The Current 1971-11-11

              Steve Podkranic fries a dozen hamburgers at a
time on the food service grill during the noon rush.
Burgers can be cooked in a minute on this grill.
""""rv•", Food Service Manager, places meat­loaf
into serving dishes in the kitchen of the Lindbloom
Student Center. About 100 servings of meatloaf are
purchased by students during the noon hour.
Freshly cut pies are placed on t he cafeteria
salad bar by Katherine Eyxenberger one after another
during the rush hour demand for desert.
Photos by Terry L. Chubb
Dishes deemed impractical
Green River Community College 12401 S.E. 320th Au!Alrn, Washington 98002 Thursday, November II, 1971
Senate hears clubs
Funds and recognition center
of recent. meetings activities
By Janet Squires
Ken Hansen, president of the GRCC
chapter of the Student Mobilization
Committee nresented his club's constitu­tion
to the Student Senate on November
5. The SMC is a peace group concerned
mainly with ending the war in Viet Nam.
For a club to receive money from
student funds, it must submit a constitu­tion
to the Senate for approval. Because
of some vague wording in the document,
it was decided that the SMC will take the
constitution to the judicial board for re­vision.
The revised document will be
presented to the Senate at a later date.
Don Henak volunteered to chair a
committee to look into the possibility of
paving a walkway which students have
created to the lower parking lot. Discus­sion
of ecology versus convenience fol­lowed
the proposal, so the measure was
tabled until the next meeting when more
information can be presented. Persons
who wish to comment on the quest:vt•
should contact one of the senators in the
Student Programs Office.
Bill, 41, which would allow the Senate
to purchase half of the back cover in the
Sports Program to advertise student ac­tivities,
was presented. The senators
passed the bill.
Bill 42 was also presented to the Sen­ate.
This bill would require the campus
police to check other areas of a parked
car, if no sticker was attached to the
bumper. This bill was presented because
some people who were unable or unwill­ing
to put their stickers on their bump­ers
were placing them in the windshield,
and receiving tickets for having no per­mit.
It was brought up that the judicial
board was already working on the prob
lem, so the bill was withdrawn, the prob­lem
to be examined more carefully.
Freshman senator Leroy Bell was
sworn in at the meeting.
The film committee then put in a
request for $795 to buy a new projector.
The request will be considered at the
n< ·t meeting
At the last Senate meeting, several
clubs requested funds. Both the clubs
Terry Ingram
Legal help
may be here
and the Senate were confused as to thP
method ot obtainmg funds. In past years.
funding was done through the Senate, but
the clubs now go directly to Eric Dukes,
the comptroller, and Terry Ingram,
Commissioner of Clubs and Organiza­tions.
There are three types of clubs at
GRCC. Budgeted clubs are simply given
a certain amount of money at the begin­ning
of the year. This money then be­longs
to the club, with no strings at­tached.
Non-budgeted clubs are allowed
money in the budget, but it is only given
as needed, and must be repaid. Any
profit the club earns is put back in the
Student Fund. The last clubs fall in nei­ther
category, and they may request
funds from the comptroller. If the money
is necessary, and the funds are availa­ble,
the club may receive money.
A method of providing legal service~
to community college student govern·
ments is being sought by the regional
level of the Washington Association of
Community College Student Govern·
ments, and was a major topic at
WACCSG's October 30 Northern Region
meeting.
The Northern Region level of
WACCSG is composed of Skagit Valley
Community College, Everett Community
College, Bellevue Community College,
Green River Community College, North
Seattle Community College, and Ed­monds
Community College. Its next
meeting will be held December 4.
As reported earlier, the Management
Club and Phi Theta Kappa both request­ed
funds. Both of these clubs have re­ceived
money from the Clubs and Organ­izations
section of student funds.
Registration to be conducted Because student governments cannot
hire a lawyer with students funds,
WACCSG is examining ways of allowing
student government the means to estab­lish
contracts and other legal services.
WACCSG's dues structure will be al- Implementation of last year's revi- graduation applications in order to allow
tered in that the number of full-time, sions in degree requirements, along with potential fall quarter graduates ample
twelve-credit carrying, students will be a new method for scheduling registration time to respond. Students planning to
the base for levying dues. Student gov- were put into action this week at GRCC. graduate at the end of winter quarter
ernments would pay five cents a year Acting Registrar Booker Watt said that must have their applications in by De-per
full-time student, or a minimum of Monday, November 22, will be the kick cember 3.
