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CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY:
Dec. 23-Jan. 5
VOL. 61, NO. 14 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 6, 1985
Committee Creates Long Term Solution
Parking Proposal Accepted
By Lisa Acosta
News Editor
“In a few years there will no longer
be a parking problem” at PCC, said
Student Trustee Scott Svonkin, who
also chairs the Master Facility Parking
Plan Committee (MFPPC). In Octo¬
ber, the Campus Wide Parking Com¬
mittee accepted a long term campus
parking solution developed by its
MFPPC sub-committee.
“The idea has three major concepts.
First, we work toward solving the
current problem. To do so we must
create more parking. Second, we need
funds, and third, we need to make the
present situation more efficient and
fair,” Svonkin said.
Since formation in March of the
MFPPC, represented by faculty, staff,
administration and students, it has
worked through six drafts to find ap¬
propriate solutions. “With my plan, all
2000 spaces, including the pay lots, will
be available to students with permits:
promoting fairness. Fairness is the
number one thing behind this plan,”
Svonkin said.
The plan proposes raising funds by
selling an unlimited number of day
permits which allow parking in both the
permit and pay lots. The committee
suggests that permit sales money be
used only in conjunction with long term
parking goals and that other parking
needs be financed from a separate
fund.
More Money Generated
“More money will be generated. In
addition, we will seek funds from the
district. Currently the PCC district is
not investing any money in the resolu¬
tion of this plan. If the Board of
Trustees adopts the plan, funding may
come from the district, the PCC Foun¬
dation and low interest loans. The city
could possibly levy a small tax to
support the college,” Svonkin said.
Once finances have been settled,
Svonkin said there are two solutions.
The college may either buy land to
build flat lots, or build a multi-level
structure on existing property.
The plan is scheduled to take effect
during the
1986/87
school year if the
Board of Trustees adopts it. Before
their vote, “It will be a two step
process to get approval from the cam¬
pus. Students will be addressed through
surveys consisting of questions relating
to the plan. All campus groups will be
informed. Meetings will be held for
concerned faculty and staff. This is the
first time students have an opportunity
to address the parking situation on
campus. If students support this plan,
the Board will probably adopt it,”
Svonkin said.
Surveys Conducted
“At the present time we are prepar¬
ing a survey that we will conduct
during a set period of time during the
Newly Appointed Chancellor Limits Remediation
next few months. The survey will reach
between 2000 to 5000 students. If stu¬
dents are in favor of the plan, I will be
able to carry it out during my term as
student trustee,” Svonkin continued.
The committee also hopes to work
with the City of Pasadena in changing
parking restrictions on the surrounding
streets. “Until we use the parking
more efficiently, the city will not dis¬
cuss changing parking restrictions. Af¬
ter speaking to a city administrator, he
stated if we do make an effort like this,
there would be a strong possibility of
help from the city. This plan will have
an overall effect,” said Svonkin.
Svonkin suggests that if the school
purchases the property where Lancer’s
Coffee Shop is located, (on Sierra
Bonita Avenue and Colorado Boule¬
vard) then all the existing property
owned by the school could be joined
together and formed into one large lot.
“If businesses were purchased by the
Lancer Coffee Shop, the adjoining
street could be closed and made into
more parking. Once we have funds, we
will build parking on campus. With this
plan and the additional sources we are
now pursuing, options will be created
that are not currently available,” said
Svonkin.
REGISTRATION IN PROGRESS— Students will once again be able to purchase a student
service fee card at registration time. An information booth on the fee and its services is available
and is located by the D Building.
Campus Briefs
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The University of Redlands
donated $5000 toward the renovation
of the Circadian Room. The re¬
furbishing is underway with a
budget of $30.000 allotted for the
project according to A1 Kauti, dean
of student services, who agreed to
the necessity of redoing the room.
“It was in real bad shape ... the
carpet was torn and it needed paint
. . . nothing has been done to it in
over ten years,” said Kauti.
The University of Redlands,
which uses the room for evening
classes, suggested the renovation.
Approximately $20,000 was gener¬
ated from the campus maintenance
fund and the remaining $5000 came
from the PCC Foundation. Kauti
feels the project is due for comple¬
tion in early January. A small room
will be added for reserved parties.
Once completed, the Circadian
Room will serve the same purposes
of a meeting and assembly room,”
said Kauti, “but hopefully it will be
more appealing for people to use.”
The PCC Alumni Association will
be sponsoring a Christmas Open
House Sunday, Dec. 15 from 3 to 5
p.m. wine, Perrier and cheeses will
be available and an exhibit, “Im¬
ages From the California Gold
Rush” will be presented.
The open house will take place at
The Old Mill at 1120 Old Mill Road in
San Marino.
The Deadline for Naming the
Campus Driveways is Jan. 10 and all
entries must be submitted to the
Student Activities Office. Any staff,
student or faculty member may
enter.
