In a rain-drenched Golleher Alum-ni House Friday afternoon, the Assem-blywoman for California’s 65th District, Young Kim (R-Fullerton), was sworn into office.

Kim is the mother of one current Cal State Fullerton student—Hannah, an ac-counting major, and two recent gradu-ates—Alvin and Kelly, communications and political science majors, respective-ly. Her oldest daughter, Christine, grad-uated from UC Irvine with a degree in literary journalism.

Flanked by her children and hus-band of 28 years, Kim thanked the packed room and the CSUF officials in the room, including President Mildred García.

The Republican bested CSUF alumna Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Fullerton) by a 12-point margin in November and took office last week.

On her first day in office, Kim intro-duced AB 42, which would freeze tui-tion until the sunset of Proposition 30, and would require student success fees proposed in the future to gain approval from two-thirds of the student body.

Kim is the first Korean-American Re-publican elected to the assembly. Until last year, Kim worked in the office of Congressman Ed Royce (R-Fullerton)

since his election to the House of Rep-resentatives in 1992. She served as Royce’s director of community relations and

Asian affairs, advising the congress-man on issues in the Asian community.

When she started working with Royce, she said there weren’t many peo-ple who looked like her, or had an immi-grant background working in politics.

“Preserving the ‘American Dream’ is what I’ll fight for in Sacramento. Togeth-er, we can assure better educational op-portunities, better job opportunities and safer neighborhoods for all people in our district,” Kim said. “My staff and I are ready, we cannot wait to get to work.”

Fashion, lights and col-or. Those were the three basic elements present at Cal State Fullerton’s Titan Student Union Thursday evening.

CSUF’s Fashion Club with Associated Students, Inc. Productions held CO-LOUR: A Fashion Show, displaying four different clothing lines.

From dresses and high heels to suits and ties, the brands featured at the show were Coco. Consignment Couture, Lobby, Mango and Klein Epstein & Parker.

“Colour” was the sec-ond show presented by The Fashion Club.

For CSUF alumna Amber Kazalbash, who coordinat-ed 2013 Fashion Show, the main change in this year’s event is that

more people got to know about it.

Kazalbash said it was “an amazing turnout … every moment was great, they had great speakers, awesome prizes, a lot of beautiful colors.”

Among the speakers were Brandon Harris, adminis-trator of Associated Stu-dents Productions Week, who welcomed everyone to the show, and Natalynne Tran, founder of CSUF Fashion Club, who handed over its pres-idency to Emily Kimura.

“ C o l o u r ” was easi-ly seen as models

strolled the runway. Fac-es and bodies painted were the identity of the show.

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The Cal State Fuller-ton men’s basketball team snapped a three-game losing streak Saturday night with a 65-55 win over Nevada at the Lawlor Events Center.

The Titans (4-7) bounced back from a 73-59 loss at Sac-ramento State Thursday night, in which they had 15 turn-overs, to get their first road win of the season.

Senior guard Alex Harris led all scorers for the Titans with 22 points, and also added seven rebounds and a game-high five assists, while Moses Morgan went 3-for-5 from be-hind the arc.

Harris scored more than 20 points for the sixth time al-ready this season.

CSUF won despite having only two scorers in double fig-ures and getting zero points from Lanerryl Johnson, who came in averaging 12.7 points per game.

Sophomore shooting guard D.J. Fenner led the Wolf Pack with 12 points, while guards Michael Perez and Marqueze Coleman added 11 points each. Forward A.J. West led all players with four blocks.

The Titans jumped out to a 14-2 lead and never looked back, leading the Wolf Pack 33-26 at halftime and out-scoring them 32-29 in the second half.

CSUF did a far better job at getting to the free throw line than the Wolf Pack, shooting 18-of-25 from the line, compared to 10-of-12 for Nevada.

For those less fortunate, the holiday season can prove to be trying and difficult. But the Cal State Fullerton Ti-tan Ambassadors have taken it upon themselves to foster cheer.

Every year, the ambas-sadors, who normally give campus tours, participate in some sort of commu-nity service project. This time around, they chose to sponsor a local family for Christmas.

Jocelyn Frierson, a child and adolescent development major and tour guide, made it possible for them to do so.

The ambassadors got in touch with the princi-pal of Richman Elementa-ry School, who suggested a family for them to adopt and provided them with the fam-ily’s information.

The family they chose to sponsor consists of two boys, 8 and 11 years old, and their hard-working parents.

The 11-year-old suffered from brain damage as an in-fant, so his developmental status is not that of his age, but his parents work hard to meet his needs.

The father works long hours to support the fami-ly, and the mom is very in-volved in the kids’ educa-tion and making sure that all their needs are met.

The boys enjoy sports, drawing, painting and look-ing at animals, among other childhood joys.

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Stylish suits and dresses were a staple at COLOUR: A Fashion Show. Models were adorned in vibant colors and some even sported flashy face paint at the event on Thursday.

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Young Kim was elected to the state assembly in November and took her oath of office on campus Friday. Kim is the first Korean-American to serve in the assembly, and formerly served under Congressman Ed Royce.

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On business

Kim, who has a bache-lor’s degree in business ad-ministration from USC, was praised for her business acu-men by Anil K. Puri, dean of the Steven G. Mihay-lo College of Business and Economics.

“I think she has very good ideas on the business com-munity in reducing govern-ment regulation and how to grow and support the busi-ness in California, which we badly need to do,” Puri said. “I think it’s time that we im-prove our business policies, and I know she is a strong supporter of that.”

Theresa Harvey, former CSUF Alumni Association president and current CEO of the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce worked with Kim during her time in the chamber, and said that as a businesswoman, Kim knows what businesses need to operate.

“One of the challenges

we’ve had is making sure California is as busi-ness-friendly of an environ-ment as possible,” Harvey said. “I think (Kim’s) voice in Sacramento will be a fresh voice that will hopeful-ly shape business legislation that will allow businesses to grow.”

The growing Korean busi-ness community in Fullerton will also be well represented in the state legislature with Kim in office, Harvey said.

Campus connection

“We need people to fight for us,” García said, and events like Friday’s swear-ing-in are a way to build a connection with those in the legislature who have an im-pact on how the university is funded. It is so important that we work with our elected officials, that we invite them not only for ceremonies, but we invite them to know all about what we do at Cal State Fullerton so that they fight for us in the legislature and make sure that we get the

funds we need since we are the lowest funded per (full-time equivalent student) cam-pus in the CSU.”

Kim has also been invited as a guest speaker in class-es, something she intends to continue.

“Through those programs, I‘ve been able to work with students and talk to them, and along the way if they

can see that someone like me, a first-generation Amer-ican, could play a role as their role model or encour-age them along the way. If I can do it, they can do it too. I want to continue that kind of relationship.”

Associated Students, Inc. President Harpreet Bath said he has moved on from his disappointment from Kim’s

absence at a September can-didate forum, and he hopes to work with Kim to make sure she is best representing students.

Associated Students as a whole is yet to solidify a stance on Kim’s proposed bill to freeze tuition and ban suc-cess fees, but plans on moni-toring it as it moves through the legislature, Bath said.

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A gunman held at least 13 people hostage in an Australian cafe, according to CNN.

At least one armed gunman held the hos-tages in the Lindt Cafe of Sydney’s Central Business district.

