Monroe VOLUME 28 NUMBER 1 DOCTRINE SEPTEMBERS, 1989 President Spina Welcomes Students To all new students, ball and baseball, and many of our athletes won scholarship aid to four- I welcome you to Monroe Com- year colleges. In addition, our Chess munity College. I am pleased that you Club won the two-year college divi- have selected to study at our College. sion of the Pan-American Intercolle- Since the College's inception in 1961, giate Chess Tournament. more than 32,000 people have received Our faculty also continue to be na- Associate degrees, and more than one tionally recognized for superior person in five in Monroe County has teaching, scholarship and concern for studied at our College. All of us are the growth of individual students. happy you have selected to join the Coupled with our state-of-the-art MCC family. technology in programs such as the To all returning students, it is also a Optical Technology Program and the pleasure to welcome you back once Toyota Motor Sales Program, we offer again. I hope you continue to find you the opportunity to prepare for your experiences at MCC satisfying. further education, train for a job, or Again, this past year we welcomed brush-up on basic skills by selecting a record number of students. Record from a diversity of programs and enrollments are pleasing to our fac- learning from experienced and tal- ulty, staff and administrators. They ented faculty who care. are reflections that we are doing Let me close by wishing you much something right. They say to us that success in the year ahead as you em- MCC touches and educates a great bark on making your academic goals a number of community members, and reality. We will certainly try to make they give us evidence that we are your experience at MCC as productive making a difference in many of your as possible. lives. Dr. Peter A. Spina, President, MCC Photo courtesy Presidents Office This past year was very exciting Cordially, and eventful for our students. MCC's tion. Our women's soccer team fin- College Soccer Tournament. The ^hletes continued to represent the ished third in the nation and com- men's teams won Penn York Confer- Peter A. Spina 'ege in national and local competi- peted in th" National Women's Junior ence championships in soccer, basket- President MCC Community Addresses Parking Crisis New York State's community col- county parking fee is a four percent county of the inadequacies of the ex- Senate Appeals to lege funding formula outlines that chunk of tuition at MCC, compared to isting parking spaces, in both quantity "MCC is subject to the complete loss of the parking fee at the University of and quality. County Legislature supplemental state aid if the sponsor Rochester, which is less than one per- Jill Clark gave an overview of the (Monroe County) does not maintain cent of the tuition. outcome of the proposal to neighbor- operating budget support at current Pam Davis went on to inform the level." The combined losses of sup- By Pam Davis plemental state and county aid would and Tina Brienza exceed approximately $1,300,000. Such a cut in MCC's operating budget could On Wednesday, August 30, the result in program cuts, faculty and MCC Student Senate went before the staff layoffs, and a reduction in the Ways and Means Committee of Mon- number of students able to attend roe County to urge amendment of the MCC. proposed parking fee. This is the most The urgency of this situation has recent reaction of the students since forced the Board of Trustees to act news of Monroe County's plans to quickly. A parking fee committee was implement a parking fee on the MCC formed, and was soon mobilized into campus was made public. a task force. Reluctantly, the trustees Mid-July, the MCC Board of agreed to this county parking fee at a Trustees was approached by County July 27 budget meeting. The parking Executive Tom Frey and informed of fee is still only a proposal at this point, Monroe County's significant bud- with an anticipated effective date of getary shortfall. According to a letter October 16,1989. from President Spina, County Execu- The Senate has been quick to act, tive Frey told the trustees that the petitioning students and local busi- county's financial operating budget to nesses. With little time to prepare, the college will be maintained at the Student Senators voiced their concerns current level if the trustees would and offered alternative solutions to the INSIDE THIS ISSUE... agree to the imposition of a parking county legislature August 30. fee. The county would collect, admin- Don Austin spoke first, and ister, and enforce this fee effective in pointed out that the proposed fee is Child Care Update page 2 the 1989 fall semester and the $400,000 not comparable with other schools in in annual revenues the fee would be the SUNY system. Austin also argued