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Review: Hayley Kiyoko Debut album voices queer experiences. Lifestyle 4 Thursday April 5, 2018 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 103 Issue 30 ASI investigating closed election meetings Associated Students failed Council’s closed-door meetings held on Moubayed and Colin Eacobellis for sending Edwards said. The bylaws require Associat- to post meeting agendas as March 7, said Dave Edwards, executive di- a mass campaign email deemed in violation ed Students officials to adhere to the Gloria required by state law. rector of Associated Students. of Associated Students campaign bylaws. Romero Open Meetings Act. The council failed to post agendas as re- “We can clearly say they violated the law “I think we were just encouraged to look quired by the state’s Gloria Romero Open by not posting notice of agenda,” said Mike at (the bylaws) ourselves,” said Moubayed, KYLE BENDER Meetings Act, which regulates student Hiestand, attorney and senior legal consul- who serves as Associated Students chief Editor-in-Chief government. tant for the Student Press Law Center. communications officer, of her experience During the closed meetings, the council Officials are briefed on Associated Stu- with Associated Students summer training. Associated Students is conducting an in- disqualified Associated Students presiden- dents’ bylaws and California open meeting The investigation is expected to conclude ternal investigation for its Elections Judicial tial and vice presidential candidates Celine laws during a summer training program, by April 11. Students protest proposed CSU budget California Faculty Association bused demonstrators from all over California to Sacramento. DIANE ORTIZ LAUREN JENNINGS Staff Writers SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Over 1,000 students and faculty from across the state were brought together Wednesday morning to protest California Gov. Jer- ry Brown’s proposed budget for CSU schools. Many students arrived at the state cap- ital Tuesday evening, taking long bus rides and spending the night at The Ta- ble at Central United Methodist Church, sleeping on the floor. A silent march began outside of the Governor’s Mansion at 6:30 a.m., with tape over protesters mouths in an effort to remain in compliance with the city’s noise ordinance. The protesters marched back and forth silently, encouraging passing drivers to honk and cheer. Students held picket signs that read, “Fund the Dream” and “Free the CSU.” Griselda Aguirre, a junior at Cal State Fullerton and first-generation col- lege student, said she realized how im- portant it is to stay informed after go- ing to an immigration fair for her family members. “It made me realize there’s so much work to do, which is good, because I want to be (utilized). Education is so im- DIANE ORTIZ / DAILY TITAN portant. If you don’t know, how can you Demonstrators slept at The Table at Central United Methodist Church before waking up early Wednesday morning to advocate for cheaper education. advocate for something?” Aguirre said. “For me, this means everything.” The governor proposed $92.1 mil- Angeles senior and member of Students a sign that read, “I lost my brother to this The purpose of the march was to ask lion in additional funding for next year’s for Quality Education, the Black Student system. Don’t let my education be next,” Brown for more CSU funding after the CSU budget. The state’s funding cur- Union and Black Lives Matter LA chap- referring to the death of her brother, Angel release of what the California Facul- rently covers around half of all CSU’s ter said the CSU is receiving less fund- Ramos, in 2017 after a Vallejo police offi- ty Association and Students for Quality cost, leaving the rest up to students to ing as it becomes more diverse. cer shot and killed him. Education said was an unreasonably low pay through tuition. Saddler’s reasons for marching are both 2018-19 budget offer. Antionette Saddler, a Cal State Los political and personal. She marched with SEE TUITION 3 Defunct, aging robot awaits fate ODEX1 has the potential “demonstrate that you could co- to open new doors, but its ordinate movement and move future at CSUF is uncertain. objects,” said technician Jon Woodland. “It’s one of the first functional robots from the ‘80s.” STEPHANIE DELATEUR Remote-controlled, ODEX 1 Freelance Writer walks like an insect using a meth- od called the alternating tripod. It Covered with dust and gadgets, can manipulate its size and stat- Cal State Fullerton’s 35-year-old ure with its legs depending on robot, ODEX 1, needs repair. the situation, varying in height ODEX 1, a functionoid walk- between 36 to 78 inches, and in