PCC Courier, December 20, 1990

NEWS FEATURES I HOLIDAYS | FEATURES Silkscreen Students operate their own business out of home basement Page 3 We're outta here! The COURIER will be back on Thursday , Jan. 10. Have a happy holiday season. Videomania Students spend time and quarters in local arcade Page 4 Pasadena City College Pasadena, California Vol. 72 No. 15 COURIER Thursday December 20, 1990 Winter break is busiest time of year Photo courtesy of campus police Recreational vehicles own by members of the Good Sams organization turn the campus into a city on wheels. NEWSLINE CLUB RE-ORGANIZES Under the direction of club advis¬ ers, Paul Price and Regenia Cooper, the African American Students Asso¬ ciation constitution has been re-writ¬ ten. While the organization is await¬ ing the ratification, applications for membership are being accepted. Ap¬ plications are mandatory for all voting members. Applications are also being accepted for the positions of president, vice- president, secretary, treasurer and publicity-coordinator. Elections for offices on the Executive Board will be held in January. SOCK HOP Slip into your saddle shoes, poodle skirts and letterman jackets, and plan to bop ‘til you drop at the Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society’s “Rock and Roll isHeretoStaySockHop.” OnFriday, January 11, from 8 p.m. to midnight, the Campus Center lounge will be filled with jitterbugging, twisting students. Advanced tickets, on sale December 18, 19 and 20, are $5 a single and $8 a couple; and tickets at the door are $6 a single and $9 a couple. 50’s and 60’s attire is optional, but a lot of fun is mandatory. Proceeds will partly bene¬ fit Textbooks for Homeless Students on Campus. POT LUCK FOR HOMELESS The Inter Club Council, along with other organizations, is sponsoring a Christmas potluck dinner for the home¬ less on Christmas Day. I will be held in Central Park, between Fair Oaks and Raymond, Del Mar and Green, from 1 1 a.m. to 2 p.m. Non-perishable food items such as, bread, cakes, pies, cas¬ seroles and fruit salad are requested, and also toys for needy tots. Carpools will be forming in parking lot four at PCC, at 10:30 a.m. For further infor¬ mation, contact Rick Kravette at (8 1 8) 578-7834, or leave a message at the Campus Center mailbox. SOLO PERFORMANCE Former PCC student, Milan Drag- icevich will be giving two dramatic performances in the Forum on Friday, January 1 1 , from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. The 50 minute performances will be a combination of Shakespearean selections and modem material, appealing to a widespread audience. Milan graduated with an MFA from the Professional Theater Training Pro¬ gram at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His rich acting experience includes two years at the Ashland, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one season at the Pacific Conservatory Theater in Santa Maria and several local produc¬ tions, including a recent production of Chekhov ’ s “ Three S isters’ ’ at the Will Geer Theater. WINTER BREAK PCC closes its doors to students and staff on Monday, Dec. 24 for winter vacation. The college re-opens on Mon¬ day, Jan. 7. The campus police depart¬ ment will remain open during this time. INDEX Opinion 2 Editorial 2 News Features 3 Features 4,5 Sports 6 By BECKY ROUSE Editor-in-Chief By the third week of December, most students are ready for two weeks off from school. But for members of the campus police department, and for the people who work in facilities, the winter break is no holiday. “No vacations are granted for that pe¬ riod of time,” said Philip Mullendore, direc¬ tor of campus police and safety. Instead, all hands are put to work on the enormous task of providing facilities and security for the many functions that occur on and around campus grounds during the winter break. The largest of these is the annual get- together of the Good Sams, a national or¬ ganization of recreational vehicle owners, which rents much of the campus for its Rose Parade Samboree. Mullendore estimates that 800 hours of overtime will be logged in by 15 officers and cadets during the week of the Good Sams visit. But not all of the work will be Good Sams related. The campus is also the site of the Tournament of Roses Bandfest, a pre¬ view performance by some of the marching bands that are entered in the New Year’s Day parade. The logistics of fitting some 70 buses carrying approximately 1,400 band members in the parking lot bordered by Bonnie Avenue and Colorado Boulevard is a delicate assignment, one which requires measurable experience. This year’s Bandfest will be held on Dec. 30. In addition, the City of Pasadena requires PCC to provide secu¬ rity for Linda Vista Drive, a street in the vicinity of the Rose Bowl, that is used by By BECKY ROUSE Editor-in-Chief The search for a commencement speaker is entering the final stages as the student body gets a chance to vote on the issue today and Friday, Dec. 21. The “advisory vote” lists seven nomi¬ nees: Luis Valdez, film maker, Larry Car- roll, TV broadcaster, Michael Cooper, pro¬ fessional basketball player, Maya Angelou, author, the Honorable Dorothy Nelson, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Max¬ ine Waters, representative in the Assembly, and Alice Walker, author. Invitations will parade bands for street practice. In exchange for practice time for the Lancer band, three cadets must work four days, six-hour shifts manning the barricades that block the street to traffic. Good Sams will virtually take over PCC beginning on Dec. 26, when an advance party of approximately 27 Good Sam offi¬ cials arrive and begin to set up shop. During the next two days, approximately 2,000 people- will be living in 720 recreational vehicles on campus, filling