PCC Courier, April 09, 1987

Track Triumphs Page 4 President Announced DR. JACK SCOTT has been selected as PCC’s new Superintendent- President. Classic Classes Page 6 COURIER VOL. 64, NO. 8 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA APRIL 9, 1987 AS Revotes as Students Go to Capitol By Natalie Shore, Meta McCullough, Charlene Tabet Special Correspondents While 30 PCC students marched in Sacramento for education reform, AS Board members voted to help fund the bus which had already transported the group to the state’s capitol. At its April 6 meeting, the board’s after-the-fact 5-2 decision in favor of spending $700 towards transportation costs was a revote. The board mem¬ bers’ second vote came in reponse to an April 2 Courier article which “in: sinuated there had been an illegal vote,” according to Steve Amezola, board president. “After reconsidering, we decided to eliminate all doubts in the student body’s mind about whether or not the vote was illegal,” Amezola said. Dave Smith, vice president of student serv¬ ices, and Julie Rangel, vice president of academic affairs, voted against the appropriation. The Courier article reported that the board’s initial 4-1 vote with three abs¬ taining members had been illegally conducted. The AS Constitution re¬ quires at least five affirmative votes on any action taken by the AS Executive Board. Prior to voting, Amezola cautioned fellow board members “no abstentions. That’s what got us into trouble in the first place.” Amezola also prefaced the vote by saying “fellow students put us into office to make decisions not to take sides.” Amezola’s remark may have been prompted by personal misgivings Smith had expressed during a March 23 meeting regarding the march coalition appearing to represent the entire cam¬ pus. Smith supported some of the is¬ sues the group planned to protest. Smith retained his negative vote because “I didn’t like the way MEChA went about the whole thing.” Smith felt that MEChA had not provided addi¬ tional information the board had re¬ quested, and that the Black Student Union and the Asian Pacific Student Union had not been equally represented in the project. Smith expressed con¬ cern that the activity had been or¬ ganized and run solely by MEChA. Rangel voted against the motion because she questioned the validity of the support petition the clubs had circulated. “It’s a fact that people signed the petition for the march without knowing what they were sign¬ ing,” she said. Rangel did not account for how peo¬ ple could have unknowingly signed the petition, but said she knew the signa¬ tures were fraudulently obtained be¬ cause one board member checked with friends whose names appeared on the roster. They did not know the petition was in support of the march. Rangel would not divulge the board member’s name, but Amezola later confirmed that Gilbert Morgan, coordi¬ nator of cultural affairs, had done the checking. Morgan would not confirm or deny that he had researched the signatures, (continued on page 3) Annual Festival Beckons Thou By Lolita B. Parker Jr. Staff Writer Forty summer session students enrolled in English 60, 35 or 135 can expand their knowledge of theater through PCC’s From Page to Per¬ formance, sponsored by the English department. From Page to Performance will begin June 21 at the 53rd annual Oregon Shakespearean Festival, and will con¬ tinue through June 27 in Ashland. The program will be taught by Jane Hall- inger and Patricia Savoie, assistant English professors. This year the program is offering five $300 study grants to cover the program’s cost as well as class fees. The grant applications must be com¬ pleted and returned to C217 by April 22 at 4 p.m. The monies for the grants have been provided by the Student Services Fund. According to Hallinger, “The grant is very important in that it allows stu¬ dents in either theater arts or English to take a trip that they might otherwise not be able to afford.” The Festival offers a combination of modern and classical plays, Shakespeare’s Richard II, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, Sheppard’s Curse of the Staruing Class, Behan’s The Flostage and Dekker’s The Shoemakers Holiday. Backstage tours and daily classes with professional actors and directors make Ashland a complete theater ex¬ perience. “The excitement of discussing a pro¬ duction the morning after seeing it can’t be replicated. The one-to-one contact is what makes Ashland so special,” said Hallinger. The Festival which attracted more than 300,000 participants last year is conducted in a Renaissance setting, complete with authentic Elizabethan style musical and dance renditions each evening on the town green. Though the program is open to any student interested, the grants are only available to English and theater arts majors. Applicants must have com¬ pleted at least six units at PCC and be currently enrolled on at least a part- time basis and have a 2.5 G.P.A. Financial need must also be demon¬ strated. The applicant must also sub¬ mit a brief essay and a letter of recommendation from a faculty mem¬ ber. Enrollment in the summer session of English 60 is also required. Applications for From Page to Per¬ formance as well as grant applications are available in C217. The final dead¬ line for those not interested in the grant is May 8. The course fees are $280 and include seven nights accommodation. Students Invited All students are invited to a recep¬ tion welcoming the arrival of seven students from PCC’s sister city Ludwigshafen, Germany. The recep¬ tion will be held in the campus center lounge Wednesday, April 22 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The students and their two instructors will be in America for 17 days but only in Pasadena for six. The group will hit all the hot tourist spots such as Disneyland, the San Diego Zoo and the Grand Canyon. While in Pasadena they will stay with host families and sit in on PCC classes. Currently on exhibit in the PCC Art Gallery are photographs seen by millions of people in countless magazines and on numerous posters. The work is by professional advertising photographers from the Los Angeles area. Courier photo by Ruth Lozano Advertising Photographic Arts By Catherine F. Reynolds Editor in Chief A special premiere showing of selected photographic works by some of the most prominent advertising pho¬ tographers in the Los Angeles area has been unveiled at the PCC Gallery. The group exhibit, which began