hello everyone I'm Noah Russell and welcome to this fall edition of i-news
do you want to know how to transfer to a Cal State we have all the important
information with the counselor here at LBCC and we'll get to know one of our
board members Vivian Malaulu will also give you information about our
award-winning radio program all this and more on IE news
do you want to learn how to transfer to a four-year university let's go to I a
news reporter Yahya Fanuni who interviews Reuben page hi I'mYahya Fanuni
with IE news I'm here today with mr. Reuben page our transfer coordinator
hello so Reuben you want to give us sort of a quick step-by-step process on the
transfer process itself yeah okay yeah I could tell you a little
bit about what's going on right now okay in terms of transfer for next fall
applications for the Cal States and UCS are pretty much due on November 30th so
that gives us what we've got a couple of weeks to go to I always tell students
you may want to try to get it done before Thanksgiving so you can enjoy
your Thanksgiving dinner and not have to worry about applications exactly that's
true there will be some there may be some that extend beyond November 30th
but I tell students don't risk it just try to meet the priority deadline of
November 30th please give you an extension and that's great but if not
exactly if you're not it's not you're gonna have to wait until the next term
and not everyone opens for the spring unfortunately that's interesting so it
may be certain schools that if I miss this particular deadline I won't be able
to reapply until next year correct we would an example is Cal State Dominguez
Hills traditionally our in the past they have only been open for just a few
online programs in the spring so if you've missed this fall you will more
than likely be waiting until next fall to apply for Dominguez Hills so just one
thing I want to touch on before we kind of go through the process we spoke
earlier about certain schools that have been impacted by these budget cuts and
the difficulty you know the application process and whether or not you'll
actually be accepted based on your GPA tonight you said that cal state
dominguez is one of those schools that has not been impacted yeah the Cal State
Dominguez Hills has not reached campus-wide impaction yet however more
and more students are thinking of them definitely as an option and so I can't
guarantee that their programs will not stay unimpacted in the future for for a
Cal State Long Beach all majors they're so popular all majors are impacted right
now which means that they have certain not only GPA cut-offs but also certain
major courses that are required for you to be admitted so for instance Cal State
Dominguez is one of those schools where I can have a 2.0 and still be accepted
correct but Cal State Long Beach is not correctly just because of their
impaction so what would be the requirement my GPA and my overall GPA it
would be it would depend on the major ok I would I see most of them at 2.5 or
above that's not bad yes some are higher than others though depending on their
popularity ok that's interesting so let's say for instance I want to start
the process I go to the Transfer Center first yeah there's a couple of things
that I would tell students to do actually one is definitely go to your
transfer our Transfer Center at La si or PCC ok La si we're in building a room
one zero nine seven okay and at PCC building EE 105 so you can get clued in
and start getting on to tours making appointments with university
representatives that are visiting make appointments that are with counselors
that are in the Transfer Center and sign up for a variety of great workshops okay
you also want to see earth counselor every semester and take advantage of all
the different things that are going on with transfer that I spoke of make sure
that you're on the right educational plan for whatever school it is that you
want transfer to correct and you said you can make appointments with the
counselors on that alternate campus that you're planning on transferring to yes
so for example today UC Irvine's actually in our Center at La si okay
taking appointments we've had Cal State Dominguez Hills at PCC taking
appointments we actually have a representative tabling at PCC today from
a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of the Student Union so if I kept in touch with the
Transfer Center then I would see that calendar of dates exactly when the
particular university or Cal State System that I wanted to transfer here on
my cat exactly we actually have a half slip it's our kind of email blast slip
if you filled that out tell us what school you're interested
major when you're thinking of transferring we can kind of tailor our
emails to you ok so we tell you when that we're telling all our students on
that email blast list the deadline is November 30th if you're applying for
next fall we're telling student is when the UC
Irvine rep is here the LA rep is here when we're having workshops for the UC
personal insight questions so they get that information emailed to them and
when they're ready to transfer or they transfer they just say please stop
bothering me unsubscribe yeah and I thank you would be nice too yeah thank
you they're always great I'm sure you guys deserve it you do a lot of work in
it so the application process itself is started within the Transfer Center here
on the campus actually we are one of the primary sources of help but it's all
online ok so some students feel that they don't need our help for the
Transfer Center and they go through the process themselves yeah they just start
in their homes on their laptops their personal feeling out their own
application yeah and we're there just in case they get a tricky question say I
don't know how to answer page 2 question number 3 can you tell me the right way
to answer this question well you're there with us every step of the way yes
whether we need you or we exactly we're always there well we need you yeah yeah
