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Wednesday February 7, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here – at CSUF Parking permit fee to double in the next six years By Jennifer Brown
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Photo illustration By CAMERON PEMSTEIN AND KARL THUNMAN/Daily Titan Photo Editor
big money - Photo illustration of the proposed incremental parking fee increase. The action could force students to pay over $300 per semester for parking permits. If passed, the increases could
begin as early as Spring 2009, with parking permit fees to peak at $342 by July 1, 2013. Motorcycle parking permits, daily visitor parking permits and parking violation fees would also increase.
Survivor Shares Reality TV star uses his celebrity to help fight AIDS in Africa By Carol Rojas
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Survivor Africa winner Ethan Zohn spoke Monday about his work with AIDS in Africa as part of a series to help promote leadership in the Greek community. The former U.S. and Zimbabwe soccer player was invited to speak by the Greek Life Organization to encourage global awareness and inspire students to contribute to their communities. “Make today a new beginning for you,” Zohn said to students. “Use the knowledge and power of who you are to make a difference in the lives of others.” Dean of Students Greek Life Coordinator Deanna Erino said she feels Zohn’s appearance will be a positive influence on students involved in the Greek system. “Ethan focused on the importance of character in people’s lives,” Erino said. “His message will bring more awareness to global issues and reaffirm the amount of responsibility it takes to have a leadership role.” Zohn spoke about his life as an ex-reality TV star and how the show Survivor ultimately led him to dis-
cover how he could make a difference in the world. “It didn’t take me long to leave the reality show and get back to reality. It made me take a good hard look at who I was,” Zohn said. “There was all that fancy stuff that made me temporarily happy, but I wanted to be the type of person to use his money, and his celebrity, to make a difference in the lives of others.” Zohn co-founded Grassroots Soccer together with a group of his former U.S. teammates. Grassroots Soccer gives extensive sex education classes and training courses to African soccer playby aline lessner/ daily titan photographer ers who, in turn, use their celebrity status REal life - Reality show winner Ethan Zohn to pass on what they speaks to students about the AIDS epidemic. have learned to children in classrooms. culosis and Malaria. Zohn said that group members “For this speaker series, we know that by using the power of ce- decided to focus on something a lebrity as a tool, it can help stop the little different than the usual talk spread of the rampant disease. on alcohol, sex and drugs,” said “We each have our resources and 21-year-old human services major something that we know how to do,” and Caitlyn Zang, sorority panel Zohn said. “I once saw Bono speak president. and what he said resonated with me. “We’re hoping that a talk on He said ‘Celebrity is a bit ridicu- world issues will give sororities and lous but it’s currency. Use what you fraternities rules and techniques got.’” that they can use in their daily Bono, the lead singer of U2, has lives,” Zang said. used his own celebrity status to fight Zohn also offered some suggesAIDS in Africa. According to the tions on how students can begin to Product Red Web site, an organiza- help the world around them. tion he helped found, the huge suc“You have to start by making cess has been a result of teaming up a difference in yourself to make a with iconic brands. A percentage of difference in others,” Zohn said. each product sold is given to The “Making happiness and hope real Global Fund, an international group for others is the best gift you could dedicated to fighting AIDS, Tuber- give yourself.”
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A motion to more than double parking fees to help finance an additional parking structure was postponed Thursday by Cal State Fullerton’s Student Fee Advisory Board. The motion, which proposes a steady increase in parking permit fees over the next six years, met opposition from the student members of the board as well as some faculty. “Being as students can’t afford parking now, we’re just not ready for such an exorbitant increase,” said Javier Gamboa, executive vice president of Associated Students Inc. and a board member. The increases would begin in spring 2009, with prices rising to $162 from the current cost of $144. The fees would increase each year to an eventual cost of $342 for a semester permit in 2013. Motorcycle passes would cost $100 by 2013 and parking violations would double to $80 per infraction. Diana Guerin, chair of the Academic Senate and member of the Advisory Board, voiced her opposition to the committee. “There are a SEE PARKING - PAGE 2
CSUF Seeks More Nurses By Jenny houser
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Cal State Fullerton’s Nursing Program has begun implementing a new plan to help find a solution to the shortage of nurses. The program will offer students with non-nursing undergraduate degrees a master’s in nursing and a license to become a registered nurse. It is expected to begin fall 2007 and is called the Entry Level Master of Science Degree in Nursing. “It will take a little while for it to become accepted and popular in the local community,” said Vincent Salyers, assistant director and associate professor of nursing. “These students are able to bring life experience to the program and out to their career. They can bring something new and exciting to nursing.” The program will allow students to receive a registered nurse license in one-and–a-half years and a master’s in nursing in an additional one-anda-half years, said Mary Wickman, the planning director for the pre-licensure registered nurse program. “In some ways it will help to impact the shortage because we’ll be able to take some of those students who are waiting and who might otherwise be turned away and bring
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them into our program,” Salyers said. “However, I know that we have some 300 applications for our entrylevel master’s pathway and I’ve been told we have approximately 1,000 applications for 40 slots for our traditional Bachelor of Science and nursing program.” According to a 2006 study released by the Health Resources and Services Administration, the nation’s nursing shortage is projected to grow to more than one million nurses by the year 2020. “A shortage of nursing school faculty is restricting nursing program enrollment,” Wickman said. “It’s a big concern,” Salyers said. “There are programs all over the United States and California that have students being turned away. Sometimes the waiting list is two years long.” In 2005, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California Nurse Education Initiative found that the state’s nursing schools are full to capacity. It also stated that nearly 40 percent of students applying to California nursing schools are turned away. CSUF’s nursing department hopes to alleviate that problem by actively recruiting qualified faculty to expand their program. In addition to offering students new options in the program, a hightech skills lab is being constructed.
The lab will give nursing students the opportunity to gain experience through new technology. It is expected to have three different simulation labs and six patientcare facilities. “The lab provides a wonderful learning opportunity for students, and I think students will be attracted by the wonderful high-tech simulation mannequins that we will be purchasing for the lab,” Wickman said. “It’s the big thing in teaching students now,” Salyers said. “It’s going to be the new state-of-the-art simulation. [The mannequins] can talk. They have diseases and symptoms. Our goal is to get students to think critically.” The mannequins are programmed to react like a patient to help students learn how to respond correctly. “Nursing skill labs are important in nursing education because they provide the opportunity for students to practice skills in a simulated environment prior to taking care of real patients in the hospital,” Wickman said. “This allows the student to become comfortable with performing complex skills and procedures, as well as providing a safe opportunity for the student to learn from any errors in care.” The skills lab is projected to be completed by July 2007.
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