ing robot, was displayed in 1983 width 21 to 105 inches. after 15 months of development “ODEX hasn’t left the room under Stephen J. Bartholet, senior since the university acquired staff engineer at Odetics Inc. The it,” Woodland said. “We have six-legged mechanism weighing so many new people in manage- 370 pounds and can to lift 450 ment, and at this college, that pounds per leg. there’s very few people that even The functionoid was show- know it’s here.” cased at the National Museum of The robot had state-of-the-art American History in 1986, and features for its time including the then loaned to Boston’s Museum ability to climb stairs. of Science the following year. “We got (ODEX 1) because we GABE GANDARA / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO ODEX 1 was built to were the closest school next to Freshman Timothy Josten pitched four innings making his first collegiate appearance and start against the Sun Devils. (Odetics Inc.). We asked them for I think it’s important a lot of stuff from their production “(to preserve ODEX 1) lines to help our labs,” Woodland CSUF baseball sweeps ASU because the campus said. has a history and that “ The hope for ODEX was that it Pausing conference play, the Cal State Fullerton baseball Vanderhook) was talking about would be used in situations where Titans clinched the series managed to claim its series the rivalry with ASU way be- history connects it to humans could be harmed, like after an RBI single by Titans fore anyone has been here so the local community. nuclear spills; the U.S. Army had over ASU with a 2-1 win. shortstop Sahid Valenzuela al- it was important to get the W,” plans to use it in battle according lowed Fullerton to record a 2-1 Titans pitcher Timothy Josten KEVIN LAMBERT to the Los Angeles Times. KAILA CRUZ win against the Sun Devils on told CSUF Sports Media. Liberal studies professor Asst. Sports Editor the road Wednesday. SEE DROID 4 “(Titans Head Coach Rick SEE CLINCHED 8 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM 2 News THURSDAY APRIL 5, 2018 CODIE HAYS / DAILY TITAN The conversation, titled ‘The LatinX Experience,’ aimed to establish camaraderie among students who grew up with two or more identities and cultures. Students share their multi-ethnic experiences Chicana & Chicano Resource of the CSUF community. I think it’s important“ for people to know the really surprised,” Cornelious Center creates a safe space Taylor Saucedo, a CSUF difference between just being one race and being said. for conversation. alumna and program assistant “ At one point in her life, Cor- for the Asian Pacific American multiracial. nelious said she felt like she “ne- Resource Center, spoke on the glected her blackness” and tried CODIE HAYS panel about her multiracial iden- TAYLOR SAUCEDO to stress to others that she was Staff Writer tity. Saucedo, who is of Mexican CSUF alumna Mexican, but no one ever be- and Okinawan descent, saw it as lieved her. The words multiracial and an opportunity to share her story started attending school. In both Amber Cornelious, anoth- “I was feeling like I wasn’t multiethnic floated around the of growing up around two sepa- middle school and high school, er CSUF student, spoke on the black enough, but also not want- room as Cal State Fullerton stu- rate cultures. her friends were predominant- panel and shared her stories and ing to be black enough,” Corne- dents celebrated their multieth- “I think it’s important for peo- ly Mexican, which shifted her experiences of being black and lious said. nic identity in the Chicana and ple to know the difference be- cultural experiences, Saucedo Mexican. Although she said she When the Black Lives Mat- Chicano Resource Center on tween just being one race and said. doesn’t lean toward any one cul- ter movement started, Corneli- Wednesday. being multiracial,” Saucedo “I don’t feel like I’m Latina ture, she said she is often iden- ous said that’s when everything The center was open to stu- said. enough sometimes. I don’t know tified by other people as black. changed for her — she want- dents seeking a safe place to Saucedo grew up with her Jap- a lot of things that most Lati- “A lot of my friends who don’t ed to do anything she could for share their stories and express anese grandparents whose cul- nas do so I don’t put it out there know a lot about me just assume the movement and it finally “hit personal thoughts about their dif- ture she felt more connected as much because I feel like a I am only black, and when I do home” for her that it is where ferences among other members with, but this changed when she fraud,” Saucedo said. say my mom is Mexican they’re she belongs. 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