,- Napier says funds are no problem Edgar Napier, vice-president of college operations, said when "we get a plan of action from the foreign language faculty with the management in that area, then that's when we will consider it. Right now there is no identified deficiencies." But those deficiencies were identified last June in a "Foreign language Assessment Report" completed by the foreign language department, signed by Earl Farris, assistant dean of Humanities and Arts and passed on to Institutional Assessment and Jeff Stuckman. Although Farris did receive a copy of e the report, he said, "You are better off with fifty or sixty thousand dollars that gets you locked into something of the future, than to spend $150,000 on a dinosaur. I'm trying BY MARK DANCER KEN mama r rcv STAFF to be sure that there's some objectivity. The knee—jerk reaction would have been to take this report and say, ‘My goodness lets go ahead and order Califones and the same Apple computers and the same software,’ without regard to is this really where we want to be three or four years from now, or even two years from now." Farris claimed he did not know about the available money through SA 506A, and added, "If I had known that the money was there, I still would have recommended that we not spend it." Napier agreed with Farris that the money should not be spent on something that may not be the best for the students. Munoz also agreed "that some of the equipment identified in the report is The Foreign Language Department of Florida Community College at Jacksonville is still without adequate labs according to the instructors, even though FCCJ received $154,179 to meet deficiencies in those labs. As reported in ,TCV on January 16, 1989, FCCJ received the funds through Specific Appropriation 506A passed by the Florida State ~ Legislature. These funds, according to the “language in the legislation, were to be used to meet those deficiencies identified in the foreign language labs. Karen-Jean Munoz, foreign language professor, said "We have a crucial need at both North and Downtown because neither , one of those has a decent language support system for foreign language students. That means no hardware and practically no software. Our immediate, crucial needs are ,_,at=those two campuses." 7_ Foreign language professor Marie Smith said, "We certainly have deficiencies in terms of no labs on certain campuses and L labs that are very lacking in software on gathereampuses." v ‘ I Vice-president of Finance Jack Spears, . commenting on. those deficiencies, said, identified" as a deficiency. ‘ 12 Pages FREE th“sanddollarstaoputvoicerntitiulesm- 7% . . We didntknow it because they February 14’ 1989 Volume IV, mum," Spem's continued. ‘SeeyiFO-rle'iafiLeaguesai-pgsé; Language lab controversy continues ‘ — Munoz identified defficiencies in June — Farris disapproves recommended needs outdated now, now that we know that Califone is phasing out." However, she added, "We didn't know that last June, but it should be obvious from this report that even if we don't pinpoint which items of equipment we need, that we still have great needs." Munoz continued, "The naming of much of the equipment specifically was requested by Mr. Farris because he was actually overlooking this report, but you don't have to tie it down to a specific make of anything; the needs were identified and then we made suggestions of what to go with." Farris said that no matter what the deficiencies are that have been identified he still "would not authorize anything to be in place until next fall because there are a lot of questions that need to be asked." According to Farris those questions are: Why shouldalabbeinabuilding waiting , for someone to come and use it? (like the foreign language lab at South Campus) Why shouldn'tthelabsbeinacenu'allocationlihe , inalibrary sothatifyou'retheonlyperson , and you wanttocorne in’at9:00atnight,your ‘ can use it? Why spend money on new, in the computerlab? Why notspenda, .9 “State Regional Tournament “a: next step to dominance.” Led by Maria Teal and Demeira Adams the Lady Stars are not only number 1 in the state, but also in the nation. The Lady Stars have never been ranked number 1 upon entering the State/Regional Tournament, ’ which is held this year in Pensacola, Florida on February 23-25. Over the past three years the highest ranking they have achieved has been number 3. ‘ FCCJ Coach Lyndal Worth said, "What the National Poll means is that we are the team that should win. It's a great compliment to our program and our school to even be considered one of the'top five teams in the nation." Worth said, "We don‘t focus our attention on one particular game. We will prepare for the State/Regional Tournament the same way we prepare for any other game. It doesn't matter who we are playing or what the circumstances may be." . , Coach Worth continued, "We canonly take being nationally ranked so far. In order for us to win the National Championship we will have to take it one step at a time." , ' Newsbriefs Keep ofl grass Exploding nuns Goin still here Liberal Lipps 9 Arthur UnknOwn Comics Letters '11 .mumm 10 Classifieds 12 Sports Mr. Natural. Bits of into , OCR Text: ,- Napier says funds are no problem Edgar