Seven Network, an affiliate of CNN, pub-lished a photo showing a black flag with Ara-bic writing on it held by people inside the building. The writing on the flag translated to “There is no God but God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God.”

Another video showed people, pre-sumably hostages, pressed against win-dows with their hands up.

It has not been con-firmed whether the at-tack is politically moti-vated or not.

Rain from a recent storm left severe dam-age in several areas in its wake, the Associat-ed Press reported.

A small tornado touched down in south Los Angeles, damaging houses and knocking down trees.

A mudslide Friday in Camarillo left 10 houses condemned and anoth-er three had limited ac-cess, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Two people needed to be rescued from the LA river, and there was a waterspout off the coast near LAX.

More rain is forecast-ed this week, although not enough to cause the same amount of damage to the state as the last storm did, ac-cording to the National Weather Service.

After days of uncer-tainty on Capitol Hill, Sen-ate approved a $1.1 trillion spending measure Satur-day night, avoiding a gov-ernment shutdown.

After a 56-40 vote, the bill to fund the fed-eral government—with the exception of the De-partment of Homeland Security—through Sept. 2015 awaits President Obama’s signature. The department will only be funded until Feb. 27 of next year, part of a time-line meant to give Repub-licans in Congress time to take action on the presi-dent’s immigration exec-utive action.

The votes capped a day of intrigue in Con-gress that included a Re-publican challenge to the Obama’s administration’s new immigration policy. The spending bill was the main item left on Con-gress’ year-end agenda.

University Police is back to the drawing board on body-worn cameras for its officers, as department of-ficials will now decide be-tween two models from the same maker.

Originally, University Po-lice planned to use $33,000 to purchase 26 Wolfcom 3rd Eye cameras, and equip the cameras by the end of November.

Now, the department is comparing the Wolfcom 3rd Eye, the original choice, with a newer model, the Wolfcom Vision, University Police Captain John Brock-ie said.

The department is in what Brockie calls a “test and evaluation period” on the two models, as officials de-termine how to best use the department’s funds.

“It’s a big investment for us, it’s an important piece of equipment, so that’s why we decided to slow down a little bit,” Brockie said.

The $199 Wolfcom Vi-sion retails for less than half of what the $475 3rd Eye costs.

To help in the decision process, University Police has had officers in the field use both versions of the body cameras to see which features they like and which they don’t.

Brockie said the only complaint he heard with ei-ther of the models had to do with the Wolfcom 3rd Eye’s radio functionality. Some officers felt the radio wasn’t as functional as it could be, he said.

The primary purpose of in-field use of the camer-as, which were donated by Wolfcom for trial use, is to see how they might impact officer safety, Brockie said.

The Wolfcom 3rd Eye comes equipped with infra-red capabilities and two-way radio connectability, and re-cords high-quality video. It can be worn on an officer’s shoulder.

The Wolfcom Vision cam-eras are smaller and light-er than the 3rd Eye, and can automatically send data elec-tronically to a remote serv-er, unlike the 3rd Eye which would require its recorded video to be uploaded man-ually. The Vision’s camera can be mounted to glass-es, worn on the belt or the shoulder.

Both cameras record high-definition video.

Brockie said he would like

to work with the CSUF IT department to create a serv-er for the recorded video if University Police opts for the second camera.

However, in spite of their high-tech benefits, the Wolf-com Vision camera’s in-frared capabilities are less powerful than the 3rd Eye, Brockie said.

Brockie said University Police still has a lot to de-cide and hasn’t come up with a new purchase date for the cameras, which were orig-inally supposed to be pur-chased and implemented by November. Safety is going to be a top priority during that deliberation, he said.

“With the officers that are going to wear them, we want them to be comfortable with them on, we want them to be easy to operate,” he said. “We don’t want it to affect their safety.”

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Recently-elected Assemblywoman Young Kim is sworn in by Chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors Shawn Nelson. Kim’s son Alvin, a CSUF alumni, looks on in the background.

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University Police will consider buying the Wolfcom Vision (above) as a body-worn camera option for its officers instead of the originally planned Wolfcom 3rd Eye (below).

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Assemblywoman Young Kim (R-Fullerton) intro-duced AB 42, an Assembly Bill that would institute a tu-ition freeze for the California State University, preventing CSUs from increasing stu-dent tuition for as long as the state receives Proposition 30 funds.

The bill would also require binding approval from two-thirds of the student body for any success fee proposed in the future. There is currently a moratorium on success fees until Jan. 1, 2016. In spite of a promise made by Gov. Jerry Brown and CSU administra-tors to keep costs for students low, success fees have raised the cost of attending CSU schools. Opponents of the fee, including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, have called the fees “an increase in tuition by an-other name.”

“The core message of AB 42 is to freeze tuition in-crease while Prop 30 is in effect,” Kim said. “Prop 30

was passed in 2012 with the promise that additional fund-ing would be provided to make sure that we offer class-es to students so they would have more accessibility. The monies are there based on Prop 30,” Kim said.

Proposition 30, the Schools and Local Public Safety Pro-tection Act, was approved by voters in November 2012 and is estimated to raise $50 billion over a seven-year period.

California’s existing law distributes funds from the annual Budget Act and State General Fund for the Califor-nia State University (CSU), University of California (UC) and California Community Colleges (CCC) and requires that students pay mandatory systemwide fees and tuition.

Kim’s bill would prohib-it mandatory systemwide fees or tuition through the 2019 fiscal year from exceed-ing the level of mandatory systemwide fees or tuition charged to the CSU, UC, and CCC students for the 2014-2015 fiscal year.

“We don’t think the mon-ies are being used in educa-tion the way it was originally intended. I just feel like that’s

not what the voters were led to believe, so that’s why I in-troduced that legislation, to at least have the tuition freeze while it’s in effect,” Kim said.

In November, the Success Fee Working Group found that none of the 12 success fees currently in place at Cal State campuses were ap-proved through binding stu-dent referendums. The work-ing group recommended binding approval by a simple majority (50 percent plus one) for future fees.

In recent years, the state has shifted from providing more than half of the CSUF’s general fund budget to just a third.

While Kim’s bill would not repeal existing fees, it would not allow future fees to be implemented in the same way as existing fees.

In March, the student suc-cess fee at CSUF was ap-proved through a weeks-long alternative consultative pro-cess and never received a binding yes-or-no vote from the student body.

At $120 per semester for the 2014-2015 academic year, CSUF’s student success fee is one of the lowest in the CSU.

The total campus mandato-ry fees for CSUF, including the student success fee rate is $834.

Funds from the success fee support seven general areas: support academic progress, enrich graduation, support

Titan pride, expand/modern-ize student spaces, embrace diversity and veterans, im-prove instructional experi-ence and access upgraded technology.

“The idea is not to take away funding from any of the

universities. The idea is that funding was promised, based on Prop 30, and that funding is not there ... The idea is to force Sacramento to fund that money like they promised,” said Bryan Shroyer, Kim’s chief of staff.

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Assemblywoman Young Kim (R-Fullerton) proposed a bill that would freeze tuition at Cal State, community college and University of California campuses.

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Commuter students may have to allocate more time for their morning drive next semester, as multiple roads around campus will be closing for construction as part of the OC Bridges

program. A temporary roadway

will be used to divert traffic from a full closure of Ray-mond Avenue at the current bridge used for the BNSF Railway bridge, accord-ing to the Orange County Transportation Authority. The portion of the road be-tween Santa Fe Avenue and Ash Avenue will be under construction. The project on

Raymond, once completed, will allow cars to pass un-der the tracks.

