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Ann Phong spends free time painting in her kitchen. ANGELINA DEQUINA / DAILY TITAN

CSUF women’s basketball will face UC Santa Barbara Thursday night.

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Students met with major corporations to discuss future employment.

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Sales center hosts Marriott job fair Titans in search of victory

Over 30 companies participated in the Sales Leadership Center’s career fair, offering jobs and internships. JOSHUA ARIEF HALIM/ DAILY TITAN

The Cal State Fullerton Sales Leadership Center hosted a career fair at the Marriott Hotel, which offered full-time jobs and paid internships.

Students were able to take ad-vantage of networking with hiring sales recruiters.

This event was hosted at the Marriott Hotel on the corner of Fo-lino and Nutwood, directly across the street from CSUF.

The first 25 students who en-tered the event were able to re-ceive a leather pad planner from the Sales Leadership Center. Oth-er incentives, such as completing a stamp card, were provided to moti-vate students to engage with differ-ent businesses and with each other.If a student received a stamp from each booth, they were entered into a giveaway for a mystery prize.

Although this event was tailored towards business students who want to go into sales, the center en-couraged other majors to connect with a variety of businesses.

“It’s going good. It’s definitely a lot higher volume than the fall. We have a lot of companies recruiting, so it’s nice,” said Kayla Schneller, a full-time administrative assistant for the Sales Leadership Center.

Although the Sales Leadership Center hosts this event every se-mester, factors such as students

graduating and possibly looking for summer internships make the spring career fairs more success-ful than the fall. Anthony Gomez, a human resources major, took ad-vantage of this opportunity.

Gomez said that although he

is not going into sales, he still wanted to use this chance to con-nect with hHuman rResources representatives.

“I think it’s great. I really like that Fullerton is offering that to our students. It gives me a good

look at them. I’m seeing a lot of different friends here as well, so it’s really good to be in a room full of energy of people really want-ing to make a name out of them-selves,” Gomez said.

Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball will look to end their six-game losing streak Thurs-day night when they host UC Santa Barbara. The Titans sit at seventh place in the Big West, and hope to close the gap on Cal State Long Beach who is a half-game ahead of them with six games left in the season.

The Titans’ last four losses have all been by less than 10 points.

Center Daeja Smith leads the Titans in scoring with 13 points per game. Smith has struggled during the Titans’ skid, averag-ing 10.7 points per game during that span.

UCSB is led offensively by guard Coco Miller, who is av-eraging 11.3 points per game in her last six games. Miller is also leading the Gauchos in minutes per game with 34.1, while guard Denae Miller is behind her with 32.6 minutes per game.

Professor’s self-discovery through art

Ann Phong’s most recent art pieces focus on environmental issues. ANGELINA DEQUINA / DAILY TITAN

After escaping Vietnam, Ann Phong paints to reflect on her past.

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In the Titan Student Union, a vi-brant canvas emblazoned with red and gold paint rests in the hallway near the information center, glow-ing under a reflective glass frame and lit by bronze candlesticks painted on the bottom.

The painting, which was bought by Cal State Fullerton in 1995, holds a place in the artwork

collection that lines the walls of the TSU. But the story behind the artist doesn’t start there.

An artist’s cursive signature oc-cupies a dark corner of the paint-ing. It reads: Ann Phong.

An Escape

Phong was born in South Viet-nam and grew up in what was pre-viously known as Saigon, but is now known as Ho Chi Minh city. While she was in high school in 1975, the South Vietnamese gov-ernment collapsed under North Vietnam.

Phong said her family stayed

in their home because they hoped they would be safe among the lo-cals there.

She then decided to pursue her love for art by applying to the only art school in South Vietnam, but was rejected twice.

Phong changed her approach on pursuing art, instead choos-ing to get her teaching credentials. She spent her days telling her ju-nior high and high school students fairytales they never got to learn, such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Snow White.”

At the age of 22, Phong escaped. She travelled from the city to the countryside of Vietnam to meet

with a 13-year-old student she had grown close to, as well as a group of people.

When she got there, she found out that her student had been caught and put in prison.

“The night we escaped was a night that had no moon, nothing. It was so dark that the police couldn’t catch us. That’s how we got out of Vietnam,” Phong said.

