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Students gather in the Titan Theatre on Wednesday to hear a talk given by activist and historian Jenny Price, Ph.D., in which she encourages the support for a sustainable environment.ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

PROJECT IMPROVES BEACH ACCESS

Courtney Davis, Ph.D., assistant professor at Pepperdine University, speaks about creating a vaccine aimed to make people immune to Shigella, a bacteria that kills one million people every year.

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CAMPUS | Culture

Discussion transcends cultural barriers Panelists focus on activism and advocacy through underrepresented citizens

BRADFORD BETZFor the Daily Titan

A discussion aimed to encourage activism and advocacy among un-derrepresented communities and to create cross-cultural dialogue was held in the Titan Student Union on Wednesday as a part of Heat Week.

Heat Week is a week-long col-laborative event that addresses the social concerns of underrepresented communities.

The panel discussion, titled “So-cial Justice & Advocacy: The Po-litical Struggle in Underrepresented Communities,” hosted graduate as-sistants from each of the campus’ cultural resource centers.

Panelists shared diverse experi-ences and struggles in various com-munities and gave a general concern that not enough people are involved with social issues.

“Students tend to shy away from issues that talk about politics and civic engagement,” said Tu-Uyen N. Nguyen, an Asian-American Studies professor. “You need to put pressure on people to think about these issues.”

Darrell “Jeejay” Brown Jr., a grad-uate assistant for the LGBT/Queer Resource Center, said that oppres-sion should not be classified based on who is being affected.

“All of these forms of oppression need to be grouped together,” said Brown. “We need to put these differ-ent groups and these different identi-ties together to create change.”

An activist and historian spoke on ways to make the environment more sustainable through art in the Titan Student Union’s Titan Theatre on Wednesday.

Jenny Price, Ph.D., discussed how different groups, such as

the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, have played an important role in helping sustain a large project concerning public beach access in Malibu.

“In California, all beaches are public towards knee-high tide line, basically that means you could walk on wet sand on any beach in California,” said Price. “In Malibu, 20 of the 27 miles of beaches ... are blocked off by pri-vate development.”

Price explained that besides the

beaches being blocked by proper-ty, illegal signage is also a problem resulting in public parking spaces, with one sign in particular stat-ing, “Private Property - Visitors Welcome.”

Price said the project surround-ing public beach access is split be-tween two components, with the first featuring a guide and map providing proper information of where correct public land is and how to navigate and distinguish false signage.

The second component features a safari led by a ranger through two different beaches, to help spread the environmental awareness.

“For our Malibu public beaches project, what was different about it was that we took people to the beaches and we would just talk about it,” Price said. “But we ac-tually did something that no one had ever done before ... we took people there and we showed them all the things they need to know and it’s highly experiential.”

Price said another problem in environmentalism is the divided classes, which haunts environ-mentalism.

“In general, low income folks and working class folks in this country, who are the most affected by environmental problems and who contribute the least to envi-ronmental problems, do not think that environmentalism is about them,” said Price.

Activist promotes sustainability through art

An assistant professor at Pep-perdine University discussed her current project, working with bacteria and researching human immunity and Shigella bacteria, during a lecture on Wednesday at McCarthy Hall.

Courtney L. Davis, Ph.D., ex-plained about how she applies

math and biology to the area of immunity.

“Numbers are very crucial,” said Sean Yee, an assistant profes-sor in the department of mathe-matics, about incorporating both biology and mathematics in the medical field.

During her presentation, Davis looked at the immunity of some-one that regularly becomes sick, specifically at the memory cells–T cells (CD8+) and B cells.

The T cells in our bodies create an “army” in order to fight off an infection, Davis said. She added

that while we lose memory cells, when we become ill we can regain those lost.

During the second part of the presentation, Davis spoke about her current research with the Shigella bacteria. She said she is hoping to use math to help find a vaccine to fight off the Shigella bacteria.

The Shigella bacteria is found in contaminated food and water and is in the same family as E. coli, ac-cording to Davis.

CAMPUS | Health FEATURES | Student life

Vaccine researcher presents work Pepperdine professor’s work combines math and biology for Shigella vaccine

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Instruments such as acoustic guitars can be found under the arm of a musician along the Titan Walk.

Photo Illustration by JOHN PEKCAN / Daily Titan

Musicians serenade Titan WalkMusic majors practice at Titan Walk in preparation for their performances

ROSELYNNE REYESFor the Daily Titan

Sounds of brass instruments flow through Titan Walk, filling the air with music.

The music becomes the soundtrack for the Sisyphean task of trying to get through the walk-way without being stopped.

Music majors can be found be-neath the shade of a tree, serenad-ing passersby and adding a beat to their every step.

Gregory Ahle, 21, a business administration major, said it’s en-tertaining to hear the music on the way to and from class.

“I can always count on music majors practicing as I dodge solici-tors on the Titan Walk,” said Ahle.

However, this was not an inten-tional decision on the musicians’ part.

Their spot, at the south end of the Titan Walk, is right outside of the Clayes Performing Arts Cen-ter, the building that music and theatre majors call home.

As a result, some of these stu-dents have found it to be the best place to sit and practice their in-struments to accommodate their busy schedule.

Shant Keuroghelian, 23, a mu-sic education major, said although it can get very busy, Cal State Ful-

lerton’s music program gives stu-dents a good foundation that in-cludes history and theory, as well as performance.

“A lot of the great band direc-tors in Southern California went to Cal State Fullerton,” said Keu-roghelian. “It could be considered a good center point for music.”

Keuroghelian, however, has oth-er plans. The fourth-year student, who has played trumpet since the fifth grade, wants to teach middle school which is why he decided to

major in music education. “With teaching you’re able to

spread the power of music more than by playing,” Keuroghelian said. “Plus, with a degree in performance you can’t teach in classrooms.”

The music department admits people based on an audition.

Adam Cousté, 20, a trumpet performance major, said upon graduating, students find jobs ev-erywhere.

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Jenny Price, Ph.D., explains how different groups assist public beach access project

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In an effort to further under-stand the homeless shelter re-quirements in the city, the Ful-lerton Planning Commission held a special study session meeting Wednesday night at Fullerton City Hall.

The commission discussed California Senate Bill 2 (2008), which limits the amount of control city governments have over homeless shelters.