$150 annually. off day for winter registration and the November 22 will also be the first day
Because numbers of full-time students date of closure for fall graduation. that winter quarter schedules will be
are not yet available, all member col- By November 22, all students desiring available. Appointments for registration
leges will be billed $150, then billed more to graduate at the end of fall quarter were due to be sent out this week.
if necessary after the release of full-time must have their applications turned in. From November 22 to December 9
student numbers. The regional level of registration by appointment will be held.
WA CCSG will keep $75 of the total $150, Friday is the last day to withdraw Aftet· that tt· me regt·s t ra ti on wt'I I b e h el d the remaining $75 to be given to the from classes and not have it posted on 0 n a n open b as1·s .
state office. your transcript. Watt described this as "Walk-in Reg-
Nominations are now being accepted While rules set up by the college still 1's tra tion · " F rom De ce m be r 13 to De cem- for the positions of Chief Coordinator and dictate that all graduation applications be r 28 , th e reg1· s t rat 'I On area W·l1 1 be open
be in at the beginning of the quarter, fro 8 ()() t 5 00 M d
Administrative Aide in anticipation of Watt explained that the sudden revision th m h: Tha.md. o A: t ~.mh. hon ays
I bb · ff rt t b d t d · th . roug urs ays. rug t t e area
o ym~ e ? s o. e _con uc e. m e in requrrements made it necessary to will be open a ain from 6:00 .m. to 9:00
next legtslattve sess10n m Olympta. relax rules and hold the fall deadline for p.m. g P
Park City, Utah site of
Management Club conference
Five members of GRCC's Manage­ment
Club will attend the third Annual
Western Regional DECA Conference,
November 18-21, in Park City, Utah.
Mark Sheiythe, President, Mark
Crum, Vice President, Mike Stozing,
Vice President, Lynn Carltin, State
DECA Boatd, Marri Beth Hill, Executive
Committee, and Dick Passage, club coor­dinator,
will fly to Utah, Thursday, the
8th, and will return on Sunday.
The trip will cost approximately $900.
The Management Club raised several
hundred dollars from their steak fry last
month for the social science teachers,
Passage affirmed. The students will be
expected to provide about $35 from their
own pockets to help pay the expenses.
The club borrowed some money from the
ASB funds to help pay the rest of the
fees. It will be repaid with the profits
from several projects planned for the
near future.
This is the second time GRCC will
attend one of these conferences. Last
year, five students went to Boise, Idaho.
The agenda for this year's program
will include:
• Success development or motivation
for student leaders,
• Chapter promotional strategy,
• Training and experience in leader­ship,
• Money - where it is and how to get
it,
• Developing a "winning way,"
• Developing local programs,
• Parliamentary procedure training,
• and recreation time.
The Management Club is an organiza­tion
for all students in management
training. Currently the membership is
about 69. Last year there were 93 mem­bers,
"We anticipate reaching or exceed-ing
that amount this year," Passage ex­plained.
The purpose of the club is to develop
leadership skills, to create an under­standing
of organizational behavior. to
utilize classroom learning in state and
national contests, and to strengthen aca­demic
learning with actual experience in
group activities. The Management Club
is a member of the Washington DECA,
Distributive Education Clubs of America.
Passage hopes to return from this
conference and pass on what has been
learned. ''Last year, those five people
who went, brought back ideas that gen­erated
more growth and money," he
said.
"l'm sure the whole group is looking
forward to the resort and entertainment,
but more importantly, they are anticipat­ing
coming home to help their fellow
club members," Passage added.
Rebutting a suggestion to put a reusa­ble
plate system in the Student Center
cafeteria in place of the present paper
plates, cups, and plastic tableware, Mrs.
Rose Neuroth, Food Service Manager,
said, "China is almost out of the ques­tion.
·•
The suggestion came in a letter from
Rro rt A. Fisher to the Green River
\. trent and was printed in last week's
paper. When interviewed, Mrs. Neuroth
acknowledged that she had read it and
was keeping it on hand in her desk.
The initial cost of the china, reported
Dean of Students Dick Barclay, plus the
price of replacement due to breakage,
Mrs. Neuroth added, prohibits the use of
permanent dishware. Plates cost about
$3 a piece, the cafeteria manager stated,
and cups are between $1 and $1.10 a
piec~.
"Labor is your most expensive cost,"
said Barclay. An expensive unit to wash
the dishes would have to be purchased
and people to operate it would have to be
hired. Such expenditures would raise the
price of the food sold in the cafeteria.
