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Volume69, Number 10 | March 24, 2015
ASGelection dates extended by a week due to lowturnout By ANGELICAWALLINGFORD Ci ty Ti mes I n an effor t to get mor e students involved with Associated Students Gover nment, Student Affair s extended the election dates for the upcoming election in Apr il. Potential ASG candidates or iginally had until Mar ch 16 to get
their election packets tur ned into the Student Affair s office in M-200 with voting to begin Apr il 15- 16. However, due to low candidacy tur nout, the dates wer e extended until Mar ch 23 for candidates to tur n in their packet with voting to take place Apr il 22-23. ?What happened is that we didn?t get much of a r esponse fr om
people wanting to r un for election,? L or i Oldham, student affair s coor dinator, said. ?We had so many places still to fill in the ASG that we extended a week in an effor t to get mor e people to apply for the par ticular position.?
ASGAdviser Gail Rodriguez and ASGSenator Breona Harris discuss the upcomingSocial Justice Conference onMarch20 inthe Student Affairsoffice in See ASG, page 11 roomM-200. ANGELICAWALLINGFORDCi ty Ti mes
City takes the gold San Diego City Collegetakes first placefor Best College/ University on Best of Downtown 2014 list By ANGELICAWALLINGFORD Ci ty Ti mes
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Soviet propaganda on display CityCollegedancersDanteFinchandBriannaBellamyperformatraditional Russianwaltzinthecenter of theCityGalleryaspart of the openingreceptionfor thegallery?snewest exhibition, ?Dialogues: Poster Art of theSoviet Union,?onMarch13. Theexhibitionfeaturesa rarecollectionof Soviet postersfromtheGlasnost andPerestroikaperiodsandnewcontemporaryart piecescreatedbyother illustrators, designersandartists. See storyonpage 9.
San Diego City College r eceived a gold r anking for Best College/Univer sity on the Best of Downtown L ist 2014, beating out San Diego State Univer sity, which placed silver. ?Thr oughout the distr ict we ar e all pr oud of City College,? Chancellor Constance M. Car r oll said via email. ?As our oldest institution and as our most urban institution, the college should defiantly be acknowledged as San Diego?s
best downtown educational asset.? The Best of Downtown 2014 list was chosen by the r eader s of the San Diego Downtown News publication to give r ecognition to their favor ite places in downtown San Diego. The list is separ ated into a number of categor ies including Dining & Dr inks, Retail & Enter tainment and Business & Retail with a plethor a of subcategor ies that include ever ything fr om the best fast food
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