Hearts Like Fists opened Friday in the the Hallberg Theatre, asking the age-old question, can a broken heart truly mend?

The cast approached this question with all the ac-tion-packed comedy and lustful romances that the play had to offer.

This script of action and romance was made possi-ble by playwright Adam Szymkowicz, who flew in from New York just to see the performance on Friday night.

In a crime-infested urban city, three fearless women stand up for what is right and form a group called The Crimefighters.

With the evil Doctor X on a murderous rampage, The Crimefighters enlist the help of fellow vigilante Lisa, but is she ready to put on the mask and dedicate her life to justice?

Hearts Like Fists ex-plores themes like sexual desire and broken hearts, presented with side-split-ting humor and fierce fight scenes.

The heart-breaking hero-ine, Lisa, is played by Lena Agulian.

Throughout the play, Lisa finds herself conflicted over becoming a full-fledged member of The Crimefight-ers or pursuing her roman-tic feelings for her ambi-tious doctor, Peter.

Agulian displays char-acteristics of a longing for passion and purpose in her portrayal of Lisa.

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No matter where some-one’s passions in life take them, one thing remains the same: Where they came from.

It is hard to imagine that a clothing line would rely so much on this idea, but for one clothing company right in our backyard, this idea is the foundation.

Saltie Roots clothing is an Orange County-based com-pany co-founded by one of Cal State Fullerton’s own.

The independent ap-parel company was creat-ed in 2013 by two athletes, one of them being CSUF soccer player Christina Burkenroad.

Burkenroad and her part-ner base their clothing line on a few basic principles, according to the Saltie Roots website.

The first being never for-getting your roots.

In doing so, you can fol-low your passions and stay true to who you are.

The passions you chase can help you get through any obstacle.

Both of the founders have roots right here in the OC.

Each of them grew up on the sandy beaches of Or-ange County, inspiring the name Saltie Roots.

The company also boasts simple designs. This comes from the idea that “simple is style.”

Both founders are ath-letes, and they adopted this mantra from their experi-ences as athletes who know that simplicity is a style all on its own.

For their simple clothing line, the two founders stuck with their beach roots and adopted an anchor as their main logo.

Not only does the anchor fit their beach background, but according to the web-site, it symbolizes hope, strength and the tides of in-evitable change.

“We envision a world full of unlimited opportuni-ty where people’s passions guide them to create a life story that must be told,” ac-cording to the Saltie Roots website.

The OC company proves that anyone can follow their passions no matter how many they have or how far they are from home, and that style doesn’t need to be

complicated. The store is currently

based in Laguna Niguel, California.

All Saltie Roots clothing is sold through Storenvy and can also be purchased from

the Saltie Roots website. The line includes T-shirts

with the anchor logo and the words “Remember your Roots.”

Tanks with just the an-chor logo are also available

for purchase. Staying true to the com-

pany’s theme, all apparel comes in simple colors, like royal blue or grey.

Prices range from $15 to $23. Prices that

anyone—even college stu-dents—can afford.

The store also has anchor logo stickers for $1.50.

To purchase Saltie Roots clothing, visit saltieroots.storenvy.com.

The newly-formed Stu-dent Success Initiative Fee Advisory Committee met Friday for the first time to discuss specific details of how the $181 per semester Student Success Fee will be allocated.

The Student Success Fee was approved last semes-ter after a weeks-long con-sultation process involv-ing student surveys and open forums. Implemen-tation began this semester

with a $60 per semester fee that will increase each year through fall 2016 when it reaches the full $181 per semester.

The meeting focused mainly on how the fee will support academic success and improve class availabil-ity. The committee, which includes student represen-tatives, is looking at options for expanding bottleneck courses–core courses that are tough to get into or that have a high fail rate.

Vice President for In-stitutional Research and

Analytical Studies Edward Sullivan presented possi-ble options for expanding course availability for the most impacted courses.

Some of the options pre-sented include expanding core classes currently avail-able only once a year, add-ing sections of a class as opposed to adding seats to existing classes and offer-ing more classes on Fridays and Saturdays.

Sullivan pointed out that only 575 of the 25,000 available seats in Mihay-lo College of Business and

Economics are being used on Fridays. Adding classes on these days would mean plenty of available space, Sullivan said.

Student members point-ed out that major core class-es, which affect a student’s ability to graduate on time if it is a prerequisite for a future class, would be more beneficial than highly-im-pacted general education classes, which can be taken at any time.

