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The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Volume 96 Issue 17

Improvement project widened lanes, added ramps and bridges to decrease congestion on the 57

AUBREY SAULS Daily Titan A nearly four-year project expanding a 4.5 mile stretch of the 57 freeway from Lambert Road in Brea

to Orangethorpe Avenue in Placentia has been completed. The $104 million improvement project added a northbound lane and standardized the width of lanes. The project also added continuous carpool lanes, 13 ramps and bridges and 36 new retaining and sound walls.

The result of this transformation is a reduction in traffic congestion and an increase in traffic safety, said Fernando Chavarria, community relations manager for Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA). The two major sources of funding for the project are Proposition 1B and a renewed Measure M, measure

M2. Proposition 1B, approved by voters in 2006, authorized the state of California to sell bonds in order to fund transportation projects. Measure M2 added a half cent sales tax through 2041 to fund projects meant to decrease traffic congestion. SEE FREEWAY

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‘Gotham’ shown in TSU Underground Students keep up with Gotham with Monday night screenings in Titan Bowl and Billards

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Funds from the new grant to the Cooper Center will go to storing and organizing fossils in the center’s collection.

New grant funds fossil center The Cooper Center recieves a $500,000 from the National Science Foundation

KATHERINE PICAZO Daily Titan The John D. Cooper Center for Archeology and Paleontology is working to upgrade from a warehouse full of boxes to museum cabinets that will display fossils dating back to 180 million years ago. The Cooper Center is the result of a partnership between Orange County and CSUF to help outside researchers and students gain access to and study fossils. The center helps preserve and protect fossils found in construction sites that have undergone Cultural Resource Management studies. Jere H. Lipps, director of the Cooper Center, and James Parham, assistant professor of geological sciences and curator of paleontology for

the center, were awarded a $500,000 three-year continuing grant from the National Science Foundation to improve and protect fossils that have been collected throughout Orange County. The grant will provide funding for new equipment to store the fossils and make them readily available, Parham said. “We will be able to organize and store our fossils in the best possible way,” he said. “The grant is primarily for the fossil stuff and not for the artifacts, but by improving that part of the collection we create space for the artifacts.” The grant will also be used to hire six new Cal State Fullerton students to help inventory and catalog the fossils. They will help the center prepare the fossils for research, said associate curator of paleontology, Meredith Rivin. SEE COOPER

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Detective James Gordon is on the trail of the perpetrators of a child trafficking ring in Gotham City’s seediest area as Fish Mooney plans her ascent to the top of the crime world. That was the set up for Monday night’s episode of Gotham , one of television’s newest shows. The program chronicles the lives of characters from the Batman comic books, and establishes how they came to be heroes or villains. Nearly a dozen Cal State Fullerton students gathered around the flat screen TV in the Titan Student Union basement. They plopped onto couches and chairs, chatting casually until the lights dimmed. Then they started to watch the second episode of the Batman-inspired series. The weekly showings of Gotham are sponsored by Associated Students, Inc. and happen at Titan Bowl and Billiards. For the past couple weeks, students have gathered together and celebrated their mutual fandom of the DC comic universe. One of those students is RTVF student Andie Kerr. Kerr said she’s been a big

fan of anything Batman, and that he’s her favorite superhero. But Kerr said she’s been somewhat disappointed with some of the more recent TV and movie releases from DC comics. She said that’s why she has yet to make an assessment about Gotham. “I’m still testing it out,” Kerr said. “The first episode was OK, but it hasn’t yet caught my attention completely, so I’m still testing it and I’m hoping that it gets really good.” The event also had a social aspect, as students bonded over their shared love of Batman characters and the mythologies that surround them. Biochemistry major Cynthia Rodriguez and child development major Krystal Vu are both fans of the show so far. The two watched the pilot episode last week and decided to head to Titan Bowl and Billiards to see it with a larger group of people. Vu said she enjoyed the show because the structure of it hooked her right away. “Pretty much it jumped into the whole action thing and intensity,” Vu said. “I like how they get into the characters’ stories, and I’m looking forward to finding out more about them. You know, it’s Batman’s story and every villain’s story, and that’s pretty cool.” SEE GOTHAM

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