The Community College Board of
Governors during its next monthly
meeting is expected to discuss a
proposal to limit the amount of re¬
mediation a student could take to meet
college-level standards.
Joshua L. Smith, newly appointed
Chancellor of the California Com¬
munity Colleges, will present two op¬
tions on remediation to the 15-member
policy-making board for its considera¬
tion.
The first option would be to limit to
30 the number of remedial units al¬
lowed in preparation for college level
work. Smith’s second option would be
to strengthen the probation and dis¬
missal standards for all students. He
recommends that the board’s probation
and dismissal standards be raised from
al.75 grade point average to anything
below a 2.0 G.P.A.
Smith introduced these two options
and others for California’s 106 Com¬
munity Colleges in a speech he de¬
livered recently at Claremont College
entitled, “Community College Educa¬
tion in the New Millenium.”
“I will recommend to the Board of
Thespians to Reenact Shakespeare
By Lisa Acosta
News Editor
Two actors, from the Ashland, Ore¬
gon Shakespearean Festival, one a for¬
mer PCC student, will appear for two
performances Monday, in the Sexson
Auditorium and Harbeson Hall.
Readings on American Literature
will take place at 9 a.m. in Sexson
Auditorium and a program on Shake¬
spearean material is scheduled for 11
a.m. in Harbeson Hall. Actors Milan
Dragicevich and Phillip Sneed of the
repertoire company will be perform¬
ing.
Along with the performances, spe¬
cial workshops will cover auditioning,
stage combat, period movement and
style, and advanced drama. The School
Visit Program is part of the festival’s
audience development project and
educational program.
Dragicevich, who attended PCC, re¬
ceived his MFA at the UW-Milwaukee
Professional Theater Training Pro¬
gram and performed such roles as
Tusenbach in “The Three Sisters” and
Sir Andrew in “Twelfth Night.” He
toured with “Montana Shakespeare in
the Parks.” He also appeared as Ja-
ques in “As You Like It” and Pompey
in “Measure for Measure” while per¬
forming with the “rodeo theater” of
Ft. Worth Shakespeare in the park.
Dragicevich has just completed his
first season with the Oregon Shake¬
spearean Festival.
Sneed is a graduate of the University
of Colorado and earned his MFA at the
University of California at San Diego.
His roles at the Shakespearean Festi¬
val include Ferdinand Gadd in “Trel-
awney of the Wells” and the Lord
Chamberlain in “Henry VIII.” In addi¬
tion to his two seasons at Ashland, he
acted for three seasons with the Colo¬
rado Shakespeare Festival and toured
California, Colorado, Wyoming and Or¬
egon with his one-man show “Dear
Walden,” based on the life and writing
of Henry David Thoreau. This is his
second year with the Festival’s School
Visit Program.
“Dr. Phyllis Mael started taking
classes to the festival eight years ago.
Students will have an opportunity to
meet the actors and the visit should
generate some interest to students
planning on going to Ashland,” said
Jane Hallinger, professor of English.
The programs are free of charge and
open to all students.
Governors that a budget change
proposal be submitted for the 1987
fiscal year so as to fund this pilot
program and its thorough evaluation,”
said Smith.
In explaining the subject of his re¬
mediation proposals, Smith said that
over 80 percent of high school gradu¬
ates who apply to Community Colleges
are found to be in need of some form of
remediation.
“I maintain that it is not necessary
for these students to come to us,”
Smith said. “They are easily inden-
tifiable and reside at our local high
schools. My thought is that we should
administer our statewide battery of
basic skills placement tests to all elev¬
enth graders at the end of their third
year of school.
“This 12+ concept would attack the
problem of remediation earlier on,
introduce high school students to a
college environment without the usual
attendant anxiety, provide an employ¬
ment opportunity for both high school
and community college faculty to work
collegiallv, extend the hours of
classroom instruction for most high
school seniors at a critical time in their
educational development, and expose
the communtiy colleges to perspective
students who might otherwise not be
aware of their facilities and academic
offerings,”- said Smith.
“We will not become educational
parking lots for anybody.”
v4S Pushes
As PCC students begin to schedule
for the spring semester, A1 Kauti, dean
of student activities, seems to talk
more optimistically. Kauti administers
the $8 Student Service Fee, which was
introduced this semester. Kauti, Jen¬
nifer McKinney, student activities ad-
Free Immunization Available
Milan Dragicevich
Phillip Sneed
The Campus Health Center will be
holding the first ever campaign to
“Prevent Measles and Rubella Out¬
breaks at PCC” from Monday, Dec.
9 to Friday, Dec. 20.
The California Health Depart¬
ment recently estimated that any¬
where from five to 20 percent of all
college students are susceptible to
the two diseases. The season for
Measles and Rubella (German
Measles) is usually from February
through March.
