Palm Beach Community College - Galleon Yearbook (Lake Worth, FL)

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Bumper Stoppers! Any student who drives to the junior college this year has noticed that there is a new expence added to the usual cost of college. Aside from the tuition fees, lab fees, and activity fees there is also an added goodie of paying an additional fee of five dollars, in order to receive a parking decal. Beginning this year, the school officials have made it mandatory to pay a fee, so that you can enjoy the priveledge of parking on the premises of the school. Although it was made quite clear to us that our bill was to be paid, in order to avoid a ticket, it was not made quite clearly enough to the students why they were being charged this extra cost. Fortunately this author was not conditioned to believe that going to college meant paying money without questioning where it was going So if any of you have not had the incentive to find out where your hard earned dollars ate going, let me give you the information that is available. The money that has been collected will be distributed into a campus improvement fund. This fund will be used to finance the maintenance of the parking lots; such as lighting, repainting parking stripes, and paving the roads; This information was contributed by Tony Tate, the Vice President of Business Affairs. The student scholorship fund will take ten percent of the money in the first year, and additional five percent per year will be taken for following years until a twenty-five percent alloc- ation is reached. These funds will be distributed to selected students at the end of each year. Now you know the facts and they just don ' t satisfy me. The uni- versities that charge these fees have every right to do so. They provide dormitories; thereby giving the. student a choice to living at the university. At JC we do not have that benefit and parking is mandatory as almost everyone commutes and I believe that parking should be provided free of charge. Alternatives such as bus, bi- cycle, and even hitchhiking are used by some students. If your trying to make ends meet the most economical way is to walk even if it means wet days, balancing art supplies, and run ning into telephone poles. ; . Nancy Samios PARKING STICKER REQUIRED FOR PARKING

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Total Look This school year there are two new members added to our administration. Palm Beach Junior College ' s new Vice President of Student Affairs is Dr. W. Ervin Russon. Our other new member is Athletic Director, Thomas D. MuUins. Dr. Russon came here this year, leaving his job as Director of Student Life at St. Petersburg Junior College. Before his position there, he also was Dean of Students at Roxburry Com- munity College in Boston. Dr. Russon has been taking courses on and off for many years, always trying to learn more. He considers himself a profes- sional student. Dr. Russon ' s job here at Palm Beach Junior College includes being in charge of the Registrar ' s Office, all counselors, student activities, publica- tions, etc. His main goal or objective is to make the student aware of the resour- ces around the college so each student can better themselves as best as they can according to their ability. There are no major changes in his plans for this year, but he is checking into certain areas to see if improve- ments are needed. One change on the go ahead was to do with registration procedures. Instead of having the classes from all campuses listed togeth- er, they ' ll separate them individually. This way there will be much less con- fusion on which classes are held where. If a student wants to get a class at another campus, there will be a list Wvli : ' Mlt Who ' s New? available to get the information need- ed. Our new Athletic Director is Mr. Thomas D. Mullins. Originally he is from Hampton, Ohio. Mr. Mullins attended Georgetown College, in Geo- rgetown Kentucky, where his last posi- tion was. At Georgetown he was head football coach, and also- taught Physic- al Education. Mr. Mullins has no definite major changes for the athletic department in mind. He is in the process of getting some new people in the department with hope of improvement. He is try- ing to rearrange the departm ent with a somewhat new system. He has said, These changes may not show up right away, but in the long run, they will be noticed! He will organize some fund raising events, with hopes of raising money for the department. He would like to improve student involvement with the department. Mr. Mullins feels that more community involvement would be good for the school. With all his new ideas and changes, Mr. Mullins should be a good improvement to the department. Joe Conrad DR. ROUSON MR. THOMAS D. MULLINS

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KB« J.C • Diagnosis Apathy is a serious disease that afflicts the majority of the students here at Palm Beach Junior College. Apathy is lack of emotion, lack of interest; indifference. This disease is contagious and spreads to all of the student body and faculty. No laboratory tests are required, the disease is visible. It eats away at the student body. In order to have a well balanced and complete body; in- volvement must be experienced by the student body and faculty. Dr. Eissey a former student of Palm Beach Junior College can see a tremendous lack of involvement and interest in student activities with the current enrollment. If a good dose of Pacer Spirit could be injected into the student body, enthusiam would spring up everywhere!! Student involvement can become the life-line of the college. There need not be a disease named APATHY! It can be wiped out by Pacer Spirit. This disease can be cured! There is someone that cares; Dr. Eissey is very interested in you as a student; and what you think, and how you feel. Althogh he will occasinally call you a bum! He listens to the students and he wants your input, as well as the particapation of faculty staff and his administration. He wants the students to know who the President is rather than just a name There are people interested in what we think, why we think it, they are anxious to meet with us and hope to establish programs and activities that can meet our needs. -X- Debbie Johns 0Wcf DR. EISSEY