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Faculty housing dispute resolved Fullerton City Council approves an amendment to University Heights plan MATTHEW MEDINA & ROBERT REYES Daily Titan

NEREIDA MORENO / Daily Titan Cathy and Ron Thomas, parents of Kelly Thomas, embrace each other Tuesday after watching surveillance footage of a violent altercation between their son and six Fullerton police officers. Two former Fullerton officers are now being tried for the death of their son.

Thomas trial begins Two former Fullerton officers face manslaughter charges

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Ron Thomas held back tears Tuesday as a jury watched surveillance footage of the fatal confrontation between his son Kelly Thomas and six Fullerton police officers in 2011.

Thomas, a schizophrenic homeless man, died at UC Irvine Medical Center five days after the encounter.

Former Fullerton officer Manuel Ramos, 39, pleaded not guilty to seconddegree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Former Cpl. Jay Cicinelli, 41, pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and use of excessive force.

A third officer, Joseph Wolfe, will face involuntary manslaughter charges in a separate trial.

On Tuesday, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, the case’s prosecutor, presented audio evidence to the jury that captured Ramos’ seven previous encounters with Thomas before the night of their final altercation.

In those discussions, Ramos called Kelly Thomas by his name and referred to earlier encounters.

Ramos was the first officer to arrive on the scene on July 5, 2011 in response

to a call about a suspicious man who was allegedly trying to open car doors in a downtown Fullerton parking lot.

Police stopped Thomas in a nearby parking lot at the Fullerton Transportation Center.

The confrontation was captured by a police surveillance video camera mounted on the transportation center, as well as audio from the recorders on the officers’ uniforms.

Rackauckas presented the jury with transcripts of the officer’s audio with Ramos saying, “Now you see these hands? They’re going to f**k you up.”

Rackauckas called Ramos a “bully” whose actions were a “major departure from legitimate police work.”

The prosecution claims officers taunted and frightened the mentally ill Thomas into running away and disobeying police orders to remain still.

Ramos and Wolfe chased Thomas down and pinned him to the ground.

John Barnett, Ramos’ defense attorney, said the officers were forced to call for backup because they could not subdue Thomas.

Barnett argued that the officers were not guilty of using excessive force—that they did not use “enough force.”

He argued that long-time metham-

The prosecution claims officers taunted and frightened the mentally ill Thomas into running away and disobeying police orders to remain still. phetamine use caused Kelly Thomas to have violent outbursts that could not be prevented.

The defense presented a timeline to the jury of past violent incidents that were allegedly consistent with substance abuse.

“No one could predict the explosive behavior Kelly engaged in,” Barnett said.

Michael Schwartz, Cicinelli’s defense attorney, said there was no deadly beating the night of the confrontation. He said Thomas was a “combative, uncontrollable suspect.”

Fullerton City Council members unanimously approved a request from the Cal State Fullerton Housing Authority to amend the University Heights Specific Plan Tuesday, nullifying the restriction that home ownership in the community is reserved to CSUF faculty and staff.

Fifteen faculty members currently own homes in University Heights, a 42-townhome property approved by the council in 2005 and completed in 2008.

Renters occupy the remaining 27 residences.

The agreement ends months of negotiation between the housing authority and residents. All 15 homeowners signed letters of unconditional support to amend the plan.

“There’s a great thing that happened this evening, and there’s been a mutual disagreement throughout the thing so I don’t want to throw stones anywhere,” said Frank Mumford, executive director of both CSUF Auxiliary Services Corp. (ASC) and the housing authority.

Mumford said in May that demand among professors to buy property at University Heights was low.

In May, the Orange County Register reported that the university was negotiating with a private company to sell off the property. At that time, the housing authority had $15.2 million in debt as a result of being unable to sell homes, and it projected a $732,471 loss for 2013.

Marcia Clark, a University Heights homeowner and fulltime lecturer with the finance department, said the agreement the two sides reached was imperfect, but acceptable.

“Future residents of University Heights will be happy to live there under these agreements, even if we choose not to,” she said.

Clark said the city council helped persuade the housing authority to add conditions to their agreement with homeowners, which satisfied them enough to give their unconditional support.

She thanked the council for its involvement in the negotiations.

Gulhan Bourget, an associate professor of mathematics and a University Heights homeowner, said faculty demand for homes there was greater than what the university had claimed.

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Alum turned zombie author

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A.S. Thompson discusses life after graduation and writing his horror novels.

A CSUF screenwriting class project inspired A.S. Thompson’s book series ASHLEY BINION Daily Titan

Kelly Thomas, deceased Fullerton homeless man

Manuel Ramos, former Fullerton police officer

Jay Cicinelli, former Fullerton police corporal

Thomas was a homeless man who died five days after a violent confrontation with Fullerton police on July 5, 2011.

Ramos was first at the scene on July 5, 2011. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

Cicinelli has pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force. He faces up to four years if convicted.

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Oarfish found in Oceanside studied at UCLA by CSUF and UCLA professors

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Banning sodomy is not a winning strategy

On a rare rainy day in Southern California, author A.S. Thompson takes a sip of his green tea and gathers his thoughts as he looks out a coffee shop window.

