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Baseball drops anvil on Roadrunners

Juniors Dalton Blaser (front) and Tanner Pinkston (back) come in to score the 10th and 11th runs for CSUF in their 11-0 victory over Cal State Bakersfield Wednesday at Goodwin Field.

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Cal State Fullerton base-ball returned with a bang to Goodwin Field on Wednes-day night against Cal State Bakersfield, putting up 11 runs on 14 hits to snap its four-game losing streak.

The Titan offense wasted no time scoring, their bats exploded for six runs in the bottom of the first inning, all coming with two outs as the entire order batted around.

Junior second baseman Jake Jefferies led the game off for the Titans with a hard-hit single to third, before junior David Olmedo-Barrera was walked with one out and then freshman left fielder Turner Buis loaded the bases on another hard hit single to third base with two outs.

Junior third b a s e m a n D u s t i n Va u g h t c a m e

through with a hard-hit 2-RBI single through the left side be-fore sophomore center fielder Hunter Cullen recorded his first career hit with his 2-RBI double to left. Sophomore shortstop Timmy Richards wrapped up the scoring pa-rade with his 2-RBI single to left and gave the Titans a 6-0 lead going into the second.

“After last weekend, I think we were really focused on sticking to our approaches, taking good at-bats today, and I think they were there in the first inning,” Richards said.

Sophomore reliever Connor Seabold (2-1) earned his second win of the season with a gem, al-lowing no e a r n e d runs on t w o

hits with six strikeouts over 5.2 innings pitched. The Ti-tan bullpen came in to seal the victory, throwing 3.1 shutout innings com-bined with four dif-ferent relievers.

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Benjamin Figueroa presented to staff Wednesday

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Anousheh Ansari, the first privately-funded woman to explore space, gave the keynote speech at Wednesday’s Natural Science and Mathematics Symposium. The symposium, hosted by the Natural Science and Mathematics Inter-Club Council, followed a theme of “Discovering New Frontiers: Reaching for the Stars.”

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From the reaches of outer space to the ground of South-ern California, astronaut Anousheh Ansari brought a message all the way from the stars—persevere to reach your goals.

Ansari, the first female as-tronaut to explore space on a privately-funded flight, spoke about how she managed to achieve her dream of explor-ing space despite being born in Iran—a country without

an advanced astronaut pro-gram. She also discussed the future of space exploration and innovation at the 12th an-nual CSUF Science and Math Symposium, hosted by the Natural Science and Mathe-matics Inter-Club Council.

Ansari was the second choice for last year’s sympo-sium behind Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’, Council Chair Jeremy Wilson said.

“We were lucky enough that we got to have both in two years,” Wilson said.

The raucous clapping of the audience in the Titan Stu-dent Union Pavilion as An-sari took the stage, and the number of smart phones re-cording video and taking photographs made up for the less-than-packed room.

Ansari began her presen-tation in front of a project-ed image of a space shut-tle juxtaposed against her own childhood drawing of a rocket orbiting above Earth. The images reflect-ed the theme of Ansari’s speech, “Reaching for the Stars and Getting There.”

“Knowledge is abso-lutely very important, but you have to combine that knowledge with imagina-tion to go beyond,” Ansari said. “As children we have great imagination—we use it a lot. As we grow older, somehow the society, the system and everything that we have to do beats it out of us.”

Keynote speaker emphasizes perseverence

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The search for a new associ-ate vice president for business and administrative services continued Wednesday with a presentation by Benjamin Figueroa, the director of Re-source Planning and Manage-ment for Academic Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles.

Figueroa highlighted his time with the Cal State Uni-versity system, where he start-ed out as a bond financing manager for the chancellor’s office in the late 1980s be-fore crossing over to CSULA in 2000. He credited his time at the chancellor’s office with helping him become proj-ect-oriented within the CSU system and campus level.

“I’m used to starting and finishing things, and that I learned through my experi-ence at the chancellor’s office,” Figueroa said.

The growth of the cam-pus makes Cal State Ful-lerton an appealing place to work, he said.

“There’s so much going on here and a lot of it is virtue of your growth, virtue of ini-tiatives, virtue of your strate-gic plan, virtue of your presi-dent,” he said.

If he were to get the po-sition, Figueroa said he would implement a contin-uous improvement process on campus.

SEE SEARCH 3Ansari takes a moment to answer a question from one of the crowd’s youngest members.


Ansari detailed how peo-ple around her thought she was crazy for entertaining the idea that she could one day explore outer space. She stressed that people should follow their dreams and stay on track toward accomplish-ing them despite life cir-cumstances that may derail those dreams.

