PCC Courier, March 05, 1987

Is ‘Evil Dead’ Purely Entertainment? Page3 Keeping the Focus on Students Page 6 '"" COURIER VOL. 64, NO. 3 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MARCH 5, 1987 Women Celebrate Greater Awareness By Catherine F. Reynolds Editor in Chief A myriad of on-campus activities are planned in celebration of National Women’s History Month in an effort to gain a greater awareness of women’s issues among faculty, staff and stu¬ dents as well as the community. A conference sponsored by the Pasa¬ dena Commission on the Status of Women featuring the theme “Women: The Next 10 Years” will launch this month’s activities on March 7. A vari¬ ety of programs and workshops will be offered. Videos focussing on important issues such as sexual harassment will be featured at noon on March 9, 11, 16 and 18 in D104. Also, a star-studded presen¬ tation of 20th Anniversary NOW Cele¬ bration will feature celebrities such as Lily Tomlin, Donna Mills and Diahnn Carroll. A luncheon honoring Board of Trustee President, Susanna Miele, will be held on March 10. According to Beth Kaiama, adult re-entry counselor and coordinator of the event, it will be “big and splashy but community oriented.” A variety of community and campus information booths, refreshments and entertainment featuring Paul Kilian and the PCC jazz band will be offered at the Information and Awareness Day and Student Reception on March 12 in the campus center lounge, free of charge. “Primarily the student recep¬ tion is to invite students to be aware of women’s issues and of campus in¬ formation. It’s a way to get them to look at some of the non-traditional areas of employment and education for women to consider as well as non- traditional areas for men to consider and to pry their minds open a little bit,” said Connie Hurston, student ac¬ tivities advisor. Hotly debated topics affecting women as well as men will be presented in a special panel presenta¬ tion Hot Legal Issues moderated by Gerta Steele, executive director of the Pasadena Commission on the Status of Women on March 19 in Harbeson Hall from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon. A special guest appearance by Lillian Garland, the plaintiff in the recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court case involving a pregnancy discrimination action against a California savings and loan will highlight the program. This issue has been the subject of controversy affecting both the feminist as well as the business community. Garland has recently appeared on television news and talk programs such as the Oprah Winfrey Show, Today Show and ABC News. “Believe me, she’s hot property right now,” said Hurston. “We hope that we’ll get people from the com¬ munity in because it’s a great op¬ portunity for them to hear first hand information about this real con¬ troversial issue.” A band chosen by the LA. Weekly as “one of L.A.’s top ten bands,” Heather Haley and the Zellots, will perform in concert on March 19 at noon in the quad. “Although I would consider Heather herself to be progressive and a feminist the music is not necessarily politically oriented — it’s rock, new wave,” said Hurston. Other panelists will include Julie Hall, a Los Angeles attorney specializ¬ ing in employment discrimination and labor law and Marjorie Weinzweig, attorney for the California State Division of Labor Standards Enforce¬ ment who is a specialist in the area of comparable worth and pay equity. She summed up the purpose behind Women’s History Month: “My feeling is the idea of this is recognizing women on campus. The whole idea of women’s history month is to recognize women’s issues and this is just a way to gather people in — women faculty, staff and students — to give recognition to their contributions.” Library Lecture Series Native Americans Studied By Coleen Meyers Associate Opinion Editor A lecture series on “International Understanding” brings Loralee Mac- Pike, a California State University, San Bernadino, English professor to the PCC Forum March 12, at 11 a.m. It is the first in a series of lectures to help stu¬ dents and faculty un¬ derstand the interna¬ tional, personal, and cultural experiences of other peoples. With her topic, Rit¬ ual, Literature and Shamanism: the Native American Con¬ sciousness, MacPike hopes to broaden the non-Indian’s knowl¬ edge of the Native American’s beliefs, rituals and sciences through the liter¬ ature of contem¬ porary Native Amer¬ ican authors such as Leslie Marmon Silko and N. Scott Moma- day. She will discuss the psychological studies of the Mojave indians and how they can help us understand stories of the Southwest Indians. In