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Volume 94, Issue 33 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013 dailytitan.com Police begin criminal investigation of missing $58k University Police began a ie said University Police has active nature of the investi- An investigative audit of the No suspect will be named in University detectives deep criminal investigation into opened a criminal investiga- gation. Information release Clayes Performing Arts Cen- the case until the trial goes to in investigation of theft from $58,694 that went missing tion to look into the missing could jeopardize the investiga- ter box office by the Univer- court. Performing Arts Center from the Performing Arts Cen- money. tion, Brockie said. sity Audit Office concluded in In May 2012, campus per- ter box office between Novem- University Police is “deep” University Police is the lead August 2013 that the missing sonnel noted discrepancies in ber 2011 and November 2012. into the investigation, Brockie agency in the investigation $58,694 was “likely the result the distribution of funds with- SAMUEL MOUNTJOY No specific details about said in a meeting in mid-Octo- and is “working diligently” on of criminal activity.” in the department. & MIA MCCORMICK the investigation are being ber. the case, which Brockie states This amount of money Daily Titan released by University Police. They are unable to release is a priority for the police de- would carry felony charges, SEE INVESTIGATION, 2 However, Capt. John Brock- details due to the ongoing, partment. Brockie said. Jul. 2011 Box May 2012 Campus Sept. 6, 2012 Sandra Clark, Jan. 2013 Overdrawn account Aug. 2, 2013 Audit investigation Oct. 31, 2013 Box office procedure office begins personnel notices financial box office manager dies of approximately $58,000 completed. Concludes missing will be added to have individual using new discrepancies funds are likely result of crimminal review and approve monthly software activity reconciliations Nov. 2011-Nov. 2012 Approx. $58,000 in Aug. 2012 Stephan Lewicki, Jan. 30, 2013 President Garcia Feb. 12, 2013 Chancellor Aug. 31, 2013 Deadline for CSUF sales revenues from the Performing Arts audience and services fiscal writes to Chancellor White, asking White requested OUA to to consult with University Police Center box office were not delivered to CSUF manager of the Performing for assistance from the Office of conduct an investigation to determine further action Auxiliary Services Corp. Arts Center, leaves CSUF the University Auditor Compiled by Magdalena Guillen Dutch duo Hidde Vos and Floris Versteeg hit the court ABRAHAM JAUREGUI Daily Titan This season, the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team are said to be going Dutch by adding Netherland natives, guard Hidde Vos and forward/ center Floris Versteeg, to a team looking to bounce back from a disappointing season. For both freshmen, growing up in a country where soccer reigns supreme, basketball has always been a part of their lives. “I wasn’t very good at (soccer), so my dad said, ‘well, you’re re- ally tall, let’s try basketball.’ It worked,” said Versteeg, 18, listed at 6’9”, 215 pounds, who attributes his father, Martin Versteeg, a former basketball player, as his influence. Daily Titan For Versteeg, basketball has ABRAHAM JAUREGUI / always been his passion, play- Freshman guard Hidde Vos waits to check into CSUF’s first scrimmage. ing in what he describes as a sons. and at CSUF? prestigious arena, Apollo Hall, Living two minutes away, Vos Vos and Versteeg both at- since he was 8 years old. frequently visited his aunt while tended Canarias Basketball ERICA MAHONEY / Daily Titan “I was in such a great bas- his parents, Rob Vos and Rolien Academy (CBA) in the Canary Jessica Perri displays a collection of her hand-drawn cartoon characters. ketball culture. All my friends Eggens, were working. Tagging Islands. The CBA is a basketball played it,” Versteeg said about along at his aunt’s basketball program where the objective is DETOUR | PROFILE his playing days back home in practices, he saw how competi- “to develop the best basketball Amsterdam. tive the children and his cous- players in the world, at all lev- About 36 miles southwest ins were, and wanted to play. At els.” Rob Orellana, CBA Direc- Artist brings animated from Amsterdam is the small first, Vos said his aunt felt he tor and former CSUF assistant town of Barendrecht, home to was too young, but finally at the coach from 2000 to 2003, cur- characters to life Vos, where he picked up the age of 6, his aunt obliged. rently runs the program. game of basketball from his From there, Vos said Euro- Orellana said he reached out reer as a high school art teacher. aunt. pean club basketball was very to Head Coach Dedrique Taylor CSUF student combines The 22-year-old animator “As a kid, from 3 years old, I influential on his development. and the CSUF coaching staff storytelling and visual art brings characters to life in a way was running around with a bas- “I just spent whole weekends and presented Vos and Versteeg techniques in latest comic that allows audiences to visu- ketball,” said Vos, 20, listed at just in the gym watching (club) as candidates for the program. ally grasp the stories she creates. 