She also talked about how a foundation she works for, XPrize, successfully worked with NASA to show how private space groups and government agencies can successfully send more peo-ple into space through col-laborative efforts.

XPrize, a foundation

that promotes innovation through incentivized com-petition, aims to bring about “radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity,” ac-cording to the foundation’s website.

“The democratization of space” and new technolo-gies like 3D printing, Ansari said, might lead to innova-tions like building habitats in space, mining asteroids and creating new medicines. Independent space explora-tion, she said, will allow the world population to find oth-er resources instead of de-pleting those on earth.

During the question and answer portion, Ansari said she would like to see more women join STEM

programs. “I think women will bring

unique ideas and designs to the field once they get in-volved,” Ansari said.

Ansari highlighted her ef-forts to inspire women in the Middle East, as they rarely aspire to scientific or mathe-matical endeavors in that re-gion, she said.

“Something has been taught to (girls) that they’re not good enough to do it, or it’s too hard, or that they don’t have the capacity to learn,” she said.

Six-year-old Hannah Figueroa, who attended the event with her father, pro-duced audible cooing from the audience when she asked Ansari if she had ever been

to the moon. She hasn’t, but Ansari encouraged Hannah to follow her own dreams.

Daniel Figueroa, a CSUF alumnus and Hannah’s fa-ther, hoped that the experi-ence inspired his daughter.

“It just shows her the pos-sibilities are out there, that there are no limits to what she can do in her future,” Figueroa said.

Ansari encouraged audi-ence members to use her sto-ry as a roadmap to accom-plishing their own goals.

“Not only can you find frontiers out there and dis-cover them, but you will dis-cover frontiers about your-self and what you’re capable of doing and accomplish-ing,” she said.

Fullerton City Coun-cil designated two prop-erties—one on Hillcrest Drive and another on Truslow Avenue—as histor-ical landmarks during Tues-day’s council meeting.

One of the properties, a home on HiIlcrest Drive, belonged to Anita Shepard-son, a teacher at Fullerton Union High and Fullerton College from 1916 to 1945 who promoted cultural un-derstanding during a time when Japanese Americans faced discrimination, ac-cording to the Fullerton Library.

Shepardson’s home is also an example of Mission Revival architecture, a style that drew inspiration from

the late 18th and 19th cen-tury Spanish missions in California.

The home on Truslow drive was designated as a historical landmark because it is one of the few apart-ment houses that remains from before the World War II era, and is considered a historical landmark be-cause of it is a multi-family residential unit, which were rare in Fullerton.

The council also heard a request to rezone the Hill-crest neighborhood to a preservation zone. Last May, the city received a request from eight proper-ty owners in the Hillcrest neighborhood to reclassify the neighborhood as a pres-ervation zone.

More than 70 percent of the neighborhood’s resi-dents approved the rezon-ing as of March 17.

Some of the legal con-cerns regarding the pres-ervation zone were also brought up, including which

renovations and upgrades would be allowed.

The council ultimate-ly decided to approve the Hillcrest neighborhood as a preservation zone, recog-nizing the concerns with renovations but decid-ing that it would do more good than harm for the community.

“Our country isn’t a coun-try of unanimous, our coun-try is a country of the ma-jority and in this case with 72 percent of the neighbor-hood in support of this, that is an overwhelming major-ity,” Mayor Pro Tem Jenni-fer Fitzgerald said.

Another item on the council’s consent calen-dar that received approv-al was the recommenda-tion to install a no stopping zone during select hours on the south side of Hermosa Drive next to Hermosa El-ementary School. The re-quest was made to council after staff at the school no-ticed driver visibility was

impeded and more traf-fic was created as a result of the parked cars on that street.

Also approved were the new citywide speed lim-its presented for 18 streets throughout Fullerton and

the request for eligibili-ty changes for Career En-hancement Pay for the Fullerton Firefighter’s Association.

The speed limits in-clude changes to streets around Cal State Fullerton,

including Chapman Ave-nue, where the limit would be increased from 35 to 40 mph. The area on Common-wealth Avenue from Chap-man to Nutwood Avenue would also increase 5 mph from 30 to 35 mph.

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Anousheh Ansari, the first self-funded woman to explore space, takes a moment to pose for a selfie with a member of the crowd. Her speech, “Reaching for the Stars and Getting There,” was the keynote for the Natural Science and Mathematics Symposium.


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Fullerton City Council voted to preserve two properties as historic landmarks during Tuesday’s meeting, including one that belonged to a Fullerton Union High and Fullerton College teacher.

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As part of the process, he suggested using custom-er service surveys to gauge campus services and put-ting together focus groups to create an outreach and inreach approach. He also suggested using process mapping to keep track of where the papers go and increasing open communi-cation within the campus community.

