Thousands attend Samuel Lopez sentenced annual Special Games in Cathy Torrez murder News 2 News 3 Monday May 4, 2015 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 97 Issue 49 Ludacris and Tyga hype up Titan offense crowd at Spring Concert erupts at UCR CSUF outscores Highlanders 35-4 in road series win DREW CAMPA Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton base- ball moved into a three-way tie for first in the Big West Conference as they swept UC Riverside in three games at the Riverside Sports Complex. The Titans (26-20 overall, 11-4 Big West) came alive offensively in their weekend series against the Highland- ers (13-32 overall, 2-13 Big West). Fullerton outscored Riverside 35-4 over the weekend, including a 19-0 victory Saturday. The Ti- tans also won 9-0 Friday in MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN the opener, as well as 7-4 in Atlanta rapper Ludacris performed in place of Wiz Khalifa at the Associated Students, Inc. 2015 Spring Concert on Saturday. The lineup also included West Sunday’s series finale. Coast rapper Tyga, and winners of ASI’s Battle of the Bands and Battle of the DJs competitions, One11 and DJ Cascio. The Titans picked up where they left off earlier Spring Concert finalizing the Spring Concert in the week, collecting their lineup with himself, One11, third win in a row by a score features festival- DJ Cascio and West Coast of 9-0. Fullerton tallied 15 like atmosphere rapper Tyga. hits, as junior Josh Vargas This year, Associat- lead the way going 3-for-4. ed Students amped things A total of five Titans ended ANGIE PEREZ up for students by creating the game with hits, includ- Daily Titan a festival-like atmosphere, ing David Olmedo-Barre- with attractions scattered ra, Tanner Pinkston, Taylor throughout the field, includ- Bryant and Jarrod Bravo, Over 4,000 students ing carnival games, slides who finish with three runs swarmed the intramural field and the Rock-O-Plane ferris batted in. Saturday afternoon for the wheel. Junior Thomas Eshel- Associated Students, Inc. an- A crowd favorite was the man was on the mound for nual Spring Concert, which puppy and reptile area where the Titans Friday night, sold out in one day, setting an students gathered to play with where he earned his fifth Associated Students record. cuddly puppies and scaly rep- win of the season. Eshel- Associated Students fell tiles such as a boa constrictor, man pitched seven scoreless under pressure after origi- an australian bearded dragon innings on the night, giv- nal headliner, Wiz Khali- and an eyelash gecko. ing up four hits and striking fa, cancelled his appearance Winners of 2015 Battle out seven without walking just nine days before the of the Bands, One11, kept a a batter. So far this season, concert. steady genre diversity with Eshelman has totaled 86 However, Associated Stu- its four indie rock band mem- strikeouts, while only giv- dents rushed to find a re- bers; Matthew Sutton on bass ing up five walks. placement of equal caliber, and background vocals, Mi- Eshelman retired 10 Spring Concert coordinator chael Ramirez on guitar and straight batters between Shannon Franklin said. keyboard, Ryan Cenicola on the first and fourth innings, Fortunately, Associat- drums and vocals and CSUF striking out six consecutive ed Students received confir- student Even Boydstun on batters throughout his ear- mation that dirty-south At- lead guitar. MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN ly-inning dominance. lanta rapper Ludacris was Spring Concert headliners Ludacris and Tyga both gave crowd-pleasing performances at Associated Fullerton’s Chad Hockin available to do the show, SEE CONCERT 4 Students, Inc.’s annual concert. This year’s concert included carnival-style games and rides. and Shane Stillwagon fin- ished the game with a score- less inning apiece. Saturday was a re- cord-breaking day for the Homeless highlighted at Box City the Titans as they managed to score 19 runs on 25 hits. Event brings in of Social Work student This is the first time the Ti- said. tans totaled 25 hits since a donations for OC Wehrman participated 25-0 victory against Pacif- homeless in the inaugural Box City ic on March 30, 2013. This event last year, which she is also the most runs the Ti- described as eye opening. tans have scored in a game ALEXANDER FAIRBANKS Caroline Bailey, Ph.D., this season since scoring Daily Titan associate professor of so- 13, which they did twice, cial work, led the Box City once against UC Davis and program as part of a class against Cal Poly San Luis More than 100 Cal State she teaches. Obispo. Fullerton students chose to “The program is de- Timmy Richards, Dustin be homeless Friday night, signed to engage the cam- Vaught, A.J. Kennedy, Dal- sleeping inside cardboard pus community in a dis- ton Blaser, Tyler Stieb, Ol- boxes on campus as part of cussion about poverty and medo-Barrera, Bryant