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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
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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