During the Q&A session, a common concern was Figueroa’s belief that his CSU experience makes him a viable candidate for this position.

“It’s a benefit because I understand the systems, I know the processes, I know the people,” he said.

Figueroa held various jobs at CSULA including

positions as the assistant to the chief financial offi-cer and vice president for Administration, director of Risk Programs and Gener-al Services in Administra-tion and Finance, director of Research Administration in Academic Affairs and di-rector of Science, Technol-ogy, Engineering and Math Programs.

Figueroa left the CSU in 2008 to take a position as the associate vice president of research administration and director of Post Award Accounting Division at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles until 2011.

The hospital’s affiliation to USC kept him tied to higher education, he said.

Figueroa returned to CSULA as their director of Academic Resources Plan-ning and Management in

Academic Affairs. Four finalists were picked

to present at open forums for the vice president posi-tion. Two out of the four fi-nalists presented their per-sonal qualifications for the position on Monday and Tuesday.

Cheryl Ross, current head of Special Projects for Global Financial Op-erations at Columbia Uni-versity, presented on Monday and Tracey Rich-ardson, controller for Hart-nell Community College District, presented on Tuesday.

Mary Wheeler, the assis-tant vice president for Fi-nance at Stevens Institute of Technology, will be the last finalist to present. Wheel-er will present on Thursday at the Pollak Library North room 130 at 1:30 p.m.

Students will have the chance to observe and par-ticipate in Japanese cultural and artistic demonstrations during the fourth annual Jap-anese Culture Club Expo.

The event will feature a variety of traditional perfor-mances and demonstrations, including an hour-long tea ceremony, a fashion show and a performance by the Senryu team of taiko, a Jap-anese percussion instrument,

said Amy Tsu, the expo organizer.

The fashion show, a col-laboration between the Jap-anese Culture Club and the Fashion Club, will highlight traditional and modern Japa-nese styles, she said.

In addition, the event will feature musical performance with shamisen, a three-stringed instrument simi-lar to a guitar, demonstra-tions by the Shotokan Karate Club, Japanese flower dis-plays known as ikebana and Japanese calligraphy.

The presentations and demonstrations provide a chance for students to ex-perience aspects of the cul-ture that can be expensive or rarely demonstrated, Su said.

She added that members of the club as well as student volunteers will be partici-pating in the various perfor-mances, including the dances and an a capella group.

By experiencing the cul-ture and learning more about it, students will find interest in participating in other cul-tures, Tsu said.

“I think its really im-portant for students to

understand the different cul-tures on campus,” Tsu said. “We have Japanese language courses at school, so this is a way for them to learn about Japanese culture, since that is

what they are interested in,” Tsu said. “For other students, it is a way for them to walk in and experience a little Jap-anese flavor.”

Students will be able to do more than simply watch the

event, however, as many of the demonstrations provide opportunities for observer participation.

Following the ikebana demonstration, participants will be able to create their own flower arrangements, and students will be able to take part in the tea ceremo-ny as well, Tsu said. The cer-emony will give students the chance to witness the tradi-tional cleaning of utensils and preparing of tea in Japa-nese culture, she added.

A traditional Japanese cal-ligrapher, will demonstrate and speak on the historical significance of calligraphy before teaching participants how to do certain aspects of the art. This experience is

rare in the United States, Tsu said. The club is honored to have authentic calligraphy demonstration by Shouran at this year’s expo.

This year, the culture club is bringing a new acapel-la group to perform at the expo, coordinated by cultural chair, Youshu Chen.

“(We hope to) express Jap-anese culture to people and get involved in Japanese cul-ture,” Chen said.

The expo will be held March 22 in the Titan Stu-dent Union Pavilion. The event will start at 1:30 p.m., and performances will start at 2 p.m. Admission to the event is free. More in-formation is available at CSUFJCC.org.

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I think it’s really important for students to understand the different cultures on campus ... this is a way for (students) to learn about Japanese culture.

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Students will have a chance to participate in demonstrations

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‘Go-getter’ gets global health

As a child, witnessing the struggles of her dia-betic father—having to ad-minister his insulin shots on a daily basis—Asma A. Taha, Ph.D., associate professor for the School of Nursing at Cal State Ful-lerton, was exposed to the world of healthcare at an early age.

Now, with more than 26 years of nursing experience and 11 years as a profes-sor of nursing, Taha has an avid passion for expanding global health in the Middle East and preparing her stu-dents for a successful ca-reer in nursing.

Taha received her bach-elor’s degree in her home-land at the University of Jordan while working to support herself and fami-ly. In between classes, she worked at the university hospital as a nursing aid, the university library and at a private hospital.

