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A former CSUS professor concurs with Henley. She lent students money to pay their school fees. Then the professor carried those costs as her VISA debt.
Olgalilia Ramirez is the director of governmental relations with the California State Student Association. Rising education fees “are a great concern for middle- and low-income students,” she said. Her debt from attending CSUS since 2000 will be $35,000 upon graduating with a master’s degree in sociology this spring, said Ramirez.
And fees will rise 10 percent at CSU and eight percent at UC in 2008-2009 under the budget of GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Current resident undergraduate fees are about $7,000 at UC and at CSU $3,000, respectively, said the independent Legislative Analyst’s Office. These amounts vary by campus.
News that inflation has been rising at a three percent annual rate nationally since 2002 is cold comfort for CSU and UC system students. They have seen their fees nearly double over the past six years, according to Tuition Relief Now, a student-led coalition. The Berkeley-based and all-volunteer group has crafted a solution to the problem of escalating public university fees: qualifying the College Affordability Act of 2008 for the November election.
Henley and scores of unpaid students, parents, and university advocates representing a total of 30 CSU and UC schools are hard at work to collect 434,000 signatures of registered voters by mid-April to put the initiative on the ballot. If they succeed and voters approve the measure, students at the state’s public institutions of higher education would gain. The math of the proposed initiative is straightforward.
Beginning in 2008-2009, the measure would freeze fees for five years for resident undergraduates at CSU schools. Their UC counterparts would have to await adoption of a fee freeze by the system’s Board of Regents.
But won’t hundreds of thousands of students paying less to attend California’s public universities increase the $14.5 billion deficit in the state general fund? That’s the shortfall which the governor proposes to shrink with budget cuts across the board, including slashing nine percent from higher education spending in 2008-2009.
The proposed five-year freeze would reduce revenue from students’ fees by about $1 billion, or one percent of the state general fund. Yet the state would more than make up for that by raising the tax rate one percent on personal income of $1 million and up, the top bracket, to a rate of 11.3 percent. This surcharge on California millionaires would add nearly $2 billion a year to the general fund budget, beginning in 2009-2010.
Crucially, Steinberg spearheaded an increase of the personal income tax on California millionaires of $1.5 billion to fund mental health services, which voters approved in 2004. Surely, the state’s millionaires do not cheer another tax increase. That would cut their consumption and redirect it to public university education. Further, if state voters approve such a proposal for the benefit of CSU and UC students, what is to stop further tax hikes on the well-heeled for other public services? Why, such government intervention could spread to other states.
According to the LAO, 60 percent of the new millionaire tax would fill the void left by the freeze of student fees at CSU and UC schools. The remaining tax revenue would flow to K-14 school spending. After the CSU and UC fees are unfrozen in year six, fee increases could not exceed the annual percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index. That would create some price stability for students where little now exists.
NEWBURGH - Ray Degraffenried of Newburgh has been named the Star of the Month for June at St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital. A five-year St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital employee, Degraffenried is a maintenance associate in the engineering department at the Newburgh campus.
St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital employees are nominated for the Star of the Month award by their co-workers, patients, physicians and/or visitors, based on Stellar Service Standards.
John “Jack” Gillespie born January 2, 1923. Passed away on October 10, 2007. A 20 year resident of Carson City. No services to be held.
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The 2007 Legislature took time out Monday to honor former Assemblyman Lynn Hettrick, who decided not to run for another term last year.
Legislators approved a resolution honoring Hettrick, who served 14 years in the Assembly, 12 of them as leader of the Republicans.
In the 1985 session when the house was split 21-21, Hettrick was co-speaker with Democrat Joe Dini of Yerington.
Leaders of both parties praised Hettrick’s honesty, fairness and leadership.
“Although Lynn and I disagreed on one or two occasions, he was never disagreeable,” said Majority Leader John Oceguera, D-Henderson.
She said he did “an incredible job” as a legislator.
In addition to his service in the Assembly, Hettrick was honored as Leader of the Year by the National Republican Legislators Association in 2001 and served as national chairman of the Council of State Governments in 2005.
