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Volume No. LXIX Los Angeles Harbor College 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington CA. 90744

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LAHC art department welcomes Katy Crowe

Abstract artist Katy Crowe displays her artworks in the Harbor College art gallery.

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College costs for LAHC at lowest in years.

New grants reduce the total cost of college for some students.

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LAHC ASO: Friend or foe?

What exactly is that $10 buying?

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We’re back!Seahawk center snack area closed due to lack of profits

Breakfast should always be the most important meal of ones day, but when you’re a student it might become more difficult to come across a fully balanced meal every morning. People tend to accommo-date their diets with whatever gets them out on the road faster. One of Los Angeles Harbor College’s pro-grams took action into this matter by starting a simple fast food snack area. This snack area was located upstairs in the Seahawk center. The group sold packaged goodies from cookies to chips for a more afford-

able price than the bookstore. They also sold hot foods such as pizza and hot dogs that were accompa-nied by a soda, juice, or water. This snack area lasted a few semesters and became very popular among many students. The snack area was recently closed after last semester due to the low amount of profit that was be-ing made. The other problem was the gourmet food that was also be-ing sold in the school cafeteria. The Culinary Arts program at Harbor College started a small restaurant feel to the cafeteria. They began a

by Laura Gomez

by Brian Bagby

Harbor Tides Staff

Harbor Tides Staff

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The Fair Hiring and Practice Com-mittee has released its annual re-port outlining the top ten positions they feel are needed to be filled at Los Angeles Harbor College. The academic senate approved the FHPC’s report at a meeting on Nov. 18th despite there being a tie for fifth. The district mandates a mini-mum of 50% and maximum of 75% of the faculty to be full-time instructors. According to the 2010 fact book, Harbor consists of only 47% full-timers. “We want to get as close as we can to 75%,” said Harbor’s President Marvin Marti-nez, “but we need to be realistic.” Martinez was referring to the lack of funding, “the state is pro-jecting a 19 billion dollar deficit by mid next year,” he said. Colleges not meeting said the ratio can be fined per position not filled. Due to financial constraints, though, the state decided to freeze

the fine a month ago. It is widely known among cur-rent facility our previous president, Linda Spink, would ignore the FHPC’s report. Martinez said, “I support the FHPC’s report and I will try to see what we can do to hire and replace retiring faculty.” “I think we will hire,” said Mar-tinez, who is looking to hire about five new full time instructors, or as he referred to them, “new blood.” Martinez doesn’t want to fall behind just because we don’t have to hire. “it’s a long process hiring new people, to fill 20 new posi-tions, it would take 20 comittees,” he said. “We only have 103 full time instructors and three to five have to serve on a committee, so if we have to hire 20 instructors, all of our full timers would be in meet-ings and not serving the students,” Martinez said. One issue brought to light dur-ing the senate meeting on the 18th

The Harbor Tides wants readers to know it relishes the importance of publishing a First Amendment student newspaper at Los Ange-les Harbor College. Now, for the first time since its rebirth about seven years ago after a 12-year hiatus, students of Journalism 218 have received solid college funding to produce a hard copy. This is the first of what is hoped will be five editions that will go to print between now and the end of the spring semester, 2011. To be honest, we’d like to do more, but now that the college

administration has guaranteed us a source of revenue, we can concentrate on perfecting our stu-dent journalism without worrying about if, when, or how a paper will come out. The Tides has existed mostly on donations and what advertise-ments it could sell. But over time those funds dried up, particularly ad revenue during tough econom-ic times. So, for more than a year, The Tides has mostly published online at www.hctides.com. Journalism students will con-tinue to break news as it happens on the Web, and you can become a subscriber by registering for free at our site. But make no mistake, Journalism students are excited about returning to print

LAHC job security in jeopardy

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was zero-based funding, which requires seven hourly assignments, or courses, to be cut per full time position filled. Full time instructors teach 5 courses, except English instructors, who only teach 4. So in accordance with zero-based funding, with each new hire, two to three classes could be cut at a school which has recent-ly cut much of its spending.