After a thoughtful pause reminiscing his past literary works he said, “if they like it, that’s awesome. I can kind of give my little thing back to humanity and later on I can say, ‘Yeah, I wrote a couple books and did something for the zombie genre.’”

Thompson, a 2009 Cal State Fullerton alumnus, is the author of two zombie novels The

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Longest Road and its sequel, The Change.

Both focus around a group of cousins trying to survive after a zombie outbreak.

Thompson, who grew up in Fullerton, decided to stay local and attended CSUF, mostly to stay with his band, City at Large, during high school and college.

Although he wasn’t very involved on campus, Thompson and his band did perform at the Becker Amphitheater during his time as a Titan.

At 14 years old, Thompson started playing guitar in bands. City at Large started off performing locally then eventually played larger shows and went on a tour around Southern California.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

WEDNESDAY

Students draw attention to Syrian issue Muslim Student Association will hold event and protest for Syria MIA MCCORMICK Daily Titan

On Wednesday, the Cal State Fullerton Muslim Student Association (MSA) will hold an event to draw attention to a long and violent revolution in Syria that has left more than 150,000 dead.

Upward of 60,000 people have been incarcerated and over 2.3 million people have become refugees.

The event, “Syria: An Eyewitness to the Revolution,” will take place at 1 p.m. in the Titan Theatre.

It will feature guests who have spent extended periods of time in Syria and Syrian refugee camps during this period of civil war. Bayanne Kanawati, 18, a biology major

and MSA public relations coordinator, said the purpose of the event is to inform students about what is going on in Syria and to expose the truth behind what is happening within the country.

Two guest speakers will give eyewitness accounts from their time inside Syria and Syrian refugee camps.

A documentary about the Syrian revolution will also be screened at the event. The 15 minute documentary, Not Anymore - A Story of Revolution, was created by Matthew VanDyke, an American film producer, who will also be speaking at the event.

“He shows people what really is going on in Syria and what they should be doing or knowing about it at least,” Kanawati said.

The documentary is the result of a short trip that VanDyke took to Syria to film his surroundings.

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“The documentary itself is very unique,” Kanawati said.

VanDyke is neither Muslim nor Syrian, but wanted to shed light on what is happening in Syria and among Syrian people.

The documentary is available on YouTube and has also been screened at a Hollywood film festival, Kanawati said.

MSA hopes to give new insight to students from different perspectives about the Syrian conf lict and how they can help through this event.

“It is not only a Syrian issue but a humanity issue and all humans should know about it,” Kanawati said.

There will also be a question and answer portion at the end

“It is not only a Syrian issue but a humanity issue and all humans should know about it.”

Bayanne Kanawati

Muslim Student Association of the event, giving students the opportunity to interact with the guest speakers in attendance.

Kanawati said the main ob-

jective of the event is to educate students and build awareness of the conf lict affecting the people of Syria.

“Since I’m Syrian, I feel like it’s my duty to make sure I let others be aware of what’s going on,” Kanawati said.

A group of Muslim students performed a “f lash mob” Monday at Titan Walk to help MSA draw attention to the event Wednesday The f lash mob reenacted a violent protest like the ones performed on the streets of Syria and symbolized the different types of torture that Syrians endure from their government.

Students lied on the ground covered with sheets and f low-

ers laid on their bodies to symbolize the treatment of the Syrian people during the revolution currently taking place in the country.

Students held large signs with “FREE SYRIA” written on them with the intention of advertising their purpose to students further away from Titan Walk.

The group was also able to raise $800 for the event over the last year. They gathered this money through working with other MSAs on different campuses and selling henna tattoos to students at Titan Walk.

MSA hopes to raise money through the event Wednesday as well.

Syrian Civil War statistics as of Nov. 2013: • Refugees: 2.3+ Million, 50% are

• Total deaths: 150,000+

Children (UNHCR).

• Children deaths: 10,000+

• Internally Displaced Persons: 6.5+

• Women Deaths: 8,000+

Million (iDMC)

• Incarcerated: 200,000+ • Missing: 60,000+

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Schwartz said Thomas grabbed Cicinelli’s Taser, forcing the officer to use the Taser on him repeatedly. Cicinelli then struck Thomas with two “short jabs” to the forehead, according to witness testimony.

The defense said Cicinelli’s actions were consistent with standard police training that prohibits

the suspect from gaining control of a weapon.

Rackauckas presented audio recordings from the scene that captured Cicinelli saying he “smashed (Thomas’) face to hell.”

Schwartz said the statement was “hyperbole,” and said his client was in a state of disbelief after the incident.

The surveillance footage shows Thomas pleading with officers during the confrontation about not being able to breathe and re-

peatedly cried out for help from his father.

The prosecution will argue that Thomas died from a lack of oxygen supply to the brain that resulted from the violent encounter.

The defense said Thomas experienced a heart attack from the chaos coupled with a methamphetamine-induced enlarged heart.

Schwartz will argue that the injuries to Thomas were not lethal and that he died of cardiac arrest

from over-exerting an already diseased heart.

Ron Thomas said his son had never tested positive for drug abuse.

