Titans Strike Gold Vs. 49Ers Also Be Purchased to Hand • Source: Orange out Alongside the Goodie County Homeless Helping Me and Tried to Get Bags During Their Walk
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THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014 Volume 95, Issue 41 Rallying aid for homeless in Fullerton Organizers expect more than 50 to HOMELESSNESS hand out supplies GINA VAN STRATTEN Daily Titan • 4,251 homeless res- idents are in Orange A huge surprise is in County as of January store for numerous home- 2013 less people in Fullerton this Saturday night. More than 50 Orange • 26.9 percent of County residents, includ- homeless individuals ing Cal State Fullerton students, are going to give rely on emergency goodie bags to homeless shelters AMANDA SHARP / Daily Titan people they encounter on It was all smiles for the Titans as they huddle around home plate to celebrate a home run. CSUF defeated its rival Long Beach State in a journey through the Or- • Currently no year- run rule fashion and clobbered two home runs in the game. The Titans handed the 49ers their first conference loss of the season. ange County area. The bags are filled with round homeless necessities such as tooth- shelter in Fullerton paste, toothbrushes, socks and clothes. Hot food will Titans strike gold vs. 49ers also be purchased to hand • Source: Orange out alongside the goodie County Homeless helping me and tried to get bags during their walk. Count and Survey Softball earns a run balls hit to them.” The whole event is co- Report rule victory against Senior Erin Jones-Wes- ordinated by Amie Zeoli, rival Long Beach ley took the circle for the a graduate student study- 49ers. She came into the ing public administration, over the amount of volun- MICHAEL HUNTLEY game with a record of 18-4 who hopes to influence teers who have contact- Daily Titan with an earned run aver- city policy with a career in ed her and signed up to age of 2.52. Wesley is sec- public administration. help. The Cal State Fuller- ond in the Big West in Zeoli started these Volunteers are meeting ton softball team won the strikeouts per game with events in hopes of address- Saturday night at La Pal- first of a three-game series 7.68. ing the issue and changing ma Park in Anaheim at 7 against Long Beach State, The Titans jumped on people’s perceptions of the p.m. They will circle the 8-0, Wednesday at Ander- Jones-Wesley early. Sopho- huge homeless population park and give bags to the son Family Field. more third baseman Mis- in the area. homeless people who take The 49ers (32-10, 9-1 Big sy Taukeiaho led the first “I seek to make people shelter there. From there, West) came into the game inning off with a double. understand that homeless Zeoli and volunteers are riding an 11-game win- After a sacrifice bunt, ju- people are not just lazy or going to caravan to the ning streak. They entered nior Eliza Crawford hit AMANDA SHARP / Daily Titan drug addicted- they have train station in downtown play with a three-game a sacrifice fly to score Sophomore third baseman Missy Taukeiaho rips the ball down the simply hit a hard time in Fullerton and continue lead over second place UC Taukeiaho. left-field line. Taukeiaho hammered her 14th home run in the win. their lives,” Zeoli said. handing out goodie bags. Santa Barbara and a four- After a leadoff double Zeoli started coordinat- “I give everyone some- game lead over third place and sacrifice bunt in the SOFTBALL ing these types of events thing to give to the home- CSUF. bottom of the second in- last year. She has put on less people so they can Sophomore Jasmine An- ning, senior left fielder two events, one for the talk to them and personal- tunez got the start in the Leesa Harris beat out a Christmas season and one ly hear their stories,” Zeoli circle for the Titans. An- grounder to third base to on Valentine’s Day. said. tunez made three appear- drive in a run. “I want to remind them Zeoli is also open to any ances against the 49ers in In the bottom of the VS that we are thinking about ideas from volunteers re- 2013 and had an earned third, Crawford hit her first 5 them during the holiday garding additional ar- run average of 1.72. home run since March 26. seasons,” Zeoli said. eas to visit that are heav- Antunez got herself into The solo shot was her 10th Alin Buna, another stu- ily populated by homeless a jam in the first inning. of the season. The home 8 0 dent in the public admin- people. She also said she She allowed a leadoff triple run