Student participation is Baseball hosts Malibu focus of debate changes for a midweek clash News 3 Sports 8 Tuesday March 3, 2015 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 97 Issue 19 Students Professional lizard Student to gain pride Dropbox chaser: Jason Wallace focus in storage ‘Titans’ Fifty gigabytes of Campus community cloud storage to be gather to discuss free to students strategic plan SVETLANA GUKINA DEVIN ULMER Daily Titan Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton Nearly 400 faculty mem- Department of Informa- bers, students and adminis- tion Technology is prepar- trators came together Mon- ing to offer free Dropbox day for a discussion on how accounts to provide a better to bolster collaboration and student-teacher file-sharing heighten the experiences of experience and increased CSUF students during this storage to students. semester’s Titans Reach Students will receive an Higher Town Hall. email invitation to register The meeting, which ad- for their Dropbox account dressed the university’s sometime this month, said five-year strategic plan, fo- Rommel Hidalgo, assistant cused specifically on high vice president for informa- impact practices, student tion technology and IT divi- RUDY CHINCHILLA / DAILY TITAN success teams and “Titan sion financial manager. Site steward for the Desert Studies Center located in the Mojave National Preserve, Jason Wallace (above) makes sacrifices and lives Pride.” President Mildred In its pilot phase, the a rugged life for his devotion to the desert and his reptile studies. García opened the meeting number of Dropbox ac- by welcoming those in at- counts will be limited to Zzyzx isn’t the end tendance before topics were 5,000, and students will discussed. have to register for the lim- of the road not for Mary Ann Villarreal, di- ited accounts on a first- Jason Wallace rector of strategic initiatives come, first-served basis, he and university projects, iden- said. tified high impact practic- The IT department spent RUDY CHINCHILLA es as those which increase $250,000 on Dropbox for Daily Titan retention and persistence of faculty, staff and students. students. $41,000 of that amount paid As part of the strategic for the 5,000 Dropbox ac- Sometimes the hustle and plan, the university has an counts for students, Hidalgo bustle of a big city—the established goal of having 75 said in an email. noise, the cars, the people—is percent of students involved The free accounts will too much. Sometimes a per- in at least one of these prac- belong to students for the son just has to get away from tices within their first year, entire time they are enrolled it all. Sometimes he takes a as well as to add involvement in CSUF, Hidalgo said. break by going on vacation. in a subsequent practice re- The main goal of imple- Sometimes he does so by re- lated to their major. menting Dropbox on cam- locating. Sometimes he re- Part of the meeting was pus is to provide cloud locates to the middle of the RUDY CHINCHILLA / DAILY TITAN aimed at establishing what storage and facilitate bet- desert. Jason Wallace inspects a desert horned lizard to demonstrate how to tell the creatures gender as those practices were and ter student-teacher collab- “Everyone keeps showing part of his research to collect data on desert reptiles. how the university could oration, Hidalgo said, who up and it gets busier and bus- reach its strategic plan goal, is also a faculty member ier and more and more con- Fullerton with a bachelor’s National Preserve, dating I was driving by, as a kid, my Villarreal said. in the Steven G. Mihay- gested, and I felt I did my and a master’s degree in bio- back to his days as a youth. future co-worker all those “Today’s conversation is lo College of Business and part: I left, and I gave my logical science, Wallace has Wallace recalls the trips years ago,” Wallace said, “ really to help identify what Economics. spot to somebody else,” Jason wandered off the beaten path, he and his family took out to ... is kind of trippy to think are people doing and how we Faculty and staff were Wallace said, recalling his both figuratively and literally. the National Preserve when about.” are going to get there,” she already given free Drop- decision to leave his home- Wallace knew from a young he was a child. The fami- That co-worker was Rob- said. box accounts with un- town of La Habra. age that he was destined for ly would leave home and ar- ert Fulton, site manager of the Student success teams limited storage space in As the site steward of the the outdoors. His passion for rive at Baker, California just Desert Studies Center. Ful- were another focus during November. Desert Studies Center—oth- nature would eventually have in time for sunrise. They ton and Wallace finally met the meeting. The purpose Chuck Grieb, a professor erwise known as Zzyzx—in him chasing lizards out in the stopped at the Mad Greek when Wallace was doing his of the teams is to create an and program coordinator in the Mojave National Preserve, middle of the desert. restaurant, where they would graduate research at the Des- integrated process between the Department of Visual Wallace is in charge of over- Wallace’s path toward eat strawberry pancakes or ert Studies Center in 2003. “I student affairs and academ- Arts, is already looking for- seeing facilities operations, as Zzyzx seems almost like waffles before heading into don’t think he had any clue ic affairs in order to bridge ward to the usage of Drop- well as collecting data on des- a prophecy fulfilled. The the preserve. he’d end up here,” Fulton said. the achievement gap and box for students. ert reptiles, a continuation of 40-year-old herpetologist “I loved this whole area “It just kind of fell that way.” meet the goal of integrated his thesis research. had always had some sort of anyway. And then to see this SEE DROPBOX 6 A graduate of Cal State connection with the Mojave place, also here, not realizing SEE DESERT 4 SEE HALL 6 A rotten smell for a beautiful bloom After eight years from that plant and went down to another plant that the corpse flower was blooming at another bo- graces us again tanic garden in San Diego, the San Diego Botanic Gar- den,” Pongetti said. “They NAYARA ASSIS took the pollen from the Daily Titan one that bloomed here, pol- linated that flower and got a bunch of seed, and this is Cal State Fullerton has the result of that pollination been home to an unusual effort.” flower, the corpse flower, for There are a few indica- almost eight years. It start- tors Pongetti looks for to tell ed to bloom on Sunday, at 5 when the flower will bloom. p.m. and was fully bloomed The flower will start to loos- at midnight on Monday. en at the top, then a little liq- When the corpse flower uid comes from the base of is in full bloom, it actual- the flower, which signals it ly smells like rotting flesh, will flower soon, he said. said Gregory Pongetti, the A successful pollination Living Collections curator of the open flower is called of the Fullerton Arboretum. an infructescence, where the The plant is also known as plant looks like “a big corn titan arum or by its scien- cob” with fruits containing tific name Amorphophallus the seeds attached, Pongetti titanum. said. NAYARA ASSIS / DAILY TITAN “We had one bloom back The Amorphophallus titanum before and after bloom in the Fullerton Arboretum. The flower is in 2006, and we took pollen SEE FLOWER 4 available for viewing and is expected to collapse within two days. 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