“There is absolutely no proof at all that Kelly ever used drugs in his life,” Ron Thomas said. “Kelly told the psychiatrist that he used drugs but that same report had negative results.”

Opening statements began Monday in what is expected to be a six-week trial.

July 5, 2011

8:23 p.m. Fullerton police receive report of a "homeless man" pulling on the door handles of parked cars at the Fullerton Transportation Center.

8:34 p.m. Officer Joseph Wolfe and another officer are dispatched. Officer Manuel Ramos contacts dispatch and says he will respond. The other officer is canceled.

8:37 p.m. Ramos and Wolfe, who arrive in separate cars, contact Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man, at the north bus entrance nearby.

8:42 p.m. After Thomas is detained and asked to sit on the curb, he gives his backpack to Wolfe, who begins a search. Ramos continues talking with Thomas.

8:52 p.m. Encounter becomes physical after Thomas stands up. Wolfe swings a baton at the back of Thomas' legs. Ramos joins the fray and Thomas is tackled; 8:54 p.m.

Wolfe calls for all available officers to assist.

Fullerton Cpl. Jay Cicinelli responds. He uses his Taser first to jolt Thomas and then to strike Thomas, who is yelling, "Dad, help me" and "I can't breathe" as he continues to resist.

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Paramedics arrive.

9:00 p.m.

Thomas is in handcuffs and is no longer moving. Eventually, he is placed in an ambulance. 9:01 p.m.

Ambulance arrives at St. Jude Hospital. Arrangements are made to transfer him to UCI Medical Center.

9:19 p.m.

Ambulance carrying Thomas arrives at UCI Medical Center. 10:05 p.m.

Three additional officers arrive to help restrain Thomas.

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Thomas dies at UCI after all life support is terminated.

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Tony Rackauckas Orange County District Attorney, lead prosecuter

John Barnett Manuel Ramos’s defense attorney

Michael Schwartz Jay Cicinelli’s defense attorney

Rackauckas called the officers’ actions an example of substandard police work and a “clear violation of policy.”

Barnett won the acquittal of Los Angeles Police Department Officer Theodore Briseno in the Rodney King beating trial in 1992.

Schwartz represented Michael Arizaga, the first California Department of Forestry and Fire protection firefighter to be charged with an accident while on-duty.

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DTBRIEFS OC officer defends shooting SARA HIATT The Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday that an Orange police officer who fatally shot a man armed with a boxcutter was justified in his actions, according to the Orange County Register.

Joseph Thomas Brewer Jr. was killed June 12 after police were called to a house he was staying at.

According to the police report, Brewer appeared to be intoxicated and was threatening to kill himself and his landlady.

Officer Brian Chambers was on scene when Brewer approached him with the knife.

Brewer got within five feet of Chambers before he shot him three times in the chest.

Doritos Locos Taco creator dies Thursday SARA HIATT The man who was the visionary behind Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Taco died last week, according to USA Today.

Todd Mills, 41, died on Thanksgiving after battling brain cancer.

Mills championed the idea of creating taco shells out of Doritos in 2009 when he wrote to Frito-Lay suggesting the creation. The company rejected the idea.

Mills then created a Facebook page called “Taco Shells from Doritos Movement” which got the attention of Taco Bell.

Sales from the Doritos Locos Taco were over $1 billion, however Mills did not receive or ask for any compensation for his crunchy idea.

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Cal State Fullerton teams up with UCLA to study oarfish CSUF lecturer examines 3-D scans of the 14–foot oarfish at UCLA REBECCA LOPEZ Daily Titan

Lecturer and marine biologist Misty Paig-Tran, Ph.D., has teamed up with UCLA scientists to perform a CT scan of the 14-foot oarfish discovered last month and transported to Cal State Fullerton for study.

Paig-Tran has been working with Michael McNitt-Gray, Ph.D., a professor of radiology at UCLA to examine 3-D scans of the fish.

The scans will allow scientists to create a 3-D model of the fish to examine its swimming.

This particular oarfish has been in the spotlight since it first washed up on an Oceanside beach in mid-October and was collected by the National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center (NMFS SWSC) and Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif.

Paig-Tran, who obtained and brought the fish to CSUF, is a biomechanist whose postdoctoral research project is focused on bone characteristics in deep-sea fish.

“My particular interests are in filter feeding, which an oarfish does,” Paig-Tran said. “Also, I am interested in why deep-sea fishes have such unmineralized (low calcium) skeletons.”

The oarfish resides in deepsea waters, typically found at 600 feet but can go as deep

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She said she knew at least three faculty members who wanted to own houses at University Heights, but the university declined to make a deal with them at that time.

Bourget was skeptical of the amendment to the specific plan. She expressed concern regarding the buyer interested in University Heights.

Mumford called the company a “family corporation” that owns multiple properties in California and Arizona.

Bourget said homeowners

as 3,000 feet. They are rarely seen or studied and there have been no living specimens examined.

Scientists have begun collaborating with oil drilling companies in the Gulf of Mexico to manufacture remoteoperated vehicles to travel to these depths.

