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Volume 70, Issue 10
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
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ELAC EXPENSES FOR 2012 - 2016 2012 - 2013 ending balance $5,794,097
2014 - 2015 -$6,997,043
2015 - 2016 -$7,712,528
ELAC seeks leader By ALLAN MEIJA Staff Writer
2013 - 2014 -$194,720
2015 - 2016 -$8,142,018
shortfall for the fiscal year 201314. We must continue our efforts to find solutions to our deficit spending,” says Interim President Farley Herzek. Associated Student Union President Jennifer Estrada said that Proposition 30 is great because ELAC was going to offer only minimal classes in subjects students need, like Math 125. Estrada said that ELAC was one of three schools that is able to offer a winter session this year out of the nine schools in the district. When Proposition 30 passed, the enrollment management committee met to discuss priority registration for Elans. Kwan said the students were able to wait in line at the Admissions office to manually enroll into classes available on campus before the classes are opened online to the other schools in the district.
Most students are oblivious to the bureaucracy in selecting a president for East Los Angeles College. By June 30, ELAC will have a new president due to Interim President Farley Herzek’s contract expiring. District 9 Chancellor Daniel LaVista has hired a consulting firm that recruits candidates to apply for the presidential position. They also created focus groups consisting of faculty, students and the community where qualification are established for hiring a president. The potential president must gain the approval of the selection committee, which consists of students, representatives of each collective bargaining, office workers, faculty, deans, teamsters and maintenance workers. The chair of this committee is Kathleen Burke-Kelley who is the president at Pierce College. “She provides an outside objective force needed to make the decision,” said Dean of Academic Affairs Kerrin McMahan,. The selection committee has already met to select their interviewees who will be interviewed in mid-December. After the top five candidates gain the approval from the selection committee, they are sent to the chancellor who selects the top three candidates. Finally, from the
see PROPOSITION, page 6
see PRESIDENT, page 6
This is a projection by the president that Proposition 30 will give ELAC $7,592,097 each semester. CN/ARTHUR CERVANTES
Proposition 30 softens budget blows an additional $5.4 billion in trigger cuts to K-14 education would have devastated the already depleted state budget for education as written by the legislative analysts office. The $840,413 growth fund will increase ELAC’s 2012-13 Full Time Equivalent Student (FTES) base to 20,977 from the worst case scenario of 19,274 if Proposition 30 had not passed. However, this increase is still below the predicted FTES prior to budget cuts community colleges faced in 2011-12, according to Dean of Office of Institutional Effectiveness Ryan Cornner. Although some people may question how the administration intends to allocate this money, funds generated from Proposition 30 are restricted funds. Thus, they cannot be used for college administrative salary and benefits, paying for construction nor any other administrative costs wrote
By EHECATL NEGRETE Staff Writer The passage of Proposition 30 promises to bring a much-needed $7.5 million boost next year that will help the school’s departments recover from recent budget cuts. East Los Angeles College was able to add more than 100 classes for the winter semester, according to offsite education and outreach coordinator Sandra Kwan, and 395 classes for spring according to the budget committee meeting held last Monday. The funds will be split into two categories: restoration and growth funds. Most of the money will be allocated to the restoration fund at $6.75 million, and the other estimated $840,000 will go to the growth fund. Had Proposition 30 not passed,
implementing a statewide sales tax President Farley in an email. As written in the legislation of a one-quarter cent for four years, of Proposition 30, requires local the state will earn new revenue to government “to ensure these funds fund education. “With the passage go where the voters of Proposition 30…, intend, they are put in (ELAC reached) a special accounts that the “The passage wonderful step in legislature cannot touch. of Proposition the right direction to None of these new 30 is a step in begin to restore what revenues can be spent on state bureaucracy or the right direc- we have lost these past three years,” administrative costs.” tion to begin Interim President In addition, “These to restore what Farley Herzek said. funds will be subject to we have lost “I still want to an independent audit these past three emphasize, we are every year to ensure not out of the woods they are spent only years.” yet. Even with this for schools and public -Farley Herzek infusion of restoration safety. Elected officials funds and minimal will be subject to growth funding, we prosecution and criminal will still be deficit penalties if they misuse spending next year,” says Interim the funds.” By increasing the current tax President Farley Herzek. ELAC’s rate of personal income tax for deficit spending will equate to persons who make more than $7,458,285. “The state has already $250,000 a year and temporarily signaled, they anticipate another
ELAC builds new memories By XAVIER M. CORONADO & DORIAN RANGEL Staff Writer The Multi-Media structures E3 and E5 have been demolished and F5 has been emptied and closed for modernization. The demolishing and modernization of the buildings is necessary in order to bring the buildings up to current building codes as well as provide modern smart classrooms. The patch of dirt where the E3 and E5 buildings once stood and the emptied out F5 marks the departure of ELAC’s past but represents its future. According to Allison Mah, facilities general forman, the buildings are being replaced because they are Class 5 buildings (wood frame construction) and state regulations stipulate that all K-12 and college buildings, be Class 2 (concrete and metal construction). The reason for this is because wood frame construction has a limited life span being that wood degrades at a faster rate than metal
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CN/XAVIER M. CORONADO
Out with the old, in with the new—E3 and E5 leveled to make way for new Student Success Center. or concrete and most old buildings lack fire sprinkler systems. Class two buildings are made of non-combustible materials (concrete and metal) and include fire sprinkler systems.
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The E3 and E5 buildings have a long history at ELAC; they were among the first permanent buildings were built on campus in 1958, replacing the bungalows that were used previously when the
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school first moved to its present location in 1948. The E3 building was originally called the Business Building until it was renamed along with E5, which was called the Academic Building. All buildings on campus were renamed in 1961 when the college switched to a numbering system for its buildings. In the early 1970s E3 was home to an ordinary bulletin board which, during the Christmas season became a means by which the Secretarial Sciences 32 class could express their gratitude through letters to professors. E5 was once home to a controversial painting of Columbus, which depicted him surrounded by the remnants of indigenous civilizations. E5 was also the site of the vending machine wars of 1967, in which the vending machines injured or were injured by students and took student money without dispensing the tasty morsels in
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The East Los Angeles College Women’s Soccer team continued their quest toward the playoffs after a win over the Long Beach Vikings.
see BUILDINGS, page 4
Seventh Repertoire
ELAC Jazz Band along with special Dance Concert From Dec. 4 to Jan. 10, EOPS will guest, Joseph Arquette will perform The Let’s Dance Company presents be accepting applications for new Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in the S2 - Recital the “Best of the Best” Friday and Hall. Saturday Dec. 7 to 8 2012 at 8 p.m. students. in the S2 - Recital Hall. Admission will be $15.00.
Crime Bulletin
Campus News Pup
On Nov. 19, a man is suspected of Edition stealing a cell phone and wallet from This week’s issue of Campus News a female student on the west stairwell is a direct result of Journalism 101 of E7. The Sheriff station has students. increased patrols and students should take precautions.