OPINION
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SPORTS
Milli Vanilli
Who should take the blame for the
lip-syncing scandal ? Page 2
Artistic Showcase
Gallery exhibit displays select works of
talented instructors Page 3
Lady Lancers
Women's team competes in holiday
tournament Page 4
Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol.72 No.14
COURIER
Thursday
December 13, 1990
Human rights speakers decry abuses
CAMPUS
CHEER
HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
The Cross-Cultural Center and the
Inter-Club Council are hosting the* ‘First
International Holiday Celebration
Party” on Thursday, Dec. 20 from
noon to 2:30 p.m.
Clubs and individuals are invited to
contribute cultural decorations, cos¬
tumes, cards, pictures, food, and even
essays explaining the various world¬
wide celebrations that take place at
this time of the year.
Coordinators of the party began
decorating the Cross-Cultural Center,
the foyer, and the campus center lounge
on Dec. 3rd, but there is still time for
interested students, staff, and faculty
to participace in this enjoyable and
educational event.
CHRISTMAS IN THE QUAD
The Christmas spirit will be echo¬
ing in the Quad on Tuesday, Dec. 18.
From noon to 1 p.m., the Music depart¬
ment's many bands, brass ensembles
and choirs will be sounding their fes¬
tive songs from the rooftops and grounds,
filling the outdoor campus arena with
celebrative music.
This is the fifth year that the Music
department has staged the spectacular
event.
“A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS”
Come one, come all to this ‘ ‘eve¬
ning of music, prose, and theater for
the whole family,” presented by the
Music and Theater Arts departments.
The event will feature Stan Kann play¬
ing the Wurlitzer Theater Organ.
General Admission is $6, $5 for
seniors and children. Proceeds will go
the the Lanterman Developmental
Center.
Performances are on Friday, Dec.
14 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec 15 at 2
p.m. and 8 p.m. Signing will be avail¬
able for the hearing impaired.For res¬
ervations call (818) 578-7485.
RADIO CHRISTMAS
During the holidays, tune into KPCC
FM 89.3 for a variety of holiday spe¬
cials. KPCC will kick off the holidays
when student announcer Tina Harris
and Bing Crosby’s daughter, Mary,
dedicate a one hour Christmas program
to Bing Crosby Friday, Dec. 14, begin¬
ning at 1 p.m.
KPCC will broadcast live
Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night,’ per¬
formed before a audience by the Cali¬
fornia Artist Radio Theater, Sunday,
Dec. 16 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the
Little Theater. The public is invited.
For tickets call (818) 578-7231.
INDEX
Opinion
2
Editorial
2
Features
3
Sports
4
Amnesty director says
more than 130
countries ignore
United Nations
declaration
By ROSEANN RENZULLO
Staff Writer
Approximately 30 students gathered to
hear Magdaleno Rose-Avila, western re¬
gional director of Amnesty International,
address the topic of of human rights abuses
Monday, Dec 10, in the campus center lounge.
In his speech, Rose-Avila stated that he
believes the International and Universal Dec¬
laration of Human Rights which was signed
in the United Nations in 1948, is being
By BECKY ROUSE
Editor-in-Chief
Pasadena City Manager Phillip Hawkey
toured the Community Skills Center (CSC)
on Monday morning to get a first hand look
at how the Center operates.
Several faculty and staff members, led
by Dr. Jack A. Scott, superintendent-presi¬
dent, and Df. William Goldmann, dean of
educational services, accompanied Hawkey
through the halls of the aging Pasadena
Unified School District-owned building,
which has housed the CSC for more than 10
years.
Hawkey is unfamiliar with the history of
both the college and the Skills Center, hav¬
ing only recently moved to the area when the
City of Pasadena hired him for the city man¬
ager’s position in June. He held a similar job
in Toledo, Ohio. Hawkey also holds a seat
on the Pasadena Board of City Directors,
and could play a key role in deciding the pro¬
posed move of the CSC to an east Pasadena
abused by more than 130 countries.
He formed that opinion after visiting
places such as Guatemala and Nicaragua
and seeing the day to day torture the govern¬
ments inflicts on their people in order to
control them.
‘ ‘For years I have been fighting for human
rights for Americans. But I didn’t under¬
stand what was going on in the world until I
went to Nicaragua during its revolution in
1978 to act as a Peace Corp director,” said
Rose-Avila.
“The first man I talked to in Nicaragua
was the father of a boy who had been tor¬
tured for four days by the Nicaraguan gov¬
ernment,” he said.
In 1 979 Rose-Avila sat outside the Span¬
ish Embassy in Guatemala and cried as ten
people were dragged out of the building
after the government burned them to death.
“These people were killed because they
Please see Amnesty, Page 3
location. Hawkey arrived at the center shortly
after 10 a.m. Recognizing Scott and Goldmann
among those who had assembled to meet
him, Hawkey expressed suprise that the Skills
Center was part of PCC. ‘ T thought it was a
separate entity,’ ’ he said. The visit proved to
be quite an education.
