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Dominick Prieto was named ASI elections commissioner Thursday as a result of Jay Jefferson’s resignation.

The sophomore, 19, a public relations major, was the sole applicant put up by ASI President Joe Lopez and won the majority of board votes. His rise to the position has been questioned by several ASI members due to the fact that none of the other applicants were given interviews for the position.

“I have nothing against Prieto personally. I definitely have the utmost faith in him to fulfill the position,” said Lorenzo Frausto, ASI representative for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. “But Nikhil Kulkarni has worked alongside (former ASI elections commissioner) Jay Jefferson for the entire academic year and was not even considered for an interview by the ASI president.”

Frausto also claimed that Beth Velasco, former vice chair of Board of Directors, served for several terms and was also de-nied the position as well without an interview.

“I was rejected because Dominick Prieto is a Greek member. We should also consider the fact that Joe Lopez is also a Greek member. This might be one of the possibilities that Dominick was given pref-erence over me for the post of election commis-sioner,” said Kulkarni. “I was not elected because I am not a Greek member and (Prieto) is, one of the possibilities that he was given preference over

me.”Kulkarni added that his application was submitted before the deadline and

he met all of the requirements for the position. However, he was not called for an interview.

Kulkarni, a graduate student in business administration and marketing, worked with Jefferson from the fall 2010 semester up until his resignation. He was offered the job of polling assistant and was later promoted to election assistant.

“As informal vice commissioner, I handled the responsibilities and duties including hiring the polling assistants, which I did without bias and flaw-lessness,” Kulkarni said. “I also played a key role in organizing promotional events on campus, such as the ASI Festival, the ASI Barbecue and Pizza with the Candidates.”

Kulkarni was encouraged by Jefferson to apply for the position and was even mentioned in the official resignation letter that was emailed to the board members last Wednesday evening.

“ASI elections currently has two office assistants who have been critical to the success of the ASI Elections Office. Nikhil

Kulkarni has been an Elections Office assistant since the fall of 2010 and has a thorough knowledge of the ASI

elections process,” said Jefferson in his letter. Kulkarni claimed that he was contacted by

Judy Valona, the executive assistant for the Ex-ecutive Office staff, informing him that his ap-plication could not be processed further with-out any explanation at all.

Titan sophomore center fielder Austin Kingsolver slides in and reaches back for second base. CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan

After a winless drought plagued the No. 13 Cal State Fullerton base-ball team on its four-game road trip, which pitted the team against top schools Louisiana State University and Texas A&M, the Titans rallied with a flood of victories over the visiting Uni-versity of Washington Huskies in a three-game homestand this weekend.

The Titans completed the sweep Saturday night, which saw Sunday’s game moved to Saturday evening for a doubleheader due to the impending threat of rain. The Titans outscored the Huskies 26-8 in the series, improv-ing their record to 11-7 on the year.

“We needed that; we needed to get something to feel good about,” said Titan Head Coach Dave Serrano after Friday night’s victory. “It seems like it’s been forever; it’s only been four games, but it seems like a while since we’ve felt good about something, and that was a big win for us.”

Right-handed junior Noe Ramirez threw a season-high 11 strikeouts in Friday night’s 11-3 victory over Wash-ington.

The win improved Ramirez’s record to 3-2 and the Titans to their ninth win.

“It felt pretty good, definitely better than last week,” said Ramirez. “I was really trying to emphasize staying in control and not being overly excited.”

The Titan offense, which scored 11 runs off 13 hits, didn’t take long to get on the scoreboard, quickly scoring in the first inning.

After singling to right field and moving up to second on a wild pitch, junior first baseman Nick Ramirez scored the first run of the game when junior designated hitter Tyler Pill ripped a double down the left-field line.

The Titans added a second run in the second, but really blew open the game in the fourth, scoring seven runs on five hits.

A leadoff triple by sophomore left fielder Ivory Thomas sparked the sev-en-run onslaught. After redshirt fresh-man catcher Jared Deacon was hit by a pitch, a passed ball allowed both him and Thomas to advance 90 feet. Two batters later, sophomore shortstop Richy Pedroza knocked in Deacon with a single to right field.

After Pedroza, four straight Titans reached base. A double by junior in-fielder Anthony Trajano scored Pedro-za and after a walk to Nick Ramirez, back-to-back triples by Pill and fresh-man Michael Lorenzen, three more runs were scored.

The seventh and final run of the inning came when junior third base-man Joe Terry drove Lorenzen in with a deep fly-out to right field.

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Every year, Cal State Fullerton’s official student government body is charged with allocating millions of dollars to the university’s academic colleges.

The process takes months and As-sociated Students, Inc. is encouraging students to get involved.

“We’re moving right along with the budget process,” said Joe Lopez, ASI president. “Board of Directors meetings are open to the public, so if students would like to sit in on those meetings, any student is welcome to come see.”

The board, which is comprised of two representatives from each of the campus’ eight colleges, makes final changes on the budget after it is ap-proved by the ASI Finance Commit-tee and then by the president and ex-ecutive vice president.

These changes from the board are made over the scope of three to four meetings, Lopez said.

The meetings will take place fol-lowing spring break next week, Lopez said.

Although this budget affects pro-grams for thousands of students across campus, students surveyed said they didn’t pay attention or get involved in the process.

Most said they wouldn’t start pay-ing attention unless their fees went up or were otherwise significantly im-pacted. Others said they really didn’t

understand the process.“The way I see it, as long as it

doesn’t have to do with my tuition, it’s not important,” said Hatem Zakharia, 20, an accounting major.

The scandal in the city of Bell in which city officials were being paid outrageous sums of money is a great example of what can happen without civic involvement, said Jeremy Yama-guchi, a political science major and Placentia city councilman.

“One of the things that could’ve prevented that situation is more civic involvement in keeping elected offi-cials accountable and making sure that staff is making decisions that are going to be the most effective to the city and that they’re making ethical decisions,” said Yamaguchi. “Oversight and trans-parency of the government is only as good as the amount of involvement that the public has in the process.”

As an elected official, Yama-guchi said some of the best ideas come straight from the public. HOW THE BUDGET PROCESS WORKS

The process really begins during budget hearings held in October of each year, which mandate that each inter-club council go before ASI’s Fi-nance Committee to speak on behalf of its budget requests. Each college on campus has its own inter-club council that distributes the money to its vari-ous clubs and organizations.

A low voter turnout in Associ-ated Students Inc. elections could be explained by Cal State Fullerton’s reputation as a commuter campus.

Over the last 20 years, student voting has rarely made it beyond 10 percent. According to the statistics provided by Michael Mikuelwicz, an ASI elections assistant, and the CSUF website, only 4.5 percent of students voted in 2010.

“ (Commut-ing) certainly affects (poll-ing) because the majority of the students don’t come to this part of the school which is the ASI and TSU,” said Nikhil Kulkarni, 24, a marketing graduate student and ASI elections member. “Students come and go back home because this is a com-muter campus.”

Lorenzo Frausto, 21, one of the representatives for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences for the Board of Directors, said it is dis-couraging when students don’t vote for the ASI elections.

“I feel it’s very disheartening when we are working to the best of our abilities to work in (the students’)

best interest, but at the same time the students aren’t fulfilling their civic duties and going out and vot-ing for the best representative for the position,” said Frausto.

Out of the past 18 years, the high-est amount of students who voted was 13.9 percent in spring 1996.

Krystle Grandy, 21, a radio-TV-film major, said she doesn’t vote be-cause she’s often not on campus and feels the events put on by ASI don’t interest her personally.

“They never do anything appeal-ing to me and my major,” said Gran-

dy. “I would rather be doing something fun, like professional things. It seems like a waste of time the things they throw.”

The ASI Cookouts and Pizza With the Deans are just some of the events ASI has

hosted to inform students of the up-coming elections.

