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VOL. 65. NO. 17 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 21 1988
KPCC Comes up
‘Golden,’ Again
By Keith Foster
Special Correspondent
KPCC’s Evening Edition news show
recently garnered another Golden Mike
award from the Radio and Television
News Association of Los Angeles. Mak¬
ing it two years in a row, and three of
the last four that the show has been
honored with the award.
The station won in the news, over 15
minutes. In this category, KPCC com¬
peted against other public radio sta¬
tions as well as commercial stations.
“This is astounding,’’ said Larry
Mantle, KPCC news director, “con¬
sidering that we are in the number two
radio market in the country.”
The radio station relies heavily on
volunteer workers to put together all of
their programming, including the Eve¬
ning Edition. Mantle has nothing but
praise for their efforts. “The volunteer
staff is unbelievable. . . ” He adds,
“the volunteers working on the Evening
Edition are as good as any professionals
working in Los Angeles.”
The show that nabbed the award is
comprised of Matt Wright and Kathy
Lambross, both veteren hosts, and
David Arroyos and Clark Macy filling
the sport’s slot. For Arroyos, who has
been doing PCC football play-by-play
for three years, the award was his first.
“It’s great to win this award. It has so
much respect that goes with it in the
working industry. Just the connections
one can make at the Golden Mike
ceremonies is enough to satisfy.”
Mantle explained that the Evening
Edition is the major news effort of the
day. It is this concentrated effort that
partially explains why it receives as
many awards as it does.
The KPCC news department has also
won awards from AP News Service and
the Greater Los Angeles Press Club.
General Manager Rod Foster feels it
is the selection of the contents of the
news broadcast that has led to it being
recognized as one of the best in the
industry. “What makes it so good is the
job they do reporting the San Gabriel
Valley news. We have captured the San
Gabriel Valley news' market!’’
Courier/Scott Tate
Schools in session so students learn to enjoy “Girl’s Gym Mountain.”
Congressman Hears Concerns
Congressman Moorhead Viewed PCC’s Problem Areas Last Thursday
By Coleen Meyers
Feature Editor
In an effort to acquaint legislators
with PCC deficiencies, Dr. Jack Scott,
superintendent-president, and other ad¬
ministrators, showed Congressman
Carlos J. Moorhead firsthand the
“unique problems on this campus,”
said Dr. William Goldmann, dean of
institutional advancement.
Last Thursday’s meeting was
Moorhead's third visit to PCC. And
although he does not have direct input
into the decision making of community
college funding, since he is on the
federal level, “his influence would be
helpful when seeking state funds,” said
Scott.
Scott escorted Moorhead and his aid
on a tour of the Library and Men’s
Gym, two of the most outdated facil¬
ities on campus. This was followed by a
luncheon with Moorhead, that gave
Scott, Goldmann and other adminis¬
trators an opportunity to discuss spe¬
cific problems.
CAPITOL HILL AND PCC
The luncheon also gave adminis¬
trators the chance to hear what the
current thinking on Capitol Hill is
concerning community college funding.
“Moorhead does not forsee a signifi¬
cant funding increase for community
Courier /Jennifer Landis
Congressman Carlos Moorhead, Dr. Jack Scott and Jeanette Mann
discussed deficiencies PCC has. Next, potentially, could be state level help.
colleges,” said Goldmann.
The federal government funds a
small portion of vocational education
revenue. Most of the federal monies go
into PEL, opportunity grants and col¬
lege work study programs.
Moorhead’s campus visit is part of
the legislative contact committee’s
(LCC) effort to help broaden legisla¬
tors knowledge of campus deficiencies.
“The more they (legislators) know
about community colleges at voting
time, the better,” said Goldmann.
LCC INCREASES UNDERSTANDING
Dr. Robert Wright, associate
professor of communications, and Gail
Fostrey, public information officer,
serve as the LCC’s co-chairs with
Goldmann as the administrative sup¬
port. Their goal is to bring officials on
campus and let them see the needs for
themselves.
“The legislators have found out a lot
they didn’t know before. When they can
actually see our needs right before
them, they are hard to ignore,” said
Goldmann.
