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Campus police offer services to deter crime
campus police officers, students do not
take advantage of the services available for lowed four tickets for an entire school year,
harassing a freshman for parking in the More changes will be taking place this
wrong area.
Technology makes fake IDs
look more real than ever
der 18, were arrested and spent the night tion, he said, some are computer-gener-
it’s amazing how many students miss out on
ing the site will attract.
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Teacher Education Convocation
IDs,” said Vinger, who works in the DPS
Austin office. “They have to realize that, because of the benefit—having access to
not tell by sight alone, how can we expect bottom line, making IDs is forging gov-
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strict. One student, who wishes to re-
main anonymous, observed an officer
Walking into the parking lot at St.
Mary’s may be as safe as walking into a
hungry lion’s cage, according to some stu-
dents. At 2:15 a.m. on Sept. 22, a student
Connecticut driver’s license from his
wallet.The 20-year-old had breezed
through the drill dozens of times, but on
office box. When the money arrives, the tip of the iceberg,” Vinger said. In most of
sites’ operators claim, they’ll drop the card the cases, he said, investigators try to “work
A close up of “Listening for a Memory, ”
one of St. John’s works on display at UTSA.
Sergeant Pete Perez, a St. Mary’s officer changes either on the St. Mary’s website,
for eight years, said he is unaware’of the or the monthly campus police newsletter.
Harvard education for $500?
Website allows students to bid for college
len and no robberies were reported. The
number of burglaries decreased from 43
in 1997 to only seven in 1998. Liquor law
violations increased in 1998 to 68 from 28
in 1997.
Also, drug violations in 1998 went up
catch them is to use digital scanners.
‘If we, as law enforcement officials, can-
“Twist and Shout, ” another sculpture by
St. John, on display.
Often, he said, students borrow IDs of
older friends or siblings, but he encoun-
ters many counterfeits, too.
“Most of the fakes—they get a friend’s
license, take off the plastic and try to ma-
nipulate it,” Detective Ham said. In addi-
into in parking lot B.
Campus police responded to the call imme-
in the mail.
However young people obtain the IDs,
Vinger said, the biggest problem for law
but now it is per semester. Perez said re-
ceiving tickets can be avoided because
there is more than enough parking. People
are just parking in the wrong areas, he
added.
The student who reported the car-jack-
ing incident helped in the arrest of these
criminals. Officers say it is important to
contact campus police if anything unusual
is observed.
Perez said that they are continually look-
ing at ways to advertise their services.
their way up the food chain” to people who
make and sell fake IDs.
“That’s who we really want,” he said.
In Texas, manufacturing or selling
forged state ID cards, as Joseph did, is a
felony that carries a maximum penalty of
10 years in jail and a $10,000 fine. It’s a
risk Joseph was willing to take, he said,
alcohol.
The card, he said, is “definitely a status
symbol. It opens a door to all these new so-
cial opportunities.” And when it comes to
social advancement, many students aren’t
incident. While some students say poli-
cies are restrictive, Perez said, “policies
are more lenient than in the past.”
According to campus police, if a student
parked illegally in the past, the vehicle was
towed. Now, students gut up to four park-
ing tickets before the vehicle will be
towed.
Last year, students would only be al-
By CHRISTINE TATUM
TMS CAMPUS
suspect, officers scanned it.
Twenty-two people, including one un-
By LEIF B. STRICKLAND
Knight-Rider Papers
By ANNA VILLAREAL
Contributing Writer
In the September issue of Hispanic Busi-
ness Magazine, St. Mary’s Law School was
ranked the eighth top law school in the U.S.
for Hispanics, instilling pride in some fac-
ulty and students, but also focusing on the
school’s plans to improve their overall bar
passage rate.
The law school “has a high number of
Hispanic law graduates, and we are among
the nation’s leaders in having Hispanic law
faculty,” said Dean Bill Piatt in the maga-
zine.
Pierre T. Williams-Woods, director of
communications and development at the
law school, agrees.
“It’s not because we serve a high num-
ber of Hispanics but the quality of service
we give to those Hispanics,” he said. “The
retention, the recruiting, and the gradua-
tion rates that we have.”
Some students, however, are concerned
with the low bar passage percentage.
“The ranking is a good thing, since we
are being bashed for not passing the bar,”
said Jessica Prado, a second-year law stu-
dent.
The law school is ranked as the second
lowest for bar examination scores in Texas.
Because of this, the administration has
taken measures to assist students in pre-
paring for the bar. This is being done
through mandatory classroom attendance;
By LYNETTE PITTMAN
Contributing Writer
offer challenging academic programs of
study, excellent athletic programs, and ac-
tive student/social activities. Many of these
colleges are simply not known outside their
region.”