A supply of chinaware is available for
special events such as banquets, the
dean reported. The cost of the dishwash­ing
in this case is covered in the prices
charged for a banquet meal, usually
about $2.25 a plate. Barclay added that
students buying a meal in the food serv­ice
are not charged this much.
Mrs. Neuroth who plans the menus
there attempts to keep the price of
lunches between 50 and 75 cents, "within
the realm of the pocketbooks of stu­dents,"
she said.
"I feel there's more than one an­swer,"
she continued, considering the
problem of pi!prr pollution brought up in
Fisher's letter.
One such alternative to the 750 trays
and 1500 cups used a day is the Automat­ic
Waste Compactor now placed at the
entrance of the main dining area in the
Lindbloom Student Center. The machine
which presses the daily paper waste into
40 gallon plastic bags, is a solution most
colleges have put to use to cope with the
Parkin wins
city election
Mike Parkin, an 18-year-old Green
River student, was recently elected to
the Black Diamond City Council. Parkin
says he hopes to bring a "young" atti­tude
to the organization.
Parkin's platform was based largely
on the need for a new water system ir
his city. He feels that a larger supply ol
water would attract more small busi·
nesses to the community, which he say~
they need for a "better place to live."
Parkin's victory was a narrow one,
125 to 120, over 10-year incumbent An·
giolo Mariotti. Parkin says he is major·
ing in psychology, not political science.
He intends to transfer to a four-year in­stitution
after graduating from Green
River.
Parkin indicated that one of the ma­jor
reasons he ran was because he
thought the council was ineffective.
When a friend got him interested, he
began to attend the group's meetings. He
says they do not work together effective­ly,
and he feels he can help the situation
with his "youth viewpoint."
Campus sees 'New
Hope' in singing
New Hope is coming soon to GRCC.
This international singing group will per­form
for GRCC students, facutly, and
interested public November 15 at noon,
in PA-8.
This will be the group's third appear­ance
on the campus. They performed
here previously as the New Hope Sing­ers.
New Hope consists of veterns of ra­dio,
television, and overseas concert
tours. Some members are still in college,
taking time off to tour with the group.
Some have chosen singing as their
career.
The ensemble's program will include
the latest top-chart songs and some
·golden' htts, plus some comedy and
'Show-stoppers.
problem of waste, said Mrs. Neuroth.
With the compressor only four bags
are filled with garbage a day as opposed
to the 14 filled every day last year be­fore
the compressor was purchased,
according to Harold Broadbent, supervi­sor
of maintenance.
"That's really pretty good," stated
Mrs. Neuroth, "for the amount of paper
products l'm using."
In addition she believes the use of
disposable tableware has a greater ad­vantage
to the students than permanent
dishes would have. With the hurry-up
schedule most students have, it is much
easier, she noted, for them to buy a
snack, then run to class - something
they wouldn't be able to do if they had to
return the dishes.
The GRCC food service operates on a
shared-profit basis with Food Manage­ment
Consultants, the catering service
which is responsible for running the fa­cility
on campus.
Mrs. Neuroth heads the staff of 15
which includes head cook Gladys Brom­mutt,
fry cook Winifred Burd, Frances
Edwards who is in charge of the salad
bar, cashier Evelyn Baxter, part-time
helper Katherine Eyxenberger, student
night manager Michael Moore, and nine
other part-time students.
Gross sales are divided first with the
college receiving 2 per cent and Food
Management Consultants receiving 11
per cent. The remainder of the gross is
returned to the food service to cover the
cost of the operation.
Of that remainder, stated Mrs. Neu­roth,
about 28 per cent pays salaries,
between 6 and 8 per cent pays for paper
prcducts, and the rest pays for t!1 food.
In setting prices, Mrs. Neuroth at­tempts
to reach a 42 per cent food cost.
A 50 per cent food cost, used by many
commercial cafeterias, she explained,
would be set if 20 cents were charged the
student for an item which cost the cafet­eria
10 cents. By maintaining a 42 per
cent food cost, said Mrs. Neuroth, "you
are fortunate to make a 10 per cent prof­it."
The profit, after all expenses are paid
for from the gross sales, is divided 70-30,
the college receiving the larger percen­tage
of the money.
Green River's share of the profit is
put into Union Enterprises, an organiza­tion
which provides student services,
Barclay explained. Parking, vending
machines, and food services are some of
the services supported by this fund.
Barclay noted the improvement of the
present cafeteria over the snack bar
housed last year in the Holman Library
Building. From the time the school
opened in 1965, he reflected, until winter
quarter 1969, Green River operated the
snack bar itself. "We lost approximately
$6,000," he said, "which was supported
by student fees.'' Spring quarter 1969 a
consultant was hired to manage the food
service and "for the first time in the his­tory
of the college," the dean asserted,
"we broke even."
