Sam Kelly STAFF WRITER After the Chico State Wild- cat Store opened its own coffee shop, Wildcat Wakeup, this semester, a drop in sales at Common Grounds has raised questions of the shop’s future. There are now two coffee shops in the Bell Memorial Union, said Evan White, a senior physics major and Common Grounds barista. Recent cuts to Common Grounds include fewer work- ing hours for employ- ees and no more aprons, but the most pressing concern is if Com- mon Grounds will stay open. “They are holding a gun to our head and they don’t even know it,” White said. At the last Associated Students business commit- tee meeting, it was learned that there was a decrease in Common Grounds sales, but more information is needed to determine if that drop in sales is due to Wildcat Wakeup, said Daniel Ether- edge, A.S. vice president of business and finance. In November, there was more than a 24 percent reduction in sales at Common Grounds, and it is estimated about 16 percent of that drop can be attributed to the addi- tion of Wildcat Wakeup, said Corrine Knapp, A.S. Dining Services retail manager in an email interview. “The main vision for the A.S. is to supply these ser- vices to students and make sure that it is a special experience for everyone,” Etheredge said. “I definitely think they can coexist, and A $100 million midyear budget cut to the California State University system was realized Tuesday when Gov. Jerry Brown announced that California had not met its projected revenue goals. California will see about $1 billion in automatic spending cuts in total. The “trigger-cut” means a $4.1 million reduction in state support for Chico State this academic year, Chico State President Paul Zingg said previously. The CSU will not raise tuition for the spring semester, according to a press release from the CSU Chancellor’s Office. The $100 million reduction comes on top of a $650 million cut in state support already enacted. Sources: CSU Chancellor’s Office and President Paul Zingg Chico State’s last monthly blood drive before break will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Bell Memorial Union auditorium. Students should be generally healthy and drink plenty of fluids before giving blood. Source: Campus Calendar The Banana Slug String Band will present “Slugs for the Holidays,” a fun-filled, educational performance, tonight in Laxson Auditorium. Through interactive music and live performances, The Slugs educate children and families about the environment and earth science. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for students and children. Source: Chico Performances A Google webinar, “Extending Your Search Skills: Staying Relevant in a Changing World,” will be shown at 9 a.m. Friday in the Center for Continuing Education Room 107. The webinar is part of a series developed by the Google Education Search Team for faculty members, students and other California State University community members. This webinar will explain how to remain a proficient search engine user as the underlying technology changes. Source: Campus Calendar A2 A2 A4 A8 B1 B5 C1 C5 D1 D5 World News Weather Police Blotter Opinion Sports Service Directory Arts Daily Dose Features The Nebula INDEX >> INSIDE >> 53 36 high low full week A2 >> TODAY Sports The sports staff picks fall’s top five athletes. Check out the selections on B1 Opinion A tribute to The Orion’s longest-running adviser. Editorial A8 Features Learn to make fast finals meals with these soup and mushroom burger recipes. Food column D4 CAMPUS >> WEDNESDAY , DEC. 14, 2011 news all week at theorion.com FIRST COPY FREE additional copies 50¢ Chico State’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1975 VOLUME 67 ISSUE 16 SEE INSIDE PURE IMAGINATION “Willy Wonka Jr.” comes to the Blue Room Theatre. Story C3 THE ORION • AARON DRAPER UNOCCUPIED Michael Coyle, assistant professor of political science, speaks to members of Occupy Chico State, which decided to end its occupation on campus until next semester. In spring the group plans to resume rallies in efforts to raise awareness regarding state cuts to higher education. Motorcycle crash kills man Class cuts for Butte College has Chico State brainstorming Viability of competing coffee shops brews trouble for one THE ORION • FRANK REBELO COMMON RIVALRY Gina Gibbs, a Chico State graduate student study- ing English, orders coffee from Matt Dring, a senior health admin- istration major, at Common Grounds in the Bell Memorial Union. Griffin Rogers STAFF WRITER Unable to turn students away and teaching some of them for free, Butte College has cut hundreds of courses in its curriculum, delay- ing graduation and transfer to Chico State. In order to cope with a lack of funding