Second Arts dean Titans take revenge candidate outlines plans over No. 13 USC Trojans News 3 Sports 8 Wednesday April 29, 2015 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 97 Issue 47 Student dancers to García issues showcase their passion editorial response President responds to calls for more transparency CYNTHIA WASHICKO Daily Titan President Mildred García sent an email state- ment to Cal State Fullerton students, faculty and staff Monday, responding to the Thursday editorial in the Daily Titan, “Transparen- cy? Not at CSUF.” The editorial outlined issues the Daily Titan has had with the Strategic Communications depart- ment’s media relations of- ficials, including hostility toward student reporters, and difficulty accessing university administrators. In the statement, García responded to the issues of MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN transparency raised in the The 13th annual Spring Dance Theatre will open Thursday in the Little Theatre. The show is coordinated by professor of dance Gladys Kares. Each dance in the show editorial. features a different choreographer and involves a different theme. The students in the show have been preparing their dances all semester long. “I take these concerns very seriously, as the te- Students are getting ready feature a theme created by its her time choreographing Williams said. nets of transparency and Spring Dance to spring into rhythm for this choreographer. dances and her mother, in Williams’ dance piece, Pa- collegiality are essential Theatre to open in year’s Spring Dance Theatre. Shawnee Williams, a junior turn, put her in a ballet class. rameters, is considered Af- to fulfilling the academic This will be the 13th Spring dance and sociology major, “My mother put me in my ro-contemporary, but also has mission of our institution,” the Little Theatre Dance Theatre and is coordi- is one of the choreographers first baby ballet class at (age inspiration from everyday gen- García said in the email. nated by professor of dance for the show. This is Wil- 4) after I was apparently seen dered gestures and patterns. García has asked Greg Gladys Kares. A dancer her- liams’ second time involved in choreographing a dance to Williams also used her studies Saks, vice president for ALANA GARRETT self, Kares said the show Spring Dance Theatre, but her Tina Turner’s What’s Love in sociology for inspiration. university advancement, For the Daily Titan as a whole will not have a first time as a choreographer. Got to Do with It with three the department responsi- theme, but each piece will As a child, Williams spent other children at my daycare,” SEE DANCE 5 ble for building relation- ships between CSUF and outside sources including alumni, businesses and foundations, to coordinate meetings with Daily Ti- tan representatives to de- termine how issues can be addressed, she said in the email. The Daily Titan edi- tor-in-chief and manag- ing editor will be meet- ing Thursday with Saks and Jeffrey Cook, CSUF’s chief communications officer. In the email, García said that she has asked Saks to schedule additional meet- ings with other campus community members to determine how to better work with the Daily Titan as an important part of ed- ucation on campus. The editorial has gar- nered the support of the Academic Sen- ate and Department of Communications. Both entities issued res- ALEXANDER FAIRBANKS / DAILY TITAN olutions supporting the ed- Two students take part in the firearm simulation Monday. As part of the program, pairs of students entered a trailer and then viewed multiple situations in which they itorial and its call for in- had to decide whether or not they would shoot an individual depicted as part of the simulation. creased transparency. Simulating police decisions Criminal Justice exercise between life and death. The activi- them. ty was led by University Police Sgt. Students were then presented puts students in life-or- Carl Jones. with one of multiple simulation op- The simulation, led by Jones tions. One of the simulations depict- death situations aimed to teach the students, many ed a woman who brandished a knife of whom were criminal justice ma- but then drops it. Another showed ALEX FAIRBANKS & jors, to take stock of a situation and a man choking a woman on a bed. GABRIELA LEPE quickly make a decision whether or In both instances, it was up to stu- Daily Titan not they would shoot. It’s a deci- dents to determine whether to they sion with direct parallels in the real would shoot the individual in the world, Jones said. simulation. Inside a trailer parked in a lot at “(Whatever) decision they make, “You definitely felt the pressure of Cal State Fullerton, students stand well that is the decision that they having to make a decision,” Brook with guns