SB 2 requires every jurisdic-tion to identify potential loca-tions emergency shelters can be located without review by

local government. It limits the power of city

government to deny new homeless shelters, transitional housing or supportive housing.

The city is reviewing the re-quirements of SB 2 in prepa-ration for the housing element update due to the Housing and Community Development department in October.

Certain limits are put on the restrictions a city can apply to housing elements in order to encourage development of homeless-care facilities.

Joan Wolff, planning con-

sultant for the City of Fullerton, presented recommendations of limits the city can adopt.

While the city has little say in the number of shelters built, there are a number of items a city can impose limits on.

The city is able to regulate the maximum number of beds at each facility, parking limits, on-site management, lighting, waiting areas and security on premises.

Commissioners have iden-tified 61 available parcels of land throughout the city. The majority of sites are in the

southeast industrial zone of the city south of Common-wealth Avenue and east of Raymond Avenue.

Shelters approved by high-er jurisdictions, such as the proposed homeless shelter one mile south of Cal State Fullerton recently approved by Orange County, are not re-stricted by limits imposed by the city.

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ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily TitanThe Fullerton Planning Commission held a special study session to further understand the homeless shelter requirements during a meeting Wednesday night at Fullerton City Hall.

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Price added that the people who feel they are unaffected are the ones drinking the worst water and breathing the worst air.

Mike Steiner, Ph.D., an Ameri-can studies professor at CSUF, ex-plained how Price’s talk helped edu-cate students on more than just art and the environment.

“Jenny Price’s talk is designed to show how interactive art projects can mobilize people to envision and actually create sustainable prac-tices and places in their backyards, neighborhoods and throughout Southern California,” said Steiner.

Steiner said he hopes students learn about how art can help to re-imagine our connection to nature and help people to appreciate the significance of nature amongst the urban and suburban landscapes.

Since some of the current proj-ects involve rangers, Price said their presence is more than just informing people, but making

people feel safe. “Rangers are also probably the

friendliest people on the planet,” Price said. “Most important of all these qualities ... we are the guardians of America’s great pub-lic spaces, we are only posted in public spaces.”

Patrick Heyer, 28, an Ameri-can studies grad student, said the most interesting part of Price’s presentation came from the Mal-ibu beach project.

“She was making distinctions

between private and public land, and public access to beach fronts in Malibu, and I was interested in the legal (end) of that and the ethical aspects,” Heyer said. “I think she did a good job with her presenta-tion, making it simple enough to understand what she is talking about in terms of social justice.”

Price added that she hopes stu-dents grasp the idea that artists have essential roles to play in recreating and re-imagining cities as more sus-tainable, livable and equitable.

“Most important of all these qualities ... we are the guardians of America’s great public spaces, we are only posted in public spaces.”

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Two Massachusetts men have been accused of try-ing to cover up the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect’s involvement in the bombing last month which killed three, according to USA Today.

Two friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, have been charged with trying to cover up Tsarnaev’s involvement in the bombing by removing evidence from his dorm room at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. The two were identified as Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both 19-year-old Kazakhstan citizens who are in the United States on students visas.

A third friend, Robel Phillipos, 19, has been charged with lying to the FBI. The two Kazakhs were accused of having a backpack containing empty fire-works and a laptop computer and disposing of the items in a dumpster.

The men were not accused of being involved with the attack, but had been told by Tsarnaev that he knew how to make a bomb. All four men, including Tsarnaev, are current or former students at University of Massachu-setts at Dartmouth.

Brief by SAMUEL MOUNTJOY

DTBRIEFSThree arrested for aiding bomber

Gov. Jerry Brown approved legislation Wednesday that aims to take away handguns and assault rifles from 20,000 Californians who acquired the guns legally but have since been deemed ineligible to own them be-cause of a criminal conviction or mental illness, accord-ing to the Los Angeles Times.

The measure is first of a suite of gun-related bills to reach the governor, and allocates funding to hire addi-tional special agents needed to confiscate the 40,000 now delinquent guns.

California has been unable in recent years to take ac-tion on individuals who have been disqualified from own-ing guns due to budget restrictions.

Senate Bill 140, recently signed by the governor, moves funds paid when people buy guns and puts it to-ward a campaign to take now-illegal guns.

Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, opposed this method of funding and said it should be paid using the state’s general fund.

Brief by SAMUEL MOUNTJOY

Riverside investigators arrested a man suspect-ed of a home-invasion robbery and leading police on a high-speed pursuit while under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs on Thursday, ac-cording to the Orange County Register.

The 51-year-old suspect, Drew Stelp, broke into his sister’s house over a disagreement about an in-heritance and tied up her husband and maid.

The husband escaped and alerted police who, shortly after, caught Stelp when a motorcycle of-ficer spotted him speeding in his pick-up truck at 80 mph.

Stelp was also arrested for being connected to a double homicide. The bodies of the two wom-en, whom Stelp was believed to have worked as a caretaker, were found in a Moreno Valley resi-dence, according sheriff’s officials. Their names have not been released.

Stelp was arrested by authorities after an inter-view at Hoag Hospital and was taken to Robert Presley Detention Center.

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Brown approves gun confiscations from criminals, mentally ill

Double-homicide suspect arrested

Davis said 11 million people die from Shigella and 165 million people are infected by it every year. Children, especially those in devel-oping countries, represent the ma-jority of those infected.

There is currently no known vac-cine for Shigella, according to Davis. Two facilities in France and the Da-vis’ facility have been searching for a vaccine for more than 10 years.

Vaccines for the Shigella bac-teria are difficult to test since the vaccine cannot be tested in other animals, Davis said.

It takes 100 bacteria to infect a hu-man but it takes 10 billion to infect the most-closely related animal—the makak, according to Davis.

Although Shigella can be treated with antibiotics, Davis said it is be-come tougher to treat.

Davis made clear that her research is current and that all the data has not been completely validated yet.

IgA and IgG are the two antibod-ies that fight off the disease out of the five antibodies that are in our systems. Davis said that IgA works in the gut while IgG works in the tissue.

“The way antibodies works is that it has receptors that recognize some part of the Shigella and can attach to that and that’s what it does it attaches to it and sticks there,” said Davis.

The antibodies either block or help

remove the Shigella.Davis’ goals are to validate the

project, which started around two-and-a-half years ago, and create the first mathematical models of Shi-gella immunity.

Her other goals include identifying key immune mechanisms to target with a vaccine as well as implement and the modeling results by experi-menting with them.

