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- PCC Courier, March 31, 1978
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PCC Courier, March 31, 1978
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KPCS Transferred
RADIO STATION MOVES — Dr. John
Gregory, KPCS manager, is involved in a
struggle to keep his station from becoming
an “electronic sandbox.” The station has
been moved from the Communication
Department to the control of Dr. David
Ledbetter.
—Courier Photo by Blake Sell
By LeeAnne Schwartz
Assistant News Editor
An administrative order issued by
Vice-President for Instruction Dr.
Stanley E. Gunstream has moved
KPCS, the campus radio station, out of
the Communication Department.
KPCS now comes under Instructional
Services, headed by Dr. David Led¬
better.
Dr. Gunstream said of the move,
“We put KPCS in Instructional Ser¬
vices because it is an instructional
service.” The changeover was ef¬
fective two weeks ago and all business
and bookkeeping matters will be
transferred at the beginning of April.
William Shanks, chairman of the
Communication Department, said,
“The operation of KPCS as a campus
and community service -will be under
Dr. Ledbetter. The instructional
program, such as the telecommunica¬
tion classes, will remain in the Com¬
munication Department.
“My time should be devoted to in¬
structional duties, not the business
aspects of KPCS, which have taken a
good deal of my time,” said Shanks. “I
think it’s a very positive change.”
However, Dr. John Gregory, general
manager of KPCS, has doubts about
the changeover. According to Dr.
Gregory, the station serves many
purposes other than instruction.
“KPCS offers a student an intern¬
ship under professional conditions.
Unlike many university radio stations,
KPCS is not an “electronic sandbox”
where students are playing for them¬
selves,” said Dr. Gregory.
Instead, KPCS takes in the com¬
munity needs, just as a real radio
station would, according to Dr.
Gregory.
“I don’t agree with the move
because the station is more than an
instructional service,” said Dr.
Gregory. “I hope that the move is not a
permanent one.”
According to Dr. Gregory, the needs
of the radio station could have been
better served by placing KPCS under
the office of Mildred Wardlow, the
vice-president for administrative
services. He feels that all aspects of
the station would be looked at under
that office.
Dr. Gregory feels that merely the
instructional aspects of KPCS will be
considered with the station placed
under Instructional Services. “I just
don’t feel that the station belongs
there,” said Dr. Gregory.
“Although the radio station is used
for instruction, it is mainly an in¬
structional service,” said Dr. Led¬
better. “The move was just an ad¬
ministrative step to put the station as a
service.”
Dr. Ledbetter foresees no immediate
changes for the radio station. Most of
his time in the near future will be spent
working with the KPCS budget to meet
the seven per cent budget cut ordered
by the Board of Trustees for all
campus departments, said Dr. Led¬
better.
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VOL. 45, N0.8
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 31, 1978
Faculty Considers Hiring Auditor
By Glenda Cade
Assistant News Editor
An independent auditor might be
hired by the Faculty Senate Board
soon to study the school’s budget and
help draft proposals to the Board of
Trustees.
Since PCC stands to lose $8.2 million
if the Jarvis-Gann tax initiative passes
in June, the trustees recently drew up
a contingency plan for trimming the
school budget. For the faculty, that
included a three-hour-a-week work¬
load increase without compensation
and a temporary loss in fringe
benefits.
The faculty has not “officially
committed itself” as to whether or not
it will accept these cuts. So suggestions
are needed to establish what “the
remedies really are,” said Chrystal
Watson, FSB president, at Monday’s
meeting.
“However, an independent auditor
would cost a minimum of $30,000 to
$40,000. It would take a minimum of
five months to find all the cobwebs,”
Cecil Osoff, assistant professor of
cooperative education, said. The FSB
should first investigate the need for an
expert and then the cost, he suggested.
That was incorporated into the final
motion.
“Besides, the real efficiency experts
are the people in this room, as to what
their needs are,” he said.
Several FSB members recom¬
mended taking a poll of faculty
members to see what their opinions
are,” he said.
Several FSB members recom¬
mended taking a poll of faculty
members to see what their opinions
are on the budget situation.
“There is fear v/e will not get faculty
ideas and input on the Board of
Trustees should Proposition 13 pass,”
Ms. Watson said. “We will need to
make sure we’re not being rail¬
roaded.”
The Faculty Implementations
Committee is asking all faculty
members to submit observations on
the matter, “so nobody will be able to
say they weren't consulted,” she said.
“A major crisis could confront us if
Jarvis passes.”
