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04.20.18 Volume 17 Issue 131
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Council to discuss city challenges at weekend retreat
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Santa Monica High School students plan walkout and protest at Santa Monica City Hall
KATE CAGLE Daily Press Staff Writer
The City Council plans to have a strategic and broad-based conversation this weekend during an annual retreat at Virginia Avenue Park. The conversation will focus on how to apply new technologies to “transform service experiences” and fix problems without hiring more city staff. SEE COUNCIL PAGE 11
US experts back marijuana-based drug for childhood seizures
Helena Sung
PLANNING: Students have been preparing this week for today’s event that will bring students to Santa Monica City Hall.
HELENA SUNG Corsair/Daily Press Staff Writer
MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer
A medicine made from the marijuana plant moved one step closer to U.S. approval Thursday after federal health advisers endorsed it for the treatment of severe seizures in children with epilepsy. If the Food and Drug Administration follows the group's recommendation, GW Pharmaceuticals' syrup would become the first drug derived from the cannabis plant to win federal approval in the U.S. The 13-member FDA panel voted unanimously in favor of the experimental medication made from a chemical found in cannabis
Students from several local high schools met in a church hall in Santa Monica on Tuesday night to finalize plans for today’s scheduled walkouts at 10 a.m. and a rally at Santa Monica City Hall at 11 a.m. in protest of gun violence. Called the Los Angeles Student Activist Coalition (LASAC), the group is comprised of public and private school students from Santa Monica High School, University High School, Venice High School, Beverly Hills High School, Archer School for Girls, and Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, among others. “We want to be a part of this change that people are talking about,” said Lea Yamashiro, a junior at Santa Monica High School who is in charge of publicizing the school’s walkout and protest at city hall. Today marks the 19-year anniversary of
the shooting at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado that killed 13 people. High schools across the country are again planning walkouts in protest of gun violence. It is the third such national protest since a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 galvanized students to walk out of classes on March 14, and organize “March for Our Lives” protests across the country on March 24. “A lot of this is in anger at what happened to these kids [in Parkland],” Yamashiro said. “When I found out 17 people at a school got shot, I had a full-on panic attack. I felt a connection to these kids. One of the girls was a soccer player, like me, and seeing a projection of myself in a student who was dead completely freaked me out. I see it as future friends of mine, colleagues, and college students who were just stripped away.”
Younger students who grew up doing lockdown drills and thinking that they could die at school think that's horrible. “I was born in 2002 – after Columbine,” said Roger Gawne, a freshman at Santa Monica High School. “I was in the fourth grade at Franklin Elementary School [in Santa Monica] when we had a three to four-hour lockdown because of the shooting at Santa Monica College. I remember doing lockdown drills. That fear runs my life.” This time, the stakes are higher for students at Santa Monica High School who chose to walk out of class on Friday. “The school administration was in support of the walkout on March 14, but we didn’t walk off the campus,” Yamashiro said. “We gathered on the field.” This time, they plan to walk out of class and march to Santa SEE WALKOUT PAGE 7
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