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Pasadena City College
Volume 101, Issue 3
"The Independent Student Voice of PCC, Serving Pasadena Since 1915."
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Day of Action
Natalie Sehn Weber/Courier
PCC photo major Adrian Frias, left, 22, other students and members of No Cuts for Pasadena City College march through
campus to rally additional students to participate in the March 4 Strike and Day of Action To Defend Public Education in
downtown Los Angeles.
Students protest budget cuts
Natalie Sehn Weber
Staff Writer
Dozens of PCC students marched
through campus Thursday afternoon
protesting state budget cuts. Waving
signs and shouting encouragements,
they asked onlookers to join them in a
daylong, statewide demonstration, the
March 4 Strike and Day of Action To
Defend Public Education.
The day held great significance for
many PCC students.
"I'm here because I couldn't get the
classes I needed this semester," said 24-
year-old entomology major Laura
Casebier. Despite attempting to register
on her priority date, the mandatory
chemistry and math classes Casebier
needs to transfer to UC Davis were
already closed.
Theater arts major Mitchel Zeider, 22,
had the present and future in mind when
he joined the demonstration.
"I feel strongly [about] the ridiculous
cuts. I'm concerned that [in the future]
my children won't get the kind of educa¬
tion I did," he said.
Like Casebier, Zeider had difficulty
enrolling in classes despite being proac¬
tive. His intended classes were not avail¬
able on his registration date. He was able
to add only one English class.
Participants' enthusiastic chants and
banners decrying recent state budget
cuts were met with honks of support by
many commuters as the students
marched east on Colorado Boulevard
toward the Metro Gold Line's Allen
Street station.
hey took the train to downtown L.A.
and joined a mass march that evening
that halted rush hour traffic and drew
national attention.
Members of the No Cuts For Pasadena
City College Coalition, who handed out
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KPCC gets new digs south of Old Town
Art Lemus
Staff Writer
After three decades of broadcasting from the PCC campus,
public radio station KPCC has made a move that drastically
changed the environment of its operation. Last month, KPCC
studios moved to a new $27-million state-of- the-art broadcast
center at 474 S. Raymond Ave.
The 35,000-square-foot Mohn Broadcast Center is a major
upgrade from the facilities KPCC occupied on the PCC cam¬
pus. The building itself, a modern contemporary design, is split
into two sections separated by a soon-to-be-completed lobby.
The north end of the building is the broadcast center consist¬
ing of two floors. The ground floor incorporates the broadcast
Further
class cuts
coming
New group studies
options for 2010-11
Sammy Zenner-Becerra
Staff Writer
A further reduction in classes is expected for the
2010-2011 school year, but they will be only relatively
minor, a school official said.
Dr. Allen Dooley, the acting associate dean of
enrollment management, said more cuts are coming.
"We have two more hard years coming up. . . Hard
times and good times are cyclical. We are not always
going to have a bad time in California," he said.
In the current academic year, PCC had to respond
to the California budget crisis by greatly reducing the
number of sections offered during winter interses¬
sion.
"This was a major shock to the system," Dooley
said to journalism students March 2. "We don't want
this to happen again. This year's a done deal. There's
not much we can do about it, but we can prepare for
next year."
Beginning this year, a special group named the
Enrollment Management Advisory Group has been
created to construct a strategy for managing enroll¬
ment at PCC. Dooley said that the college needed a
broader perspective when analyzing the needs of the
students.
The advisory group, which goes by the name
EMAG, consists of representatives who reflect the
needs of the different groups on campus, including
the Outreach program, the counselor's office, and
instructional deans.
"The advisory group is a new way to approach
enrollment. It will be a good approach to helping the
campus at large," said Dooley.
The group uses a strategy given by California
Continued on page 10
studios and production rooms, equipped with state-of-the-art
recording, broadcasting, and editing hardware.
The second floor now centralizes both KPCC and Southern
California Public Radio staff members. SCPR had until recent¬
ly worked out of a location on Figueroa in Los Angeles. This
floor incorporates administration, reporters, and HR.
Larry Mantel, a 27-year veteran and host of Air Talk said it is,
"technically a work in progress. I am very excited to have a
great new studio that provides me with a 24-hour CNN feed,
state of the art broadcasting capabilities, and a spacious studio
for guests."
The new building has many technological advantages, staff
Continued on page 4
Art Lemus/Courier
The new home of KPCC, the Mohn Broadcast
Center, is located on Raymond Avenue.