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MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009 • VOLUME 87, ISSUE 3
LIFE: Go green to save green with these helpful tips on recycling, reducing and reusing around the house.
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SPORTS: Former trainer George Curtis joins six others as they are inducted into the 2009 Athletic Hall of Fame.
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Budget cuts dim lights on theater CAMPUS: Reduction in funds forces less props, more hope in Philips Hall By Michelle Wiebach el Don News Editor It’s 6 o’ clock, an hour before call time, and there are only two people in the theatre green room. They sit in the center of the room at the gray oval table with two different kinds of blue-green and gray chairs. One by one, actors walk through the door, sign in on the call sheet, sit at the long table and dig into whatever food they decided to have for dinner that night. It varies from spring rolls to fast food to home made sandwiches. “Do you want to try this?” Sophomore Natalie Andrade said. “It’s pomegranate raspberry frozen yogurt from my work.” She says this while she scoops up a spoonful of magenta yogurt with raspberries and offers some to her fellow cast members. Some try it, others pass, and some share other food between one another. “Do you want some fries? I’m not going to eat them all,” lead actress Guadalupe Correa said.
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Furlough days spark strikes at campuses
STATE: Lack of funds causes financial uproar at various levels of schooling By Felipa Penaloza el Don Staff Writer
Story By Meg Faulkner • Photo Illustration By Michelle Wiebach
EXAMINING THE DECLINE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Once upon a time, there was a state called California, where the public colleges were among the nation’s finest. Students could afford to attend them or get aid through state grants. Classes and services were plentiful, and students could hope to graduate within five years and even find a job afterwards. Sounds like a fairy tale, doesn’t it? Today, students are fortunate if they can get into classes at all, as budget cuts eat into course offerings. Overcrowded public universities forestall transfer
hopefuls, forcing them into longer stays at community colleges, delaying graduation dates and delaying California’s economic recovery. The outlook for the state’s IN DEPTH educational system is bleak PART 3 even as the rest of the nation begins to recover. Why? How did California’s education system fall victim to gridlocked state government? Every fairy tale has its dark side. In the pre-Reagan era, California’s property Please see PROP 13, Page 3
University students, faculty and staff across the state organized against higher tuition fees, layoffs, and furloughs, proposing legislatures reprioritize higher education. Tuition for undergraduates has risen to $4,800 a year at California State University Fullerton and $10,300 at University of California, Irvine. Students are still getting less education than they are paying for because of the establishment of furlough days. This means all 47,000 CSU and UC employees face 11 to 24 days a year without pay in order to preserve jobs. None of this matters to the 40,000 CSU applicants being denied enrollment within the next two years because the CSU Board of Trustees says there is not enough money for them to reach higher levels of education. “Why is it that in one of the richest states in the richest country, with one of the richest economies in the world, we don’t have the money to provide adequate education?” asked Dennis Lopez, a UCI English graduate student. “Public education is a
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