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Vol. 65, No. 8
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
NOT AGAIN: TUITION GOING UP $10 4 3 shaun kahmann the telescope
What can you do with $10?
Another $10-per-unit fee hike is likely on the horizon if the state doesn’t find more money before Dec. 15. When California legislators decided to raise community college tuition fees from $26 to $36-per-unit last January, they implemented a trigger that would cut the system’s budget by $30 million and bump up tuition in Summer 2012 if state coffers remained empty. The $30 million cut will take effect f state revenue falls more than a $1 billion below projections. If the shortfall is more than $2 billion, a $102 million cut will be implemented in addition to the tuition increase, according to a report from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. One silver lining is that the Board of Governors (BOG) fee waiver will not be affected by the increase, according to Palomar Director of Financial Aid Mary San Agustin, allowing low-income students to dodge a financial bullet. The Legislative Analyst Office released a projection on California’s revenue on Nov.15. Now, it is up to the Department of Finance to decide whether to pull the trigger and raise fees in December, according to Joseph Newmyer, interim Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services. If implemented, the new tuition hikes will have students paying 27 percent more than they do now. That’s a 65 percent increase since last spring. Mark Evilsizer, presiturn to tuItioN, PAGE 7
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Professor to teach students about Occupy
Federal agents discuss dangers of trafficking
Protesters demonstrate on Nov. 21 at an Occupy UC Davis in Davis, California. (Manny Crisostomo/Sacramento Bee/MCT)
The average age of entry into prostitution is 12, according to an FBI agent who spoke at Palomar in early November. (Courtesy LibyaFreePress)
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LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO GEEK OUT ABOUT GOOD MOVIES? WE’VE GOT IT ON PAGE 5 PLUS: A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE ON TUITION HIKES ON PAGE 3 AND DEEP BACKGROUND ON A COOL COACH ON PAGE 8
Palomar may soon be offering an opportunity to learn about the Occupy movement and collaborate with fellow San Diego protestors. The Occupy Wall Street movement has been taking the world by storm since Sept. 17. What started as a small protest against corporate greed camped in downtown Manhattan has now spread to over 100 cities nationwide, in-
cluding San Diego. Dr. Phillip Debarros, professor of anthropology, has taken a particular interest in the Occupy movement. Before the protests began, Debarros had already been dealing with his own frustrations about the dysfunctional aspects of American government. He wanted to organize a demonstration at Palomar for CNN, but once Occupy Wall Street started he decided to throw his weight behind turn to occupY, PAGE 11
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One out of three runaway teens on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home, according to FBI officials who came to Palomar recently. Palomar’s Phi Theta Kappa club hosted a presentation on human trafficking on Nov. 15 to a standing-room-only audience of more than 100 people. It was co-hosted by the Child Development Club and Palo-
mar 4 People. Two FBI agents and a sergeant from the San Diego Police Department gave presentations. An FBI Supervising Special Agent also attended. The names of the agents who presented are not being used because of security reasons. The first agent who presented, a San Diego FBI agent who works in the crimes against children unit, talked about the risk of children being sexually exploited. She turn to human, PAGE 7