Vol. 92 Issue 50 May 7, 2012 SRC Hosts “Fun Friday” The SRC hold Fun Fridays to help students release some stress by the pool side. The last and largest event will be this Watch the Daily Titan News in 3 Friday, May 11 at 12-2 p.m. Get up- Scan to view Scan to view ONLINE dailytitan. EXCLUSIVES to-date com/?p=55626 coverage on dailytitan.com/?p=55612 top campus news stories. dailytitan.com The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton CHANCELLOR: ‘YOUR DEMANDS … ARE NOT POSSIBLE’ CAMPUS | Switch to TITANium Blackboard service to end over summer Move to user-friendly visible courses and in spring 2011 TITANium is smooth there were 125. This semester, 693 unique faculty so far, official says and 25,630 unique students are enrolled in visible Titanium courses. TIM WORDEN Daily Titan “Overall, the transition is moving smoothly … TITANium has a It is time to say goodbye to more user-friendly organization and Blackboard. The online learning requires less clicks to navigate course management system will expire materials,” said Vikki Costa, Ph.D., June 15. the TITANium coordinator at Blackboard will not be available CSUF’s Faculty Development Center to both students and faculty after and a secondary education professor. June 15. It is the end of a yearlong TITANium has a cleaner look and process to make TITANium the is “more cut and dry,” said Andre university’s learning management Gardere, 19, an undeclared freshman. system. TITANium is a free, “The two classes that I do have Moodle-powered Virtual Learning on Blackboard this semester, I find Environment. myself wishing that they were on Amir Dabirian, vice president of TITANium,” Gardere said. Cal State Fullerton’s Information The differences between Black- Technology (IT) division, told board and TITANium learning members of the Academic Senate management systems have provided to move all data from Blackboard to “a significant amount of work for TITANium in an email on April 30. faculty,” Costa said. “Blackboard will be no longer The Faculty Development Center available at the end of the spring (FDC), located in the Pollak Library 2012 semester. All faculty data needs basement, assists faculty in learning to be moved off Blackboard before to use Titanium by providing ANIBAL ORTIZ / Daily Titan June 1, 2012,” the email states. training workshops. CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed meets with hunger strikers in Long Beach Friday. Reed told the students they are directing their demands to the wrong people. A similar email was sent to “Since last year, almost 500 all CSUF faculty who have used (full-time) and part-time faculty Blackboard in mid-February. It and staff have attended at least one Reed rejects strikers’ demands included a questionnaire asking workshop,” Costa said. faculty about their class migration In addition to the FDC, faculty Students promise to continue parcitpiating in the hunger strike, including Cal that money is being allocated appropriately. status, said Chris Manriquez, can receive course guidance at starving after meeting with top State Fullerton history graduate student David Inga. Inga, the only CSUF student participating in associate vice president for the IT Online Academic Strategies and The four demands were to create a five-year the hunger strike, called for students’ rights to division and academic technology Instructional Support (OASIS) and CSU officials in Long Beach freeze on tuition increases, eliminate all housing free speech to be restored at all CSU campuses. officer. technical support at the Academic and car allowances for all 23 campus presidents, The SQE group asked Chancellor Reed and the The migration responses varied: Technology Center, Costa said. AMBER STEPHENS Daily Titan rollback executive salaries to 1999 levels and an board to act on their behalf to take the burden 9 percent said, “I don’t need the TITANium will have upgrades extension of freedom of speech on all campuses. off of students and enact change. courses (anymore),” 51 percent two times a year, and two upgrades Students for Quality Education (SQE) hunger Reed told the students he had 45 minutes to “Your demands … are not possible. You are said “I need IT assistance” and 40 are already scheduled for the strikers and their supporters met Friday with listen to their concerns. The students presented focusing on the wrong group of people,” Reed percent said “I did it myself.” summer, Manriquez said. Chancellor Charles B. Reed, General Counsel their demands and the reasoning behind them. told the students at the meeting. “You should About 32 percent of the “We’re ahead of other universities Christine Helwick and Systemwide Police Chief Students said the board has increased tuition be focusing on the Legislature and on the 2,264 unique faculty responded, (in using Moodle),” said Manriquez. Nate Johnson in Long Beach. by 318 percent since 2002, leading to high government because that’s where the resources Manriquez said. Although many CSUs use SQE started a hunger strike