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VOL. 83 NO. 25
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
Courier
THURSDAY
APRIL 16, 1998
ELECTIONS
Time Has Come to
Select AS Officers
Vote: So far, 1 4 have made
themselves eligible for the ballot
AS president Aaron Schaefer.
The election will be conducted
by the Pasadena chapter of the
League of Woman Voters and
assisted by the office of student
affairs. The ballot counting will
take place after the polls close.
Filing of complaints or protests with
the election committees have to be
done no later than April 30 by 11
a.m. in CC203. The complaints
must be in wiriting and received by
a student affairs staffer.
Results will be posted April 30 at
7 p.m. They will be available in the
office of student affairs and the AS
dispay case on the second floor of
the CC Building.
Each candidate filled out appli¬
cations and turned in a petition
signed by 50 students complete with
social security numbers in order to
run.
All of these procedures had to be
completed on or before the desig¬
nated deadlines or the candidate
would be disqualified.
The AS has collected applica¬
tions for even7 position and there
will be four current board members
running again
LEAGUE CHAMPS
By CHRISTINE GOMEZ
Courier Staff Writer
Associated Students elections
are back.
The semester is coming to an end
and it’s time to select new officers.
The AS elections will be held on
April 28 and 29 from 9 a.m. to 2
p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the
Student Services Building (L) ter¬
race.
This year’s vote will be gov¬
erned by two constitutions. The
new constitution that was approved
a few weeks ago will govern the job
descriptions and positions for next
year.
Each position will also have the
title of vice president as prescribed
in the new constitution.
The chief justice of the supreme
council will now be an elected posi¬
tion. The old guidelines will govern
the timeline and events of the elec¬
tions such as meetings and cam¬
paigning.
“When we wrote the new consti¬
tution we didn’t have time to write
new election codes or bylaws,” said
Tennis Team Earns a
Share of SCC Title
Sports: First since 1 992 season
By LY P. PHAM
Courier Staff Writer
The mens’ tennis team finished
its regular season with a close 4-5
loss to Long Beach College on
Monday, creating a three-way tie
with LBC and Marymount College
for the South Coast Conference
championship. The squads first title
since 1992.
The Lancer’s top-seeded
Anthony Rodogna displayed his
leadership again with a tough three-
set victory 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, improving
his overall record to 13-1.
With a chance at a 4-2 lead after
the singles round of play, sixth seed
Tomas Abel could not increase the
lead and was beaten 6-4, 6-7, 1-6.
“Tomas Abel’s game was a piv¬
otal one,” said Coach Myron
Tarkanian. “Abel won the first set
and could have closed it out. Only
a few crucial points were lost in the
second set, but it was enough to lose
the tie-breaker.”
The team heads into individual
finals next week at the Maiymount
Tournament with a season record of
13-2, 8-2 in conference.
“I’m so proud of these guys for
their efforts,” Tarkanian said of the
team’s current standings. “If some¬
one told me in preseason that we
would end up with a share of the
title and 13-2 overall record, I
would have thought they were
nuts.”
Coach Tarkanian anticipates that
his team will learn from Monday’s
season ending loss.
JUSTIN ROBERTSON /THE COURIER
Larry Mantle, one of KPCC’s top broadcasters, has filed a grievance along
with three other station staffers against communications faculty.
Mantle Files
Grievance
administration” has adversely affected the
station, damaged their professional reputa¬
tions and created severe emotional distress.
The grievance claims that certain com¬
munication division faculty have “used
class time to harangue students concerning
unsubstantiated claims” against KPCC staff
and have “used their grading power over
students to coerce student’s [into] false
impressions of KPCC staff.
Please see STATION, page 4
By JASON KOSAREFF
Courier Staff Writer
Accusations that KPCC 89.3 FM radio is
being nm as a “fiefdom” have led four staff
members from the station to file a griev¬
ance against four members of the commu¬
nications division faculty.
KPCC staff allege that “several years of
false statements and reports . concerning
their work to the board of trustees and
POLICE BEAT
Cadets: Decoys
or Officers?
Safety: Recent peeping
incident raises questions
By MAN DANA TOWHIDY
Courier Staff Writer
Most students feel they are safe from crime when¬
ever they are on campus. After all. cadets are posted
in the parking lots and throughout campus. However,
more and more instances are surfacing that call atten¬
tion to the reality of safety problems on campus.
One of the most serious questions is what are the
cadets actually trained to do? Are they qualified to
protect the students who are in need of police assis¬
tance, or are they simply decoys scattered around cam¬
pus in order to give students the “feeling” that they are
really safe? Some students have experienced danger¬
ous situations in which police support was essential,
but unavailable.
Take the experience of Alison [real name with¬
held], for example. On March 12, Alison attended her
evening nutrition class in the U Building. After class,
she went to use the restroom on the bottom floor at
approximately 9 p.m.
While Alison was in the stall, she heard someone
come in. “I didn’t think anything was strange at that
point. But after a few moments I got a really weird
feeling because the person didn’t seem to be using the
restroom,” she said. “A couple of minutes later I
looked down there was an African-American guy
lying on the ground looking up at me-while I was
using the restroom !” Horrified by the incident, Alison
said she yelled at the man, “What are you doing?” and
the man ran out of the restroom.
Alison immediately went to find help. “I ran to the
booth in the parking lot where the cadets are supposed
to be, but no one was there,” she said.
The construction site also proved to be an obstacle
in her quest for help. “I had to run all the way around
the entire site to get to the library. I wanted to go
where I could find a cadet,” she said.
Alison finally found two cadets and explained what
had happened. But she did not receive the aid she
expected. “The cadets were shaking and acting really
nervous like they didn’t know what to do,” Alison
explained. Having had some training in law enforce¬
ment, she proceeded to tell the bewildered cadets
what to do.
“I had to tell them write my name down, write my
phone number down and the time and description of
the man.” The cadets “took off running” after telling
her they would “take care of it and call her back,” she
said.
Alison called the campus police to check on the sit¬
uation the following week.
“I spoke to one person, and she transferred me to
someone else who transferred me to someone else,”
she said. Eventually she spoke to an officer who, she
says, yelled at her with complete disregard for her sit¬
uation.
He said, “I don't know who you are or what has
happened. I’ve been on vacation and I don’t know
what you’re talking about.” Alison said.
However, Sgt. Vince Palermo said the duty of a
cadet is to be “the eyes and ears for the department.”
He went on to say that, “99.9 percent of the cadets are
students.
The words
“Think” on
this no
smoking
could be
considered
a social
message.
HENRY
SALAZAR
THE COURIER
Tagger Learns that Vandalism Isn’t Cool
Lessons: After
doing community
service for
graffiti t Jason
has
changed
his ways
By LUIS E. REYES
Courier Staff Writer
Jason, 19, is a graphic design major. In
the evenings, he walks across campus with a
folder and a light stack of books under his
right arm. During his breaks, he sits and pon¬
ders while sipping a soda.
Jason, however, has not always been in
this comfortable relaxing setting during his
free time.
Rather, he had to wrestle with the need to
pursue his hobby : tagging.
“In a way, tagging is like a form of self-
expression,” he said. “I wanted to get peo¬
ple’s attention.”
In his senior year at Pasadena High
School, he got plenty of attention.
“One day, the police called my parents
and they told them to either you bring your
son in or we’ll arrest him,” remembered
Jason.
He ended up turning himself in. Needless
to say, he was punished for vandalism scat¬
tered throughout the city of Pasadena.
His punishment included community ser¬
vice covering up graffiti in the city. Jason
Please see TAG, page 8