Following undergradu-ate school, Taha extend-ed her stay at the Univer-sity of Jordan for another year as a clinical instructor for pediatrics. The follow-ing year, she moved to Qa-tar where she taught for 10 years.

In 1999, Taha decided to move to America, where she immediately continued her education and received her master’s and doctor-ate degrees in pediatric nursing at Azusa Pacific University.

Ruth Mielke, assistant

professor for the School of Nursing at CSUF, a long time friend of Taha from APU, has witnessed her ambition to succeed first-hand, during the Ph.D. pro-gram at APU.

“The Ph.D. program is really hard to get through in four years, and Asma did it, she got through in four years, and I got fin-ished in five years. She is quite a go-getter, very well organized,” Mielke said. “Asma really had come alongside me and I’m sure other people, and really helped support their work. I don’t want to say its un-heard of, but its not typical. She is very collegial. It re-ally has been a blessing.”

An effort to go above and beyond for those around her, in the past, Taha has planned outreach trips for her former nursing students of Cal State San Bernardi-no, to expand their hori-zons and learn to work in culturally different envi-ronments, with limited re-sources. One outreach trip in particular was a 10-day mission trip to Jamaica in 2011.

“I love the students, it’s really a privilege to be a part of their lives. I think it’s also a big responsibility that we get to mold them in a way that we want them to be excellent nurses,” Taha said.

Taha is in the process of working on a propos-al to hopefully identify some students who will be willing to help her col-lect data on children with physical instabilities and looking into the quality of life, spirituality, coping or depression among the kids and caregivers. They would be interviewing the

children and their parents, Taha said. She expects to be assigned to Loma Linda University Children’s Hos-pital, where she has con-tinued her practice since 2005 in pediatrics and neurosurgery.

Taha hopes her stu-dents “take this opportu-nity of being nursing stu-dents and make the best out of it,” she said. “They can be excellent caregivers in acute care and commu-nity health, and the glob-al outreach. I think they are privileged to be in a program that will prepare them to basically meet the needs of our community and the globe.”

Jennifer Vargas, nursing major, recalls a time during clinicals at Kaiser Perma-nente in Fontana, when she was enlightened by Taha’s devotion for caring for her patient in particular.

“I had a patient and we were in there giving med-ication and usually when you are in there with your instructor, they are focused on that task. (Taha) had concerns for the patient re-garding his coloring,” Var-gas said. “That impact-ed me because I saw how she was really caring for this patient, not just pass-ing medications—she was looking at the bigger pic-ture and being a patient advocate.”

Beside being an associ-ate professor, Taha recently spoke at a conference held in Aqaba, Jordan, mustered by Jean Watson, M.D., and Watson Caring Institute; the event was held in Jean’s efforts to bring nurses to-gether in the middle east to unite for peace.

At the 3rd Annual Hu-man Caring in a Time of

World Crisis: Transcend-ing Culture and Boundar-ies conference, Taha spoke about caring in a conflict zone. Her presentation was based on research she conducted by looking at healthcare challenges in a highly-geopolitical atmo-sphere, which nurses in war zones have encountered during more than six de-cades of conflict between Israel and Palestine.

The purpose of the study was to explore the experi-ences of nurses practicing in the West Bank, accord-ing to Taha’s abstract for the conference. Taha con-ducted an interview sam-ple of 17 registered nurs-es working at an acute hospital in the West Bank

between 2012 and 2013. The interviews, rang-

ing from 60 to 90 minutes, were guided by two main questions which aimed to reveal the experienc-es of the Palestinian nurs-es practicing in conflict zones.

Through Taha’s findings, two main themes emerged: “a sense of duty and a sense of accomplishment. Both themes highlighted the fac-tors that foster the nurses’ ability to continue to care regardless of the countless structural, political and en-vironmental barriers.”

“I have noticed from day one that their experience is different than our life in the western world as nurs-es,” Taha said. “I’m trying

to give voice for nurses in other parts of the world where they are not as privi-leged or they don’t have the resources that the western world have,” Taha said.

Taha has been volunteer-ing in the West Bank since 2006, and goes back at least once annually. There she works with local nurses and helps care for children with complex needs.

“I think its very import-ant to be concerned with social justice issues, not only at the local level, but at the global level. Espe-cially because I have that background and I have that education in the U.S., so I feel like I kind of bring out the voice of those nurses,” Taha said.

Professor works to better healthcare in conflict zones.

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Associate Professor for the School of Nursing, Asma Taha, Ph.D., has 26 years of nursing experience as well as 11 years as a professor.

