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Santa Monica Daily Press BURNING ISSUE SEE PAGE 7
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High school students plan to crash classes at Santa Monica College BY CATHERINE CAIN Special to the Daily Press
SMC Teachers on the first day of summer school classes today may find far more students in their rooms than they bargained for, and more that never signed up. Many high school students enrolled at SMC to take classes over the summer to get credits out of the way, fulfill graduation requirements or simply to boost grade point averages. While this is not unusual, many high school students were not able to sign up for their classes this year. This is unusual.
As a result, many students have plans to attend the first day of class in hopes of getting a spot anyway, essentially crashing a course. “It’s probably a combination of things,” SMC spokesman Bruce Smith said. “Over this past year, we have been experiencing, as all colleges have, higher enrollment. As the economy tanks, enrollment skyrockets.” Smith also cited classes being cut and students coming from other community colleges around Los Angeles as reasons for large class sizes. Jessica Ro is an incoming Santa Monica High School senior who was hoping to sign up for a communications class “The class was already full by the time
Photo courtesy Joan Baez
high school enrollment started,” Ro said. She is planning to rush the class, or “show up and hope I get in,” as she puts it. Spots in classes open up as some students usually drop out after discovering scheduling conflicts or too demanding a courseload. Unregistered students show up to the first few days of class hoping to fill the empty spots before anyone else. Ro is not alone, as many high school students are planning on doing the same after discovering their classes were full moments after registration opened. “I was told to sign up at 6 p.m. on the SEE CLASSES PAGE 8
State releases new guidelines for eating fish
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Baez remains connected to pier BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SM PIER There’s an old photo of a folk singer in a recently published book about the Santa Monica Pier’s history, showing a young woman leaning back in a chair, her ankles crossed mid-air, her face slightly tilted upward, clearly amused. The picture of the then 29-year-old Joan Baez, published in “Santa Monica Pier: a Century on the Last Great Pleasure Pier,” was taken in the apartment of her good friend Colleen Creedon, a well-known local activist who lived in an upstairs unit of the Looff Hippodrome just above the carousel. It is where Baez’ fondest memories of the pier were born, where she spent nights sleeping on the water bed while her young son was still small enough to fit snuggly on a bean bag. The pier was a place where she always remained connected and always intended to return.
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LOS ANGELES The state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is updating its safe-eating guidelines for fish caught off Southern California because of PCBs, DDT and other contaminants. Spokesman Sam Delson says officials expanded the sampling area from Ventura Harbor to Carlsbad. Fish from 22 species were analyzed for contaminants. Consumers are warned to avoid white croaker, barred sand bass and topsmelt from Santa Monica Beach to Seal Beach Pier. Children under 18 and women under the age of 45 are also warned not to eat black croaker or barracuda from Ventura Harbor to San Mateo Point. PCBs and DDTs are man-made chemicals that were banned in the 1970s. But by then large amounts of the contaminants had flowed into the ocean and were deposited on the seafloor off the Palos Verdes Peninsula. They continue to be absorbed by fish.
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