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SPORTS: Volleyball off to New Mexico to INSIDE: NEWS play in Comcast Challenge, page 12 ‘Curative Creations’ livens FEATURES: Smart ways to stay safe on up Health Center, page 2 campus, page 3 Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 5 Thursday September 10, 2009 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton DTSHORTHAND Is California Infrared targets parking offenders Governable? BY DAMON LOWNEY mail, said Nate Maloney, a spokes- Cal State Fullerton will be Daily Titan Assistant News Editor man for manufacturer ELSAG hosting a series of public lectures [email protected] of North America, in the Orange and discussions on the crisis sur- County Register. rounding the state government Students with five or more de- Parking officers used to be lim- from Sept. 14-17 in observance linquent parking tickets: beware of ited to using a hand-held computer of the Sept. 17 anniversary of the the immobilizing parking boot! Cal called RECON that contained a list signing of the U.S. Constitution. State Fullerton’s Parking and Trans- of license plate numbers that have Elected officials, political sci- portation Services have a faster and collected five or more unpaid park- entists and journalists across the more efficient method to track down ing violations. The officer types in political spectrum will be partici- students with multiple unpaid tick- the license plate number and RE- pating in the week’s events. ets. CON runs that number against the The first lecture, “Is Gov- The Mobile Plate Hunter-900 list, looking for any matches, Ferrer ernment the Problem?” will be license plate readers (MPH-900) and Orr said. Officers also check -li Monday at 10 a.m. in the Titan were purchased for approximately cense plates manually with a list on Theatre and covers governments $28,000 each by the university in paper if RECON isn’t available, they role in creating today’s problems. June 2008 to make the identification said. More events will be held through- of repeat parking offenders more ef- The parking situation at CSUF is out the week all across campus. ficient, Joe Ferrer, the director of complicated, appearing in the Daily To see the whole schedule go to Parking and Transportation Services, Titan multiple times each semester. the Constition Day Web site at and John Orr, the field supervisor Jasmine Villegas, a senior psychol- www.fullerton.edu/constitution- for Parking, stated in an e-mail in- ogy major, said she drives to school day.com. terview. The two methods previously and parks on campus, but regardless The lectures are free. To reserve used by parking officers were deemed of her situation she said that park- BY RON FU/Daily Titan Staff Photographer a seat for any of the programs, inefficient, they said. ing tickets can be a good thing and Parking Officer Andrew Wood with the Mobile Plate Hunter–900 and a booted car at the Fullerton Arboretum on Wednesday, Sept. contact Heather Morales at hmo- The MPH-900 is comprised of agrees with the parking officers’ use 9. Although this car was not caught by the device, the system has made his job easier. [email protected] two infrared cameras mounted on of the MPH-900. the sides of the vehicle, which is then “We are putting more money to The money doesn’t end up in to collect revenue from tickets, but the university’s purchase and use of connected to a computer in the inte- use now,” Villegas said about the any random place, though. In ad- to be “a side effect of enforcement,” the MPH-900, but he believes the rior, Ferrer and Orr said. university’s purchase of the MPH- dition to funding the construction said Ferrer and Orr. school should be spending money The cameras scan license plates 900. “But it would help us in the of new parking structures, “parking Lacey Evans, a third -year nursing elsewhere. State of the Students and then run their numbers through long-run because we need money.” violation penalties are used to fund major, disagrees. “Maybe they should spend more a “hot list” of plate numbers that CSUF makes millions of dollars alternative transportation programs “I think they’re looking for things money on stuff that can benefit the Associated Students President have five or more delinquent park- off of parking tickets. such as the University Pass Program, to give us tickets for,” Evans said. students, so that we can have our Juliana Santos will be address- ing tickets. If the plate numbers have “Last year, approximately $1.2 subsidized Metro-link rail passes, the “I think we pay enough as it is, so I classes, rather than new, great tech- ing the student body in the State surpassed the limit of four tickets, million was collected in parking campus’ monthly free bicycle tune- think its kinda dumb that they come nology,” he said. “Focus on that first, of the