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After the Feb. 21 meeting that lasted just under seven hours, the De Anza College Associated Student Body Senate are one step closer to finishing its official 2007-2008 budget.

Stipulations discussions and final Senate approval will take place on Feb. 28. After representatives from 27 campus programs and services came to discuss their reasoning for higher budget requests.

The student senate voted to revise and increase prior recommendations of seven of the 27. Next week's meeting will decide the official count of which programs will get full funding and which will face cuts or no funding.

The Red Wheelbarrow, a literary magazine will not be receiving funds for their National edition, but will still receive funds for to support the on-campus edition.

The Red Wheelbarrow is a literary magazine, and since it's inception in 1976 has published a collection student works. The honors program got a reprieve as the senate revised its recommendation to cut all funding. The senate voted to allocate $10,500 from its budget.

The program's future at De Anza has grown bigger since it first started three years ago and has had its classes grow from only seven to 100 as of 2007.

The program is also working on an agreement with the University of California, Los Angeles on a guaranteed transfer agreement which would become effective in a few years. The DASB allocation is the main source of income for the program.

The senate will finalize their budget at their next meeting Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in the student council chambers.

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