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There is still no timeline for the reopening of Pol-lak Library South, which was closed due to dam-age caused by the magni-tude 5.1 earthquake that struck Cal State Fullerton on March 28.

The university is work-ing through its options for repairing the damage, all of which will lead to dif-ferent timelines for when the library can reopen.

The cheapest option, es-timated to cost $500,000, would stabilize and clean up the broken portions of the ceiling. After the ceil-ing is cleaned, the library would only be accessible by library staff wearing hard hats. Library books would only be retriev-able through a paging system.

Restoring full access to the affected library areas would cost at least twice as much. The existing ceil-ing would be removed and overhead fixtures would be secured.

Replacing the ceiling, which would give a “like-new” appearance to the library, would cost $5 million.

Once the university de-termines an option, es-timations will become clearer. The finalized strategy may include a combination of these op-tions or a mix-and-match approach on different floors or parts of certain floors, a university official said.

The quake caused an es-timated $500,000 in dam-age to areas other than the library.

A Cal State Fullerton seis-mologist explained what transpired along the fault lines that caused the 5.1 magnitude La Habra earth-quake that shook the cam-pus last month and what could lie next for surround-ing communities Tuesday during a lecture at the Ful-lerton Public Library.

David Bowman, Ph.D., a professor of geological sci-ence and the interim dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathemat-ics, broke down the sci-ence behind the March 28 temblor in a comedic and

interactive lecture, provid-ing words of wisdom and caution to the audience.

“Anytime that there is an earthquake the fault breaks and it takes the stress (from the epicenter) and sends it somewhere else, but it also decreases the stress in oth-er places,” he said.

Using data gathered af-ter the temblor, seismolo-gists have determined that the quake struck near the Puente Hills thrust fault, the same fault that caused the 1987 Whittier Nar-rows earthquake. The fault stretches from the San Ga-briel Valley to downtown Los Angeles.

“(The Puente Hills fault) is one of the most signifi-cant hazards in Southern California,” he said.

However, Bowman points to a conjugate fault that is most likely connected to

the Puente Hills fault as the primary cause of the recent earthquake, due to a large amount of compression on the Los Angeles Basin.

A conjugate fault set is one that consists of cross-cutting fault planes that intersect with one an-other, and the line parallel to them causes the princi-pal stress. In the case of the La Habra earthquake, the stress is being placed on the basin.

“A good rule of thumb is that anywhere in South-ern California that you see hill or a mountain, there is a fault there,” he said. “The earthquakes are pushing up the mountains … The Puente Hills fault … we know that there are faults underneath there.”

RENT is due at the Beck-er Amphitheater on Thurs-day. The performance punctuated by financial wisdom, takes the stage for one day only. The show will have three performances throughout the day at noon, 12:40 p.m. and 5:40 p.m.

The performance aims to bring enlightenment to col-lege students about the im-portance of proper finan-cial management.

“RENT: A Financial Lit-eracy Spectacular is a 20

minute adaptation of the Broadway Musical RENT starring 15 freshmen mu-sical theater, acting and dance students from the CSUF Department of The-atre and Dance,” said

Timothy Nathaniel Alex-ander III, producer of the event.

The class of 2013 owes, on average, $35,200 in debt, ac-cording to a CNN article.

“The bulk of the class of

2013’s debt is in govern-ment loans, with gradu-ates owing an average of $26,000. They also had an average of $19,000 in pri-vate loans, $18,000 in state loans, $13,000 in person-al and family loans and $3,000 in credit card debt,” said Blake Ellis, a writer for CNN.

“After realizing the ex-tent of their debt, 39 per-cent said they would have done things differently—like saving earlier, more thoroughly researching fi-nancial aid or looking for ways to save more and spend less while at school—that’s up from 25 percent in 2011,” Ellis said.

The reality of the finan-cial situation for many young college students and

graduates is dire. Many college students are un-informed about the finan-cial risks they take, such as high-interest loans, ac-quiring multiple cred-it cards and borrowing money to pay for frivolous items while also balancing their busy coursework and lives.

RENT is just one part of a series of events taking place during Arts Week 2014 and is a presentation sponsored in part by the Arts Inter Club Council and Associated Students Inc. The event will teach college students how to properly manage their money and handle their loans.

Sowing seeds of green living

Professor breaks down La Habra earthquake

Date to reopen library not set

‘RENT’ to make a statement at the Becker

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CSUF weighing options for Pollak Library South repairs

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Arts Week event to offer financial literacy tips to students

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David Bowman, Ph.D., encourages safety measures

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Top: Monica Marquez (left) and Love Robles (second from left) meet MRFY (pronounced Mur-fee), a robot that educates others about recycling methods.Bottom: A sample of composting techniques is on display in the Quad during Earth Week. Festivities will continue through Thursday.

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David Bowman, Ph.D., a professor of geological sciences, describes California’s place along global fault lines during his presentation on earthquakes Tuesday at the Fullerton Public Library.

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The special Arts Week event RENT: A Financial Literacy Spectacular will run at the becker Thursday for three shows.

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Two men suspected of killing four Orange County women were wearing GPS tracking anklets at the time of the crimes, accord-ing to radio station KPCC.

Data from the an-klets put Franc Cano and Steven Dean Gor-don in the vicinity of where the four women were last seen before their disappearance.

