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The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
The Suites housing construction as it appeared in fall 2021. (Spencer Otte / Daily Titan)
Volume 111 Issue 7
The new construction will include a lounge area for students. (Spencer Otte / Daily Titan)
New student housing community to open fall 2022 GENESIS PAVIA Asst. Editor
Cal State Fullerton’s new suite-style student living community, The Suites, will debut in fall 2022 and will provide housing for an additional 600 students on campus. The Suites are the newest addition to the CSUF housing community. The building is located along the Route 57 Freeway, across from the new parking spaces added to the Eastside Parking Structure in 2020. According to the Housing and Residential Engagement website, each suite will house eight students in a four-bedroom apartment with two bathrooms and a small kitchenette. Larry Martin, the executive director for Housing and Residential Engagement, said it’s an exciting time for
students interested in the on-campus experience. “We have our residence halls and our single apartments, and then, our original double apartment-style community, it’s come to the end of its useful life, which happens with housing,” Martin said. He added that as part of the planning for the suites, the university surveyed students across campus to find out what the need was for students looking to live on campus. Martin said that ultimately, the survey supported a suite-style community for second and third-year students to evolve their experience on campus. In addition to the bedrooms and kitchenette, each floor of The Suites will have three Active Rooms that will include a TV, lounge space and an activity table for studying and socializing.
The Titan Lounge will also be a new integration that will lead to a laundry room and an outdoor courtyard. Martin said the construction of The Suites was a multi-year process that was part of a system-wide master plan to provide more affordable housing across the system. The finalized approval for The Suites took place in 2019, which allowed construction to break ground at the end of 2020 while classes were virtual. The construction of the new housing community took 18 months to actualize over what was known as Parking Lot E. “As projects get approved through our campus master planning process, you then figure out how can we then move, you know, those parking places to other areas of campus,” Martin said.
“And so the parking that was displaced by our project have been relocated to spaces out near Titan Hall, which is now part of the campus community.” He added that it was important to make room for the new suites to be close to the other housing communities to maintain a continuous footprint for the residents of Cal State Fullerton. “We then shifted the parking spaces to elsewhere on campus, so still available just in another location,” Martin said. Martin said The Suites are the first step in adding to the portfolio that can help the university expand housing over the upcoming years and create a pipeline for students who see the value of living on campus. Christine Sy, a third-year biology major, said she thinks that the new suites will solve the problem that
upper-level students face when searching for affordable housing after their first year. “I remember I did struggle after I was a first-year, like where I would live, and I had to choose between the options next to campus,” Sy said. “So I feel The Suites are a really good way of a really smooth transition to ‘okay after I live in the dorms, I’ll just live in The Suites.’” Both Martin and Sy share the idea that on-campus housing can bring new opportunities for residents to build a stronger community. “I think they’re going to see some new and exciting options and opportunities for students to not only access the convenience of student housing, but I think really see some additional resources and engagement opportunities to help them be successful,” Martin said.
Baseball snaps four-game skid against Kansas State The Titans took the lead in the eighth with a rare three-triple inning. DAVID GOODKIND Staff Writer
Vincent Lee sets to inbound against UC Irvine inside Titan Gym on Feb. 24. (Marisa Palmerin-Flores / Daily Titan)
Men’s basketball to host UC Riverside for rematch CSUF had their eightgame winning streak snapped by UC Riverside in January. CHRISTIAN WALLING Staff Writer
Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball is set to play the UC Riverside Highlanders in Titan Gym on Thursday at 8 p.m. At 17-9 overall and 10-3 in the Big West Conference,
CSUF is in a tie for first place in the standings with Long Beach State, which holds the same conference record. Long Beach defeated Fullerton in February, which gives the Beach the tiebreaker over the Titans. Riverside currently sits in fifth place in the conference at 8-5 and 10-15 overall, with a one game lead over UC Santa Barbara. The Titans last faced the Highlanders and were on the
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receiving end of a 67-54 loss on Jan. 29. This was Fullerton’s first loss in conference play and ended their eight-game winning streak at the time. CSUF had a poor shooting night as they made nearly 29% of all field goals attempted, while the Highlanders shot 41% from the field.
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Cal State Fullerton baseball snapped a four-game losing streak with a late comeback victory over the Kansas State Wildcats at Goodwin Field on Tuesday. The 7-5 win secured the Titans’ second victory of the season. The Wildcats, like the Titans, came into the game struggling with a 1-5 record. Fresh off of an 8-2 win at Cal State Bakersfield, Kansas State started the game with a leadoff double. However, Fullerton’s right-handed-pitcher Fynn Chester bounced back with three straight outs, including a strikeout. Chester pitched three scoreless innings with three strikeouts. In the bottom half of the first, the Titans loaded up the bases with two outs.
Designated hitter Deylan Pigford bounced a ground ball that swallowed up the Kansas State first baseman as he almost collided with the second baseman, which resulted in a run scored for the Titans. In the bottom of the second inning, Fullerton extended the lead, 3-0, with a pair of two-out RBI singles from catcher Austin Schell and third base replacement Zach Lew. Kansas State had a major threat going in the fourth inning with the bases loaded and no outs.
The Titans escaped the inning with a pop-up to short and a double play. Leading, 4-0, in the top of the sixth, the Titans were unable to escape with a clean inning. After an RBI base hit with the bases loaded, Kansas State shortstop Nick Goodwin unloaded them with a three RBI double to left field that tied the game at 4-4. The Wildcats were able to get another RBI via a base hit and took a 5-4 lead. SEE FIELD
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Senior outfielder Jason Brandow studies Gonzaga’s hitter at Goodwin Field on Feb. 26. (Daniela Navarro / Daily Titan) FOLLOW US: @THEDAILYTITAN