Senator Alyssa Huerta was appointed as Faculty-Senate Liaison last Wednesday during the ASCC Senate meeting.

Also, concerns over MySpace continued to be addressed and the Senate discussed the confusion over math courses and which classes are semi-independent and lecture.

Huerta replaces former Senate Liaison Natasha Sabouhi who missed two consecutive Senate meetings.

According to ASCC Vice President Alex Armendariz, Sabouhi will not be eligible to run for student office next year.

At the time of her appointment, Sabouhi had expressed excitement in being the Liaison after Armendariz served last year and said, “I am excited to be Senate Liaison and I look forward to attending the Faculty Senate meetings.”

In addition, she said that during Armendariz’s tenure as Liaison she had learned a lot about what happens academically concerning Cerritos.

Neither Sabouhi nor Huerta could not be reached for comment.

Following the appointment of Huerta, MySpace was once again a point of interest as senators wanted to know what was being done to prevent students from accessing social Web sites such as MySpace and Friendster.

Senator Paul Manuel said that he had seen students accessing not only MySpace, but also YouTube as well as pornographic material.

Senate Clerk Mario San Juan, who works in the computer lab and library, interjected saying, “As of right now, the lab technicians have tried to ask students to not be on MySpace.”

“The lab techs only ask students to log off when they have been caught on MySpace,” he continued, “and students who are caught accessing inappropriate Web sites are not allowed internet access for the rest of the day.”

Armendariz commented that Commissioner of Information Technology Jason Macias was looking into the possibly of filtering the Internet.

On Oct. 30 however Macias said that the possibly of filtering the Internet was “up in the air” because he hadn’t gotten confirmation to do so from Dean of the Library and Learning Resource Center John McGinnis.