Enrollment drop puts BC in financial trouble I By DEBBIE HUNSINGER ''Velerans normally have 10 years under th1s new system, he had to ste a a five per unt increase," admitted cripple the progu.ms. There Ls just no for the people between the as~~ Rlp Slaff Writer eligibility on !heir GJ. Bill. In 1966 counselor no matter how many unJts Collins. room for an emergency. If WC h.ave through 23. Everyone should be ,:,;, BC enrollment is down this year, benefits were available to a large group he was carrying to be sure that his "Forecasting enrollment for an one Uk.e the boiler breaking down, we to come and tue the cour·..-, and the plan of acllon for battling this of people due to the war sltuatlon. courses met with h1s directive. open door college . ls exceedingly will have to take cue of it, but other necessary to meet their educallonal p'roblem ls already underway. The · The group beginning !n J966had 10 "It ls just a blg hassel for so many difficult," Collln1 e-0ntinued .. "The than that they will just have to wait," goals they have made for themselves," . ,:oUege was budgeted for a five per· years to use their bill, and it just ended of them to be here now. l had hoped high schools can look al how many exclaimed Hernandez . Hernandez stated. cent increase, but the unplanned in May of this year. We lost 1,000 vets we would grow in tenm of our kids are g1aduating from eighth grade Another part of the problemr­ -decrease of approximately 700 fewer simply because they no longer have and ~ome up with a pretty close according to Hernandez, Is they numbers, but putting it realistically as The spring enrollment Is 01turally ADA unJts has plunged the budget their benefits," explained Johnson. estimate at what their freshman started wilh a fairly realistic budget to long as It Is as difficult for them u It · lower chan in the fall, and the . Into a S300,000 deficit, according 10 11, I don't expect much growth," increast would look like. 'k are begin with, and there was no extra ··················i····~~ ...•• . ' administrators are ~ot only hoping to Dr. Jack Hernandez. conunented Johnson. , , looking at the whole population and p()(:ket money. ·we lost 1,000 vets simply having a devil of a time trying to maintain the numbeu but to develop :, The Average Daily Attendance This new VA program has been "Hopefully we v.ill be . able to the needed Increase in attendance. : (ADA) determines how much money extremely successful in placing the estimate. It seems everyone ,is getting budget a little more respectfully with because they no tonger In on the act of adult education." ; th\ college is to receive. A full lime Veterans Into schools. lh other wan our attendance. With the number of Collins commented, "If you malce iatu°'nt carrying I 2· unl1s makes up they never got over 40 per cen~ Hernandez stated there were two vet~rans that vanished we are not· as hove their benefits' things the administration ts trying to it more easily accessible to them, you ; .one ADA. Two part time students participation In the veterans' benefits, · bad as we could have been. lf we can increase the enrollment. That was · with six units each form one ADA •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• . do to take care of the problem. One is but now they are playing.with a 60 per figure _out whether ·or not it is a long proven with the additlorul accountins · together. This year, however, BC is One primary reason for the.loss of cent participation rate. , , to put a number of budget items on term loss, we can adjust to it. One of 0 course we offered not too long ago." ~._~. 700 ADA's short than what they had the other I ,OOO veterans is the new Quoting figures, Dr.~ Collins stated : hold. He was careful to avoid the word the immediate effects is that the ( _. pieviously budgeted. Dr. John Collins, Standards of Attendance. Before thi_s that there we.re 14,510 students in day "cut," because they have .hopes of budget fo1 next year is the zero "Next semester we will be t!:. Dr. Jack Hernandez, and Don Johnson new system a veteran could attend for and night classes combined. That ls restoring I these decoured items .. The growth budget, to help compensate for reconstructing our course offerings, "!>'. all agree that 1he main explanation of. an entire semester taking 12 or more including the OTC, Delano, and ,jJl second alternative is an attempt to the loss this year," stated Hernandez. but 1 don't think lhe possibility Is .'t_:: this decrease is the Veterans' situation. units and receive full tinie benefits. He other extensions throughout the increase the ADA figure through the great that we will recover the full Both Collins and Hernandez agree :!