VOL. 53. NO. 5
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA. CALIFORNIA
MARCH 19. 1982
Board Discharges Managers
By Debbie Gehlken
News Editor
Eight certificated managers and
four counselors received layoff notices
this week after a 5-2 vote by the Board
of Trustees approved these cuts.
According to the education code,
notices had to be sent by Monday,
March 15, but the Board has until May
to make a final determination.
The eight positions that will be cut
are Dean of Extended Campus Pro¬
grams, Manuel Perez; Dean of Ad¬
missions and Records, Ernest F. Neu¬
mann; Associate Dean of Extended
Day Programs, Bettye Myers; Super¬
visor of Occupational Education, Ver¬
non Spaulding; Coordinator of Special
Community Services Program,
Mariann Loniello; Coordinator of Coop¬
erative Education, Ralph Gutierrez;
Coordinator of Occupational Education
Support Services, Harold L. Abbott;
General Manager of KPCC, Dr. John
Gregory.
Counseling cuts will be made on a
last hired first fired basis. A total of
five positions will be cut, including one
vacant position that will not be filled.
Before the final vote was taken
Trustee Joseph Sargis proposed an
amendment that would remove the
position of general manager of KPCC
from the list. Sargis wanted to read the
pending Board report on KPCC before
casting his vote. “Without viewing the
very future of KPCC I don’t consider
this a reasonable decision.”
“I’m concerned about the informa¬
tion given on cost savings,” said Dr.
Richard H. Green, trustee. He said, if
we put Gregory in a teaching position
and replace him at KPCC, then where
would the savings be. Also, he said, the
cuts are hit and miss and “involves
personalities.”
The amendment was defeated by a
4-3 vote with Sargis, Green and Roger
Gertmenian casting their votes in favor
of the amendment.
“We are in the process of developing
job descriptions of new jobs that will
MANAGEMENT CUTS-
the cuts in a decisive
-Board members approved
5-2 vote. Trustee Roger
— Courier photos by Kent Zachary
Gertmenian deft) confers with Warren Weber (center)
while John Martin (right) leads the discussion.
Parking Problem the First Priority
Senate President Assesses Goals
By Doug Brown
Staff Writer
The Student Senate has planned sev¬
eral major goals for this semester;
According to Barte Masciarelli, Stu¬
dent Senate president, the Senate’s
main goals will be to find a solution to
the parking problem, to work on and
upgrade the course information book,
to set up financial aid, and to continue
working on child care.
The Student Senate has begun to set
up a parking committee for the express
purpose of finding a solution to the
Insufficient Funds May
Limit New Registration
“For the first time in history we will
be turning away students,” is the
prediction Superintendent-President
Dr. Richard S. Meyers has for the near
future.
Although no complete programs will
be eliminated, the number of classes
offered will be reduced. This reduction
is a direct result of an increasing
deficit and decreasing state funding.
Reductions will begin with the sum¬
mer session. The second summer ses¬
sion has already been completely cut.
Meyers said the overall courses offered
will be “tremendously less” than what
was offered last summer.
Steven Cerra, vice president of in¬
struction, is putting together the fall
schdule now. Every department will be
designating courses that could be cut
before the final schedule is put to¬
gether.
Faculty Senate President Dr.
Fredrick “Dutch” Holland said, the
faculty “want to be involved in the
decision making process. Who knows
the courses better than the instructors
at the college.”
“Next year there is no doubt in my
mind we will be making assessments
for program cuts,” Meyers said. “I
don’t support this kind of action, but we
don’t have any choice.”
Courses facing the largest amount of
cuts will probably be in the remedial
educational programs. There are a
number of special classes now offered
that deal with students not able to do
college work yet, and Meyers said
these courses would probably be the
first to go.
“I think the transfer program will be
very high on the Board’s priority” to be
spared major cuts. Also, cuts will be
made in non-credit courses before
credit courses.
A study of PCC’s course offerings
has been made by an outside consulting
group. The study will not draw any
conclusions or address the importance
of one program versus another. What
the study will reveal is how many
students are taking each course and the
cost per student. The final report will
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parking problem. At this time the
committee, in conjunction with the
Student Senate, is mapping out the
areas where parking is either re¬
stricted or prohibited. When this is
done, the committee will target these
areas in order to find out what. the
homeowners' opinion is on the parking
signs, and possibly petitioning the
homeowners to have the signs re¬
moved.
Masciarelli said that this possible
solution to the parking problem will be
somewhat long range, with the cul¬
mination around May or June. An
extremely long range solution, said
Masciarelli, is having several off cam¬
pus parking lots and running s shuttle
service to PCC.
The course information book first
appeared last semester and was de¬
signed to inform the students on how
different classes operated, who taught
them, and what the classes were like.
Masciarelli said that a course informa¬
tion book was needed “in order to
inform the students as to what’s going
on in the different classes.”
“We have the book in the initial
stages now. What we hope to do is have
the book updated and have more people
(teachers) contribute to the book.”
A committeed in the Student Senate
will work on the course information
book and will send out questionnaires to
all teachers on campus. In this way the
Senate hopes to have a better participa¬
tion among the teachers.
Financial aid is one area that the
Senate will concentrate on for the early
part of this semester. The Senate will
work with the Scholardship Committee
of the ASB to provide funding for those
take the place of some positions
eliminated,” said Dr. Richard S.
Meyers, superintendent-president. For
example, duties of the supervisor of
occupational education will be com¬
bined with the coordinator of coopera¬
tive education to create a new position.
This position will be advertised before
it’s filled.