“The last thing you wan-na do, in doing this, is to dilute the quality of the

education that you’re gon-na receive,” Sullivan said. “If you lower the value and quality of courses that are taught, you’re lowering the value of your education.”

Revenue from the Student Success Fee will expand or overhaul many campus programs.

The Pollak Library’s hours have been extended, and it will be open 24 hours a day beginning the last Monday of classes through the Friday of finals week.

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Students will have the opportunity to speak with Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva at the Asso-ciated Students, Inc. Lob-by Corps-sponsored “In-side the 65th” event today at Cal State Fullerton’s Alumni House at 6 p.m.

Quirk-Silva, a CSUF alumna, is the state assem-bly representative for Dis-trict 65, which includes Fullerton. She has held the position since 2012, and she will be up for reelec-tion in November.

Quirk-Silva’s Republi-can rival, assembly candi-date Young Kim, could not be confirmed for the event, said Lobby Corps Advo-cacy Coordinator Kim Flores.

The forum is one meth-od of tackling the issue of low political involvement by students caused by a multitude of reasons, from time constraints to lack of information.

Lobby Corps members discussed at their Thurs-day meeting the impor-tance of political efficacy and a new game plan for bringing the political pro-cess to students.

Districts and state rep-resentation have confused even those students in the political science de-partment and prompted questions regarding the different levels of repre-sentation, Flores said.

Each level of represen-tation, from the local city council up through state representatives and on to national senators, deal with distinct issues, Flores said.

In an effort to increase students’ interest in the political process, the ASI Board of Directors will make an effort to reach out to students, said ASI Board of Directors representative Michelle Viorato.

“Something that I know that Lobby Corps and the Board of Directors are try-ing to do this year is try-ing to reach out to stu-dents and trying to go to them directly—not waiting for them to come to them

and us to ask for the ques-tions,” Viorato said at the Lobby Corps meeting.

Part of the board’s effort to engage with students will include making them-selves more easily acces-sible to the campus they represent.

“With the Board of Di-rectors, what we’re going to try to do this year is hold outside office hours so that we’re a little bit more accessible,” Viorato said.

Lobby Corps meets ev-ery Thursday in the Titan Student Union President’s Room 233 from 1:15-4 p.m.

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Gov. Jerry Brown signed seven new laws aimed at cracking down on human trafficking in California.

One of the laws, SB 955, was met with opposition from the American Civil Liber-ties Union over its ap-proval of wiretapping during human traffick-ing investigations. The bill’s author, Sen. Hol-ly Mitchell, said the law will help women and children forced into prostitution.

AB 1585 allows those convicted of solici-tation or prostitution to have their convic-tions waived if they can prove they were vic-tims of human traffick-ing, while SB 1165 will allow educational pro-grams aimed at pre-venting sex trafficking to be taught at Califor-nia’s public schools.

Alton Alexander Nolen, who allegedly beheaded a woman in Oklahoma, will go to court Monday, CNN reported.

Nolen will be charged with first-degree murder and assault with a dead-ly weapon.

Police said Nolen walked into the front office of the Vaughan Foods processing plant and beheaded 54-year-old Colleen Hufford with a knife before attacking Traci Johnson, 43. John-son is currently in stable condition.

Nolen had recently lost his job at the Vaughan Foods plant, although CNN reported that there was no indication that Nolen planned the attack.

Nolen had a series of past charges, including those for possession of a controlled substance and resisting an officer.

Despite the U.S.-led airstrikes on Saturday, ISIS continued its at-tacks Sunday on the city of Kobane, Syria.

Located near the Turkish border, the Syr-ian-Kurdish town of Ko-bane is housed in a re-gion that has seen an exodus of more than 160,000 people into Turkey since the battle started on Sept. 15.

Striking ISIS near Ko-bane is problematic for the U.S. because one of the group’s main foes, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is considered to be a terrorist group by the U.S. for its guerilla campaign against the Turkish government.

Kurdish leaders in both Syria and Iraq have called on the inter-national community to halt ISIS’ advancement and prevent a massa-cre in the area.

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Sharon Quirk-Silva assemblywoman for district 65, will come to CSUF Monday as part of the ASI Lobby Corps ‘Inside the 65th’ event.

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Candidates for the Fuller-ton City Council will have the opportunity to face off in two debates this week.

The first is scheduled for Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the city council chambers of Fullerton City Hall.

The second will take place on Thursday, also at 6:30 p.m. in the same location.

The first debate is or-ganized by the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce, the second by the League of Women Voters of North Or-ange County. All candidates have been invited to both events.