Grandy thinks there should be more events that pertain to individ-ual majors, “not a giant free-for-all.”

“They should hold more specific events to colleges,” Grandy said. “I’m a radio-TV-film major, so I would like to see more radio-TV-film-inspired stuff.”

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When he asked to speak with Lo-pez, she informed him that Lopez “has a busy calendar and he would not be able to meet with me until Friday (the day after the decision for election commis-sioner was going to be finalized).”

T h u r s d a y at 12:30 p.m., Kulkarni went into the offices to meet with Lopez but was informed that he could not be met with until 5 p.m. when the meeting for the elections started at 3 p.m.

“Jay resigned last Wednesday, and with little or no supervision I handled the complete elec-tion process on all facets, from candidate orien-tation to follow-ups,” Kulkar-ni said. “It brings down my morale and in-terest to work in a system which is unfair, unjust and does not follow

judicial and ethical standards.”Frausto claims that more mem-

bers would have been open to the idea of appointing a different elec-tion commissioner if they had been

informed of the other ap-plicants.

“They were u n i n f o r m e d and this calls for a ques-tion of ethics in our student government,” Frausto said.

ASI Presi-dent Joe Lopez was unavail-able to com-ment.

“I am sure he understands the public will have issues with how he handled the situation,” Jef-ferson said. “It appears that Lopez already had his mind made up to choose Prieto.

It is unfortunate that the process could not be more objective.”

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Cal State Fullerton has over 250 clubs encompassing everything from a paintball team to an anime club.

Through CSUF’s Student Life Programs, students have the ability to create new clubs by following an eight-step process. The program’s Stu-dent Organization Resource Center (SORC) handles the process of both old and new organizations’ yearly re-organization process.

“In the past it has been perceived that it’s very difficult to start an orga-nization in terms of getting them rec-ognized on CSUF campus, and really, it’s not,” said Jamaar Walker, coordi-nator of Student Life.

The eight-step process outlined by SORC can be simplified into three steps: creating a constitution, find-ing an adviser and getting four other members, according to Walker.

Currently there are eight academic inter-club councils (ICCs) and the sports club ICC (SC-ICC) that over-

see the various organizations and clubs that are available on campus.

These nine ICCs all compete for a shrinking financial budget every year, due to statewide cuts, from the ASI Board of Directors. The budget that each ICC seeks funds from is the ASI yearly budget based on a fiscal year that begins July 1 and ends June 30.

“The ASI Board of Directors ulti-mately determines how much fund-ing each ICC receives,” said Henoc Preciado, ASI vice president of fi-nance. “The funding for every ICC varies depending on the needs of any one particular ICC.”

Each ICC determines how much funding is allocated to its respective clubs and organizations, according to Preciado.

With each ICC having its own constitutions and regulations on how the money is split up, some issues have occurred.

The Engineering & Comput-er Science (ECS) ICC has had issues with allocating funds.

“Because last year our money was spent so fast allocating it to clubs, all the clubs this year decided to ask for everything...in October for the forth-coming year whether their event was at the end of spring, beginning of January or middle of September,” said Jerome Terrell, ECS-ICC treasurer.

With the money all allocated at the beginning of the year for the ECS-ICC, new clubs that participate in

meetings can’t petition for funds since they are already dispersed. While the money is reimbursed to clubs for their activities and not given upfront, loop-holes in the ECS-ICC rules have led to organizations becoming inactive in meetings once they have been award-ed their funds.

“We still have that problem where the person proposes in September, they get awarded (funds) in Sep-

tember and their conference isn’t till February,” Terrell said. “We don’t see them from September to February, then the week after February comes I see them and they’re like...remem-ber me, here’s my receipts, give me money.”

With no funds to give out after the school year has commenced, the ECS-ICC is looking to change its bylaws to keep its clubs and organizations par-ticipating in ECS events throughout the year, according to Terrell.

“Every time we run out of money the attendance in the council meet-ings drops by half or even 3/4,” Ter-rell said. “It really sucks for those loyal clubs who keep showing up meeting after meeting and even for the new clubs who come and they don’t have anything. It’s not like we can take the money back.”

While fundraising is an option for new clubs to get money for expenses, it doesn’t solve the problem for clubs in the ECS-ICC who receive funds then stop participating.

Not all ICCs’ policies are as re-laxed when it comes to absences and lack of participation in council meet-ings. The SC-ICC only allows three absences before a sports club will be given a warning and consequently put on academic review, according to Walker, who also oversees the sports club council. This policy can and has led to the dissolving of clubs in the past.

VOTES: A lack of CSUF turnout

Kayln Shibata-Goodman, 21, a the-atre major, said she voted once last se-mester because one of her friends was running.

“I’m more educated (about) what voter turnout does ... so I think now voting is more prevalent,” said Shibata-Goodman.

She plans on voting this coming election but first wants to research the candidates and “read what they are all about.”

“It’s our campus. If we want things to change ... we have to vote for some-one who will do that for us,” Shibata-Goodman said.

Lorena Miramontes, 20, a child de-velopment major, said she hasn’t heard anything about ASI since she first reg-istered as a freshman.

“They had the whole speech about ASI and how to get involved, then af-ter that I didn’t really hear a lot about them,” said Miramontes.

Frausto said it’s always the same students and organizations that are in-volved with ASI.

“One of the areas we fall short is not engaging different organizations who are not specifically affiliated with ASI and getting them involved,” Frausto said.

Kulkarni said there should be more posters and polling locations so “peo-ple should be aware of the intangible benefits of getting associated with ASI.”

“The idea of starting the voting out-side the campus by posting it on the website will definitely have promoted the elections in a better way,” Kulkarni said.

Shibata-Goodman suggested creat-ing a Facebook event to draw in more people.

“The best thing to do is obviously Facebook, you know multimedia things like that because the majority of people here have Facebook,” Shibata-Goodman said. “Being able to see it there and reading about the candidates would be good.”

However, every student who said they didn’t vote still believed it was im-portant to.

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BUDGET: Where the money for organizations goes

The revenue for the budget is generated from student fees. Each semester, students pay $74 per se-mester and make up the ASI budget.

The budget is passed months later, by July 1, which is the begin-ning of the fiscal year. ASI is in the midst of putting together and mak-ing changes to its budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year. After it is final-ized by the student government, it goes to President Milton Gordon for approval.

“It’s a very big responsibility, but when you go through this docu-ment, our budget detail is over 70 pages long and you see all the great things all the ASI funding is going to. It’s one of the best opportunities we have as student leaders because it affects so many different parts of campus,” Lopez said.

ALLOCATING THE MONEYThe amount of money that inter-

club councils and other associations receive widely varies. The money goes toward items such as phone and postage costs, promotional ma-terials, contracts, fees and rentals, and to student scholarships for those

who serve on executive boards for each inter-club council and associa-tion.

The Association for Inter-Cul-tural Awareness (AICA) distributes money to 27 clubs on campus and also throws its own events. This year it received just over $92,000 from ASI fees and the association is grow-ing, and so is their need for a bigger budget, said Trina Tan, AICA ad-ministrative chair.

“It’s definitely going to a good cause and to really good training and good programming to teach students about diversity,” said Tan.

In preparation to make a budget proposal and presentation to ASI, Tan evaluates the success of various club events to make decisions on which clubs should receive more or less money.

There was one event last year in which the group ran out of food it was serving to students in just 15 minutes.

“We need more money at these events, because we want to be able to serve students as much as we can because there’s not enough resources to supply them,” Tan said.

HOW THE MONEY IS USEDThe largest chunk of money in the

budget is allocated to the Children’s Center, which received $1.6 million this fiscal year, according to budget documents.

“The Children’s Center is prob-ably the biggest program that ASI runs,” Lopez said. “It basically pro-vides funding for student parents to be able to have childcare here on campus for a very low cost. And it’s not just childcare, it’s education for these children.”

