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Volume 99, Issue 7
‘The Independent Student Voice of PCC, Serving Pasadena Since 1915.”
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Jenny Bartlett
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Courier
The scoreboard at Jackie Robinson Memorial Field at Brookside Park, across the street from the Rose Bowl, sits in foul terri¬
tory and is just one of the examples of the field's deteriorating state.
Baseball
PCC's home ballpark
in state of disrepair
Jeremy Balan
Editor-in-Chief
PCC’s on-campus athletic facilities have
hosted three state championships in recent
years, and have been praised as some of the
best in the region. In contrast, they are a
stark comparison to the baseball team’s
home venue at Robinson Memorial Field
at Brookside Park in Pasadena.
The field, which is run by the city of
Pasadena, has been around since the
1930s, but was dedicated with Robinson’s
name in 1988. The Chicago White Sox and
St. Louis Cardinals have used the field for
spring training in the distant past.
The ills of the park can be seen as soon
as a fan or participant parks in front of the
stadium, as various forms of Pasadena
Public Works equipment and machinery
(wood chippers, tractors, liquid containers,
rusted paint and oil cans, construction
lights, traffic cones, a “Rake-o-vac,” etc.)
serve as sentinels guarding the entrance.
A rusty chain locks the apparent front
entrance, but the field can easily be
accessed by walking around to the side of
the stadium.
As you walk toward the green grass and
dirt of the field, a light pole that appears to
Field ' Disgraceful '
Jenny Bartlett
/
Courier
Rusted paint and oil cans litter the grounds of Jackie Robinson Memorial Field at
Brookside Park, where PCC's baseball team plays its home games.
have been ripped out of its bindings greets
you, as well as a rotting, paint-chipped
wooden scoreboard adorned with the
name of Jackie Robinson, the native son of
the city, and beacon for civil rights in the
national sports landscape.
A placard adorning the stadium speaks
to Robinson’s influence: “A scholar, an ath¬
lete, a trailblazer.”
One Pasadena citizen feels as though the
field’s condition slanders the icon’s name.
“I walk my dog around there every
morning,” said Curtis Autenrieth, PCC
neighbor and owner of SC Tickets Inc., on
Colorado Boulevard. “There is no dignity
to what the people in City Hall have let that
field get to. If [Robinson’s] wife ever went
over to see that field, she would feel dis¬
graced. It’s disgraceful.”
There are no signs directing potential
visitors to the field on the surrounding
roads around the Rose Bowl and Brookside
Park; the only hint of the field’s presence is
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Students
Rally Against
Hunger
Event promotes awareness
and spotlights global problem
Justin Clay
Staff Writer
Students rallied in PCC’s quad Wednesday to raise
awareness about world hunger.
Deanna O’Bryan, a 19-year-old art major, organized
“Be the Change,” hoping to raise student awareness
about world poverty.
“Ending world hunger is an issue that has been in my
heart for a long time,” said O’Bryan.
“Even though the world produces more food than
ever before, a billion people still go hungry every night,”
she said.
“Twenty-five thousand people, mostly children, die
every day from hunger, and we have the resources to
make a difference,” O’Bryan added.
The event featured a number of different stations for
students to learn about hunger. There were petitions to
President Barack Obama to give more government funds
to Third World countries.
Students were served a porridge made from rice and
water, so that they may better understand what people in
poorer nations have to eat.
Ben Zobrist, 17, undecided, helped out with the event.
“I think people see the statistics, but may not think it
affects them. That’s why we wanted to serve them this
meal to let them understand what starving people go
through. Sometimes this is all they have to eat for the
whole day,” said Zobrist.
There was also information about various world
organizations that are trying to fight world poverty, and
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AS Incorporates Extra
Money Into Budget
Rajiv Mirchandani
Staff Writer
The Associated Students increased its 2009 academic-
year budget, which had been $125,400, after discovering
Wednesday that it had an extra $1 1,500.
The extra money was generated for AS through the
cafeteria, bookstore and vending machines, according to
Scott Thayer, assistant dean of student affairs.
AS Vice President of Business Affairs Devin Leung
pointed out the main programs that would benefit from
the new funds that the AS has at its disposal.
“It will be mainly used toward the AS Scholarship
Program, AS web page support and business discre¬
tionary, which would allow us to help [fund] clubs,” said
Leung. He also expects to add $2,000 to the new amend¬
ed budget.
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