These vehicles have allowed live footage to be captured of oarfish and other deep-sea animals in their natural habitat—rare sights to be seen.

“It’s pretty cool actually, because these fish are really, really rare because of their location that they swim in, we don’t know that much about them,” James Smith, a biology major, said.

Kathryn Dickson, Ph.D., chair of the Biology Department, assisted with preparation of the oarfish for the scan. Dickson is also an ichthyologist, or fish biologist, and accompanied Paig-Tran to UCLA partly because of her own interests of deep-sea fish.

Although the oarfish is the main subject of Paig-Tran’s research, two other deep-sea fish were sent through the scanner.

The opah and ribbonfish both reside in depths that overlap with that of the oarfish and will be used for comparison purposes on the animal’s characteristics.

The ribbonfish specimen was supplied to Paig-Tran and her team by the scientists at NMFS SWSC and Dickson provided the opah, which she had obtained from previous research work.

Due to the depths at which these fish live, the resources available to them are far scarcer than fish whose habitats are closer to the ocean’s surface.

By examining the anatomical structure of the oarfish, opah and ribbonfish, PaigTran can start to make theoretical explanations about how the animals are living and finding food and mates for reproduction.

“Her study will contribute to our understanding of how diverse fishes ‘make a living’ in the deep sea where conditions are very different than near the surface and coast,” Dickson said.

In addition to studying swimming patterns, skeletal structure and means of survival, Paig-Tran will be analyzing the millions of eggs inside of the oarfish’s 6-footlong ovaries. Paig-Tran said

the studies of the eggs will be conducted with help from Lara Ferry, Ph.D., an associate professor at the school of mathematical and natural sciences at Arizona State University.

Until Paig-Tran and her team are able to synthesize and compile the data from the scans and provide more insight, there is still little information available on the lives of deep-sea fish.

have not received any information about what she called the “mystery buyer.”

“Maybe we will like the buyer better than the university; maybe they will be a better manager,” she said. “But we don’t know.”

In addition to leasing the 27 properties, the buyer has expressed an interest in buying homes, if the current homeowners are willing to sell, Mumford said.

“They’re very used to working in this kind of an environment, something that we don’t do probably as well,” Mumford said.

The two sides in the dispute have aired their concerns to the council at multiple meetings, unable to come to a mutual agreement until Tuesday.

During the Nov. 5 meeting, professors told the council that the housing authority was sending them revised housing agreements, but not providing enough time to review them before they signed.

“There’s some validity to that, but a lot was caused by the fact that we didn’t get information we needed from them,” Mumford said. “So it’s on both sides.”

Clark said about half the homeowners plan to stay at

University Heights, while the other half, including her, intend to move.

As for the housing authority, Mumford said it would probably merge with ASC, because the university does not plan to take on a new housing project in the near future.

The housing authority will continue to operate University Gables, an 86-home neighborhood in Buena Park near the Los Coyotes Golf Course.

Mumford said University Gables has worked as intended from the very beginning.

He called University Gables “the perfect project,” contrasting it with “the perfect storm,” University Heights, which was beset by numerous problems, such as the housing crisis and rising costs.

House prices increased beyond what a new faculty member could afford, and the project did not meet the needs of the university or the housing

authority, Mumford said.

The council also elected a new mayor and mayor pro tem, in accordance with the city’s policy to reorganize those positions every December. In a 3-2 vote, they chose Doug Chaffee over Greg Sebourn to become the new mayor, then unanimously voted for Sebourn as mayor pro tem.

“I’d like to thank the council members for honoring me and entrusting me with the awesome job of mayor of the city of Fullerton,” Chaffee said. “So, thank you for that, even if I was the swing vote.”

Chaffee said he would establish a theme for the year ahead: “Fullerton: a fabulous city to live, to work and to enjoy.”

Councilwoman Jan Flory concluded the meeting with a moment of silence to remember Fullerton Mayor Bob Ward, who served two terms as mayor in the 1970s and died a week and a half ago.

Courtesy of Cal State Fullerton Misty Paig-Tran, Ph.D., scans the 14-foot oarfish to better understand how it swims in the deep ocean waters.

Rights for chimps to be argued for ERICA MAHONEY An animal rights group based out of Florida is making a legal case for New York to recognize four chimps as autonomous beings with rights, according to the Associated Press.

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) argues that these four chimps have demonstrated human-like abilities such as “being able to self-determine, be self-aware, and be able to choose how to live their own lives,” said NRP founder Steven Wise.

If the chimps are granted personhood, the NRP wants to move them to the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance.

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Law discriminates against sexual acts Cuccinelli’s opposition to consensual sodomy isolates gay community VALERIE SCHREPFERMAN Daily Titan

In the final months of his campaign, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli made consensual sodomy the focal point of his crusade as the Republican governor nominee.

Virginia’s Crimes Against

Nature law, which bans oral and anal sex, was deemed unconstitutional by the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on March 12. The anti-sodomy statute, would have applied to “any person” that “carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by with the mouth.”

This law was rightly discarded, as it was out of date and overly broad. The Appellate Court was largely reaffirming the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lawrence v. Texas that banning

sodomy is unconstitutional. Its 2003 decision ruled that sexual activity between consenting adults was protected by due process under the 14th Amendment.