He was also instrumental in establishing the CSG’s Western Legislative Academy, an educational forum for new state lawmakers. Hettrick, who represented Douglas County, decided to retire from the Legislature last year to devote more time to business interests.
If you braved A Quiet Place, here are a slew of other acclaimed and artful scary movies.
Any horror fan is used to hearing the words “I don’t do horror.” Which is fair enough, except I can guarantee that everyone who says they just don’t like horror movies is missing out on a number of films they would enjoy. Maybe meat cleavers to the head and things that go bump in the night aren’t for you. But do you like Hitchcock and crime mysteries? Then you’re already close to dabbling in the scary stuff.
Last year’s Oscar-winning Get Out convinced a lot of people to root for a horror movie, and the powerhouse box-office debut of the new film A Quiet Place, an elegantly spooky survivalist tale starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski (who also directed), shows that the stigma against the genre is fading. Here are the best gateway horror and horror-ish movies for the non-horror fan.
Though it comes with one hell of a gross-out sequence, Alien mostly runs on the subtle dread taking over the passengers of a spaceship who are confronted with a nasty life form.
David Lynch’s '80s masterpiece stars with a severed ear found on the ground, but it’s calm by the standards of the macabre director, gently exploring the underbelly of idyllic America. Dennis Hopper’s lunatic performance has to be seen to be believed.
While director William Friedkin made his name with The Exorcist, his contemporary horror movies have been sadly overlooked. Bug is not as icky as its title suggests, instead burrowing into the psychological predicament of two people who believe their bodies are infested with insects (Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon, in case you needed more reason to watch).
Before he was America’s Dad, Tom Hanks was already charming everyone who managed to see this '80s horror-comedy from director Joe Dante (Gremlins), in which his manic suburban father imagines the worst of his neighbors.
New horror movies are always trying to push the line of acceptability, which is why they can freak people out. But the oldest examples of the genre are still some of the most mesmerizing, particularly this 1920 German Expressionist gem about a murderous hypnotist, which essentially invented the serial-killer movie.
A stone-cold '70s masterpiece from director Nicolas Roeg (The Witches), Don’t Look Now explores the grief of a married couple (Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, both at the top of their game) who have lost their daughter and the sinister warnings they find after her death.
Steven Spielberg was once the director of a pulpy TV movie, in which a polite man is terrorized by a trucker hellbent on destruction. That movie is Duel, and it basically set the path for Spielberg’s future.
William Friedkin broke all the rules of horror in 1973 with The Exorcist, in which two priests get the devil out of a literally head-spinning possessed girl. Its ghoulish effects are quaint now, but the underlying spiritual themes are still disquieting.
Jordan Peele’s rightfully beloved directorial debut mixes his skill at awkward sketch comedy with some of his favorite horror tropes to tell the story of a black man who goes to meet his white girlfriend’s family, only to find that something is very, very wrong with these white people. It’s alternately chilling and hilarious.
Horror can be hard to define. Case in point: This bloodless thriller from director Joel Edgerton, about a dickish husband (Jason Bateman) who’s revisited by an old classmate (Edgerton) with a devastating secret.
Director Joe Dante’s '80s breakout is a comedy, a Christmas standard, and a deliciously weird horror movie all in the one—and somehow great at being all of them.
One of the highlights of the modern horror renaissance, 2015’s The Invitation achieves almost unbearable tension with a tiny budget, following a couple who attend a dinner party and start to question their their hosts’ motives.
Real-life horror is always more interesting than ghosts and monsters. Jacob’s Ladder plumps the depths of its protagonist’s (Tim Robbins) mental breakdown after serving in the Vietnam War and losing his child.
In the unlikely event that you or someone you know hasn’t watched Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster-inventing movie about a shark chomping humans to bits, it’s never too late to get hooked. Move on to Piranha next.
Get Out is as much indebted to The Stepford Wives, with its racial twist on that suburban nightmare, as George Romero’s first zombie movie. Night of the Living Dead watches as a community protecting itself from the undead is divided by always-alive racial animosity.
Steven Spielberg had a heavy hand in this supernatural spooker from Tobe Hooper, notorious for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but its suburban ghost story is much less likely to send people running away.
