Monday April 18, 2016 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 99 Issue 38 FB.COM/THEDAILYTITAN WWW.DAILY TITAN.COM INSTAGRAM & TWITTER @THEDAILYTITAN Baseball Rap duo Rae Sremmurd sweeps UC Davis set to play Spring Concert at home Dominant pitching, hot bats propel CSUF past Aggies HAYLEY M. SLYE Daily Titan Tanner Pinkston’s walk- up song is “Stayin’ Alive,” which is exactly what he helped Titan base- ball do over the weekend to keep them at the top of the Big West Conference standings. After a series loss to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in which it failed to gener- ate substantial offense, Cal State Fullerton baseball belted its way to a sweep of the UC Davis Aggies, out- scoring them 26-5. Pinkston was the prima- ry aggressor in the series, going 3-4 Friday and Sat- urday night. He ended the weekend with nine hits, in- NOLAN MOTIS / DAILY TITAN cluding a home run and five Associated Students, Inc. held an artist reveal event at the Becker Amphitheater on Thursday, April 14. The first artist revealed, American hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd, RBIs. is set to perform at the 2016 Spring Concert on May 7. ASI plans to announce an additional performer for the lineup. Tickets went on sale this past Friday, April 15. “I have more confidence ev- ery time I get a hit like that,” ASI announces duo Rae Sremmurd as one of the event coordinator, said ASI plans two brothers, Khalif “Swae Lee” rounds, each in front of CSUF Pinkston said. “The baseball acts poised to perform at the ASI to announce an additional per- Brown and Aaquil “Slim Jimmi” students who voted to deter- is definitely a lot bigger than 2016 Spring Spring Concert. former, though it’s still in the con- Brown, who are best known for mine which DJ would win a spot it was in the beginning of the Concert lineup ASI Vice President-elect Al- tract process with the artist, who their platinum singles “No Flex on stage at this year’s Spring year.” exandra Beltran welcomed three should be revealed in the next few Zone” and “No Type.” Concert. With the wins, the Titans artists to help reveal the perform- weeks leading up to the Spring The ASI reveal featured the re- Boyd played a high-energy set, improved to 21-13 overall and KATE JOLGREN er. Each artist was given a 10-min- Concert. cent winner of Battle of the DJs, remixing hip-hop tracks such as 7-2 in conference, second in Daily Titan ute time frame to paint letters that “We look at their populari- who will be performing at Spring the Drake and Future collabora- the Big West standings behind were then unscrambled to reveal ty, but we also look at how well Concert. On Wednesday, two DJs tion, “Jumpman,” which ultimately UC Santa Barbara. the group’s name. they perform,” Garibay said. “Rae got on the decks at the Becker Am- proved more popular than Pham’s Fullerton won 10-0 on Students milled around the ASI chooses performers based Sremmurd, they do well in their phitheatre for this year’s battle. more laid-back mix of pop and Friday, its largest margin of Becker Amphitheater on Thurs- on student surveys regarding performances.” Austin Boyd, as Austo, and rock songs. victory this season. day in anticipation as the Asso- genres students want to hear. Bri- Rae Sremmurd is an Amer- Henry Pham, as Hpham, played ciated Students, Inc. revealed rap an Miles Garibay, Spring Concert ican hip hop duo consisting of head-to-head DJ sets for three SEE CONCERT 4 SEE BASEBALL 8 Titans win ninth consecutive game Softball remains Golden tossed an impres- sive five innings of relief dominant at top with three strikeouts and of the Big West only three hits allowed. Game 2 BRANDON ROSS Ybarra returned in game Daily Titan one of Saturday’s double header but got into trou- ble in the top of the first Dominant pitching and inning as she allowed the timely hitting led the Cal Aggies to score off an RBI State Fullerton softball team single to right field, giv- to a series sweep over the ing the Titans an early 1-0 UC Davis Aggies at Ander- deficit. son Family Field