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Arboretum may add eaternPLAN: The dining area is designed to be more like a Chinese tea garden rather than a food court By Jenn Stewart
Daily Titan Staff Writer
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The final draft of a tentative building plan may house a 2.1-acre dining area in the Arboretum.
With Cal State Fullerton’s student population booming, it is inevitable that campus growth will expand into less-populated areas. The final draft of CSUF Master Plan includes building a dining area over 2.1 acres of the Arboretum. Located in the Northeast corner of campus, the 26-acre Arboretum is a botanical garden displaying various landscapes and
foliage. “The basic goal would be to create a strategy and control growth,” said Jay Bond, associate vice president and campus architect. “Currently we are maximum capacity of full-time equivalent (FTE) students.” The Master Plan, designed by CSUF Facilities Management is a tentative building plan designed to address growth accommodation, and functional and aesthetic enhancements. The plan, last updated in 1993 to support 20,000 FTE students, has been debated and revised at a series of public-held hearings in recent months. With the current growth rate expected to bring 27,000 FTE students in the next 10 years, parking, housing and dining are all issues being discussed by the Facilities Management. “As a campus we need to grow,” Bond
said. “People like to gather where food is present.” The location being debated is a small piece of underdeveloped land in the southeast corner of the Arboretum. Bond said that a dining area located in the least developed part of the Arboretum will attract students and community members. “The face the Arboretum shows to the campus is barren and guarded by an 8-foot chain-link fence,” Bond said. “A food court could be a nice link to the campus.” Bond envisions a small area modeled after a Chinese tea garden. Many opponents fear that a food court will destroy the ambience of the Arboretum. Richard Foster, a city of Fullerton appointed member of the Fullerton Arboretum Commission, expressed his opinion about the food court proposal. “It is extremely difficult for me to envi-
sion a food court on top of the current use by the Arboretum of that area,” Foster wrote. Foster also points out that the Arboretum is technically state-owned land that is leased to the Fullerton Arboretum Authority. “If you attempt to (build a food court) you will be challenged in court by the Fullerton Arboretum Authority,” Foster stated. “You proceed with this plan at your peril, and at the risk of permanently damaging the reputation of the current university administration in the eyes of the greater Fullerton community. Foster feels that a mutual benefit for the Arboretum and the campus is possible if the Master Development Plan includes a clause giving the Fullerton Arboretum Authority power over design. “I think if it can benefit the Arboretum
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ASI agrees to transfer
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nFUNDS: About $3,300 in surplus will be taken from the travel budget to purchase much-needed supplies By Theresa Salinas
Daily Titan Staff Writer
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Several friends play their old-school Nintendo while waiting for the grand opening of “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” at Fashion Island’s Big Newport Edwards Theater. They have been camping out in front of the venue since May 12 in anticipation of George Lucas’ next flim.
The Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors on Tuesday agreed to transfer almost 60 percent of its travel budget to its supply budget, to purchase much-needed supplies. Board chair Christina Machado and vice chair Courtney Patterson introduced the legislation, after the board was left with a surplus in designated travel funds. The 2001-02 ASI budget allots $3,355 for board members to travel to various conferences and meetings throughout the spring 2002 semester. Members usually travel to California State Student Association meetings, which are held monthly at CSU campuses. Few board members attended the meetings this semester, resulting in unused travel funds. The board will use $2,000 of the budgeted travel funds to purchase supplies, such as a new printer. “We can purchase things that we wouldn’t have had the money to buy otherwise,” Patterson said. “We didn’t send as many members to conferences as we would have liked to. At least we can put this money to good use.” In other business, the board tabled a proposal to create an ASI Research Grant Committee. ASI gives research grants each academic year. The maximum grant is $450. According to the proposed policy, the committee would review grant applications and forward recommendations to the board. It would be comprised of, at most, 15 members. One would be a faculty member while the others would be students, preferably one from each college. Some board members were hesitant about approving the proposal. Board member Christine Terrisse disagreed when someone suggested that the ASI president appoint committee members. “I am personally uncomfortable with that,” she said. “There could be room for favoritism. Mixing academics and student government roles could be dicey.”
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Spanish Club celebrates with nCULTURE: The group organized the event to expose the CSUF community to Mexican traditions By Veronica Hagey
Daily Titan Staff Writer Maracas shook, skirts twirled and feet stomped Monday at the second Acuarelas de Mexico, featuring performances by Yostaltepetl, a Mexican folkloric dance group, Groupo Calisco, a four-member singing group and a mariachi band. Aurelio Rodriquez Jr., president of
the Spanish Club, said he wanted the event to be educational and he wanted to expose the community, specifically younger people, to the culture and traditions of Mexico. Audience members ate pan dulce (Mexican sweet bread) and drank lemonade as they awaited the dance performances in the Titan Student Union, Pavilions A, B and C. Acuarelas de Mexico, which translates to watercolors from Mexico, featured performances representing eight states in Mexico. The event was organized by the Spanish Club. The first number, called Ofrenda Azteca, featured a group of 14 dancers and a man dressed in a gold ceremonial Aztec costume. Dressed in cream-colored tunics, the
female dancers encircled a male dancer, who was dressed in a gold wrap and a headdress made of peacock feathers. The barefoot performers stomped their feet to the beating drums, dancing back and forth in a circle as the man picked up a girl lying in front of him and lifted her toward the ceiling, as though offering her as a sacrifice. “I thought it was great,” said Vern Nhean, an ethnic studies major at Cal State Fullerton. “The sacrificial ceremony was [my] favorite, there was lots of pulse in the music,” Nhean said. Nhean doesn’t speak Spanish but said he understood a little bit of the music. Another highlight of the show was the Mariposas Monarcas group, repre-
senting the Mexican state of Michoacan. Six girls floated on stage wearing fluorescent orange and yellow, circular, strapless dresses. They fluttered across the stage, flapping their skirts like butterfly wings. The performance wound down as a butterfly catcher chased them around with a large yellow net, eventually chasing them off the stage. Groupo Calisco provided the background music for some of the dance numbers and also performed on their own, singing sarcastic lyrics, forcing laughter from the audience. The grand finale represented the state of Jalisco. It included dance numbers performed to a live mariachi band. The finale brought all the performers
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Acuerelas de Mexico, which translates watercolors from Mexico, featured dances representing eight states from the country.