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Dialogue aimed to address faith in a secular society ZACK JOHNSTON Daily Titan Four panelists of different faiths came together Wednesday in the Titan Dreamers Center to discuss the complexities of faith in a secular society and how to develop supportive relationships despite ideological differences.

Adam Tahir, president of the Pakistan Students Association and moderator of “Religious Complexities: A Conversation About Religion in California,” began by speaking about hate crime statistics and how events like the San Bernardino terrorist attack spark national conversation about what different religions mean and what they stand for.

He introduced the panelists who set out to refute negative prejudices and shed light onto their personal experiences with the intersection of their faith and personal life.

“There’s really no way to separate yourself from your faith and I definitely believe that’s aspirational,” said Sawssan Ahmed, a Muslim assistant professor of psychology.

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Students were invited to Cal State Fullerton’s central quad to view and hang shirts that told stories of sexual assault survivors. The Clothesline Project has been brought to CSUF annually since 2001. This year, the project has reached over 1,000 personal handmade shirts accumulated from previous years.

Exhibit brings awareness of rape and violence MONSE RODRIGUEZ Daily Titan The Clothesline Project at Cal State Fullerton helped break the silence on sexual

assault as members of the campus community added their testimony of sexual violence to T-shirts on clotheslines hung across the central quad.

The project, which began in Massachusetts in 1990, has since expanded to over 500 displays across the world.

The CSUF version of the project started in 2001 with eight shirts.

Yesterday, 30 more shirts were added to the exhibit with messages of support for survivors of sexual violence.

The project offered a safe space for sexual violence survivors to share their experience on their own terms.

Different colors of shirts symbolized different types of assault: red, orange or pink for rape and sexual assault,

blue and green for child sexual abuse, gray for human trafficking, purple for rape due to sexual orientation, black for sexual harassment, yellow for domestic violence and white for homicide.

Dawn Foor, supervisor for the sexual assault unit at Community Service Programs, Inc. (CSP), said that the event’s impact on students is important because

it gets them to deal with social issues like sexual violence.

“A lot of times, particularly here in Orange County, we don’t think violence is real,” Foor said. She said that the Clothesline Project serves as a collection of testimonials that makes the idea more concrete.

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Lobby Corps advocates for students ASI committee aims to increase Titan resources AMBER MASON Daily Titan A purple piece of construction paper stapled to a bag of gummy bears bore the words, “Funding higher education would be unbearable without you,” in metallic ink. Candy in hand, members of Cal State Fullerton’s Lobby Corps walked to the Brea office of Congressman Ed Royce.

The gummy bears were a lighthearted approach to bringing up important issues facing CSUF students.

The group tackled Pell Grant funding for students taking summer courses.

“We mentioned our concerns about how we felt.

Students should be getting money allocated for (summer school), if they’re taking the required units during that

break,” said Sakshi Walia, Lobby Corps’ advocacy coordinator.

The group spoke to Royce’s staff because the congressman works at a federal level with the budget coordinator in the CSU chancellor’s office. Members have brought up the issue with other leaders as well.

“The more people talk about it, the more people who have direct power can see that, ‘Hey, students are concerned about this. They care about their education and where money is going,’” Walia said.

Advocating for students issues is a significant part of what Lobby Corps does.

As a committee within ASI, it is dedicated to being the voice for CSUF students and in the CSU system in local, state and federal legislation, according to the group’s website.

This semester, the group took part in the California Higher Education Student Summit.

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Annabelle Landry is the chief governmental officer of Cal State Fullerton’s student committee, Lobby Corps. The group engages in activities such as meeting with federal representatives and working to increase student voter registration.

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The CSUF WoMen’s Center’s student organization, Consent is Key, has worked together with CSP to present the project in past years.

This year, the University Police Department and the Student Health Center and Counseling Services were also present to offer resources to survivors and anyone who had questions related to sexual violence.

Eddie Lopez, a representative at the Student Health Center and Counseling Services booth, said that he was struck by the variety of emotion on the shirts.