All of director Alfred Hitchcock’s movies are worth watching, and nearly all of them fit squarely into the thriller category. While they’re generally light on horrific elements, he took a hard turn with Psycho, which scared the living hell out of everyone who watched it in 1960. Today, though, it’s relatively low-key. The most terrifying part is Anthony Perkins’a superb, understated performance as a troubled man with serious mommy issues.
Before Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski made another taut thriller about a woman going mad that’s just as twisted and good. Catherine Deneuve as the elegant French woman losing it inside her apartment is perfect.
A lesser-known but worthwhile Hitchcock detour, Rope starts with a murder and then milks tension out of the dead body hiding in the middle of a dinner party. It was made to look like one extended shot, and it's still a technical marvel.
The less you know going into Rosemary’s Baby, the better. Roman Polanski’s thriller about a pregnant woman with suspicions of her neighbors and what’s happening to her unborn baby makes you wonder, like her, if it’s all in your head.
The horror-comedy genre is full of many misfires and few treasures. In the latter category, there’s John Waters’s delightful oddball feature about a mom (Kathleen Turner) who takes her protective duties too far.
A stark experiment in atmosphere, Session 9 is about a cleaning crew working on an abandoned mental hospital that seems to be affected by traumas from the place’s past.
The only bona fide horror movie to win the Best Picture Oscar, Jonathan Demme’s adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel more than deserved it. While the story is about serial killers, Demme is much more interested in the psychological exchange between Jodie Foster’s FBI agent and Anthony Hopkins’ manipulative cannibal behind bars.
Those indoctrinated in the cult of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento love his movies as much for the beautiful production design as the murder and mayhem. This especially artful favorite is the best place to start.
Director Dario Argento is also behind this international horror movie, a deliciously meta mystery about an American crime writer in Rome who becomes involved in killings based on his work.
An alien movie stripped down to its bleakest essence, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin quietly follows Scarlett Johansson’s extraterrestrial as she lures men to danger, then flips the script by giving her a conscience.
Before it became the basis for Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Bette and Joan, this hilarious but still unsettling thriller became Hollywood lore thanks to the behind-the-scenes strife between stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
Bring things for "Sew and Share."
The ASG is a group for people who share an interest in sewing.
For information, call Rose Marie Lanpher at 940-6669.
Also upcoming for the group is a yard sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 6 at Prosperity Bank, 790 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd.
The group has adopted Flagler Hospital and has an ongoing project to make hearts for mastectomy patients.
Last year, the group made pillowcases for the Betty Griffin House and the Ronald McDonald House in Jacksonville.
ASG's special recipients this year are the U.S. Armed Forces. Members will be making drawstring bags, which will be filled with toiletries and forwarded on to soldiers. Funds from the yard sale will be used to purchase fabric and other sewing-related items.
Dwyane Wade addressed the Cavs' ongoing struggles in a heartfelt Instagram post congratulating his buddy and Cavs teammate LeBron James for surpassing 30,000 career points during Cleveland's 114-102 loss to the Spurs Tuesday night.
Wade posted a photo of the two embracing each other shortly after LeBron's historic basket with a caption thanking LeBron for being a "light" while the Cavs remain "in the midst of this darkness."
"It was an HONOR to not only be in the building for this moment-but to be on the court as your teammate," Wade wrote. "In the midst of this darkness that we're experiencing as a team-THANK YOU for this light!!!"
While "darkness" may seem like a strong term, Wade isn't far off in his assessment.
Despite LeBron's historic night, the Cavs suffered yet another double-digit defeat as Cleveland continues its concerning skid. The free-falling Cavs have now lost 10 of their last 13 games, with two of those losses coming against the Magic, who are tied for the worst-record in the NBA at 14-33.
The Cavs dysfunction has reportedly reached alarming heights with players now starting to turn on one another.
Several players "challenged" the legitimacy of Kevin Love's illness that caused him to leave the Cavs' embarrassing 148-124 loss to the Thunder Saturday and kept him out of practice the following day in an "emotional team meeting" prior to Monday's practice, according to ESPN.
The Cavs remain third in the East at 27-19, but their defensive struggles have been on full display as of late. The Cavs are currently giving up 109.6 points a game, the fifth-worst mark in the league.
