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October 31, 1973 Alpena Community Co ll ege, A lpena Michigan Vol. 5 No. 2 Hob A tkinson Bernie Morasky STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTS This year's winners in the 1973-74 Student Government elections were the following people: President Vice President. Secretary T reasu re r Bob Atkinson Bernie Morasky . Joan Em erson Deb b ie A nderso n Joan E merson Where Will It All End? A touchy situation on campus at pre- sent is that of '· paving the parking lots". Because plans for pavement looked so hopeful in the past, and a proposal has been presented to the Board of Educa- tion, students are probably wondering what has happened . Are the lots in fact Debbie Anderson posal in August, and I don't think it's feasible to make a proposal until the legis- lation, which would separate the college from K--12, is resolved." Dean Souden also added, "If the legislature separates the K--12 System from the college, paving lots will be given every possible consideration for the spring or summer of 1975." At present, however, since no proposal is in action for the college parking lots, promised this new concrete? three new provisions are in the process of According to Dean So uden , who has coming about as temporary improvements bee n co nsid erabl y involved in the pave- on campus. Following are the immediate me nt of the lo t s proposa l, t he im iyi ed iate plans: progress has been slowed . The pro posal 1. The college is in the process of T-hese officers wi-llne expected to preside over th-e weekly--Srudent Government r,/hfe1iT1gs, ~4cJFfunds, whlcn waspresemecf1r1 Th~ ~ rad-mg7:ne -10,s toreduce noles and which are held on the college campus. They will be under the direction of their advisor, May 14th, issue of the POLEMIC, was the anticipated mud. Dean Souden, who was appointed by Dr. Stoutenburg, the college's president. turned down by the Board of Education 2. Logs or chains will be spread through- Bob, in addition to being Student Government President, is also an active member of in August. Currently there is discussion out the parking areas to separate, Vet's Club. He is a Sophomore at A.C.C. and is carrying a 14 hour class load. He is also a going on throughout the state concerning identify, and space the individual tutor for Biology and Physical Science under the minority affairs tutoring program. He legislation which would separate the col- parking spaces available . is employed as a lab assistant under the campus work-study program for Mr. McGill, Mr. lege from the public schools . If that legis- 3. New parking signs will be placed Strom, and Mr. Garlitz. lation goes through , the college would throughout the areas to better Bernie, also a sophomore, is a member of Vet's Club and -spends his extra college then not have to be consid ered with the throughout the areas to better iden- time as a lab assistant for Mr. Sparks and Mr. Moreau. In addition, he tutors Chemistry K--12 system as requests a re made for tify the different ·parking areas on and Algebra and is carrying a 14 hour load of classes on campus. funds. campus and set location confusion Joan, a Sophomore, is a member of the S.A.O. (Student Activities Office Committee), When questi o ned as t o wh ether or not straight. (Many of the old signs is Copy Editor for the POLEMIC newspaper, and is also a member of the EARTH maga- the lots will ever receive pavements in the have not been clear in this area.) zine staff. In addition to her secretarial position, she also serves on the Social Advisory future, Dean Soud en respo nded, It is hoped that students and staff Committee of the Student Government. Joan is carrying 14 hours of college credits "There are no new p lans t o pav e the will benefit from these minor improve- this ~emester . lots since the Board turned down our pro- ments, and that they will be patient with Debbie is a Freshman on campus this year. She, in addition to being treasurer is Chair- the schoo.l Board in their decisions. man of the Constitution Committee (which involves the rewriting of the present school constitution), and on the Communication Committee. She is also an active member of ski club. Debbie works in the Business office at Van Lare Hall, and is carrying a 13 hour load of classes on campus . Additional officers elected within the student government include the Freshman and Sophomore representatives. Students have been chosen in each of these areas, as the following: Bill McDowell Sarah Paad . Steve Cormier. Gilbert Bartz . Jeff Davis . Brad McRoberts James Kirk. Freshman Representative Freshman Representative Freshman Representative . Sophomore Representative . Sophomore Representative . Sophomore Representative . Sophomore Representative The duties of these class representatives will be to act as the voice of the classes they represent. They will have the opportunity to speak out for the students on .behalf of the desired student opinions and suggestions of the overall Freshmen or Sophomore student body. Various committees were also formed within the college government to accomplish a more complete coverage of campus activities. Students were chosen for each of these committees on the basis of application and qualifications. Six committees were formed in all, and they are listed as the following : The Social Advisory Board Committee This committee was formed to advise the dean on any petitions turned in that wish to be passed, and also to advise anyone facing judicial action of their rights. Members in- clude: Dan Nirelt, Sarah Paad, and Loan Emerson. ***Continued on Page 5*** Teachers The release of two college English teachers was made official during the week of September 3 -7 at Alpena Com- munity College . The two teachers are Mrs . Christine Baumgardener and Mr. Larry Aufderheide. Mrs . Baumgardener had been with the A.C.C. staff for only three years, while Mr. Aufderheide served for five years as an English teacher. Both were on a continuing tenure contract, and were "relieved of their duties" due to a stu- dent reduction at A.C .C . Mrs. Baumgar- dener was relieved of her duties of teach- ing freshman English 111 and American literature, while Mr . Aufderheide was forced to drop his class of English 121 in addition to the two previously mentioned. The faculty reduction took place be- cause of a contract ruling which indicates that when a general reduction of students on campus occurs, faculty reduction can take place. Since it has been estimated that a drop of 35-45 students has occurred at the col- lege, negotiators met to determine which teachers would be affected. Their basis was on seniority of pe rso ns, and lowest on the scale was Mrs. Baumga rdene r who was followed by Mr. Aufderheide . Released Mr. Terry E. Quinn, also an A.C.C. instructor, was next in line with the least number of years at the college. He is now teaching the full 12 hour class load, but has only 6 hours spent in on-campus teaching. The English department was affected the most, because to graduate from A.C.C. everyone must take English, and the mas- ter contract states that students of Fresh- men English Classes should be "in close accord to" 25 students. These classes were averaging only 12 students. The areas of Speech and Humanities were also affected by this student reduc- tion. Since very few students enrolled in Sophomore Speech, and since two in- structors taught in this area, all Sophomore speech classes were dropped with the ex- ception of History of Theatre. Mr. Hall, Humanities teacher, experienced a simi- lar problem when one of his Humanities classes did not fill and was dropped. These two teachers, Mrs. Sonya Titlls and Mr. Terry Hall are now teaching full loads. Mrs . Titus gained 12 hours or 4 English classes plus one class of Speech (3 hours) to total 15 hours. Mr. Hall picked up one English class (3 hours) plus his 11 hours of Fine Arts to give him 14 total teachinq hours.