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The newly renovated L Building has been heavily used since its opening during the summer.
The Master Plan Continues
E-mail Available to Students
By JULIE DRAKE
Courier Staff Writer
Are you the only one on your
block without a computer? Do you
feel left out of the cyberspace world?
Does mailing a letter to you mean
poking a few hastily written pages in
an envelope, sticking a stamp on the
upper-right-hand corner and send¬
ing it off, via snail mail?
Well, if you don’t have a com¬
puter, and you routinely mail a letter
off to a friend using the United States
Postal Service, PCC can help propel
you into the computer revolution. In
case you did not know, there are
computer labs on campus where,
armed with the computer ID card
you picked up in D Building, you
will be able to access the student
network for, among other things,
word processing programs like Mi¬
crosoft Word, Word Perfect and e-
mail.
Yes, e-mail. Starting this semes¬
ter, students can send cyber mail to
each other and their professors.
Should you need to be excused from
class someday, you’ll be able to pro¬
vide the details in an e-mail note.
Currently, there is one lab available
in D113. Although D Building is
being renovated, students can access
the computer lab, which houses about
30 computers. The remaining two
labs will open upon completion of
the construction.
At the bottom of the computer
card issued to all registered students
is a seven character e-mail address to
give out to your friends or instruc¬
tors. Accessing e-mail is not a prob¬
lem, since once you are logged on to
the campus network, you need only
to scroll down the menu to e-mail to
retrieve your mail.
The menu also includes an e-mail
documentation selection that will
answer any questions you might have
about the new feature.
“ I consider it well worth it to sit
and take a few minutes to read about
it,” said Hollis Stewart, computer
center technician.
“The good thing is that we have e-
Please see E-MAIL, page 7
■ The $100 million
plan is nearing its
completion.
By SCOTT BODE
Courier Staff Writer
Many of us have seen the con¬
struction going on here at school.
Some have been inconvenienced
or annoyed by it. But it is all part
of a Master plan that is unfolding
on campus.
Some buildings will be demol¬
ished to make way for modern
facilities. In other cases land¬
scaping and some familiar land¬
marks will be changed to give the
college a fresh look and make life
on campus more enjoyable.
The Master Plan, also known
as the $ 100-Million Plan, was
begun in 1 988 and, in the words of
Dr. Rodney Fleeman, vice presi¬
dent of administrative services,
is ‘ ‘one of the best things to hap¬
pen at PCC. It let everyone know
what our true needs were.”
With the completion of the
physical education facility, the
sculpture garden, landscaping
around the college, along with
some remodeling projects, the plan
will be complete.
The work that is currently being
done at Horrell Field is asbestos
removal. Recommendations for the
bids to build the new field will go to
the board of trustees on Sept. 1 7, and
if all goes well, construction should
start in the first part of October.
Completion of the new facility will
take about two years.
Upcoming projects include demo¬
lition of the stadium and the 64-year-
old Men’s Gym. The football field
will be changed from running north/
south to east/west, thus eliminating
the Sierra Bonita entrance to the
college.
The new facility will be a two
story structure and will be situated
on the north side of the field. On the
ground level there will be men’ s and
women’s showers and locker rooms.
Equipment storage and a sports medi¬
cine facility will also be included.
The upper level will consist of a
gymnasium, weight room and public
restrooms. The gymnasium will in¬
clude three basketball courts and
spectator seating. The total facility
floor space will be approximately
65,000 square feet.
“The goal is to have our first
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home game in the fall of 1999,”
Fleeman said.
The sculpture garden is the other
major construction project under¬
way on campus. It will be situated
south of E Building and between
the R Building and C Building and
will run down just past
К
Building.
It will contain a plaza area and a 1 50
seat amphitheater. Its gentle rolling
lawns and winding pathways will
provide a serene transition from the
parking area to the college.
The original plan was to have
construction start before the fall se¬
mester. However, the school had
only $1.3 million to spend on the
garden. The lowest bid the board or
trustees received was $2.1 million.
After consulting with estimators
and architects, it was determined
that if the school served as its own
contractor, and sub-contracted for
electrical, concrete, and demolition
work, the project will be able to fit
within the original budget. Pending
board of trustees approval, construc¬
tion should begin in the middle part
of October and will take about one
year to complete.
Other ongoing projects include
the seismic renovation of D build¬
ing. As soon as that is done, the
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Asbestos was removed from the stadium earlierthis semester.
remodeling of C Building will be¬
gin. The first floor classrooms will
be gutted. The classrooms that are
currently meeting in
В
Building will
be relocated into the newly rebuilt
rooms. These include telecommuni¬
cations, journalism and forensics
classes.
On the second floor, the empty
offices left by those departments that
moved to the L Building will be
filled by the accounting, purchasing
and human resources depart¬
ments.