6’4”, 195 pounds. basketball games,” Vos said. “As individuals on and off the ERICA MAHONEY Her characters leap off the pages Vos’ aunt taught basketball to So, how did two Dutch bas- court you can’t find many peo- Daily Titan with impressively detailed life- children under the age of 10 in ketball players end up almost ple more hard working, dedi- like faces. Barendrecht, including her two 5,500 miles away from home cated and kind as Hidde and With her hair tied back to a Growing up, Perri immersed Floris. Hidde was a three point braid, Jessica Perri captured a herself in movies and soon devel- sniper at the academy, where free-spirited energy as her eyes oped a love for the art of storytell- Floris is a highly skilled four and creativity focused in on a ing. In her preteen years, Perri man with a good range and a pen and a blank 9-by-12 spiraled was introduced to anime, which wide selection of high and low sketchpad page. influenced her to learn how to ap- post moves,” Orellana said in an Perri, a Cal State Fullerton ply art and storytelling into one email. art education major, is not only flowing medium. At the academy, participants learning how to master visual art Her future in art was not al- go through rigorous develop- techniques, but also how to teach ways certain though. Through mental basketball practices them. Her specialty is animation most of high school, Perri consid- that the players describe as very art, where much of her portfolio is ered majoring in history to pursue difficult. digital or web-based. Perri hopes a career as a museum curator. to apply these skills and share ABRAHAM JAUREGUI / Daily Titan them with others in her future ca- SEE DIGITAL, 6 Freshman forward/center Floris Versteeg smiles after CSUF’s scrimmage. SEE DUTCH RECRUITS, 8 WHAT’S NEWS 3 OPINION 4 DETOUR 6 SPORTS 8 Faculty spends week California should consider Switchfoot will travel to Volleyball looks to take lobbying for fair pay and extending last call for California for their Fading down the Big West leaders, INSIDE? working conditions nightlife establishments West tour the Northridge Matadors FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @DAILY_TITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM PAGE 2 OCTOBER 30, 2013 THE DAILY TITAN NEWS WEDNESDAY Professor probes DTBRIEFS City of the ‘science of evil’ Seal Beach munity shunned him; about bans pigs Psychology professor half of his congregation stopped questions what causes attending his services. Howev- SARA HIATT horrendous behavior er, Ratcliff insisted that he had no regrets or misgivings about The Seal Beach City MATTHEW MEDINA giving Dahmer a baptism. Council voted Monday Daily Titan “If it takes faith in Jesus to to outlaw pigs of all go to heaven, Jeff had that,” he sizes in the city, ac- Monica Coto, Ph.D., invited said. cording to the Orange students to consider the ques- Coto used the story of Dah- County Register. tion of what causes “evil” ac- mer to introduce the debate The Seal Beach city tions in human beings on Tues- of how severely society should ordinance previously day. punish criminals. banned livestock and Coto, a professor of psychol- “If (Ratcliff) were to say this hogs, but allowed for ogy, spoke after a screening of person is beyond saving, I think pigs within the city. a 2008 episode of the television that would be huge in terms of According to city series National Geographic his worldview,” she said. “But, code, any pig weighing Explorer in the Titan Student on the other hand, this per- more than 120 pounds Union. son did a lot of morally unjust is classified as a hog. The event, a production of the things.” One pig owner re- JESSICA PINEDA / Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton Latina/o “Science of Evil” also de- ceived numerous com- Monica Coto, Ph.D., encourages students to consider moral and philosophical implications of controversial psychological experiments in Student Psychology Association scribed the Stanford prison ex- plaints from neighbors her class and at Tuesday’s screening. (LSPA) and the CSUF Chicano periment, conducted by Philip who claimed his pig and Chicana Resource Center, Zimbardo, now a professor was causing a bad odor FOR THE RECORD encouraged students to think emeritus of psychology at Stan- and created too much about situational and environ- ford University. noise. It is Daily Titan policy to correct factual errors printed in the mental factors that can lead to In the experiment, Zimbardo After nine months of publication.