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Thursday September 10, 2009
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
DTSHORTHAND Is California Governable? Cal State Fullerton will be hosting a series of public lectures and discussions on the crisis surrounding the state government from Sept. 14-17 in observance of the Sept. 17 anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Elected officials, political scientists and journalists across the political spectrum will be participating in the week’s events. The first lecture, “Is Government the Problem?” will be Monday at 10 a.m. in the Titan Theatre and covers governments role in creating today’s problems. More events will be held throughout the week all across campus. To see the whole schedule go to the Constition Day Web site at www.fullerton.edu/constitutionday.com. The lectures are free. To reserve a seat for any of the programs, contact Heather Morales at hmorales@fullerton.edu
State of the Students Associated Students President Juliana Santos will be addressing the student body in the State of the Student forum today in the Becker Amphitheatre from noon to 1 p.m. Santos will tackle major issues on campus such as furloughs, student fee increases, class availability, summer session and enrollment, according to ASI Executive Vice President Joseph Lopez. “This executive board’s number one priority is to keep the lines of communication open between ASI and all CSUF students,” Santos said. Today, Santos will make an uninterrupted speech for 15 minutes covering the broad concerns of students before opening the floor for students to ask her questions.
Infrared targets parking offenders By Damon Lowney
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Students with five or more delinquent parking tickets: beware of the immobilizing parking boot! Cal State Fullerton’s Parking and Transportation Services have a faster and more efficient method to track down students with multiple unpaid tickets. The Mobile Plate Hunter-900 license plate readers (MPH-900) were purchased for approximately $28,000 each by the university in June 2008 to make the identification of repeat parking offenders more efficient, Joe Ferrer, the director of Parking and Transportation Services, and John Orr, the field supervisor for Parking, stated in an e-mail interview. The two methods previously used by parking officers were deemed inefficient, they said. The MPH-900 is comprised of two infrared cameras mounted on the sides of the vehicle, which is then connected to a computer in the interior, Ferrer and Orr said. The cameras scan license plates and then run their numbers through a “hot list” of plate numbers that have five or more delinquent parking tickets. If the plate numbers have surpassed the limit of four tickets, parking officers slip parking boots on the cars’ tires, immobilizing them until the parking tickets are paid, they said. The technology used in the MPH900 was originally designed to sort
mail, said Nate Maloney, a spokesman for manufacturer ELSAG of North America, in the Orange County Register. Parking officers used to be limited to using a hand-held computer called RECON that contained a list of license plate numbers that have collected five or more unpaid parking violations. The officer types in the license plate number and RECON runs that number against the list, looking for any matches, Ferrer and Orr said. Officers also check license plates manually with a list on paper if RECON isn’t available, they said. The parking situation at CSUF is complicated, appearing in the Daily Titan multiple times each semester. Jasmine Villegas, a senior psychology major, said she drives to school and parks on campus, but regardless of her situation she said that parking tickets can be a good thing and agrees with the parking officers’ use of the MPH-900. “We are putting more money to use now,” Villegas said about the university’s purchase of the MPH900. “But it would help us in the long-run because we need money.” CSUF makes millions of dollars off of parking tickets. “Last year, approximately $1.2 million was collected in parking violation penalties,” said Ferrer and Orr. “About 38,600 parking tickets were issued for the 2008-09 fiscal year; however, approximately 20 percent, or about 7,720 tickets, were canceled.”
By Ron fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Parking Officer Andrew Wood with the Mobile Plate Hunter–900 and a booted car at the Fullerton Arboretum on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Although this car was not caught by the device, the system has made his job easier.