Jarrae Nykkole Es-tepp, the woman whose dead body was found naked in an Anaheim recycling fa-cility on March 14, is among the victims.

Based on the evi-dence collected so far, there may be more vic-tims, police said.

Orange County Dis-trict Attorney Tony Rackauckas thanked police for stopping what he described as a serial killing.

The man suspected of killing three people in Kansas City, Kan., was charged Tuesday with one count of cap-ital murder and one count of first-degree premeditated murder, according to CNN.

The shootings at two Jewish-affiliated centers left a young boy and his grandfa-ther dead. A woman at a Jewish assisted liv-ing facility was also killed.

Frazier Glenn Cross is suspected of the killings, which may be escalated to hate crimes. A U.S. attor-ney said prosecutors are still collecting evidence.

Cross faces a life sentence or the death penalty if he is con-victed, but it has not yet been decided if the death penalty will be pursued.

A man was arrested Tuesday and accused of leaving suspicious packages at the finish line of the first Boston Marathon since last year’s fatal bombing.

Boston Police offi-cers detonated two bags as a precaution-ary measure after evacuating the area.

Boston CBS affiliate WBZ-TV reported that at least one of the bags was being carried by a barefoot, screaming man wearing a black veil. He told police he had a rice cooker in one of the bags.

Last year at the Bos-ton Marathon, im-provised explosive devices made using pressure cookers left three dead and in-jured more than 260 others. Vice President Joe Biden joined survi-vors Tuesday for a mo-ment of silence.

This year’s Associat-ed Students Inc. elections broke a few old trends and set new records. While the presidential candi-dates spent less on their campaigns, this year’s

elections saw a sharp rise in campaign spending from the ASI Board of Di-rectors candidates.

The presidential candi-dates spent almost half as much as last year’s can-didates. This year, can-didates spent less than $3,000 on their respec-tive campaigns, accord-ing to expense reports. ASI President-elect Har-preet Bath and Vice Pres-ident-elect Michael Badal spent $2,548, while Missy

Mendoza and Josue Rodri-guez spent $2,342.76 and received $150 worth of do-nated banners.

Last year, presidential election campaign spend-ing was the highest since 2011. Current ASI Presi-dent Rohullah Latif and Vice President Jonathan Leggett spent $4,250 on their campaign.

T-shirts and wristbands were the campaign mate-rials of choice this year. Both presidential candi-dates spent more than half of their total expens-es on them. Bath spent $1,760 on 600 T-shirts and 1,600 wristbands, and Mendoza spent $2,169.28 on 500 T-shirts and 700 wristbands.

All ASI candidates are required to submit ex-pense reports, regard-less of results. Candidates must itemize all donations and expenses, as well as provide receipts and cop-ies of all campaign materi-als for verification.

Most of the time, the amounts listed in expense reports are underreport-ed, because the candidates don’t have enough time to collect all their receipts in time for submission, said Kim Haycraft, the ASI elections commissioner.

The deadline for the ex-pense reports is 5 p.m. the Tuesday after the elec-tions, which gives the candidates around five days to compile all their receipts.

Neither Bath nor Men-doza provided receipts or

copies of their campaign materials.

Without receipts, the elections committee can-not verify the values given by the candidates.

However, while the elections committee is aware of the issue, it does not plan to penalize the candidates.

The only reason the

elections committee will penalize a candidate is if he or she were malicious or did something very of-fensive; in this case, it was a simply negligence, Hay-craft said.

Meanwhile, in the races for the Board of Directors, it is rare for candidates to spend more than $50 to $100, Haycraft said. More often than not, candidates spend absolutely nothing during their campaigns.

This year, 10 out of the 21 candidates bought materials for their cam-paigns. Six out of those 10 candidates spent more than $50.

Adam Shurter, who won a position on the board

to represent the Mihay-lo College of Business and Economics, was the highest-spending can-didate this year, spend-ing $243.95 on his cam-paign. David Rosen, who ran to represent the same college, was the low-est-spending candidate, spending $22.78 on cam-paign materials.

Last year, only two can-didates, Jonathan Kwok from the College of the Arts and Janet Perez from the College of Hu-manities and Social Sci-ences, bought campaign materials.

Both spent $25 respectively.

The highest-spending Board of Directors candi-date since 2011 is Yasmin Mata, who spent $788.18 on her campaign.

This year also marked a rare occurrence, because all of the Board of Direc-tors positions were filled after the elections. Usual-ly, to fill empty seats, the Board of Directors has to appoint members from a list of recommendations provided by University Affairs.

Over the past four years, the winning presidential candidate was both male and a member of a campus Greek organization. This year, either candidate would have broken one of the two trends. Mendoza is female and a member of the Alpha Delta Pi so-rority, while Bath is male and not a member of a fraternity.

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As the 20th anniversa-ry of the 1994 Northridge earthquake this past Jan-uary evoked memories of the destruction it caused, Bowman said the 1994 earthquake serves as a good model for any new potential Orange County earthquake as it possess eerie similarities to its Los Angeles County coun-terpart. Both regions are near hills that are created by a series of blind thrust faults.

The Puente Hills fault, the fault that can possi-bly be connected to the conjugate fault that Bow-man believes caused the temblors, is considered a blind thrust fault. “It’s called blind because it doesn’t reach the surface,” he said.

By understanding the

faults closest to us, Bow-man said, the community can better prepare for any upcoming earthquakes in the area.

