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The De Anza College Student Body senate unveiled the proposed 2006-2007 budget wednesday. Anna Callahan, president of the senate, said that the budget was unfinished, as there was still $20,000 remaining to be allocated by the student senate. She expects the next few senate meetings to be hectic, with many programs and organizations lobbying for that money. The proposed budget allocates
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It looks like next year will be a good year for De Anza College, said Mike Brandy, vice chancellor of Business Services, at Tuesday’s Town Hall Meeting in the Campus Center. For 2006-2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a $130,000,000 budget for public school equalization purposes, a $100,000,000 increase over last year’s proposal. Brandy said it appears that the district will have enough funds to keep the budget balanced and avoid bringing a large deficit into the next fiscal year. Next year is a “hopeful” one for the district for other reasons, he said. De Anza and Foothill Colleges are on pace to hit their enrollment targets. Although De Anza’s enrollment has
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about $1 million, $132,000 less than this year’s budget. It would cut funding for the special allocations budget during the school year and numerous programs including La Voz, the student newspaper. In addition to receiving money from the student senate, many programs also receive money from De Anza. Despite the smaller size of the student budget, funding would increase for the Tutorial and Academic Skills Center, which received $14,000 more than last year.
The number of students participating in the Skills Center jumped 40 percent this quarter, to over 450, reported in La Voz last week. The budget would also fund the Cross Cultural Partners program $1,780 more than last year. The program pairs fluent speakers of English with English as a Second Language students, and has expanded 600 percent since its inception in 2000. Funding was also increased for the DASB marketing and
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The fourth annual De Anza College Day of Remembrance will commemorate people affected by racism and honor those who defend civil liberties. Dr. Francisco E. Balderrama, Dr. Alice Yang-Murray and Art Shibayama will speak at the event. Balderrama is a professor of History and Chicano Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles and co-author of “Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s.” Yang-Murray is an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz and author of several works, including “What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II Mean?” Art Shibayama is a Japanese Latin-American who, when he was 13 years old, was taken from Peru and imprisoned in a Texas internment camp during World War II. A film about him, “Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story” was the 2004 winner of “Best of Festival” at the Berkeley Video & Film Festival. The Day of Remembrance will focus on “scapegoating” and will draw parallels between the “unconstitutional imprisonment of Japanese Americans” with the “forced removal” of over one million residents of Mexican Ancestry from the Western States during the 1930s, said Tom Izu, Director of the California History Center. Izu is hosting the event.
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elections for three officer positions starting Wednesday. The nominees are George Smith for ICC Chairperson, Monica Pen for ICC Chairperson of Finance and Jordan Eldridge for ICC Chairperson of Programs. ICC Chair nominee
The nominees will give a two-minute presentation and answer questions from the audience and ICC members. The ICC must vote on whether or not they think the nominees are qualified for the positions. If no majority is reached, another election will be scheduled. Voting is determined by a confidential ballot. If the nominees win, they will serve a one-year term ending in Chair of Finance nominee
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Smith is in his third year at De Anza. He said he feels he should be elected because he is a strong leader, and feels that he can strengthen the ICC. Smith received the Poet of the Year award from the International Library of Poetry several years ago. He is nominated again this year.
Pen wants to work to bring all the different clubs together. She is also the ICC Chairperson for the Cambodian Heritage club. She said she wants to see more participation from the students.
March 2007. The new officers’ duties will include reviewing budget requests, making recommendations for ICC approval, and approving club constitutions, bylaws and club member agreement forms. They will be officially sworn in at the end of the ICC meeting March 15 at 1:30 p.m. in the Hinson Campus Center’s Student Council Chambers. Chair of Programs nominee
Jordan Eldridge Eldridge decided to run for ICC because he felt he should be doing his part to better not only De Anza, but also the community. He hopes to instigate more involvement from the students, and to open their minds to more possibilities from all walks of life.
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Organ donors need more than a sticker STICKER INDICATES INTENTION, NOT AN ULTIMATE DECISION
mary-joLOMAX I read the obituary of a man who died at only 26 years old in a rock-climbing accident on Jan. 14. He’d been a paramedic and I’m sure he must have saved many lives in his line of work. Amazingly, he saved many lives even after he died because he was
for your health an organ donor. The newspaper article said that his liver, pancreas and heart, lungs and kidneys were all donated to people who were waiting for an organ transplant. I’ve had a little pink “donor” dot on my driver’s license for years but I don’t really know how my organs would be donated when I die. Unless I died in an auto accident, who would even look at my driver’s license? I decided to investigate the situation. What I learned is that the donor dot on my driver’s license is not a directive; it simply indicates my intention to donate. The decision to donate my organs would be up to my next of kin. And not only that, but if I die without my driver’s license handy, no one would even be aware of my intention to donate my organs because my name is not on any kind of list. I also learned that there is an organ and tissue donor registry called “Donate Life California.” The registry, which was established in 2003, is maintained by California’s four federal nonprofit organ procurement organi-
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