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Serving San Jose City College
Thursday, September 17, 1992
Education, health care emphasized • 1n Clinton speech by Amelia Lara Entertainment Editor
Bill Clinton amidst a sea of banners, signs and spectators.
photo by Ryan Bates
. Student Union rededication · ceremony set for Sept. 30 The musical entertainment will festivities will begin at 10 a.m. and last about three hours. The pro- be provided by members of City gram will consist of guest speak- College'smusicdirector. Tbefrrst Several years of planning and ers, past alumni, musical enter- to perform will be the City College two ceaseless semesters of recon- tainment, and refreshments. Woodwind Quintet under the distruction, San Jose City College Members of the Associated rection of Dr. Darrell Johns top. will celebrate the completion of Student Council will assist by givNext, music instructor, Dr. Elvin the newly finished Herman ing guided tours of the Union to Rodriguez, will perform an array Bucbser College Union on visitors. of musical selections on the elecVVednesday,Sept.30. The featured speakers will be tronic keyboard. Finally, KJCC Total investment of the restora- introduced by the Master of Cer- the campus radio station, will tion cost the San Jose/Evergreen emonies, City College Pre~ident broadcast at 12:30 p.m. District a total of $1.7 million. Del Anderson. San Jose Chief of Complimentary coffee and There are also many features that Police, Lou Cobarruviaz, a gradu- muffins will be provided in the were not there before including a ate of City College, will be the morning, and a country style lunbig screen color television, a keynote speaker. He will be suc- cheon will be provided after the broadcasting booth, and a video ceeded by David Purdue, Associ- ceremony. arcade room. atedStudentCouncilPresident, and The San Jose City Cafe will be The Rededication Ceremony other alumni as well. providing the food.
by Ilene Meeks Campus Editor
Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton told 10,000 people at San Jose State Tuesday that the need for new technology and affordable and accessible education are the key to the future to progress for America. Speaking before a crowd at the Tower Hall Quad at San Jose State University, Democratic candidate Bill Clinton emphasized that the Clinton/Gore plan is to offer a national service trust from which anyone who wants to go to college can borrow money, as long as they promise to pay it back in one of two ways. One way is to have a small percentage taken out of their earnings while they work, or by working from one to two years in community service. "If every person in California who got a college education paid the loan back by working for a year or two as a teacher, a police officer, in a housing program, with kids in trouble, with the elderly, to help people with disabilities work and live atbome, ...think of all the things we could do. We could solve the problems of Am~rica and educate a whole generation of people," said Clinton about his education plan. He then added, "But we also have to do something else. We have to finally, ...join the ranks of all the advanced countries of the world and provide basic afford-
City College feels budget cuts by Jack Pavey Opinion Editor
City college students will have to to dig deeper into their pockets for tuition and fees next semester, due to the unprecedented cuts in the state school budget and a "poison pill" nullification of proposition 98. Most students will have to COugh up $10 per unit- $4 more thanthisyear-andthe 10-unitlimit on enrollment fees bas been withdrawn as well. There will also be a differential fee of $50 per unit (also with no limit) forthosebolding a bachelor's degree and students who have completed 90 units, with some exceptions for displaced homemakers, dislocated workers, and
general aid recipients. and the school budget cuts. " In addition, there may be other The community college budget cost increases and fees, such as the crisis is due, in part, to a suspenrecent $5 per semester materials sion of Proposition 98, the voter fee for computer lab use. Accord- mandate that required the state to ing to Dean of Administration Ri- spend 40 percent of revenues on chard Casey, other increases are education. It was reversed by a inevitable, although the impact is "poison pill" trailer bill that autonegligible for the current semes- matically suspends Prop. 98 if there ter. is a successful court challenge to ''VVe're worried about 1993," the state budget cuts in education. said Dean Casey. 'There could be In addition, the trailer bill also big cuts (in classes and services) in cut funding to community colleges the future." Although approxi- by a disproportionate amount, $124 mately 50 classes will be cut from million, compared to other educanext spring's schedule, Casey tional spending. pointed out that it was a very small Other state college systems are percentageoftheover 1,000classes suffering as well. Students within available. the California State University "It's a bad time to be doing system and University of Califorthis," said student body President nia schools experienced .40 and 24 David Perdue, of the fee increases percents respectively.
TUITION
able health care to every American." The Clinton/Gore health care plan calls for more control ofbealth care costs, reduce the bureaucracy, reduce the regulations, invest in primary and preventative health care and guarantee everyone basic health care. "There are some ideas we have to embrace ...VVe have to believe once again that we don't need to pit
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We don't need to say that if you preserve the environment you're going to kill the economy... Bill Clinton Democratic Candidate government against business. We don't need to pit business against labor. VVe don't need to say that if you preserve the environment you're going to kill the economy ...We need a new partnership between government and business and labor and education."
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COSTS
The average cost for California community college students is $360 a year.
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California's community college fees are still the lowest in the country.
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