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VOLUME 52, ISSUE 8 | THURSDAY JAN. 26, 2017 | www.meramecmontage.com
News:
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Campus Police lock down Meramec
The Kirkwood Police Department (KWPD) asked the Meramec campus police for help during the lockdown that took place on Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 9:50 p.m., campus Police Chief Anthony Russo said in an email. Russo said a home invasion that transpired very close to campus caused the lockdown. The KWPD set up a search area and asked campus police to man locations on the street.
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Art & Life:
Gov. Greitens cuts nearly $12 million in core community college funding
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Sean E. Thomas Staff Writer
On Monday, Jan. 16, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announced he would be proposing a total of $146 million in cuts to the Missouri budget. Higher education, with an anticipated $82 million in cuts, will be taking the biggest hit. Of the $82 million that will be coming out of spending for higher education, almost $12 million will be coming directly from core funding for Community Colleges. Core funding refers to financial support that covers
basic “core” organizational and administrative costs. This includes salaries for full-time employees, equipment, and facility upkeep. Some other areas of note that may stand to lose funding are the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Education Programs at Harris Stowe State University, a historically black college, and the Cyber Security Training Program at Southeast Missouri State University. Four-year institutions will also be facing some of the same core funding cuts that are threatening St. Louis Community College campuses.
Greitens cited projections that would put the state of Missouri $39 million in the red by the end of the fiscal year as a reason for the proposed budget cuts, but promises no increase in taxes to remedy the issue. Greitens pointed to poor economic growth as a reason for the growing deficit but with individual income taxes holding steady for the current fiscal year, it is unclear what is affecting economic growth in Missouri. In fiscal year 2015 Missouri collected $436 million in corporate tax revenues. In 2016, that number fell to $281 million.
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STLCC removes physical education from college graduation requirements Diversi-tea serves unity to students Meramec hosts Diversi-tea event to encourage community throught student body. Posters inspire students to think about how they can break down barriers and accept others while enjoying a hot mug of tea. Students spur each other on to be open minded toward others.
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Stephen Buechter Staff Writer
The College Academic Council’s (CAC) campus representatives voted to remove the physical education credits from STLCC’s graduation requirements. “It is up to the members of CAC at the district level to essentially vote their conscience, and they are not required to vote as the campus voted,” said Margaret Hvatum, Meramec Campus’ CAC representative
and professor of information systems. “So at CAC, there was a motion made, seconded, and approved to have a secret ballot, so we voted by secret ballot.” Hvatum said that while it is still required for most individual degree programs, the programs may decide whether or not to include physical education credits in their requirements when they are revised. However the trend in the state of Missouri is to have 60 credit hour programs so physical edu-
cation is likely to be one of the first credits dropped from program requirements to meet that benchmark.
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Sports:
Archers rally in the second half Men’s Basketball Archers vs Blackburn JV
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Opinions:
Katie Hayes
CNN is not ‘fake news’ During a time when journalists are fighting not to be labeled “dishonest,” Buzzfeed fur ther blurred the lines of ethical journalism.
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Women’s Basketball Archers vs MCC-Penn Valley
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