Wednesday after student debt and other students not being able come from.” TITANium has spread since its Moodle, most are running version Chancellor Reed and the CSU Board of Trustees did to afford basic expenses. SQE also told the board large-scale adoption last fall. 1.9. CSUF is at 2.1 and will upgrade not respond to their four demands relating to quality that executives are not immune to the budget See DEMANDS, page 2 Since spring 2012, there are to 2.2 in the summer, he said. higher education. There are currently 12 students crisis, and a message needs to be sent to the state 1,355 visible TITANium courses, according to data released by the IT See TITANIUM, page 2 division. In fall 2011, there were 892 CAMPUS | SCERP projects Seniors SPORTS | Baseball wrap up Titans continue hot research streak with a sweep No. 8 CSUF remains drove in nine runs during the weekend projects on top of the Big West series. On Sunday he had two hits with three runs batted in. Ecology and other Richy Pedroza, Ivory Thomas, EZEKIEL HERNANDEZ biology students take Daily Titan Carlos Lopez, Matt Orloff and Jared part in SCERP program Deacon all scored two runs apiece. The Cal State Fullerton baseball On Saturday night the Titans team completed a three-game sweep poured it on the Tigers by getting ERINN GROTEFEND Daily Titan of the Pacific Tigers in Stockton on 21 hits for 21 runs. The final score Sunday afternoon after beating the was 21-4. As the semester comes to an Tigers 10-0. Left-handed freshman Kenny end, seniors from the Southern With their 30th win Sunday, the Matthews took the mound for California Ecosystems Research Titans are currently ranked No. 8 CSUF in the meeting Saturday and Program (SCERP) are concluding nationally and have three conference pitched seven innings and gave up their long-term research projects. series remaining in the regular season. three runs. Matthews improved to SCERP focuses on preparing They are currently in first place in 5-0 on the season. ecology and environmental the Big West Conference standings, Michael Lorenzen, Matt Chapman biology students for entry into narrowly ahead of Long Beach State. and Casey Watkins all got three hits graduate school, said William The Pacific Tigers have now lost 10 apiece in this game, and Lopez hit a Hoese, Ph.D., associate professor games in a row and have won only one grand slam in the ninth inning for the of biological science. conference game this season. final score. The grand slam was Lopez’ Courtesy of MCT “We look for students who have The Titans got quality starts from all first home run of the season. Lorenzen interests in these areas and who One SCERP researcher, Carrie De Jesus, 21, is investigating the impact of human-generated noise on bird songs. She is focusing three weekend starters and produced stole his 12th base of the year. on traffic noise carrying into parks and rural sites and how it may interfere with mating calls between male and female birds. have strong potential to succeed 49 hits as an offense in the series. Pacific sent five pitchers to the as future scientists in ecology Carrie De Jesus, 21, is attract mates. The males will sing or interrupted by traffic noise. On Sunday afternoon, redshirt mound to cool off the hitting spree, and environmental biology,” said investigating how human- to the females to let them know De Jesus studied how traffic noise freshman Grahamm Wiest pitched a all of whom gave up at least one Hoese. generated noise has impacted bird they want to mate and the females affects their songs and how it affects complete game shutout and allowed earned run. The first reliever in, Bryce Students develop their research songs. She has conducted research will begin to build their nest, said the way the birds communicate only three hits as the Titans finished Lombardi, gave up five runs in just and analytical skills by working in local parks and other rural sites De Jesus. with each other. the series, winning 10-0. over an inning-and-a-half of work. closely with a faculty mentor and to determine how human noise, Female birds might not receive This is the fourth decision Wiest has conducting independent research, such as cars, affects bird songs. the signal that a male wants to See RESEARCH, page 3 won this year. See BASEBALL, page 8 Hoese said. Birds use their songs to help mate if the male’s signal is muffled Junior first baseman Carlos Lopez Contact Us at [email protected] 2 May 7, 2012 NEWS TITANIUM: DEMANDS: Reed compared CSU graduate debt to the debt of others DTBRIEFS New system the students, faculty and greater ...Continued from page 1 saves money university community.” Search Continues Reed claimed the average “I don’t particularly like the student loan debt of a CSU for Missing Boys ...Continued from page 1 decision to raise tuition, but the graduate is $13,000, while Homicide investigators began reason that we’ve had to raise nationally the average student searching the Olinda Alpha “We are providing leadership tuition is because the Legislature is $24,000.