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Building Will Allow Business School to Grow
ROTC Is Tops in Army’s, Students’ Eyes
College looks to keep up with increasing demand for classes
dents are unable to enroll in the classes they need. Many students are arguing that they are forced to complete their degree in five years By Cindy Tullues due to the poor class availDaily Titan Staff Writer ability and not by choice. “We need more teachers to teach more classes,” said With approximately business student Brandon 8,000 business students and Tarnow. “They should offer six departments, the Cal more night classes so that State Fullerton College of business majors can work Business and Economics is during business hours to get rated as Californiaʼs largest the necessary experience accredited business school. they need.” But the college struggles The beginning of the to keep up with classroom semester set a new spring demand. Professors and stu- enrollment record. Statistics dents are patiently waiting show that over 32,500 stufor the fall 2008 opening of dents were enrolled at CSUF on the first day of school. Mihaylo Hall. Currently the business Nancy Dority, assistant vice college has classrooms and president of enrollment services, said that faculty offices in at least spring enrollBy the numbers: ment numbers four buildings including are still increasStudents ing. Langsdorf Hall, To accommoCollege Park enrolled in College date for increasand McCarthy of Business ing student Hall, forcing CSUF enrollment, business stustudents enrolled on dents to run CSUF has a the first day around campus tentative goal to get to their to hire 16 new Faculty memclasses. full-time facbers expected to be ulty members “One of our hired this year to across the unibiggest issues work at CSUF versity this year, is that we donʼt Norby said. really have a Members expectApproximately home,” said ed to retire this year seven new Joni Norby, the faculty memcollegeʼs assistant dean of administration. bers have been added to “Right now we are all over the CSUF ranks. CSUF has the place.” well over 200 faculty memThe university hopes that bers Norby said. Only two Mihaylo Hall will release members plan to retire this class-size tension and keep year. “We are always looking up with classroom demand. “We definitely need the for more full-time faculty,” space,” said Andrew Gill, she said. “But it is harder to an economics professor. secure full-time faculty.” Norby said that Mihaylo “I would add students but I donʼt have the seats. I Hall will not only centralcanʼt have people sit on the ize the college of business, but will also open up classfloor.” Several other colleges are room and office space for also faced with the same classroom dilemma. Every semester, hundreds of stu- SEE COLLEGE = PAGE 3
U.S. Army recognizes Cal State Fullerton’s program with Gen. Douglas MacArthur Award By Andy Stowers
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Committee – “fringe, extremist [and]hateful,” Khan said. Asking the council to sit in at the forum is like a Jewish or black group being asked to sit in a panel discussion with the Ku Klux Klan, she said. The issue at hand is the intent of the message. “There are three parts to a message: the messenger, the context and the recipient,” and these three add up to the intent of the message – to provoke anger or to promote discussion – Sadullah Khan said. In this case, the College Republicans are working with the United American Committee, a “non-partisan movement
Cadet Rebecca R. Duran was an enlisted reservist in the U.S. Army but thought she could make more of a difference as an officer, so she decided to join the ROTC program at Cal State Fullerton. “The program puts all your fears on the backburner, the more training you receive, the more confidence you get, and you know everything is going to be OK and youʼre not going to get hurt being in the Army,” Duran said. As a junior in the program she said it has been difficult, especially the transition from being enlisted to training to be an officer. Cal State Fullertonʼs ROTC battalion received the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Award in February, with the U.S. Army cadet command recognizing it as 2005ʼs top-performing unit in the western region in the small-schools category. The award was given to the CSUF battalion in recognition of excellence in recruiting, training, retention and graduation rate, said Capt. Robert H. Medina, assistant professor of military science. U.S. Army Col. Michael R. Johnson presented the award to Lt. Col. William L. Howard Jr., coordinator of Cal State Fullertonʼs military science program. “It is a distinguished award that sets us apart and shows the hard work that the cadre and cadets put into the program,” Howard said. The program also has several officers, including Medina, working in the unit that previously went through the program making it easier for the cadets to relate to the cadre, Duran said. The ROTC program at CSUF began in 1982 and is one of 272 units at colleges and universities nationwide. CSUF began its own “stand alone battalion” in 1998, Medina said. The program has 74 cadets and their focus right now is to grow incrementally. Seven out of every 10 officers in the U.S. Army are graduates of an ROTC program. This accounts for more than 500,000 men and women that have become Army officers since the establishment of an ROTC program in 1916. Students in the program are commissioned as second lieutenants upon graduation. Other methods of becoming an officer include attending the U.S. Army Academy at West Point or attending officer candidate school. The military science program at CSUF offers courses for military and civilian leadership, Howard said. Some students still may be hesitant
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TEACHER, I KNOW: Children become restless as they wait to be excused for snack time. Theyʼre answering teacher Brenda Plascencia-Carrizosaʼs question, “Where does milk come from?”