“You see a group of shirts that will be all about forgiveness,” he said. “But then there’s also the ones

that have a lot of anger.

I think it’s really cool to see the responses, because there’s no right way to respond to abuse.”

Regardless, Foor said the event should not be sad, but instead rather inspiring to survivors of sexual violence.

“Every time a crime survivor writes a shirt, they are so uplifted,” she said.

“It’s like they have taken a weight off their chest: ‘I got it out, I told the world.’ And it’s so therapeutic.”

A fifth-year CSUF student who chose to remain anonymous decided to write her experience with sexual assault on a shirt this year, as it is her last year on campus. She said she walked past the clothesline every

year, but never had the courage to write her story down until now.

“It feels really weird to write it, but it feels really nice to share the table with other people and know that I am not alone by looking at everything around me,” she said.

The University Police Department was there to support the event with information on a self-defense class tailored for women.

The R.A.D. course — Rape Aggression Defense — is a $25, 12-hour program split into three required classes taught at the Student Recreation Center, with a certificate provided upon completion.

CSP offers resources from one-on-one counseling to

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Each color shirt displayed had a different meaning. White represented homicide.

support groups, self-defense classes and even assistance for when a survivor has to go to court and testify for his or her case.

The number for its 24-hour

hotline is 714-957-2737.

The CSUF WoMen’s Center also offers confidential resources for survivors of sexual violence. It can be reached at 657-278-3928.

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A report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association released Wednesday found that over 30 million Californians live in areas with unhealthy levels of pollution at some point during the year, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Los Angeles and Bakersfield were listed as the most polluted areas in the country while Salinas is the only part of the state that did not experience unhealthy air quality levels.

Airborne particles released from traffic, farm equipment and diesel trucks are the leading causes of Bakersfield’s high levels of pollution.

Los Angeles has improved in reducing pollution, but still remains the nation’s leader in ozone pollution, largely due to car emissions.

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Adam Tahir, president of the Pakistan Student Association and moderator of the event, guided the discussion and spoke about how the San Bernardino attack affected national opinions on religion.

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Four panelists of different faiths engage in a discussion about being people of faith in a secular society.

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The panelists challenged the notion that religious values and ideologies must be kept separate from professional life.

“What (keeping faith private) does is that it isolates and it marginalizes and it encourages exclusion,” said Jason Sexton, Ph.D., a Christian and lecturer in the honors program. “We’ve all got our own internal questions … these are the things that we believe are shaping every aspect of our lives and how we see the world.”

Sexton and the other panelists believe that faith can be talked about in a public setting responsibly as a means to achieving understanding. For some, their faiths often go hand-inhand with their academic careers.

“I see teaching as a spiritual practice,” said Nawang Phuntsog, a Buddhist and an associate professor of elementary and bilingual education.

“I think we all must develop a sense of compassion.”

Ahmed agreed, connecting being a good teacher with the Islamic idea of good work bringing a Muslim closer to God. “Doing a good job when I teach my students is an act of devotion and prayer,” Ahmed said.

The intersections of faith and everyday life go beyond just an individual’s career, as Ahmed pointed out with her examples involving Islam.

Being a practicing Muslim in America affects Ahmed’s life in many ways.

She sometimes finds it hard to consistently pray five times a day, especially when teaching for six consecutive hours, Ahmed said. Islam also affects how she dresses, her relationship with colleagues and students, her career decisions, how she eats and even how she uses money.

A common subject talked about was the idea of “interfaith,” and that experiencing other faiths and cultures can help an individual learn more about his or her own

spirituality.

“I am a big proponent of interfaith,” said Scott Spitzer, a Jewish associate professor of political science. “I think it’s really important that we understand each other better, that we have a better understanding of how much we share, how many values that we share in common.”

On that note, Spitzer spoke about the possible development of an on-campus organization promoting the idea of interfaith, welcoming all people of all spiritual backgrounds. Although no organizational plan has been determined yet, the organization will hopefully be up and running in fall 2016, Spitzer said.

