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ASSOCIATED STUDENTS
Yet Another Quits
Kristian Magnani, vice president of external affairs, hands in his resignation this week
BY GAU RAVAL
Staff Writer
For the fourth time this school year and
the first time this semester, an Associated
Student Body member has resigned. Kristian
Magnani, vice president of external affairs,
has decided to leave his post, with only about
a month and a half of his term left.
Magnani said that he had to leave because
of personal matters.
“I was falling behind in my classes and
my job. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to
finish this year off.”
Due to the suddenness of this decision
and the fact that there is not a lot of time left
in the semester, the A.S. will not elect anoth¬
er officer until next fall.
“We were devastated about him leaving;
we even tried talking him out of it. It’s going
to be tough, but we are going to have to go
on without him,” said Robert DeOcampo, AS
president.
Being part of any extra-curricular activity
requires going above and beyond the average
student workload. For instance, A.S. mem¬
bers have meetings to attend, and they also
have to be available during the week to
answer any questions the student body may
have.
“Students have to prioritize. Their acade¬
mic and personal lives have to come first.
Most work full time and have classes to
worry about also,” said Rebecca Cobb, AS
adviser.
Magnani is the first officer this semester
to leave, unlike last semester, three officers
decided to quit. “Losing four is really not
too bad.” said Cobb.
“There have been A.S. boards where the
majority turned over completely. If a
scholastic or personal opportunity comes up,
we can’t keep them from it.”
Many of the current members are very
disappointed to have their fellow board
member depart.
“I was bewildered by his good-bye state¬
ment because he said he was leaving for per¬
sonal matters,” said Omar Loera, the vice
president of campus activities.
DeOcampo especially admired Magnani’s
performance. “He was the last person I
thought would go. He brought a different
level of intelligence to the meetings. I would
have liked to finish this semester without los¬
ing any members. He will definitely be
missed.”
Due to Magnani’s urgent and immediate
resignation, the AS board was not able to
make an official acceptance of it. The matter
will be addressed and discussed at next
week’s meeting.
FILE PHOTO
Kristian Magnani is the fourth officer to quit so far this school year.
EDUCATION
Politicians
Talk About
Reform
Secretary for Education discusses stan¬
dards and goals for statewide education
BY TIM ALVES
Staff Writer
Gary Hart, California
secretary for education,
addressed administrators,
faculty, and concerned resi¬
dents about the need to set
higher scholastic targets for
students and teachers, set up
a system of financial
rewards for schools with a
high level of performance,
and punish schools that fail
to meet those standards.
Invited on behalf of the
Jack Scott Community
Issues Forum, about 150
people turned out to hear
Hart, Dede Alpert, chair of
the State Senate Education
Committee, and Dr. Charles
Reed, chancellor of the
California State University
(CSU) discuss whether or
not education reform in
California was possible.
Hart outlined the areas of
education reform that he,
Alpert, and Reed empha¬
sized throughout the
evening.
“We need to focus in four
areas: standards based edu¬
cation, focus on the teaching
profession, governance
issues, and privatization,” he
explained.
Hart defined standard
based education as first set-
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higher academic goals
for students and teachers.
“We need to decide on
appropriate measurements
that will assess the perfor¬
mance of our students, and
we need to develop a system
of Rewards and punishments
for those that meet or fail to
meet those standards,” he
FORUM, pg. 5
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THE COURIER
Gary Hart, secretary of education for California, spoke last week at PCC.
PARKING UPDATE
Neighbors Angry
Over Proposed
Parking Garage
Homeowners near campus demand full-scale
enivronmental impact report
BY TIM ALVES
Staff Writer
The open forum held to voice
concerns regarding the proposed
parking structure on Del Mar and
Bonnie, turned into a browbeating
as irate residents blasted the pro¬
ject as “a serious lapse in judg¬
ment,” Tuesday night.
Led by councilman Sid Tyler, a
steady parade of the 50 or so resi¬
dents from the surrounding neigh¬
borhoods urged the college to do a
full scale environmental impact
report (EIR).
The group refuted the findings
contained in the mitigated nega¬
tive declaration (MND) document
commissioned by the college to
determine the impact of the con¬
struction on the environment.
The MND found that the traffic,
lighting glare, and noise were
“less than significant” problems
of concern and would not have a
negative effect on the sur¬
rounding area.
Addressing a panel that
included Dr. James Kossler,
PCC president, Susan Miele,
board of trustees president, Dr.
Rod Fleeman, vice president of
administrative services, and Irena
Finkelstein, a representative of
Cotton-Beland, the firm that pro¬
duced the MND, Tyler laid out the
basic concerns of the residents.
“I would like to see a better
analysis of the environmental
impact of this structure on the
traffic increases for Bonnie, the
noise, the lighting, and the loss of
vistas,” said Tyler.
“I am livid for a reason. Not
for what’s happened, but for
what’s going to happen next,”
said Eric Huelsman. “I live
directly across from where the
structure is going to be built. The
wind blows from west to east and
REPORT, pg. 4
TECH NEWS
Vandals Damage Buildings Over Break
PHOTO COURTESY CAMPUS POUCE
The letters ‘JPL’ were engraved in the R building.
BY AUDREY ALLEN
Staff Writer
A “tagger” team armed with sharp “scriber” pens,
scratched the windows on numerous buildings on
campus which resulted in extensive damages totaling
about $12,000. The tag, “JPL” was etched on each
damaged window along with “164.” According to
campus police, JPL means “just plain loony, just plain
loaded, and just Pasadena locals.” This gang or “crew
of kids” was traced back to Blair High School in 1993.
According to Linda Ruff, a clerk in facilities, most
of the glass had to be “special ordered because of the
unique size and shape of some panes.” The replace¬
ment is taking a long time, and won’t be completed
until later this week. The vandalization probably hap¬
pened all in the same night, however Sgt. Vince
Palermo said some people have said they saw the
numbers scratched into glass the night before the inci¬
dent was reported by the campus police.
Palermo said at 2:30 a.m. on March 29, officer
Nick Hoekstra was on his nightly patrol and found the
defaced glass. This gang responsible for this is a bus
tagging crew with its primary interest being to
“destroy things,” to put their name in a code and to
leave a mark of their territory. “They do it for recog¬
nition.”
Palermo said that the investigation turned up a
“tip” that one or two JPL members work on campus;
however, there is no evidence that they are the ones
“responsible for the damage.”
“We contacted Pasadena Police to see who the
crew JPL might be, they didn’t know. “It’s our prob¬
lem on campus, not theirs.” Palermo then decided to
ask students about JPL.
After Spring Break, when classes were back in ses¬
sion, “we contacted about eight current students who
we suspect are “ex-taggers.” We waited until their
classes were over, and we asked them foe.information.
However, they knew nothing of who was responsible.
But that is how we found out who JPL is,” explained
Palermo.
These students who acted as informants were quot¬
ed as saying, that JPL was a well-established tagging
crew and that they do heavy “advertising,” operating
VANDALS, pg. 5
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