While not every offender was prosecuted for violating the law, Virginia has long used the Crimes Against Nature laws as a way to discriminate gay and lesbian Virginians, even after it was deemed unconstitutional.

Cuccinelli disregarded the decision of the court and went

as far as to launch websites that established his effort to reinstate the anti-sodomy law.

Cuccinelli stated that the law “is not—and cannot be—used against consenting adults acting in private” and argues that it is a vital tool for stopping child predators. Terry McAuliffe, Cuccinelli’s opponent, pronounced the appeal as proof of the attorney general holding extremist views regarding social issues.

Cuccinelli maintains his op-

Courtesy of MCT Republican Ken Cuccinelli lost the Virginia gubernatorial election in November winning 45 percent of the vote, versus Terry McAuliffe’s 47 percent.

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position to the Supreme Court’s decision has is not related to sexual orientation or private acts between adults. Though, his critics cannot help but look at his statements describing homosexual acts as wrong or the fact he said he believes they “should not be accommodated in government policy.”

When Cuccinelli was a state senator in 2004, he voted against a bill that would have clarified the law into no longer covering private consensual acts between adults. In 2009, he told the Virginian-Pilot that he viewed homosexual acts, not homosexuality, as intrinsically wrong.

“I think in a natural lawbased country,” he said. “It’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that.”

Evidence such as this is not appealing in the eyes of voters looking to take a step forward in the advancing equality for same sex couples.

It is vociferously clear that sexual acts with children have no protection in the Constitution and should rightly be punished.

Rebecca Glenberg, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said the General Assembly should enact laws “specifically targeted to that behavior and not rely on an out-of-date, overly broad, unconstitutional law to prosecute those very serious crimes.”

Where Cuccinelli’s campaign sought to reinstate Virginia’s strict anti-sodomy law, falsely claiming that it only applied to minors, McAuliffe esteemed to update the statute so it would hone in on target predators without breaching the 2003 Supreme Court ruling.

Cuccinelli’s campaign sought

to accuse the Democrat of “playing politics instead of protecting our children” but proved unsuccessful. The Republican attorney general was narrowly defeated by McAuliffe who gained 48 percent of the vote.

The Republican represen-

Virginia has long used the Crimes Against Nature laws as a way to discriminate gay and lesbian Virginians, even after it was deemed unconstitutional. tation during this campaign attempted to push opponent McAuliffe to pick whether or not he was in support of protecting children against predators. The anti-sodomy law, however, has everything to do with consensual sex among adults, whether that be gay or straight. It is not specific enough to be considered an appropriate regulation under the constitution.

The issue of whether the antisodomy law should be reenacted seems to tie into a constantly recurring theme separating “us” from “them.”

Sexuality is a drastically differentiating action across the board. To have regulations on such broad and personal issue leaves room for biased views and unjust treatment of inalienable rights.

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After graduating from CSUF in 2009, Thompson wanted to enter the film industry, but poor timing and a struggling economy led him to law enforcement. Now, he works in the wine industry while writing his series part time.

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While attending CSUF, Thompson took a screenwriting class where one of the projects was to write a script.

He decided to write about a zombie apocalypse and what would happen if his cousins were survivors of it.

He always found zombies fascinating ever since he watched Night of the Living Dead.

There’s something about the idea that they can keep coming for you, the emotional aspect that your loved ones could be zombies and the primitive lifestyle, Thompson said.

Thompson started writing more than what was required of the assignment.

“I just did my report, did my paper, turned it in and didn’t really think anything of it until a year and a half later. I said, ‘I should write a book.’ Why not write a book, right? Because that’s a natural course of action. People just say one day ‘Let’s write a book!’”

Initially, Thompson wanted to enter the film industry and had no intentions of becoming writer.

After graduating in the fall of 2009, he interned at Entertainment Tonight and worked with a few friends on film projects at different indie film companies.

“It was the worst possible time to graduate because there were no jobs ... there were no projects really going on,” Thompson said. “So I tried to do film and was debating

her at first to get ingoing to film schools. volved and see that Unfortunately, it it’s something that I didn’t work out.”

By the end of wrote,” he said.

2010, he decided to Thompson sent go into law enforceout his first manument. He graduated script for The Lonfrom Orange County gest Road to a few Sheriff’s Academy in different indie pub2011. lishing companies.

“I saw the film Finally, a Connectithing wasn’t workcut-based company, ing out too much Bradley Publishing, and law enforcement took interest. was kinda that one In the first three thing that I always months of The Lonthought of doing gest Road being too,” Thompson said. available, around Once again, tim100 books were sold, ing wasn’t on his but two months latside. He found it difer, Bradley Publishficult to find a job at ing closed down. the state level of law He was soon enforcement. picked up by SevCourtesy of Michael Boyajian ered Press, his curSo, in October of The Change, the sequel to The Longest Road, took a darker turn with biker gangs and shocking deaths. rent publisher based 2011, he traveled to Washington D.C. to in Australia. try his hand at the federal level.

Three to five weeks after his part time.