The Campus Health Center will be
providing free immunizations from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
daily.
“The older the person contracting
measles or rubella, the greater the
risk of getting complications,” said
Janice Roman, campaign director.
“What we are trying to do is en¬
courage students to come in to be on
the safe side. You only need to
receive one immunization for your
entire life. The best news is that both
of these diseases are completely
preventable.”
The campaign began as a re¬
sponse to a measles outbreak last
year which took place at 12 colleges
and universities. Three deaths re¬
sulted from the outbreak. The target
population, according to Roman is
students born between 1957 and 1967.
Posters will be displayed through¬
out the campus to alert students to
the campaign.
Smith, who referred to himself sev¬
eral times as a traditionalist, presented
a strong, confident, yet objective view
of the California Community College
situation during the course of his
speech. He described the title of his
“talk” as a bit grandiose, and stated
early that if his audience expected
“tales of woe and condemnation,” it
would be disappointed," said Smith.
However, Smith did point out that
“it's obvious things are currently not
working well.” Addressing transfer
rates. Smith said that “ours in Califor¬
nia are absolutely abysmal.”
Smith called for another major
clause, implementation of a new As¬
sociate of Applied Science Degree.
Currently, only two degrees are offered
at. California Community Colleges: As¬
sociate of Arts and Associate of Sci¬
ence.
“I am in favor of the ASS Degree—
not as as ideologue, but as an ex¬
perienced educator and former college
president who has seen a better than 70
percent transfer rate among those who
graduated with an ASS Degree (in
other states)," said Smith. However,
he added that the degree should be
optional for schools and that he was
“not interested in imposing it (the ASS
Degree) on anyone.”
A heavier emphasis should be placed
on the humanities, according to Smith.
Smith indicated that he would like to
see the following humanity require¬
ments for each of the three degrees:
for the A A Degree, 40 semester-hour
units in liberal arts; for the AS Degree,
a minimum of 30 semester-hour units in
liberal arts; and for the proposed ASS
Degree, a minimum of 25 semester-
hour units in liberal arts.
Smith also proposed that the Board
of Governors and the Chancellor’s Of¬
fice function as an educational system,
like other institutions of higher educa¬
tion, rather than remaining a separate
bureau of state government. . . I
would like to entertain the notion of a
loaner, less wasteful, more efficient
administrative machine for the com¬
munity college system,” said Smith.
The final major point made by Smith
was that he believes that the more than
39.000 community college faculty
should serve longer probationary peri¬
ods before gaining academic tenure.
Ho also said that he would advocate
eliminating the necessity for a teaching
credential at the community college
level.
According to Smith, California’s
Community Colleges were the Nation’s
undisputed leaders of Community Col¬
lege Education — A system of colleges
unparalleled in access, quality, diver¬
sity and size. Incredible as it may
seem, one out of every ten under¬
graduate students and one out of every
four community college students in
America attended a California Com¬
munity College.”
Sa/es for Benefits Card
viser, and the
1984/85
government in¬
itiated the fee.
Scheduling officially begins Dec. 3,
and Kauti and the AS Board have
already begun to push the fee. The
discount booklet that accompanies the
purchase of the Student Services Fee
will have an added 86 participants as
well as a new look.
However, Kauti said that the “big
goal next semester is getting into pro¬
grams involving copying, typing and
word processing services.”
Only 27 percent of all students
purchased the Student Service Fee this
semester. However, the amount moved
up slightly to 30 percent from sales
throughout the semester. Students are
putting approximately $150,000 back
into the student budget through the
student fee.
Jim Mares, AS president, will be in
charge of a letter writing campaign to
encourage students to buy the card.
“We’re trying to advertise the best we
can. We’ve made posters and will
display them throughout the school.
We’ve put a notice in the Crier and
letters will be handed out to students in
classes,” said Mares.
With the funds generated, new pro¬
grams have already been started. “We
reached one objective this semester:
tutoring. This area had priority over
the others.” Approximately $8000 has
been donated to tutoring because the
student service fee committee feels
this is their number one priority. Kauti
said. “The Fee creates more work for
the tutoring services, my office (stu¬
dent activities) and the student bank,
but that’s what we are here for.”
Kauti emphasized that students ben¬
efited from many other services over
the past semester. The first direct
result of the Fee was a Housing Board
implemented by Sandy Tilton, assistant
student activities adviser to help stu¬
dents find housing and roommates. In
addition to the 129 business establish¬
ments offering discounts, free ad¬
mission to theater arts performances,
dances and athletic events are avail¬
able. Some of the money raised this
semester will go toward beautifying
the campus and the campus center.
“We need higher participation to get
things done faster,” said Kauti. Mares
added, “The more people that partici¬
pate, the more funds can be generated
and more programs initiated. It bene¬
fits the college as well as the stu¬
dents.”
Students may purchase the Student
Service Card while registering.