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KPCC BEAT
A Time of Change
Radio station, KPCC, shuffles positions following a recent budget short fall
By AIMEE RAMOS
Staff Writer
The board of trustees appointed a new
interim general manager for KPCC 89.3
FM following the removal of general
manager Rod Foster and assistant station
manager Larry Shirk. A $170,000 budget
shortfall was cited as the reason for the
management shake-up.
Cindy Young, a professional fund¬
raiser and public radio executive was
hired to fill Foster’s position.
“The catalyst for the reassignments
was the budget,” college president Dr.
James Kossler said. No programming
changes are planned as of yet. “We
don’t have a problem with programming
They’re obviously doing something
right, ’’Kossler said.
According to the Pasadena Star News,
Kossler said that about $100,000 of the
debt results from overspending on hourly
employees and fundraising efforts, while
$70,000 of the deficit was “under-real¬
ized revenue” or money projected but not
raised in fund-drives.
Foster was serving as associate dean
of learning resources with 25 percent of
his assignment allocated to the manage¬
ment of the station. He will continue to
serve in the dean’s position which
includes responsibility over multimedia
productions, electronic maintenance
departments, and the institution’s
Learning Assistance Center.
Because Shirk, according to Kossler,
shared a responsibility for the budget
deficit has been moved to a lateral posi¬
tion. He will be assigned to the purchas¬
ing department.
This was not the only budgetary prob¬
lem under Foster’s management. In
1994, a shortfall of $100,000 was credit¬
ed to an accounting error.
Although Foster declined to comment,
a statement was released outlining the
station’s achievements during his 13-year
tenure. Which included an increase in
listenership and members. Foster also
developed KPCC’s “Intelligent Talk” for¬
mat and oversaw the move of the station
to its technologically competitive facili¬
ties in the Media Center.
The station, with a signal that covers
the majority of southern California, is
considered one of the top 10 largest sta¬
tions of the National Public Radio net¬
work.
“Eventually the station is expected to
hire a full-time general manager who will
assume both positions held by Foster and
Shirk.
“That’s something that will require a
national search. In the meantime we
have chosen Young as the interim gener¬
al manager,” said Grover Goyne, dean of
external affairs and head of the PCC
Foundation.
Young worked with KPCC on the pro¬
duction of the syndicated live “Whatd’ Ya
Know” show. She also coordinated a
grant from NPR providing funds for
underwriting and marketing promotional
materials.
Young plans to concentrate on balanc¬
ing the budget and increasing revenues
for the station. Young also looks for¬
ward to continuing to raise KPCC’s
membership and fundraising after a first
quarter report proved them to be on both
to be on the rise.
Budget shortfalls were not the only
problems the station encountered under
Foster’s management. Students and
members of the telecommunication fac¬
ulty repeatedly complained that Foster's
priorities in terms of the station did not
align with the mission statement issued
by the board of trustees.
“The board’s mission has always been
to ensure the student’s ability to have
See KPCC, page 5
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station is expected
to hire a full-time
general manager
who will assume
both positions,”
Grover Goyne,
Interim General Manager
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their duties after a
budget deficit was
detected. Both are
reassigned to new
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Cindy Young is
general manager to
BACK TO SCHOOL
Parking Causes Problems
By TAMARIA McCAU.
Staff Writer
Starting a semester, which is hectic for
any student, can be made more stressful
when you add limited parking and on¬
going construction projects. Add to that,
the roughly 28,000 students who are
attending the college this semester, and it
dosen’t make life any easier.
Some students have circled the lots for
an hour and a half, trying to find open
parking spaces between 8 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. That’s the busiest time for parking,
because most students take morning class¬
es.
“Last year parking was a lot better,”
COURIER INVESTIGATION
Chris Escueta said of the situation.
“Students should arrive for their classes
no more than an hour ahead of time, rather
than hours early,” Louie Garcia campus
police cadet explained. This is one of the
reasons the lots get clogged. Many stu¬
dents park blocks away from the school,
because the lots are at full capacity.
“I paid for a parking permit, and I
haven’t had the chance to park on cam¬
pus,” Alan Bunao said. “ I take a risk of
getting a ticket by parking on the streets.”
The department of police and safety
conducted a student-per-space survey,
comparing PCC and 3 1 campuses in L. A.
County. PCC has the 4th highest full time
students to parking slots ratio in L.A.
County. For more on this story see the website
REBECCA OROZCO
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COURIER
The cafeteria was the scene of some serious congestion.
Getting helped at most campus services was hard to
come by during the first few weeks of the semester.
Bookstore’s Prices Are Actually Cheap
A 12-college
comparison
reveals that prices
on texts are lower
than at most local
two-year
institutions
By LUIS G. REYES
Staff Writer
Kenneth Chan, a soft spoken engineer¬
ing major in his first semester at the col¬
lege, is outspoken about the college’s
bookstore prices. “They’re a little bit
high,” he said.
“They’re expensive. The publishers
just renew editions to make money,” said
music major Lumi Achiriloaie.
Throughout campus, it is not hard to
find students with a similar ideas on book
prices: they just keep rising without any
reasonable explanation.
But a recent comparison with 12 Los
Angeles County community college
bookstores suggests that PCC texts are,
comparatively speaking, the cheapest.
The margin percentage was used for the
purpose of this comparison.
The margin is the average price sur¬
plus that is put on all books in order to
have sufficient funds for the store’s
freight (the cost of getting books from the
publisher’s warehouse or bindery),
employees salaries and benefits, opera¬
tions — including insurance, utilities,
building and equipment rent and maint-
nance — and income.
In the survey, Cypress, PCC and Rio
Hondo have margins of 25 percent.
Cerritos has a margin of 26 percent while
six colleges have percentages of 27. Long
Beach has the highest of them all at 28
percent.
There is a correlation between col¬
leges with high enrollment and lower
margins. In the case of Long Beach, a
school that has an enrollment of 24,500,
the margin is high due to off-campus
competitors and low financial support
from its district.
See BOOKS, page 4
POLICE LOG
Fear of Rape
Hits Campus
Suspect has yet to be identified,
police have few leads on the case
By FRED ORTEGA
Sta ff Writer
The specter of rape has made it’s presence felt at PCC
for the first time in four years. In a daring daylight attack
over the summer, a student was sexually assaulted on her
way to her vehicle near the intersection of Green Street
and Hill Avenue. Police have yet to find a suspect,
according to Pasadena police Detective Keith Jones.
According to a bulletin released by the campus police,
the incident occurred on July 10 at approximately 2 p.m.
While on her way to her vehicle parked near Green Street,
the student was accosted in front of the Pasadena Public
Library by an assailant wearing a. ski mask. The victim,
described as a Caucasian female, was forced at knifepoint
to the bushes behind the library. Jones would not com¬
ment on whether or not the woman was actually raped,
saying “certainly the intent was rape, so we are treating it
as a sexual assault.” The campus police bulletin, howev¬
er, states that .the victim was violated with the knife han¬
dle after telling her attacker she had a sexually transmitted
disease. She could only describe the suspect as possibly
Caucasian. )
Campus police Sgt. Vince Palermo said there have
been no new incidents reported on or near campus since
the July attack. Even so, the PCC Police are not taking
any chances. “With the construction going on, we’ve put
in an additional 10 cadets in the area,” said Palermo, who
See RAPE, page 4
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