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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 74 No. 3
COURIER
Thursday
October 8, 1992
Policy for degree holders pose problems
By AL SANTANA
News Editor
As community colleges prepare
to implement a fee increase from $6
to $50 a unit for those students who
hold bachelor’s degrees and attend
the two-year institutions, officials
and students have serious doubts about
how those students will actually pay
the fees and how the new tuition is
going to be implemented.
The fee increase, due to start in
Jan. 1, 1993, will affect about 124,000
students across the state, commu¬
nity college officials estimate. At
PCC, the tuition hike will affect about
1 ,200 students, according to a report
released by Stuart Wilcox, dean of
admissions and records.
“Some students would be forced
to either drop out or lessen their
current load of classes,” he said. “I
think that we’ll see a decrease in
four-year degree holders in ■■■■■
our system.”
The so called “differen¬
tial fees,” were designed to
help colleges compensate for
cuts made in the California
community college budget.
Most of the four-year de¬
gree holders turn to the two- “ “~"
year institutions for career retrain¬
ing, or to gain certification in fields
such as as nursing, arts and real es¬
tate.
Students with bachelor’s degrees
seeking job-retraining at the com¬
munity colleges, displaced workers
or those receiving public assistance
can have the stiffer fees waived. But
for those students who do not fall
into those categories, financial aid
offered by the State of California
increase would “lock” students out
of the two-year institutions.
However, in mid-August, Gov.
Pete Wilson unveiled a plan in his
‘Some students would be forced to either drop out or
lessen their current load of classes. We will see a
decrease in four-year degree holders in our system.’
Stuart Wilcox,
dean of admissions and records
will not be available.
Originally, the differential fees
concept was introduced by Assem¬
blyman Robert Campbell (D-
Richmond) last May. But the com¬
munity colleges’ Board of Gover¬
nors and other school leaders re¬
jected the idea, saying that such an
‘Success is having
an important
purpose in life. It’s
not measured by
outward indicators,
not the amount of
money you’re
making or the
position you hold.
Are you fulfilling a
purpose? Are you
helping others?’
Dr. Jack Scott,
superintendent-president
“ It’s been a successful
marriage,” Dr. Jack Scott,
president-superintendent,
said of his five years in office.
Photo by CHRISTY VANCE/ The COURIER
President marks fifth year
By ANISSA VICENTE
Editor in Chief
The face that looks out from
the framed photograph is gaunt
and drawn, but lined with quiet
dignity.
“I like the human quality of
those pictures,” Dr. Jack Scott,
superintendent-president, said,
gazing at Dorothea Lange’ s stark
portraits of tired but unbowed
workers in the
1930s. Scott likes
the austere dignity
of Americana, and
it reminds him of
home.
Scott was bom
during the Depres- -
sion in 1933. He grew up, “sur¬
rounded by relatives,” in Sweet¬
water, Texas, a small town of
12,000. There was one post of¬
fice and a lot of familial ties.
When Scott dropped by Court
House Square, everyone knew
him and and his father, then a
state legislator.
“Even though the town was
provincial, it was nevertheless a
good place to grow up,” Scott
said.
He has traveled to more than
25 countries since then, from
Thailand to Hong Kong, but it is
still the values and standards of
Depression-era America that has
shaped Scott’s attitudes and life for
59 years.
“My parents were very honest
and very loving,” he said. “They
had very definite strictures on me.
They always encouraged me to go to
college.”
But Scott needed little incentive
to do well in school. He enjoyed it,
he said, and never feared failure. He
graduated third in his class from
‘As in the case of anyone who’s in
government, the one power you
have is not coercion, but the power
of persuasion.’
lenges greater than what I can
do?”
By all indications, Scott has
fulfilled all that he set out to do
five years ago. The $100 million
master plan is almost completed,
bringing with it the new Walter
Shatford Library, a new men’s
gym, community skills center,
child development center and
parking structure.
“You learn as you go along,”
^ ■ Scott said, and one
thing he has learned
is that he could not
have done it alone.
“I’m under no illu¬
sion that the college
is dependent on me.
The administration,
Sweetwater High School, and en¬
joyed studying so much he went on
to earn a bachelor’s degree in reli¬
gious history from Abilene Chris¬
tian University in Texas, a master’s
degree in history from Yale and a
doctorate in history from Claremont
College Graduate School.
When he began his administra¬
tion, Scott had been a teacher at
Pepperdine University and had nine
years experience as president of Cy¬
press College in Orange County. Still,
he had reservations coming into the
job.
“Can I succeed at this?” he asked
himself. “Am I going to meet chal-
faculty, Board of Trustees, staff
members and students are where
I get my greatest support.”
“This is an institution and I’m
simply the president. It’s made
up of people, each one working
together, fulfilling their role in a
dynamic fashion. My job is to en¬
courage and keep the thing going.”
School officials say it is Scott
who keeps a strong and steady
hold on the ties that bind PCC.
“He’s down to earth in his re¬
lationships with people,” said Dr.
David Ledbetter, assistant super¬
intendent of instruction.
Please see “SCOTT,” page 3
1992-1993 spending draft which
called for an even sharper increase
than what Campbell had suggested.
Wilson proposed that all students
who have 90 units or more com¬
pleted and wanted to enroll at any of
the 1 07 community colleges in Cali¬
fornia would have to face a raise
from $6 to $1 12 a unit, with no cap
on the charges.
That plan drew bitter reactions
from state college officials, who,
along with Assemblyman John Vas-
ншм
concelos (D-Santa Clara)
and Sen. Becky Morgan (R-
Los Altos) made a counter¬
offer backing Campbell’s
bill.