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Centered on Children New, safer CSUF center for kids expected to be completed by fall 2008 By Jody Cason
Daily Titan Staff Writer
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The staff at the Cal State Fullertonʼs Childrenʼs Center will soon have some room to breathe: Plans to construct a new center have finally been approved. The cost of the project has been estimated at $8.4 million, and construction is anticipated to start in the spring of 2007, finishing in early fall of 2008. Betsy Gibbs, director of the center since 1974, said there has almost always been a need for a better building and location to accommodate the children and adults at the center. One of the biggest priorities is childrenʼs safety, Gibbs said. The center is at the corner of State College Boulevard and Gymnasium Campus Drive, a heavily congested area. “There are approximately two car accidents around the area each year, and one of those acci-
dents involved one of our parents,” Gibbs said. The new site is on the northwest side of campus near Lot A. Itʼs more in the center of campus, running alongside but not too close to West Campus Drive. “This area is much safer for the children and will provide easier access for parents to drop off and pick up their children,” Gibbs said. Gibbs said there is also a great need to expand the program because the center reaches full capacity every semester. Currently, the center accommodates 92 children at a time. The new building will be able to serve up to 122 children. The center is expecting to eventually expand the capacity to 150 children by adding 2,000 square feet of classroom space. The center offers six learning environments that cater to each childʼs needs. For instance, infants are put into the Nest, and 2- to 5-year-olds, depending on their level of development, learn in the Garden Room. Jenn MacDonald is anticipat-
ing the improvements the new facility will provide. MacDonald, who has been a master teacher at the center for the past three years, said the configuration of the building has made it difficult for the students as well as the teachers. There is no easy access to get from the classrooms to the yards outside, MacDonald said. The centerʼs cook, Francee Taylor, would also like to see some improvements to the kitchen she considers a second home. “I donʼt stress at this job. I love this job, but I do hope the new kitchen will be a little bigger,” she said. Cooking in the kitchen now is a bit inconvenient because the pantries are down the hallway and the freezer is in another building, she said. The new facility will place all Taylorʼs necessities in the kitchen. Financing for the facility has been in the works for nine years. Since 1997, students have been contributing $8 a semester SEE CENTER = PAGE 3
UCI Group to Display Controversial Cartoons College Republicans plan panel discussion for tonight; Muslim groups see event as inflammatory By Julie Anne Ines
Daily Titan Staff Writer
Despite the objection of Muslim organizations around Orange County and the concern of university officials, the UC Irvine College Republicans student group will host a forum at UCI tonight at 7 oʼclock that will include a showing of the controversial cartoons depicting Islamʼs prophet Muhammad. In response to the forum – titled the Unveiling of the Cartoons and a Discussion to Confront Terror – Islamic
groups from around the county will gather to express their disagreement outside the Crystal Cove Auditorium, said Sadullah Khan, the director of the Islamic Center in Irvine. “The notion of having them ʻunveiled,ʼ despite what has happened [around the world] is almost a provocation,” Sadullah Khan said. Rioting and deaths followed the publication of the cartoons and are “disturbing factors” that were taken into consideration before deciding to show the cartoons, said Kristin Lucero, a senior at UCI and the club president. However, her clubʼs showing them and the publicʼs right to discuss them are granted by the First Amendment, Lucero said. “Freedomʼs here; we have a right to
show them here,” she added. Newspapers overseas that chose to publish the images, which were first featured in a Danish newspaper, cited freedom of the press in their decisions to reprint them. To Orange County Muslims, however, the controversy goes beyond the freedom of speech and of the press in this situation, but that doesnʼt mean the Muslim community ignores them. On the contrary, Islam holds these freedoms dearly, said Sabiha Khan, the spokesperson for the Council on American Islamic Relations in Anaheim, which declined a seat on the forum panel. The council turned down the seat because it considers the group co-hosting the event – the United American
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