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Tuesday September 2, 2014
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Volume 96 Issue 2
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Library floors to stay closed Pollak Library floors will remain closed until renovations begin in several years
SAMUEL MOUNTJOY Daily Titan Half of Pollak Library South will be inaccessible to library patrons for at least three years, estimates interim university librarian Scott Hewitt, Ph.D. Floors one, four, five and six of the southern portion of the library were devastated by the 5.1 magnitude La Habra earthquake that rattled the campus in late March. “Without a large infusion of money, there is nothing that can be done about the ceilings on the first floor and the fourth through sixth floor,” Hewitt said. The library book-paging system, implemented to retrieve books from the damaged floors in the spring, will continue until renovations are completed. Books in high demand will be moved from the closed floors to the basement where they will be accessible to patrons. This will reduce demand on the book-paging system, freeing up library employees for other duties. Most of the books should be moved and available for browsing by the beginning of the spring semester, Hewitt said. Floors two and three of PLS had already been renovated several times and brought up to updated construction standards, so damage from the earthquake was minimal and has already been repaired. The rest of PLS had ceilings that had not been renovated, and were not up to current construction codes. This caused heavy damage to ceiling tiles and lighting fixtures that were not fastened to the floor above like the ceilings on the other floors. The library sustained about $6 million in damage from the earthquake, according to data from the Orange County Board of Supervisors. “The cost to fix this problem is prohibitive, especially as the building will be renovated in several years,” a statement from the university read. The university is still in the very early phases of planning for the renovation, said Hewitt, who assumed his post on Aug. 4, 2014. It would cost $2 million to stabilize the ceilings in all four damaged floors, $500,000 per floor. That cost would simply remove the damaged ceiling sections and would not allow for new ceilings. A more concrete timeline for renovations should be drafted by the end of the semester, Hewitt said, but that depends on how long it takes to stabilize the library and come to an agreement on what renovations will entail. SEE LIBRARY
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This graphic shows the amount of bike checkouts from each of the Bike Nation stations around Fullerton.
BikeShare picks up speed Program aims to attract more commuters
KATHERINE PICAZO Daily Titan The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) hopes to increase the viability of the city of Fullerton’s recently-implemented Bike Nation service as a transportation option for students and faculty. Despite the fact that ridership decreased in August, OCTA and Bike Nation are expecting the numbers to increase with the addition of stations that should be ready by the end of the year, said Nathan Wheadon, marketing program administrator for OCTA. A CSUF student spends $229 on a parking pass per
semester, possibly making BikeShare a lower-cost solution to CSUF’s student parking woes. OCTA’s hope is to alleviate the congestion that students deal with in the parking structures and potentially save them money, said Wheadon. OCTA’s approach includes functioning as a first-and-last mile option to allow commuters to park off campus and ride a Bike Nation bike to campus and back to their car at the end of the day. More than 120 annual memberships and 100 student memberships have been purchased this year. Last month, approximately 100 one-day passes were purchased and 120 bikes
were checked out. “It is something that can be seen as a convenience for students on campus... an amenity for students, faculty and staff,” said Wheadon. “...a time-saving device to make off-campus trips without having to move their car or come to campus without having to drive.” Now, Bike Nation and OCTA want to connect with the community outside of campus and provide more stations in more locations. “We’re talking to the property owner of the Target Center on the north side of the 57 freeway,” said Derek Fretheim, Chief operating officer for Bike Nation. “We are looking
Bikeshare
• Rental options - One day pass: $5 - Seven day pass: $12 - Annual student membership: $45 • Passes cover trips 30 minutes or shorter • Longer trips result in overtime fees, varied by pass type
to get a bike-sharing station there to provide connectivity again for students who might want to shop at Target.” Bike Nation and OCTA created a unique bike that will reduce major problems because of its airless tires and GPS technology, said Wheadon. The GPS technology is able to track the places that bike-sharers
have gone. The most popular station has been the CSUF Student Recreational Center, with 89 trips beginning and ending there in January through May. Commutes from the southern end of the campus at Nutwood Ave. to the SRC are also very popular. SEE BIKESHARE
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New app brings free music to students
Project Carmen is a music app in beta stages, designed to give free access to music
ERIC GANDARILLA Daily Titan The music industry has seen a lot of change in recent years. A very different picture can be painted by looking at it now compared to a couple of years ago. That picture is further illustrated by taking a closer look at the Billboard charts. In 2007, Kanye West’s third album Graduation topped the Billboard charts by selling 957,000 copies in a week. This year, Weird Al’ Yankovic’s Mandatory Fun topped the Billboard charts by selling 104,000 copies in five days. This disparity in sales further cements the fact that people are consuming music differently now. M&M Media, a Glendale-based music group is
developing Project Carmen, an application designed to give people free access to music downloads. The people at M&M know that many people consume their media through streaming services like Spotify or download it through iTunes, but they are aiming to give people another viable alternative. “We want to be the premiere alternative for music consumers who don’t subscribe to streaming,” Corey Jones, chief of product at M&M Media said. “If you want to discover music, we want you to discover it in our platform. Project Carmen, the temporary name for the service, has been in the works for some time now. Gary Mekikian, founder and CEO of M&M Media, first requested the patent for the technology behind Project Carmen in 2005. He received the patent in 2012 and is now finally releasing the app in beta later this month.
The beta, which means it’s in a testing phase, will be introduced to certain schools in Southern California. Cal State Fullerton is one of the campuses that has been chosen as a potential candidate to pilot the service. The people behind M&M Media said they were particularly interested in working with CSUF because of its large student population and its involvement in social media, noting the school’s recent Forbes MyTopCollege award. Whether or not it comes to CSUF is simple. The media company wants around 2,000 students from CSUF to sign up on their website fullert on.p r oje ct c a r m en.c om . This number isn’t a requirement to have the app come to CSUF, they just want to see that people are excited for the product. SEE PROJECT CARMEN 5
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Project Carmen will allow users to listen to downloaded music without an internet connection, for free. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN