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• ATTORNEY TO ADRESS GRADUATING STUDENTS IN PCC'S 71ST CEREMONY
Speaker selected, commencement set for May 17
By REYNA GRANDE
Courier Staff Writer
Graduation. The long awaited
event for many PCC students is fast
approaching with all its pomp and
circumstance. This year, about 500
students will be participating in the
commencement ceremony, along
with faculty members and adminis¬
trators. The ceremony willtake place
at6p.m. Friday May 17bythe mirror
pools. The commencement speaker
will be attorney Mercedes M.
Marquez, who was chosen by the
selection committee because of her
background and community involve¬
ment.
The class valedictorians, chosen
because of their outstanding aca¬
demic performance and 4.0 G.P. A.s,
are Hamid Rezg Maleklou, Chrysti
Jones, and Heather-Lark Curtin.
The valedictory address will be
delivered by Chrysti Jones. She will
be getting her A A degree in child
development and is currently work¬
ing at Montessori School in Pasa¬
dena. Jones is hoping to
transfer to Pacific Oaks
College to study child de¬
velopment and get her
teaching credentials.
Curtin lives in Los An¬
geles and is a graduate of
Dos Palos High School in
Goleta. She is planning to
transfer to either UC Ber¬
keley or UCLA and major
in Japanese. Maleklou is a resident
of Glendora. She is studying politi¬
cal science and is hoping to transfer
to either Harvard Univer¬
sity, Yale, or USC. One of
her goals is to go to law
school.
During the ceremony,
Campus Recognition Hon¬
ors will be awarded to indi¬
viduals who have provided
service to the college over
the years. Alice Corey,
department chair of the
Physical Sciences department will
receive the Campus Special Recog¬
nition Honors. Among her many
contributions to the college, Corey
was responsible for the creation of
many chemistry lab manuals to help
students with their classes, and she
has also assisted to increase funds for
scholarships and other student pro¬
grams.
Tom and Tim Selinski will re¬
ceive the Community Special Rec¬
ognition Honors. Being the founders
of the PCC flea market, they have
been active members of the market’s
Board of Directors for 17 years. They
also served in the Associated Stu¬
dents Goverment and Circle
К
Inter¬
national.
In the addition, the faculty mem¬
ber winner of the Risser Award will
also be introduced at the ceremony.
The Risser is an annual award given
each Spring to recognize outstand¬
ing faculty members.
Marquez has a B.A. in political
science from USC and earned her
law degree from Georgetown Uni¬
versity. Her professional experience
ranges from working for Congress-
Please see GRADS, Page 4
Mercedes M.
Marquez
• LIST OF
UNRESOLVED
GRIEVANCES GROW
District to
face record
12 cases
By RACHEL URANGA
Courier Staff Writer
Teaching for more than a decade
at Pasadena City College, Eleanor
Kenney, associate professor of nurs¬
ing, never had as many problems as
she had these past two years. She is
not the only one who has had prob¬
lems with administration.
Last week, the
СТА
filed its third
arbitration on Kenney ’s behalf, add¬
ing to the growinglists ofthe district’s
unresolved grievances. This year
alone a dozen unresolved grievances
have been sent to arbitration. Half of
these cases are still awaiting a hear¬
ing.
The
СТА,
which files for arbitra¬
tion on behalf of faculty reports that
in an average year
у
one or two cases
are filed. “The amount of grievances
sent to arbitration were an unusually
high number this year,” said Ed
Ortell, CTAchiefnegotiatorforPCC.
Ortell attributes this fact to the lack
of administrative cooperation in deal-
ing with these grievances.
The office of Dr. Joyce Black,
instructional administration, said it
is the administration’s policy not to
comment on any arbitration matters
the district is involved in.
“Ever)1 case of arbitration cost
the CTA$10,000,” explained Ortell.
If the number of unresolved griev¬
ances continue at this rate, Ortell
speculates the
СТА
will go broke.
Of all the cases gone to arbitra¬
tion, Kenney was the only involved
party willing to discuss the griev¬
ances. As of last week the district
had not produced documents sub-
Please see
СТА,
Page 4
FLORENCE AND NORMANDIE.. .FOUR YEARS LATER
SAMUEL HERNANDEZ,
/
THE OOURIER
Four years ago last Monday, one of the most destructive The Los Angeles riots started after four LAPD officers were
urban uprising in any U.S. city was sparked at the intersection acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. The remaining signs
of Florence and Normandie in South Central Los Angeles, ofthe riots are a closed market and grafitti on some walls.
• INAUGURAL EVENT TO SHOW OFF ARTISTIC TALENTS
Classified staff exhibit opens Monday
By FELICIA BRICHOUX
Courier Staff Writer
“The Worker Bees of PCC” is the nick¬
name Judith Heinrichs, admissions and
records evaluator, gives her fellow classi¬
fied staff members. Soon, she will have to
find a new allegory: dragonflies, perhaps, or
butterflies: whatever speaks of artistry', cre¬
ativity, color and beauty.
