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me the money!"
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FEATURES
PCC's own Duke Stroud
is firmly in saddle playing
Buffalo Bill en francais
Professor spends seven weeks in a
Disney production in Paris.
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SPORTS —
Women's basketball head coach decries "ugly"
60-47 win over Compton College
Despite victory, Coach Smith says Lancers displayed no intensity
or firepower in last Friday's game. Team had come off a razor-thin
loss to Mt. SAC the previous Wednesday.
Males v.
females
at Forum
tonight
By CHERYL CASTILLO
Courier Staff Writer
Carol Tavris
Carol Tavris,
professor of psy¬
chology, will be
speaking to¬
night about gen¬
der and sex dif¬
ferences at the
Forum, begin¬
ning at 7 p.m.
The two-
hour lecture titled “The Longest War:
Sex and Gender Differences,” is part
of the college’s Social Science Fo¬
rum series. This meeting is open to
anyone interested in attending and is
free of charge.
Tavris is co-author of “Psychol¬
ogy” with Carole Wade, a textbook
currently being used by about 300
students taking Psychology 1 atPCC.
“This will be a great opportunity for
these students and others to actually
hear the person lecture that is the
author of one of their textbooks,”
said Daniel Tiberi, a professor of
social science at PCC.
The basic theme of this lecture
will revolve around how male and
female differences are frequently
interpreted as weaknesses on the
part of the woman. Tavris will talk
about society seeing masculinity as
the standard of normality and will
tackle the question : “Why is femi¬
ninity viewed as a deficiency, when
Please see GENDER, page 4
MICHAEL ARNOLD
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THE COURIER
This won't hurt a bit! A donor rests while giving blood during last week's Red Cross blood drive.
PCC receives
accreditation
■College has been
accredited for six years,
the highest that a
community college can
be given.
BY DANIEL ARCHULETA
Courier Staff Writer
Pasadena City College has re¬
ceived accreditation through the
academic year 2002-2003 . It is the
highest that can be given to a com¬
munity college.
The Accrediting Commission for
Community and Junior Colleges of
the Western Association of Schools
and Colleges informed PCC of the
approval in January, after the com¬
mission reviewed its report on the
college.
A visiting team, consisting of
faculty and administrators from
around the state, studied the campus
last October. That report evaluated
the college based on eight standards.
Institutional integrity, educa¬
tional programs, student services,
faculty and staff, library and learn¬
ing resources, physical and finan¬
cial resources, and governance were
scrutinized and PCC rated favor¬
ably in all categories.
PCC prepared a self-study docu¬
ment that chronicled responses to
recommendations given to the col¬
lege by the last accrediting team.
The result was a 1 63 -page book that
assisted the visiting group inits evalu¬
ation.
The commission has asked PCC
to provide a midterm report show¬
ing progress made on two recom¬
mendations for change. “The
college is encouraged to build on
the process made in institutional
research, planning and evalua¬
tion by systematically connect¬
ing the existing planning pro¬
cesses to each other by develop¬
ing action plans for goals and
clear assignment of responsibil¬
ity and time lines.”
In addition, “All campus lead¬
ers need to work collaboratively
to develop a campus-wide gover¬
nance system which looks be¬
yond self interest, to develop trust,
and improve campus morale.”
The requests for midterm reports
are common when colleges re¬
ceive long-term accreditation.
Dr. James Kossler, PCC presi¬
dent, said, “I think it’s a valida¬
tion by our colleagues of what we
have known on campus, that is
PCC is one of the premier com¬
munity colleges inthe nation.” In
regard to the recent call by Dr.
Gordon Brown, professor of so¬
cial sciences, to reopen the pro¬
cess due to what he calls impro¬
prieties during the accreditation
visit, Kossler responded, “I don’t
take it serious at all. There are no
grounds for that.”
Joyce Black, vice president
for instructional administration,
.said, “The report highlights and
recognizes the curriculum and
supports the efforts of student
services functions with the goal
of commitment to student needs.”
Accreditation is the indicator
that the college is supporting the
instructional process properly.
Writers' Forum lends hand
to beginning writers, poets
Students assist L.A. food bank
By YUSEF ROBB
Courier Staff Writer
Everything from greeting card
writing to publishing contracts
will be covered in the 43 rd annual
Writer’ s Forum on March 8 from
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Forum.
According to Nino Valmassoi,
associate dean of community edu¬
cation, the event will be a seminar
that will provide aspiring writers
with the “basic information” they
need to be successful in being a
paid and published writer.
Subsequent to a “Get Ac¬
quainted” coffee hour, in which a
continental breakfast will be
served, the Forum will open with
a keynote speech by Pasadena
resident and bestselling author
Harriet Doerr, who wrote her first
book at the age of 74.
Following the speech, the semi¬
nar will be broken down into three
sessions, each containing three
different workshops.
Session one, from 10 a.m. to
11:15 a.m., will include work¬
shops titled “Eight Reasons Why
Screenplays are Rejected,”
‘Whether or Not to Publish Po¬
etry and Short Fiction and if so
How” and “Nuts and Bolts of
Selling Your Writing.” The screen¬
play workshop will be conducted by
Kathie Fong Yoneda, who has dealt
with story analysis and development
for such studios as Paramount, MGM,
Columbia and Universal. She has
also held executive positions with
Disney/ Touchstone Pictures and
Walt Disney TV Animation.