Web-based bidding might be new, but
reported that a vehicle was being broken employed privately. According to some
From left to right, “Recent
History, ” “Twist and Shout”
and “Listening for a
Memory. ”
The Teacher Education Department is hosting its
annual Teacher Education Convocation on Tues-
day, October 5, 1999, at 11:00 a.m., in the Univer-
sity Center, Conference Room A. We would like to
encourage all students who are interested in the
teaching profession to attend this event.
he says. “They are, however, colleges that That’s not always the case.”
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a two-year class schedule, which allows
law students to take every bar exam course
before graduation; and a mandatory meet-
ing with bar examiners to explain the bar
exam’s importance.
Stephan Walker, president of the student
bar association, also attributes Dean Piatt’s
mini bar exam review, which is taken the
semester before law students start prepar-
ing for the exam, to be helpful.
“I am confident in the proactive ap-
proach Dean Piatt has taken to address the
law school’s bar exam pass rate. He really
cares about the law school and its stu-
dents,” Walker said.
The law school has also established an
academic excellence office, where students
are able to receive additional help, as an-
other means of assisting students prepar-
ing for the bar.
Students have said that there is a lot
more ethnic diversity on campus, par-
ticularly a larger number of Hispau-
ics.
Dean Piatt attributes that to the “students
being drawn to the school because San
Antonio has a rich Hispanic cultural heri-
tage reflective of the majority of the popu-
lation.”
In the last term, a total of 259 His-
panic graduates enrolled in the law
school. It has a 34 percent Hispanic
graduate enrollment, with 30 percent
of Jurist Doctorate Degrees being
earned by Hispanics.
Should you be free at this hour, please join us.
Our guest speaker is Sharon Garrett-Fuery, Di-
rector of Secondary - Human Resources at
Northside ISD. A lunch reception will follow in our
Education Office, St. Louis Hall, Room 303.
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to 12 from four the previous year. Three
rapes occurred in 1998, rising from the pre-
vious year when none occurred: One
weapons possession and no homicides
were reported for 1998.
Campus police officers have the same
training as regular police officers, but are
year. Students can learn about these
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Memory,” “Twist and Shout,” and “Re-
cent History.” These three figures took
St. John three months to complete.
After receiving a letter from Ron
Boling, gallery director at UTSA, St.
John submitted his work. “He (Ron
Boling) came by the studio while I
was working on an outdoor sculpture
and saw the smaller pieces and said
‘those are fine, you’re in,”’ said St.
John. This exhibit is just one of St.
John’s estimated 50 showings in his
20-year art career.
“I hope that the work evokes, through
facial expression and gestures, a type of
reaction—human emotion,” said St. John.
The artist had a particular fondness
for his sculpture “Listening for a
Memory.” He said that the sculpture
was a representation of how “a
memory can be a real, concrete
thing.”
In April, other works by St. John
will be shown in the St. Mary’s Aca-
demic Library along with the work
of Jody Cariolano, a professor from
Our Lady of the Lake University.
Ellum, agents from the TABC, Dallas Po-
DALLAS - Joseph smiled at the bar- lice Department and Secret Service in-
tender, asked for a beer and, when he heard spected the IDs that people presented as
the familiar request for an ID, pulled his they entered bars and clubs. If a card was
CHICAGO (TMS) —Anew Web site is
offering students and their families a chance
to bid on the price of a college education.
“They are mostly private colleges that are the smaller, more personalized attention they
not ‘householdnames’ and do not often make can get at smaller private schools because
the ‘rankings’ found in the popular media,” they’ve heard that bigger schools are cheaper.
counterfeiters before them is the deftness of
their felonious work. Using computer tech-
• nology widely available at universities,
they’re able to make fake IDs so advanced
that even veteran officers are duped.
diately and the three suspects were charged and safety precautions.
transported to the Bexar County jail. St. Mary’s offers defense classes, but
Because occurrences such as this one, only seven students signed up last semes-
Parking lot B’s location has frightened ter. New programs have also been imple-
some students. mented to assist students in other capaci-
“Parking in lot B is a little bit scary be- ties. Escort services for night students,
cause it’s right on the street and there is jump-starting vehicles, and unlocking car
nothing between you and potential car- doors have benefited many students,
jackets,” Daniela Machua said. Some undergraduate students say that
In 1998, only two automobiles were sto- the campus police is unfriendly and too
checks using digital scanners, which read In a typical weekend at Texas Christian going to allow the law to stand in the way.
