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The Courier welcomes the newly elected AS
Executive Board members and reminds -
them to uphold their responsibilities 2.
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• LONE EXECUTIVE VP CANDIDATE DISQUALIFIED; ALL OTHER CANDIDATES VOTED IN
Poindexter captures AS presidency
Forrest Poindexter
ONLY A FEW REALLY CARED
The vote count in this year’s 4S general election shows
that only 2 percent of the total student population voted. In
last yeahs elections, only 5 percent voted. Here are the
numbers for this year:
Voters 561
Total number of students
«fJ 24,667
By ARDA HAMALIAN
Courier Staff Writer
Forrest Poindexter , who ran on
an independent ticket, was elected
the new AS president. He beat his
opponent Tess Coleman by 27 votes,
and Darrell Price by 169 votes. The
new Associated Students Board was
elected by approximately two per¬
cent of the entire student body.
“I had assurance that I would get
the presidency,” said Poindexter. “I
was true to the voters. As long as
candidates give them prospects that
are attainable, they will vote for
them.”
Other elected board members in¬
clude: Frank Fernandez, vice presi¬
dent of academic affairs; Katherine
Hazelton, coordinator of external
affairs; Leila Jerusalem coordinator
of publicity; and Jody Wymar, stu¬
dent trustee. Four of the new board
members ran on the Alliance for
Students and Progress (ASAP) ticket.
Levi Jackson, the new coordinator of
campus activities, ran on an inde¬
pendent slate.
“ASAP has the majority of the
seats on the board, but 1 don’t see this
as a problem for us working to¬
gether,” said Poindexter. “We won’t
fall into the same trap as this year’s
AS which was made up of members
from different slates. All of the board
members are smart and we are now
a unified team.”
Fernandez said, “ my message to
Forrest is that there will be no party
lines. We all intend to function as a
cohesive unit to rebuild a positive
image in student government and
make our school one of the most
influencial junior colleges in the
state.”
Poindexter said that one of his
goals as president will be to work on
a limit to the amount that teachers
can ask students to pay for books.
“We really have great teachers on
this campus, and the books help ns
learn,” he said. “But getting through
six books in a semester is hard, espe¬
cially when most of the time, we
can’t even get through one.”
In addition, Poindexter said that
he would like to work with the ad¬
ministration in a “non-hostile envi¬
ronment because the administration
is the key to getting things accom¬
plished.”
Fernandez said that another goal
for the AS is to generate a fun atmo¬
sphere on campus. “There were little
or no campus activities last semes¬
ter. We need to have more bands and
other forms of entertainment, such
as a hypnotist, for example, to pro-
Pleasc see ELECTIONS, Page 5
• TEACHERS ASSOCIATION FILES
GRIEVANCE ON BEHALF OF
NURSING PROFESSOR
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questions
administrative
procedures
By RACHEL URANGA, Courier Staff Writer
The California Teachers Asso¬
ciation filed a grievance on behalf of
an associate professor of nursing,
accusing the college of unjust ac¬
tion, claiming that the administra¬
tion acted out of reprisal against the
instructor. The action was taken af¬
ter Lurlean Gaines, division dean of
nursing refused to allow a highly
qualified instructor to substitute for a class that she was
instrumental in starting. Instead she assigned the most
junior member of the department to the substitute assign¬
ment.
The
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grievance is set to be heard and mediated in
an arbitration hearing on July 1. “It’s an issue of
reprisal,” said Ed Ortell, who is PCC’s chief negotiator.
There is also a concern about the quality of instruction
for these health care workers being trained in the depart¬
ment. “Emergency Medical Technicians are the first
people on the scene, if they don’t have the right training
for them, those people can die.”
Dr. James Kossler, president of the college had no
comment on the grievance. He said the administration
is not permitted to comment on pending arbitration.
The whole fiasco began in the fall of 1995 when
Eleanor Kenney, who has taught all the EMT courses for
more than 10 years, made a request for back -to-back
Please see
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Page 7
• BOARD OF TRUSTEES
APPROVE ALUMNUS
It’s now official:
Maher appointed
football coach
By ROBERT SANTOS, Courier Staff Writer
Some people say that you can never go home again.
But after talking to new head football coach Tom Maher,
one would tend to think otherwise.
“I’m coming home,” Maher said after learning he had
officially become PCC’s 2 1st head football coach in the
school’s 72-year history.
After a successful three-sport career at Arcadia High,
Maher attended PCC in 1972-73 and played both foot¬
ball and basketball. In ’72, the Lancers’ football team
went 1 2- 1 winning the Metro Conference championship
title before losing to Fresno in the Potato Bowl, the state
championship game. Maher played tight end.
