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Volume 71, Issue 11
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
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Husky wins state championship title Denise Chavez Staff Writer
Academic Senate discusses more credits, new hires Amanda Rodarte Staff Writer
The Academic Senate discussed a change that would allow students to take more units for winter yesterday. The change would allow students to take up to six units. Students are currently capped at five units, with the exception of veterans. A final decision for the coming winter semester will occur at the Dec. 10 Academic Senate meeting. Other business dealt with at the meeting concerned confirming a proposal for new hires. East Los Angeles College h a s 6 8 p e rc e n t f u l l time staff members . In comparison to many other schools in the district, E L A C s ur pa s s e s the district’s average which is 65 percent. According to California state law, colleges are required to have a minimum of 75 percent f u l l - t i m e p ro f e s s o r s .
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Although ELAC has made progress throughout the years, the numbers are still not where they should be. Full-time faculty numbers have not reached the state’s requirement. Jeffery Hernandez, member of the budget committee said this is because of staff retirement and budget cuts. Another reason is the rapid and continuing growth of ELAC which creates more part-time jobs. By hiring part-time employees, expenses that come with full-time employees like health and retirement benefits are avoided. Part-time employees may benefit the school budget, but Hernandez says, “It may be cheaper for the college, but may not be good for student success.” Not only is ELAC lacking teachers, but also counselors. Hernandez said that on average, there is one counselor per every
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ASU will award $500 scholarships to five luch ASU students. Applications can be picked up from the Students Activities Office in G8-119. Deadline is Friday, December 6 at 3 p.m.
2,200 students. To increase the number of full-time staff, ELAC is looking to hire 20 new full -time faculty members. By using the new electronic budget request, departments were given the opportunity to state their needs. Laura E. Ramirez, member of the Staff Guild, said, “Some chairs are much more vocal than others,” which leads to an imbalance of needed faculty for each department. The committee hopes to have an idea of what positions will be opening, by mid-December, so the job announcements can go public. The Hiring Prioritization Committee (HPC) selected the positions to fill and sent the list to the Academic Senate. Yesterday, the Senate forwarded the list to President Marvin Martinez. who will make the final decision and will decide what positions are needed in order to improve student success.
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Freshman Laura Aceves ran a personal record in the biggest race of her life. She won the Cross Country State Championship women’s individual title Saturday at Woodward Park in Fresno. As a result Aceves made AllAmerican status. For the second consecutive year a Husky won this feat. Aceves is the second Husky in ELAC’s 68-year history to win gold medals at the state finals, the SoCal Championships, and win an individual title in the conference finals. LAURA Sylvia Mosqueda did the same in 1986. Mosqueda’s time of 17:06 when she won the gold still stands as the fastest women’s time in the state finals. Aceves ran 17:42.08 tying the 12th best mark in state final’s meet history in the 3.1 mile women’s race. “We trained so the runners could run their fastest race of the season at the state finals, and Laura did just that,” Head Coach Louis Ramirez said. When asked how Aceves
improved her time, “I never had to tell her anything twice,” Ramirez said. “It was important for me to listen to what the coach taught me to would learn each day,” Aceves said. For Aceves to win the gold, the plan was for her to keep up with women’s favorite Yesenia Silva of College of the Sequoias. Aceves ran behind Silva the entire race and passed her in the last 50 meters and beat Silva by three seconds. In the summer A c e v e s ’s l i f e consisted of work, family and running. She was practicing on one of ELAC’s training courses in June when she met Ramirez. “He asked me if I went ACEVES to college and I said no. He introduced the idea of college to me and asked if I would like to run in a team while getting an education,” Aceves said. “I was never part of a team, and I liked the idea,” Aceves said Running with a team was a new experience for Aceves. “I like it and I like the team camaraderie, especially working together and pushing each other. I missed having my teammates with me at the states. We will make it together next year,” Aceves said.
South Gate inhales, exhales allergies Samantha Corona Staff Writer Faculty, staff and students, are experiencing allergic reactions to the air coming from the ventilation system at East Los Angeles College’s South Gate campus. About two weeks ago, two professors and some students began to experience a runny nose and some sinus problems. The professors surveyed their students to see if they were experiencing the same symptoms. Leslie Radford, communications teacher, was one of the professors that started to experience her sinuses flaring up. Not only was she having a runny nose but also some of her students. Radford says, “the students are usually quiet and you can hear them sneezing.” Although she did not know what was ventilating through the air system, Radford says, “It was not as intense as it was before.” Al Rios, the Dean of the ELAC’s
The campus will be closed Thursday through Sunday for the holidays. Classes will continue on Monday.
South Gate campus, approached Radford about the situation. Rios told Radford that the building and ventilation system were old. When talking to Rios, he said that Andrea Bronte, an arts professor, was also experiencing allergic reactions including a rash. He said that it is still undetermined if her allergies were from the ventilation system, but Bronte did say that she would get allergic reactions when she was at the South Gate campus. Rios surveyed the faculty, which are the policy procedures for air quality. The work environment committee is currently in the process of checking the air quality. The filters have been changed in the ventilation system. Rios is just becoming familiar with the guidelines of the district but there are certain procedures that need to be followed from the “Investigating Indoor Quality Complaints.”
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