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Donna A. Parker
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Nick Arena
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Jeopardy Jaramillo
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Judy Galbraith
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Gangs recruit children
Palomino school youth at risk
By Daniel J. Quigley
News Editor
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| Photo by Stephen Harding |
| School children play at Palomino elementary school where they are easily recruited by gangmembers from local middle and high schools. |
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Children as young as fifth graders are being recruited into gangs in the Palomino Elementary School Community, says Paula Vaughn, coordinator of the Service Learning Center at PVCC.
Vaughn says the problem occurs in a cycle. Young gang members from Greenway Middle School walk through the Palomino area when school is dismissed for the day, Vaughn says. They interact with and recruit elementary school children at that time.
This is usually a friendly interaction, Vaughn explains.
"They [gang members] look for children who are picked on or bullied," she says. "They will often protect them or help them protect themselves. This gains their loyalty."
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Lois Roma-Deeley
'Rules of Hunger' first book for author
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| Faculty member and poet, Lois Roma-Deeley, MFA, Ph.D, announces publication of her first book of poems, 'Rules of Hunger.' |
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By Jeopardy Jaramillo
Graphics Editor
"I don't have a favorite poem in the book," says PVCC English faculty and Poet-in-Residence Lois Roma-Deeley while talking about her first full-length collection of poetry. "Some poems are more 'risk-taking' than others, and I have become fond of them because they are 'brave.'"
This spring Roma-Deeley exhibits the bravery necessary of all published authors
when she releases "Rules of Hunger." A book launch—poetry reading and book
signing—will be held at PVCC on April 30 at 7:30 p.m. in B-208.
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$951 million MCCD bond issue
to go on November ballot
By Daniel J. Quigley
News Editor
The MCCCD Governing Board is expected to call for $951 million bond to be put on the ballot for the general election in November, despite threats of opposition by Latino groups, and the funding challenges such a campaign can incur, says MCCCD Governing Board President Linda Rosenthal.
Rosenthal says that the bond is needed "desperately" to renovate old buildings, purchase new land and build new buildings. "Without a vote to pass this bond," Rosenthal says, "There will be no additional facilities on PVCC's campus after the [new] performing arts facility."
Rosenthal says that the threatened opposition to the bond by Latino groups because of their displeasure with the process by which MCCCD Chancellor Dr. Rufus Glasper was hired , will be a competing factor to the bond issue. Rosenthal says this, however, is a "small" group of people within the Latino community who will be better served by the improvements brought about by the bond because of the huge Latino population within the district.
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PVCC breaks ground for Performing Arts Center on March 12
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| The new PVCC Performing Arts Center is slated for completion in summer 2005. |
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By Donna A. Parker
Editor-in-chief
Alan Tongret, PAC committee chairman and PVCC Fine Arts faculty member, announced that the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Performing Arts Center is scheduled for 11am on March 12.
The chancellor and board members of the Maricopa County Community College District, PVCC's administration, staff and students are all invited to attend the ceremonies, which will be held in the temporary parking lot near the golf course.
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