OPINION
Students write that part-time
instructors enjoy few rights and are
treated as second class citizens.
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FEATURES
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SPORTS
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PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VOL. 80 No. 18
™E C OURIER
Serving the Pasadena Community since 1915
THURSDAY
February 1 6, 1995
Blood drive collects 122 pints
By GABRIELA DIAZ
COURIER STAFF WRITER
The American Red Cross collects
nearly 6 million units of blood nationwide.
The demand for blood is so high that
nearly 4 million people each year need
blood. That is nearly one person every 12
seconds.
Last Wednesday and Thursday, 165
PCC students signed up to donate a pint of
blood. Blood is desperately needed, ac¬
cording to Red Cross officials and one pint
has the potential to save up to four lives.
The blood drive was hosted by the
Caduceus club, a pre-med health club
here on campus. The club holds this event
at least once every semester. However,
arrangements are being made to hold an¬
other drive in April.
Although only 50 to 60 percent of the
people who signed up to donate blood
actually showed up, the event was still a
great success, according to American Red
Cross head nurse Lily Saavedra. Saavedra
said that the success of the blood drives
always “depends on the organizations and
the place.” School campuses are always
good sources, usually because “incentive
has a lot to do with the number of dona¬
tions.”
Many clubs responded to the newslet¬
ter sent out by Edward Nigoghossian, vice-
president of Caduceus, by encouraging
their members to donate blood.
Nigoghossian commented that a vari¬
ety of factors affected the attendance such
as the “rain which makes a difference in
how many people actually show up.” Not
only did the rain keep some away, but he
reasoned how the sudden change in
weather caused people to become ill, there-
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SHANE CLARKE/THE COURIER
Nurse Gloria Garcia readies Pat Martinez, one of the students who donated blood
last week. The Caduceus club sponsored the blood drive on campus.
AS Board divides up
money evenly among
campus organizations
BY LUZ MARIA CASTELLANOS
COURIER STAFF WRITER
The Associated Students Board made the
final decision at its meeting yesterday that
funds for the Inter-Club Coun¬
cil, (ICC), will be evenly split
up among the clubs which re¬
quested funding.
In prior weeks, the ICC
discussed how to allocate
funds among the campus or¬
ganizations. But after a long
and aggravating meeting, the
group was up in arms as to how
it would allocate its limited bud¬
get among the clubs. The pro¬
posals totaled $43,000.
The problem was the ICC
only had $1 2,000 available
Yesterday, the ICC pre¬
sented a “revised” total to the
AS. Unfortunately, the re¬
vised amount still totaled a large
sum: $33,590.
In an attempt to settle the
dispute, the AS asked vice president Roldan
Herrera to review the proposals and report
back. However, the plan was altered due to
the time factor.
Herrera said, “I felt that it wouldn’t be a
good idea to do that because then we would
have to start from scratch, and that would open
up a whole new can of worms. We just can’t
afford to lose that kind of time.”
As a result, Herrera presented the situa¬
tion yesterday to the AS on behalf of the ICC.
The AS agreed to assign $250 to the Lancer
Badminton Association; $700 to the Re-Entry
Club; S600 reserved for
Earthwise; $300 for new club
start-up-grants; and the remain¬
ing 14 clubs will receive $725
each.
“With 17 clubs and only
S12,000almostall theclubsnow
feel that thi s is the on 1
у
way to go
about it,” Herrera said.
Bob Cagle, Earthwise presi¬
dent, who originally suggested
that the funds should be distrib¬
uted evenly, said, “I think it was
only fair for us to split the money
evenly because the way that the
clubs had begun to tear away at
each other’s proposals, I could
tell that people were getting
rattled.”
He continued, “I’m sure not
all of the clubs are pleased, but
there are other means by which clubs can get
money.”
Alicia Raveneyes agreed with Cagle. “I
think it’s a very wise decision. It keeps other
clubs from having an ulterior motive for cut¬
ting things from other club proposals.”
ICC will meet tomorrow at noon in C301 .
“I think it was
fair for us to
split the money
evenly.. .there
are other
means by which
clubs can get
money. ”
Bob Cagle
Earthwise president
Bookstore renovation is scheduled to begin this summer
BY LUZ MARIA CASTELLANOS
COURIER STAFF WRITER
Good news for the campus Book¬
store. A contract has been approved
to begin renovations on the book¬
store. According to Dr. James
Kossler, assistant superintendent of
administrative services, the renova¬
tions are set to begin during the first
summer session.
During last Friday’s meeting, the
bookstore advisory committee dis¬
cussed various changes that will be
made in the appearance of the store
as well as augmentations to some of
the procedures to ensure more effi¬
ciency.