“I thought it was cool, I didn’t For a year, Thompson found He was looking for something really expect to ever get anything second book The Change was himself attending school at to fill his time while he was trying published nor have a desire to,” released, around 3,000 books Georgetown and interning on to figure out his next move in law Thompson said. were sold.

Capitol Hill.

“I never got into it for the monenforcement.

Thompson’s parents were alHe networked and tried to land In May, he started out in the ways supportive of his pursuits, ey,” Thompson said. “It’s not a a federal job, but that didn’t work tasting room, but once the harvest from music to film. money thing for me. It’s just cool out either. hit he began working in producThey were shocked and sur- to see people that read it and “Timing was not on my side, yet tion and crushing grapes. prised to learn that he wanted to write something about it whether again,” Thompson said. positive or negative.”

“It’s super cool,” Thompson publish his first manuscript.

In December of 2012, he came said. “It’s the best job ever. I get Throughout the series, he uses Besides the required reading in back to Southern California to pour and drink wine during high school and grade school, he real life places, people and things as inspirations like the MLB basewhere he applied for a job with the the day and hang out with people wasn’t much of a reader.

Thompson’s dad passes out his ball team the Los Angeles Angels Los Angeles Police Department, that want to be there. It’s almost a books at his dental office. of Anaheim, friends’ names, placbut they ended up stalling. blessing in disguise.”

“She (Thompson’s mom) hates es he has been and his experiencNow, Thompson works in While in D.C., he decided to try the wine industry and writes and get his manuscript published. horror, so it was really weird for es with the sheriff’s academy and

the jail system.

Thompson said his writing style improved from the first book to the second with the addition of character depth, making it darker with shocking deaths and more location research for descriptors.

“That’s really what I wanted to do with the shift, is have the reader no longer have this happygo-lucky feeling,” he said. “The good times are over. It’s now let’s get down to it. It’s survival mode.”

Thompson admitted he doesn’t really have a writing process. The Change, took between six to eight months to write.

“Not having a formal background in writing, I think I do things the complete wrong way,” he said.

For the first draft he writes out plot points, then for the second draft he goes back in and flushes out the plot points with more detail and substance.

“It’s almost like what sculpting would be like. Where you have this stone that’s nothing, a blob, a rock,” he said. “Then you first start to chisel away and break it off bit by bit. Then, at the very end, you’re sanding it down and you have your finished product.”

Next year, he looks to start a new superhero themed project with help of the illustrator of his current books, Michael Boyajian.

The third book in the series is set to be finished by February.

Thompson’s books, The Longest Road and its sequel, The Change, are available for purchase on Amazon.com.

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Jazz concert tributes Brazilian musician The concert will feature Harry Allen, an award winning tenor saxophonist MAGDALENA GUILLEN Daily Titan

Meng Concert Hall will be in full swing with the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, guest starring Swing Bros. recording artist, Harry Allen, on Friday.

Grammy-winning arranger and CSUF music professor, Bill Cunliffe, will conduct the performance.

The concert will feature a tribute to the late Brazilian musician, songwriter and composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Jobim is most known for composing “Garota de Ipanema” (The Girl from Ipanema)—one of the most recorded songs of all time.

A special appearance by The Fullerton Jazz Singers will join Allen and the Jazz Orchestra.

Stan Getz, a famous American jazz saxophonist, was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist.

He replied, “My technique, Al Cohn’s ideas and Zoot’s time. The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in 30-year-old Harry Allen.”

Allen is an international award-winning artist whose album Tenors Anyone? has won the Gold Disc Award and New Star Award from Japan’s Swing Journal Magazine.

He has also recorded with famous singers and composers Tony Bennett, Sheryl Crow, Al Foster and Larry Goldings.

Raised in Los Angeles but currently residing in New York, Allen frequently tours the United States, Europe and Asia and has performed in many jazz festivals and clubs worldwide.

He is featured on many works by John Pizzarelli, a world-renowned jazz guitarist and singer, including the soundtrack of 1999’s The Outof-Towners starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn.

Allen’s compositions have made the top ten list for favor-

Courtesy of Cal State Fullerton The concert Friday at the Meng Concert Hall will be performed by The Fullerton Jazz Orchestra and will feature The Fullerton Jazz Singers as well as Swing Bros. recording artist, Harry Allen.

ite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine’s reader’s poll and Jazz Journal International critic’s poll for 1997.

The tenor saxophonist has also recorded a series of commercials for ESPN starring Robert Goulet.

The Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet won the New York Nightlife Award for Outstanding Jazz Combo Performance

of 2006 and was nominated for Best Jazz Combo by the Jazz Journalists Association for the same year.

The Fullerton Jazz Orchestra continues to receive high marks at college jazz festivals, including winning the 2004 and 2006 Reno College Jazz Festival.

They have also been featured on a live radio broadcast

across North America as part of the Playboy Jazz Festival.

The Jazz Orchestra has produced four award-winning recordings and is currently working on a fifth.

Cunliffe, the conductor of the evening, directs CSUF’s Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Fullerton Jazz Big Band and Fullerton Latin Ensemble (formerly known as Jazz En-

sembles I and II).