The election this No-vember features seven can-didates, including incum-bents Mayor Doug Chaffee and Mayor Pro Tem Greg Sebourn.

The election will take place Nov. 4, and the last day to register to vote is Oct. 20.

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The Supplemental Instruc-tion (SI) program, which provides peer-led study groups for historically diffi-cult courses, will be expand-ed to include more sessions for more classes where stu-dents need additional help.

Academic advising plans to hire more staff in an ef-fort to reach more students. They also added a manda-tory graduation advisement workshop for students who have between 75 and 84 units.

The Career Center and Center for Internships and Community Engagement hope to reach more students. Both centers plan to hire additional staff in order to reach out to more businesses

and to find more career and internship opportunities.

The athletics department added scholarships for some of its athletes. They will also use these funds to fully sup-port men’s and women’s golf, which have been de-pendent on outside funding since they were brought back in 2009. Additional staff will be hired to support the ath-letes, including a life skills coordinator, graduate assis-tant for academic advising and sports psychologists.

There are also plans to improve the athletic facil-ities. They are currently in the design stage of the ath-letic fields lighting project. They also plan to replace the Titan Stadium video board, which is now over 20 years old.

Alumni relations also hopes to enhance existing outreach programs, includ-ing dinners hosted by alum-ni as a unique networking opportunity for students and with a searchable database for students seeking alumni in their field.

The committee will pres-ent their plans to the Stu-dent Fee Advisory Com-mittee next week. The next meeting of the Student Suc-cess Initiative Fee Advisory Committee is scheduled for Nov. 7 from 3-5 p.m. in the Academic Senate Chambers in the TitanShops book-store. The location may be changed.

A breakdown of the Stu-dent Success Initiative al-location is available at Suc-cess.Fullerton.edu.

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Effective June 2015, ev-ery campus in the Califor-nia State University (CSU) system will be required to provide an on-campus ad-vocate to support survivors of sexual assault.

CSU Chancellor Tim-othy P. White announced last week that the system will voluntarily implement provisions of the Survi-vor Outreach and Support Act, which was introduced to United States Congress in July. The act parallels a plan proposed this month by University of Califor-nia officials also meant to combat sexual assault on campuses.

Both the UC and CSU programs fall in line with the “It’s on Us” campaign launched by the White House to combat sexu-al violence on college campuses.

Having a survivor advo-cate on campus will dra-matically increase aware-ness and the likelihood that a rape will be reported, said Interim Director for the CSUF WoMen’s Center Mary Becerra.

“I think it absolutely will change not only the re-sources that are available to students, but I think it is going to change how our campus responds to reports because the magnitude of reports will change,”

Becerra said. Sexual violence on college

campuses has reached an epidemic level. One in four women and almost one in 16 men experience sexual vio-lence at some point in their college career, Becerra said.

CSUF currently has a co-ordinated effort with Coun-seling and Psychologi-cal Services and with the Health Center known as the Title Nine Task Force.

“Rape and sexual assault

is never a normative event. It’s not something that hap-pens in somebody’s life and it’s just business as usu-al the next day,” Becerra said. “And sometimes, es-pecially if the assault oc-curs on campus or occurs with another student, it changes the way they feel about being here, and we have to help that student and address that issue so that the students feel com-fortable continuing to get

their degree at CSUF.” The new advocate’s job

will consist of provid-ing sexual assault victims with information on how to report an act of violence and on where they can re-ceive medical care, cri-sis intervention counseling and victim rights and legal counseling.

The advocate will also be responsible for conduct-ing an on-campus educa-tional campaign to create

awareness for students. “(Victims) absolutely

need an empathic listen-ing ear and they need to move from a position of being a victim and power-less, into a position of be-ing a survivor and power,” said sexual harassment and assault expert Kristi Kanel, Ph.D., a professor of hu-man services.

There have been two report-ed rapes on campus this year, the first reports since 2010.

To report a rape, contact campus police at (657) 278-2515. In an emergency, dial 911.

Rapes can also be report-ed to the Student Health and Counseling Center by visit-ing the center or by dialing (657) 278-2800.

If you have been raped and need counseling or other information, contact Counseling and Psycho-logical Services at (657) 278-3040.

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With her courageous dis-positions, Agulian shows Li-sa’s temperament and fierce-ness as she enters into her new life of crimefighting.

Peter, a passionate doctor developing an improved ar-tificial heart to replace his damaged one, is played by Christopher Yu. At certain points in his performance, Yu brings an excessive lev-el of urgency to his choic-es for playing Peter, which at times can be overbear-ing. However, when Peter’s situations do call for high amounts of energy, Yu is captivating and he commits to every moment on stage.

