Monday, March 20, 2023
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Titans take on pros, tying LAFC2; MLS club to rent Titan Stadium
Volume 113 Issue 08
Preview: Activist visits CSUF
Preview: Three road trip ideas
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Titan midfielder Sulaiman Bah dribbles the ball past LAFC2 midfielder Christopher Jaime in Sunay's scrimmage at Titan Stadium. GABRIELA PEREZ-ORTA Staff Writer
Los Angeles Football Club 2 partnered with Cal State Fullerton athletics department to use Titan Stadium for 14 matches during their current season with the MLS NEXT Pro soccer league. Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer competed
against the minor league club on Sunday, tying 1-1 at Titan Stadium in LAFC2’s final exhibition game before starting their season. LAFC 2 is one of 27 Major League Soccer-affiliated clubs competing in the MLS NEXT Pro league that began last year. LAFC 2 functions as the club's minor league program, sitting below the LAFC first team.
This partnership will financially reward Titan Athletics and Cal State Fullerton. In addition to Titan Athletics renting the usage of the stadium to LAFC 2, Titan Athletics is communicating with corporate sponsors about venue signage to accumulate funds. Considering this is a SEE GOAL 9
Students with disabilities reimagine recreation LUIS VIZCAINO Staff Writer
In honor of Disability Awareness Month, the Student Recreation Center hosted their Adaptive Rec Day on Friday, showcasing their new accessible equipment and training to help disabled students in their fitness journeys. SRC’s rock wall now boasts new climbing equipment and a trained staff to help disabled students participate in the sport. Paradox Sports, a company dedicated to making rock wall climbing more accessible, was hired to train the staff in adaptive climbing equipment. Students can access a weight reduction modification that helps them climb by removing weight through an attached rope system. For students with limited mobility in one arm, an ascender system is available to aid in moving up the wall. Wheelchair users can also participate in rock climbing with a new seated pulley system that uses straps to secure students in a seated position and a handle to pull themselves up the wall. Michael Brown, the climbing wall and outdoor adventure coordinator at the SRC, pushed to include more adaptive training and equipment at the SRC.
“It’s taken us a couple of months to get the training, get the equipment and be ready to facilitate an event like this,” Brown said. “We wanted to make sure that, whenever we had it available, that we weren’t just throwing things
out that we didn’t know how to use.” Students could also see how exercise equipment can be modified and what alternatives SEE FITNESS
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Rock wall attendant Lucas Pfenning (left) help Aleks Moore (middle) use the wheelchair accessible rock climbing gear.
Banda artists to perform at CSUF "Bring your boots, bring your sombreros." See on page 3
"I try to find beauty all around me, along the peaks and valleys of the road called life." Column on page 5 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM
Vo stabbing hearing delayed; trial in July MATTHEW ROSOFF Staff Writer
The pretrial hearing for Chris Chuyen Vo, a former Cal State Fullerton employee who was charged for the murder of another CSUF employee, has been rescheduled for June 9, 2023. This is the ninth time that the pretrial has been delayed since Vo’s arraignment in 2021. Vo and his attorney, Thomas Edward Welbourn, were not in attendance at the pretrial hearing on Friday. The pretrial was presided over by Judge Sheila F. Hanson. Kate Corrigan, a criminal defense attorney from Corrigan Welbourn Stokke law firm, called in on Welbourn’s behalf. The Orange County district attorney, Jeff Moore, was present at the pretrial hearing. On August 19, 2019, Steven Shek Keung Chan, a former administrator at CSUF, was killed in his car on campus at the College Park faculty parking lot. Chan was a consultant for a project in the University Extended Education department. At the time, Vo was the director of budget and finance for CSUF’s Student Services and International Programs. Vo was arrested two days later and charged for Chan’s murder. The charges against Vo include murder with personal use of a deadly weapon and two special circumstance charges of lying in wait, or to hide and wait with the intention of killing someone, and murder for financial gain. He is also charged with grand theft by embezzlement. Vo pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him and denied the two special circumstance charges, as well as personal use of a deadly weapon at his arraignment in May 2021. Vo is currently being held without bail at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange. The Daily Titan previously reported Vo’s trial was scheduled for July 14, 2023 at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana.
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