CAL STATE'S APPLICATION PROCESS MAKES ITS DEBUT ON THE INTERNET.Byline: Mary Beth Alexander Daily News Staff Writer Forget the annoying paperwork. Now students can apply to California State University Enrollment  schools while surfing surfing, sport of gliding toward the shore on a breaking wave. Surfers originally used long, cumbersome wooden boards but now ride lightweight synthetic boards that allow a greater degree of maneuverability. the Internet. Starting today, the CSU See DSU/CSU. 1. CSU - California State University. 2. CSU - Cleveland State University. 3. CSU - Channel Service Unit. system will begin accepting applications by computer for the 1997 fall semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s . Applicants can simply tap into a Web site, fill out the form and send it into cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. toward the CSU campus of choice. ``We're finding most students really prefer everything on computer,'' said CSU spokeswoman Karen Newell Young. ``It's convenient for students. They can just call it up where many of them often are: the computer.'' The on-line application is one of several programs CSU officials are implementing as part of a plan for a $350 million technology upgrade. The computer admissions form, available in DOS, PC and Macintosh versions, can be obtained from the web site: http://www.xap.com/xapWWW/Calif/csu.html. For help, call (800) GOTOXAP. The on-line applications available starting today are for the fall 1997 semester. Once students complete the application, it can be sent to as many CSU schools as they wish. Application fees still must be mailed to the CSU headquarters in Long Beach. Young said she does not know how many students will trade the paperwork for the computer admissions form. ``We're expecting a lot,'' Young said. ``It's really hard to predict, since we've never done this before.'' At Cal State Northridge, officials said they hope to serve at least 500 computer applicants, a small portion of more than 19,000 applicants likely next fall, but a number they expect to increase as more students learn about the new option. ``Under any circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or we expect the use of the Web or Internet applications to grow over time,'' said Lorraine Newlon, director of admissions. ``As computer-savvy students get ready for college . . . this will be a natural.'' |
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