Training for the big shake Annual statewide shakeout follows a seven-day severe earthquake warning BY ALDO LUJAN STAFF WRITER
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Citrus College, a campus that rests right on top of the Sierra Madre Fault line, is a registered participant in the ninth annual Great California Shakeout. The drill will take place at 10:20 a.m. on Oct. 20. Since 2008, the statewide shakeout has promoted earthquake preparedness and emergency planning. The shakeout is held every year in hopes of informing as much people as possible of the proper steps that should be taken when an earthquake strikes. As of Oct. 18, 10.4 million people have registered
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to participate in California almost reaching the 10.5 million that participated in 2015. According to the United States Geological Survey, there are around 10,000 earthquakes in Southern California every year, making it important for citizens to know what to do in the event of a major earthquake. Citrus has experienced several temblors since it’s opening and there are preparedness steps taken in order to make sure everyone is safe. Supervisor of Campus Safety Ben Macias explained the process when an earthquake occurs. “After it stops shaking and after it would be safe to do so we would go and check every building to make sure there was nobody still inside trapped inside or injured,” he said. There are designated gathering areas on the campus where students and staff are to meet where they would be safest after an earthquake. This can be found in the Emergency Procedures document found on the Citrus website. Facilities also sets in motion their plan to check every building to ensure if there is any structural
damage that would deem a building unsafe said Macias. Campus safety will also be conducting a test for their Citrus Alert messaging system during the Shakeout. Every building at community colleges have to be built to the Division of the State Architect standards. Director of Facilities and Construction, Fred Diamond said all of the buildings on campus are built to the DSA standards. Diamond said it’s not the magnitude of an earthquake that counts but the modified mercalli intensity scale which measures the actual shaking of an earthquake. Diamond said one building, Hayden Hall, the oldest building on Citrus was built in the 1930’s and has not experienced
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Insufficient interactions Recent changes in counseling seen as subpar by students BY ALDO LUJAN STAFF WRITER
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Budgeting issues cause changes every year in the counseling staff and it leaves some students unsatisfied with help and advice that is given to them. “Every year there’s a process and its called the Faculty Needs Identification Committee… They have to write a report saying ‘this is why we need a faculty member’ Depending on what the
budget process is it will determine how many we’re allowed to hire,” said Lucinda Over, Dean of Counselors. This process is only used to hire full-time counselors, not adjunct. A request is usually filed in October and faculty usually hears back from the FNIC in February or March, according to Over. She said there are more adjunct counselors because she doesn’t have to go through the same process to hire them as she does for
a full-time counselor. There is a set budget set aside that can be used to hire adjunct counselors when needed. Over also described the process to hire part-time counselors as “less cumbersome.” Over said there are 22 fulltime counselors and 55 part-time counselors on staff this semester. Part-time adjunct counselors only work up to 20 hours a week and a lot of the full-time counselors are assigned to a specific
program. You would have to be in one of those programs to get the guaranteed continued help from the same person. Often times, adjunct counselors will also work at multiple schools and will quit once they have been offered a full-time job or have been fired. “If I was them I would just be like, miserable having to jump to (multiple) schools at a time,” said Mackenzie Fick, a chemistry ma-
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jor at Citrus. Changes in the number of Adjunct counselors occur every year depending on the budget and whether the counseling faculty feel they need more counselors or less, Over said. “With adjunct, if it’s a really rough year we might not be able to keep everyone,” she said. S E E COUN S ELOR S • PAGE 5
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