When the relocation of those
departments is complete, the A
and
В
Buildings will be torn
down. These buildings have been
considered “temporary” since
1 947. This will make room for a
new 50-meter swimming pool.
The present swimming pool lo¬
cation will become a new main-
Please see PLAN, page 7
This year’s Associated Students
budget has reached the $93 ,000 mark,
$3000 higher than last year, accord¬
ing to preliminary figures released
by the AS board.
“The larger budget has been a
result of increased revenue from cam¬
pus vending machines, food services
and bookstore sales, ’ ’ said President
Aaron Schaefer.
The board approved a prelimi¬
nary budget proposal on June 28, and
the final version was agreed upon on
Aug. 8. Schaefer said that the board
has complete control in deciding
how the money is going to be spent.
They make decisions with the help
of advisers Steven Johnson, assis¬
tant dean of student affairs, and Re¬
becca Cobb, the student affairs ad¬
viser.
Schaefer said that the changes
between this year and last year’s
budgets are not radically different.
For example, the board is planning a
special election in order to create a
new Constitution, so the election
budget is a little higher than last
year.
Additions to the budget include
the new AS newsletter and an athlet¬
ic support fund, which will provide
financial assistance to various sports
programs. Other aspects of the bud¬
get were reduced, including the AS
secretary’s salary. “Last year’s sec¬
retary was getting paid $8 an hour,
which we thought was a little too
much,” said Schaefer. “This year,
we didn’t want to pay the secretary
minimum wage, so we set the salary
at $6 an hour.”
As for the AS board’s commit¬
ment to improving communication
between students and faculty,
? "hacfer emphasized the AS news¬
letter. The board printed 1000 cop¬
ies of the eight-page publication,
which contains information about
campus events and organizations.
Subsequent issues will not be as big,
said Schaefer, ‘ ‘but just as informa¬
tive. ’ ’
According to Schaefer, an ath¬
letic support fund is also intended to
improve communication among stu¬
dents.
“In the past, people in athletics
have been confined to their side of
campus, like the stadium, while stu¬
dent government has had the Quad.
By providing them with funding and
publicity in the newsletter, I believe
that students will realize that PCC
Please see BUDGET, page 2
Earlier this
semesterthe
internet
service
provider
was on
campus
offering
affordable
accounts.
Earthlink is
also offering
e-mail to
students.
The
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THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 11, 1997
Since
1915
Trustees Agree to Settle with Instructors
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VOL. 83, NO. 3
Associated
Students
Budget
Increases
■ Increased revenue
from campus services
cited as the reason for
the increase.
By FRED ORTEGA
Courier Staff Writer
By SID SARAF
Courier Staff Writer
Three African American physi¬
cal education professors received
$40,000 each in an out-of-court set¬
tlement of their racial discrimina¬
tion lawsuit.
The settlement amount was re¬
leased by the board of trustees last
week.
The lawsuit stemmed from
charges filed against the Pasadena
Area Community College by instruc¬
tors Jessie Moore, Catrelia R. Magee-
Barker, and Grace Apiafi on Oct. 17,
1995, which claimed that they had
been discriminated against due to
their race.
Also named in the lawsuit, in ad¬
dition to the college, was former
president Dr. Jack Scott and former
physical education dean Merritt
“Ernie” Romine. The various charg¬
es set forth by the employees ranged
from being unfairly moved from of¬
fices to a lack of equal Xerox ma¬
chine privileges.
Romine stepped down from his
position soon after the three instruc¬
tors filed a discrimination charge
with the California Department of
Fair Employment and Housing in
1995.
“What we had was a really inter¬
esting legal problem,” said college
president Dr. James Kossler.
Although the college settled out
of court with the employees, part of
the agreement included that the in¬
stitution would admit no guilt on any
of the charges levied by the three
instructors.
In addition, the employees’ attor¬
neys as well as the Pasadena Supe¬
rior Court had been trying to keep the
information regardingthe settlement
from being made public.
To ensure this, the Court main¬
tained that if PCC should make this
information public, a $10,000 fine
would be handed down.
Following the court order, the
board did not make any announce¬
ment about the settlement.
However Richard McKee, a pro¬
fessor of chemistry, filed a public
records request on Aug. 12 and sub¬
sequently a demand for cure and
correction under the Brown Act the
next day. According to McKee, the
college was in violation of the Brown
Act because the board of trustees
discussed something privately that
should have been talked about dur¬
ing open session.
According to Kossler, the college
re-examined the situation and de¬
cided to make the information pub¬
lic on the grounds that once a settle¬
ment is final, and the board accepts
it, the college must report the case in
open session.
“A public agency can’t really
enter into a confidential agreement,
even if everybody thought it was a
wonderful idea,” remarked Kossler .
Since the information regarding
the settlement was brought out, no
Please see SETTLEMENT, page 5
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