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Recent redevelopment adds additional appeal to Fullerton hot spot
The city of Fullerton plans on expanding the downtown district by adding more restaurants and other attractions. “Roscoe’s Famous Deli opened up three weeks ago at 116 W. Commonwealth Ave. This is the second restaurant Courtney Salas opened up by Jack Franklyn, the owner Daily Titan Staff of the neighboring Heroes Restaurant,” After a long day of school or work, said Kay Miller, the economic develdowntown Fullerton provides a great opment manager of Fullerton. “Both escape for Cal State Fullerton students. are in the hot new SOCO [South of With great restaurants and bars just Commonwealth] District.” minutes away from school, downtown For those who prefer more of an ethnic Fullerton has become the ideal hangout scene, Miller said that Branagan’s Irish spot in northern Orange County for Pub and the Roman Cucina recently CSUF and other local college students. opened up on north Harbor Boulevard. “I like the fact that there is a place She added that an Indian cuisine restauaround here where the bars are close rant is scheduled to open within the next together and there is a close interaction few months in the old Williams Building, between Cal State Fullerton students,” where the Imperial Ballroom and The said Scott DeLong, a senior business Rail Restaurant are also located. Miller major. DeLong, along with other stu- also said a Japanese restaurant Mitsui dents, likes the fact that Shabu will soon open students can park in one on Wilshire. spot and go to six or Miller said that It’s nice to see seven different places in SOCO, on the east Fullerton finally one night. side of Harbor, will establishing an “Downtown Fullerton welcome the opening area where all the has a lot of local of Slidebar Rock ‘n local colleges can appeal,” DeLong said. Roll Café where the “You have people of all former Hub Café was interact. ages in Fullerton, not located. This is anothScott DeLong just college students, so er business enterprise Fullerton Student people tend to be nicer by Sean Francis, city because of this.” planning commissionBefore downtown er and the owner of Fullerton earned its current status, the Continental Room in downtown. CSUF students often traveled to local “This area [SOCO] will be undergobeach cities to interact with other col- ing a renovation this year to make it lege students. more pedestrian-friendly and to boldly “There are a lot of schools, especially identify the area with neon-lit entry on the East Coast, where the college stu- arches,” Miller said. “The allies will dents have their own area to hang out,” have pavers and landscaping treatments; DeLong said. “I would like to see Cal utilities will be underground.” State Fullerton have this because I’m With the vegan diet gaining popusick of going to Newport or Huntington larity within our society, Miller said all the time.” downtown Fullerton is opening Sidney’s As downtown Fullerton is becoming Café, which will have a vegan menu and more popular, the city of Fullerton is an outdoor dining area that offers a working to create an even more enjoy- water dish for your pooch. This trendy able atmosphere for local residents and restaurant will be located on Wilshire. college students. Around the corner, Miller said that “With Cal State Fullerton being Lollicup, a café and juice bar, will open a commuter school, it’s nice to see on Wilshire to provide a more mellow Fullerton finally establishing an area scene for local residents. In addition, a where all the local colleges can inter- smoothie shop and pizzeria will open act,” DeLong said. “We have never had in the new Pinnacle development on a distinct area where students can go to downtown 4 before this.”
Greg Haidl defense attorneys aim to avoid another mistrial By Shannon Hewkin Daily Titan Staff
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BJ Vandrovec, a business major, grits his teeth as he launches toward victory at a promotional event in the Quad on Tuesday. Vandrovec is a member of the CSUF pole-vaulting team.
CSU campuses determine unique schedules Students find difficulty coordinating vacations due to different holidays By Stefanie Franklin Daily Titan Staff
Students and faculty may notice that all their Cal State system peers don’t observe the same school year schedules. “I just figured that since my girlfriend and I both went to Cal States, we’d get the same holidays off,” said Matt Humberstone, an engineering physics junior at Cal State Northridge. “It’s not that big of a deal, but it gets in the way of vacation planning.”