This bill, along with the
general fee increase for
community college students
. was considered one of the
most contentious issues in the re-
cendy approved budget. Both pro¬
posals partially prompted a 63-day
standoff between Gov. Wilson and
the state Legislature over whether
the fees should be phased in.
Wilson’s original program asked
to raise general fees to $20 a unit
with a $200 semester cap.
But as the governor and lawmak¬
ers grappled with the budget, staff
members and lobbyists in the capi-
tol, bolstered by a strong grassroots
lobbying effort by the community
colleges, moved in to support the
lower fees.
“It would have been worse if the
original fees had been implemented,”
Dr. Jack $cott, superintendent-presi¬
dent, said. “It was a matter of bar¬
gaining fees between the governor,
legislators and community colleges.”
He said that although the differ¬
ential fee increase was not what the
two-year schools were looking for
originally, the colleges were forced
to support Campbell’s bill. “Other¬
wise higher fees would have been
implemented,” $cott said.
He also noted that in order to
Please see “FEES,” page 4
Shots fired during games
By EDWIN FOLVEN
Special Correspondent
Lives were threatened on campus
last weekend and at least one person
was injured when crowd members
fired shots after separate football
games Friday and Saturday nights.
Both incidents are believed to be
gang-related.
About five shots were fired around
9:40 p.m. Friday in parking lot 4,
said Sgt. Vince Palermo, campus
police officer.
Approximately 800 spectators
were leaving the stadium area after a
high school football game when the
shots rang out and dispersed the crowd,
he added.
“There has been either a shoot¬
ing or a man seen with a gun at every
football game held on campus this
year,” said officer Ralph Evans.
Witnesses were able to supply
Pasadena police officers with a de¬
scription of a suspect, and at least
one unidentified man was arrested
following the incident, Palermo said.
According to a Star-News re¬
port, another unidentified man walked
into Huntington Memorial Hospital
shortly after the incident with a
gunshot wound to the hand.
During a separate incident Satur¬
day, suspected gang members fired
approximately six shots in parking
lot 5 after the Lancers’ first home
game against Fullerton. The shots
came as campus officers were break¬
ing up small fights in the parking
lots and behind the stands, Palermo
explained.
No injuries were reported during
that incident, and despite the help of
Pasadena police officers and a heli¬
copter, no arrests were made.
The PCC stadium facility is used
by the Pasadena Unified School
District (PUSD) as a home field for
area high schools.
Problems at the high school games
have increased recently, Palermo said.
Pasadena police and PUSD offi¬
cers began providing primary secu¬
rity during the high school games
this year, but campus police officers
operate alone during the PCC games.
Researcher speaks on ethics
□ Moral dilemmas in
modern medicine
tackled in GTE-
sponsored series.
By ANISSA VICENTE
Editor in Chief
Simon LeVay drowned his grief
in science when Richard Hersey, his
lover of 21 years, died of AIDS. His
grieving gave way to more than just
healing. It led to controversial re¬
search on the organic roots of homo¬
sexuality.
Levay, a neurobiologist and di¬
rector of the Robert Bosch Vision
Research Center at the Salk Institute
in La Jolla, will be the premier speaker
for the life science lecture series, “A
Blessing and Not a Curse: Life and
Death Issues in Technology and
Ethics.”
LeVay will speak on “Making
Ethical Decisions in Scientific Re¬
search,” on Wednesday, Oct. 14 from
7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Harbeson Hall.
The lecture is free and open to the
public.
Dr. Jack Scott, superintendent-
president, will bring a theological
and philosophical bent to the discus¬
sion. Scott earned a master’s degree
in divinity from Yale University and
master’s and doctorate degrees in
history from Claremont Graduate
School.
Sponsored by GTE, the lecture
series was initiated by the life sci¬
ences department headed by Dr.
Jacqueline Jacobs.
“The speed of technological de¬
velopment seems to outstrip the
public’s ability to contend with the
moral and ethical dimensions of that
technology,” Jacobs wrote in her
proposal for the lecture.
“We pooled our resources,” she
said, and in April, formed a commit¬
tee made up of six professors from
three departments.
“Everybody is touched by life
and death,” Jacobs said. “And this is
one way that we as scientists can
bring these issues to the forefront
and ask ethical questions. We have
to seek the truth.”
The committee includes Judith
Branzburg, instructor of English and
foreign languages; Phylis Mael, grant
coordinator; Daniel Meier, assistant
professor of English and Foreign
Languages; Robert Doud, associate
professor of social sciences; and
Marion Pavlovitch, assisttant pro¬
fessor of life sciences.
Photo by OSCAR CHAVEZ/ IRC
Dr. Simon LeVay will be speaking
on ethics in research on Oct. 14.
The next lecture features Dr.
Leroy Hood from Caltech’s biology
department and John B. Cobb, Jr.,
professor of theology at Claremont
Graduate School. Titled “Life and
Death Issues: Life,” the second lec¬
ture is scheduled for Wednesday,
Dec. 9.
Homecoming Schedule
Monday, Oct. 12:
Slam dunk tournament. Sign ups today at
noon in the Quad.
Tuesday, Oct. 13:
Pep rally and announcement of Home¬
coming court at noon in the Quad.
Wednesday, Oct. 14:
Second round of games.
Thursday, Oct. 15:
Fair in the Quad from 1 1 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 16:
Coronation Ball at Pasadena Hilton from
8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Saturday, Oct. 17:
Game with Grossmont, 7 p.m. at
Horrell Field.