Orangethorpe Avenue will also be under construc-tion, according to OCTA, as a bridge is built to al-low cars to pass over the railroad tracks along that street. Previously, Oran-gethorpe was supposed to remain open during con-struction, with one lane in

each direction open for traf-fic. However, relocations to accommodate utilities have changed the original plans, and Orangethorpe will be fully closed while the con-struction is underway. Sur-rounding Orangethorpe, Alta Vista Street, Miralo-ma Avenue, Tustin Avenue or Rose Drive and Kraemer Boulevard can be used as detour routes.

State College Boule-vard will also be affected by bridge construction. The road will be closed begin-ning early 2015 between Santa Fe Avenue and Kim-berly Avenue in Fullerton as a bridge is constructed over the roadway. Acacia Avenue will be temporarily used as a four-lane road detour for drivers. Construction on State College is expected to

be complete in 2017. The OC Bridges program

is set to be complete by 2018, according to OCTA. The project aims to allevi-ate traffic caused by stops at current train tracks by sep-arating car and train traf-fic. The number of trains is expected to jump in 2030 from between 135 and 150 trains per day, up from 70 trains per day in 2006.

Fullerton road closures to come in JanuaryConstruction will close parts of Raymond, Orangethorpe Avenues and State College

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Pre-business sophomore Kiana Sakamoto was one of the models, and also the face on the show’s post-ers. Although she said it is weird having everyone looking at her, she was very enthusiastic about it.

“I get all tingly. I’m ex-cited, but nervous at the same time,” she said.

She also highlighted how

hard they had to work to put the show together and how it was worth it.

“I’d do it again,” she said.

Colorful lights illumi-nated the models basking a full audience’s applause. Up-tempo music was the soundtrack, especially Beyoncé.

During the intervals of each clothing line, The Fashion Club mem-bers appeared on a big

screen answering some questions.

They wrote what their fa-vorite colors were with an-swers like fuchsia, teal, roy-al and navy blue. They also wrote down which word de-scribed them better, and the audience could read from “daydreamer” to “simply marvelous.”

The audience cheered to ev-ery model who stepped on the catwalk.

The Fashion Club faculty advisor and industry special-ist Laura Neal said to be im-pressed with the show.

“They didn’t go traditional at all,” she said, pointing how she liked the models’ makeup and the color stripes on their bodies.

“All of the models are very different looking,” Neal said. To her, the variety of the mod-els breaks the pattern of what is usually seen in high fashion shows.

Although saying she is not a fashionista, Neal said she al-ways enjoys expressing herself through what she wears.

When asked what is fashion for them, some of The Fash-ion Club members laughed and said “dominate the world globally,” whereas for some it is “being what you want to be.”

Nevertheless, when asked “what is fashion really,” the answer for them all was unan-imous and matched what Neal said, “expressing yourself.”

In a small office that doesn’t do her personali-ty justice, Cal State Ful-lerton Instructor in Music Fureya Unal breathes life into the space as she speaks about her life away from the piano.

Unal is a tiny woman with tons of character and a subtle sense of humor.

She’s more than just an impeccable pianist who got her start at 5 years old. She is also a mother, a wife and an amazing cook.

“Yes, I do cook, I en-joy cooking, especially sweets,” she said. “I prob-ably make the world’s best tiramisu.”

She even takes on the role of the handywoman in the house when something is broken.

“If it’s something I can fix, I go online, search those videos and just (repair) stuff around the house,” she said.

Unal has traveled all

over the world to places like Germany and France. Still, her heart belongs to her homeland of Istanbul, Turkey.

Trying to juggle teach-ing, performing and having a personal life, Unal seems to play the role of a mod-ern superwoman. It’s only when she has downtime that she truly has a moment to indulge herself in other pleasures.

“I enjoy doing arts and crafts, painting and all that kind of stuff,” she said. “I don’t have time right now to do it, but I do enjoy it when I try to do it once every blue moon.”

Unal is a woman of many talents other than playing the piano. She remembers when she was able to spend a great portion of her time drawing.

“I used to draw a lot and I even have pictures that were part of exhibitions when I was a little kid,” she said.

Luckily, her job allows her to travel around the world, which is something she really enjoys.

Some of her favor-ite countries she’s been to are France, Holland and

Portugal. She loves France and

Portugal because the Med-iterranean culture is similar to Turkey.

“The people in Portugal are very nice, the food is very nice,” she said. “The wine in France is great. What else can you ask for, right?”

When it comes to her first love, Unal has always had a natural affinity for music and finds herself drawn to various genres.

“I think it is important that we should not say ‘I don’t listen to pop music or rock music because I am a classical musician,’” she said. “You have to make sure you have an under-standing of what’s going on in the world.”

Unal has a keen un-derstanding of the world around her. Some of her students would probably be shocked to know some of her favorite artists stem from the pop genre.

Part of the reason why Unal teaches today is be-cause her previous piano teachers over the years have shaped and molded her into the pianist and person she is.

She’s glad the pieces in her life fell in the places and times they did because she’s happy with how things turned out.

Today, Unal not only teaches on campus, but she has her own music studio where she teaches a wide

range of age groups.“Not too many people

get to perform and teach at the same time,” Unal said. “Some people just go into teaching and some go into performing. It’s a hard bal-ance to do because it re-quires a lot of energy.”

Unal continues to per-form with other musicians from all over the world, as well as teach piano and have a personal life with her husband and son.

Her son currently plays the violin, which is fine with Unal, as long as he is happy.

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Mechanical engineering major Ian King passionately performs one of his original songs at Associated Students, Inc.’s Peotry Slam and Open Mic Night in the Titan Student uniom Underground Pub.

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Associated Students, Inc. Productions provided a night of artistic expression with its Poetry Slam and Open Mic Night on Tuesday at the Titan Student Union Underground Pub.

The night began with a few students in a live-ly atmosphere, but quickly turned into a buzzing full house.

A diverse collection of poetry, songs and quirky dance moves filled the two-hour night.

Pieces on race dominat-ed the night with lines such as “prejudice hardens the soul like concrete cement”

and “my bad this black bird was born with the wrong feathers.” The weight of the themes were fragmented with breakout song perfor-mances of Ricky Martin’s Living La Vida Loca and Vanilla Ice’s Ice, Ice, Baby.

With the stress of finals consuming students, many came out to the underground pub to take advantage of the carefree environment.

“I was basically think-ing of a special event to do as my last event of fall, so I thought a poetry slam would be interesting be-cause a lot of people at open mics do poetry, so I thought bringing poetry, open mic and karaoke would give the students a broad range of things to do,” said Na-dine Morishita, Associated Students Productions Pub Events Coordinator.

Mechanical engineering senior Ian King took advan-tage of the spotlight to per-form some of his original work.

“I performed two origi-nal songs tonight. One of them was a studio track that I took and I turned it into a karaoke-style song,” King said.

Other student perfor-mances included Never Gonna Give You Up and a half-song, half-freestyle rap performance of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing.

“It’s a fun, good environ-ment. People are very recep-tive to it,” King said.

Students of all talent lev-els were encouraged to let loose on stage.