addition to being an English professor, MacPike has been Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at Califor¬ nia' State University, San Bernadino and also Acting Dean of Humanities at Cal State University Northridge. Her accomplishments on intercultural com¬ munication include participation in a year-long seminar on Cross-Cultural Perspectives at Cal State San Bernadino. She also teaches an upper- division Literature and Psychology course incorporating issues of gender, class and ethnicity, on which the lec¬ ture concentrates. This lecture series is made possible through a $14,000 grant donated by a private foundation last Spring and has enabled the library to buy $10,000 worth of books on international communica¬ tions. The remaining $4,000 will be used to sponsor the lecture series designed LORALEE MACPIKE to explain the newly acquired material. Library Director, Joanne Kim, says she is trying to do more for the students and to bring more into the library. Kim tries to help the students understand other world cultures better which she feels should help them to understand materials given them in their classes. “I want to make it their life long goal to be a life long learner.” The remaining 11 lectures will con¬ tinue through Octo¬ ber of 1988 and cover a a variety of topics ranging from art, communications, lit¬ erature and science. The second lecture in the series will be presented in April by Michael Bloebaum. chairman of the communication de¬ partment. How TV and other advertis¬ ing messages cele¬ brate homogeneity and promote dis¬ satisfaction will be studied in Advertis¬ ing: One Culture, One Message. Linda Malm, art department chairperson, is scheduled to speak on The Image of Minorities in American Advertising. PCC social science instructor, Francis Nyong, will lecture on Communication Paradigms: Transformative Structure of Meaning and Power. David Kamansky of the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasa¬ dena will present his lectuer on Under¬ standing the Peoples of the Pacific and Asia through their Art. Library Director Joanne Kim demonstrates the libraries new computerized card catalogue to uisiting Assemblyman Richard Polanco of the 55 district as Bonnie James, Assistant Superintendant for Administrative Services looks on. Polanco toured much of the campus including the computer center in D building and the mens gym. Courier photo by Jennifer Landis Legislator Hits Campus By Jennifer Landis News Editor A California Assemblyman called for a little more ’60’s activism by community college students to help fight the budget cuts proposed by Gov. Deukmejian’s administration. Richard Polanco, Representative from the 55th assembly district found the indifference of the stu¬ dents concerning the community college budget cuts truly distress¬ ing. He found “a real apathy in the community college regarding the budget. I received only three letters and even fewer phone calls when the Governor presented his proposed budget. If the issue is dear to us, we have to write and call.” We have to make an issue out of it. “Our biggest resource is the stu¬ dent population," Polanco stated. “Unfortunately it is the most un¬ used.” Polanco said that the com¬ munity college could use a little of the '60’s activism right now without the destruction that went with it. We can use the ideals behind it, he said. Polanco was on campus as the guest of the PCC Legislative Con¬ tact Committee (LCC) for a meet¬ ing to discuss state issues and the community college. The invitation only meeting was attended by cam¬ pus administrators, faculity mem¬ bers and student representives. Dr. Robert Wright, co-chairnam of the LCC, questioned Polanco about the strength of the Governor's budget and the possibility of com¬ munity colleges receiving more funds. Polanco stated that 'the community college has historically been looked upon as a stepchild” of this administration and so its budget has often been cut. Many in the legislature recognize this wrong and plan to “fight to correct the budget,” he said. At the close of the meeting. Polanco toured many areas of the campus such as the library and the computer center. Coeds Rescued from Near Fatal Accident By Natalie Shore Special Correspondent Clinging to a capsized boat 600 feet outside the entrance to the Newport Harbor, seven young women, four from PCC, almost lost their lives early Sunday, Feb. 22. The girls might have drowned if George Stokes of Hunt¬ ington Beach had not sailed by at 2:38 a.m. and heard their screams. Jennifer Anne Joy, 19, of Pasadena took girlfriends 18-year-old Hallie Maureen Dunne of Temple City, 18- year Debra Vicki Greenbaum