OPINION
FEATURES
SPORTS
DOES KPCC FAIL TO FULFILL ITS
MISSION TO SERVE STUDENTS?
Do students take a back seat to ratings at KPCC?
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FALL CONCERT SERIES KICKS OFF
IN THE QUAD
Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble is second band to
delight afternoon student crowds.
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DON GALLON NAMED NEW HEAD BASEBALL
COACH
Former Baltimore Oriole pitcher looks to turn baseball program’s
fortunes around in the upcoming season.
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KPCC format change
prompts protests
BY AKEISHA JACKSON
Courier Staff Writer
In the midst of its “silent fund
drive,” KPCC, the National Public
Radio station on campus, is experi¬
encing some not so silent protests
about its recent program changes.
KPCC, 89.3 FM conducts the
informal fund drives to raise money
and increase it’s membership. This
drive comes directly on the heels of
its new format changes which were
implemented July 1. The station
and its general manager, Dr. Wil¬
liam Rod Foster, was informed that
some major changes would need to
be made in order for the station to
continue to receive a $175,000
Corportion for Public Broadcasting
grant. According to Foster, “The
previous schedule did not promote
prolonged tune-in. The changes
were made to help build audience
size and financial support.”
But supporters of the cancelled
programs have a different opinion
about the reasons behind “the dra¬
matic cutting and pasting of pro¬
grams.” The problem seems to stem
from the fact that the ethnic pro¬
grams were cut from the schedule
and non educational programs were
added. Dr. John Gregory, the founder
and original station manager at
KPCC, said “This is an attempt by
Foster and the station to disassociate
with the college and try to become
legitimized in the broadcast com¬
munity.” Gregory further
explainsed, “There is no relation¬
ship between newprogramming and
student involvement,” which he in¬
sists is a direct contradiction of the
station’s mission statement. The
statement asserts that KPCC is to
provide advanced training for stu¬
dents, to complement the curricu¬
lum and serve community needs.
Mention of this problem was made at
the July 17 and Aug. 7 Board of
Trustees meetings.
“Echoes of Greece” is one of the
shows that was cancelled. The former
host of the show, Mimika Goetling
says that her show is a part of KPCC
tradition. It has been on the air since
1975. The show went from what
Goetling describes as fair time slot
of Sunday morning from 9 to 10
a m., to the “graveyard” slot of Sun¬
day evenings from 8 to 10 p.m.
Goetling says she learned that the
show would be cancelled 40 minutes
before air time when Foster ap¬
proached her and asked her to an¬
nounce that this broadcast would be
her last. Later, in a letter to Mimika,
KPCC offered to get time reserved
for “Echoes” on another station and
provide funding for the cost of the
broadcast from the fulfilled pledges
for the Spring 1996 pledge drive.
The station’s offer was refused
for reasons that Goetling says have
nothing to do with money. She
asserts,’! am in education, not busi¬
ness.” She doesn’t, however, dis¬
miss the fact that money is an impor¬
tant issue at a public station. But she
feels that if that were the real issue,
then the show that replaced “Ech¬
oes” would not be on the air either.
“Ebony,” which is the show pres¬
ently occupying the Sunday 8 p.m.
time slot, raised $35 in the 1996
Spring drive. “Echoes” raised $4,300
in that same drive. The need for
Please see KPCC page 4
• CLUB WEEK
JOSE CORTEZ
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THE COURIER
This week’s heat wave affected campus clubs canvassing students during Club Week in the Quad.
Students do
engineering
for KPCC
By SUSAN BELL SAMPLES
Courier Staff Writer
Many people persevere through
school aiming toward a goal, work¬
ing toward a degree, looking for a
careerthat will satisfy them through¬
out their adult life. Although a class¬
room succeeds in teaching the fun¬
damentals, it’s the “get your feet
wet.” hands-on experience that in¬
ternships provide that can ultimately
helps decide if one is making the
right choice.
PCC offers several internships
through its various educational pro¬
grams. However, the mentor pro¬
gram for communication majors
looking to enter the technical side of
broadcasting has shown to be a suc¬
cessful tool for students. Several
radio stations and production com¬
panies have provided assistance in
giving the communication students
their much needed experience, but
none as much as PCC’s resident ra¬
dio station, KPCC 89.3 FM.
Tim Price, the radio station man¬
ager, is very proud of the formal
program implemented in their in¬
ternship plan. This program pro¬
motes the technical operations of
radio work. He says it’s the goal of
the mentor program to “develop” the
students, “not to discourage them.”
They need “to have a good experi¬
ence.
KPCC’s mentor program in tech¬
nical training correspondswith PCC’s
Telcom 2B course. Part of the as¬
signment for this course is working
one hour a week under the supervi¬
sion of Doug Johnson, KPCC’s pro¬
duction and operations director.
