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

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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

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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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The Printed News 15 Mr. Johnathan Koontz is the supervisor of publications here at Palm Beach Junior College. The Publications include the news bureau and the print- shop. When Mr. Koontz first came to the college both the printshop and news bureau were working seperate, but with his help they are now together. The news bureau is designed to help the students, faculty, and the com- munity. When a story or article comes to the attention of the news bureau they contact the Palm Beach Times, Palm Beach Post Times, Miami Hearld and among others, our school news- paper the Beachcomber. They do and will work with student organizations. They wish that people woud talk to them while in the planning stages, so they can help gice all the support they can. Some of the classes here at Palm Beach Junior College may have never MR. KOONTZ AT THE NEWS BUREAU MS. LINN IRS. YUORA LESTER AND MRS. LORAINE KENT Started if it was not for the news bureau influencing both the community and the students. The printshop is designed to help clubs, organizations, staff and faculty only. The staff which includes printshop supervisor Loraine Kent, the Chairperson Mr. Koontz, lay out artist Ruth Lafferty, printing technician Yuoria bester, and the student assistant Darlene McClendon, has helped the college in many ways. They have printed all appli- catins, the student handbooks, which they printed 10,000 copies and put it together by hand, as well as the supli- ment to the school catalog, the directory, and tests for teachers, plus too many other items too numerous to mention. They are now working on a photo directory of the faculty, staff, and administration. T his year the printshop has just purchased a new AB Dick press. The press that has been used by the printshop is now in the Art Department. The new AB Dick press allows them to increase their work and offer more color printing. Without the help of both the printshop and news bur- eau the college would not be as recoginzed as we are but by their communication effort a continue rapport ex- sists between us and the community. ' y ' Debbie Johns