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Peralta Board Protest Feb 2012

Peralta college district braces for more cuts

Peralta District Chancellor Wise Allen announced Tuesday, Feb. 14, that the district should prepare itself for a possible 15 percent reduction in discretionary funding for the coming year. Full story

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Arts

Gregory Peck (Finch) and Brock Peters (Robinson) await the verdict.

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ film turns 50

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird," and in the time since the first screening its popularity has scarcely waned. It's not hard to imagine that it was so well received as the novel of the same name on which it was based was voted the most inspirational novel of all time, according to onepoll.com, easily beating out the Christian bible. Full story

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Sports

Baseball starts off strong with 6 wins

The Laney College baseball team started the season off in impressive fashion, winning its first five games before losing 5-4 in 10 innings to Monterey Peninsula College on Feb. 11. Full story

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Features

KRS-One

KRS-One talks to Oakland students

On Feb. 2, the students of Edna Brewer elementary school began celebrating Black History Month with the teachings of legendary hip-hop artist and world activist Lawrence Krisna Parker, better known to the world as KRS-One.  Full story

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Plug In Grass

Clean energy fosters a healthy society

Feb. 9th, fifty students and admirers packed into room E207 of Laney College for a lecture on efforts that would allow inhabitants of the Bay Area to see their homes in a new light. Speaking was Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of Green For All. Full story

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