And Heinrichs will need the new name
right away: by Monday afternoon, when
the chrysalis will open and PCC’s artisans
emerge as artists. The 1 st Annual Celebra¬
tion of the Arts opens with a reception on
the Shatford Library steps from 3 to 5 p.m.
Visitors will enjoy music and refresh¬
ments, meet the artists and then move
inside the library rotunda to view the art
work on the walls and in glass cases.
Heinrichs, coordinator for tire exhibit,
said she is delighted to have the show in the
beautiful library rotunda. Mary Ann Laun,
associate dean of the library, was eager to
have the exhibit there for the month of
May.
An exhibit to demonstrate the talents of
the classified staff is an idea Heinrichs
conceived and has lived and breathed for
many months. “To maintain the support
staff’s long-held reputation of being hard¬
working, knowledgeable and well-
Please see EXHIBIT, Page 4
• AS BOARD MEMBERS
SUPPORTIVE AS COMMITTEE
OVERLOOKS TECHNICALITY
Disqualified
candidate
reinstated
By ARDA HAMALIAN, Courier Staff Writer
A new member has joined the ranks of the 1996-97
Associated Students Executive Board. In a special meet¬
ing held last Friday, Ben Bushnell, a candidate who ran
unopposed in the last election but was disqualified, was
reinstated into office.
Bushnell was disqualified after last week’s AS elec¬
tions for not having turned his campaign receipts in by
1 1 a.m. on Friday, April 19. The deadline was specified
in the election bylaws as well as the packets that each
candidate received before campaigning.
Bushnell said that he did not have any campaign
expenses. Therefore, he did not think that he needed to
turn anything in.
“Since I had to take time off of work to campaign, I
had to go in the day the receipts were due to make up the
work,” he said. “I knew that the election bylaws stated
that all receipts must be tamed in, but it didn’t say
anything about no expenses. So, it looked to me that it
was acceptable to turn nothing in.”
The committee that heard Bushnell’ s appeal con¬
sisted of Stephen Johnson, assistant dean of student
services, Rebecca Cobb, AS adviser, PCC alumnus Tom
Selinske, and student appointee John Telez.
Although Bushnell was reinstated, he is going to be on
three-months probation before he is certified for the rest
of the term. Johnson and Cobb will supervise him during
this 90 day period.
“At first the committee wanted to let other board
members supervise him during probation, but I had
concerns because anyone can go to the board and
complain if they don’t like the way he votes on some¬
thing,” said Forrest Poindexter, next year’s AS presi¬
dent. “It would be better if the advisers watch over him
so he can be allowed to vote as he pleases. I am behind
him 100 hundred percent. Infact, I will supportthe entire
board no matter what.”
Bushnell said: “The meeting was very fair and I am
happy with the result.”
Please see REINSTATED, Page 9
• AFL-CIO LOOKING TO RECRUIT PCC STUDENTS
Union organizer urges students to take action
By RACHEL URANGA
Courier Staff Writer
Students of Hugo Schyzer’s His¬
tory IA class listened to the com¬
manding and passionate voice of
Michelle Brauer calling them to lead
the union in its fight for the rights of
workers. For a week, Brauer has
been searching Pasadena City Col¬
lege looking for socially conscious
young people. She goes from class
to class trying to recruit students into
a movement that few are familiar
with and even fewer have experi¬
enced first hand: the union. She is
one of the growing number of twenty
somethings participating in a nation¬
wide effort by the AFL-CIO to revi¬
talize the movement and reshape the
frayed perception many have of the
union.
Brauer encourages students to
sign up for a summer program of¬
fered by the AFL-CIO by emphasiz¬
ing the necessity of union organiza¬
tion.
The Union Summer, a three-
week program sponsored by AFL-
CIO, pays for a short term peek into
the life of union organization. In¬
tended to boost participation and
heighten awareness ofthe diminish¬
ing and often unheard voice of work¬
ers, it provides potential organizers
and activist with a comprehensive
understandingoftheunion. Forthree
days veteran union organizers teach
participants about the history of la¬
bor organization and how it works.
By organizing activities and events
alongside veteran organizers, par¬
ticipants will get a chance to “get
their feet wet.”
Union Summer gathers like
minded individuals to fight for the
rights of workers. It is designed to
bring young workers and college stu¬
dents together so that they can effec¬
tively work on issues through union
organizing and political initiatives.
A similar event, Freedom Sum¬
mer, solidified and fueled the Civil
Rights movement. Freedom Sum¬
mer was a national coalition of civil
rights activist that recruited college
students to register voters in an op¬
pressed area in the South. Union
activists hope that Union Summer
will fuel the worker’s rights move¬
ment like Freedom Summer suc¬
cessfully ignited the civil rights
movement.
New leadership has changed the
face of the th AFL-CIO, an umbrella
organization for unions. Aware of
the need to restructure the move-
Please see UNION, Page 9
TWO WINNERS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
ANDREW ZIMA
/
THE COURIER
Two professors were recognized last T uesday for their talents by winning the
Risser Award for Outstanding T eacher ofthe Year. From left: Joe Risser, Dr.
James Kossler, PCC superintendent president, professors Verna Wells and
Michael Riherd, and Dr. William Goldmann, dean of educational services.