However, there’s only so much experts in the field can do to alert the surrounding communi-ty, said Kevin Hunter, an undergraduate geology student.

“There is no way to

actually see what’s com-ing next, what’s is going to happen is going to hap-pen, the only way that you can actually prepare your-self is to think ahead and actually think of what can happen, the possibili-ty of what can happen,” he said.

Ken Stumpff, a member of Fullerton’s Communi-ty Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.), said it is important for members of surrounding communities to be educated about all of these possibilities.

“If we ever have that so-called big one (earth-quake) it’s going to be ev-erything short of chaos,” he said. “If the infrastruc-ture is badly damaged, were going to be isolated here, so the thing is, is to be self-sufficient for ap-proximately a week now and look at what you can do in your house to make it survivable.”

Students taking part in a public relations course hope to remind the Cal State Fullerton communi-ty of the dangers of Alzhei-mer’s disease while rais-ing money for a good cause with a raffle Wednesday night.

Raffle tickets are $5 each, and 100 percent of pro-ceeds will go to the Orange County chapter of the Alz-heimer’s Association.

As part of the public rela-tions capstone course that Perez and Albento are tak-ing, every student works with Mitsubishi Motors to help the company promote its vehicles.

Additionally, student groups are tasked with working with a nonprofit organization and planning an event to raise money.

The five-member group wanted to work with the Alzheimer’s Association because of its frequent in-volvement with the local community.

“I feel like there can be more awareness about (Alzheimer’s), especially on our campus,” said Kendall Perez, who currently serves as the vice chair of the ASI Board of Directors. “We re-ally just wanted to high-light something that does a lot for the community, and we felt that since it affects so many people around the world, that this would be one (organization) to part-ner up with to raise aware-ness and also to raise funds to help support.”

Cherry Albento, anoth-er member of the group, said she hoped the event would make students less apathetic about causes like terminal diseases.

“We feel like most college students know about it, but they don’t really want to do anything about it,” she said. “They don’t real-ly know a way to give back,

so we just want to open a door, open another avenue for students to give back.”

Attendees can choose to put their raffle tickets toward specific prizes, so they can focus on the priz-es they want or that they think are most likely to win.

“Say you really want the Quiksilver gift basket, so you put all your tickets in that envelope,” Albento said.

The group approached local businesses and retail-ers for sponsorships and collected prizes, including merchandise from Trader Joe’s, Best Buy and Titan Shops.

Some of the priz-es include $500 worth of Quiksilver merchandise and a $50 Best Buy gift card.

The event is scheduled to take place 7 p.m. Wednes-day in the Titan Student Union legislative cham-bers. Free food and drinks, which will be funded by the group members, will be provided to attendees.

Explaining science behind local faults

Student raffle to fight Alzheimer’s

David Bowman, Ph.D., a professor of geological sciences, explains how to earthquake-proof your home to avoid costly damage during his presentation Tuesday at the Fullerton Public Library.

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Depending on how the university repairs the li-brary, the cost is estimat-ed to be as high as $6 mil-lion, totaling $6.5 million in damage to the campus overall.

Until it is determined which option will be used to restore the library, it will not be known when the closed half of the library can reopen.

Significant portions of li-brary staff have been forced to relocate in the mean-time. They have been incon-venienced, but are coping, a university official said.

Ingrid Garner, a the-atre major and circulation worker at the library, said she is impressed with her coworkers who have helped to restore the library fol-lowing the quake.

Many of the 1.3 mil-lion books in the library fell from their shelves, es-pecially on the top three floors, but all of them have been picked up and placed on carts where they can be retrieved, she said.

“The main task at hand is putting those books back on the shelves in call num-ber order,” Garner said. “We were getting a lot done at first, when we were first allowed back up there af-ter everything was deemed safe, but now we’re only al-lowed up there for an hour at the time because the air conditioning has been turned off.”

An additional challenge is the fact that the entire circulation department has

been moved to Pollak Li-brary North while repairs are made, she said.

The paging system, which fetches books re-quested by students, has been a frustrating experi-ence for students, but Gar-ner said they have been un-derstanding for the most part.

The service has been available for just three days, but a lot of students are using it, she said.

The library allots 24 hours for books to be found, and if the request-ed books cannot be locat-ed, they are automatically requested from another li-brary through the interli-brary loan service.

As the recovery has

progressed, Garner de-scribed the environment as bittersweet. Library employees are bonding through putting the library back together, but circula-tion workers who are grad-uating will not be able to see the library return to what it once was.

“It continues to be a very long process, and it’s kind of sad for us,” she said. “A lot of us are graduating this semester, so we’re never go-ing to be able to see the li-brary as it was, as we’ve experienced it for the past couple years, because we’ll be leaving.”

A full report of the dam-age caused by the earth-quake is expected in the coming weeks.

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“A good rule of thumb is

that anywhere in Southern

California that you see hill or a mountain, there is a fault there.”

DAVID BOWMANGeological Science Professor

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Last weekend I travelled with Cal State Fullerton’s ROTC battalion to Camp Pendleton to cover one of their biggest training events of the semester.

Along with video cameras, notebooks and microphones we brought along the newest addition to our equipment locker, a GoPro camera.

These little head mounted cameras are making waves in the extreme sports com-munity, but as someone who operates far out of the realm of sports, this is the first time I even got close to touching one.