ASI’s executive offices received just under $319,000 this fiscal year. Roughly $100,000 went to student leadership awards for eight students in ASI leadership roles. In addition to full-time and part-time staff sala-ries, $25,000 was spent on advocacy travel this year, according to the budget.

This includes ASI’s role in the California State Student Associa-tion, which is an organization that brings together representatives from each of the 23 CSU campuses. Lo-pez travels to meetings held each month that rotate between North-ern and Southern California.

The 2011-12 budget goes before the board at 1:15 p.m. April 5 in the William G. Pollak Legislative Cham-bers in the Titan Student Union.

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Clubs in need of funds

WESLEY RUSCHERDaily Titan

Nine councils com-pete for funding from ASI’s allocated bud-get each year, leaving some clubs hurting

In the past it has been perceived that it’s very difficult to start an or-ganization in terms of

getting them recognized on CSUF campus, and

really, it’s not. - Jamaar Walker

Coordinator of StudentLife

They were unin-formed and this calls

for a question of ethics in our student

government.

- Lorenzo FraustoASI Representative for

the College of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Who Will You Vote For: Meet the ASI Candidates Students running for ASI President and Vice President explain their mission, budget plans and why you should vote them into office

Taylor Edwards Running for ASI Vice President

Age: 19

Residence: Fullerton

Mission: As a non-commuter at CSUF, I aim to make cam-pus life more alive and vibrant. Instead of students coming to campus, going to class and go-ing home, I want students to come to campus and participate in on-campus activities. In order to do this I will look for student input so I am able to cater to student wants for on-campus events. Also, I am looking to cut back on unnecessary costs that are negatively affecting the ASI budget. By cutting spending on, more money will be available for costs that require more at-tention. Every monetary move I make will be made in the best interest of the students.

Budget: First and foremost I would conduct a review and analysis of current services available at CSUF. Doing this would enable me to identify and eliminate any duplication of service that creates an unnecessary additional expense. If the same service is offered in two buildings and two people are doing the exact same job, one of those jobs needs to be eliminated so the budget is able to retain additional money.

Interesting Fact: I make sandwiches...for a living.

Brian Martinez Running for ASI President

Age: 21

Residence: Los Angeles

Mission: To make CSUF what people would like it to be for them as students. Mainly to lessen the title of being a com-muter school and amp up stu-dent life. Many students see CSUF as something different; for example some people see it as their school, others a place to so-cialize, others a place where they work, play, workout, worship, etc. There’s so many things to do on campus, and I’ve spoken with many students on how things could improve and I feel that I can help make that happen.

Budget: Some cost-saving meth-ods I would implement would be to look over how the money is being spent in the Titan Student Union and Student Recreation Center. I work in building engineering, which is a department that does maintenance on both buildings, so I have an idea on what gets spent and what things are just not needed. I obviously won’t handle all the money alone, so the other students in office will work with me and we shall decide on the best methods to use the money, whether it be cutting some events or changing to make them more cost efficient, to the way money is spent on marketing and promoting events and seeing if that’s really working.

Interesting Fact: I’m quite the dancer.

Aissa Conchola Running for ASI President

Age: 21

Residence: Anaheim Mission: We believe that every year students should expect more from their student leaders. Dur-ing these hard economic times that we are experiencing, students need to have strong leaders advo-cating on their behalf on campus, in the community and in Sacra-mento. I believe that we have the experience, the knowledge and the leadership abilities to get the job done. Students should vote for me because I have the charisma, cre-ativity and the experience that is needed to lead ASI and represent the students of CSUF. Budget: I would look at ways in which we could save in energy costs. Several university buildings have lights on continuously for long hours of the night. I would look into installing motion censors for entire floors to ensure that the lights are on only when needed. Also, I would look into modern-izing the lighting in the older parking structures. Our newest structure is lit entirely by LED lights which not only saves CSUF thousands of dollars in energy costs each year, but also provides students with a more illuminated environment while getting to their cars after a late night class. Interesting fact: I have a strong passion for education not only for institutions of higher education. After graduation I hope to go on to Teach for America to help underprivileged communities across the country.

Megan Martinez Running for ASI Vice President

Age: 21

Residence: Fullerton

Mission: Every year students should expect more from their student leaders! As candidates for ASI President and Vice President, we understand the increasing needs of our students and have the experience and the knowledge to get the job done! My running mate and I strive to empower and unite our campus through advocacy, outreach and sustainability. I believe that stu-dent leaders need to reach out to the rest of the student popula-tion. Through my various posi-tions in student government as well as other organizations and groups on campus, I have been able to talk to a variety of stu-dents.

Budget: I would make our campus more energy efficient and also reevaluate the administrative costs. While these measures would help, we would need more aid from the state budget to correct the financial crisis that we are currently in. Cuts alone cannot save the budget crisis that CSUF is facing. We will advocate with administration to secure resources to preserve the quality of the CSUF educational experience.

Interesting Fact: I was born on Labor Day, Sept 4. When I was younger, I thought that the three-day weekend was because it was my birthday.

Eric Niu Running for ASI President

Age: 22

Residence: Irvine

Mission: Our main objective is to mobilize students to promote collective action that brings real change to our academic experi-ence. Being that all students are considered members of ASI, it is our job to ensure that the collec-tive voice of the student popula-tion is advanced to its full po-tential. Our goal is to establish a stronger line of communica-tion by increasing accessibility. emphasize greater promotion of TSC Governing Board and ASI Board meetings, work closer with campus media resources to in-crease awareness and hold open forums with ASI leadership con-cerning the progress and updates on important issues.

Budget: If I were a part of CSUF’s administration, education would come as my top priority. I would place an emphasis on maintaining class availability and quality of teaching. A cut in any program will have a significant impact on the student population, and every student is in need of education. With this in mind, it is extremely important to keep investing in higher education. Interesting Fact: I want to travel more than 50 countries before the age of 40.

Jay Jefferson Running for ASI Vice President

Age: 22

Residence: Cerritos Mission: Our main objective is to mobilize students to promote collective action that brings real change to our academic expe-rience. Being that all students are considered members of ASI, it is our job to ensure that the collective voice of the student population is advanced to its full potential. We plan to do this by increasing advocacy, ac-cessibility and transparency. We believe that ASI leadership must not only function as a media-tor between the students and a respective issue, but must also take a stand with the students and empower them to be their own advocates.

Budget: When addressing this issue, I firmly believe that any cuts made to colleges and uni-versities are unacceptable and will have a detrimental impact on a students’ college experience. If I were an administrator, my goal would be to maintain the amount of resources provided to students, rather than take away from our students. As an administrator, my focus would be to sustain the availability of classes, preserve the quality of teaching and reduce spending on new projects to ensure that current programs have adequate funding. Interesting Fact: I am willing to try almost anything once.

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“Let’s Get Personal”

Frisk Me

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been accused of being a pedo-phile!

Oh… just me? OK… I should probably put my hand down now…

See, apparently it’s immoral for a 17-year-old girl to befriend a 15-year-old boy. The friend-ship only means they are having promiscuous, unprotected sex that the girl would, of course, force upon the boy against his will. In turn, that would cause the boy to grow into a sexual deviant that lies to and rebels against his parents.

Yes, that’s exactly how it goes down, according to my friend’s mother, who actually got on the phone with my father and one of my high school teachers to tell them that not only was I a pedo-phile, but a rapist, a bad influ-ence on her son and that she was not ready to be a grandmother.

All after she took one look at me when I came to pick my friend up and said, “He’s not go-ing anywhere with you.”

My father laughed after he hung up with her, and my high school teacher defended my honor. They thought she may have been a few sandwiches short of a picnic, if you get my drift.

Disrespectfully hanging the American flag upside down in front of her house after the 2008 elections strengthened their opinions.

But that leaves one to ques-tion: What exactly is my “age of consent” if not 17?