Jorly Chatouphonexay, 22, a math major, invited Davis to speak after she

met her in a conference in Boston. “I felt that she correlated the bi-

ology and math well and for this presentation I’m still impressed by the way she could answer questions from biology and mathematics,” said Chatouphonexay.

VACCINE: Research on bacteria vaccine

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Participants discuss under-represented communities at the Heat Week event, “Social Justice & Advocacy,” on Wednesday.

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The ramifications of oppres-sion, whether they are racial or economic, are interrelated, Brown said. He added that it is in the best interest of different commu-nities to form a coalition.

“When I need something from this community I know that they’ll have my back because I care about them and who they are as people,” said Brown.

To effectively form a coalition, students must step outside their comfort zone and engage with oth-er groups, Nguyen said.

“Opportunities like (Heat Week) push us out of our comfort zones,” she said.

The panel agreed that apathy is a problem among students and adults.

Melissa Goodman, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and panelist, said she often meets with legislators. She said if legislators do not feel a concern is coming validly from the community, they are less likely to listen.

“We are really only as strong and as powerful as the people are active,” Goodman said.

Walter Santizo-Cervantes, of the

Youth Organizing For A Greater Opportunity collective, said inac-tion can be harmful.

“If you’re not advocating for something, you’re allowing for op-pression to remain,” he said.

Those that lead movements are often the ones who will be the most impacted by the outcome, according to Santizo-Cervantes.

“We don’t need more represen-

tative faces, we need representative hearts and minds,” Santizo-Cer-vantes said.

Brown said the core problem is ideology.

Santizo-Cervantes added that too many people have the men-tality that if you give to someone, then something is being taken away from you.

Instead, he said people should

feel that giving to someone could be a source of enrichment.

“Access is not the same thing as equity ... People need things at different levels to be truly equal,” Santizo-Cervantes said. “It is really important to have a multilateral approach, because the best kinds of coalition building, and the best ways to create change come from when you work together.”

“We don’t need more

representative faces, we need representative

hearts and minds.”

WALTER SANTIZO-CERVANTES

Youth Organizing For A Greater Opportunity

“I’m still impressed by the

way she could answer questions from biology and

mathematics.”JORLY CHATOUPHONEXAY

Math Major

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Although the heavily-publicized pursuit of Chris Dorner is now part of a tragic series of events from the past, the fractured rea-soning behind his decision to kill four people and injure several oth-ers is still a concern that lingers on in the public’s eye.

Dorner released a manifesto on-line explaining that he felt his ac-tions were going to help expose the corruption and bias that he be-lieved was rampant throughout the LAPD. He can no longer express his opinions about the department to the public in the months follow-ing his death, of course, but officers that had been fired from the LAPD have come forth with their own set of claims against the department.

According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 40 claims have been made from fired LAPD officers; many asking the department review the reasoning for their termination believing that they, like Dorner, were victims of a corrupt system.

These officers unfortunately may be lumped into a category of people who are just inspired by the words of Dorner, but they really shouldn’t be.

What Dorner said and did in February seems to have been the catalyst that made these officers de-cide to come forward and make the requests to have their termination cases reviewed, and that’s unfortu-nate. However, if the officers do in fact feel that they really were unfairly expelled from being police officers, the reasoning behind their choice to speak up on the issue should not matter at all, regardless of timing.

I am by no means a person that supported any behavior that Dorner exhibited when he decided that he should spread the word of alleged police corruption by harm-ing those that he felt were affiliated to the problem.

His actions were awful; there was no reason for him to do what he did.

And, according to the LA Times, this is exactly how these officers feel. Except, rather than radical violence, they are going to go through a process that any nor-mal human being should. On top of this, the police department and the Protective League will not be revealing the names of the officers that have wished to have their cases reviewed, further making the offi-cers independent from what had happened with Dorner months ago, as it should be.

All 40 of the claims won’t likely be reviewed, however, with a three-year statute of limitations being in place. This is understandably dis-appointing news, since it looks like they are simply going to brushed aside regarding the matter.

If all this has been an indica-tion of anything, it at least shows that there is some validity to the controversy that Dorner and other officers claim exists surrounding

the department’s treatment of its staff. According to the Guardian, critics of the department’s Board of Rights system believe the hear-ings—which consists of a panel comprised of two senior LAPD officers and one civilian—are ar-ranged unfairly.

Gary Ingemunson, a long-time at-torney for the Protective League, said that the disciplinary hearings are de-signed to work against the officer that are having their cases reviewed.

“The Board of Rights system could be fair, but for the last few years the Department has consis-tently outdone itself in the attempt to completely skew the system against the officer. The Department wants to win. End of story,” Inge-munson wrote for a column for the League’s monthly magazine.

Clearly, as many have expressed, this system seems to have its own set of issues.

And one can hope that the re-cent controversy regarding the re-views provides the officers with a more fairly assessed process. For the sake of the officers that are go-ing to have their cases reviewed, if they do in fact have legitimate evi-dence supporting their claim that they were wrongfully terminat-ed, that the system reviews their claims fairly.

“Papers, please.”I looked at the man’s passport

and entry permit. He was a for-eigner; immigrating to Arstotzka from nearby Antegria.

“Glad to be out from under the iron thumbs of those imperialist dogs in Antegria, comrade!” he said.

Seems like he’d run into some trouble over there with the gov-ernment and was escaping east. Not that any of that was my con-cern, I just do what I’m told. Ev-erything seemed to be in order. I green-stamped his passport and handed it back to him.

“Welcome to Arstotzka. Cause no trouble.”

“My wife is just behind me in line,” he said. “Please make sure she gets through as well.”

I rolled my eyes and hit the but-ton to call the next person in line. A woman approached next.

“Papers, please.”She handed me her passport. “Did my husband get through

alright? That was him, right?”But something was wrong.“Where is your entry permit? All

foreigners require an entry permit before they can enter the country.” After the terrorist attack a few days ago, where someone had dashed across the border and thrown a gre-nade before he could be shot down by the guards, all foreign entrants required a new permit.

She did not have one.“Please, you must let me

through, I will be killed if I go back to Antegria!” She begged.

But that was not my problem. I had already received a citation that day for allowing someone with

incorrect passport information through. Another and I would be docked pay, money I needed to buy medicine for my sick family.

