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Teacher’s union, college square off over negative evaluations and breaches of contract. An arbitrator will soon review the case
By Gali Raval
Staff Writer
The California Teachers Association
(СТА)
has entered the fray in the long stand¬
ing dispute between accounting Professor
Douglass Staley and the college administra¬
tion, claiming that procedural errors have been
made regarding the faculty evaluation process.
Staley filed a grievance in May because he
felt that his "needs improvement” evaluations
for the fall and spring 1998-99 semesters for
were not judged fairly.
If a faculty member is given a negative
evaluation, then, according to the
СТА
con¬
tract, a meeting is supposed to be held with an
evaluation committee to discuss the problem.
“No meeting was held to discuss the issue, and
that is a violation of the
СТА
contract,” said
Staley.
To make matters worse,
СТА
officials
claim that further contract violations took
place last Tuesday, when a new evaluator.
Faculty, Pg. 5
Evaluation linked to “Partnership for Excellence”
The recent furor over PCC instructor
Doug Staley’s evaluation tied to Partnership
for Excellence incentive-based goals has
prompted the board of trustees to outline
specific academic targets for the state fund¬
ed program. At the Oct. 6 meeting, the board
was presented with the baseline figures the
state of California used. The number of
associate of aits (AA) degrees awarded.
associate of sciences (AS), certificates for
vocational programs and the number of
transfers to four-year institutions were
defined as measures pf Student performance
and where the state thinks each community
college should be.
For the 1994-95 academic year, the num-
Excellence, Pg. 5
Inside This Issue
Heady, Set Debate!
Images from
Homecoming
Big Shots focuses
on the festivities.
Big Shots, Pg. 8
The college hosts a competition
featuring the award-winning forensics
team . News, Pg. 4
Postseason a reality
for women's soccer.
Sports, Pg. 9
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Joyce Black to Retire
Joyce Black, vice-president of
instruction since 1994, has
announced her request for
retirement effective Dec. 31 .
Black cited personal reasons
for the decision, which she had
been planning since August. In
a memo sent to college
instructional managers, Black
dispelled the rumor that a
"well-known 'pompous ass'"
had forced her out. By press
time, the board of trustees had
not yet decided on accepting
Black's resignation request.
Helping Hands Club
Hosts Event
Noontime events are sched¬
uled for Tuesday and Thursday
for the first annual Disability
Awareness Week.
Trustee Re-elected
Trustee Susanna Miele was re¬
elected to her fifth consecutive
term on Tuesday, beating out
opponent William Jennings
with 81 percent of the vote.
CAMPUS BEAT
No place
like home
Coronation marks return of homecoming to campus
By Luis E. Reyes
Staff Writer
Jennifer Guerrero and Louis
Rivera were crowned homecoming
queen and king, respectively, on
Saturday night during the halftime
of the Orange Coast-Pasadena
football game.
The homecoming coronation -
the first one on campus in three
years and the last one of the mil¬
lennium - had a more than the
usual amount of emotional and
historical feeling.
In the previous years, the tradi¬
tional ceremony took place at
Occidental College, something
that negatively impacted the par¬
ticipation numbers.
But on Saturday, all that
changed. More than 1,000 stu¬
dents, staff, and alumni filled the
stands of the new Lancer Stadium.
“I thought it was a wonderful
event,” said Stephen B. Johnson,
assistant dean of student affairs.
“Everyone seemed to be enjoying
it.”
The theme of the homecoming
was “Celebrating the Family.”
Eleta Fellows, chairwoman of the
homecoming committee, said she
wanted to represent family, diver¬
sity and the strong bonds that bind
Pasadena.
“I think Pasadena [City
College] makes a grand statement
by being in the center of the com¬
munity.
Guerrero, the associated stu¬
dents’ vice president of public
relations, was nothing less than
elated after being named the 1999
homecoming queen.
“It feels wonderful. I’m hon¬
ored. I’m very touched,” she said.
“I will be very upset when I leave
campus but with things like this.
Extra Homecoming
Coverage Inside:
Two differing points of view on
the meaning of this perennial
school event . Page 2
Check out our full pictorial
spread on the college’s week-
long celebrations . Page 8
A new stadium and the return
of Homecoming to campus did
nothing to stave off defeat at
the hands of Orange Coast
College, 29-26 . Page 9
the memories will last forever.
This is a wonderful way of leaving
campus.”
Guerrero plans to transfer to
either Cornell University or
UCLA in the fall and major in
microbiology and molecular
genetics.
For Rivera, being in the court,
let alone winning, was something
he always wanted to do. “I always
wanted to do this, ever since high
Coronation, Pg. 5
Ian Oosthuizen
/
Courier
Asst. Coach Dale Bunn takes a refreshing dip during the Homecoming Carnival.
Daniel Archuleta
/
Courier
Queen Jennifer Guerrero and escort Venus Brown lead the rest of the Homecoming Court down the red carpet.
A mellow kind of carnival
KNBC’s Rick Chambers kicked off the day-long, AS sponsored celebration
By Erika Kennelley
Staff Writer
In honor of PCC’s 75th anniver¬
sary homecoming, students and
faculty organized a carnival for the
first time since 1993 on the campus
main lawn.
The festival, titled “Celebrating
the Family,” was sponsored by
PCC’s Office of Student Affairs,
the AS, the PCC Flea Market, and
the Omicron Mu Delta Service
Organization in an effort to
strengthen ties between the college
and the community.
Although the event was sup¬
posed to start at 10 a.m., people
were still setting up booths by
almost 11a.m. and the only visitors
on campus at the time appeared to
be either students going to their
Saturday classes or people who
were scheduled to work at the car¬
nival.
The event officially began at
noon when Channel 4 news
reporter, Rick Chambers, appeared
in the sculpture garden to read a
proclamation kicking off the home¬
coming carnival. Afterwards, stu¬
dents, parents and children arrived
at the campus in small numbers
and browsed through the arts and
crafts booths which were selling
items such as clothing and flower
bulbs to plant at home. One booth,
sponsored by PCC’s Earth-wise
club, was selling pumpkins that
people could decorate with paint.
Other booths were holding activi-
11 s Festivities, Pg. 5
FACULTY BEAT
СТА
charges administration with procedural violations
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