tory and the San Diego County as-sault he is suspected of.

When officials approached the man at the hotel, he rushed into the room and made statements that he would not come out, Dunn said.

A SWAT team was called in as the standoff continued Saturday afternoon, he said. Police had been communicating with the suspect.

The entire hotel was evacuated and the street in front of it was shut down by police, according to

a manager at the hotel who identi-fied herself only as Melissa.

A hotel employee who asked not to be identified confirmed via text message during the standoff that the building had been emptied and said the man was barricaded inside a room on the second floor.

As the police negotiations con-tinued Saturday afternoon, the employee said the scene had be-come calm.

The young woman who emerged from the room shortly before 5 p.m. appeared, “unhurt, just frightened,” the employee said. The second wom-an, the young woman’s mother, re-mained inside the hotel room until Fishel surrendered.

Shortly before 7 p.m., “(Fishel)

came out of the room along with along with the female that was in there and surrendered without in-cident,” Dunn said.

Fishel was taken to a hospital to be examined before booking after complaining of a pre-existing medi-cal condition, authorities said.

The mother and daughter had not been arrested late Saturday, however officials continued search-ing the hotel room and the investi-gation was ongoing, Dunn said.

Traffic, which had been shut down between Orangewood Avenue and Wilken Way as the incident un-folded, was reopened shortly after the arrest, police said.

The relationship between Fishel and the women was not clear.

STANDOFF: Parolee detainedAnaheim Police Chief Deputy Raul Quezada talks to reporters after the parolee was put in custody. The entire ordeal lasted about eight hours Saturday.

ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

The Hollywood signage will undergo renovations and restorations by 2013

PETER PHAMDaily Titan

“I would say leave it there and leave it how it is.”

ATALIE PANGBusiness administration

OPINIONPAGE 4THE DAILY TITAN

OCTOBER 8, 2012MONDAY

CONTACT US AT DTOPINION@GMAIL.COM

The late, great Ronnie James Dio once sang, “If you lis-ten to fools, the mob rules.”

One can only glean what the metal god truly meant by those words, but they could easily be applied to an unfortunate phenomenon on Twitter: the tendency for false topics to “trend.”

For those uninitiated, topics “trend” on Twitter when-ever enough people are tweeting about the same thing at the same time. It is why you might see advertisements for every-thing from films to household products to poorly-written college newspaper columns using a “hashtag” followed by a single word or phrase.

This concept helps people find important ongoing top-ics or those which are of interest to them. It’s a tool that should play into the social mechanic of social media that I have touted so highly. Ideally, it’s something that would bring us closer together.

Yet social media often doesn’t work ideally.In reality, when Twitter’s trends are not dominated by

One Direction-themed topics, they can be downright dan-gerous—not necessarily because they pose an immediate threat to anyone, but rather because they display a troubling level of ignorance in a large enough contingent of Twitter users to “trend” on a worldwide scale.

Take an incident that occurred on the first of this month; a 16-year-old by the name of Kara Alongi tweet-ed a message so cryptic that her followers believed she had been kidnapped.

Her tweet spawned the trending topic “#helpfindKara” that quickly reached worldwide status and helped Kara’s ac-count garner over 100,000 followers in just a day’s time, according to CNN.com. The problem was that Kara had not been kidnapped at all.

The New Jersey girl had instead run away from home. Police confirmed that she had called a taxi before the

tweet was posted and that a taxi driver had identified

a girl who matched Kara’s description as a passenger he’d taken to the Rahway Train Station. She was later found safe, but has ceased tweeting since the incident. Of course, most who participated in the trending topic #helpfindKara, followed Kara’s account or retweeted her that day had not even thought to confirm whether the girl had actually been abducted.

Certainly, it’s a noble cause to want to aid in the finding of a person who could possibly be in danger. However, a narcissistic motivation compounded by a, “if I hear it on the Internet, it must be true” mantra that led to the hoax evinces everything that’s wrong with the way people ap-proach their online persona.

This isn’t even mentioning the people Twitter has killed off.

Most recently, Twitter users decided to begin spreading a hoax that Bill Nye (the Science Guy) had passed away. Rather than simply doing a quick search to see if any form of reliable news source had reported his death, countless us-ers took this singular piece of evidence as fact and “RIP Bill Nye” proceeded to trend worldwide.

Of course, Nye is still alive and enjoying this planet’s in-ertia (which is a property of matter.)

My point, if I may narrow it, is simply that Twitter has displayed an ability to spread news faster than any other source in existence. The rapidity with which these topics took hold on a worldwide scale exhibits it, but their lack of veracity shows why it still remains an unreliable tool for this very purpose.

It isn’t to say that you should never believe a poten-tially earth-shattering trending topic on Twitter, but in-stead make certain you aren’t just buying into something some attention monger cooked up in his or her bored late-night hours.

Because as Dio sang, “If you listen to fools, the mob rules.”

#THISRICARDO GONZALEZ

Ignorance creates unhappy trendings Wednesday night’s presidential de-bate between Gov. Romney and Presi-dent Obama was a theatrical display of attempted quips and zingers meant to excite the emotions of the Ameri-can voting bloc whose political edu-cation derives from sound bites and rerun gaffes.

Romney seemed poised and aggres-sive, while Obama looked haggard and indifferent, light-years (or maybe just a presidential term) away from the hyped and soaring rhetoric displayed in 2008. The duo quibbled over the debt, health care, entitlements; essentially who gets what of government handouts.

