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AS VP proposes laptops for rent
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nTECHNOLOGY: Vice President Linda Luna wants all students to have equal access to computers By Marlayna Slaughterbeck
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‘Evolution’, starring David Duchovney, finished filming in the Ruby Gerentology Center over the Thanksgiving break.
Showing no signs of post-turkey burnout, Associated Students’ Board of Directors returned from Thanksgiving break to tackle a loaded agenda with vigorous force. The board put several items to a vote, approving funding for, among other things, a new recycling program as well as revising the budget for the Children’s Center’s federal grant project. Of particular interest, Vice President Linda Luna took advantage of the apparent end-of-semester momentum to introduce a computer laptop rental program she hopes to implement on campus. Working to advance the concept, Luna spoke with authority. “Technology doesn’t wait; it’s here,” Luna said. “It’s knocking at the front door.” The program, still in its early stages, focuses on providing students with the opportunity to rent laptop computers from the university on a daily/weekly basis. “The basic goal is to provide a necessary service to students,
to make technology more readily available and accessible to them,” Luna added. Luna began developing the concept earlier this semester when she became aware of programs currently in place at Cal State Los Angeles and Cal State San Jose campuses. Modeled on the success of these two programs, Luna said that, although the particulars have not been hammered out, Cal State Fullerton’s program would likely focus on providing laptops with a PC platform rather than the lesspopular Macintosh counterpart. Additionally, similar to those programs, the cost for a weekly rental would probably range between $15 and $25. Expanding on the program’s tentative features, Luna explained that under the proposal, the laptops would operate within the TSU computer mainframe and would be checked in and out by student employees. The rentals would be available to all enrolled students on a firstcome-first-serve basis and students would be required to sign a release assuming personal liability for the computers. Luna pointed out, however, that the finer details would be determined largely by the results of a campus-wide survey that will begin today. Luna hopes to generate student interest and support by distributing the survey to as many students
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Holocaust survivor remembers her past nPROFILE: Helen Freeman remembers her life during World War II By Magda Liszewska
Daily Titan Staff Writer A tiny earring hidden in the lining of a worn-out shoe was Helen Freeman’s connection to her family and her past. The number on her left arm reminds her every day of the atrocities she has seen and survived. The reality of war hit then 18-year-old Freeman as fast and with as much impact as the German bomb, which destroyed the house next to hers. It was 1939 and Germans were attacking the Polish city of Radom. “I don’t want to stay here, let’s go away,” she told her mother.
Although the family went to friends’ house, it was no escape from the Nazis. The Germans did not waste time. They closed down local businesses and schools, deprived people of their beautiful apartments, took away the furniture and moved the inhabitants to the ghettos — where 10 families crammed each apartment, not always equipped with a bathroom. Twenty-five thousand people were forced to occupy three square miles. “Why can’t I go back to school?” Freeman kept asking her mother. Freeman’s mother tried to calm her daughter, reminding her that Poland had been temporarily occupied by Germans and Russians before and this was not going to last long either. “I guess she didn’t expect what kind of plans the Germans had,” Freeman said. The Germans had been lying from the beginning to avoid mass panic, she said. They told people they would be sent
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to the east to work for the army while they actually sent them to work at death camps. The execution of the Nazi plan was systematic. They got rid of community leaders so that the ghettos remained filled with confused, scared people who were disappearing without a trace. During the first random selection, Freeman lost her younger brother and sister-in-law. “My brother was about 11-years-old and my oldest brother was already married, so they took away his wife. My grandmother, who was 76-years-old, remained,” Freeman said. She still believed at this point that her family members were taken to work and she would eventually see them again. Freeman stayed with the rest of her family in the ghetto, where their lives were filled with tension and fear. The ghetto was surrounded with
barbed wire and going outside required a permit. All the Jews had to wear white armbands with a David star. The food supplies were running out quickly. People stood in long lines in front of bakeries until there were no more ingredients to make bread. The ration system was introduced but the portions were inadequate. Freeman’s family tried to sell off whatever they could, including clothes and her mother’s jewelry to be able to buy some food from Polish people who lived on the other side of the fence. Every day Germans came in to look for people to work or to humiliate them and break their spirit. One day, Freeman was walking down the street when German soldiers came up to her and told her to go with them. She followed them, terrified. “I didn’t know what they were going
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Holocaust survivor, Helen Freeman, looks at pictures from her youth before she was interned in a concentration camp.
AS,TSU go green with new program nCAMPUS: Associated Students’ program focuses on recycling in and around the TSU, with plans for eventual campus-wide expansion By Marlayna Slaughterbeck Daily Titan Staff Writer
The grass is soon to be a little greener on Associated Students’ side of the fence thanks to a new recycling program approved unanimously by its Board of Directors. The program, formulated by AS’s recycling ad hoc committee and co-sponsored by the Titan Student Union, cleared its final hurdle at Tuesday’s board meeting and will be introduced to students in an information campaign set to begin immediately. Remarking on the program’s personal significance to him, Elliot Sacks, Director of Statewide Affairs and ad hoc committee presenter, expressed his appreciation for the
show of support. “This has been one of my goals since I first became involved with AS,” Sacks said. The program serves as a somewhat early response to Gov. Gray Davis’ mandate, signed into law last year, requiring all large state sites and facilities to recycle 25 percent of their total waste product by 2002, and 50 percent by 2004. With an implied wink, Sacks noted that the date the bill was signed into law, serendipitously coincided with his own birthday. Although the TSU currently has a recycling program in place, it is fairly narrow in scope and, despite its modest approach, is somewhat unsuccessful. The program’s few receptacles, for example are often overflowing as the company that collects the recycled goods, does so on a voluntary basis and its schedule does not allow for more frequent pick ups. The new program promises to expand on the old and improve upon its shortcomings. “I have full confidence that this program will be a success,” Sacks said. “I would even go so far as to say that at some point http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu
in the future, the program will actually make money.” Viewed by the ad hoc committee as having an aggressive, but realistic timeline, the next step in the process will be to finalize the program’s details in December, and secure approved funding from various campus organizations. The pilot program will then be implemented next semester. “We will hopefully have the containers all in place before the start of next semester,” Sacks said. The committee plans to have the actual pilot program up and running, with the official kick-off celebration slated to coincide with Earth Day in April. The final phase of the program is scheduled to begin next summer, when the ad hoc committee will review bids submitted by various companies to collect the recycled materials. Barring unforeseen circumstances, by fall of 2001, the program should be a lean—but friendly, not mean—green machine.
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