definitely is there anything else that you think
our students who are planning on transferring need to know about this
process I would actually I try to warn students that when you're applying
you're playing basically a year in advance so our students applying for
fall of 2018 are playing right now that's a big huge gap prior to that some
students don't understand why am i playing a year early on the application
you actually put down what you're taking this semester and planning to take
future semesters oh I see and they condensed conditionally accept you based
on that information if you're talking to me in the spring and saying I want to
transfer in the fall it's already typical
too late that makes sense yeah yeah that makes sense they want to see you know
the educational path you're on mm-hmm and then what you're planning on taking
when you arrive on their campus what some students will ask me why don't they
look at it in the summer right before fall it's just not enough time I would
assume that pushing all that paperwork right before the semester actually
starts will be yeah doesn't give them enough time to process no yeah that's
exactly why they're looking at the information right now does that make
sense yeah well thank you so much for being
here with us having you and I'll be there soon Long Beach City College once
again I'm Yahoo nuni with IE news this is mr. Rubin page if you have any
questions about transferring go to the Transfer Center thank you
being a board member here at lbcc has a lot of responsibility
let's meet board member Vivian Mel Lulu up close and personal hi Long Beach City
College I'm Y - Unni with IE news I'm sitting
here today with the lovely mrs. Vivian mala Alou thank you right and she's the
first Latina to be elected to the Long Beach City College Board of Trustees is
that correct that's correct and we talked earlier about how you ran a
campaign that's right and you were able to challenge a seated incumbent correct
and now you're in that position correct do you want to maybe tell some of the
student body a little bit about what your responsibility is which seems like
a lot sure sure so the College Board of Trustees is a
five-member body and each member on the board represents a different part of the
district I am the trustee for area - which
represents West Long Beach in the south-central parts of the city those
are Long Beach City Council District six and seven mostly a little bit of
district one also and we have a fiduciary responsibility to the college
making sure that everything that we do every decision
that we make reflects positively on students the staff the faculty as well
as a community our biggest responsibility is our budget to make
sure that we have a fair balanced budget that the college is always well ran and
funded all our programs and secondly you know we oversee just about every item of
operation on campus including contract negotiations with the bargaining units
the unions on campus of the full-time faculty of the part-time faculty as well
as a classified staff so we've been able to ratify two contracts and hopefully
we'll have one more pending and then we'll be done with negotiations for a
couple of years oh well that's great that alleviate you slightly it is it's
fantastic and then we have an amazing strategic plan and we have you know I
love Long Beach City College because of the people who work here we have the
most amazing faculty staff administrators and our strategic plan is
so important to our success and we're currently midterm and our accreditation
so we're doing so many wonderful things that even without contract negotiations
we would be busy and productive anyway because it seems like the board has a
great relationship with the fashion or I have a great relationship with everybody
here I love my board we we work really hard to get things done even though we
might not always agree we still manage to make the right decision every single
time so I'm very happy about that it was a lot of discussion a lot of effort some
compromising but we're able to get it done and look I mean we have an amazing
College as a result of it it's a great College it's actually listed as like one
of the number one surety colleges it should be the number one yeah it should
I absolutely I think's animation along business yeah yeah so you're a very busy
woman aside from that you're married and you have children Coran and uh you're
also a longshoreman correct so my my first job is as a wife and mother which
is a full-time job within itself right my husband and I will be celebrating 20
years of marriage next year Wow we have four kids
between the ages of 17 and 9 so I've got elementary school a middle schooler into
high school it's way too young extra credit for her assignment here thank you
but that's really my priority and then I do have my real job which is you know my
bread and butter I'm a longshore worker I work for the Twin Ports complex of Los
Angeles and Long Beach registered member of ILWU local 13 I love my union Union
Union yes and I'm very active in my union so in addition in addition to my
job which I worked the night shift so in addition to my night job
I'm also very active in the Union and I'm an elected officer in my Union I'm
I've been several positions currently I'm a trustee in my Union no
relationship to being a trustee at Long Beach City College they were very
different it just so happens that we have you know three trustees for our
local and I'm one of them but I've you know I've ran and been elected by the
grace of God my membership has supported me and that keeps me busy I'm sure it
does because when people have grievances or union they come to you and I don't
really deal with that we do have LRC labor relations of Representatives who
do that but I do have a fiduciary responsibility to the local so we are
involved in a lot of the contracts and hiring the same as here so the the
trustee position and in itself is very similar they just aren't related or not
