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Peace
Through
Silence
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Family Searches for Missing Child
Anti-War Protest Draws
Crowd for a Day of Peace
Kate Murray, Dean Lee
Editorial Staff
Thousands of people, including
many PCC students, filled All
Saint’s Episcopal Church in
Pasadena last Saturday, where actor
Martin Sheen spoke out against the
war in Iraq before the screening of
an independent anti-war film,
“Arlington West.”
“I thought the event was great,
with the energy the crowd and speak¬
ers brought,” said PCC student
David Aguirre. “When I heard that
Lancer Radio was going to be the
only recorded audio there, I jumped
on it.”
A day-long silent march for peace
led up to the evening activities, fea¬
turing Sheen and anti-war activist
Cindy Shehan.
All Saint’s Church has been used
to film a number of episodes of “The
West Wing,” a televison show in
which Sheen plays the president of
the United States.
“I am an actor pretending to be
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Actor Martin Sheen
the president, and George W. Bush is
the president pretending to be an
actor,” Sheen said.
Sheehan, whose son Casey
Sheehan was killed in Iraq on April
9, 2004, spoke after the film.
Sheehan did not become active in
the anti-war effort until her son’s
death, when she and other military
families met with President Bush in
June 2004.
Sheehan talked about how she
created Camp Casey, a makeshift
protest area she set up with other
mothers and veterans in a ditch by
the side of the road near the presi¬
dent’s ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Sheehan refused to leave the camp
until the president met with her
again to explain why her son had to
die for an unjust war, as she put it.
Sheehan started her protest the day
the president went on a planned five-
week vacation.
“I think he is going back this
Easter, and in the summer,” Sheehan
said. “Whenever he goes on vaca¬
tion, we will be there. This time
we’re bringing victims of Hurricane
Katrina. Whenever Bush has his
eyes open he needs to see the lives
he’s affected.”
Earlier that day, protestors gath¬
ered in Memorial Park to demon¬
strate in a different kind of rally for
peace. Walking slowly and silently in
a single file line down Colorado
Boulevard, participants demonstrat¬
ed peace through their own calm
silence during a six-block trek to All
[see Protest, PAGE 3]
KTLA Morning News Team
Reports Live From Pasadena
Christina Bustamante
Staff Writer
Southern California’s number-
one morning show, the KTLA
Morning News, broadcasted live
on Thursday at Memorial Park in
Pasadena and at Mission Station
Plaza in South Pasadena for a spe¬
cial segment to promote local
cities. The news show is slated to
cover PCC sometime in May to
promote a scholarship fundraiser.
News anchors Carlos Amezcua,
Michaela Pereira, Sam Rubin and
Mark Kriski, along with reporters
Gayle Anderson, Eric Spillman
and Kurt “the Cyber Guy”, shared
the history, features, attractions,
unique characteristics of both
Pasadena and South Pasadena
with viewers. They also took a look
at each city’s economy, shopping,
restaurants and real estate.
Some sipping hot coffee and
some wrapped in blankets, resi¬
dents of Pasadena and South
Pasadena braved the cold morning
air to catch a glimpse of their
favorite newscasters and witness
the event.
News Anchor Sam Rubin rode
the Metro Gold Line from
Pasadena to South Pasadena for a
segment on the developments to
the transit system that runs
between both cities.
Pasadena City Mayor Bill
Bogaard made a scheduled appear¬
ance and talked about the renova¬
tion of City Hall, which he expects
will reopen in the summer of 2007.
Daytona 500 champion Jimmie
Johnson also made an appearance
[SEE KTLA, PAGE 3]
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Courier
News anchor Mark Kriski
interviews L.A. Kings hock¬
ey player Luc Robitaille.
March 2, 2006
pcc-courieronline.com
Dean Lee
News Cheif
Sweet Welcome
Rafael Delgado
/
Courier
Candy-Coated: Associated Students board members Hans Holborn, Melissa Nery
and Stephen Juarez distribute cotton candy in the Quad on Feb. 23 as part of
Welcome Week festivities.
