P10Chemistry show theTHUNDERW RD creates magic Highline Community College April 7, 2011 Volume 49, Issue 20 College tuition expected to soar once more By RASCHELLE CASEBIER ment to make up for the loss in next week and will also include few weeks. The Legislature is vices that our community de- Staff Reporter funding with a proposed all- tuition increases,” said Highline scheduled to adjourn April 24. pends upon,” Rep. Upthegrove cuts budget. President Jack Bermingham. “We have a responsibility to said. Highline students could be The House budget and the The Senate is also expected govern and make difficult deci- Tuition isn’t the only thing facing a tuition increase of up to Governor’s budget, which was to call for tuition hikes. sions in order to close a $5 bil- that will suffer; colleges may 13 percent in a budget released unveiled in December 2010, “The tuition increases dis- lion budget hole. Higher educa- be forced to cut classes and pro- this week by the State House of will make cuts to higher educa- cussed so far have been be- tion will suffer and students will grams. Representatives. tion. tween 10 and 13 percent,” said be adversely impacted,” said “Highline is analyzing the The state is struggling with “The House budget proposal Janelle Runyon, communica- State Rep. Dave Upthegrove, impact and expects to make a $5.2 billion revenue shortfall cuts higher education more sig- tion director for the Washington D-Des Moines. some decisions about next that the budget must account nificantly than the Governor’s State Board for Community and “These cuts are on top of year’s budget during the next for. Washington’s 34 commu- budget. Both rely on tuition in- Technical Colleges. deep cuts made over the last two two weeks. It is likely that low- nity and technical colleges will creases to offset part of the re- Colleges and students will years. We are long past cutting er state funding will mean that be forced to raise tuition and cut duction. We anticipate that the feel the heat as the final budgets waste, and instead are being programs and possibly employ- Senate’s version will emerge is hammered out in the next forced to harm the public ser- See Tuition, page 11 A wall of help and hope Popular professor loses battle to cancer By CODY WARF and CHRISTINA GRAMLING Staff Reporters Longtime Highline professor Eena Hibbs died of liposarcoma cancer on Wednesday, March 30. She was 52. Services for Professor Hibbs will be Saturday, April 16 at Emanuel Baptist Church, 22316 106th Ave. E., in Graham at 3 p.m. She had been working at Highline since 1988 and was liked by many, co-workers say. Eena Hibbs Hibbs had many jobs over her 23-year career at Highline. Mair, senior secretary of the So- Hibbs was the writing center cial Sciences Division. Corey Sun/THUNDERWORD aide, reading lab aide, part-time She was first diagnosed with Students Jamie Sun and Rebecca Li attach their prayers for Japan on the wall in the Student Union. reading instructor, ABE instruc- cancer in July of 2000 and was tor, ESL instructor, college-lev- treated with eight sessions of el reading instructor, assistant chemotherapy and eight weeks director of pre-college studies, of radiation. Students raise funds, prayers for Japan director of the Tutoring Center, “Eena fought four different reading instructor and Reading cancers over the last 10 years By YURI NISHIZAKI power plant. Supports Japan with another Department coordinator. and was hoping to see Alina’s Staff Reporter Tens of thousands of people student, Maiko Murakami, soon She earned a bachelor of arts graduation,” said Mair. Hibb’s were found dead and more than after the earthquake hit “to re- in English education and a mas- daughter Alina will be graduat- A group of Highline students 15,000 people are still missing. lieve people who are affected by ter of arts in reading specialist ing from high school this June. are trying to raise funds for re- “People had same feeling the earthquake,” Suehiro said. from Central Washington Uni- “She spent 10 years of deal- lieving victims in Japan after when they saw the moment that Suehiro is from Miyazaki in versity. ing with things I couldn’t even the earthquake and tsunami last tsunami destroyed everything. Kyushu, the western island of Hibbs had a huge impact on imagine,” said Michele Manber month. I wanted to do something for Japan. The area was not affect- Highline and played an integral of Highline’s Psychology De- A 9.0-magnitude earthquake it… but I didn’t know what I ed by the earthquake and tsuna- role in the development of the