PCC Courier, July 03, 2014

VOLUME 110 ISSUE 1 ONLINE EXCLUSIVES AT PCCCOURIER.COM July 3, 2014 INSIDE: - - - * - FOOD AT 38 Tasty bites for Happy Hour make perfect sports bar fare. PAGE 6» Z Should countries that are not financially stable be able to host the FIFA World cup? PAGE 3» SPEAK OUT! Should Rocha stay at PCC? Vote at PccCo urier. com Where Printmakers Roam ADS » PAGE 7 Christopher Martinez/Courier Marina Jimenez, who works for the President's Office on campus, is looking at the work of Elias Harrison at the Nomads print¬ making art exhibit at the Center for the Arts in the Boone Family Art Gallery. ROCHA DENIED NEW YORK JOB Raymond Bernal Managing Editor President Mark Rocha was not offered the position of president at Kingsborough Community College (KCC) in Brooklyn, New York, which he applied for earlier this year. The position instead went to Farley Herzek, who is currently serving as in¬ terim president of Los Angeles Harbor College, according to KCC officials. KCC is part of 23 other insti¬ tutions of higher education in the City University of New York (CUNY) public college system. In a statement posted on the KCC Facebook page before CUNY’s decision Rocha, a New York native, was nostalgic about returning to his hometown. “I’m for the little guy,” Dr. Rocha said. “I grew up in the South Bronx and both of my parents dropped out of high school. But they saw to it I went [to] college. The American Dream is real to me. It’s still alive and well in our community colleges,” the statement read. But after Rocha applied, interviewed and held an open forum with students and faculty at KCC, he was not selected for the position. School violates state educational code Philip McCormick Editor-in-Chief After surveying other nearby community colleges, PCC found that it is violating the Califor¬ nia Educational Code by not offering financial aid students reduced priced parking permits, according to Senior Vice Presi¬ dent Robert Miller. “We became aware that we were violating the [California Educational] code after we surveyed these other colleges,” МШег said. “We will be taking steps to address this situation as early as the spring 2015 semester... I don’t think anything can be done immediately about it, but if we can do it any sooner than spring, we will.” Other schools such as Irvine Valley College and Golden West College state on their websites that students with Board of Governors grants would receive reduced priced parking permits. PCC charges students $64 per semester for parking permits, with or without financial aid. However, California Educa¬ tional Code 76360 states that “students who receive financial assistance” should be exempt from parking fees imposed that exceed $30 per semester. Miller said that the school was not intentionally making money off of students. Associated Students President Jordyn Orozco said that he felt the school should have found out about this violation earlier than they did. “I think that there could have been more done to make sure that the educational code was being followed,” Orozco said. “I think [the administration] has enough staff that the school is following the code. That’s the code that you have to follow. It trumps all policies that are on this campus. There should have been more time spent on finding this out.” File photo by Rocio Vera President Mark Rocha In a highly anticipated CUNY Board of Trustees meeting today the decision of who would be the next president of KCC was announced live via a local New York television channel and streaming on the Internet. Herzek was present at the meeting to accept the appoint¬ ment by the Board. PCC Board Member William Thomson knew that family played a part in Rocha seeking employment in New York and he was made aware of Rocha’s job search months ago. According to Thomson, Rocha’s wife Nancy recently received a promotion with Pasa¬ dena-based Jacobs Engineering that required her to move to New York. ROCHA page 2 ► Board adopts calendar without winter intersession Jessica Arceo Assist News Editor The Board of Trustees voted to adopt a 2014-2015 academ¬ ic calendar proposed by the Administration that would not include a winter intersession and would instead retain a summer session in its place. The decision comes as a sur¬ prise since in May, the Calendar Standing Committee voted 17-2 to recommend a 2014-2015 calendar that included a win¬ ter session, a position strongly shared by the Associated Stu¬ dents because it was the calendar agreed on by shared governance. “What’s the point of having the elected student representa¬ tives if you’re not going to listen to them,” said Academic Senate President Eduardo Cairo. The Administration and Aca¬ demic Senate were given the op¬ portunity to present the Board with ten-minute presentations to help them decide which calendar to adopt for the upcoming year. One of the more compelling arguments made by the Admin¬ istration was that having a sum¬ mer session would lessen times between terms, which increases student persistence. The Academic Senate argued that the findings of the Admin¬ istration had some misinfor¬ mation and that they needed to show the calculations for their findings. For instance, Cairo said the Administration claimed that the students voted against winter when they did not. Cairo also said it was hypocrit¬ ical for the calendar to be called a “student calendar” when it was not the calendar they wanted. “They all heard that students wanted a winter, they all heard that the student trustee want¬ ed a winter and that they were opposed to the Administration calendar and despite that, they decided to go ahead and call it a student calendar when the students don’t want that particul- CALENDAR page 2 ►