related right yeah because a completely different job and correct correct well
you're so busy how do you make time for it all truthfully honestly what I do is
every morning I wake up and I pray and I make a list of everything that I want to
do that day usually starts with everything I have to do that name and
then what I want to do and I just I really just give it to God and I go from
one thing to another to another and I'm on the phone driving from question of
every pray phone calls and while you're checking your email not while I'm
driving but you know and then you know I you have to be really
organized you have to have a really effective yeah your calendar is
important and I I make mistakes you know a couple times I've shown up I've shown
up at the wrong place at the wrong time it's happened a couple of times I'm I do
it all the time so what it's happened to me a couple of times and I just kind of
play it off and say hi I just stopped by to see how things were going and they're
like okay right well it's tough it's tough and I know you're juggling a lot
but I'm really involved too and and I don't do anything I don't want to do I
thankfully I've paid my dues and I've been there done that and for many years
I did a lot of things that I had to do that I may not have wanted to do but now
I've I'm in a position where just about everything I do I want to do you're
doing what you want I'm like what you love a board member for the greater Long
Beach YMCA early childhood education program I love that board I'm a
commissioner for youth and children for the city I love that board people ask me
all the time you know could you be on our border I know we're looking for a
board member at our nonprofit so I mean it I would love to but ya know you're
swamped I'm on four boards and I'm happy yeah I can do them too - at work - here
I'm good yeah you can juggle it yeah where did you attend school do you mind
me asking no so I'm not sure how far back you want to go but I was born in
Honduras okay I came to the UN Honduras just lost and the qualifying match to us
oh wow we beat Mexico we did so well against Australia really I came anyway I
was up to 1:00 in the morning watching the game because it was you know
televised late well good luck mate yeah so I came to
the US when I was 7 I attended all public schools I grew up in Carson I
graduated from banning high school okay I got my BA in journalism from Cal State
Northridge and my master's in educational administration at Cal State
Dominguez Hills and I do hope to finish a PhD that I started you know three kids
ago you'll get there though I will but once my kids are up and out it'll be my
time to go back to school how did you end up residing here in Long Beach so my
husband and I both grew up in Carson okay
we would when we were dating we always came to Long Beach a great city Mike
always always did things in Long Beach and when it was time for us to look for
a house we naturally looked in Long Beach and we chose the closest
neighborhood to Carson West yeah so you still there anyway minutes away
from my parents his parents our church it's convenient and this is a great city
oh yeah there's a lot to do here yeah we went full steam ahead we go right in our
kids have gone through all the area schools they've gone through the parks
and recs they've played you know I've got my boys right now are playing West
Long Beach Little League oh nice my girls have been Long Beach Allstars my
boys were Long Beach Allstars your Long Beach tout yeah but we're really happy
to have you thank you you're like a wonderful inspiration I mean it's to see
a woman in this day and time to be able to do as much as you're doing and still
juggle domestic life and be so involved in the community it's a lot thanks a lot
you're definitely an inspiration thank you and I hope that there are you know
many many young ladies and women out there who never take no for an answer
just make goals and achieve them please please please stay in school go as far
as you can with your education that's import every buddy
my biggest regret is seeing students who don't pursue the education who settle
for one and it's they could dick you keep going yeah you can on that note
Long Beach City College when you leave here
keep it going rights right thank you so much for coming today we really
appreciate it it was wonderful meeting you thank you
Long Beach City College this is the I offer new knee with IE news and we're
saying goodbye to miss Vivian my Lou go Vikings yeah maybe you didn't know
but lbcc has an award-winning radio television program
let's meet radio instructor Ken borders to learn more hi ladies and gentlemen in
Long Beach City College I'm here with mr. Ken borgers he is the instructor of
our radio activity class and he's got an amazing story
pretty interesting entertaining to say the least
checkered career I guess so so how'd you how did you get into radio and how did
your entire career start well I was going to school I was going
at the time I was going to USC my father taught there so I got in free that's one
of the perks of being a USC professor kid and worked at the station k USC
which was student-run at the time okay priorly student-run 30,000 watt FM
station in Los Angeles oh wow hi early student run so it was it was a great
opportunity and I did that for the first semester and a half that I was there and
I decided that try to go get a job you know in commercial radio so there's a
place called the Southern California Broadcasters Association SCBA and now
it's online SCBA dot-com but back then you had to actually go in up on Highland
and there was a big board about 50 60 feet long
with all the jobs listed in Southern California for production for management
for sales for engineering there was one announcer job and it was in Colton which
is right outside San Bernardino which is nowhere 60 miles and I had a Chevy with
a 348 engine so it was not great on gas but I called the program director and
back then you could actually get the program director of a radio station on
