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PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VOL. 77 No. 4
™E COURIER
THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 1 6, 1993
Serving the PCC Community for 75 ye a r s
Materials fee
discontinued
for spring’94
□In a 4-2 vote the colleges trustees reverse a
$1 surcharge. An improved picture in the
college economy prompts the decision.
By ALFREDO SANTANA
Editor in Chief
The board of trustees, by a vote
of 4 to 2, dropped the SI materials
fee, which was tacked on to the S 1 3
per unit tuition this fall.
Various factors contributed to
discontinue the fee, which provided
the college with about $150,000 in
additional revenue.
Among them were minimal bud¬
get cutbacks from the stale
goverment, and a jump from S10 to
SI 3 a unit tuition fee that began this
semester, said Joseph Sargis, board
of trustees president.
“It looked like we had to have that
money, but we promised our stu¬
dents that if we didn’t have to charge
that fee, we wouldn’t,” Sargis said.
“It was a promise to our students we
kept.”
By repealing the fee, the college
reversed a plan adopted last March
3, when members voted in the fee to
help close a projected S650,000 bud¬
get gap between revenues and actual
expenditures.
The measure also wiped out the
S3 fee posted to non-credit unit
courses. The trustees vowed to never
bring the materials supplies fee back
again.
Once board members learned the
state Legislature was going to shift
resources from the cities and coun¬
ties to the two-year schools, they
considered eliminating the materials
fee.
The decision to phase out the fee
came about after the seven-member
panel was informed about the state’s
action by Dr.James Kossler, assis¬
tant superintendent of administra¬
tive services, when he unveiled a
tentative S60 million general budget
for the 1993-94 fiscal year.
Kossler said the trustees were re¬
luctant to impose the fee in March 3,
but after they found the college was
about to be drastically hit by budget
cutbacks, they didn ’t have too many
options. That’s when they opted to
implement the fee.
“The Board wanted us then to
look at different possible ways to
guarantee money before charging
more to the students,” Kossler said.
“The Board should gel credit for
being sensi live to the students’ needs
now that the college appears to be in
reasonable financial shape. We’ll
take their direction and follow what
they say.”
Student representatives praised
the board’s move.
“It was a good thing that the trust¬
ees decided to look out for the stu¬
dents and to change the fee,” said
John Robinson, student trustee. “Stu¬
dents shouldn’t have to pick up the
tab for the colleges ’s financial situ¬
ation. The move shows the trustees
and the administration are listening
to the students’ concerns.”
Robinson had assailed the fee
implementation last semester.
Students need to realize that not
all fees have been eliminated. Some
classes use materials that are so ex¬
pensive that thecollegehas toassess
fees.
The state has allowed the com¬
munity college districts to imple¬
ment materials or health fees in
order to raise revenue when they
need it.
John Garamendi addresses students last Monday about topics concerning national health care reform and insurance companies.
Garamendi focuses on health care
By JULIE A. GRAINGER
Staff Writer
John Garamendi encouraged
people to attend the publ ic pol icy
debates on insurance changes as
President Bill Clinton pitches his
health care plan to a joint session
of Congress this week.
He called the upcoming hear¬
ing the most important public
policy debates since social secu¬
rity was discussed in 1934. “You
have a chance to be a part of
them,” he told at a lecture last
Monday at the Forum.
Garamendi said the national
plan should be modeled after his
proposed plan for California.
People from the Pasadena
community and students alike
came to get a good look at the
state insurance commisioner,
amid rumors that he may run for
governor in 1994.
Garamendi began his speech by
asking the audience a question.
“How many of you are required
to be here?” Some students raised
their hands. He then muttered about
his ego, and the audience roared with
laughter.
The rapport in the forum was set.
Garamendi began to delve into Cali¬
fornia health insurance issues. “We
have an absolutely screwed up sys¬
tem of health care policy,” he said.
And using an old Ross Perot line
Garamendi said, “Can we agree
we’ve got a problem here?”
Garamendi then said he believes
a national health care policy could
consolidate worker’s compensation,
Mcdi-carc, liability, and portions of
other insurance into one, thus sav ing
state businesses billions of dollars
and making it more attractive to do
business in California.
“I see health care shifting from
acute care to preventative care,”
said Garamendi. To further cement
his position he gave the figures that
SI in S7 now goes to health care costs
in California. If the system remains
unchanged, the amount will rise to SI
in $5 by the year 2000. “We have to
do something.” said Garamendi.
“That would stall our economy.”
In the new plan, health care will
be available to every American, and
legal resident. He then went on to
explain how the system would work.
The money would go collec¬
tively into a co-op. The coverage
then would be contracted out to dif-
ferent companies such as Blue Cross,
Pacific Care, or another of several
companies.