However, they displayed few philo-sophical disagreements over the role of government and its impact on our lives. Obama clearly desires more government solutions to shore up the unforeseen consequences of previous government solutions, while Romney seems to believe that while government is still the solution, he just needs to em-place the right bureaucrats in the right places to fix America’s ills.

With this in mind, what are the key differences between the candidates?

Romney desires to lower the corpo-rate tax and reduce deductions; a wor-thy goal, but why stop at 25 percent when our northern neighbor has a cor-porate tax at 15 percent? Meanwhile the president yearns only to rewrite the loopholes in the corporate tax code to favor his pet projects instead of the status quo. If he is truly sincere, why

did he dally for two years when the Democrats had a power monopoly on the federal government?

The faux argument on the national debt was also laughable. Bragging about token cuts and ferreting out petty fraud scores the president few points when the nation suffers from chronic trillion dollar deficits. Mean-while Romney’s promise to reign in the president’s budget busting ways seems to fall flat since his running mate Paul Ryan’s draconian budget plan cannot balance the budget (never mind pay down the deficit) until 2040.

Also, let’s not forget the greatest fallacy in this whole argument. Be-cause of the automatic increases en-tailed in baseline budgeting, nobody is really talking about cuts; they are only musing about softening future budget growth.

On entitlements, once again we see a sorry argument. Obama sees no trou-ble ahead for either Medicare or Social Security, even declaring Social Security “structurally sound.” What is sound about the program is questionable; the government has for decades raided the fund for its own uses and replaced the revenue with treasuries that must be redeemed with more borrowing from China.

This was bad enough when the program was running at a surplus, but now benefits are outstripping revenue, and the program is projected to go bankrupt in the coming years.

Meanwhile, Romney seems to de-sire to reform current Medicare with even more government programs. He spoke about adding an additional concurrent voucher program, with the elderly deciding which is more lucra-tive. Of course anyone would natu-rally choose whatever program delivers greater benefits, so how this reigns in Medicare spending is ambiguous.

Romney also seeks to repeal only the unpopular parts of Obamacare, but the popular parts of the president’s health care scheme are only feasible when penalties (or taxes?) apply to coerce in-tended behavior.

If either candidate wanted a sub-stantive debate on domestic issues, per-haps they could have raised some of the following questions: how will the Fed-eral Reserve’s easy money affect future growth? Is there a difference between military and defense spending? Mr. President, why did you re-authorize parts of the Patriot Act and sign the National Defense Authorization Act and the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act? Mr. Romney, do you agree with the president’s curbing of our liberties and privacy?

By glossing over substantive issues and catering to those whose votes depend on which candidate can de-liver more government freebies, we are mortgaging our future on today’s political platitudes. Both Obama and Romney are performing a tired rhetori-cal tap dance on our nation’s coffin.

Dancing around all of the real problems

President Barack Obama debated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Wednesday before a national audience of 67 million.

Courtesy of MCT

While the candidates tap-dance around using their rhetoric, the nation suffers

DANIEL BARBEAUFor the Daily Titan

Four years after the first go around, Liam Neeson reprises his role as retired CIA agent, Bryan Mills, in Taken 2, a retread that lowers, not ups, the action ante compared to its predecessor.

Neeson reinvented himself as an action star in the original installment, which became a surprise hit due to the unusually spiky performance of the actor as well as the brutal action.

The first film also attempted a moral ground that other action flicks don’t always flounder for (as Mills killed countless thugs to rescue his daughter from a prostitution ring.)

There was an attempt at heart as well. Effort is a mixed bag in action films, as it can come off as no more than a platitude causing a plateau of momentum when audiences just want their kicks and punches.

The sequel repeats this to even greater effect with-out the frantic finesse. Mills and his family are at-tacked while vacationing in Istanbul. The chases be-gin once again as a villain comes to avenge the deaths that Mills caused a year prior.

The setup does bring up an interesting dilemma of violence begetting violence despite the righteous causes. But, it’s not one really explored and it doesn’t have to be.

What is required during combat sequences, regard-less the moral endgame, would be a fluidity that estab-lishes continuity during fisticuffs and muzzle flares.

Director Olivier Megaton, who didn’t helm the first movie, seems to prefer quick takes so rapid that it isn’t always clear from which point of view the bul-lets spray during each scene.

Megaton also made Colombiana and Transporter 3, which weren’t well received by viewers either. Which makes it puzzling as to why the studio passed the buck when Taken took the hearts of viewers so well.

What doesn’t take hearts either are the emotional stakes present in Taken 2.

Sure, there is an obligatory rooting for the family man doing all he can to rescue his daughter and ex-wife, but here it isn’t the result of visceral performances.

It is a mere play on societal agreements and instinct that we circle the wagons when the loved ones are in peril. Especially when they are young and female.

Maggie Grace reprises her part as Mills’ daughter, Kim, and doesn’t really impress much beyond tears trickling down toward a paycheck. It’s not really a knock on Grace, as she hasn’t really had an acting ca-reer that tests her depth as an actress beyond looking beautiful and bereft.

To be even fairer, Taken 2 never really tried much of anything that thrilled or challenged the talent. It’s a par-ticularly egregious offense considering Neeson is such an acting virtuoso.

This is the same man who took on the Holocaust in Schindler’s List, started a sexual revolution in Kinsey and challenged the caped crusader in Batman Begins.

