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Volume 61, Number 5
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Serving the San Diego City College community since 1945
Nov. 14, 2006
Proposition N wins handily By Scott Landheer City Times
Lizzie Lacey / City Times Former City College student Benson Deng demonstrates a Sudanese game played with stones called fetch-fetch at Cabrillo National Monument recently.
Proposition N passed with 62 percent of the vote on Nov. 7. The bond measure to give the San Diego Community College District $870 million needed just 55 percent approval to pass, which was easily reached with a final tally of 114,49969,216. Chancellor Constance Carroll was “absolutely thrilled” with the results. “It tells us how much the voters respect and value the community colleges,” said Carroll. “The passage of Proposition N means that City College students can look forward to dramatic improvements in the facilities and equipment that will be provided for their education.” She gave credit to everyone who worked on the campaign, including City College President Terrence Burgess, Academic Senate leaders Roberta Alexander and Kathy McGinnis, classified staff leaders and student leaders. She also said that Associated Students President Francisco
Fabian was a “tireless worker” in the campaign. President Burgess also thanked everyone who helped with the campaign in a campuswide e-mail. “From generous donations to the campaign, week-upon-week of phone banking, displaying yard signs, lobbying family and friends, to picketing at freeway entrances, our collective effort was outstanding and clearly showed in our solid victory,” said Burgess. “Many future generations of City College students, faculty, and staff will owe each of you a great debt of gratitude for your vision and tireless effort to pass bonds providing over $400 million to build, renovate, and remodel our college.” Before the money from Prop. N can be used, $330 million in bonds still left from Prop. S, which was passed in 2004, must be sold, according to Damon Schamu, Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management. But now that the new measure has been passed, Schamu said the first step will be to go back to the Facilities Master
See PROPOSITION, Page 2
Former City College students share Phil Angelides holds their story of survival and escape forum at City College
By Lizzie Lacey City Times “They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan,” published in June 2005, was co-authored by brothers Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng and cousin Benjamin Ajak. On Oct. 18, they spoke at the Solana Beach Library, accompanied by Judy Bernstein, Chair of the Advisory Committee of the San Diego International Rescue Committee and the mentor, who helped develop their stories and structure the book. Both Benson Deng and Alephonsion Deng attended San Diego City College. Alephonsion Deng and Bernstein spoke about the book and their journey at Saville Theatre Sept. 25. The three young men, now all in their early 20s, were part of an estimated 20,000 boys who were driven from their villages in south-
Sky’s the limit ... Downtown villages offer good food and fun Arts, page 5
ern Sudan during the civil war. Half survived the journey, and in 2000 and 2001 the U.S. brought 3,800 to America as refugees. There are 100 boys living in San Diego. At the presentation and book signing, Benson Deng described ■ Powerful play the five year journey about the Lost Boys he began when his village in southern Sudan of Sudan stars City was attacked in 1987 alumnus. Page 3 by northern government troops. At age seven, he traveled 1000 miles across Sudan to Ethiopia wearing only his underwear. When war erupted there three years later, he traveled back through Sudan and finally arrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, where he lived for nine years before qualifying
See SURVIVAL, Page 8
City Times Staff Report It was five days before the election when Phil Angelides, current state treasurer, made a campaign stop to promote his candidacy for Democratic governor on Nov. 2 at City College. Accompanied by state Sen. Christine Phil Angelides Kehoe and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, the Faculty Lounge adjacent to the cafeteria was filled with more than 100 students and community residents eager to hear what Angelides had to say.
The event opened up with San Diego City Firefighters’ Vice President Frank DeClercq giving a few words on Proposition C and its flaws. There was also another speaker, Costas Moros, a high school student from East San Diego County, discussing the flaws of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the high cost of tuition fees. Bustamante later discussed some topics in education and why Angelides would be a great asset to California as its new Governor. “(Students) are not going because the price is too high. Which means we don’t have a strong enough commitment, we
See FORUM, Page 8
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