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December 3, 2012
Volume 23. Issue 7
Chaffey’s parking monopoly Go directly to overdrawn
Free Parking... JESSICA RUBIO
Students who purchased parking passes from the vending machines on campus are now paying the price. Beginning Nov. 21 students began to see suspicious transactions on their bank account statements ranging from $1.60 to $4, all coming from Chaffey College - Chino. According to Campus Police, an issue with the parking permit vending machine company is what has caused all the commotion. The parking permit vending machines from Digital Payment Technologies are a third party that the school does business with. Recently, the parking permit vending machine company discovered that an approximate $60,000 in unprocessed credit card transactions were sitting in the queue to be processed by Chaffey’s credit card company merchant account. Once the permit company attempted to process the transactions, they discovered that the Rancho and Fontana accounts were not active. The college administration then gave the company permission to process the credit card transactions through the active “Chino” account, which is why students are seeing charges from “Chino” in their bank statements. Students were outraged to find charges on their accounts. “The problem is I called up Chase and Chase basically stated that the numbers were manually entered. I have never used
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Computer science major Alex Watts slides his card to purchase a parking pass on Nov. 28 in the administration parking lot. “Action should be taken of some kind,” Watts said. “Or some kind of explanation about what happened to everyone’s money.”
any of the parking meters here that scan my card,” administration of justice major, James Humble-Sanchez said. “So that means there is a disconnect from what I’m being told on campus.” According to Campus Police, some of the charges may date back up to six months or longer. Former student Laura Owens received
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bank debit-card charges on her account on Nov. 21. “I haven’t gone [to Chaffey] since spring semester of 2012,” Owens said. “I saw the charges made on my card on Friday. I noticed there were five charges of $2 each.” After talk around campus and social network sites, students are beginning to
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check their accounts and see the charges. “Campus Police should have posted something. I know about five people which have gotten charged, two of them are not even current students,” Student Senator Sichen Hernandez-Martinez said. The school has yet to send out a notice to students, and instead sent out an email to explain the situation to faculty and staff only. “Nobody wants to notify the students of anything,” Humble-Sanchez said. The college has advised students that all the charges are legitimate, albeit delayed transactions. Lisa Bailey, vice president of Administrative Services, stated in an email to The Breeze, “We are still investigating the issue. It does not appear that the college had any involvement in the delay, but we are expecting that problem(s) and corrective action will be identified shortly to ensure that this problem does not recur.” Students are encouraged to review their statements for any suspicious transactions. “If students believe that a charge was made in error, we are asking them to submit that information to Campus Police for a prompt review,” Bailey stated. Students should take precaution when using their cards on campus. “I got my two dollars back, I’m not worried about that,” Humble-Sanchez said. “I was worried about the fact that somebody has my number.”
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