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Vol. 90 Issue 4 September 7, 2011 Has Mike Vick redeemed Watch the himself?.......pg. 7 Daily Titan News in 3 ONLINE Get up-to- Scan to view EXCLUSIVES date cover- dailytitan.com age on top campus news stories dailytitan.com The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton 9/11 ceremony hits close to home Freedom’s Flame Foundation travels across the nation with remnants from attack BROOKE McCALL Daily Titan A motorcade holding a damaged New York City fire truck and 17.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center came to the Nixon Library Monday morning to mark the 10- year anniversary of 9/11. People from all over the county donned patriotic colors to com- memorate 9/11 in Yorba Linda, where they could see and touch pieces of American history. The remnants were brought by Freedom’s Flame Foundation, a nonprofit organization that has been showing the fire truck and steel to various cities across the U.S. since 2002. The motorcade traveled across the country in 11 days and passed through 14 state capitals. The jour- ney began in New York City and ended in Rancho Cucamonga, Ca- lif. People who attended the event said the World Trade Center steel embodies more than metal. “In that steel and on that fire truck are the remains of people who gave their life that day. That’s why it’s not just steel and not just a fire truck, it’s very important to remember that,” said Dennis Spout, founder and chair of Freedom’s Flame Foundation. See 9/11, page 2 WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan Many who attended the ceremony felt as though the steel represented the remains of people who died in the attack. The motorcade has traveled through 14 capitals on its way to Yorba Linda. iPads given to faculty Tablets are distributed to improve cost efficiency and sustainability BROOKE McCALL members would receive a new lap- Juan Ryusuke Ishikawa, Ph.D, as- Daily Titan top every three years. Now that fac- sociate professor of Spanish and Por- ulty members receive iPads as well tuguese, believes the iPad has been a Paper consumption at Cal State as laptops, they will only receive an positive addition to the campus. Fullerton, which includes printing, updated laptop every four years. Ac- “Communication-wise, I’m copying and distribution, can add cording to Dabirian, this will save much more accessible. Contact with up to $1.6 to $2 million every year. thousands of dollars. students has become easier,” said Amir Dabirian, vice president for Recipients were provided with the Ishikawa. Information Technology at CSUF, 16 GB iPad 2 with 3G, equipped Although the iPad has helped and a division of IT are using tablet with a software package, a stylus and Ishikawa communicate with stu- technology in an attempt to increase a case. dents and work on the go, he ex- efficiency on campus. The iPads cost the university plains that as a Spanish professor, “The campus is committed to $700,000. This was funded by the the iPad does not support the typing sustainability and we want to reduce university budget, Dabirian said. of accents or other Spanish charac- CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan printing for both cost and sustain- A cost analysis of the deployment ters. An equality sticker on the back of a parked ability,” said Dabirian. concluded that in a year the univer- Dabirian and the IT Department car near Cal State Fullerton represents After researching several tablet said they will continue to look into today’s acceptance of homosexuality. models, the Apple iPad was selected. new technologies that can make the Last October the IT Department The bottom line is university more efficient for stu- New minor deployed 200 iPads to a group of we want to have dents, explaining that technology is faculty and administrators to test. evolving and changing our educa- After the three-to-four-month trial more money to educate our tion system, and becoming a norm supports period a survey was conducted, and students, and if there was in our everyday lives. change according to Dabirian, the results no cost savings to this we “The university strives to be a were very positive. would not deploy [the iPads]. technology leader. The faculty have CSUF educates “Over 90 percent of the people iPads in their hands in order to use thought it was a great productivity students by adding Amir Dabirian the latest technology in a learning tool,” Dabirian said. environment,” Dabirian said. queer studies minor Vice President for IT The survey also concluded 67.4 Blackman added that she has seen percent of the respondents used the iPad rollout most effective when STEVEN YUAN specific applications for note-tak- sity would save $730,000 from the it comes to grading graduate stu- Daily Titan ing, which reduced their paper and reduction in paper consumption as dents theses. printing consumption. well as from savings in the faculty “Each thesis can be from 50 to Today’s societal norms are no- After analyzing the costs of buy- Laptop Refresh Program. 