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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013
GARCÍA ENCOURAGES BLACK STUDENTS
LOCAL | Transportation
Fullerton to test bike share program YVETTE QUINTERO Daily Titan
Hispanics, Vietnamese and Asian Americans. During her time at Cal State Dominguez Hills, García said she hosted a large outreach event where about 50,000 Hispanic students and their families attended. She expressed interest in hosting an equivalent event with the same purpose. Rev. Kenneth Curry, executive minister of Friendship Baptist Church, said the partnership created between his church and CSUF has been good as the two entities shared members in a sort of symbiotic relationship.
Bike Nation, in conjunction with the Orange County Transport Authority and the city of Fullerton, will launch a bike sharing pilot program this summer that will swell transportation options and facilitate the commute between downtown Fullerton and Cal State Fullerton. OCTA awarded a $1.48 million contract to Bike Nation, which will finance the capital and startup costs as well as two years of operation. Funding for the pilot program is a combination of a federal grant and a local Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee grant. The contract will install 165 bikes and 15 stations at various locations within a 2-square-mile area in Fullerton. Bike Nation indicated they will co-invest in the program by adding up to 35 stations and 350 bikes, resulting in a total of 50 stations and 515 bikes. OCTA began the planning process for a bike share program in July 2011. The procurement process, which is the process government agencies use to hire a company, was underway in July 2012. Laura Scheper, an OCTA media relations specialist, said OCTA is working with Bike Nation and the city of Fullerton to establish criteria for the program and secure permits within the city. The bike sharing system will be available to the community when city permits are processed, which should occur within six to nine months. “We conducted a county-wide location review and concluded that a pilot program in Fullerton would provide the best environment to launch the Bike Share program,” said Scheper. Scheper added that one of the benefits of bike share programs is they take cars off the road, easing traffic and improving the environment, as well as enhance the first and last mile connections to and from Metrolink stations.
SEE OUTREACH, 3
SEE BIKES, 3
Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García speaks about education at Friendship Baptist Church in Yorba Linda on Sunday as a part of an outreach program.
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Outreach program promotes diversity Annual ‘Super Sunday’ event aims to increase CSU minority enrollment DAVID HOOD Daily Titan
Executives from all levels of the California State University converged on predominantly black churches all over the state Sunday for “Super Sunday,” an outreach event geared at reeling AfricanAmerican students into college and the CSU. Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García attended Friendship Baptist Church in Yorba Lin-
da to deliver remarks and extend a hand in partnership to the church that at one time was the only black church in Fullerton. It has since relocated to Yorba Linda. The effort to bring more black students to the CSU and college through the annual Super Sunday event began eight years ago as the CSU African-American Initiative when former Chancellor Charles Reed and Bishop Charles E. Blake met with community, business and education leaders to strategize and implement new ways to inform K-12 students, parents and families about the significance and benefit of a college degree.
The quest at CSUF has had a lot of success, according to García, who is now reaping the benefits of an ethnically diverse student population. Since fall 2002, the number of African-American students at CSUF has risen roughly 6 percent, according to data compiled from Institutional Research and Analytical Studies at CSUF. The number of students in 2005 jumped by more than 21 percent from 2004, but sharply fell in 2009 to below 1,000 enrolled students campus-wide. García said the reason for reaching out to predominantly black
churches is because they have a greater sense of community in church that promote and encourage their children and adolescents to go to college. “It’s encouraging the AfricanAmerican community to understand that the CSU is a place for them as well as all students,” García said. “The African-American population was not echoable in the CSU, and once they started letting people know about the CSU, they started to understand,” she said. In addition, García said she and her staff are currently working on additional similar outreaches aimed at other ethnicities like
SPORTS | Weekend in Texas
CAMPUS | Health
Titans slam TCU ‘Frogs in sweep
Panel discusses future of health care and technology The future of simulation in healthcare explained as a means to improve safety ANDY LUNDIN Daily Titan
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The Cal State Fullerton baseball team continued its early-season dominance with a three-game sweep at Texas Christian University this weekend. The No. 20 Titans managed to outscore No. 22 TCU 20-4, and have matched their best start (80) since 2003. Freshman Thomas Eshelman (2-0) followed his superb opening day performance by earning another win Friday, tossing five and two-thirds shutout innings while striking out eight. With the Titans nursing a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the eighth, the Horned Frogs loaded the bases with two outs, but Titan relief pitcher Tyler Peitzmeier escaped the jam and recorded a perfect ninth for his first save after CSUF added three in the top of the ninth. First baseman Carlos Lopez got
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Freshman pitcher Thomas Eshelman on the mound for the Titans. He is 2-0 this season and has a 0.00 ERA.
the Titans on the scoreboard in the top of the first with an RBI groundout, and CSUF added two more in the fifth, thanks to an RBI triple from shortstop Richy Pedroza and a twoout, two-strike RBI-single off the bat of third baseman Matt Chapman. Center fielder Michael Lorenzen drove in the fourth Titan run with a two-out single in the top of the seventh. The Horned Frogs would score two runs in the bottom half, their
only damage done in the contest. Game two was more of the same from the Titans, who went on to claim the win, 6-2. CSUF held a two-run advantage entering the eighth inning as a pitching duel was in full form between Justin Garza (2-0) and TCU right-hander Preston Morrison (0-1). After giving up two unearned runs in the first inning, Morrison went on to put away 19 of the next 23 batters
he faced, allowing just three hits and hitting one batter during his outing. After giving up a bunt single to Matt Chapman in the top of the eighth inning, Morrison was relieved by Riley Ferrell out of the bullpen. Ferrell struggled from the outset as Clay Williamson and Anthony Hutting each singled to load the bases for Jake Jeffries. SEE BASEBALL, 6
The inaugural Healthcare Information Technology forum was held at Cal State Fullerton on Friday to discuss the future of healthcare. The forum, held in the Titan Student Union, featured lectures and discussions from practitioners and educators within the field of health care, and covered a variety of topics in regards to maintaining patient safety as well as the future of health care. The future of simulation in healthcare and leveraging health care information technology as a means to improve patient safety was also discussed. During a break in the event, the CSUF School of Nursing demonstrated how technology is being used in classrooms. Two graduate students entered the room and performed a small
skit with a male simulation mannequin that was controlled by a lab technician hiding in the background. Through the use of technology, the lab technician was able to speak via a microphone inside of the mannequin and control its sweat, tears and heartbeat to simulate a male patient. According to John Varley, the lab technician, the School of Nursing owns similar dolls for simulation purposes in the classroom. However, the one present at the event was the most mobile. Pierce Draper, 25, a graduate from CSUF with a degree in health science, attended the conference hoping to learn more about the types of opportunities the field of health care information technology had to offer. According to Pierce, this included learning what jobs are available, where the field is moving and what their future vision of health and technology are as a whole. SEE FORUM, 2
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