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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 73 No. 5
COURIER
Thursday
March 21, 1991
CSU fees increase 20 percent
NEWSLINE
WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
Laura Diaz of Channel 7 will be the
keynote speaker during Pasadena’s
Commission on the Status of Women
which will be held on March 23 from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Campus Center.
The conference is primarily directed
toward women but is also open to
men. For more information call, Beth
Kaiama at 585-7036.
AID TO SUCCESS
The art department will hold a work¬
shop to help art students to succeed in
this field, March 25 at noon in D209.
RECITAL
The Music Teacher’s Association
presents a scholarship benefit recital
featuring Antoinette Perry, pianist,
March 24 at 3 p.m. in Harbeson Hall.
Admission is $20 for adults and $10
for students and seniors. For more
information, call 795-3585.
PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKSHOP
Psychological services will offer a
workshop titled “Some guidelines to
enhance your social life,” March 27 at
noon in room C309.
BUSINESS SEMINAR
Service Corps of Retired Execu¬
tives will offer a workshop on “Devel¬
oping a realistic business plan and use
it to raise capital.” This seminar is
scheduled on March 22 at 1 1 a.m. in
C126. The talk is part of free seminars
offered to help students with business
majors.
FREE TAX WORKSHOP
PCC’s Associated Students con¬
tinues to offer tax workshops to help
students with tax forms today from 3
to 5 p.m. in its Campus Center. For
more information, call 585-7608.
'SALT OF THE EARTH'
The International Committee
Against Racism is celebrating
Women’s History Month by showing
the movie“Salt of the Earth,” which
was boycotted by Hollywood in the
1950s.
This movie discusses issues such as
Women's Equality and Police Brutal¬
ity. The movie is scheduled to be
shown on March 26 and March 28 at
noon in C337.
NEW ZEALAND IN THE FALL
If the exotic culture of the South
Pacific nation of New Zealand sounds
appealing, then the New Zealand
Semester Abroad Program might be
for you. The program will take stu¬
dents to the diverse landscape of New
Zealand, where volcanoes and glaciers
lie only hundreds of miles away from
each other.
The classes will be taught by Dr.
Bruce Carter, professor and chairman
of the physical sciences department,
and Dr. David Douglass, assistant
professor of physical sciences. An
informaiion meeting will be held on
March 28 at noon in C201 .
INDEX
Opinion
2
Editorial
2
Features
3
Sports
News Features
4,5
6
By MICHAEL ROCHA
Special Correspondent
The approval last week of Gov. Pete
Wilson’s proposal of a 20 percent fee hike
for all California State University campuses
dealt another severe blow to the state’s higher
education system, leaving many PCC stu¬
dents transferring to the CSU system aston¬
ished.
“Because of this fee hike,” said PCC stu¬
dent Idolina Diaz, 19, of South Pasadena,
“people are going to put off getting an edu¬
cation until they have enough money.” Diaz,
an education major planning to transfer to
Cal State Los Angeles in the Fall of 1992,
said she is saving money right now for her
education at the four-year university.
Approved March 13 by the CSU Board
of Trustees, the fee increase came after
Wilson told the trustees that some “difficult
and unpleasant choices” had to be made due
to the state’s budget crisis.
The trustees initially proposed a 3 per-
By MARI SUNNAA
Staff writer
The Campus Center, Women’s Gym,
Bookstore, Student Bank and Campus Po¬
lice Office were stranded without electrical
power Tuesday from approximately 1 p.m.
until early Wednesday morning.
The power outage caused all three build¬
ing to close, except for the Campus Police
Office which drew its power from the only
emergency generator on campus at the time.
“All our computers are down, but our office
is open and operating,” said Roslyn Caskey,
intermediate clerk dispatcher.
Ernie Church, director of facility serv¬
ices, said the power outage was primarily
due to the heavy rains.
“We conduct regular wire checks, but
certain conditions aren’t apparent until mois-
cent increases in fees and asked for a budget of
$2.1 billion, 13 percent higher than last year’s.
Wilson said, however, that in order to meet its
$2.1 billion budget, the 20-campus system
must increase fees by 20 percent. His budget
only provided the C$U system $1,659 billion
in general revenues for the 1991-92 academic
year, more than $400 million short of the trus¬
tees’s target figure.
As a result of the increase, scheduled to be
implemented in September, annual tuition fees
will rise from $780 to $936 for full-time stu¬
dents who are California residents and from
$6,150 to $7,380 for non-residents. Not in¬
cluded in those numbers are books, housing,
living expenses and transportation, which can
boost a year’s expenses for state residents
upwards of $7,000.
By voting to raise the fees 20 percent, the
CSU trustees opted to abandon a state policy
which puts a cap on fee hikes at 10 percent a
year.
This increase comes right on the heels of a
40 percent fee hike for the University of Cali-
ture seeps in,” said Church.
In this case, it was the degeneration of the
insulation surrounding the wires. “A pinhole
or hair-line tear in the insulation can cause a
complete loss of power, as it did Tuesday,”
said Church.
He added that this problem has been recur¬
ring for several weeks, including a loss of
power last weekend. Due to the old-age of the
feeder and the degeneration of the insulation,
complete rewiring is now in progress, accord¬
ing to Church.
“We are uncertain how long the rewiring
will take. It depends on the condition of the
current wires - they may be welded together
which can cause difficulty in removing them,"
said Church.
The three buildings resumed normal opera¬
tions Wednesday morning running on tempo¬
rary generators.
fomia, the state’s other four-year public
university system. The UC Board of Regents
last month approved to raise fees to $2 ,274
for state residents.
Although higher education in Califor¬
nia has suffered because of the recession,
officials said the CSU trustees had no
choice but to raise the fees.
And as a result of the disparity be¬
tween Wilson’s allotted moneys for the
CSU system and the trustees’s requested
budget, the board also decided to: urge
more than 400 professors to retire early
and replace them with lower-paid teach¬
ers, not hire more than 340 professors
needed to contend with massive growths
in enrollment, reduce the non-teaching
payroll by 864 jobs, reduce funds for
equipment and maintenance.
In addition to those measures, individ¬
ual campuses will more than likely need
to cut an additional 10 percent from their
own budgets.
All this means is that many students
By CHRIS LANGREHR
Staff Writer
The Pasadena Water and Power De¬
partment may soon mandate that PCC use
20 to 42 percent less water, according to
Facilities Manager Chris Santillan. In
order to meet this, mandate, many meas¬
ures are being taken.
According to Ernie Church, director
of facility services, PCC has a sprinkler
system that operates on a clock, allowing
workers to water late at night and early in
the morning. By watering during these
hours, water does not evaporate as easily.
Gardeners also use devices that monitor
the amount of water the ground is holding.
When it rains, these devices shut the sprin¬
klers off.
He said custodians broom dust tennis
courts instead of washing them off. Drought
resistant trees and plants are being planted
on campus to save water. Water saving
toilets will be installed to replace dam¬
aged ones. In addition, the pools are cov¬
ered at night to reduce evaporation. Even
sensors in some classrooms — which shut
off classroom lights when rooms are
unoccupied help save water. When less
electricity is used, steam generators in
Pasadena that produce electricity use less
water.
Santillan said they use stand alone
boilers in five buildings, thus saving wa¬
ter. Having a boiler that serves only one
building reduces the distance heat is trans¬
ported. When transporting heat from the
main boiler a lot of water condenses, he
said. Therefore, unless stand alone boil¬
ers are used more make-up-water needs to
be added.
Santallian said they are setting class¬
room temperatures a few degrees higher
or lower — depending on whether it is cold
or hot, saving energy. Consequently
generating plants use less water.
In addition, the school no longer has a
baseball field, which will save the school
a lot of water during the spring and sum¬
mer months.
Furthermore, “When we hear about
water-saving devices, we investigate their
cost and how good they work,” said Church.
The college staff is are also exploring
ways to save water in the kitchen and
laundry facilities.
“We are using no cost programs such
as watering less to save water. We are also
using low-cost programs such as buying
water saving toilets. These programs,
though, depend on available funds. We
also need time to make changes. These
changes require man power. We cur¬
rently have 28 building that we supply
water and power to,” said Santillan.
Gunstream said there are other ways
the school could save water. A lot of
water is wasted in the locker room show¬
ers on campus. Some of them come on
together because they are turned on and
will be forced to change their status from
full-time to part-time, thus not earning their
degrees as soon as they hoped, officials
conceded.
Latest figures show about 368,000 full-
and part-time students attend one of the Cal
State campuses. Outof that number, 280,000
are full-time. Officials said that they expect
a significant drop of full-time students at¬
tending the system’s 20 campuses.
Figures from the PCC Information Sup¬
port department show that in 1988, of the
881 students who indicated that they were
going to transfer, 615 planned to transfer to
the CSU system, 141 to the UC system and
125 to private universities. Figures for 1989
to 1990 were not available.
As a result of the increase, financial aid
for qualified students will be raised as well.
“But to those students who don't qualify and
to whom education is an economic burden,
the increase will affect them drastically,”
said Ruth Goldway, director of public af¬
fairs at Cal State Los Angeles.
off from a central location. The school will
have to pay a lot of money, though, to
change the showers, so less water is wasted.
Since the plumbing is old, joints and pipes
have rusted. Rusted pipes often break when
taken apart. So, the school would have to
replace a lot of plumbing, he added.
Church said one thing we can not do is
empty the mirror pools. Plaster on the bot¬
tom of the pools, protect the concrete. This
plaster cracks when it dries out.
The college is not alone in conserving
water, according to Santillan. Students can
do a lot to deal with the water crisis. She
recommended students follow suggestions
in a Metropolitan Water Districtof Southern
California, residents can save hundreds of
gallons of water by taken certain steps.
According to the brochure, people can
save water in the bathroom in many ways.
Stop using the toilet as an ashtray or waste¬
basket. Take shorter showers. Install water¬
saving shower heads. Take baths. Turn off
the water while brushing your teeth. Turn
off the water while shaving. Check faucets
and pipes for leaks.
A lot of water can be saved in the kitchen
and laundry. Use the automatic dishwasher
and washing machine only for full loads.
Keep a bottle of water in the refrigerator. If
you wash dishes by hand, don’t leave the
water running for rinsing.
And, you can save a lot of water outside.
Water your lawn only when it needs it and
just long enough for water to seep down to
the roots. Water during the cool parts of the
day. Position your sprinklers so that water
lands only on your lawn or garden, not on
concrete. And, when washing your car, soap
it down with a pail of soapy water. Use a
hose only to rinse it off.
Katrina Ten
/
The Courier
Although Southern California has received
many inches of rain in the past few weeks,
it may be “rock" hard to end the drought.
John Qunitanilla/The Courier
Emergency generators were installed Wednesday morning after a power outage.
Power failure forces three
buildings to close their doors
Drought affects campus
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