Turns out it’s not only a great camera, but an amaz-ing piece of technology for putting journalists in the shoes of their source.

Journalists frequently need to get into the mind of their subject when try-ing to accurately capture a person’s personality and attitude.

Strapping a GoPro on someone not only gives an interesting view point but a look into what a person is thinking.

Watching the videos

recorded over the weekend put into perspective how much these cadets have to deal with on the field.

The swearing, the yelling, the heavy breathing and the hand signals put me in the dirty boots of these hard-working cadets.

It made me think how im-portant perspective is and how much closer the viewer can feel to the subject when looking through their eyes.

BeAnotherLab, a group of students in Barcelona, con-ducted an experiment with Oculus Rift headsets, which is a virtual reality device, and point-of-view cameras to simulate swapping bod-ies of people of two different genders.

The way it works is two people stand facing away

from each other each wear-ing headsets and cameras with the headsets stream-ing the other person’s perspective.

In tandem, each person slowly mimics the other per-son’s movements as closely as possible.

Essentially, the illusion is that one person is con-trolling another body’s ac-tions giving a sense of pres-ence inside another person’s body.

Despite the physical gen-der differences, users have actually felt they were in-deed in a new body.

“Deep inside you know it’s not your body, but you feel like it is,” Philippe Bertrand, a Digital Arts student and co-founder of the BeAnoth-erLab, said.

Even if the Oculus Rift wasn’t there, head mount-ed cameras are still a rela-tively new way to experience life from a completely new perspective.

As they continue to be-come more affordable, more people will own them and document their crazy activities.

I would never drive around on a dirt bike along a steep hill or surf a sweet wave, but now I can get an idea of what it might be like. Hopeful-ly I am never homeless, but a project in San Francisco hopes to give a new perspec-tive on homelessness.

H o m e l e s s G o P r o . c o m plans to put a GoPro on a homeless man and record his day-to-day life.

The website’s goal is to bring awareness to the less fortunate side of San Fran-cisco in a way never done before. My only concern is managing battery life. The camera can only take foot-age for about an hour and a half before its memory card fills or the battery dies.

Only more creative solu-tions will continue to pop up as these cameras keep get-ting smaller and smaller.

Hopefully it doesn’t get to the point where they become nearly invisible.

A long time ago, a friend of mine lent me a book. The title of it escapes me, but it was a cool book.

It was small and easy to read, and it was about random weird facts. It had chapters about people with ridiculous names, people who own islands and peo-ple who would like to be frozen when they die.

One of the chapters in the book was about a com-pany that tried to mimic creatures of the sea that have the ability to shine naturally. The company had the idea of creating plants that could give off a natural light, like, for ex-ample, a Christmas tree that wouldn’t require any actual lights.

One concept proposed in using these trees was in finding a way to light up roads. This method would end up saving more energy than tradition-al lighting.

R e c e n t l y , something sim-ilar to that idea has come to fruition.

On a high-way in the N e t h e r l a n d s , there are glow-i n - t h e - d a r k road markings across a 500 meter stretch. The markings are com-posed of paint that con-tains a “photo-luminiz-ing” powder that charges up during the daytime, but at night slowly gives off a green glow. It can hold its glow for up to eight hours.

This glow in the dark road holds the same con-cept as the trees in the book I read, cutting down in energy consumption.

The people behind the project are Daan Roose-gaarde, an interactive art-ist, along with Dutch civil engineering firm Heijmans. This new concept can be seen on the N329 in the city of Oss.

This is innovation at its finest. Its smart and prac-tical, especially when it can be fully realized or further transformed.

Roosegaarde had pre-viously talked to the BBC about the project and had this to say about it:

“The government is shut-ting down streetlights at night to save money, ener-gy is becoming much more important than we could

have imagined 50 years ago. This road is about safe-ty and envisaging a more self-sustainable and more interactive world.”

The idea behind all of Roosegaarde’s projects is to help people better live alongside technology, so that we might better inter-act. Some of his previous works include a dance floor with built-in disco lights that are powered by the steps of the people danc-ing inside and even a dress that becomes see-through when the person wearing it becomes aroused.

“I was completely amazed that we some-how spend billions on the design and R&D of cars but somehow the roads—which actually determine the way our landscape looks—are completely im-mune to that process,” Roosegaarde said.

Roosegaarde and the Heijmans firm looked at nature and asked them-selves how they could do

the same. For exam-ple, they looked at a jellyfish and fig-ured it gives light, yet has no so-lar panel or energy bill, which is something they strived for.

This luminescent paint is ideal in locations where traditional lighting is ei-ther not present or simply difficult to place.

This initial presentation of the paint has others wait-ing to see its actual useful-ness, practicality and safe-ty. More innovation stems from this as there is also the idea of putting visible mark-ings such as giant weather symbols that appear on the road.

They would still need to determine how practi-cal those markings would be, how far in advance one could see them, how resis-tant they are to tires driv-ing over them, visibility de-pending on the time of day and so forth.

One idea would be for this paint to be temperature sensitive.

In the winter, a snow flake-shaped symbol would appear at cold tempera-tures to let drivers know the road may be icy.

This is all at an early stage but nonetheless in-teresting and I think worth looking into.

A cold metal table presses against someone’s back, the air around smells of musk and bleach and there is a faint smell of blood linger-ing in the room.