Maybe Neeson just wants to spend his later years chasing bad guys and thin scripts, but it’s to the det-riment to the integrity of the industry when a talent lowers their standards.

Audiences seem to be taking the bait anyway, as Box Office Mojo reports that Taken 2 has raked in over $18 million this past Friday, nearly doubling the take of the original’s opening day.

The American public loves Neeson, and rightfully so, but this isn’t a film that is proud or daring enough to commit to action that hits consistently, let alone showcase talent.

There is one scene that tries for mood, however futile in the grand scheme. When Mills and his ex-wife are kidnapped, the former uses his senses to keep track of where the kidnapper’s van travels so he can retrace his steps later once sprung free.

The camera cuts fast here as well, but it’s to stimu-late the senses like it does to Mills.

It’s contrived as it is convenient that the villains do not think to knock Mills unconscious or deafen him somehow during this torturous trip, which hurts a suspenseful vision of plot.

But at least it was a vision of some sort instead of a retread that not so boldly goes where so many have gone before.

DETOUR PAGE 5THE DAILY TITAN

OCTOBER 8, 2012MONDAY

VISIT US AT DAILYTITAN.COM/DETOUR

Nickelodeon’s biggest name of the past few years is breaking into the film industry with her first full-feature lead role in Paramount Picture’s Fun Size.

Victoria Justice, now 19, is best known for her leading roles in the Nickelodeon television shows Zoey 101 and Victorious, that she’s been working on since 2005.

Following the announcement in August that Victorious would be ending its run (currently in its third season), Justice is now ex-ploring more career options.

Now embracing the movie in-dustry with open arms, the young actress and singer explores her tal-ents in Fun Size.

The movie is about her charac-ter, Wren, and a crazy Halloween she’ll never forget.

Her wide reception from tele-vision has made her a growing household name. Justice said she looks forward to continuing to grow her repertoire and rapport.

“I hope the love translates into movies,” said Justice. “I think that’s where I want to take my career path, I want to hopefully do more film.”

With opportunities in both in-dustries of Hollywood, the Flor-ida native had to answer the age old question for multi-talented ac-tors: film or TV?

“Victorious was a sitcom and it was multi-cameras so that moved in a fast pace,” Justice said. “It defi-nitely keeps you on your toes and then filming Fun Size was really cool because we get to film on loca-tion and that was different for me.”

Justice said the two industries are really different but when work-ing on a television show, she was locked into a schedule.

When filming Victorious, she added that she didn’t have a lot of time to do other things because so much of her time was spent filming the show.

But ultimately, Justice said she wants the best of both worlds.

“I see myself doing both. I don’t think I could chose one,” Justice said. “I think I want to take a little break from TV and pursue my film career more.”

A career she would like to pursue is one very similar to what Cal State Fullerton students are experiencing right now: a college career.

Justice said education is a huge priority to her and she’d love to take a few classes in the future.

But for the past several years, launching her career has been on the forefront.

When she was younger she did want to attend college. Justice added that if she didn’t follow the path she’s on now, she would defi-nitely be enrolled in college.

“My life is so crazy and I’m work-ing all the time and I’m really fo-cused on my career,” Justice said. “It’s unrealistic at this time in my life for me to enroll in college.”

For all the future may know, Justice might very well be a stu-dent at CSUF sometime soon.

She is interested in taking classes

such as psychology or sociology. “I think I have to wait till things

kind of slow down because I hardly get days off at this point,” Justice said.

Taking up most of her time now is her commitment to being the lead role in Fun Size.

In comparison to her past work, Fun Size targets an older audience not usually sought after by Nickelodeon.

It has small bouts of more adult themes but not nearly overpower-ing enough to receive an “R” rat-ing from the Motion Picture As-sociation of America.

Justice said the movie is geared toward teenagers and adults. She added that Nickelodeon recently became attached to the project, as it is distributed by Paramount.

“Even though I started off on Nickelodeon, I think this movie is a perfect transition for me because it is slightly edgier and more ma-ture,” Justice said.

Still only a teenager, Justice still has lots of times and opportunities to transform from beloved child star to respected Hollywood artist.

Fun Size opens in theaters ev-erywhere Oct. 26.

TAKEN 2

NICHOLAS RUIZDaily Titan

From Nickelodeon to the big screenDANIEL ZAMILPA

For the Daily Titan

FILM: Experiment in the horror genre

FILM: Destroys a franchise The film raked in over $18 million this past Friday. (Courtesy of MCT)

(Left to right) Victoria Justice as Wren, Osric Chau (in back seat) as Peng, Thomas Mann (driving) as Roosevelt and Patrick de Ledebur as Mike Puglio in the new film, Fun Size, debuting Oct. 26.

Courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

Film anthologies are often inter-esting ideas. They offer a variety of stories and styles that allow the au-dience to compare and contrast one director’s work with the other.

But for as creative or convenient a film anthology can be, it very seldom proves to be practical.

V/H/S is a series of six vignettes, each supplying a different sub-genre written and directed by a different independent filmmaker.

The vignettes are held together by a found footage premise that tests the resourcefulness of the filmmak-ers. For some, it’s a success, but for others, it’s problematic.

“Tape 56” (directed by Adam Wingard), is the first of the vi-gnettes. It follows a band of thugs and amateur Internet voyeurs who are charged to break into a house and retrieve a videotape.

After finding multiple tapes—and a dead body—in the house, the guys watch each one.