Student Nurse to Embark on
Campuswide Health Crusade
Kate Murray
Editor-in-Chief
Fit or fat? That is the question
PCC nurse Lesley Shen will pose to
students and staff during a six-
week health promotion project she
will be implementing on campus
beginning March 6. The program,
which will be supervised by college
health nurse Jo Buczko, will
includes classroom visits, open
seminars featuring guest speakers
and information tables located in
the Quad.
Ideas for this project began to
brew after the student health center
issued a survey in 2004 asking stu¬
dents what they were most con¬
cerned about regarding their
health. The answers ranged from
STDs to tobacco, but the biggest
culprits were physical activity and
health education.
“That’s how I got the idea to do
a program based around physical
activity and living healthier
lifestyles and promoting that in dif¬
ferent dimensions,” Shen said.
“The focus [of the program] is
mainly on enhancing the physical
activity amongst the students and
increasing their knowledge base on
what physical activity is and how
they can integrate it into their
lifestyle.”
According to Shen, the 2004
survey results are justifiable. In her
project proposal, she noted that
between 1980 and 2000, obesity
rates have doubled among adults.
Sadly, this means that 60 million
adults - 30 percent of the adult
population - are obese today.
Concurrently, obesity is related to
about 112,000 deaths every year in
the U.S. As Shen said, it’s a “huge,
huge problem.”
Shen, 27, divides her time
between the PCC student health
center and Cal State Long Beach,
where she is pursuing a master’s
degree in public health. Her health
promotion project at PCC will help
her complete the internship
required for completion of her
major. The 240 hours she is
required to dedicate to the project
will provide her with three of the
six credits she must complete for
her internship.
This will be well worth it, Shen
says, if she can help change the
viewpoints PCC students and staff
have about general health practices.
Shen points out that a healthy
lifestyle should be more well-
rounded than most would assume.
“Obesity isn’t just about food
intake. It’s composed of so many
different aspects, like nutrition,
physical activity, genetics [and]
your environment,” Shen said.
“People don’t realize that all these
different factors tie into the fact that
the obesity rate is so high. They just
think, ‘Oh, I just need to stop going
to McDonald’s, or maybe just walk
a mile every day,’ but unfortunately
it’s not as easy and it’s not as clear
cut.”
A person’s environment, Shen
says, is especially influential on
whether or not he or she leads a
healthy lifestyle. In her project pro¬
posal, Shen points out that only 25
percent of U.S. adults eat the rec-
[see Health Promotion,
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Vol. 93, Issue 2
Daniel Belis
/
Courier
Waiting for an Answer: The family of Eboni Johnson - mother Lisa Whiting, sister Victoria Whiting and father Vincent
Whiting - think she may have been abducted.
The 15-year-old daughter of two
PCC employees, Eboni Johnson,
has been missing for over two weeks,
and her parents think she may have
been kidnapped. Her mother report¬
ed to Pomona police that she found
her window wide open at 5:30 a.m.
on Feb. 15 and her daughter gone.
Both parents believe foul play may
be involved, even though Pomona
police classified the case as a run¬
away.
“I woke up to get ready for work
and when I went into my daughter’s
room the first thing I noticed was the
window wide open and her cell
phone lying on the bed,” said Lisa
Whiting, the girl’s mother, who
works at PCC’s student bank. “I
immediately panicked. I was terri¬
fied. At that time I didn’t know any¬
thing.
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I could do was call the
police.”
The parents said they learned
from their daughter’s cell phone that
Johnson had been chatting with peo¬
ple she had met on the website
MySpace.com. They asked police to
check her phone, but they refused.
“The numbers were from all
over,” said Vincent Whiting,
Johnson’s father, who is the supervi¬
sor of facilities services at PCC.
“Some were from out of state; as far
away as Indiana, Michigan, the East
Coast.”
Eboni was constantly on her cell
phone and was known for running it
out of minutes, said her parents.
“To leave without her phone -
That’s not her,” said Mr. Whiting.
“She is so concerned with the way
she looks before going out; I can’t
imagine her leaving with anyone
wearing only pajama pants and slip¬
pers.”
[see Disappearance,
PAGE 3]
courtesy of Lisa and Vincent Whiting
Eboni Johnson has been
missing for over two weeks.