Volume 94, Issue 23
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013
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NEWS | ARCHAEOLOGY
Prehistoric OC displays fossils Museum hosts ancient fossils of creatures unearthed locally SASHA AZOQA For the Daily Titan
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Top: The 1995 national champion baseball team poses for a shot. Bottom: Hall of Fame plaque signed by 2013 inductees which was auctioned off.
Honoring past Titans Titan Hall of Fame honors four new members in the biennial ceremony TAMEEM SERAJ Daily Titan
The 1995 national champion baseball team, nicknamed “the greatest show on dirt,” was inducted into the Titan Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday. Soccer standout Mark Fox, trailblazing basketball coach Bobby Dye and inspirational gymnast Carol Johnston rounded out the 2013 Hall of Fame class. Jose Mota, a Cal State Ful-
lerton alumnus and current Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim broadcaster, served as the master of ceremonies. The event started off with a video montage of the inductees in their playing days which brought about smiles and roars of applause from the crowd. The applause was heard loud and often throughout the memorable night that will live forever in Fullerton history. The 1995 Baseball Team The ‘95 baseball team is the first team to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame, as they broke records in a program that already has a prolific history. In what was supposed to be a rebuild-
ing year, the team achieved a record setting 57-9 mark that still stands as the most wins in school history. They also became the first No. 1 seed to win the national title. “(The baseball team is) one of the best teams I’ve ever coached from the standpoint of being unselfish and totally about each other and becoming one as a unit,” said Auggie Garrido, head coach of the ‘95 team. The Golden Spikes Award winner, current major leaguer and former outfielder on the ‘95 team Mark Kotsay was unable to attend the ceremony, but was represented by his parents. A video was played of him giving
NEWS | SPACE
Endeavour Fest celebrates shuttle Endeavour carried CSUF alumna Tracy Caldwell Dyson to space station KYMBERLIE ESTRADA Daily Titan
It took three nights and three days, over the span of 68 hours, to transport and maneuver a 150,000-pound spacefaring national treasure through 12 miles of urban, populated streets. One year and 2.7 million guests later, Endeavour Fest commemorated the one year anniversary of the Space
Shuttle Endeavour’s historic journey through downtown Los Angeles and retirement to the California Science Center. During the celebration, visitors had the opportunity to meet astronauts and listen to their presentations, as well as learn about the plans for Endeavour’s permanent home in the Science Center’s Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. The center is making progress on the design of the exhibit, said Jeffrey Rudolph, President and CEO of the California Science Center. A team of architects and engineers are taking on the
NEWS 2
Library hosts best-selling science fiction author OPINION 4
NFL should remove racial epithets from team’s name DETOUR 5
Greek muses deliver an ‘80s-inspired musical parody SPORTS 8
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complex task of lifting the 122-foot spacecraft into a vertical position along with its gigantic external tank and twin solid rocket boosters, Rudolph said. “We’re doing it with weathered conditions,” he said. “We don’t have the protection of a big building.” The “big building” Rudolph mentioned is the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the orbiter was originally assembled. The 526-foot tall building is the largest singlestory building in the world and was specifically built for vertically assembling spacecrafts. Lynda Oschin, chair of the Oschin Family Foundation, said the Endeavour will finally be in vertical launch position by 2018. “It’ll be difficult. The move was probably easier from LAX to here ... It’s very tall. It’s a 20-story building,” Oschin said. SEE SHUTTLE, 2
thanks and congratulating his teammates and coaches. Kotsay was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2007. Pitcher Ted Silva had an unheralded 18-1 record that season and compiled six saves. Silva was selected as a first team AllAmerican but credits the players around him for his impressive stats. “We were in it together, it wasn’t about records,” Silva said. “It was about showing up each and every day and practicing, getting after it and competing and we ended up having a pretty good season.” SEE HALL OF FAME, 7
The ancient remains of mammoths and sharks were on display Saturday during Prehistoric OC, a highlight of some of the early fossils found in Orange County. The John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center teamed up with OC Parks and Cal State Fullerton to put on the event. Monstrous fossils filled the entire main room of the museum, lined the walls and scraped the ceiling, encased in large glass boxes that held descriptions of each animal, how they began life and how they became extinct, if needed. “We’ve got a load of activities for families,” Lisa Babilonia, a paleontologist at the Clark Museum, said. “The museum here is a County of Orange facility; it spotlights the fossils that are found here in Orange County.” Some of these animals included the imperial mammoth, which was one of the largest
species of mammals found in the world, with just their tusks alone ranging from 15-17 feet in length. These mammoths migrated from Asia to North America across the Bering land bridge, which is how they managed to travel into Orange County. The megalodon shark was such a large animal that only the jaw was on display. Nearly 7 feet high, the massive mouth contained five rows of 276 teeth up to seven inches in length. Viewers got a grasp of what it was like to live in Orange County in the prehistoric era. There was also a comparison of the horse fossils found thousands of years ago to modern horses. In another room, glass encased a fossil exhibit titled “A Whale of a Tale.” This fossil was true to its name, and featured a wall which was the length and size of a whale’s tail. Along with the fossils, volunteers and interns were also there to help bring to life the bones of the animals on display. These passionate helpers were experts on the fossils and some of them even helped unearth the fossils. SEE FOSSILS, 3
MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan Adrian Garibay, 20, a paleontology student helps children locate fossils hidden inside of a dirt filled slab at the Prehistoric OC event at the Ralph B. Regional Park in Buena Park.
SPORTS | MEN’S SOCCER
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Senior defender Jaime Cano goes in for a hard slide tackle to dispossess the Hornets attacker in the 2-0 win.
Men’s soccer sting Hornets CSUF’s shutout streak reaches three games as Titans enjoy homestand ABRAHAM JAUREGUI Daily Titan
The Cal State Fullerton’s men’s soccer team continued their Big West Conference hot streak, shutting out Sacramento State 2-0 yesterday. The win puts the Titans in a first place tie for the Big West
South Division. Not since the 2000 season have the Titans shut out three straight conference opponents, as they improve their overall record to 6-6-0 and 3-1 in conference play. Sacramento State continues their losing stretch as they fall to an overall 2-7-3, 0-4 in the conference. First-half goals by junior midfielder Garrett Losee and sophomore forward Dyllan Stevens put the Titans ahead, while the staunchy Titans defense and
senior goalkeeper Bryan Escalante sealed the shutout. Eighth year head coach Bob Ammann was pleased with the Titan victory at home, especially coming off a home victory on Friday. “The concern coming in is always energy level after a big game Friday night. That was the real importance coming in. Our energy level was good,” Ammann said. SEE SOCCER, 8
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