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Course Offerings Slashed NO CAUSE LEFT BEHIND. PAGE 9 VOLUME XLII, ISSUE LIII THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2010 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG *()<+.,;*90:0: <*)<+.,;*90:0: ▶ -6*<: +;=[8][P Course NWZ.I[\MZ Only three quarters old, UCSD’s decked-out transfer- Offerings /ZIL:I\M student apartments are struggling to find enough Administrators hope to residents to pay back its $113 million startup fee. Slashed save money by avoiding BY EDWIN GONZALEZ s FOCUS EDITOR The state deficit will hit harder super-senior status. ince its grand opening at the beginning of than ever Fall Quarter, when By Regina Ip the year, the Village at UCSD’s academic departments Associate News Editor Torrey Pines transfer housing has had a receive a 10- to 20-percent cut. California State University officials Srough time selling itself. are developing new methods to push Though Housing, Dining By Connie Qian undergraduates through the system and Hospitality was banking on Senior Staff Writer faster, in an effort to make room for transfer-student selling points new students. like on-campus convenience tudents will continue to feel the effects of Prompted by a significant decrease and granite countertops, the the UC budget crisis next year: Every last in state funding — which has led the Village hasn’t filled nearly S academic department on campus is bracing CSU Board of Trustees to slash enroll- all its empty mattresses. Of itself for a 10- to 20- percent cut in funding — and ment at each of the university’s 23 the 1,060 beds available, a resulting bareboned schedule of classes — for the campuses — the new plan aims to free approximately 200 are empty, 2010-11 academic year. up space for incoming freshmen and according to A.S. Transfer “There are going to be a lot more cuts next transfer students by making it easier Student Senator Adam quarter, in terms of less classes being offered,” A.S. for existing students to graduate early. Powers. Powers said the Campuswide Senator Bryant Pena said. “That’s According to CSU spokesperson main reason transfer stu- why a lot of students ... when they’re signing up for Erik Fallis, the campuses are using dents aren’t fighting over classes, they’re going to have an even harder time.” academic advising to prevent students Village apartments is that A.S. Campuswide Senator Katie Hall, who sits from switching majors they simply can’t afford on the UCSD Planning and Budget Committee OPINION — often requiring an the rent: between $1,200 with several administrators, predicted that each Shuttling entirely new set of gen- and $1,400 per month. department will distribute the cuts differently. For students eral-education cours- instance, according to Hall, all non-core laboratory through a “I think the price bar- es, hindering progress rier kept a lot of students classes in the biology department — as well as class- dying system toward graduation. es with under 100 students — will be cut completely. won’t serve from living there — all anybody. In previous years, the transfer students I “Each department is structured differently,” she PAGE 4 the CSU system spoke to,” he said. “‘Why said last Wednesday at the student council meeting. received $11,075 per didn’t you live there?’ “The result is that, when you cut from the engineer- student from the state, but that figure ‘Price.’ I didn’t hear any- ing department, you cut staff, but when you cut has since dropped to $4,669 per stu- thing other than price.” from the biology department, you cut classes. Next dent. As a result, the CSU system has As it turns out, year will look different for each department.” slashed enrollment by 40,000 students cost was such a size- A.S. Associate Vice President of Academic since last year. able deterrent for Affairs Jordan Taylor said the way the cuts mani- The enrollment crunch drew offi- transfer students this fest depends on how each department balances its cials’ attention to a large population of year that HDH has administration, faculty members and classes. super seniors — students with more lowered prices for all “It’s left up to the departments how to deal with than 144 academic credits. There are units in the Village the cuts,” he said. “A lot of them with money in currently around 12,000 super seniors by nearly 9 percent administration — those divisions will be able to cut throughout the CSU system. for Fall Quarter. and consolidate the administrative type of positions, “We’re trying to work on reduc- ing some of the barriers to student See VILLAGEpage 7 See CLASSESpage 3 graduation, and to help move students EMILY KU/GUARDIAN along,” Fallis said. He stressed, however, that the pro- gram is not meant to push students SNOW-CAL out of the universities — rather, to This year’s annual Campus Rail Jam — a prevent them from wasting time on competition for amateur snowboarders, skiers and unnecessary classes. skateboarders — took place at Qualcomm “We know some students are going Stadium, instead of the usual Sun God Lawn. In to take longer than six years,” Fallis said. order to bring the world of snow sports to Southern “This isn’t saying that students have California, event organizers dropped 25 tons to graduate within six years, but we’re of snow into the parking lot to create a jibbing working as much as we can to make it course, and invited skateboarders to compete for possible for students to graduate more merchandise and cash prizes. quickly, and to have a clear road map of what they need to do to get a degree.” According to Fallis, CSU campuses have been working to reduce some degree programs to 120 units, evaluat- ing various majors and deciding which of their requirements could be waived. “Not all of our programs are 120,” Fallis said. “There are some that are See CSUpage 3 PHOTOS BY ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN >,)7633:762,5:762,5 -69,*(:; :<590:, 50./;>(;*/50./;>(;*/ :<9-9,769;:<9-9,769; .(:7,9.(3365 05:0+, LOW DO YOU ANTICIPATE MONDAY TUESDAY )PYKZ>P[O>PUNZ TAKING EXTRA TIME TO 5:52 A.M. 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