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Puma Press Editor
Bonnie Wentzel
Managing Editor
Ron Sanzone
Fine Arts Editor
Hanna Norris
Assoc. Lynx Editor
Zachary Kamnitzer
Contemporary Culture Editor
Eric Murtaugh
Assoc. Fine Arts Editor
Tara Twietmeyer
Environmental Editor
Ben Norris
Storytelling Editor
Bea Velazquez
Photo Editor
Travis Lane
Graphics Editor
Jeopardy Jaramillo
Assoc. Graphics Editor
Stephen Loftus
Graphic Support
Hanna Norris
Brynn Cooper
Community Editor
Janice Semmel
Assoc. Community Editor
Cassie Newkirk
Foods Editor
Joe Daigneault
News Editor
Matthew Casey
Ad Manager
Janelle Jaramillo
Inspirational Editor
Mary Ginty
Wellness Editor
Ashley Scott
Staff Writers
Loren Erman
Irene Harkleroad
Alex Holman
Suzanna Lapi
Sean McDaniel
Ben Moreno
Rebekah Muster
Jessica Buckelew
Mario D'Amico
Jan Eastin
Heather Farber
Arthur Orsulak
Victoria Preobrazhenska
Danny Kohl
Stacey Hinderliter
Mandy Marquez
Sara Sloan
Pat Borzone
Faculty Advisor
Judy Galbraith
The Puma Press is a student newspaper published by Paradise Valley Community College. It is distributed among the college's approximately 7,000 students. For advertising information or to learn how to join the staff, call 602-787-6772 or email:
pumapress@pvmail.maricopa.edu
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| Flattened enrollment costs college new dollars
By Bonnie Wentzel
Editor-in-chief
Paradise Valley Community College’s faculty, staff and administrators are facing the consequences of a surprisingly low enrollment this spring, a disappointment that has sent projections for increased student numbers next fall spiraling downwards from 7 to 1 percent.
The drop will cost the college’s projected budget increase over a half million state dollars for the 2006-2007 school year, impacting the development of old and new programs.
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| MCCD seeks
more students,
new methods
for recruitment
Bonnie Wentzel
Editor-in-chief
With seven of the 10 Maricopa Colleges facing actual declines in student enrollment, college officials across the District are seeking ways to recruit more learners to community college campuses.
According to the 2005 Maricopa Community College Indicators of Institutional Effectiveness Report, enrollment growth system-wide has fallen from a high of 8.9 percent in fall of 2002 to a low of 1.1 percent in fall 2005.“Each college is looking at its market and service area and is attempting to determine how to proceed in the future to increase enrollment. It is a concern and will be addressed,” says Linda Rosenthal, Maricopa Community College Governing Board member.
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| Proposed bill would block
education for undocumented
By Ben Norris
Environmental Editor
While national immigration reforms continue to hit roadblocks in Washington, legislators at the state level are pressing forward trying to reach a resolution. This time, state senators are taking the debate to school.
In the wake of massive protests across the country, some Arizona state senators are floating a bill that could shake the foundations of education currently provided to undocumented immigrants.
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| Immigrants demand justice, humanity
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| In a "tsunami of red, wite and blue," thousands of marchers voice their concern over pending immigation legislation. |
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By Matthew Casey
News Editor
A single City of Phoenix Police car slowly moves southwest on Grand Avenue with its lights flashing. Looking past a preliminary line of hustling photographers and Somos America volunteers that are trailing the squad car, the northwest view of Grand Avenue is completely eclipsed by a human tsunami of red white and blue. At about 12:30 p.m. April 10, the immigration reform march, the largest protest in Phoenix’s history, has begun making its way toward its final destination at the Arizona State Capital.
Over 100,000 mothers, fathers, children and grandparents, representing farms, villages, pueblos and cities from countries throughout Central and South America chanted pro-American slogans as they marched shoulder to shoulder within the sea of humanity.Enthusiastic yet orderly, adamant in their demands yet respectful of law and order, they transformed what began as a political protest into a celebration of freedom, community and patriotism.
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| Ceramics studio target of concerted clean up
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| Before this sprng, the M-142 art studio was cluttered with a mix of furniture, supplies, flammables and toxic materials. |
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By Hanna Norris
Fine Arts Editor
Last fall, ceramics student, Frank Imel, voiced concerns about safety in the M-142 art studio in a letter he sent to top administrators and art faculty of PVCC. Having over 30 years experience in ceramics, Imel said the state of the PVCC ceramics program shocked him.
The studio had been overrun by furniture and supplies in disarray. It contained flammable materials and unlabeled glazes and paints, some of which may be toxic, stored wherever they could fit.
However, little action was taken until after a February fire in M-142 and another contact by Imel, this time to the Maricopa Community College’s legal department.
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