The shoreline of Malaysia was the first thing Phong saw after three days at sea. Here, she would spend the next year of her life in a refugee camp. She wrote to her older sister, who had escaped three years prior to her, in hopes of

moving to the United States.

The Turning Point

Phong moved to Connecticut af-ter being sponsored by her older sister’s church, but once she real-ized how cold the weather was, she flew to California in 1982.

The biggest barrier for her was language. Over the course of her life, she learned Chinese, Viet-namese and French, but when she arrived to America she had to re-learn everything in English.

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Crime activity on campus in the month of February includes a missing person incident, mar-ijuana possession, public intox-ication and invasion of privacy.

Missing PersonOn Feb. 16, a mother reported

her daughter missing to University Police. The two-year-old daughter went missing in the Arboretum. Police immediately contacted Ar-boretum staff and extra resourc-es from Fullerton and Placentia police to support the search, said Capt. Scot Willey of the Universi-ty Police.

The space was put on lock down. One gate was left open with a community service officer and police officer posted to mon-itor it. Within approximately half an hour the child was found by a volunteer near an outhouse by the Heritage House, Willey said.

“She had gone in there and when she was trying to come out, the door had locked on her from the outside. She wasn’t able to open the door from the inside. The people who were walking by looking for her heard her crying from the inside. They were able to get her out,” he said.

Arboretum staff closed down that outhouse to figure out what had occurred, and prevent it from happening again.

Invasion of Privacy On Feb. 6, University Police re-

leased the details of a male sub-ject wanted for an ongoing inva-sion of privacy case that occured in Pollak Library. The subject was described as Asian or Hispanic, approximately 5 feet, 10 inches tall and about 160 pounds.

University Police has yet to find the subject but have leads, Willey said.

“We have quite a few, probably around a dozen that we’re look-ing at,” Willey said. “We’re going

to keep following the leads. As of right now, we don’t have any-one in custody or anybody that we could tell you that is our person of interest.”

Willey said he could not pro-vide more details regarding the investigation or the case until the subject is in custody in order not to jeopardize it.

Marijuana PossessionTwo students aged 18 and 19

were reported smoking marijuana in a dorm structure and in posses-sion of 28.5 grams of marijuana on Feb. 12. The individuals were given disciplinary notices.

“That was probably most-ly for violating a smoking poli-cy, because right now marijua-na is not illegal. It’s more about them smoking on a campus that doesn’t allow smoking,” Willey said. “If it’s the first time, it’s not an issue.”

Public IntoxicationUniversity Police reported an

individual intoxicated in the Titan Student Union on Feb. 11. They do not deal with incidents like this all the time, Willey said.

“We don’t have a bar right now in the TSU and so that’s not some-thing that we really see a lot from there. It kind of depends on what the holiday is and if there’s people coming back from parties where we might run into drivers that are DUI But again, most of those are off-campus people that we deal with,” Willey said.

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rate usually occurs during fall and spring because people know most students are not on campus during summer and winter.

“During the semesters are when things kick up. The crim-inals out there know when our students come back. They know when they’re going away on vaca-tion or spring break. They know when it’s finals week, and they know that students are really fo-cused on their studying and may not pay attention to leaving a lap-top around,” Willey said.

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There was a wide selection of businesses present at the career fair, including popular brands like Verizon, Pepsi, Nationwide and Target. A total of 30 com-pany recruiters came out today to connect with students inter-ested in seeking future full-time opportunities or paid sum-mer internships.

Ezequiel Pena, a third year sales major, appreciated this event, as it was geared towards the field of work he would like to go into. Pena shared that he was thrilled with the variety of businesses that he was able to connect with.

“(The event) brought a lot of good companies, they brought a lot of their corporate spon-sors. Every person had real-ly good things to say about the

company, so it’s going to be dif-ficult making choices for intern-ships this summer,” Pena said.

The Sales Leadership Cen-ter hopes that students will take advantage of their free resourc-es outside of the career fairs, Schneller said.

Schneller said that this re-source center is more than just pushing careers in sales; they also work on personal develop-ment and assist in boosting ca-reer opportunities.

“We’re open to all students on campus. Even some alum-ni have received our resourc-es, so you just have to be a student who wants some re-sources,”Schneller said.