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LA Fashion Week tries out couture

Playing on controversy for a crowd

Within the Taglyan Com-plex hung an immense gold-en chandelier high above an immaculate runway. Photographers were poised along the runway, holding their large cameras anx-iously waiting to capture plenty of shots of the run-way shows to come.

Art Hearts Fashion kicked off the fall and win-ter 2015 season of Los An-geles Fashion Week, with events from March 9 to March 12. President of Art Hearts Fashion, Erik Ros-ete and ParkerWhitaker Productions were in charge of organizing last weeks productions.

During this four-day event 30 of Los Angeles’ top designers presented their collections on a glossy runway, including the

anticipated fashion labels Sue Wong, Mister Triple X, Hale Bob, MNM Couture and Cary Santiago.

Sue Wong was the first de-signer of LAFW to showcase her “mythos and goddesses” inspired collection. At first, her audience was slightly dis-enchanted by the show, which started 70 minutes later than scheduled, but once it com-menced there was nothing but “ohs” and applause from the crowd.

Her runway show lasted 36 minutes and featured a total of 80 unique looks that were mostly accessorized with strikingly ornate Kicka Cus-tom Design headgear. Wong’s design aesthetic is generally known for having a traditional and romantic air about it but surprisingly, this year came forth with a much edgier col-lection that captivated the au-dience immediately.

Her previous spring and summer 2015 “sirens and fairies” runway collection was “a real hit,” said Blan-ca Dominguez, Wong’s customer service assistant and receptionist.

“We’re anticipating an even greater show next year,” Dominguez said.

An innovative designer that showcased for the first time at the fashion week this year was MNM Couture, owned and designed by Cris-tian Muñoz Espindola. What sets Espindola’s label apart from the rest is his cunning craftsmanship, designing his same elaborate size 0 gown in a size 28. His goal is to please any size possible with his impressive couture de-signs. Similar to Wong’s ap-proach this season, Espindola brought more edge to his typ-ically glamorous pieces.

“I wanted to make some-thing edgy ... all my collec-tions in the past have been a little bit more conservative colors, and this one I wanted to be more revealing,” Espin-dola said.

And revealing it was. The MNM Couture runway mod-els showed a lot more skin through the sheer fabrics he used in his designs. MNM Couture is expecting to open a 600-square-foot showroom in downtown Los Angeles in

the near future, which is also intended to serve as storage space for their inventory.

Fashion photographer, Jon Malan, was one of the pho-tographers at the end of the runway making sure to not miss a single captivating mo-ment. Malan has shot runway shows for acclaimed fash-ion designers such as Betsey Johnson, Michael Costello and Walter Mendez to name a few. This was his second season shooting Art Hearts Fashion during the fashion week.

“The LA Fashion scene, from what I’ve seen in the past six seasons, is surely making its mark in the Fash-ion Week circle. LA has cer-tainly gained traction and mo-mentum with local designers infusing their brands beyond the LA scene and everyone is taking notice,” Malan said.

Los Angeles Fashion Week continues this week with Style Fashion Week events from Wednesday until Sunday. The upcoming events will be fea-turing fashion designers Dai-ki Shimizu, Ophelia Song and Coco Johnson.

LA designers strut their duds on a glossy walkway

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A model saunters down the catwalk for local LA designer Sue Wong during last weeks Art Hearts Fashion, LAFW event.

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Maire Watschke ris-es from a shabby vintage couch to wait her turn aside the podium. It’s Stand Up Comedy Night at Max Bloom’s Cafe Noir in histor-ic Downtown Fullerton.

She’s been supporting her fellow amateur comedians all night, cackling at most of their jokes. With smooth olive skin and thick framed glasses, the 19-year-old Watschke appears innocent among other comedians. But when she gets on stage to begin her five minute rou-tine, Watschke demands the crowd’s attention and woos them with scandalous and obscenity-laden comedy.

By night Watschke is a lo-cal comedian, performing at venues from Max Bloom’s Cafe Noir to the Irvine Im-prov, but by day she is a soph-omore English major at Cal State Fullerton. She’s been performing comedy for near-ly two years and describes it as a “defense mechanism.”

“I was funny and nice, because I was a fat kid. Those are the things I felt I had to be, so people would pay attention and like me,”

Watschke said. When she first signed up

to do stand-up comedy in a high school talent show, her friends discouraged her. She thought, “But aren’t I fun-ny?” They told her, “you are … but only in conversation. I don’t know if you’re actual-ly funny on stage,” Watsch-ke said.

People who Watschke ad-mired and thought would support her on starting such an endeavor, didn’t. They told her that Asians and women in comedy just don’t mix. Taken aback, Watsch-ke entered in the competition anyway and ended up win-ning first place making her believe, “I can do this.”

