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CityTimes

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Volume 59, Issue 4

Nov. 23-Dec. 13, 2004

Copier service dispute calms

Retiring legislator speaks on campus

See SENATOR, Page 7

Costco chief recalls his City College days News, page 3

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Senator says his work isn’t complete By Sandi Garcia Retiring State Senator John Vasconcellos spoke at the Seville Theater on Nov.16. The visit was a stop on his “cal/VICTORY/lap”, a statewide tour to thank Californians for allowing him to serve as a legislator for 38 years. The audience wasn’t sure what to expect when they were presented with this 78 year old politician wearing a slightly wrinkled Hawaiian shirt and a Sen. John brown leather Vasconcellos bomber jacket, but after just a few minutes they knew that a suit would have been somehow wrong for this California-born political visionary. The Senator touts “politics from the inside out”, and his work with California government is not finished. His goal for other state residents is “to commit ourselves toward advancing a profound new politics befitting us as Californians – the Politics of Trust – based upon our faithful visions of ourselves, our human nature, and potential”. Vasconcellos reflected on the milestones he observed during his career, including the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in Dec. 1964. He considers this especially important because it established within society the idea that “everybody is worthwhile no matter what”. He

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Signs of the season First-year art student Nara Yu goes over notes in Curran Plaza on Nov. 11. Crimson leaves are casting a traditional fall hue across campus as the semester winds down.

By Donna Maranto Some dust has settled in the Xerox controversy from the spring semester, during which even college President Terrence Burgess was seeking ways to end the contract. The usage of machines at the Learning Resource Center (LRC) seems to have a smooth record, but Deanna LouiseBalintec, an instructional assistant at the Computer Business Technology Center (CBTC), has some concerns. The problem with availability of maintenance personnel has had a prompt turnaround, yet there are still ongoing problems which she feels have not been addressed: ■ It is still not possible to purchase a print card in the T building; it is necessary to come to the LRC in order to “get on board” with a plastic print card. ■ The refunds on defective cards are often forgotten or not addressed ■ If you complete your assignment in Room T-331, the student must leave and go to room T-339 in order to print. ■ There are areas of Micro-Soft access that have become unavailable since the upgrading of their program: creating a form, bringing up a query or report from a table ■ The maintenance representative removed the “Mac Lab” printer (claims it See COPIER, Page 7


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