and an event intended to bring homelessness,” Bailey Vargas all collected multi- attention to homelessness. said. ple hits on the night. Ken- The event, Box City, was Box City is a culmina- nedy and Bryant tied for the put on by Master of So- tion of a semester’s worth team lead with three hits cial Work students to raise of work, which includes each. Richards finished the money and awareness for fundraising and donation game with a career-high five homeless people in Orange gathering by Bailey’s stu- RBIs. County. dents all to help the home- Justin Garza pitched for The event lasted through less, Crosbie said. the Titans Saturday night Friday evening and into Sat- Last year the social work and went six innings, giv- urday morning, and featured program provided 16 fami- ing up three hits, two walks, activities and speakers Fri- lies with a deposit for their while striking out five bat- day night. first month’s rent, a week’s ters. Garza picked up his “(Homeless are) one of worth of groceries for 80 fourth win of the season as those types of populations families and gave enough the Titans shut out the High- that are really overlooked clothes to clothe “an entire landers for the second con- because there is such a village,” Crosbie said. secutive night 19-0. negative stigma with it,” YUNUEN BONAPARTE / DAILY TITAN Alex Wehrman, 23, Master SEE BOX 2 A participant decorates her box at the Box City event Thursday. SEE BASEBALL 6 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM PAGE 2 MAY 4, 2015 MONDAY NEWS DTBRIEFS N. Korea detains U.S student An American stu- dent was arrested and detained in North Ko- rea after crossing into the country illegally, CNN reported. Won-moon Joo, a New Jersey resi- dent and student at New York University, reportedly crossed the Yalu River to go from China to North Korea. He was arrested April 22 and the North Korean news agency reported that he ad- mitted that his entry into the country was illegal. Joo was not tak- ing classes this se- mester, according to DEVIN ULMER / DAILY TITAN a statement from the A volunteer spends time with one of the Special Games athelets. High school students from 23 schools volunteered at the event, and each student was paired with a university. special games athlete for the day. More than 2,000 athletes and 4,000 volunteers were expected at the event Friday. The South Kore- an Unification Minis- try said it is working FOR THE RECORD to determine the facts behind Joo’s detain- It is Daily Titan policy to correct factual errors ment, but believes that printed in the publication. Corrections will be pub- he is being detained in lished on the subsequent issue after an error is North Korea. discovered and will appear on page 2. Errors on the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. - CYNTHIA WASHICKO Corrections will also be made to the online version of the article. Please contact Editor-in-Chief Samuel Tel Aviv Mountjoy at (657) 278-5815 or at [email protected] to report any errors. protests turn violent Protests over the mistreatment of Ethi- opian Jews in Tel Aviv turned violent Sunday, DEVIN ULMER / DAILY TITAN and 57 police officers Editorial Volunteers and participants take part in the basketball activity. and 12 protesters were injured, CNN reported. Editor-in-Chief Samuel Mountjoy The protests Managing Editor Eric Gandarilla stemmed from a video News Editor Cynthia Washicko showing an Israel De- News Editor Alex Groves Special Games fense Forces soldier News Assistant Katherine Picazo of Ethiopian descent News Assistant Darlene Casas being beaten by police Sports Editor Tameem Seraj officers. Sports Assistant Rudy Chinchilla Protesters gathered Sports Assistant Matt Corkill returns to CSUF together in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, where Opinion Editor Vivian Chow they chanted, “a violent Opinion Assistant Sabrina Parada Event brings in Preparatory Academy. two participated in basketball, About 2,500 special ath- football and soccer together. cop should be in jail” in Opinion Assistant KateLynn Davenport thousands of special letes were expected to attend, “I’m just glad to see smiles response. Features Editor Fiona Pitt needs athletes and each was paired with one on kids’ faces,” Davison said. Authorities used Features Assistant Evan Lancaster of 4,000 volunteers, according The whole festival was fo- horses, water canons Features Assistant Stephanie Gomez and smoke to disperse DEVIN ULMER to the special games website. cused on creating special A&E Editor Zack Johnston the crowd. Daily Titan The efforts of volunteers memories for disabled stu- A&E Assistant Deanna Gomez didn’t escape the notice of spe- dents, who might not nor- The protest fol- Copy Editor Elaiza Armas cial education instructors, in- mally get these types of lowed on the heels Copy Assistant Gustavo Vargas Thousands of developmen- cluding Paul Unga from Eti- experiences.