Gidon Bonner, a member of Hillel, a Jewish club on campus which co-sponsored the event, was very pleased with the turnout and what was discussed at the event. He said that he looks forward to making it an annual event and possibly including more religious clubs on campus.

Famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman is set to become the first African-American to be featured on American paper currency, according to Reuters.

Tubman will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill and will be the first woman to appear on paper currency in over a century.

Jackson will remain on the bill, but will be moved to the back of the bill along with an image of the White House.

The $5 and $10 bills are also set to feature new faces in the future.

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Obama meets with Saudi king President Barack Obama met with King Salman of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to “clear the air” regarding U.S. relations with the country, according to CNN. Obama spent over two hours meeting with the 80-year-old king of Saudi Arabia to discuss issues involving Yemen, Iran, Lebanon’s instability and the fight against the Islamic State group, according to U.S. officials.

Differences between the two leaders remain, but they did discuss some of the more problematic matters.

Prince Turki Al-Faisal, former Saudi intelligence chief, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that “a recalibration of our relationship with America” is necessary.

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Club raises autism awareness Event aimed to encourage and celebrate uniqueness VERONICA MARQUEZ-ESHELBY Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton students filled up a board of puzzle pieces at Titan Walk on Wednesday to answer the question, “What makes you unique?”

The puzzle was part of a booth that aimed to raise autism awareness on campus by encouraging students to reflect on how individual differences and identities intersect in the community.

The motif for the event, a blue puzzle piece, symbolized autism awareness.

The event was hosted by the CSUF Center for Autism and the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity. The Center for Autism’s mission is to “improve the lives of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families through research, teaching, clinical service and community involvement,” according to its website.

April is National Autism Awareness Month, and the center hopes to celebrate uniqueness and encourage students to support their peers who may be “differently-abled,” according to an event flier.

Sidrich Chhour, a senior speech language pathology major and a member of the campus club Autism Speaks U, hosted the booth to inform students about the services available.

“If anyone from the community needs a referral for their child, or a family

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Sidrich Chhour, a senior speech language pathology major and member of the CSUF branch of Autism Speaks U, hosted a booth at Titan Walk to raise awareness for National Autism Awareness Month. Students were encouraged to write down what makes them unique on blue puzzle pieces and pasted them onto a board.

member or any loved one, we’re right there to help as best as we can,” he said. “(People with autism) want to be treated like everybody else and they’re usually classified as normal.”

Chhour said that, judging from his experience, he does not call autism a disability.

“I would just call it a unique character trait,” he said. “We all have unique character traits.”

Senior art major Rachel

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Landin visited the booth to add her puzzle piece to the board. While she said that she thinks the club is doing a great service to the community, she admitted that she does not have a full understanding of autism.

“I don’t know that much about it. All I know is that for many people who have autism, it’s a spectrum.

Not everyone is the same and not every case is the same,” she said. Events like the puzzle display are

helpful, she said, because people who know someone with autism may not know where to begin to look for information.

Brittany Simmons, a senior communications major with an emphasis in advertising, stopped by the display because, while she said that she is not personally afflicted with autism, she suffered from a speech impediment as a child and was harshly bullied for it.

She said that she wanted

to encourage those who are directly affected by autism.

“Don’t worry about what other people say about you,” Simmons said. “Just accept who you are and use it to better yourself and better the community, and even further the world.”

A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that approximately one in 68 children in the United States was diagnosed with

an autism spectrum disorder in 2012.

The CSUF Center for Autism is hosting a fundraising event, “Night at the Bar for Autism,” on Thursday, April 21 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bourbon Street Bar and Grill located at 110 E. Commonwealth Ave. in Fullerton.

Proceeds from food and drink sales will benefit the center and its engagement, community service and research programs.

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Technology shortens the ‘honeymoon phase’

Today’s relationships have a shorter period of naive bliss EMILY DIECKMAN Daily Titan YUNUEN BONAPARTE / DAILY TITAN

Lobby Corps is a committee within ASI that works to advocate for students in the CSU system.Its members have met with representatives such as Congressman Ed Royce to discuss student issues.

