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Student workers’ privilege rescinded By Sara Almario The Collegian One of the privileges the university hands out to volunteer student workers has recently been taken away due to unauthorized students claiming those privileges. The California State University, Fresno, University Police Department (UPD) had previously provided some student workers with the yellow staff parking permits. The permits allowed students to park at the lots closer to the university’s facilities. At the beginning of the 2009 fall semester, those students’ staff parking privileges had been revoked. The students that used to receive the yellow per mits were the University Student Union (USU) board of directors, the executive officers of the Associated Student Inc. (ASI), the staff of The Collegian and the Smittcamp Honors College
honorees. UPD public information officer Amy Armstrong said the changes were due to the fact that some of the students that received the yellow passes in previous years did not work for any of the organizations that were listed. “This fiscal year, many changes were put into place to account for all of the parking on campus,� Armstrong said. “There were over 100 students who were receiving yellow faculty/ staff permits with no documentation of how the agreement came about and why.� Armstrong also emphasized that the students that were given the staff parking passes in previous years were volunteers, not paid workers. The yellow passes were given to them as privileges, but weren’t necessarily mandatory. The students who received
By Brian Maxey The Collegian
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Search under way for internees
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Fresno State has embarked on a campaign to award honorary degrees to Japanese-Americans detained during World War II By Thaddeus Miller The Collegian
The university has gathered a preliminary list of 77 names that are potentially eligible for honorary degrees through a new project. In October, Assembly Bill 37 authorized California colleges to award honorary degrees to Japanese-Americans, living or dead, whose studies were disrupted by internment during World War II. California State University, Fresno awarded its first honorary de g ree through the Nisei College Diploma Project on Christmas Eve of last year. Paul Oliaro, vice president of student affairs and the university liaison for the project, said the focus has been on Japanese-American individuals who were students at Fresno State from the fall of 1941 to the fall of 1942. The eligibility of each person will be decided on a case-by-case basis. “The goal is to try to be as inclusive as possible for anyone who had suf fered the indignity of having to be
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GRE to undergo revisions For students looking to apply to graduate programs, the standardized entrance exam required by many admissions boards will look significantly different next year. The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) will be overhauled in 2011, following what the makers of the test have called the “largest revisions in its 59-year history.� The Educational Testing Service (ETS), the nonprofit organization that administers the exam, announced last month that the current GRE will be revamped and slightly lengthened to reflect the type of work students will do in graduate schools. The GRE will still consist of verbal, quantitative and analytical writing sections but each section will be revised in both its content and format. In the verbal section of the exam, antonyms and analogies have been removed and replaced with reading comprehension. The new version will also allow test takers to use an online calculator in the quantitative section. Another planned change to the test will allow test takers to skip questions within sections and revisit them later on. In the current computeradaptive version, a test taker must give a final answer to a question before moving onto the next question. But the biggest change to the GRE is the revision to the scoring scale, which will become much narrower. “One of the potential challenges is that it will make it more difficult for a student to make a standout test score when there is a much narrower range of score points,� said Arthur Ahn, director of graduate programs for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. Currently, the GRE is scored from 200 to 800 points in 10 point increments. The new GRE will go from a scoring scale of 130 to 170 in one point increments. There are a total of 61 different iterations a student can have for their score, but in the new test there will only be a possible 41, Ahn said. The current scoring scale, he See GRE, Page 6
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