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Features 4 Thursday September 25, 2014
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Sports 8 Volume 96 Issue 14
Group protests library closures Students for Quality Education pressures administration to reopen closed library floors
CESAR GAMBOA Daily Titan The CSU Students for Quality Education (SQE) protested Wednesday to criticize Cal State Fullerton’s decision to not reopen the four floors of the south side of Pollak Library until 2017. The organization gathered in front of the library in hopes of pressuring school officials to take action toward reinstating a fully accessible library for students. “The worst part about that is that you can’t go up to the books physically, and look at them, and see what other books correlate with that subject,” said Sean Washburn, a member of the SQE and graduate student at CSUF. “As concerned students, we just want that access back to the library and we want that for all students, not just us.” Pollak Library sustained about $6 million in damages due to the earthquake in late March. That damage forced the campus to make unexpected changes to how the library operates. “We have a book paging system, and that just takes a few hours, depending on amount of traffic to get those books,” said Interim University Librarian Scott Hewitt. “We are also planning on moving the books from the south side to the basement of PLN and to the second, third and fourth floor of PLN. We can’t move all of the books, but we can move most of the books. We’ll try to move the ones that are used most often.” About 24 percent of the books in the Pollak Library have never been checked out, Hewitt said. The library has begun thinning out the collection, and getting rid of unused texts as part of a forthcoming renovation to provide more space to students.
SQE fears moving books to the basement will change the way the library functions for students, said Carie Rael, a member of SQE and history graduate student at CSUF. “The earthquake shouldn’t be used as a catalyst to put in this new way of conducting business,” Rael said. “We think a library is a sacred institution on a university’s campus, and we have it as one of our highest priorities.” SQE is also scrutinizing Associated Students, Inc. for the planned $20 million renovation to the Titan Student Union. “It’s kind of infuriating that $20 million of money that is paid by students with our ASI fee is being used to expand a building which is in perfectly good condition,” Rael said. “It’s pretty much a slap in the face that ASI is not at least considering or putting some actions in place to allocate some of that $20 million from the TSU to the library where it’s actually much needed.” However, ASI President Harpreet Bath said this is beyond what ASI is capable of doing. ASI does not receive any funding from the state or university, and CSUF is prohibited from accepting any funds from ASI, Bath said. “Since ASI acts as an auxiliary on campus, we cannot use the fees that we collect from students that come into ASI. That is our budget for any improvements of campus buildings, classroom experiences, anything that needs to be and should be funded by the state,” Bath said. “That includes the library.” The library will be moving more seating to the open areas of the library before finals. Part of the Student Success Fee will be going toward expanding library hours, allowing the library to stay open until midnight on Mondays through Thursdays, and until 10 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The library will be open 24 hours during finals.
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Steve Bohlen, state oil and gas supervisor at the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) opens the presentations and panel discussions at the fracking symposium on Sept. 23 in the Titan Student Union.
Experts clarify fracking Panel analyzes controversial oil practice
KRISTINA HILLIARD Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton partnered with neighboring cities and city officials to host a symposium focused on hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking, and the issues surrounding the oil extraction process. The symposium featured a large turnout of students, faculty, concerned community members and public officials looking to gain knowledge of the oil extraction taking place in North Orange County. Among the panelists was Steve Bohlen, state oil and gas supervisor at the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). “Lets start talking about what (fracking) isn’t,” Bohlen said. “It is not a
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Donald Kinda, a CSUF Alumni, takes a photo during the fracking symposium held Sept. 23.
drilling process, and it’s not continuous injection of waters and chemicals, it is a mechanical process that is designed to increase permeability in rocks.”
The fracking process creates cracks in the rock thousands of feet below the surface where materials and fluids are carried through to hold the
fractures open and increase the permeability of the formation and allow resources to flow out. SEE FRACKING 3
Business student named CSU Trustee Scholar
CSUF student recognized for academic performance and community service
ROSELYNNE REYES Daily Titan Michael Chacon has big goals set out for himself. Chacon is one of the 23 recipients of the CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement for demonstrating superior academic performance, community service and financial need. As a student from the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics and recipient of this scholarship, he is well on his way toward achieving these goals. Chacon wants to work for the FBI one day, a hefty objective for anyone to achieve. “I got intrigued by the FBI and fighting crime, fraud specifically so I was looking at business schools,” Chacon said. He decided on Cal State Fullerton and decided this would be the place for him. Chacon is pursuing a business administration degree with a joint emphasis in accounting and finance. The scholarship recipient hopes to use these skills
COURTESY OF MICHAEL CHACON
Michael Chacon dreams of one day joining the FBI to combat white-collar crime and corruption in the corporate world.
in the FBI one day, a goal he decided on after seeing so many people affected by the 2009 financial crisis.
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Chacon was homeschooled until the ninth grade, when he began attending the Los Angeles
County High School for the Arts. He was very much involved in the theatre program, but decided to focus
on business after the recession hit. He wants to fight white-collar crime and end
corruption in the corporate world. “They often call it a victimless crime when it’s not really because there are tons of victims and it often has an even more profound impact on more people,” Chacon said. To gain experience, Chacon also enrolled in the California Air National Guard, which required taking time off of school for six months of basic training. When he returned to CSUF, he re-enrolled in the business honors program and became involved on campus. He joined the Accounting Society, where he now serves as secretary for the Association for Certified Fraud Examiners. This group within the club organizes speakers who talk about fraud and white-collar crime. “When I was a freshman, I joined that group and it was really cool because we had people from the FBI come in and the IRS and so now that I’m part of that group, I’m able to get other students fired up about this,” Chacon said. SEE SCHOLAR
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