expected to generate would be applied that money generated from schools New Vendors On Campus page 4 by the county to partially retire the administering their own fee goes back college's capital debt. If the trustees into the college. Moscow Music Peace Festival page 6 did not agree to this fee, the County Student Senate Vice President Marc Executive informed them that Ware stated that the students of MCC Women's Soccer Preview page 7 $400,000 would be deducted from the should not shoulder the burden of county's operating support of the Monroe County's mismanagement of college. funds. Ware noted that the proposed 2. Monroe Doctrine. Septembers, 1989. • HBAITUHES MONBOE DOCTRUnB Ground Breaking Scheduled Dec. 4 , Child Care Update By Tina Brienza Depending on the winter construc- tion, the child care facility may pos- Administrators, consultants, and sibly be open for the summer 1990 the Child Care Committee have been session, but that is highly speculative. working diligently over the summer to A mild winter and perfect adherence finalize the details of the child care to the construction schedule would be project and begin construction. necessary for that to happen. Weather permitting, construction is Staffing of the Child Care Center scheduled to begin Dec. 4,1989. will begin in the spring of 1990. The The originally speculated comple- center will meet all building and staff tion date of January 1990 has been regulations as well as all required pushed back to September 1990. safety codes. A fee schedule will be According to Vice President Flynn, available in January. The cost of MCC plans were held up while awaiting day care will be competitive with approval from the county and the neighboring day care centers in Board of Trustees needed to continue Rochester, and it is anticipated that the project. Preliminary schematic student fees will be less than faculty designs are nearing completion, and and staff. It is not known at this time the MCC Foundation has agreed to whether the new parking fee will attempt to fundraise $500,000 for pertain to the designated child care construction costs. parking lot. Above: Frontal Schematic Building Plan Also Pending Approval. Left: Floor Plan of MCC Child Care Center Pending Approval of the Board of Trustees. O]pixu0U Monroe DOCTRINE Editor-in-Chief Jim Weaver Faculty Advisor Douglas Brooks News Editor Shawn Folger Photography Editor John Haines Sports Editor Chris Thorns Entertainment Editor Ralph Tetta Typesetter Linda Bryce The Monroe Doctrine is published every Monday by the students at Monroe Community College. The opinions expressed in the MD are not necessarily those of the administration, student body or faculty. Columnists' expressed opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the MD, The Monroe Doctrine Monroe Community College 1000 E. Henrietta Road. Rochester, NY 14623 424-5200. ext. 2540- Building 3. Room 104 Monroe Doctrine. Septembers, 1989. 3. FEATURES MONB0E DOCHTRXffiS GeVa Announces Its 17th Season GeVa Theatre will open its 17th Appearing as the central charac- World, Police Woman, The Lindberg and the Los Angeles Drama Critic season by rolling out the red carpet for ters. Vito DeAngelis and Rachel Gar- Kidnapping Case and Apocalypse Circle Award for distinguished Oscar-winning playwright Garson land DeAngelis, are Robert Strane and Now; Elizabeth Dennehy (Iris achievement in costume design. Kanin and his guests at a gala home- Maeve McGuire. Strane, who made Peabody), who may be familiar to Betsy Adams returns to GeVa as coming reception Saturday, Sept. 9. his first GeVa appearance in The soap fans from her appearances on Peccadillo's lighting designer. Her Kanin's Peccadillo will open GeVa's Royal Family, has appeared frequently The Guiding Light and whose regional previous designs include A Walk in season with four preview perfor- at the Alley Theatre in Houston, play- credits include As You Like It at the Woods, Oil City Symphony and mances Sept. 5-8 in addition to the ing such roles as Alfred Stieglitz in Shakespeare and Co., Cyrano de Dames at Sea. Adams designs exten- opening night gala the following Sat- Alfred Stieglitz Loves O'Keeffe (a Bergerac at Williamstown, and Opera sively for off-Broadway and regional urday. GeVa world premiere) and Dr. Bon- Comique at the Kennedy Center; and theatre. Productions seen last season Peccadillo, a spectacular comedy fant in Waltz of the Toreadors. A co- Bradford Wallace (Bruce), who has include Songs in the Key of Stevie, a that delights in uncovering the "slight founder of the Asolo State Theater, he been a resident actor of the Asolo State concert with Ron Richardson and faults" in the unusual marriage of a appeared on its stage in nearly 70 Theatre since 1961, appearing in more Carol Woods celebrating the music of highly temperamental orchestra con- roles.