Flocking to Spring Concert

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 Volume 95, Issue 50 MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan Headliner Waka Flocka Flame performed with high energy to a packed house Friday night at this year’s ASI Spring Concert. His hour-long set included hits “Hard in the Paint” and “No Hands.” Flocking to Spring Concert Eclectic acts bring thousands to their feet at highly- Waka Flocka Flame looks forward to the future, with anticipated concert in Titan Stadium new album set to drop later this year many aspiring entertain- His highly anticipated CECILY MEZA DENA HAMEDANI ers endlessly strive for. album, Flockaveli 2 rings Daily Titan Daily Titan “I’m an entertainer. I’m reminiscent of the late not a rapper. I’m not a sing- Tupac Shakur’s Makaveli Cal State Fullerton’s an- Before making his way er. I’m an entertainer. I en- alias. nual ASI Spring Concert onto the Titan Stadium tertain,” he said. “Tupac introduced me was held Friday night at stage as the headliner Success hasn’t been an to Machiavelli. I named Titan Stadium, welcom- for this year’s ASI Spring easy feat for Waka. Even my album from the real ing a crowd of students Concert, Waka Flocka with a booming career, his Machiavelli. ‘Cause Ma- anticipating to hear an Flame sat comfortably persistent work ethic and chiavelli was so opposed eclectic array of music on the incline of a nearby humility continue to re- by everybody around him. including the alterna- stairway. main unchanged. Nobody wanted to see him tive pop-rock band Basic Dressed in all white, “You can’t imagine how win, and at the end he was Vacation, electric dance with the word “dope” many mistakes … I made the man. So I feel like that’s musician Dirty South printed across his shirt, to get to where I’m at,” he how my position was at the and rapper Waka Flocka WINNIE HUANG / Daily Titan even his off-stage ener- said. “But at the end of the time in my life,” he said. Flame. Crowds surround Waka Flocka Flame during his set Friday. gy is nothing short of day, if you don’t take ad- Basic Vacation opened throughout the east coast a record label discovered contagious. vantage of this and you get the show, proving they before they collaborated by Lady Gaga and John Waka is no stranger comfortable, it’s over.” SEE WAKA FLOCKA, 5 were not so basic with to create Basic Vacation. Legend’s manager, Troy to the stage. He has been their performance char- “I just recall reading Carter. touring since the release of acterized by their sing- this story in class … there Fans can expect a full- his debut album in 2010. along lyrics and uplifting was a phrase in it where length album this year “I haven’t been off tour sound. Their set consist- the antagonist or protag- with about ten new songs. since 2010. I’ve literal- ed of their hit single “I onist … was like ‘at that Basic Vacation will also ly been doing shows non- Believe” and new music point we took what we perform at various festi- stop since 2010,” he said. featured from their up- deemed to be a basic vaca- vals around the nation. Maintaining his unpar- coming album. tion’ … and it just kind of EDM DJ Dirty South alleled energy can be diffi- The group consistsstuck with me,” said Gre- brought his progressive, cult to manage, especially of a three male mem- atti about how the band’s vocal house music to while on tour. Waka said bers, vocalist and guitar- name came about. the stage, including his he does it by eating a lot of ist Chris Greatti, bassist After moving to Los global smash hit “City of fruit and not eating past 10 Jon Paul and drummer Angeles over a year ago, Dreams” to open his set. p.m. Mike Montalbano. They the band has not taken a Waka started rapping at met after playing various break since being signed 24, and now at 27, he has WINNIE HUANG / Daily Titan shows with other bands to Atom Factory Music, SEE CONCERT, 5 attained a level of success Waka Flocka Flame has been constantly touring since 2010. Criminal justice students put on a show Wachtel’s course focus- prosecutors and judges for competitors or who had concentration camp until it is expensive to have a Specialized course es on the justice system the performance, as well ever disagreed with him. the Soviet army freed the class with such a low en- focuses on acting during pre-World War II as behind-the-scenes jobs The phenomenon of fal- prisoners. rollment rate. It doesn’t pay out Moscow trials Soviet Russia in two parts. like stage managing. sification and false confes- This interest in Soviet for itself, Wachtel