Each person would be able to
choose the doctor or plan that they
want to be under. For example, a
mother may choose to put her son
under Kaiser and her daughter under
Pacific Care. There would be a
complete freedom of choice, he
said.
A person would no longer be
locked into insurance offered by
an employer. After losing a job,
or changing a job, a person would
be able to retain the same health
insurance coverage.
With the system, Garamendi
said fraudulent claims would be
significantly reduced. The in¬
centive under the current plan is
clear. When a worker files a
worker’s compensation claim , the
worker eventually receives a
“cash out.”
That amount of money is set in
exchange for a waiver of liabil¬
ity. There will be no more “cash
out” settlements. Garamendi jok¬
ingly referred to the current in¬
surance system as “the California
lottery.”
When I became insurance
Please see GARAMENDI, Page 4
Drug charges are
filed against social
sciences professor
□ Dan Tiberi, psychology professor, has
been released after posting $50,000 bond.
He is accused of cultivating marijuana.
City and college to begin
sale of parking permits
By PAT ROBINSON
Staff Writer
Daniel Tiberi, assistant professor
of social sciences, has been placed
onadministrative leave after Arcadia
police officers arrested him on Aug.
30, for allegedly growing and pos¬
sessing marijuana with intent to sell
it.
Tiberi, 43, will be arraigned on
Sept. 23 because the original date
had to be changed. Tiberi is free on
550,000 bond.
Arcadia police Lt. Rudy Blum
said that 1 0 plants, eight- feet tall that
looked “like Christmas trees,” were
taken from his home. A story pub¬
lished in the Pasadena Star News
quoted other police sources who es¬
timated the value of the marijuana at
SI 28,000.
Tiberi, commenting on that ar¬
ticle, said the news story “was grossly
exaggerated.” He declined to say
what was exaggerated on the advice
of his attorney.
Mark Wallace, director of public
relations, said that according to sec¬
tion 87732 of the California Educa¬
tion Code, Tiberi has the option of
posting a S59.000 bond with the
college in order to retain his pay
during his absence.
The bond would be returned if he
is found innocent or the charges are
dropped. If he is convicted, the col-
Dan Tiberi
Allegedly cultivated
marijuana.
lege keeps the bond. Tiberi said,
however, that he could not afford
that bond.
Tiberi’s lawyer Richard Tyson
was out of town and could not be
reached for comment.
Tiberi has been an instructor at
PCC since 1976. He received a
bachelor’s degree from Cal Poly
Pomona and a master’s degree in
psychology from Cal State Los An¬
geles. He has been known as one of
the most outspoken social sciences
professors on issues concerning bar¬
gaining matters between the admin¬
istration and faculty members.
By ANDREW McDIARMID
Staff Writer
New zoning for street parking
that was supposed to go into ef¬
fect yesterday in the residential
areas around the college, will
affect the way students can park
off campus. A specific numberof
permits are yet to be released by
the city to PCC forparking within
the zoned areas.
The advantage to the “on¬
street” parking permit for stu¬
dents and for a residents would
be a guaranteed space. For a resi¬
dential street to become a “per¬
mit zone ,” two-thirds of the resi¬
dents must request the move.
Once this iseslabiished, the park¬
ing spaces on the street will be
counted, and that will determine
how many permits will be re¬
leased. Half of the permits will
be distributed to the residents, and
the other half to the college for sale
to students. The numbers of spaces
could be 1 50 to 200 spaces depend¬
ing on the residents’ requests.
Scrap Dcr-Boghossian, Pasadena
transportation manager, has been
working on this project for the city.
“The permits will hopefully be
released to the college by the end of
this week, or the beginning of next
week. The zoning was my idea. The
concept that a community will work
with a college in a parking situation
is generally unheard of. UCLA and
USC both have residential parking
zones around their campuses. We
are giving PCC time to find new
ways to take care of the parking
needs of their students without com¬
pletely shutting them out of thearea,”
Der-Boghossian said. “Der-
Boghossian is someone I cannot trust
he says one thing, and turns around
to do and say another. My discontent
with his work on this project is not
something I hide. It is typically a
situation where comparisons to
other colleges such as UCLA and
USC are completely unrealistic,”
Robinson said.
Robinson added that the situa¬
tion around PCC cannot be com¬
pared to any other. “Plans have to
be implemented. Rules need to be
established and the issue of distri¬
bution needs to be addressed.
“There’s no way to get some¬
thing beneficial for the commu¬
nity and the college created, with
such deadlock in the communica¬
tion between PCC and the city,”
Robinson added.
However in one year, “this
area will become residential park-
ing like other areas,” Der
Boghossian said.
In a regular meeting of the
PCC administration, Sept. 1, the
Please see PARKING, Page 6