Chayan Tavakoly is strik-ing as Doctor X. After be-ing rejected by his dream girl, Doctor X vows that no one else should be allowed to love and begins injecting lovers with a deadly poison while they sleep.

Tavakoly flawlessly plays the classic comic book

villain archetype while still displaying the realistic mo-tives of his character. As Doctor X broods over his loneliness to his next vic-tims, Tavakoly’s portrayal is menacing yet relatable.

The crime-fighting trio of Nina, Sally and Jazmin is played by Emily Ruth James, Stephanie Wilborn and Bailey Castle, respec-tively. Each actress brings her own unique understand-ing of their character to make up the sassy and sexy Crimefighters.

With her afro-mohawk standing tall, Wilborn com-mands the stage with energy and attitude as Sally. In her portrayal of Jazzmin, Cas-tle creates moments of sen-suality and humor with her strong yet subtle actions.

James makes a few sparks herself as she displays Ni-na’s forbidden desire for Doctor X. The scenes in which she and the doctor have together make for some hilarious moments as the

characters interact.The fast-paced fight

scenes in Hearts Like Fists were choreographed by Mi-chael Polak. Suspense is created as the actors punch, kick and fight with weapons. By contrast, the moments of slow-motion fighting earn big laughs.

The actors in the fight scenes are assisted by the ensemble of “ninjas” that lift the actors and exag-gerate their fighting, mak-ing it more hilarious. When they’re not lifting or catch-ing The Crimefighters, the ninjas play well-devel-oped and believable minor characters throughout the show.

The fantastic lighting by Harrison Haug and sound by Dayne Donnell create a convincing city environment and give the action scenes a fast-paced and suspenseful dynamic.

Hearts Like Fists contin-ues through Oct. 19 in the Hallberg Theatre.

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Neon Trees to rock The Observatory

Orange County is about to get a dose of energy this Tuesday.

Neon Trees is continuing their “First Things First” tour in Santa Ana at the OC Observatory to pro-mote their new album, Pop Psychology.

If the band doesn’t sound familiar, they should. Cur-rently, the band’s two most popular songs seem to be heard everywhere.

“Animal,” their first big hit, reached No. 1 on Bill-board’s Alternative Songs

Chart and No. 2 on its Rock Songs’ Chart.

The song was also fea-tured on the hit show Glee. The band’s other hit, “Ev-erybody Talks,” was a dou-ble platinum single by the Recording Industry Associ-ation of America (RIAA).

The latest and great-est song from the band is “Sleeping with a Friend,” which was certified Gold by the RIAA.

This song is said to em-body all that the Neon Trees are with its upbeat, modern alternative pop. However, the roots of this song go deep.

Tyler Glenn, the band’s lead vocalist and songwrit-er, has been in the news

recently for something oth-er than his music.

Earlier this year, Glenn came out of the closet and announced to the world that he’s gay.

Now, normally this wouldn’t be so unusual, but there’s a twist—he’s

Mormon.All of the band mem-

bers were raised Mormon, and none of them have any ill feelings toward the church.

In fact, all four members credit The Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-Day Saints for their success.

The group chooses not to drink alcohol or to do drugs, and they attribute their rise to fame to the church’s doc-trine of staying away from such substances.

It seems there would be

a conflict for Glenn, but he assures there is none.

“I don’t know what the rumors are, but we’re not taught that ‘homos are go-ing to hell’ on Sunday in church,” he said in an in-terview with Rolling Stone.

“Mostly it’s just about Christ and his teachings.”

This inner struggle with his sexuality is what has in-spired Glenn to write these songs.

“Sleeping with a Friend” is really about an attraction he had for a straight friend of his.

In fact, most of the songs he’s written have an under-lying tone about his anxiety and depression as a young-er man.

Despite the controver-sy, Neon Trees are on their way to the top, and they are moving fast.

They made their first ap-pearance in 2008 when they opened for The Killers.

After that, they signed

a contract with Mercury Records.

Pop Psychology is their third album after Habits (2010) and Picture Show (2012).

Students should expect a lot of energy and audience interactions at the concert, and also some bubbly-col-orful music.

The Neon Trees will be at the OC Observatory on Tuesday, at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets are $25.

For more information or to order tickets, go to the OC Observatory’s web-site. For more information on the band or to listen to their music, go to fameis-dead.com.

