Wednesday September 2, after students were held in their classes for over an hour, police carefully escorted students safely off campus. Most of the students knew that there was a shooting at school, but many students were confused and uninformed of what was going on.
Timeline of Skyline College Shooting Wednesday, September 2, 2009 @1:30pm shots fired in skyline parking lot 6. A young African American male was shot in the lower back as a result of an altercation between a group of unidentified male suspects.
An unidentified African-American man was shot on campus yesterday at 1:30 pm. The man, who has yet to be confirmed as a Skyline student, was allegedly near the Pacific Heights building when he had a confrontation with six to eight other individuals, which resulted in one of them shooting the victim.
On Monday, May 18, Officer Brian Tupper started his first day as the new Chief of Public Safety for Skyline College. The previous Chief of Public Safety, Officer Mike Celeste, has been promoted, and is now Director of Public Safety for the entire district.
Nohel Corral has been given the position as full-time counselor for Skyline's TRIO program. The program has never before had a full-time counselor, according to Victoria Morrow, President of Skyline College. Morrow was pleased that the program was able to grow into having a full-time counselor.
While having to make minor cutbacks is not new to school systems, this is the first time, at least in recent history, that the colleges will be refusing all admissions. This is affecting many, many students, as approximately 35,000 students apply to a CSU every semester, 60 percent of which are transfer students.
The Federal Dream Act, reintroduced into legislation on March 26, 2009, is aimed to allow undocumented citizens to compete by applying for financial aid at public colleges. Opponents of this act believe that this is a threat to the middle class, taking the opportunity of financial aid away from many legally documented students.
The new smoke-free policy at Skyline College has officially begun this semester, with designated smoking areas being pushed back to the parking lots and other very specific spots on campus. This may inconvenience people used to being able to grab a quick smoke in between classes, but the changes are designed to be better for everyone.
Starting in the fall semester of 2009, Skyline will be changing its smoking policy, restricting smokers to designated smoking areas in all of the parking lots. There will be no smoking allowed on campus. "This change will provide a healthful, conducive environment for learning," said Ray Hernandez, president of the academic senate and also the respiratory therapy program director.
