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By Tim Alves
Courier Staff Writer
Two of the college’s most
famous and lauded alumni are
being enshrined as the namesakes
of the recently completed “Lancer
Stadium.”
Ending more than five months
of speculation, the board of
trustees voted to approve re-nam¬
ing the officially titled “Pasadena
City College Stadium,” “Robinson
Stadium” after Mack and Jackie
Robinson.
“Absolutely I think it’s a great
idea. The contributions they made
to this town and to the country are
worthy of the honor,” said Skip
Robinson, athletic director.
Students agreed the move by
the board was merited. “They
were good players, they went here,
it’s a good choice. I’d rather it be
him (Jackie) than someone who
donated money. There’s a lot of
people who give money to get their
name on a plaque or building. But
I think the new name is the right
choice,” said Harrylee Bartel, stu¬
dent.
“Some say the Robinson name
is getting old, but I think the very
name is a source of pride for the
college and the community,” said
Robinson.
Jackie Robinson attended the
college when it was known as
Pasadena Junior College (PJC)
from 1937-39. He was a four-
sport athlete, leading the football,
baseball, basketball and track
teams to state championships, and
setting personal records in each.
Robinson broke through the so-
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■ Men’s Basketball
shoots over the top:
Last Friday’s game marks the
10th win in a row. As Lancer
victories mount, records are
being broken. This marks the
highest number of consecutive
games in which the Lancers
have beaten their opponets in
more than a decade.
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Arrival of quesadillas!
The Annex (Lancer’s Pass) is
now open, serving “Coffee
Break,” in big caffinated sizes.
Gourmet dishes include que¬
sadillas, veggie burgers and
philly cheese stake.
Ready to donate?
From 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on
Wednesday, Feb. 9, the Red
Cross Blood Drive wil be wait¬
ing for donors in the Creveling
Lounge.
Table tennis
At 8 a.m. PCC is hosting the
Chinese New Year Invitational
Table Tennis Tournament
Saturday, Jan. 29 at the
Hutto-Patterson Gym.
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President pumps
big bucks into NIH
Clinton spoke at Cal-Tech; NSF funds could benefit PCC
By Fred Ortega
Courier Staff Writer
The quiet serenity of the Caltech
campus was shattered last Friday, as
hundreds of spectators crowded into
Beckman Auditorium to hear
President Clinton announce a near¬
ly $3 billion increase in funding for
science and technology research.
The increase, part of the Clinton
Administration’s “Twenty-First
Century Research Fund,’ includes
$1 billion in biomedical research
grants for the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), a S675 million
increase in funds for the National
Science Foundation (NSF), and an
additional S600 million for Internet-
related information technology
research.
While the NIH seemed to be the
biggest winners of the day, Clinton
was quick to point out that not
only biomedical research is impor¬
tant. Advances in one field often
depend on breakthroughs in other
disciplines.” The funding awarded
to the NSF, which is double the
largest dollar increase in that
group’s 50-year history, will benefit
mostly non-medical research con¬
ducted at universities throughout
the nation. This includes space
exploration, the development of
cleaner, renewable sources of ener-
“If the money is
approved, then PCC
could see some of
those funds.”
-Allen Dooley,
dean of math and computer sciences
gy, and information technology.
Over $1 billion is slated for uni¬
versity-based research, which
Clinton considers crucial in “pro¬
viding the kinds of insights that are
most important in any new technol¬
ogy or treatment.”
It is in this area that PCC could
receive some of the budgetary
windfall. According to Allen
Dooley, dean of the math and com¬
puter sciences division, there are a
number of the college faculty mem¬
bers who receive NSF funding.
“Victoria Bragin of the physical
sciences division is currently in
Washington D.C. doing NSF-fund-
ed work,” said Dooley, whose own
department has an NSF beneficiary
in Dr. Jude Socrates, assistant pro¬
fessor of mathematics and comput¬
er studies.
“If the money is approved, then
PCC could see some of those
funds,” he said, adding that the art
department’s media lab was built
with help from the NSF.
In addition, the college’s stu¬
dents could directly benefit from
initiatives meant to make higher
education more affordable, initia¬
tives the president vowed to contin¬
ue and improve upon. He suggested
making college education tax
deductible for the first time in histo¬
ry, expanding upon last year’s Hope
and Lifetime Learning tax credits.
Increasing Pell and Work Study
grants were other measures Clinton
promised to take to ease the ever-
increasing financial burden on
today’s college student.
Clinton’s proposed new science
budget also placed considerable
importance in the emerging field of
nanotechnology, which involves the
manipulation of matter at the atom-
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Clinton addressed ways he could push education. One was to make higher education fees tax deductible.
ic and molecular levels.
“Imagine the possibilities,” said
Clinton, speaking at the very cam¬
pus where 40 years earlier the
famed physicist Richard Feynman
first proposed the concept of nan¬
otechnology, “materials 10 times as
strong as steel but only a fraction of
the weight, shrinking all the infor¬
mation held in the Library of
Congress into a device the size of a
sugar cube, detecting tumors only a
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■ ’IN MY OPINION’
Four smiling students
answer a controversial
question, ‘yes, or no?’
Also, find out why “The
price of liberty is eter¬
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