Please see TECHNICAL page 5
Associated Students approve budget
Students get access
to the Internet
BY DONE' DENNISON
Courier Staff Writer
Over the last 12 months stu¬
dents kept bugging reference li¬
brarian Dan Haley about Internet
access. Finally this semester, they
got their wish.
Students can access the World
Wide Web fromShatford Library
through five multimedia comput¬
ers running NetscapeNavigator
2.0.
During regular library hours,
any student can use up to 30 min¬
utes to research educational in¬
formation on the web. Due to the
theft of some computer compo¬
nents, only one system provides
full access to the Internet at this
time. The other four systems are
on backorder and will be setup as
soon as they are available.
Robert Bowman, nursing stu¬
dent and former student body
president, arranged for an Asso¬
ciated Student Board grant of
$ 1 5,000 for the Internet comput¬
ers. The grant, based partly on
monies from a $30,000 yearly
arrangement with Pepsi, renews
each year providing future funds
for more computers. “If we don’t
keep up with technology, we can’t
put out a quality (educational)
Please see INTERNET page 5
BY DANIEL ARCHULETA
Courier Staff Writer
This year the Associated Students
approved a budget of $97,000. That
amount includes $7,000 earmarked
for an ID card upgrade.
The funds come from a combina¬
tion of bookstore, cateteria, and the
annexprofits. A total of $77, 000 was
raised from these establishments
combined with $20,000 that was a
surplus from last year’s budget.
The largest portion of the budget,
$35, 100, goes toward the ID system
upgrade as well as $1,700 designed
to achieve the over-all goal of getting
a computer in every AS members
office, Forrest Poindexter, AS presi¬
dent, said is essential. The upgrade
to the ID system will include, “Color
pictures”, Poindexter said. The new
ID will be available within two
months. The current
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system was
upgraded as recently as last year, but
the demand for better more distin¬
guishable photos has convinced the
board to remedy the situation.
Among the other programs re¬
ceiving money, campus activities is
to get $11,000. Cultural Affairs is
slated to get $10,800 to work with.
External affairs receoved $1,700. The
interclub council will enjoy a $5,000
increase in funding which boosts its
budget to $28,500 to accommodate
more clubs.
Publicity will receive $3,400. That
is down $1,500 from last year. The
funds for Quad banners will be cut by
75 percent prompting Leila Jerusa¬
lem, coordinator of publicity, to pre¬
dict: “The difference will have to be
made up by fundraising.” She also
said, “It’s too soon to predict the
effect it will have on my job.”
The student services budget is
$4,500 with a $500 discretionary
fund to be used at the VP of student
services discretion.
A presidential discretionary ac¬
count of $500 is for Poindexter to
subsidize various events for students.
His fund has been used to subsidize
30 tickets to the recent presentation
of Othello at Sexson Auditorium.
The remainder of his $500 fund has
yet to be allocated.
Poindexter has given up $1,500
from his original $2,000 to increase
the money used for technological
improvements. This year’s budget
has only increased by $7,000 from
last year and that increase can be
attributed to technological improve¬
ments that are essential in maintain¬
ing a high standard of service to
students on campus, Poindexter said.
Partially because of increases in
spending on upgrades some programs
have suffered slight losses. Among
the programs affected will be the
general election-fund. The amount
of the decrease in election funds is
yet to be specified. It is too early in
the year to understand the impact it
will have.
This year’s budget passed unani¬
mously and received no debate on its
way to being accepted.
SHAiVN HINH
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THE COURIER
Pentium chips, stolen by vandals, stalled student access to the Internet the same day computers were set
to go on line. Students hoping to get on the internet found one computer available while the others were
being fixed. Other campuses hit by vandais include Long Beach, Fullerton, CSU Fullerton, and Rio Hondo.
Computer vandalism delays
Online services in the Library
BY ROBERT SANTOS
Courier Staff Writer
Four of five new computers that
were to provide free Internet access
to students at the Shatford Library
were vandalized when their main
memory chips were taken out before
school opened this semester.
The theft took place inside the
Asian-Pacific American Heritage
Room in the library behind the refer¬
ence desk sometime between mid
June, when the computers arrived on
campus, and Aug. 1, according to
Joanne Kim, the librarian who dis¬
covered the theft.
“Gary Potts from ICC [Instruc¬
tional Computer Center] and I were
trying to hook the computers up to
the Internet when nothing would
come on,” she said. After that, he
took the computers apart and saw
that the chips were missing.”
The computers, which were paid
for with a $15, 000 grant from the
Associated Student Board, were to
be operational at the beginning of
the semester.
The estimated cost to replace the
chips is about $1,200.
One computer that was not dam¬
aged is currently available for stu¬
dents to use.
“I believe the theft occurred dur¬
ing regular working hours,” said
Beatriz Samorano, the campus
police’s investigating officer, “ft
probably occurred when the com¬
puters were left unattended or possi¬
bly whenthe librarian was distracted.
All they need are their bare hands
and a screwdriver. Usuallythepeople
who do this don’t work alone.”
Please see VANDALS, page 4
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