The Sales Leadership Cen-ter is located in Steven G. Mi-haylo Hall, and is open from 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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Cal State Fullerton students getting to network with potential employers.JOSHUA ARIEF HALIM / DAILY TITAN

Policies will be altered at the Titan Student Center following the discussion.

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ASI meeting amends bylaw change

The Associated Students Inc. Board of Directors have de-cided to approve several legal changes to the Titan Student Centers’ policies and bylaws.

The Titan Student Centers consist of the Titan Student Union, the Student Recreation Center, Irvine Fitness Center and Student Lounge.

They serve as a hub for cul-tural, social and intellectual activities and services, while bringing students, staff and fac-ulty together.

ASI Executive Director Dave Edwards said that some of the bylaws had to be changed into policies to simplify the lan-guage by eliminating redun-dancies between the bylaws and policies.

“It’s more of an administra-tive process where language from the ASI bylaws regarding the Titan Student Centers’ op-erations were put into a policy state. In cleaning up the bylaws, it is determined that some of that language really should be in a policy statement instead of in the bylaws,” Edwards said.

Bylaws are the rules that are used to govern the organization. They are a set of guidelines that determine the structure and op-erations within the organiza-tion, including specifications for each board member’s role.

Policies, by contrast, are rules actively put in place by the board concerning operating procedures and limiting the ac-tivities of each member.

Both are available on the ASI website for students to view.

Bylaws are not meant to change as often as policies

because they are put in place as long-term guides for the organi-zation to follow.

Policies generally have much more information than by-laws, said Maria Linares, the vice chair secretary for the ASI Board of Directors and mem-ber of the Titan Student Cen-ters Governing Board. The TSC Governing Board is in charge of ensuring that all the centers are appropriately used by students, staff and faculty.

Linares said she was actively

involved in the process of pro-posing the bylaw and policy changes and helped in catching the language discrepancies.

“I caught a lot of the pro-nouns. Basically I had asked them if some of these bylaws had been changed before and they had looked at pronouns.I guess some of them didn’t catch them. I brought it to their atten-tion and they edited it,” Linares said.

The TSC Governing Board is in charge of ensuring that

all the centers are used appro-priately by students, staff and faculty.

The board had an attorney look over the proposed chang-es, revising and giving feed-back. After the TSC Governing Board approved the changes, they were sent to the ASI Board of Directors for final approval, said Linares.

Board of Directors Chair Tristan Torres said that the changes are purely legal and that one of these changes

includes how long a board of di-rectors member will serve.

The changes in the policy will have no major external ef-fect on the TSC, Linares said.

“We wouldn’t ever make these major changes without student feedback. For me per-sonally, it’s really important to get student feedback.

I wouldn’t want to make huge major changes that are not in-volving the students, that’s something I don’t feel comfort-able with,” Linares said.

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Romanticizing gruesome crimes is unacceptable.

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The desire to carry a child has never been a priority in my life.

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I can’t wait to have a child! Rais-ing a mini-me is going to be so much fun!

I’ve heard statements like this throughout my life, and everytime it leaves a sour taste in my mouth to think that the so-called “mir-acle of life” is rooted in such an ego-driven belief.

No matter one’s viewpoints or plans, childbirth is a sensitive sub-ject that is arguably hard to discuss given its emotional influence and direct impact on one’s life. For me, childbearing has always been a re-sponsibility I’ve considered to be too large to place on both my mor-als and abilities. I’ve never felt the strong desire to procreate, and after considering the environmental cost of bringing a child into a world that many describe as overpopulated, I knew I would never deliver a child into this civilization.

When you take into account the impact of future children, hav-ing one fewer child than planned would save 58.6 tons of carbon di-oxide emissions per year. In com-parison, eating a plant-based diet saves about 0.8 tons of carbon di-oxide per year and living car-free saves about 2.4 tons of carbon di-oxide per year, according to re-searchers from Lund University.

Given those statistics and the fact that I’ve never considered rearing

a child in the first place, I’ve con-templated taking such drastic mea-sures as getting my tubes tied.

When I’ve explained to others why I would take control in such a dramatic way, I’ve been met with expressions of dismissal, claiming it was too radical, or declarations

that I’ll eventually change my mind. While it’s true that I may re-consider, I believe that it is more of a reason to get the procedure done in the first place — so that I don’t have that option in the future.

