October 20, 1982 G Volume XXVI, No. 4 Cerritos College » 11110 E. Alondrd Blvd. • Norwalk, CA 90650 j Students race nearm contract meningitis Finalists By KIMBERLY BEAUDRY . elected TM Editor-in-Chief By JULIE GALLEGEO At least two cases of aseptic spinal TM Features Editor meningitis, a potentially fatal disease, Homecoming week continues with have been discovered in the Music a Mock Rally set for noon today as Department, according to school Queen elections draw to a close. nurse Shirley Jankowski. One of the seven remaining Queen "'The Health Department knows candidates who were elected to the about it and there's no cause for alarm court last week will be crowned at at this point," reported Jankowski. Saturday's football game against v She says the disease is airborne Grossmont. and is. transferred through "droplet The court includes Beckie Cerda, infection" such as sneezing and Alpha Phi Beta; Sue Perdue, Student coughing, or direct contact with an Nurses; Kim Power, LDSSA; Peb­ infected person. bles Obregon, Sigma Phi; Priscilla Jankowski denies < circulating 1 Perez, Pep Squad; Michelle Apple, i* J rumors that there is an "outbreak" of Gamma Rho Delta, and Cynthia the illness on the campus. "When you Bejar, Filipino Club. ; say the word 'meningitis' people get Homecoming week began Mon­ really concerned," she commented. day with a Talent Showcase featuring There are two divisions of spinal five out of the seven candidates. meningitis - aseptic and meningococ^ Entertainment includedjazz, modern, cal. Jankowski stressed that the two II! and Tahitian dances, a skit, and £ affected students contracted aseptic comedy-magic act. meningitis, which is "usually, not Audience response was enthusias­ • fatal" as opposed to the meningococ­ tic and the only negative reaction cal variety of the disease which is came when emcee Dick McGrath much more deadly and debilitating. announced the names of the absentee Meningitis is an inflamation of the candidates. membranes covering the brain and the According to Student Activities spinal cord. The aseptic form is Jiift Coordinator Phil Houseman, Beckie characterized by headaches, stiff Cerda. representing A Phi B, and neck, and back* pain, Cynthia Bejar of the influential Jankowski warns that a person Filipino Club, could not participate could exhibit these same symptons, due to "work and family illness." but only be suffering a bout with the It was thought to be understood 4 that all the candidates were obliged to flU. A diagnosis of meningitis is con­ attend and participate in every Home­ coming event. ' firmed by inserting a needle into the COURT SELECTED - Homecoming finalists from left: Kim Power, Cerda, Alpha Phi Beta-; Priscilla Perez, Pep Squad, and Pebbles Obregon, spinal column to withdraw fluid. The ' LDSSA; Cynthia Bejar, Filipino Club; Sue Perdue, Student Nurses; Beckie Sigma Phi. Not pictured Michelle Apple. TM Photo by RENE LOPEZ A disapointed Houseman remark­ (Continued on Page 3) ed, "I guess next year I'm going to have to have a contract (with the COLLEGES FINANCES SUFFERING Queeri candidates), I hate to do that. I Flaatr-regui^tty. think there are enough rules and regulations for students to follow." Parking fee cm the #ay Yesterday's activities included the same financial boat, inflation effects laid down by ICC traditional Box Lunch Auction in By ANTHONY M. YALLUM Twenty-three senators voted for a which meals prepared by the can­ TM Staff Writer fee that would set one rate for full-time us all so I think staff should pay fees By B. MICHEL MILBANK dent Activities office and be assigned didates were sold to the highest It seems that parking fees are fast students, and another for part- along with the rest of us," TM Staff Writer to help on floats. bidder. • becoming a reality and could be timers. Also plans to install parking Floats, Foerster, and VFriends" Activities will be open Monday The Mock Rally, to be held in the implemented as soon as next Eighteen student'senators voted meters in lot's C-l, 2,6,10, and 11, at ' were the primary topics of discussion through Friday until 9 p.m. during Student Center, requires each can­ semester. against the proposal that staff be the cost of .50* a day will be available at Thursday's Inter Club Council Homecoming week. Float passes will didate to choose a male student to The proposed parkingfee, estimat­ excluded from sharing expenses. As for visitors or those students who (ICC) meeting; The half-hour session, be issued daily, and Houseman exten­ dress up and "play" her in a mock ed to generate a revenue of $214,000 one senator put it, "We're all in the ' choose not to obtain a parking presided, by ICC Commisiorier Pam ded an "open invitation" to all those question and answer session. would be used to accomodate the cost permit. \ ' Ervin-Esquibel, was fast-paced but who desire to help. (Continued on Page 3) of parking lot maintenance