from the state, Butte College cut 125 courses this year and plans to cut about 100 more next year, said Allen Renville, vice president for student services. The college has also can- celed the 2011-2012 winter session for the first time. The many cuts in the academic schedule are necessary, because enrollment has greatly exceeded the capacity of students the state is willing to pay for, Renville said. State funds cover 10,900 Butte College students, but there are 11,900 students currently enrolled. “It used to be come one, come all,” Renville said. “But the reality is we can’t be every- thing for everyone now.” Without being offered the crucial classes needed to transfer, students will have to sit out of college until the courses are available, he said. The wait could last up to a year, and then students will have to hope classes aren’t full. Reprioritizing registration could help fix this problem, he said. “We’ve never been in a situation where we can’t accommodate everyone who walks through the door,” Renville said. “So, the question becomes, ‘Who’s first?’” Enrollment numbers for the spring 2012 semester show Butte College at 85 percent capacity, he said. Math, science and read- ing classes are 90 percent full. That number doesn’t include the additional 700 students projected from new student registration over the next month. “That’s how serious it is,” Renville said. “We are looking at a capac- ity we’ve never seen in history.” Chico State is being significantly affected by Butte College’s situation, a problem expe- rienced by most community colleges across the state, said Kathleen Kaiser, a statewide senator on the Academic Senate. While Butte College doesn’t need any more students, Chico State can’t get enough, she said. “We don’t get enough students complet- ing minimum requirements for admission to Chico State,” Kaiser said. The system is set up so that Chico State takes transfer students from the six commu- nity colleges in its service area: Butte College, Yuba College, College of Siskiyous, Lassen College, Feather River College and Shasta College. Considering the distance between each of the six community colleges, Chico State has a wide area to pull transfer students from, Kai- ser said. However, because Chico State wants highly qualified transfer students so badly, it >> please see CUTS | A7 >> please see BREW | A7 Kjerstin Wood Juniper Rose THE ORION A Butte College student died Monday, two days after suffering serious injuries in a motorcycle accident at the intersection of West Fifth and Walnut streets. The motorcyclist, Chris- topher Bonifield, 20, was ejected about 150 feet after striking a car, accord- ing to a press release from Chico police. The Chico Police Depart- ment received numerous 911 calls at about 2 p.m. Sat- urday saying there was a major accident and that someone was trapped under a car, Chico police Sgt. Billy Aldridge said. “When we got there witnesses had already pulled the motorcyclist out from underneath the car,” Aldridge said. Bonifield was transported to Enloe Medical Center with major injuries, Aldridge said. The car involved was driven by Jack Levey, a 22-year-old Chico State senior, he said. Neither the driver of the car, nor the driver’s two passengers suffered injuries. While Chico police are still investigating the cause of the accident, wit- ness accounts and initial police investi- gation point to speed as a factor in the accident, Aldridge said. Bonifield had been studying at Butte Col- lege for the past year and graduated from Mount Shasta High School in 2009. He is survived by his parents Lance and Barbara Bonifield, brother Larry Bonifield and his girlfriend, Chelsea Pas- quini, a journalism major at Chico State. Pasquini didn’t know what the words true love meant until she met Bonifield, she said. “He was, and will always be, my angel,” Pasquini said. “We said forever, and I will love him forever.” Bonifield was very smart and loved to live life to the fullest, said Kaleb Fitzgerald, Bonifield’s roommate and a Chico State environmental >> please see CRASH | A7 “ “ CHELSEA PASQUINI Christopher Bonifield’s girlfriend He was, and will always be, my angel. We said forever, and I will love him forever. CHRISTOPHER BONIFIELD Butte College student Occupation takes hiatus Check out A3 for continuing Occupy Chico State coverage. Read Chico State President Paul Zingg’s take on the group. MORE ON CHICO STATE ENROLLMENT See story A3 MORE ON COMMON GROUNDS Story A3
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Sam Kelly STAFF WRITER
After the Chico State Wild-cat Store opened its own coff ee shop, Wildcat Wakeup, this semester, a drop in sales at Common Grounds has raised questions of the shop’s future.
