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De Anza College reported a 6 percent enrollment drop in the Spring quarter compared to last year. Online enrollment on the other hand rose 22 percent.
“Many colleges statewide – and nationwide – are experiencing lower enrollment”, Marisa Spatafore, Associate Vice President, Communications and External Relations said. “Enrollment is typically tied to a variety of factors, so there likely is no single reason it has gone down somewhat at De Anza.”
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The Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees unanimously approved the 2017-2018 DASB budget on Monday, May 1. The approval was the final step in the budget process that began in January.
Chair of Finance Amanda Le, and former Chair of Finance Jennifer Tanko presented the budget to the board, highlighting areas where funding changed.
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Uber is one of the dreams of a far more convenient future that has finally come true: at the press of a button, a personal car arrives, ready to take us wherever we would like to go. But the honeymoon is long over and with scores of ethical issues plaguing the company, ranging from misogyny to fraud, it’s time to press the button one last time and delete Uber.
To be clear, these aren’t new problems. We’ve ignored and dismissed them as small or unrelated issues, but the pattern of unacceptable behavior is now clear.
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Self-organized De Anza students counter-protested anti-abortion protesters in the quad this past week. The students held up signs promoting womens’ right to choose in front of the graphic anti-abortion signs.
Ana Karen, 19, psychology major, held up a sign that said, “If it’s not your body, it’s not your decision.”
“It makes me angry,” Karen said. “They’re speaking on a subject they have no direct connection to.”
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If you missed the news, the Raiders are moving to Las Vegas. The Black Hole is leaving Oakland (again) for a newer, nicer, stadium in the desert. But let's talk about how we got here, and how different this is from the moving of the San Diego Chargers to Los Angeles.
The current Raiders stadium is outdated and old. It needs renovating to keep up with other modern stadiums in the NFL. Owner Mark Davis isn't a multi-billionaire that could finance such a stadium. And the City of Oakland is definitely not paying for it. So the options left are find outside financing for Oakland, for find said financing somewhere else. And unfortunately it was the latter option that won out in the end.
I think it's unsurprising that more and more cities are refusing to put public money into stadiums that they will see no profit from - it makes no sense whatsoever.
Overall I think the Raider Nation will adapt and survive just as it did when they moved to Los Angeles. The Raiders still have an awkward two-to-three years left in Oakland, and with Derek Carr at the helm, it looks like they will be good ones.
