W EDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Volume 95, Issue 9
Students demand more state funding
Low turnout at open forums
Valentine-themed campaign lobbies governor’s office KYLE NAULT Daily Titan
Carie Rael, a history graduate student and member of the statewide advocacy group Students for Quality Education (SQE), believes it is important for students to express their love for education but has shown no love for the Student Success Initiative. In an effort to continue the ongoing protest of the proposed $240.50 fee increase, Rael and other students gathered Wednesday to participate in a Valentine’s Daythemed letter writing campaign. The campaign is intended to show Gov. Jerry Brown that the student body loves education, and to show why the statewide California State University budget should be increased instead of implementing more mandatory fees for students. “I know there’s been a statewide pressure against this student success fee because it kind of completely goes around (Brown’s) four-year moratorium on tuition increases and campuses have just implemented this fee as a loophole to get around that,” Rael said. Funding to CSU schools will be increased to $5.7 billion by 2015 under Brown’s budget plan, as the four-year moratorium calls for “steady and predictable state funding increases” all the way through 2017. However, the steady fund increase has not exactly come to fruition, as the CSU only received a 5 percent increase in funding, instead of the 10 percent increase the institutions had requested from the state. SEE LETTERS, 2
WINNIE HUANG / Daily Titan Lea Jarnagin, associate vice president for student affairs at Cal State Fullerton, speaks at the first open forum on the Student Success Initiative at the Fullerton campus.
University seeks Fee would be third-highest feedback on SSI Student Success Initiative elicits mixed opinions CYNTHIA WASHICKO Daily Titan
Despite lackluster turnout at the first two Student Success Initiative forums on Cal State Fullerton’s main campus Monday and Tuesday, students still managed to express their opinions and concerns on the proposed fee. Lea Jarnagin, associate vice president for student affairs, said the forums are meant to be an opportunity for students to voice their opinions and concerns about the proposed $240.50 fee increase, a vital component of the fee approval process. “An alternative consultation process is nothing if the students are not engaged and involved in it,” Jarnagin said Tuesday. Students will not be voting directly on the fee, but input gathered during
these open forums and via feedback forms available on TITANium will be presented and considered by the Student Fee Advisory Committee (SFAC) in coming months, to tailor the fee to needs students have expressed. A vocal portion of the crowd at the forum Tuesday represented Students for Quality Education, a group with the purpose of protesting unfair increases in student fees, according to member Ryan Quinn, a history graduate student. The group has started a petition and instituted a letter-writing campaign to Gov. Jerry Brown to stop the fee from being implemented in any form. The petition has over 200 signatures of students and staff members, Quinn said. “Student success sounds like a great idea, but this is really not the mechanism to do it,” he said.
MIKE TRUJILLO / Daily Titan Nine other California State University schools have implemented similar fees thus far, and several more are considering them. Fees are shown as they currently stand. Cal State Fullerton’s fee would be phased in over three years and would take effect in fall 2016.
SEE FORUMS, 3
SEE CSU, 2
Banksy artwork inspires lecture by art critic Art department hosts talk on wellknown graffiti artist NICOLE WEAVER Daily Titan
You don’t know his face, but you may be familiar with his graffiti. Banksy, the invisible man of street art, has tagged England, New York, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles and countless other cities internationally with his work. In 2010, he made it on Time magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People. In her first ever lecture on Banksy’s artwork, which takes place at Cal State Fullerton on Thursday, Feb.
Courtesy of Banksy This classic piece of Banksy graffiti was done on canvas, as opposed to the usual wall or building.
13, Diehl will discuss the overarching philosophies that propel the world’s most famous street artist. To further add to his list
of accolades, the documentary he was featured in was nominated for an Academy Award. And now he has caught
the attention of artist and art critic Carol Diehl. “The only critical attention has been in the negative and not in depth. It
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hasn’t gone into his philosophy, why he’s doing what he’s doing, what he believes,” Diehl said. In addition to speaking at CSUF, Diehl has been a visiting artist and lecturer at an impressive list of colleges and universities throughout the United States. She has worked as a senior critic at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, Diehl was the Forkosh-Hirschman lecturer at Arizona State University in 2006. Diehl’s lecture on Banksy will delve into uncovering his motivations for the legacy he has created. “I’ve been aware of his
work for many years, and one of the things that motivated me was that the New York art world, when he did his residency there, seemed to be unfamiliar with him, and yet had opinions even though they weren’t familiar with his work,” Diehl said. Diehl’s interest in street art dates back to the ‘80s, when she wrote about it for East Village magazines. Back then, artists were making graphic art on the subways in New York, intriguing tourists as far as France to travel overseas just to see their work. SEE BANKSY, 5
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