She asked department representa¬
tives to talk with their colleagues, let
them indicate what the best solutions
might be, and report back to the FSB.
Most members agreed there is “fat”
in the present budget, and that must be
removed. However, Ben Rude,
professor of English, said if the FSB
agrees there is $8.2 million worth of
fat, they “might as well vote for
Proposition 13. That is exactly what
supporters of the Jarvis initiative are
saying. I don’t think we are really
operating on 25 per cent fat,” Rude
said.
“There is no rule to cut anything out
of the budget,” he contended. “Many
districts are continuing business as
usual. They will simply serve notice on
the legislature they intend to do so
until the money runs out.
“It’s more responsible not to make
these drastic cuts. Instead, we should
submit notice we will conduct business
as usual as long as funds are
provided.”
Osoff concurred, saying there will be
enabling legislation if Jarvis passes.
“So to get into this suicide type of
affair is just chicken, I think. Five out
of the 10 people in my department are
seeking jobs elsewhere because of this
scare situation.
“Why get anticipatory and
frightened?” Osoff asked. “We don’t
have to take action, so why do you
want a list of priorities from the
faculty?”
Ms. W'atson explained she simply
wants to know what each faculty
member’s primary consideration is.
The FSB also officially endorsed an
Academic Senates of California
Community College’s (ASCCC)
decision to oppose the Jarvis-Gann
initiative. It further recommended
dues paying faculty groups on campus
form a “citizens information com¬
mittee" to influence voters against the
measure.
CHRYSTAL WATSON
. . . faculty leader
Students Rights'
Policy Unchanged
Changes in a final draft for student
due process were practically nil, ac¬
cording to Student Senate President
Charlotte Hutchins.
“It’s ridiculous, the changes they
have made. They changed the word
‘the’ to ‘student’ and thought that
would appease me,” she said.
“They” are members of a joint
committee of the Faculty Senate’s
Student Concerns Committee and
Student Personnel Committee set up to
examine the present procedures for
student due process as outlined on
pages 12-14 in the Student Handbook.
Criticism that the procedures favor
the administration or teachers in
disputes with students prompted
formation of the committee.
Members of the joint committee are
Robert Adanto, financial aids
assistant; Carmen Brunol, associate
professor in the Foreign Language
Department; Derek Coleman, ASB
vice-president; Charlotte Hutchins,
Student Senate president; Francisca
Neumann, technical coordinator for
handicapped students; Ernest
Neumann, dean of admissions and
records; and Alvar Kauti, dean of
student activities.
Ms. Hutchins is the only student who
attends the joint committee meetings.
Derek Coleman, ASB vice-president
and one of the two student representa¬
tives to the committee, has never
attended.
Kauti, who drew up the final draft,
stating PCC’s due process did not need
to be changed, said that it was “one of
the best” in Southern California.
The new draft still contains the
waiver of irregularities, which states:
“Substantial compliance with these
rules shall constitute full compliance.
No irregularity in proceedings shall
invalidate the proceedings.” The
clause, “if agreed upon by all parties,”
has been added to the last statement.
Kauti explained that means if there
were an irregularity in the
proceedings but no one objected, they
would not be invalidated. However, if
one of the parties involved did
disapprove, the proceedings would be
voided and the process would start
anew.
He felt the addition of the clause
“clarified” the previous compliance
statement.
Another change approved in the new
draft was a way to challenge the
assignment of a grade. The ad¬
ministrative ladder goes all the way to
the Dean of Instruction, or Vice-
President of Instruction, but the draft
does not provide for carrying the
challenge to a grievance committee.
One of Ms. Hutchins’ proposals for
change would be that hearings before
the review committee should be
“open” if the student in question
requests it, said Ms. Hutchins. Coast,
Sweetwater and Golden West com¬
munity colleges all have that option in
their process.
Furthermore, the decision of the
review committee should be the final
word in the due process procedure, as
it is at Orange Coast College, she said.
At PCC, the school is not even required
to notify the committee that it has
heeded the group’s recommendation.
“When I was on the review com¬
mittee last semester, we never
received any notice of what the
school’s final action had been with the
student (Debbie Mercer),” said
committee member Brunol. Ms.
Mercer came before the review
committee last semester because of an
altercation with William Logan,
Communication Department associate
professor.
None of her above proposals for
change was incorporated into the new
draft, but Ms. Hutchins said she might
draw up one of her own to present to
the joint committee.
Whether or not she can push through
her ideas is anyone’s guess. Most
committee members indicated Kauti’s
new draft was “fine,” Ms. Hutchins
said.
The changes that were in fact made
were “significant,” Kauti said.
Neumann acknowledged the
changes were “very few,” but suffi¬
cient. “The procedures aren’t bad.
They’re really very workable.”
“Students don’t know their rights
and don’t care,” said Ms. Brunol.
“Somebody from the student govern¬
ment should help by informing. If the
student body had been on its toes, all
this would have been done better.”
Part-Time Teachers (Tiay Be First To Go
Passage of the Jarvis-Gann tax
initiative would cause wide-ranging
changes at PCC. One change would
be the elimination of a large
number of part-time teachers,
according to options the Board of
Trustees has discussed.
Should the Board of Trustees
decide to initiate a plan which
would increase current full-time
teachers' loads, then part-time
teachers who are now teaching
those classes would be' out of jobs.
“The cuts are a tradeoff to save
people on tenure,” said John
Madden, dean of Personnel Ser¬
vices, at a special Board of
Trustees meeting about the Jarvis
initiative earlier this month.
Ben Rude, spokesman for the
California Teachers Association,
said, “The board is talking about
laying off 400 people.”
However, since job security in
education is based on tenure and
not solely on economics, part-time
teachers are in a susceptible
position to lose their jobs.
If the board adopts the ad¬
ministrative plan which would
increase full-time teaching loads, it
The Jarvis Bite
would not increase the pay for those
teachers accordingly. Therefore,
money paid out in salaries to part-
time teachers who would be cut
would be saved.
The board has yet to make any
decisions concerning specific action
it will take, although it has voted to
keep all full-time teachers
currently teaching at PCC.
The real fate of part-time
teachers, like so many other public
employees, lies in the hands of the
voters on June 6, not the Board of
Trustees.
KPCS Faces
BigCutback
The Jarvis-Gann tax initiative
could bring an end to KPCS radio’s
effectiveness, according to Dr.
John Gregory, general manager of
KPCS.
Cutbacks caused by the initiative
affect KPCS’ affiliation with Public
Broadcasting System. As an af¬
filiate, KPCS must be on the air 18
hours a day, seven days a week and
maintain a staff of five full-time
employees.
A cutback might mean non-fulfill¬
ment of one or more of the above,
causing KPCS to lose vital
programming it would otherwise
receive from National Public
Radio. An example of this is the
Senate’s Panama Canal debates.
It could also mean fewer hours on
the air, turning KPCS into “an
electronic sandbox with no meaning
or direction,” said Dr. Gregory. “I
would be greatly disappointed,
because students, after having so
much, would have so little.”
The Jarvis-Gann tax initiative, if passed, will have a great
impact on education at PCC, affecting every department,
employee and student. Although the Board of Trustees has not
said what specific cuts would have to be made if the Jarvis
initiative is passed, many departments on campus are preparing
for the crunch. This is a compilation of some possible affects
passage of the bill would have.
Low-Cost ITV Services
Should Be Unaffected
“One week it wasn’t a problem,
the next week it was a crisis,” said
Robert Miller, production manager
for PCC-TV, speaking about the
devastating effect the Jarvis-Gann
tax initiative is expected to have on
schools in general.
“We just don’t know how it will
effect us. We don’t know the places
that will be cut back,” said Miller.
Dr. Harold E. Salisbury, acting
chairman of academic productions
for instructional services, has
already cut back the instructional
television budget by the seven per
cent requested. This request was
made before the Jarvis-Gann tax
initiative was proposed and was due
to PCC’s enrollment decline this
year.
Mililer hopes that ITV is not
eliminated completely. Actually,
there may be more need than ever
for the services ITV provides.
Even if a cutback is forthcoming,
Miller still sees ITV as able to
perform a vital role on campus.
“Cooperation” is our middle name.
You work with what you’ve got,”
explained Miller, optimistically.
Art Dept.
To Suffer
Art Department Chairman
Walter Girdner said that the Jarvis-
Gann tax initiative would cost the
Art Department its diversity. A
variety of teachers gives the art
major a well-rounded exposure to
various artistic styles, according to
Girdner.
The Art Department was the only
department to grow in enrollment
this year.
T acos (Day
Cost
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Cafeteria prices could be affected
by the passing of the Jarvis-Gann
tax initiative, said Sharon Baker,
cafeteria manager.
With the enrollment drop fore¬
seen by PCC officials, there will be
less demand on the cafeteria. Less
demand means higher prices.