Actor's showcase presented at Campus welcomes four Valentines Day: Bronwyn Dodson Theatre new instructors Love and romance Page 5 Page 2 Page 3 FULLERTON r College Established 1923 Wednesday February 10, 1999. Vol. 78 Num. 14 Ex-president files $3 million claim Robyn Bryson president," said Senate President Joe money requested, negotiate for a Features Editor Carrithers. smaller settlement, or let her take 'Tell them to not give her Most on campus seemed certain them to court. a dime.' Vera Martinez filed a $3 million the board would reject Martinez' The origin of the controversy claim against the college district claim at a meeting last night. between Martinez and the Faculty -United Faculty Rep charging defamation. "It seems to me that she's just Senate stems in part from a differ- Fullerton College's former presi- coming back after us, and I would ence of opinion regarding the inter- Phil Mayfield dent claims faculty and administra- say ... to the Board, 'tell them to not pretation of the Shared Governance tors "communicated, orally and in give her a dime.' They should fight Law, pursuant to the California Code Martinez' Claim alleges that "the writing, on an ongoing basis, with this as much as they can, they'll sure of Regulations, according to the dismissal was in retaliation." malice, false and derogatory infor- have our support," said United claim. The claim charges that when the mation about Claimant's job perfor- Faculty Senate Representative, Phil "There's some ambiguity in the board of trustees approved the deci- mance, skill level, conduct, honesty, Mayfield. Shared Governance Law and so col- sion to remove Martinez from her integrity and other aspects of her Discussion of Martinez' claim was leges up and down the state have position as president, it "ratified the personal character." scheduled to be held in a closed ses- been struggling to clarify various defamatory communication of the Martinez told the Hornet, "This sion of the North Orange County roles in tarms of faculty and admin- faculty." was a very difficult decision to make Community College District meeting istration." said Martinez. After her dismissal, Martinez was and one that I did not look forward of the Board of Trustees last night. "Much of what we do should be made Vice Chancellor of Instruc- to. But I did feel compelled for my Also named as respondents in the working together. And when there's tional Services for the District. Part own future. This is my livelihood. I claim are district Chancellor Tom K. some difficulty in doing-that, then of her new duties include coordinat- make my living as an administrator." Harris, Jr.; individual faculty mem- you start trying to create these fine ing the Partnership for Excellence Members of the Fullerton College bers John Ayala, George Beloz, Bruce lines and fine distinctions, it gets program. Faculty Senate were told of the claim Hanson, Michael Moore and Robert even grayer and more ambiguous." Despite filing the claim against Thursday Simpson; and the board of trustees. These differences could not be the district relating to her former "She's saying that her evaluations The district's attorney, J. Michael resolved and led, in March of last position, Martinez said she has not from FC have hurt her professioally, DeClues, will also defend the named year, to a nearly unanimous no confi- encountered difficulty working for she's been demoted, and.will not individuals. The Board has a few dence vote by the faculty. the District in her new capacity. File Photo(Hornet find it easy to get another job as a options for its response. It can accept Later, the board of trustees voted Vera Martinez-1998 community college, or other college, the claim and pay Martinez the to dismiss Martinez. Please see Martinez page 2 Hornet hits Campus grill closes shop all the fast food companies that cyberspace Shutdown forces do business in such large quan- students to go tities. FC's newspaper He learned his computer In recent years the grill skills at FC through computer off campus for seemed to be continuing to lose goes online classes, including web page an increased amounts of design and JavaScript. prepared hot money. The fiscal year from The Hornet has a new full- Veronica Bullard July 1997 to July 1999 the grill time adviser. David Burke has meals News Editor lost $163,539. This amount brought new ideas and fresh alarmed the administration the paper. Students who have lost their energy into Veronica Bullard that decided to track the loss Rodgers first started thinking copy of the Hornet or who News Editdr for the previous fall'semester. would like to read the paper as about developing a web site two The' loss during this period semesters ago while he was the soon as it is hits the press can Fullerton College's Campus amounted to $65,943. This internet. editor of the features page. now do so on the grill has closed its doors for information prompted the He took a semester off from Starting Feb. 10, the tempo- good. The Grill that fed stu- decision to close the grill. the Hornet to concentrate on rary site can be found at dents for many years seven its Eirhorn explained the grill general education courses. He http:/ /www.fullcoll.edu/-6193 last customers on Dec. 18,' of was operating on supplemen- returned to the paper this 63. last year. tal funds taken from the stu- Spring full of enthusiasm. The site includes all current The grill was closed due to a dent services account. This is Burke and Rodgers were both stories and additional submis- continued financial loss. the same account which the to interested in bringing the sions that will be exclusive Sandra Eirhorn who manages bookstore profits are placed. Hornet into the new millennium the web site. the grill as well as the book- The account is set up to direct- with an online edition of the There will be an archive sec- store said, "The grill has a tra- ly benefit students. Student paper. tion to list this semester's issues, dition of losing money, which services maintain programs Photo by Chris TennysonlHorel Rodgers has spent several biographies of the editorial staff, is not unusual for a campus such as....The administration hours each day programming The campus grill has been closed since last Semester a page to submit letters to the cafeteria." She explained that decided that the funds would editor, information for advertis- the new web site. the grill couldn't compete with Please see Grill Page 2 ers and links to related journal- In addition to the challenges ism web sites. presented in the actual develop- Jeffrey Rodgers, the online ment of the site, Rodgers has editor, is a Fullerton College also had to coordinate with all of journalism major. the Hornet's page editors to New parking structure proposed Rodgers has been on the obtain each week's articles, Hornet staff since 1997. headlines and photographs. Recommendation campus multi-leveled parking itself. high school." structure. There are two proposed lot Ibsen and Ramirez both men- for multi-level At the beginning of every sites that are under considera- tioned "FC is looking to other semester the parking is particu- tion for multi-tiered parking community colleges such as parking structure larly difficult. structures. Glendale Community College, David Ramirez, director of First are student lots one and Santa Monica College and Linda Johnen Campus Public Safety recoi- two on the west side of the cam- Pasadena City College as exam- Cnff Wri'ter mends "that students come pus bordered by Lemon St. ples." LItujj vvriwr early and park in a remote park- The second is student lot five "These campuses had limited ing lot early on in the semester. on the northeast corner of the property and needed to build Parking is a concern for Parking does get better as the campus next to Berkeley Ave. multi-leveled structures. FC has many students at Fullerton semester progresses. Members Ramirez stated, "The college limited property as well. Many College. Most students want of my staff drive around to the is in the conceptual stages at of the community colleges are parking on campus that is close lots taking parking sur- this point and that lot five is expecting increased enrollment and convenient. various veys on how full the lots are and, considered the best location for in the coming years and will At the present time FC has how many students are driving the structure." need the extra parking spaces," one multi-level structure which around in search of a parking According to Dave Ibsen, for- added Ramirez. "There will be is located at thelcorner of Lemon space." mer interim president and cur- an additional 5,000 spaces once St. and Chapman Ave. It has an Also during these parking rent dean of the social science the new structure is built." addtional 422 parking stalls. surveys the Campus Public department, "Fullerton College In order to generate funds for The college serves a popula- Safety staff looks at the impact still has to talk to the city and the proposed structure, there Dirk Johnson/Hornet tion of 26,000 students. There is campus traffic has on the city, Fullerton High School, since we Jeffrey Rodgers working hard to put the Hornet into cyber- a recommendation for an on Please see Parking Page 2 high school and the college share these two lots with the space '2 Wednesday, February 10, 1999 NEWS Hornet Cadena transfer center Changes in Department of Justice Transfer center English on an appointment basis.