Volume 97, Issue 1 _ “The Independent Student Voice of PCC, Serving Pasadena Since 1915.” _ Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008
What's Inside
Allan Santiago
/
Courier
Entertainment
Spread the Word: PCC
students rock out in
the {amar} festival.
Page 4
Richard Quinton
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Courier
Sports
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out spring sports at
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What's Going
Down
This is the only issue
for the winter
intersession, but
news won’t stop here.
Stay tuned at
pcccourier.com and
look out for the next
print issue on stands
Feb. 17.
Christian Daly
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Courier
Director Trevor Hoff (left) and Cinematographer Matthew Boyd frame a television commercial for PCC in the Hutto-Paterson Gymnasium on Tuesday.
PCC Coming to a TV Near You
Rally Set in Support of Prop. 92
Joseph Lopez
Contributing Writer
A student rally for the “Yes on
Proposition 92 campaign” will be
held in the Boone Sculpture Garden
Thursday at noon.
Many students and faculty sup¬
port the proposition because of its
key goals in lowering tuition fees
and ensuring that the opportunity
for enrollment exceeds.
The event will be one of many ral¬
lies taking place across the state of
California and school members are
not their only supporters. Many
labor groups,
business
groups and
communities
are behind
this as well.
“It’s rare
that commu¬
nities are not
an education by these colleges and
that’s why 92 is asking for equality,”
said campaign spokesperson Jen¬
nifer Wonnacott.
According to
Wonnacott,
community col¬
leges would like
to be in the
same “playing
field” as other
schools because
they have been
under-funded by
the state by over $4 billion in the
past 10 years.
Today the state faces a $14.5 mil¬
lion deficit that will prevent full
funding of education in the coming
year.
Although Proposition 92 will pro¬
vide funding for community colleges
it will also cause the state to spend
over a $100 million that it does not
have.
Proposition 92 will require $300
million in the next three years.
The drafting of the proposition
began four years ago, but it was not
See ‘Prop’ - on Page 2
Student Rally
Where: Boone Sculpture
Garden
When: Noon, Thursday
Student Takes Action for ‘Greener’ Campus
Allan Santiago
Copy Editor
In October PCC student Richard
Hasselberger, 22, after one of the
many times he witnessed the clutter
of wasted paper towels in the cam¬
pus restrooms, decided it was time to
do something about it.
Seeds Of Change, a PCC student-
activist group of which Hasselberger
is a member, had been discussing
looking deeper into exactly where
the material to make the bathroom
tissue came from.
Hasselberger decided to take the
initiative.
“Because more environmental
friendly companies are generally not
exploiting their employees and their
sources, the cost of their products
are much higher ... ” said Hassel¬
berger.
“So the question becomes more
complex and we have to ask our¬
selves: do we want [PCC] to spend
more money for the ‘greener’ prod¬
ucts, or are we capable of capping
our consumption, so that the school
will not need to purchase so much of
the products we use?”
His research led him to Mark
Glanzman, contract specialist for
the purchasing office at PCC. From
Glanzman, Hasselberger obtained
information on the kinds of paper
toiletries purchased for PCC, as well
as the cost.
The information confirmed what
Hasselberger had suspected: the pur¬
chased tissue came from Kimberly-
Clark, the largest distributor of tis¬
sue in the world, which has come
under much scrutiny about their use
of virgin pulp from endangered rain¬
forests, such as the Boreal rainforest
in Canada.
“It’s virgin pulp from the rainfor¬
est, that is the big deal,” said Hassel¬
berger.
In addition to depleting some of
the worlds only intact ancient rain¬
forests, virgin pulping uses elaborate
methods of pulp-making, which
have an extensive impact on energy
use, air quality, and harbors haz¬
ardous waste streams.
In a surprise to Hasselberger, not
See ‘Action’ - on Page 2
Elaine Hu
/
Courier
Student Richard Hasselberger
wants students to take a closer
look at the products they use.
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