“No entry permit, no entry.” I said, and stamped her passport red.

“You have doomed me,” she cried, and walked dejectedly away from the border back towards West Grestin.

I watched her go, it was not my problem. I hit the button.

“Next!”Papers, Please is a “Dystopian

Document Thriller” by Lucas Pope, an independent game de-signer. The beta-version of this work-in-progress is available for free on his website Dukope.com for Windows and Mac.

The above scene is one of the many different scenarios you face.

In Papers, Please. Despite the lack of high-level 3D graphics and shaders or even voice acting, the game does a fantastic job playing on human empathy. You play an immigration inspector on the bor-der of fictional Communist coun-try Arstotzka and must inspect individuals’ passports and permits for discrepancies, incorrect time-stamps, or fraudulent documents. Some will enter, many will not.

And for each mistake you make you can be penalized. Although you’re allowed one or two chances to mess-up (or even break the rules if you feel personally convicted to), many errors can cause you to lose pay, which will then affect your family when you come home after work. You must pay for rent, as well as heat and food.

If you can’t pay for something, they

can get cold, hungry, sick and even die.With each day new security

measures are added, giving you even more aspects of each person’s paperwork you must inspect. As it takes longer to inspect each person and there are more things that can go wrong, you feel the constant pressure not to fail and potentially hurt your family. Oh, and you’re pay is based on how fast you pro-cess people, so work quickly.

Thus the game forces you to make some difficult decisions. I won’t spoil any of the other en-counters you might face along the way, but it goes without saying there will be some tough choices to make. It’s been a long time since a game so simple has found me so engaged with its characters, even though most of them you will only see once, and then never again.

This is by no means the first video game to play on the player’s empa-thetic emotions to achieve a certain style, but it certainly is an effective execution of it. As it’s free, I highly encourage people to try it out and see just what being part of a Com-munist bureaucracy is all about.

“Glory to Arstotzka.”

Well, this is certainly awkward.Of the several campaign prom-

ises made by President Barack Obama way back in his 2008 cam-paign, there’s one the president failed to deliver on that seems to get lost in the shuffle. Despite his reassuring of constituents and de-fiant stand-offs against detractors, Obama has yet to close the deten-tion center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Indeed, it increasingly feels like a literal “lost cause” for the admin-istration; its initial failing getting little play or attention during the 2012 election by either Obama or his opponent, Mitt Romney. Few seemed to remember or care that the president had promised to close the troubled prison, run by the United States military, just one year into his presidency.

At least that’s the perception in hindsight, a perception only now gleanable because Obama has promised to take up the long-dead torch again.

During a White House news conference on Tuesday, the presi-dent told reporters that, “(Guan-

tanamo) needs to be closed.” He would go on to add, “I’m going to re-engage with Congress to try to make the case that this is not something that’s in the best inter-est of the American people.”

Obama is correct (as he was cor-rect five years ago), but it seems odd now to re-engage in a fairly forgotten fight over one of his concrete failings during his first presidential term. It’s doubly strange when this comes off the heels of the president’s hard push for gun control measures were all handily rebuffed.

Still, if there is a fight to refocus on and return to the “Hope and Change” mantra of those early days, why not return to the place where it all began?

Not only does the facility at Guantanamo—currently home to about 100 war criminals and ter-rorist conspirators—feel archaic in both concept and design in the year 2013, but the Pentagon-run prison is an expensive hulk to boot. Nearly half of the facility’s population has been due for trans-fer, yet remain at the prison.

On top of all this, now the prisoners are engaged in a hun-ger strike requiring the military

to spend costly resources to send medics and other specialists to care for them.

Though 2008 is barely in our collective rear-views, so many ide-ological shifts and world happen-ings have occurred since then that public and lawmaker’s take on a potential closure may have shifted enough to make it possible. Just as issues like marriage equality and homeland security have taken on new perspective in the prevailing years, so too might Guantanamo.

But again, the real issue might be the president himself. One would think that to dive back into the fight (so to speak), Obama would have devised a brand new take on the issue concurrent with the changing political climate. One would think he would see the mistakes of his prior push and try to circumvent these.

Yet the president only seemed to come to the initial table with more of the same.

“The president faces bipartisan opposition to closing Guantana-mo Bay’s detention center because he has offered no alternative plan regarding the detainees there, nor a plan for future terrorist cap-tures,” said Buck McKeon, chair-man of the House Armed Forces Committee in a statement.

And it’s true that Obama was stonewalled in his previous at-tempts because he could not seize control of Guantanamo from the Pentagon and did not devise an al-ternative plan as to when or where to ship the prisoners present. It could be argued (as Jon Stewart did in a 2009 Daily Show episode on the same issue) that there is not much to argue about given the sparse population and furnishings of the facility, but Obama should know his opponents are going to want some talking points.

Thus, as the president tries to get us to do the timewarp (again), he should obviously have confi-dence that his original idea for closing Guantanamo was “in the right.” The prison continues to be a contradictory boil on the way the United States otherwise tries to conduct itself (not to mention, a drain on our ailing economy).

But he should also recall the old saying of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a dif-ferent result.

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Married professors prove love works

They live in the same house, raise two small children, commute to work in the same car and share similar interests.

Some couples say spending al-most every waking moment of every day together would be too much to handle.

For Nicole Bonuso, Ph.D., and Matthew Kirby, Ph.D., it’s always just another day working together as geology professors at Cal State Fullerton.

The couple has faced some criti-cism about working together and said they haven’t allowed their sit-uation to affect the way they feel about each other.

“So many people have asked me, ‘How can you work with your hus-band in the same department?’” said Bonuso. “Well, because I like him.”

Bonuso and Kirby used to have offices located across the hall from each other, but now they mainly see each other at faculty meetings.

“It actually bums me out that I don’t see him as much,” Bonuso said.

Bonuso and Kirby do not work together side by side, but some-times rely on each other’s research for teaching purposes.

Kirby said he consults with Bo-nuso about statistics information to use for his classes.

He said they have been together through academic stress since they began dating in graduate school.

The couple met at Syracuse University while Bonuso was pur-suing her master’s degree and Kir-by was pursuing his doctorate.

They started dating in 1998 and were married in 2002.

Kirby started working at CSUF the same year he married Bonuso.

Bonuso began teaching at

CSUF about five years later when Kirby and the rest of the Geology Department sought to fill an open teaching position.

