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		<title>Save a City College class!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pritchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight hundred City College classes are being cancelled during the next school year due to the California budget disaster and the generally crappy economy, but you can save a class and have it named after you by donating $6000 to the school. Just find the cancelled classes in their online schedule &#8212; the Music Department, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/21/BA7N18930O.DTL" target="_window">Eight hundred City College classes are being cancelled</a> during the next school year due to the California budget disaster and the generally crappy economy, but you can <b>save a class and have it named after you</b> by donating $6000 to the school. </p>
<p>Just find the cancelled classes in their online schedule &#8212; the Music Department, for example, looks like this, with the cancelled classes highlighted in red:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ccsf.edu/Schedule/Fall/music.html"><img src="http://sf.metblogs.com/files/2009/06/cancelled_classes.gif" alt="cancelled_classes" width="500" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5776" /></a></p>
<p>As a late Father&#8217;s Day present, how about choosing something your Dad loves, and <i>naming a City College class in the subject after him?</i> For example, The A.E. Pritchard class in electric organ. (I don&#8217;t think they have a class in electric organ, but you get the idea.) Does the $6000 sound a little pricy in this economy? How about getting your friends to chip in? Maybe your writing group would like to sponsor a &#8220;Basic Writing&#8221; class. Because it&#8217;s time to stop making fun of <a HREF="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/06/michael_bay_blows_up_english.html" target="_window">people who can&#8217;t write</a> and do something about it. </p>
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		<title>Marin&#8217;s Kay Ryan named US Poet Laureate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pritchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poet Kay Ryan, who lives in Fairfax and teaches at the College of Main, has been named the latest U.S. Poet Laureate. She was born in San Jose and has lived in Californnia much of her life. As far as I can tell from a quick survey of the list of poet laureates of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poet <a HREF="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0825/p25s01-bogn.html">Kay Ryan</a>, who <a hREF="http://www.marinij.com/ci_9901199?source=most_emailed">lives in Fairfax</a> and teaches at the College of Main, has been <a hREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/17poet.html">named</a> the latest <a HREF="http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ryan/">U.S. Poet Laureate</a>. </p>
<p>She was <a hREF="http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-06-14-ryan-prize_x.htm">born in San Jose</a> and has <a hREF="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/352">lived in Californnia</a> much of her life. As far as I can tell from a quick survey of the <a hREF="http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-1937-1960.html">list</a> of poet laureates of the U.S., she is the first lesbian poet laureate.</p>
<p>Her selection made her books the <a HREF="http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_9909451?nclick_check=1">top sellers</a> of poetry at amazon.com. But not for long, because the online bookseller quickly ran out of stock of Ryan&#8217;s works, the AP reported.</p>
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