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In preparation for the conference, three meetings were held to teach students about the CSU system. The conference, held in Sacramento, allowed students to share their insights, said Annabelle Landry, chief governmental officer of Lobby Corps.

“The biggest asset that we have is that we have stories; we live through these experiences every day,” Landry said.

All 23 campuses in the CSU system sent representatives to the summit to advocate for students’ issues, said Alexander Foy, Lobby Corps’ vice chair.

Their specific aim was to advocate that more money be given to the CSU system to increase resources without

increasing student tuition, Foy said.

On campus, Lobby Corps is currently working on encouraging students to register to vote in the same way they do everything else: online.

Last semester, Lobby Corps ran a campaign to increase student voter registration using paper forms.

After gaining little success with the campaign, Lobby Corps decided to re-evaluate its strategy, Landry said.

While it still works to educate students about why voter registration is important, now it also educates students on online registration.

“If someone could register to vote on their phone, why wouldn’t they?” Landry said.

The new approach will attempt to encourage students

to vote through a social media campaign featuring videos and pictures of students voicing why they participate in the political process.

To kick off the campaign, a board will be filled with students explaining why they vote and why their vote matters, Walia said.

“We have 38,000 students on our campus. What if we all decided to vote?” Landry asked.

Student government leaders throughout the CSU system will participate in the campaign.

This effort to increase voter registration among students is planned to continue in the fall semester with Lobby Corps’ new leadership. This semester’s social media campaign should be launched in the next few weeks, Walia said.

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Everyone knows about the “honeymoon phase.”

It’s that period at the beginning of a relationship where everything a partner does is an exciting, glittering revelation. The way he sings to you is adorable.

The sound of her laugh is endearing.

Fast-forward a year or so and you’re wondering when he’s going to realize he sounds like an eel choking on sawdust, or if there is any way that you can convince her to laugh a little bit less, or not ever.

Psychologists refer to the “butterf lies-in-the-stomach” feeling that occurs at the beginning of relationships as “limerence.” The transition out of limerence and into a more comfortable stage has been problematic through the ages.

The early stages of today’s relationships are, in many ways, similar to relationships of past generations: the dates are cute, the endorphins soar and the compliments flow.

But technology has added a whole new facet to the inevitable fading of the honeymoon phase. Texting alone has changed the game of how we interact in new relationships, just because of how pervasive it is. Before, each reunion was a special time to express mutual feelings and attraction; now, those declarations are almost constant and daily.

When two people have just started dating and are really into each other, it’s difficult not to indulge in one another as often as possible. But how does that affect the natural progression from limerence to a more companionate relationship?

I don’t think that every relationship can only last a certain length of time, but I do think that’s true of the honeymoon phase.

By communicating affection constantly at the beginning of a relationship,

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The end of the honeymoon phase is inevitable in any relationship, but technology has shortened that stage for modern couples.

passionate feelings run out of steam more quickly.

In the past, the beginning of a relationship was like slowly drinking a bottle of wine with your partner. You both feel pretty nice and, since you’re taking your time with the process, the buzz lasts for a good while before wearing off.

Today, getting into a relationship is more like taking a series of shots with your partner. You both feel really, really good for a short period of time, and then the high is over, and suddenly you’re both sitting there, sober.

Spending so much time talking at the beginning of a relationship means you run out of things to talk about more quickly. After all, it could only take one long texting session to learn their favorite movie, TV show, book, band, color and vacation destination.

But even if the millennial lifestyle has made the honeymoon phase shorter, who’s to say that is a bad thing? The honeymoon phase is inherently

temporary. Maybe existing in a state of unrealistically heightened infatuation isn’t really a good thing anyway.

Eventually, every relationship will either progress to a more comfortable, less exciting level, or it will end. What’s so bad about being able to hang out in your pajamas and watch a movie at the end of a long day, because you are too tired for anything else?

Becoming more comfortable with your partner does not mean you don’t do anything fun or adventurous anymore. Usually it just means you do exactly what you want, because you are not afraid to tell them what that is.