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Famed for hit singles like “Animal” and “Everybody Talks,’ Neon Trees will be playing at The Orange County Obsevatory in Santa Ana on Tuesday as part of their “First Things First” tour. The tour is promoting their third studio album Pop Psychology, which features the song “Sleeping with a Friend.”

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Students should expect a lot of energy and audience interactions at the concert, and also some bubbly-colorful music.

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Crimefighters Jazzmin, Nina and Sally train their new member, Lisa, to help them defeat Doctor X and end his killing spree. Heats Like Fist runs through Oct. 19 in The Hallberg Theatre.

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This semester, I, for the first time, needed to seek psycholog-ical help. Ph.D. applications, my master’s project, the pressures of being an out lesbian and many other difficult parts of my life all affected me at the same time.

These stresses materialized into my first panic attack, fits of crying and anxiety. I consider myself lucky. I was able to admit that I needed help.

Despite my privilege, I was nervous during my first vis-it. What if the therapist thought I was weak? That my problems were stupid? Would she tell me to go away? Would she tell me to suck it up?

I tried to distract myself by looking at pamphlets, and I found one on race-related stress. I wanted to cry (yet again) as I pored over the pamphlet.

This was physical proof of the seven years of discomfort, anger and pain I had been dealing with for my entire educational career. Additionally, this stress had af-fected me even more during my three years as a graduate stu-dent. It felt better just to know I was allowed to feel this way and that others felt this way too.

I have only attended one uni-versity in my seven years as a college student. Therefore, it is

out of love and care that I cri-tique the way that Cal State Ful-lerton has helped students of color.

As an English major, I can (and will) forever complain about the lack of representation of writers of color in my classes. I will also complain about the red tape that cultural organiza-tions need to get through in or-der to receive funding for events. I have complained about the lack of an ethnic studies requirement. But the overall tone and feel of CSUF just doesn’t make a lot of us feel welcome.

I know CSUF is working hard. There has been a lot of develop-ment in cultural centers and di-versity initiatives, but Cal State Fullerton needs to do so much more.

On Thursday Sept. 18, Asso-ciated Students, Inc. employ-ees sported black T-shirts em-blazoned with two fists that had the words “Tusk Life” printed on the knuckles. The folks who designed these shirts most like-ly imagined them as a cheer-ful throwback that would match their 90s-themed Block Party and that all would be well.

Thankfully, a few good friends pointed out how uneasy this im-age made them. It is uncomfort-able to watch a group of relative-ly privileged college students wearing T-shirts emblazoned

with a slogan poking fun at an integral part of hip-hop history.

For those who do not know, “Thug Life” was a rap group started by Tupac Shakur in 1994. Tupac himself often connect-ed his identity to the concept of Thug Life. For him, it was a way of life that seemed to count-er his fears of “selling out” af-ter he had become successful. It meant succeeding although he had nothing.

As a very conscious, educat-ed man and as the son of a Black Panther, Tupac was very aware of racism and its consequences. That being said, I don’t under-stand what ASI was getting at.

I find it very unlikely that the people wearing these T-shirts are aware of the continued ap-propriation of black culture that they are tapping into. Thug Life is a political statement against anti-blackness, against the po-licing of brown and black bod-ies, against racism. Therefore, to wear it during an event at a university that has just a 3 per-cent Black/non-Hispanic student population makes me uneasy.

This is not the first time some-thing like this has happened at Cal State Fullerton. On Sept. 14, The Daily Titan reported that on Aug. 19, the sorority Alpha Delta Pi hosted a Taco Tuesday event during which attendees wore racist costumes. Although

the sorority is facing sanctions, this is only part of a larger prob-lem: CSUF needs to work harder at ensuring that students of color feel safe.

I acknowledge that great work is being done to promote diver-sity and acceptance, but it is not enough. I began attending this university in 2008, and I strug-gled every semester. I continu-ally felt culturally inferior to my classmates. I would constantly overhear my classmates saying things like “Oh, that’s the ghet-to part of town where the Lati-nos live. You don’t want to go there.”

Often, the microaggressions I experienced were so minute that I could not even articulate why I was upset. It was a look, someone’s tone, someone’s body language that made me feel less than them.

As a former Writing Center tutor, I saw tutees of color go-ing through similar things. Stu-dents wanted to know where the Mexicans hung out because they felt lonely and out of place. Most students of color (including my-self) don’t understand why they feel left out or inferior. And worse, we rarely even have the words to articulate how our feel-ings are being hurt, so we can’t even ask for help.