After interviewing four people, Bonuso was selected.

Kirby said there was no nepo-tism when it came to hiring Bo-nuso for the position.

“It’s not like just because Ni-cole’s my wife she got a job,” he said.

Both professors are tenure-track faculty at CSUF and feel fortunate for the job security.

Kirby said he knows of many married professors’ spouses who want to work at CSUF that don’t end up getting a job.

Bonuso and Kirby said their teaching positions have allowed them to have some financial sta-bility for their family.

Kirby said they are a “non-tra-ditional” couple since they only share some of theie mutual ex-penses and are for the most part financially independent.

The couple balances work life and home life by engaging in ac-tivities they both enjoy, such as traveling for research field trips.

“We share a lot of similar inter-ests as a result, in terms of every-day life,” Kirby said.

That life includes raising two small children and scheduling pick-up times in between classes.

Bonuso and Kirby are sched-uled to teach every other day in order to accommodate with their family life.

Bonuso said working together

makes dealing with unexpected events that may come up, such as a sick child, a lot easier.

Kirby said if one of them got a teaching job in another state, then the other would have to lose their current position.

He added that he loves his job, but also has to reconsider future endeavors since he has to think about his wife’s position as well.

“The only downside of being at the same place is it really limits your mobility,” Kirby said.

The couple does not have to abide by any human resource de-partment regulations, but Kirby cannot be a part of the committee that decides his wife’s promotion.

The couple is allowed to vote together in faculty meetings for the Geology Department, such as policies, hiring and terminations.

Bonuso said some people in the department were concerned that her and Kirby might vote the same, but they don’t agree on ev-erything.

However, the couple does occa-sionally vote the same.

“I have my own opinion, but it just so happens that sometimes our opinions are the same,” she said.

Christine Hiner, a geology graduate student, was Kirby’s lab assistant and occasionally babysits the couple’s children.

Hiner has had Bonuso and Kir-by as professors and said she knows the couple’s work ethic well.

“They’re very professional about their work,” she said.

Michael Buencamino, an intern and aspiring physical therapist for professional athletes, poses in front of the Student Recreation Center.

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Internships allow Titans to achieve success

Internships prepare students to get ahead in their careers, some better than others.

There are some internships where doing trivial tasks is a dai-ly necessity and others that treat their interns as hired staff and give interns more professional respon-sibility.

But for two Titans doing their internships, fetching coffee is the last of their worries.

Robin Nguyen, a business ad-ministration major, has been working for Bravo Television for three months as a public relations intern.

Nguyen works twice a week at Bravo’s headquarters in Burbank for eight hours per day, and re-ceives pay.

He said his favorite part of the internship is that he has constant work and he is able to make good use of his time because news is on-going.

“News never stops. I’m con-stantly archiving and searching for media releases and tabloid men-tions about anything and every-thing Bravo,” said Nguyen.

He said working for Bravo is one of the coolest and most hands-on internships he’s had.

“As a public relations intern I have many roles. I essentially collect all clippings, video con-tent and online content regarding any of our shows and their tal-ent. When Desperate Housewives is mentioned on SNL, I find that clip and add it to the archive,” Nguyen said.

Other daily tasks at the office include booking the talent’s travel, car service and hotels.

He added that he often gets to meet the talent.

“Bravo has a variety of popular

shows, so it’s always something new,” Nguyen said.

Bravo television is a component of NBC Universal and can be a competitive company to work for.

Nguyen said only two interns were selected for the public rela-tions position.

He was one of them.Nguyen will graduate from Cal

State Fullerton this semester.Michael Buencamino, a kinesi-

ology major, does not work in an office, but at a facility, a field, at the beach or in a gym.

Buencamino works for STARS, Sports Training and Rehabilitation Services, owned by former NFL player Jason David in Anaheim at the American Sports Center.

He trains high school, college and professional athletes and pre-pares them for the season.

“I mostly work with NFL play-ers on their off-season or college football players who are about to be drafted,” said Buencamino.

Buencamino starts the day by receiving his agenda from the head trainer and finds out what work-outs are going to be performed.

He then gets with the athletes

and implements those workouts to make sure they are performed correctly.

The workouts include condi-tioning, weight training, Olympic lifting and even yoga.

Buencamino said his favorite part of his internship is the relaxed environment and being around elite yet down-to-earth athletes.

“I really enjoy being around these athletes because its inspires me how humbling they are. I’m the youngest one there, yet they are taking direction from me,” Buencamino said.

Buencamino said he takes what he learns in school and bring ap-plies it hands on in his internship.

“My dream career is to be a physical therapist for an NFL team, so this is the perfect intern-ship for that,” he said.

Ryan Kelley, the head trainer at STARS, is Buencamino’s mentor and oversees his intern duties.

Kelley has expertise in strength and conditioning.

“Mick is a good aspect to our company. He is extremely knowl-edgeable about the body,” said Kelley.

JASMINE COLLIERFor the Daily Titan

MUSIC: Students entertain peersSome return to pursue master’s

degrees, while others go on to work all over the world.

CSUF’s music program has many notable alumni, including internationally renowned opera stars as well as Emmy and Gram-my nominees.

Cousté has been playing for 11 years and wants to play in an or-chestra or chamber group. He said as far as a concrete goal goes, he doesn’t sweat the details too much.

“It doesn’t matter as long as I’m playing,” said Cousté.

Cousté also participates in ex-tracurricular activities such as Var-sity Band.

Varsity Band plays Green Day, the Offspring or Michael Jackson at basketball games during breaks in the action.

The department offers a vari-ety of performance ensembles and music associations for interested students.

When they aren’t at the Titan Walk, you can catch the musicians at one their many performances held at the Clayes Performing Arts Center.

The Music Department puts on four concerts a year showcas-ing their students as well as events

with individual ensembles year round.

Upcoming performances in-clude: A performance from the Brass and Percussion Ensembles on May 6, 8, and 13 at 8 p.m. in-CPAC-119 and a Guitar Showcase Recital on May 8 at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall.

A schedule of more events can be found at Fullerton.edu/Arts/Events.

“I can always count on music majors practicing as I dodge solicitors on the Titan Walk.”

GREGORY AHLEBusiness Adminstration Major

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“So many people have asked me, ‘How can you work with your hus-band in the same department?’”

