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FC, Cypress faculty spurn contract offer Demonstration to be held during Night in Fullerton' BY SANDY ALLEN tonight. Teachers are being asked to Hornet Editor-in-Chief either hold signs or sit at tables to pass out information on campus. Teachers at Fullerton and Cypress The vote on Wednesday followed colleges voted Wednesday against months of negotiation by CTA and the acceptance of the salary contract - district representatives, negotiations which was supposedly the North which culminated with the district Orange County Community College offering the teachers a 9.5 percent District's (NOCCCD) "first, last raise with a 1 percent one-time-only, and final" offer. tax-sheltered annuity. Teacher According to Larry O'Hanlon, representatives considered this to be California Teachers Association unfair because last year the ad- (CTA) president-elect of the district, ministrators received an 11.5 per- 328, or 73 percent of the 447 votes cent raise and the teachers feel that were against the contract. Eighty- they deserve a percentage increase four percent of the teachers on both which reflects this same ratio. campuses voted. "One week ago I Many teachers have been at the thought it would be very close," last four NOCCCD Board of said O'Hanlon. "I'm really Trustees meetings to show support amazed." for negotiations. This has resulted O'Hanlon said that the teachers' in standing-room-only attendance at next step would be to get in touch the biweekly meetings. At each with the district administration and meeting, several faculty represen- request that negotiations resume. tatives have spoken to the board in As a demonstration in support of favor of increase parity. the teachers' stand on the contract, At the last board meeting Tues- WHO IS THAT MASKED MAN?-Steve Carter, a performer with the and puppetry and is patterned after the old-fashioned vaudeville train tours. the faculty's Political Action Com- day, March 24, Kory Kazarian, an Family Bathtub, plays magician by turning an old man into a Chinese The group appeared in the Quad March 27 before the student body. mittee is organizing a presentation FC student who had collected about dragon. "The Yellow Trunk Show," as it is called, includes mime, mask Photo by Connie Spenger of information to the public during 400 student signatures on a petition the "Night in Fullerton" festivities supporting the teachers, made a presentation of the document to the board. Before he began to speak, Handicapsget a ift Trustees W.C. Burrell, Jr. and Api orriw " George Trosko left the room. Dur- Elevator's complete ing Kazarian's speech, Trustee Felix H 1 Le Marinel also left. BY RICHARD HINKLE passed the proper motions and are The three trustees leaving angered Hornet News Assistant waiting for the permits of the most of the teachers and students at- elevators as well. "We have tending the meeting. Political Ac- !In the near future handicapped pressured this agency (DOSH) and tion Committee Chair Gerry Owen's statement at a meeting held to Friday, April 3, 1981 Fullerton College Volume 60 Issue 25 students -will no longer have to they promised they would be out struggle to get to the second floors within two weeks from last Tues- discuss the issue that he was "mad of the 500 and 700 buildings. day." as hell and almost too angry to think At the cost of $349,000, two The 100 and 1100 buildings are in about how he was going to vote on elevators, one on the north side of need of elevators presently, accor- the contract issue" was repeated by the 500 building and another on the ding to Edwards. "Students in other faculty members. During the south side of the 700 building, have wheelchairs have to be carried often week, several handouts that were A.S. Senate opens meetings been constructed as well as a bridge" times to class-it's unsafe and printed and distributed by in- connecting the mathematics and dehumanizing and it doesn't hold in dividual teachers urged a "no" vote science buildings. compliance with federal law." and stated their positions and BY CATHERINE FLYNN came to watch TV would watch the "He went to a Planning and Although the elevators are com- Student Sid Stanimreich who is in reasons. Hornet News Editor senate instead. The senators have Research Committee meeting to pleted and are functional they may a wheelchair said that if any of his also made posters and put up sand- finid out what was being done about not be used until a permit of safety classes were on the second floor of Music-filled As part of an effort to increase wich boards advertising the it. Now he's a member of the com- has been issued for them by the the 500 and 700 buildings the student involvement in the meeting. The recent