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1 The Tale of Taber A fond farewell and - the Timber - retiring staffers Cruiser see page 4 see page 6 COMMUNITY COLLEGE w :c I- Published by the students of Alpena Community College 666 Johnson St. Alpena Ml 49707 Vol. 2 Issue 7 Jan 27, 1993 Action Line I am writing to question exactly where does ·the $5 per contact hour for maintainence fees go? On the very first day of classes last fall my partner and I found a dead fly in the win- dowsill. We named him "our iend the We Y a second semester, almost five months later. Where does the money go and why aren't the classrooms being cleaned? - Joy M. Arbuckle First of all the mainte- nance fee is only three dollars, not five. The other two dollars go toward · student ac- tivities. The name mainte- nance fee can be misleading; it is not for janitorial use but for facility use. It's used for new classrooms and to up- _ grade existing ones, and also will be used toward the new building fund. Why do we have to pay a graduation fee of $4.00? Why isn't it included in with the other fees? - · Josh Eagan According to Dean of Ad- ministrative Services, Mike Hood, "the fee is used to pay for printing the diploma and making the cover. The policy has remained that way for 10 - 12 years or more and has never been changed." Reservations are cancelled BY DENINE KONWINSKI Co-EorroR Photo by Unda Simpson The Learning Center will be the focus of a new colu_mn on the News Page. Pictured above, Developmental Reading Technician Lynda Riedasch and Reading Instructor Dorothy Fancher (center) discuss paperwork while Staff Tutor Carrie Makowski (far left) and Tutor Coordinator Jewel Lancaster (far right) tend to their own duties. Look for "TLC Talk" in every issue of The Polemic. Tawas and Rogers programs prosper . ACC enrollment on the rise overall BY MICHELLE ROULEAU STAFF WRITER Even though full-time enrollment at ACC is down from last spring, we still have positive things happening, according to Mike Hood, dean of administrative services. The total student body enrollment has improved; although the number of full- time students has declined, there are more part-time students than normal. ACC has picked up four classes in Rogers City and about three in Tawas. This has made the spring '93 semester look more positive for the Alpena campus. The Huron Shores Campus is down from 692 students to around 300 students. The drop was anticipated according to Hood, although it was more rapid than expected due to the accelerated closing of Wurtsmith Air Force Base. Hood says "They are planning for the future there." Hood is convinced that enrollment will come back in perhaps a year. When an ACC student spent two and one half hours in line waiting to register for his spring classes, he was fairly certain that he had a 'workable' schedule. But upon reaching the front of the line, he was told Chemistry currently filled - it was available only to nursing students. "This is the last semester it will happen," commented Kathleen McGillis, head of the nursing program. She further explained, "I didn't reserve it [the chemistry section]. [Dean] Davis had already reserved it." "The secured sections were posted in the schedule booklet," said Dean of Instruction Curt Davis, and he did reserve the class, explaining that it was "ba- sically due to their [the nursing students'] schedules and their clinical hours. " McGillis made it clear that she informed her nursing stu- dents ahead of time that she would not set aside openings in the class for them, and that they would have to "get there at 3 or 4 a.m., or whatever they had to do - just like everybody else" to register. In previous years, classes like chemistry were required up- front, whereas now they are con- sidered 'support classes', and are a part of the pre-nursing pro- gram.