Thursday, January 20, 2000
Vol. LXXXV, No. 1
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Pasadena City College
■ The Courier changes its
look for 2000.
Watch for next week’s full
eight page issue!
■ New and updated pages
include: Viewpoint, La
Nouvelle, Profile, and a
photography page called
Still Life.
bumper to b u m p e r 4
Longing to just ‘park it’
New faculty lot stays empty, meanwhile,
students keep circling around and around
By Tim Alves
Courier Staff Writer
At the beginning of each semes¬
ter, students can count on a few
things. Classes are full, long lines
at the bookstore, and a‘ snarled mass
of cars clogging the college’s park¬
ing lots.
Opposite the Child Develop¬
ment Center (CDC), the newly
opened, 117-space Lot 11 is help¬
ing ease the parking crunch.
However, to the dismay of some
students, the spaces are easing it for
faculty and staff only.
“I’ve got to circle and circle to
find a spot to park. I’m always late
for class. They should let us park
there; it’s always open and we need
it more than they do,” said Dave
Foster, student.
The college Parking Committee
decided to make the new lot avail¬
able to only staff after instructors
raised concerns at the Dec. 6
Faculty Senate (FS) meeting
Initial proposals included con¬
verting Lot 1, a larger student lot
into staff parking and moving the
students to Lot 2, where there are
“The structure
fills, people panic
and emotions can
make for some
problems.”
-Phil Mullendore,
director of safety services
fewer spaces.
“The committee decided to
study that and get input from all the
groups on campus. What was ulti¬
mately decided to do was to make
Lot 11 a staff lot,” said Stephen
See PARK IT Page~3
Jennette Dewey died in a car accident on New Year's Eve
A nursing
student’s
tragic death
By Audrey Allen and
Mike Cervantes
Courier Staff Writer
Just a few months ago she
was sitting in the sun. She was
softly smiling, posing for her
picture with her nursing class.
Her clean white uniform looks
as if it was glowing in the after¬
noon light. Her hair was pulled
up out of her face and soft
ringlets of light blond strands
cascaded to her neck.
In this photograph, Jennette
Dewey, 21, had just completed
her first semester in PCC’s nurs¬
ing program.
No one ever thought that this
was Dewey’s last semester.
Dewey’s car tipped over in the
rain on New Year’s eve and she
died in the accident on the 710
freeway. Her 2-year-old son,
Ivan, was also in the car; howev¬
er, “He was saved by the grace
of God. He got out with a few
scrapes and bruises, said
Dewey’s friend, Jennifer
Wratten, a nursing student.
“She was really strong-
willed. She wanted to make
things really good for her son.
She was a single mom,” said
Wratten, who admired her
friend’s determination.
Her instructor, Lois Douglas,
remembers Dewey as being a
very smart student. “She wanted
very much to finish. She would
be the first in her family to go to
college. I believe she wanted a
bachelor’s degree in nursing.
She was very determined.”
“Jennette touched the hearts
of all who knew her,” wrote her
mother for the funeral on Jan.
11. Most of Dewey’s graduating
class attended to honor their
classmate.
At the funeral, a song was
sung in memory of Dewey and
her son. “There is talk about
incorporating that into the grad¬
uation ceremony,” said Mary
See TRAGEDY Page 3
Ian Oosthuizen
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The Courier
A familiar scene: rows and rows of tightly parked cars and disgruntled drivers honking their horns.
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More money for
ТВ
awareness, testing
A $3000 grant unites nursing division and health services
By Gia Scafidi
Courier Staff Writer
In an effort to raise awareness
about tuberculosis
(ТВ),
the col-
legeis student nurses and health
center staff are broadening their
learning experience in a joint pro¬
ject providing health education out¬
reach to the entire campus commu¬
nity.
The collaboration, funded by a
$3000 grant from the Patron Saints
Foundation last summer, was orga¬
nized to provide
ТВ
education, in
addition to
ТВ
testing, chest x-rays,
if necessary, and follow-up counsel¬
ing, all at no cost to PCC students.
“The project is fairly unique in
that we [nursing and health ser¬
vices] are working together on it,”
said Mary Wynn, division dean of
“The primary goal
in organizing such
a project is to pro¬
tect our students.”