In his sophomore year in ’73, Maherwasteam captain
on the football team for then head coach and current
men’s tennis coach Myron Tarkanian.
“We’re going to try to do those things here,” Maher
said, referring to winning conference and state titles. "I
think Skip Robinson and Dr. Kossler brought me here
Please see COACH, Page 3
DRESSED TO IMPRESS
SAMUEL HERNANDEZ
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• SHATFORD LIBRARY ESTIMATES OVER
$4,000 IN PROPERTY LOST
Vandalism of
books sparks
investigation
By JOSH JACOBS
Courier Staff Writer
Destruction of magazines and
books in the Shatford Library is at an
all-time high, incoveniencing a lot
of students getting ready for finals.
Someone has been stealing books
and magazines by ripping off the
covers so bar codes won’t set off the
library’s alarms. The library esti¬
mates more than $4,000 worth of
books and magazines have been sto¬
len or destroyed in the last two
months.
Students visiting the library are
now greeted by signs reading “Use,
don’t abuse.” They are in plain view
on the shelves near the circulation
desk, where the latest periodicals
were once available to students. Also
appearing is the word Vandal: One
who willfully or ignorantly destroys,
damages or defaces property belong¬
ing to another or to the public.
“People are tearing pages out of
books and destroying magazines by
taking off the covers,” said Mary
Ann Laun, the director of library
services. “It shows selfishness and a
lack of respect, not to mention these
people are stealing from other stu¬
dents.”
Periodicals at the front are now
gone. “It is an inconvenience, be¬
cause now students have to check
them out and a lot of them won’t
have access to materials they need,”
Laun said. She understands that a lot
of people will be upset by this. She
has written an open letter explaining
what has been happening.
“Vandalism is always prevalent,
but recently it’s gotten out of hand,”
Laun said. In the last two months, 32
magazines have been destroyed and
numerous books have been damaged
beyond repair.
Laun can’t understand why this is
happening because students are al¬
lowed to check out the books. “We
have a limited book budget,” she
said. “We would like to spend it on
buying new books instead of having
to replace old ones that have been
damaged.
“These people are breaking the
law and need to be held accountable
for their actions.” Laun said, “We
need to be tough about this.”
The California Penal Code 490.5
reads, “In order to prevent theft of
books and library materials, state
law authorizes the detention for a
reasonable period of any person us¬
ing these facilities suspected of com¬
mitting library theft.
Sgt. Vince Palermo of the campus
police department said, “We are not
sure whether it is an individual de¬
facing the books or a group of people
working in concert. It could even be
several individuals acting alone.”
Palermo added that several stu¬
dents are under investigation. A fe-
Please see LIBRARY, Page 4
• UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR'S POEMS OF LIFE IN L.A. WIN HER TOP SPOT
Magazine honors ‘Poet of the Year’
By REYNA GRANDE
Courier Staff Writer
Writer-poet Eloise Klein Healy, named
Inscape magazine’s “Poet of the Year” for
1 995-1996, was honored last Monday night
at a reception hosted by the magazine
staff.
Healy, a recognized writer from the Los
Angeles area, teaches English and litera¬
ture at Antioch University in L.A. She is
also an active member of the Core Faculty
in the BA program at Antioch, where she
is designing a program for an MFA in
creative writing.
“I was surprised when I was told that I
had been named ‘Poet of the Year’,” said
Healy. “I know that the past winners have
been very well-known poets.”
Inscape’s editorial board selected Healy
based on the quality of her work, which
includes Building Some Changes, winner of
the “New Book Award” in 1976, A Packet
Beating Like a Heart and Ordinary Wisdom.
In addition, she also produced audiotape
cassettes titled Some From Ten : Poems
1975-1985, and Artemis In Echo Park/The
Women ’s Studies Chronicles.
She is currently the associate editor of
The Lesbian Review of Books.
“Eloise is very much a Los Angeles poet
who displays the tempo of our city. She gives
a lot of images that capture what it is like
to live in L.A,” said Jane Hallinger,
Inscape’s faculty adviser.
Healy first became interested in writ¬
ing as a young girl. “Writing seemed the
most exciting thing that anyone could do,”
she said. “I write because things need to
be said, from little things to consequential
things.”
Her poetry has gained statewide recog¬
nition and she has been presented with
many awards from various institutions.
Her most recent collection of poetry,
Arrtemis in Echo Park, was nominated for
the Lambda Book Award in Poetry and
Please see INSCAPE, Page 4
PHOTO COURTESY OF
JUDITH LAUSTEN
Eloise Klein Healy, Inscape
Magazine’s "Poet of the Year”
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