Elsewher. The Musical M.cllant Lab Rats Champs ~ a 1111 Would Require Singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant put on Being a research Men s and women s en Hepatitis Shots a stellar perfomumce at the CopLey subject is a great way swimming both win a= MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Symphony HaLL last Monday night to eam extra money conference titles ~ Minnesota Senator Steve Hiatus, page 7 Opinion, page 4 :z: Murphy has penned a bill Sports, page 16 ... requiring that all university and state college students be immunized against Hepatitis , B before enrolling in classes. H E U C 5 D Hepatitis B is a blood-borne pathogen that allacks the liver and is transmilled through body tluids. The Center for Disease Control estimates that this incurable disease, which can be asymp­ tomatic, infects one in every 20 people during his or her lifetime. The vaccinations UC SAN DIEGO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1999 VOLUME 96, ISSUE 14 cost around $100 and require a series of three vaccinations CONSTRUCTION over a six- to nine-month By Jeffrey M. Barker period. Critics say that Students Now although the immunization is Senior Staff Writer important, the proposed bill Both the Price Center and the EXPANSION Student Center may expand by will be difficult to monitor Can Buy Books and costly to students. more than 50,000 square feet each if a University Centers Advisory - Minnesota Dail." PROPOSED FOR Board (UCAB) proposal garners on the Web enough student votes in the ISU Student DIed In upcoming spring election to move Tr.. Accident the proposed expansion projects PROGRAM: UCSD joined with AMES, Iowa - Iowa State UNIVERSITY into action. many other universities in new freshman Chad Freml died Students will vote on a $25 per textbook-selling endeavor while CUlling tree limbs with quaner increase in the student cen­ his friend, Brian Kennebeck. ters tee, which will fund $12 mil­ By VIncent Sunday aliernoon. The honi­ ~ENTEIS lion in expansions to both of Greenanl culture major was killed when With an additional 7, 000 students UCSD's student centers. The fees, Senior Staff Writer a tree limb struck him in the however, would be collected only UCSD students now have the ability to chest. Kennebeck. who was anticipated within the next ten years, the after construction is completed. purchase and sell their used textbooks via the Intemet with the aid of a new program called also Freml's roommate and University Centers Advisory Board proposes The Associated Students Counci I BookSwap, which was set up last week. lellow Phi Kappa Psi fraternity expanding the Price Center and the StuClent voted 13-0 last Wednesday to member, said that the two cut place the measure on the April Recently approvcd by A.S. Council. trees as a part-time job. Susan Center ~y over 50,()()() squqre Jeet each general elections ballot. BookSwap is a website where students can Freml, the victim's mother, Plans for the expansions will post information on books they want to sell or said that her son had a strong not be finalized unless after the buy. Interested students can contact each other work ethic and he often held measure passes. by way of phone or e-mail in order to sct up three jobs at a time to help put ''There is a price tag on it. We an appointment to buy or sell their books. himself through school. She want to be clear about that," A.S. Commissioner of Services and Enter­ also said that he enjoyed hunt­ University Centers Director James prises Kasey Crawford said he was contacted ing, snowmobiling and demo­ Carruthers said. by BookSwap to start the program at UCSD. lition derby racing. He also said that the fee is ;'They called us up and were trying to gct - IOll'a Stale Daily See CENTERS, Page 3 more universities 10 join up wi.th them." Crawford said. "From there we explored their central sile and thought it was a prclly good U. Texas-Austin Is program. We then worked on gelling a site Blgge" School that was UCSD-specific so students could log AUSTIN. Texas - on and get a specific site for UCSD books ." According to preliminary A.S. President Joe Leventhal said that spring enrollment ligures the BookSwap program will help many released last week, the UCSD students. University of Texas-Austin "The BookSwap program is a simple. (UTA) has the largest student straight-forward program that will save stu­ body in the nation with dents at this campus an enormous amount of 46,386 students. Ohio State money," Leventhal said. University trails OSU with Crawford said the service is free and 46,217 students. Last fall, easy to use. Students can go to the website UTA had an enrollment of and either search tcxtbook listings or post 48,917 st!