the phone yeah and he said come on out so I drove out there and my Chevy with a
348 engine and I had my resume and I had at the time he had an audition tape now
you would have an mp3 sample online for somebody to look at right but I had to
have a tape and a resume and I walked in and I gave it to him and he said okay he
put him on the table they gave me two commercials should go
in the studio there and read those two commercials into the microphone and I
did and I came out and he said you're hired just like that and I said well
what don't I need to know something about music and then we're gonna give
you all the music to play don't worry about it
and I said well what about working the equipment should I get teaching banana
to work they put in about half an hour there's nothing to working the equipment
don't worry about it so could I pick something up and make it sound spoken
instead of red right and if I could do that then I was hired well that's
important that would that in this business that's really important
practice reading aloud would be my first bit of advice to people who want to grow
BOTS are taking over everything but yes well there's still no substitute for a
voice that can read they haven't got robots to that point
they probably will but they haven't gotten to that point so anyway I was
hired I made a dollar sixty an hour it's a lot of money back then huh back in
nineteen was a lot of money Noah was not very much money but it was a job and I
worked 6:00 to midnight every night seven nights of shift every night was
seven nights a week and I was playing what they were used to refer to as
Italian music Mantovani and Melek Reno and the cascading voices of the Hugo and
Luigi chorus and every 15 minutes I would come in and say okay or 40 San
Bernadino you know like that we had to talk like that and it was it was
classical music for people who didn't like classical music
kind of like the wave I sure like the wave yeah like the way if people who
want some music but they just you know they don't want to have to think too
much right just some background background noise so they don't have to
you know I'd rather listen to a thousand cycle tone than that but some people
like that okay so I worked there for a few months and then I quit because I was
driving back and forth and 60 miles and with my Chevy Chevy I figured after each
day I made about 50 cents after my death but it paid for everything I mean it it
led to everything else that I did in the business because the guy who hired me
there a few months later hired me at KAC oh wow long beach okay Kay NAC was an FM
station at 105 and a half FM not it it doesn't exist anymore in the format of
rock and roll it was bought by Spanish owners and it became KB UE well when I
was growing up I remember KN ac being a rock and roll station it was 105.5 right
like he said one five and a half yeah but when you started FM was kind of like
a new thing oh yeah it was in it was real Frontier Days you know was wide
open and we were coming off of what they called American top 40 in AM radio which
was a very tightly formatted less talked fewer songs nothing more than three
minutes when FM started in mid 60's late 60s it was kind of a rebellion against
all that you could play half our songs you could talk for 45 minutes change the
form it was wide open you know so it was it was
kind of like the internet is now it was a frontier you know and it was exciting
to be to be part of that and I I worked in rock-and-roll radio there and then I
went out in Illinois and I worked in rock and roll radio in Carbondale
Illinois for a couple of years and then came back here got into non-commercial
radio where I've been pretty much ever since but you weren't really a rock and
roll guy you're kind of more of a jazz man right well yeah I didn't know
anything about rock and roll and came the time the station changed format
while I was there I started playing middle road music and changed to rock
and roll music and I went in to do my first show and knowing nothing about the
format and the record library was about as big as your television studio and I
knew nothing about the music so it was headed to to 6:00 a.m. shift
that was my first gonna be my first rock and roll ship and I got a call about ten
minutes before one on the air from the guy who was the number one jock on the
station Don bunch and and he's at a party and you can do it people partying
you know around him and he said hey you're doing your first show tonight I
said yeah and I said you know anything about the music and I said no and he
said okay well go over to the Jays look for Jethro Tull you know and he he sat
there and people would bring him up drinks and food and he he sat with me
for the entire four hours from 2:00 to 6:00 a.m. he'd already worked that day
right and he sat with me in program - saved my life yes put it politely
because I after that I had a grounding and stuff to start with you know and I
knew I knew some names right I learned the four you could kind of old friend so
there's my second lesson after reading aloud needing to practice reading a lot
take any job whether it's in your what you your ideal format or whatever take
any job we have a I work at a jazz station now in San Diego KSD s 88.3 and
there's a black fella Ron Denis foo who's been on the air forever he was on
KPFK in Los Angeles in the 60s but they're in a period in his life where he
needed a job and he was working in country station and he was PD wheat
straw for for his his incarnation as a country guy so you do what you needed
and it's a very very small community the people in radio everybody knows
everybody and somebody that works for you you'll be working for him
you're too late at that point it's just just that's the way it is
so the third lesson I have for you is don't burn a bridge always be nice as
ray sharp said in his careers class this week where I was it doesn't cost
anything to be nice you know thank you nice to people because it will pay
