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Throwing the distance
Antonio Gandara/Photo Editor
Caleb Wood receives second place at the Redlands Invitational with a distance of 55.02 meters in the men's javelin throw.
The track and field team finished first in three events and placed in four other events.
New ‘Fab Lab’ is a world
of endless 3-D creation
Emma Koffroth
Staff Writer
From toys to space travel and
candy to body parts, the grand
opening of the “Fab Lab” this
month showcased the ground¬
breaking technology that PCC
offers in the emerging realm of
3-D printing.
The creation possibilities are
limidess. The 3-D printers used
by the Fabrication Laboratory
can butid machinery such as
model airplanes and furniture.
More advanced versions of
the printer reproduce materials
at the forefront of medical
advancement.
“You can 3-D print organs
and bones. The future is really
in the field of medical advance¬
ment,” said David Harbottle, a
member of the PCC Engineer¬
ing Club.
Christine Michaels
Editor-in-Chief
A new dean structure has
been implemented at the
college and all former interim
deans have been appointed as
associate deans of their respec¬
tive schools, according to the
administration.
“The Associate dean will
provide support faculty. Not
just the faculty of former
division,” said Robert Bell,
vice president of academic and
student affairs..
All five school deans, who
ran unopposed for their
positions last semester, will
maintain all responsibilities and
management of their respective
The most typical version of
3-D printing is fuse deposition
modeling (FDM) and uses plas
tic resins to create layers that
fuse together. This is the type
of printer used at PCC in the
“Fab Lab.”
schools, according to Bell.
The deans seem to find this
model much more efficient, but
the official jobs of the associate
dean and the school dean are
flexible depending on the needs
of each school.
Joseph Futtner, associate
dean of the School of Visual
and Performing Arts, said that
he and Jim Arnwine, the dean
of Visual and Performing Arts,
are working toward creating an
organic model for their school.
“In terms of official job
placement, we are still nego¬
tiating that,” he said. “We’re
still navigating. There are very
different programmatic needs.
It’s a little unusual for us all.”
Salomon Davila, the dean
“Plastic filament comes into
the printer through a heated
box that heats the plastic and
lays down layer on top of lay¬
er,” said Sandy Jisun Lee, who
of the School of Career and
Technical Education, explained
that with the structure change
he is able to focus on outside
sources and vendors to help
ready the school for the labor
market demands.
“Most deans would do a lot
of clerical work” in the past,
but his department is now
“running more efficiently,” he
said.
“If you don’t go out, you be¬
come a bit myopic. But in this
new model, it allows a good
transformation.”
Davila also explained that
in the former division mod¬
el, where there were three
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Faculty
Association
rejects
proposal
Daron Grandberry
Sports Editor
The PCC Faculty Association
rejected the latest contract proposal
from the district Friday when the
two sides sat down their second
negotiation meeting this month..
According to a letter written by
the PACCD negotiating team, the
district recently agreed to imple¬
ment a Supplemental Early Retire¬
ment Plan (SERP) this academic
school year if the PCCFA also
agreed to an interim arrangement
on the 2014-2015 academic calen¬
dar year without a winter interses¬
sion.
In addition, the rejected pro¬
posal provided that nothing in the
agreement would preclude either
party from proposing a different
calendar year. The letter also stated
that it was unlikely that a Public
Employee Relations Board (PERB)
decision would be issued in the
next few months and in the absence
of a binding decision the current
calendar configuration was unlikely
to be changed for the 2014-2015
academic year.
In rejecting the recent proposal,
the PCCFA indicated that returning
to the former calendar configura¬
tion was significantly more import¬
ant than a SERP, according to the
PACCD negotiating team.
On Thursday, members of the
Faculty Association met in the
С
to discuss a variety of
topics from the ongoing Campus
Climate Survey to the lack of
financial compensation of pro¬
fessors and faculty. The survey is
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Benjamin Simpson/Courier
Daniel Ngu creates a dog to test the setting on the
RapMan3 3-D printer in the new Fab Lab, located in the IT
building.
Deans set in new school structure