ww.mustangdaily.calpoly.edu CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN lUtS OBISPO ide SPORTS, page 8 Monday, December 1,2003 nsung heroes lead team Mustangs heat San Jose Spartans, 70-62 In ARTS & CULTURE, page 4 blink-182 matures in fifth album Today's weather Volume LXVIll, Number 55,1916-2003 High: 65° Low: 45° Full forecast, page 2 D A i i : Cameras hiUI kp th1 IV. pft I I add to risky sR ISE By John Pierson behavior, t’s midnijiht. Behind Sierra Madre someone suspiciously sneaks near the hike racks. The holt cutter comes out, the lock is broken Iand the sneak makes t)ft with a tree 10-speed. study says Bike theft on campus is up this year. Between 10 and 12 hikes have By Caitlin O'Farrell been stolen since the .school term heyan in September. MUSTANG DAILY STAFF WRITER “It’s difficult to tell how much worse theft is," said University Police Department Commander Bill Watton. It happens everyday. College, high “Year to year, we’ll see some hij^ upswing’s in theft when people school and even elementary students come over from the valley,” he said, “hut we don’t know if that’s participate in risky behaviors such as what’s happening or if this has been a rash of IcKal thefts.” lighting themselves on fire, extreme Watton also said stolen hikes have been taken from all over cam­ fighting and crashing into walls. pus; there is no central location were theft is more prevalent. Recently, three Cal Poly psychology Agribusiness freshman Jason Diestel lives on campus and keeps his professors conducted a study linking hike in his rcx>m. video cameras with the exaggeration “1 have a Trek 5900, and it costs $3,000,” Diestel said. “I’d leave a SPENCER MARLEY/MUSTANG DAILY of these behaviors. $50 to $100 hike in the racks hut not my hike. My hike is for going Several students ride their bikes to class.To guard against theft, it The study began when psychology on long rides. 1 don’t ride it to class.” is important that they lock up their bikes while in class. professor Charles Slem came home one night after being out with stime One way to keep a hike safer is to keep it in a hike IcKker and not friends. He wanted to show off the a rack. new computer monitor he purchased. Watton said access and coinmuter services has gotten funding to • helpful hints • On the desktop of the monitor were install more hike kxkers on campus hut did not know how many • Don't use a cheap chain, a couple of movie clips. Slem started units will he added. get a U-lock or cable to click on them and was shocked by Dehhie Anderson of ACS was unavailable for comment. what he found. • The more difficult you The clips showed his sons and make it to steal your bike "I lock it up some friends, all still in high schixsl the better in the rack "I lock it up at the time, participating in risky, Word on the end behavior. by the • If you see someone suspi­ on frame, not of a bike One scene showed Slem’s son cious around the the wheel." rack." throwing one of the other boys onto Street the bike racks, call the police — a flaming dtxir propped up with two — Adam Rebeka Students speak on campus issues Toqe, graphic Levin, sawhorses. Another began with the — University Police How do you protect your communica­ psychology boys running down the street trying tions junior junior Department to jump on moving cars as they bike on campus? swerve by. These clips led to a study conduct­ ed by Slem, psychologhy professor ECONOMY Shawn Burn and psychology profes­ Having their say: Colleges'ties sor Ned Schultz. “The Role of the Home Video Camera in Risky Merchants Adolescent Behavior,” was conduct­ with parent group is growing ed by surveying 210 intnxJuctory psy­ chology students to determine the see solid start _______ • - 1 - m m ^ m > Mm By Steve Giegerich Subhead information goes here and is not frequency of risky behavior and the By Anne D'Innocenzio ASSOCIATED PRESS possible personality and siKial influ­ ASSOCIATED PRESS justified nor a complete sentence ence mechanisms that underlie such Susan Jennings Lantz recalls just iKse, acctirding to the study. The Thanksgiving weekend gave how involved her mom and dad “It is not the risky behavior, it is “Their parents have been very anymore,” Boyle says. the nation’s retailers a s<did start to were in her education at West the camera that is adding a new active with them in elementary, “It’s important to view the family, the holiday season, hut stores that Virginia University during the dimension by exaggerating the middle and high schcx»l. TTey are nt>t just the student, and tt) ctimmu- expected sht>ppers tt) have less inter­ 1980s. behavior amongst friends and stKial stKcer