Biologically, it would have been 13, when I got my first pe-riod in the middle of math class … while wearing beige shorts.

Under California law, it would have been two years ago, when I turned 18.

In this great, beautiful, bank-rupt state, there really are no precise legal restrictions against

two people under the age of 18 dating. A lot of factors like a lev-el of trust and sexual activities are taken into account.

For example, if my high school classmate and I—both in our middle teens with sex drives an understanding of what natu-ral, sexual desires we were feel-ing and why—really were gettin’ down and dirty, that would be a lot less strange than if I was 17 and he was still in elementary school.

Then his mother would come off as a lot less paranoid and be correct in her accusations, as I would be fooling around with someone who still thinks girls have cooties.

But even dating after 18 can be a pretty shady subject, too. I have reached that point in my life where, unfortunately, I le-gally can’t do anything to stop older gentlemen from seeking “companionship” with me.

Don’t get me wrong—I’m flat-tered they don’t think I “act my age” or look older than I really am. It’s quite the ego booster.

However, it’s not appropriate for my 40-year-old coworker to invite me out to a movie or a bite to eat, even though he did me a solid by not being creepy about it.

And I especially don’t feel it’s appropriate for my ex-boy-friend’s father to tell me about his recent divorce and then buy me alcohol even though he knows I’m underage.

The guys I become roman-tically involved with and seek companionship from do have an age of consent: however old they are when they are at my maturity level, when I can have a strong connection with them person-ally and emotionally and when their lives are on the same track as mine.

Oh, and they can’t have psy-chotic mothers, either.

So close to being a registered sex offender

Looking back on high school, I’m sure you can easily recall the popular, good-looking kids making you feel in-adequate with their coiffed hair, cool clothes, piercing eyes and the use of words you thought sounded stupid but made everyone worship them (see: senior year superlatives).

You probably also recall that the popular, good-looking students proved looks got you further in life (See: insecurity problems).

Now that you’re in college, you wonder to yourself whether or not wearing cool clothes, smooth talking your way through Intro to American Studies and having impeccable hair will get you free tutoring like that cheerleader in senior-year math.

Do good-looking people have it easier in school? No. Maybe in high school or the work force—you know, if you’re into standing in front of Ab-ercrombie & Fitch with your shirt off while young girls take Polaroids with you—but not in college.

In fact, being attractive may actu-ally deter your success, according to research done by psychologist Maria Agthe, who found you can be too good looking for your own good.

Being beautiful may cause you to lose opportunities in jobs, scholar-ships and maybe even promotions, depending on the gender and attrac-tiveness of your evaluator.

Her research showed that attractive women were more closely evaluated by the same sex, which sometimes led to negative ratings even if they were extremely qualified.

The same went for men, but when attractive women and men were eval-uated by the opposite sex, their ap-proval ratings were higher.

She concluded that working in an environment where someone is quali-fied, intelligent and better looking made others who were less attractive feel inadequate, making some em-ployers turn away applicants.

This study just gave me terrible flashbacks of high school. How many times did I not want cheerleader Christy on my dodgeball team (know-ing all the boys would aim the ball at me and everyone else but not her be-cause God forbid the girl in tiny shorts with hair bouncing about got out)?

An argument against this is a study performed by Michael T. French of the University of Miami, who re-searched high school students saying attractiveness, personality and groom-ing affected GPA in grades k through eight, as well as college.

If students took care of them-selves—groomed, dressed well and

had upbeat personalities—the study showed attractive people eventually got paid more. But why?

Well, he proved that throughout years of education, those who took care of themselves and presented themselves in a more put-together manner than those who didn’t got more rewarding feedback and atten-tion from teachers, making them more confident when they applied their education to the workforce.

So does this study mean if you stop showing up to class in sweats, put on

mascara or spray on some Axe, you’ll get rewarding attention from your teacher, eventually resulting in higher pay?

I show up to school put-together; I’m not calling myself Cindy Craw-ford, but I brush my teeth, I don’t have dirt on my face and I’d like to think I look like a normal, function-ing member of society.

But I have yet to receive special at-tention or have it easier than someone who may be considered more or less attractive. The only special attention

I’ve seen attractive students receive is unnecessary gawking from other stu-dents like me who drift into a dream-like coma about the guy next to me who’s as beautiful as Ryan Gosling.

Dressing well, taking care of your-self and presenting yourself maturely does result in feeling more confident, but it won’t change an ‘F’ to an ‘A’.

Maybe it will help you in the long run like French’s study concludes but then again, you might be screwed if your evaluator is the same sex and you’re too good looking.

Does being attractive get you an A?JESSICA DRUCKDaily Titan

by KURT TELLEZ

“Read ‘em and Weep”

Literature of Life

Late-night street fight

Supporters wore the traditional red or blue, minus a group that protested with green attire.

The stadium was practically split in half between fans, save a few who were indifferent and still some others that cheered on

fighters that “should have had a shot at the title.” It was a close match.

Both competitors fought beforehand to rally the biggest crowd through TV ads, public appearances, etc.

Ultimately it came down to a decision between the judges, but they themselves had a hard time making the final call.

Throughout the decision the masses were shouting in blood-curdling screams in support of their fighters.

An intoxicated mess erupted when the match went to O’Brian. Commentators credited his particularly stubborn fighting style

winning out over Jones’ constant charging, which wore him out over the duration of the match.

Funny to consider isn’t it? Despite all the yelling voices, it came down to the power of a

select few.

What would you do with $6,769,570?

I don’t have that much money. You don’t have that much money. I don’t know anyone on this campus that would have that much money. But according to Associated Students Inc. President Joe Lopez, Cal State Fuller-ton’s ASI spends that much money in a year.

With the ASI elections nearing, many students require a compelling

reason to take the time to hit the polls. I don’t blame them. It’s always smart to ask and analyze the basic question: Does voting in these elections even matter?

Given the massive resources of the corporate government that is ASI, the answer is a resounding “heck yes!” Money is power, and ASI sure has a lot of both. Voting is the best way for the average student to determine how that power will be applied.

Apathy toward student government tends to be the prevailing attitude among the students of CSUF. Judging by ASI’s election numbers for the pre-vious election, few seem to care about

who their representatives are or what they are doing. Please care; it’s good for you.

Do you see the effects of a yearly budget of $6,769,570 on this campus? Frankly, I don’t.

Sure, ASI offers some fantastic ser-vices to the students of CSUF. The problem is, ASI leadership seems to lack guidance from the student popu-lation on what exactly we want our representatives to do.

You should tell them what you want. The best way to do that is by voting. We should introduce (through the ballot) worthy candidates to new challenges and responsibilities and un-worthy candidates to a crushing defeat and a comforting box of tissues.

It shouldn’t be hard for ASI to fig-ure out the issues that matter to you, because the issues you care about are the ones all students have to deal with every single day.

Rapid increases in fees, extraor-dinarily high textbook costs due to greedy publishers, a barren selection of classes that can barely fulfill major requirements – the state education sys-tem is collapsing.

Next time you talk to your ASI rep-resentatives, ask them, “Exactly how much of ASI’s multimillion-dollar budget is going toward solving any of these problems?” I wonder if they even know.

The students of CSUF are up the creek without a paddle. I’m simply sug-gesting that nearly $7 million might buy us a really nice paddle. Vote for the ASI candidates that will steer the boat without hitting too many rocks.

Take the lack of available classes as one example. According to the Cali-fornia Faculty Association, it costs the CSUs approximately $5,000 to offer a single class. Taking into account these figures, the ASI could buy (with their entire operating budget) almost 1,354 classes for the students they represent every single year. If we were to simply

cut the $101,573 in “awards” that are granted to the ASI executives, ASI could help sponsor an extra 20 classes per year.

Not so apathetic about voting in ASI elections anymore, are you?

