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Creating a Space for Seniors for Life at SDSU

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Combating the invisibility of Senior aged students

By Lee Taylor

Walking onto the San Diego State University campus for the very first time I paused for a few moments, purely for speculation. I stood smack in the middle of the everything simply observing the many students strolling around me — most of whom were in their 20s, gabbing and texting as they walked by — and realized I could’ve been a fixed statue, for no one really noticed me.

So many skateboards buzzed quickly down the walkways as well, even though technically they weren’t really allowed. I couldn’t help but think there was an accident in the making. It was then that I thought, “Where are the Seniors, the Senior Aged Students?”   [Read more…]

Balboa Park Conservancy Avoids Confrontation Over Transparency

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By Doug Porter

Activist David Lundin and others were in attendance last night at the Balboa Park Committee Board meeting ready to ask serious questions about the Balboa Park Conservancy, the group now charged by the City of San Diego with trying to salvage the 2015 Centennial Celebration.

Responding to charges made earlier that the Conservancy was violating its own charter by failing to have two annual public meetings, the group claimed their reports made in meetings of the Balboa Park Committee fulfilled the requirement.

Alas, hopes for a window into the Conservancy’s inner working were dashed last night as, for the first time in more than seven years, the meeting was cancelled in its entirety because quorum of the Balboa Park Committee Board failed to appear.

After a 30 minute wait the Board chair announced the cancellation, saying it was “illegal to open the meeting, even for informational or no-action items.”     [Read more…]

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