Kraimer and Associates and
CHCG Architectural have been se¬
lected to complete the work. Kraimer
and Associates will be in charge of the
new shelving and cash register set
up, while CHCG will do the architec¬
tural work. Due to the renovations,
students will be displaced for the sum¬
mer rush. The student bookstore will
be temporarily housed in the old li¬
brary site for the four months of the
remodeling.
Presently, there are no plans to
have any structural work done but,
there is extensive electrical work
planned. The main project will be the
circuits which have been a problem in
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ing will be rewired to fit the needs of
modem day technology such as scan¬
ners and more sophisticated cash reg¬
isters, Kossler said. “Even though it
may take us a little while to actually
buy sophisticated equipment, we
want to be ready.”
Changes in the bookstore’s ap¬
pearance will consist of all new
counters, shelving and above all the
cashier system. A new island system
will be used to speed up check out.
The concept is to have five to six
registers arranged in a circle instead
of in a linear position which is used
now. Also, there will only be one line
for people to use. The line will be in
Museum exhibits Afrikan
history and inventions
By ENRICO PIAZZA
COURIER STAFF WRITER
The Campus Lounge is hosting a
different kind of museum, one that
asks input from its visitors to further
stimulate discussion and understand¬
ing of the material exhibited. It’s the
“Afrikan Museum,” presented by the
Black Students Alliance as part as the
many activities of the African Ameri¬
can Heritage Month.
The exhibition consist of art work,
books, maps and timetables of the
slave trade and the struggle for civil
rights, as well as a section dedicated to
the many inventions that African
Americans contributed to modern
society. PCC student Butch May pro¬
vided his onw artwork, and A1 Smith
provided original wooden art and
craft from Africa.
The museum is divided in three
main sections that take visitors through
the life, the death, and the resurrec¬
tion of the African American commu¬
nity. In between, visitors are asked to
express their views on various topics.
From what is the proper term to iden¬
tify African Americans to the role the
end of segregation played on the
Negro Baseball League to what was
the contribution of Malcom X to the
Black revolution. A panel will discuss
the visitors’ answer next Tuesday, at
noon in the campus lounge.
“To create discussion is always
good,” said George Battle, a BSA
member who contributed to the mu¬
seum. “Without discussion, we live in
ignorance.”
Battle said that the museum was
designed in three sections to give
visitors a complete overview of the
African American Heritage. He
added that the museum is labeled
“Afrikan” to include all parts of Af¬
rica, even those countries whose lan¬
guages don’t have the letter “c” in
their alphabet.
In the “life” section,” maps, biog¬
raphies, and illustrations provide in¬
formation on the lives of kings and
queens who witnessed the richness
of the many civilizations existing in
Africa before the European coloni¬
zations began.
The “death” section begins with a
huge map of Africa illustrating the
Please see “AFRIKAN,” Page 3
a zig-zag formation similar to that used
in Disneyland and banks. “This new
system will improve the movement of
the line and omitthe pressure of choos¬
ing the line that will move fastest,”
said Stephen Johnson, assistant dean
of student affairs.
The committee is also considering
investing in a small television monitor
that will be set at the beginning of the
line. The monitor will advise a cus¬
tomer that a register is available. Dur¬
ing intercessions the monitor will dis¬
play information regarding sales and
promotional merchandise.
Johnson said, “If at some point in
the future we are able to afford a full
system, then of course, we will have
the scanners which will speed up the
line and assist in inventory.”
There will also be some changes
in the procedures that have slowed
down efficiency. One of the changes
will be the way the bookstore handles
students who pay with vouchers.
Currently, students who submit pay¬
ment through vouchers must go into
the bookstore office instead of simply
paying at the cash register. By the
next rush, all students, including those
paying with vouchers from a grant
agency, will be able to pay at the cash
register.
Also, many students who pay with
vouchers can not pay the balance if
the voucher does not cover the full
price of the item. Therefore, the
student is turned away. Robert Bow¬
man, AS president, expressed his
concern, “I don’t understand why a
student should be turned away for
less than a dollar.”
Doug Ferris, the bookstore man¬
ager said, “In some programs, we did
allow the students to pay for the dif¬
ference between what they got in
their program and what they still owed.
With the California Rehabilitation
Program, we always did a lot of that,
but with some of the other programs,
wedidn’t because sometimes it wasn’t
clear what the grant agency was ask¬
ing us to do. We hope to accommo¬
date all students,” he said.
AMAL MASHHOUR/THE COURIER
A section of the Afrikan Museum in the campus center lounge shows a map detailing where most of the slaves
were kidnapped out of Africa. The exhibit will be open through today.