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Gov. Jerry Brown is right to turn his budgetary and policy focus to California's community colleges. Some of the proposals he made this week – such as giving priority to full-time students – are the right prescription for the ailing system. Other ideas, notably delaying payments to colleges, would be pills too bitter to swallow.
The state's community colleges don't have the worldwide fame or prestige of the California State University and University of California systems. But they do the heavy lifting of public higher education.
Without them, many Californians would not have the practical training to secure and perform their jobs, and many others would never had access to a four-year degree. California's community colleges provide economically efficient alternative for freshman and sophomore general-education courses. And, in years past, many people have had the opportunity to take enrichment and refresher courses – Spanish conversation before a trip to Madrid, art history to understand those Old Masters at the Norton Simon.
The enormous budget squeeze in recent years meant something had to give, and one of them is unfortunately the roster of enrichment courses. In a better economy, the colleges may have the resources to add back these types of classes. Right now they are luxury we can't afford; the priority must remain with younger students seeking the most affordable start to their higher education.
Since budget problems began with the recession five years ago, there are about 500,000 fewer community college students than before. Fortunately, the passage of Brown's Proposition 30 means about $200 million annually in additional funding for the two-year system. But there are still 2.4 million people enrolled at 112 campuses – the biggest system of higher education in the world. And it is still hard to get the right courses at the right time in order to move on.
That's why Brown's current push to prioritize enrollment for full-time students who are successful in their studies makes sense. The governor wants to limit the wholesale re-taking of classes, often done by students to get a better grade, and he wants to cap the state subsidization of tuition after a student has taken 90 units, as an incentive to move on. Students now pay $46 a unit for an education that costs about $190 per unit. Brown's proposal is a reasonable alternative to simply raising tuition altogether.
Where Brown's suggested changes falter is in the proposal to forward state funding to individual campuses only after students have completed courses rather than, as currently, paying for students enrolled a month into the term. There would be too much incentive for colleges to offer easier courses and for students to take the less-demanding ones, dumbing down the system.
Under changes previously approved by the Legislature, students already have to maintain good grades to get fee waivers and enrollment priorities.
But Brown's reformist impulses are welcome. Efficiency at our community colleges means they will continue to play the crucial entry-level role they were designed for.


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Above: Christopher Nolan, right, director of "The Dark Knight Rises," stands at the corner of Third Avenue and Wood Street in Pittsburgh as the Tumbler appears at the intersection. Below: Actors prepare to shoot a scene for "The Dark Knight Rises" on Wood Street outside of Point Park's Academic Hall.
One of the most anticipated films of 2012 was shot steps from the Point Park campus, and more than 50 students and alumni were part of the action.
The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment in director Christopher Nolan's Batman series, was filmed this summer at various locations in Pittsburgh, and Point Park graduates and current students were hired as everything from production assistants to location manager.
"It's a fantastic thing professionally for our students," said Chris Sepesy, an adjunct professor in the Cinema & Digital Arts Department at Point Park. "We have 19- and 20-year-olds who can say they've worked on Nolan's Dark Knight series."
Dana Gasparine, a senior who is double majoring in screenwriting and cinema digital arts with a concentration in editing, worked as a production assistant on the set for 10 days.
"It was an extremely valuable experience," Gasparine said. "It's a good addition to a resume and a chance to make contacts.
"You gain on-set experience, but it's not really about what you do, it's about who you meet," she continued. "You're more likely to get a job from someone you meet on set than from just having the experience of being on set."
Students started applying to work on the set after it was announced The Dark Knight Rises would be filming in Pittsburgh. Sepesy also sent the production company a list of 45 names.
Gasparine said that networking with contacts she made at her waitressing job is how she ultimately landed her PA position.
"Three people from the set came into the restaurant when I was working, and we talked about filmmaking," she said. "One of the people at my table called the set PA, who called me, and I got on for one day with the possibility of coming back the next."