The big problem right off the bat is that “Tape 56” is less of a short story and more of a framing device for the rest of the film. Granted, some kind of foundation is needed for V/H/S to work, but “Tape 56,” is boring and gets the film off to a clunky start.

The other five films are as follows:

“Amateur Night” (directed by Da-vid Bruckner), in which a pack of bros hook up with the wrong girl, “Second Honeymoon” (by Ti West), where a couple on a road trip are fol-lowed by a vagrant, then “Tuesday the 17th” (by Glenn McQuaid) is a killer in the woods story.

“That Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger” (directed by Joe Swanberg) fol-lows the titular character as she re-cords haunted activity for her boy-friend through iChat, and finally “10/31/98” (by the filmmaking foursome Radio Silence) is about a group of guys who stumble into a haunted house.

Taking on the short film and found footage format, V/H/S is a de-ceptively ambitious project.

Due to the visual and time con-straints, creating a complete, en-gaging horror story is made that much more difficult, and at times V/H/S suffers.

Still, while the gore quotient var-ies from tale to tale, each vignette relies more on suspense that disem-bowelment, and there is something to be admired about that approach.

Of the five principal short films, “10/31/98,” “Emily” and “Second Honeymoon” are the better films. “Emily” does some very interest-ing technical things with the iChat point of view, and it actually takes the very tired found footage style into a different, unexplored area.

“10/31/98”—the best of the bunch—and “Second Honey-moon” both use silence and sim-plicity to build tension, then ex-

plode in their final act. “10/31/98” in particular has a

ferocious climax that feels very re-warding for the audience.

It’s a shame that V/H/S didn’t end right there instead of returning to “Tape 56” for an obligatory—and underwhelming—close.

Unfortunately, “Amateur Night” and “Tuesday the 17th” each buckle under the constraints of the found footage and short film style.

While the sleazy bros in “Ama-teur Night” are certainly insuffer-able, it is the erratic, frantic point of view camerawork that renders it unwatchable, which is a shame because it is quite scary.

“Tuesday the 17th,” however, falls flat on its face. The premise is hackneyed enough as it is, and “Tuesday” fails to rise above its tired conventions.

The characters are flat, the dia-logue is stale and the plot is silly.

The only thing it has going for it is the way the killer is portrayed, which is actually quite intriguing. If only it was in a film worth watching.

The frustrating thing about an-thology films is that you can watch a good film, a great film and a terrible film all in one sitting.

Still, V/H/S offers a survey of re-sourceful talent lurking beneath the mainstream of horror cinema, and watching this experiment play out has its merits.

As far as vignettes are concerned, there is one set-up pretending to be a film, then one okay, one bad, two good and one great horror film.

Not bad for a grainy, low budget,

V/H/S

BENN HADLANDFor the Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton lost 2-1 to Cal State Sacramento in their third Big West game and remain winless in conference play.

The team gave up two goals early in the game and were unable to recover from the early deficit.

The Titans now have a confer-ence record of 0-2-1 and an over-all record of 4-8-1. Meanwhile, Sacramento State has remained undefeated in conference play with a 3-0 record and an overall record of 6-4-1.

The Hornets’ scoring began just 42 seconds into the game when Nate Nugen scored to give an ear-ly lead for Sacramento State.

It was the freshman’s first career goal for Sacramento State.

That goal snapped CSUF’s goal-keeper Robbie Hannon’s shutout streak, which lasted 264:36. He had made five appearances before allowing a goal.

Hornet junior Isaac Ikyurav set up Nugen’s goal, giving him an assist in the game and extending his point streak to five games. Ikyurav has played excellently as of late for the Hornets. The Nigerian native has three goals and three assists in that five game span. For his superb offen-sive performance, he was named Big West Conference Offensive Player of the Week last week.

The Hornets added another tal-ly in the 21st minute with a goal

from senior Chris Sandoval. Gabe Silveira and Alex Lopez set up Sandoval’s goal, each receiving an assist on the play. His goal proved to be the eventual game winner.

Sandoval is one of the Hornets’ top scoring threats. He and Silveira are tied for the lead in goals scored with four apiece. He is tied with Iky-urav for the lead in assists with ten and game-winning goals with two.

The atmosphere of the game started to change in the second half. Both teams began to play more physically and took sev-eral penalties. Each team took 12 fouls, and seven yellow cards were issued in the second half.

Amid the physical play, CSUF managed to get a goal in the 82nd minute of the game. Junior An-drew Afia scored on a cross pass from Gerzon Blanco for his first goal of the season. With that goal, the Titans snapped a 281-minute scoreless streak.

CSUF seemed to step it up into gear in the second half with their offensive pressure, but unfortu-nately for the Titans, it was too little too late.

The Titans were outshot by Sacramento State 15-12. CSUF stepped it up in the second half reg-istering 12 shots. Sophomore Mark Vazquez led the Titans with four shots. The Hornets’ Sandoval and Max Alvarez had three shots each.

For more information on this game and upcoming men’s soccer game, visit: FullertonTitans.com.

Hot off a thrilling upset win over the Long Beach State 49ers, the Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team (5-7, 2-1 in confer-ence) came to Matador Field for an encore Friday night against the Cal State Northridge Matadors.

The game was 0-0 as it entered overtime when Titan redshirt se-nior midfielder JeAnne Mazeau scored off of a pass from her younger sister, junior midfielder Erica Mazeau, within the first minute of overtime. The “golden goal” brought the Titans to a 1-0 shutout victory on the road.