Sure, the classes scenario is a bit oversimplified, and it’s also true that much of the current ASI budget goes toward valuable programs. Certainly, however, an organization that is rep-resenting students who are still reeling from a series of crushing budget cuts should consider trimming its own ex-penditures.

Maybe during a budget crisis, ASI could find a more effective use for the $6,000 it spends on massages dur-ing the All Night Study events. And yes, the $25,000 it costs to set up the Spring Concert might also be a bit much.

If you are bristling in annoyance because you feel entitled to a massage after a late night of studying in the Ti-tan Student Union or because you ab-solutely need to hear your friend’s band play at the Spring Concert, fine. We’ll agree to disagree.

Either way, the fact that you have an opinion proves that you care about who your ASI representatives are and what they are doing. You get the point; there are literally dozens of other exam-ples that apparently add up to exactly $6,769,570.

Bottom line: If you care about your own education and the institution that provides it, then you should care about who is representing your interests in ASI. Pick someone with a substantive campaign platform, and cast your vote. If you don’t like any of the options, don’t complain; go home, organize a campaign and next year, you be the candidate.

In the movie All the King’s Men, Sean Penn’s character preaches to an apathetic electorate, “If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.” In politics, that’s a fact. We would do well to remember it.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORThe Daily Titan welcomes letters to the editor. All letters must include the sender’s first and last name. Students must include their majors, and other writers must include their affiliation to the uni-versity, if applicable. The Daily Titan reserves the right to edit let-ters for length, grammar and spelling. Send letters to Isa Ghani, the editor-in-chief, at dteditorinchief@gmail.com.

PETER CORNETTFor the Daily Titan

Everyone attending Cal State Fullerton should get out and vote in the ASI elections

Attention all students: Voting matters

Heavyweight bout. Madison Square Garden: Larry “Dumbo” Jones vs Danny “The Mighty Ass”

O’Brian

The choirs filed onto the stage and sang beautifully as the direc-tors passionately and tirelessly conducted the performances at the 2011 Spring Invitational Choral Festival.

Seven high schools and five col-leges met at the Meng Concert Hall, Friday to be reviewed for their performances.

The seven high schools repre-sented were Corona High School Madrigals, Villa Park Chamber Singers, Irvine High School IHS Chorale, San Juan Hills High School Chamber Singers, Upland High School Madrigals, Poway High School Die Lieder Singers and Fountain Valley High School Troubadours.

Fullerton College, Pasadena City College, Long Beach City College, Meritáge and Cal State Fullerton’s University Singers were the colleg-es performing at the festival.

The adjudicators included re-nowned composer and conductor Dale Warland, associate professor of music and director of choral studies at CSUF Robert Istad, and Christopher Peterson, associate professor of music at CSUF.

Robert Istad also conducts the University Singers, a group which is recognized as the nation’s pre-miere collegiate choral ensembles. They have worked with composer Eric Whitacre to record for his op-era, “Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings.”

The high school groups were to take the stage first after arriving and greeting other high schools. These young but talented choir groups filled the Meng Concert Hall with awe and wonder. The

melodies were masterfully harmo-nized and provided strong rhythms throughout the performances.

The first of the high school per-formances was the Corona High School Madrigals.

Amy Basilan, the director at Corona High School Madrigals, is an alumna from CSUF and enjoys revisiting the campus to conduct performances.

“I definitely enjoy coming back and showing off my alma mater,” said Basilan. “I think that this new building and all of the growth in progress of the school is exciting.”

Basilan was in the choir and mu-sic education program. During her college years the new performing arts center was not built yet, so all the performances were in a little theater or at a church off campus. She sang with University Singers while she was at CSUF as well.

Basilan recognized some of the directors at other high schools be-cause some of them were CSUF graduates. She enjoyed the atmo-sphere of the festival and the cali-ber of the performances.

“It’s a very high quality festival so being a part of that with my kids and sharing that in this build-ing is exciting,” Basilan said.

During the evening, the Mad-rigals performed “Au Joly Jue” by Clement Jannequin, “Elegy for Dacahu” by Matthew Armstrong and “Elijah Rock” arranged by Moses Hogan.

After every performance, the high schools complimented one another with a thunderous clap.

The Corona High School Mad-rigals perform regularly at their home high school football games and other varsity sports.

Irvine High School was also present at the performance and skillfully sang “The Awakening” by Joseph Martin.

William Jeng, a high school sophomore at Irvine High School, sang in front of the crowd with confidence.

“I really enjoy performing in front of people because it helps to build confidence,” said Jeng.

“It’s a pretty good recreation.”Jeng sees the festival as a privi-

lege to share and learn music from other groups.

“I think it’s a pretty good way to just get together and speculate, learning new experiences and new techniques from other groups,” Jeng said. “And to just make friends.”

Another member of the Irvine High School choir is Daniel Kwak, a sophomore at the high school. Kwak began singing as a freshman in high school. He also enjoys the community sharing of music at the festival.

“It’s fun because when people get together and we all sing you can hear other choirs and they can hear you,” said Kwak.

Ryan Murphy, also a sophomore at Irvine High School, loved per-forming “The Awakening” before the other high schools. Murphy has been singing since kindergar-ten and never gets tired of showing off his talent.

“It’s the sharing of the music,” said Murphy. “It’s basically all that you worked for, showing and per-forming that you know how to sing and how to perform.”

The five colleges concluded the evening with their performances. The University Singers sang “Lucis Creator Optime” by Vytautas Mis-kinis, “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit” by Johann Sebastian Bach and “Hold On!” arranged by Mo-ses Hogan.

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Reality darling Snooki poses with fellow co-star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino’s abs. MARK SAMALA / Daily Titan

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was fea-tured on the March cover of Rolling Stone magazine, scantily riding a rock-et ship with a lasso and cowboy boots, in an article entitled “Snooki’s Wild Ride: America’s #1 Party Girl.”

After getting her break as the wild child of the MTV reality show Jersey Shore, the press and publicity possibili-ties for the 23-year-old “guidette” have been endless.

“Well I was very excited when Roll-ing Stone told me that they wanted me to be on the cover ‘cause I’m like okay, who am I? Like, I don’t sing, I don’t do anything like that. I’m just a reality star,” said Snooki in a backstage inter-view with Rolling Stone online.

This describes the sentiments of many who cannot understand the worldwide popularity over the MTV reality star.

With the show starting only two years ago, Snooki has already reached a level of fame to grace multiple maga-zine covers, get the chance to write her own book and make television appear-ances on everything from Cake Boss to WWE.

But this is the life of a reality star. America has become obsessed with

watching other people’s lives unfold in situations that aren’t found in the everyday world. Look at the Kar-dashians, who are among the top real-ity stars. They’ve had more than three different reality shows that have been following their every move since 2007 and have made millions off the world’s curiosity with their extravagant and unreal lives.

And how many different cities have featured the “real” housewives that don’t seem so real at all? The title seems to focus on making the characters re-latable, when the reality is that no one lives their lives the way they do.

But that is the appeal behind real-ity television. America is always look-ing for the next big thing to take their minds off the chaos of the real world. Watching someone else drink away his

or her day and worry about things like which hot celebrity to date next is care-free enough to push aside the worries of work and school.

“People tend to feel better about their own lives when watching the marital turmoil on Jon & Kate Plus 8. And viewers can fantasize about becoming stars when watching ordi-nary people attain celebrity on shows like Survivor,” said S. Shyam Sundar, a professor of communications and me-dia effects at Penn State, in an article on ResearchPennState.com.

But with so many options, each re-ality show is like a ticking time bomb sucking out its 15 minutes of fame un-til the next big thing can come along. Reality stars are a fad, which are most apparent around Halloween time. Snooki, for instance, was one of the most popular Halloween costumes of 2010, according to People magazine.

So what happens after the dust has cleared and Snooki is no longer one of the top searched people on Google? Do people even remember the cast of the original seasons of MTV’s The Real World?