dividends later when people because we had a guy come talk to the career toutes
to the radio class career counselor dr. Chaz Austin and he was saying you know
it's not enough to know how to do stuff it's not what you know it isn't even
really who you know like people always say this it's who you know well enough
that when there's an opening they'll remember you and they'll call you and
that means having a rapport with the people you work with so if I wanted to
get into radio which I am in the program our award-winning program here at Long
Beach City of course right one radio telling we've won six national awards in
the last four years that's great I mean who else can say that in
California as a Community College think of another place actually I mean I was
searching before I came to this program I was on a search and this was actually
the only one I found yeah I mean there's a lot of colleges have abandoned radio
and or television because it's very expensive to keep a commitment to a
program like this you have to be constantly coming up with grants to buy
more equipment that sort of stuff but this place has a 40 year plus commitment
to radio TV at Long Beach City I had no idea we were here this long
mid-seventies Kayle Kayle BC started up and and the program has been going
continuously since so if you were looking for a place to take radio TV
this is a good place to do it you asked about how to get into the business the
best way there there are two ways to get into the the business one is to know
somebody right and the other way is to intern I tell people this is the best
way to get into the business and you can we have an internship class and you sign
up for a certain number of units depending on how many hours you're going
to commit to going to the place of business to work and then you intern
with the radio or television station and as the career counselor said when he
was here Chazz Austin internships what are they but long probation periods Eric
chance their chance for the place to look at you and for you to look at the
place and a lot of times they'll hire directly from internships part of that
is something that's very difficult to teach and that is ingratiating yourself
hitching your wagon to somebody's star there and we can get you into the
building and a lot of times people do an internship and did you get something but
yeah they had me folding and stapling and stuff no I mean did you use these
the internships you figure out how to get in you know and the manage of the
situation the television world and mr. Hirsch will correct me on the numbers
but it's something like this one way to get into the television business is to
be a page at the networks they get something like 40 thousand applications
four pages a year pages of people who give give studio tours you know open
doors for people and that sort of thing and they get 40,000 applications they
pick about 45 people and you're a page for six months if in that six months you
haven't figured out a way in you don't have enough drive write business and
you're out and they'll get somebody else to do it because once you're on the
inside it's just like being an intern once you're on the inside you can see
where the jobs are right and you can find your way in right and if you can't
find your way in you're not cut out not for you because it is the most
competitive business in the world ray Burton who was the head of the program
here before mr. Hirsch always when people came in and they said I want to
do something radio TV but I I don't know what first question he asked it was do
you want to be rich or do you want to be famous because the only reason is going
to the talent side of this business if is to use a double negative if you can't
not do it if you are driven to be on the radio or
television then great but know that it's the most competitive business in the
world the other side of the business sales production yeah
it's those people have much more stable careers and
and really in the long run much more lucrative careers because they usually
because they aren't constantly on the make looking for it right you know it's
sort of like in in politics where senators and congresspeople come and go
but the people who run the office stay there a station Republican in front and
charge the office and there's a Democrat in Trousdale but you still need somebody
to do the scheduling too you know coordinate everything and those people
have long careers so that's radio TV is is the same way go into the other side
of the business you can't make money any way faster in this world then selling
radio or TV time that's that's where the money is so I can see that so we'll
we'll hope to see folks out there in the radio program here sometimes how how can
they can they go on the website or yes just enrolling the newly redesigned Long
Beach City College website is very user friendly and you can go there and find
all the for all the programs that are listed in the radio all the classes
listed in a TV department or right up there you can enroll online and classes
will start again January I think the last week in January okay so there's
site they're signing up now yeah and there's short term classes that we're
starting now right this I believe there was charge yes there are some short
there's a short term session in between the fall and the spring and they're
they're going to be teaching the core class in the department RTB one during
that time and then when spring starts in January the full slate of our TV classes
will be in coffee and that's the acronym that we look for on the website is our
TV our TV our underscore TV I think that's what it says but you'll find it
alphabetically by and the schedule of classes thanks so much for coming today
thanks for having me it's always really great to talk to you likewise yeah Cory
is always enthralling Thanks thanks guys this is Yahoo nuni with IE
news well that just about wraps up this
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