Maybe millennials do text too much, or they’re too “plugged in.” But when you are crazy about someone, it’s only natural to want to talk to them all the time. It’s great to be able to find out, practically instantly, how they are doing, where you’re meeting them on Friday and what their favorite playground game was in elementary school.

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Film industry is ignorant to casting race

Hollywood is used to turning a blind eye to race in its products CLAYTON WONG Daily Titan Hollywood is no stranger to the erasure of Asian-Americans. Asian actors have worked in the industry as early as the 1910s with Sesshu Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who found movie-star success in America, but the act of whitewashing roles can be traced as far back as 1935, when German actress Luise Ranier was cast over Anna Mae Wong as O-Lan in the film adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s “The Good Earth.”

For the past century, the film industry has somehow found it very difficult to find East Asian actors to fill East Asian roles, an act stemming not from a lack of East Asian actors but from a refusal to acknowledge them.

The most recent controversies regarding yellowface and whitewashing surrounds two films: Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” and the live-action Western adaptation of Mamoru Oshii’s “Ghost in the Shell” anime. Interestingly, both films are based on previously existing stories featuring Asian characters.

In “Doctor Strange,” the character of the Ancient One, a male Tibetan sorcerer, will be portrayed by Tilda Swinton, a white actress.

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige cited the company’s initiative to change outdated, stereotypical elements of early Marvel comics. This would be all fine and well if Feige’s progressive posturing wasn’t contradicted by his assertion in an interview with Birth Movies Death that “the phony mysticism is part of what makes Doctor Strange interesting.”

On one hand, Feige is content in diversifying Marvel’s roster, but not by much. In the same interview, Feige even mentions erasing the Ancient One’s Tibetan origins. The erasure of Tibetan origins in Marvel’s canon aligns, curiously enough, with Marvel’s popularity in China, “a huge film distribution market and a country which, to put it mildly, doesn’t like Tibet,” according to The Mary Sue. Apparently, diversity is great only when it’s convenient and profitable.

“Ghost in the Shell,” however, is a live-action adaptation of a 1995 animated Japanese science fiction film, which was already an adaptation of a manga series. The controversy behind the film involves the casting of Scarlett Johansson as the film’s protagonist, Maj.

Motoko Kusanagi.

Unlike “Doctor Strange,” which is a Western interpretation of an Asian fantasy, “Ghost in the Shell” is distinctly Japanese. Series creator Masamune Shirow wrote the story at the tail end of the 1980s, right before Japan’s economic bubble burst, leading to a recession that the country still has not entirely recovered from.

Casting a white lead actor in a story exploring issues that have echoed through Japan for the past 20 years is, at best, ignorant. At worst, movie studios are openly hostile toward the idea of casting Asian-American actors, as ScreenCrush reported that Paramount may have commissioned a visual effects team to “make the Caucasian actress appear more Asian in the film.”

In response to the criticisms, Max Landis, writer of “Chronicle,” uploaded a YouTube video insinuating that casting white actors was more profitable and that the lack of diversity is the fault of audiences who pay to see these films.

It’s difficult to take Landis’ argument seriously considering other recent films facing whitewashing controversies such as “Gods of Egypt,” “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” “Aloha” and “Pan.” All these films star major white Hollywood actors and were unmitigated box office failures.

But maybe there just aren’t that many actors to fill the vacuums white actors would leave.

That would be true if actors like Keanu Reeves, John Cho, Steven Yeun, Lucy Liu, Sung Kang and Rinko Kikuchi all simultaneously perished in a “The Day the Music Died”style airplane crash.

Kikuchi would, in fact, be a perfect fit in “Ghost in the Shell” as a Japanese, Academy Award-nominated actress, according to Forbes.

She even sported a similar look to the Kusanagi character in 2013’s “Pacific Rim.” Casting in Hollywood is a zero-sum game. When a role formed by Asian origins is taken by white actors like Swinton and Johansson, that role is denied to any actors of color who might fit the role better. If Hollywood was willing to take chances on little-known white actors — as Keith Chow wrote for the Nerds of Color, who was Chris Hemsworth before Thor? Who is Garret Hedlund? — why couldn’t it take the same risk on non-white actors?