NICOLE BONUSOAssistant Geology Professor

Two geology professors balance work and home life with ease, side by side

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Las Vegas: A rite of passage

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But sometimes it doesn’t.

I recently reached the point in my life that most people, college students especially, dream of: my 21st birthday.

In celebration of our birthdays, my friend Allie and I drove to the city of sin.

I awoke the morning of our trip and the excitement was unbear-able.

After a car ride through the vast deserts and long roads of the 15 Freeway, we finally reached our destination.

We stayed at Bally’s, which was nice because it is in the center of the strip.

We could see Ceasar’s Palace, the Flamingo and the Mirage from our room.

Feeling lucky we decided to try our hand at poker.

An amateur, I slowly started to pick up the rules of Pai Gow, dou-ble-hand poker, and left the game $30 richer.

Lost in the neon lights of the ca-sino, we found our way through the maze of poker tables, roulette tables and slots until we finally stumbled out the doors into the blinding sun-light surrounding the pool.

We sprawled out near the wa-ter and let the heat soak into our pores as we debated what to do next.

This is where Allie and I made our first crucial mistake.

We didn’t have any plans for what we wanted to do and it’s pretty hard to conquer the city when you don’t know where to start.

Along the way many club pro-moters approached us and asked if we would like to be placed on guest lists for upcoming events.

We agreed and before we knew it the night ahead of us had even more potential.

We stopped at Cabo Wabo Can-tina for lunch.

The lunch was reasonably priced and offered flavorful, au-thentic Mexican food and a live band.

The ceviche was my favorite and I devoured the fresh, lime-infused shrimp and tomato salsa far before our food arrived.

After filling up on tacos, rice and beans we ventured back to Bally’s to prepare for our night out.

Mistake No. 2: We left the hotel room in our best attires and while we looked good, our choices were not the most sensible.

Walking across endless bridges to cross the street, climbing stairs and wandering around casinos that began to all look alike in our frenzy to hit the best clubs resulted in serious discomfort in our feet.

Remind me again why I wanted to wear heels?

True to their word, the club promoters that put us on the guest list allowed us into events for free.

Our first stop was Pure Night-club in Caesar’s Palace.

The music played loudly as we were ushered onto the spacious balcony of the club.

The balcony was chic and invit-ing, with comfortable lounge sofas to sit on and a view of the illumi-nated strip.

There was a free bar from 10:30 p.m. to 12 a.m. and the line for drinks was not long.

Considering it was a Thursday night, there weren’t many people there and we decided to move on to another club.

Mistake No. 3: We were so ex-cited to go out and explore the night, we didn’t keep track of what places we were on the guest list for or what hotels the clubs were in.

We wanted to go to Tryst Nightclub at the Wynn, but in-stead ended up at the Revolution Lounge inside of the Mirage.

The lounge was inspired by the

Beatles and had a psychedelic, ret-ro mixed with modern feel.

Bright colors, dim lighting, dec-orated ceilings and an open dance floor made the club alluring.

The open bar was another perk as well.

The DJ played a mix of house music, hip hop, mash ups and throw backs which kept us danc-ing for quite some time.

The next day we walked the strip in search of pool parties, to seek refuge from the desert heat.

Along the way we stopped at Margaritaville to enjoy a drink.

Being novices at the whole 21 thing, we ordered the tallest drink in sight.

We were in Vegas, why not? We watched as the bartender

made our drinks, giddy at the day ahead of us.

He set the margarita in front of us and we tilted our heads back to look at the mountain of tequila and strawberries that we were about to devour.

The ridiculously gaudy drink even had a hand-sized, flashing Las Vegas sign on it.

This drink taught me to never return to Margaritaville, or at least to order something different if I return.

Price of the drink: $35; price of getting into Encore Beach Club afterwards: free; not being able to bring our $35 souvenir glass into the pool party: priceless.

After ditching the cup, we walked into the pool of the Wynn hotel, amazed at the various pools, two bars and DJ that played near the water.

Free Malibu rum and pineapple drinks were handed out and we sipped our beverage in the cool of the pool, swaying to the beat of the music—I could have stayed there forever.

We left to check out TAO Beach at the Venetian, which unfortu-nately wasn’t as spectacular as En-

core because there was only one pool and it wasn’t heated.

We huddled along the edge of the single, small pool at TAO and stuck our feet in the ice cold water.

Forgetting the time, we almost missed our reservations at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab in Caesar’s Palace.

Luckily we made it on time and enjoyed a meal comprised of fla-

vorful, tender steak, ceasar salad, warm bread and a rich brownie.

Feeling classy, we ordered ap-ple martinis that we managed to choke down because they were so strong.

No longer amateurs at the club scene, we reached Hakkasan Nightclub in the MGM Grand with no problems and danced the night away to the progressive-

house music of Deadmau5. Hakkasan was by far the best

club we went to during our trip and, although it was crowded, it had a large dance floor and mul-tiple levels.

I emerged from the trip with greater knowledge of the dos and don’ts for my next excursion in the summer.

I’m already counting the days.

The Las Vegas strip is home to many resorts, including Paris, Ballys and the Bellagio, that house various attractions. Courtesy of Allie Juarez

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Sitting in his political science class on policy-making last fall sparked the beginning of a dream for Gregory Raths.

After talking with his profes-sor, Judy Stambaugh, Raths said he found himself in front of a classroom of students rallying his fellow students to help him run for Congress.

Raths, 59, a history major, plans to run for the 45th Dis-trict, south Orange County, in the U.S. House of Representa-tives for the June 2014 primary.

Raths said he plans to run on the conservative ticket and push for smaller government and bet-ter veteran care and support if he is elected as a representative.

He added that he is continu-ing to prepare for his campaign by looking to secure more stu-dent support.

“I’ve done all my hard stuff raising kids, did my military career, was a combat veteran in Desert Storm and now I have a new chapter in my life,” said Raths.

“The young students and (professor Stambaugh) got me

interested, so I’m going for it. I’m going to run for U.S. House of Representatives,” he added.

Still, running for Congress was not where Raths’ story began.

Growing up in Phoenix, he said he grew up extremely poor.

Raths began working at age 7 mowing lawns and washing win-dows to help out his parents.

It was at that Catholic school that Raths said a priest inspired him to follow his dreams of be-coming a Marine Corps fighter pilot.

“My father was a pilot in World War II and I always loved hearing his war stories … and so when I was in high school the jet age was coming up and I was like I want to fly jets,” Raths said.