-Mary Wynn,
dean of nursing
nursing. Jo Buczko, college health
nurse, explained that, ironically,
these departments usually remain
separate on most college campuses.
For the majority of colleges, the
nursing division is intended to pri¬
marily provide instruction, while
the health center exists to separate¬
ly provide services.
The project, started in the fall
semester of 1999, has a multifac¬
eted design. Together, the nursing
staff and students provide the edu¬
cation and skin tests to students in
health education classes, while the
health center provides the supplies,
the testing locations, chest x-rays to
those students with positive test
results and referrals for any neces¬
sary treatment.
The students are also benefiting
from this project. Buczko noted
that, in addition to the knowledge,
free testing and chest x-rays avail¬
able to them, many students are
being offered extra credit from their
instructors for being tested.
“Everybody wins,” said Buczko.
Though
ТВ
is not presently on
the rise, according to Buczko, test¬
ing and awareness is still important.
According to Janis Kuby, author
of Immunology, “Tuberculosis is
the leading cause of death in the
world from a single infectious
agent, killing about 3 million peo¬
ple a year and accounting for 18.5
percent of all deaths in adults
between the ages of 15 and 59.”
ТВ,
an infectious bacterial dis¬
ease, is characterized by the forma¬
tion of tubercles (especially in the
lungs), which are lesions containing
the causative bacterial agent. The
disease is easily spread, and pul¬
monary infection results from
inhalation of droplets of respiratory
secretions containing bacteria.
Once thought to have been elim¬
inated as a public health problem,
the disease resurfaced in the early
90s. Kuby writes, “...for every
diagnosed case of tuberculosis,
experts estimate that there arc more
than 600 infected individuals who
have not yet developed symptoms.”
Tuberculosis symptoms include,
but are not limited to, night sweats,
coughing up blood and sputum,
weight and appetite loss, chest pain
and fever.
Though
ТВ
is treated with
antibiotics, intracellular growth of
the bacteria makes it difficult for
drugs to reach and destroy the
organisms. According to Kuby,
some
ТВ
bacterial strains exhibit
resistance to nine of the 1 1 antibi¬
otics used as treatment of the dis¬
ease.
Wynn noted that those at partic¬
ularly high risk for
ТВ
are foreign-
bom immigrants and those with
immunological disorders. Based on
institutional research, PCC present¬
ly has over 1000 foreign students.
The project to promote the pub¬
lic’s awareness has been a success
thus far. In 1999 62
ТВ
tests were
administered in nifte classes,
including the mini health fair held
in October. Of these tests, 34 stu¬
dents returned for their skin read¬
ings, and four turned out positive.
“These results were pretty much
what we expected,” said Buczko,
who explained that
ТВ
testing has
consistently yielded about 12 to 13
percent of positive results. Wynn
noted, “The primary goal in orga¬
nizing such a project is to protect
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Briefs
Dates to Remember:
Jan. 21 is the last day
to drop and be eligible
for a refund of the
enrollment and health
fee.
Jan. 28 marks the last
day to add or drop a
class without a record
of enrollment.
In the art gallery:
A photography exhibit
blending the past, pre¬
sent and future togeth¬
er is currently being
presented in the
gallery. Using a combi¬
nation of digital and
turn-of-the-century
photography, the
show, “Alternatives,”
will continue through
Feb. 11.
Professor’s Death
Retired math profes¬
sor, Frank Baum, died
on Dec. 18, 1999, at
the age of 79. Baum
taught for 28 years at
PCC.
Walter Cronkite
Appearance:
On Jan. 26, at 8 p.m.
at the Pasadena Civic
Auditorium, Cronkite,
a reknowed journalist
will present the
“Legacy of the 20th
Century.”
■Turn the page over to
a debate on the benefits
and the detriments of
Indian gambling
between two staff writ¬
ers. Would “Native
Americans” really pros¬
per, or would they suffer
by operating casinos?
SEE VIEWPOINT PG 2
Basketball, see page 4
Tough defense leads the men’s
team into a record-breaking
eight-game winning streak.