The LCC has been in existence for
approximately five years. Senators Art
Torres and Richard Polanco have also
toured the campus.
“Since the early ‘80’s and all the
budget cuts, we (administrators) had
to find another way to increase fund¬
ing,” said Goldmann. Broadening
awareness is one way. “We no longer
invite only local legislators, we are
branching out to include federal elected
officials to increase areas of under¬
standing.”
BRIDGING THAT GAP
According to Goldmann, anything
that increases communication is a
positive step. “What we have to do is to
bridge that gap (between legislators
and administrators) and acquaint
ourselves with each other’s problems.”
Congressmen Moorhead’s visit to look
at some of PCC’s outdated facilities is
just one more step.
To Go . Or Not to Go..: That Is the Question
By Keith Foster
Special Correspondent
Shakespeare is coming, Shakespeare
is coming! Well, at least two
Shakespearean actresses are coming to
PCC. They will be arriving Feb. 17. The
two are part of a group that comes
from the Ashland Oregon
Shakespearean Festival to visit
schools.
The program will be held in
Harbeson Hall from 9 p.m. until 12
midnight. The evening will be held in
three parts. The first part will have the
actresses doing dramatizations of
works by various authors, playwrights
and poets. This section runs from 9-10.
At 10:00, there will be an acting
workshop. This part of the evening is
only open to a limited number of
students — 30 to be exact. Those
students wishing to participate in this
workshop need to sign up in the Com¬
munications office. However, be fore
warned, it is first-come-first-served for
this workshop.
Then, from 11 until 12 they will
present, “A collage of scenes, solilo¬
quies, sonnets and songs” of
Shakespeare.
This is the third year that PCC has
been part of their school visitation
program. English professor Jane Hall-
inger found out about the program
quite by accident. Hallinger had been
taking groups of students to the Oregon
festival for years when she found out
about it. She recalls, “We were at the
festival and heard someone talking
about the school visitation program. I
went to their educational office and
said, come to our school.”
According to Hallinger, last years
program was standing room only.
She says that what you see here is,
“a good view of what you get at
Ashland.” Hallinger adds that the pro¬
gram is also a good promotion for the
summer trip to the Ashland festival.
This year the trip to Ashland is sched¬
uled for June 25 through July 2. During
that week, students get to see seven
different plays, go to workshops
classes and earn up to four units of
tranfer credits. In these classes, many
people involved with the productions
will speak to the students.
Hallinger says the Ashland trip is,
“designed for those students who might
not get to see many plays.” The cost
for the trip is $290. This includes the
seven plays, lodging and breakfast
every day.
The visitation is co-sponsored by the
Englsh and Communications depart¬
ments. There is no cost for the evening,
and it is open to all who wish to attend.
The only thing that is not open to all is
the workshop, which has a limited
enrollment. Again, if you wish to par¬
ticipate in the workshop, contact the
Communications department in C118.
Despite Claims,
Water Flows on
By John C. Willis
Special Correspondent
More than a month after the federal
report indicating that some refrig¬
erated water fountains contained lead
contamination, PCC drinking fountains
flow free — and untested.
The report, which was issued early
last month by the Center for Disease
Control, claimed to discover lead levels
as high as 40 times the U.S. En¬
vironmental Protection Agency pro¬
posed safe as a result of water resting
in lead holding tanks or from contact
with lead-based solder.
WATER STOPPED FLOWING
State Superintendant of Schools Wil¬
liam Honig issued a directive in late
December to California school districts
to shut down drinking fountains and
have them tested for lead contamina¬
tion. Schools in the L.A., Orange and
San Diego county unified schools dis¬
tricts obeyed the directive.
No campus Water fountains were
turned off nor was a request for inspec¬
tion made, according to James Menath,
director of Facilities Services. Menath
cited a follow-up article in the January
10th Los Angeles Times which refuted
much of the original report. In the
article, a representative of the EPA
admitted that fears over drinking foun¬
tains were “unwarranted;” at the
same time, the agency claimed as
many as 42 million Americans might be
consuming lead-contaminated water,
which comes “almost exclusively”
from water mains and household
plumbing systems. Menath admitted
that PCC uses lead in its water pipes.