The win gave CSUF their sec-ond back-to-back victories of the season. It also improved the Titans record to 5-7 overall and 2-1 in Big West Conference play. The first conference victory came thanks to a last minute score by fresh-man forward Christina Burken-road against the Long Beach State 49ers who were ranked No. 21 at the time.

The Titans also ended a four-match losing streak against the host CSUN.

The number four became even more relevant to the Matadors as their record dropped to 4-4-4 overall and 1-1 in conference play. Overtime was familiar territory for CSUN as it was the eighth overtime period they played this year. Experience wasn’t a factor as they lost in just the first minute of overtime, the shortest overtime period they’ve had all year.

In every game this season that was sent into extra time, the Matadors have either lost or ended in a tie.

On the flipside of that, this was the Titans’ first victory in over-time all season and the third time they’ve played in extra time. They fell to Loyola Marymount on Aug. 19 and Michigan on Aug. 24 earlier in the season. The game between the Titans and Matadors was a defensive battle through regulation.

However, a costly mistake by the Matadors gave CSUF an op-portunity for a corner kick. A failed clearance by CSUN proved to be their ultimate undoing as the ball went wide to Erica Mazeau, who sent a pass to the elder JeAnne Mazeau who placed the goal in the net from the top of the 18 yard line.

This was JeAnne Mazeau’s first goal of the year. She became the sixth different scorer for the Ti-tans this season. This was also her fourth game-winning goal of the season. Her younger sister, Erica, got her sixth assist of the season, which is a team-high. CSUN se-nior goalkeeper Cynthia Jacobo gave a valiant effort on the final shot as she initially made the save, but the spin of the ball made it slip out of her hands and into the goal for the game winner.

Jacobo’s effort kept the Mata-dors in the game as she had seven saves previous to the game-win-ning shot.

The Titans could attribute the win to their aggressiveness on offense as they outshot CSUN, 18-12, on top of having 12 corner kicks while the Matadors only had one. Out of the 18 shots from CSUF, nine were on goal. The elder Mazeau led the team with four shots in the game includ-ing the “golden goal” that ended the match.

Junior goalkeeper Lindsey Mar-icic gave a tenacious performance with five saves en route to her third shutout of the season.

The Titans ended their week-end trip in a late game against conference newcomer Hawaii on Sunday. It was CSUF’s first trip to Hawaii since the Rainbow Wahine joined the Big West Conference.

This week the Titans will only have one game on deck, a home game against UC Riverside on Sunday at 6 p.m.

For more information on the dramatic victory, the game against Hawaii, or upcoming games, visit: FullertonTitans.com.

Coming off a hard-fought win against UC Davis, the Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team (8-10, 2-3) looked to keep the momentum going against the UC Riverside Highlanders (5-13, 0-5). The Ti-tans were successful as they defeated the Highland-ers at UC Riverside’s SRC Arena on Saturday night. CSUF took the match in only four sets, 3-1 (25-18, 22-25, 25-19, 25-22). With the win, the Titans have 15 straight victories in matches against the Highland-ers.

This was the second straight win against a Big West Conference opponent for the Titans. Victories against UC Davis and UCR brought the Titans to a 2-3 conference record.

The Titans seem to be finally hitting their stride with these last two wins as they started Big West Con-ference play by losing their first three games to Cal State Northridge on Sept. 21, Hawaii on Sept. 22 and University of the Pacific on Sept. 28.

Senior outside hitter Kayla Neto was once again the mark of consistency with yet another strong per-formance. The reigning Big West Conference player of the week tallied 21 kills and 14 digs en route to her ninth double-double this season. It was also her third 20-kill match of the year and 11th of her career at CSUF.

Another double-double performance was given by another consistent Titan, junior outside hitter Bre Moreland. She contributed with 14 digs, 10 kills, and two service aces.

Moreland continues to lead the team in double-doubles with 10.

Junior right side hitter Leah Best had 11 kills and hit the ball at a clip of .556. Her 11 kills were just one shy of matching her career high.

The Titans’ tremendous effort on the offensive side of the ball made the most substantial difference in the game as they attacked with a clip of .306. That hit-ting percentage was their best of the season.

The strong offensive attack was fueled by sopho-more setter Julie Consani who racked up 28 assists. Senior setter Kaylynne Taeatafa contributed with 17 assists.

On the defensive end, senior defensive specialist Gabrielle Dewberry led the team with 16 digs. The sophomore defensive specialist added 13 digs.

Despite the loss, the Highlanders had three players that tallied double-digit kills from three outside hit-ters including freshman Ashley Cox with 23, senior Amanda Vialpando with 15, and senior Jasmin White with 13.

It was the Highlanders fifth loss in a row. They have not won a Big West Conference game as they are 0-5 in conference play. UCR has tasted defeat at the hands of Hawaii, CSUN, UC Davis, Pacific, and now CSUF.

The Highlanders will attempt to get their first in conference win by welcoming the Long Beach State 49ers on Thursday. It will not get any easier for them as they will face a 49er squad that has won its last two games.

The Titans will be coming home to host two games this weekend at Titan Gym. The first game will come against the UC Irvine Anteaters (8-10, 3-3) on Thurs-day. The Anteaters have lost their last two games against UC Davis and University of the Pacific.

On Saturday, the Titans will welcome rival Long Beach State in the second game of their homestand. The 49ers will be coming off the aforementioned game against UCR before they arrive at Titan Gym.