After obtaining his bachelor’s degree in business from Arizona State University, Raths then joined the Marine Corps and went to flight school to become a fighter pilot.

He spent 32 years in the Ma-rine Corps where he obtained a master’s degree in military strat-egy and climbed the leadership ladder to eventually become and retire as a colonel.

Before retiring, Raths was on President Clinton’s military staff.

“I grew up dirt poor,” Raths said. “And next thing I know, 20 years later I’m working at the White House for the President.”

After more than 30 years in the military, Raths moved on and began working for JetBlue.

He said going from fighter pi-lot to a commercial airline pilot was a boring transition.

“You’ve got to remember this is what I used to fly,” he said pointing to the fighter jet on the cover of his book. “And now I’m sitting going from Long Beach to Boston with nothing to do.”

After leaving JetBlue, Raths began working in the auto in-dustry, importing car parts from China and distributing them across the United States.

He was president of the auto parts company for three years be-fore it was bought out.

He then decided that he want-ed to pursue another bachelor’s degree in history.

After attending Saddleback College in Mission Viejo for a year, Raths transferred to Cal State Fullerton.

Now, after years and many ex-periences over his lifetime, Raths said running for Congress is only the beginning of a new chapter

for him.After writing a memoir of his

tales and adventures through-out his life, this next chapter in Raths’ life is one he said he be-lieves in.

A chapter that was sparked in a classroom and one that he be-lieves will make a difference in other people’s lives.

Stambaugh, a political science professor, said she really enjoyed having Raths in her class and she is confident he will reach his vic-tory in 2014.

“He has a stunning record of service at the most prestigious levels and would serve his con-stituents with integrity and expe-rience beyond many current serv-ing legislators,” said Stambaugh.

Raths will be graduating with his bachelor’s degree in history this May and will continue cam-paigning and working with Cal State Fullerton students.

“I can relate to this generation because I’ve sat with them for three years in class and it’s open my eyes to the quality of the stu-dents and the diversity,” Raths said.

“I’m just one person, but I can have a voice in Washington,” he added.

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Gregory Raths, 59, plans to run for the 45th district seat in the 2014 primary election. He will graduate from CSUF with a bachelor’s degree in May.ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

Within one solid day after sign-ing up for an online dating ac-count, my inbox contained 273 unread messages—and that was only the beginning.

One positive feature of online dating is that you can choose to ig-nore those who are uninteresting, but still engage in conversation with those who are interesting.

Creating a concise and alluring profile to attract the right corre-spondents was the first step to find-ing love online.

“My ideal first date would have to be with someone that I have an insane connection with. We would skip all of the pressures brought upon by dinners, dates and any-thing that falls into the realms of superficiality.

My profile read, “instead, dive into the more spontaneous and thrilling elements of life that causes our hearts to race out of sheer ex-citement. This may sound corny, but I am dead serious when I say that we must share an Oreo milk-shake (milkshake option may be negotiable)... slightly blended be-cause everyone knows that an oreo shake should have chunky oreos. Lastly, lay under the stars and have intellectually driven conversations to stimulate the mind and broaden our horizons to gain a deeper un-derstanding for one another. And a man who can quote Nacho Libre.”

That statement alone, became my worst nightmare.

A week later, in summation of the now 613 unread messages, I got it all.

Men who discussed philosophy. Men who were tired of being single. Asian racial stereotypes.

Men telling me that I would be perfect if I wasn’t Asian because Asian meant that I specifically liked white guys who can buy me materi-alistic items.

Fancy pick up lines such as one from username Charmingman28 that attempted to entice me with, “I’ll be Burger King and you be Mc-Donald’s. I’ll have it my way and you’ll be lovin’ it.”

Dozens of countless men offering to take me on an Oreo shake date. To my surprise, I even got a racy photo.

Some were persistent enough to repeatedly send multiple messages to ensure a response.

It was overwhelming to say the least.

Self-taken photos stood out the most. It’s quite comical and safe to say that at least 80 percent of profile pictures contained a reflective mir-ror photo, a shirtless photo and my favorite, a photo with a pet to show, I assume, sensitivity.

You can assume a sense of one’s personality by looking through their photos and merely reading what they had to say about them-selves, through their diction and elaboration.

I consider reading through the endless messages and undergoing a thorough profile scan to be my

step two.Step three: searching for prey. I’ve learned that the fun part

about being a female in the online world is that men come to you.

We can kick back and let the messages stack themselves to the hundreds. All we do is dig through for quality.

After narrowing down my po-tential soul mates, I deemed a few handsome fellows dateable accord-ing to their profiles.

I was aiming for guys with the total package: a free adrenaline searching spirit, a fun loving per-sonality, a successful career and an intelligent mind.

I then embarked on step four—taking the chance.

“Chancho I need to borrow some sweeaatss,” Rbxxprince112 wrote to me.

He shortly followed with a back and forth week-long conversation about philosophy.

A Nacho Libre quote and an in-tellectual conversation heightened my curiosity.

According to his profile, he is a private banker working on two master’s degrees and is a 26-year-old intellectual who wants to meet a girl who can “go with the flow of things.”

He is interested in producing music, hiking and skydiving.

His ideal first date would be meeting at Yogurtland for a nice conversation and a tasty treat. He seemed nice, so I took the chance.

He was shorter than I expected, he had a higher pitched voice, a bit egotistical, but was an achieved man overall.

Spending an hour at Yogurtland with Brandon Hoffman went some-what well.

He talked about himself, a lot. I’m unsure if he was trying to im-press me in a short amount of time or if it was normal for him to domi-nate and speak highly of his impres-sive accomplishments.

On the upside, we bonded over philosophy and our love for thrill. However, I gave up 30 minutes into the date after internally struggling with who gets the limelight.

I would have agreed to go on a second date if he didn’t talk so much, about himself, or if he didn’t become a stage-five clinger.

Ever since that date, he’s been confessing his deep interests in fur-thering our relationship by going to fancy dinners and traveling the world together.

My phone has not stopped ring-ing from texts and phone calls from the now labeled, “Don’t Pick Up.”

I was so in awe at the crushed po-tential of Brandon via online chat that did not transcribe in an in-per-son attraction.

I didn’t even get the simplistic privilege of a decent conversation that allowed equal time distribution.

All I got was false hope, free yo-gurt and an overbearing clinger.