this past The Aggie lead did not weekend. last long, however, as Rip- CSUF (34-10 overall, 9-0 py hit a sac fly to right Big West) remained first field, driving in a run to tie overall in the Big West Con- the game in the bottom of ference standings after its the third. The Titans took stellar weekend over UC Da- a 2-1 lead in the bottom of vis (14-22 overall, 3-6 Big the fifth off a groundout West). from sophomore infielder Mikaela Francis. Game 1 PATRICK DO / DAILY TITAN Fullerton padded its lead Senior ace Desiree Ybarra In the final game against UC Davis, shortstop Shianne Brannan hit her first home run of the year, a two-run shot to left to give in the bottom of the sixth got the nod in the circle for Fullerton the early edge over the Aggies. thanks to senior infielder Me- Fullerton, looking to add to lissa Sechrest, who smacked her impressive 10-5 record. first base on a fielding -er in the top of the second as answered back with an RBI in the bottom of the sixth, a three-run homer down the The Titans got their first ror, allowing senior third Brianna Warner drove in triple to the left-center driving in four runs, capped right field line to secure the Ti- run in the bottom of the baseman Missy Taukeiaho an RBI to left field. In the gap, giving Fullerton a 2-1 off by a two-run blast from tans’ 5-1 victory. first inning as junior catch- to score. bottom of the fourth, junior lead. Gonzalez to left field. er Alexis Gonzalez reached The Aggies responded outfielder Delynn Rippy The Titans pulled away Freshman righty Sydney SEE SOFTBALL 6 Police teach defense against shooters Nickelodeon celebrates 25 years of animation Fullerton loses momentum against CSULB Event tackles Animation With a 7-0 recent active panel ‘Happy sweep, Long shooter situa- Happy Joy Joy’ Beach delivers tions and the honored Nick- second Big re-evaluated elodeon-famed West Confer- methods of sur- cartoons at ence loss to vival for those Meng Concert Fullerton after News 2 involved A&E 4 Hall on Saturday Sports 8 solid 6-0 start FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM PAGE 2 APRIL 18, 2016 MONDAY NEWS DTBRIEFS Multiple quakes hit Japan Japan’s Kyushu re- gion was struck by two earthquakes this past weekend, one of magnitude 7, accord- ing to CNN. There have been a series of after- shocks reported to have struck every hour by Kumamoto residents. 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Marine shot on active shootings and killed at Law enforcement her chances of survival is Rios said. “We can’t be strip club to be prepared, Wren said. complacent and think, engage community For example, the casual- ‘Hey, it’s not going to hap- A U.S. Marine was with safety protocol ties of the Sandy Hook El- pen where I work.’” shot and killed early Sunday morning in the Editorial ementary School shooting Rios ended the program could have been reduced with a sobering account of parking lot of the Flesh Editor-in-Chief Rudy Chinchilla SEAN KELLEY had the teachers been prop- how passengers on one of Club Showgirls strip Managing Editor Zack Johnston Daily Titan erly trained to appropriately the hijacked planes during club in San Bernardi- News Editor Micah Augimeri-Lee confront an active shooter 9/11 was unable to run or no, California, accord- News Assistant Jason Rochlin Active shooting inci- situation. hide. The passengers on ing to ABC Eyewitness News. News Assistant Jillian Salas dents have spurred law en- Lt. Mike Chocek of United Airlines Flight 93 The 20-year-old vic- News Assistant Gerard Avelino forcement to adjust training the Fullerton Police De- found out through phone protocols to help keep peo- partment and Sgt. Tony calls that their plane was tim, whose name has News Assistant Monse Rodriguez ple better prepared while Rios of the North County part of the planned terrorist not yet been released, Sports Editor Ryan Porter increasing their chances SWAT Family Crimes Unit attack. was gunned down Sports Editor Aaron Valdez of saving themselves and stressed the importance of “What do you do? You around 2:12 a.m.