Polizzi has said to Rolling Stone that she is “trying to build an empire be-cause after Jersey Shore I can’t get a real job.”

And here lies the paradigm of a reality star: What to do when the 15 minutes of fame fades away. How does a person who has learned to make mil-lions of dollars off drinking and tan-ning all day learn to transition to mini-mum wage at the Gap?

For Snooki, that option doesn’t have to become a worry for quite some time, as the next season of Jersey Shore is said to start shooting in Italy in the next month. And as ratings continue to skyrocket, her current $30,000 an episode can only go up from here.

Jersey Shore is a show about drink-ing, partying and doing absolutely nothing. And so what? As long as peo-ple continue tuning in to see the latest “guido” antics, then there can be no complaints about who graces the cover of Rolling Stone and other such maga-zines. America is about pop culture, and pop culture can include absolutely anything. Even drinking deadbeats.

Reality stars are not reality

Choirs compete at Spring Invitational

Everybody has been waiting since last year for it to arrive and has now finally taken the journey down the rabbit hole at Insom-niac’s Beyond Wonderland in San Bernardino on Saturday.

The event was just as the title described. With lights up, sounds on and performers out, at Beyond Wonderland you were taken above and beyond Alice’s quaint Won-derland, traveling further into the rabbit hole than you could have imagined. Here you literally lost yourself as you visited the far cor-ners of your imagination.

Each area of the festival was transformed into a theme: Queen’s Domain, Madhatter’s Castle, Chess Village, Caterpillar’s Garden and Cheshire Woods.

In the Queen’s Domain, a large screen towered behind the stage, surrounded by patterns and strobes of light. Surrounding the artists were large speakers that shook your vision when close enough to them. Above the audience were inflatable designs that resembled neon disfig-ured caterpillars on acid.

Artists Peace Treaty and Adrian Lux kicked off the party in the tent, drawing in a large crowd which hailed every mix that ampli-fied from the brigade of speakers. An aroma of marijuana intoxicated the atmosphere, intensifying the

entrancing visuals displayed on the screen.

Other famed artists such as Cal-vin Harris kept the night amped, ending with crowd favorite Kas-kade. Madhatter’s Castle along with other themed areas housed big names including Infected Mushrooms and Showtek.

Not one performance failed to get the crowd going. No matter where you were, thousands of peo-ple shuffled in unison, freed their minds and let the music embody them.

With the best live acts lined up for the night, Insomniac Events made sure the atmosphere of the event was just as important, put-ting much effort into creating an entire sensory experience instead of just providing great music.

Dozens of performers were also scattered throughout festi-val grounds, such as lit up stilt walkers, aerial trapeze artists, fire twirlers and flashy go-go dancers disguised as Cheshire Cats that assisted in keeping festival goers hyped on the shockwave of beats.

Costumes of attendees also en-tertained. Although more than half of the females that attended were bare, using only pasties to cover their breast area and thongs to cover their special area, their overall interpretation of the Alice in Wonderland theme deserved an applause. Not to say they didn’t, the men also dressed to impress for the occasion.

Outside of each area were cre-

ative displays of interactive art in-stallations built from metal, glass, lights and fire. Some were made so that people could wander through them and further heighten their experience.

“Syzygryd,” the first interactive art installation featured at Beyond, was a 13-foot metal sculpture that consisted of three giant spiraling arms conjoined to a tornado of lit cubes in the center. At the edge of the sculpture were touch screens that allowed three random people to compose music that translated into fire, light and sound.

Another favorite of festival-go-ers was “The Golden Mean,” a 20-foot giant iron snail car that shot large bursts of flames from its eyes. Surprisingly, the mutant snail used to be a 1966 Volkswagen Bug but found its way down the rabbit hole only to be transformed into an eye-catching hot rod.

“Fishbug aka Chimera Sen-tentia” was another steel creature installation that upon first gaze stirred bewilderment in an odd way. The sculpture’s twisted vision was somewhat disturbing but fas-cinating as its oversized fiberglass cranium played glowing projec-tions. Its body was constructed of a flexible material that allowed au-dience members to explore it.

The installation that most ev-eryone favored was properly ti-tled “Beyond the Rabbit Hole.” It stretched out 186 feet to serve as a tunnel covered in thousands of glittering lights. Before you

entered, you were given a pair of glasses that created a kaleidoscope of patterns from the lights that embodied the tunnel. As you made your way further into the tunnel, its size became smaller, shrinking only to create a greater sense of making your way down the rabbit hole.

To top off all the exciting in-teractive sights, a creative space in which festival-goers could create a piece of art from an array of col-orful material was also made avail-able in a tent titled the “Imagina-tion Station.” People could ready themselves for the event by craft-ing their own top hats, crowns and jewelry.

Among the midst of the fun and excitement, not one moment of the event left you uneasy. Due to the nature of the event, which could clearly be called a rave, there was definitely no lack of security. Upon my arrival, a shirtless young man raced past me only to be tack-led moments later by security, hav-ing a pacifier confiscated from him as well as being escorted out of the premises. The pacifier had some form of narcotics in which security made clear there was a zero toler-ance for.

Art installations, great perfor-mances, costumes, half-naked peo-ple, lights, half-naked people and more lights. Beyond Wonderland was more than expected, taking festival-goers on an imagination-driven adventure not soon to be forgotten.

Fans travel Beyond WonderlandEager attendees cheered as their favorite DJs performed at Beyond Wonderland. Several tents with Alice in Wonderland themes allowed fans to experience the classic in a whole new way.

CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan

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From the depths of Los Angeles comes the pure and simple sound of musician Aaron Beaumont. With a boyish charm, Beaumont has made a name for himself as one of Los An-geles’ most talented piano players.

His current album, Nothing’s Forever (Not Even Goodbye), was released in 2008 and features 10 piano-driven songs that remind lis-teners of a better time in musical history. The 20-something-year-old showcases some of the best lyrical styles in contemporary music that should be blasted through radio sta-tions throughout America.

In the song “Julia,” Beaumont starts with a jolly piano riff that is reminiscent of Disneyland in the 1950s. The ragtime, piano swing

tune is followed with the swagger of Beaumont’s uniquely smooth yet perfectly rusty voice. Finally drums are introduced with pin-point pre-cision while a sneaky xylophone chimes along with precious harmo-nies. As the song fades away, the last instrument standing is the piano. And while the song is most definitely about a female somewhere down the line, it’s easy to forget about heart-ache with such a happy melody.

What is most compelling about Beaumont’s musical genius is his ability to write heartfelt songs that are never cheesy. Instead his lyrics incite curiosity and speculation into his personal life. He doesn’t mope about past lovers, nor does he ask for sympathy from listeners; rather, Beaumont is a professional, and as such, Beaumont has developed a keep-them-on-the-edge-of-their-seats mentality.

In another track simply titled “Traffic,” the first words out of Beaumont’s lips are “the highway is a parking lot when you’re the only

place I wanna be.” It’s easy to devel-op a visual for his lyrics, imagining oneself sitting in traffic on the 405 Freeway in the midst of rush hour, trying to get home to a significant other.

Furthermore, to all those who say all good music has been done, Beau-mont’s fresh take on the piano is extremely refreshing and completely worth the $10 on Amazon.

Fans of Beaumont’s will be ex-tremely excited to know that his next project involves the vocals from a well-known female celebrity who performed in the Grammy-nom-inated movie, The Social Network. While the release date for the new album hasn’t been announced, ea-ger listeners can go to Beaumont’s Myspace page to get a taste of a few demos that he has been working on in the home of Los Angeles pro-ducer/sound engineer extraordinaire Nick Bearden.

To find more of Aaron Beau-mont’s music, show dates and blog entries, go to AaronBeaumont.com.

Most students are going to need a break from all their midterm study-ing, so why not go to some of the most popular places in Fullerton to relax and enjoy the sites? It may be just what you need to take your mind off study-ing for a while.