The sound of footsteps walking toward the room’s door only increases panic levels.

Those footsteps will soon reach the room and pain is surely imminent.

This may sound like the description of a serial killer’s room but it is not.

This description is akin to that of what would happen in an interrogation room.

People that have read a secret Senate report have confirmed the United States used torture for many years. Torture has been used as an interrogation technique on criminals to force them to reveal information.

Torture as an interroga-tion practice was used in 2001 to 2005 by the Unit-ed States against al-Qaida prisoners.

Torture is often seen as a means to an end, but in tor-turing suspects into giving answers are interrogators becoming as inhumane as those who they harm?

There are many different opinions on the use of tor-ture to gain knowledge.

Some believe that in any case torture is wrong. They believe harming another person is cruel and there is no redeeming value in it.

On the other end of the spectrum, some believe in-terrogators should do any-thing they deem necessary

in order to gain the knowl-edge they want.

A third group believes the circumstances of the crime decide whether or not tor-ture is acceptable.

For example, if a per-son knows the location of a bomb is it appropriate to torture him or her in order to save innocent people?

If the decision on torture was situational there would be no way to decide where the line that makes tor-ture acceptable should be drawn.

If all that was necessary was a judgement call, the waters would begin to be muddied.

Interrogators could begin to use their own personal bi-ases in order to inflict pain on those whose choices they don’t agree with.

If a known rapist and murderer walked into the

interrogation room there would be nothing stopping the law enforcement profes-sional from inflicting pain on that person.

While rape and murder are in no way acceptable, there are laws that prevent that kind of retribution.

In addition to moral is-sues with using torture, there is also an issue with the validity of information that is gained from that type of interrogation.

If people struggle through hours of torture, they are going to say whatever they need to in order to make the pain stop.

That puts into question any information that is re-ceived through the use of torture.

That is why the use of torture in order to gain information should not be allowed under any

circumstance. Using torture in order

to force someone to speak would only lower a na-tion’s law enforcement to the level of the criminals themselves.

This would cause civil-ians to fear the people who should be protecting them.

Rather than seeing police officers as protectors they will be viewed as violent criminals themselves.

Americans need to rise above the desire to inflict pain on others in order to gain information.

America prides itself on being a fair and lenient country.

If it becomes acceptable to use torture, those beliefs will no longer carry any value.

A country that tortures to get what they want is nei-ther fair, nor lenient.

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A stage adaptation of the seventh best selling book of all time, And Then There Were None comes to the Young Theatre Friday.

The book is Agatha Christie’s adaptation of the nursery rhyme, “Ten Little Indians.” It is her best-sell-ing book and second most performed play behind The Mousetrap, which has been running in London since 1952.

This is the second time that Cal State Fullerton has produced this play. Direc-tor Mark Ramont served as a stage manager in CSUF’s first production of the play in 1978.

“It’s a genre that we ha-ven’t done, which is mur-der mystery,” Ramont said. “We’re also doing it in a film noir kind of style, with gray-tone sets and cos-tumes. We’re even play-ing with makeup so that when you look at it the idea is that you’re watching a black-and-white film from the period.”

Film noir is a catego-ry of crime films that uses dark lighting and music to depict an ominous atmo-sphere. Creating the feel of a black-and-white film was a difficult task for Ramont and the crew to achieve.

“It’s been a good chal-lenge for the design team. We did a lot of testing be-

fore we got to (tech re-hearsals) but even with the testing you really nev-er know until you get it out there in front of (you),” Ra-mont said.

The gray-tone set took the designers a lot of time to get it the way they want-ed it to look.

Kristin Campbell, a second year Master of Fine Arts student, is

the set designer for the production.

“If there’s a pen in there (it) has to be colored right … the flowers took five cans of spray paints to make it actually look gray, and those are fun things but they take a lot of time to deal with,” Campbell said.

Campbell and the oth-er designers were excit-ed when they learned they would be creating a black-and-white film experience.

“When you get a concept like that from a director, it’s kind of a gift,” Camp-bell said. “When you have such a solid, steadfast idea everyone comes togeth-er. So it’s not just sets but sets, lighting, makeup, cos-tumes. We all have to work together because if we don’t it’s just not going to work.”

The cast is a mixture of 11 students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts and M.F.A act-ing program.

Natalie Beisner, a se-nior in the B.F.A acting program, plays Vera Clay-thorne, a former governess who comes to Indian Is-land to escape her past.

Beisner said the cast has been preparing for the per-formance since December and started rehearsing in

February.“We watched a lot of

Hitchcock films and some Humphrey Bogart films,” Beisner said. “It’s a large cast so (there’s) a lot of en-semble work and listening to each other and really

reacting off each other.”Ramont and the ensem-

ble has enjoyed rehearsing for the performance.

“Agatha Christie is fun stuff … The characters are outrageous,” Ramont said. “The hope is that the

audience will have a blast as well and … enjoy trying to figure out who (the mur-derer) is.”

And Then There Were None debuts at the Clayes Performing Arts Center Young Theatre at 8 p.m.

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“Cal State Fullerton and Bank of America will part-ner up to offer financial wellness workshops. These workshops will incorporate

opportunities for stu-dents on campus to inter-act and gain knowledge from Bank of America rep-resentatives,” Alexander said. “Topics will include budgeting, identity theft, credit and information on

the different ‘financial life stages’ of our students.”