200 pages,” she said. where near where they were 50, let ing paper, copiers and printer car- “The savings alone would pay Students now email their thesis alone 10 years ago. Different eth- tridges, the IT Department found for (the iPads) and bring more effi- and during their presentation, pro- nicities, religions and behaviors have using tablets would be much more ciency and more productivity. That’s fessors can scroll through the docu- merged and of the most taboo, sex- cost effective. what my excitement was, because it ment on their iPad instead of be- ual preferences are becoming univer- “This technology can reduce 30 actually produces hard dollars that ing handed a thick stack of papers, sally accepted as negative stereotypes to 40 percent in our paper con- the university could use for other Blackman said. are removed. A transformation that sumption,” Dabirian said. things,” Dabirian said. Currently, the IT Department is once seemed like an insurmountable IT began distributing iPads across The iPads were only distributed exploring an expansion to the ser- feat for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and the campus in May 2011. to those who are “iPad eligible.” This vices in the iFullerton application. transgendered (LGBT) community, “I’m very happy with the roll- means only full-time faculty, staff Within the next year they are hop- the LGBT community is now sur- out. I’m thrilled! I wasn’t expecting and administrators were eligible. ing to be able to allow students to facing and gaining rightful equality. it,” said Melinda Blackman, Ph.D, All iPad recipients were required register for classes through their mo- Magazines like Out, festivals and a psychology professor at CSUF. to participate in a training session. bile device using the iFullerton app. organizations celebrating gay com- Blackman said the iPads have been The training consisted of prepping “I think it’s important to put out munities, and television programs a great addition and has noticed ev- the device, adding the applications there that we are not adding cost to addressing homosexual issues, char- erybody has their iPad during fac- and training in all the applications. the university. The bottom line is we acters and love affairs are becoming Look for our ulty meetings. This was then followed by in-depth want to have more money to edu- prevalent, proving our culture’s ad- special issue for the The iPads are an addition to the training on how to use the device ef- cate our students, and if there was aptation to new ways of thinking. laptops that are provided to fac- fectively in the smart classrooms, in no cost savings to this, we would not 10th anniversary of 9/11 ulty members. In the past, faculty meetings and how to file share. deploy it,” Dabirian said. See NEW MINOR, page 5 Contact Us at [email protected] dailytitan.com September 7, 2011 2 NEWS 9/11: Freedom’s Flame Foundation commemorates 9/11 While visiting the site of the Pen- said Loomis. ...Continued from page 1 tagon where American Airlines Flight The commemoration of 9/11 at 77 had crashed, Kevin Hoyt had the the Nixon Library will continue The Ladder 152 Fire Truck served opportunity to handle a piece of the this week until Friday. at ground zero for more than six plane. There will be a daily presenta- months after the 9/11 attacks. “I was actually handed pieces of tion at 10:30 a.m. featuring mem- The piece of steel contains seg- the Pentagon and Flight (77). You bers of the Armed Forces and 9/11 ments from the World Trade Center, could still smell the jet fuel on it. first-responders sharing personal the Pentagon, the American Airlines It was very, very strong,” said Hoyt, accounts and stories. Flight 77 crash site in Washington, the chair of the board of directors for The event will conclude Sunday D.C., and the United Airlines Flight Freedom’s Flames. with a presentation from a mili- 93 crash site in Shanksville, Pa. Fullerton resident Mary Ann tary honor guard 9/11 survivor “Those are artifacts of one of Loomis, an attendee at the event, and first-respondent fireman Joe the most tragic days in the history said she knew someone who died Torillo at 11 a.m. of this country, but also remember on 9/11. The damaged Aerial Ladder 152 that those are also remembrance of “We are all going to die, but Fire Truck and 17.5 tons of World some of the bravest individuals that it’s the way you die that makes a Trade Center steel will be open to WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan this country has ever witnessed,” difference.

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