For more information on the game against UC Riverside or upcoming women’s volleyball games, visit: FullertonTitans.com.

In a rough and tumble game featuring lots of penalties, the Cal State Fullerton men’s ice hockey team failed to convert on their numerous power plays and fell to the Long Beach State 49ers, 4-1, at the Glacial Gardens ice rink in Lakewood on Friday.

The physical play started early and culminated into gloves and sticks being strewn over the ice as players from both teams engaged in fights that ultimately led to a few ejections from the game.

Along the way, both the 49ers and the Titans took many minor penalties on each other, but the deciding difference was that Long Beach was able to capitalize on their power plays better than the Titans.

“We just didn’t capitalize on our special teams; that’s what this whole game was about. We had our chanc-es, but we just didn’t capitalize on the ones that were given to us,” said assistant coach Chris Houlihan.

In their first game of the season, the Titans fought to shake the rust off as the 49ers peppered Titan goalten-der Brandon Heethuis with shots.

The shot count leaned heavily in favor of the 49ers, 64-18.

The Titans struggled to cleanly break the puck out of their own zone, which resulted in the 49ers swarming the Titan net and prevent-ing the Titans from getting any qual-ity offensive rushes down the ice.

“We couldn’t break the puck out of the zone to save our life to-night. The Long Beach forecheck killed us; they were in our zone all night,” said Heethuis, who had 60 saves on the night.

At the end of the first period, Fullerton’s Jake Yarter was sent off the ice for a penalty, and the 49ers capitalized with a slick wrap-around goal to put them up 1-0.

Titans forward Adam Brusig evened the score early in the second after scooping in a rebound from Alec Censullo, who had fought to get the puck close to the net.

“The only thing is to get the puck on the net. That’s the big thing–shoot the puck more. We had a problem getting it in the zone, and once you get in the zone you can go after it and get the puck on the net,” said Brusig.

The penalties began ramping up as the second period went on, and despite some good chances on the rush, the Titans could not keep up offensively with the 49ers, who were able to hold on to the puck

in the offensive zone long enough to create more quality chances.

Long Beach regained the lead late in the second while both teams were short a player as a re-sult of penalties.

Penalties continued in the third period, culminating in a fight be-tween Brusig and a 49ers player that ultimately sent both of them off the ice for the remainder of the game. One more player each for both the Titans and the 49ers were sent off the ice as well.

Two goals tacked on at the end of the third spelled out the Titans’ fate, with the final score being 4-1.

Both the penalties and the high number of shots surrendered were uncharacteristic of Titan hockey, Houlihan said.

“We got away from our game and played their game. They like to muck it up and run their mouths and get caught up in all of that,” he said. “We’re a defensive team, heavily. We preach defense first, with a lot of support from our cen-ters to our defense and wingers.”

With 12 players new to the squad this season, Houlihan and Brusig both said the nerves from playing the first game of the sea-son could have been a factor.

“I think we’re getting our feet underneath us, maybe we had the first game nerves,” Brusig said.

SPORTSPAGE 6THE DAILY TITAN

OCTOBER 8, 2012MONDAY

CONTACT US AT DTSPORTSDESK@GMAIL.COM

Penalities doom TitansThe men’s ice hockey team was outshot and outplayed by Long Beach State, 4-1

ERIC FARRELLDaily Titan

Men’s soccer falls to Aggies, 2-1

The Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team is now winless in their last four games after a 2-1 loss on Sunday at Aggie Soccer Field against UC Davis.

Junior midfielder Alex Henry got the Aggies offense started at the 8:59 mark, hitting a free kick into the wall set up by the CSUF defense.

Junior midfielder Alex Aguiar then set up UC Davis with a suc-cessful penalty kick by keeping the ball low and right in the 36th minute. It was Aguiar’s third goal of the year.

The Titans finally got on the board in the 63rd minute. Se-nior forward Jameson Camp-bell’s header was deflected away by UC Davis’ junior goalkeeper Omar Zeenni and after a scram-ble in the box, sophomore Ian Ramos was there to put it away and tie the game 1-1.

Henry put the Aggies up for good in the 79th minute with a goal from 35 yards out that found the far right corner of the net perfectly.

The Titans will now go on the road to play UC Irvine on Satur-day at 7:00 p.m.

Brief by ANGEL MENDOZA

CSUF hosts tournament

The Cal State Fullerton’s wom-en’s tennis team participated in the Cal State Fullerton Fall In-tercollegiates tournament this weekend Friday through Sunday. The tournament took place at the CSUF tennis courts.

Titan freshman Emilia Borkowski won her bracket Sun-day 6-2, 6-1. Playing in the B Flight Consolation singles, she defeated Portland State Univer-sity’s Kelsey Frey.

Borkowski advanced to the final round by defeating Long Beach State’s Anne-Sophie Willems in the semifinal round. Sophomore Jessica Pepa lost to Borkowski in the quarterfinal round of the B Flight Consola-tion singles.

After day one of the tourna-ment, Titan singles players Tif-fany Mai, Kalika Slevcove and Devyn Billingsley advanced to the third round of play, but failed to advance to the subsequent rounds. Doubles teams Mai and Monica Rodriquez and Morgan McIntosh and Slevcove advanced in Flight A and Flight B respectively, but did not ad-vance to any further rounds.