She’s ashamed of the per-formance now, joking that she just did terrible accents, imi-tating her mom. She doesn’t count that as a start to her ca-reer. However, it was the first time Watschke performed on stage, and she’s been loving it ever since.

Now, laughter fills the room when Watschke gets on stage. She jokes about vulgar and controversial topics like abor-tion, religion, sex and interra-cial couples, where she draws from her own relationship. The racy topics and fiery lan-guage goes well with the typi-cally young crowds that fill lo-cal comedy clubs.

Watschke started a show at Kaiju of Comedy last year, “I come from California

City. It’s a terrible place off the 14 (freeway). Don’t go there. There’s no reason to ever go there. It’s terrible, I looked at the demographic and we have a lot of rapes and murders every year,” she paused pondering, “But in 2004 there were none. I don’t know what happened in 2004 ... but everyone was so happy there just like, ‘you know this year, let’s just not rape and murder everyone, that will be nice.’”

The audience takes her stand-up comedy well. Watschke has a vulnerabil-ity about her which makes

her likable, relatable and fearless.

She joked about what peo-ple think when they see her from far away, “Like, ‘Why is that Samoan middle-schooler out so late at night? Doesn’t he have a football game tomor-row?” Joking about her age, looks and gender has proved to work for her. Being a wom-an in a male dominated line of work is difficult, Watsch-ke admitted in her Women’s studies class at CSUF.

Two female comedians she looks up to are Marga-ret Cho, because Watsch-ke explained that Cho is

really the only Asian female in comedy right now, she said. Also, Amy Hill who Watschke can relate too because Hill is also mixed race of asian and white.

“I have a really low barom-eter. I laugh at everything,” Watschke said.

Even though she laughs and loves laughing at the same time she is more strict about what she thinks is fun-ny for her own material on stage, Watschke said. She tries to make serious subjects funny. And from the reactions of audiences to her stand-up Watschke has a seemingly

burgeoning career as a female in stand up comedy.

“One night I had such a great set. And when I got home, I was laying in bed thinking I am the funniest person alive. Comedy Central, here I come.”

Watschke can be caught performing locally at Max Bloom’s Cafe Noir, Stand up Comedy nights at 7 p.m. most Friday nights. Their list of calendar events can be seen at http://www.maxblooms-cafenoir.com/calendar/.

Sarah Hemadi contributed to this report.

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Marie Watschke, sophomore at Cal State Fullerton performs a five minute stand up comedy route Friday night at Max Bloom’s Cafe Noir in Downtown Fullerton—pulling from racy subjects like sex, religion and abortion.

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Spotify nurtures the music industry

The death of an artform is no laughing matter.

The novel is suffocating slowly and though it may never completely die out, it will become weaker as time goes on.

Novels carry a level of meaning that movies, mu-sic, painting and other art-forms simply aren’t able to attain, and are therefore in-dispensable. Writing is the most effective artform, and the novel is the apotheosis of writing.

The novel is dying, truly. According to the Pew Re-search Center, the number of non-book-readers has nearly tripled since 1978.

With all of the avenues available to writers, and the lack of income avail-able for writers of fiction, the novel seems to be giv-ing way to alternative means of storytelling.

People prefer to see a movie, wade the endless stream of the internet or subscribe to a magazine to gain information and

entertainment. As tele-vision viewing has be-come the normal pastime for many people, it’s tak-en away the opportunity to enjoy quieter pursuits like reading.

Television is much less difficult than deciphering James Joyce. Yet television does not offer the amount of depth and stimulation that comes from reading. All reading requires is a bit more effort.

Once upon a time, Hem-ingway was the most popu-lar American writer. What is mostly read in this coun-try today is written by Ste-phenie Meyer and L. Ron Hubbard, and what’s been written by them, is no book in my book.

The novel, central to our conception of art and way of life, is centuries old. Perhaps there is a reason it has been around for so long.

Another threat to the novel is a lack of good writ-ers. The good writers pre-fer to go elsewhere, where there is money to be found: screenwriting, advertising and journalism. Breaking into the book industry is difficult and hence, there is no reason for good writers to compose them.

The novel is not for

everyone. Some writers prefer to express them-selves in alternative forms, like screenwriting, and that is wonderful; the screen-play is a valuable artform. However, it’s a shame when countless writers who are worth their weight in gold,

end up going into televi-sion and advertising.

When I think of all the advertisers, all the televi-sion writers, all the jour-nalists and the college professors who would’ve been wonderful had there only been a large enough

audience to accommodate them as novelists, it bur-dens me.

