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E-Mail Protection Policy
in the Works for Campus
■ Faculty Senate is set
to develop a policy to
protect electronic
messages.
By DANIEL ARCHULETA
Courier Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate has been ad¬
vised to develop a policy to protect
the privacy of campus e-mail and
voice mail to ensure that electronic
messages are to remain free from
intrusion.
“We have to develop a policy that
will protect our privacy rights,” Ed
Ortell the college's California
Teacher’s Association representa¬
tive, said during the senate meeting
last week. “This is a technology area
that is developing very rapidly and
it’s upon us. It requires us to act on
this situation,” he added.
The decision to create the policy
comes after an incident that occurred
last semester. Two college employ¬
ees were forced by the district to turn
over copies of stored e-mail at the
request of the human resources of¬
fice. The district stated that it had
the right to obtain the information
and further stated that it had the right
to monitor stored voice mail as well.
“What they‘re really doing is es¬
sentially wire tapping without you
knowing it,” Ortell said of the
district’s actions.
Susan Talbot, president of the
classified employee union, ap¬
proached the senate last May, urge
the board to consider taking action
on creating an e-mail protection
policy. The board agreed to refer the
matter to the college coordinating
council. What the committee agrees
upon will go on to a shared gover¬
nance committee, which has stu¬
dents involved. Ortell’ s comments
just served to remind members to
continue with the process.
Although the committee has yet
to take action, Ortell said that is only
because the committee didn’t meet
during the summer and is just now
getting back to settling the issue.
Considering that there are no laws
that govern e-mail, the
СТА
claims
this area is protected by the Fourth
Amendment, which provides pro¬
tection against governmental inva¬
sions of privacy. More specifically,
the organization states that the Ar¬
ticle 1, Section 1 of the California
State Constitution grants privacy
from such invasions.
Ortell also used the case of John
Andrews, aprovost atRiverside Com¬
munity College, to illustrate his point.
Andrews was found to have porno¬
graphic e-mail on his computer’s
hard drive. He said that he received
the unsolicited transmissions but
deleted them. Andrews is on admin¬
istrative leave pending the results of
an inquiry.
Joyce Black, vice president of
instruction, who was familiar with
the Andrews incident, said that if the
files were on his hard drive he had to
have saved them onto it. “He couldn’t
have deleted it; he saved all of that.
To have those documents, you had to
have saved them,” she said.
Local e-mail service provider,
Tony Secaduto disagreed with
Please see PRIVACY, page 4
MICHELLE GOODRICH
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THE COURIER
The new lot adds 1 31 additional parking spaces to the college.
Parking
Gets
Easier
■ The lot was added
because some spaces
were eliminated as a
result of
construction.
By LISA MENCHACA
Courier Staff Writer
A new parking lot has been
opened this semester on the cor¬
ner of Green Street and Holliston
Avenue, one block west of cam¬
pus.
The new 131 space lot was
built to alleviate some of the
college’s parking congestion by
creating more available spots.
To park there, students must
have a semester or daily parking
permit. However, there are no
daily permit dispensers on the lot
at this time. The recent UPS
strike has delayed the delivery of
the stands.
“We have the ticket dispens¬
ers: we’re just waiting forthe stands,”
campus police Sgt. Vince Palermo
said.
Because there is a cadet or officer
patrolling the lot from 6:30 a.m. to
10:30p.m., students who wish to use
the daily permits must purchase one
from a dispenser located in one of
the other parking lots situated around
campus.
The new lot will compensate for
the loss of one row of parking spaces
located in Lot 5.
“The parking spaces were elimi¬
nated due to the upcoming construc¬
tion of a sculpture garden,” said Dr.
Rod Fleeman, vice president of ad¬
ministrative services.
Because only one row of park¬
ing will be eliminated and the
new lot offers 131 spaces, “the
students have more spaces than
they would have had,” Fleeman
added.
Prior to the opening of the new
lot, the property was home to a
Lincoln Mercury auto dealership.
The property was bought by
the H.N. and Frances C. Berger
Foundation, which has previously
assisted the college with the Child
Development Center, Fleeman
said. The property was leased to
the college on a long-term basis.
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State Legislature Announces
Sweeping Fee Reductions
■ Due to increases in
the cost of education,
the state has agreed to
offer tax cuts along
with reduced fees.
By JULIE DRAKE
Courier Staff Writer
PCC students who need help pay¬
ing for their education received some
good news over the weekend. The
California state legislature approved
a massive $931 million tax cut last
week in a marathon session that
stretched well into daybreak. While
most of the tax cuts mean more to
parents thanto students directly, there
is something for students in the leg¬
islation passed last week.
As reported in the Los Angeles
Times, thetax-cutpackagethatpassed
includes a bill sponsored by Assem¬
blywoman Denise Ducheny (D-San
Diego) and Sen. Jim Brulte (R-
Rancho Cucamonga). The provi¬
sion grants a $ 1 -per-unit decease in
tuition fees at community colleges.
This bill also allows for a 5 percent
cut in tuition at California State
University and the University of
California campuses. Finally, there
will be a two-year freeze on fees as
well.
