OPINION
Los Angeles’ television news
programs may lose credibility.
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FEATURES
Student trustee John Robinson talks about
life in college.
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SPORTS
Former students hired to coach
track and field, baseball team.
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PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VOL. 77 No. 1
™ COURIER
Serving the PCC Community for 75 years
THURSDAY
AUGUST 26, 1993
City to place limits on street parking
□ Parking officials to
phase in a program
that would allow
college students with
special permits to
park in designated
area south of campus.
By ALFREDO SANTANA
Editor In Chief
The City of Pasadena will imple¬
ment a parking program whereby
college students and residents alike
will be required to purchase special
permits for parking on some streets
south of campus
Scheduled to be phased in some¬
time in September, the pilot-parking
program will include an area bordered
by Del Mar Avenue on the north, San
Pasqual Street on the south, Green¬
wood Street on the east and Hill Av¬
enue on the west.
The city will post parking signs
along the streets affected by the pro¬
gram. Those signs will indicate the
hours to which parking-permit holders
can find spots and not have to worry
about tickets. For daytime students,
parking hours will run from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. For night students, parking limits
will be enforced from 5 to 8 p.m.
Besides, PCC administrators
as well as student representatives
are mulling over a plan that will
set priorities for students to buy
those permits. If the plan is imple¬
mented, those students taking more
units will have purchasing priority
over those with fewer units.
Off street parking permits will
be sold by campus police. Cost for
the permits has not been set, but a
S 1 5 charge is likely to beapproved.
Money generated from the sales
will be funneled to the City of
Pasadena. Residents will also have
to buy permits, but at a lesser
price.
Within the same boundaries,
however, permit holders will have a
chance to leave their cars for an
unlimited time on some streets.
Spaces will be guaranteed in a block
on Rose Villa Street between Sierra
Bonita Avenue and Hill Street.
Oakdale Street will also offer park¬
ing places, between Ninita Parkway
and Meredith Avenue, as well as on
San Pasqual Street, between Hill
Avenue and Sierra Bonita Avenue.
A dead-end portion of Bonnie Street,
across Oakdale Street will also be
available for students to park.
Guaranteed parking will also be
found on Sierra Bonita Avenue, be¬
tween Oakdale and San Pasqual
Please see Parking, Page 6
How new parking off
campus regulations will
be enforced :
■ Signs announcing parking limits will
be posted in certain streets south of
campus in September.
■ On some streets parking will be
restricted to cars displaying special
parking permits.
Nice outlook, but...
RAFAEL VEGA /THE COURIER
The Shatford Library is almost finished on the outside. However, the facility won’t open its doors until Sept.7, five months later than
originally scheduled. As of today, several rooms are being equipped with metal bookshelves, windows and security devices.
New library to open on Sept.7
By ENRICO PIAZZA
and DENIS WANG
Staff Writers
After a long series of delays
and despite the fact that there is
still plenty of work to be done, the
Shatford II library will finally
open to the public on Tuesday,
Sept. 7.
The last day the old library
will be open will be Monday,
August 30. On that day, students
will be able to check out books. How¬
ever they will have to be returned at the
new library.
“People Mover,” a local agent for
Wheaton Interstate Moving Company,
will be in charge of moving the school
library collection, made up by 1 13,000
books and 60,000 periodicals. The re¬
location will start early Tuesday, Sep¬
tember 1 st. If everything goes as pre¬
dicted, two days should be enough to
move the whole collection from the
5,000 shelves of the old library to the
6,000 of the new one.
Together with more shelving
spaces, the new library will be
capable to offer a place to study to
almost 1 ,000 students, more than
the doubling the amount of study
space.
An average of 5,000 students
visit the library daily, and even
more are expected to visit the new
one.
The first floor of the new build¬
ing, now completely finished, will
house various media services, such
as radio station KPCC (89.3 FM)
and studios for telecommunica¬
tion classes, as well as the Instruc¬
tional Resources Center (IRC).
Rod Foster, associate dean for
Instruction and Learning Re¬
sources, is very impressed with
the new library.