said. The first half of the semes- However, it isn’t all stage sion were prevalent during justice compelled him to Because of the time-con- ELIZABETH MUÑOZ ter is dedicated to learn- lights and costumes, it’s a the trials. eventually write and pub- suming and intensive work Daily Titan ing the history of the Sovi- way to learn. Defendants in these tri- lish a historical novel called that must be put into the et system, while the other “One of the ideas is that als often felt compelled Stalin’s Witness. reenactments, the maxi- is spent learning the script ... through performing you to confess to a crime they Despite his passion for mum number of students Criminal justice students and rehearsing for the cu- develop a more organic or didn’t commit to avoid re- the period, his opportuni- who can enroll in the class will take the bench Tuesday mulative class project. a more intuitive under- taliation against them and ties to teach it are far and is 15. This semester, there to demonstrate their under- Students must memo- standing of what was ac- their family by the com- few between. are 11 students registered. standing of the 1930s Soviet rize the script that Wach- tually taking place during munist party. This is the third semester Wachtel hopes that CSUF Russian justice system. tel wrote. Although it has that time,” Wachtel said. By re-enacting the trials, that this course has been can offer the course more An upper-division elec- been adapted and edit- The Soviet justice sys- students are able to under- offered at Cal State Ful- often, but said it depends tive course taught by Julius ed over the years, it al- tem, under the rule of Jo- stand how that process oc- lerton. The first time was on the curriculum and Wachtel, a criminal justice ways encompassed the seph Stalin, was distorted curred and the consequenc- about a decade ago, in 2012 if there’s somebody well- lecturer, will reenact the show trials from 1936- through a political lens, es of it, Wachtel said. and again this semester. versed in the subject to infamous Moscow Show 1938, condensed into one Wachtel said. The com- His fascination with the He has taught the class all teach it. Trials, which Joseph Stalin performance. munist ruler used these subject and era derives three times. used to squash his oppo- They assume the trials to liquidate people from his family history. It can only be offered ev- nents in a very public way. roles of the defendants, who he believed were his His mother was a Jew in a ery couple of years because SEE TRIALS, 2 INSIDE BUSINESS PLAN SOFTBALL Winning CSUF team Titans win Saturday hopes to continue doubleheader against success competing at UC Davis Aggies, but other universities come up short Sunday NEWS 3 SPORTS 8 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @DAILY_TITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM PAGE 2 MAY 5, 2014 THE DAILY TITAN NEWS MONDAY More than 6,000 DTBRIEFS Thousands converge for 29th possibly dead in landslide A landslide in a vil- Special Games lage in Afghanistan Friday is reported to have buried at least 2,000 people, accord- ing to the New York Courtesy of Cal State Fullerton Times. Julius Wachtel wrote a historical novel titled Stalin’s Witness Officials are call- concerning how the former Soviet leader meted justice. ing the village located in Abi Barak a “mass grave,” because nu- Learning Soviet justice merous residents are buried beneath 30 TRIALS public and actually find it feet of mud. Continued from PAGE 1 interesting. Efforts to recover Wachtel said his stu- the victims from the The performance aspect dents put on the first show amount of earth that of the class is something last week without any had fallen were futile, that most students are un- hiccups. and the possibility of aware of when they regis- One student forgot a additional mudslides ter for it, Wachtel said. couple of his lines, but kept rescue crews on Even though none of managed to think quickly high alert. them are theatre arts ma- and improvise. Afghan President jors, he said that students The class will host two Hamid Karzai an- recreate the show trials on performances this Tues- nounced a nation- stage without any prob- day at 7:30 and 8:45 p.m. in al day of mourning lems with performing in UH-252. for the victims and ordered flags to be flown at half-staff FOR THE RECORD in light of what was In the issue published April 28, in the article declared a “human titled “Special Games to draw 6,500,” the tragedy.” 2014 Cal State Fullerton Kathleen E.

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