Saturday, May 16, 2009

Let them eat cake at the Balboa Bay Club


Santa Ana College students mobilize to save summer school
... Budget cuts ... [at Santa Ana College] have been severe, eliminating an extra session in January and forcing more than 100 summer courses to be cut, leaving some students panicked that they won't have the classes needed to be able to transfer to a four-year school this fall or next spring.

Now, in a move both creative and desperate, students are raising money to help pay for summer classes by selling food and by pleading with politicians – and even instructors – to contribute.

For every $4,500 that students raise for the Summer Session Rescue Fund, one class for 30 students will be saved, school administrators say. The school's nonprofit arm, the Santa Ana College Foundation, has pledged to pay for any shortfall between student fundraising and a full class offering.

The weak economy has added to the enrollment at community colleges such as the 26,000-student campus in Santa Ana. Statewide, the system is over-enrolled by about 100,000 students, according to the Community College League of California.

As the economy tanked and the budget strife in Sacramento worsened, summer classes were slashed and waiting lists for core classes grew.

"Students aren't able to get the courses they need, and for some that means they're going to turn away and won't come back; for others that means it's going to slow down their progress," said Erik Skinner, vice chancellor for fiscal policy with the California Community Colleges system.…


Times are tough. Still, the rich gather at the BBC to whine that they are paying too much in taxes.


'Random frenzy' damages Santa Ana landmark

Blind students touch art at UCI

A fabulous party for our Julie

Last night, in Ladera Ranch

(Click on the photos to enlarge them.)

Much laughter


These gals (I think Jan, at right, was the ringleader) sang a tribute song for Julie to the tune of Marvin Gaye's "Heard it Through the Grapevine." It starts with

Oooooh, I bet you're worried what you'll do
When it's time for program review
And the writing gal you abused before
Flips off her deans and shrieks, "I'll take no more"
It comes as a surprise, it seems so soon
But we found out that in June, ooooh

We heard it through the grapevine
Julie Willard's leaving Irvine--oh, yeah
We heard it through the grapevine
And she'll just tell Keith to pour more wine...

It was all very sophisticated, of course.


Louis was in a good mood, except at this moment.

They were really hungry, OK?


The Senate slathered Julie with a resolution. Numerous "whereas"s were endured by the Julester. I laughed at one of 'em. She smacked me like she does.




Someone observed that Keith and I are virtual twins.


More sophistication.




Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...