Fullerton is a very exciting area to go hang out with friends, meet new people and enjoy the atmosphere of a city rich in history.

Some of the top 10 places to go in Fullerton include popular bars, res-taurants, museums for art lovers and even outdoor activities that are really

impressive. Seriously, it’s hard to decide on only

10 great places in Fullerton for wining, dining, shopping or just enjoying the beauty of this historic little jewel of a city. The choices were many, but we said 10, so here we go:

No. 1 Heroes Bar and Grill Heroes is a fun restaurant to go with

the family or a group of friends. The owners, Jack and Denise Franklyn, have worked hard to provide great food, drinks and a friendly environ-ment to their customers. The food comes in large quantities so one entree could easily feed two people.

They also offer 119 different beers on tap for those who are of age, of course. With peanut shells on the floor and memorabilia on the walls, this res-

taurant offers a piece of Americana and a very unique experience to its custom-ers.

According to manager and CSUF graduate Chad Granier, “Heroes has been established here in Fullerton for over 20 years – actually celebrating our 21st anniversary this year. We are pretty much the Cheers of Downtown Fullerton, a place where people go to enjoy family, friends and great food.”

It’s the place to be whether you are a local in the area or visiting Fullerton for the first time. It really is the kind of place where everybody knows your name. Heroes is located in the SOCO District at 125 W. Santa Fe Ave.

No. 2 Steamers Jazz ClubSteamers has been Orange County’s

go-to place for exceptional live jazz

every night of the week. The club is a great place to catch national and inter-national jazz musicians, as well as local artists. You can enjoy good food such as sandwiches, pizza and pastas, along with beer, wine or a cocktail from the bar.

It’s an all ages welcome club, open 18 hours a day, seven days a week. This is a wonderful place to hear “cool” jazz and eat delicious food. Steamers is lo-cated at 138 W. Commonwealth Ave.

No. 3 Slidebar: Rock-N-Roll Kitchen

For those looking for a little extra, Slidebar offers entertainment for the younger crowd. Located in Down-town Fullerton, Slidebar is a place where people over 21 can go to en-joy live entertainment. The Slidebar Kitchen is owned by a band member from the late ‘90s rock group, Lit. En-joy fun food, cool libations, dancing sing karaoke.

Definitely casual and always rock-ing, Slidebar is located at 122 E. Com-monwealth Ave.

No. 4 Villa Del SolThis beautiful historic structure was

once the California Hotel. Its original design and function housed stores, 22 apartments and 55 single rooms. The hotel actually functioned as a “public comfort station” for area ranch resi-dents who endured long trips home or to those visiting in the area.

Today it is now home to many bou-tique shops, offices and restaurants that are definitely worth checking out. Two standouts that come to mind are The Cellar and the Brownstone Cafe.

The Cellar is an amazing fine din-ing experience, and it is also an Orange County restaurant that boasts one of the largest wine lists in the country.

Now if you are a little short on cash but still want great food and a more casual atmosphere, the Brownstone Cafe may be just what you’re looking

for. Located in the same Villa del Sol courtyard, the Brownstone Cafe is a great place to enjoy outdoor cafe-style eating (or indoors if you prefer) that won’t break the budget.

Villa Del Sol is located at 305 N. Harbor Blvd.

No. 5 Fullerton Loop TrailThe Fullerton Loop is a popular

place to ride a bike on a beautiful trail that starts and finishes at the corner of Harbor Boulevard and Berkeley Ave-nue, but also intersects with other trails along the way. The loop is a great place to ride a bike or just walk the trails. It offers beautiful scenery through wil-derness, hills and vistas not often seen in the city. The trails are a great way to get exercise, both for the beginner and the more advanced rider or jogger.

No. 6 The ArboretumThere is something for everyone, es-

pecially those who love the outdoors. Fullerton has a variety of different hik-ing trails, and you don’t even have to leave the school to do it.

Rachel Brito, 20, a pre-nursing ma-jor, loves the Arboretum on campus. “The Arboretum is my favorite place to go in Fullerton. It is so beautiful and such a peaceful place to be,” said Brito.

The Arboretum is ideal for the out-door lover. It has mini lakes as well as tons of trails to go and explore. It also offers a wonderful plant shop where you can buy beautiful plants for your home or office.

In addition, the shop also offers in-structional classes and plant sales on a regular basis. The Arboretum is locat-ed at 1900 Associated Rd. on the left side of the CSUF campus entrance of Goodwin Field.

No. 7 Downtown Fullerton Vin-tage Shops on Harbor Boulevard

This is definitely a staple in any college-town location. Saving money is what it’s all about as a college stu-dent, so what better way than to keep

recycling your clothes while picking up some great vintage finds.

Located in the heart of Downtown Fullerton on Harbor Boulevard, you can find vintage clothing, furniture, as well as costumes for any occasion. This is just a fun place to hang out any time of the year.

Ashley Heffner, 22, a business ma-jor, explained how much she loves go-ing to Downtown Fullerton. “I love the shops, bars and restaurants, espe-cially Bourbon Street bar and Heroes,” said Heffner.

No. 8 The Leo Fender GalleryThis is also an amazing place to visit

if you are a music fanatic. This exhibit features some of the most incredible designs by famous guitar player Leo Fender. A number of different instru-ments are on display from the earlier years. For the guitar enthusiast or just the average music lover, the Fender Museum is a great piece of history to enjoy.

This is a City of Fullerton exhibit located at 301 N. Pomona Ave.

No. 9 Chomps Rockin’ SushiLocated at 181 E. Commonwealth

Ave., Chomps is a great place to enjoy delicious sushi and other seafood at great prices. The atmosphere is young and energetic, and the prices are rea-sonable. They offer all-you-can-eat su-shi Thursday and happy hour Monday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

No.10 Fullerton Museum CenterThis museum is great for the little

ones as well as adults. Learn about pre-historic animals and the early inhabit-ants of this wonderful city. The mu-seum is offering an exhibit until May 8 that includes the prehistory of North Orange County. FMC is dedicated to providing the public with an enriching and informative experience in different areas such as history, art and science.

The museum is located at 301 N. Pomona Ave.

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No. 1 hot spot Heroes has a casual feel with peanut shells on the floor and a variety of memorabilia hanging on the walls. The establishment also offers 119 beers on tap.

MARK SAMALA / Daily TitanSteamers Jazz Club is the premiere place to see both national and international jazz musicians along with many well-known local artists every night of the week.

Chomps Rockin’ Sushi is located in the heart of Downtown Fullerton. They offer an all-you-can-eat sushi meal Thursday and a great happy hour Monday through Friday.

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March Madness has finally made its way to the West Coast this year. As the Honda Center prepares to host the men’s basketball NCAA Tournament this week, the Cal State Fullerton softball team wel-comed some of the nation’s best teams to the Judi Garman Classic.

The Classic is the Titans’ show-case event of the year and has taken place since 1981.

CSUF opened up the tourna-ment with a big 10-0 victory over a streaking Notre Dame team on Wednesday.

Thursday night the Titans played game two of the tournament and lost 5-2 against the No. 5 Michigan.

The Titans put up a good fight against the Wolverines (27-2) but let the game slip away late in the fifth and sixth innings. Michigan got a two-run home run in the first inning from junior third base-man Amanda Chidester, her fifth home run of the season. The Titans tied the game in the bottom of the fourth with junior shortstop Adri-ana Martinez’s two-run, two-out single, scoring sophomore catcher Ariel Tsuchiyama and senior pitcher Ari Cervantes.

“That hit felt good, especially against a top-ranked team like Michigan,” said Martinez. “I had to do what I could for the team, and I did all that I could.”

Michigan took the lead for good with two outs in the top of the fifth when freshman Lyndsay Doyle and junior Bree Evans both singled, and

a throwing error allowed the two runners to score, making it 4-2. They also came up with a sacrifice fly in the sixth and claimed the 5-2 victory off Cervantes (7-6), who al-lowed three earned runs and seven hits to the Wolverines.

