CALIFOR N I A S T A T E U N IV E RSITY, FULL E RTO N Baseball opened Big INSIDE West play with a victory over Cal Poly 3 n NEWS: Six months after 9/11, people are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder San Luis Obispo —see Sports page 6 4 n OPINION: Staff editorial looks at Spring Break options for students working full time VOLU M E 74, I SSUE 23 WEEKEND M ARCH 29, 2002 Parking permit forgery increas- nCRIME: There have growing problem of forged parking on the numerous amounts of forged his imitation decal. transportation officials can detect a When walking through the park- decals. decals. The parking structure that “I went to Kinko’s and color- forged decal immediately. ing lots, the officials use flashlights been more reported Officials said there were 20-30 will be completed in January 2003 copied my girlfriend’s decal on both “As we patrol the lots we go up to to shine on the decals and the holo- forged-decal cases reported in the is assumed to take up 400 parking sides. Then we glued the sides each vehicle and look at the permit. grams on the originals reflect, and cases of fake decals to last academic year. spots while under construction and together and got the decal laminated. A bell rings in our head when we see the imitations do not. There have been more reported officials are preparing for forged It wasn’t that hard and it looks just something that looks strange about a Forged decals are found not only Public Safety this term cases in spring 2002 than in past decal cases to increase again. like a real one.” decal,” Prince said. in student parking lots, but the fac- than in prior semesters semesters, said Tony Prince, Parking Prince said the decals only take Although some students choose to Detective Robert Botzheim said ulty and staff parking lots as well. and Transportation Services supervi- a couple of minutes to make, which forge their decals, they may not real- another indication of a forged decal Cal State Long Beach has a dif- BY ALLISON WELLS sor. is why many students try and make ize the cost of the fine. Prince said is suspicious looking numbers. ferent approach to parking decals. Daily Titan Staff Writer Prince said he thinks this increase these on their own. the fine is $106. A parking service worker would The decals are done in a way that is is due to the enrollment boost. With But original decals have a unique Police don’t prosecute criminally then run the numbers to see if it is difficult to forge. Public Safety not only has to fewer parking spaces, the greater hologram where the phony decals for this kind of action, they just issue indeed a forged decal or not. Ignacio Carrillo, associate direc- handle fender benders, theft, dis- chance of forged decals is probable. do not. large fines. Nights are an easier way to detect putes and indecent exposure cases, An increase in the enrollment is One anonymous student explained Prince said what many students forged decals with a flashlight, DECALS/ 5 but now they are dealing with the not the only possibility to blame the process he went through to create fail to realize is that the parking and Prince said. Graduate Bustin’ a move Upgrade for entry tests Titan e-mail nTECHNOLOGY: Students have more options with the revised system get harder but have a limit of five megabytes BY SCOTT LEEDS Daily Titan Staff Writer nREVISIONS: Effective April 2003, “You’ve got too much mail.” changes will be made to the MCAT There is a plethora of ways for someone to have an e- mail address. For example, one can get them through any and the GRE to increase difficulty Internet provider such as Hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL or the BY ESMERALDA SOSA one Cal State Fullerton offers. Daily Titan Staff Writer “Out of the 47,000 available student accounts, about 6,000 are active users, and only a few hundred of them Trying to enroll in a graduate program might be dif- are getting up to the five-megabyte limit,” said Mike ficult for students, as changes have been made to the Marcinkevicz, director of Network Applications. Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and the Medical That’s 13 percent of student’s using the e-mail address College Admissions Test (MCAT), according to the given out by the college. Kaplan Test Prep. On Jan. 29, student e-mail services were moved to Many graduate school programs require the GRE a new set of Dell servers, running the new Microsoft exam as well as the MCAT for admission. The GRE Exchange 2000 software. exam, which is about a two hour and 45 minute test, This action provides increased capacity, more robust ser- consists of a verbal, math and analytical reasoning mul- vice, new capabilities and increased security for students, tiple-choice section. according to the Information Technology Department. As of October 2002, the new GRE exam will include The department also said that with this upgrade, users a new analytical writing section, which will be replac- would gain the benefits of increased system stability and ing the multiple-choice analytical reasoning part of the enhanced e-mail features, including compatibility with the exam. new “My CSUF Portal.” Students interested in obtaining a master’s degree in The change is supposed to be virtually undetectable. economics at Cal State Fullerton must take this test in Students will be able to access e-mail on the new system order to be admitted in the program, according to the exactly as they did on the old system. College of Business Administration and Economics Student e-mail addresses, logins and passwords have Web site, business.fullerton.edu. not changed. Another test that will face changes is the MCAT However, the student e-mail addresses have a five- exam. This exam is to be taken by those students that megabyte limit. want to enter a graduate medical program. Marcinkevicz said they used existing equipment and It is a standardized multiple-choice exam that helps that the expenses for the change were minor. medical schools predict the success of students enter- He added that even though the users are minimal they ing medical graduate programs. Since 1991, when the are not losing money, because it’s a referral service that MCAT exam was last modified, this is the first time that faculty can use to get information out to students if they the MCAT exam faces major changes. want. As shown in the MCAT exam Web site, www.aamc. “The campus is moving in the direction of using e-mail org, the MCAT exam is a six-hour test that consists of rather than U.S. mail to communicate information such as: a verbal reasoning, a biological science, a physical sci- financial aid, admissions & records and student financial ence and a writing sample. services,” said Susan Kachner, director of Administrative Bonnie Eissner, public relations manager of Kaplan Computing. Test Prep, said the MCAT exam will have three new Someone can choose to have e-mail from the campus biological section questions that will focus on DNA. sent to an on-campus e-mail address or have it forwarded It also will have a shorter verbal reasoning section. to an off-campus account. The campus will send elec- The physical science section, which previously was tronic messages to just one account, according to Titan after the biological section, will now be before the bio- Online. VALenTIN menDOZA/Daily Titan “I think the on-campus e-mail addresses are pointless,” logical section. Adrian “Ace” Harburda does a head spin while break dancing in the Quad on Thursday. TESTS/ 3 E-MAIL/ 5 Chavez’ life shown through musical n Supporters and the media watched major Juan Fonseca. Yliana Meeker, a junior psychology HISTORY: The story history unfold. “I was wondering how they would major, agreed. of the labor activist Students, faculty and the general pub- incorporate his life story in a musical,” “It was more of the personal side lic witnessed the scene develop once he said. “To actually see it in a musi- and sometimes humorous look into the and his fight for farm again Wednesday night at Cal State cal, it was interesting.” events that Cesar Chavez had to deal Fullerton in Nyna Shannon Andersen’s Although people recognize Chavez, with,” Meeker said. workers’ rights were “Chavez: Going Toward the Light,” a many are unfamiliar with the trials and The play began with Chavez quitting celebrated in the TSU musical based on the life of the histori- tribulations he went through to make school after he was teased and called a cal figure. a name for himself and create signifi- “dumb Chicano” by his peers. He went BY RICARDO SANCHEZ, JR. Hosted by the Independent Latino cant change among farm workers and to work in the fields but his mother Daily Titan Staff Writer Student Association in conjunction with Chicanos as well. made him promise to not give up on his Gily Productions, approximately 450 “I wanted to see how everything got education. Cesar E. Chavez lay on the ground students trickled into the Titan Student started. I really didn’t know his story,” Chavez then meets his future wife, exhausted and dehydrated. He hadn’t Union Pavilions A & B to witness the Gerardo Sanchez, a junior civil engi- Helen. He later inspires his fellow eaten in 25 days and could not move event in honor of his birthday, March 31, neering major, said.