PCC Courier, January 11, 1985

PCC COURIER Basketball Conference Begins See story pg. 3 VOL, 59. NO. 14 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 11, 1985 floats, A photo essay on the parade is featured on page four. . — — Courtesy photo by Karen Gury Hope float reminds onlookers that "Everyone Is A Winner.” The Spirit of America parade theme lent itself easily to dramatic and creative SLOW BUT SURE — As the tortoise crosses the finish line on New Year's morning in the Tournament of Roses Parade, the Duarte City of Campus Computer Services Need Help Trustees Consider Private Management By Lisa Lowery Editor-in-Chief The Board of Trustees is considering increasing the computer services an¬ nual $950,000 budget by approximately $350,000 for the next five years in order to enlist the services of a computer management corporation. A Systems & Computer Technology Corporation (SCT) representative explained several portions of SCT's management serv¬ ices proposal to the board at the Jan. 3 meeting. At the request of the college, SCT's assessment team studied the campus Carmen Yvonne Barcelo, 20-year- old OMD president, was killed Christmas Eve morning when the car in which she was a passenger crashed on the Pasadena Freeway. Her brother Peter, 23, and friends Steven Brown, 20 and Kimberly Jones, 19, all Muir graduates, also died in the accident. OMD. an honorary service or¬ ganization, is requesting that dona¬ tions be made to honor Barcelo. The funds received will be presented in Barcelo's name to the Red Cross blood donor program, an endeavor she worked on and cared deeply about. All money should be de¬ posited at the Student Business Services in J Building adjacent to the bookstore. Checks should be made cut to the Carmen Barcelo Memorial Fund. ‘‘In OMD we often ask candidates for three adjectives to describe themselves. I would describe Carmen as happy, giving and enthuiastic,” said Lisa Bogen, OMD member. Barcelo received the Optimists Club Youth Achievement Award in November. She had received the John E, Twomev Academic Award and John Muir Service Award, among others, when she graduated from Muir High School. Her resume of services included more than 30 entries. She had been working on the Toys for Tots drive on campus and computer services Nov. 27 through the 29 with no charge to the district. Based on the three-day study, SCT submitted a report of its findings and recommend¬ ations. The report cited that the cam¬ pus computer systems could serve the college more adequately if appropriate enhancement and management strategies were implemented to staff duties and equipment. According to the report, SCT surveyed the personnel/payroll, fi¬ nance, student services, and data cen¬ ter systems. The assessment team was impressed with the loyalty and com¬ the fall OMD membership in¬ terviews, “Carmen did a marvelous job of giving her time and talent to others. She affected people with her sunny disposition and loving way. Her campus friends benefited from this and from her excellent leadership. She will be sorely missed,” said Dorothy Kolts, OMD adviser. Though the cause of the accident is unknown, Highway Patrol of¬ ficials reported that the car failed to clear a curve near the Marmion Way offramp. Traveling north at a high speed, it smashed into the center divider, careened across the freeway, hit the offramp guard rail and flipped onto its top. CARMEN BARCELO mitment of the computer center staff. However, they determined the sys¬ tems, in many cases, have limited reporting and updating capabilities due to lack of, system integration. Also, many transactions required time con¬ suming manual entry. Other campus computer operations were not the focus of the report but were included briefly. Instructional computing personnel were praised for “aggressively pursuing appropriate computing support . . . ." However, along with office automation and the campus communications project, SCT recommended these areas be included in a long-range computer services mas¬ ter plan. SCT proposed a five year contract plan which includes several payment options. SCT would assume manage¬ ment responsibility. There would be salary increases for an increased number of data center staff which would "voluntarily" transition to SCT Seven Prizes Claimed By Lauretta Joyal Staff Writer The PCC forensic team won seven trophies in the tournament competition at UCLA. Jan. 2, 3 and 4. PCC won the sweepstakes trophy which is awarded to the two-year college with the highest number of accumulative points during the competition. The other six trophies were captured in individual events. Of the six achievers, Linda Friday broke finals in poetry, junior division, and impromptu speaking. Michelle Jones and Vallerie Villagran took third place in duo interpellation, Hal San- guenetti broke finals in the radio speak¬ ing event (senior division) and Jones, Villagran and Friday, took first, second and fourth place respectively in radio, junior division. Usually, the awards are given to individuals for their own achievements in the tournaments, but the sweepstakes award indicates how well the entire team performed. “I am extreamly proud of my team this year," said Joseph Probst, direc¬ tor of forensics. "This team has done employment. At the end of the five year period, the staff, again voluntarily, would transition laterally back to the employment of the college. Buck Deggendorf, SCT representa¬ tive. said the proposal provided a three year option. However, the college could relinquish the contract sooner due to budgetary reasons. The possibility of a base fee is being negotiated. Other educational institution sys¬ tems managed by SCT are Cal Tech, Riverside City College and the San Diego Community College District. Dr. John Casey, superintendent-pres¬ ident, said that the board had four ways to go: do nothing about upgrading the services, go with SCT, modify the services independently of SCT, or have SCT provide some of the services. The board is scheduled to vote on this matter at the Jan. 17 meeting, A. A. DEGREE QUESTIONED Students aren’t the only ones con- very well this semester. There was a feeling of satisafaction among the fo¬ rensic team members after participat¬ ing in the UCLA tournament. For the last two years we have taken the second place sweepstakes award home and Los Rios College took the first place awards. This time we have taken the highest which means we beat them dramatically in accumulative points. It makes me very happy to know we have shaped ourselves into an outstanding team,” Probst said. The final forensic tournament is scheduled to be held at Cal State L.A., Jan. 25 and 26. "New speech team members are welcomed any time of the year. If anyone is interested in joining the team they should see me in the A Bungalow and I will tell them how to get involved. The first tournament scheduled for next semester will be held at Cerritos College. It is an excellent tourney to try out your wings because it has a novice division. I’m looking forward to new students joining the squad to make this team the most successful,” said Probst. Accident Claims Lives Campus Leader Killed Forensics Team Wins fused by the changes in the A. A. degree requirements. Trustees deliberated for nearly an hour, heard several testi¬ monies, voted down and then voted again passing a proposal pertaining to degree requirements. The board voted six to one to continue for one year offering other courses in addition to English 1A to satisfy A. A. degree Eng¬ lish composition requirements. “The system is in a period of flux,” said Walter Shatford, board president who voted in favor of the extension both times. Two years ago, the board voted to make English 1A the minimum re¬ quirement for the A. A. degree and to provide a transitional period allowing business 11A and English 100 classes to qualify students for the degree. The plans to stiffen the A. A. requirements originated with plans to implement an Associate of Science (A.S.) degree. This proposal has been put off, among other reasons, due to possible legisla¬ tion and/or recommendations from the Chancellor’s office. The state requirements do not spec¬ ify that the 1A class is the only class to satisfy A. A. degree English composi¬ tion requirements. One that offers logical thinking and college level work is the state recommendation. It was the English department's perception three years ago that the 1A class was the only class that represented college level work. Now the arguments seem to favor that the 1A class might present too rigorous a class for vocational students therefore discouraging them from obtaining the degree. The administration also is consider¬ ing raising the standards of the English 1A and IB classes in order to satisfy standards raised recently at U.C. Berkeley. Audience and board members raised points that only Berkeley had increased both its minimum English requirement classes from three hours, three units to four hours, four units, and that it only affected 12 PCC students this year. “I’m not particularly concerned with the Berkeley situation and transfers because the transfer student is really going on to get the degree and the A. A. is somewhat immaterial," said Trustee John Martin who voted against the extension both times. He brought up concerns about diluting the degree and how that would affect graduates in the job market. It was suggested to state the U.C. requirements in the PCC catalog so that no one misunderstands that PCC's A. A. requirements automatically satify the U.C. requirements. That suggestion was dropped with no action, but a “friendly agreement” was attached to the proposal which proposes a re¬ consideration of the A. A. degree during the next year. The Faculty Senate is studying the degree situation and is scheduled to submit a report with recommendations to the board in May. BOARD RETREAT PLANNED An all-day board retreat is scheduled for Feb. 8, 9 a.m. at the Art Center of Design. The board agreed a casual discussion format would encourage more audience participation than the usual meeting format. Campus groups or individuals are scheduled to present reports on the weaknesses and strengths of the college. Casey sug¬ gested the board might do this on an annual basis prior to determining the budget in March. He expects 25 to 40 people to attend at any given time of the day and plans that the retreat will continue for as long as it takes. A period of open discussion is planned for the end to evaluate reports and possibly make recommendations. The meeting is open to the public. Clarification In the Dec. 14 issue, the Courier used the general term “security” in an article about arming campus police officers at night. The article stated that an ad hoc committee, formed to report on campus security needs, recom¬ mended that "security” officers be allowed to carry guns during the grave¬ yard shift. The recommendation was intended strictly for safety department employees who are sworn campus po¬ lice officers, not parking and security officers. The safety department employs academy trained sworn police officers with full police powers. The parking and security officers at the college may not take crime reports. They write parking citations and report crime related violations which are then han¬ dled by the campus police officers.