Small Spending, Big Results for Titans Student Author Pens Picture Book
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Tuesday May 9, 2017 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 101 Issue 48 FB.COM/THEDAILYTITAN WWW.DAILY TITAN.COM INSTAGRAM & TWITTER @THEDAILYTITAN Finals Student author pens picture book increase Tyrah Majors plans to pursue her writing suicide career further. ANGIE SUK risk Daily Titan After publishing and il- lustrating her first book, factors “Grammy and Me,” Tyrah Majors stays busy with University Police acting, modeling, report- ing and fashion design. watch for warning After the loss of her signs during exams. great grandmother in No- vember 2014, Tyrah be- DANIEL INGA gan to write a story about MARIA ONG a child spending the day Daily Titan with her grandmother in remembrance of her own grammy, who she said Suicide is the second lead- was like a second mother ing cause of death among in- to her. dividuals between the ages “Writing the book, I of 15 and 34, according to a wasn’t really thinking 2015 report by the Centers about her death. I was for Disease Control and Pre- thinking about our hap- vention (CDC). py times, like our memo- At Cal State Fullerton, ries and different ideas,” University Police and Coun- Tyrah said. “I also did seling and Psychological all the illustrations so as Services (CAPS) take re- I was drawing the pic- ports of suicidal thoughts or tures, I had all this im- BAILEY CARPENTER / DAILY TITAN attempts. agery in my head, and Tyrah Majors’ book, “Grammy and Me” focuses on a child spending the day with her grandmother. Majors also works for the In 2015, CSUF Universi- it just brought up happy Born This Way Foundation and designs tshirts. ty Police received 11 calls memories.” of suicide ideation and at- In the spring of 2015, said. “The moment I read published. After taking a and Me” was published I was super close with tempts, two of which were Tyrah wrote her book in the story I said, ‘Tyrah, few months to finish the November 2016, almost my grandma, so the fact forwarded from CAPS. They one day. After reading it we’re going to publish this illustrations, Tyrah settled exactly two years af- that she was doing a book received 18 calls in 2016, 11 to her mother Sheneka book.’” on a publishing company ter Tyrah’s grammy had based off the relationship of those coming from CAPS, Majors, she encouraged Sheneka, who calls her- at the end of 2015. died. with her grandma, I just said University Police Capt. her to publish the book. self Tyrah’s “momager” With the help of car- “I thought it was so thought it was super ador- Scot Willey. “I thought it was the and her “walking talking toonist Brandyn Han- great because she’s a able,” Lanz said. most enduring, touch- billboard” began to help nah and graphic designer young girl and I love the SEE SUICIDE 2 ing story ever,” Sheneka Tyrah look into getting Alexis Lanz, “Grammy basis behind the book too. SEE AUTHOR 4 Small spending, big results for Titans CSUF finds ways as they also rank seventh in the conference in revenue to win with low ($4,279,379). About 33 percent of athletic funding. CSUF’s athletics budget comes from the state of Cal- HARRISON FAIGEN ifornia, with an additional 8 Daily Titan percent coming from fund- raising, Senior Associate Athletics Director Steve Di- Jeff Harada only recent- Tolla told the Daily Titan. ly had his furniture deliv- Another 8 percent of ered to his new home a few the Titans athletics bud- weeks after being named get comes from “generated Cal State Fullerton’s new- revenue,” which includes est women’s basketball head renting out their facilities coach. to other organizations and Until then, he’d been corporate sponsorships, Di- sleeping on an air mattress Tolla said. Another 4 per- on the floor. With Hara- cent comes from gate re- da’s background coaching ceipts, which include any at Division II schools, he’s paid attendance, including used to searching for ways season tickets for the vari- to bargain hunt within a ous sports. smaller budget. But the majority of the It’s an approach the Ti- budget is student fees, tans–who ranked seventh in which DiTolla said make spending on athletics in the up the remaining 47 per- Big West ($4,159,876) last cent of the Titans budget. year–need all of their pro- In 2015-16, $35.64 of the grams to have. $238.92 each student paid “You definitely have to be into the Student Success creative. You’ve got to fig- Initiative went toward ath- HAYLEY M. SLYE / DAILY TITAN ure out ways that you can letics support, with an ad- The above graphic lists last year’s spending and revenue for every athletics program in the Big West Conference along with save money,” Harada told ditional $39.60 going to- the number of regular-season and postseason championships it has won since the 2011-2012. the Daily Titan. “It’s more ward athletics facilities. about understanding ‘need’ In 2016-17, those numbers Cal Poly and UC Riverside ways to make their dollars One strategy the univer- Davis ($99,767) and UC versus ‘want.’ Everybody rose to $54, $362 and $60, all losing money. go further. sity has taken is not spend- Riverside ($90,890) spend- really wants things, but you respectively. The athletics department The Titans have gotten ing big on its head coaches. ing less. have to go with something Fullerton’s ability to stay does give out the maximum the most out of their money, Fullerton ranked seventh Those same head coach- you absolutely need versus within the budget has made amount of scholarships the winning the fifth most reg- out of nine teams in the es also have to find ways to what you want.” it one of six teams in the NCAA allows, DiTolla said, ular season (nine) and post- Big West in terms of aver- be wise with their budgets. Fullerton’s frugality is a Big West to make more than but financial realities mean season (seven) titles in the age salary per head coach necessity due to its budget, it spends, with UC Davis, the Titans have to search for Big West since 2011-2012. ($103,219), with only UC SEE BUDGET 8 Camp counselor shares her experiences Elon Musk ventures are too far-fetched Titans look to maul Bruins at home Titan de- While his track Cal State Ful- scribes posi- record is im- lerton baseball tively impact- pressive, the hosts UCLA at ing children’s public puts too Goodwin Field lives through much trust in in a mid-week her work as the CEO and matchup before rewarding and founder of Tes- returning to Features 4 life-changing. Opinion 6 la and SpaceX. Sports 8 conference play. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM PAGE 2 MAY 9, 2017 TUESDAY NEWS DTBRIEFS Man found unconscious died Monday A man died Monday after he was found un- conscious outside a Walgreens Pharmacy in Stanton, according to the Orange County Register. Police received a 911 call around 1:11 p.m. of an unconscious man found on a side- walk near the pharma- cy at Beach Boulevard and Chapman Avenue. They arrived on the scene to find a wom- an already performing CPR on the man, said Lt. Sean Howell of the Orange County Sher- CATHRYN EDWARDS / DAILY TITAN iff’s Department. FOR THE RECORD Calls to Counseling and Psychological Services of suicidal ideation get forwarded to Although he was University Police. Calls directly to UPD went down from 2015 to 2016. pronounced dead at It is Daily Titan policy to correct factual errors a local hospital, homi- printed in the publication. Corrections will be cide investigators are published on the subsequent issue after an error still trying to figure is discovered and will appear on page 2. Errors on out the cause of his the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. Suicide: death. Corrections will also be made to the online UPD sees Anyone with more information is en- version of the article. couraged to call Please contact Editor-in-Chief Hayley M. Slye at 714-647-7000. (657) 278-5815 or at [email protected] to report any errors. rise in calls to CAPS - PRISCILLA BUI CONTINUED FROM 1 Campus resources “Our numbers went down Car hydro- in 2016, as far as calls just Cal State Fullerton University Police to us, and the numbers qua- • Located across from the State College Parking planes into drupled in the health cen- Structure ter and with CAPS,” Wil- • Contact: 1-657-278-2515 (Dispatch Center) ley said. “Hopefully that’s big rig truck Editorial a good sign pointing that 1-657-278-4308 (Business Office) Editor-in-Chief Hayley M. Slye people are going to get help, A car hydroplaned Managing Editor Micah Augimeri-Lee they’re reaching out.” Counseling and Psychological Services into a big rig on the 91 News Editor Jason Rochlin Some of the calls includ- • Located in the Student Wellness Center freeway Sunday during heavy rain, according to News Editor Sarah Wolstoncroft ed people who needed trans- • Contact: 1-657-278-3040 News Assistant Brandon Pho portation to the hospital af- the OC Register. News Assistant Priscilla Bui ter taking too many pills, he The accident occurred For emergencies, call 911 around 4 a.m. when Sports Editor Bryant Freese said. the woman was driving Sports Social Media Editor Harrison Faigen In 2017 so far, Universi- ty Police received two calls, a Honda sedan in the Sports Assistant Mariana Vera one of those coming from the counseling center is period” because students far left lane of the east- Rishu Bhardwaj Opinion Editor CAPS, Willey said.