He has toured as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and has worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson and Freddie Hubbard, to name a few.

He currently plays with his trio, his big band and his Latin band, ‘Imaginación’, and performs on a national and international level.

Cunliffe recently received his fifth Grammy nomination in the Best Instrumental Composition category for his “Overture, Waltz and Rondo” for jazz piano, trumpet and orchestra.

The concert is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 with an advance Titan discount.

Symphonic Winds to gust into Meng Hall with fall themed concert performance The concert Saturday at Meng Hall will focus on an autumnal theme VALERIE SCHREPFERMAN Daily Titan

Performers and patrons alike anticipate the Symphonic Winds concert taking placein Meng Concert Hall Saturday.

A variety of pieces will be performed by Cal State Fullerton Department of Music’s band.

The concert will include pieces such as “I’m Seventeen Come Sunday” and 20-yearold music performance major Andrea DiTommaso’s personal favorite, “Russian Christmas Music.”

DiTommaso has played the piccolo, a half-size f lute woodwind instrument, for nine years.

“It’s one thing to play by yourself or with a piano,” DiTommaso said. “But when you’re on stage performing with 40 or 50 other musicians, you share all of that energy and it makes for a unique performance experience.”

Even with group rehearsals two hours a week and independent practice a couple hours a day, he said there is more pressure than usual due to less rehearsal time.

However, DiTommaso said

this performance has highlighted the group’s love for music and welcomes the challenge.

With focus on musical growth, expression as individuals and as an ensemble, the Symphonic Winds members are selected by audition and customarily perform two to three times each semester.

The University Wind Ensemble, known for its excellence and broad repertoire, is comprised of the finest instrumental majors in the Music Department.

They have performed around the world in places such as Tokyo, Denmark and Moscow.

Mitchell Fennell is conductor of the University Wind Symphony and the University Band.

He is also instrumental conducting professor in wind literature and music education at CSUF. During his early years conducting as a drum major at Savanna High School in Anaheim he began looking for more opportunities to direct from that point on in his life.

“I just loved it,” Fennell said.

After graduating from Cal State Long Beach, he moved on to teaching at Mission Viejo High School.

He eventually made his way back to his alma mater before coming to CSUF in 1986.

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both individually and as a group. He is fun, insightful and brings out our best,” first chair saxophone, Sayle Garcia said.

“ ... when you’re on stage with 40 or 50 other musicians you share all of that energy and it makes for a unique performance.”

Andrea DiTammaso

Music Performance Major

Courtesy of Cal State Fullerton Mitchell Fennell conducts the Symphonic Winds, a 57-member ensemble.

Fennell currently advises 200 students, 57 of which make up the Symphonic Winds

ensemble.

“Dr. Fennell is thoughtful and cares about the students

Garcia said the overall theme of the performance is to express the autumnal time of year.

Garcia is most thrilled to have the chance to play the soprano sax, an uncommon range for the instrument.

The jazz commercial music major is looking forward to performing “Russian Christ-

mas Music” by Alfred Reed and “Harvest Hymn” by Percy Grainger.

The set Saturday will include the works of William Schuman, Kenneth Alford, Richard Wagner, Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger and Alfred Reed.

“The music we are given is beautiful, powerful, wind band literature,” Garcia said.

“The best of the best.”

Fennell said the music for this weekend’s concert is dedicated to the “godfather of the modern wind ensemble movement in America, Dr. Fredrick Fennell.”

There are over 20,000 concert bands that are in some way inspired by Fredrick Fennell’s legacy.

Mitchell Fennell said the pieces for the performance Saturday, except one, are works he was introduced to in high school as a student listening to the recordings of the Eastern Wind Ensemble.

Garcia described the Symphonic Winds artists as a fun and light-hearted company who simply love making music.

He said the performance will be a enjoyable and exciting show people will not want to miss.

Tickets are on sale for $10 for general admission and $8 with an advance Titan Discount.

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Titans look to make a splash in Malibu Men’s basketball look to snap their five game losing streak tonight ABRAHAM JAUREGUI Daily Titan

Looking to break the funk of the Wooden Legacy Tournament, where they ended winless and in last place, the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team will travel to Malibu and take on Pepperdine University Wednesday at 7 p.m.

The Titans (2-6) are currently on a five-game losing streak and are getting on to the meat of their schedule before they approach Big West Conference play.

The Waves (5-3) are coming off the Great Alaska Shootout tournament, where they went 1-2 and ended in sixth place.

The high-scoring Waves broke a Great Alaska Shootout record, shooting 60 percent from the field for the tournament.

Led by third year Head Coach Marty Wilson, the Waves have brought back three returning starters, seven overall and include nine newcomers.

Forward Stacy Davis, the 2013 West Coast Conference Newcomer of the Year, leads the high-scoring Waves with 17.4 points per game. Davis has been a sharpshooter for the Waves, shooting an excellent 59 total field goal percentage and a blistering 63 percent from three-point land.

Second in scoring for the Waves is forward Brendan Lane with 15.3 points per game, shooting an astonishing 65 total field goal percentage.