Furthermore, intent means nothing. According to the

pamphlet I picked up at Coun-seling and Psychological Ser-vices, “It is important to under-stand that you can experience race-related stress even if you were mistaken that a racist act occurred. Race-related stress re-actions only require that a per-son believes that they were the victim of racism.”

It does not matter whether ASI or Alpha Delta Pi meant to hurt anyone’s feelings. They did. I understand that ASI and other parts of Cal State Fullerton are working hard against on-campus racism and harassment, so this is more a plea that no one give up.

Things are going too slow-ly and students of color like me are paying the price. Instead of proving to students of color that the lack of funding, or oc-currences of racism, or budget cuts aren’t racist, I would like CSUF to spend more time ac-tively participating in events and measures that support people of color. If we are not included in every part of on-campus life, we cannot feel safe or welcome.

I know there is still a long way to go, and there will never be a post-racial CSUF. But hopefully there can be a point where stu-dents don’t have to undergo se-rious physical and psychological stress in order to obtain an edu-cation—if they are lucky enough to graduate at all.

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The Cal State Fuller-ton women’s volleyball team opened Big West Conference play on a sour note, losing to Cal State Northridge and to Long Beach State this weekend at Titan Gym.

The Titans hope to avoid a repeat of last sea-son where they only won four conference games. In a conference where three teams shared the champi-onship last year, finishing near the top will be no easy task.

CSUN, one of the three champions, came to Ti-tan Gym Friday night. The Matadors entered play with a 9-3 record, with two of their losses coming against ranked opponents.

Fullerton came out strong in the first set and gave Northridge all they could handle. The set was tied at 21 when senior Ca-sey Hinger recorded a kill to put the Matadors back on top. CSUN won the back-and-forth set 25-23.

The second set was a similar affair with the Ti-tans refusing to let the Matadors pull away. CSUF freshman Stephanie Buss scored to bring the Titans to within two at 19-17, but Northridge went on a 6-0 run to put an emphatic end to the set.

CSUN was able to

overcome a late Titan rally to win the third set and the match. The win was Head Coach Jeff Stork’s 200th for his career. Matador freshman outside hitter Da-netta Boykin had a game-high 13 kills and Hinger had 11 kills and seven digs. Hinger, a Fullerton native, had two service aces as well.

Two Titans recorded double-digit kills. Niki Withers and Holland Cren-shaw had 12 each, but as a team CSUF was outhit .316 to .209.

The Matadors had 10 blocks, compared to just two for the Titans. CSUN has received votes in the AVCA Top-25 Poll every week but one this season, and will likely compete for the Big West title again.

After dropping the open-er, the Titans needed to bounce back quickly for their game against Long Beach State on Saturday.

The 49ers entered play with an impressive 11-4 re-cord after winning seven of their last eight matches.

Long Beach State leads the Big West with a .156 opponents’ hitting percent-age, and Saturday was no exception.

The Titans managed just a meager .148 hitting per-centage and the offense struggled to find holes in the 49er defense.

“They watched a lot of film and they know where we hit,” Withers said. “Their middle blockers did a good job of closing and

we got trapped.” Withers led the Titans

with eight kills, but her streak of 14 consecutive matches with double-digit kills was snapped.

“It’s easy to scout when you’re 6-foot-3-inches and 6-foot-2-inches and play that high above the net,” Assistant Coach Kevin Hitt said. “The passing really dictated where the ball was going tonight. Because we didn’t pass so well, we had to set the ball in a certain

direction. If we pass bet-ter, we could spread the ball out a little bit more and make them guess more.”

Successful passing has been the key to the Titans’ success this year. They are 4-1 when they have more assists than their opponent, and are 1-8 when they fail to do so.

Mackenzie Olsen led the team with 27 assists and she ranks fifth in the Big West in assists per set with 9.61. The University of

Delaware transfer had four kills as well.

Fullerton’s young ros-ter struggled to adjust to the 49er blockers. Veteran players like Crenshaw have played tough conference opponents before and they gave advice to the young Titans.

“I tell them to stay calm and play their game. They’re obviously all here for a reason because they are really good volleyball players,” Crenshaw said.

“Just play the game one point at a time.”

“Failing doesn’t automat-ically mean that you’re not successful, especially with this young group,” Hitt said. “These four freshman starters can go nowhere but up from here and we think this is really going to help them mentally.”

The Titans travel to play another 2013 Big West tri-champion team Friday, the Hawaii Rainbow Wahi-ne in Honolulu.

