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Volume 103 Issue 30
ASI investigating closed election meetings Associated Students failed to post meeting agendas as required by state law. KYLE BENDER Editor-in-Chief
Associated Students is conducting an internal investigation for its Elections Judicial
Council’s closed-door meetings held on March 7, said Dave Edwards, executive director of Associated Students. The council failed to post agendas as required by the state’s Gloria Romero Open Meetings Act, which regulates student government. During the closed meetings, the council disqualified Associated Students presidential and vice presidential candidates Celine
Moubayed and Colin Eacobellis for sending a mass campaign email deemed in violation of Associated Students campaign bylaws. “We can clearly say they violated the law by not posting notice of agenda,” said Mike Hiestand, attorney and senior legal consultant for the Student Press Law Center. Officials are briefed on Associated Students’ bylaws and California open meeting laws during a summer training program,
Edwards said. The bylaws require Associated Students officials to adhere to the Gloria Romero Open Meetings Act. “I think we were just encouraged to look at (the bylaws) ourselves,” said Moubayed, who serves as Associated Students chief communications officer, of her experience with Associated Students summer training. The investigation is expected to conclude by April 11.
Students protest proposed CSU budget California Faculty Association bused demonstrators from all over California to Sacramento. DIANE ORTIZ LAUREN JENNINGS Staff Writers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Over 1,000 students and faculty from across the state were brought together Wednesday morning to protest California Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget for CSU schools. Many students arrived at the state capital Tuesday evening, taking long bus rides and spending the night at The Table at Central United Methodist Church, sleeping on the floor. A silent march began outside of the Governor’s Mansion at 6:30 a.m., with tape over protesters mouths in an effort to remain in compliance with the city’s noise ordinance. The protesters marched back and forth silently, encouraging passing drivers to honk and cheer. Students held picket signs that read, “Fund the Dream” and “Free the CSU.” Griselda Aguirre, a junior at Cal State Fullerton and first-generation college student, said she realized how important it is to stay informed after going to an immigration fair for her family members. “It made me realize there’s so much work to do, which is good, because I want to be (utilized). Education is so important. If you don’t know, how can you advocate for something?” Aguirre said. “For me, this means everything.” The purpose of the march was to ask Brown for more CSU funding after the release of what the California Faculty Association and Students for Quality Education said was an unreasonably low 2018-19 budget offer.
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Demonstrators slept at The Table at Central United Methodist Church before waking up early Wednesday morning to advocate for cheaper education.
The governor proposed $92.1 million in additional funding for next year’s CSU budget. The state’s funding currently covers around half of all CSU’s cost, leaving the rest up to students to pay through tuition. Antionette Saddler, a Cal State Los
Angeles senior and member of Students for Quality Education, the Black Student Union and Black Lives Matter LA chapter said the CSU is receiving less funding as it becomes more diverse. Saddler’s reasons for marching are both political and personal. She marched with
a sign that read, “I lost my brother to this system. Don’t let my education be next,” referring to the death of her brother, Angel Ramos, in 2017 after a Vallejo police officer shot and killed him. SEE TUITION
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Defunct, aging robot awaits fate
ODEX1 has the potential to open new doors, but its future at CSUF is uncertain. STEPHANIE DELATEUR Freelance Writer
Covered with dust and gadgets, Cal State Fullerton’s 35-year-old robot, ODEX 1, needs repair. ODEX 1, a functionoid walking robot, was displayed in 1983 after 15 months of development under Stephen J. Bartholet, senior staff engineer at Odetics Inc. The six-legged mechanism weighing 370 pounds and can to lift 450 pounds per leg. The functionoid was showcased at the National Museum of American History in 1986, and then loaned to Boston’s Museum of Science the following year. ODEX 1 was built to
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I think it’s important (to preserve ODEX 1) because the campus has a history and that history connects it to the local community.
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KEVIN LAMBERT Liberal studies professor
“demonstrate that you could coordinate movement and move objects,” said technician Jon Woodland. “It’s one of the first functional robots from the ‘80s.” Remote-controlled, ODEX 1 walks like an insect using a method called the alternating tripod. It can manipulate its size and stature with its legs depending on the situation, varying in height between 36 to 78 inches, and in width 21 to 105 inches. “ODEX hasn’t left the room since the university acquired it,” Woodland said. “We have so many new people in management, and at this college, that there’s very few people that even know it’s here.” The robot had state-of-the-art features for its time including the ability to climb stairs. “We got (ODEX 1) because we were the closest school next to (Odetics Inc.). We asked them for a lot of stuff from their production lines to help our labs,” Woodland said. The hope for ODEX was that it would be used in situations where humans could be harmed, like nuclear spills; the U.S. Army had plans to use it in battle according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Freshman Timothy Josten pitched four innings making his first collegiate appearance and start against the Sun Devils.
CSUF baseball sweeps ASU Pausing conference play, the Titans clinched the series over ASU with a 2-1 win. KAILA CRUZ
Asst. Sports Editor
Cal State Fullerton baseball managed to claim its series after an RBI single by Titans shortstop Sahid Valenzuela allowed Fullerton to record a 2-1 win against the Sun Devils on the road Wednesday. “(Titans Head Coach Rick
Vanderhook) was talking about the rivalry with ASU way before anyone has been here so it was important to get the W,” Titans pitcher Timothy Josten told CSUF Sports Media. SEE CLINCHED
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