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Volume 97, Number 4 April 27, 2011
Summer School Moves Ahead — With Limits By Christine Gillette EL VAQUERO STAFF WRITER
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ll GCC students who have been pulling their hair out about the possibility of no summer session can now relax slightly. The summer session was voted on by the faculty guild last Friday morning and was officially approved. Many students will read this and have a smile from cheek to cheek, but with those smiles give your professors a pat on the back. GCC was able to have a summer session this year because of the contract negotiation made Friday between the faculty and administration, which resulted in a 40 percent pay-cut during the summer session for the faculty. Mary Mirch, vice president of Instruction, said that GCC is looking at offering about 60 percent of the classes offered in summer of 2010. “The schedule is being built on general education classes, career and technical education (CTE), basic skills and noncredit,” Mirch said. It was not a surprise that the bulk of the classes offered would be general education classes. This is helpful for the students who are sweating to take that one math class they need in order to transfer. Mirch said that the administration is anticipating that students will be able find out their priority registration by May 9 and [See Summer School, page 9]
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Photo by Kenta Yamashita
BOOK ’EM: Officer Rony Aharonian searches a car in parking lot B on April 4, following a stop for a hit-and-run accident. Medical marijuana was found inside the vehicle. The driver had an expired prescription for the drug, casting its legality into question. It is the policy of the campus police to issue a citation whenever drugs are discovered in the posession of a student; the courts ultimately decide legality. The campus police have been extra vigilant in recent weeks following a string of vehicle break-ins and vandalism.
Armenians Host Remembrance Day By Luis Rodriguez
EL VAQUERO STAFF WRITER
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he Glendale Collge Armenian Student Association hosted an annual Armenian Genocide remembrance event in Plaza Vaquero on Thursday. The day was cloudy and somber, befitting the seriousness of the occasion. The ASA commemorates the Genocide almost every year since it became a campus organization in 1974, in order to call attention to this crime against humanity by providing
information that is not generally known to the public. “It is important for Turkey to accept responsibility for this Genocide, just as it was important for Germany to accept responsibility for the Holocaust, just as it is important for any perpetrator of any crime to accept responsibility,” said Marashlian. “It is particularly important for Turkey because the ongoing denial continues to stain Turkey’s image and Photo by Mario Camino hinders the development of a NEVER FORGET: The Armenian Student Association annually decohealthy democracy there.” [See Genocide, page 3]
rates Plaza Vaquero in remembrance of the Armenian genocide. This year, the flags of nations that have condemned the actions of the Ottoman Turks were honored.