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Volume 104, Issue 10
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November 8, 2012
Proposition 30
School officials enthusiastic over voters' approval of tax increase
NICHOLAS SAUL
Editor-in-Chief
Officials at PCC were jubilant
Wednesday at voter approval of
Proposition 30, the ballot meas¬
ure that will restore about $6.7
million in funding for the col¬
lege.
"The passage of Prop 30 is a
great thing for PCC and especial¬
ly for our students," said
President Mark Rocha in an
email sent out to the college.
"We will see a bright future for
Pasadena City College where we
are working together in unity for
the greater good. The American
Dream is alive and well at PCC!"
Proposition 30 was approved
Tuesday with a 54 percent major¬
ity of California voters. It was
proposed and supported by
California Gov. Jerry Brown and
avoids a $6 billion cut to schools
statewide.
"Suffice it to say on this beau¬
tiful morning that everything's
going to be OK," Rocha said.
"The cuts are behind us now and
we can move forward with our
plans to improve access to class¬
es for students."
President of the Board of
Trustees Geoffrey Baum echoed
Rocha's enthusiasm in an inter¬
view on Wednesday.
"I hope this means there will
be no more cuts... last year we
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Pasadena Fire Department Captain Rich Clark of Station 32 adds fuel to a controlled fire during the fire extinguisher training
for the Campus Emergency Response Team at the Robinson Stadium on Nov. 2.
Campus response team trains in vacant U Building
Philip McCormick
Staff Writer
The U Building's top three floors
have 'pancaked' down and it is up to
the Campus Emergency Response
Team to go in and evacuate any surviv¬
ing or injured students or faculty
members. This was the scenario that
Pasadena Fire Captain Rich Clark had
given to the PCC CERT team on its first
training day, Friday morning.
"It was a good exercise," said Clark.
"There was a good level of participa¬
tion and interest."
Firefighters of the Pasadena Fire
Department, Station 32, came to help
start training members of the CERT
team and used the U Building for a live
training drill. The drill included three
six-man search and rescue teams going
into the condemned building and
going room-to-room to "save" cadets,
who had been placed in random loca¬
tions within the building. It was each
team's job to find and escort survivors
out safely, with assistants from the fire
fighters.
Some cadets were asked to play
along with the drill and be survivors
that were either injured, trapped or
even dead. It was very dark in a few
areas of the U Building, and CERT
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Campus community has mixed reactions to election results
Courier Staff
The campus community Wednesday
had mixed reactions to President
Barack Obama's re-election win, even
though most showed overwhelmingly
positive support for him over
Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Associated Students President
Simon Fraser overall happy with the
outcome of the election. "I'm very
pleased with the result," said Fraser.
"[Obama] laid out plans for communi¬
ty colleges... I just hope he follows
through with them."
Many students and staff alike were
pleased that Obama was going to see a
second term, saying that they thought
he would reduce the national deficit.
"I've been an Obama supporter for a
very long time... I was ecstatic that he
was re-elected," said Academic Senate
President Dustin Hanvey. "I was very
thrilled with the results of the elec¬
tion."
Hanvey said he hopes that Obama
will be able to get more work done on
sustainability and energy independ-
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Key ballot
measure will
restore funds
to college
$910,000 on the way
for additional classes
Raymond Bernal and Christine Michaels
Staff Writers
California Community Colleges will receive
hundreds of millions in funding after the passage
of Proposition 30, officials said.
As much as $210 million for the current academ¬
ic year could be coming to the state's 112 commu¬
nity colleges after voters approved the tax increase
measure on Tuesday, said California Community
College Chancellor Brice Harris in a news confer¬
ence on Wednesday morning.
Harris did warn that the proposition would not
be a fix-all solution. "It certainly will not bring the
system back to pre-recession levels, but it does get
the state's commitment to higher education and
specifically community colleges headed in the
right direction," Harris explained.
Of the total, $160 million is to pay what the state
owes all colleges, according to Harris.
The remaining $50 million is for adding more
class sections in the spring semester, according to
Harris.
Pasadena City College will be receiving $910,000
to add classes, according to the numbers from
Chancellor's fiscal services division.
During the news conference, San Diego
Community College District Chancellor Constance
Carroll was enthusiastic with the voters' decision
on Proposition 30.
"We are celebrating today because [on Tuesday
night] California came to its senses," she said.
Los Angeles Community College District
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