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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 72 No. 17
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Thursday
January 17, 1991
NEWSLINE
GULF UPDATES
For news-breaking infor¬
mation on the gulf crisis, tune
into KPCC FM 89.3. The sta¬
tion will provide 24-hour-a-
day National Public Radio
updates as well as local up¬
dates. Some of the regularly
scheduled programs have been
rescheduled until at least Fri¬
day.
RALLY AGAINST WAR
The International Commit¬
tee Against Racism will hold a
rally .Thrusday, Jan. 17 at noon
in the quad to speak out against
the war. All are welcome.
M.L.KING, JR. Day
The Association of Black
Employees is sponsoring a 2nd
Annual Celebration of Dr. King
Day on Thursday, Jan. 17 at
noon, in the Campus Center
lounge. The Reverend L.L.C.
Hammond has been invited to
speak at the event. Hammond
is a pastor at the Scott United
Methodist Church in Pasad¬
ena.
All members of the cam¬
pus community are invited to
attend. Refreshments will be
provided.
PINNING CEREMONY
Forty-one PCC nursing stu¬
dents will receive certificates
at a “pinning” ceremony on
January 25 at 7 p.m. in the
Sexson auditorium. The guest
speaker will be Barbara
McBride-Schuck, an oncology
specialist and enterostomal
therapist at Arcadia Methodist
Hospital.StudentRynn Burke-
Simpson will also speak at the
event. A reception will imme¬
diately follow the ceremony.
PHONE SYSTEM
Be advised that the 578
prefix for campus phones will
be replaced with prefix 585
beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
The change signals the com¬
pleted installation of a new
Ericsson Business Communi¬
cations system, which began
last summer. The new system
incorporates a voice mail sys¬
tem.
IMPORTANT JANUARY
DATES
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Adjustment days for stu¬
dents who used mail-in regis¬
tration are January 16 and 17.
Walk-in registration for con¬
tinuing students is from Janu¬
ary 17 to January 23, and for
new students from January 23
to the 31.
On Monday, Jan. 21 the
college is closed in honor of
Martin Luther King Day. Final
exams for the fall semester will
be held from Tuesday, Jan. 22
through Tuesday, Jan 29. The
bookstore will be buying books
back Jan. 22 through , Jan 29.
INDEX
Opinion
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Editorial
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Features
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News Features
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By BECKY ROUSE
Editor-in-Chief
War broke out in the Persian Gulf at4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. White
House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater came on the air at 4: 10 p.m. to confirm
that an air attack had been launched against Baghdad. ‘ ‘The liberation of
Kuwait has begun,” said Fitzwater. He said that Operation Desert Storm
was underway with American and coalition forces attacking targets in
Kuwait and Iraq.
Fitzwater explained the action, saying “We believe that freeing Kuwait
means attacking Iraqi forces and communications facilities, so we had to
attack Baghdad.”
On ABC network news, reporters in Baghdad described light flashes and
tracers from ground to air on the outskirts of the city as they watched from
their hotel windows. Air raid sirens could be heard in the background.
At 5:30 p.m. (PST) a report was aired that Marine installations along the
Iraq-Kuwait border picked up a scud missile warning, launched from Iraq,
but at that time it was unclear in which direction the missile was headed.
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had repeatedly threatened to attack Israel if the
outbreak of fighting occured.
At 6 p.m. (PST) President Bush addressed the nation. In his speech, the
President said “Just two hours ago, allied air forces began an attack on
military targets in Iraq and Kuwait. These attacks continue as I speak.
Ground forces are not engaged. This conflict started Aug. 2 when the
dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor. Kuwait, a member of
the Arab League, a member of the United Nations, was crushed, the people
brutalized. Five months ago, Saddam Hussein started this cruel war against
Kuwait, tonight the battle has been joined."
"This military action, taken in accord with United Nations resolutions
and with the consent of the United States Congress follows months of
constant and virtually endless diplomatic activity on the part of the United
Nations, the United States, and many, many other countries.
Arab leaders sought what became known as an Arab solution, only to
conclude that Saddam Hussein was unwilling to leave Kuwait. Others
traveled to Baghdad in a variety of efforts to restore peace and justice. Our
Secretary of State James Baker held an historic meeting in Geneva, only to
be totally rebuffed. This past weekend, in a last ditch effort, the Secretary
General of the United Nations went to the Middle-East with peace in his
heart, his second such mission. And he came back from Baghdad with no
progress at all in getting Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait.
Now the 28 countries with forces in the Gulf area have exhausted all
reasonable efforts to reach a peaceful resolution. We had no choice but to
drive Saddam from Kuwait by force. We will not fail.
As I report to you, air attacks are underway against military targets in
Iraq. We're determined to knock out Saddam Hussein's nuclear bomb
potential. We will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities. Much of
Saddam's artillery and tanks will be destroyed. Our operations are designed
to best protect the lives of all the coalition forces by targetting Saddam's vast
military arsenal. Initial reports from General Schwartzgoff are that our
operations are proceeding with according to plan.”
