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Council clears way for school

Councilmemebers voted unanimously to allow a school for Eastern medicine to open on the 900 block of W. El Camino Real after owners from the neighboring Camino West Shopping Center appealed the planning commission's approval of the project.

The University of Eastern and Western Medicine, which was forced to halt construction until the council came to a final decision, will be allowed to schedule night and weekend courses.

The Martire family, who has owned Camino West for more than 30 years, argued that students would use parking spaces in the shopping center and create a crunch for their tenants.

Jill Fordyce, an attorney representing the Martires, said the family will consider building a wall between the two properties to keep students from using the shopping center's parking spaces.

The school has agreed not to have more than 20 students at the site at any one time.

The school will open as scheduled in September.

Grant money for De Anza

The De Anza College Grants Office reports that it secured $3.7 million during its first year in operation--a feat that's surprised many at the college.

And the office has already set out to beat that high mark. Only a month into the 1998-99 fiscal year, it has already secured $2.2 million in grants.

According to Karen Johnson, De Anza's grants program coordinator, most of the grants are aimed at helping specific student groups, including displaced workers, re-entry students and first-generation college students.

In 1997-98, the grant office secured more than 20 grants for specific purposes. They range from a $20,000 grant for instructional improvement to a $1 million grant to administer a technology consortium.

Now, the college is shifting its focus to securing other grants, including those geared toward art, science and university transfer programs.

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