Gasparine made a great impression, and her name was on the call sheet for the rest of the shoot. Other students had similar experiences.
"Our students were getting praised by the professionals. The Point Park students were taken aside and commended for what they were doing," Sepesy said. "I heard from everyone that they're starting a master list of PAs, and our students are front and center."
More than 50 major movies have been filmed in the Pittsburgh area in the last decade, including Abduction, The Next Three Days, Unstoppable and Warrior. This fall, One Shot with Tom Cruise will be shooting here.
"I just met with a new batch of freshmen and said coming to film school in this city is one of the best decisions you can make because you'll have golden opportunities to work on large movie sets, and you're at the top of the list," Sepesy said.
The Dark Knight Rises is set to be released in July 2012 and will star Christian Bale as Batman, Tom Hardy as Bane, and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman.
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Last week, Apple sent out invitations to a press event at company HQ, in Cupertino, Calif. Apple has remained predictably mum on the precise details of the event – ginning up buzz and mystery being something of an Apple specialty – but the invites were emblazoned with the words "Let's talk iPhone."
So, hey, what will Apple call its next-generation smartphone? Well, in the past, all smart money was on "iPhone 5," but now it appears more likely that Apple is going with the moniker "iPhone 4S." Over at Apple Insider, Arnold Kim reports that Vodafone Germany is already displaying a bunch of listings for an iPhone 4S, in variations ranging from 16 GB to 64 GB capacities.
There's another narrative that says the iPhone 4S will be a budget version of a new iPhone 5 – but this is where early rumors start to conflict. All will be clear tomorrow.
As for what the device will look like, Mark Gurman of 9 to 5 Mac speculates that the iPhone 4S will look a lot like the iPhone 4. "[T]he evidence for an iPhone redesign is super slim: no SDK references, no iTunes references, no hints of such a phone being in production, no sources spotting such devices. Nothing," Gurman writes. "If Apple pulls an iPhone 5 redesign out on Tuesday, it will be a major and almost unheard of surprise."
But there is word that Apple will likely incorporate improved voice control features on the new iPhone, probably with the help of an interface called Assistant. ZDNet's James Kendrick says Apple "will no doubt make Assistant very natural for the user," but he warns that the company will have to first deal with a pair of problems: the problem of background noise and the problem of preventing the user from feeling completely silly when he uses Assistant.
"Apple's implementation of speech [recognition] will have to be done in such a way that doesn't make the user feel self-conscious when using it," Kendrick writes. "If Apple can deal with these two hurdles, it has a shot at making speech recognition a part of the everyday use for iPhone owners. As stated, this is not new technology by any means but if Apple can get iPhone owners to use it regularly it will be a big move forward in mobile."
On the release date front, Josh Lowensohn of CNET warns that Apple may not launch its new devices instantly.
"With previous iPhones and with iPads there's been a gap between when products are announced and when they go on sale," Lowensohn writes. "Why? It's in Apple's benefit to get a lead on producing units before they go on sale; to give developers a jump on making use of any new features and APIs; and to monopolize another few days or so of news coverage when devices arrive at stores."
We can also look for the Apple event to mark a changing of the guard: Steve Jobs, who handed over the CEO role to Tim Cook earlier this year, may be present in Cupertino, but he probably won't deliver the keynote address. "Tim is perceived as an operations and supply chain guru and that he certainly is, but we believe it is too early to write him off as not a visionary and showman like Steve Jobs," Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu told Reuters.
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The Northeast Conference held its annual preseason conference call via Google Hangout on Monday, August 12. During the hangout the NEC announced the annual preseason poll and All-NEC Team. Junior Rob Hollomon was named Preseason All-NEC at the running back and kick/punt returner positions. The Blue Devils were picked to finish sixth in the NEC, both the poll and the all-conference team were voted on by the NEC's coaches.
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Defending champion Wagner was tapped as the preseason favorite. Duquesne was picked second, followed by Bryant, Robert Morris and Saint Francis U. The Blue Devils were sixth with Sacred Heart wrapping up the poll in seventh place.