Cervantes struck out four batters in the complete game effort, tossing only 104 pitches. Tsuchiyama and junior third baseman Nicole John-son came up with the other two hits off the Wolverines.

The Titans only struck out three times on the night but could not capitalize off the Wolverine’s rare mistakes and allowed walks.

Michigan sophomore pitcher Stephanie Speierman (13-0) gave up seven walks but only allowed three hits to the Titans. The Wol-verines went 4-1 this weekend; their only loss came to Fresno State.

The No. 12 University of Texas softball team hit two home runs and got an impressive performance out of sophomore pitcher Blaire Luna to beat the Cal State Fuller-ton softball team 5-0.

Texas loaded the bases in the second inning, and freshman Tay-lor Thom placed a sacrifice fly into center field to claim the early 1-0 lead.

Titan senior pitcher Ari Cer-vantes ended the Longhorns’ chances in the first when she got freshman Karina Scott to strike out.

In the third inning, Cervantes allowed an RBI-single to Torie Schmidt to extend the Longhorns’ lead.

That hit allowed junior Lexy Bennett, who got beaned earlier in the inning by a Cervantes change-up, to come home from second.

In the bottom half of the inning the Titans got their only hit of the day when freshman right fielder Leesa Harris bunted down the third baseline and easily beat the throw to first.

“They were playing me back and coach was like, ‘You better get on base,’ so I had to get on. I knew she was a good pitcher, and it felt good to break up the no-hitter,” said Harris.

Harris caught the Texas defense off guard with her bunt, and with her speed she stole second. That was the only hit Luna allowed in her two games of the tournament. She pitched a perfect game in five innings against the No. 4 Washing-ton Huskies earlier in the Garman Classic.

“Luna is a dynamite pitcher and I’ve seen her have even better stuff out there than what she pitched today,” said Titan Head Coach Mi-chelle Gromacki.

Texas increased its lead in the fourth when Raygan Feight drew a walk and Thom drove her home with a two-run home run over the left-field fence. They went up 4-0 with that home run and got an-other long ball from Bennett in the seventh to seal the victory.

Luna continued her dominant performance going in the sixth in-ning when she got sophomore left fielder Ashely Carter to strike out to end the inning and maintain the shutout with Harris in scoring po-sition.

Luna finished the Titans off in the seventh and just missed out on a no-hitter bid because of Harris’ quick-thinking bunt.

“We faced a tough pitcher, and she came at us hard today. We struggled a little bit but our heads were in it. We just feel short,” said Adriana Martinez, Titan junior shortstop.

Cervantes suffered the loss to push her record to 7-8. She struck out three Texas batters in her al-ready 12th complete game.

“I thought Ari did awesome,” Gromacki said. “Those are some great hitters; they have done some great things, but Ari con-tained them and she did a great job.”

Texas went 4-0 in the Judi Gar-man Classic. The Longhorns im-proved to 23-3 overall in their trip to Southern California. The loss set the Titans back to 1-3 in the Clas-sic, 8-14 overall.

The Titans were scheduled to play Boise State on Sunday and got an inning in before the rain intensified and forced the team to cancel the game, which will not be rescheduled.

The Titans will play at home next against Ohio and Canisius on Sat-urday at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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Junior designated hitter Tyler Pill slides into third for the triple. Pill went 2 for 4, both hits went for extra bases and he drove in three runs for the 11-3 win on Friday over Washington.

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Titans shut down by Texas

Classic shivers softball The Titans came off a 10-run win over Notre Dame on Wednesday, but suffered two chilling shutout losses and went 1-3 in the tournament.

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Titan softball was held to just one hit against the Texas Longhorns. Their final game scheduled for Boise State was canceled due to rain.CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan

CSUF now stands 5-4 all-time against the Wolverines.

Friday night the Titans matched up for the first time ever against the University of Illinois for game three in the Garman Classic and lost by a final score of 5-0.

Illinois sophomore pitcher Jackie Guy put together one of her best outings of the season, only allowing three hits and two walks in seven innings. Guy struck out nine bat-ters and allowed two hits to Titan freshman second baseman Lauren Mario and one hit to senior first baseman K.C. Craddick in the complete game effort. For the sec-ond night in a row, the Titans were held to just three hits.

“She was throwing us all inside a lot, but that changeup she was throwing was hittable,” said Mario. “Me and K.C. were able to hit it, and for the next game we’ll make better adjustments.”

Illinois scored first with a two-run home run from junior Mere-dith Hackett. They got another run on the board with redshirt sopho-more Jessica Davis’ RBI-single to left field to make the score 3-0. The Titans then took out Cervantes and brought in reliever sophomore Aly Fascetti.

Fascetti did not allow a run in the fourth and fifth innings but ran into trouble in the sixth when she allowed two runs to come home off two hits by the Illini.

The Titans went with another pitching change and brought in their closer with the bases loaded and two outs in the sixth inning. Redshirt sophomore Katey Laban came to the circle and got the Ti-tans out of the jam with a ground-out back to the pitcher.

“I’m usually put into the game in that situation. It is harder coming in against a hot-hitting team like Il-linois, but they put me in there for a reason,” said Laban.

The Titans could not mount a late rally against the Illini pitcher. Guy earned her second complete game shutout of the season and im-proved her record to 5-4.

Titan pitcher Cervantes suffered the loss, which set her back to .500 at 7-7.

The Titans went 3-1 in the De-Marini Invitational they also hosted earlier this year, but they are facing tougher opponents lately in this tournament.

Lorenzen finished the night 3 for 4 and just a home run short of hitting for the cycle. Three other Titans had a multi-hit game.

“God’s just completely blessed me with being a Titan, being in college and playing baseball and having fun,” said Lorenzen.

Saturday’s game, the first of a dou-bleheader due to pending rain, started with the Huskies jumping to a fast first-inning lead.

A leadoff double by junior Caleb Brown followed by two one-out singles by sophomore Jacob Lamb and senior Troy Scott gave Washington the 1-0 lead.

That was all the offense the Huskies would put up in the game as starting pitcher Pill wouldn’t allow another Huskies’ base runner to reach second until the eighth inning.

“I came out throwing strikes. They got some hits,” said Pill. “I thought I made some pretty good pitches, but they came out swinging the bat pretty well. The rest of the game I just tried to hit my spots and let the defense work for me.”

The Titan offense was pretty tame in the first half of the game. While they had quietly taken a 2-1 lead by the end of the fourth inning, capitalizing on poor pitching with just one hit, Nick Ramirez’s bat awoke in the sixth inning with his first home run of the year, a blast over the right center-field fence.

“I just felt relieved,” said Nick Ramirez. “I’ve been putting good swings on the ball and hitting them at people and finally squared one up.”

Following his home run, the Titans added another three runs to go on to clinch the series win, taking game two by a final score of 6-1.

The nightcap of the doubleheader was a back-and-forth affair between the Titans and the Huskies.

After taking a 1-0 lead in the first, the Huskies were able to tie the game in the second, taking advantage of a leadoff double by Scott.

The Titans would stretch their lead to 4-2 by the fifth, scoring runs off hit batsmen in the second, fourth and fifth innings, but would quickly give up the lead in the top of the sixth.

Another leadoff double by Scott in the sixth started the two-run rally by the Huskies.

The Titans answered right back in the bottom half of the inning, scoring three runs off four base hits to reclaim the lead.

The Titans would add another in the run in the seventh and eighth in-nings en route to the 9-4 victory and the series sweep of Washington.

“We just wanted to go back to our basics and play Titan baseball, and I felt like we did that this weekend,” said Pedroza in regards to last week’s road trip.

The Titans play the visiting Arizona State Wildcats in the DeMarini West Coast Challenge on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Goodwin Field.