drawn, ready to fire. have got to live with—not every Koontz, 21, a human services major The students are participating in scenario is a shoot situation,” Jones said. “Do I hesitate, do I shoot right a test exercise as part of a virtual said. now, do I have the gun ready?” firearms simulation activity. How- In teams of two, the students Koontz was one of about 160 total ever, the test exercise is not far from walked into a large metal trailer students who participated over the a real life situation faced by a law where Jones showed them how to course of the two-day program. enforcement official, when a few load their pistols before a simula- seconds could mean the difference tion started on a screen in front of SEE FIREARMS 2 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM PAGE 2 APRIL 29, 2015 WEDNESDAY NEWS DTBRIEFS Baltimore on curfew after riot The city of Baltimore has begun the clean- up process following Monday’s riot. A city-wide cur- few was put in place across Baltimore from 10 p.m. Tuesday eve- ning until 5 a.m. today, CNN reported. The riots had stemmed from re- cent protests over the death of Freddie Gray, who died after being arrested by Baltimore Police for possession of a switchblade. An autopsy later revealed follow us Gray had been killed by a severe injury to his spinal cord. @theDailyTitan Buildings were burned, business- MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN es were looted and The Box City Event, put on by Family Promise of Orange County, aims to raise awarness about the police officers were issue of homelessness in the area. Promise of Orange County is part of a larger effort nationally. hospitalized as a re- sult of Monday’s riots. Nearly 2,000 National FOR THE RECORD Guardsmen and 1,000 police officers were It is Daily Titan policy to correct factual errors Event to use boxes expected to patrol printed in the publication. Corrections will be pub- streets Tuesday. lished on the subsequent issue after an error is discovered and will appear on page 2. Errors on - ALEX GROVES the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. Corrections will also be made to the online to raise awareness version of the article. Please contact Editor-in-Chief Samuel Box City event aims been spreading homeless can come here to Family Body of Mountjoy at (657) 278-5815 or at to bring attention to awareness with the Box Promise and receive cloth- [email protected] to report any errors. City event for about 10 ing items, food items, hik- OC woman homelessness years in the surrounding ing items and resources,” communities. Nargizian said. discovered JACKIE TAMBARA Box City is a hands-on The event is a semes- Daily Titan activity for social work stu- ter-long project for the dents, and helps implement Master of Social Work stu- The body of a miss- classroom curriculum into dents, who work with the ing Laguna Hills wom- For the second year, the real world situations, said Master of Social Work Stu- an was found near Family Promise of Orange Caroline E. Bailey, Ph.D., dent Association to put on San Juan Capistra- County and students in the an associate professor of the event. no Monday night, ac- Editorial Cal State Fullerton Mas- social work. During the planning for cording to the OC ter of Social Work pro- Students have pledged to the event, students divide Register. Editor-in-Chief Samuel Mountjoy gram will attempt to raise reach a goal of $10,000 in into teams and committees Erica Melissa Alon- Managing Editor Eric Gandarilla awareness about the plight monetary and goods dona- to take on different tasks so, 27 at the time of News Editor Cynthia Washicko of homeless people with the tions, including clothing, needed to put on the event, her death, had been News Editor Alex Groves Box City event. food, gift cards and other including meal preparation, missing since Valen- News Assistant Katherine Picazo More than 100 Master necessities that come from fundraising and network- tine’s Day weekend News Assistant Darlene Casas of Social Work students, the community’s help, said ing, Macias said. after arguing with her Sports Editor Tameem Seraj along with Family Prom- Nicole Macias, a Master of The event aims to raise on-again, off-again Sports Assistant Rudy Chinchilla ise of Orange County, an Social Work student. awareness of the struggles boyfriend at his Irvine Sports Assistant Matt Corkill organization that works to The inaugural 2014 Box of the multiple facets of the home. Her body was found Opinion Editor Vivian Chow aid homeless families by City event raised around homeless community, Bai- a mile away from U.S. Opinion Assistant Sabrina Parada providing shelter, food and $10,000 in donations and ley said, and not only those help finding long-term sta- another $10,000 in goods most visible to passersby.