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October 14, 2003

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October 14, 2003

Ideas & Opinions

Aim to raise standards

Kim Hosey
Copy Editor

Arizona superintendent of public schools, Tom Horne, recently predicted 10 percent of current high school seniors will fail the AIMS test required for graduation.
In response, many people called for a lowering of the AIMS standards so more students might pass.

Legend's View
Glasper a good choice
With all the upset over the Maricopa Community Colleges District’s “search” for a new chancellor, one important fact has been overlooked.
Rufus Glasper is a good guy.
The governing board has failed us a number of times as the community has recently come to see, but their faults should not be the only blemishes on an otherwise impressive record.

Smokers segregated

Daniel Raven
Mesa Legend

Student smokers on the MCC campus are segregated second-class citizens, with rights and facilities unequal to that of their nonsmoking peers.
As a smoker drifting aimlessly through school grounds between classes, I find it impossible to avoid mental comparisons which I see with the ignorant mid-century segregation of African Americans in this country.

Students Observing and Scrutinizing
Do you feel that the designated smoking areas on campus are an adequate solution for both smokers and non-smokers?

Letter to the Editor
I enjoyed Daniel Raven’s well-written article. As an instructor, I am also concerned with plagiarism. I wish I had known this article was in the works. I have a plagiarism story to add.

Students go into machine and come out of the, aims testing building

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