Health fee increase

Health doubles to $16

BY JOEY FARRIOLA

After 22 years of rejection, the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees announced that the Student Health Center can raise its fees from $11 to $19 for the fall/spring semesters and from $8 to $16 for winter/summer intersessions.

The increase will help raise the quality of services available to Pierce College students. Student Health Center Director Beth Benne said the belated increase has prevented them from getting more psychological health for the students.

“The Board of Psychology says you have to work x number of hours for y number of patients, or clients that your interns are seeing, and if we max, out we can’t see any more. We can barely afford to pay the supervising psychologist Niaz Khani] 20 hours a week,” Benne said.