On any given day, there are nearly 438,000 children in the U.S.

foster care system, according to Children’s Rights, a nonprofit ad-vocacy organization. Within the foster care system itself there are unfortunately many cases of negli-gence and abuse.

So when I imagine my future as a mother, it includes adopting a

child to get them out of a potential-ly harmful environment.

Not only would my choice to not carry a child be beneficial for the environment and another child that is already alive, but my body would experience benefits as well. When I think about the reality of pregnancy, I get anxious because I recognize that my body may not be strong enough to handle the biological shift and process of childbearing.

During pregnancy, women expe-rience many changes in their bod-ies. One change occurs in the re-spiratory system, which results in an increase of respiratory rate and a decrease in functional capacity. As someone who has had asthma since a child, that fact scares me and leaves me out of breath.

On top of my asthmatic wor-ries, I have to consider the impact of pregnancy on my spine. I have a few bulging discs in my spine ranging in size from moderate to slight. Most notably in the re-gion of my spine that is closest to my pelvis and tailbone, there is a slightly herniated disc which press-es against my nerves and causes chronic pain in my back and legs.

Pregnancy causes the body to go through a musculoskeletal ad-justment, which, considering the chronic pain I experience, makes me nervous. Not only does the spine realign to maintain balance, but pregnancy creates an increase in the relaxin hormone which causes loose joints and adds to pre-existing back pain and pelvic problems.

When taking the environmental cost, foster care statistics and my personal health into consideration, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that going through pregnancy and childbirth is simply not worth it.

Parenthood is a test of principles and strength, and my choice to be an adoptive mother is one I make with pride.

Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson — these and sev-eral others have become household names. They aren’t heroes; they ar-en’t even anti-heroes. So stop treat-ing them like they deserve a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Don’t sympathize. Don’t roman-ticize. Don’t encourage fandom — these serial killers aren’t celebrities or villians in a novel. They are real people who caused real pain.

These murderers are exactly what they are labeled, murderers, so stop sugarcoating their actions and trying to make them relatable to a larger audience.

Countless documentaries, mov-ies, TV shows and novels have been written about these people. The appeal of understanding a se-rial killer, their motives, the inves-tigation; all aspects of this can be morbidly fascinating.

But if someone is buying a shirt from Etsy that reads “Ted Bundy” and “Heartbreaker” surrounded by hearts and is showing him por-trayed as an innocent character, then that’s when people need to re-check their morals.

One of the reasons why Amer-icans are interested in serial kill-ers is because their appearances and reality of their personas don’t match up, according to the History channel website.

An example of this is Bundy; he was seen as a charming and char-ismatic guy, who also happened to confess to killing 30 women, but is suspected of killing more than 100. He carried around this facade that

made him seem like just another innocent young man, although his actions clearly said otherwise.

But some people are taking it to the next step. They aren’t just fasci-nated by the way these people lived — they are fans.

People who have become too infatuated with these serial killers have turned the man behind a hor-rifying series of events into a fun, teenage crush.

But the appeal should be nonex-istent, since there isn’t anything to admire.

Was it cute when Manson and his followers killed Sharon Tate and her unborn child in 1969?

It must have been really hot in 1978 when Bundy broke the jaw of survivor Kathy Kleiner Rubin in three places, before killing two of her sorority sisters.

Fans who are trying to ro-manticize these serial killers are

disgusting, they even got the at-tention of Netflix, as it recent-ly released “Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and bought “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” which stars Zac Efron as Bundy.

Netflix had to remind its view-ers that Bundy isn’t hot, he’s a serial killer and his actions are inexcusable.

But these instances of giving se-rial killers the celebrity treatment aren’t the first. In the 1980s, the media decided to capitalize on the idea of serial killers, as serial kill-ers began to make their way into pop culture, whether it be through books, movies, TV shows or any-thing else, according to the History channel website.

In today’s culture, this phenom-enon continues to be exploited in the media. The Columbine shoot-ers were televised everywhere,

everyone knew their names and what they did. The media glam-orized them, resulting in mentally distraught individuals who began to see these murderers as heroes in a lonely tale.