“It’s a gorgeous building,” he
said. Foster added that the inside
of the library invites the students
to a friendly environment because
of “its deft use of natural light”
and the “aesthetically appealing
Pleasee see Library, Page 6
Student tries to
jump from top
of campus center
□ Campus police reports assassination
attempt in first week of activities in PCC.
By RODNEY MITCHELL
Associate Editor
Not even 72 hours into the new
semester, the campus police found
themselves faced with a possible
life threatening crisis when a fe¬
male student a ttempted to take her
own life by jumping from the sec¬
ond floor of the Campus Center last
Thursday morning.
The student was wrestled from
the ledge unharmed, according to
police. Approximately two hours
later, in a separate incident, a man
posing as a UCLA medical student
coerced a female students into a
vacant classroom where he then
performed a bogus, sex-play physi¬
cal examination.
In the first incident, Nick
Hoekstra a campus Police investi¬
gator said a student attempting sui¬
cide became distraught after an ar¬
gument with her boyfriend. Two
unidentified male students restrained
her from jumping until the campus
police arrived.
The woman who was hearing
imapaired, was taken to the campus
police station struggling all the time.
However he said that she probably
would nothave been killed from the
fall, “She probably would have bro¬
ken some bones.”
Once inside police headquarters,
a worker from special services had
to be called in to communicate with
the hearing impaired student. Dr.
Kent Yamauchi, assistant dean of
special services who is also a li¬
censed clinical counselor was called
in and assisted in calming the stu¬
dent.
Hoekstra said he observed the
student on campus the next day and
she appeared to be OK. In the
second incident, Hoekstra said the
tall oriental man who speaks Chi¬
nese and dons a stethoscope was
reported on campus last spring.
He used the same mode of opera¬
tion then as he did last week. He
usually targets oriental women who
are new to the United States and do
not speak very much English.
He approaches the female stu¬
dents using the line that he needs to
perform 10 physical examinations
before he can graduate. He then
offers the student a free heart and
lung examination. He usualy takes
them into a vacant classroom where
he would conduct the fake examina¬
tion.
Usually the examination would
not go beyond the upper torso with
clothes on. However some victims
allowed a bare chested exam
bcliving he was a real medical stu¬
dent. “They’re very lucky that he
only did that. They could have been
robbed, raped, or killed, said
Hoekstra. The suspect was arrested
when an off duty police officer
walked in on the bogus exam and
alerted campus police.
Flex days provide lessons for professors and staff
□ Workshops for
faculty and staff held
one day prior the
beginning of the
semester prove to be
effective, professors
say.
By REGINA PARIS
Staff Writer
Few people would want to come
to school a day early.
В
ut for the first
time in PCC history, on Aug. 16 the
entire PCC staff and faculty were on
campus at the same time — a day before
the students arrived.
The purpose of the Flex Day assem¬
bly was for staff members to receive
some schooling themselves. Everyone
from professors, secretaries, janitors
and campus police swapped their regu-
lar duties to become students in work¬
shops held during the day.
The more than 30 workshops meant
to sharpen and improve the staffs abil¬
ity to identify with changing student
needs and demographics, include such
topics as the mentor program , commu¬
nication skills, time management,
‘Many of the topics had to do with new
issues that face faculty members that
just were never a concern before... such
as dealing with HIV and mentor
programs.’
teaching students with disabilities
and sexual harassment in the work¬
place .
“The underlying theme of the
many presentations and workshops
was the development of student
success in the long run” said John
Jacobs, director and project coor¬
dinator of staff development.
Some of the workshop topics were
chosen through surveys of the fac¬
ulty departments. Many of the topics
had to do with new issues that face
faculty members that just were never
a concern before.
One workshop was titled “HIV-
GettingtoKnow the Viruses.”Other
had to do with adjusting to modern
technology— including “Beginning
Word Perfect,” a hands — on session
to learn the basics of the computer
software program.
One workshop, the “African-
American Male Enrichment Pro¬
gram,” focused on how to motivate
“at risk” black males to “develop an
interest in” and to attend college as
described by the workshop outline.
Jacobs hoped that by end of the
day some of the staff felt better
equipped to cope with issues that
concern or affect college students
today.
Facts about Flex
Days :
■ State-mandated
workshops for
community
college personnel.
■ Workshops are
offered in more
than 80 two-year
colleges in
California.