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Daily Titan
Thursday September 21, 2006
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Positions of All Kinds at CSUF’s Biggest Job Fair By Angie El Sherif
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
White tents, brightly colored tables and hundreds of students covered the Quad at Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday for the Fall Internship and Job Fair. Over 230 companies attended the fair, which made it the “biggest so far,” said Ryan Gerrish, student assistant for the CSUF Career Center. Laura Matz, the arts, entertainment & communications specialist at the Career Center, said that the interest is much higher for this fair than previous ones. “We keep getting more and more employers every year,” Gerrish said.
FBI Ends Financial Aid Probe
Another observable difference, “Cartoon Network & Fox Mobile Matz said, was that “there are so Entertainment are both first time atmany different industries represent- tendees, as is Alaska Airlines,” Matz ed.” said. Several nonprofit and governPrimedia, one of the corporate ment-sector organisponsors this year zations were present and the publishers such as the Peace If a student prepares of about 150 differCorps, YMCA of for this fair well, then ent magazine titles, Orange County also present. they can save signifi- wasCompanies and the Los Angeles ofcant time in their job fered a variety of County Police. Over 30 finance- search. positions from en– Laura Matz try level and internrelated companies Career Center Specialist ships to full time. such as Alliance Funding Group, Automatic Data Inc., Bank of AmerProcessing was hirica, Citibank and Prudential Finan- ing for sales positions. “We are lookcial attended as well. ing for aggressive, outgoing personOther companies that set up alities,” said ADP Sales Recruiter tables included 24 Hour Fitness, Tamara Conrad. “It is obviously a plus when they Kaiser Permanente, Old Navy, Vons, ABC Channel 7 and The Disney- come actually prepared with their resumes and dressed professionally,” land Resort.
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she said. “The funny thing about a job fair is that the companies sometimes have job openings for positions that are very different than the industry the company represents,” Matz said. KTLA and ABC Channel 7 did not just offer jobs for camera operators, directors, or makeup artists. They were also offering internships for students interested in programming, research, sales, finance, community affairs, network affiliations, human resources and creative services, she said. Some students came prepared wearing dress clothes and carrying briefcases while other students were just passing by on the way to class. “I actually forgot that there was a job fair until yesterday,” said communications freshman Christian
By CaMeron Pemstein/For the Daily Titan
Arresting Job - Deputy Courtney Nguyen from the Orange County Sheriff Department entices Anthony Sandoval to apply for Saturday’s written and physical agility test at the Internship and Job Fair on Wednesday.
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Scrutiny of student loan and grant recipients formally closed in August
Megan’s Law and Issues of Privacy Efficacy and privacy of sex offender laws a concern around the world By Katy French
BY Paolo Andres
Daily Titan Staff Writer
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news@dailytitan.com
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The FBI just concluded a project that searched through financial aid records in their hunt for possible terrorists after Sept. 11. Project Strikeback was a combined effort of the FBI and the Federal Education Department to search for possible terrorists, primarily through federal applications for financial aid. Started just after the Sept. 11 attacks, the agencies worked together to investigate whether financial aid money was being used for terrorist activities. The Federal Department of Education cannot confirm nor deny whether the Cal State Fullerton databases were searched in the project’s wake. “During the 9/11 investigation and continually since, much of the intelligence has indicated terrorists have exploited programs involving student visas and financial aid,” said Cathy Milhoan of the FBI National Press Office. Milhoan added that their search through the financial aid databases was part of their overall mission of investigating suspects through possible leads. Mary Mitchelson, Counsel to the Inspector General, said that by using the names provided by the FBI, the Federal Department of Education examined their student financial aid databases “to determine if the individuals received or applied for federal student financial assistance.” The agencies’ investigation extended throughout schools across the nation, but they said they only inspected fewer than 1,000 names. “This was not a sweeping pro-
Earlier this month the government of New South Wales defeated legislation that would have made information about sex offenders public. Officials said that the law, similar to our own Megan’s Law, would prompt sex offenders to go underground for fear of being harassed by the public. While many countries have adopted similar Megan’s Law type legislation, questions have been raised regarding its true efficacy. This is an issue that has found its way home and is sweeping across the nation as both federal and state governments are re-examining laws concerning sexual offenses. California has led the crusade against sex offenders in recent years, and this month has introduced stricter legislation for them, increasing penalties and acknowledging new forms of sexual crime. Against the backdrop of so much emphasis on this type of legislation, the debate has continued addressing the constitutionality of Megan’s Law and the success of legislation concerning sex offenders. From its initial introduction in 1996, Megan’s Law, named after 7-year-old Megan Kanka who was raped and murdered by a known sex offender, has been the subject of serious controversy. This has only increased in the two years since information about registered sex offenders has been available to the public via the Internet. “Within 24 hours of it going public, I was receiving phone calls with people in just absolute panic,” said Fullerton police Sgt. Craig Odom. In the first two weeks of the Web site’s existence, there were 36 million inquiries. While there has been much debate about the legality of
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Megan’s Law, from disclosing personal information – including risk status, name, aliases, photographs, physical descriptions, ethnicity, date of birth, scars, marks, tattoos, sex offenses, county and zip code – to the legitimacy of its benefits, it is a subject that has maintained a strong public interest. Sexual crimes, particularly pedophilia, are especially frightening to society. “It’s probably one of the worst things that can happen to a child,” said Georgia Spiropoulos, assistant professor of criminal justice at Cal State Fullerton said. “It’s atrocious and the fact that we don’t understand this and it’s happening to children everyday is just appalling.” The public’s interest is constantly baited by shows such as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and the NBC Dateline’s popular specials “To Catch a Predator.” “The media does as much damage as it does good,” Spiropoulos said, in terms of sensationalizing such crime. This fear and concern is what has prompted the string of new legislation both in California and across the United States. In spring, criminal justice major and CSUF senior Alison Soltysiak worked in the office of Assemblyman Todd Spitzer staffing legislation to tighten sex offender laws. Soltysiak worked on Assembly Bill 2196, which passed and now makes it mandatory for day cares to tell parents about the Megan’s Law Web site. She attributes the trend in stricter legislation not to politicians but to the people. She said it is “public driven” and that constituents are asking for it. “This type of movement was brought on because people want it, need it and they were made aware of the problems that our law still has, the loopholes that need to be closed,”
By KEVIN Rogers/Daily Titan Photo Editor
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