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Performing Arts Division Says Happy Holidays
The performing and communication arts division kicked off the holiday season with a bang Wednesday at
noon with their annual performance of "Christmas in the Quad." Popular songs such as "Jingle Bells" and "We
Wish You A Merry Christmas" resonated as gatherers nodded in tine to the music. The marching band, jazz band,
the early music ensemble and the L.A. local jazz ensemble contributed to the hour-long festive sounds.
Classes Revamped for Summer
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Priscilla Moreno
Managing Editor
The board of trustees unani¬
mously approved several curricu¬
lum changes at its
Nov. 19 meeting
designed to
make it eas¬
ier for stu¬
dents to
earn certificates in their field of
study. The new curriculum, rec¬
ommended by the curriculum
and instruction committee, will
take effect for the 2004-05 aca¬
demic year.
Jackie Jacobs, vice president
for instructional administration,
said some areas are being con¬
densed to help students while
others are growing.
Jacobs assured the board that
the changes will have no fiscal
impact on the campus.
For the business and computer
technology division, nine units
will be added effective in the
summer of 2004. These include
classes in interactive software
production, design and manage¬
ment.
Students will receive a certifi¬
cate of completion after going
through the program.
There will also be 17 units for
interactive software develop¬
ment for students interested in
learning the skills needed to find
a job in interactive media, the
Internet, performance systems
and information technology
industries.
Certificates of achievement
will be awarded to those who
wish to pursue a career as
"Fashion Assistants." The pro¬
gram will teach students to work
as an assistant to fashion design¬
ers, merchandisers, stylists, pro¬
duction managers or design room
managers.
Students will complete the
program in 24 units instead of
the 44 units required for fashion
design and pattern making.
There are seven proposed
deletions in the fashion depart¬
ment that include 14 units cover¬
ing fashion modeling, fashion
show production and computer
garment making.
The engineering and technol¬
ogy division will add a survey of
digital electronics and micro-con¬
trollers to the electronics depart¬
ment for three units of transfer¬
able credit.
Certificates will be awarded
for the achievement of basic dig¬
ital technology and several units
will now be offered for comput¬
er-aided designers of different
areas such as mechanical design
and manufacturing.
Other CAD classes will be
offered for those interested in
becoming technicians in mechan¬
ical design and architectural
engineering construction for
nine units each.
The health sciences division
will be experiencing more cut¬
backs to the already thinning
program. It will now delete six
units from the nursing curricu¬
lum.
Nursing 20, the inde¬
pendent study course and
the field practice course,
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Counselor Helps Athletes Through the Tone1
Scherrie Lemon
Staff Writer
Michael McClellan has a very
personal connection to his career
as an athletic counselor; he has
been on both sides of the table,
he counsels student athletes and
has been one himself.
Fie attended the University of
Oregon on a football scholarship
where a lot of pro teams showed
interest in him.
It was always his dream to
graduate and play professional
football. Unfortunately his dream
was put aside because of a knee
injury he received not long after
going pro. Fie became a graduate
assistant at age 22 at the
University of Redlands. After
coaching football for three years
he knew it wasn't for him.
Fie decided that he wanted to
work with student athletes trying
to get them to reach their fullest
Kenny Kimura/Courier potential because school has
Michael McClellan did more than just play football dur¬
ing his college years at the University of Oregon, he
made sure he got a good education. Now he's helping
other athletes succeed on and off the playing field.
always been important to him.
McClellan graduated from the
University of Oregon with a dou¬
ble major in rhetoric and history,
has a master's of arts and educa¬
tional counseling from the
University of Redlands, a master's
of science in leadership manage¬
ment from the University of
LaVerne and on Dec. 13 he will
have his third master's in physical
education from Azusa Pacific. Fie
also plans to enroll in a doctorate
program in 2004.
McClellan is not your average
counselor. Fie specializes in ath¬
letes and coordinates the
Academic Athletic Zone at PCC.
His responsibilities include advis¬
ing student athletes on courses
for graduation and transfer. He
also runs the day-to-day duties
for the Zone which includes a full
staff of four, clerical people and
tutorial services.