Highlights of the tour included stops at
some of the specialized classes operating at
the center. Hawkey looked amazed when he
entered the Supermarket Technology class¬
room, which doesn’t look like a typical
classroom at all. Instead of desks, the room
has six check-out stands, and shelves along
the perimeter of the room that are stacked
with grocery items. The place was churning
with activity as student checkers scanned
products, rang up sales, made change and
bagged groceries.
Further down the hall in the classroom
for Electronic Assembly, the atmosphere
was equally charged. Students concentrated
on the various wiring projects they were
working on, barely looking up at the group
U.S. involvement in
Central America
empowers unjust
government
By AMOR PADILLA
News Features
The mystery of the United States in¬
volvement with the violations of human
rights in Guatemala and El Salvador was
unveiled during the third lecture of PCC’s
Human Rights Awareness Week. Carolina
Castaneda and Carlos Lopez, members of
Southern California Interfaith Task Force
(SCITCA), discussed causes, consequences
and solutions to the situations in El Salvador
and Guatemala.
Their presentation, “Central America:
which poured in to observe them. Hawkey
asked a lot of questions about the job oppor¬
tunities for students, and about the relation¬
ship between the Skills Center and local
industries.
The tour concluded after a visit to the
Child Development Center (CDC), where
Hawkey good naturedly responded to prod-
dings from the smaller citizens on campus.
The CDC will also relocate to east Pasad¬
ena if PCC acquires the land in question,
located between Foothill and Orange Grove
Boulevards. The college must also secure
adequate financing for building the facili¬
ties.
The process for securing funds is one
that must be completed by Feb. 1, 1991 in
order forprojects to be included in the 1992-
93 budget. According to Dr. Scott, a Project
Planning Guide (PPG) must be submitted to
the state Chancellor’s Office for all of the
college’s building projects. The PPG then
makes its way through the Chancellor’s Of¬
fice to the California Legislature. ‘ ‘The state
Human Rights and the U.S. A.” shed light on
the direct participation of the United States
in the violation of human rights and offered
ways students can actively work to end the
violence.
“In the last 1 0 years, $3.2 billion in aid
has gone to El Salvador. My country is the
largest recipient of aid the in hemisphere.
В
ut 85 percent of this aid goes to the military
forces.” Castaneda said.
For Castaneda, this means that the United
States supports and gives money to the same
military that tortures, kills and ultimately
violates the human rights of Salvadorans.
Castaneda lost a husband and a brother in the
conflict, both killed by the military.
“Many people became aware of the
problems in El Salvador when Monsignor
Romero was assassinated, and even more,
with the killing of the American religious
women . The United S tates has a lot of power.
Please see Government, Page 4
has the money for community college build¬
ing projects, but it will take a minimum of
two and a half years before we can actually
begin construction,” Scott said. He explained
that PCC must seek funding now in order to
have the money available if and when the
land is donated to the college.
Though the city is far from making a
final decision about how to use the east
Pasadena property, recent developments
indicate there is a good chance the 8
1/2
acre
land parcel will be handed over to PCC.
Over the objections of a citizen’s committee
of area residents, the Board of City Directors
voted 7-1 last month to commission an
Environmental Impact Report which lists
building a CSC and CDC as the primary use
objective.
But whether to the proposed site or not,
a move for the center is definitely on the
future agenda. Goldmann said that the Pasad¬
ena Unified School District has expressed
plans to reclaim its buildings that have housed
the CSC for the past 10 years.
New officers are
chosen for 1991
By BECKY ROUSE
Editor-in-chief
New officers were elected for the Pasadena Area Commu¬
nity College District Board of Trustees at its annual organiza¬
tional meeting held on Dec. 6. John Martin replaced Warren
Weber as president of the Board, and Walter Shatford II
became vice president after Martin. Joseph Sargis was elected
clerk, a position that was previously held by Jeanette Mann,
and Dr. Jack A. Scott, superintendent-president, who is not a
Board of Trustees member, was elected secretary to the Board.
After the officers were elected there was a brief reception
in honor of Dawn Gray, 1 8, who is a PCC student and princess
of the 1991 Tournament of Roses royal court. Gray was
introduced and then the meeting was recessed so that members
of the Board and audience alike could partake of cake and
punch.
The refreshments did little to sweeten the subsequent
presentations made to the Board when it reconvened. First to
be rejected were drawings of a new logo intended for use on
intra-college publications. The preferred shield-shaped de¬
sign, meant to replace the circular intertwined letters that have
graced campus stationery for the last ten years, was liked by
some, but disliked by others.
Also advised to go back to the drawing board were James
Kossler, assistant-superintendent of administrative services,
and a representative from Jones Construction Management
Company, who presented drawings depicting an altered
Rotunda area for the new library. According to Kossler, latest
estimates put construction costs of the library at $1 million
over budget, prompting a re-thinking of the initial plans for the
rotunda. But few Board members responded positively to the
new rendition, which pictured four towers framing the round
gallery entrance. One board member likened the towers to
“space rockets.”
In 1991, the Board will meet on the first and third Wednes¬
day evenings of every month.
Santa, is it really you?
Carl Scayan/ The COURIER
on the Quad to bring some ho-ho-ho's and holiday cheer to the campus.
City Manager tours the Community Skills Center