As film critic Walter Chaw wrote on Twitter, “We’re really talking about two things here: we don’t want you to stereotype us; and if you do, we would like you to at least use our faces.”

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The etymology of a name encompasses the legacy of a family, and by mistaking the name, people can effectively strip the name’s owner of their history. A simple mistake may not seem so impactful, but it could carry weight to someone.

Mistaking a person’s name harms them more than one would think

Value of a name’s importance is inestimable today GERARD AVELINO Daily Titan

“What’s in a name?” Juliet besought to her lover, Romeo. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

Shakespeare is absolutely right: the name that we call people don’t change the essence of who a person really is. Still, Starbucks baristas seem to have taken sweet Juliet’s disregard for names to an extreme, spelling my name with a “J” instead of a “G,” or calling me “Gary” or “Jared” when my venti white chocolate mocha with two pumps of peppermint is ready at the counter.

Does it mean anything when someone gets your

name wrong? Maybe it doesn’t when it comes to your local coffee shop, but when people consistently mess your name up in both professional and public situations, it starts to feel personal. People have called me “Gerald,” even when I literally had a nametag with the correct spelling of my name.

I’ve been on both sides of the fence. As a print journalist, typographical errors are some of my worst nightmares. They happen even after several rounds of copy editing. The New York Times gets dozens of names wrong each month, admitted Philip B. Corbett, the paper’s associate managing editor for standards.

The pitfall deepens when a name is tied strongly to a particularly exotic ethnicity or religion. If people mess up even with my totally Anglo first name, it

could be expected that foreign-sounding names would be butchered more often.

Last names serve as a sort of legacy for identifying people. For example, we instantly know the faces and histories of people with last names such as Freeman, Hemingway, Picasso and Rockefeller.

Ellen E Jones of The Independent wrote last year about British TV presenter David Starkey incorrectly calling Huffington Post UK Political Director Mehdi Hasan, “Ahmed.” Jones questioned Starkey’s intentions, but whether the mistake was born from malice or not, the implication of getting a name wrong is that the bearer of that name is not important enough to justify the effort of getting it right.

It’s a matter of courtesy and consideration; it’s always best to be the bigger

person and try to make an effort to get someone’s name right. Unintentional mistakes happen, yes, but names are personal. Getting them right means you care.

As a name is part of a person’s identity, it only seems appropriate that one would prefer to be identified properly. It’s even shown as a sign of disrespect in TV shows when someone purposely forgets another’s name to make them feel inferior.

Confucius said, “A superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately, and also that what he speaks may be carried out appropriately.”

Basically, please try harder, baristas. There’s no reason to be pushy if I say “medium” instead of “grande” when y’all can’t even spell my name right.

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Freshman righty Gavin Velasquez made his ninth appearence in the game against Cal State Bakersfield on Tuesday. He came in during the seventh inning and struck out one batter. On the season, he is posting a solid 1.35 ERA in 13.1 innings pitched.

Titans buckle down for UNLV CSUF baseball returns to Goodwin Field for series against Rebels KATE JOLGREN Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton baseball team is gearing up to face off against the University of Nevada Las Vegas Rebels in a nonconference series this weekend.

The Titans return to Goodwin Field after claiming an 8-3 road win over

the CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners this past Tuesday.

Despite trailing the Roadrunners through the first four innings, CSUF managed to mount a comeback, improving its overall record to 23-13 and extending its winning streak to four games.

Tanner Pinkston had a particularly hot game against Bakersfield, going 3-5 with three RBIs. The senior infielder continued his streak from last weekend’s sweep against UC Davis in which he had

multiple hits in all three games. On the season, Pinkston dons a batting average of .331 with 27 RBIs and two home runs.