These so-called stars have be-come famous through their expo-sure in the media, and obsessed followers are doing more than just buying T-shirts.

A 2015 study published in PLOS ONE, which is a peer-reviewed sci-ence journal, stated that strong evi-dence suggests that mass shootings are contagious for about 13 days.

They found that most mass shootings came as an immediate response to a recent similar past event.

From copycat killers, to wom-en who are professing their undy-ing love to a man they believe can be fixed through affection (or land them a movie deal in Hollywood),

to people who sympathize with the killers’ experiences, such as Dahmer’s troubled childhood, there is never an excuse to feel re-morse for these people.

Although being empathic for someone is normal, don’t let it cloud judgement. Derf Backderf, writer of the comic book “My Friend Dahmer” who met the se-rial killer in high school said, “Dahmer was a tragic figure, but that only applies up until the mo-ment he kills,” according to Vice.

When watching documenta-ries, reading books and looking at memorabilia, make sure to learn about these serial killers. The pub-lic has a right to educate them-selves, to know that there are peo-ple who are living in the dark and not everyone is who they seem.

But leave the weird fetishes for cutesy boy bands, and don’t create another serial killer fan club.

Serial killers don’t deserve sympathy

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Journey: From the war to watercolorsWhen she first arrived in Cal-

ifornia, she made a living as a dental assistant. The job was something that she felt she was adept at because of her artists’ hands.

Not long after she accepted her boss’ proposition to go to school to become a dentist, she was in a car accident that hospi-talized her.

Phong said she reflected on her unhappiness in the hospi-tal, focusing on how she risked her life to come to America. In that moment, she said that if she were to die at the hospital, she would die unhappy.

This ultimatum inspired her to change her major to art when she got out of the hospital. She moved from Cal State Long Beach to Cal Poly Pomona, where she would later teach.

“I just think Ann is an incred-ible person. She’s been through a lot and yet she’s managed to really survive,” said Barba-ra Thomason, a retired part-time lecturer at Cal Poly Po-mona who shared an office with Phong for close to 20 years.

Phong currently teaches at Cal Poly Pomona. Before she started teaching there, however, she went to Cal State Fullerton

for her M.F.A.

Making Waves

As a graduate student, Phong perused through CSUFs library in search of something that would shed light on the Amer-ican perspective of Vietnam-ese people. She found maga-zines that labeled them “boat people.”

This offensive term prompted her to look into her own identity for her thesis. She explored the notion of what it meant to be a “boat person” and expressed that in her artwork.

Much of Phong’s art revolves around her 3-day journey to Malaysia, which caused her to fear the ocean for the first three years in California.

“I couldn’t face the ocean at night because I was scared. I knew that at night when I was in the ocean if I fell down from the boat, nobody would have noticed anything happened. I would perish,” she said.

The ocean is now a regu-lar subject in her work. Phong said her personality reflected the temperament of the ocean; her happiness is represented by glistening colors and her an-ger portrayed through violent

brushstrokes.Phong graduated from Cal

State Fullerton in 1995 and con-tinued to paint about self-identi-ty until ten years ago when she changed her subject to environ-mental waste.

Along the way, Phong joined the Vietnamese American Arts and Letter Association (VAA-LA), where she met Ysa Le, ex-ecutive director of VAALA.

Le has worked with Phong since 2007 on various projects for VAALA, including a chil-dren’s art event. She said that Phong is someone she consid-ered to be her big sister be-cause of her artistic talent and wisdom.

Today, Phong teaches at Cal Poly Pomona. She comes back to Cal State Fullerton to visit the art gallery and Mike Mc-Gee, a professor in the depart-ment of visual arts.

“To me, I look back and I’m one of the boat people. I es-caped with pride. Between life and death I had to choose, fif-ty-fifty, and I made it,” said Phong.

Her paintings are filled with tantalizing color, but she said she hopes people will look be-neath their surface layers and try to find her.

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Ann Phong’s large canvas piece “Jump” depicts the criticism she faced in college when a classmate said that Asian women only paint small things.

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Party crew shared their experience with CSUF’s Music Industry Club.

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Space Yacht entrepreneurs give advice

Space Yacht, a Los Angeles events collective, was invited by the Cal State Fullerton Mu-sic Industry Club on Tuesday night to share their story and an-swer questions relating to their success.