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Stephanie Buss (8) attempts to get the ball over two Long Beach State blockers. Buss is one of four freshman starters for the Titans.YUNUEN BONAPARTE/ DAILY TITAN

The Titans open conference play with losses to two of the Big West’s top teams

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Head Coach Carolyn Zimmerman addresses her team during a timeout Sunday against the Long Beach State 49ers at Titan Gym. The offense struggled and failed to score over 15 points in any set.YUNUEN BONAPARTE / DAILY TITAN

The CSUF men’s soccer team kept up their winning ways by taking down the Grand Canyon University Antelopes 1-0 in Phoenix.

The shutout was the fourth consecutive victory for the Titans, who seem to have gotten hot at the right time.

Fullerton will open Big West Conference play Thursday, and their superi-or play in recent weeks has given the Titans confidence heading into the most diffi-cult stretch of their season.

CSUF will head to UC Davis Thursday and to Sac-ramento State Saturday.

On Sunday night, the Ti-tans relied on a staunch de-fensive effort to keep the

Antelopes off the board. After scoring eight goals in their past three matches, Fullerton’s offense was able to muster only one score, but that one goal proved to be enough against the listless Grand Canyon offense.

Conveniently enough, that score came less than three minutes into the game.

The lone goal came from an unlikely source, as soph-omore defender Mitchell Bell scored off a header for his first goal of the season.

Bell’s goal came off the assist from freshman Robert Coronado, his second of the year.

David Rodriguez Elias continued his solid play as well, recording his second shutout since he was named the Titans starter during the UNLV Invitational.

The sophomore from Huntington Beach had to make only three saves on the night, as the Fullerton defense staved off a majori-ty of the runs Grand Canyon attempted on offense.

With the victory, Fuller-ton improved to 4-3-2 on their 2014 campaign after a brutal 0-3-2 start.

Grand Canyon fell to 2-5-1 on the season, losing their second consecutive game. Offense has continued to be an issue for the Antelopes, who have scored just seven goals in their eight games this season. Conversely, they have allowed 14 goals, which explains their strug-gles this year.

Junior goalie Luca Lic-ciardi played extremely well for the Antelopes, shutting down the Titans after their

opening goal. He had to make only two

saves the rest of the night, as CSUF took the pressure off, choosing to instead hold the ball and keep it away from their opponent.

After just four goals in their first five games, Head Coach George Kuntz’s team has finally found itself on offense, which is what they will need heading into con-ference play.

The Titans are current-ly in third place behind the UC Irvine Anteaters and the Cal State Northridge Mata-dors in the Big West South division.

UC Irvine appears to be the team to beat early in the 2014 season, sitting atop the conference with a 7-0-1 mark.

The Anteaters and the

Titans will meet twice this year, with the first match-up coming on Oct. 18 in Irvine.

Neither of Fullerton’s first two conference foes have played extremely well up to this point in the season.

The UC Davis Aggies are undefeated so far, but they have six ties. Sacramento State has had even less suc-cess so far, holding a 2-4-2 mark.

The Titans will return

home Oct. 9 when the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos head to Titan Stadium for a Big West Conference clash.

If CSUF is able to main-tain the level of play that they’ve discovered in their last four matches, a Big West Conference title will not be out of reach.

After failing to qualify for the Big West Tourna-ment last season, the Titans are setting their goals much higher this season.

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The women’s soccer team suffered their sixth loss of the season on Thursday after falling to the No. 11 ranked Pepperdine Waves 1-0 in overtime.

The game was much more a tactical battle than the back-and-forth affairs the Titans are accustomed to. In the first half, CSUF recorded no shots, while Pepperdine’s four shots only forced one save from sophomore goal-keeper Jennifer Stuart.

Head Coach Demian Brown started off the game with a somewhat conserva-tive 4-1-4-1 formation, the attackers sticking more strin-gently to their positions and focusing more on defense. Brown attributed the tactic to the caliber of Pepperdine’s players.

“A lot of that has to do with the quality of the team that we played against today,” Brown said.

Tasked with being the team’s creative outlet, mid-fielder Connie Caliz proved to be Fullerton’s main attack-ing threat. “I felt like I had to put the team on my shoulders tonight and just carry on the team and do whatever I could just to get us to keep going forward,” Caliz said.

Indeed, Caliz was all over the pitch on the night, at-tempting to recover loose balls and looking to pester opposing players. However, Pepperdine moved the ball well, spreading the Fuller-ton players and forcing them to defend for most of the match.