The women’s tennis team’s next tournament is the Intercol-legiate Tennis Association West Regionals which begins on Thursday and concludes Sunday. The team will travel to San Diego for the tournament.

For more information on the women’s tennis team, visit: Ful-lertonTitans.com.

Brief by GABY MARTINEZ

DTSPORT BRIEFS

A Titan player controls the puck and attempts to keep it away from a Long Beach State defender. The game took place at the Glacial Gardens in Lakewood. Both teams had multiple penalties in the game.

ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

Men’s soccer stung

Women’s soccer stuns Long Beach in overtime

Volleyball takes down HighlandersJUSTIN ENRIQUEZ

Daily Titan

GABY MARTINEZDaily Titan

JUSTIN ENRIQUEZDaily Titan

CSUF Women’s Soccer Statistics

Shots (on goal)CSUF CSUN

SavesFoulsCorner KicksOffsides

18 (9)

511121

12 (5)

81211

Crosswordbrought to you by mctcampus.com

brought to you by mctcampus.com

Sudoku brought to you by dailysudoku.com

Horoscope

Sudoku

How To Play:Each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9: and each set of boxes must contain the numbers 1 to 9.

7 October 8, 2012

To view our online

Classifieds, visiT

dailyTiTan.Com

1600Misc. Announcements

Reporter at National radio show This American Life

looking for students struggling to pay for school without taking out loans. Prefer motivated, middle class students with jobs and good grades who are

getting little to no financial help from parents. Email jonathan@thislife.org.

Fall

Across1 Fermented honey drink5 Put in the pantry10 Prepare email14 Fairly large fair15 Symphonic wrap-ups16 Fuel for a firepit17 Take an ax to18 Place for sport-ing events19 Money in Milan20 It makes sense23 Roses-red link24 Firepit residue25 Seeing red27 __ au poivre29 Takes a down-turn32 “Little Red Book” chairman33 Nightstand spot36 Camping trip dampener37 It makes cents40 Easy pace41 Rested on one’s laurels42 Parking facility43 Lines of pews44 Painter of bal-lerinas48 California’s __ Mesa50 “Just __ thought!”52 Wagon wheel groove53 It makes scents58 Boyfriend59 Threescore60 GI sought by MPs61 Uneaten mor-sels62 They’re blue when they’re fair63 Inca territory64 Hissed “Hey!”65 Fashionably dated66 Periods in his-tory

Down1 Popular tourist destinations2 Caution earnestly3 Highest point in a satellite’s orbit4 Info5 Sings like Ella Fitzgerald

6 Synagogue reading7 Poland-Germany border river8 Sounded the bell9 Biblical twin10 Many a junior high student11 Violin-playing comedian12 Rogues’ gallery item13 Shogun’s capital21 In the buff22 English Lit. majors’ degrees26 Over there, back when28 Act the acces-sory29 Opera headlin-ers30 Foreboding March day31 Fresh-mouthed34 Artistic style of the Empire State Building35 Hoped-for Christmas weather36 Ferris wheel, e.g.37 Speed trap set-

ters38 Under-the-gun situations39 Company doc-tor40 Comfort from mom, briefly43 WWII fliers45 Produce pro-ducer46 __ borealis47 Touchscreen-touching tool

49 Expect loyalty from50 In pursuit of51 Last word54 Georgia was a part of it: Abbr.55 Emcee’s need56 Leave57 Sprinter’s goal58 Jazz genre

Thursday’s Puzzle Solved

Aries (Mar. 21-April 19) Consider the money, but don’t get stopped by a lack of it. Don’t spend yet. Focus on basics. Continue taking action; this pays in satisfaction and future gold.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Keep decreasing ran-dom spending over the next few days. Don’t fall for a trick. Finish your project away from distrac-tions or those who would impede your progress.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Continue to increase your holdings and your self-confidence. Save for a rainy day. It takes an open and creative mind to solve the puzzle. Travel complications could arise.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) New data disrupts old routines. You’re gaining influence, so use it to improve your environment. Acknowledge kindness in others. It’s not a good time to shop.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Study your past perfor-mances to discover where the room for improve-ment is. Notice the gap between fantasy and real-ity. Adjust your aim after measuring gaps and try again.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Read the manual to discover new features. Protect your interests this week. Postpone expansion for later. You’ll be doing better, and it will take less effort.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Don’t try to buy love. Relax with friends, and it will come naturally. Compassion is an essential com-ponent. For about two months, you’re spurred to take action.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Continue to increase your status this week, with the help of a partner. Conditions are a bit unsettled, so keep your treasure hidden. There’s a surprising reaction.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Taking less risks over the coming week is a good idea (unless you like surprises). When all else fails, do what worked before. Put yourself in another’s shoes.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You can’t buy love (except with love). Take on more personal responsibil-ity, and increase profits. Keep costs under control with a budget. False hopes get shattered. Stay unattached.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Imagine specific suc-cess, then act. Help your team find important data over the next six weeks. Avoid distraction. Don’t rock the boat, as tempers are short. Correct errors.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Your determination com-pensates for any possible disappointment. Get back on the horse and ride better than ever, surpris-ing even your critics. Send love letters to your fans.

college life. remixed.

new studentapartments opening

summer 2013

universityhouse.com

“In the second goal, we had good pressure down low. Sally and Alec moving the puck. I got in front of the net, battled for position and the puck came to me, I turned around and put it on net and it went in,” said Castle.

The Castle, Saligumba and Cen-sullo line was by far the best offensive line for the Titans.