During the 1970-71 school year the
snack bar made a little over $2,000 in
revenue. That profit went into the fund
which bought $15,000 worth of equipment
for the new food service.
Although Food Management Consult­ants
now runs the cafeteria, all of the
facilities in it are owned by the college.
"The kitchen is equipped beautifully,"
exclaimed Mrs. Neuroth.
One special feature is the micro wave
oven. "In 15 seconds we can have any­thing
piping hot for you," she said ex­plaining
its use. "Primarily we use it for
fast service heating."
Mrs. Neuroth believes that the great­est
advantage of the new food service is
the e. ·tended ~r.e!'lU. She recently put a
pancake breakfast on the daily schedule
which is offered from 7 to 9 a.m. Novem­ber
18 a complete Thanksgiving dinner
for 99 cents will be served and Novem­ber
24, the day before Thanksgiving, all
pies will sell for half price.
Mrs. Neuroth welcomes menu ideas.
"If anyone has constructive criticism,"
she announced, "I'm always open to
suggestions."
Papritz plans trip to Mexico
Once again, as in the past two years,
the Geography and Spanish departments
of GRCC are offering a trip to Mexico.
As explained by geography instructor
Rawhide Papritz, this is not a tour but
rather a "living experience" in the Field
Course Series. "The real classroom i~
outside," he said, "and this is what we
want to get into."
Scheduled for the beginning of Spring
quarter, the 21 day trip will give the stu·
dents an opportunity to study the region·
al geography of Mexico, the culture of
the Mexican people and a conversational
study in Spanish. It is also possible to
pick up ten credits in the field while en­joying
the trip.
The entire course will consist of a one
week "pre-orientation," the three week
trip, and a week of "post-orientation"
after the return. There is also current
planning to offer additional related
courses for the remaining five weeks of
the quarter. With as many as nine in
depth courses to be offered they will in­clude
Anthropology, Geography, Spanish,
Sociology and others.
The trip itself will center around four
major Mexican cities: Mexico City,
Guadalajara, Merida and Acapulco. The
students will travel throughout Mexico
on chartered busses, thus allowing them
to stop and investigate anything at any
time. This is extremely important to the
type of instruction which Papritz labels
"sense awareness." Rather than just
read about something or see a picture,
he explained, the students will be able to
get off the bus and get close to and
"feel" the situation.
He stressed the fact that everyone is
virtually on their own and that there is
plenty of time for each individual to in­vestigate
situations by himself. They will
then meet in hotel rooms, parks, and so
forth, to hold open seminars to discuss
the various observations they have
made.
Some particular points of interest
which they plan to visit include the ar­cheological
ruins on the Yucatan Penin­sula,
the pyramids of Chichen ltza, the
Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean
(where they'll study the tourist industry)
, coffee farms, Paracha (the center of
the Mexican guitar industry), and they
even intend to climb the volcano Paricu­tin,
which sprung up in the middle of a
cornfield in 1943.
The trip, which will cost each individ­ual
approximately $500 plus tuition, is
open to the general student body. The
prerequisites are that the student has
successfully completed one college level
geography course, or has obtained the
instructor's permission, and is in good
physical and mental health.
The costs covered by the $500 include
international transportation to and from
Mexico, domestic transportation while in
Mexico (chartered busses), food, and
lodging. Each person will also be able to
bring back a maximum of $100 worth of
merchandise. Spending money is not in­cluded
in the $500 figure.
Students interested can contact either
Rawhide Papritz or Spanish instructor
Thelma Barriere for more information,
or can sign up on the information mail­ing
lists which are to be found with the
secretaries in the BI and HS building off­ices.
Rawhide Papritz
Financia l expert to lecture N ov. 16
"How to Save Money When You Buy
and Drive a Car" is the topic to be dis­cussed
at GRCC's next forum.
Merle E. Dowd, a financial expert,
will speak November 16, at noon in PA-8.
This forum is open to all GRCC students.
Dowd, who has two sons attending
GRCC this quarter, is the author of four
books on how to save money. He writes
a syndicated column, "Money Talk,"
which appears in the Magazine section of
the Sunday Seattle Times.
A former financial analyst for Ford
Motor Company, as well, Dowd has a
bachelor's degree in Engineering and a
master's degree in Business Administra­tion.
He presently teaches at the Univer­sity
of Washington.