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Latinx Community Resource More car charging Center celebrates milestone ports to be added CARLOS CORDOVA Staff Writer

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Cindy Shea, Cal State Fullerton alum and founder of Mariachi Divas, spoke about her dedication to CSUF at the event.

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The CSUF Latinx Community Resource Center celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Golleher Alumni House Tuesday night with a special performance from the Grammy award-winning band, the Mariachi Divas. The celebration honors Latinx Heritage Month, a commemoration to the independence anniversaries of Latin American nations. The Latinx Community Resource Center was established in 1972, making it the oldest of CSUF’s ethnic centers. Tonantzin Oseguera, the vice president for Student Affairs, delivered a toast to the Latinx Community

Resource Center. “Since 2004, we’ve become a Hispanic-serving institution, not just in designation, but I truly believe that with over 46% of our students identifying as Latinx and over 20-30% of our staff and faculty identify as Latinx, that we are truly making that not just as a designation but something meaningful,” Oseguera said. The center’s staff are planning events like Dia de los Muertos and Latinx Top Chef. A newly painted mural by alumni and current students will be displayed in the Latinx Community Resource Center, Oseguera said. Cindy Shea, founder of Mariachi Divas and CSUF alumna, said that she was meant to be a Titan since she was 14 years old. “Every instructor I had, every private teacher, both of my band directors, everyone was involved from Cal

State Fullerton,” Shea said. “I knew since I was young that my educators were the ones that influenced me and I always did want to be an educator. I always did want to teach another generation.” Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, spoke about the historic institutional struggles for the Latinx Community Resource Center. “In 1983, the future of the Chicano Resource Center, as it was known then, its mere existence was in danger. But in 1984, students, faculty and community members formed an ad -hoc committee and came together to recommend its restoration,” Alvarez said. Alvarez said eventually, a full-time coordinator was hired for the center SEE CULTURE

By the end of 2023, CSUF plans to add 52 electric charging ports throughout campus parking lots, bringing its total number of stations to 100. There are currently 358 electric vehicles registered with CSUF, with only 48 charging stations to recharge them. Many of these stations, however, are either broken, waitlisted or occupied by gas powered vehicles, leaving students and staff that need those stations frustrated. CSUF is looking to alleviate this issue by adding more charging stations. “We’re going to have that many more people being able to do a cleaner commute, with the assurance that they can find a charge to get to and from their next destination,” said Elissa Thomas, field operations and transportation demand manager. Thomas said the new set of charging stations will be placed along Yorba Linda Drive in Lot G down to Stadium Way. From Aug. 22 to Sept. 22, over 3,900 charging sessions have taken place on campus, saving almost 6,000 gallons of gas, according to data provided by ChargePoint, CSUF’s main charging station provider. CSUF also offers a waitlist system through the ChargePoint App for students who are not able to find a charging station when they arrive at school. Students can reserve a space and once they are next in line,

they have 20 minutes to move their vehicle to their reserved station. Donita Green, a first year pre-medical student, expressed her frustrations towards the waitlist system. “The biggest issue is the waitlist system they have activated. Often the portals are empty, nobody is here, but you can’t charge on any of them because they are being put on hold from cell phones because of that system, there are days where I don’t get to charge at all while I’m here,” Green said. Green commutes an hour and a half for four days a week. Like many students, Green relies on being able to charge her car on campus to save money. “The waitlist system is probably something that does not work well here just because of the fact that when someone goes on a waitlist and goes to class, they can’t come back and actually move their vehicle. So maybe that needs to be deactivated,” Green said. Thomas said students stuck in class have no other option but to “snooze” or skip their place in line and wait until the next available spot is open. Apart from waitlisting, another issue is the number of out of order charging stations blocked off with “No Parking” signs. “The ones that we do have need to be serviced because it doesn’t matter how many you have if half of them do not work, ” Green said. Thomas said that the Parking and SEE ENERGY

Accounting school celebrates opening CHLOE HONG Staff Writer

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Accounting students commemorate the change to the School of Accountancy. VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM

The College of Business and Economics held its School of Accountancy celebration last Friday to commemorate its transition from the Department of Accounting. The School of Accountancy completed its transition last year, but postponed the celebration due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the beginning of the event, President Framroze Virjee announced an accounting pathway program in agreement with Fullerton College. This program allows students at Fullerton College to get an associate degree, which will guarantee students

a spot to transfer to Cal State Fullerton’s School of Accountancy, where they will be able to finish out their bachelor’s degree in two years. If they maintain their GPA, students will be able to receive their master’s degree in one year, in a “four-plusone” plan. There currently is an accounting pathway program that was agreed upon by CSUF and Cypress College that was signed in 2021. Vivek Mande, director of the School of Accountancy, said in an article by CSUF News that one of the benefits of this program is that transfer students are better prepared for CSUF’s rigorous accounting program. Mande said that the School of Accountancy designation is only

given to accounting programs that have achieved a certain level of distinction. Across the nation, there are only 50 accounting programs that have reached this level, which now includes CSUF. “The school designation signifies an increase in reputation and it also increases branding and opportunities for our students,” Mande said. Sridhar Sundaram, dean of the College of Business and Economics, said that to achieve this status, the department needs a strong faculty and $2 million in funding. This included a donation of $1 SEE BUSINESS