Volume 94, Issue 2
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
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Irvine campus expanded with complex purchase 8,000 more students will soon be able to attend south county campus SARA HIATT Daily Titan
MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan Fullerton resident, Doris Arbirio, protests for immigration policy reforms outside of the Fullerton Marriott as Congressman Ed Royce speaks inside.
Ed Royce event draws protests Local business issues discussed by Royce at Insider’s Briefing MIA MCCORMICK Daily Titan
A crowd of protesters gathered outside the Fullerton Marriott on campus Friday to protest Congressman Ed Royce (R - Fullerton) as he spoke to a group of about 100 inside the building. Congressman Royce, who represents California’s 39th district in Congress, presented a legislative update at the “Insider’s Briefing” sponsored by the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce, Farmers and Merchants Bank. Royce, Cal State Fullerton alumni, addressed the topic of small business and how they are impacted by current
Titans beat Montana at home 2-0 Titans go undefeated during home stand and improve record to 2-1-1 TAMEEM SERAJ Daily Titan
The Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team concluded their three game homestand by defeating the Montana Grizzlies 2-0 on Sunday afternoon. The Titans were coming off a hard-fought scoreless draw over 110 minutes two days ago but showed no signs of tired legs. “Playing today was a lot harder because our bodies are so heavy but you just have to do it,” senior midfielder Erica Mazeau said. CSUF started the game pressuring the Grizzlies in their half and kept the ball there for most of the half. Freshman goalkeeper Jennifer Stuart got the first start of her career and was given the task of extending the current
government policies to an audience including local small business owners and government officials. “When I first ran for office, I ran as a small businessman,” Royce said during the briefing. He discussed his opinion that small businesses have had difficulty f lourishing in the current economic state. According to Royce, small businesses are the first to scale back when coming out of a recession. He stated that 75 percent of the people employed in the country are employed by small businesses. “. . . That number has dropped here over the last couple years because as it’s gotten harder and harder to start a small business and as the costs have gone up … Now the hiring isn’t there,” Royce said. two game shutout streak, but she wasn’t challenged much in the game. By the time Montana got their first shot in the 35th minute, the Titans had already taken five corner kicks and forced Montana goalkeeper Kendra McMillen into six saves. The Grizzlies earned a free kick and the shot sailed straight at Stuart who handled it with ease. The Titans dominated the half outshooting the Grizzlies 11-2 and earning six corners compared to none for Montana but they were once again unsuccessful at finding the back of the net. Mazeau had three shots in the half to lead the Titans and Mackenzie Akins had both shots for the Grizzlies. That scoreless half for the Titans marked the fourth straight half without a goal but the team had created many great opportunities so they knew it was just a matter of time before they would strike. “It’s something that we talked about in the locker room in regards to how we see ourselves scoring. Even in the halves where we haven’t scored it hasn’t been because of a shortage of opportunities,” Brown said. SEE SOCCER, 7
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Royce also said the nation’s practice of oil importing and exporting has affected small businesses. “Our competitors will have a lower price of energy than we do and that will be espe-
cially important ... if you’re in small business ... there’s a significant energy devoted to whatever you’re manufacturing,” Royce said. SEE ROYCE, 2
MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan Congressman and CSUF Alumni, Ed Royce, speaks to a group of business owners and government officials about the impact of current policies on small businesses.
