VOLUME 110 ISSUE 9
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October 23, 2014
COURIER
EDITORIAL
Labor dispute only
hurts students
The independent student voice
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Senate leaders decry hiring estimates
Ryan Kevin/Courier
Academic Senate Vice President Kris Pilon (left), President Eduardo Cairo (center) and Secretary
Pat Rose at their regular meeting in the Circadian held on Monday.
Executive committee
to work minimum
hours in response to
full-time hiring
estimate
Daniel Johnson
News Editor
Academic Senate president
Eduardo Cairo announced that
the senate executive committee
would work only the minimum
number of required hours in
response to interim president
Robert Miller’s estimates of
full-time faculty hiring needs that
Cairo said merely attempt to meet
state minimums.
Cairo urged faculty to follow
suit, recommending that they
conduct their classes, office hours,
and the mandatory five and a half
hours of professional develop¬
ment time (also known as release
time) per week and nothing more.
“We’re not going to be over¬
worked anymore,” said Cairo
following the meeting. ‘If the
college is fine with putting up
the minimum number of faculty,
if that’s what they think is good
enough for this college, then the
faculty will be good enough with
putting in the minimum amount
of time.”
Miller took a conciliatory tone
when reacting to Cairo’s proposal.
“I understand that president
Cairo is frustrated,” said Miller.
“I know they are working beyond
their release time hours, and I
appreciate that.”
“I can’t dictate what he or
other individuals decide to do,”
he added. “What I will try to do
is improve the
overall atmo¬
sphere for [all
faculty] so that
they are that
much more
encouraged to
go the extra
mile for their
students.”
The figure known as the full¬
time faculty obligation number
(FFON) is at the heart of the
dispute.
It is determined by what Miller
described as a very complex math¬
ematical formula. He welcomed
any faculty member to examine
it with associate vice president
for strategic planning Dr. Ryan
Comner.
“I invite any
faculty member
who wants
to look at the
FFON to sit
down with Dr.
Cornner and
try to work it
out,” said Miller. “Absolutely no
problem at all.”
The number is reached through
certain calculations of full-time
student enrollments.
While Miller has publically
discussed the FFON with the
Academic Senate, he has not
indicated the number of full-time
faculty the school will hire.
That recommendation comes
from the Faculty Hiring Priority
Committee, which is chaired by
Cairo.
The committee has not received
hiring requests from all depart¬
ments yet, and is unable to name a
specific figure.
However, a document obtained
by the Courier indicated that 27
new hires were being asked for,
with some departments yet to
weigh in.
Of these, 22 are replacing out-
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"If the college is fine with
putting up the minimum
number of faculty.. .the fac¬
ulty will be good enough
with putting in the mini¬
mum amount of time."
-Eduardo Cairo
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PGC
student
killed in car
crash
Daniel Johnson and
Matthew Kiewiet
Staff Writers
A PCC freshman was killed in
a single car accident around 8 p.m.
Tuesday night.
David J. Echauri, 18, died after
his car struck a light pole, guardrail,
and freeway sign before rolling over
on the westbound 134 freeway near
the 2 freeway, according to a report
by the Glendale News-Press.
The report states that he was
not wearing a seatbelt and was
ejected from the vehicle. He was
pronounced dead at the scene of
the accident.
Echauri was a registered nursing
major who had attended Arca¬
dia High School, according to a
statement from interim president
Robert Miller’s office.
Crystal Kollross, who taught
Echauri in her first-year orientation
class, remembered him as a dedi¬
cated young man.
‘Tt is a huge tragedy,” she said.
“He was a very nice young man
that everyone got along with. He
was going places.”
Echauri is the second PCC stu¬
dent involved in a fatal car accident
in just over a month, following the
death of April Townsend on Sept.
12 in Santa Clarita.
School’s princesses not chosen as 2015 Rose Queen
Keely Ernst/Courier
PCC students Veronica Sara Mejia, i 9, (left) and Mackenzie
Joy Byers, 18, stand with 97th Rose Court Queen Madison
Elaine Triplett, 17, at a ceremony on Tuesday night at the Pasa¬
dena Civic Auditorium.
Monique LeBleu
Staff Writer
Full stomachs and comfort¬
able clothes were first priority
for both Rose Court Princesses
from Pasadena City College, Ve¬
ronica Sara Mejia and Mackenzie
Joy Byers, after welcoming their
new Rose Queen on Wednesday
night.
“’Are you hungry?,”’ laughs
Mejia, on the first words from
her parents and family following
the ceremony. She and her fami¬
ly went to Panda Inn.
“I took off my shoes, I got in
nice PJs and I ate In-N-Out!,”
Byers said. “It was a very re-
lieved moment.”
Madison Elaine Triplett, 17,
of Altadena, was crowned the
97th Rose Queen for the 2015
Pasadena Tournament of Roses
at the Pasadena Civic Auditori¬
um Plaza amongst hundreds of
family, friends, and Rose Parade
fans on Tuesday.
Triplett, the daughter of Reg¬
gie and Jouslynn Triplett, attends
John Marshall Fundamental
High School. An active partic¬
ipant in student government
at Marshall, the Pasadena City
Youth Council, and the Black
Student Union, she spoke de¬
cisively and clearly on her wish
to create a nonprofit to educate
minorities on financial literacy.
Triplett, Byers, and Mejia
graced the stage with Princesses
Gabrielle Ann Current, 1 8, of
Flintridge Sacred Heart Acade¬
my, Bergen Louise Onufer, 17,
of Mayfield Senior School, Si¬
mona K. Shao, 17, of Westridge
School, and Emily Alicia Olivas
Stoker, 1 7, of Temple City High
School.
Once announced by Pasadena
Tournament of Roses President
Richard Chinen, the new Rose
Queen and her Court were
escorted offstage to prepare and
change, while a brief video was
shown featuring the process of
choosing the seven members of
the royal court out of over 700
Pasadena-area applicants.
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