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By Adam BurkhartCity Times

Roughly 800 youths crowded City

College on August 14 for the Passport to Life Career and Education Expo, an event for the benefit of youths on pro-bation in the San Diego Superior Court system.

The message iterated by organizers and speakers was that law enforcement and the courts want to stop crime not solely through incarceration, but also by guiding youths to the right path.

“We’ve all made mistakes,” said Juvenile Court Judge Carolyn M. Cai-etti, “but that doesn’t mean it has to define [our] future.”

Caietti began the program four years ago for the young people who she saw could use encouragement and guidance during a difficult time in their lives. She believes that having City College host the event can have a big impact on youth setting foot on the college campus. “It’s City College that I think has made a difference,” she says. “Just by showing up, [they] see that they can go to college.”

A big focus of the expo is, of course, introducing young people to career possibilities. Karen Dalton, public information officer for the San Diego Superior Court, acknowledged the obstacles faced by job applicants with a criminal record: “It’s difficult enough to get a job when you have a clean slate and a college education.”

To give young probationers a leg up, Passport to Life offers workshops where they can begin to learn about developing personal skills and habits that will serve them in school and at work, as well as available scholarships and student aid.

Around 80 organizations comprised of representatives from schools, the military, training services and compa-nies looking to employ workers set up informational exhibits in Gorton Quad.

Hosmar Hernandez, 19, who is cur-rently finishing up a 10 month prison term, was released for the day, under

supervision, so that he could attend Passport to Life.

Hernandez’s story is unique, yet the experience of parents frequently absent during childhood and an abu-sive father is perhaps familiar to many teens convicted of crimes.

“I was kind of…an emotional kid,” said Hernandez. “Them not being around that much, I felt like I needed something all my life.” Hernandez said his best memories come from the time his mother quit working to stay home

By Jennifer ManaliliCity Times

Following the conclusion of the 2012 - 13 academic year, Terrence J. Burgess will retire from his position as President of City College after serving for 12 years.

Burgess made the announcement at the col-lege’s Convocation program on Aug. 17 and also relayed the message through email.

“I have made this announcement early, as I want City College to have an academic year to prepare for the leadership change and to assure that the transition is orderly,” he said in an email announcement to the campus.

He will depart following Commencement in May.

“The City College presi-dency is far-and-away the zenith of my professional career, a career which has been blessed with many won-derful things. I will continue to champion City as I con-tinue to support your remark-able work and innovation while preparing for your new leader,” said Burgess.

Burgess to retire

OUTREACH Expo bestows knowledge and workplace skills on youths ADMINISTRATION

City College president has been at campus since 2001

By Carla RiveraMCT Campus

LOS ANGELES — The California State University system is embroiled in a con-troversy over plans to admit higher-paying out-of-state and international students to its undergraduate and gradu-ate programs next spring while barring California resi-dents because of state fund-ing cuts.

The issue has become so heated that department lead-ers on some campuses are saying that rather than turn

away Californians, they will not accept any students into their programs.

“I don’t want to come across as xenophobic,” Maria Nieto, a professor of biol-ogy at Cal State East Bay who coordinates her depart-ment’s graduate studies, said Thursday. “Diversity from the international community is always welcome. ... But you do not run a program in the Cal State system and exclude California residents from the application pool to bring

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CSU turning away in-state students

See Admission, page 3See Passport, page 3

A passport to a new lifeSigns hung around the campus, direct attendees to various workshops and speeches. Troy Orem, City Times

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Expo focuses on giving youths skills to help them achieve

City College President Terrence J. Burgess will be leaving after 12 years. City Times file photo

August 21, 2012

See Burgess, page 4

City College hosts the 4th annual Passport for Life: Career and Educa-tion Expo. An expo which focuses on giving young people on proba-tion, skills and life lessons that can benefit them. Troy Orem, City Times

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Families will enjoy such attractions as a competition between 10 master sand castle sculptors; a head-to-

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Museum-goers will want to take their last chance to board Titanic: The Artifact Exhibi-tion before the exhibit closes Sept. 9.

