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Freshman volleyball player makes impact on
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Middle hitter Kim Arlt drives PCC in spirit and points.
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A dispute
over grade
makes wide
impact
BY RACHEL URANGA
Courier Staff Writer
The matter of an ungraded test
touched offa controversy over PCC’s
grade change policy that pulled in
the Board of Trustees, the faculty
senate, and the administration. Even¬
tually everyone but the student
needed the aid of a lawyer. A seem¬
ingly simple grade dispute that
erupted into a year long fiasco has
finally come to an end, but for the
student at the center of it all, the
trouble may not have been worth it.
It started when Ignazio Palazzolo
received a D in Gregory Lee’ s Geog¬
raphy I A class last fall. Accordingto
the student’s caculations, he should
have received a C. Apparently, when
Lee had calculated Palazzolo ’s
grade, his map test was not included
because, according to Lee, the test
from was incorrectly filled out.
Palazzolo had filled out the test
following Lee’s directions as he un¬
derstood them. He said he followed
the syllabus he had recieved. Lee
requires students to identify them¬
selves by section and seat number on
the scantron forms. Palazzolo did so
by separating his section number and
his seat number, five, with slash.
Yet Lee contended that the student
should have separated the section
and seat number with a hyphen. Lee
cited his syllabus that used a hypen
instead of a slash, said Pallazzolo.
But Pallazzole stated he never re¬
ceived that syllabus. The one he was
given showed a slash.
When the test was returned to
Palazzolo, it was ungraded. Appar¬
ently, Lee felt that the slash made
Palazzolo ’s seat number appear to
be 15 rather than five. When
Palazzolo confronted Lee about the
test, Lee told him that he would
investigate the matter and get back
to him. “He (Lee) said the slash
See GRADE DISPUTE, page 5.
• STUDENTS AND STAFF GET A TASTE OF ITALY
WHILE HELPING TO RAISE FUNDS
FOR SCHOLARSHIPS
MICHAEL ARNOLD
/
THE COURIER
The Quad was transformed into an Italian Cafe’ last Thursday. Students, facutly and staff
participated in “An Italian Affair,” raising funds for the Italian American Scholarship Committee.
'Enough is Enough/
states Kossler fo faculty
BY DOUGLAS WILKIE
Courier Staff Writer
In his Oct. 9 memo to all PCC
faculty and staff, titled “Enough is
enough!” President James Kossler
identified what he called “mean-
spirited and inaccurate personal at¬
tacks ” on Joyce Black, vice presi¬
dent of instruction, and Patricia
Mollica, dean of administrative ser¬
vices.
Attributing some of the “exag¬
gerated rhetoric” to ongoing collec¬
tive bargaining negotiations between
faculty and administration, Kossler
stated that the two administrators
had made difficult and unpopular
decisions, giving rise to what he
described as “secretive, self-ap¬
pointed witch-hunts” on the part of
unnamed individuals. He said that,
to date, no faculty or staff member
had approached him or other top
administrators concerning what he
called “items of inquiry.”
Dr. Gary Woods, PCC/CTApresi-
dent, disputed Kossler’ s remarks in
an Oct. 13 memo to faculty by refer¬
ring to Kossler’s statement as “com¬
pletely mystifying.” He said that
PCC faculty and the Pasadena Area
Community College District had
communicated on multiple occa¬
sions, with ample documentation
recording both the dates and sub¬
stance of those exchanges.
The inquiry items to which
Kossler may have referred is a Board
of Inquiry formed last August. The
board is a joint committee whose
members consist of Faculty Senate
members, as well as representatives
of the
СТА,
the faculty’s collective
bargaining unit. The catalyst for the
board’s formation was the filing of
some 30 faculty grievances alleging
violations of hiring practices, repris¬
als against faculty members and writ¬
ten threats to dismiss tenured faculty
members over technicalities. Both
Black and Mollica have been sub¬
jects of the board’s deliberations.
Questioning the appropriateness
of what he alleged as “secret” and
“clandestine” meetings among fac¬
ulty, Kossler said that such activities
“only serve to demean the spirit of
mutual respect and collegiality we
espouse as an institution.”
Decrying what he described as
“highly-public PCC-bashing” in sev¬
eral statewide publications, includ¬
ing the Community College
Association’s, “CCA Advocate,”
Kossler charged that the college’s
reputation has suffered as a result of
the controversy swirling around
Black and Mollica.
Woods, while echoing Kossler’s
apparently high frustration level,
mentioned Black and Mollica by
name in only one of nine different
issues raised in his memo. He re¬
jected Kossler’s assertion that fac-
Please see KOSSLER, page 6.