Henry Lu, Rami Perlman and Ollie Zhang, the co-founders of Space Yacht, went from hosting parties that didn’t attract a crowd at the time of their start-up in 2015, to having lines out the door in 2017 and they continually tried to build up their reputation.

The Los Angeles-based three-man party crew said they prom-ise to deliver sensational clubbing experiences through “showcas-ing the next generation of dance music.”

As partners of Space Yacht, Lu and Perlman gave advice to Ful-lerton students in McCarthy Hall. Twenty attendees made it to the event, and a Q&A session ignited an interactive discussion.

With Space Yacht occupying the limelight for electronics mu-sic and LA party culture today, they also occupy the guest spot for the Music Industry Club’s in-augural master class.

The CSUF Music Industry Club is one of the newer organi-zations on campus whose goal is to educate students on the music

industry through providing op-portunities for students to meet and speak with professionals in the field.

“We just want to bring differ-ent kinds of artists and profes-sionals from the music industry to the campus so they can share their wisdom,” said Amani Rob-erts, CSUF Music Industry Club advisor and an adjunct business professor.

Sharing their background, Lu and Perlman said they formed

Space Yacht through hanging out during late nights at work and blasting house music. As their business grew, they realized they didn’t want to be just a party, but rather a “discovery platform.”

Since their establishment, they’ve endorsed other projects in addition to their weekly Tues-day Hollywood parties, including radio broadcasts, festivals and discovering new artists.

Space Yacht has expand-ed their locations beyond LA to

reach audiences in San Francis-co and Phoenix. Though their business started four years ago, Lu and Perlman know that their journey is just beginning.

“We’re actually really ener-gized by what we do, like we’re building I think one of the most exciting music companies in the US,” Lu said.

Despite the successes that Space Yacht is experiencing now, the group acknowledg-es their climb to the top wasn’t

without sacrifice.In addition to working de-

manding 9-to-5 jobs, Lu said he worked for three corporate com-panies for about 11 years.

In 2011, Space Yacht land-ed their first client, Steve Aoki, and built him into a brand that not only launched his career, but their business as well. As a result, they were able to work with other well-known artists like LMFAO and Kaskade.

Finding hidden talents was just as important to Space Yacht as maintaining their brand with al-ready established artists. Many up-and-coming artists create their music platform on Sound-cloud, Lu said. The collective is also looking to Twitter to find the next big thing.

Lu and Perlman also empha-sized the importance of asking questions.

Just as they welcomed students to ask them questions tonight, they didn’t stop emphasizing how much they were able to learn from the answers their mentors had given them.

To conclude their talk, Lu and Perlman offered wisdom to those looking to work in the music industry.

From taking advantage of peer mentors to practicing hu-mility, Space Yacht emphasized that there’s more to this busi-ness than finding talent.

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. You want to surround yourself with smarter, more ex-perienced (people),” Lu said.

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The last time the two teams met on Jan. 24, the Titans were victorious 59-52 behind Smith’s 18 points and 10 rebounds in 32 minutes in the Thunderdome.

The Gauchos have lost sev-en of their last 10 games and whave not played well on the road this season, as they have lost their last five road games and have not won away from home since Dec. 21.

UCSB center Natalia Bruen-ing had a team-high 18 points on 8-of-12 shooting in just 13 minutes.

Santa Barbara’s offense ranks last in the Big West, the

Gauchos average 56.8 points per game. The Titans rank third in the conference averaging 63.2 points per game.

Two of the Titans’ three wins in conference play have come at the Titan Gym. One of those three wins came against Hawaii in the opening game of confer-ence play.

Since Big West play started, no one has shot the ball better than Bruening, who ranks first in field goals at 54.1 percent. Bruening has shot over 50 per-cent in each of her last three games.

CSUF’s defense has been demonstrating discipline as its

14.1 personal fouls per game mark ranks first in the Big West. The Titans’ defense will have their hands full against the Gauchos, who do a great job at getting to the free-throw line.

Santa Barbara ranks third in the conference in free throw at-tempts, however, the Gauchos do not shoot the ball well from the line. At just 69.5 percent, UCSB ranks sixth in free throw percentage as a team.

