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5-hour Energy linked to 13 deaths Los Rios selects new chancellor By Kevin Frodahl kfrodahl.connect@gmail
By Scott Redmond sredmond.connect@gmail After a nationwide search to replace retired Dr. Brice Harris, Dr. Brian King was appointed to serve as the new Los Rios Community College District chancellor, according to a Los Rios press release. Dr. King was chosen as chancellor by the Los Rios Community College District Board of Trustees at a special meeting held on Nov. 26, according to the press release. “We were looking for a person with exceptional leadership skills and broad communitycollege experience,” said Los Rios board president Ruth Scribner in the press release. “We found those qualities, combined with great personal integrity and a passion for student success, in Dr. King and we look forward to many years of his expert guidance at the helm of our district.” King has served as president and superintendent Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA, since 2004 and has over 20 years of experience in community college teaching and administrative positions, according to the press release. “It is a true honor to have been selected to lead such a great district,” King said. “The excellent reputation of Los Rios, its programs, faculty and staff are what encouraged me to seek this position and I look forward to continuing and enhancing that reputation for years to come.” King currently serves on various local and state boards including board chair of the California Community College Athletics Association, board member of the Community College League of California Chief Executive Officers, president-elect of the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce, board member of the Dominican Hospital; member of the Santa Cruz Business Council, and chair of numerous accreditation site visits for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), according Dr. Brian King to the press release. King is credited for leading Cabrillo through two successful bond campaigns which raised more than $20 million in private donations through the college foundation, and guided the implementation of successful student success measures, according to the press release. King is expected to begin his duties as chancellor on Feb 1.
Five Hour Energy drinks are currently the subject of a Food and Drug Administration investigation into reports that are linking the popular beverage to serious health complications, and in some cases death. This information comes from a report titled, “Voluntary and Mandatory
Reports on 5-hour Energy, Monster En- heart rate, a decrease in concentration, ergy, and Rockstar” released by the FDA tremors, anxiety, fidgeting,”said Michelle on Nov. 15, which collects statistics from Barkley, head nurse at Cosumnes River health filings related to energy drink use College. “With long term effects, those since 2004. energy drinks artificially alter your heart According to the report, 5-hour En- rate, which is wearing down your body’s ergy may be involved with as many as 13 organs, especially the heart.” deaths and 36 hospitalizations over the The health reports also show a volley last three years in the U.S. alone. of health conditions that the energy drink “There are immediate effects to drink>>See Energy Drink, Page 2 ing it [energy drinks], which are a rapid
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The negative effects of 5-hour Energy drinks, among others, can last for far longer than the boost of activity you feel.
Proposition 30 relieves transfer student concerns when considering the costs of transferring.” Aagaard added that the benefit of having two local schools, California State Before the passing of Proposition 30, University, Sacramento and University of California colleges were facing the stark California, Davis, is that more students reality of having to make cuts to classes consider transferring locally to deal with and teachers with the possibility of al- the costs of four year schools. ready high tuition getting even higher. Confidence in students transferring Yearly tuition is nearing $13,000 for locally even with higher tuitions is not the University of California system and shared by all. $6000 for the California State University “If tuition goes down then yeah, they system. [transferring students] will probably stay Tuition hikes have plagued the uni- here,” said 20-year-old undeclared major versities for years and caused students to George Alveret. “That was probably part adjust every school year in their decisions of the reason they were going elsewhere. about which school to attend. It was going up every year ridiculously “Students need to consider all op- high.” tions,” said CRC Transfer Director David Kaitlyn Peck, 19, a microbiology maAagaard. “And I think private schools are jor, said she felt that it was possible that being considered more as an alternative she might consider going to a school in By Scott Redmond sredmond.connect@gmail
California after the passing of Proposition 30. “I’ve already gone to Sac State,” Peck said. “I need to go to wherever suits my needs better.” Peck also said that high tuitions were mostly likely a cause for students not going to school but that also it could be “because of what they want”. Martha Aguilar, 19, a communications major, said she plans to attend St. Mary’s in Moraga, Calif. but had ideas if tuition kept rising. “Somewhere close still like Oregon or Washington,” Aguilar said. “As I don’t want to be far from home.” Proposition 30 will bring relief to some and help them decide on where they are going to school, in or out of state, but Aguilar wasn’t certain it would placate all. >>See CSU, Page 2