The money doesn’t end up in any random place, though. In addition to funding the construction of new parking structures, “parking violation penalties are used to fund alternative transportation programs such as the University Pass Program, subsidized Metro-link rail passes, the campus’ monthly free bicycle tuneups, and financial subsidies for employees who walk, cycle, or carpool as an alternative commute mode to campus,” they said. The primary goal of CSUF’s Parking and Transportation Services isn’t
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dent Milton Gordon for standing by us and allowing this major to be recognized,” Max said. Athletic Training students must complete a minimum of 123 units to fulfill general education requirements, athletic training foundation and athletic training core. On top of that, the students are expected to do a clinical rotation with an accredited clinical instructor (ACI) for one of the teams at CSUF, one team for five semesters. Senior Hiro Oda, a student in the program, said that the program is definitely time consuming. “Last semester, I only had one day off,” said Oda. However, he added that the experience and memories that were gained from the program were what make it worth while. Last semester, Oda was assigned to the baseball team as athletic trainer, and he said that he enjoyed building friendships with players and coaches. He followed them for every pitch of the season as they paved their way for a trip to Omaha in the NCAA College World Series. The team was not successful, but fortunately for Oda, none of his friends on the team were injured in the process. Oda, in his final semester with the program, will spend this semester guiding new members of the A.T. program in the right direction. Many of these students take the extra step and move on to medical school and further their medical training. These are not your average students here; they are an elite group of individuals that really prove how much they deserve to be professional athletic trainers, said Dr. Kersey of his athletic training students.
By Ron Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Tom Klammer, former dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is applauded by well-wishers at the Fullerton Arboretum Pavilion on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Klammer retired over the summer after serving at Cal State Fullerton for 38 years.
Did you miss Obama’s speech yesterday? President Obama gave a speech about health care last night to a joint session of Congress. The Daily Titan provides a mash-up of highlights from the address “When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse.” “But thanks to the bold and decisive action we have taken since January, I can stand here with confidence and
say that we have pulled this economy back from the brink.” “But we did not come here just to clean up crises. We came to build a future. So tonight, I return to speak to all of you about an issue that is central to that future – and that is the issue of health care.” “I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last. It has now been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first called for health care reform.” “We are the only advanced democracy on Earth – the only wealthy nation – that allows such hardships See OBAMA, Page 2
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The Student Recreation Center will be having their first CPR and First Aid training session tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Participants will be able to learn to recognize and respond to a variety of emergencies. The course is aimed at helping students build job skills or simply to learn how to handle someone in an emergency. It will include initial assessment of victims, emergency scene management and safety and protection from blood-borne pathogens.
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the university’s purchase and use of the MPH-900, but he believes the school should be spending money elsewhere. “Maybe they should spend more money on stuff that can benefit the students, so that we can have our classes, rather than new, great technology,” he said. “Focus on that first, and then worry about parking.”
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to collect revenue from tickets, but to be “a side effect of enforcement,” said Ferrer and Orr. Lacey Evans, a third -year nursing major, disagrees. “I think they’re looking for things to give us tickets for,” Evans said. “I think we pay enough as it is, so I think its kinda dumb that they come after us.” She did say, though, that if people aren’t obeying the rules, then they should be punished by being issued parking tickets. Craig Montgomery, a senior music major, said that he doesn’t mind
The Kinesiology Department in the College of Health and Human Development is offering a new degree in Athletic Training in order to keep the program, which has been around since 1978, accredited. Prior to the addition of the new degree, students could complete required course work but their degree would be in “Kinesiology,” now the degree will be in “Athletic Training.” The reason for this major being added is to not only keep the school’s accreditation but also to allow students to become certified athletic trainers. Otherwise, the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs would withdraw certification from Cal State Fullerton, according to Dr. Robert Kersey, director of Athletic Training Education. There is no additional cost to the school for the Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP). It is an overall issue of staying certified and converting the program to become a major on its own. Head Athletic Trainer Julie Max has been in the program for nearly 30 years and is in charge of the medical care for the student athletes who are in any of the 17 sports on campus, as well as overseeing the student athletic trainers in their clinical education here at CSUF. Max said she is very proud to be a part of CSUF because the program and students involved have really set the example for other universities across the country. “We have to thank the administration of Kinesiology and our Presi-