There are now two coff ee shops in the Bell Memorial Union, said Evan White, a senior physics major and Common Grounds barista.
Recent cuts to Common Grounds include fewer work-ing hours for employ-ees and no
more aprons, but the most pressing concern is if Com-mon Grounds will stay open.
“They are holding a gun to our head and they don’t even know it,” White said.
At the last Associated Students business commit-tee meeting, it was learned that there was a decrease in Common Grounds sales, but more information is needed to determine if that drop in sales is due to Wildcat Wakeup, said Daniel Ether-edge, A.S. vice president of business and fi nance.
In November, there was more than a 24 percent
reduction in sales at Common Grounds, and it is estimated about 16 percent of that drop can be attributed to the addi-tion of Wildcat Wakeup, said Corrine Knapp, A.S. Dining Services retail manager in an email interview.
“The main vision for the A.S. is to supply these ser-vices to students and make sure that it is a special experience for everyone,” Etheredge said. “I defi nitely think they can coexist, and
A $100 million midyear budget cut to the California State University system was realized Tuesday when Gov. Jerry Brown announced that California had not met its projected revenue goals. California will see about $1 billion in automatic spending cuts in total.The “trigger-cut” means
a $4.1 million reduction in state support for Chico State this academic year, Chico State President Paul Zingg said previously.The CSU will not raise
tuition for the spring semester, according to a press release from the CSU Chancellor’s Offi ce. The $100 million reduction comes on top of a $650 million cut in state support already enacted.
Sources: CSU Chancellor’s Offi ce and President Paul Zingg
Chico State’s last monthly blood drive before break will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Bell Memorial Union auditorium. Students should be generally healthy and drink plenty of fl uids before giving blood.
Source: Campus Calendar
The Banana Slug String Band will present “Slugs for the Holidays,” a fun-fi lled, educational performance, tonight in Laxson Auditorium. Through interactive music and live performances, The Slugs educate children and families about the environment and earth science. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for students and children.
Source: Chico Performances
A Google webinar, “Extending Your Search Skills: Staying Relevant in a Changing World,” will be shown at 9 a.m. Friday in the Center for Continuing Education Room 107. The webinar is part of a series developed by the Google Education Search Team for faculty members, students and other California State University community members. This webinar will explain how to remain a profi cient search engine user as the underlying technology changes.
Source: Campus Calendar
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Weather
Police Blotter
OpinionSports
Service Directory
ArtsDaily Dose
FeaturesThe Nebula
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TODAY SportsThe sports staff picks fall’s top fi ve athletes. Check out the selections on B1
OpinionA tribute to The Orion’s longest-running adviser. Editorial A8
FeaturesLearn to make fast fi nals meals with these soup and mushroom burger recipes. Food column D4
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14, 2011 news all week at theorion.com FIRST COPY FREEadditional copies 50¢
Chico State’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1975
VOLUME 67 ISSUE 16
SEE INSIDE
PURE IMAGINATION“Willy Wonka Jr.” comes to the Blue Room Theatre. Story C3
THE ORION • AARON DRAPER
UNOCCUPIED Michael Coyle, assistant professor of political science, speaks to members of Occupy Chico State, which decided to end its occupation on campus until next semester. In spring the group plans to resume rallies in eff orts to raise awareness regarding state cuts to higher education.
Motorcycle crash kills man
Class cuts for Butte College has Chico State brainstorming
Viability of competing coffee shops brews trouble for one
THE ORION • FRANK REBELO
COMMON RIVALRY Gina Gibbs, a Chico State graduate student study-ing English, orders coff ee from Matt Dring, a senior health admin-istration major, at Common Grounds in the Bell Memorial Union.
Griffin RogersSTAFF WRITER
Unable to turn students away and teaching some of them for free, Butte College has cut hundreds of courses in its curriculum, delay-ing graduation and transfer to Chico State.