In addition to the per-formance, Bank of Amer-ica will also be on cam-pus to advise college students about money management.

The Financial Literacy Program has many help-ful videos posted on its website at Fullerton.edu/FinancialLiteracy, which is sponsored by Bank of America. The website of-fers many helpful tips

and videos to show prop-er methods to manage a budget, build a good credit score and manage credit.

The final performance at 5:40 p.m. is in conjunction with the Arts Week Music Festival. A free food truck

lunch and dessert will be given out to the first 400 guests.

Admission to the per-formance is free, but ear-ly arrival is encouraged as space is expected to fill up quickly.

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Malcolm Maurice Mc-Daniel, a singer, rapper and songwriter who goes by the stage name Three McDan-iel or “Three,” is making an appearance at Becker Am-p h i t h e a t e r wednesday at noon.

Three Mc-Daniel is orig-inally from Texas but cur-rently lives and records his music in los Angeles.

M c D a n i e l said his inter-est in becom-ing a musi-cian sparked during his early childhood.

“ever since I was glued to the TV screen watching videos as a kid, I fell in love with the raw expression and emotion, the flyness,” he said. “I wanted to be thatguy, I wanted to be one of the voices for the people, like a mayor or governor of the streets.”

At age 8, he started mak-ing his own music and re-corded his first real song to an old Isley Brothers record

his mom had in her record collection.

Contrary to popular be-lief, McDaniel typically lis-tens to classical music like Beethoven, Bach and Mo-zart along with rap and r&B, depending on the situation.

That could be what makes him stand out and connect to his audience and fans: he not only plays a mixture of music that any-body can relate to, he also

has a classi-cal taste that blends his modern rap with a melodic tune.

M c D a n i e l said he loves p e r f o r m i n g for new au-diences, and enjoyed per-forming at SXSw in Aus-tin and the roxy Theatre in los Angeles

the most out of all the plac-es he’s been to.

“I love performing and introducing new music to new people. I haven’t fin-ished performing yet so I’m looking forward to adding a few more places on the list,” McDaniel said.

Although he’s never been to Cal State fullerton, he said he is excited to per-form at a new place and meet new people.

McDaniel is part of a

group called JonMCXro. They have released an al-bum called The Fifth Of Nev-er. He will perform songs from this album along with a few from his solo album, Blue Diamond Drive.

Blue Diamond Drive in-cludes the single “Soon” and McDaniel plans on re-leasing another single, “I.f.l.I.T.o.o. (I feel like I’m The only one),” shortly after this show. These two songs will be played during his set today.

McDaniel said the best part of it all is experienc-ing life and having the

opportunity to change it for the better as well as seeing the looks on peoples’ faces when they’ve never heard any of his songs.

“Knowing someone re-lated to your song, or the song helped someone get through a situation, or your words touched somebody and they were able to feel it, that’s the best part,” he said.

Catch Three McDaniel to-day at the Becker Amphi-theater at 12 p.m. He can be found on Twitter and In-stagram via his handle, @Three_McDaniel.

Cosplayers and com-ic book aficionados will gather for Comic-Con In-ternational’s wonderCon Anaheim this weekend.

The three-day conven-tion, which celebrates and showcases popular arts, will be held at the Ana-heim Convention Cen-ter for the third year in a row.

for those who were un-able to purchase badges to attend the International Comic-Con in downtown San Diego this summer, wonderCon is another op-portunity to experience a similar event on a smaller scale.

Similarly to Comic-Con, wonderCon will have a game area, artist’s alley and autograph section in the exhibit hall.

each year, the conven-tion spotlights anniversa-ries of films, comics and

novels. This year’s high-lights include the 75th an-niversary of the original Batman comics.

Additionally, many comic book artists and writers will have spot-light panels at the event to showcase their work and success.

In the past, wonder-Con attendees have had the opportunity to attend panel discussions about upcoming films, televi-sion shows and comics. This year, more than 800 exhibitors will be on site, and dozens of panel dis-cussions will be held each day.

The first day of won-derCon friday will fea-ture wil wheaton (The Big Bang Theory, Star Trek: The Next Generation) will join felicia Day (Super-natural, Eureka) in a pan-el discussion about the latest from Geek & Sun-dry–a network online that features various vlogs and web shows related to ‘geek’ culture.

The third season of wheaton’s TableTop, a show that teaches viewers

how to play various board games, will be a topic of discussion at the panel.

other panels on fri-day include “Cartoon net-work: Regular Show,” “DC Comics: Batman” and many more.

on day two of the event, 20th Century fox and warner Bros. both have presentations scheduled. These panels generally showcase upcoming ac-tion, science fiction, hor-ror or fantasy films and the actors who star in them. The content of the presentations has not yet been listed. However, past presentations have fea-tured films such as Pro-metheus and Pacific Rim.

A costume competition known as the Masquerade will also be held Saturday. Cosplayers will boast elab-orate costumes from video games, television shows, anime and steam punk. Trophies will be awarded for the best costumes.

Sunday is often the slowest day of the con-vention, with panels be-ing geared more toward professionals. However,

the final day does fea-ture more events for a general audience, includ-ing “GeeK Guide to Sum-mer Movies,” “The nerdist Panel” and, in accordance with a wonderCon and Comic-Con tradition, a screening of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

In addition to discus-sions and guest appear-ances, the convention also holds game demonstra-tions and tournaments. This year, a demonstration of a new zombie-themed game titled “we Are Dead” will be held, along with many others. Pokemon, Munchkin and Yu-Gi-oh! tournaments will also take place.