Cal State Fullerton has purchased two buildings in Irvine in efforts to expand the university and increase ease of attendance for south Orange County students. CSUF’s Auxiliary Service Corp. purchased the two story buildings in August for $30.5 million using statewide revenue bonds. The buildings are located in the Banting Corporate Center, 20 miles south of the main Fullerton campus. The school has been leasing the existing 70,000 square foot building since 2010 but has offered limited classes. CSUF has operated a south county campus since 1989 but opened its doors to freshman and sophomore students this year, for the first time in its history. The school plans to serve 7,000 to 8,000 students at both buildings but final completion of the expansion may take several years, said James Alexander, director of property development for the Auxiliary Service Corp. Debt acquired from the purchase will be paid with rental income from current tenants of the buildings who may occupy sections of the buildings up to five years. The first floor of the 1 Banting building is currently being leased to One West Bank. The company has a lease effective through 2019, but may leave as early as this fall, Alexander said. He added that expansion of the Irvine campus will benefit students at the Fullerton campus by helping alleviate parking
at the Fullerton campus. The Irvine site has parking in front of the current 3 Banting building, with the farthest spot being less than a two minute walk to classrooms, according to CSUF. “Parking is very easy (at the Irvine campus),” said Rachel Sumner, 21, a child development major. “It will be more accessible for people who live here than having to drive all the way to Fullerton to take classes.” With the purchase of the Banting Corporate Center, CSUF has acquired the entirety of the lot which will allow for more student parking. “We will be occupying parking in the back of the building probably in the next eight weeks,” said Susan Cooper, dean of the Irvine campus. “In the end we’ll have all the parking all the way around both of the buildings,” Cooper said. Renovation of the second floor in the new building is underway and is scheduled to open up to students next fall, Cooper said. “This building here was a huge warehouse,” Cooper said. “Everything here was built in five months, so that’s what we have to do over there. We have to go over there and figure out what the programs are, what are the classrooms, where are the restrooms, all of those things, and install them.” Although now open to underclassmen, the campus remains predominantly upperclassmen, grad students and credential students, Cooper said. Irvine will continue to offer the existing majors like communications, business and psychology, but hopes to expand the majors offered to include kinesiology and art. SEE IRVINE, 3
Begovich hosts eco-friendly gallery CSUF artist-in-residence Nicole Dextras unveils three sustainable dresses ANDY LUNDIN Daily Titan
A botanical motif, featuring freshly designed garments from Canadian artist Nicole Dextras, currently graces the Begovich Gallery at Cal State Fullerton. The gallery titled ego/eco: environmental art for the collective consciousness launched its first showcase of the semester last Saturday. The gallery contains a variety of work from 12 other artists that fits the exhibition’s sustainable lifestyle theme, including pocket-sized biospheres among many other things. The centerpiece is Dextras’, also a CSUF artist-inresidence, Urban Foragers series with the unveiling of The Travelling Seed Bomb Dress. The three outfits that Dextras presented at the exhibition are completely compostable and recyclable. The first Urban Foragers dress and The Mobile Garden Dress, alone is surrounded with over 40 pots, with each containing different kinds of vegetation. The exhibition also focuses on the needs of the urban nomad. The Traveling Seed Bomb Dress, like the other dresses in the series, when not being worn has the ability to be turned into a small shelter of its own. This dress is designed to be able to turn itself into a teepee.
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Models showcased the many garden dresses exhibited at the environmental art gallery last Saturday.
“As an artist, I’ve done quite a bit of work with the idea of the skirt as a shelter,” Dextras said. Decorated around the dress are pockets that contain seed bombs, as well as vials that contain seeds. The dress itself is designed to allow a person to forage from different locations. It also encourages one to make the world a prettier place with the seed bombs that are provided. “A seed bomb is a mixture of soil and clay that has seeds in it and you throw them in empty lots to beautify the world by growing wild f lowers and things like that,” Dextras said. Dextras said that the dress
is about the significance of grains and seeds, and the importance of preserving them. During the exhibition’s opening on Saturday, the other two Urban Foragers dresses created by Dextras were worn by models, who informed those in attendance about the vegetation incorporated into their outfits. Beginning her collaboration with the Arboretum, Dextras gathered the fruits and vegetables that she needed to create her dresses for the showcase. The curators of the exhibition, Emily Tyler and Allison Town, are graduate students at CSUF.
The two decided to partner since they held similar interests in environmental art and thus created an exhibition that merges creativity and sustainability. This led them to finding Dextras’ work and inviting her to be a part of their showcase. The two have been working on creating the exhibition for two years. Tyler, 30, an MFA candidate, and like her partner Town, is pursuing her degree in exhibition design and museum studies and is graduating this winter. SEE SUSTAINABILITY, 5
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