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Objectionable (?J drawing ripped from handbOok by Brian Coffey-Weber ~
The new MSC Student Handbook got slapped last week. Hot off the presses, the handbook proved-for soine--too hot to handle after a sketch on page '3 was scrutinized and found to be objectionable, according to Roberta Sinilnak, associate vice president of MSC student affairs. The handbooks were distributed early last week before the ~uestionable illustration was pointed out to school officials. All but approxiinately 50 of the 23,000 books were hurriedly retrieved. Page 33 was removed. ~. The cominotion-causing drawing was entitled "Cowhand" but hands had nothing to do with the COinmotion. Playing on the book's art theme of hands the drawing depicted a species reversal: cows As people around a fire and people penned-up in a corral in the background. The artist, Nell Hazinsk, however_, penned another ~-
feature. Four of the five human forinS in the illustration were feinale and one was Inale. That's where the problem arose, so to speak. Though the figures were rather simply sketched, one aspect was easily identifiable-that of a protruding Inale sex organ. The drawing has 路certainly gotten a rise from school personnel. "Oh, internally everyone thinks it's hilarious," Smilnak said. "I'm just sorry that the original purpose of the handbook-to seek and use student art-is being overlooked." Smilnak added that her office has r~ived some complaints but only from MSC employees and not from any students. With any problem there should be a solution. Smilnak's office is considering several options. The most likely will be to have the page reprinted, inserted and glued into the handbooks. Cost for printing and the insertion is
CCD, faculty reach accord on grievances by Lisa Dell'Amore
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expected to run $500 and will be paid by MSC. The MSC publications department has designed a tamer drawing to replace Hazinsk's but it will still be called "Cowhand." The replacement shows cows sitting in an audience applauding a performance. The handbook ~rt was selected by a jury consisting of Smilnak, Jean Schiff, an MSC art instructor and Pat Kelly, director of MSC publications. At least six other people also saw all the drawings during production of the handbook but no one noticed continued on page 11
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CCD faculty members who fought a two-year battle to eliininate the misuse of their administrative funds accepted a grievance "tesolution April 21 from CCD President G. Owen Smith. The resolution marks the end of a grievance that charged the CCD administration with illegal transference of instructional funds to adininistrative areas. Faculty members claim that former CCD President Robert Lahti illegally used approximately $500,000 from resident instruction funding for use in adIninistrative areas. Lahti also allowed the faculty to decrease a ratio of 2.3 instructors per adIninistrator. According to Sinith, the resolution will transfer approxiinately $250,000 out of the administration's funds and into resident instruction funds. Smith intends to continued on page 5