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FEATURES
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SPORTS
Volleyball season ends with
loss to Cerritos in three
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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
VoL 74 No. 10
COURIER
Thursday
December 3, 1992
College to host own bowl game
1992 SEASON
LANCER RECORD:
8-2, giving PCC
rankings as high as
□ PCC will host its own
bowl game tomorrow,
after being snubbed by
the Western State
Conference committee.
By STEPHEN SHEINKOPF
Sports Editor
The PCC football team was denied an
invitation to any of the California’s eleven
bowl games, despite an 8-2 record and early
season rankings that soared as high as fourth
in the nation. So the college has taken things
into its own hands.
PCC has announced it will host its own
postseason football game called the Rose
City Classic Bowl. The game will be played
on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 1 p.m.
at PCC’s Horrell Field and
has already been officially
sanctioned by the Commis¬
sion on Athletics.
The Lancers, now ranked
No. 9 in the JC Southland Poll,
will play host to College of
the Desert, a 6-3-1 team from
the Foothill Conference.
PCC was the only team in
the state with eight wins not to
be invited to one of California’s 1 1 other
bowl games.
After finishing the Mission Conference
season on Nov. 21 with a 36-26 win over
Cerritos, Pasadena head coach Dennis Gos-
sard was convinced that one of the state’s
bowl selection committees would be calling
the Lancers.
By Monday, Nov. 23, however, Gossard
was staring at the cold, hard truth: nobody
was calling to invite the Lancers.
The Western Slate Conference commit¬
tee, which was seeking an opponent for
Glendale College, the No. 2 team in the
WSC’s Southern Division, passed over PCC
in favor of Antelope Valley College of the
Foothill Conference. Glendale College also
had the choice of opponents and chose An¬
telope Valley over PCC.
The WSC selection committee snubbed
the Lancers a second time when
they selected Orange Coast
College from the Mission Con¬
ference’s Central Division, to
face Los Angeles Harbor
College.
“I’m very disappointed with
the Western State Conference
and Glendale that they didn’t
consider Pasadena,” said PCC
athletic director Ernie Romine.
“They bypassed us not once
but twice. I think the natural rivalry between
teams only five miles apart and the caliber of
the competition would have been great for
both programs and their supportive commu¬
nities.”
Romine explained the reason for estab¬
lishing a 12th bowl game. “Two good teams,
ourselves and College of the Desert, deserve
to be recognized and rewarded for their ac¬
complishments this season. The bowl was
established because each team was ignored
in a chaotic bowl selection process.”
Coach Gossard still refused to believe
that an 8-2 record would not be honored with
a bowl bid.
“People told me it would happen, that
other programs would choose somebody closer
to home or more compatible to their level of
play,” Gossard said. “1 didn’t believe them.
I just figured everybody wanted to play the
best opponent they could find.”
1st ROSE CITY CLASSIC
BOWL
WHO: PCC Lancers vs. College of
the Desert
WHEN: Friday, Dec. 5, 1 p.m.
WHERE: Horrell Field
Photo by Robert L. Haggins. Courtesy of Paul Price.
Malcolm
Photo courtesy of the Black Student Alliance
X
Daughter of civil
rights leader to speak
on campus
Attallah Shabazz, eldest daughter of Muslim minister and civil
rights leader Malcolm X, will speak at a lecture titled, “Malcolm
X: the Man, My Father,” on Thursday, Dec. 3, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in
Sexson Auditorium. A S3 donation is requested at the door.
Shabazz, invited by the Black Student Alliance (BSA) on campus,
has lectured extensively throughout the country about her father’s vision
for America. Malcolm X was assassinated in Harlem 27 years ago.
A contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X has mostly
been remembered for his fiery views on race relations. But Jamie Harris,
member of the BSA steering committee, said she hopes people will
better understand the man and the ideals of family unity he represented.
“Y ou don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom,” Malcolm X once
said. “ All you have to do is be an intelligent human being.”
Student Trustee
quits Board seat
By GUILLERMO DUARTE
Staff Writer
The Board of Trustees accepted a verbal
resignation from the Student Trustee and
declared the position open last night during
its bi-monthly meeting. The vacated spot is
expected to be filled by Friday Dec. 18
through a student election.
Tammy Ortega, who was elected last
spring and began her one-year term as Stu¬
dent Trustee this fall, resigned her position
due to illness of a family member. Although
she has also dropped her fall classes, she
still plans to return and graduate from here.