on April 6 and continues through April 30, reveals works representing 27 mem¬ bers of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Advertising Photographers of America (APA). Teri Sandison, member of the APA board of directors, who is responsible for formulating the first time exhibit, feels the show fulfills a need among college students to have access to professional works such as those fea¬ tured in the exhibit. “As an organization, we have had requests from various colleges fob shows such as this and we never had anything to send. So, we finally put this show together,” said Sandison. Sandison, who runs her own studio in L.A. called Lightra, Inc., specializes in food photography. Sandison is a UCLA fine arts graduate. She later continued her education at Art Center studying commercial photography. She will in¬ clude one of her own works which was featured in Los Angeles Times Maga¬ zine. “Photographing food requires the same psychological process as doing a painting or drawing because you create something with color, light and texture. With other types of art, like landscapes or portraits, you’re looking at some¬ thing that’s already there. But with food photography, you’re creating from a blank canvas,” said Sandison. The pieces in the show were origi¬ nally shot as transparencies. Inter¬ negatives had to be made in order to produce color prints for display. The inter-negatives for the prints on display were created by a state-of-the-art soft¬ ware process from the original trans¬ parencies. “Normally, when making inter¬ negatives, the technique for balancing the color and exposure is a very lengthy process. Achieving the inter-negative balance used to be a ‘shot in the dark,’ but now, the computer gets it down to single units of color correction and single percentages of exposure correc¬ tion. What we are working from is an inter-negative that is as close to being perfect as can be achieved,” said Mark Armstrong, vice president of Color Media, the company that made the inter-negatives. According to Roland Percy, photog¬ raphy instructor, all types of themes will be on display such as fashion, editorial, fantasy, food and car photog¬ raphy. An editorial theme for example, would be considered a period piece in which an advertiser might want to repi „sent his product from a specific period such as the 1950s. According to Percy, who also helped organize the show, “All you have to do is look at television. It is full of advertising that creates illusions with photographs or illustrations.” Percy feels the show represents an important type of photography. “Advertising photography is an impor¬ tant visual element in our daily lives. We are influenced by it.” “Since the photography itself takes on a kind of art form, and the art department is concerned with com- ( continued on page 3) Anthropology Students Study Ruins on Break By Jeremy Yeo Special Correspondent Spring Break. A good time to go to the beach? Perhaps skiing? Or maybe visit an ancient culture? For 17 students in Anthropology 30 the latter is true. The students plan to spend their spring break on a 10-day journey through Arizona and New Mex¬ ico studying the past cultures of the native American Indian, especially the Navajo and the Hopi. Accompanied by social science professor Elvio Angeloni, the group will have first hand experience with inhabitants of “live” pueblos, where they will observe the culture and tradi¬ tions that are still preserved to this day. They will visit Zuni, believed to be among the largest of existing pueblos. Also, they will journey into Jemez Pueblo which stands on a barren and stark mesa, some 5,500 feet high. Angeloni has made arrangements for a townsman to guide his students through the village to observe the Jemez people farm and fashion pottery. 11,1: i II "ill I I II Г I ШтШ ШМ Ем Teach of the Year Nominate your favorite, coolest, most radical teacher for “Teacher of the Year.” The time has come for PCC students to nominate their favorite faculty member for the Risser Outstand¬ ing Teacher Award. The criteria for the award is based on the quality of in¬ struction, inspiration to students, un¬ derstandable evaluation and grading and loyality to the college and to our country. The recipient of the Risser Award will receive $1,000 and the Ourstanding Teacher Recognition Plaque. Nomination forms are avail¬ able in the campus center, department offices and in C209. The completed forms must be returned to C209 by Wednesday, May 6 before 4:30 p.m. Library Amnesty In celebration of National Library Week, April 6 to 13 the PCC library is sponsoring Amnesty Month. During the month of April no fines will be charged for returning overdue Library materi¬ als. This amnesty only applies to mate¬ rials checked out before March 1. According to the library more than 1100 books, magazines, art prints and cassettes have not been returned over the last four years. So clear out your lockers, clean out your rooms and bnng back those books. Lecture Series Advertising: One Culture, One Message. How TV and other advertising messages celebrate homogeneity and promote dissatisfaction. This will be the topic presented by Michael Bloebaum, chairman of the com¬ munication department, in the PCC Forum on Thursday, April 23 at 11 a.m. The Library’s Lecture Series is the result of a grant from the PCC Founda¬ tion for developing intercultural under¬ standing. After Jemez, students will depart for Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, for a “self-guided” tour to investigate the archeological ruins of an Indian farming village about eight centuries old. The students will also chart their way through Ganado and Kearns Can¬ yon. the center of a vast Navajo reser¬ vation. The total cost of the 10-day field study trip to the students is $150. Angeloni, appreciative of a $1,100 subsidy from the student services fund said, “For $150, which includes food, transportion and camping ground fees the trip is invaluable. Students would likely spend more staying at home. My student anthropologists will learn about cultures of the past and better understand contemporary life.” Among other highlights, students will visit Walnut Canyon National Mon¬ ument where 300 or more prehistoric dwellings still remain, and Acoma (Sky City;, which is believed to be the oldest inhabited site in the United States. They will also see the Palace of the Governors and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.