Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 30
Monday November 2, 2009
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
ASI board members elected for spring Meet your new board members Every college has two seats on ASI’s Board of Directors. For colleges with both of their positions vacant on the board, two directors were voted in. The candidate with the most votes was awarded the full term of one year while the immediate runnerup will serve a one-semester term.
College of Business and Economics: Neil Syal (year) Eric Niu (semester)
College of the Arts: April Mendiola (year) Rodrigo Calderon (semester)
College of Humanities and Social Sciences: Aissa Canchola (year)
College of Communications: Katie Hennessey (year) College of Health & Human Development: Michelle Santizo (year)
By Nicole Park
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Seven newly-appointed board members were called upon by fellow students within their respective colleges to lead on the Associated Students Inc. Board of Directors in last week’s elections. The voting results were read in the legislative chambers of the Titan Student Union Thursday at 9 p.m. by Elections Commissioner Genevieve Eldred. “Tonight, all of our planning and budget work and everything that went into the elections is paying off. The candidates will reap the
benefits of their campaigns, and I get satisfaction in helping with something that’s way bigger than myself,” said Garrett Marsh, an elections assistant. Results were displayed with the total votes and percentage points next to each candidate’s name. Polling booths located throughout campus closed to voters at 8 p.m. Thursday after opening Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 8 a.m. The two-day total for all student votes was 1,506, which Eldred said was higher than the board’s election last semester. “Last year’s votes came to 1,092, so we smashed that,” Eldred said from her desk when the results
came in electronically. She said the record of 1,916 votes were cast in a 2005 board election. “My amazing assistants make my job so much easier for me,” Eldred said of her team of 19 students. “They put in over 164 hours of work in two days of elections. There were up to eight assistants working at one booth at a time.” Eldred credits the sharp increase in student fees for stirring up student civic responsibility at Cal State Fullerton. “A lot of people are trying to be proactive about how their student fees are being spent. They’re saying, ‘We need to care now; we can’t be apathetic anymore. We need to
know what our fees are going toward and use our voting rights to have an impact on where the money goes,’” Eldred said. After two days of voting passed, Eldred also heard from students with less motivated voting perceptions. “Some students would come by the voting tents and under their breath would say, ‘You suck!’ or ‘ASI is stupid!’ My response to that is ‘Well then change it,’” she said. Another common complaint the commissioner and her elections assistants received was, “Why can’t I vote?” See ASI, Page 2
Pumpkin blasts through board By Greg Lehman
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Photo By Ron Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Rachel Baumsten, 21, poses for a photo after winning first place for her costume “swine flew” at the Costume Catwalk on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Students strut on Costume Catwalk By Jamie Iglesias
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Students in costumes, free pizza, raffles and music by Sirah were part of the Costume Catwalk held at Cal State Fullerton’s Becker Amphitheatre on Oct. 28. “The music, the pizza, the costumes and the atmosphere of Halloween brought a lot of people out,” said Andrew Lopez, chief communications officer for Associated Students Inc. “I think we had a huge turnout,” he said. At the beginning of the event, each of the 17 participants modeled their unique costumes. Once they were all seated, Joe Lopez, executive vice president for ASI, and Andrew Lopez began raffling CSUF gear. Joe Lopez then asked the participants to go to the stage to answer five questions for prizes. Each of the questions pertained to the campus. After the questioning was over, the participants were asked to go to their seats and await the decision of the three judges for the best costume. Toward the end of the event, Joe Lopez asked Sirah if she would call out the name of the winner; she announced the four best costumes in order. The first place winner was Rachel Baumsten, 21, a theater arts major who dressed up as “swine flew.” She went up sneezing and coughing as she received her prizes. Baumsten wore a nurse’s outfit, with a pig nose and wings, looking pale with dark reddish makeup under her eyes. “It seems like everybody is breaking out with the swine flu, and I was trying to think of something cool to do for a costume to show my friends at parties, and it hit me that it was appropriate
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and good timing,” Baumsten said. “The costumes were clever, especially the swine flu. Nobody would ever think of doing that, especially during this time of the year,” said Jessica Calderon, 23, a theater major. “I thought that maybe if I was lucky, I would pull out fourth place because I did not think that people would think it was that funny. I am glad they did, and I am really excited,” Baumsten said.
The Titan Stadium scoreboard at Cal State Fullerton received significant damage from a flying pumpkin at Pumpkin Launch 2009 on Saturday. The cost of the damages caused by the pumpkin, shot from an air-pressured cannon named “Pumpkin Lobber,” have not yet been estimated. After testing each device with medicine balls earlier in the morning, each team began to launch pumpkins at 11:30 a.m. Leslie Perovich, vice president of marketing for the Discovery Science Center, said the medicine balls were important. “They do them first with medicine balls so that they don’t splat,” Perovich said, “because obviously when the pumpkins go it’s one use only.” The Pumpkin Lobber designed by CSUF biology major Bobby Malanga, 23, went first and fired a pumpkin and medicine ball at the targets on the field. See Page 3
Photo By Chad Uemura/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
Paramount president emphasizes finance By Maureen Fox
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Photo By Ron Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer The “Joker” displays his costume for judges during the Halloween costume contest at the Becker Amphitheatre on Wednesday.
Randall Baumberger, president of the Studios at Paramount, visited several business classes Thursday to explain to students the importance of having a strong finance and accounting background when applying for and maintaining business-based careers. Baumberger said he wanted to speak at Cal State Fullerton because he enjoys giving back to the university and sharing his insight with business students. He also said he believes students need to hear about different industries from people outside academia, as they can share real world experiences. Baumberger spoke to four different classes, including a section of Management 365 and Accounting 201-B. He joked with students and answered questions they had about the business world. Kim Tarantino, a professor of accounting and co-founder of the entertainment and tourism management emphasis in the College of Business, in-
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Photo By Maureen Fox/Daily Titan Staff Writer Randall Baumberger, president of the Studios at Paramount, visited several business classes to discuss the importance of having a background in finance.
vited Baumberger to speak to her managerial and entertainment accounting courses so he could explain to students that they must be prepared to deal with accounting and finance in their careers, even if they are not an accounting or finance major. “It might help if they see someone who is not an accounting major coming in and talking about
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accounting concepts, and specifically account concepts that we have just covered,” Tarantino said. “They will more than likely encounter them in whatever job they decide to take, assuming they want to go into a managerial position.” Baumberger graduated with his master’s in business from CSUF in 1992 and serves on the College of Business advisory board. He has
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worked at Paramount Studios for the last two years. Baumberger began his talk by introducing himself and his business experiences. He started with part-time jobs at a movie theater and on the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland. He put himself through his master’s degree by working full-time for PepsiCo. After graduating, he worked for the Walt Disney Company, eventually becoming a senior vice president. He then worked as president of a video game retailer before moving on to Paramount. During his visit to Accounting 201-B students, Baumberger emphasized that students need to have a strong finance and accounting background, no matter how far on the creative side of business they end up. He also stressed that when applying for work, students need to focus on what they bring to their companies, not on what companies will do for them. Baumberger said the value they add to companies should be at the forefront of their minds. “You add value by understanding business,” he said. See PARAMOUNT, Page 2
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