“This is actually a really good turnout for me. It’s fi-nals week, it’s night and it’s in the pub, so this is a really

good turnout. I’ve tried to market to a lot of differ-ent students in housing and people in clubs,” Morishita said.

With the success of this open mic night and past mic nights during the fall semester, students can look forward to more open mic nights in the future.

“I’m doing a lot of special events next semester. I’ll be doing a lot of open mic in housing. I’ll be doing kara-oke in housing, I’m doing a lot of live band karaoke as well. A lot of special events coming up in spring,” Mor-ishita said.

King’s music is not limit-ed to open mic nights. Stu-dents can listen to his mu-sic online and watch the music video for his origi-nal song Right in Front of Me on YouTube.

AMBER KAZALBASHCSUF Alumna

An amazing turn-out … every mo-ment was great, they had great speakers, awe-some prizes, a lot of beautiful colors.

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Students grab the mic and put away the books for ASI’s Poetry Slam and Open Mic Night

CYNTHIA PLEITEZDaily Titan

Music professor Fureya Unal has traveled around the world thanks to her career and has balanced a life of teaching and performing.

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Brothers Franco and Francis Tee have always been close. They didn’t have a lot of money grow-ing up, so they would col-lect cans with one goal in mind. Their recycled can loot usually put $1.25 in their pockets, which was enough to buy a Bat-man comic book, their favorite.

Franco and Francis’ mother worked two jobs and they entered the work-force at the age of 16 when they started saving for college.

They graduated from Cal State Fullerton; Fran-co in ‘05 with a degree in business with an empha-sis in information systems, and Francis in ‘04 with a graphic design degree.

The comic book junkies now have a zombie T-shirt business called Tee No Evil.

Their designs are influ-enced by shows like The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur-tles and Breaking Bad.

They sell shirt designs for men and women that showcase Francis’ artwork while adding a little zom-bie humor.

One design, entitled Fab Four, features the cast from The Walking Dead walk-ing along Abbey Road, and is one of their most popu-lar designs.

They have always loved zombie movies and are big fans of George A. Rome-ro’s Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Franco handles the business side and Francis comes up with the designs for the T-shirts.

“We brainstorm our ideas together, but once my brother starts sketching, it’s all him,” Franco said. “I leave him alone and he does his magic. He has a unique style that’s very dy-namic and raw.”

German Sanchez found out about Tee No Evil in

2013 and has been a loyal customer ever since Tee No Evil started pumping out shirts.

“I’ve definitely recom-mended them out to friends that are fans of The Walk-ing Dead and Breaking Bad and everyone’s fallen in love their designs,” San-chez said.

David Adame, a cus-tomer from Chula Vista, bought his first shirt in March at WonderCon and said Tee No Evil’s original-ity sets them apart.

“It’s all his original drawings. Other people do all their artwork on com-puters, but his is more or less his original paintbrush

strokes … it’s more pleas-ing on the eye,” Adame said.

The website Kickstart-er gave them the capital to start their company.

Franco said they had to come up with a goal of how much money they wanted to raise within a certain amount of time, which was $5,000 in 30 days.

If the projects don’t reach their goals, the web-site refunds the money back to the fans and the project doesn’t receive any money.

Franco and Francis raised $6,500 in 30 days.

“Thirty days of cam-paigning is hard work. We went to as many events as possible and handed out flyers regarding our Kick-starter project. We even did it at CSUF. It was the first day of school, so we lined up with the other students that were handing out fly-ers,” Franco said.

They now have shirts for sale in Geeky Mama’s, a collectible’s store for wom-en and men.

They sell a lot of shirts at art walks, conventions like Comic-Con and at Geeky Mama’s and Half Off Books.

Online sales have also been on the rise ever since Fab Four went viral and they started getting orders overseas.

The reason they have succeeded thus far is be-cause their top priority is quality.

Sanchez said the qual-ity of Tee No Evil’s shirts and their attention to detail sets them apart from other companies.

He especially loves their packaging. Franco and Francis wrap the shirts in

brown paper bag paper that is splattered with blood.

“The packaging itself looks like artwork. It took me two days to want to open it,” Sanchez said.

The company’s business cards look like toe tags that are found on dead bodies at the morgue.

“It’s just the little de-tails like that (that) makes

it even more cooler to buy from them,” Adame said.

Another detail Sanchez appreciates is the type of shirt they print their de-signs on.

Franco said they had originally printed on American Apparel shirts, but they had to switch to a different shirt because they were too small.

“It seems like they real-ly pay attention to the cer-tain quality of T-shirt that not only lasts, but is real-ly comfortable,” Sanchez said.

In the future, Tee No Evil wants to go to Comic-Cons on the east coast to share their passion for the zom-bie genre with the fans there and talk geek all day long.

Zombie T-shirt company takes offTee No Evil is a clothing line started by CSUF alumnus achieving great success

RACHAEL GARCIADaily Titan

Cal State Fullerton alumni Francis (left) and Franco Tee (right) pose with one of their influences for their zombie-themed T-shirt company, Tee No Evil.

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GERMAN SANCHEZTee No Evil Customer

I’ve definitely recommended them out to friends that are fans of The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad.

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Emma Watson’s address to the United Nations blared in a Cal State Fullerton’s “Violence Against Women: Global Realities” class. Her now-viral speech calls men to action, reminding them that they are an essential asset for achieving gender equality.

Out of the 35 students en-rolled in the class, only five are male. Assistant Professor of Sociology Devon Thack-er Thomas believes the lack of a male presence has ev-erything to do with how so-ciety interprets gendered violence.

“It’s been constructed as a women’s issue,” Thack-er Thomas said. “It’s not a women’s issue and it’s not a men’s issue, it’s a human rights issue.”

Thacker Thomas’ “Glob-al Realities” class aims to spread awareness of social injustices and challenges students to take a culturally relativist approach to learn about how gendered violence looks around the world.

Thacker Thomas joined the CSUF faculty in fall 2013 after earning her doc-torate from University of Colorado, Boulder. Though she supports Watson’s mes-sage, she believes there is a greater one: a call to action, not only to men, but to all individuals to put an end to violence.

“I think that there’s a lack of involvement from every-one,” she said. “Until all hu-mans, regardless of identifi-cation, realize that if we can

do something, we need to be doing it. Until we all take that approach, I think it’s go-ing to continue.”

Thacker Thomas has al-ways had a passion for hu-man rights, with a particu-lar passion for protecting the rights of marginalized com-munities, that was inspired by her mother’s activism.

From a young age, she at-tended Martin Luther King Jr. marches and donation drives with her mother, San-dra Gray.

“Her goal was really to show me that we have the power to help,” she said.

Thacker Thomas grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and after years of expressing in-terest in human rights and the criminal justice system, she decided her senior year of high school that she want-ed to become a professor.

“I always knew I wasn’t going to be content sitting in an office all day,” she said.

Teaching has allowed Thacker Thomas not only to share her knowledge, but to keep expanding it by doing research.

She conducted her latest project in Colorado and fo-cused on mandatory arrest laws, which require police to arrest an alleged batterer in an intimate partner violence case, and how they affect the experiences of women ar-rested in these instances.

Thacker Thomas also looked at the experiences of officers who respond to these cases.

Her study, which includ-ed in-depth interviews with volunteers and more than 50 hours of participant observa-tion and ride-alongs, illumi-nated the unintended conse-quences of these laws.

