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Library purchases video collecnCAMPUS: The film collection will include videos relating and showcasing Jewish heritage By Debra Santelli Daily Titan Staff Writer This past spring the Pollack Library gave $2,500 to the Department of Comparative Religion for the acquisition of the historical video collection, the “Jewish Heritage Video Collection” (JHVC), which is worth $12,500. Professor Ben Hubbard, of the Department of Comparative Religion, saw an opportunity to obtain approximately 150 videocassettes showcasing the history of Judaism and related topics from the JHVC group based in New York City. “I jumped right on it, I didn’t want the videos to be passed to another university,” Hubbard said. Hubbard explained that the video collection, which is offered to only one university in a region, would fit well into CSUF’s curriculum. “CSUF, having a minor in Jewish studies, could benefit from the collection greatly,” Hubbard said. American studies, film courses, anthropology, literature, child development and philosophy can all benefit from this collection, Hubbard explained. Floyd Zula, CSUF collection librarian, worked with Hubbard getting the collection into the library. “The JHVC has wonderful films, with actors such as Barbara
Streisand, Bette Midler, and Charlie Chaplain films,” Zula said. Zula explained that it is very interesting to acquire material such as this at such a low rate. “Normally, the university would not have such an elaborate video collection, but this program has made it possible,” Zula said. The Department of Comparative Religion has 40 students in the major and two students in the Jewish studies minor. “The collection will hopefully bring more awareness of the major and in general the history of Jews,” Hubbard said. The history of Jews is an enormous tale with plenty of substance behind it. “Not only is there the Holocaust, but slavery for the Jews dates back thousands of years,” Hubbard said. Hubbard and Zula plan to put together letters for faculty and staff to get them to use the videos as part of their curriculum. Differently directed topics of the JHVC films are children’s stories, comedy, the Holocaust, international Jewry, Israel, the Jewish experience in America, and religion and identity. Some well-recognized films from the collection include, “Blazing Saddles,” which tackles the subject of prejudice in the Old West; “The Diary of Anne Frank,” who was the young girl that was hidden with her family from the Nazis for two years in an attic in Amsterdam; and modern-day classics like “Schindler’s List,” “Dirty Dancing,” “Driving Miss Daisy” and “School Ties.” The JHVC is available at the library’s audiovisual curriculum
Vote on parking delayed nARBORETUM: A commission decided to delay a vote on a contraversial parkingproposal By Fermin Leal Daily Titan Executive Editor
mayra beltran/Daily Titan An Arboretum volunteer loads a supply of mulch from the proposed location that will be turned into additional student parking.
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Daily Titan Staff Writer Enrollment is at its highest number in Cal State Fullerton’s history, according to the fall 2000 Census report put out Thursday by the Office of Admissions and Records. The number of students, 28,403, surpassed the record set in 1999 by 4.5 percent or 1,217 students. “It’s a positive report on all
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Another record is set in total enrollment nCAMPUS: The university will begin to implement programs to deal with the high number of students
Three hours of a heated public hearing, procedural confusion and a debate on possible conflicts of interests, resulted with a vote not to vote. The Fullerton Arboretum Commission concluded to postpone a decision on a controversial proposal on Tuesday that would temporarily allocate four acres of Arboretum land for a student parking lot. The lot is located directly behind the Cobb Hall and would provide an extra 320 spaces to alleviate the university’s already out-of-hand parking situation. The land is currently used to store mulch and other materials used by the property. Arboretum officials said they plan to convert the land into a Mediterranean garden in the future, but await sufficient funding for it. Jay Bond, head of the university’s facilities management, presented the proposal before the committee. Bond outlined the project which will allow the university to pave the property and use it for a period of three years until construction of a proposed multilevel 1,500 to 2,000 space parking structure would be completed. After that time, the university would remove the
accounts,” said James Blackburn, director of Admissions and Records. Among the findings were that numbers for first-time freshmen are up 5 percent and numbers for graduate students are up 8 percent. The only area where enrollment has gone down is among transfer students whose enrollment decreased by 6 percent. Blackburn said this is due to many transfer students being declined. “The biggest reason was that they hadn’t completed their general ed. math requirement,” Blackburn said. Enrollment is up for every class level except sophomores. Of the 28,403 students, the report also found that 60 percent of CSUF’s students are female. One of these female students, Jenny Hartshorne, a junior child and adoles-
cent studies major, said she noticed the rising numbers. “Parking is worse, if that’s possible,” Hartshorne said. To meet the demands of an increasing number of students, CSUF will be expanded through numerous building projects. One of these building projects is the new communications building across the street on Nutwood which will begin holding classes next semester, said Keith Boyum, acting associate vice president for academic programs. CSUF will also be expanding through off-campus centers. “We are in discussions with the South Orange County Community College Districts on expanding our programs that are currently at the Mission Viejo Campus, possibly to Saddleback College and Irvine Valley
College,” Boyum said. The South Orange County Community College District is also anxious to have CSUF as a partner in a high-tech oriented campus to be located at the former Marine Corps Helicopter Base in Tustin, Boyum said. Boyum added that they are discussing which programs might reasonably be relocated there. Along with the building projects, Boyum said CSUF will be expanding its online instruction. Hartshorne said she would not signed up for online courses. “Online instruction is a joke,” Hartshorne said. “Paying the money I am, I expect high-quality, personal instruction. I think all students should
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Rising Numbers For the most part, CSUF’s enrollment has increased steadily each year. Even though the increases have been less than 10% for most classes, the result is that there are more than 2,600 students then there were two years ago. year
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Stack parking program to end Titan extras today after six-week trail period o n l i n e nPARKING: During the trial period, anywhere from 64 to 400 extra spaces became available to students Terry Jolliffe
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Cars stacked as part of parking program that ends today.
Cal State Fullerton’s stacked parking program will come to an end today said Joseph Ferrer, Transportation and Parking Services Director. The six-week trial program has cost the school approximately $11,000 a week and hasn’t been proven to be cost effective. “The daily lot counts do not warrant continuing the program,” Ferrer said. Tuesdays and Thursdays are the
peak days for parking. The daily lot count last week showed anywhere from 64 to nearly 400 parking spaces available between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in Lot A, and from 12 to 30 spaces at 1 p.m. in Lot B. Lot B, behind the Titan Student Union Building fills up the fastest, but with the end of stack parking, those cars will more than likely flow over in to Lot A. Throughout the six-week program, lot counts have shown adequate parking availability in both the parking structure and Lot G, as well. However, other universities have tried stack parking as well, but have found them to be successful. Stack parking ended at Cal State San Marcos on Thursday, but the student body has found the program to
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be helpful. “Already, a letter from the Associated Students is forthcoming, asking us to extend the program into the spring semester and I’m going to do that,” said Dora Knoblock, Director of Transportation and Parking for Cal State San Marcos. “The staff for Central Parking Systems was excellent. It’s been a win-win situation all the way around.” Knoblock said. “They did a wonderful job controlling the parking by closing the lots as they filled, minimizing accidents.” Cal State San Marcos has 6,275 students and 2,463 parking spaces. “Our peak days are Monday and Wednesday and peak hours are 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. and to my knowledge, there haven’t been any suits filed
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