At the time that The COURIER went to press, there were no reports of
American casualties.
Candidate discusses views on
the plight of the black family
Had Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. lived, he would have turned
62 last Tuesday.
The national civil rights leader
and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
was honored by the African
American Students Association
Tuesday by sponsoring a memo¬
rial in the Campus Center Lounge
a candidate for City Director of
District One in Pasadena, partici¬
pated in the observation of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Week by
speaking on the nationwide theme
of “Where do we go from here?”
Although Richard did not men¬
tion King’s name once and solic¬
ited volunteers to assist in his
upcoming political campaign, he
defined the current situation of
black America as “pathetic and
more repressed now then at the
start of the civil rights movement
25 years ago.”
Richard used the example of
the current black television shows
as a contradiction to the crisis of
that the black family is in.
“Let me pull all the fans of
the Cosby show away from the
fantasy world of television with
all its happy darkies who never
seem to work or use the bath¬
room,” said Richard, who pro¬
ceeded to discuss the deteriora¬
tion of the black family in Amer¬
ica.
“Sixty percent of all black
families are headed by single
parent women, and consequently
their children live below the
poverty line,” said Richard. If
you are bom into poverty the U.S.,
you have a one in 25 chance of
making it out in your life time,
according to Richard, who added
that now is the time to be con¬
cerned about the black child.
Carl Scayan/ The COURIER
tsaac Richard, a candidate for the district one seat on the Pasadena
Board of City Directors, speeks to students in the Campus Center
Lounge on Tuesday, Jan. 15. The speech was well-attended.
family is the function of poverty that
permeates the black society,” said
Richard. As society becomes more
technological, blacks suffer because
the unskilled jobs in the steal mills
and auto plants have been replaced
cording to Richard.
The blacks are under repre¬
sented in the nineties because the
fields.
This leaves only janitorial jobs
for the unskilled black worker, ac-
mo-
mentum.hesaid. Richard recom¬
mends more education in the
math and engineering fields. He
also suggests establishing a sepa¬
rate economy to guarantee finan¬
cial resources and reuniting the
black population as a whole.
By ROSEANN RENZULLO
Staff Writer
Carl Scayan / The COURIER
Print students get hands-on experience. Most of the publications distributed on campus are produced by the college print shop.
International Print Week festivities underway
By EDWIN FOLVEN
Staff Writer
The week of Jan. 13 through 19
marks the 46 annual celebration of
International Print Week. In con¬
junction with the celebration PCC
printing services department will hold
an open house today from 10 a.m. to
8 p.m.
The open house will give members
of the printing industry and the PCC
campus community a chance to visit
the printing facilities, which were
recently completely renovated. It is
the first industry wide open house in
over five years.
The two celebrations will com¬
memorate the birth of Benjamin
Franklin 285 years ago. Franklin was
a printer by trade. He is considered
by some to be the printer’s “patron
saint.”
The International Print Week”
celebration was started by the New
Jersey’s Craftsmens Club to give
recognition to those who select print¬
ing as a career. The goal of the club
is to promote education and training
for careers in the graphic arts. The
theme for this years presentation is
“Foundations for the Future.”
The open house will include tours
of the new print shop. Print shop
students will demonstrate their abili¬
ties to operate machines such as
computer typesetting and imagery
equipment, graphic arts cameras, and
offset presses. The screen printing
facilities will also be open
for viewing. There will be
numerous examples of the
students work and they will
act as hosts and tour guides.
Representatives from 10
printing companies will
attend to share their thoughts
about the industry with the
campus community.
Douglas Haines, coor¬
dinator of printing services,
said that a lot of publicity
Newly-formed
group calls for an
end to Gulf crisis
In response to the escalating events in the
Persian Gulf, the newly-formed campus group
PCC Coalition for Peace in the Middle East
hastily organized a meeting Tuesday and
called for alternatives to war.
‘ ‘ S entiments alone won ’ t stop the war, but
acting on them will,” said student John
Evenhuis, as he responded to remarks from
students who were asked to share why they
came to the meeting.
Most people said they wanted to get more
information about what is actuallly going on
in the Persian Gulf, and several of them
expressed dissatisfaction with the govern¬
ment’s handling of the crisis.
Paul Hannosh, a student and member of
Veterans for Peace, presented the coalition’s
goals. These are to prevent U.S. intervention
and catastrophic developments in the Middle
East, to bring the troops home, and to seek al¬
ternatives to war via the arrangement of an
international peace conference to discuss all
Middle East issues. The coalition also hopes
to bring about a better understanding of Middle
Eastern cultures.
The meeting was also attended by the
PCC chapter of Amnesty International, Inter¬
national Coalition Against Racism and Gen¬
eral Union of Palestinian Students.
The PCC Coalition for Peace will meet
again on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at noon, in
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