publication of mittee, concentrating on solving the Division of Occupational Safety and elevators would obviously be a weekend to Associated Student Senate, the A.S. their newsletter, A.S. IS, was also a problems in that area. Health (DOSH). "convience". "If it weren't for has made numerous plans for luring major plan in this area. "Another member of the commit- "I'm very impatient," said Ken some of the elevators at Cypress I begin tonight students into its weekly meetings. But Stoeckel has another idea of -tee, Mike Williams, ran for the Edwards, director of Disabled Stu- wouldn't be able to take some of my BY SANDY ALLEN S"We're trying to get away from getting students to participate.: senate last year and lost. But he was dent Services, "the elevators have. classes." he said. Stammreich Hornet Editor in Chief the closed-door, smoke-filled-room "I think the Speaker's Bureau has angry about the cafeteria prices, so been completed for a couple of pointed out further that elevators image of student government," said to be the most effective means of he joined Planning and Research weeks and I want to get that ap- will not only benefit the handicap- A weekend of music and art is Senator Steve Stoeckel, executive getting in touch," he said. The and he's now trying to work that proval." ped but others with ailments such as planned for tonight, tomorrow, and pro-tem. "We want to try and open bureau is a group of senators who problem out. Edwards claimed that he was get- heart disorders. Sunday, by the Fullerton College up to the people we serve." speak directly to classes in order to "Steve (Stoeckel) got me to run ting impatient enough to start Kathy Hedden, another student Fine Arts Division, beginning with The A.S. has called this effort the get students to participate. for the senate," Walker continued. "phoning the parties responsible for here at FC in a wheelchair, explain- participation in "Night in "Senate Image Uplift" and have "Lots of students just go to class "He spoke to our class about the the delay." Elevators are a sore spot ed that at times it is necessary for Fullerton" and culminating in a opened the meetings, basically as a and leave," Stoeckel continued, A.S. during elections and convinced with me right now," he said. the Disabled Students Services benefit scholarship concert by the public relations move. They feel "and they tune everything out in me to run." "I'm not laying blame with the Center to rearrange classes so they FC Music Department faculty. that through the efforts .in putting between classes. The only way to get The senate currently has six com- district," Edwards explained, they are on the main floors of buildings To represent FC in the city's an- their many plans into effect, them involved is by speaking to mittees that make the decisions and have already approved it and Bob and accesible to the handicapped. nual night of culture, Terry students will become more involved. them face to, face, right in their solve problems in all areas concern- Gates, Dean of Administrative Ser- "On one occasion I had to change a Blackley's Jazz Band will play at the The problem of student apathy class. The Speaker's Bureau has ing students. vices has really worked hard on this class because it could not be moved Villa del Sol, and Larry Lowder's has been one that has been going on been pretty heavy the past couple of The Judicial Committee has made project." Edwards explained fur- to the lower floor," she said. Hed- Community Concert Band will play for years. Many candidates for elec- years, so we should use it more decisions concerning academic ther that it was the pending ap- den said further that she did not in the FC Campus Theatre at 7:30 tions have run unopposed, and even often." eligibility and elections and it is cur- proval of the DOSH that was know if the elevators would per- and 8:30 p.m. In the dance studio, lately it is a rare occasion to have Walker added, "The Speaker's rently working on possible revisions holding everything up. sonally benefit her due to the fact there will be mini-dance concerts at more than a dozen students attend Bureau has been limited to elections and amendments to the Constitu- Joseph Newmeyer, dean of that she does not have any classes in 7 and 8 p.m. the meetings. and blood drives. We need to start tion. Finances, said that the district has the 500 and 700 buildings. Tomorrow evening in the Campus "Only by opening up these using it as a means of getting The Finance Committee decides Theatre at 8 p.m., Bravo Brass, meetings can we get feedback from students involved in the meetings." where all the money paid by the directed by Richard Cruz, and the the students," said Sen.

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