partment. hit Japan on March 10, fol- could do,” said Koichi Suehiro, mi, and his family was safe, but Tutoring Center. Manber had the opportunity lowed by powerful tsunamis, “and I decided to be the leader.” “We’re still stunned. She leading to a damaged nuclear Suehiro formed Highline See Japan, page 11 kept fighting back,” said Marsa See Hibbs, page 11 Weekend INSIDE THIS ISSUE Weather P6Tryouts P7Rain becomes P8Prepare for continue for softball team’s the walk down the Chorale biggest rival the aisle at the wedding show Sun at last. Index Campus Life 3 Opinion 4 Puzzles 5 Arts 6 Sports 7 News 8-12 Full forecast|P11 campus life 02 The Thunderword /April 7, 2011 Hit and run: Student gets it twice By YURI NISHIZAKI Highline Security Chief Rich- Staff Reporter ard Noyer said. Crime and “We have 5,000 students try- Punishment A total of 20 hit-and-run ing to park. … We can’t be up cases on campus were reported there all the time,” Noyer said. to the Highline Security Office Thompson suggested install- in the last 15 months, and High- ing security cameras in parking Tags discovered and line student Valarie Thompson lots on campus. cleaned up on campus Christina Gramling/THUNDERWORD is two of these cases’ victim. “I realize the security offi- The lobby in Building 9 after the construction has been completed. After having experienced cers can’t be everywhere all the In the past two weeks, multi- The building will be reoccupied on April 18. two hit and runs and having time… it seems a surveillance ple incidents of vandalism have talked with many people who system might be worth the in- been reported on campus. were using the lot, she real- vestment,” she said. A name was discovered writ- ized that “it was a pervasive “I think [security cameras] ten in the library floor 4 stair- Building 9 ready for business problem,” she said. “There are would help. It is another tool to well at 3:44 p.m. on March 14. crimes going on out there.” make it better, safer place here,” Another tag on a mirror By BRIAN GRANTHAM eled with a sound package and The first hit-and-run she had Noyer said. was discovered in the men’s Staff Reporter is the first building on campus was in 2010. The damage was He said that it is in the works restroom on the second floor to have an American Disability minor; the back corner of her and the Security Office is cur- of building 6 at 11:01 a.m. on Building 9 is back in busi- Act lift for the handicapped. car got grazed a little in the East rently looking at the possibili- March 15. ness 92 days after its scheduled Total cost for the project was Parking Lot. She reported that ties of cameras, but it has not On March 29 a tag saying, “I date for reopening. $2.5 million. The project went incident to the Highline Securi- yet put in practice “because of am not your daddy, I am your Construction on Building 9 slightly over budget due to un- ty Office and an officer advised the school budget.” grandpa,” was discovered in was scheduled to be complete known pipes in the ground. her to “park in the back row” Thompson wants hit-and-run Building 29 on the second floor on Dec. 28, 2010 but was re- “We wouldn’t even have in the lot because it had lighter drivers to “take responsibili- at 5:01 p.m. opened March 2. done this project if it weren’t for traffic f low. ties,” not just leaving the scene The most recent case of “There is still final punch the state’s contribution,” Hol- After parking in the back but leaving their contact infor- vandalism was on March 30 in listing to be done in the build- ldorf said. row for several months, one day mation and insurance numbers Building 23 in the first floor ing,” said Barry Holldorf, the Capital funding came mostly Thompson decided to return to on a sheet of paper. And she men’s restroom. Tags were lo- director of facilities. from the state, which contrib- the front row. Then she suf- also wants students to raise cated on the baby changer, soap Building 9 will be an instruc- uted $1.7 million. fered the second hit-and-run on awareness of hit-and-run inci- dispensers and paper towel dis- tional/administration building “The building will be com- March 10. She returned to her dents. pensers at 5:05 p.m. with offices for administrators pletely reoccupied on April 18,” car in the afternoon and found “When walking through the In all these cases, it was im- from multiple departments in- Holldorf said. one of her car’s rear corners was lot, be aware what’s going on mediately reported and taken cluding International programs, “The facilities department, crushed, costing her $676.