In order to cope with a lack of funding from the state, Butte College cut 125 courses this year and plans to cut about 100 more next year, said Allen Renville, vice president for student services. The college has also can-celed the 2011-2012 winter session for the first time.
The many cuts in the academic schedule are necessary, because enrollment has greatly exceeded the capacity of students the state is willing to pay for, Renville said. State funds cover 10,900 Butte College students, but there are 11,900 students currently enrolled.
“It used to be come one, come all,” Renville said. “But the reality is we can’t be every-thing for everyone now.”
Without being offered the crucial classes needed to transfer, students will have to sit out of college until the courses are available, he said. The wait could last up to a year, and then students will have to hope classes aren’t full.
Reprioritizing registration could help fix this problem, he said.
“We’ve never been in a situation where we can’t accommodate everyone who walks through the door,” Renville said. “So, the question becomes, ‘Who’s first?’”
Enrollment numbers for the spring 2012 semester show Butte College at 85 percent capacity, he said. Math, science and read-ing classes are 90 percent full.
That number doesn’t include the additional 700 students projected from new student registration over the next month.
“That’s how serious it is,” Renville said. “We are looking at a capac-ity we’ve never seen in history.”
Chico State is being significantly affected by Butte College’s situation, a problem expe-rienced by most community colleges across the state, said Kathleen Kaiser, a statewide senator on the Academic Senate.
While Butte College doesn’t need any more students, Chico State can’t get enough, she said.
“We don’t get enough students complet-ing minimum requirements for admission to Chico State,” Kaiser said.
The system is set up so that Chico State takes transfer students from the six commu-nity colleges in its service area: Butte College, Yuba College, College of Siskiyous, Lassen College, Feather River College and Shasta College.
Considering the distance between each of the six community colleges, Chico State has a wide area to pull transfer students from, Kai-ser said. However, because Chico State wants highly qualified transfer students so badly, it
>> please see CUTS | A7>> please see BREW | A7
Kjerstin WoodJuniper RoseTHE ORION
A Butte College student died Monday, two days after suffering serious injuries in a motorcycle accident at the intersection of West Fifth and Walnut streets.
The motorcyclist, Chris-topher Bonifield, 20, was ejected about 150 feet after striking a car, accord-ing to a press release from Chico police.
The Chico Police Depart-ment received numerous 911 calls at about 2 p.m. Sat-urday saying there was a
major accident and that someone was trapped under a car, Chico police Sgt. Billy Aldridge said.
“When we got there witnesses had already pulled the motorcyclist out from underneath the car,” Aldridge said.
Bonifield was transported to Enloe Medical Center with major injuries, Aldridge said.
The car involved was driven by Jack Levey, a 22-year-old Chico State senior, he said. Neither the driver of the car,
nor the driver’s two passengers suffered injuries.
While Chico police are still investigating the cause of the accident, wit-ness accounts and initial police investi-gation point to speed as a factor in the accident, Aldridge said.
Bonifield had been studying at Butte Col-lege for the past year and graduated from Mount Shasta High School in 2009.
He is survived by his parents Lance and Barbara Bonifield, brother Larry Bonifield and his girlfriend, Chelsea Pas-quini, a journalism major at Chico State.
Pasquini didn’t know what the words true love meant until she met Bonifield, she said.
“He was, and will always be, my angel,” Pasquini said. “We said forever, and I will love him forever.”
Bonifield was very smart and loved to live life to the fullest, said Kaleb Fitzgerald, Bonifield’s roommate and a Chico State environmental
>> please see CRASH | A7
““CHELSEA PASQUINI
Christopher Bonifi eld’s girlfriend
He was, and will
always be, my angel. We said forever,
and I will love him forever.
CHRISTOPHER BONIFIELDButte College student
Occupation
takes hiatus
Check out A3 for continuing Occupy Chico State coverage.
Read Chico State President Paul Zingg’s take on the group.
MORE ON CHICO STATE ENROLLMENT
See story A3
MORE ON COMMON GROUNDS
Story A3
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