moms wht) aren’t ready to nicate with the family every step of est in bargain-hunting were disap­ “My parents dropped me off, gri>ups,” Slem said. “It creates group release. the way.” pointed. waved gixxjhye and that was that,” cohesiveness and Kinding, by talking “It’s not just the parents that are In many ways, parents have Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other she .says. about and watching the incident involved, a lot of students want their discounters had the strongest sales, Things are different ttxlay, as already opened those lines of com­ over and over.” parents involved, tcx>,” Lantz says. attracting crowds with specials on Lantz is well aware. As W VU’s par­ munication with colleges and uni­ Of the students surveyed, 86.2 per­ This summer, Jim Boyle became TVs, DVD players and toys. ent adviKate — a salaried position versities: cent reported engaging in at least Department stores and mail-based at the Morgantown schexd — Lantz president of College Parents of • At We.st Virginia, concerns one risky behavior during high apparel retailers were discounting fields up to 4,000 calls a year to the America with the goal of raising the abt)ut transportation raised by the school and college and 51.4 percent less than they did last year, and their schixd’s Parents Club Helpline, ask­ profile of the 900-member group, 11,000-member Mountaineer participated in the videotaping of at business was uneven. ing about everything from rcx>m- nt)t quite a decade old, by increas­ Parents Club persuaded the schtxd least one risky behavior incident. “Sales appear to he better than last mate problems to transportation ing membership and lobbying. to establish a shuttle between the About half of the students said they year, hut the consumer is still value- glitches to billing questions. For fees ranging from $18 to $26, Morgantown campus and exaggerated their behaviors because oriented and is looking tor sales,” .said Like other educators and college Btiyle intends for the gremp to pnv Pittsburgh Internatumal Airport. the camera was present, the study vide an array of services, including Walter Loeh, who runs his own New administrators, she sees parents tak­ • When a father worried that found. answering questions for the parents York-based retail consulting firm. ing an increasingly active role on that his daughter’s car might break Some of the risky behaviors of middle and high schexd students A dozen people were standin” in campu.ses across the country. One down on trips between her home include extreme sports, extreme about college savings, financial aid line Sunday morning at a Best Buy in nonprofit group. College Parents of and Oklahoma State University in physical activities, behavior likely to and applications. In the style of the DunwcM)dy, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, America, is in the early stages of a Stillwater, the OSU Parent’s cause property damage, extreme AARP, Boyle envisions his organi­ waiting for dcxirs to open at 10 a.m. membership campaign aimed at AssiKiation responded by enlisting reckless operation of a motorized zation lobbying Congress on issues Like many shoppers, Charles and mimicking the growth and lobbying l(Kal mechanics and car dealerships vehicle, excessive drinking activities such as tuition tax credits. Susan Lynch were willing to spend success of AARP. to provide free automobile mainte­ and displays of public nudity. The group is als<i working to pro­ hut hoping to get a good deal. Many parents figure that if nance checks to students before Only one media variable, exposure vide parents of college students with “I was unemployed this time last major holidays. to MTV’s “Jackass” television pro­ they’re spending thousands of dt>l- materials on topics ranging from year so my economic situation has • At Whitman College in Walla gram was related to videotaping risky lars on their child’s education, they binge drinking to credit card abuse. greatly improved,” said Charles Walla, Wa.sh., 105 parents have behavior. The study also found sig­ ought to have a voice, experts say. “A growing number of schtxils Lynch, who was Uxiking for a home But there’s more, says Lantz. signed up for a second-year program nificant gender differences when it theater .system. understand that a parent simply came to participating in these dan- “These were the first kids to get going away onCe they drop their see SHOPPING, page 2 the ‘Baby on Board’ signs,” she says. child off at schcxil is not an option see PARENTS, page 2 see STUDY, page 2 Monday, December 1,2003 News Mustang Daily from this risky behavior while 20 per­ tion over and over.