Long time English professor and member of the academic sen-ate Susan McMurray said, “it’s a terrible predicament (the budget),” and “it isn’t just about funding. It’s about serving the students.” In this semester alone, McMurray had to turn down around 100 students from her two English 28 classes. “We have been lucky here at Harbor. We have great adjuncts,

by Paul McLeodHarbor Tides Advisor

Classroom cuts bound to come into effect as a result of the zero based funding policy.Photo by Leni Estrella

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COMMENTSWWW.HCTIDES.COM WINTER

SESSION?ASO: FRIEND

OR FOE?Tania Ramos Harbor Tides Andrew Villanueva Leni Estrella

Saria Urzua

Ruth Batres

Michael Sandoval

Asha Grant

Frank Williams

Major: Journalism

Major: Undecided

Major: Nursing

Major: AA Liberal Arts

Major: AA Liberal Artsphotos by Leni Estrella

The Harbor Tides is the student newspaper of Los Angeles Harbor College. hctides.com is its on-line news companion that publishes news and information as it happens. Both are independent, student-run public forums produced in conjunction with Journalism 218. Our publications are members in good standing in the Journalism Association of Community Colleges and the California Newspaper Publishers Association.One copy of the Tides is free. Others may be purchased at the Communications Office for 50 cents.Letters to the editor are welcome. Visit www.hctides.com to submit letters. Limit letters to 200 words. Include name, age, major or city of residence, a valid email address and daytime telephone number for verification purposes. All letters are subject to editing. Unsigned editorials represent the views of the Harbor Tides staff and do not represent the views of Los Angeles Harbor College, its faculty, staff or the Los Angeles Community College District. The Harbor Tides publishes periodically during the fall and spring semesters as interest warrants and funds become available. The web site produces copy in Real Time and is available 24/7. Readers are encouraged to register at www.hctides.com to receive the latest Harbor College news in their email. Registration is free, easy and takes just one minute.

“ I was planning to transfer last semester but, because there is no winter session, I got delayed one semester. The classes I could have taken in the winter I have to wait until spring to get those done. Another problem is that not many of us have transportation and have to go to other schools.”

“It bothers if you are getting an AA in a timely manner. Not having a winter session back tracks me one whole year.”

“Not having a winter session affects me a lot. It back tracks me on my studies so instead of taking courses for winter I need to wait until spring to take them. Another thing that really irritates me is how I have to look for another school and register. Sometimes they don’t have enough classes or we don’t get to register on time.”

“Yes! They should have one. Classes I’m suppose to take for spring are now backed up for fall. Now I have to try and register for El Camino and Santa Monica College. If Harbor College would have one, the enrollment here would be much higher be-cause more students would register here.”

“ Its pretty inconvenient because, being in high school, sometimes certain classes are only available through the college and when the winter session is not offered, it only back tracks me some more.”

How do you feel about Harbor College not having a winter session?

by Tania RamosHarbor Tides Staff

by Leni EstrellaHarbor Tides Staff

Upon enrollment at Los Angeles Harbor College, we are all con-fronted with hard-copy leaflets advertising an ASO membership for only ten dollars. Recently, there has been confu-sion among some of the students who purchased the membership and were not getting some of the benefits that were “promised to them.” The students said that part of the membership promised ‘off-campus’ benefits which include discounts at local shops and a couple of chain retailers. When students and a tides reporter ques-tioned these businesses about the discount, many of them stated that there was no discount to be given. Of the fourteen businesses origi-nally listed on the flier, three of them have confirmed that they still honor the discount, and one retailer claimed to never have made a deal in the first place with Harbor Col-lege. The Tides received a tip from these frustrated students and inves-tigated. The issue appeared to be that

the ASO was offering “on-campus” and “off-campus” benefits for be-coming a member. The on-campus benefits worked fine; however, the off-campus benefits seemed to be nonexistent. Faulty speaking on behalf of the ASO explained that it was a simple mistake; in fact, there is a revised edition of the membership ben-efits where all of the ‘off-campus’ benefits are crossed out with blue marker. The Tides sent reporters into the Student Services office to see if the new version of this membership benefits were available and they were. However, the old version without the correction was also available. In fact, six of the seven reporters sent to the office were able to retrieve the old copy with-out anyone correcting the error. Although an honest mistake could have been made here, there appears to be little effort to dimin-ish the confusion among students with regard to these errors. According to the ASO flier, the services on which they offer discounts include cookies, banners, balloons, photo copies and a $3.00 discount on a parking pass, among others, all for a $10 fee. If want to host office parties twice a week purchase an ASO membership. Otherwise, $10 could be better spent on student expenses.

