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Volume70 Number 1 | September 29, 2015
Class section cancellations stir frustration Stories by PHOENIXWEBB City Times San Diego City College faculty and students wer e dismayed as the fall semester star ted with the cancellation of 41 classes. The ensuing backlash per sists. Administr ation issued the blanket statement that classes wer e cancelled due to low student enr ollments. Some faculty has counter ed that low enr ollments wer e not cut and dr y since a lot of students in their pr ogr ams histor ically got add codes dur ing the fir st two weeks of classes. Dur ing the fir st Academic Senate meeting of the semester Sept. 14, the topic of class cancellations was discussed at length and gar ner ed many comments fr om instr uctor s who wer e pr esent. Thomas Davies, instr uctor
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Classes seeing static in RTVF department Amid this semester ?s cancellation of classes, Communications Chair L aur a Casta単eda descr ibed what happened in her depar tment as mor e than just cuts. ?We understand the district?s logic that they would cancel a class that only had two or three students enrolled in it, it?s just not feasible, you know, to have a class like that,? Casta単eda said in an interview. ?So we?re in total agreement with them on some of those types of situations come up sometimes.?
San DiegoCity College student Zaphire Alonsolays in her hospital bed at UCSDMedical Center on Sept. 9 after transferringfrom Hospital General dePlayadel CarmeninCancun, Mexico, after anAug. 16 motorcycleaccident. MIKEMADRIAGACity Times
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See STATIC, page 2 By MIKEMADRIAGA City Times ?? We wer e going fast thr ough the Car r eter a Tulum, then the motor cycle star ted moving ar ound and that is when we flew (off),? explained Zaphir e Alonso, a San Diego City College student who was absent dur ing the fir st two weeks of school, with mor e than a legitimate excuse. On Aug. 11, Alonso and her fr iend Cr istalmar Palencia, took a tr ip down to Cancun, Mexico,
to celebr ate passing all of their summer classes at City College with As. The two enjoyed one last escapade befor e the star t of the fall semester. Their social media accounts depicted vacation photos and updates of them hiking, kayaking, pr acticing yoga, dancing and r iding motor cycles. On Aug. 16, Alonso r emember ed getting on the back of a str eet bike with her cousin?s fr iend, Vladimir and that he acceler ated to 120 mph. Vladimir bar ely missed two taxis par ked,
when he had lost contr ol. ? ? I flew (away) and I closed my eyes,? Alonso r ecalled. Alonso?s cousin, I r ving Duar te, r an to the scene and kept yelling ?Por que ? Por que?? questioning what had just tr anspir ed between his 20 year old Mexican- Amer ican cousin, and fr iend, Vladimir. Within appr oximately five minutes, Alonso could hear the ambulance coming, to tr anspor t them to Hospital Gener al de
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