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NEWS ANALYSIS
Diversity an
Issue in New
Staff Report
Study reveals faculty current demographics.
BY TIM ALVES
Staff Writer
The college’s Human
Resources Office released its
first annual report determining
and detailing the ethnicity, sex,
and age of faculty, administra¬
tors, and other affiliated
employees.
It was compiled as a means
of obtaining a clearer picture of
who teaches and works at PCC.
The report highlights the acade¬
mic departments that are pro¬
viding students with a group of
instructors with diverse back¬
grounds, both educational and
societal.
The data also suggests areas
where instructors with ethnical¬
ly diverse backgrounds may
need to be aggressively recruit¬
ed.
For the data to become
meaningful, a few terms and
concepts should be clarified.
The term “ethnic minority” that
is used in the report refers to
any individual that identifies
him/herself as either American
Indian, African American,
Asian/Pacific Islander, or
Hispanic.
Faculty is defined as either
“full time” or “part time.” Full
“The data also sug¬
gests areas where
instructors with eth¬
nically diverse back¬
grounds may need to
be aggressively
recruited,"
time faculty is contracted to
instruct either nine of 10
months or 11 of 12, while part
time faculty, including coun¬
selors, librarians, and nurses,
have a course load that is 60
percent less than full-time
instructors.
Sex and age of faculty are
fairly straightforward cate¬
gories, sex being the biological
sex of an instructor; 52 percent
of full-time faculty are male,
while 48 percent of part-time
faculty are male.
The ages of faculty members
vary between the ages of 24 to
over 65, with the bulk of
instructors between the ages of
35 to 64.
The combined percentage of
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Pasadena forward Nicole Quesenberry shoots against East L.A.
PCC ATHLETICS
Winning
Streak is
Still Alive
Powerful women’s basketball team has com¬
piled a 28-1 record while ripping opponents
BY ROGER CHENG
Staff Writer
East Los Angeles College
became the latest victim of the
feeding frenzy that the women’s
basketball team (28-1, 8-0) has
been undertaking as they fell 77-
30 last Saturday.
The Huskies’ sacrifice gave
the Lancers its 19th straight vic¬
tory, and its 28th win overall,
amassing the most impressive
record for a basketball team in
college history.
Their eighth conference win
has also earned them the number
one rank in the South Coast
Conference, sharing the honor
with Cerritos College.
The Lancers routed ELAC,
destroying their offense and dom¬
inating on the boards, with three
players pulling down six
rebounds apiece.
Among them was forward
Tiana Sanders, who had four
steals, five blocks and a game-
high 20 points.
She has led the team in scor¬
ing for the majority of the season.
Pasadena out-rebounded their
opposition 45-28.
Guard Tyrea Smith also
pitched in with 14 points and six
boards. Forward Janelle Simon
grabbed six rebounds while scor-
ing^six points.
The Lancers’ “run and gun”
style of playing, keeping constant
motion and running the length of
the court, tired out the inferior
Huskies.
The Huskies offered little
resistance defense or offensive
wise. The game was over before
the end of the first half, as the
proverbial nail in the coffin was
shoved within a few minutes of
the opening tipoff. Sharp shoot¬
ing guard Cathy Pacho scored big
when converting four of four
three-point attempts, giving her
12 points in the game. Along with
the three-pointers, she led the
team in assists, garnering five.
The latest win further proves
the dominance of the team. This
is the third time that the Lancers
blew their opponents away by
more than 45 points, the last two
being Los Angeles City and
Compton colleges. This year is
the team’s best chance ever to
take a state title.
SECOND LOOK AT Z-LINE
Are They
Telling All?
Long distance provider has some
flaws in its student savings plan
BY GALI RAVAL
Staff Writer
With every Tom, Dick and AT&T with their hand
in the long distance calling game, it was just a mat¬
ter of time before the college would want to get a
piece of the action.
The average student may not know it, but Z-Tel
Communications has donated a long distance tele¬
phone service to the college that is supposed to save
students money on long-distance calls.
It claims to have a 9.5 cent a minute calling rate,
but that’s only if the calls are made from the 626
area, which only covers the western part of the San
Gabriel Valley. All calls made outside this region
are 19 cents per minute.
The college is filled with students who come
from all over California. Using this account, which
was issued along with the new LancerCard, won’t
be cheap, at least compared to the competition in
this already saturated industry.
Many long distance telephone companies are in
competition with one another, driving down rates
for consumers. Sprint offers a plan that is only 10 cents
a minute, while another smaller company, 9-Line
Communications, offers a 6.25 cent a minute rate in
California from any area code.
Vicky Hong, junior, said, “I don’t want to use the
service because I don’t call long distance too often. I
live in the 323 area and I was not aware that it would
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Freshman Mario Ordaz uses the C-building phone.
cost me 19 cents a minute.”
In comparison, the Z-Line the school has been rav¬
ing about doesn’t save the average student anything.
The reason why Z-Tel has donated this service was to
generate “new subscribers,” said J.B. Whitten, a senior
sales executive of the company. As part of the deal, the
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CONTINUING COVERAGE
Murder Raises Questions
BY ERICK RUIZ
Staff Writer
The handling of the original 911 call by Pasadena
police in the murder of Maria Isabel Fernandez has
come under scrutiny but will not result in discipli¬
nary action according to Chief Bernard Melekian.
The incident, however, will affect the way police
will respond to similar situations in the future.
“It’s my instruction that if we are going to make
an error, we will err on the side of forcing entry
whenever there is a possibility of human life being
in danger,” Melekian said.
His statement capped off an internal review of the
circumstances surrounding Fernandez’ death 10
days ago.
The decision not to enter the house after a 911
call that presumably came from Fernandez has been
the subject of controversy. Miguel Fernandez, the
victim’s father, commented, “If they responded on
time, they could have saved my daughter’s life or at
least arrested the person that killed her.”
Police responded to a 911 call from a screaming
woman, but they left after more than 20 minutes of
trying to get into the residence without success.
Officers found her body two hours later after they
received a call informing them that the girl’s
boyfriend, Johnny Ortiz, had been upset over a
recent incident. Continued on the Website
SPECIAL REPORT
There is More to Smart Cards
BY AUDREY ALLEN
Staff Writer
The “launching” of the $380,000 “Lancercard”
on campus has left a trail of confusion, with college
administrators saying one thing about smart cards,
and smart card company saying something else.
A “between the lines” controversy has been
stirred up by teachers and students who see the new
ID cards as a misuse/abuse of their individual priva¬
cy for the sake of more advanced technology. Some
on campus are bold to speak, while others are fear¬
ful of becoming “publicly involved,” as one profes¬
sor, who wished to remain anonymous said.
“It is simply an increase of convenience to stu¬
dents. You won’t have to go to the bank all the time
to get money out,” said Steven Johnson, assistant
dean of student affairs. Students can choose not to
activate their smart cards, they can have “a dumb
card,” a card without any money attached to it. “It is
an in-house card, an internal instrument, there for
the student’s convenience and practicality. It is a
student-tracking debit system. Students can look at
the information we give them, and ask themselves if
they want a smart card or just a photo ID, a ‘dumb
card.’”
The Lancercard is more secure than the old ID,
because students don’t have their social security
number on the card, he said.
According to Ernestine Moore, the vice president
of student services, “About two years ago there was
a committee looking at how to implement a campus
credit card, (because) there needed to be a more effi¬
cient way for students to pay for things like parking.
There was a need to report student services and
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