This reduction, according to the
Times, translates into an additional
$52 million in the bank starting next
fall for students and parents. So, for
students currently enrolled in a com¬
munity college, news like this sug¬
gests fewer loans may be needed in
order to advance to a bachelors de¬
gree.
The cost of higher education has
increased much faster than inflation
in this decade. According to figures
released in California Trends in Stu¬
dent Aid, 1990-1996, fees rose 97
percent at the University of Califor¬
nia, 80 percent at California State
University and 198 percent at com¬
munity colleges. Total aid to stu¬
dents throughout the state was $4.6
billion. For the first time in a long
while, the cost of a higher public
education in the state will drop.
However, the good news about
lower fees and fee freezes will mean
more students looking toward com¬
pleting their education in California
's system of public colleges and uni¬
versities.
PCC offers various means of get¬
ting the money students need to com¬
plete an A A or AS . A grant is prima¬
rily a gift of money and does not
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Valuables Stolen During Game
By YUSEF ROBB
Courier Staff Writer
A burglary of the locker room
used by the visiting PCC football
team at Chaffey College marred the
Lancers’ 36-33 victory on Saturday.
Most PCC players had money
stolen, said PCC head coach Tom
Maher.
PCC athletic director Skip
Robinson said that jewelry was also
stolen.
Chaffey’s locker room was also
burglarized. Each team will submit a
comprehensive list of missing items
to Chaffey’s campus police this
week.
Chaffey police Sgt. David
Ramirez said that the locker rooms
are normally unattended during
games, but are kept locked.
“We locked the doors,” Maher
said. According to the police report,
the locker room doors were “pried
open.”
Poor game management on the
part of Chaffey contributed to the
burglary, Maher said. “ They did not
do a good job securing the locker
rooms,” he added.
Maher also said that the incident
affected PCC’s play after the team
discovered the burglary. The inci¬
dent was all the team wanted to talk
about during half time, Maher said.
He said that with PCC leading the
game 29-16 at the half, the players
were not thinking about the game
but about the theft. He said that the
incident was a large part of why the
game was so close.
“The game was going to be a
rout,” Maher said. “The theft de¬
stroyed the team.”
Campus Sculpture Garden Plan Taking Shape
PHOTO COURTESY ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
The college will act as general contractor on the garden project.
■ The college will
serve as general
contractor on the $1.3
million project.
BY DON WEBERG
Courier Staff Writer
The long awaited Sculpture Gar¬
den may begin to take shape in mid-
October, according to Dr. Rodney
Fleeman, vice president of adminis¬
trative services.
The budgeted $1.3 million project
was bid out to several contractors,
however the lowest bid came in at
$2.1 million.
Now, the college plans to act as
the general contractor for a major
part of this task and hire out sub¬
contractors forthe various items such
as electrical, demolition, concrete
and other components.
“By reducing the scope of the
project, and by serving as the general
contractor ourselves, we believe that
we can build the project for the $ 1 . 3
million,” said Fleeman.
The money needed for this project
was raised by the college founda¬
tion, which was formed to raise funds
for the college when necessary. The
foundation seeks donations from pri¬
vate individuals as well as other cor¬
porations, andthroughit, money was
raised for the construction of the
Sculpture Garden.
The foundation has raised
$600,000 for this project, the re¬
mainder of which will come out of
the college’s general fund, accord¬
ing to Dr. Grover Goyne, dean of
external relations. Fleeman said the
foundation has received singular
contributions of as much as $50,000.
The redesigned piece of PCC real
estate will be situated at the back of
the Shatford Library, between the U
and C Buildings and run on a
southbound strip to just past the end
of the
К
Building, where the music
department is located.
This means the project will be
taking over the current faculty park¬
ing lot and part of the student parking
lot at the comer of Bonnie Avenue
and Del Mar Boulevard.
However, Fleeman said that the
plan is for the new 131 space lot on
Green Street to make up for the
spaces that will be lost to the new
garden. Also, Goyne said that when
the new football field and PE build¬
ing are completed, there is a plan to
re-stripe the present parking lot to
make more room for parking.
Another concern was the noise
and inconvenience associated with a
project of this magnitude.
“We don’t want to disrupt the
instructional programs, but it’s go¬
ing to be impossible not to,” said
Fleeman. “We’re going to try the
best we can to minimize the noise
and the dust or any other things that
are associated with constmction
work.”
Various forms of tree and plant
life will inhabit the area and a stream,
mnning nearly the entire length of
the garden, will originate at the
north end from a pool within a cir¬
cular plaza and flow south, comple¬
menting the surroundings.
“It’s really a work of sculpture in
itself, and then we can gradually
add pieces to it,” said Goyne.
Other features include an amphi¬
theater adjacentthe VBuilding, with
seating for 150 people. A white
gravelpath will wind its way through
the garden, taking people on a se¬
rene journey through the length of
the shady area. According to Linda
Malm, art division dean, there will
also be a portable illumination sys¬
tem to lightthe works of art. Fleeman
says that the construction should take
nine months to a year to complete,
and will begin at the north end of the
allotted area, near the library, and
works its way south towards Del Mar
Boulevard.
“I know that we have the exper¬
tise and the personnel that we can do
this,” commented Fleeman.
Many artists met to discuss a plan
for what the garden should look like,
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