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COURIER
VOL. 67, NO. 13
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 1, 1988
Awareness to Be Key During First Alcohol Day
By Margie Goodhart
Feature Editor
“Think! Before You Drink” is the
slogan kicking off Alcohol Awareness
Day on campus. This first time ever
event at PCC will be held Dec. 8, from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Quad. The
event, which is being sponsored by
Psychological Services, Student Health
Services, and the Office of Student
Activities, will include a host of com¬
munity organizations which offer re¬
sources in recovery, treatment, drunk
driving, and shelter care.
“We want to heighten awareness,
offer resources, and show people
there’s a way out,” said Dr. Kent
Yamauchi, counseling psychologist.
Yamauchi stressed that the focus of
the awareness day was not just the
students but the whole PCC com¬
munity.
It’s for the students, staff, faculty
and administrators,” he said. “We
want everyone to be better informed.”
Information on community re¬
sources will be provided by Day One
— ■ Pasadena/Altadena and Pasadena
Council on Alcoholism and Drug De¬
pendency.
Recovery groups such as Alcoholics
Anonymous, Alanon Family Groups,
and Adult Children of Alcoholics will
provide information for those who have
had alcohol touch their lives through a
parent, friend, spouse or loved one.
“Those who use are not affecting just
their own lives but people around them
as well,” Yamauchi said.
Inpatient treatment information will
be provided by Las Encinas Hospital,
Pasadena Community Hospital’s Life-
plus program, and St. Luke Medical
Center’s SHARE unit. City of Pasadena
Alcoholism Center will provide outpa¬
tient treatment information.
Haven House will have information
on shelter care for battered women,
and The First Step Booksource will be
selling informational and self-help
books in the Quad.
Providing educational material on
drunk driving will be Mothers Against
Drunk Drivers and American Automo¬
bile Association. A free pamphlet will
be available called “None for the
Road,” which graphically displays a
DUI tree of knowledge of offenses and
penalties of driving under the in¬
fluence.
“The median age of our students is 26
to 27 years,” said Yamauchi. “In terms
of alcohol use and accidents, a lot are
related to alcohol in this age group.”
Alcohol abuse has shot into the
number one spot in campus drug abuse
problems, according to the March 1987
Chronicle, a weekly paper for higher
educational institutions. In a survey of
students taken by the Chronicle, 76
percent admitted alcohol consumption
within 30 days prior to answering the
survey, while only 15 percent admitted
to marijuana usage and 8 percent to
cocaine usage.
Surveys and interviews made by the
weekly paper also suggested that alco¬
hol use by college students is signifi¬
cantly greater than use among the
same age group in the non-college
population.
A University of Michigan survey
showed that 45 percent of students
questioned had consumed five or more
drinks in a row in the prior two weeks,
compared to 41 percent of those ques¬
tioned who were not in college.
One health official commented on
‘The 12th Occasional
Do Dah Parade’ Rolled
Down the Streets of
Old Town Pasadena
Last Weekend.
Above, a Group
Of Sailors Make
Sure Union Street Is
Swabbed While on the
Right, Lady Liberty
Shows that She’s
Carrying a New Torch.
About 100,000 People
Viewed the Event
That Also Featured the
Nose Queen and, Of
Course, the Synchronized
Briefcase Team.
The Courier
/
Above: Will Lester
Right John Quintanilla
drinking and getting drunk in college as
“a rite of passage.”
Alcohol Awareness Day will be an
insurance policy that the decision to
participate in this “rite of passage”
may be made in an informed manner.
For those stuck in the passageway of
alcoholism, there will be people, pro¬
grams, and literature available to show
them the way out.
Those instrumental in initiating this
event and making it happen are Chuck
Ward, student activities intern, Stacey
Demsey, A.S. Board representative,
Janice Roman, college nurse, and
Yamauchi.
“We had a good working group,”
Yamauchi said. “We hope to open the
door for more participation. We hope to
enlarge the program from an aware¬
ness day to an education week, then
into the curriculum. Alcohol awareness
can set this into motion. We don’t have
all the answers, but together we can
create a good response to the prob¬
lem.”
Center Serves Students' Needs
By Gigi Hanna
Opinion Editor
The Student Health Center, located
in C127, provides a variety of medical
services to students currently enrolled
at PCC.
Some of the services offered in¬
cluded diagnosis and treatment of
short-term illnesses, minor surgical
procedures, and extensive health
education literature.
The Center is also equipped to handle
First Aid and orthopedic emergencies
(those emergencies requiring splints,
elastic bandages, or crutches).
The $7.50 Student Health Fee paid by
all students at registration for classes,
pays for the services offered. Except
for laboratory tests that require off-
campus analysis, all of the services
available are provided without charge.
The laboratory tests are offered at
greatly reduced fees.
On the first visit to the Health
Center, students are asked to fill out an
information card which is then filed,
and medical information is added to it
‘Lady Cries
Murder’ Set
To Premiere
By Sean DuPont
Editor-in-Chief
The comical farce The Lady Cries
Murder will be presented at the Little
Theater starting tomorrow. The play
will run for seven performances.