this Friday night, it seemed to be taking in jail on charges of possessing either ated. “With most of those, you can tell
too long. Then the bartender pulled a book forged IDs or cards that didn’t belong to they’ re fakes in daylight, but they might
from behind the counter and flipped to a them - both Class C misdemeanors. pass as authentic in a dark bar.”
picture of a Connecticut ID. But by all indications, that’s peanuts One recent exception, though, was a stu-
“That freaked me out,” said Joseph, compared with what Department of Pub- dent who had an ID that was “so good that
who attends a university in the Northeast lie Safety spokesman Tom Vinger calls he wouldn’t normally have been caught; he
and is working in Fort Worth, Texas, this the “widespread” problem of fake-ID use. even had the hologram right,” Detective Ham
summer. “I thought he was going to real- On college campuses, students say, get- said. But the student, who was stopped by a
ize it was a fake and would throw me out.” ting an ID can be as easy as walking down university police officer for an alcohol vio-
But a few minutes later, Joseph, who the hall to visit the resident computer nerd, lation, opened his wallet to reveal both his
spoke on the condition that his last name Police officials at several local universi- real license and the fake.
not be used, was sipping a beer. His nearly ties say they believe some print shops also When the officer questioned him about
flawless ID, which he had designed on a sell the illegal cards. why he had two cards, he came clean. He’s
computer and pasted together in about 30 Another source is the Internet, where now cooperating with state officials on the
minutes, had yet again passed the test. dozens of Web sites offer a wide selec- promise of a reduced charge, Detective
Young people have used forged licenses tion of state IDs, sometimes sold as “nov- Ham said.
as long as laws have prevented them from elty cards.” Most of the pages instruct The DPS, which is responsible for inves-
drinking. But what separates students such people to send a money order or cash— tigating cases of forged state IDs, handles
as Joseph from the generations of varsity from $20 to more than $100—to a post more than 1,000 a year-“and that’s just the
“I don’t know where they’re getting them, enforcement officials is the nonchalance
but the quality is just amazing,” said Maj. of the students.
Dexter Simpson of the Texas Alcoholic Bev- “The prevalent attitude is that there’s
erage Commission. “The only way we can nothing wrong with making or using fake
A couple of weeks ago, Maj. Simpson only going to be used to get alcohol.”
was part of “Operation Fakeout,” the first But that message doesn’t seem to be get-
of what officials hope will be regular ting through.
The site, eCollegebid.org, made its debut wheeling and dealing for a college educa-
last week. So far, no colleges have agreed to tion isn’t. Discounts for desirable students in
participate, butTedd D. Kelly, the site’s ere- the form of scholarships, grants and other
ator, hopes to have 25 to 50 colleges signed forms of financial aid have risen at several
up before the year’s end. colleges and universities.
Applicants are not charged to use the site, According to The Chronicle of Higher
but member institutions are expected to pay Education, some private colleges now give
Kelly a yearly fee to participate. back to students as much as 40 percent of
Here’s how the site works: after provid- their tuition income in the form of scholar-
ing a variety of information—including stan- ships and financial aid.
dardized test scores, grade-point average and While the new site may encourage stu-
class rank in high school, intended major and dents to consider schools they wouldn’t have
desired geographic location—visitors to the otherwise, many college admissions offic-
site offer to pay a certain amount to attend ers caution that it’s unwise to start a college
college. search by focusing solely on cost—especially
School officials review the bid and deter- given that many private schools offer finan-
mine whether it’s a fair offer given the cial aid packages significantly cutting the
applicant’s attributes. If a college finds the price of tuition.
bid acceptable, it responds to the applicant They also encourage students to consider
within 10 days. Any college accepting a bid the entire spectrum of an institution’s offer-
promises to assemble a financial aid pack- ings before deciding whether to attend,
age that meets all the applicant’s costs for “Focusing only on cost is a bad thing be-
attending college. cause state and federal assistance programs
An applicant can accept or decline an of- really have been set up to let students have a
fer or press to negotiate further, but is asked choice,’ ’ said Wendy Branham, assistant di-
to respond within 30 days. On the Web site, rector of admissions for the University of In-
Kelly—a consultant who has worked for dianapolis.
more than 30 years with colleges on issues “Sure, people have to decide how much
concerning student recruitment and enroll- an education is worth to them, and that is a
ment—explains the type of schools he’s hop- very personal, individualized decision. But
the bar codes on the backs of licenses. University, campus police Detective Kelly
During the nighttime operation in Deep Ham said, officers seize three or four IDs.
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