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Community colleges throughout California are feeling the brunt of state budget cuts passed in August, even though the cuts are not as extreme as anticipated from January's proposed budget. "The community outcry was significant enough to largely affect the community college budget," said Scott Lay, the budget direc-
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - Twelve-year-old Ben Johnston's recent visit to Yellowstone National Park was his first real camping trip. "I wanna keep going. I'm not ready to go home," Johnston said, after nearly two weeks of hiking, rafting, and exploring Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. Johnston is one of 14 biology and zoology students at Palomar who traveled to the parks of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming Aug. 5-14. Biology professor Dan
Sourbeer brings a class to the region every year to study plant and animal life, which is open to all ages. "It's just spectacular. You never know what you're going to see," Sourbeer said. Yellowstone National Park is more than 2.2 million acres in size. That's about three times the size ofYosemite National Park in California. Students kept detailed journals of the species they witnessed and delivered prepared reports to the group about nature-related topics. Mike Reeske delivered his
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report on fire ecology while plumes of smoke from a distant forest fire billowed in the background. Reeske is a chemistry teacher at Vista High School. After nearly a decade of exploring the parks with his students, Sourbeer said he never stops learning. "That's par to the course. Everybody's a teacher. Everybody's a student. I learn from them." Although students must complete academic objectives while on the trip, Sourbeer said no sci-
tor for the Community College League of California. Community colleges across California will be hit with about an $87 million cut, along with a fee increase from $11 to $18 per unit, Lay said. "Local community colleges are going to be challenged to reach out to students so every student knows financial aid is available," Lay said. "It is now our job to make sure not a single Californian is denied access to community colleges
California community college students are paying for a 64 percent increase in tuition fees this semester. Fees have climbed from $11 per unit to $18 per unit. The changes arise from the new state budget, which Gov. Gray Davis signed into law Aug. 2. Some students say these changes are unreasonable. "It's too much, too expensive," said psychology major Anthony Bowden. Erik Pederson, a fire science major, said he was unhappy with the higher fees, but he thought they are probably necessary.
"Of course 1 don't like It, but to a degree I understand it," he said. Ellie Masiello, admissions and enrollment coordinator, said that students who are having trouble with the higher fees should apply for a Board of Governors Fee Waiver at the financial aid office. Normally, students who had not paid their fees by Aug. 15 would have been dropped, but all students were awarded an extension due to the availability of additional BOGW funds. Masiello warned that students who registered at the • SEE FEES, PAGE 6
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da Barnett had the type of laugh you uld hear from another room. "You ew she was there without seeing her," said Lea Fugate, Barnett's friend and colleague at Palomar College. Barnett, a vivacious woman and admissions assistant at Palomar, always went out of her way to help people and students. "She had light within her that directed so many people. She was a light here and that was taken," Fugate said. Barnett was killed during the week of July 25 while using vacation time to move her and three sons into a new apartment.
She was attempting to leave her husband, Eugene Luis Kidd, said Diane McAllister, Barnett's mentor and the coordinator of assessment. They were married for only 18 months, McAllister said. On the night of July 29 Barnett left her new home and never returned. Two days later, police officers found her body in Kidd's apartment, McAllister said. Police officers arrested Kidd Aug. 5. He is now awaiting trial for his wife's murder. Although the tragedy of Barnett's death is difficult to erase, her colleagues say it is the memory of her life and character that they will long remember. SEE MEMORY, PAGE 6
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