JULY 5, 2007
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VOLUME 4, No. 12
CSUF team a champ By Rachel Cannon Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The prevention of underage drinking on the Cal State Fullerton campus is starting to get some recognition. The Campus Community Alcohol Management Project team was awarded the Champions Award from the California State University Alcohol Education Conference. Those awarded were Dean of Students Kandy Mink Salas, Director of Health Education and Promotion Mary Hermann, health educator Brie Roumeliotis and health educator Jackie Gogan. These four women started their work with alcohol issues in a collaboration with UCI and the County of Orange Health Care Agency. “Our goal has been to increase our alcohol education efforts on campus and in particular to reduce underage drinking and underage access to alcohol,” Kandy Mink Salas said in a news release. They received a $435,000 state grant from the Health Care Agency’s Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Team. The team puts together events where they serve refreshments and educate students about the dangers of underage drinking and the consequences of providing alcohol to underage students. “What we do is so important, yet I have so much fun doing it,” Gogan said. “Being recognized for having an impact on the school is very meaningful.” Gogan, who has been on the team for a year, became involved with it when she was hired on as a student assistant. After her graduation from CSUF with a bachelor’s in health science, she returned to the program to become the assistant grant coordinator. Currently she is the grant coordinator and the team’s chair. Brie Roumeliotis, who has a bachelor’s in psychology and a master’s of public heath from CSUF, said she was also very excited about the team receiving the award. “I feel this is a great well-deserved accolade,” Roumeliotis said. “This award reflects not only on the programming that has been produced but the administration that have created an environment in which this type of program was so well supported.” While their impact is hard to mea
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Fullerton’s green building wins gold accolades
courtesy of michael smith/CSUF Design and Construction Green building - Above, an artist’s depiction of what the new Cal State Fullerton Recreation Center will look like. Below, the center in its current state. It is still under construction but is slated to open in January 2008.
Recognizing the new Rec center for energy efficiency By Danielle Perry Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Right now, it doesn’t look like much with its metal posts sticking out of the ground and a dirt lot for a swimming pool. But the new Rec Center next to the Titan Student Union is already giving students and faculty something to get excited about. The center was recently awarded “Best Overall Sustainable Design” for 2007 as part of the Best Practice Awards from the University of California/California State University Energy Efficiency Partnership Program. The program developed the award to recognize new buildings and facility renovations that employ energy-efficient techniques to reduce the use of
natural resources during construction and throughout the lifetime of the facility. Kurt Borsting, director of TSU, said the two-story 95,000 square-foot Rec Center uses a variety of sustainable features such as low-emitting paints, water-conserving shower heads in locker rooms and a roof which helps deflect heat off the building to lower the energy requirement for cooling. It will feature a variety of spa- and club-like features such as spa-inspired locker rooms; a multi-court basketball gymnasium; an indoor track; a 15,000 square-foot cardio and weight room; a multimedia cardio room; several rooms for fitness classes; a lap and leisure pool; and a rock climbing wall, Borsting said. The center will also feature a system where a hand screener can match students to their campus wide ID number
courtesy of michael smith/CSUF Design and Construction and identify their membership, Borsting said. The center, which competed against many other UC and CSU facilities for the award, was recognized at the sixthannual UC, CSU and CCC Sustainability Conference that was held at University of California Santa Barbara June 25 to 27. Winning the award is an honor for both students and faculty. Michael Smith, director of design and construction at the university, compared the award to “best movie” at the Oscars. “It’s a big award,” he said. “It’s a really green building; we’re really happy about that.” This is the second time CSUF has been recognized for this award at the conference. The first time the campus won the award was in 2005 for its design of the
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Arboretum visitor center. CSUF was also recognized last year for its efficient use and renovation to the TSU central plant, which will supply both the TSU and the new Rec Center with hot and chilled water for heating, ventilation and air conditioning, Smith said. “We are the only campus who won best practices two times,” he said. The center’s environmentally friendly design and construction was no mistake and the image that started the project began with students and faculty. Students involved in the center’s design presented seven core principals that came to be “fundamental to the building,” Borsting said. They were: designing for flexibility, use of open space, commitment to
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