The breakthrough almost

came in the 71st minute when Pepperdine’s Micaela Cervantes rattled the cross-bar with a strong shot from distance.

Despite being dominat-ed for much of the match, Fullerton could have earned the victory in the 85th min-ute. After a Pepperdine cor-ner kick, Chelsey Patterson cleared the ball and Caliz started the counter attack, re-covering the ball from the top of the Titan box.

She surged forward, draw-ing two defenders and doing well to get past them. She then laid off to Rebecca Wil-son, who beat the last defend-er but then shot straight at the goalkeeper.

Full time ended 0-0, send-ing the teams into overtime.

It took Pepperdine only three minutes to score the golden goal. On a counter-attack, Colby Carson played the ball over the top to Lynn Williams, who dribbled for-ward and fired a low-driven shot to the far post that es-caped Stuart’s fingertips.

The Titans played the first of a three-game road trip Sunday against the Universi-ty of San Diego Toreros.

USD came into play with a 3-4-2 record but had won their previous two games against ranked opponents San Diego State and Oklahoma.

The Toreros were 0-2-1 against Big West opponents entering Sunday.

USD struck first when sophomore Danielle Gon-zales fed midfielder Rachel Connors for a goal in the 43rd minute. The goal was Con-nors’ second of the season.

Wilson hit the equaliz-er for the Titans in the 64th minute. The goal came off a deflection from a Torero de-fender. Sophomore midfield-er Amanda Howard recorded

the first assist of her career, while the goal was Wilson’s fourth of the season and third in the last three games.

Torero goalkeeper McK-enna Tollack started the game and made four saves. Michelle Craft replaced her for the final 23 minutes of

the game. Both goalies have seen a lot of playing time this year, and it’s been common for both to play in the same game.

The winning goal came in the 76th minute when Torero defender Caitlyn Kretzsch-mar scored off a header

from Mariah Butera’s corner kick. Craft and the USD de-fense kept the Titans off the scoreboard for the remain-der of the game, and the To-reros came away with a 2-1 victory.

Sunday was only the sec-ond time Stuart has allowed

multiple goals in a game. The Titans are 0-7 in games decided by one goal this season.

CSUF enters Big West play with a 2-6-2 record. They open conference play at Ha-waii on Thursday and will then play UC Davis Sunday.

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Junior Christina Burkenroad has played well this year, but both her and the Titans have struggled to get the offense going so far.AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN

The Cal State Fullerton men’s cross-country team continued their impres-sive 2014 campaign with a second-place finish at the Coyote Classic held on the campus of Cal State San Bernardino.

The Fullerton women’s team also had a strong show-ing on Saturday, finishing in sixth place in the same event.

Cal Poly Pomona end-ed up sweeping the Coyote Classic, claiming first place in both the men’s and wom-en’s invitational races.

Pomona dominated the competition on the men’s side, finishing with the top 11 finishers and with 12 of the top 20 finishers over-all in the 8k course. Mark Huizard finished first for the Broncos with a time of 25:34, while the 11th place

finisher Garrett Pankratz ended up with a 25:59 mark in the event. The 25 seconds that separated the first-place finisher and the 11th-place finisher shows the efficiency that Pomona used to easily handle their competition.

On the women’s side, Cal Poly Pomona’s Lizzette Huerta earned the individual title in the women’s 6k race with her time of 22:36.

The CSUF men’s second place finish was due large-ly to junior Jeff Little and seniors Donald Bernard and Brandon Cook. Lit-tle was the top finisher for the Titans, finishing in 17th place with an overall time of 26:09. Bernard and Cook finished with times of 26:26 and 26:37, good for 18th and 20th place, respectively. Four Titans finished in the top 30 of the event.

While the women’s team did not finish quite as high as the Fullerton men, they still saw impressive perfor-mances from three sopho-more runners.

Abby Buckhoff was the top finisher for CSUF, end-ing up in 38th place with a time of 24:56. Amanda Crissinger placed 43rd with a time of 25:22, and South Gate native Pamela Pelayo rounded out the top three Titan runners, finishing in 45th place with an overall mark of 25:30.

CSUF has shown im-provement in recent weeks, and if their men’s and wom-en’s teams can continue to maintain their consistency, the year can end on a posi-tive note. Head Coach John Elders’ squad must avoid complacency and continue to develop the young talent that has gotten better each week.

The Titans will return to the course next weekend when they travel to Law-rence, Kansas for the Rim Rock Farm Classic. This will be Fullerton’s first time in the Kansas event, and it will be the only out-of-state event for the Titans in their 2014 season.

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