She discovered a

disconnect between how many women were arrested and the statistics that sug-gested women were general-ly victims of these cases in-stead of the perpetrators.

In the interviews, many women disclosed that they felt their treatment under the law unjust because they did not believe themselves perpetrators.

She will expand her re-search with a new project that looks at intimate part-ner violence experiences of individuals in same-sex re-lationships. It will focus on Orange and Los Angeles Counties and will examine the police experience work-ing under California laws.

This project will explore how people who identify as non-heteronormative are marginalized in negative cases, but often overlooked when it comes to receiving rights such as marriage or having children.

“I think the main goal (of my research) is two-fold,” Thacker Thomas said. “One is social awareness … and the other is more of recom-mendations on what we, as a society, should do about it.”

The goals of her re-search are reflected in her classroom.

Jacy Levine, a senior hu-man services major, has taken several classes with Thacker Thomas.

She said the class urges students to view the world through a different lens and encourages social change and justice.

At times, the class becomes emotionally charged.

“She makes these subjects real,” said Claire Geerken, a senior sociology major. “I’ve cried twice already this

semester.” The material is heavy and

students find it hard when they can connect it to their lives, but also to accept that their peers have experienced what is being discussed.

Thacker Thomas realiz-es this and said it’s to make them realize that it is hap-pening all around them.

Thacker Thomas also pro-motes service learning in her classes and encourages stu-dents to engage in different types of advocacy work.

Last semester, one of her classes partnered with the Child Abuse Prevention Center of Orange Coun-ty. Together, they created

posters and information-al flyers and set out to edu-cate people on campus about their cause.

Students are generally re-ceptive to these assignments and find themselves sharing their experiences outside the classroom.

“Our time spent together in class follows me through-out the week,” Geerken said. “This is not your typical textbook PowerPoint class structure … It transcends the typical experience of a col-lege course.”

Amanda Barrera, a senior sociology major, finds this type of work rewarding.

“She’s the reason I decided

to get a second concentration in deviance and social con-trol,” she said.

Thacker Thomas said she is interested in partnering with the Women and Gender Studies Department or the Queer Studies program. She hopes her global realities class will become permanent and would like to propose gendered violence classes that take on specific perspec-tives, like criminological or feminist perspectives.

“If we just sit around and we don’t do anything, we’re no better than those that we criticize for doing these ‘bad things’” that we talk about,” she said.

Approaching gendered violenceDevon Thacker Thomas aims to teach about social injustices based on gender

LAURA OIKAWAFor the Daily Titan

Sociology course “Violence Against Women: Global Realities” was offered for the first time this semester. Its purpose is to take a culturally relativist approach to genered violence.

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Together, they were able to create a donation pool for people to donate to the cause, and the proceeds will go to the family.

The Titan Ambassadors gathered donations for a Walmart gift card for other gifts or things they need for the holidays.

“There’s basketball and soccer balls, books and dif-ferent board games they can play together,” Frierson said.

In addition to the many people who pitched in to do-nate, students and staff alike were able to spread the word so even individuals not as-sociated with Cal State Ful-lerton could donate.

Donations are coming from students, fellow tour guides as well as other cam-pus professionals, Frierson said.

The Titan Ambassadors used their last staff meeting of the school year to gath-er all the gifts and proceeds together for the family and wrap them.

They wrapped and

wrapped until all gifts were stacked and ready to be de-livered to the family.

The Titan Ambassadors have participated in oth-er outreach projects, but none as locally impacting as sponsoring a family.

“Its really nice just to see that even though we help incoming students, our of-fice is also interested in

the community … even if they’re not necessarily go-ing to be attending Cal State Fullerton,” said Dim-itri Oprean, 21, student coordinator.

Within the next two weeks, the Tian Ambassa-dor senior staff will set up a time to meet with the family in order to deliver the gifts they were able to collect for

them and help them bring in the holiday spirit.

“This is our first time do-ing this type of service proj-ect. In the past, we’ve done other things, but this is the first time directly working with someone that’s in our community that we can ac-tually see the impact of it and think it’s great,” Frier-son said.

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Ambassadors: Sponsoring a family for the holidays

Searching... for Mr. Right|Embracing the lessons that come with being single

There’s no perfect formu-la to falling in love.

There’s no manual on re-lationships and there aren’t any foolproof guidelines.

I don’t know that I would want there to be, though.

This weekly diary entry that we passed off as a col-umn is titled “Searching for Mr. Right,” but it was never really about searching for a man.

I think that I was looking for contentment more than a relationship.

I haven’t been single for a substantial amount of time since I was 17 years old and still navigating the fickle world of high school.

I’m 22 years old now, and this Christmas will be the first that I don’t walk

down Christmas light-lined streets holding hands with someone I’m head-over-heels for.

This New Year’s Eve will be the first in five years that I don’t have some-one to share a kiss with at midnight.

As an adult, I don’t know how to be alone, and that’s terrifying, but there’s also something wonderful about learning to love myself first.

I have a terrible habit of investing too much into other people, and part of the problem may be that I have never learned how to fill the empty time I’m left with when I’m alone.

Rather than invest it in myself, I’ve continued to invest it in people who are often undeserving.

I’m not ashamed of my broken pieces. They’re the only evidence of the times I was unafraid to jump without the guarantee that someone would be there to

catch me, and there’s no in-dignity in that.

There is a lesson though, and an opportunity.

Love isn’t a goal that you achieve. It isn’t an item to check off the to-do list you’ve created for your life, and it is both the easiest and most difficult thing you will ever do.

It also isn’t something that you will find if you’re searching for it.

I wrote before that I pre-fer to find love serendipi-tously. I’m convinced more than ever that that’s the only way to do it.

I wanted to believe that finding love is as easy as looking for it because then being single wouldn’t feel so permanent, but it isn’t; nor is my relationship status.

I have written these brief snapshots of my life week after week about the great loves of my life, the almost somethings and the count-

less mistakes I’ve made along the way, and I didn’t know how it was going to play out anymore than all of you did.

I have been single for the better part of a year, and I think that it was only in writing this last confession that I became okay with it.

I have consecutively preached that one doesn’t need their “other half” to be whole, but I don’t know if I believed it.

I don’t know how to be alone, but I’m learning.

I’ve devoted the time I never quite knew what to do with to becoming better.

I’m a better friend now.I think that it’s easy to

make the person you love your best friend, but it’s even easier to forget that while they may be your best, they are not your only.

I won’t make that mis-take again.

I have built friendships

now with women that I ad-mire; whose talent I aspire to have, and I feel lucky to have them.

I’m a better daughter now.

I notice the way the wrin-kles around my father’s eyes have deepened. The days he is in pain are more

often than not, and he re-members less now.

I see the way my mother is brave for me. In my eyes, she has never been afraid of anything, but I know now that she too is only human.

I spend more time with them because I know that

soon my life will change, and I may not have as many hours to give.

I love myself more now. I care for me first and I make no apologies for it, because while maybe I have always deserved better, I never al-lowed myself to want it.

I do now, though.

Someday, when love comes along, I will be ready for it. Until then, I will continue to be a better friend, a better daughter, a better writer and the best version of myself, because at this point in my life, those are the only loves that matter.

A student decides to invest more time in herself as opposed to relationships

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After weeks of delving into her personal love life, this student learns that she must first love the people she already has in her life before looking for a new relationship.