Being a writer is diffi-cult. Literary doctors work just as hard and receive half as much.

There isn’t much money in the career, and it takes

years of education and me-ticulous study. More so, novelists are not valued the way they should be; rock-stars command more re-spect than most novelists could ever dream of.

Creative writing is dying and it needs a savior.

Writers motivated by profit have killed the art of the novel

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In the modern age of digital trends, creative writers have been led astray due to the lack of profit in novel writing. This has led to a great slump in original voice and storytelling, especially when it comes to good old fashioned books.

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The way we consume our music is constantly chang-ing. From records and cas-sette tapes, to CDs and iPods, the musical land-scape grows as technology flourishes.

Sure, some may prefer putting on a record instead of listening to a download-ed album through head-phones, but one cannot discredit the ever-evolving

technology. Streaming mu-sic is the latest addition to our musical consumption and Spotify successful-ly provides music to those who want to listen, while ultimately benefitting the artist.

The main argument against Spotify is that art-ists are getting paid too lit-tle for their music.

“When you knock it down to a per listen ba-sis, Spotify pays a hell of a lot more” than radio and iTunes, though the amount looks less because it’s in-cremental, according to Techdirt.com.

When analyzed per lis-ten, Spotify pays out

a significantly higher amount than the one-time, upfront iTunes download. These figures do not even include what artists make through concerts, merchan-dise and other ventures.

Taylor Swift recently decided to pull her music from Spotify, claiming that it devalues the work of fea-tured artists.

Despite Spotify’s pres-ence in the music indus-try, Swift sold 1.28 million copies of her latest album “1989” in its first week, ac-cording to Billboard Mag-azine, revealing that con-sumers are continuing to purchase albums, but only from the largest stars in

the world. What about all the other

lesser known musicians out there?

In response to Swift’s decision, Daniel Ek, Spo-tify’s chief executive, said in a blog post that Spotify’s “reason for existence is to help fans find music and help artists connect with fans through a platform that protects them from piracy and pays them for their amazing work.”

And they are doing a pretty good job at that.

Spotify undoubted-ly helps artists through exposure and overall availability.

With a large selection of

music and artists, it’s sim-ple for users to type in a song and instantly hear it without having to pur-chase the entire album or download the song illegal-ly. Spotify’s homepage in-cludes sections for new re-leases, top lists and even aggregates music based on moods like “party” or “workout.”

It’s a great platform for consumers to find new mu-sic, making Spotify espe-cially beneficial to upcom-ing artists without a large following.

CD and digital sales have dropped by about 20 percent in 2013, according to Nielsen’s 2014 year-end

report, whereas streaming has increased by over 54 percent.

This has inevitably ben-efitted musicians by cre-ating a platform where listeners can browse and stream a band’s entire cata-log without paying an exor-bitant price.

Spotify also pays artists per stream and some mon-ey is better than no mon-ey at all, especially in this tough industry.

The power of the Inter-net grows everyday and streaming music is the future.

The sooner artists realize this, the smarter and more successful they’ll become.

Streaming music helps artists connect with their fans

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You’re ready to hit the accelerator and show the world what you can do now, but a more rational voice advises you to be responsible.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

It seems as if you are being covered by a warm and cozy security blanket now that your key planet Venus is taking up residence in a fellow earth sign.

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You’re more attracted to fantasy than to reali-ty now that Venus is hiding out in your 12th House of Escapism.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

Even your most meaningful encounters now take on an air of casual friendship. Passions are subdued with Venus the Goddess of Love visit-ing emotionally conservative Capricorn.

Cal State Fullerton wom-en’s tennis returned to form in their 6-1 non-con-ference match victory over Colorado State Wednesday at the Titan Courts.

In doubles play, the Ti-tans (8-9) earned the early point as they cruised out to early 4-1 leads on all three courts before unforced er-rors on the No. 1 court al-lowed the Rams (4-7) to fight back to avoid the dou-bles sweep.

With the early

momentum, redshirt-soph-omore Emilia Borkows-ki came out firing in her 6-1, 6-0 straight-set vic-tory over Madison Porter to earn the Titans the first singles point of the after-noon. Borkowski also won her doubles match with se-nior Kalika Slevcove 6-4.

“Just to be aggressive be-cause that’s how I win, and just look for the short balls to come in on and finish at the net and just not miss stupid shots,” Borkowski said about her game plan coming into the match.

The overall match was clinched on the No. 1 court with sophomore Alex-is Valenzuela’s 6-2, 6-4 straight-set win over Na-talie Heffron. Valenzuela also won her doubles match

alongside sophomore Dan-ielle Pham 6-1.

