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NEWS: Dancers support Discovery Arts by showing off their moves for charity. The show at Cal State Fullerton raised nearly $1,400
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Stolen Identities, Stolen Lives nLECTURE: Campus police warns students on the dangers of indentity theft By Jennifer Dominguez Daily Titan Staff Writer
Imagine going on vacation and coming home to find that your credit card statement has charges on it that you never made. You don’t know how, but someone used your personal information to access your account. Sgt. Tom Gehrls with Cal State Fullerton’s campus police said there have been several cases within the past six months at CSUF in which community members have had their identities stolen. Gehrls said that in one case, the identity thief purchased a house under a false name. The cases have included “everything from Titan Cards to someone stealing someone’s entire identity.” But Gehrls said someone using a false Titan Card is the least of his worries. He mentioned a case in which someone went to Santa Ana to buy a social security number and the number belonged to a CSUF employee. He said it’s generally easy for individuals to buy social security numbers.
On Tuesday, Judi King, CSUF’s receipts are just a few examples chief of police, preof documents that have sented a one-hour personal information workshop in the on them such as names, Women/Adult Redate of birth, a social “Identity entry Center on ways security number and to protect yourself theft is abso- account numbers. King from becoming a vicsaid that one simple way tim of identity theft. a thief can obtain this lutely the “Identity theft is type of private informaabsolutely the fastest fastest rising tion is by going through rising crime today, and your trash. more and more people “If you throw somecrime today, are becoming aware thing away and you think and more that they can easily be it’s safe…it’s not,” King victims of this crime,” said. “There is no guarand more are antee that your informaKing said. She said that pertion will not be picked becoming sonal information can up by someone else.” easily be stolen from a She said that some aware...” consumer in a variety criminals pay garbage of different ways, and men to sort through trash Judi King, she discussed different and find bank statements CSUF chief of methods and tactics or receipts with informapolice that criminals often tion on it. use to steal someone “It is important to else’s identity. shred all your docuBills, bank statements before throwments, pre-approved ing anything away in the credit card offers and credit card trash,” King said.
War Demonstration to March on Campus nPROTEST: CSUF and UC Irvine join together to speak out in opposition to U.S. involvement in Iraq By Olivia Maciel
Daily Titan Staff Writer An anti-war demonstration for the possible war on Iraq will be held today from noon to 2 p.m., starting with a march from Langsdorf Hall where protestors will work their way through the Becker Amphitheater. A similar demonstration will also be held at UC Irvine. The demonstration, which is organized by the Arab Student Association and supported by Buddhists for World Peace, Muslim Student Association and Students for Social Justice, is a coordinated
Another way for criminals to steal your identity is by going through your mail. King said it is common for people to pay their bills with checks through the mail, and people will raise the red flag on the mailbox so the letter carrier knows there is something to pick up. “It is better to mail your payments in those blue public mailboxes,” King said, “[because] raising that red flag on your mailbox at home is just raising a red flag to criminals who are looking to steal someone’s personal information.” Identity theft can also occur by phone when criminals try to pose as solicitors trying to gain private information such as your name, your mother’s maiden name, date of birth and social security number. “Unless you are absolutely certain that whomever is calling is from a legitimate business, do not give any numbers out,” King said. “A good way to tell if they’re legitimate is to ask them for a number you can call them back at.” Most fraudulent
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The first planning stage of the Student Recreation Center is under way, and ideas for the facility include a swimming pool, rockclimbing wall, fitness center and running track. Director of Rec Sports Andrea Willer presented these ideas to the Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors at its meeting Tuesday. Accompanying Willer were two architects from Langdon Wilson, the firm that is designing the center. Architect Robert Braun said his goal is to design a center that complements other spaces on campus. “We’re not just designing a building,” he said. “We’re making the campus a richer place to be.” Braun and his partner Duane Fisher have been working with the recreation center advisory committee for the past few months to determine exactly what Cal State Fullerton students want in a fitness facility. “We’ve put a lot of effort into understanding what you want,” Braun said. The 90,000 square-foot facility, expected to open in fall 2006, will be located north of the Titan Student Union on the site where Lot B currently sits. A parking structure will be built next to it. CSUF students passed a referendum in the spring of 2000 that increased student fees $20 per semester (including summer) to go toward the recreation center building fund. Once the building is open, the student fees will go up to $50 per session and use of the center will be open to all students without an additional membership fee. Willer said, although most current students will have graduated by the time the center is open, the money they have contributed to the fund will be credited toward alumni membership. ASI Executive Director Harvey McKee said the amount each alumnus contributed to the center building fund will be calculated and then deducted from his or her first year of membership. “You [the alumni] can get the value for your money,” he said.
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effort between the two campuses. Khairy Abuljebain, senior Business major and president for ASA said that he received an email from another campus asking students to get involved and make a statement. “We’re serving as a voice for the innocent victims being affected by the war and from the U.N. and U.S sanctions in Iraq,” Abuljebain said. “Those sanctions are now where factories or warehouses were, where food was once stored.” According to the United States Department of Treasury Web site, the sanctions implemented on certain countries are to administer and enforce national security goals against terrorists and targeted foreign countries. Wesam Hijazin, senior computer science major, said, “The purpose of the event is to create awareness of the outcome of the war and
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nEVENT: More than 71 community service groups were present during Field Work Day event By Jill Daloria
Daily Titan Staff Writer Seventy-one agencies came to Cal State Fullerton Wednesday to recruit students interested in pursuing careers in the human services field. The Division of Child and Family Community Services, Human Services Student Association, Child and Adolescent Student Association and the Career Planning and Placement Office hosted the event. Jenni Carsrund, the president of Projects for the Child and Adolescent Student Association, said an event like this helps child and adolescent studies majors find internships for their 120 hours of
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Students were introduced to more than 70 organizations fieldwork. “Agencies are coming to recruit our students,” said Julie Martinez, fieldwork coordinator for the Division of Child and Community Services
“CAS majors need at least 120 hours of work, 60 hours of work in an elementary school classroom and 60 hours of internships,
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