-, According to Johnson, coordinator . was still ab!~ to withdraw from a class county. Breaking it down, 6,450 of remainder of this semester with short amount we have lost," added __.(_.. 4l£__the .Veterans'_Affairs Office on _before the: last ~fay of instruction <!nd · these enrolled attend day school and term courses. an effort must b~ made to increase the Hernandez. -a campus, the VA program -is federally receive his benefits wi1h no harm done 8.050 are i~gistered for night. school. ······•·····•················· spring ·enrollment- for~next semester. --- . Hernandez explained they have made funded, and its main purpose is to to his record. For a single man the . "We have far, far fewer veterans .. 'There is just no room Although both men said they f. provide services to veterans. Presently benefits amounted to $270 a month. The size of the decrease was a surprise. an effort 10 encourage a dulls to ;eturn understood the suious implicatiom of r .·· J 500 veterans are enrolled as students. Beginning ·in the fall of 1975 the 17 to school by mailing class schedules to. the decreasing numbers, they wtre }. We did not e~pect the per cent for on emergency ' ' .- sor:,e 90,000 homes . t:. fo the last spring semeuer it was closer gove rnmenl required colleges to. raise in enrollment like last year, but quick to add they had no plans at all ,- . ....•.••••.....•.....•........ ~ . to 3500. The$e two figures represent a become much more stringent in . we thought we would still continue to "We feel very strongly that the for droppini or discontinuing any staff '... 2000 veteran enrollment decreas.::. monitoring a veteran's progress .. Now grow, and that is why we budgeted for "None of these budget holds. will college educ_a_!_iorr?ught not to be just or programs. ,·~- Bakersfield College .:.... ... Next ·debate gets new panel A large turnout is expected for lhe Professor of History Olin Ki~kland . · The event is being sponsored by the second Presidential debate class, will comment 00 the political aspect Speech Team, Political · Science scheduled to begin 6:30 p.m. of the debate v.ith Mary ~opelin, Department, and the League of renegade rip \ - Wednesday night in the Community­ former Director of Forensics at BC, Women Voters. This community .( ~onference Center. "Foreign Affairs evaluating the candidales on their acfoity wiU be open to the general and Na1ional Defense" will be the debating skills. There will also be one public, but students wishing to enroll VOLUME XL MONDAY,OCT.4, 1976 NUMBER4 topic for the debate and an entire!,; representative (unannounced at mthe one unit course can still do so new panel of experts will_ offer their piesstime) from the League of Women before class Wednesday night. commenls during the class. Voters. According. to Norm Fricker, Director of Forensics at BC, "The next de bate will be more interesting New nursing staffers introdl.Jced because of the topic and the fact that .. .The Winner5: '· there vras no real winner in the fim lebate. The candidates will probably By SEEMA WAHEED and summer or in a couple of years for a Ha.ing gone into staff nursing after '~- am more in the second debate." CAROL BOIVIN short while, I feel I shall not lose graduation, Thereia took up teathing ricker went on to say, "The real · _Rip Staff Writers touch with It." in l9_51"andby"ri!JW,'unfilener other ,alue of the course is the opportunity Twenty new teachers have ·joined · RN colleagues, she's a pretty old hand it gives yoters to cli.scuss the de~ates BC this .semester 9n a one.year "Unlike other subjec·ts, in nursing, at it. In fact, teaching at BC is nothing ..,.;th other people, something they contract basis, while seven are each time you impart new information new to her as she has been full-time would probably not do if they were to officially affiliated with the to your students you are bringing instructor here from 1970 to 1972, watch the debates at home." Department of Health Careers, four 1hem one step closer in dealing with "till her contract wore out." And now out of ~ese are registered nurses human life. One slight mistake made ~ '•a11er" a break of four. yem, during (RN). on the part of the instructor regarding which she taught at Cal.State, she's Ms. Theo>wne Pfanrunuller, fondly her source of information could lead back on the BC list qf new full-time known. as "Misty," is Canadian by · to fatal errors rrµde by .the students in instructors. birth and very much a Canadian at later years." .-Theresa Ponko, a woman who ha.s heart. Although she admires the U.S., dedicated the best part of her life to she prefers to retain her original She feels her progression plus her_ teaching, is herself, a mother of th.rec.