ASO: Friend or foe?

by Andrew VillanuevaHarbor Tides Staff

A meeting was held in the con-ference room of the Admissions Building to analyze the schools budgets, On Tuesday December 7th. After a few discussions, the topic of Winter Session and Sum-mer Session arose. According to Luis Rosas, Winter session and Summer session 1 have been can-celled due to budget cuts. As well as cancelled sessions an additional 85 units have been cut for spring and fall 2011. Many of the LAHC students like Alexis Camou (19) major Undecided chose this commu-nity college because she was told that it is a great school that offers many classes and opportunities to transfer within a 2 year period, and before and after graduating high school Camou attended summer school to help earn early credit.

Now that Camou has been noti-fied of these cancellations she is worried that it will throw back her educational plan to an additional 2 years. Camou said that if this trend continues she will have to make a tough decision and transfer to a dif-ferent community college. With cuts like this, students are forced to cross enroll in 2 or more other community colleges. Al-though sometimes it is difficult to get classes you want at other insti-tutions because priority is given to full time students, if you are only a part time student your registra-tion appointment time is pushed to a later date, therefore classes are closed or full by the time you want to enroll. So what should be offered to the LAHC students who have an educational plan? If LAHC does not have the funds to accommodate its students how will student enrollment increase for the following years?

Winter session cancelled

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STAFFAT RISK YOUTH

COLLEGETUITION

JOB SECURITY

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Fall 2010 Harbor Tides Staff

Sunny Zahedinu Story Editor

Andrew Villanuevau New Media Editor

Steven Mendezu Editor

Tania Ramosu Editor

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Martin Marrufou Breaking News

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An unusually high increase in federal Pell grants has actually reduced the total cost of college education for low- and moderate-income students, according to a report by the College Board. The report, titled Trends in Col-lege Pricing 2010, observes that “published college prices are rising more rapidly than the prices of other goods and services.” But the report also found that “an unprecedented increase in the federal Pell grant program for low- and moderate-income students in 2009-10 led to a decline in net price for 2009-10, despite rela-tively large increases in published prices.” In fact, the decline in net price for college is not limited only to 2010. “Average net tuition and fee prices have declined in recent years as a result in grant aid,” says the report. The decline has actually been part of a trend over the last few years. Sarah Barel is a 22-year-old still

applying to Harbor College’s nurs-ing program. She plans to transfer to a nursing program at a four-year university. One of the colleges she has considered is Cal State Long Beach. Barel says that attending a four-year university would be a problem if she does not receive grant aid. Gladice Noriega, who is a freshman that plans to enter the field of animation and cartooning, plans to transfer to an art institu-tion someday. She was not aware of the recent decline in college costs. Noriega was daunted by the growing costs of tuition. “The [colleges] I want to go to are really expensive,” Noriega said. She is not eligible for as much aid as others because her fa-ther has a well-paid job. She is not currently working. Noriega pointed out that a lack of guidance or coun-seling has left her in the dark. The study defines “net price” as “the average price paid by all full-time students – including those who do and do not receive student aid – after subtracting grant aid from all sources in addition to federal tax benefits and deductions.”

College costs at lowest in yearsby Martin Marrufo

Harbor Tides Staff

Job securityContinued from page 1

Below is a chart of the top 11 positions:

NURSING (2010)

POSITION

NURSING (2009)

P.E. / HEALTH

MATH

ENGLISH

COUNSELOR - RETENTION

Humanities - Philosophy

COUNSELING - LIFE SKILLS

COUNSELING - GENERAL

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

JOURNALISM

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and couldn’t survive without them,” said McMurray. Despite this, adjuncts do not have the same job security as full time instruc-tors. Adjuncts are hired on almost a semester-to-semester basis. This is possibly causing “no congruity,” according to McMurray. Full-time instructors have more responsibility than adjuncts. They are required to serve on commit-tees like the academic senate and the college planning council. Not replacing full-time instruc-tors is causing harbor “to continu-ally come up short”, said McMur-

ray. The top two recommendations in this year’s report were for nurs-ing positions, which were ranked in last year’s report and not filled. These instructors are needed to ful-fill the regulatory standards, which could lead to a “warning state with intent to close.” Taking the number three spot is Physical Education and Health, which hasn’t had a replacement hire for 20 years. And rounding out the top five is a tie between a Counselor-retention, and an English position, which accounts for a quarter of the college’s total matriculated student population.