“Our pressure was solid all night. We had a good forecheck and went on the puck all the time with a man high and softened their breakout,” Castle said. “I really liked the way we got in the zone every time and got pucks to the net which led to a couple of goals.”

The pace of the game definitely picked up in the second period.

Both teams skated faster and had several scoring opportunities.

Titan goaltender Heethuis contin-ued to make huge saves for the Titans keeping them in the game.

The second period ended with the Titans leading the Aztecs 2-1.

The third period began with the Ti-tans on a penalty kill.

The San Diego State Aztecs won the faceoff and fired the puck at the net.

Travis Sevilla tipped in the shot and scored.

Shortly after that, the Aztecs scored again on a Kevin Vaughan wrist shot.

Vaughan scored again on a give-and-go play to seal the victory for the Aztecs.

The Titans played well the rest of the period, but were unable to mus-ter enough offensive pressure to come back in the game.

The rest of the game was quite chippy with big hits coming from both teams. Both teams were given roughing penalties.

The Titans lost to the visiting Aztecs 4-2.

Heethuis was superb for the Titans. The senior business major assessed

his performance.“From the beginning of the game,

we came out kind of slow and I was just trying to keep us in the game, which is

kind of my job,” said Heethuis. “I was just trying to pick everything up, fight the screens and stop as many pucks as possible. We ended up with 42 shots against which was a lot.”

He also measured his team’s perfor-mance and the difficulty of the game.

“It was difficult, but we kind of fought through it. We looked good for the first two periods, but after the third period we just kind of broke down,” Heethuis said.

Chris Houlihan, Titan assistant coach, discussed his team’s perfor-mance.

“It was a much better game. We came out a little shaky. We got out-shot the first period 20 to three, but we were up 1-0,” said Houlihan. “We played a much better game than we did last night against Long Beach. In

the third period, we were pretty much even with them except for the first five minutes of that period where we just didn’t come to play and weren’t ready. If we had been even those first five minutes, we would have won this game 2-1.”

The team can improve on the center supporting the defense, Houlihan said.

He also added that, with a few corrections, the team will be set for the season.

The Titans next game comes at home< KHS Arena, on Thursday against the University of Colorado at 10:30 p.m.

For more information, rosters and upcoming schedule for the men’s ice hockey club team, visit TitanIce-Hockey.com.

Kelly Ford was introduced as the head coach of the women’s softball team Friday in a ceremony held at An-derson Family Field at Cal State Fullerton. She is only the third head coach in the Titans’ 34-year softball history.

Ford is now in control of a CSUF program that has made 27 postseason appearances, including a national championship in 1986, claims 28 All-Americans among its alumni, and has an overall record of 1,336-679-2.

Stephan Walk, Ph.D., interim athletics director, was pleased to welcome Ford into the Titan family and had nothing but words of admiration during the press conference.

“Kelly Ford begins a new era for collegiate baseball in Orange County after an impressive coaching career at Mt. San Antonio College,” said Walk.

Ford’s career at Mt. SAC was dominant to say the least. Since 2002, she led the program to four California State Championships (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009), seven South Coast Conference Championships (2003-2008, 2011), and was named South Coast Conference Coach of the Year five different times. In her 11-year career with the community college, Ford accumulated a remarkable 455-102-1 (.816) record.

Walk later expressed the pleasure in bringing back one of Fullerton’s own to bring the softball team back into prominence.

“We are especially pleased to welcome Kelly Ford back to the Titans family,” Walk said. “As many of you know,

she was assistant coach in 2000 and 2001 when Cal State Fullerton made repeat trips to the NCAA postseason.”

He was also supremely confident that Ford was the right choice for the Titans moving forward.

“Her knowledge of the campus community, her phi-losophy as a coach and an educator, her passion for the sport and the student athletes were paramount in our decision that Kelly Ford is the right person to lead the Titans into 2013 and beyond,” Walk said.

As Ford went up to the podium, a huge smile gleamed across her face. She expressed her love for the campus and community the moment she started speaking.

“This is a dream come true,” said Ford. “It is just so surreal being here on this field. I was a past of the coach-ing staff when this new complex was just built.”

She also expressed her love and gratitude for her for-mer program, Mt. SAC.

“I do want to take this time to just thank the admin-istration at Mt. SAC for taking a chance on me… the support they gave me, the athletes that came through the program in the last 11 years, the amazing coaches and support system will be close to my heart,” Ford said.

Titans baseball Head Coach Rick Vanderhook feels the addition of Ford is a breath of fresh air for a softball program that has struggled in recent years.

“I know that this team will be fundamentally sound because I’ve seen her teams play at Mt. SAC and I’ve known her for a long time… her impact will be felt right away,” said Vanderhook.

Ford will begin her tenure with Cal State Fullerton later this month.

Sponsored by the

ONE OFTHESEHAS A

ROOFIEKEEP AN EYE ON YOUR DRINK

SPORTSPAGE 8THE DAILY TITAN

OCTOBER 8, 2012MONDAY

CONTACT US AT DTSPORTSDESK@GMAIL.COM

Ford introduced as softball coachKelly Ford embraces one of her players on the CSUF softball team. Ford is a former assistant coach of the program and will look to equal the success she had at Mt. SAC with her new program here.

ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

A men’s hockey player skates toward the goalie to take the puck.ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

ANGEL MENDOZADaily Titan

HOCKEY: Loss in heartbreakerCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1