The Connection Vol. 60 Issue 5 11/15/2012

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Opinion

Features

Sports

Disney's purchase of "Star Wars" is not the end of the franchise. The films will pull through.

Students turn tables on professors: Popular website lets students grade professors. >>Learn more on page 7

Men's basketball is taking the court. Young but talented group looks to start the season off right.

>>Hear our writer's reasoning, page 3

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>>Hear their expectations, page 4

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Programs on campus aid veterans adjusting to college life Mozes Zarate mzarate.connect@gmail

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Members from Post 521 of American Legion were one of the many who were honored in the Elk Grove Veteran's Day Parade on Nov. 11. American Legion works to unite veterans and provide support for families of veterans.

California “comes to its senses” San Diego Community College Chancellor Constance Carroll says passage of Proposition 30 marks a turning point Stephan Starnes sstarnes.connect@gmail With Proposition 30 being passed by voters in the election, California community colleges will be able to avoid $338 million in budget cuts and will gain $210 million in revenue. Voters said “Yes” to increasing taxes on individuals who earn an annual income of more than $250,000 for seven years, as well as increasing sales tax for four years by one quarter of a penny starting on Jan. 1. “Cosumnes River College and the Los Rios District are grateful to those who voted yes on Proposition 30,” said CRC President Dr. Deborah Travis. “While we are celebrating its passage, we also understand that many challenges lie ahead and we will need to rebuild the student access that’s been lost over the last few years. “However, I am confident we will face those challenges together and the college, its students and the community will begin to see

Campus crime occurring less; still affecting students Josh Slowiczek jslowiczek.connect@gmail Based solely on campus appearance and location, one might not expect that

the benefits of Prop 30’s passage soon.” In a teleconference on Nov. 7, California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice Harris said that California schools will be able to add 20,000 students statewide. Harris said that Proposition 30 "gets the state’s commitment to higher education back on track,” and “makes good on funding the state has deferred.” Harris also noted that Proposition 30 passing will not restore schools to “pre-recession” level. Cosumnes River College Dean of humanities and social sciences Ginny McReynolds said that her department was faced with cutting over 25 classes over the next year if Proposition 30 had failed. McReynolds said that cuts to courses would not occur, and “there could be some addition, but it could stay flat.” “Our goal is to work with the district to see what their plans are,” McReynolds said, adding that the district is currently assessing the proposition’s passage. She described Los Rios as a “smart and frugal district.” McReynolds has served at CRC for the past four years. She previously worked at Sacramento City College and said she has never seen education is such bad shape. “For me, what the relief is, is that people understand the importance of education, the importance of community college education,” McReynolds said. Communications, Visual and Performing Arts Dean Torence

students enrolled here at Cosumnes River College have been subject to property damage, harassment and grand theft. These crimes, while sporadic in nature, are nothing new to the Los Rios district and on Sept. 22, the Los Rios District Police Department notified students that it had published its annual Clery Report. Originally known as the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990, the Annual Clery Report “requires colleges and universities to publish an annual report every year by Oct. 1st that contains three years’ worth of campus crime statistics and certain security police statements,” according to the LRDPD notification.

The Huffington Post cited a prediction that 88 percent of the Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans that have returned home and begun attending college in the United States will drop out by next summer. Peggy Ursin, Cosumnes River College Outreach Specialist at admissions and records, clarified that it is a tough calculation to make for our campus. “The college knows what veterans are enrolled who are taking advantage of educational benefits,” Ursin said. “But we have never had a handle on how many veterans are going to school here because some of them >>See Veternas' Center, Page 2

Obama reelection no surprise to students Brittany Patrick bpatrick.connect@gmail

In comparison with the ten other campuses and centers CRC ranks second for criminal activity. However within the past three years the campus has seen a decrease in all forms of criminal offenses and arrests with the exception of drug related instances, where the average number has held at 17 violations annually for the last two years according to the Clery Report. While decreasing in frequency the severity of these crimes have not followed suit. On Oct. 12 an unidentified group of

Of the Cosumnes River College students interviewed many were “not surprised” by President Barack Obama’s re-election over Republican candidate Mitt Romney. President Obama won the Electoral College 332 votes to Romney’s 206, as well as the popular vote by about 4.35 million votes. The race was predicted to be a close one, but the president appeared to have won by a landslide. Sacramento County contributed to the president’s re-election; 57 percent of the population darkened the bubble next to his name, according to the New York Times. In a previous poll, conducted by the Connection, CRC students’ votes lay with Obama 3-1, but in a sample done the day after the election the preferences between the two candidates were fifty-fifty. “I wasn’t surprised, I had a very strong feeling that he (Obama) was going to win,” said Lauren Mulvany,

>>See Clery, Page 2

>>See Romney supporters, Page 2

>>See Proposition, Page 2


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