As a team, CSUF currently owns a .249 batting average. Senior outfielder Dalton Blaser has been one of the most effective Titans at the plate, tallying a .339 batting average, including 22 RBIs and two home runs on the year.

Fullerton’s pitching staff has remained sharp, compiling a collective ERA of 2.31 and a grand total

of 302 strikeouts. In six starts this season, Connor Seabold has recorded a profound 1.97 ERA and is tied alongside freshman righty pitcher Colton Eastman for most strikeouts with 47.

In comparison, UNLV has struggled thus far this season, sitting on a dismal 16-20 overall record. However, the Rebels have seen some recent success, earning their first series sweep of the season against Air Force and overcoming Arizona State University by a

score of 11-7.

The Rebels have a respectable batting average of .258 as sophomore infielder Payton Squier leads the team with an average of .338, including 18 RBIs and one home run this season. Freshman infielder Kyle Isbel has also been reliable for the Rebel offense, recording a .319 batting average and accumulating a total of 14 RBIs. UNLV’s Achilles’ heel has been its pitching, as the rotation owns a combined ERA of 5.74. Senior pitcher

Kenny Oakley goes into the series with a middling ERA of 3.29, but a winning record of 4-3.

This will be the first time that CSUF and UNLV face off against one another since the 2014 season. In that game, the Titans came away with a 2-1 win in which Pinkston went one-for-two with one run scored.

Hoping to build upon a 9-2 record in the month of April, the Titans will face the Rebels in game one of the series Friday at 7 p.m. on Goodwin Field.

CSUF set for battle with Rainbow Wahine Softball flies out to University of Hawaii for Big West matchup BRANDON ROSS Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton softball team looks to sustain its status as the hottest team on campus as it travels to Hawaii to take on the Rainbow Wahine in another pivotal conference series matchup.

The first-place Titans (3510 overall, 9-0 Big West) remain perfect through conference play and have won 10 straight games. Hawaii (20-22 overall, 4-5 Big West) currently resides in sixth place in Big West Conference standings.

CSUF’s current win streak is the longest the program has seen since its 2005 campaign in which it won 11 consecutive games and went to the NCAA regionals.

The Titans are coming off Tuesday’s impressive victory at Anderson Family Field, where they beat the San

Diego Toreros 8-2. The Titans capitalized on four San Diego errors and received solid pitching in the circle from starter Cerissa Rivera and the bullpen.

The Rainbow Wahine are coming off their first series win of the conference season, taking two of three games from the UC Riverside Highlanders (28-14-1 overall, 4-5 Big West). Their play over the weekend was sparked by senior second baseman Tayana Mata, who was recognized this week as the Big West Field Player of the Week.

The Titans have been stellar in all facets of the game and boast an impressive team ERA of 2.12 and a collective .309 batting average, ranking them first and second in each category in the Big West, respectively. CSUF has also been impressive defensively, ranking second in conference play behind UC Riverside with a .969 fielding percentage.

Fullerton has been led all season by two-time, backto-back Big West all-American, senior infielder Missy Taukeiaho as she heads Titan

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Senior third baseman Missy Taukeiaho hit her seventh home run in her first at-bat against the San Diego Toreros. In fear of her bat, the Toreros intentionally waked her in her next appearance at the plate.

starters with an outstanding .394 batting average, seven home runs and 31 RBIs. Junior catcher Alexis Gonzalez has been another outstanding offensive source of power for the Titans, as she has also crushed seven home runs and leads

the team with 35 RBIs. Pitchers Desiree Ybarra and Sydney Golden have been key for CSUF in the circle, as they boast impressive ERAs of 1.76 and 1.78, respectively. They both rank second and third, respectively, in conference

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in total ERA. Hawaii has struggled overall to get hits on the board, recording a mediocre .241 team batting average.

The strength of the team is its pitching staff, which has posted a solid 3.13 collective ERA. They are led by Brittany

Hitchcock, who has an impressive 2.38 ERA (fifth in Big West) in 21 starts this season.

The Titans begin the series in Hawaii at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium on Friday at 6 p.m., followed by a doubleheader Saturday at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

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