Starting tomorrow, San Diego State students will have a center where they can find resources to address problems and concerns that directly affect them, such as the $1,000 administrative citation for noise violations. The Student Resource Center is scheduled to be open from about 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every other Thursday on the Free Speech Steps. Jeremy Ehrlich, Associated Students vice president of external affairs, and Michael Matthews, A.S. vice president of university affairs, collaborated to put the center together.”The idea is to have a little more than just tabling,” Ehrlich said. “It’s an actual place students can go to ask questions and get help if they need it.”The SRC will begin as a temporary pilot program to see how it works, according to Ehrlich. Matthews said the long-term goal is for the SRC to have a permanent place in ModernSpace, the planned student center addition. The main components of the center, which Ehrlich said should be changing as A.S. receives student feedback, include community service, the Good Neighbor Program and the “Fix the Fine” campaign, which is an effort by A.S. to change aspects of the administrative citation. Later in the year, the SRC should offer a renter’s pamphlet as well as host a renter’s fair, hand out pre-made greeting cards for students to give to their neighbors to introduce themselves and legal advice. Matthews said there will be a questionnaire at the SRC which asks students what kind of legal services they would want (information on citations, leasing agreements, insurance) and if they expect it to be free or could pay some sort of fee. Crystal Schloemer, assistant coordinator for Student Activities & Campus Life, is going to be working with the center to make students aware of community service opportunities and track what students have accomplished. Ehrlich said A.S. is looking to do a major community service event on campus sometime this fall. As the GNP, now in its second year, changes, Ehrlich said community service is becoming a part of the program to improve relationships between students and College Area residents by working together on a project for the neighborhood. Some ideas for projects include clothing, canned food or book drives that would serve two purposes. “We’d be able to pass out bags to all of the neighbors that would also include information about the (administrative) fines, the students and get sponsorships and so on,” Ehrlich said. “(And) do some good for the community at the same time.”Ehrlich said educating students and residents on the fine and housing situation in the College Area is the most important part of the “Fix the Fine” campaign. “Students hear about the fine and they want to say, ‘This isn’t fair, we need to get rid of this immediately,'” Ehrlich said. “And it really is unfair and it would be really great to get rid of it, but that may not be an option.”A.S. is focusing on fixing the problems it sees with the fine by advocating an extension of the time to pay it, lowering the amount and offering community service instead. Another goal is to make sure students know about the fine so they can avoid it. “It’s like getting pulled over for a speeding ticket when you didn’t know what the speeding limit was,” Ehrlich said. “We want to eliminate that kind of situation.”Ehrlich said a big part of the educational campaign is making sure that the students and the residents are aware that not all students are bad. “It’s not OK to call the police at any sort of noise at all,” Ehrlich said. “Residents can’t just assume that because the students are young and loud that they’re going to cause problems in the neighborhood. That’s why we need to build these relationships (between residents and students).”Building awareness of what’s going on in the surrounding community is also a goal of the SRC, and Ehrlich is encouraging students to sign up for the College Area Community Council newsletter at the SRC and attend the council’s meetings.Although there are not many students at the meetings, Ehrlich is trying to change this. He ran for an open seat on the council board and won, not as his position, but as a renter in the College Area, making him the first student (other than the A.S. designee) in eight years to hold a seat. In an effort to show that students want to change the administrative fine, A.S. has started a “Fight the Fine” Facebook group. It is open to the public and offers a chance for students to voice their opinions and share their experiences, according to Ehrlich. There should also be a petition to change the fine uploaded to the site soon.