and Parking permits would be picked orderly. ' Ray Esquibel, Commisioner of security. Scholarships „ up and paid for at the time of registra­ Extended Day - an organization to tion. For those who are unable to Guidelines were laid down to the In the past maintenance and help integrate night students into obtain a permit at that time may do so ICC representatives concerning the Ensemble set security costs have been covered by offered here college affairs - stated that food would afterwards in the Business Office. construction of Homecoming floats. the college's reserve funds. be provided each evening to those Student Senate voted unanimously Student Activities Coordinator Phil "All the reserves are gone," said ByMARGARET CANTELON working on the floats. to perform Student Body Vice President Stacy TM Staff Writer that parking fees be imposed to levy Houseman informed the group that The Foerster Fund "coffee can" Ellig. "Cerritos College is broke." Memorial foundations and civic funds for the college that otherwise students who are not members of any here Sunday The Faculty Senate sent a pro­ clubs in the area sponsor scholarships (Continued on Page 3) organization cbuld contact the Stu­ (Continued on Page 5) 1 posed recommendation to the Student for continuing students here at By MARGARET CANTELON Senate that called for a $12 flat rate Cerritos College. - TM Staff Writer parking fee per semester, and $6 for Although some people take advan­ Continuing in a tradition of the summer school session. tage of this, there are many Student pledging continues excellence, the Cerritos College Wind scholarships beggiAg for someone to Ensemble has prepared an exciting Included in the recommendation During the Neophyte period, was a suggestion that no parking fees use them. , By GAYLE K. STALJEY The first is called "rushing". and energetic selection of music to be TM Campus Editor This is attending different social hopefuls participate in various fund­ performed at their first concert of the be: charged to faculty and staff There is over $ 1500 in funds wait­ raisers and activities proving to mem­ members. ing to be used by qualified students. , Pledging, a tradition here at gatherings enabling students to get to 1982-83 season on Sunday, October know the members so that they may bers that they are worthy of, and ' The recommendations were pre­ Scholarships and requirements Cerritos College the past 20 years, 24, at 5:30 p.m. in the Student, choose which fraternity or sorority willing to work for the organization. Center; . / ' . ' sented to the Student Senate only as a include: Breadhunt, male or female, concludes this weekend. ; best suits their needs and interests. Pledging is two to three week's of feedback source that, at best, could 2,0 GPA, financial need, $50; Dozier To become a member of a frater­ Considered to be one of the finest intense study of the organization that possibly influence the final decisions Memorial, male or female, 2.5 GPA, nity or sorority, an individual must go Pledging, the most difficult, is ensembles in the area with the distinc­ one chooses to pledge. The techniques of the Faculty Senate and the through three phases. second and Neophyte is third. tion of being selected as one of the two (Continued on Page 5) vary from group to group, depending college administration. T Vest coast community colleges to per­ on the traditions and secrets of each form for the College Band Directors sorority and fraternity. National Association, the musicians The pledges of Lambda Phi will perform from the works of Duke, Faculty to survey Sigma, a sorority sisterhood through Bach, Winberger, Zdechlik, and friendship, can be recognized for the (Continued on Page 3) AS Senate on fees (Continued on Page 2) By C. CORI LOPEZ would not exceed $20 per semester, or Controversial claims TM Managing Editor $40 per regular school year. All such Possible fees and new sources of tolls collected would be deposited in income for the 1982-83 school year the general fund of the district and only checked by Siriani were the major topics discussed at last expended for parking services or pur­ missioner of Publicity, with unfair week's Faculty Senate meeting. poses of reducing the costs to students By BILL ROBERTSON TM News Editor censorship and personal bias. A proposed $ 12 parking fee recen-, and faculty using public transporta­ Although the Publicity Code has The problem began when Martinet tly submitted by the Cerritos College tion to and from the college. been called unconstitutional in recent refused to register publicity that CIS­ Board of Trustees, was the primary The threat of a decrease in enroll­ years Don Siriani, Dean of Instruc­ PES and the then defunct Persian" target of discussion as senate mem­ ment, should a parkingfee be imposed, ( tional Support Services, has "no con­ Club were planning to use to promote bers stressed their views.