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TAKE NOTE CityWorks journal seeks entries City Works, the literary journal for San Diego City College, is accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography and cover design submissions from students as well as faculty, staff, administration, and students from across the district and the community at large. City College students are eligible for $100-$150 awards for best cover design, best poem, best fiction, best personal essay and best photography/art work. Non-student submissions are also eligible for the National Writer Award. The submission deadline is Feb. 23. Submissions can be mailed to: City Works, San Diego City College, 1313 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101. Guidelines and entry form can be found at www.cityworkspress.org/ journal.html.
Literary Series kicks off Feb. 19 The San Diego City College Literary Center kicks off its 2008 Spring Literary Series with a âOne Book, One San Diegoâ event Feb. 19. The series is sponsored by San Diego National Bank and City Collegeâs radio station, Jazz 88. âOne Book, One San Diegoâ is a community effort to increase literacy through selected readings. âOne Book, One San Diegoâ author Greg Mortenson will discuss the book âThree Cups of Tea: One Manâs Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Timeâ on Feb. 19, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. on campus in the Saville Theatre. For more information on the 2008 Spring Literary Series and on the developing lineup for the Third Annual SDCC International Book Fair, visit www.sdcitybookfair.com.
Valentineâs Day bake sale Feb. 14 San Diego City Collegeâs Classified Senate will hold a Valentineâs Day bake sale in Gorton Quad on Feb. 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. All of the proceeds will benefit this yearâs Classified Senate Awards Ceremony fund.
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CityTimes
Volume 62, Number 9
Covering the San Diego City College community since 1945
February 5, 2008
Fate of Prop. 92 in votersâ hands David McAtee City Times
David Mcatee City Times
Members of City Collegeâs softball team took coach Peter Gregoryâs daughters on a shpping spree Dec. 20.
Coachâs children get holiday gifts thanks to City athletes Peter Gregory and family lost home in October wildfires David McAtee City Times It is a common sentiment around the holidays every year that giving is far better than receiving. The fulfillment and validation that is brought with the recipientâs reaction is usually evidence enough that weâve done something good in the world. Imagine then that the person isnât receiving some small token of our appreciation, but an array of necessities for the purpose of feeling normal again following a massive tragedy. This was the idea behind last seasonâs charity event âShop With a Jockâ. Coordinated by Kathy McGinnis, chair of Health and Exercise Science, the plan came together when the softball team, led by Head Coach LeeAnn Taylor, conceived of a shopping trip for the two daughters of Assistant Cross Country Coach Peter Gregory. The Gregory familyâs home burned during the wildfires last
David Mcatee City Times
City softball players stand with cross country coach Peter Gregory (middle back row, with goatee and glasses) and his daughters Dec. 20 at Target in Rancho Bernardo. The Gregory family lost their home in the October wildfires. October, taking most of their belongings with it. In desperate need of everyday items, Amy, 14 and Crystal, 8 years old, made their way through Target in Rancho Bernardo, each with about half of the womenâs softball team at their side. Both girls cruised right through the toy section, nothing seeming to grab their eye. Their carts filled with a selection of shirts, jackets, tennis shoes, books and the one noted impulse purchase of a Razor Kick scooter.
This kind of attention to the communityâs needs isnât anything new to the softball team, or to McGinnis and Taylor. The team regularly participates in breast cancer walks in the fall, and in the spring operates free camps and clinics for girls all around San Diego County. According to McGinnis and Taylor, the team members are often ready and willing to do such volunteer work. Even as
See HOILIDAY, page 2
Proposition 92 will be voted on Tuesday February 5th, and could lower the student fees from $20 a unit per semester to $15, and would change the budget arrangement for the remainder of a three year period. These two major points to the proposition have garnered it a great deal of attention, positive and negative. Supporters of the proposition include the California Federation of Teachers, the California School Employee Association, and our own school president Terrence Burgess. Under the measure, a separate stream of funding would be established for community colleges. At the moment, most of the funding for public schools is regulated under proposition 98. The amount of money is determined based on the population of children attending K-12 schools each year. Proposition 92 would change the funding arrangement so that community colleges are funded based on the young adult population of the state and the unemployment rate. According to an interview with the KPBS radio program âThese Days,â Burgess said that the new funding arrangement would be more appropriate considering K-12 enrollment is dropping while community college enrollment is growing every year. âWe are the poorest funded community college system in the nation. And weâre very much operating on a shoe string to begin with and when weâre faced with having to make reductions on a very lean budget it always translates into losing people and therefore access to students,â Burgess said on the program. Jim Mahler, the president of the Associated Federation of Teachersâ local chapter 1931, says that the Federation supports the measure for the same reason. â(The proposition) stabilizes funding for community colleges, which will enable better oppor-
See PROP. 92, page 2