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I have consecutively preached that one doesn’t need their “other half” to be whole, but I don’t know if I believed it.

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Tis the season to be cramming for finals

The recent killings of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Jonathan Craw-ford, Akai Gurley and so many other black men at the hands of police have be-come an epidemic.

The lack of empathy and indictments holding officers responsible for their actions is sickening.

The fact that in 2014, blacks need to protest with signs saying “Black Lives Matter” is a clear indica-tion that the value for the lives of African-Americans is no different today than it was at any point in Ameri-can history.

People across the na-tion may hold tight to the notion that the state of race relations is better to-day, but the recent string of indictments for po-lice officers and violence against African-Americans shows that the challeng-es we thought were no lon-ger commonplace, are still commonplace.

This should be a cause for concern for our na-tion and something peo-ple everywhere should raise their voices against. Those individuals who feel that violence against Af-rican-Americans is not a widespread problem, or that the justice system doesn’t have a color bias, needn’t look further than the fol-lowing cases.

A New York grand jury recently decided not to in-dict New York Police Of-ficer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of 43-year-old Eric Garner. Garner’s death was caught on tape, but that didn’t warrant the jury to indict the officer responsible.

Garner repeatedly stated “I can’t breathe” to police as he was choked, but to no avail.

His death was ruled a homicide by the New York medical examiner.

Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American in Cleveland, was gunned down by cops for having an air gun that officers say they thought was real. His death was also caught on video and has been ruled a homicide.

A grand jury will con-vene to hear evidence on whether or not to indict the officer responsible, but with the recent grand jury deci-sions regarding Crawford, Brown and Garner, Rice’s family isn’t optimistic about the judicial system.

Gurley, 28, a New York resident, was killed in a housing project by a rookie police officer who claims his gun went off “accidentally.”

The fact that police on black violences is almost a daily headline is a clear in-dicator that race remains a grave problem in our mod-ern society.

It seems only reason-able then that the populous should try to determine why these problems are so wide-spread and why they aren’t

garnering more of a re-sponse. Additionally, why is it that some people are so quick to come to the defense of the police officers?

Cal State Fullerton So-ciology Professor Sergio Banda said he thinks he knows why.

“I don’t know if it’s guilt, but I think we as a society would have a difficult time facing it, especially the ma-jority, and by majority I mean those in power,” Ban-da said.

The truth of the matter is that black men are far too

often seen as dangerous or a threat to society, and this image of blacks dates back to slavery.

“What is it about the state of mind of certain people that they feel they have to destroy something black,” said Ernest Bridges, CSUF African-American studies professor.

The most recent proposed solution to prevent simi-lar acts of unnecessary vi-olence is for police to wear body cameras to prevent tragedies like this from happening, but cameras are

not the solution. “Will body cameras help?

I’m sure it would curb some of it or put a pause on it, but will it stop it? No, because we’re dealing with the re-sults. The ism called rac-ism, and nobody wants to talk about that,” Bridges said.

Garner’s death was caught on tape and that wasn’t enough for a jury to indict. Rodney King’s beating was caught on tape in 1992 and those offi-cers were acquitted. Craw-ford was shot to death at a

Walmart in August. It was caught on video, and the jury decided no indictment was necessary.

People are making their voices heard. Thousands marched in Washington D.C. this past weekend protesting police violence. However, for an actual di-alogue to happen, there needs to be an admittance of wrongdoing first. Until honest discourse and ac-tions are taken to secure fair treatment of blacks, these tragedies will contin-ue to happen.

Countless protests have been held coast to coast over the past month in regard to the multiple deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police officers.

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Dialogue, not body-mounted cameras, will help address the race issue America is facing

DARRELL KINGDaily Titan

Race issues in the U.S. have not changed

Cal State Fullerton’s Pol-lak Library has been open for 24 hours during the last two weeks of the semester, providing an ideal loca-tion for students planning to pull all-nighters during these final weeks. Despite the debateable benefits of studying all night, the qui-etness and solace of see-ing countless others choos-ing work over sleep makes the library the best place to pull an all-nighter.

Granted, It’s undeniable that pulling all-nighters is terrible for a person’s short and long-term health. Re-search on sleep depriva-tion has shown that repet-itive sleep deprivation and pulling all-nighters can lead to decreased cogni-tive function, emotional la-bility, increased blood sug-ars, weight gain, increased risk of substance abuse and postpartum depression, ac-cording to Livescience. But countless college students still recur to this desperate option in the last weeks of the semester.

But at the very least, this miserable act has inspired

tradition of camaraderie, which is definitely apparent to anyone who walks in the library and sees countless books, laptops and study materials out during the late hours of the night.

It’s not just CSUF where all-night studying traditions have developed. Campus-es like Brown University, which has its “Naked Donut Run,” where students pass out donuts to those study-ing in the library, or UCLA, which has its “Midnight Yell,” where students take a break from their studies at midnight and scream at the top of their lungs as a way to take part of the stress off, create an environment where students will not feel more frustrated than how they already feel. It is a way of making such a dreadful time somewhat fun.

Students look forward to these activities, which give them an opportuni-ty to at least have a donut or a desperate scream on what seems to be an other-wise hopeless night. They also get the opportunity to get outside for a little while, rather than being locked away in their dorm rooms or residences.

The great thing with these sort of traditions is that they do not encourage the bad habit of pulling an

all-nighter. Rather, they cushion the effects of the bad habit students already have. Students will stay up through the night studying regardless of whether the library is open 24 hours or not.

The fact that libraries and other buildings are provid-ed for students during these stressful couple of weeks is great. It is better to have resources available to stu-dents such as computers, software, space or even books by having this space open than being home with just a laptop and class notes.

It feels much less stress-ful for students to be sur-rounded by colleagues who are in the same boat. Moti-vation amongst students in a place like the library will only help and encourage the quest to cram information from eight weeks in just a few hours.

Despite studies showing that the efficiency after pull-ing an all-nighter decreases at the time of an exam, this seems to be the last resort for students to improve or even save their grade. The end of the semester is gen-erally the most crucial and grade determinant period of time for most students.

Oftentimes, grades may be hanging from a thread

and studying all night for that last exam can be the difference between a 69 per-cent in the class or a 70 per-cent and passing the class.

The ability to make up for a semester’s worth of pro-crastination and lost time in one night just by giving up eight hours of sleep is far too tempting. If not sleep-ing for a whole night gives a student the chance to not have to retake a course in a future semester, then they

give up those eight hours of sleep in a heartbeat. Eight hours of coffee-fueled anx-iety is undoubtedly a bet-ter choice than 16 weeks of deja vu.

Having the library open 24 hours during finals week is more of a blessing than anything else. For those who live on campus or with-in a walking distance from the library, it may not seem like a big deal. But to those who commute every day,

this may be a relief amongst all the stress during these weeks. It is easier to simply stay on campus after a night of practically no sleep than to drive one hour at dawn to just have to come back a few hours later and take the exam.

During a stressful time such as finals week, students value having a 24-hour li-brary. Sleep will come, but meanwhile ... keep calm and pull an all-nighter.

Despite some health detriments, the allure of cramming for finals far outweighs the cost

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The average college student pulls approximately one to three all-nighters a month, according to a study done by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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All semester I have been writing about scien-tific progress. Whether I was thinking about sci-entific endeavors because of wishful thinking or be-cause of tangible results, I was always asking ques-tions and weighing the pros and cons.

