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Issue 11 • Friday, April 12, 2019 •
FINDING A PLACE ON CAMPUS FOR STUDENTS
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Assembly Bill 302 looks to address nearly one in five homeless community college students in the system
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J.C. Penney hosts event for Stockton college students BYJASMINE GONZALEZ Senior Staff Writer
The word “sale” sounds incredible but how does 40 percent off an entire purchase with an already-discounted price sound? Extraordinary, especially for students on a budget. On April 7, J.C. Penney in Weberstown Mall, across the street from Delta College, held a Suit-Up Event for Delta and University of the Pacific students. The store was closed at 6 p.m. for regular customers, but remained open until 9 p.m. for students to shop with their families. “It’s a lot easier to shop without so many people plus it’s all 40 percent off,” said Brandon Jones. Besides the dress apparel and shoes the store also offered discounted head shots starting at $29.99 and free Sephora makeovers. “It’s helping save a lot of money especially when you’re a college student,” said Kassandra Angulo.
See SUIT UP, page 12
“From a police department standpoint, we are absolutely concerned with potential security issues. HomeRecently, a Palo Alto Assembly member has intro- lessness has become an epidemic and something must duced a bill aimed at making community college easier be done. The concerns that we do have though come to attend for students who are homeless by allowing into play with the safety of the individuals and the campus in general. Those students will become inherthem to sleep in their cars in campus parking lots. If passed, this Assembly Bill 302 would require Cal- ently more vulnerable. The reality is it’ll be difficult to ifornia community colleges to grant overnight access enforce if people don’t follow A, B and C.” Bock said if this were to pass, those students who to campus parking facilities for homeless students to sleep in their vehicles. The students must be enrolled would like to sleep in their cars on campus would have to sign liability forms. in coursework, has paid enrollment fees He is also concerned by the staffing isif not waived and is in good standing sues from a security standpoint and what with the community college. To read the text of it means for Delta’s campus police. A recent report released by the Cal- Assembly Bill 302 at this Colleges would have to address these ifornia Community Colleges Chancel- link: bit.ly/ab-302 issues before implementation: lor’s Office and The Hope Center for Would they have to hire more people College, Community and Justice found or switch some officers from the day shift that of 40,000 students surveyed at 57 community colleges, 19 percent experienced homeless- to the night shift to suffice? Would the redistribution of resources cause unexpected issues elsewhere in the ness in the previous year. “The reality is that students are sleeping in their long run? “I see community colleges as needing to serve the vehicles right now, and when we don’t provide a safe place for them to sleep, we force them into the shad- students that come to their campus and that means hoows,” said Assemblymember Marc Berman, who rep- listically,” said Vice President of Instruction Dr. James resents the 24th district. “We can no longer pretend Todd. “So we know we already have students that have that community college student homelessness isn’t a lived out of their vehicles, who could not afford housing or other things that are basic necessities. So, I’m crisis-we have the data that clearly says it is.” Berman is advocating for AB 302 because of student hopeful this could become something that could help testimonies he heard at state informational hearings the students that come to Delta. What I’m just as optiabout the struggles of homeless students, including mistic about, in terms of supporting students, is finanhaving to sleep in cars due to the high cost of housing. cial aid reform. Senate Bill 291 is about that which is “I do think this bill should pass and that’s my perSee AB 302, page 2 sonal opinion,” said Delta Police Sergeant John Bock.
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Summer 2019 schedule gives students options for class duration BY CATLAN NGUYEN Editor in Chief
Starting in the summer of 2019, Delta College will begin offering a new variety of summer class sessions. There will be three four-week sessions, three six-week sessions, one eight-week session and one 12-week session. “We had to plan for when UCs and CSUs get done with classes and when high schools are done so we created a ton of options so students have a better chance at fitting summer classes into their schedules and more options to meet their requirements quicker,” said Delta Vice President of Instruction Dr. James Todd. “Most of the system right now is trying to reduce the time it takes to get your degree or transfer, which means taking more units.” The new summer schedule allows students to knock out as many as nine units during the summer, and many students can mix and match the different sessions. Todd collaborated with Enrollment Manager Christina Snedd and all of the division deans to develop this new schedule in a way that would cater to students’ needs best. One of the overall goals of every instructional faculty at Delta is to create more platforms for students to voice what their needs are so Delta can implement changes that will
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