The California Gang Reduction was allot-ted $490,230 to help expand their at risk youth program. In support with Interven-tion and Prevention initiative, Los Angeles Harbor College was selected from a competitive bid process also known as Calgrip. Calgrip falls into two categories to help at risk youth; the ones in danger of becoming a gang member and the ones currently in a gang. The first Category is job training expansion, which creates and also helps find jobs with meaningful pay for the youth. Category two career pathways partnerships assisst in achieving future career goals. Through the latter process, TheUrban Teacher pathway is in partner-ship with Harbor College, the South Bay Center for Counseling, California State University at Dominquez Hills and local after school programs. The program offers the following: Attend a basic skills bridge pro-gram to make sure your reading, math and study skills are ready for success. If you need academic help they offer tutoring, coaching, mentoring and over all guidance throughout the intake process. Train and be hired to work 20 hours per week in a local after school program. Achieve you AA degree at Los Angeles Harbor Transfer (guaranteed if grades

permit) To Cal State Dominguez Hills where you will earn your Bachelor’s De-gree and Teacher Certification. To take full advantage of this opportu-nity you need to be between the ages of 18-24 and be eligible to work in the U.S. To start the process contact Stephen Hernandez at (310) 414-2090 at the South bay counseling. Located at 360 N. Sepul-veda, El Segundo, CA, Suite 2075, cross streets Grand and Sepulveda. The first Category is job training ex-pansion, which creates and also helps find jobs with meaningful pay for the youth. The Energy Certificate Program last nine months, which takes part in the advancement process for technicians. It is a very competitive program, only 30 people are accepted per year. The entry process is: Complete application

Testing:

Reading

Math

Mechanical aptitude

Essay portion

Interview

Attend Harbor College. Contact person for the oil refinery cap program is Charlie Sandoval at (310) 414-2090

by Rochelle MontgomeryHarbor Tides Staff

Calgrip helps at risk youth

WE’RE BACK!

FOOTBALL END SEASON

WELCOME KATY CROWE

Paul McLeod Adam ArandaChristopher Rios

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Sports

Football end season

The Harbor Seahawks (8-3) found themselves playing in a bowl game for the second year in a row, this time against the Riverside Tigers (10-1) in the Central Champion-ship Bowl on Saturday. Harbor hoped to end their season on a high note with a win. The Tigers, however, had other plans, scoring twice early to take a 14-0 lead. Without starting quarter-back John White’s running game due to an injury, Harbor’s offense had a difficult time getting things going. Running back Theron West tried to get the Seahawks back into the game with a 23-yard touch-down run with 5:49 left in the third, leaving Harbor down 17-14. Despite the Seahawks’ late efforts, the Tigers responded with another touchdown, making the early lead too much for Harbor to overcome. As a result, Harbor suffered their second straight bowl loss, 31-14. It wasn’t an ideal way to end such a promising season, but it will better prepare the coaches and players for many seasons to come.

by Adam ArandaHarbor Tides Staff

because, like so many communi-ty colleges in our area, a student newspaper should represent a reflection of campus life and that which it covers. A large shout out goes to first-year college President Marvin Martinez for directing about $4,000 toward publish-ing. Unlike predecessors, the former college newspaper editor at UCLA apparently appreciates the value of student journalism. So, too, does a group of fac-ulty senators who have had their paychecks docked for The Tides. We believe small amounts of national advertising should also begin to trickle in now that we can provide solid delivery dates. Great thanks are also in order for Communications Department Chair Carmen Carrillo for con-stantly carrying the First Amend-ment torch for The Tides. We were sorry to see the As-sociated Student Organization table a motion to donate addi-tional funds from its revenue-laden coffers. Nevertheless, we believe all students will see the value in improved campus com-munication as we move forward. Finally, this is your paper and we welcome your comments at harbortides@gmail.com. It’s good to be back.