Science is full of trial and error, and sometimes I focus too much on what has yet to come, which isn’t always a bad thing. I fail to remember that right now we are making prog-ress. Right now we have achieved plenty and we should focus on that prog-ress and not be bogged down by the things we wait in vain for.

I find myself often thinking about all the things that need more de-velopment or have yet to be invented or discovered. A cure for cancer, practical force fields and deep-space exploration are among many of things that I’m not the only one thinking about.

Yet, after reflecting on the last year, there is ac-tually so much that we have accomplished with-in that time span. Recent-ly, the Philae spacecraft that landed on comet 67p is something that marked a new level of progress for us.

This mission was ac-tually named the Break-through of the Year by Physics World in 2014.

“As well as looking for-ward to the fascinating sci-ence … we also acknowl-edge the technological tour de force of chasing a comet for 10 years and then plac-ing an advanced labora-tory on its surface,” said Hamish Johnston, Ph.D., editor of physicsworld.com.

For example, this probe

has presented a flaw in the old belief that comets brought most of the wa-ter we have here on Earth. We are now learning more about the origin of life on Earth and more about the solar system, and we should be proud.

Another achievement this year back in May is the acoustic tractor beam. The tractor beam is some-thing many are familiar with from science-fiction shows such as Star Trek.

This tractor beam was developed by Christine Démoré and Mike Mac-Donald of the Universi-ty of Dundee in the Unit-ed Kingdom, Patrick Dahl and Gabriel Spalding of Illinois Wesleyan Univer-

sity in the U.S. and their colleagues. It can pull ob-jects by shooting sounds waves at it, which involves firing two beams of ultra-sonic waves. As crazy as it seems, firing something with forward momentum at an object, yet having that object pull forward still, is now a reality. This ap-plication can be used for manipulating objects such as fluids and tissues in-side the body, which may serve well in the future perhaps.

From understanding neu-trino particles that power the inside of the sun, cre-ating miniature star explo-sions in the lab, measur-ing magnetic interactions between separate electron particles and reaching new distances with quantum teleportation are just a few others among the many amazing feats we have seen progress with this year. There has also been anoth-er recent development that

might stand as more of a nationwide statement of our views on science and space exploration.

NASA is expected to be overfunded in 2015 thanks to a large federal spending bill known as a “CRom-nibus” bill passed by the U.S. Senate and approved by the House of Represen-tatives earlier this week. The bill was nicknamed “CRomnibus” because it combines the continuing resolution with the tradi-tional huge scale of omni-bus spending.

Although there are a lot of controversial policy lan-guage within the bill, there is indeed the increase in funding for the space agen-cy and its Planetary Sci-

ence Division. With this bill, NASA will be pro-vided with $18.01 billion, $549 million above what President Obama’s budget request was for this year.

“Each year now for sev-eral years, we’ve had to fight with the administra-tion for adequate levels of funding for planetary sci-ence, which has been the crown jewel of NASA,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank). “But Congress responded with a resounding ‘Yes’ for plan-etary science and rejected the cuts and then went well beyond expectation.”

NASA will be a better agency for it with the ex-tra funding and perhaps this can generate more in-terest in science and bring that spark back into the hearts of those who no longer dream of going to the moon or weilding that lightsaber. Science is al-ways moving us forward, even if we don’t think it is.

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Nevada averages 58 points-per-game, which is second-worst among Moun-tain West Conference teams.

The win snapped a sev-en-game losing streak for the Titans against Nevada, and extended Nevada’s cur-rent losing streak to seven games.

The Titans also outre-bounded the Wolf Pack 40-30, including 15 offensive rebounds, and held them to 37 percent shooting from the field (20-of-54).

Saturday’s game was the third game against a Big West opponent for the Wolf-pack. They beat Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 65-49 at

home on Nov. 15, and lost to Long Beach State 68-57 on the road on Dec. 3.

Thursday’s loss at Sacra-mento State was a far differ-ent affair in several ways for the Titans.

Aside from the aforemen-tioned 15 turnovers commit-ted, the Titans allowed the Hornets to shoot 47.2 percent from the field (25-of-53) and were outrebounded 29-25.

The Hornets lead the Big Sky Conference in rebound-ing with 30.3 rebounds per game.

Sacramento State (5-3) also had four scorers in double digits, led by junior guard Mikh McKinney, who led the way with 21 points.

Junior guard Cody Demps added 14 points for the

Hornets, while senior guard Dylan Garrity added 11 points and a team-high five assists on 3-of-6 shooting from 3-point range.

Morgan led the Titans with 15 points on 3-of-8 shooting from behind the arc, while Harris added 12 points and a game-high sev-en assists.

The Titans now rank

next-to-last among Big West Conference teams in scor-ing (61.5 ppg), field goal per-centage (39.4 percent) and turnovers per game (13.4).

After playing nine of their first 11 games on the road or on neutral sites, the Titans return to Titan Gym for only the third time this season Thursday against Cal State Dominguez Hills at 7 p.m.

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When Cal State Fuller-ton women’s basketball Head Coach Daron Park looked to fill a new assistant coach po-sition, he wanted somebody who would make the program better; someone young, with tremendous effort, energy and enthusiasm, who people could get excited about.

He found that with Abi Olajuwon.

Olajuwon is the daughter of NBA Hall of Famer Ha-keem Olajuwon. She played for the Sooners at the Uni-versity of Oklahoma for four seasons, where she helped the team win two Big 12 Confer-ence Championships in 2007 and 2009, as well as making two Final Four appearances in 2009 and 2010.

Olajuwon then went on to a career in the WNBA and was selected as the fourth pick in the 2010 WNBA draft by the Chicago Sky.

She spent her next season with the Tulsa Shock, then went on to play overseas for the next few years.

She was announced as the new women’s basketball as-sistant coach in late May af-ter former assistant coach Taja

Edwards accepted a position at USC.

Olajuwon describes her initial interaction with Park and her eventual arrival to CSUF as “very organic,” not-ing an almost instantaneous connection.

Park was not a stranger to Olajuwon before they began to talk about her joining the Titan staff, even standing on the opposite side of the court from her for one game.

“I loved her as a player,” Park said. “We played against her when I was at the Univer-sity of Maryland. I had seen her on TV and I watched Oklahoma religiously. The only time we faced each oth-er was her sophomore year. She’s 0-1 against me.”

After Park opened up the assistant coaching spot, a highly-reliable individual put Olajuwon’s name in his ear.

He said that as they went through the meeting process, it became very clear that Ola-juwon was what he was look-ing for.

Though she had never coached before, Olajuwon definitely had an interest.

“I was very interested in coaching after playing. It’s a natural transition for players to be closely affiliated around the sport,” Olajuwon said.

Olajuwon had not been far removed from playing before accepting her new position at

CSUF. She finds her recent playing

experience to be a bit of an ad-vantage when interacting with the players and helping each player prepare for whatever career they may have in the future.

“Playing collegiate basket-ball makes you very relatable to your players,” Olajuwon said. “I was lucky enough to have amazing coaches and to play at the highest capac-ity. It’s one of those things that you are able to relate and have compassion for the play-ers and know what they’re go-ing through psychologically and use the parallels of how to push and motivate with-out being negative to help them grow to their highest potential.”

Olajuwon has connected with her fellow coaches and her players so far.

