Des. Moines Discusses Budget Cuts
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c .f -. .I Des.Moines discusses budget cuts wants to By Heidi Lar8son be a StaffRepOrter Maintaining public. safety and preserving the Parks and millionaire Recreation Department werethe prevailing themes of the Des By Sergey Kopasov Moines City Council meeting. and Marta Pelayo A standing mom only crowd Staff Reporters. gathered on Nov.18 to discuss the 2000 budget. Thy Highline College Foun- The 2000 budBet will be fi- dation Boardof Directors is not nalized on Nov.29. sure if the organizationwill take **Wehave hard choices to on the projectof raising $1 mil- make regarding services to cut * lion for the new student center, and what revenues to raise," ExecutiveDirector Mark said Mayor Scott Thomasson. McKay said on Monday. **Tonight we welcome your in- During the Board's meeting put, butall the choices am hard. c on NOV.18, AssociateDean of Youneed to tell us whatto Student Programs Diane Ander- choose between. Don't justtell son, Vice President for Students us it's all bad. Please give us the * (' JimSorensen, and Vice Presi- help we need. to, weigh. our . .' * ... dent of Administration Laura choices." -- Saunders made -* their . @kh. * Many peoplestepped for- However,the amount to be ward stressing their concem raised wasn't specified, accord- over public safety. The police ing to FoundationVice Resident department is facing a cut in for Operations JohnHub. funding. Police officers made Huber said that the $1 mil- known their concern as well. lion number was kicked around,Officers saidtheir personal but never actuallyofFicially pm safety isalso at risk if tht police Pod* force is redud. Hubcr thinks that the project Many crime prevention pro- is great andis supportive of the grams currently in action in idea for the new student center. jeopardy. People speaking-at the He feels that it is possible to raise this kind of money, but it answers, For 2. * system."thescantmn * wouldnot be 'just the A coupleweeks ago, history . '1. .. I techn i '. Faced with cheating,most Foundation's effort, it would in- ..;*.' - instructor Kay Gribble sent an 6 think they wouldn't do volvea big effort from the ._ e-mail to all faculty, wamin wlple campus, including both Some students themofanew waytocheat "It's not rightthemofanewwaytocheat not "It's to use it be- students and administration.,* have figured out a using the Scantron, crwseyar~justcheatingywrr- The most important ques- She found out said. student' said. out found She Haaza Al- ' tionsright now, Huber said, arc (( way tozheat the Shamisi. .' whether the Foundation is going to be involved and if it is, at testing system t about this new way to what level. However, it is still /" By LauraAdde Soracco thing. "We chcat, some mightconsider us- . t. tooearly tosay anything for StafReporter have of in- ing it. sure because there are not very erts cidents where students . Astudent who didn't want to many timelines-andparameters. Wme students have found a ng Vaseline give his name said "studentsarc "Long-range plans and fi- way to cheat wing the Scantron said-. "I going to use it. I'll be the first . t'' nances are along way from b- to getperfect scores. - mmufacturers one, for some tests." ing settled," Huber said. The trick works by making a dents about this incident, we'^ hadCheating is.penalizcd in the McKay said that his goalfor straight pencil mark under the heated in many past incidents with for- ' student handbook at Highline, . right now is to gather informa- big top black rectangle, in the test. They both eign substances on Scurtrons, qdstudents who get caught do- tionabout other community top left handsection of the got pcrkct SCOW' on . their ' but eyen if wrt & something Scantron. This causes the ma- Scanwon.'But; they were also about& students will. always see cheat, pa6e 2 See Center, page A12 chine to not mark any wrong e&by Gribbk. come outwith ways around the I c . c' /- . .. ~ The! Campus Life Thunderword -. .. Instructor blrmgs 0 life experl.ences to the classroom By Matthew Ellis search. He was at the topof the his father was in the Army and Staff Reporter . list, so he was choscn. A fellow was going tobe stationed here. staff member, Jim Glennon, said It was the year in which the Michael Cassella-Blackbum, that Cassella-Blackbum '5s a Seattlc Center was beingbuilt a newa history teacher at good man." and thcy wcre very exciied to Highlinc, has been in the Navy, Cassella-Blackburn likes 80. hiked the Wonderland trail, was Highline. "Highline is great. I But his father ended up get- stationed in Iran, and has trav- am reasonably impressed with ting stationedin El Paso, Texas instead. Crime Blotter for eled the world. the studcnts," he