of Los Angeles, 19-year old Mary Susan Paredes of San Marino, and three other female companions out for a late night cruise in her father’s 17-foot Boston Whaler after the group left a friend's party. Joy claimed that the number of “It was freezing/ going to die.” said Paredes. “I thought we were occupants in the open motor boat was not illegal and the accident was not due to careless driving, she was driving the boat with her six companions seated in the bow. No one wore life jackets. The three other women were 18-year- old Karen Denise Cooper of Irvine, 18- year-old Heather Camille Laughner of San Marino, and 19-year-old Lucia Sim- eonea Matioli also of San Marino. The weight of six women at the bow caused water to splash into the boat, according to Joy. “I walked towards the front and realized how much water was splashing in. I immediately started driving back, and then the boat tipped over about a quarter mile outside the jetty.” “It was freezing,” said Paredes. “I thought we were going to die." “I had never heard screaming like that before,” said Stokes who did not see the boat at first. Then I spotted the stranded girls on top of the bow, he said. Stokes, his wife Suzanne, 14-year old son Tod, and Tod’s 17-year old friend Robert Wolterpeek were taking the family's 48-foot sailboat Adventurous to Catalina to go diving Sunday morning. We are all certified divers, said Stokes; usually we leave much earlier, but we had gotten a late start that day because of traffic and other things. Stokes is the president of a Huntington Beach computer consulting firm. The Stokeses had difficulty sighting the women since the boat’s bow wasn’t that deep and only barely stuck out of the water. “Luckily, the Boston Whaler has a built-in floating device.” Acting immediately, Stokes had the boys launch the inflatable dingy while his wife radioed the Harbor Patrol. Stokes rowed over in the inflatable boat while the boys manned the ladder on the Adventurous. “You have to maneuver very (continued on page 5) C I Щц I IM IS. ||I|: EtAfQ ■ ■ ill • # WEVtfSLiW Job-Op Fair ’87 Set The city of Pasadena will be sponsor¬ ing JOB-OP Fair ‘87 on Wednesday, March 11 from noon to 6 p.m. at Robinson Park. JOB-OP ‘87 is an op¬ portunity for job seekers to meet with potential employers and ascertain what training opportunities and options are available. Workshops will be held throughout the day. Topics to be dis¬ cussed are landing your first job, re¬ sume writing, interview techniques and training opportunities in the Pasadena area. Dozens of employers will be available to talk with job seekers in an informative setting. For further in¬ formation call JOB-OP Fair coordi¬ nator, Toni Stuart (818) 791-7983. Day At The Races The PCC Foundation is sponsoring A Day At The Races Saturday, March 21 at Santa Anita race track. The $10 ad¬ mission fee includes a catered lunch and entry to the race track. The proceeds will benefit the PCC Child Development Center, which offers child care for up to 150 families per year the center also serves as the lab pre-school for PCC’s early childhood education department. According to Linda Stroud, director for the child development center, “At PCC we have the child development center which supports our student-parents by provid¬ ing quality child care at affordable prices.” This fund raising event fea¬ tures an infield picnic and promises to be fun. Gates open at 11 a.m. Tickets are available department represent¬ atives or from Elaine Broerman in C221. London is Calling You can earn lower or upper division university credit in London this sum¬ mer at Middlesex Polytechnic, a half hour from central London, with a coop¬ erative program offered by San Jose State University July 11-August 15, 1987. One of the largest of the United Kingdom's Polytechnics,, Middlesex of¬ fers programs in Art and Design, Busi¬ ness Studies and Management, Educa¬ tion, Performing Arts and Combined Studies, Engineering, Science and Mathematics, and Humanities and So¬ cial Science. Basic ground costs, which includes most meals, accommodations and tui¬ tion is $1,256. Airfare is $817 from San Francisco and $756 from New York. You may register to audit courses if you wish, but credit can be earned which will be applicable to your univer¬ sity records. For a complete listing of possible courses, call (408) 277-3781 or write, London Summer Session. Office of Continuing Education, Bldg. T, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0135. You do not have to be a regularly- enrolled student at San Jose State University to attend. Anyone eligible for college credit or audit may attend. Registration deadline is April 30, 1987.