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VOL. 155, ISSUE 5, MARCH 20-APRIL 9, 2013
Budget cuts
Funding for Southeast shuttle lost Program continues but service will be limited By Madeline Collins
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Funding provided by City College was cut last semester for the shuttle van program that safely transported students from different areas around the city with high crime rate and gang activity. Students were shuttled to the Southeast campus to attend the GED program, as well as other courses. The A. Philip Randolph Institute San Francisco organized and ran the program that began receiving funding in January 2012. A contract was drafted and signed with City College to fund the shuttle van and outreach program for six months. It was then extended to a year-long contract. City College contributed $26,000 for each six-month contract. Funding was cut in November 2012. Representatives from the A. Philip Randolph Institute attended and spoke at the Dec. 13 City College Board of Trustees meeting, along with students that benefited from the program. Student Tim Henderson, who passed the GED program at Southeast campus, shared a poem at the Trustee’s meeting. “The van was courageous enough to take us past war territory left empty. For us, what was once an opportunity is now one more hurdle to jump, one more reason to stay home,” Henderson said. The van transported students from various areas with most stops being made in low-income areas, including Alemany, Bayview-Hunter’s Point, Sunnydale, Potrero Hill, Alice Griffith and the Fillmore. Many students can’t travel through certain blocks or areas of town due to gang activity, so public transportation was often not an option. SHUTTLE: PAGE 2
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More than 300 people take part in the Save CCSF rally held in front of City Hall on March 14, 2013. Photo by Juan Pardo/The Guardsman
Accreditation
Hundreds rally for CCSF Protesters march from Mission to Civic Center
By Jandean Deocampo THE GUARDSMAN / JDEOCAMPO@THEGUARDSMAN.COM / @BANANAISAFRUIT
The cascading fog did not deter students of City College from gathering at Ocean campus’ Ram Plaza for the beginning of the “March 14th Walk-Out and March on City Hall.” The city wide event called for students to walk out of their classes at 1 p.m. and join the Save CCSF Coalition, along with multiple teacher’s unions, endorsers, and students alike, in a march to Civic Center followed by a rally in front of City Hall. The crowd size outside of City Hall was between 300 to 500. Micheal Madden, sound engineering student and Save CCSF student organizer, was one of the many canvassers for the threepoint petition proposed by the
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Police escort demonstrators as they march from City College’s Mission campus to Civic Center on March 14, 2013. The group marched down Valencia Street to Market Street, before turning north on Van Ness Avenue.
Coalition. “We want to ensure Prop A funds are used for education as voters intended, fill any extra budget gap by [City Hall] advancing the funds to CCSF, and call the Department of Education to stop the Accreditation Commission’s unjustified Show Cause sanction against the school,” Madden said. Coalition sentiment also seemed to lean on the actions and agendas of Lumina Foundation in its granting of funds to the Accreditation Commission for
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Community and Junior Colleges in order to restructure the priorities of institutions throughout the state. Banners and chalk drawings on the plaza’s ground publicized the coming event, along with sign twirling from City College dancer and student Spencer Pulu. At 1 p.m., as a torrent of mist chilled the bones of the gathered few at Ram Plaza, the march began. The crowd climbed the stairs between Cloud Hall and the Science Hall, photographers scur-
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rying ahead of the throng as well as bike-mounted protesters, who urged passersby to join them. Chanting, “walkout,” and, “the students united will never be divided,” they waved banners and signs at the windows of each building they passed. Cars began to honk as the crowd reached the main roads, and it was around this time the campus police began their escort, tailing the protesters in their patrol cars until they entered the Balboa Park BART station. The cross streets of Mission Street were subsequently filled with varied chants of “We want the money,” and its Spanish equivalent, “Queremos el dinero,” leaving several bystanders amused and traffic somewhat halted. It was at this point that the SFPD began to escort the protest, by way of patrol motorbikes and a police van. The march paid a brief visit to City College’s Mission Campus, where many more people waited to support the rally and join in the march. “We’re coming out here to gather. We’ve landed at Mission, later we’re going to Mission High PROTEST: PAGE 2
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