This experience led to a further conclusion that may not pertain to all, but in my experience, did: Those who resort to an online dat-ing medium are there for a reason.

Cupid shoots and misses at finding new love online

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The Long Beach State Dirtbags will pay a weekend visit to Fuller-ton with revenge on their mind. The two rivals squared off at Blair Field in Long Beach in late March, and the Titans took all three games for the road sweep.

Game one is Friday, with first pitch scheduled at 7 p.m. No. 3 Cal State Fullerton (36-7, 12-3 Big West) will likely send fresh-man Thomas Eshelman (7-2) to the mound. If the CSUF pitching rotation continues as it has all sea-son, freshman Justin Garza (9-0) and sophomore Grahamm Wiest (7-2) will be on the hill for the Ti-tans Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sun-day at 1 p.m., respectively.

When the two teams met earlier in the season, CSUF handed Long Beach (21-21, 9-6 Big West) a dev-astating series loss. In the opener, the Dirtbags managed only two hits in a quiet 6-0 defeat. Game two saw Long Beach give away a 5-1 eighth inning lead to lose 8-6. Most painful of all, the Dirtbags appeared to have rallied to tie the series finale at 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth inning, but the game ended on a successful appeal of the would-be game-tying sacrifice fly.

Eshelman will be looking to re-

bound from his first ineffective start of the season in which he lasted only 3.1 innings and took the loss in a 4-3 defeat at the University of Hawaii. He pitched at Blair Field in the previous Long Beach series, keeping the Dirtbags off the board in eight easy innings of work.

Garza, meanwhile, aims to re-main undefeated at the college level, and Wiest is coming off an eight-inning, two-hit performance at Hawaii in which he held the Rainbow Warriors scoreless. The Titans blanked Hawaii in the final two games to take the series.

The Titans lead the Big West conference by one game over sec-ond-place Cal State Northridge, but Long Beach sits just three games back of CSUF and could catch the Titans with a sweep. It will be the toughest of tasks for the Dirtbags, though, as the Ti-tans have not lost a series all sea-son long.

CSUF’s 36-7 start to the season is the best in the school’s history since 1996, when the Titans began with a 38-5 record. Head Coach Rick Vanderhook, however, says he sees no resemblance between the 1996 and 2013 teams, and added that the ’96 team did not finish as strong as he’d like the ’13 team to. This sea-son’s Titans have already matched last season’s entire win total with 13

games remaining.Saturday night’s game is senior

night and will be aired on ESPN. All fans in attendance who wear or-ange will receive a free rally towel.

This weekend marks the sec-ond-to-last home series of the reg-ular season for the Titans, though

the team would likely be awarded home field advantage in the re-gional playoffs if it wins the Big West. The final home series takes place May 17-19 against UC Ir-vine. Of the remaining games on CSUF’s schedule, all but one are in-conference. The lone non-Big

West matchup takes place May 14 against UCLA.

Tickets may be purchased at the Cal State Fullerton Athletic Ticket Office through Friday at 4 p.m. or at the Goodwin Field box office up to an hour and a half before first pitch of all games (cash only).

Tickets may also be purchased on-line at FullertonTitans.com/Tick-ets. Students with a valid Titan ID receive free admission.

For more information on the baseball team or their remainding schedule this season, visit Fuller-tonTitans.com.

The Cal State Fullerton softball team (23-27, 8-10 Big West) will take on the visiting University of the Pacific Tigers (28-22, 12-6 Big West) Friday at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. and Saturday at 12 p.m. at Ander-son Field in their penultimate se-ries of the regular season.

The Titans are coming off a 4-3 away victory against UC Davis on Sunday. The Titans lost the first two games to the Aggies, 1-0 and 3-2, but they took revenge to those close losses with a hard-fought win. Sophomore Eliza Crawford, who has put up stellar numbers all season, came up big when she hit her eighth home run of the sea-son. Senior Ashley Carter notched two RBI singles in the second and fourth innings in the win.

CSUF began the scoring in the first inning with a single from junior catcher Ariel Tsuchiyama. Two batters later, Crawford then notched her two-run homer. The Titans scored again in the second inning. Freshman utility player Melissa Sechrest hit a triple to

center field. Carter drove her home on the RBI single. They scored their fourth run of the game in the fourth inning. Fresh-man Gabby Aragon hit a single to second base. Carter drove her in on another RBI single to center. A total of seven different players hit in the game.

Freshman right-handed pitcher Jasmine Antunez (14-16) started the game pitching a little more than two innings giving up two runs, only one earned. Sophomore left-handed pitcher Desiree Ybarra stepped in relief of Antunez in the third inning allowing five hits and one run.

Pacific is coming off a huge 9-6 win over the visiting No. 15 Stan-ford Cardinals. The Tigers had a huge slugging fest in the win, scor-ing two runs in the first, one in the third, three in the fifth, and three more in the sixth.

Junior Taylor Petty hit a two-run homer in the first with a shot past the left field fence. Stanford took the 3-2 lead in the third. The Tigers responded with an RBI sin-gle by Amy Moore to score Megan Hom from second.

With the score tied at three, Pa-cific scored three runs in the fifth inning to take the 6-3 lead. Four hits by the Tigers resulted in three runs. Stanford responded once again, erasing their three run defi-cit by with a three-run home run by Erin Ashby.

Pacific took the lead in the sixth inning for the third and final time of the game. Megan Foglesong doubled to drive in Alexi John-son from second. Nikki Armagost single to left field allowed for two Tigers to score. Stanford could not score in the seventh.

For CSUF, Crawford leads the team with 43 hits, eight home runs and 26 RBIs. Crawford also has nine doubles and a .307 bat-ting average. Carter has 24 runs, 40 hits and 11 RBIs.

For Pacific, Hom has 36 runs and 11 RBIs. Hom leads the team in batting average with .360 and 58 hits. Armagost leads the team in RBIs with 38. She also has a .338 batting average.

Currently, CSUF is tied for fifth place with UC Davis in the Big West Conference standings. Pacif-ic is in third place, just two games

behind second place Long Beach State and three games behind first place Hawaii.

The Titans will have one more series after the Pacific series. They will play the Cal State Northridge Matadors May 10 and 11 in a home series.

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Freshman Jasmine Antunez winds up during a game at Anderson Family Field. JOHN PEKCAN / Daily Titan

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