• CITING FINANCIAL REASONS,
PROFESSIONAL FOOD-SERVICE
MANAGEMENT RELINQUISHES
CONTRACT
Company to take
over food services
BY JULIE DRAKE
Courier Staff Writer
Professional Food-Service Man¬
agement, Inc., the company that has
run the cafeteria, mini-mart and the
satellite eating areas for 12 vears.
cancelled its contract with PCC last
month, citing financial reason.
They will be replaced on an emer¬
gency basis by Los Angeles based
Cafe’ Supreme, which will provide
food service to the campus for the
remainder of the academic year.
PFM discontinued its relation¬
ship with the college with two years
remaining on the contract.
“The company doesn’t think that
the contract can make money any¬
more, said Keith Edelen, director of
dining services for PFM.
“It’s like a long marriage gone
bad. It’s time that the campus had a
change. Ithinkitwillbe really good.”
In addition to serving the stu¬
dents, faculty and staff, PCC’ s heavy
involvement in the community en¬
tails a need for various catering func¬
tions, which the on campus food
service company must provide. PFM
couldn’t handle the demands for ca¬
tered events.
“It equates to icing on the cake,”
said Stephen B. Johnson, assistant
dean of student affairs. “It’s every¬
thing from a small coffee and donuts
setup for a breakfast meeting to full
sitdown meals for either lunch or
dinner for 50 or 100 people depend¬
ing on what’s going on.”
There were consistency problems
with the service PFM provided in¬
cluding some of the day to day op¬
erations. However, the emphasis on
catering was an on-going problem
for the company, Johnson said.
Sherry Hassan, director of busi¬
ness services said, “Sometimes you
would have an event that would be
great, delivered on time, picked up
on time and the quality of the food
was great. Other times the quality
wasn’t good, it wasn’t delivered on
time and it wasn’t picked up for
several days.”
Catering has been a thorn in our
side for a while,” Edelen said.
Cafe’ Supreme is a unit of Su¬
preme Catering Corporation, which
is better equipped to handle the ca¬
tering needs of the college. The on¬
site manager. Donald Williams, has
20 years of food service experience
and is the recipient of several culi¬
nary awards.
Irv Haimowitz, the president of
Supreme Catering, explained the
focus of his company would be to
provide a healthier selection of high
quality food including the addition
of an Asian menu. He would like to
have the Checkers cafeteria open in
the evening for everyone to enjoy.
Now only the Palm Cafe’ and the
annex sites are open. Taco Bell, or a
reasonable facsimile, will remain.
Each of the companies has re¬
ceived high marks for the transition
from most everyone involved. Mike
Pettite, the instructor in charge of the
student food service trainees, said
the transistion has been smooth and
that Cafe’ Supreme has been very
cooperative and supportive. It is
committed to working with the stu¬
dents.
A request for a proposal which
outlines the guidelines the college
seeks will be drawn up by the food
service committee to solicit propos¬
als from providers who wish to ser¬
vice the college on a permanent ba¬
sis.
The right candidate will alos pro¬
vide an income that will enable on
campus programs to continue. Rev¬
enue from food services goes to the
associated students executive board
budget as well as the student service
fund.
The switch becomes effective
Nov. 9. Although the two companies
have already worked together for the
past two weeks to facilitate a chang¬
ing of the guard.
Most of the current PFM employ¬
ees will remain. Cafe’ Supreme will
be bringing in a few of their own
people to help staff the food services
on campus.
Associated Student Board
appoints five to commitee
that will review due process
BY DANIEL ARCHULETA
Courier Staff Writer
The Associated Students selected
five AS members during their Tues¬
day meeting to serve on a shared
governance committee along with
five representatives from the Faculty
Senate and three administrators se¬
lected to represent the Board of Trust¬
ees.
The aim of the committee is to
revise the due process procedure to
suit current standards. Due process
has recently come under scrutiny
because of the grade change situation
that was just resolved by the Board of
Trustees Oct. 2. In the future, a
document being revised by the com¬
mittee may eliminate the ambiguity
that arises over various problems that
concern most campuses.
Remedies for problems concern¬
ing academic honesty, civil rights,
and free speech are currently not all
together defined in the current docu¬
ment. Dr. James Kossler, PCC presi¬
dent, has asked the faculty senate, the
AS, and the Board of Trustees repre¬
sentatives to come together to con¬
tinue a process that was started two
years ago.
Approval from the Faculty Senate
was essential to the go-ahead of this
latest project which is designed to
improve the handling of on-campus
disputes. There is no deadline for
this committee to produce their find¬
ings, but Stephen Johnson, assistant
dean of student affairs, said that the
committee’s recomendations should
be announced, “as soon as possible.”
Frank Fernandez, vice president
for academic affairs, Crystal
Banasiak, vice president for student
services, Ben Bushnell, executive
vice president, Forrest Poindexter,
AS president, and Jody Wymar, stu¬
dent trustee, will serve on the com¬
mittee.
Catherine Hazelton, coordinator
See FIVE APPOINTED, page 6.
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