Hollomon earned the nod as one of two running backs on the All-NEC Team and the squads lone kick returner. Hollomon has earned national preseason honors at both the running back and return positions, including a Third Team All-America selection as an all-purpose performer by The Sports Network.
Hollomon finished his first season at CCSU with 1,104 rushing yards and 1,710 all-purpose yards. His 110.4 rushing yards and 171.0 all-purpose yards per game led the NEC. Hollomon also became just the second player in NEC history to rush for 200+ yards in back-to-back conference games. In those same two games, he posted 377 and 307 all-purpose yards, with the former being CCSU's Division I program record.
The Blue Devils open the 2013 season on August 31, at James Madison University. CCSU visits Lehigh on September 7, and then hosts Holy Cross on September 14, for the home opener at Arute Field.


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Presidential candidate Valery Konovalyuk was just launching into his vision for a prosperous, independent Ukraine when a giggling aide passed him a smart phone to show him a spoof on his offer to settle the nation's political crisis with a judo match against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The image showed Konovalyuk dropping an opponent, with a caption warning that Putin, a fellow black belt martial artist, was next.
The candidate laughed and admitted that facing Putin would be a formidable _ but "noble" _ challenge. These days, however, the fight he's focused on is not just wresting his country from Russia's longtime hold, but also from the increasing U.S. influence that he believes is inflaming the political crisis and turning Ukraine into a battleground for two Cold War foes.
"The United States and Russia both love Ukraine so much that in their embrace they just might suffocate it," he said, dryly, via a Russian translator at a news conference Wednesday in Washington.
Konovalyuk was in Washington to warn U.S. lawmakers away from sanctions _ the Obama administration's main tool to counter Putin's activities in eastern Ukraine _ and to press instead for what he describes as a Marshall Plan-style economic recovery initiative.
A native of volatile eastern Ukraine, Konovalyuk wants both Russia and the United States to take "equal steps" away from bombast, sanctions and military posturing, a perspective that gets lost in the White House's rush to prop up the more Western-friendly interim leadership in Kiev.
Konavalyuk is among 23 presidential candidates who will be on the ballot May 25, when Ukraine holds its first election since the former, Russia-aligned president, Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted in February amid bloody street protests. Konavalyuk doesn't have a real chance at winning, according to the latest polling in Ukraine, which shows billionaire chocolatier Petro Poroshenko to be the front-runner, but he says it's important that Americans hear his and other voices representing Ukraine's more Moscow-aligned corridors, lest the United States lend credence to Putin's claims that Russia is merely protecting endangered populations.
"The risk is high that Ukraine could lose its sovereignty," Konavalyuk warned over lunch this week on a day crammed with meetings with members of Congress.
Konovalyuk, 47, an economist and politician, has a record of challenging Kiev administrations. In 2008, he led an ad hoc commission that accused the leadership at the time of violating Ukrainian and international law by exporting arms to Georgia just before war broke out there between the government and Russia-backed secessionist territories.
Four years later, he resigned from his role as a Yanukovych adviser, citing rampant corruption that he says was ignored by an Obama administration that was searching for a "reset" in Russian relations.
He took a break from politics in 2012, returning only since the latest political crisis erupted to add what he considers a realistic voice to the debate over Ukraine's future.
In his thinking, Putin won't reverse the Russian takeover of Crimea, so now it's time to protect Ukraine from further fragmentation and bloodshed by addressing the concerns of separatists in the south and east, and by adopting a firmly nonaligned stance that reassures Putin that Ukraine isn't pivoting west.
That might sound like appeasement to the anti-Putin crowd, but Konovalyuk thinks of it as pragmatic.
"We find ourselves at a dead end as far as crisis resolution is concerned," Konovalyuk said. "The West will never acknowledge the annexation of Crimea, even though they realize that further sanctions on Russia will only exacerbate the conflict. And Russia will never release Crimea, but will continue to try to destabilize the situation in the southeast of the country to maintain its sphere of influence."