Although wonderCon is only days away, there is still time to buy badges.

Badges for Saturday are sold out, but badges for friday and Sunday are still available to purchase online. A Comic-Con member ID is required to purchase. for more in-formation and a com-plete schedule of events and programs, visit Com-ic-Con.org/wca.

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The god of death has smiled kindly on wes-teros; Joffrey of House lannister has died.

His drawn out death al-most gave the impression he was going to survive his poisoning. But the close up of his pale bleed-ing face made it certain. The king was dead.

His weeping moth-er, Cersei, was quick to blame Tyrion as the cul-prit, but it seems high-ly likely Margaery might have had some part in Jof-frey’s death.

The entirety of the ep-isode also had plenty of important story beats, al-though Joffrey’s passing might have left the big-gest impact.

Prior to the post-wed-ding party and before King Joffrey took his last breath, Jaime lannister was planning to train in secret to ensure he would be able to protect the king.

It’s almost ironic that Jaime was going to train his left-handed swords-manship in secret with Tyrion’s guard, Bronn.

He wanted to ensure he would be able to protect the king even in his crip-pled state, but he did not want word of his current incompetence to spread if he trained with the wrong person.

not long after he began training, the very king he wanted to protect died from something a sword could not protect him against: poison.

Around the same time-frame, Tyrion lost one of the last things that brought him happiness:

Shae. To save Shae’s life, he

ordered that she leave King’s landing. Since Cersei found out about her, keeping her in King’s landing would only lead to her death.

A handful of characters also made their first ap-pearance of the season.

Bran and his mini bri-gade received some screen time. Bran seems to be enjoying his warg abilities.His conversa-tion with Jojen reed im-plied he had been taking control of his dire wolf often.

After touching a god’s tree, he saw visions of the past and future.

one of which included a dragon’s shadow envelop-ing King’s landing.

ramsay Snow is on the hunt for Bran and his brother.

He wants to secure the north for his father and earn his spot in House Bolton.

Hopefully Bran is ready if they eventually cross paths. It’s difficult not to root for the Stark kids after what happened to their family.

Stannis Baratheon and his priestess Melisan-dre also made a short appearance.

They did not contrib-ute much in this episode in terms of their story arc, but considering what they have done in the past sea-son, they will be sure to see a lot more attention as the season progresses.

Unfortunately, neither Arya or Daenerys saw any screen time this episode.

Hopefully Daenerys sees more progress on her way to King’s land-ing on the next episode. Her dragons need to start wrecking some havoc soon.

The takeaway from this episode: Underage wine drinking is bad.

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Alexis Valenzuela did not grow up playing ten-nis in country clubs and she did not train with elite coaches. Instead, she practiced her skills at lo-cal parks and high school courts with her dad.

The freshman tennis star was introduced to tennis when she was 7 years old by her father, Er-nie. She began playing in a Covina Parks and Recre-ation tennis camp.

Although she had pri-vate coaches, her father has been the main coach throughout her career. Valenzuela’s family has al-ways been supportive of her tennis career.

“He’s pretty much been my main coach since I was 7 years old, so he’s always there. My whole family is very supportive. They come to every match whether it’s at home or all the way in Davis,” Valenzu-ela said.

Valenzuela had an in-credible high school ca-reer. She is the only ath-lete in West Covina High School history to be named

a league Most Valuable Player for all four years of high school. Valenzuela was the San Gabriel Valley Tribune girl’s tennis play-er of the year twice during her career at WCHS.

“Me and my dad, we always set a goal every year. Freshman year, our long term goal was to win league championships four years in a row and an MVP and we did that,”

Valenzuela said.WCHS is known for its

successful football pro-gram rather than tennis, but Valenzuela’s accom-plishments brought me-dia attention to the tennis program.

“Alexis is the most tal-ented tennis player we have ever had at this school, girl or guy,” WCHS tennis coach Mark McCo-nville said in an interview

with Time Warner.Valenzuela also played

basketball in high school and still plays for fun to-day. But she chose tennis as her main sport because she likes the individual as-pect of it.

“I like the individual part of (tennis) because you can’t rely on anyone else but yourself. It’s pret-ty much just comes from within yourself to win,” Valenzuela said.

Winning is something Valenzuela has done her whole career. She won four consecutive Hacien-da League singles titles at WCHS. She was a four-star recruit on TennisRecruit-ing.net and was the No. 41 ranked girls tennis player in California.

Valenzuela holds a re-cord of 22-6 in singles competition this season at CSUF. She leads the team in wins with 15 and was named Big West Ten-nis Athlete of the Week on March 9. She has sur-prised even herself with the amount of success she has had early in her Titan career.

“I didn’t expect for my freshman year to go this well,” Valenzuela said.

She had a 14 match win streak this year in singles play, which was snapped Monday after she lost in straight sets to Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo senior Jennifer Cornea.

Valenzuela is the young-est of three freshmen on the team at CSUF. Her teammates have welcomed her with open arms.

“I’m pretty much the baby of the team. They’ve all been there since the beginning to guide me through my freshman year. They’ve all been re-ally supportive and loving towards me,” Valenzuela said.

