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Apple Computer Inc. confirmed the suspicions of iPod enthusiasts today, when it released its latest iteration of the venerable portable music player. The key feature of the new fifth-generation iPod is its ability to play videos as well as audio files, but there are also other improvements. To start, Apple claims that the color screen is larger – now 2.5 inches – but the overall iPod size has been reduced. With a thickness of only half an inch, Apple says the new iPod is 45 percent smaller than the original and that even the largest capacity fifth-generation model is 10 percent smaller than the smallest capacity fourth-generation. According to Appleʼs Web site, battery life is now 20 hours, five hours more than before. A new color choice, black, has been added to the lineup as well. With an influx of iPod-wielding students on campus, Titan Shops computer department manager, Angie Dulay, predicts the fifth-generation will be a big success. “These are going to offer a new video feature,
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State safety authorities inspected more than 90 percent of the Cal State Fullerton elevators during the last two weeks. Some of the elevators had not been inspected since November 2003. Of the 50 elevators on CSUFʼs main campus, 46 were past the date for re-inspection. College Park is the only building whose four elevators did not require a safety inspection until February 2006. “We were aware we were behind and we had a letter from [Californiaʼs Occupation Safety and Health Administration],” said
Chief Engineer Craig Newton, elevators be inspected by the state head of maintenance at CSUF. annually and that the inspection The Occupation Safety and certificate be posted in each conHealth Administrationʼs responsi- veyance. It also states that any bilities include safety standards for elevator not within its inspection every workplace in the state. The period should not be operating, administration but a letter from only monitors and the administration detailing inspects elevators, Sometimes we that the inspecescalators, hazdon’t have the ardous chemicals tion is pending, manpower ... but and air quality it allows for use standards on state past the expirawe get out as soon tion date. facilities. as possible. “Sometimes Normally, the we donʼt have state charges an Al Tafazoli the manpower inspection fee for OSHA engineer to do the inspecsending its crews tions right at the out to look over year, but we get the units – at $140 each, the university would have out as soon as possible,” said Al been looking at a bill of nearly Tafazoli, the principal engineer for $6,500. As a state entity, however, the Occupation Safety and Health CSUF is not subject to that fee, Administrationʼs elevator division. Tafazoli said it had been “quite Newton said. California law requires that a while” since the inspections had
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been done, but said the crews were working hard to correct the backlog. “We [try to] do the inspections annually,” he said. “We write them a letter to comply [with state inspection], and them we give them time to comply.” Once completed, Newton said he does not expect to see the state documentation for a couple of months. “We keep the originals on file and put copies in all the elevators in case a unitʼs paperwork goes missing or gets defaced,” Newton said. Students, such as D. J. Johnston, were generally unaware that the elevators lacked the proper paperwork or that the elevators even required the yearly inspection. “I didnʼt even know,” said the junior psychology major while riding a McCarthy Hall elevator. “But they should keep up on it.”
With most conservatives unhappy about his second nomination for the Supreme Court, President George W. Bush told reporters Wednesday that his advisers used Harriet Miersʼ religious beliefs in explaining her background to conservatives. “People are interested to know why I picked Harriet Miers,” Bush said to reporters. “They want to know Harriet Miersʼ background. They want to know as much as they possibly can before they form opinions. And part of Harriet Miersʼ life is her religion.” This response was in reaction to a radio broadcast by James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, after he said he discussed with Karl Rove the Supreme Court nomineeʼs religious beliefs. In the broadcast Dobson said, “What did Karl Rove say to me…that Harriet Miers is an Evangelical Christian, that she is from a very conservative church, which is almost universally pro-life, that she had taken on the American Bar Association on the issue of abortion and fought for a policy that would not be supportive of abortion, that she had been a member of the Texas Right to Life.” Bushʼs press secretary Scott McClellan said, Miers was not a member of the organization, but that she had attended some fundraising events, according to an Associated Press report. Dobson also went on to say in the broadcast, “Karl Rove didnʼt tell me anything about the way Harriet Miers would vote on cases that may come before the Supreme Court…we did not discuss Roe v. Wade in any context or any other pending issue that will be considered by the Court.” Conservative critics of Bushʼs nomination think he passed up more qualified candidates, said Keith Carlson, California Republican Vice Chairman South. He said, the issue with conservatives is her lack of a record, but the likelihood that this would effect her being passed is low. “I donʼt think enough republicans are going to vote against their president,” Carlson said. “It depends on how she does during the hearings.” But on the other side of the political spectrum, representatives hope the approval of Miers is not so easy. Bob Mulholland, campaign advisor for
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Chris Skawinski seeks financial guidance from Kevin Nye in the Financial Aid office on Wednesday afternoon.
As registration for spring semester draws near, Cal State Fullerton students will soon have to pay for tuition and may need financial assistance to do so. However, if Congress approves a series of bills at the end of October, then the larg-
est cut to student aid in history will take place. According to the United States Student Association, Congress is currently in session to pass a series of Budget Reconciliations. If passed, these cuts could affect many students across the country, ultimately affecting the number of students pursuing higher education. “Congress passed the first wave of the budget resolutions in spring,” said Jasmine L. Harris, the legislative director for the United States Student Association. “Right now the House has planned on approxi-
mately $9 billion in proposed budget cuts thus far for government financial assistance, and that number could be as high as $11 billion by the time the Senate touches the bill in the next few weeks.” In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and financing multiple wars, the United States has been over-spending, and as a result, Congress is trying to tighten the budget – financial aid being the first program to be cut, Harris said. “Increasing costs and growing STUDENT AID 5