Southwestern College officials say they are working with their student newspaper to ensure that it can be printed.
The paper was supposed to go to print last week, but held off after college officials warned that doing so could have unspecified "ramifications."
College officials said the Southwestern Sun had failed to follow college contracting rules when choosing their printer. Students charged that the college was invoking the rules as a smokescreen to stop them from printing critical coverage of the administration before a heated election. The election is just one stage in a drawn out battle between the administration and faculty and students on how to turn the school around.
This weekend the college and the newspaper released a joint statement saying, "The Administration and Sun have identified measures that could allow the paper to be printed until a long-term agreement can be reached."
Max Branscomb, the faculty advisor for the Sun, said the tentative plan is to set up quick
I just heard back from Scott Barnett, the school board candidate who lost the teachers union endorsement after deciding that he couldn't support a new tax to support San Diego Unified schools.
Barnett has always been skeptical about putting a tax on the ballot in a bad economy, but had earlier said that he would support the tax despite his misgivings. However, Barnett said his worries only deepened after seeing a study from the Center on Policy Initiatives, a left-leaning think tank, that said almost one-third of working households in San Diego County struggle to make ends meet.
"There's a season for everything and this is not the season to raise taxes on working people