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and take care of him and his siblings.

Lacking a strong family structure, Hernandez fell early on into a criminal lifestyle, taking drugs and moving between aban-doned buildings with friends.

An unheeded warning from an elder cousin finally made an impression when Hernandez entered prison. “He broke it down to me…and everything he told me has happened.”

Hernandez said he now wants a better life and to make better decisions. His counselor and probation officers have taken notice and chose him to attend

the event because his good behavior.

Of the event, he said: “the

thing I learned today, just be seeing and being here, talking to certain people…

there’s a lot of chances. I never knew there was that much opportunity.”

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in out-of-state folks. It’s not right.”

Cal State announced earlier that it would freeze spring 2013 enrollment on most of its 23 campuses to address $750 million in fund-ing cuts in the 2011-12 fiscal year and position itself for a $250 million cut next year if voters reject a November tax measure supported by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Under the plan, 10 cam-puses will accept new stu-dents for the term, but enrollment would be limited

to a few hundred community college transfer students and select other exceptions. Cal State’s campuses typically receive 70,000 applications in the spring, and 16,000 stu-dents enroll.

But now campus leaders are reporting that Chancellor Charles B. Reed told them nonresident undergradu-ate and graduate students were exempt from the freeze because they pay higher fees; California residents are subsi-dized by the state.

California graduate stu-dents, for example, will pay $7,356 for the 2012-13 aca-demic year, while nonresi-dents will pay an additional

$372 per semester unit _ or about $4,464 for 12 units _ in addition to regular tuition.

“We need to make appro-priate enrollment cuts and that, unfortunately, has to be California residents,” Cal State spokesman Mike Uhlen-kamp said Thursday. “If a campus has a program with the capacity to bring in stu-dents who are not subsidized and who are paying for the entirety of instruction, they could ... bring in additional revenue that could go to ben-efit state residents.”

Most of that capacity is at the graduate level, Uhlen-kamp said. He said he was unsure which campuses

planned to accept nonresi-dents and could not estimate the number of students who would be involved. System-wide, slightly more than 300 nonresident students enrolled in the spring 2011 term, he said.

The typical spring enroll-ment in Cal State East Bay’s graduate biology program is eight to 12 students, most of them California residents, Nieto said. But the policy, she said, sets a bad precedent.

“If the rationale is that you’re getting surplus money from nonresident students, then what’s to preclude the administration from expand-ing that to the fall and winter

and summer terms?”David Allison, president of

the Cal State Student Associa-tion, agreed.

“I do buy the fact that because of budget cuts, a lot of tough decisions have to be made,” said Allison, 22, a senior at Cal State San Ber-nardino. “But all organizations

have a mission statement and, in tough times, that’s what that the mission statement is for.

“The mission of Cal State is accessibility and affordabil-ity. ... I find it troubling that students who are not Califor-nia residents are being given priority.”

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Action-film fans should not be so misled by the advertis-ing for “The Bourne Legacy,” the fourth movie in the fran-chise and the first without Jason Bourne (Matt Damon).

Instead of being a good action film or reviving a franchise with a new face, “Legacy” just never seems to take off.

Sure, the effects are undoubtedly cool (especially one chase that takes places in Manila, stretching over roof-tops and on to motorcycles — but even that goes on too long). It’s nothing audiences haven’t seen already.

Promotion for the film initially teased “There was never just one,” a clever wink that hinted that the franchise could pay homage to Damon’s Bourne without being shrouded in the past.

Sadly, this did not live up. Bourne is plastered all over coverage in “Legacy.” He’s going public with news of the operation he came from. The only new revelation is that there are a handful of black ops agents like him.

Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is one of them. The film opens with him diving into an icy river in Alaska, to

grab a container of blue and green pills.

These pills make the agents what they are, enhanc-ing both physical and mental abilities. The first hour is confusing, filled with clunky dialogue as the world of these super drugs is introduced.

After news of Bourne’s revelation goes public, the program is scheduled to be terminated. Yellow pills are distributed to all existing agents worldwide, effectively killing them within the hour. Cross, in seclusion, misses this and seeks out his doctor, Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz).