The UCLA transfer sat out

last year as a redshirt but has joined the Waves’ as a great addition to their interior play. Lane leads the team in rebounds, grabbing 9.5 per game, and blocks with three a game.

Another weapon for the Waves this season has been highly-touted freshman guard Jeremy Major, dropping 10.4 points per game.

The three-time All-CIF Southern Section first team for Maranatha High School in Pasadena has made the transition to college basketball quickly, becoming the starting point guard for the Waves in just his first year on the team.

Major is small, quick and will be a bother to Titan defenders as he has been leading the Waves in assists this season with six per game.

The Waves are averaging 10 more points per game than the Titans this season, scoring an average of 75 a game, but are prone to many turnovers with just over 14 a game. That could fall into the Titan’s scheme of playing offense off their defense which could help break their losing streak.

Junior guard Alex Harris has returned to action after missing four straight games, but struggled in his return Sunday. Harris, the Titans’ leading scorer before his ankle injury, scored one point and missed all four of his attempts from the field.

Harris hopes the added two days of rest has given him time to get back into playing shape and increase his 15.5 points per game he’s averaging.

The other starting Titan guard, senior Michael Williams, who took over the scor-

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Freshman guard Sheldon Blackwell drives to the basket. Blackwell and the Titans travel to Malibu to take on the Pepperdine Waves Wednesday night.

ing role for the Titans in the absence of Harris, is currently leading the Titans with 14.1 points per game. Williams, who thrives on ball handling and running the offense, has struggled from the field shooting 39.3 percent.

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Freshman guard Sheldon Blackwell has started to find his role with the team starting the last two games and leading the team in assists.

For the Titans, it’s time to shake off the smell of last place in a tournament they co-

hosted and get back to what Head Coach Dedrique Taylor preaches, which is defense.

The Titans struggled on offense in the Wooden Legacy, coming out f lat and scrambling to find ways to score. Taylor’s defensive mantra for two out

CSUF women’s hoops hunting first home win The Titans are 1-5 in the first year of Head Coach Daron Park’s CSUF tenure TAMEEM SERAJ Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team will look to bust out of their slump and get their first home win tonight when the Toreros of the University of San Diego visit Titan Gym. It’s been a rough start to first year Head Coach Daron Park’s tenure at CSUF. As mightily as the Titans (1-5) have struggled to begin the season, the Toreros (7-0) are on the opposite end enjoying their best start in the program’s history.

The Titans are coming into the game after dropping both of their matches in the SMC Hilton Classic Tournament last weekend.

The Titans lost 59-58 to Toledo in a nail biter on Friday.

Junior guard Chantae Miles lead the Titans in scoring, dropping 15 points and dishing eight assists. Freshman guard Samantha Logan saw increased minutes and turned in a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds. Junior forward Kathleen Iwuoha chipped in with 12 points and eight rebounds.

CSUF were downed by Alabama 69-54 on Saturday. Logan played every minute and contributed another doubledouble with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Miles posted 10 points and seven assists in the loss.

With Logan’s impressive showing in the tournament, she could see a larger role on the team moving forward.

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of the three tournament games wasn’t evident and needs to be present against the Waves if the Titans want to win.

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DEANNA TROMBLEY Daily Titan Senior guard Brianna Barfield goes for a layup during warmups.

Weber State. Katelyn McDaniel lead the Toreros with 22 points and 10 rebounds in the contest.

Amy Kame added 14 points in the dominant win.

Miles continues to lead the Titans with her 15.7 points and 5.2 assists per game average in the absence of senior forward Mya Olivier. Olivier went down with a knee injury in the first game of the season and has not yet returned despite her dayto-day status. Olivier averaged 7.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game last season and the Titans are lacking her post presence.

Iwuoha is the only other player on the CSUF roster to be averaging double digits in scoring with 11.2 points per game.

Kame and McDaniel are part of a balanced scoring attack for San Diego, who have five players averaging over nine points per game. Kame leads the Toreros with 12.4 points and 3.7

assists per game. Felicia Wijenberg and Sophia Ederaine round out the USD double digit scorers with 11.6 and 10.4 points per game, respectively.

The Titans are struggling to find their range, shooting just 37.6 percent from the field and 27.9 percent from behind the arc. To compare, the Toreros as a team are shooting 42.7 percent from the field and 35.9 percent from downtown.

The Toreros use their size and speed to force teams to foul them and send them to the free throw line. The Toreros have already attempted 156 free throws this season but have only made 98 of them, good for 62.8 percent from the line. The Titans have not been very aggressive driving the lane and have thus only earned 76 free throw attempts.

A major concern for the Titans this season is the rate that they are turning the ball over.

CSUF is averaging 14 turnovers per contest, practically gifting the opponents some wins.

CSUF has yet to register a win at home, starting the season 0-2 at Titan Gym. The Toreros have won all three of their road games, including a 48-45 win against city rival San Diego State.

USD hold the all-time advantage over CSUF with a 12-7 record and the Toreros have six straight wins against the Titans.

Park preaches a “to the rim” mentality and the Titans will have to buy into that game plan if they want to slow down the high flying Torero offense.

Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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