“This was one of the most difficult
decisions I have ever had to make,” said
Ortega. “It was difficult because I felt 1 had
a commitment, a responsibility and an obli¬
gation to the students. But my decision has
nothing to do with the controversy regarding
the student trustee election. It has every¬
thing to do with my family situation and ob¬
ligation to them.”
“The Board had good relations with
Ortega and her resignation is very unfortu¬
nate for her and the Board,” Walter S hatford
II, Board of Trustees president said. “I know
her decision is due to family considerations
and has nothing to do with student
politics.”
This was Ortega’s third and last year on
campus. Her goals of having students par¬
ticipate in their governance and keeping
them well-informed about policies and leg¬
islations are now unreachable.
“She was very close to graduating from
here,” said Alvar Kauti, associate dean of
student activities. “Although she wanted to
Photo by CHRISTY VANCE/The COURIER
Tammy Ortega
continue in the office and finish her college
education, she had a decision to make. I
think that she felt her family was more
important than anything else.”
“I’ve nothing but positive experiences
and good memories of this college,” Ortega
said. “The people whom i met nere nave
been extremely supportive and nice.” Add¬
ing that she meant everything she said in
her campaign speeches, Ortega stressed “I
feel I’m leaving my obligations, but I want
students to know that I took my position
very seriously. The commitments I made, I
had every intention of fulfilling them.”
“I feel that when a student has to drop out
See“STUDENT TRUSTEE,” page 4
China Abroad program scheduled next summer
□ Which way to China? A
new Study Abroad
Program points the way.
By PATRIA ABELGAS
Staff Writer
A PCC student cannot reach Asia by
digging a hole in his backyard, but he can
get to China by joining the PCC China
Summer 1993 Study Tour Program, geogra¬
phy instructor Gregory Lee said.
As part of the PCC Study Abroad Pro¬
gram, a student may earn four transferrable
units in Physical Geography 1, lab and lec¬
ture, when he finishes the course which is
scheduled from June 21 to July 15, 1993.
The first four days of class will be held on
campus and the remaining 21 days will be
spent touring cities in the eastern and central
part of China. These cities include Shang¬
hai, Suzhou, Guilin, Chongqing, Xi’an,
Yan’an, and Beijing.
Lee emphasizes, however, that this is an
educational tour. Students will directly ob¬
serve and discuss, on-site, the physical ge¬
ography of China and its inter-relation with
the country’s culture.
With a whole semester’s load of lessons
crammed into three weeks, Lee admits that
this study tour course will be a lot of hard
work for students.He also said that the dif¬
ferences in the living conditions between
China and the United States will make it
even harder.
Nevertheless, he said that if students are
willing to leant, they will have to be flexible.
“I believe that whatever you learn is worth
any amount of discomfort you undergo,”
Lee said.
“It may sound like a whirlwind tour, but
this will give students an overview of geog¬
raphy and China,” Lee said.
The course will focus on the physical
geography of China, but Lee assures that
there will be an “overflow of cultural infor¬
mation” through interaction with college
students in China.The program is open to all
students but is geared for non-science ma-
jors.
“If you want to study China, this would
be the initial contact,” Lee said. “If you
want to learn something by doing it and
living it, this is the opportunity.”
The tour will cost $2,749, which includes
roundtrip international airfare, local trans¬
portation, lodging and three meals a day.
Course materials are specifically designed
for a team approach, with a special work¬
book designed to be used especially by the
class.
Cathy Banks, coordinator of the Consor¬
tium for International Education (CIE), which
is handling the travel arrangements, com¬
mented that the China summer study pro¬
gram is superior to most tours offered on
other campuses.
“It is much more detailed and definitive
than any study tour I have ever seen , ” Banks
commented.
Dr. William Goldmann, dean of educa¬
tional services and coordinator of the PCC
Study Abroad Program, said that there have
been two other China study tours conducted
by PCC between 1987 and 1989.
The programs were discontinued, how¬
ever, because of the Tienanmen Square cri¬
sis in the spring of 1989 and is only now
being offered again.
There will be two organizational meet¬
ings for the China Summer 1993 Study Tour
program on Tuesday, Dec. 8 from noon to 1
p.m. in R122 and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in C201.
General information concerning the
physical geography course, travel itinerary
and China will be given.
For more information about the meet¬
ings, the China Study Tour and possible
financial aid, call (818) 585-7203.