up parking lots 2, 3, 4, and this year, the new lot no. 14, according to Mullendore. The Good Sams know how to throw a good party, too. During their seven day stay at PCC, Good Sams offers plenty of enter- be extended to the person who wins the most votes, and if that person declines the invita¬ tion, the person receiving the second highest number of votes will be approached. The list has been narrowed down to the candidates who are most likely to accept the invitation to address PCC graduates on the June 14, 1991 commencement day. An origi¬ nal list of twenty candidates was submitted the the Board of Trustees on Dec. 6, which was received with a marked lack of enthusi¬ asm. According to Alvar Kauri, dean of stu¬ dent activities, “the Board is quite inter¬ ested, and always has been, in who the tainment for club members, ranging from seminars on how to flycast for fish to square dances. There is even an alcohol-less New Year’s Eve Party held in Sexson auditorium. Good Sams will pay in excess of $28,000 for the use of the Campus Center Lounge, Sexson auditorioum, restroom facilities, showers, electricity, and other services, Mullendore said. The main event that draws the Good Sams to Pasadena is the annual Tournament of Roses Parade. PCC leases the space bor¬ dering Colorado Boulevard to Sharp Seating Company, which puts up the stands and sells the tickets. There is seating for approxi¬ mately 25,000 people in these stands. The entire campus is fenced in during winter commencement speaker is.” The dissatis¬ faction lies with the search process itself, and with what Board members call “unreal¬ istic expectations” of students. The Board policy on commencement, revised in 1982, established a Commence¬ ment Speaker Selection Committee to coor¬ dinate the process. This year’s committee consisted of Kauri, William Goldmann, dean of educational services, Michael Riherd, as¬ sistant professor, department of English and Foreign Languages, and four students. The students are Ben Hwang, Ana Landa, Tena Rubio, and Rick Valdez. The committee takes suggestions and nominations from all break to keep trespassers out of the college and to prevent vandalism. A riot which broke out near the Mirror Pools on Dec. 3 1 , 1971, prompted the college to begin fencing the perimeter of the campus in an attempt to keep people out. But according to Vince Palermo, sergeant, ‘ ‘hundreds still try to get in. They climb the fence, or they use bolt cutters,” he said. Though erecting grandstands and put¬ ting up fencing are jobs that are contracted out, the task of getting college grounds pre¬ pared for the takeover falls under the juris¬ diction of Ernest Church, director of facili¬ ties. According to Church, the bermuda grass on the front lawn of the campus is dormant during this part of the year, so winter rye seed is sown to give the grounds a lush covering. “And when the holiday is over, and the stands come down, we have to put the grass back in order,” Church said. Not only is there lots of grounds work to do, but there are many tasks that can only be undertaken when the campus is closed to students. “We are very busy this time of year,” said Church. Some of the jobs that will be done this winter break include retrof¬ itting the boiler system in the U building, and upgrading electrical systems in offices and classrooms.In spite of the busyness, Church enjoys the atmosphere on campus during the winter recess. The Good Sams are a very sound organization. There have been very few problems in the years that they have rented the campus, he said. On the day after the parade, the RV city disbands as the Good Sams head home. Said Palermo, “it lpoks like a ghost town around here when they leave.” Fire damages К building By KARLA TINGLEY Special Correspendent A fire in the transformer unit of the generator in К building was discovered at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12. Classes were cancelled as the building was evacuated for a couple of hours. There were no injuries, but the damage to the housing unit could be extensive. John Lindeman, supervisor of facilities, said the cause of the fire was not yet known. The transformer unit, however, was being returned to the manufacturer to determine if it was defective. Another pos¬ sible cause could have been power overload, said Lindeman. “We were very lucky that the fire didn’t start at night, it could have caused major damage since no one would have been around to see it,” he said. Lindeman was pleased with campus police, who had the building evacuated in a matter of minutes. The Pasadena Fire De¬ partment responded quickly as well. Electricity was restored at 1 p.m., sup¬ plied by a back-up generator that was deliv¬ ered by Snowden Construction Company. The back-up equipment will remain just outside К building until the transformer is fixed or replaced. 1 1 will cost at least $ 1 0 ,000 to replace the unit. members of the campus community, and puts together a final list to submit to the Board of Trustees. Kauri admits that the idea of being able to get some of the nominees to agree to speak at PCC is a little far-fetched. But, he said, ‘ ‘my feeling is not to stifle thought, but I do make a strong effort to encourage stu¬ dents on the committee to be realistic once the names have come in. We’ve had the greatest success with PCC alumni, and people who live in the area,” said Kauri. Of those people listed on the advisory ballot, Cooper and Nelson attended PCC. An honoraruim of $300 is paid to the commencement speaker. Parade preparations Charles Waller / The COURIER Workers at the Rose Pavilion in Pasadena use skill and perhaps a little magic to decorate floats for the 1991 Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's Day. Students to vote on commencement speaker