Student forum today in parking officers slip parking boots violation penalties,” said Ferrer and ups, and financial subsidies for em- after us.” She did say, though, that if and then worry about parking.” the Becker Amphitheatre from on the cars’ tires, immobilizing them Orr. “About 38,600 parking tickets ployees who walk, cycle, or carpool people aren’t obeying the rules, then noon to 1 p.m. Santos will tackle until the parking tickets are paid, were issued for the 2008-09 fiscal as an alternative commute mode to they should be punished by being is- major issues on campus such as they said. year; however, approximately 20 campus,” they said. sued parking tickets. For the full video of people furloughs, student fee increases, The technology used in the MPH- percent, or about 7,720 tickets, were The primary goal of CSUF’s Park- Craig Montgomery, a senior mu- interviewed in this story, go to class availability, summer session 900 was originally designed to sort canceled.” ing and Transportation Services isn’t sic major, said that he doesn’t mind www.dailytitan.com/2009/mail and enrollment, according to ASI Executive Vice President Joseph Lopez. “This executive board’s number one priority is to keep the lines CSUF’s new degree of communication open between ASI and all CSUF students,” San- tos said. Today, Santos will make an uninterrupted speech for 15 in Athletic Training minutes covering the broad con- cerns of students before opening BY Gilbert GUTIERREZ III dent Milton Gordon for standing the floor for students to ask her Daily Titan Staff Writer by us and allowing this major to be questions. [email protected] recognized,” Max said. Athletic Training students must The Kinesiology Department in complete a minimum of 123 units the College of Health and Human to fulfill general education require- Development is offering a new de- ments, athletic training foundation Health Training gree in Athletic Training in order to and athletic training core. On top of keep the program, which has been that, the students are expected to do The Student Recreation Cen- around since 1978, accredited. a clinical rotation with an accredited ter will be having their first CPR Prior to the addition of the new clinical instructor (ACI) for one of and First Aid training session to- degree, students could complete re- the teams at CSUF, one team for five morrow from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. quired course work but their degree semesters. Participants will be able to learn would be in “Kinesiology,” now the Senior Hiro Oda, a student in the to recognize and respond to a va- degree will be in “Athletic Training.” program, said that the program is riety of emergencies. The reason for this major be- definitely time consuming. “Last se- The course is aimed at helping ing added is to not only keep the mester, I only had one day off,” said students build job skills or simply school’s accreditation but also to Oda. However, he added that the to learn how to handle someone allow students to become certified experience and memories that were in an emergency. It will include athletic trainers. Otherwise, the gained from the program were what initial assessment of victims, Commission on Accreditation of make it worth while. emergency scene management Allied Health Education Programs Last semester, Oda was assigned and safety and protection from would withdraw certification from to the baseball team as athletic blood-borne pathogens. Cal State Fullerton, according to Dr. trainer, and he said that he enjoyed Robert Kersey, director of Athletic building friendships with players Training Education. and coaches. BY RON FU/Daily Titan Staff Photographer There is no additional cost to He followed them for every pitch WEATHER Tom Klammer, former dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is applauded by well-wishers at the Fullerton the school for the Athletic Training Arboretum Pavilion on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Klammer retired over the summer after serving at Cal State Fullerton for 38 years. of the season as they paved their way Education Program (ATEP). It is an for a trip to Omaha in the NCAA TODAY TOMorrow overall issue of staying certified and College World Series. The team was converting the program to become a not successful, but fortunately for major on its own. Oda, none of his friends on the team Did you miss Obama’s speech yesterday? Head Athletic Trainer Julie Max were injured in the process. has been in the program for nearly Oda, in his final semester with President Obama gave a speech about say that we have pulled this economy back from the 30 years and is in charge of the med- the program, will spend this semes- health care last night to a joint session brink.” ical care for the student athletes who ter guiding new members of the A.T.