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Volume 97 Issue 8
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
University Police’s Emergency Management uses a variety of methods to communicate with students and staff, such as:
3rd floor 108 computers 2nd floor 34 computers 1st floor 230 computers
e-mail text message
In the Pollak Library, about 230 computers on the first floor, 34 computers on the second floor and 108 computers on the third floor are receiving the alert.
voicemail
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smartphone app
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ALEX GROVES Daily Titan University Police will add a new method of communication in case of an emergency, and that is an alert system that has the potential
to simultaneously reach thousands of computers on campus. This new system of emergency communication will be tested twice—on Tuesday at 10:10 a.m. and again at 7:10 p.m. Wednesday. Students using computers in Pollak Library will see a box containing information about emergency preparedness, especially with regard to ‘shelter in place’ situations, a University Police official said.
The alert will be sent to computers through BigFix software. At last count, the software was installed on about 4,000 computers campus-wide, said Rommel Hidalgo, assistant vice president for Information Technology. That number includes all workstation computers in the library, Hidalgo said. About 230 computers on the first floor, 34 computers on the second floor and 108 computers on the third floor are capable
of receiving the alert. Lab computers throughout campus may also have the alert, depending on whether campus techs overseeing those labs were able to install BigFix Software, Hidalgo said. “Because it’s their computer labs, we couldn’t really tell them, ‘you need to install this,’ because then it would disrupt the students’ use,” Hidalgo said. “So it really depends on whether or not they were able to include the
software account during their down time.” Running concurrently to the workstation computer alert will be cell phone alerts, Hidalgo said. University Police’s Emergency Management uses a variety of methods to communicate with students and staff, including e-mail, voicemail, text messaging and a smartphone app. SEE ALERT
Paging system permits access Moving books gives students use of library texts
New system will add computer option to emergency alert arsenal System test will take place Tuesday and Wednesday
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Staff at Pollak Library have continued the book paging system implemented last semester, but it hasn’t gone entirely without a hitch. Although the book paging system is provided for faculty and students to gain access to the books on Pollak Library South, Interim University Librarian Scott Hewitt said the renovations have caused issues for students and faculty. Namely, it leaves faculty unable to personally look for books, and the paging system, meant to bring books from the damaged floors to make them more accessible, is limited by weekday working hours. “Paging is usually during the week, it’s usually within three hours,” Hewitt said. “If it’s on the weekend, it might take an additional day or two.” Using checkout and paging statistics, the library determined that history and literature books were most requested by students, Hewitt said. Staff are now in the process of transferring books on those subjects from the library’s south side to the former computer lab in PLN 30. The objective is to have at least 90 percent of the books in the south side of the library relocated to the northern side by the start of the Fall 2016 semester, Hewitt said. SEE LIBRARY
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It’s more than a crown, and CSUF wins all A new Miss Anaheim is crowned after seven year hiatus FIONA PITT Daily Titan For the first time in nearly a decade, a Miss Anaheim was crowned in Orange County. Saturday night, a tiara was pinned atop the head of another bright eyed, sparkling, smiling, young woman, claiming her Miss Anaheim. Julia McCurdie, 22, a Cal State Fullerton communications major was pleased with her earnings. Missy Mendoza, 21, CSUF public relations major, was awarded the title of Miss Anaheim Hills—a separate award for the eastern portion of Anaheim. First runner-up to Miss Anaheim was Verna Vo, a 21-year-old business and administration major with a concentration in accounting and finance, also at CSUF. Miss Congeniality went to none other than CSUF’s, Gloria Ahn, 23. While there were not enough crowns to award all of the pageant’s entries, not all contestants left empty handed.
Contestant Christine Dietz, 23, was awarded a $200 scholarship toward her studies at CSUF. Second runner-up Miss Anaheim, Kilee Holroyd, criminal justice major, is someone who we’ve seen before, but may have not known it was her. Holroyd, who won second runner-up in a beauty pageant is the same girl under the large and vivacious elephant suit, known as Tuffy; who rallies up school spirit at most sporting events and games. On this night, however, Holroyd was acknowledged without the elephant head for her ability to perform an emotional lyrical number on stage, answer a difficult gender equality question in an intricate manner within seconds, strut in a bikini in front of 300 people and anything else that would seem unnatural to the average human being. But more importantly, these six girls were being acknowledged for their drive to complete their degrees and their passion to make positive changes in their cities. All 2015 titleholders went to CSUF women. In the past, beauty pageants indeed judged
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women’s physical appearances, true to even measuring up their proportions. It was a time where modeling and chorus lines were just becoming respectable professions for women, said Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity. Banet-Weiser wrote: “It is, as feminists have eloquently and persuasively argued for decades, a ‘meat market,’ where women are reduced to judgable body parts, and the overt message that women are sexual objects.” Only, that was in the 1920s and it’s important to understand this stigma of pageantry is no longer the views of the contestants or the committees. There is no height or measurement requirements to enter, and the overwhelming reason for girls entering this Miss Anaheim was to win money for a higher education degree. The estimated cost of tuition per semester for a student enrolled in at least seven units is $3,177.33, according to statistics from CSUF News Service. SEE PAGEANT
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Missy Mendoza, a public relations major beams as she is crowned Miss Anaheim Hills 2015. She will recieve a $2,000 scholarship toward her studies at Cal State Fullerton. VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM