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PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VOL. 77 No. 3
COURIER
THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 9, 1993
Serving the PCC Community for 75 years
State spares college from budget cuts
PCC BUDGET AT A
GLANCE
®>The state decreased PCC’s budget by
one percent.
^The college has to cut approximately
$595,000 from this year’s budget.
m> Non-replacement of retired faculty and
cuts in utility costs helped balance the
budget.
□ Officials say
college fared well in
Sacramento. No
layoffs are foreseen.
By RODNEY MITCHELL
Associate Editor
Even though the college received
one percent less state funding than
last year, there will not be any no¬
ticeable impact on students and staff
this year said James Kossler, assis¬
tant superintendent of administra¬
tive services.
“We are OK as a district. The
faculty does not have to worry about
layoffs and students do not have to
worry about cutbacks in services.”
Kossler reported a two percent re¬
duction in classes offered in the fall,
but said these classes wi 11 be restored
later on in the semester with late
starting classes.
Nevertheless, major adjustments
had to be made to compensate for the
one percent reduction in funding.
For instance, instructors who retired
were not replaced with new instruc¬
tors. The state requires that 75 per¬
cent of all faculty be full-timeand 25
percent part-time. PCC is well over
the 75 percent mark and meets the
state requirements without hiring
more instructors. The savings from
not hiring additional instructors al¬
lowed the college to balance the
budget, according to Kossler. The
college also saved in the cost of
utilities by replacing lamps with more
energy efficient ones. The Si mate¬
rials fee wh ich was implemented last
spring will also help to cover the
decrease in funding. However the
board of trustees discontinued the
fee for the spring semester, saying
that the col lege was in good financial
shape and did not need to charge the
students the fee.
Funds from a reserve account
were used to supply new equip¬
ment, Kossler said.
The new library will not create
any additional custodial cost. How¬
ever there will be some energy costs,
but not much since the library is
“really energy efficient, Kossler said.
The state also provides funds to
maintain newly constructed build¬
ings, so the library will not impact
the budget in any way.
The state Legislature gave money
to the community college system
instead of taking away funds. They
allocated money by shifting revenue
from the city and county to the col¬
leges. However, Kossler said the
figures were not concrete and the
cities and counties are fighting the
policy.
Jamming in the Quad
REGINA PARIS /THE COURIER
Students flocked to the 92.3 The Beat at noon Tuesday to take advantage of giveaways including buttons, music posters and T-shirts.
Fighting erupts
in C building;
student sought
By RODNEY MITCHELL
Associate Editor
A fight in the C building between
two students turned potentially
deadly when one student began to
hurl heavy objects at another stu¬
dent. The student throwing the ob¬
jects fled before campus police ar¬
rived.
Officers determined that the stu¬
dent throwing the objects was the
aggressor and said that he will be
arrested on sight and charged with
assault with a deadly weapon. The
victim only sustained minor injuries
in the incident.
The incident began over the week¬
end when the two students got into a
fight at one of the student’s homes.
The suspect threatened to finish the
fight at school, according to Steven
Lester of the campus police.
The suspect made good on his
promise to finish the fight when at
approximately 8:45 a.m. on Tues¬
day, the campus police responded to
a call reporting an incident involving
two male students. Witnesses re¬
ported that the suspect was chasing
Campus watch
the victim through the D building.
Both students were detained and
interviewed by campus police and
were given warnings that they would
be arrested if they continued fight¬
ing. Campus police said they ob¬
served the two students going their
separate ways.
However at approximately 9:15
a.m. campus police received another
call reporting a fight in the C build¬
ing. Officers identified the victim as
the same person interviewed earlier.
The victim was detained and brought
to the campus police office for ques¬
tioning.
Staff personnel who witnessed
the incident said the two men burst
into the admissions area running full
speed and turned the room into
shambles within seconds. Campus
Police have put out a statewide
warrant for the arrest of the suspect.
Professors say peace process
in Middle East needs support
□ Arab nations
should respond
positively to the
peace pitch being
worked out between
Israel and the PLO.
By ALFREDO SANTANA
Editor In Chief
The latest round of peace nego¬
tiations between the Israeli govern¬
ment and the Palestine Libcartion
Organization have prompted a
flurry of reactions over what impli¬
cations the plan would bring for
those involved directly and indi¬
rectly.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin has drummed up support from
some of his allies in the Parliament
in an effort to end a conflict be¬
tween his country and the PLO. To
do this, Israel has agreed to with¬
draw from the Gaza Strip and Jeri¬
cho territories.
But what is at stake for the
Israelies beyond giving up land and
officially recognizing an organiza¬
tion that prior to the tentative break¬
through had as a major goal to wip¬
ing the Jewish nation off the face
of the Earth? And what would it
mean for the PLO and its leader
Yasser Arafat to strike a peace
accord without the approval of its
long-time backers, the Arab nations
such as Syria, Damascus, and Jor¬
dan?
“First, they (Arabs and Israelis)
are really tired of fighting for so
long,” said Dr. Francis Nyong, his¬
tory professor at PCC. “I think their
mutual recognition will be a very
positive factor for development of
the whole Middle East region.”
He mentioned the murky politi¬
cal situation among them that began
with the Arab-Israeli War in 1967,
things will tend to improve if Israe¬
lis and Palestines alike fully recog¬
nize each other. To achieve this
goal , he said , the PLO people should
get a permanent piece of land
whereby they can establish a gov¬
ernment that would be recognized
also by Western countries. But con¬
servatives Israelis will pose stiff
opposition to the accord, thing that
would jeopardize the government
of Rabin, Nyong said.
Yet, Nyong added, if the peace
treaty is signed sometime this week,
support from the United States and
the rest of industrialized nations
must fully come to ensure a peace¬
ful settlement. But he condemned
the idea of the United States as the
financer of a possible Palestinian
government, given the poor shape
of the U.S. economy. He suggested
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Insurance Commissioner
to visit campus next week
□ John Garamendi, who is a possible
runner for governor to speak about “The
State of Insurance in California.”
By PAT ROBISON
Staff Writer
John Garamendi, state Insur¬
ance commissioner, will discuss
“The State of Insurance in Cali¬
fornia.” His presentation is part of
the social sciences Forum.
Garamendi, the stale’s first
elected insurance commissioner,
was asked to speak late last year.
This was before he and Kathleen
Brown, state treasurer, were be¬
ing mentioned as possible Demo¬
cratic candidates for the 1994 elec¬
tion for Governor of California.
Elected in 1991, he was faced
with the task of enforcement of
Proposition 1 03, the law that created
the impetus for the creation of the
office of insurance commissioner.
To accomplish this he has ordered
more than $2 billion in rebates, $290
million of which have been paid.
He also won in court the right to
scrap rate rollback standards issued
by his predecessor Roxani Gillispie,
who was appointed to the office, and
issue his own. A January 1 993 report
by consumer advocate Ralph Nader
and the National Consumers Organi¬
zation showed that Prop. 103 has
saved Californians $4 billion in pre-
John Garamendi
miums and the rate of premium
increases has gone from third fast¬
est to third slowest during
Garamendi ’s tenure.
Garamendi has also proposed
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