“It’s been great, just as we would expect it to be,” Park said. “Her and Tammy (Re-iss) and Steven (Fennelly), my other two assistants, the rela-tionship seems like they’ve been working together for more than six months. It looks like they’ve been working to-gether for six years. I think they have a great working re-lationship, but I think they’re also friends, and that’s really neat to see.”

So far in her few months on staff, Olajuwon has worked

primarily with the post play-ers on the team.

She is reacquainting her-self with the hustle and bustle

of campus life. “A lot of it I am getting ac-

climated with as well,” she said. “But we are getting

really prepared and I can defi-nitely see that we are getting focused for conference. I am really excited about it.”

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Senior Alex Harris has been pacing the Titans offense all year, scoring 20 points or more six times.

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The Cal State Fullerton ice hockey team was forced to forfeit a game against Cal State Northridge Saturday due to no referees being present by the start of the game.

The game was scheduled to begin at 9:15 p.m. at the East West Ice Palace in Artesia.

After pregame warmups

concluded, both teams ad-journed to their locker rooms while members of the CSUF coaching staff attempted to contact officials.

It is the home team’s re-sponsibility to make sure qualified officials are at all games.

CSUF claimed that they re-ceived a confirmation email saying that referees would be present.

At 10 p.m. Matador play-ers undressed and left the building, resulting in a CSUF forfeit.

The team issued a statement on its Twitter account saying, “Well fans, the refs did not show, so we were forced to forfeit tonight’s game.

As far as we know, they were scheduled correctly on our end.”

Northridge beat Fuller-ton 4-3 in an overtime thriller at the San Jose Showcase on Nov. 8.

The game Saturday was the Titans’ final game on the schedule for the calendar year.

Prior to Saturday’s mishap,

the Titans beat the Chapman Panthers 12-1 Friday at the KHS Ice Arena.

Fullerton dominated from the opening whistle. Freshman Grant Marhoff fed forward Eric Perusse for the first goal of the game.

Just nine seconds later, ju-nior Matt Han scored an unas-sisted goal to extend the CSUF lead to two.

Han tacked on three more goals and the Titans finished the first period with a com-manding 7-1 lead.

CSUF came out firing in the

second period. Senior Alec Censullo

scored with the help of Grif-fin Cortes just 30 seconds af-ter the opening whistle. After a 10 minute scoring drought, Zach Henderson scored to ex-tend the Titan lead to eight. Cortes scored with the assis-tance of Censullo and Fuller-ton took a 10-1 lead into the fi-nal period.

Despite the overwhelming lead, Censullo didn’t take his foot off the gas and scored 29 seconds into the third peri-od. Mischa Chang scored the

final goal of the game to give CSUF the 12-1 win over win-less Chapman. Fullerton had 56 shots on goal compared to just 20 for the Panthers. Titan goaltender Jesse Sczublewski saved 19 of 20 shots.

The Titans hit the ice again Jan. 9 against Northern Arizo-na at the Jay Lively Arena in Flagstaff, Arizona.

The Ice Jacks beat CSUF twice already this season.

They don’t return home un-til Jan. 17 against Loyola Ma-rymount, who they beat 6-4 on Nov. 13.

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The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team fell to the Fresno State Bull-dogs 57-52 Sunday at the Save Mart Center.

The Titans finished the six-game road trip with a 3-3 record, but lost their last two games.

The first half was a back-and-forth affair. Both teams traded baskets and neither team was able to pull away with a lead.

The Titans carried a 28-27 lead into halftime, shoot-ing 37.5 percent from the field, compared to just 32.1 percent for the Bulldogs.

Fullerton was able to hold Fresno’s leading scorer, Alex Sheedy, to six points in the half on just 2-of-8 shooting.

The Bulldogs were just 1-for-9 from 3-point range in the first half, but free throws kept Jaime White’s squad in the game.

Fresno was 8-for-9 from the charity stripe and the Titans were 0-for-2.

Tailer Butler stepped up in the first half for CSUF, scoring six points and grab-bing four rebounds in just 11 minutes of play due to foul trouble. Chante Miles had seven points and a pair of assists.

Junior Hailey King was productive off the bench, scoring seven points and shooting 3-for-4 from the field.

Fresno came out with a purpose in the second half and gave Daron Park’s team a hard time.

Sheedy came alive and led the Bulldogs on an 11-1 run to begin the half.

At the eight minute mark in the half, Fresno had a 10-point lead.

Daeja Smith made a layup and Butler made a 3-point-er to cut the Bulldog lead to five. Just two minutes lat-er, Fresno scored five unan-swered points to bring the Titan deficit back to 10.

Trailing by 12, Butler missed a 3-point shot, but King grabbed the rebound

and put the ball in the net. On the ensuing possession, King made a 3-pointer to bring the deficit to single digits. Back-to-back layups from Kathleen Iwuoha and Miles cut the Bulldog lead to three with 41 seconds re-maining. Sheedy made her free throws to put the game away for her team.

The Titans shot them-selves out of the game in the second half. They were just 2-of-16 from down-town. Many assumed that with the added size, Fuller-ton would attempt to get the ball inside more frequently, but they shot 32 shots from behind the arc Sunday and their 218 3-point attempts are 39 more than any other Big West Conference team has attempted.

Butler was just 1-for-10 from the field in the second half and Miles was 2-for-11. King was extremely efficient in the second half, shooting a perfect 3-for-3 from the field and grabbing three re-bounds in 17 minutes.

King has emerged as CSUF’s most valuable asset off the bench.

She has scored 27 points in her last two games and scored just 11 points in her six games prior.

She played a season-high 28 minutes Sunday and shot an impressive 85.7 percent from the field.

Fresno has won nine of the last 11 games against the Titans.

They are undefeated at home this season after sweeping Saint Mary’s and CSUF this weekend.

The Titans return home Friday for the first time in nearly a month against North Dakota State.

Fullerton will need to put together a string of wins before Big West play begins if they wish to have their first winning season since 1991.

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After a senior season that included a second-team All-Big West selection, a Big West Tournament Champion-ship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament, Ian Ramos was named to the All-Far West Region Third Team, the Nation-al Soccer Coaches Association of America announced Wednesday.

Ramos scored five goals in 2014, adding four assists for a total of 14 points.

He also scored the game-winning goal in the Big West Tournament semifinal game at UC Riverside.

After helping Fullerton win the Big West Tournament Championship, Ramos scored the only goal for the Titans in the NCAA Tournament opening game at San Diego.

Ramos was honored with his third consecutive se-lection to an All-Big West team in 2014, earning a sec-ond-team selection in his final year as a Titan.

Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer forward Marc Fen-elus was named one of 55 Division I college athletes invited to participate in the 2015 Adidas Major League Soccer Player Combine Jan. 8-13 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The combine will have all 20 MLS coaching staffs in attendance to scout talent for the 2015 MLS Super-Draft that will take place Jan. 15 in Philadelphia.

After a senior campaign that included a sec-ond-team All-Big West selection, a Big West Tourna-ment championship and a trip to the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Fenelus will receive the opportuni-ty to show off his talent to MLS coaches at the six-day event.

Fenelus led the Titans in goals, points and game-win-ning goals this year. He was a staple on the pitch, ap-pearing in all 24 games.

The senior accumulated nine goals, four assists and 24 points in his two years as a Titan after transferring from Western Texas College.

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