She said she enjoys play-ing for first year women’s tennis Head Coach Dianne Matias.

“Coach Matias is very positive. She’s always en-couraging and just keeps you staying positive and calm throughout your whole match,” Valenzue-la said. “Having a coach that’s very supportive and confident (in you) makes you confident in yourself as well.”

The regular season is over for the Titans as they hit the court in Indi-an Wells for the Big West Championships next week-end. Valenzuela will look to lead the team in the tournament.

“Hopefully we can get very far in this tournament as a team. And individual-ly I just want to do my part and help the team any way I can,” Valenzuela said.

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Carlos Aguilar is set to join the Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer coaching staff as an assistant coach.

The hiring of the former UC Irvine volunteer assistant coach was confirmed Tuesday.

Aguilar will reunite with Head Coach George Kuntz after spending five years together at UC Irvine, three as a coach and two as a player.

At CSUF, Aguilar will join fellow as-sistant coach Adam Reeves, who was re-tained from former Head Coach Bob Am-mann’s coaching staff.

In Aguilar’s three years as assistant coach at UCI, the Ant-eaters compiled a 36-25-5 record, good for a .583 winning percentage.

Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball as-sistant coach Taja Ed-wards is leaving Ful-lerton and has chosen to accept the same po-sition at the USC.

It is a great oppor-tunity for Edwards as she joins a talented USC team that won its first PAC-12 Tour-nament last year, cap-ping the Trojans first NCAA Tournament berth since 2006.

Before her one year at CSUF, Edwards pre-viously was an assis-tant at Ole Miss for one year.

In addition to being a coach, Edwards was a tremendous play-er in her own right at Fresno State. During her four years, she was part of four Western Athletic Conference ti-tles while reaching the NCAA Tournament all four years.

Led by Martina Edberg, the Cal State Fullerton women’s golf team conclud-ed its season with a seventh place finish at the Big West Championships at San Luis Obispo Golf and Country Club.

The Titans, who went into the final day tied for fifth place, struggled in the fi-nal round, dropping into seventh place after a final round 25-over 317 to end with an overall score of 924. The only team to finish worse than the Titans was Hawaii, which ended with an overall 953.

Out of eight Big West schools, only four came into the tournament ranked in the GolfStat NCAA top-100. The Titans were ranked No. 88 with the others being No.

37 UC Davis, No. 75 Long Beach State and No. 80 UC Irvine.

The final day belonged to Edberg, who was impres-sive in her first appearance at the Big West Champion-ships. The freshman won the playoff hole versus Cal State Northridge’s Clariss Guce after the two finished tied for first with an overall score of 217.

The native of Sweden shot a 2-under 71 in the fi-nal round to secure her best result since her co-medal-ist finish at the Juli Inkster Spartan Invite held in ear-ly March. Her even par 73 in the first two rounds kept her in contention going into the final day.

Guce posted her best score in the second round with a 4-under 69, but fal-tered in the final round. Af-ter leading most of the day, Guce shot a 1-over 74 to drop into a tie with Edberg before losing the one-hole playoff.

Tisha Alyn Abrea, who

entered the final round tied for eighth, struggled in the final round, shoot-ing a 7-over 80, which dropped her out of the top-10. The junior finished tied for 13th with three other competitors.

Abrea’s streak of top-10 finishes at the Big West Championships ended at two with an overall score of 231.

For CSUF, junior Makayla Mier ended up tied for 33rd with an overall 245 while sophomores Dakota Brown and Nadine Rivera each finished in 37th and 39th respectively.

In round one, the Ti-tans were in fifth place af-ter shooting a 16-over 308 thanks in large part to Abrea and Edberg who both shot an even par 73 to finish in a three-way tie for second place along with Chaewon Park of Long Beach State in the individual standings.

In round two, it was more of the same for the Titans, who remained in fifth place

after a score of 317 to put CSUF at a 41-over 625.

The Big West Conference team championship once again belonged to UC Davis, which won its fifth consec-utive title with an overall 895.

Despite shooting a 12-over 304 in the final round, the Aggies’ strong per-formance in the first two rounds, including a 294 in the first round, was more than enough for the tour-nament victory as the team defeated CSUN by 16 strokes.

UC Irvine rounded out the top three while host school Cal Poly San Luis Obispo finished fifth after shooting an overall 931, two shots ahead of sixth-place UC Riverside.

The Aggies were led by Bev Vatananugulkit and her overall 220. She finished tied for third with CSUN’s Cesilie Hagan.

For UC Davis, its tour-nament dominance was due in large part to four

players placing in the top-10. Vatananugulkit was joined by teammates Bet-ty Chen, Paige Lee and Blair Lewis at the top of the leaderboard.

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CSUF SCORES

• Martina Edberg 2-under 217

• Tisha Alyn Abrea 12-over 231

• Makayla Mier 26-over 245

• Dakota Brown 30-over 249

• Nadine Rivera 44-over 263

Aces wild for Alexis

Edberg makes Fullerton golf history

JOHNNY NAVARRETTEDaily Titan

The Swede sunk a birdie in a one-hole playoff for the win

MICHAEL HUNTLEYDaily Titan

The freshman set the highest win total since 2000

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Freshman Alexis Valenzuela has quickly ascended to the top of the women’s tennis team after posting 14 consecutive victories.

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