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Tuesday April 24, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Cafeteria Gets Cooked at Fullerton’s University Village A grease fire causes minor damages to student apartments BY ALEKSANDrA woJTALEwICZ Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
BY DANIEL SUZUKI/For the Daily Titan
LADDER UP - Brandon Bento and Jeff Grant operated the crane during the grease fire that erupted at University Village Monday afternoon. Firemen had to open the wall of the kitchen when
the fire spread, said fireman Marc Estridgge. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
Rec Center Using Hand Scanners BY JAKE KILroY
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Cal State Fullerton is entering the sci-fi age with hand readers in the new Rec Center – no need for keys, keypads or cards. According to flyers available in the Kinesiology building, the HandKey II-Biometric Access Control Reader “uses the unique size and shape of the hand to verify a person’s identity with unparalleled accuracy.” Kurt Borsting, Titan Student Union director, said the reader measures the hand’s geometry. “The measurements are imbedded into the system,” he said. “At first, I didn’t really understand because I’m not technology-savvy,” said Carolina Trisi, a member of the
Board of Directors for the College of Communications. “However, after learning how it would work, I got really stoked.” Associated Students Inc. went on a national tour to see what technologies colleges were using these days. “We visited a lot of college campuses,” Borsting said. After discussions and inspections with their laundry list of possibilities, CSUF settled on what they saw at San Diego State University. “The folks at San Diego State are very happy with their hand readers. They’re very successful there,” said Borsting. The HandKey II captures a threedimensional image of the hand using a 32,000 pixel array. Over 90 measurements including the lengths, widths, thicknesses and surface area of the fingers and hand are taken. The
Police Chief to Speak About Campus Safety BY CAITLIN CLIFT
BY DANIEL SUZUKI/For the Daily Titan
SCAN - With the new biometric hand scanners installed throughout the
kinesiology building, students can be hands-free twhen going to the gym. advanced algorithm determines the process may seem tedious initially, unique aspect of the hand and then ASI promises convenience. generates a nine-byte hand template. “I think it’s convenient, definitely, This template is then stored and used for subsequent comparisons. SEE SCANNEr - PAGE 3 Though the new technology and
Student Filmmakers Participate in Festival BY DArALYN SChoENEwALD Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
BY DANIEL SUZUKI/For the Daily Titan
RoUND of APPLAUSE - CSUF students and graduates were congratulated on their short films at the Newport Film Festival Sunday.
Ping-Pong, Plato and pregnancy don’t normally have much in common, but on Sunday at the eighth annual newport Beach Film Festival, the common bond was student filmmaking. Fourteen Radio-TV-Film students from Cal State Fullerton screened their short films in a special collegiate showcase at the festival. For several of the student filmmakers, the screening was the first time their work had been shown in a theater. “I screened my film in class on a projector screen, but just to see it on the big screen with more than 20 kids
and your parents in the audience was great … almost surreal,” said neil Sakatani. Sakatani’s short film “Smash Hit” featured an inept hit man named Hank who improves his skills through Ping-Pong. RTVF senior Andy Chinn said he loves screening his films for people because of the instant feedback. “I need outside guidance. I don’t trust myself when I watch my own stuff,” he said, adding that his friends are his biggest and best critics. Chinn premiered “Ramey,” a short film about a middle-aged artist who decides to end his life because he has accomplished everything he can in his art.
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tremely long amount of time, so time is critical. As soon as that clock news@dailytitan.com starts ticking, every second counts,” Gehrls said. Cal State Fullerton’s Police Chief, Working with the police, EnviJudi King, will speak to the Aca- ronmental Health and Instructional demic Senate on Thursday about Safety runs the Building Marshal campus safety in light of the Vir- Program. Building and floor marginia Tech massacre. shals are trained to respond in an Academic Senate Chair Diana emergency. The marshals may help Guerin said that after the Virginia evacuate buildings and act as mesTech shootings, the Academic Sen- sengers, relaying information from ate decided that it should invite police to people in the building, King to update the campus on what King said. steps the police would take in an King said she will also discuss the emergency. Guerin said it is impor- electronic system CSUF has in place tant that faculty and staff be aware to notify faculty, staff and students of what plans are via telephone or in place. e-mail. Part of King’s The system presentation will uses informaThe intent is for us to focus on the pretion that stuhave an ability to noti- dents provide ventative meafy people in the event sures that Uniat the time of versity Police has admission and of an emergency taken. King said the “A big part of goal is to update – Judi King this is making student inforCSUF Chief of Police sure that people mation. have an under“The intent standing of what is for us to have the realities are,” an ability to noKing said. “Peotify people in the ple need to know what systems we event of an emergency and we can’t have in place to help us in having do that if we don’t have their contact these systems work appropriately.” information,” King said. In addition to preventative meaStudents, faculty and staff may sures, King will discuss the plans also be notified by CSUF’s public University Police has in place. address system located at the intePolice officers receive training rior and exterior of buildings. The under the Active Shooter Program. system can send messages from the In most active shooter situations, police dispatch center informing police officers cannot wait for assis- people of an emergency, or if they tance from other agencies, so officers need to evacuate a building or stay receive training on how to respond, inside the building. King said. “Here on campus when someLt. Tom Gehrls of CSUF’s Uni- thing of that magnitude happens, versity Police said in active shooter you want to stop and take a look situations, police must know how to at what you would do,” Guerin quickly respond to a situation. said. “In incidents like this, it’s going Chief King will be speaking at the to be fairly short term for the most Academic Senate meeting on Thurspart. They usually don’t last an ex- day at 12:30 p.m. Daily Titan Staff Writer
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A grease fire burned a small hole inside of the kitchen of the University Village Student Apartments on Monday morning. no one was injured. “It was a small fire,” University Village general manager Jeanine Ciulik said. “It’s not a tragic affair.” The damages were very minor, said Ciulik. The fire was called in at 11:46 a.m., according to Fullerton Fire Department Chief Eric newman. It took about 30 minutes to extinguish the fire. Firefighters had to open the wall to get to the fire. Kitchen and building staff were asked to evacuate the building and returned to work shortly after the fire was contained. A total of five units responded from the Fullerton and the Orange County Fire Departments.
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