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whole menu for students to choose from. The menu consists of break-fast burritos to grilled burgers. All foods are made fresh the same day by our own Harbor College Culinary Arts students. The money raised through the food sales goes directly to the program for new and advanced materials needed by students. Many students were dis-appointed by the closing of the snack area in the Se-ahawk center and still refuse to eat in the cafeteria. Nu-merous prefer to just buy a quick snack from the vend-ing machines instead of waiting for a meal to be cooked. Many students stated their opinions about how they were affected after the snack area was anonymously closed. Jacob Avory, a freshman major-ing in kinesiology, gave a sug-gestion about bringing in outside foods to our campus. Outside foods being Pizza Hut or Subway, like many other local campuses provide for their students. The fast food places would surely benefit from all our students. Lelandra Chavez, a business major and Sholante Carter, a psychology major both agreed that they missed the upstairs snack area

in the Seahawk center. They both quoted, “I feel it lost its sense of convenience because the cafeteria wasn’t a quick option. The prices were more affordable too, they sold a quick slice of pizza for only $1.50.” The snack area was con-

venient for most students that only had a short break between classes. Francisco Gonzalez, a sopho-more majoring in Criminal Jus-tice felt the cafeteria food was a lot more convenient for his day because of his large gap between classes. He stated that the food was healthier than the quick vend-ing machines because it was prepared that same day. He also enjoys the fact that they create an additional menu that changes daily aside from their everyday grill menu. This addition menu changes daily because the students create dishes from different cultures. I had the privilege of speaking

Seahawk center with some of the students from The Culinary Arts Program, Ernest Martinez, and Lizzy Quinn, two very outgoing sophomores. They were both thrilled to be apart of the program. They believed that this restaurant like service they had for

the students and faculty at Harbor was beneficial on both ends. The customers receive a healthier option for an affordable price and the students are able to practice what they learn through out the program. This allows the students to receive a quan-tity of hands on experience that will benefit them in fu-ture. They both agreed that till this day they have not received any negative com-

ments about the food they serve. The Culinary Arts Program is making a positive impact on our campus with the variety of food choices. The vending machines are faster and easier to get something that’s on the go. Bringing in more food options to Harbor College can encourage more students to stay on campus therefore having more students being active and produc-tive towards school activities.

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The world of abstract art is a jour-ney into the mind’s primal state. We mentally deal with images and ideas that cannot be seen in the external reality, but on canvas, this internal abstract world comes to life in explicit shapes, forms, and color. The Los Angeles Harbor Col-lege Fine arts department was privileged to play host to American abstract artist Katy Crowe’s exhibit “Rebidishu Two.” Crowe’s journey as an artist has led her across America in her “on-going investigation” of the abstract world. Katy was born in Pasadena, Calif., where her ability and in-terest compelled her to attend art school. Crowe began honing her skill and artistic ideologies at the Art Students League in New York City from 1971 to 1974. She then returned to her native California to

complete her BFA from the Santa Barbara Art Institute, culminating her education with a Masters in Fine Arts from Maryland Institute/College of Art in 1978. Crowe’s creative mind draws influence from artists like Ad Re-inhart, Giorgio Mirandi, and Joan Mitchell, with Mitchell being her biggest influence. Crowe views her abstract work as an “intellectual process,” bring-ing “form and color” together and “making the most interesting visual composition” possible. Her cre-ative process is the combination and meeting of two forces: intellect and intuition. She makes intellectual decisions on the state of her piece then al-lows intuition and emotion to fuel the direction of her work, allowing form and color to lead her through the abstract realm. Crowe describes her abstract work, which – like most abstract art – can be endlessly interpreted

as “visual statements that allude to nature or other kind of iconic shapes or forms. It’s not about tell-ing anybody anything. Hopefully one would look and watch”. Crowe leaves Harbor College this December, having brought her life and creative works for all to enjoy. Katy says of her legacy, “My hope is that my work is recog-nized.” So we look and watch, letting this world of intellect, intuition, and emotion engulf our being. We allow the primordial mind to suc-cumb to the emotion of the image, then awaking us into this world of visual, intellectual and intuitive synergy

LAHC art department welcomes abstract artist, Katy Crowe

by Adam ArandaHarbor Tides Staff

Katy Crowe, Calypso, Harbor College Art GalleryPhoto courtesy of www.katycrowe.com

NO MORE SNACKS

Laura Gomez