PCC Courier, January 13, 1978

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Enrollment Figures Drop Spring Programming Spring programming will conclude early next month after several weeks of processing the thousands of students planning to attend PCC classes next semester. Enrollments were down ap¬ proximately seven per cent last week from the same enrollment period last year, with 10,410 students having registered by last Friday. Figures include both day and evening classes. With regard to the decline in registrations, Dean of Registration E. Erdley Beauchamp said, “Sometimes people will put it off until the last minute, but on the other hand, it’s as good an indication as we’ve got so it looks as if we’re down a bit.” Beauchamp attributed at least part of the decline to the weather. He also said that plans to in¬ corporate a mail-in system of registration with the present system were being considered by a committee out of Student Personnel Services. Such a method would have to be coordinated with the Computer Ser¬ vices Department, Beauchamp said. “That won’t be in effect until fall or summer at the earliest,” he said. Spring registration problems this year have included the schedule errors, computer availability and the usual volume of last-minute schedule changes by students, although ac¬ cording to Beauchamp there have been no major registration slow-downs. Counseling teams have been utilizing three methods of helping students: the individual appointment, the walk-in, and self-programming, programming. According to Dean of Counseling Services Ernestine Moore, counselors and students have been using the walk- Six people have applied for positions for ASB elections next Wednesday and Thursday. All candidates except for the post for vice-president will run opposed. The original deadline for ap¬ plications was postponed one day until Wednesday because of a lack of par¬ ticipation. As of Tuesday afternoon, one person had applied. Ron Grant, presently vice-president, is running for president. Derek Coleman and Rebecca Ennis will vie for vice-president. Anita Cosey applied for Sophomore Class president, Lisa Albanese for Freshman Class president and Gretchen Frandson for Associated Women Students president. The elective positions on the ASB government are those of ASB president, vice-president, Sophomore Class and Freshman Class presidents. Athletics president and the Student Senate president. Elections will be held Wednesday and Thursday in the Campus Quad area. Elena Rodriguez, ASB president, said that she was trying to motivate students to apply for positions for the ASB government without progress. “No one wants to run for office. Next semester will come and nothing will Concludes in method more this year than in years past. Self-programming seminars were given in November and December, as well as a new orientation program for early graduating high school students enrolling at PCC. “Previously we hadn’t tended to the new spring students,” Mrs. Moore said. Two of these orientation sessions were attended by about 150 students late last November. Attendance was not required. . Figures for the student-counselor ratio for spring programming were not available at press time, although Mrs. Moore indicated that the counselors, while statistically overloaded, do not have to deal directly with every student who enrolls. “There are some students who don’t need 30 minutes with a counselor,” she said. happen.” said Senate President Steve Lambert, in response to the lack of participation in election applications. Lambert, who is not running for office, said that he thinks the whole election should be held off until next semester until students know what their schedules will be. He hopes to organize the candidates to be to speak in the Free Speech area next week before elections. “You really get discouraged when you have to go around and browbeat people into applying for positions. Most people enjoy it once they get going.” said Phyllis Jackson, dean of student activities and adviser to the ASB Board. “There must be an easier way to get things done.” Dean Jackson also explained an option to spring ASB elections. A possible one-year term for ASB offices would be a workable solution, ac¬ cording to Dean Jackson. In this way, students elected in the fall would continue to work in their capacities as officials the following spring. When brought to the attention of the Executive Board Tuesday, the idea was fully accepted, according to Dean Jackson. The one condition expressed by the Executive Board was that the person in office be given the option to continue a second semester. Presently, elections are held each semester and positions are usually filled by different people each semester. Dean Jackson said that there is nothing in the ASB Constitution that would prohibit the two-term office time period. She said in this way, there would be a "more efficient functioning government." New KPCS News Head Sees Changes in Format By Mary Glenn Crawford Staff Writer Michael Allen, an 18-year veteran of the broadcasting business, has assumed the position of News and Public Affairs Director of campus radio station KPCS-FM, replacing Marcy Winograd who resigned earlier this semester. His duties include the coordination of the station newsroom in which news programs are made. Allen will also work with interning students, critiquing their preparations, writing and news delivery. Preparation of a budget for the news department and public affairs wilL be added to his schedule. “The greatest bit of creativity in radio is the writing. Writing is a forgotten trait in this business. It can be improved every day,” said Allen. He added that he believes the main thrust of his student coordinating work will be writing. Allen said that he thinks radio is reaching further toward the public, more so than television and the written media. He attributes this to the por¬ tability and immediacy of radio. “You can do more with radio because people listen to it in cars, they take it to the laundromat with them or whatever. In radio, the reporters get the story, write it and deliver it on the air so you get what’s happening right now. “Top 40 radio is dead, there are other formats and millions of options, not hits all the time,” said Allen. KPCS will be moving toward a format whereby reporters will go out into the community, get a story and then deliver it on the air, according to Allen. “You get a jaundiced view of the world if you stay here and limit your¬ self to just two news wire services. Going out and getting the story is a big part of journalism. I hope to move in that direction,” said Allen. Training students to a wider vision of journalism is an important part of his position. Allen said he hopes to help students obtain interviewing techniques, studio operations, diction, microphone techniques and the “realities of writing.” Allen views his job as a creative and changing vocation. Media work is a great way to meet people “of all kinds.” He also enjoys watching a story develop. Recently, there has been discussion on campus concerning KPCS-FM’s continued affiliation with National Public Radio (NPR). When NPR President Frank Mankiewicz visited PCC last fall, he was asked about editorial news policies and national affairs, or more specifically, the difference between government privacy and the public’s right to in¬ formation. Mankiewicz supported unlimited access to uncensored in¬ formation. Mankiewicz further stated that if NPR had access to documents ob¬ tained by ex-CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr, he would have had them read over the air. Before Schorr was fired by the network, CBS refused to use the documents and he gave the documents to the New York “Village Voice.” Mankiewicz’s support of Schorr has caused a few PCC Board members to question KPCS’ further affiliation with NPR. When asked about the Schorr situation Allen said, “We are the. guardian of the public’s right to know. We’re going to win. Those bodies are flexing their muscles in terms of in¬ vading privacy and the right to know. There is a thin line between the government invasion of privacy and the right to know. We’re going to hang in there." "The job is not to present a spelling bee, the job is to inform the people. To do this we’ll be looking at the needs of people, sensitivity to people. This community needs a local identity,” said Allen. “When people know who you are, it pays off. I believe in that.” —Courier Photo by Blake Sell WIRED— Michael Allen, KPCS-FM’s new news director, is looking to expand the station's news programming direction having assumed his post as of Monday. Checking the wire for the latest news developments around the world is a part of his daily routine. Fall Semester 1977-78 Final Examination Schedule 8 a.m. 10 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:15 p.m. 5:15 p.m. Monday, January 23 7 Daily 10 MWF 10 Daily 1-4 M 2 MWF 2 Daily 3-5 M 2-5 M 3-6 M 4-7 M Tuesday, January 24 8-9:30 TTh 8-10:30 TTh 9 TTh 9-10:30 TTh 9:30-11 TTh 10 TTh 10-12 TTh 1-4 T 2 TTH 2:30-4 TTh 2-5 T 3-6 T 4 TTh 4-7 T Wednesday, January 25 8 MWF 8 Daily Unscheduled . Make-Up Exams 1 MWF 1 Daily 1-2:30 MW 1-4 W 2-5W 3-6 W 4-7 W 4 MWF 4 Daily Thursday, January 26 7:30-9 TTh 8 TTh 10:30-12 TTh 11 TTh 11-12:30 TTh 1 TTh 1-2:30 TTh 1-30 TTh 1-4 Th 2-5 Th 3 TTh 3-6 Th 4-7 Th Friday, January 27 9 MWF 9 Daily 11 MWF 11 Daily 1-4 F 2-5 F 3 MWF 3 Daily 3-6 F 4-7 F Monday, January 30 7 MWF 12 MWF Unscheduled Make-Up Exams Unscheduled Make-Up Exams * Students having both 10 TTh and 11 TTh should consult professors for alternate examination times. 1. Classes meeting only one hour a week — hold examination on last meeting prior to examination schedule. 3. bate afternoon and evening classes meeting more than once a week and beginning at 4:30 or after — hold two-hour examination In last week of semester (June 13-18). 3. Saturday classes and evening classes meeting only once weekly — hold two-hour examination on regularly scheduled date in last week of semester (June 13-18). f. Classes meeting in time slots not shown in the schedule or footnotes — final examination during last week of semester at a time approved by the Department Chairman and the Office of Student Personnel Services. 8. Students having more than two examinations scheduled In one day may consult their professors with regard to suitable alternatives. 4. For block-of-time classes not named in the schedule, use the box most nearly paralleling the starting time of the class.