Agents, secrets to writing success
and instructions on how to write a
“How To” book will be discussed in
the second session from 11:30 a.m.
to noon.
Literary agent Angela Rinaldi will
present “Everything You’ve Always
Wanted to Ask an Agent.” Rinaldi is
well experienced in her field, having
been an editor at Dutton/ Signet,
Bantam and Pocket Book publishers
as well as been the manager of the
Los Angeles Times’ book publish¬
ing operation.
The third session, which will be¬
gin after a one hour lunch break, will
cover publishing law, how to write
for the greeting card market, and
Sybil Baker’s workshop on how to
“tap into the subconscious” to write
a successful mystery story.
Baker is regularly published in
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Maga¬
zine and has background in both
acting and journalism.
Valmassoi credits Meredith
Brucker, the organizer of the
event, for assembling such an im¬
pressive array of writers through
her “contacts in the industry.”
The forum will conclude with
a “Publishers' Panel,” in which
five senior editors and publishers
will talk about what they look for
when material is submitted to
them.
Students and the general pub¬
lic are invited to the workshops,
and advance registration is avail¬
able in
С
1 1 7 or by phone at (8 1 8)
585-7608.
Registration forms can be
picked up in Cl 17, and can either
be faxed to the Community Edu¬
cation center at (818) 585-7608
or mailed in.
Those who register for the
event in advance will pay $85.
The price at the door is $95.
Writers may attend individual
workshop sessions of $30 each.
PCC and high school students
receive a 20 percent discount with
proof of enrollment.
Payment will be made in the
form of cash, check, Visa or
MasterCard.
Students who want to hear all
of the speakers may purchase au¬
dio tapes in the lobby at the end of
each presentation.
By SCOTT BODE
Courier Staff Writer
People need help. Help to eat,
help to live, help when they are
down. Sometimes it is easier to ask
how you can get involved than it is to
ask for someone else’s aid. On the
PCC campus, it is easier to help than
you think.
The Cross Cultural Center opened
last year after it was recognized that
there was a need to coordinate the
people who want to help and those
who need it.
Students often don’t have time to
make long term commitments. This
office can bring together those who
can give a little of their time and
direct that energy to where it is needed
most.
Carrie Afuso, director of cross
cultural services, and PCC students
Kpanah Johnson, Caroline
Garabedian, and Catherine Yu do¬
nated their time last Saturday at the
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.
Along with students from UCLA
and Cal Tech, they spent their morn¬
ing working in the food bank’ s ware¬
house. Their work is an example of
getting involved in the community.
Donations of time, money and
food are the backbone of the food
bank’s operations. It has been in
operation since 1973.
In those 14 years, it has distrib¬
uted 300 million pounds of food
through a network of 750 charities.
When the grim statistics of hun¬
ger are taken into consideration, the
services they provide are vital.
According to statistics furnished
by the food bank, one in three chil¬
dren in Los Angeles lives in poverty.
The national average is one in five.
One in five Los Angeles residents
pay more than 80 percent of their
income for rent, leaving little for
food and medical expenses.
Food bank public relations man¬
ager Amanda Cooper states, “they
just don’t have what it takes to put a
meal on the table.”
Participating day care centers use
this service to further extend the
benefits of this aid.
The centers not only feed the
kids, but also teach them manners
and how to cook. With the help of
large corporate donations and the aid
of of volunteers, such as PCC stu¬
dents, they get the food to those who
need it.
It is important to note that in a
world where time is money, if the
food bank paid its volunteers mini¬
mum wage, last year they would
have spent approximately $500,000.
This is where PCC students really
came through, by donating the most
precious commodity of all, time.
Through its network of charities,
the food bank serves nearly 200,000
people a week. More than half of the
agencies that utilize the food bank
get more than 75 percent of the food
they serve from it.
Broken down by age group, 48
percent of those served are children,
20 percent are seniors and 1 1.5 per¬
cent are handicapped.
In the areas of hunger and the
homeless, the student body has re¬
ally reacted. “The biggest response
so far has been the hunger and home¬
less programs,” Afuso commented.
A recent fund raising program
mustered $400 for food to feed needy
students here on campus. A series of
events are scheduled to raise both
awareness and money for this and
other causes.
One of these is a hunger banquet,
where students have an opportunity
to sample a third world meal. The
proceeds will go to help those in
need.
On March 5, there will also be a
volunteer fair where agencies who
need volunteer help will be looking
for people who can give some of
their time.
Other causes that students can
lend a helping hand to include Big
Brothers, Read 4 the Blind, and Aids
Project L.A. There is also a pro¬
posed beach cleanup event in April.
Besides the personal satisfaction
of being of service, there are some
practical reasons for volunteering
that should be attractive to students.
Volunteer work is something that
can be used to gain valuable job
experience and build a resume.
Some four-year schools have a
service requirement in which stu¬
dents must have performed a mini¬
mum amount of community service
prior to admission.
For more information on how you
can help, contact Carrie Afuso or
Kpanah Johnson in the Cross-Cul¬
tural Center office, CC217, or call
(818) 585-7973.