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Battle: Lost six in a row

The Titans are in seventh place in the conference, with their last win coming against UC Santa Barbara.JOSHUA ARIEF HALIM / DAILY TITAN

Freshman ready for the spotlightNew Zealand native Amiee Book is second in the Big West in 3-point shooting.

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Ranked second in the Big West in 3-point percentage, in-ternational student and fresh-man forward Amiee Book has not only played basketball at the collegiate level, but has also played for the New Zealand na-tional team.

At a young age, Book was sur-rounded by basketball. Both her parents played the sport, and her father reached the professional level.

But even with the pressure of having a father who played professionally, Book said there was never any demand to play basketball.

“I just like the competitive nature of it, and how there’s so much to learn so you can never master it, (there’s) always stuff to learn and ways to get better,” Book said.

As a child, Book was coached by her father Ed Book, a mem-ber of the 2004 New Zealand Olympic team. After playing at Canisius College, Ed Book said that the experience he had in school would help his daughter decide which college she would attend.

“So once she decided that this is the pathway she wanted to go, it was our jobs to prepare her for this,” Ed Book said.

In her four years of high school, Amiee Book was a team captain and played for her coun-try as part of the national bas-ketball team in 2016 and 2017. During her last year with the New Zealand National team, Amiee Book’s trip to Guam for the Oceania Qualifiers with the women’s team drew the atten-tion of CSUF women’s basket-ball head coach Jeff Harada.

“(Amiee) was a tough kid, she was competitive. She had this international experience, play-ing against older, better players her whole life,” Harada said.

After her international bas-ketball experience, Amiee Book

decided to play for the Titans, where she fell in love with Hara-da’s vision for the team.

“We are trying to create a family environment. For recruits like Amiee, it’s a home away from home,” Harada said.

The opportunity to bond with teammates was an important as-pect for the New Zealand native when she signed with CSUF.

The skills Amiee Book re-fined in New Zealand paid div-idends as her 10.5 points per game this season is the third highest scoring average on the team.

Harada is a fan of her ability and experience, and the differ-ent dimensions her 6-foot height brings to their defense.

While Amiee helps lead the Titans to victory, her fami-ly can’t cheer her on from the stands. Instead, her father set-tles for watching the games

via livestream, though that doesn’t stop him from showing emotion.

“I still get quite animated at the TV screen, which is good so she probably can’t hear me. I think it’s great so that way I can see what she’s doing and we still have chats about what she can do better,” Ed Book said. “The coach in me is always there.”

Her father said that he was in-spired by his daughter’s work ethic from a young age, and she has applied it to her teammates by encouraging them to do their best, including helping them ac-complish their best mile time.

This drive to always im-prove was one she learned from a young age and from her dad, who she says is her toughest critic.

“I don’t sugarcoat things for her; that’s her mother’s job. My job is just to tell her the way it

is. I always still tell her what she’s doing well and a lot of pos-itive things,” said Ed Book.

Amiee Book’s father also tells her what she needs to work on.

“I’m there to say, here’s what you need to do. This is what you need to work on, and then support her with making those changes and ways that she wants to go,” said Ed Book.

The freshman forward doesn’t mind the pressure or the criti-cism because she’s always look-ing to improve.

Despite coming off the bench for the majority of the season, Amiee Book has played the fourth-most minutes per game on the team and has earned a spot in the starting lineup for the last five games.

Head Coach Harada sees her as a leader for the team and at-tributes this to her hard work, saying that Book is a winner

all-around and the kind of per-son you want to build a program around.

While Amiee Book is only in her first year with the Titans, Harada said she has untapped potential, especially as she gets more accustomed to the Ameri-can style of basketball.

“Here, you’ve got freedom to play and create within the of-fense more,” Amiee Book said.

Off the court, she plans to study in physiotherapy or kine-siology. After college, she hopes to be able stay close to the sport and play in Europe.

Amiee saw her dad play in Europe, and it inspired her to visit.

“I’ve just always wanted to travel, and I think that basket-ball is a great way to do that,” Amiee said, hoping to one day represent her home country of New Zealand.

Forward Amiee Book (13) has scored double figures in 15 of the 22 games she has played for the Titans.JOSHUA ARIEF HALIM / DAILY TITAN