added. Cassella-Blackbum is a Pa- Cassella-Blackbum has also When he grew up, he was NOV.18 -NOX24 cific Northwesthistorian at taught at Tacoma Community stationed in Pearl Harbor. It was from Pearl Harbor that Honda stolen Highline. College and Green River. Hc teaches a little bit of U.S. He noticed the simifarities he made the decision to move to history as wcll. between the students, but he Seattle. He has a long, brown beard, said that Highline is more di- He uses his adventures to with a few touchesof gray. verse. teach his class. He is a good listener, always Cassella-Blackburn was an When teaching, he is able to keeping eye contact with the undergraduate at the University tell his students whatit is like in speaker. When he smiles, the of Oregon, later moving on to CasseMa-Blackburn each of the couhtries he has skin around his eyes begin to get his master's at theUniver- been in. wrinkle. sity of Kbsas. In the Navy, he spent timein He is able to explain different He has a one-year contract He received his doctorate at Itan in '77. cultures and different attitudes right now, but he would like to syraCuse university. "Iknow what it is like to feel that people hold. stay permanently. He said his instructorsin phi- people's hatred," he said of the He is glad to be here and he '1am impressed with the fac- losophy and historyhelped lead Iranians. hopes to stay here for a while. ulty, it is something I haven't him to teaching, and his deci- At that time the Iranians did He enjoys teaching others and seen before. All the diversity sion to become a teacher was not like Americans, he said. giving students the chance to and camaraderie. I would like made in January 1980. Reflecting on his timein the hear the experiences he has had. this to be a permanent position?. Along with his education, he Navy, he said at the time hedid Cassella-Blackbum has two he said. spent four years in the Navy, not like it, "Iappreciate it now, kids, a daughter who is three He got this job at Highline traveling to Iran and going on though," he added. and a son whois eight. because the school decided to two cruises on the Pacific and When he was younger, he He spends his free time run- endthe permanent position Indian oceans. wanted to go to Seattle because ning and playingwith his kids. ~~~ 8 register call 206878-37 IOext. from Dec. 9 to Jan. 2. portation, and City of Seattle 3224. .. For more information call Transportation Department have Christine Stevenson at 206-878- joined together to help residents The Final Stage: A 37 10 ext. 3536. bear the upcoming season and . 'attended .desk%i 'the; upper' Foundation hdtaiser the World Trade Organization floor of Building8, it was sto- , I Women's Programs' event. len. The purse has .ydbbe book &air next week They have put together lista .... Breeders Theatrewill present found, .. of links for residents tolook at " . A Family Affair and Why?2K at Women'sPrograms is W for traffic information. Building 7on Dec.7. Both sponsering abook fair on Nov. Running shoes ,&ai.: plays arc written and directed by For bad weather and other in- 30 fromIO a.m. to 2 p.m. on the outformationcheck r\u~by thed~&+<+ci Evening childcare now Dr. T.M. Sell, political science lower levelof Building 8. ' , ' www.govlink.org/storm/. ... ,. ." :. professor at Highline. Hard cover books will be 40 People who l.ive in unincor- available to students It is a Foundation fundraiser A student mported that her - 70 percent off retail prices. poratedareas can access running shoes werestolen and the show will begin at 8 Highline was the only col- All proceeds will go to the www,metrokc.gov/go/alerts/ from her bag after leaving it p.m. lege to recieve part of a $4.9 Women's Programs Emergency roads, for advisories on road on the ground unattendedin The entrance feeis pay what million grant to fund childcare Scholarship program. closures. front of theBookstore in you will. programs. People who commute into Building 6. The shoes have The grant-willhelp Highline Winter weather trafFic Seattle may wantto subscribe to yet to be caught. .'. "' ... to provide evening child care for WTO Traffic. Alerts at .I Holiday with lights 1 links and idormation threeyears starting Winter www.govlink.org/wtotrffic/. -Lost and Found Quarter 2000. The StudentPrograms Office People who subscribewill re- Child CareDevelopment is sponsering and selling tickets With winterseason just ceive daily.e-mail notices about . The followingitems,wcm Center Winter Quarter hours for the Holiday with Lights cel- around the comer, the Washing- WlO events that will affecr traf- lost.on campus this weik: If are: Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. - y& liavefound any of these 10 p.m. and on Friday from 8 ways.