Theft cripples Music Technology program
In the early morning hours of Sunday, June 4, sometime after security made their rounds at 2 a.m., a Pro Control surround sound mixing console— valued at about $80,000—was stolen out of the Music Technology Department in the 800 building.
SBA Senate changes constitution
The proposed changes to Shoreline Community College’s Constitution, made by the Constitution and Bylaws Committee, were approved by student voters in this year’s election. The changes included numerous grammatical and organizational changes, but the major agenda was changes to the UCC, a committee that oversees all clubs on campus, and an entirely new article added for technology.
Looking for Food in all the Wrong Places.
Now that the PUB is closed for renovation, where the heck are students supposed to go to be overcharged for food? Well, until Friday, June 16 the food carts will remain in the area behind the 1800 building (next to the day care). The food choices in the bookstore will be expanded from its usual meager amount to a plethora, extra freezers and coolers will be added with new frozen and ready to heat items. Yum.
 NYT > Americas An investigation has found that the agency withheld crucial information from federal investigators about the accidental downing of a plane in Peru in 2001. Thousands of protesters backing the leftist Sandinista party took to the streets to support the results of local elections that the opposition says President Daniel Ortega rigged. An Air Canada co-pilot having a mental breakdown had to be forcibly removed from the cockpit, restrained and sedated early this year, an Irish investigation concluded Wednesday. A whimsical riff on the bookmobile, Luis Soriano’s “Biblioburro” is a small institution: one man and two donkeys. Mexico’s explosion of drug-related violence has caught the attention of the country’s children, filling their heads with images that are hard to shake. There is growing concern in Venezuela over indigenous health care after a scandal erupted in August over a tepid official response to a mystery disease. As Mexico grapples with an increase in drug-related violence, sales are steadily on the rise at an exclusive boutique, where all the garments are bulletproof. The arrest of Ricardo Gutiérrez Vargas, who worked as Mexico’s main liaison with Interpol, was the latest blow to Mexico’s police forces. President Hu Jintao of China toured Havana as his country expanded its already extensive economic relationship with Cuba. As drug-related violence spirals out of control, security measures have become a way of life for Mexico’s affluent. A Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft crashed north of Vancouver, British Columbia on Sunday, killing seven occupants, the Canadian Armed Forces said. Authorities said that the pilot of a small government jet that crashed last week, killing Mexico’s interior minister, flew too close to a jumbo jet and lost control of the plane. Chile’s health minister said that the country’s public health system and private-sector services failed to notify people that they were infected with H.I.V. A criminal complaint filed in the Spanish High Court has revived hopes that those behind the massacre of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador’s civil war could face trial. The freeze in credit markets and a collapse of the city’s real estate market have made the financing of the Winter Games a critical issue. A pyramid scheme that cost investors millions of dollars and sent swindled people rioting in the streets continued to plague southwestern Colombia. A veteran crime reporter in the border city of Ciudad Juárez was fatally shot as he left his home on Thursday morning, according to the authorities and news reports. Heraldo Muñoz overcame his initial reluctance to write about his past when he realized that General Pinochet had affected an entire generation in Chile. The rapid disappearance of historic architecture in Trinidad is provoking a sometimes heated debate about the merits of historic preservation. A group of cacao farmers in Ecuador have become the world’s most unusual chocolate entrepreneurs by making and marketing their own chocolate. |