He felt that counseling stu¬
dent athletes was a natural move
for him, "I've been in the fire. I
understand the commitment
level. I've played college ball and
I've coached college ball,"
McClellan said.
He knows it takes a
lot to coordinate a cen¬
ter like the c _ __ _
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Mitchell Wright
Editor-in-Chief
Hanky-panky between teachers
and students at Pasadena City
College could be on the way out if
a policy in the works passes. The
latest draft of a "Consensual
Relationship Policy" was presented
to the Academic Senate for review
and discussion on Monday, the last
meeting of the year.
"There's a need for some kind
of a policy governing consensual
relationships between students
and faculty members," said Hugo
Schwyzer, academic senate chair
of the ad-hoc committee on con¬
sensual relationships.
The student conduct policy PCC
currently has took around four to
five years to be
deal with adult relationships.
"A student might only be
enrolled in a professor's class for a
given semester, but professors are
going to teach with each other for
years and years and years," he said.
"So, it's much more problematic to
try and regulate relationships
among the adults on campus than it
is to try and regulate the relation¬
ships between college faculty and
their students."
The college's current policies
deal with nepotism and sexual
harassment, which keep professors
from playing favorites. It also pro¬
tects students from being sexually
harassed by a professor.
"The committee feels that dat¬
ing a student isn't ethical, even
when the student doesn't feel
_ , harassed."
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put together.
Schwyzer antici¬
pates this one
will take just as
long to come
together.
Schwyzer
credits the valu¬
able input from
various members
of the Academic
Senate and
other faculty
members who
turned an idea
into a possible
reality.
"The policy obviously deals
with some very sensitive issues,
and it deals with really two some¬
what different issues," he said.
"One is the relationship between
professors and their students; the
other is between administrators
and professors."
The new draft states that a con¬
sensual relationship is a serious
concern for the college. "These
relationships may lead to charges
of sexual harassment that violate
college policy. Consensual relation¬
ships may lead to an abuse of
power, coercion, exploitation or
unfair treatment of others."
Schwyzer said he wants a policy
that includes both issues. Even
though they appear different, both
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hese
relationships may
lead to charges of
sexual harassment
that violate college
policy. ”
Schwyzer said.
"And so far, it
seems that
almost everyone
agrees that
teachers should
not date their
current stu¬
dents."
Schwyzer
looked over
dozens of poli¬
cies from other
colleges and uni¬
versities, but
mainly focused
on the newly adopted policy by the
entire University of California sys¬
tem. He also studied the policy
adopted in 1997 by the University of
Michigan.
The University of California
regents approved a policy on July 17
to keep professors and faculty from
having relationships beyond the
classroom with their students.
This is in hope of preventing stu¬
dent/teacher misconduct, such as in
the case of John P. Dwyer, former
dean of UC Berkeley's Boalt Law
School. Dwyer stepped down from
his position in November 2002, after
a student alleged he fon¬
dled her after she drank
too much with him and
fellow stu¬
dents.
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Student Affairs is hoping for
Holiday Angels to lend a hand
The Office of Student Affairs
and Associated Students are
sponsoring the Annual Holiday
Angels Giving Tree project.
A "Giving Tree" will be upstairs
in the lobby of the CC building
until Dec. 1 5.
Volunteers are asked to take a
gift request tag from the tree
and register it at the
Student Affairs
front counter.
Gifts should be
wrapped and
turned in at
the front
counter by
Tuesday, Dec. 16 at noon.
For more
information
or questions,
please contact
Maria Reyes, asso¬
ciated students vice
president for student services, at
(626) 585-7980.
New Year's Parking Available
PCC will allowing people to
park in the parking structure for
the Rose Parade.
L.t. Bradley Young said, "We've
never sold out parking in the past
years, so there are no reservations
necessary." Parking starts on New
Year's Eve at 8 a.m. at $20 per car.
Feature:
Experience
spring break
London-style
Entertainment:
Lastest Disney
attraction turned
into a movie
Sports:
Fencing: 34
years strong
and still going
RelationsMiis
Between Staff
and Students
to be Curbed