The Courier Volume 8 Issue 28 Article 1 5-15-1975 The Courier, Volume 8, Issue 28, May 15, 1975 The Courier, College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.cod.edu/courier This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@COD. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@COD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Remember to vote Tuesday, May 20 Board ok’s Auto Tech, hears A Bldg, plans By Dan Veit from Ted Zuck, director of campus ser¬ The Board of Trustees Wednesday night vices, on the plans for completion of the unanimously approved a new curriculum top floor of A Bldg. Zuck reported that all for an Automotive Service Technology the partitions are up on the top floor. The program. DLL and the Secretarial Science program Ted Tilden, dean of instruction, told the will move there eventually. Board most of the funds will come from the The college is also in the process of government as part of a National Science completing the equipment in chemistry, Foundation Grant. The college, however, physics, and biology labs. There will also will have to come up with $26,000. be a hospital room constructed to serve the DuPage will use equipment already nursing lab. located at the DuPage Area Vocational It was also announced that Food Ser¬ Educational Authority (DAVEA) school, vices will be permanently lost to A Bldg., so as to not duplicate certain equipment. due to the expansion of the chemistry and CD plans to use the DAVEA facility to earth science departments. The Interior Ruth Nechoda inaugurate the program and later switch Barbara Brewer Decorating and Fashion departments will back to this campus upon completion of the be moved into the concourse level. building here. The Board also approved the trans¬ Nechoda Under new Illinois rules, this is the first ferring of $19,988 from the College Brewer time that a new curriculum has had to be Development Fund in order to match a approved by the Board. federal grant for television equipment. named new The Board also heard an oral report The college would have lost the grant if it to be new had not matched the funds by June 30. The motion to continue the operation of Psi dean the Veteran’s Affairs Office was also editor carried by the board. President Rodney Women movement advocates will mark Berg pointed out that the number of May 13, 1975, as a red letter day for College veterans on campus has doubled in two of DuPage. Barbara Brewer, Glendale Heights, a years and the organization has done a fine That is the day Ruth Nechoda, assistant freshman transfer student from San job in handling problems. Although federal dean of Sigma, was appointed dean of Psi Francisco State University, has been funding has not yet come through for the College. named editor of the Courier, effective fall coming year, all indications point in the quarter. Her appointment follows months of right direction. screening, interviewing and other assorted Mrs. Brewer, whose appointment was A proposal to study the development of a mechanisms for selection employed at the announced Tuesday by the Board of real estate program was approved by the college. Publications, is presently majoring in Board. The purpose of the program would The last hurdle was cleared on Monday dramatics. be to provide introductory training to real of this week when the two finalists, She has had previous experience in estate brokers, property managers, Nechoda and David Gottshall were in¬ writing on her high school newspaper and mortgage officers, appraisers, rental terviewed by the Council of Colleges and has contributed several articles to the agents, salesmen, and property rental President Rodney Berg. local press. She is also registered with agents. Twenty-two candidates presented several moding agencies and aspires to COURIER Ernie Gibson, director of the Campus themselves for the job, including seven become an actress. Center, reported that Food Services has all from outside the college. “The Courier should be a lot of things,” Vol. 8, No. 28, May 15,1975 but made up the deficit that it operated Mrs. Nechoda joined the College of Mrs. Brewer said. “Most important it under during the previous year. That DuPage staff in 1967, transferring from should be a bridge, a bridge of com¬ department is running about $1,800 in the Lyons Township Junior College. She has munication. It should be a bridge between Close N Bldg. red as compared to $36,000 in the red for taught biology and zoology and was ap¬ the college community and community at the same period last year. pointed assistant dean of Sigma College in large. It should be a bridge between ad¬ August of 1973. ministration and student. It should be a Games Room Ron Leoni, Director of the Games bridge between small colleges. It should be Rooms, has announced that effective a bridge between teacher and student, and today, May 15, the games room in N bldg, teacher and administration. Finally, it Summer jobs off 50%; will be closed for the remainder of the should be a bridge between student and quarter. student. The reason for the closing is to start “If we look at the Courier closely, it preparations to move the games room into should look like a big patchwork quilt with Bulletin fails to publish the building now occupied by the everyone contributing something to it. And bookstore. The bookstore, in turn, will be By Al Kalla I of course, the staff should put all the help for the summer have warned that moving into N-4 after the conclusion of Summertime means jobs for College of patches together so that they look just they have no openings, according to spring quarter. DuPage students. Or does it? right. Rinehart. Those jobs that are available “Job opportunities are 50 per cent of last “The Courier should be a happy learning The games room in A bldg, will continue are filling fast. Reruns of employment year’s. And that’s optimistic!” said Herb experience for its staff and its readers. It to be available to the students and faculty. offers in the Bulletin are running less than should provide a testing ground for new An added attraction to this games room Rinehart, director of financial aid and 10 per cent from one week to the next. has been the recent addition of daily student placement. ideas and novice writers. But at the same “It’s a buyers’ market for employers, Reflecting the shortage of work, the Job time it should not forget the time tested newspapers and the Wall Street Journal. and don’t think they won’t take advantage The room is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Opportunity Bulletin, normally published traditional ideas.” of it,” said Rinehart. weekly by the Office of Off Campus One needn’t go any further than talk Employment and Placement, was not with C / D students to confirm that. printed the week of May 2. There were not “The ‘Catch 22’ in finding a job is that College may face deficit enough employment offers to fill the eight employers hire experience, but you can’t page minimum needed for publication. get experience unless you’re hired!” Board’s scepticism was requests for state As if the college didn’t already have Rinehart stated, “This is one of the few complained Debra Murphy, C. D reimbursement appropriations that fell enough problems with high tuition and the times in its current history of serving C D sophomore in search of work. lowest level of local tax support in the far short of the actual needs for the and the community that this has oc¬ Another student, J. D. Powers, when state, reports from Springfield foretell a colleges around the state. The Board’s curred.” asked how he fared in vying for a full-time answer to its miscalculation is to request a reduction in revenues for this year by as Because of current unemployment, job¬ summer job with competing four-year much as 20 percent, which may throw the special appropriation from the state seeking students face new competition in college students said: college into a deficit of up to $800,000. legislature that falls far short of funds securing summer employment. Rinehart “Although we live in this area, we’re What effect this deficit will have on needed to pay reimbursement claims estimated that unemployment in DuPage actually at a disadvantage because C D College of DuPage is only conjecture now. expected for the remainder of this school County’s 250,000 person work force is up doesn’t dismiss classes for summer until Obviously, something will have to give. year. from 2 percent last October to 5 percent the middle of June; whereas most The passage of the referendum is now College of DuPage, as all community now. university students are returning this even more critical with this new colleges through the state, plans its budget “More teenagers and unemployed adults week, ready to begin work.” knowledge. Voting on the 6 cent rate in¬ based on the amount recommended by the are cutting into the traditional college Rinehart said, “Students who can’t find crease and the $11 million bond issue, Board of Higher Education for payment to student summer job market of unskilled a job now may be able to get one in late which are fundamental needs even without it by the state. This year that amount was and semi-skilled positions,” said Rinehart.