Napier, vice-president of college operations, said when "we get a plan of action from the foreign language faculty with the management in that area, then that's when we will consider it. Right now there is no identified deficiencies." But those deficiencies were identified last June in a "Foreign language Assessment Report" completed by the foreign language department, signed by Earl Farris, assistant dean of Humanities and Arts and passed on to Institutional Assessment and Jeff Stuckman. Although Farris did receive a copy of e the report, he said, "You are better off with fifty or sixty thousand dollars that gets you locked into something of the future, than to spend $150,000 on a dinosaur. I'm trying BY MARK DANCER KEN mama r rcv STAFF to be sure that there's some objectivity. The knee—jerk reaction would have been to take this report and say, ‘My goodness lets go ahead and order Califones and the same Apple computers and the same software,’ without regard to is this really where we want to be three or four years from now, or even two years from now." Farris claimed he did not know about the available money through SA 506A, and added, "If I had known that the money was there, I still would have recommended that we not spend it." Napier agreed with Farris that the money should not be spent on something that may not be the best for the students. Munoz also agreed "that some of the equipment identified in the report is The Foreign Language Department of Florida Community College at Jacksonville is still without adequate labs according to the instructors, even though FCCJ received $154,179 to meet deficiencies in those labs. As reported in ,TCV on January 16, 1989, FCCJ received the funds through Specific Appropriation 506A passed by the Florida State ~ Legislature. These funds, according to the “language in the legislation, were to be used to meet those deficiencies identified in the foreign language labs. Karen-Jean Munoz, foreign language professor, said "We have a crucial need at both North and Downtown because neither , one of those has a decent language support system for foreign language students. That means no hardware and practically no software. Our immediate, crucial needs are ,_,at=those two campuses." 7_ Foreign language professor Marie Smith said, "We certainly have deficiencies in terms of no labs on certain campuses and L labs that are very lacking in software on gathereampuses." v ‘ I Vice-president of Finance Jack Spears, . commenting on. those deficiencies, said, identified" as a deficiency. ‘ 12 Pages FREE th“sanddollarstaoputvoicerntitiulesm- 7% . . We didntknow it because they February 14’ 1989 Volume IV, mum," Spem's continued. ‘SeeyiFO-rle'iafiLeaguesai-pgsé; Language lab controversy continues ‘ — Munoz identified defficiencies in June — Farris disapproves recommended needs outdated now, now that we know that Califone is phasing out." However, she added, "We didn't know that last June, but it should be obvious from this report that even if we don't pinpoint which items of equipment we need, that we still have great needs." Munoz continued, "The naming of much of the equipment specifically was requested by Mr. Farris because he was actually overlooking this report, but you don't have to tie it down to a specific make of anything; the needs were identified and then we made suggestions of what to go with." Farris said that no matter what the deficiencies are that have been identified he still "would not authorize anything to be in place until next fall because there are a lot of questions that need to be asked." According to Farris those questions are: Why shouldalabbeinabuilding waiting , for someone to come and use it? (like the foreign language lab at South Campus) Why shouldn'tthelabsbeinacenu'allocationlihe , inalibrary sothatifyou'retheonlyperson , and you wanttocorne in’at9:00atnight,your ‘ can use it? Why spend money on new, in the computerlab? Why notspenda, .9 “State Regional Tournament “a: next step to dominance.” Led by Maria Teal and Demeira Adams the Lady Stars are not only number 1 in the state, but also in the nation. The Lady Stars have never been ranked number 1 upon entering the State/Regional Tournament, ’ which is held this year in Pensacola, Florida on February 23-25. Over the past three years the highest ranking they have achieved has been number 3. ‘ FCCJ Coach Lyndal Worth said, "What the National Poll means is that we are the team that should win. It's a great compliment to our program and our school to even be considered one of the'top five teams in the nation." Worth said, "We don‘t focus our attention on one particular game. We will prepare for the State/Regional Tournament the same way we prepare for any other game. It doesn't matter who we are playing or what the circumstances may be." . , Coach Worth continued, "We canonly take being nationally ranked so far. In order for us to win the National Championship we will have to take it one step at a time." , ' Newsbriefs Keep ofl grass Exploding nuns Goin still here Liberal Lipps 9 Arthur UnknOwn Comics Letters '11 .mumm 10 Classifieds 12 Sports Mr. Natural. Bits of into , Z ArchiveInABox,JAX,JAX Shipment #8,The Campus Voice,The Campus Voice February 14 1989,P01.tif, P01.tif