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CSU system may slash enrollment by 20,000 if tax measure fails (OC Reg)

     The California State University system will cut student enrollment by 20,000 if Proposition 30 fails, officials said Thursday.
     The 23-campus system is telling perspective students they can begin applying Monday for fall 2013, but campuses will hold applications until after voters decide on the proposed tax initiative.
     The cut would amount to about a 5 percent drop in enrollment for the 400,000-student system. Cal State Fullerton, with enrollment of about 37,600, could lose 1,500 to 2,000 students, according to estimates….

Rebel Girl's Poetry Corner: "Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness"

Gratitude to Old Teachers

—Robert Bly

When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake,
We place our feet where they have never been.
We walk upon the unwalked. But we are uneasy.
Who is down there but our old teachers?

Water that once could take no human weight
We were students then—holds up our feet,
And goes on ahead of us for a mile.
Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness.

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(photo: Professor Richard Lee, in the Cal Sate Long Beach parking lot.  Professor Lee was one of Rebel Girl's patient and persistent professors in the early 1980s.  Sometimes she thinks of him when she is in the classroom, how he smiled at her and made her feel welcome at the university, a place that did not always welcome her.)

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