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Library changes for Fall semester
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Communication breakdown stops buses of school supplies
Phase one of renovations begin for Pollak Library SPENCER CUSTODIO Daily Titan The Pollak Library now has more than 400,000 books available for checkout during the $15 million library overhaul that has commenced construction on the first, fourth and fifth floors of the south building. Some of the library centers will get a new home, with the Chicano and Chicana resource center moving to the old Academic Senate chambers in the Titan Bookstore, University Librarian Scott Hewitt said. The Graduate Studies program will get a temporary space on the third floor in the south building, with a big increase in space from the small group study rooms they previously had on the first floor. Katherine Powers, Graduate Studies director, said the program will get 1500 square feet of space and will house its own Student Success Center, like the rest of the schools on campus. She said the center will be moved into a permanent space once the library renovations are completed. The program received a multi-year federal grant of half a million dollars a year over the next 4 years in order to help cover the costs of equipment to check out, advisors, tutors, furnished lounge space and workshops it plans to host, Powers said. It will be a hub for graduate students, she said. “You walk in there and you’ll get some help.” Another noticeable change inside the library is the spatial increase of the Titan Computer Lab on the first floor. The library staff conducted a survey and found that one of the biggest complaints students had was the high density of computers on the first floor, Hewitt said. “But we didn’t want to lose computers,” Hewitt said. The library staff reconfigured the north fourth floor to house some of the computers, thinning out three of the four rows of computers on the first floor that were previously jammed together. The library hours are also getting extended thanks to the Student Success Initiative that was implemented last year. SEE LIBRARY
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Assemblywoman Young Kim thanks supporters and staff after loading up the school bus full of supplies for underprivileged elementary school students in the Anaheim and Magnolia school districts.
School officials decline supplies, cite state law DARLENE CASAS Daily Titan Two local Orange County School districts declined to partner with Assemblywoman Young Kim in her first organized “Stuff the Bus” school supply drive in order to avoid involving schools in potential partisan politics.
Kim organized her first “Stuff the Bus” school supply drive this August to help low-income students in Anaheim and Stanton. She collected more than $11,000 worth of school supplies in the three-week long event and had planned to donate them to schools in the Magnolia and Anaheim City School Districts. Both districts said they would appreciate the donated supplies, but did not take part in the event. Frank Donavan, the superintendent from Magnolia School District,
said it was because state policies meant to separate schools from political activities prohibited them from participating in Kim’s original plans. “We didn’t get the partnership this time around. I think there was some misunderstandings or differences of opinions of what we wanted to do,” Kim said. Donavan said the district received a letter from one of Kim’s representatives on June 22, inviting them to participate in the “Stuff the Bus” event. The school supply drive was originally planned to begin
July 24 and end with a finale event on Friday Aug. 14 during school hours, but was changed after both districts declined to participate in the event. After using district school buses to transport donated school supplies to the Magnolia and Anaheim City School districts, Kim had planned to host presentations and discuss legislative issues in the community during the event, which Kim also stated in her invitation letter sent to the districts, Donavan said. “This is a non-partisan event,” read the letter.
In order to maintain a neutral learning environment for students, California Education Code 7053 prohibits the use of public school resources for political activity. Both Donavan and the superintendent from Anaheim City School District, Linda Wagner, said they would be pleased to accept donated supplies for students, but must abide the state law and avoid involving their schools in political activities. SEE SUPPLIES
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From stage to voice-overs Student’s acting career transitions into video games VERONICA FELIPE Daily Titan Ronald Banks closes double-paned windows, turns off ceiling fans and tightly closes his bedroom door, ensuring the entire room is dead silent before sitting down in his wife’s walk-in closet to work. As a voice-over actor, Banks, 55, has to make sure the only noise his microphone picks up is his voice, and the clothes in his wife’s closet help dampen unwanted noises. “I’m a dilettante when
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it comes to making voiceovers,” Banks admits. Banks, a Cal State Fullerton communications major, describes how his setup, which consists of a chair, a microphone and a laptop, is amateurish compared to other voice-over actors who have actual studios in their homes. “I can make a fairly good quality read for (my agency) that’s good for auditions, but would never be appropriate if they need to use it for actual copy,” Banks said. Banks said he usually sends in about three or four voiceover auditions a week to his agency VOX, Inc., but during busy seasons like fall, it can be up to three or four a day. SEE VOICE
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Ronald Banks records his voice-over auditions using a screen, a mic, a stool and a laptop in his wife’s walk-in closet. He usually does three to four auditions a week, but can do three to four a day.
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