MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014
Volume 95, Issue 3
$50 million added to CSU
Student killed in crash MATTHEW MEDINA Daily Titan
Franz Nalezny, a 22-yearold graphic design student at Cal State Fullerton, died Friday while driving to his parents’ house in Coto de Caza, a private gated community east of Mission Viejo. The Orange County Register reported that Nalezny, who lived in a dormitory but frequently visited family and friends on the weekends, was driving south on Vista Del Verde at about 7:40 p.m. He was within 0.5 miles of his parents’ house when his Mazda3 hatchback collided with a curb. It overturned and hit another curb before launching into the air, colliding with a tree and ending up sitting atop a wall close to a house on Cherry Hills Drive. Authorities used a crane and other equipment to safely bring the car to the ground and remove Nalezny’s body. This was completed shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday. Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said Nalezny died instantly. No passengers were in Nalezny’s car, and the crash did not cause structural damage to the home. Nalezny graduated from Tesoro High School in 2009 and attended Saddleback College, earning an associate’s degree in 2012. He planned to graduate CSUF this year. California Highway Patrol officers are investigating what caused the crash. They said they did not find any obvious skidmarks in the vicinity of the crash site.
Chancellor Tim White explains plan in ‘State of the CSU’ SASHA BELANI Daily Titan
WINNIE HUANG / Daily Titan A fan wearing a Peyton Manning jersey, as well as a Denver Broncos cap, watches the Super Bowl in the Titan Student Union underground. The Broncos lost to the Seattle Seahawks, 43-8, and were unable to score until the third quarter.
Locals face off in Super Bowl
MIA MCCORMICK Daily Titan
T
he Fullerton community was well represented in Super Bowl XLVIII with two Troy High School alumni facing off in the big game on Sunday. Seattle Seahawks’ running back Derrick Coleman and Denver Broncos’
long-snapper Aaron Brewer are both members of Troy High School’s 2008 graduating class. Coleman, who played at the collegiate level for UCLA, garnered media coverage prior to the game Sunday for being deaf. Coleman, who lost most of his hearing by the age of 3, is the third deaf football player in the history of the NFL. A Duracell commercial that premiered before the Super Bowl
spotlighted Coleman’s struggle with deafness and his ultimate success as an athlete. Coleman and the Seahawks won their first Super Bowl by the score of 43-8. Brewers had a successful collegiate career at San Diego State University where he was a four-time All Mountain West Conference selection during his four seasons playing for the Aztecs. Coleman and the Seahawks won their first Super Bowl by the score of 43-8.
Miracles come to Titans swept by 49ers life through art INSIDE
Sensory filled art exhibit challenges viewers at Grand Central Art Center KAYLI CRAIG Daily Titan
The stories of many individuals’ miraculous encounters are seen and heard simultaneously throughout the room as their hands depict their story on various sized screens. Combinations of visual and auditory elements give the viewer a rare experience not often provided by common art exhibits. “Miracle Report” is an interactive art exhibit by Julianne Swartz and Ken Landauer that is currently on display at Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center in the downtown district of Santa Ana. The public viewing of the exhibit on Saturday proved to be a success as many visitors left the busy streets of downtown Santa Ana and entered the Grand Central Art Center curious to know more. The inspiration for this exhibit is the idea of miracles. Two personal believers in the act of miracles, Michael Diaz and Juan Garcia, both 17, are students at Century High School in Santa Ana who visited the Grand Central Art Center because they, too, were curious about “Miracle Report.” As they enter the dark room, the loud noises instantly demand their attention. Various stories are all presented at once, told by people of all ages, genders and backgrounds.
Overwhelming at first, the visitors are not sure where to even begin. There are screens and sounds in every direction. Each story has its own audio and is shown on its own screen. In order to hear the story fully the viewer must solely focus on a particular video, leaving them fully engrossed in that particular installation. “It gives me an eerie feeling in a way,” Diaz said after viewing the “Miracle Report.” “But after I started listening you started getting a feeling toward the person– like a small connection. You’re kind of in their position. You’re just thinking to yourself, ‘Wow, they actually went through this kind of stuff.’” Some stories are shown on a large wall projector with a speaker while others are displayed on the floor, requiring the audience to crouch down and listen through a pair of headphones. But every story is similar in the sense that it tells the tale of a miracle and is told only by hand movements - the artists’ way of making the scene more intimate. For example, by squatting down to the floor the viewer can experience a young girl’s account of a dog that was hit by a car and, just moments before it was to be put down, was miraculously healed. However, on the opposite side of the room, the viewer can listen to a story of a man who calls out for miracles in his daily life. Locals to the area, Theo Hirsh and his daughter Briauna Hirsh frequently visit downtown Santa Ana. SEE MIRACLE, 5
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SEE SPORTS, 6 AND 8 MIKE TRUJILLO / Daily Titan Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams struggled Saturday against rival Long Beach State. The men lost on the road while the women lost at home.
California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White spoke of his plans to invest an additional $50 million into CSU schools to increase “student success and high quality degree completion” during his State of the CSU address Thursday at Cal State Long Beach. White said the money will be invested in seven key areas. Hiring more tenure-track faculty: The plan calls for increased hiring in tenure-track faculty to lower the ratio between tenured faculty and lecturers. “It is our outstanding faculty who go above and beyond to help students secure a meaningful future,” he said. Increase student advising: White said student advising is crucial to student success, describing it as potentially a “make-orbreak issue for students.” Therefore, appointing professional advisors across the campuses to support the current staff and e-advising technologies is a priority. Expanding the bottleneck initiative: While work in this area is already underway with the cross-campus enrollment option implemented in the fall 2013 semester, White wants to increase those options. This includes finding “more innovative solutions” and “more choices” to help students sail through enrolling in the courses they need. Better student preparation before college: Another area White discussed was better preparing first-year students for college and increasing support to underserved students. “We must invest more to help incoming first-year students attain college readiness before arriving on campus,” White said. More applied learning opportunities: A major goal is to increase high-impact practices. These include service learning, internships, study abroad programs and undergraduate participation in applied research programs. Such practices help drive student achievement and engagement, White said. Including more data-driven decisions: By streamlining the data-collection process from all 23 campuses, and using the data to make informed decisions, it will allow them to enhance the quality of the programs and increase student success. “To make the wisest decisions possible, they need to be evidence and data based, and often times we can’t access the information in a timely fashion on a campus or across the system without making 23 phone calls,” White said. SEE CSU, 3
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