Wednesday April 26, 2017
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Funeral held for Gordon
Report finds hidden UC funds
Former CSUF president remembered for 22-year tenure. ZACK JOHNSTON Daily Titan
State audit shows $157 million in unreported reserve. HAYLEY M. SLYE Daily Titan A California State Auditor Report released Tuesday showed that the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) accumulated more than $175 million in ”undisclosed restricted and discretionary reserves.” State Auditor Elaine M. Howell wrote in the report that the office has used “misleading budgeting practices, provided its employees with generous salaries and atypical benefits, and failed to satisfactorily justify its spending on system-wide initiatives.” In a statement Tuesday, the Office of the President called some of the audit’s recommendations “constructive” while questioning others. The statement also said that UC President Janet Napolitano has created a task force to implement some of the audit’s recommendations. However, the statement and a letter from Napolitano to the state auditor calls the audit’s claims of surplus funds and misleading budget practices false. In her April 5 letter, Napolitano writes that the “$175 million figure mischaracterizes the true amount of UCOP’s available and uncommitted reserve.” She claims the reserve is actually $38 million, “a modest amount” for the UCOP. “UCOP’s budget and financial approaches reflect strategic, deliberate and transparent spending and investment in UC and State Priorities,” Napolitano’s letter reads. In a press release Tuesday, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom called for the 2.5 percent UC tuition hike, which was approved by the UC Board of Regents in January, to be reversed. “For decades, the University of California’s central bureaucracy has been institutionally evasive at the expense of UC students, faculty, donors and public transparency,” Newsom said.
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Former CSUF chemistry professor and CEO of Quill and Abacus, an education consulting firm, announced he is running for the District 39 congressional seat at the Becker Amphitheater Tuesday, challenging long-time incumbent Ed Royce.
Janowicz challenges Royce Former chemistry professor announces congressional bid. BRANDON PHO Daily Titan “It’s only fitting that I announce my campaign where I was initially inspired to run—right here at Cal State Fullerton,” said Phil Janowicz, who kicked off his 2018 Congressional campaign
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I decided I had to do more than teach chemistry,” Janowicz said in his first speech as a political candidate. Now, he’s challenging CA 39th Congressional District Rep. Ed Royce’s incumbent seat. “My opponent is running from his record of voting with Trump 96 percent of the time,” Janowicz said, stirring boos from the crowd. “My opponent runs from the voices of his constituents, refusing to
hold town hall meetings or answer questions from our community.” Rep. Royce could not be reached for a response. A major voice of Royce’s constituency outcry has been Indivisible CA D-39, which previously held a vigil to “mourn” Royce’s relationship with constituents on Feb. 23, and held a demonstration in front of Royce’s Brea office on March 23. SEE CONGRESS
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The mystery of Tuffy the Titan
A look inside the mask of Fullerton’s pachyderm mascot. HARRISON FAIGEN Daily Titan
FULLERTON– Anyone who’s attended a basketball game at Cal State Fullerton has seen Tuffy. The Titans’ furry, elephantine mascot can be seen on the sidelines trying to fire up fans. Sometimes he’s in the bleachers, stomping on the seats in an attempt to make as much noise as the charge of the elephants he’s modeled after during opposing free throws. The unusual sight is enough to make one wonder: Who is the person behind the proverbial curtain? What type of individual would want to wear a (probably sweaty) mascot suit and dance at basketball games? SEE TUFFY 6
TitanCon is coming to CSUF this weekend
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kickoff in CSUF’s Becker Amphitheater, amid cheers from his core supporters. Janowicz, the president and CEO of education consulting firm Quill and Abacus, was once a chemistry professor at CSUF where he mentored over 100 students in the Supplemental Instruction Program and his research lab. “When I realized how many of my students were struggling to meet basic food and housing needs,
Friends, family and colleagues gathered Tuesday morning to honor and say goodbye to the late Milton A. Gordon, who was a transformative force during his tenure as Cal State Fullerton’s president. The funeral service, held at St. Juliana Falconieri Church, was followed by a burial at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. Gordon was 81 when he died. Gordon was president of CSUF from 1990 until his retirement in 2012. During that time, he oversaw the university’s enrollment grow from 25,700 students to more than 36,000 and the addition of 13 academic degree programs, including one of the first doctorate in education programs in the Cal State system. By the time of his retirement, enrollment of students of color jumped to 57 percent and CSUF had become one of the leading universities in the nation for graduating Latino students. Many members of the CSUF community were in attendance, including current President Mildred Garcia.
CSUF Anime Club and the CSUF Gaming and e-Sports club host second annual TitanCon for pop culture lovers.
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Cal State Fullerton mascot Tuffy the Titan poses in pictures with potential students at Welcome to CSUF Day. Former Tuffy Steven Beydler said he “loved it” when people would come up to him wanting to take a picture with the mascot.
Devil’s Advocate: Cultural appropriation
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Two Daily Titan writers discuss the implications and impacts of donning the dress and garments of other cultures.
Martina Edberg takes individual title
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CSUF women’s golf finished fifth in the Big West tournament with Edberg winning the individual championship. VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM