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PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MAY 7. 1982
Credit Offerings Face Budget Cuts
Collegiate Council
Ranks Candidates
the points of interest to students,” said
Mike Tiberi, the spokesman for the
eastside panel and also a former PCC
student.
On the rating scale employed by the
panel, Torres is ranked as “excep¬
tional, excellent and outstanding."
Keith Marsh was not given a rank by
the panel as he fell below the rank of 65.
Tiberi said, Marsh supported financial
aid cutbacks and he was not in favor of
public support for higher education.
The eastside panel also ranked the
candidates in the 50th and 56th as¬
sembly districts. Gloria Molina re¬
ceived the top ranking in the 56th
district over Donald Hyde- who re¬
ceived no ranking. “The panel was
swayed by her (Molina’s) position on
financial aid cutbacks,” said Tiberi.
Steve Kelley, the only candidate rep¬
resenting the 56th assembly district,
received no rank. “Kelley is running on
the Libertarian ticket and wants educa¬
tion to be funded by the private sector
only,” said Tiberi. His platform is
“government out of everything.”
Candidates for the state governor's
office were also ranked. However,
Mayor Tom Bradley did not have a
representative present nor did At¬
torney General Deukmejian. Lt. Gov.
Mike Curb did send a representative,
David Ellis, but he was not able to
present Curb’s true position on all the
issues.
Sen. John Garamendi did attend the
forum and was given the top
gubernatorial ranking by LACC repre¬
sentatives. The panel found Garamendi
“more accessible to the students,” and
found he “understood student issues
and was very well informed.”
CANDIDATE FORUM — The LACC announced the results of their
recent candidate forum. The candidates were ranked based on their
- knowledge of Student issues. — Courier photo by Barbara Nack
AS
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Resolution Not
Binding This Term
By John Pierce
Staff Writer
ASB Executive Board minutes, dated
Oct. 15, 1981, have surfaced showing a
resolution prohibiting ASB sponsorship
of an event without Executive Baord
approval. But, Dean of Student Ac¬
tivities Alvar Kauti and Vice President
of Student Personnel Services Dr.
Henry Kirk have said that the resolu¬
tion is not binding for this semester.
The resolution, offered by then ASB
president Barry McGowan, states that
the ASB should “know what kind of
function will be put on and where funds
derived from these activities should be
placed ... so, no function may occur
using the ASB name without consent of
the ASB president’s and Assemblies
Committee.”
The resolution also said that the
president will be ultimately responsi¬
ble for such sponsorship afer the Ex¬
ecutive Board's okay.
This resolution carried unanimously.
However, both Kauti and Kirk con¬
cur that this resolution has no power
this semester because it was not re¬
corded as a policy in the ASB manual.
‘ “A sentence in the minutes does not
necessarily mean a board policy," said
Kauti. while in a separate interview,
Kirk said, “It is naive to think that just
by passing a resolution you can make
things happen."
Kauti and Kirk also believed that the
dance held April 23 was sponsored by
the ASB since Richard Franklin is the
ASB Assemblies commissioner. Kirk
said the signature by Franklin con¬
stituted a legal contract as he is an
agent of the ASB.
Kirk said of Kauti’s and Student
Activities adviser Jennifer McKinney's
ASB supervision that the student body
is supposed to be responsible to itself.
The ASB was formed according to the
educational code and “they need to be
treated that way and need to act that
way.”
Kirk also believes that the student
body needs to clarify the procedures as
to who signs contracts and in what
order of command.
The new dance guidelines issued by
Kirk last week were additions to pres¬
ent rules governing dances, said Kauti.
“This does not mean we discourage
dances, only that we want to make
them safer than they already are,” he
said.
Summer Registration Soon
Continuing students planning to enroll in summer intersession courses can
obtain a priority number beginning Tuesday, May 11 at 7:15 a.m.
The numbers can be obtained from each counseling team. They will be
handed out on a first come, first served basis. Dr. Henry Kirk, vice president for
student personnel services, said, “The summer session is an extra that the college
is offering to the community,” and necessitates a slightly different registration
process.
Priority cards will designate a date and time the student can return for
enrollment. June 1 is the first day of enrollment and continues through June 3.
New and reentry students are issued a priority number when they register.
New students must apply for admission by June 18 when regular enrollment ends.
After June 21, a student may add a class with permission from the instructor.
Kirk said, “Students don’t need to display a high amount of anxiety as the
demand for classes is not as great.”
The administration selected the early time to begin handing out priority
numbers in the hope of avoiding the long line that formed to obtain spring
registration times. -Debbie Gehlken
Celebracion del
Laser Technology Open House Set for Next Week
Laser Deemed Important in Communications Future
— Courier photos by Brian Johnson
Cinco de Mayo
By Debbie Gehlken
News Editor
The Los Angeles Collegiate Council
(LACC) announced its candidate rank¬
ing for state assembly and senatorial
races at the Los Angeles Press Club
last week.
The ranking was based on the results
of a recent forum where panels com¬
prised of student representatives
judged candidates on their overall pres¬
entation, knowledge of student issues
and campaign platforms.
Among the questions asked were,
“How would you prioritize ‘education’
in the state budgeting process?”, “How
do you see the state making up for the
federal cutbacks in student aid pro¬
grams?”, and “If elected, how would
you further higher education at the
state level?”
LACC is a multi-campus student
group comprised of 19 area colleges
and universities, including PCC. Joe
Krovoza, student trustee, was a mem¬
ber of the eastside/southern panel
ranking the candidates in the 24th
district state senatorial race, Keith
Marsh and Assemblyman Art Torres.
Assemblyman Torres received the
top ranking because his “campaign
platform was really outstanding on all
By Stephen T. Williams
Contributing Writer
A laser technology open house will be
given by laser electro optics students
May 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5:30
p.m. to 8.30 p.m. and on May 13, from
10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the E Building.
The program, open to the public,
covers the use of laser light com¬
munication using laser and three
dimensional photography called holo¬
graphy.
Lasers can be used many different
ways and has multiple functions. A
“laser can’t be described in one word,
it’s a tool with numerous applications,”
student Terri Arnold said. “Futuristic
is the only word I can think of to
describe laser,” said Janis Graham,
physics lab technician.
Communication by using laser light
as a transport will be demonstrated by
students. Laser works similar to radio,
but the “laser light’s wave length is
shorter and the frequency higher,” said
Graham. Signals are sent by manipu¬
lating a laser beam through an electro
optic modulator. Laser will transmit a
great deal more channels than radio
due to its shorter wave length.
“Moisture in the form of rain or
clouds limits the use of lasers on
earth,” but in space it’s a different
picture. There’s a vacuum in space
with less obstacles which lasers work
well in making lasers a possible valu¬
able tool in future space exploration.
Holograms, pictures done with laser,
will be displayed. Holography has
many uses, but primarily is used for
information recording. Unknown to
many, “a hologram can contain more
information on it than microfilm.”
DEMONSTRATION PLANNED — Laser stu- Sally Morris prepare for a demonstration of the
dents ( from left) Janis Graham, Jeff Voyles and laser's capabilities, —courier photo by Paul Farnsworth
Graham. “He’s the backbone of the
program.”
Laser technology remains to be a
new frontier and many discoveries still
lay ahead. Although Einstein probably
talked of lasers before anyone else,
“the first laser to be invented and used
was by Dr. Theodore Maiman of
Hughes Aircraft only 20 years ago,”
and is an infant in the scientific world.
Breakthroughs in laser technology
have benefited many areas of industry,
especially medicine. The pinpoint ac¬
curacy of laser makes a scalpel look
blunt in surgery and treatment of
cancer.
The use of lasers continue to in¬
crease at a rapid rate throughout the
United States. Many opportunities
flood the job market for students in the
laser field and it looks more promising
ahead. Starting salaries for graduates
range from $17,000 to $22,000 per year.
“Some students have even been of¬
fered jobs before they have finished
their program," said Dr. Norman Jus-
ter, physical science department chair¬
man.
“Whole writing,” a term used in
holography, relates to the ability of
holograms to contain information. Cut¬
ting a two dimensional photograph in
half results in two separate pictures
containing only half the information on
each one. “When a hologram is cut in
half, all the recorded information re¬
mains on both halves,” Graham said.
Program director Wai Min Liu built
up PCC’s laser department over the
past four years with Keith Miller,
professor of physics and laser science.
“If Liu left, we’d be in trouble,” said
Course Selections May Be Reduced
Dy Renee Pelletier
Staff Writer
In an effort to reduce the projected
$2.4 million deficit, PCC will be facing
cuts in the area of instruction, with an
affect on credit offerings, according to
Steven Cerra, vice president for in¬
struction.
We are “basically looking at a
$400,000 cut in credit offerings," stated
Cerra. Some of the non-credit courses
already cut will be placed into the- fee
class categories in an effort to have the
courses pay for themselves. Cerra said
that he is “hoping it will work and is
confident it will work in offsetting the
loss.”
An important cut affecting all stu¬
dents will be the reduction in the supply
of course offerings. “None of the cuts
will result in the elimination of a
particular course, but will eliminate a
number of course sections in a certain
area,” Cerra said.
The reduction in course sections will
make it more difficult for students to
plan the scheduling of courses and
“beyond a point, some people may
come away empty,” Cerra added.
It will be very important for students
to know ahead what they want to do an
plan accordingly. As a result, Cerra
said he believed there would be less
adding and dropping, “because there
won’t be much selection in adding.”
According to Cerra, “the problem is
that you can't do anything to control
demand, consequently students may
not be able to get a course when they
want it.”
Another cut expected to help in
offsetting the deficit is the elimination
of the second summer intersession.
Although the Board has discussed what
cuts should be implemented, it is still
somewhat “fluid” in its decision mak¬
ing. “It involves a lot of give and take,”
Cerra stated.
The cuts are required as a result of
the decrease in funds the state is
providing. “We’re not being funded for
all of the growth of adult daily atten¬
dance (ADA) we’re generating,” said
Cerra. Since the state no longer has the
money it once had to spend on educa¬
tion, and it does provide 80 percent of
the funding, the cuts appear inevitable.
“The state can fund ADA to a point,”
Cerra said, but added that the school
must pay for anything beyond that
point. Cerra stated the reasoning be¬
hind the cuts is to “bring us back in line
By Doug Brown
Staff Writer
Assembly bill 2394, a measure de¬
signed to lift the ceiling from parking
fees and tickets, was canceled in com¬
mittee on Tuesday.
State Assemblyman William Ivers
stated that “there wasn’t sufficient
evidence to warrant the continuation of
it ( AB 2394 ) . ” Ivers went on to say that
Tuesday was the last day the bill could
move from the Assembly Education
Committee and on to the floor for
voting. Ivers also said, he could ask for
a stay of urgency from the House Rules
with the level of state support so as to
eliminate the unfunded growth of ADA,
and to bring costs in line with the
income.”
The state is reducing not only fund¬
ing but the level of funding, by funding
non-crdit and ADA at a steadily de¬
creasing level. “So we re correspond¬
ingly reducing non-credit ADA, ' Cerra
said.
Committee to continue the bill, but
decided against it.
“PCC can reschedule the money
generated from the parking tickets and
parking fees to go directly to the
school, and not go through the city of
Pasadena,” said Ivers. “Because of
this, I see no reason to raise the
already high parking fees.”
AB 2394 would directly affect PCC
because it would eliminate the ceiling
on how much parking fines and fees can
be charged. This would then generate
extra income for PCC, and help defray
the overall costs of parking.
Ivers Kills Parking Bill