The play, first produced by the San
Diego Repertory in their 1986-87 sea¬
son, is a spoof of the hard-boiled
private eye stories of the ‘30’s told by
character Phillip Diamond.
“We were looking for a fun play,”
said Duke Stroud, director of The Lady
Cries Murder.
“What happens in this play is that the
bad guy buys the rights to a book with
Diamond in it and starts to popularize
it by turning it into a radio script,”
Stroud explained. “What it turns into is.
a play about a radio show within a radio
show.”
The play features 13 cast members
— four women and 13 men, moving,
two-sided sets, a fog machine, a living
room set that projects slide images of
New York, San Francisco and Los
Angeles and a computer board that will
control the lighting.
“The lighting board has been giving
us some problems, but should be ready
for the premiere,” said Stroud.
The play will be presented in the
Little Theater, C130, tomorrow, as well
as Dec. 3, 8, 9 and 10 at 8 p.m. Matinee
performances will be held on Dec. 3
and 10 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 and are
free to students with a student benefit
sticker. A special performance for PCC
staff members will be held tonight at 8
p.m.
The cast members are students in
several Theater Arts classes. Theater
Arts 2A and 2B, Acting Fundamentals
as well as Theater Arts 29, Rehearsal
and Performance. Theater Arts 2A and
2B are three-unit classes while Theater
Arts 29 is a one-unit class.
The crew has been rehearsing for the
last six weeks, according to Stroud.
The director said that during this week,
rehearsals have started at noon and
have ended around midnight.
For more information, call (818)
578-7485.
each time the student receives treat¬
ment at the Center.
All of the information on medical
records is kept confidential, no one can
obtain it without written permission
from the student.
The staff, all trained professionals —
no student employees, includes doctors
and registered nurses which, according
to Janice Roman, R.N., are called upon
the most of the time to dispense over-
the-counter drugs for treatment and
relief of colds and flu. “The majority of
students come in here for information
or treatment of communicable dis¬
eases.” The communicable diseases
include not only flu and the common
cold, but also Sexually Transmitted
Diseases (STD). The doctors also write
prescriptions for treatment of illnesses
that require medicine not available
over-the-counter.
The staff is available and trained to
counsel students on Nutrition, weight
control, birth control, pregnancy, and
venereal disease. If further treatment
or counseling is necesssary, they will
refer students to local specialists and
outside agencies.
The number of students using the
facilities has grown from last year. In
October of 1987, the Center treated
1,526 students. October of 1988 (the
latest statistics available) saw 1,750
students utilizing the Health Center
facilities. “We’re averaging about a 20
percent increase annually in the
number of students comming in,” said
Roman. The increase at this time of the
year is attributed to the flu shots which
the Center administers.
In addition to the medical treatment
offered, the Center also holds a number
of lectures each semster. The lectures
are highly publicized events which dis¬
cuss topics pertinent to the wellbeing,
and of interest to students.
The health education literature pro¬
vided in the Health Center covers
topics ranging from diabetes to de¬
teriorated hearing, from AIDS to
anemia. AL1 students are welcome to
the available literature, and constantly
new pamphlets are added to the ones
already there.
The Center also publishes a monthly
newsletter, Health Beat, which can be
obtained in either the library or the
Health Center.
The Health Center hours are Monday
through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Thursday, 6 p.m. to 9
p.m. The center is closed on weekends,
college holidays, and during semester
breaks.
Newsline
Social Science Forum
Veteran political consultant Joseph Cerrell will lead a forum
entitled “Election ’88: How It Happened, Why It Happened” today
at 10:30 a.m. in C301.
The lecture is part of the Social Sciences forum and is open to
the public.
Christmas Sale
A Christmas sale will bring in the season at PCC.
The sale, sponsored by the Dana Club, will featrue items such
as crystal jewelry, semi-precious leads and polished bookends.
Other items also will be on sale.
The sale begins today in E210 and contunues through Dec. 16.
Holiday Tour
A holiday tour of Far East Asia is being offered by the
Community Education Center Dec. 23 through Jan. 2.
The 11-day trip will cover exotic countries and cities such as
Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore. The cost of the trip is $1,869.
This includes round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations, daily
breakfast, special Christmas and New Year’s activities.
For more information, call Katie Peters at (818) 578-7062 or
(213) 256-5591 or contact the Community Education Center at (818)
578-7261 and ask for Cindy.
Positions Open
The Campus Police department currently is filling two vacan¬
cies on its force. It is interviewing for one regular officer and for one
parking/security officer. The department also is asking for students
who are interested in police work to apply for cadet positions.
Aplications for cadet positions are available at the Campus
Police office on the ground level of the Campus Center building,
CC108A.
Physical Education
The Disabled Students Program is looking for students to help
run a physical education class that meets Mondays and Wednesdays
from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The job pays $3.75 and hour and some
experience is required.
More information can be found by contacting Chuck Harvard in
the Special Services office, C123.