BRICK - The old Ethan Allen furniture store at Brick Plaza is on its way to becoming Trader Joe's.
The township on Tuesday issued a zoning permit to Retail Project Management NY of Holbrook, New Jersey, for "Rehabilitation, Tenant Fit-Up - Interior alterations for new tenant. Changing from Ethan Allen to 'Trader Joes.'"
The zoning permit is the first official signal that Trader Joe's is coming to Brick.
In recent weeks, Mayor John Ducey has spoken about the possibility on Facebook Live chats.
"After years of work trying to get Trader Joe's to come to our great town I was so happy to see the zoning permit be submitted for a tenant fit up for their newest store," Mayor John Ducey said Tuesday. "Trader Joe's is the most requested business from residents from every part of town and to able to see it come to fruition is such a wonderful thing."
Ducey thanked those who helped to bring Trader Joe's to Brick, including residents who submitted requests for the store to come. "Trader Joe's coming to Brick makes Brick an even better place to raise families or come to retire.," he said. "Their great food plus great prices equals a great addition for our community."
Last month, a spokeswoman for Trader Joe's said the grocery chain was interested in the township. "All I can tell you at this time is that we are interested in bringing a store to that area and are taking the appropriate steps to make that happen," the spokeswoman said.
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FILE - U.S. director Woody Allen attends the opening of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, May 11, 2016.
Filmmaker Woody Allen has filed a $68 million lawsuit against Amazon for breach of contract, accusing the streaming giant of canceling a film deal because of a "baseless" decades-old allegation that he sexually abused his daughter.
He is seeking that $9 million along with minimum guarantees owed him for other films, totaling "in excess of $68,000,000," according to a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in New York and obtained by AFP.
He says Amazon told him the deal had become "impracticable" because of "supervening events, including renewed allegations against Mr. Allen, his own controversial comments" and the refusal of actors to work with him.
FILE - Actress Mia Farrow and her daughter Dylan Farrow attend an event at Lincoln Center in New York, April 26, 2016.
In June last year, the same month that Amazon apparently terminated his contract, Allen backed the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment — and said he should be its poster boy.
"I — who was only accused by one woman in a child custody case, which was looked at and proven to be untrue — I get lumped in with these people."
HOLYOKE - Friends and family, along with city officials, unveiled a plaque Nov. 2 honoring the life and legacy of William J. Dean Sr., an educator devoted to the education and well-being of the Holyoke's schoolchildren.
The bronze plaque resides near the main lobby of Holyoke High School Dean Campus, formerly William J. Dean Technical High School.
The monument ensures that Dean's 50-year contribution to education, particularly vocational training, remains intact for generations.
Dean's granddaughter, Patty Dean Hall, who lives in Ventura, California, spearheaded the initiative. Eileen Crosby, of the Holyoke Public Library's history room, guided the family with the research.
Before his career in education, Dean earned a bachelor's degree from Fordham University, a master's from Columbia University and a law degree from the American University Extension Program. He returned to Holyoke in 1924, taking a teaching position at the Holyoke Continuation School.
His career trajectory climbed steadily, from leading the academic department at Holyoke Trade School to eventually becoming the school's director for 22 years. He assumed the role of superintendent of schools in 1963. Dean then served on the Holyoke School Committee from 1969-75.
Hall considered the rainy evening a positive omen for the Dean family. She said rain fell during significant moments in her grandfather's life. It rained at a park dedication and when he led the Holyoke St. Patrick's Parade as grand marshal, as well as other milestones.
Hall also honored her father, Dr. William J. Dean Jr., a noted physician and pathologist, and her mother, Jean. Hall's siblings and an army of grandchildren and great-grandchildren attended the dedication.
She thanked Superintendent Stephen Zrike Jr. and Whitney Anderson, of the school's building division, for their support and guidance.
Holyoke's public high schools will undergo academic redesigns for the coming academic year, which includes merging Holyoke and Dean Technical High Schools. Information sessions are scheduled for August.
Hall said Holyoke Trade school was her grandfather's "pride and joy," especially his connection with faculty and students. She said he led by example and was a man with a commanding presence.