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Volume 95, Issue 36
Fourth student charged in attack Former Fullerton College athlete accused of assault MATTHEW MEDINA Daily Titan
A fourth Fullerton College student was charged Monday with two felonies in connection with an August assault on a Cal State Fullerton basketball player. Malcolm Postell is now a co-defendant with Ahmad Muse, Terrence Lange and Sean Duncan-Wills. Muse, Lange and Postell have played football for Fullerton College. The four are accused of beating Joseph Boyd, a freshman forward on the CSUF basketball team, after they left a party in the University House Fullerton apartment complex. Fullerton Police Department officers obtained surveillance footage from University House showing several men attacking Boyd. SEE ASSAULT, 3
Retelling legends as concept art Begovich exhibit is frighteningly captivating MICHAEL CHEN Daily Titan
From a stuffed purple squirrel to the giant Bigfoot dropping, the plain white and red “Hearsay” logo on the front wall is about the only thing that won’t send chills down your spine as you browse the numerous paintings currently residing in the Begovich Gallery. Cal State Fullerton’s Begovich Gallery is hosting an art exhibit based on urban legends titled “Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends.” Wendy Sherman, a student at Cal State Fullerton, is an avid art fan and co-curator for the exhibit. “The exhibition is artists interpreting urban legends. The point was not to illustrate the legends but an interpretation, so we asked the artists to choose a legend that had personal meaning … that they had maybe heard growing up,” Sherman said. “We just didn’t want an illustration.”
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Photos by ART LEMUS / For the Daily Titan Junior Matt Chapman paced the Titans offense with his two hits and two runs batted in against the UCLA Bruins on Tuesday night. CSUF has now won three of four going into its weekend matchup with Big West foe UC Santa Barbara. The Titans will look to improve their standing in the Big West Conference as they currently sit in third.
Titans take their revenge Titans defeat Bruins, who ended their big 2013 season JOSEPH ANDERSON Daily Titan
The Titan baseball team defeated the 2013 National Champion UCLA Bruins 4-3 on Saturday night at Goodwin Field. To make the win even sweeter, Cal State Fullerton got revenge on the very team that ended its season less than a year ago during the Super Regionals on the same field. “We beat the defending national champions who last year left us with a sad feeling,” CSUF Head Coach Rick Vanderhook said. “As of right now it’s a win, and we’ll take every win we can get.”
CSUF had one of its most balanced efforts on Tuesday, scoring four runs on six hits while having no defensive miscues in the field for only the 10th time this year. Junior third baseman Matt Chapman was again the star of the show on offense, going two for four at the plate, driving in two runs while also scoring one. “I’m definitely seeing the ball and feeling confident at the plate,” Chapman said. “They took away what we wanted to do last year and they knocked us out of contention for a ring in Omaha, so it definitely feels good to reclaim home turf again.” The pitching was not as dominant as Titans fans have become accustomed to, but it was enough to pull out the victory in the end. Six pitchers were used on the night, none of them
throwing more than 2 1/3 innings. Tyler Peitzmeier didn’t stick around long for the Titans after getting the start, as his struggles on the hill continued with a 1 2/3 inning performance where he allowed three hits and gave up a run. Freshman Chad Hockin entered the game with the bases loaded in the second inning and promptly ended the threat with an inning-ending groundout to Chapman. Hockin ran into trouble in the third inning, allowing a base hit and hitting a batter before a sacrifice bunt put the UCLA runners on second and third. This prompted another pitching change.
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The Titans celebrate their 4-3 win over the visiting UCLA Bruins.
ASI President Latif to pass the torch Harpreet Bath to continue ASI strategic plan KYLE NAULT Daily Titan
After a year of working together on the Associated Students Inc. executive staff, President Rohullah Latif will start passing the torch to president-elect and Chief Governmental Officer Harpreet Bath in the upcoming weeks as the newly elected 2014-2015 ASI administration prepares to take office. “Transition is important, and when you don’t have a good transition during the year, it’s evident and people can tell,” Latif said. “This year Harpreet has been part of our staff … and I know he’s going to move forward with the strategic plan.” Bath worked with Latif and others to create a specific strategic plan for ASI that emphasized different
MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan ASI president-elect Harpreet Bath (left) currently serves as chief governmental officer for President Rohullah Latif (right). He assumes the post of president next semester.
methods to bring unity to campus. Bath said this plan will continue to move forward as he intends to accomplish the goals laid out in their plan. “We want to be able to make sure that the overall
goal of the plan is to give a strategic mission to ASI in the coming five years,” Bath said. “Situations change, you know; things might change for the plan as something that can kind of be customized to those situations.”
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Although Bath anticipates challenges, he does not expect anything to surprise him. “Of course there’s things that come out of the blue, but I’ve had the opportunity to see (Latif and ASI Vice President Jonathan Leggett)
in action,” he said. “I think that my approach is a little different. Every leader is different … what I really want to focus on, within ASI, is making sure that we go back to advocating on everyday issues that our students face.” For the new ASI chief, everyday issues include not having enough space on campus for studying and events, a limited number of course offerings and malfunctioning elevators. “Personally, I have full faith in Harpreet, Badal and the next staff,” Latif said. “I hope he does more things that I didn’t do and I couldn’t do.”
Student Success Fee Recently, the two served as voting members on the Student Fee Advisory Committee (SFAC), which passed the $181 success fee.
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