“I wanted to play ag-gressive from the start, put pressure on her right from the beginning and don’t let off the pedal,” said Valenzuela after winning her singles match on the No. 1 court. “The Hawaii trip was a little rough, but coming back home we have the advantage of course so we were all ready to come out and take care of busi-ness today.”

The Titans will look to use the win over the Rams to build momentum for when they host the Uni-versity of Wyoming (6-5) Thursday at 1:30 p.m. for a non-conference match on the Titan Courts.

“We definitely need

to start out aggressive in the beginning, because I know (Wyoming’s) dou-bles teams are really ag-gressive, but we need to step it up before they do. And then in singles we just need to be disciplined and be ready to just fight for every point and not let go of any loose points,” said Head Coach Dianne Ma-tias, looking ahead to the match with the Cowgirls.

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“I had a good three-pitch mix going tonight and it worked really well against them,” Seabold said about his pitches against the Ba-kersfield hitters. “The fast-ball command tonight was really good and I was able to drop in some curveballs that were good and it worked pretty well.”

The Titan bats cooled down through the middle innings as nine batters were retired in order by Roadrun-ner starter James Barragan (1-3). However, CSUF ral-lied in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings, adding anoth-er five runs to go up 11-0 and crush any hope the Roadrun-ners may have been holding onto.

“It gives you a little bit of

breathing room, and it makes it a lot easier,” Seabold said about the early run support. “You don’t want to break your mentality for that, but it’s still a lot easier to pitch out there after that.”

Offensively, the Titans were led by junior Dustin Vaught, who went 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Vaught also made some spectacular plays defensively at third base to quiet the Roadrunner bats.

“Justin Turner sent Cory

(Vanderhook) a message last weekend talking about run-ners in scoring position, just taking that mentality of no one is on base and your job is to get on first so I definitely just stuck with that and act-ed like no one was on base drove it into left,” Vaught said.

The Titans will next hit the road to face rival Long Beach State for a non-con-ference three-game set that starts on Friday at Blair Field with first pitch at 6 p.m.

“The whole team is going to have to have a pretty good mentality and go out there and put good swings and not waste any, and if everyone has a good mentality we’re going to score some runs and beat those guys,” Vaught said looking forward to the rival-ry set against Long Beach.

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The Cal State Fullerton baseball team will travel to Long Beach State Friday for a three-game non-confer-ence series against the rival Dirtbags.

On Friday, the Titans hope to improve their 10-9 record, while the Dirtbags will want to better their 10-7 record.

Long Beach is coming off a 6-0 shutout win over George Washington Univer-sity. They open their series against CSUF with a 9-4 home record.

The Titans are com-ing off an 11-0 drubbing of Cal State Bakersfield on Wednesday. However, the Titans have fallen out of their No. 23 spot on the top-25 rankings list after they were swept in their se-ries against Indiana last weekend.

During the four-game losing streak, the Titans showed a late-game strug-gle, failing to put runs on the board beyond the sixth inning. However, they bucked that trend against the Roadrunners with a run in the seventh inning and two in the eighth.

The Titans will depend on sophomore first baseman

Josh Estill to break them out of their slump. Estill hopes to continue to get on base, as has reached safely in 11 of the past 12 contests. Estill also looks to get the Titans rolling with his .508 slug-ging percentage in hopes of capturing their first road win of the season.

Long Beach has also been in a bit of a slump recently, going 2-4 in their past six contests.

The Dirtbags will rely on their sophomore shortstop Garrett Hampson. Hamp-son will look to increase his team-leading batting aver-age and run total on Friday. He currently stands with a .295 average and 14 runs scored along with 18 hits heading into the series.

The series could come down to a pitchers duel. Fullerton enters with a staff ERA of 3.59, while Long Beach has a staunch 3.10 earned run average.

CSUF as a team holds a slight offensive advan-tage over the Dirtbags, with the Titans owning a bet-ter batting average, slug-ging percentage and on-base percentage.

Fullerton is current-ly ranked fifth in the Big West Conference, just be-hind Long Beach. With a strong weekend over the Dirtbags, the Titans can move past their rivals in the standings and gain mo-mentum heading into the conference schedule.

Women’s tennis bounces back

Baseball to meet rivals on the roadTitans travel to Long Beach State for a three-game series

JOSEPH CORCORANFor The Daily Titan

CSUF gets back on track with a 6-1 win over Colorado State

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The No. 2 doubles pairing of sophomore Alexis Valenzuela (right) and freshman Danielle Pham (left) high five after they beat Colorado State’s duo of Madison Porter and Laia Hernandez 6-1 Wednesday at the Titan Courts. CSUF would go on to win the match 6-1.

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