Menath states that his office was
never informed by any federal or state
health regulatory agency of any hazard
or by the Chancellor of community
colleges office. He said that his only
information on the situation came from
the newspaper.
Although elementary and high
schools in the area turned off their
drinking water, local colleges such as
Cal Tech and Cal State L.A. did not.
In the event of notification from
agency such as the EPA or the
chancellor’s office, Menath said that
the first step would probably be to
contact the Pasadena Health Dept, for
more information on the situation.
EFFECTS OF LEAD POISONING
According to the EPA, lead con¬
tamination causes mental deficiencies
and stunted growth in about 240,000
children annually. It raises the risks of
birth defects in “several hundred
thousand” fetuses. In adults, lead
poisoning causes hypertension and
kidney damage.
Lead contamination can come from
other sources besides water such as
food, paint and air polluted by
emissions from leaded gasoline. How¬
ever, lead is absorbed three to five
times more easily in water than in
food. Additionally, contamination from
these other sources have been reduced
as the danger of lead poisoning became
recognized and leaded fuel began to be
phased out.
Radio Cartoons Now
Thing of the Past
Kid Program , Despite
Marginal Success ,
Falls to the Wayside
By Sally Blake and Sean DuPont
Opinion Editor and Staff Writer
Kids America, the only program on
public radio geared for children, has
been cancelled because of a rejection
of funds. KPCC was one of the 26 radio
stations that aired this show. This
decision comes as a disappointment to
all that were involved with it.
KPCC’s Traffic Director Beth Co¬
oper promoted the program when it
began airing on KPCC in Sept. 86. “I
was really enthused because there had
been no kids program on radio before
Kids America" she said. “I passed out
17,000 flyers to all the elementary
schools in the area.”
Cooper’s efforts came upon deaf
ears, though. Despite passing out the
flyers to elementary students and host¬
ing pizza parties to its core audience,
the program ran on KPCC for only one
year and four months.
The Corporation for Public Broad¬
casting
(СРВ)
refused the bid for a
$450,000 grant for the children’s pro¬
gram that was to air nationally for four
years. According to
а СРВ
spokesman
in Washington, 129 programs for radio
funds were entered with only 16 receiv¬
ing grants.
According to Cooper, the audience
was not big enough. “If a program
brings in a lot of money during the fund
drives, then it is considered a profit¬
able program,” she explained. “Un¬
fortunately, kids cannot call in and
donate money, so they figured it was
not a profitable show. They did not take
into consideration that perhaps the
kids’ parents called in that morning.”
The problem KPCC, and other west
coast public radio stations, ran into
was a definite lack of interest in the
program. On the east coast, where the
ratings for the show are much higher,
the situation, apparently, was dif¬
ferent.
Said a spokesman with WPUB FM in
Washington DC, an affiliate that also
carried the program: “The loss was big
to us. We had a good, solid hold on the
kid’s market in the DC area.”
The program consisted of segments
on music, games, history, computers
and problem solving. Regular charac¬
ters included “Dr. Rita Book” and the
“Duke of Words.” Dr. Book was a Dr.
Ruth Westheimer sound-alike who
prescribed good reading material. The
Duke of Words was a “world traveler”
whom kids would try and outsmart in
spelling bees. The program was hosted
by Kathy O’Connell and Larry Orflay
who took calls from listeners. The
program originated from WNYC in
New York City.
One objective of the show was to try
and get kids away from the TV and
their cartoons to listen to the radio and
become interested in reading.
Kids America ran on KPCC Monday
through Friday 3:30-5. According to
Larry Shirk, program director at the
station, the void will be filled for the
time being by an extended big band jazz
program (Chuck Cecil’s) and the delay
of All Things Considered at 3:30.
It is has been said that radio is “The
Theatre of the Mind.”
Shirk agreed and expected big things
from the program: “One thing radio
provides for a child that TV can't is the
opportunity to use their imagination.
TV always paints the picture for a kid.
On radio, he paints it himself in his
mind.”
Now, the gallery has been closed.