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The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
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Volume 97 Issue 3
Board puts fee changes in effect Student vote could rescind fees starting in 2021 SAMUEL MOUNTJOY Daily Titan
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Students participate in the Chalk Off Challenge Sunday, creating murals with chalk on the Titan Walk in preparation for the beginning of homecoming week. Murals will be judged by students Monday from noon to 1:30 p.m. Other events will take place throughout the week leading up to the game Saturday.
Kicking off homecoming Week of events will place focus on students ELAIZA ARMAS Daily Titan Each day leading up to the Saturday homecoming game will feature events and programs to encourage students to get into the homecoming spirit and support their teams. The week got a colorful kick-off Sunday as university clubs, organizations and students embellished the Titan Walk with Titan-themed murals for Cal State Fullerton’s Chalk Off Challenge. “What we wanted to do is create a huge chalk mural on Titan walk so that when students get here on
Monday, they know that it’s homecoming week,” Titan Tusk Force Director Lauren Vivanco said. The event will continue Monday at noon with the Chalk Off Judging, in which students who walk by the Titan walk will receive three different tickets to vote on three different criteria that they believe best represents Cal State Fullerton. The judging will run until 1:30 p.m. and students who participate will also be entered in a raffle to win Titan gear. On Tuesday, students wearing apparel with the CSUF logo will receive a free taco during CSUF’s annual Titan Taco Tuesday. This year the women’s basketball team will be serving the tacos alongside Associated Students, Inc. in an effort to increase
support for the women’s team. “They want to promote that obviously homecoming isn’t just to celebrate men’s basketball, but women’s basketball also, so they’ll be serving and it will give them a way to interact with students,” Vivanco said. “It’s something we’ve never done before.” The event will take place in the Central Quad from noon to 1:30 p.m. Students will be guided through campus by Tuffy’s footprints on Wednesday for the Orange Out Scavenger Hunt. Starting off at the first station, students will be handed a tote bag to collect items to create a spirit pack to wear to the game. The event will start in the Central Quad and end at the Titan Gym from noon to 2 p.m. SEE WEEK
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A Cal State Fullerton student prepares part of a mural to be judged Monday as part of the Chalk Off Challenge.
The California State University Board of Trustees has required that future success fees must now be approved in a binding vote by the student body following an information campaign. Of 12 campuses, including Cal State Fullerton, that have success fees, just two were approved with a student vote–but neither vote was binding. Since the beginning of a two-year moratorium of success fees enacted by the state legislature in June, trustees have been meeting with campuses and gathering student input on the process. In November, a working group tasked with researching the process and reporting to the trustees found a need for consistency among the system used for success fees across the CSU system, as well as a more rigorous adherence to student input. Detractors have called the fee a workaround to a tuition freeze put in place by Gov. Jerry Brown. Supporters, however, have praised the fee’s additional revenue in the wake of shrinking state contributions. CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White approved a $181 semesterly success fee at CSUF last spring. Existing fees are unaffected by the new rules except for a provision that gives students the ability to rescind fees by a vote after Jan. 1, 2021. SEE BOARD
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Casting call for neighborly Titans
Series looking for actors to promote civil etiquette ADRIANA NAJERA Daily Titan
Everyone can appreciate a good neighbor every now and then. Cal State Fullerton will be hosting an open casting call in partnership with the Associated Students, Inc. Community Engagement Coalition for students to appear in short episodes for the Good Neighbor Campaign project, which sprouted from a conversation between CSUF and the Fullerton community. CSUF was receiving minor complaints about issues that students may or may not have been intentionally causing, like parking and trash, Community Engagement Coalition Director Claire Kim said. After weeks of
brainstorming, the Community Engagement Coalition came up with the idea of doing a short video series, in hopes of relaying these messages with our student body. The campaign is designed to create responsibility in every college student and spread an awareness of being a “good neighbor.” In a college neighborhood and community, there will always be interactions between college students and non-student residents. This blend can lead to conflicts, which may or may not be issues such as littering, partying and parking. This series of videos is aimed towards helping college students keep the harmony between themselves and their neighborhood. “As a student, whether they might live on campus or off campus, there is an expectation to live by the common values, and ultimately, to behave as a good neighbor,” Kim said. Those who feel they have what it takes to show
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Fullerton neighbors their good side and represent CSUF can come to the casting call Wednesday. No acting experience is required, just a love for Titan pride. “We’re looking for fun, enthusiastic college students who are willing to volunteer their time for this campaign,” Kim said. The cast will be made up of three main characters (one non-student neighbor & two college neighbors), and additional side characters. There will be one male neighbor between the ages of 28-35, who will play the main hero of the story. This character will provide the audience with some laughs as well as knowledge. The first college neighbor, a male between the ages of 21-22, will play the antagonist turned good-guy hero. He will begin as the typical party-crazed college student uninterested in anything but throwing huge parties on the weekends. SEE CASTING
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CASTING CALL
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4
1st Audition • 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. • Titan Student Union Stearns
2nd Audition • 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. • Location: Titan Student Union Bradford A STEPHEN MCGLADE / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO
Auditions will be held at two separate times on Wednesday in the Titan Student Union for the Good Neighbor Campaign project. VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM