PCC Courier, January 30, 2003

:: : Ip|fep8& . W«~ шЖ \ ■ , v" У':Ш? • I I * I Ш fp i I mm 'mm [T;1 i щл iT;.i f.-'l-j П j ; 1|Р111§Щр^ л4+ Ш faff 4 A D E /у a t>oUar Worth Yoor £?fe see t>ase 5 Courier see page 7 Since lf)15 VOL. 88 NO. 15 www.pcc-courieronline.com JANUARY 30, 2003 On Campus No Relief in Sight Health Gaiter Endures Crunch By Whitney Porter Staff Writer ?The doctor is in. ..but it may not be for long. The PCC Student Health Health Center has Care been instructed to cut its budg¬ et by 3.66 percent or $16,000, immediately. To manage such a cut, they will have to reduce hours, people or services offered to the students. With the $38 billion state Budget deficit, ========== a potential T It в increase in tuition from He tilth $11 per unit to Center $24 Per unit , could send loses . , , many students $96,000 to find new ways to lower costs and save semester money due to One of these ways could send Waivers more people and that the Health Center for amount medical serv¬ per IS ices. increase , , Jo Buczko, expected college hea]th to nurse, fears there will be more people ® S for fewer serv- tuitioil 'ces. However, goes up. the health cen_ ters at commu- @ see Crunch, page 3 David Arenas/Courier A March Against War Several different campus groups participated in this San Francisco rally against a possible war in Iraq on Jan. 18. Ten of thousands of marchers protested for hours as clubs such as the Students for Social Justice, Black Student Alliance, Mecha and others had representatives present. While most Americans are apathetic towards a possible war in Iraq and North Korea, a sentiment against war is slowly rising. Other large cities such as Los Angeles and New York had their own demonstrations. 135 Classes Cancelled By Terrance Parker News Editor Students have been scrambling to find open classes after massive cuts in the number of sections offered by PCC for Spring 2003. The current state economic crisis requires PCC to make major spend¬ ing cuts at the halfway point of the 2002-03 fiscal year. With 80 per¬ cent of the school’s budget already allocated, the administration is lim¬ ited in its options. Unfortunately for students, one area available for sav¬ ings is the number of class sections offered. As of 11 p.m. Jan. 15, the num¬ ber of classes dropped from the spring schedule stood at 135, according to Jacqueline Jacobs, PCC vice president for instruction. “We cut a few more than we needed so that we have room to add some back in if needed,’’ Jacobs said. “Some classes are cancelled every semester because there aren’t enough students registered to make them worth keeping,” she added. The total number of sections offered this semester kept changing throughout the first three weeks of school. Sabah Alquaddoomi, associ¬ ate dean for enrollment manage¬ ment, said PCC does not track the exact number of sections dropped for each different reason, so he can’t give a precise number of sections affected by the budget crisis. “The first classes cancelled were the ones the deans thought would not fill, so they would have been cancelled anyway,” Alquaddoomi said. “Other classes were dropped, but then we add some back in if the dean decides the demand for the class requires it.” Browsing through the online open/closed class list at PCC’s web¬ site, www.pasadena.edu, shows sev¬ eral examples of sections that were cancelled, followed by different sec¬ tion numbers meeting at the same time in the same room with the same instructor added back in. For example, Dance 11 A, Beginning Ballet, section number 5713, is listed as cancelled. Right • see CLASSES, page 3 Tuition Hike Hits Non-Residents While a resident might have to pay $24, foreign student tuition could sharply rise to $149 By Ricki Yuen Staff Writer While everyone else is paying attention to the debate over dou¬ bling community college tuition, the board of trustees approved a proposal to increase out-of-state tuition from $134 to $149 a unit and reduce the facilities fee from $12 to $8 per unit at its last meet¬ ing. A net increase of $11 per unit will cause a full-time foreign stu¬ dent an additional $132 in the fall 2003 semester. If the state legislature votes to increase the enrollment fee for res¬ ident students from $ 1 1 to $24 per unit, the increase will definitely be passed on to non-resident students as well. The out-of-state tuition has not been increased for the last two years. However, =5=========^^= are currently enrolled at PCC. A decrease in enrollment is expected according to Barbara PCC introduced an additional $12 per unit for non-resident stu¬ dents for capital outlay last semester. The facilities fee pays for all the building _ construction and maintenance on campus in order to provide a better environment for students to study. The increase will affect approx¬ imately 1000 foreign students who “I am paying some thousand dollars a semester. It makes no difference to me that the tuition goes up or down by some dollars.” -Alex Wong PCC International Student Griffith, international students adviser. “It is a logical conclu¬ sion,” said Griffith. “People just don’t have that much money.” Although federal aid is not available to foreign students, those who have difficulties paying the tuition all at one time could arrange a payment plan with Christina Guzman Romo, international stu¬ dent assistant. Full-time stu¬ dents who “main¬ tain a good GPA and always have their tuition paid on time,” will be _ qualified, said Griffith. Besides breaking down their payment, foreign students are eli¬ gible for many scholarships and financial aid offered by private organizations. Students who would like to know more about what is available could consult with Griffith or go to the Transfer Center in LI 10. While some students are wor¬ ried about getting their tuition paid, others whose parents pay their fees find the increase insignificant. “I am paying some thousand dollars a semester,” said Alex Wong, an international student. “It makes no difference to me that the tuition goes up or down by some dollars.” Several other community col¬ leges raised non-resident tuition foes for the 2003-2004 fiscal year. Santa Monica College has the biggest boost from $149 to $171 per unit. Student Nurses Search for Donors Organizers try to reach out to PCC minorities for bone marrow donations By Whitney Porter Staff Writer Students can answer the call to help thousands of people suf¬ fering from life threatening dis¬ eases by registering to become a potential bone marrow donor on Monday, Feb. 3 from 10:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. The Student Nurse Association will be hosting a bone marrow lecture and regis¬ tration drive in the Louis Creveling Lounge(CC-lounge). The speaker will be Sungwon Mihae Chang, task force director for Asians for Miracle Matches. The marrow registration process will immediately follow the one-hour lecture. Potential donors must be at least 18 years of age, in good health and willing to proceed with the bone marrow donation if they are discovered to be a match. A minimum fee of $45 is required to complete the minor surgical cost, however, the fee is often covered by the patient’s medical insurance. Many patients battling ill¬ nesses such as lymphoma, leukemia, anemia and many other blood forming diseases only have a chance of survival with a bone marrow transplant. According to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, “an esti¬ mated 106,300 people in the United States will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma.” • see Marrow, page 3 Save Time and Register Online By Nick Barral Staff Writer To register, add or drop a class, click your mouse. Computer users rejoice, there is another reason to usethe web. The Admissions and Records department is now offering online registration and more. Carol Kaser, assistant director of admissions and records, said “PCC’s system truly is online in that the system is integrated with our student records, class schedule and cashiering.” In its first semester of active duty the website is hard at work giving students long awaited access to register, view priority times, add or drop classes, view current class schedules, search class schedules and review unoffi¬ cial transcripts. The new service is a joint effort by the Management Information Services and the Admissions and Records Departments. The site’s basic training began in July and August when it was put online for testing and bug fixing. It remained low key for the bet¬ ter part of the fall semester of 2002. Almost 2,400 students used the service during the fall semester, many of them new students. All new students received infor¬ mation giving them a chance to be the first to access the service. Continuing students have been slow to try the service because they don’t know about it. All online services are secured. Dale Pittman, director of MIS said “It’s a secure (https) server behind a firewall that only allows the • see Online, page 3