Cuts at the counseling level were
made, as Meyers stated, “because we
didn’t have any options. If we have
more retirements than anticipated or
positions become vacant then it would
be possible to reconsider those people
(counselors) staying with the college.”
But, Meyers said they have already
anticipated the number of retirements
and figured that into the cuts. He said,
chances of reassigning the counselors
are slim.
“We are entering into the first year
of a three-year cycle of scaling down
this college to the level where the state
will fund it,” said Meyers.
“We are just at the beginning and it’s
going to get worse. But, as long as
people realize that and have the at¬
titude we will work it out, then the
college will be able to survive.”
These management cuts arose out of
the need to eradicate a $2.4 million
deficit. Meyers began the difficult
process by requesting that the vice
presidents submit a list of management
positions that could either be
eliminated, combined, or changed from
a certificated to a classified position.
“It is difficult to recommend
changes of people,” Meyers said. When
the cuts were being considered, he
asked that the discussion center on
positions rather than personalities to
“attempt to take away emotional ties.”
Also, Meyers asked the vice presi¬
dents to look at the issue as though they
were all leaving PCC and asked them,
“What changes would you recommend
for the people that will follow you?”
When the process began, the college
faced a deficit of $1.8 million. As of last
week the figure rose to $2.4 million. A
five percent inflation figure promised
for state funding next year has been
reduced to 3.75 percent, leaving the
college with an additional 1.25 percent
deficit.
In addition to the management cuts,
Meyers requested $75,000 worth of cuts
from the library. Most of the cuts were
made in library operations and book
purchases. However, one librarian
position that is currently vacant will
not be filled.
Cuts in part-time instructors have
also added up to $800,000. But, Meyers
stated that certain “considerations
have given the administration the
direction that our recommendation is
to protect full time teaching faculty.”
Meyers stressed that these manage¬
ment cuts were necessary at this time
beacuse “We face a massive budget
crisis. We are facing it now and it hurts
a little bit, but it isn’t blood all over the
place.”
who need it. “We will work with the
Executive Board and the Scholarship
Committee and hopefully offer scholar¬
ships to some of the students who are in
need of some sort of financial aid,”
said Masciarelli.
The Child Care Committee will con¬
tinue to work with the Community
Skills Center to provide child care for
those who want it. “We fought for child
care last semester, and now we have
it,” said Masciarelli. “Now what we
have to do is iron out the wrinkles. The
committee will be based at the skills
center and work on things like publicity
and teling people how to get child
care.”
Masciarelli hopes to work with Bob
Carroll, sophomore class president, in
the production of the ASB Lance.
Masciarelli wants to have the Senate
write about the Senate meetings, and
legislation which might affect the stu¬
dent body. “We want to have the paper
as objective as possible in reporting
about the student government,” said
Masciarelli. “It’s important that the
students get a clear picture of the
student government.”
Masciarelli started his political ca¬
reer two semesters ago. “The thing
that started me in politics was getting a
parking ticket on one of the adjacent
streets. How can I be penalized for
trying to receive an education? So, I
became involved.” Masciarelli ’s first
elected position was that of ASB vice
president. “The election was the begin¬
ning of my political scene.”
Other offices Masciarelli held in¬
clude finance commissioner and his
present position, Student Senate presi¬
dent.
Poll Outcome Reported
By Lucio Villasenor
Editor-in-Chief
Results of the student opinion survey
taken in mid-December on student per¬
sonnel services were presented to the
Board of Trustees early this month.
The survey was designed to obtain
current information about major serv¬
ices offered by student personnel serv¬
ices.
The student input into the review of
the services PCC offers was needed,
according to Dr. John E. Tulley, super¬
visor of psychological, health and test¬
ing services. The survey was “an effort
to look at the students’ needs,” he said.
“Since we are having a tight budget,
it is very important how valuable serv¬
ices are to students,” said Dr. Henry P.
Kirk, vice president of student person¬
nel services. He mentioned there was
the need to find out the changes within
the students and services.
The survey was centered into three
categories: student opinion, knowledge
and satisfaction with student personnel
services. They were also broken down
in different areas. It was administered
in over 58 classes, eight of them being
night classes. The number of students
surveyed was 1,543, or about seven
percent of the total number of students
enrolled.
When asked whether the number of
students responding to the survey rep¬
resented PCC, both Kirk and Tulley
agreed that it was a representative
sample of the way PCC would respond,
and they were pleased with it. “It is
difficult to get a good sample (from the
whole student body),” Tulley added.
Kirk said they were aiming for 1,000
to 1,500 students for the survey. The
sample was at random from classes of
each department. The felt it was a good
spread of the classes and students
chosen.
There were some weaknesses with
the survey, though. The day students
were more heavily represented than
the night students. The reason given
was night students sometimes don’t
need or require the services the day
student would. The Student Concern
Committee is looking at the night stu¬
dents’ needs, though.
Another weakness was that students
could not give feed back of what new
services could be offered or services
that interests students. But “in gen¬
eral, students said they were satisfied
with the services,” Tulley mentioned.
“People seemed to feel good.”
Kirk called this survey a chance for
students to grade the student personnel
services and the results being the
“report card.” The satisfaction review
of the services earned an A minus to an
A, according to Kirk.
This survey is the “beginning for an
ongoing system for student input,”
Tulley said. It also provides records for
future student needs. Plans for another
survey are in progress to keep
searching for student needs and provid¬
ing services to meet those needs.
CELEBRATING THE GREEN — The first annual St. Patrick's Day Parade was held
Wednesday despite the heavy rain storms. The rain did let up just long enough for
the parade to finish. Newscaster Jess Marlow was the grand marshall for the day's
festivities.
-Courier photos by Lynn Shepodd