and ensuing walk istration masters pro- hopes to get more requests to junior shortstop Shay- prompted Head Coach Kim aggressive, but I tried stay- was covering the base. The gram, saw Zeoli’s event on from CSUF students who na Kimbrough. She walked Sowder to bring in junior ing calm,” Taukeiaho said. throw sailed to the out- Facebook and helped her want to volunteer. two other batters to load Amanda Hansen to pitch. “Whatever they gave me, field, which scored the reach out to more CSUF “This opportunity to the bases. She got senior The Titans continued (I) took it and ran with it.” runner from third base to students. reach out to the homeless catcher Sarah Carrasco to their offensive onslaught With two outs in the bot- give the Titans a 7-0 lead. “Usually students in our people will really open the fly out to end the inning. in the fourth inning. Har- tom of the fourth, Han- After cruising through department (public ad- volunteers’ eyes to the is- “There was pressureris hit her second infield sen walked back-to-back the previous three innings, ministration and political sue of homelessness no right away and she just single of the night. Taukei- Titans. Sophomore sec- Antunez once again ran science) have a desire to matter what major you handled it,” Head Coach aho followed Harris with a ond baseman Samantha into trouble in the top of bring good change in their are,” Zeoli said. Kelly Ford said. two-run home run. It was Galarza singled to drive in the fifth inning. community,” Buna said. For more information on “The first inning was a her conference-leading a run. Carrasco attempt- “The desire to help should how to volunteer for the little tough,” Antunez said. 14th home run. ed to throw out the steal- come from within.” event, email Zeoli at azeo- “I just relied on my defense “Today I was really ing Galarza, but no 49er SEE SOFTBALL, 8 Zeoli said she is ecstatic [email protected]. A once-in-a-lifetime European adventure middle of the canvas. After we landed in Lon- little city surrounded by painted in bright pinks, me to love Freiburg. We’ve Student travels I suppose that some- don, I fell in love with it walls, and nobody speaks a greens and yellows, and talked about living there through Europe to see where along the way, her immediately. word of English. The cobble- many have murals of saints one day, and I knew that he dream became my dream Everything in London stone streets were tiring on and the Virgin Mary hid- expected me to see it and six countries in 14 days too, but it was more than feels as if it were built with my feet, but the charm of the den along the lesser viewed immediately decide that KALEY WILLIAMS just the Eiffel Tower. so much precision. The town was hard to miss. sides. our abstract plans should Daily Titan This incredible wan- buildings are squished to- The next day, my boyfriend Switzerland is incredi- be made into reality, but I derlust grew within me. I gether, but are still donned and I took a train to Venice. bly beautiful and expensive. didn’t. longed to travel the world with crown molding and We were lost for hours while My boyfriend repeatedly ex- We spent a few days wan- My mom always wanted and experience cultures old-fashioned streetlights trying to navigate our way to plained that the average sal- dering the streets and view- to see Paris. and sights that I had only lined the centers of the Saint Mark’s Square. ary in Switzerland is high, ing the city from the top of For as long as I can re- ever dreamed about. streets. When we eventually found but all I could think about a huge hill at sunset. I really member, she’s had a framed So a few weeks ago, I Camden town felt like an our way there, I had an ex- were the $11 cheeseburgers liked Freiburg, but I didn’t painting of the Eiffel Tow- did. entirely different place. This tremely surreal moment from McDonald’s. love it. er hanging on her bedroom I jumped on a plane and small area of shops and food when I was standing in the When our adventure in I could feel his disap- wall. spent two weeks backpack- carts is filled with so many middle of Venice, Italy, in Switzerland ended, our next pointment, but we cut our I used to stare at the ing through Europe with different people and cultures Saint Mark’s Square eating stop was Germany. losses and took a train into painting as I walked past it, my boyfriend. that it feels like a world of its hazelnut gelato. The experi- My boyfriend graduated France. The country-side and before I understood the The journey was terri- own.