Already, he said, the incoming president will inherit a Ukraine that's virtually "ungovernable" because of political polarization and unrest that's fomented in large part by Moscow's thinly veiled support for the separatists. But high-profile visits to Ukraine by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, along with U.S. pledges of millions of dollars to bolster the caretakers in Kiev, only stoke the tensions, Konovalyuk said.
U.S. sanctions against Russia, he added, are sure to backfire and hurt Ukraine, because the two economies are closely interwoven and still vulnerable after the global financial crisis. All it would take to send Ukraine's economy crashing, he said, is a decision by Putin to demand advance payment for Russian natural gas supplies. He prefers to see the United States play the long game, developing alternative energy sources and helping to rebuild the economy and civil society instead of asserting its influence at such a sensitive moment.
Konovalyuk said he was encouraged by the news Wednesday that Putin had called for pro-Russian separatists in the east to postpone a controversial referendum set for Sunday and had expressed support for the May 25 presidential elections as a "step in the right direction."
At the State Department, spokeswoman Jen Psaki allowed that Putin's announcement was "a helpful step," but he stressed that there was far more Putin could do to defuse the crisis and ensure safe elections.
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Year of the Priest: Time to talk celibacy
Out goes the Year of Paul, in comes the Year of the Priest. Perfect timing too. Priests in the U.S. especially have been demoralized by the sex abuse scandal; many have suffered pay and benefit cuts because of financial instability of many dioceses; and celibacy is once again in the spotlight because of the case of Alberto Cutie in Miami and Fernando Lugo, former bishop and now president of Paraguay who admitted to fathering at least two children while a bishop.
Rather than let this year be a rah-rah for the status quo, it ought to be an opportunity to study the condition of many priests: Too many are overworked, ministering well past retirement age. Many are lonely, and some struggle with food or alcohol dependence to cope. Almost all are overwhelmed by the demands of serving God's people--though the vast majority are still serving admirably despite the pressures.
The fact of the matter is, we have a numbers problem: Too many Cathoilcs, not enough priests--and that out-of-whack ratio is costing Catholicism big time, especially in Latin America and Africa, where Pentecostals and Evangelicals are eating our lunch.
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"It's getting close to being just mostly the brace," Griffin said. "Doctors won't let me take it off and I don't believe [trainer Larry Hess] will let me take it off. I try to do as much as I can without the brace and then when they find out I don't have it on I have to throw it on… I can feel it healing; I might not wear the brace this week. But I'm sure Larry is shaking his head downstairs."
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Newcastle Falcons have announced that scrum-half Peter Stringer has arrived at the club until the end of the season.
Stringer has been turning out for Aviva Premiership champions Saracens in recent times - after moving there on loan from Munster - but he has swapped the top of the table for the basement-dwellers and will help the Falcons for the rest of the season. With just five games left, the Falcons lie eight points off 11th placed Wasps and Stringer is expected to be thrust straight into the team in their scrap for survival.
"I have been lucky enough to play for two great teams in the shape of Saracens and Munster in the last few years and I have enjoyed a lot of success," Stringer said. "Hopefully that experience will help me here at Newcastle. I have spoken to Gary on the phone and I have heard great things about him and his attitude towards the game.
"The directors and coaches at Saracens had nothing but good things to say about Newcastle and I am looking forward to working with Gary [Gold]."
The Falcons' next match is against Worcester on March 23 and Newcastle boss Gary Gold has praised Stringer upon his arrival. "I am delighted that a player of Peter's quality and experience has decided to play his rugby in the North East," Gold said. "I am humbled by the fact that he has joined us and it just goes to show the type of individual that Peter is.
"The signing of Peter further underlines the club's ambitions."
And in relation to the club's ambitions, reports in the press on Tuesday suggest that former Quins boss Dean Richards will be unveiled as the side's new coach for next season - something that ESPNscrum reported on February 26.
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