The trip he and his Cal State Long Beach girlfriend had planned was for President’s Day weekend, which Long Beach observed by closing their campus, but Northridge did not. “CSUs all have different schedules because it is left up to each CSU’s faculty and president,” said Clara Potes-Fellow, CSU spokesperson. “They vote on the schedules that best suit each campus’ needs.” While holiday schedules vary between CSUs, so do spring and winter recesses, final exam dates, commencements and semester beginnings and endings. These are scheduled around a set number of school days each college must adhere to. The Western Associate for Schools and
Colleges, WASC, is a national accrediting body that approves the academics and credentials of universities situated in the west, such as those in California and Hawaii. This organization determines the number of days a California university must offer instruction. In a typical school year, a university must have 147 “instructional days” and at least 170 “academic work days,” said Davida Hopkins-Parham, CSUF executive assistant in Academic Affairs. “Instructional days are normal school days scheduled with the purpose of student instruction, and don‘t include exam weeks,” she said. “Academic work days are instructional days, but also include any additional time that faculty and staff must be on campus when
students aren’t.” Holidays are reassigned throughout each school year to accommodate the mandatory number of instructional and academic workdays, Hopkins-Parham said. If a holiday falls within a semester that already has a set number of non-instruction days, it can be moved to recesses or holiday breaks where they are observed, but don’t provide an additional day off. Typically, said Hopkins-Parham, holidays are observed on the actual day of or near that date, as long as they don’t interfere with the university’s ability to meet the minimum number of required school days. CSU breaks
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Titan baseball Head Coach George Horton never thought of himself as a business manager, let alone one who would win an award. “Well, it seems kind of strange to me,” he said. “I don’t see myself as a businessperson, I see myself as a baseball coach.” It was clear, however, that the Orange Coast chapter of the Society for Advancement of Management thought differently when it awarded Horton the Orange County Manager of the Year award Tuesday night at the Marriott Hotel in Fullerton. “Certainly with the team’s accomplishments last year there’s a lot of people that wanted to recognize us and me,” he said. “I [just] find it a little overwhelming and uncharacteristic. On one hand, I think I do a good job as a baseball coach, but to be in that elite category with these other Orange County managers of the year, I’m not sure I belong there, being a baseball coach.” Past recipients of this award include California State University Fullerton President Milton Gordon in 1998, Chapman University President James Doti in 1992, and, most recently Farouk Abdelwahed, associate professor in the Department of Business and Economics. Horton said he felt honored and humbled, if not out of place, among the other recipients. Cliff Doubek, Horton fan and member of the international board of directors for the society, said that the coach was a fitting candidate for the award. “We recognize all types of people, not just people in typical business fields,” Doubek said. “The thing I like about Horton is that he’s down to earth.” Pamela Jones, director of Development for Athletics, agrees. “He’s a quiet leader,” she said. “He focuses on the education of the whole person. He makes sure that the players don’t just leave as outstanding athletes. He makes them outstanding men as well.” Horton’s résumé is impressive. He was a member of the first CSUF team to go to the College World Series in 1975 as well as head coach in 2004 when the Titans won the Series. He captured the Big West Conference Coach of the Year three times, and is a member of the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in large part because of his 226-53 record at Cerritos College. A good support system and exceptional coaches are the keys to the continued success of the CSUF team, Horton said. “I can’t do it all myself,” he said. “For us
Bloodmobile rolls onto El Toro campus, collects donations American Red Cross Blood Drive asks students to donate in order to save lives By Dennis Olson and Dave Osborne Daily Titan Staff
The American Red Cross Bloodmobile paid El Toro students its standard once-asemester visit Tuesday afternoon, aiming to collect at least 40 units of blood, said Robert Flores, assistant coordinator of Student Affairs. Each donor was expected to give one unit, which is one pint of blood. Midway through the visit, American Red Cross Account Manager Linda Saenz
said she was pleased with the number of donors. “We’re doing great,” Saenz said. “In Southern California we live a busy, busy lifestyle and we often take our health [and] blood for granted.” Saenz has been witness to the need for blood in the Orange County community. She said most surgeries performed call for donated blood. While a hand surgery may require only one unit of blood, a liver transplant can require 40 units of blood, she said. Students were encouraged to sign up ahead of time but also had the option to sign in upon arrival at the Bloodmobile located just outside Parking Lot 2. Jennifer Becker, a registered nurse for
the American Red Cross, said she has been One popular excuse used by those who traveling with the Bloodmobile for the last do not want to give blood is the fear of three years and encourages needles. students to assist in replen“It’s so easy, once you ishing the low blood supply understand that it’s just In Southern in California. a quick pinch,” Saenz California, less “In Southern California, said. than 2 percent of less than 2 percent of the El Toro student the population populatio donates, and we Joseph Cope decided to have to import blood from take advantage of the donates ... Oregon, Washington, and the Bloodmobile on campus East Coast,” Becker said. and donate blood for the Jennifer Becker Becker added that she first time. Registered Nurse has noticed in Southern He said he saw it as California’s culturally an opportunity to help diverse communities, many people are others. uninformed about giving blood and don’t “I wanted to give [blood] to someone see a reason to give. who needs it and help out the community,”
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Cope said. Donated blood lasts 42 days after it is removed. Donors are asked to give every 56 days, in order to allow enough time for their bodies to recuperate. The Bloodmobile visits Cal State Fullerton’s main campus twice a month for students who wish to donate their blood to the American Red Cross. While one pint does not seem like a lot of blood, Saenz said any contribution helps. “We can save up to three lives with just one pint,” she said.