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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,”
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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.
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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-
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