#dents, but the num­ their books for sale. ber /las since gone down Crawford also said that students who since students graduated in post a book for sale must first register by December. Due to overcrowd­ entering their name, e-mail address, the ing problems in dorms, class­ school they attend and a password. es and parking, UTA ofticials Last Paper GRE Given in April Crawford said that the BookSwap pro­ from say they are working to gram has over 4,()()() books listed among the keep enrollment at the opti­ EXAM: Computerized version will able with computers, the concept of adaptive many universities that use the service. mum level of 48,000 students. testing is new," said Trent Anderson, executive Crawford also said that the number of - Daily T~xan vary questions depending on director of graduate programs for Kaplan. "It's a books currently listed is always displayed ~uracy of student's answers different kind of mind game." on the home page. He said that he has In the paper-based ORE exam, all students already seen the UCSD page grow in size Spoken ••• By ChrIstIne ~ were asked identical questions. Each question since its creation, which was only last week. Guardian Reporter was weighted equally, meaning that easy ques­ "I've been checking this thing like the "/ find it silly to buy a Students who want to take the Graduate tions had the same point value as difficult ones. stock market," Crawford said Tuesday book for 60 dollars, Record Examinations (GRE) this spring can According to Chris Schreiber, the assistant night. ''There were 107 books this morning. sell it at the end of the leave their No.2 pencils at home. After April II, director of graduate programs for the Princeton Right now, there are III books." the traditional pencil and paper test format will Review and the former Guardian editor in chief, Crawford said he has promoted the ser­ quarter for ten dollars be phased out for a new, computerized version of each student receives a unique combination of vice by means of "student-niers," and that he and then see it sitting theGRE. questions in the ORE CBT. He also said that the also plans to send out an all-campus mailing. on the shelf as a used The pencil and paper test has been offered first few questions have the most impact on the Crawford added that the BookSwap pro­ book for 40 dollars. " alongside the computerized version since 1993. final score. gram offers students an easy way to exchange But starting April II, students will no longer - ...., er.wfard ''The way the format works, the earlier ques­ books without the costly use of a middleman. A.S. Commissioner of Services have the option of taking the written form of the tions are wonh more Ihan the later ones," "I find it silly to buy a book for 60 dol­ end Enterprises exam. Not only is the test-taking procedure dif­ Schreiber said. "In the beginning, the computer lars, sell it at the end of the quaner for ten See story It rIIht ferent for the Computer Based Test (CBT), but doesn't know anything about you, but as you get dollars and then see it sitting on the shelf as the test format also has been remodeled. the first few questions right or wrong, the com­ a used book for 40 dollars," Crawford said. Internet: _.ucad.edu/~ ''The two formats require different leSt-taking puter begins to adapt." Students can use the free service at EofNil: 1U~.edu approaches. Even though most of us are comfort- See 'IDt, Page 6 http://www.BookSwap.comJUCSD. Thursday. February 18. 1999 2 NEWS The UCSD Guardian Thursday. February 18, 1999 The UCSD Guardian NEWS 3 centers fee would fund the reloca­ scrapped. He said that suggestions CENTERS: tion of the police building. such as a bowling alley and hair -------- UCSD EVENTS LIFE IN HELL Students will vote Carruthers also said that no salon may not have a wide enough on the expansion trees would be harmed or removed appeal to students in an education­ by the expansion projects. al environment. Thursday CoIdIa.ed"" .... 1 UCAB received input for the The idea for the expansion came unique because it will not be expansion from the student body and from the Quality of Life survey, con­ Films: 'Battle of San Pietro' & 'Know Your imposed upon students until con­ from campus organizations. ducted 18 months ago by the which Enemy' l'ff'~ struction is completed, which is Students were invited to open surveyed 2.600 UCSD students. A projected to be in 2002. forums during winter quarter. The general facilities assessment led by Enjoy this Japanese Film print from the UCSD Libraries' collection at H€Ll., "We won't stan collecting the initial drawings and ideas came from A.S.