Shearing’s co-worker is

the lone perpetrator of a mas-sacre from which Shearing walks away as the lone survi-vor. Like the agents, Shearing suspects he may have been chemically brainwashed, and like Cross, she is scheduled for execution but rescued just in time. Together, they flee.

Eric Byer (Edward Norton) never flourishes as a villain, spending all of the film with his CIA team in a room full of computers as they track surveillance cameras world-wide in search of the duo.

Renner embodies wasted potential. He is a good action star, as he demonstrated earlier this summer by star-

ring in “Marvel’s The Aveng-ers” and last year’s “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.” He’s refreshingly reserved, displaying the same kind of quiet demeanor he portrayed in “The Hurt Locker” for which he was nominated for an Oscar. It is disappointing to see that he’s never given the opportunity to come into his own as Aaron or bring his own take to the franchise.

Like Renner, Rachel Weisz is under used. While strong and undoubtedly intelligent, she is also great at playing frightened and sympathetic. She and Renner mirror each other’s quiet subtleties.

Director Tony Gilroy

(“Michael Clayton”) served as a co-writer on all of the previ-ous “Bourne” films but brings nothing new to the table. At a running time of two hours and five minutes, “Legacy” is both too long and too rushed. Mov-iegoers will leave thinking: “That’s it?”

The film, as a whole, lacks the originality that made the previous films so popular. Instead, it seem like filler, leaving the audience with an ending that undoubt-edly leaves room for another sequel. (And another and another and another.)

Like the agents they are based on, the franchise just seems to go on.

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An unwanted ‘Legacy’

Actors Jeremy Renner (left) and Rachel Weisz run away from an enemy. Universal Pictures

“Terry was generous in providing this lead-time for an orderly search for a replace-ment, just as he has been generous in everything he does,” San Diego Community College District Chancellor Constance M. Carroll said in a follow-up announcement. “He has been a remarkable presi-dent as well as a remarkable member of the SDCCD’s lead-ership team.”

With her help, the search for Burgess’s successor will begin this fall with selection scheduled for finalizing by mid-spring.

“In the very near future, I will establish a search commit-tee for the recruitment, screen-ing, and recommendation of applicants and candidates for the position of president … I will work with the governance leadership in putting the com-mittee together,” she said.

Carroll expressed her hope that Burgess’s succes-sor would be able to start his or her service on July 1 of next year or by early August at the latest.

The 2012-13 academic year will mark Burgess’s 42nd year working in community col-leges.

Before arriving at City, Burgess served as president of Chabot College in Hayward from 1998 to 2001.

Previously, he worked as vice president of instruction at Irvine Valley College for 11 years. During his time there, student enrollment numbers grew dramatically from 3,500 students to 11,000.

A native of southern Calif., Burgess’s long career spans years of experience in admin-istration and teaching.

He has served as president of City College since 2001.

BurgessContinued from Page 1

‘The Bourne Legacy’ leaves much to be desired

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By Troy OremCity Times

At the start of a busy day, finding parking is the last thing you want to worry about.

In days of late, doing just that has been difficult. Even with the addition of the Career Technology Center parking structure, on a busy

day, those levels can fill up quickly.

There is however, a light on the horizon: the Math-ematics and Social Sciences building. Construction on the MS building has con-tinued over the summer at an accelerated rate, mean-ing the building that was once slated to be complete summer of next year will be

completed in the spring. While this means classes

still have some time before they can begin moving in, there is a possibility that in the coming weeks the park-ing structure will be open for use.

According to Project Manager Tom Fine, the goal date to open the structure has been set for Aug. 27.

There are two requirements standing in the way however: first, an inspection of the ele-vators in the structure, and second, installation of the permit issuing machines.

If the elevators pass inspection and the permit machines are installed on time, come Aug. 27, those busy mornings could be a little easier to manage.

The Mathematics and Social Sciences building is set to be complete during spring 2013. Troy Orem, City TimesOn the cover: Photo Illustration of the MS Building. Troy Orem, City Times

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