PCC Courier 03/27/14

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Antonio Gandara/Photo Editor Caleb Wood receives second place at the Redlands Invitational with a distance of 55.02 meters in the men’s javelin throw. The track and field team finished first in three events and placed in four other events.

New ‘Fab Lab’ is a world of endless 3-D creation Emma Koffroth Staff Writer

From toys to space travel and candy to body parts, the grand opening of the “Fab Lab” this month showcased the groundbreaking technology that PCC offers in the emerging realm of 3-D printing. The creation possibilities are limitless. The 3-D printers used by the Fabrication Laboratory can build machinery such as model airplanes and furniture. More advanced versions of the printer reproduce materials at the forefront of medical advancement. “You can 3-D print organs and bones. The future is really in the field of medical advancement,” said David Harbottle, a member of the PCC Engineering Club.

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The most typical version of “Plastic filament comes into 3-D printing is fuse deposition the printer through a heated modeling (FDM) and uses plas- box that heats the plastic and tic resins to create layers that lays down layer on top of layfuse together. This is the type er,” said Sandy Jisun Lee, who of printer used at PCC in the FABLAB page 6 “Fab Lab.”

Benjamin Simpson/Courier Daniel Ngu creates a dog to test the setting on the RapMan3 3-D printer in the new Fab Lab, located in the IT building.

Deans set in new school structure SPEAK OUT!

A new dean structure has been implemented at the college and all former interim deans have been appointed as associate deans of their respective schools, according to the administration. “The Associate dean will provide support faculty. Not just the faculty of former division,” said Robert Bell, vice president of academic and student affairs.. All five school deans, who ran unopposed for their positions last semester, will maintain all responsibilities and management of their respective

schools, according to Bell. The deans seem to find this model much more efficient, but the official jobs of the associate dean and the school dean are flexible depending on the needs of each school. Joseph Futtner, associate dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts, said that he and Jim Arnwine, the dean of Visual and Performing Arts, are working toward creating an organic model for their school. “In terms of official job placement, we are still negotiating that,” he said. “We’re still navigating. There are very different programmatic needs. It’s a little unusual for us all.” Salomon Davila, the dean

of the School of Career and Technical Education, explained that with the structure change he is able to focus on outside sources and vendors to help ready the school for the labor market demands. “Most deans would do a lot of clerical work” in the past, but his department is now “running more efficiently,” he said. “If you don’t go out, you become a bit myopic. But in this new model, it allows a good transformation.” Davila also explained that in the former division model, where there were three DEANS page 2

Faculty Association rejects proposal Daron Grandberry Sports Editor

The PCC Faculty Association rejected the latest contract proposal from the district Friday when the two sides sat down their second negotiation meeting this month.. According to a letter written by the PACCD negotiating team, the district recently agreed to implement a Supplemental Early Retirement Plan (SERP) this academic school year if the PCCFA also agreed to an interim arrangement on the 2014-2015 academic calendar year without a winter intersession. In addition, the rejected proposal provided that nothing in the agreement would preclude either party from proposing a different calendar year. The letter also stated that it was unlikely that a Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) decision would be issued in the next few months and in the absence of a binding decision the current calendar configuration was unlikely to be changed for the 2014-2015 academic year. In rejecting the recent proposal, the PCCFA indicated that returning to the former calendar configuration was significantly more important than a SERP, according to the PACCD negotiating team. On Thursday, members of the Faculty Association met in the C-Building to discuss a variety of topics from the ongoing Campus Climate Survey to the lack of financial compensation of professors and faculty. The survey is NEGOTIATIONS page 2


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