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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 70 No. 4
^ COURIER
Thursday
March 8, 1990
NEWSLINE
IMPROV INFERNO
Improv Inferno will present “The
Case of the Naked Chickens on Fire”
on March 10. Show times are 8:03
p.m. and 10:06 p.m. at Harbeson Hall.
Bradley Martin, public relations spokes¬
person, said that the shows are sponta¬
neous creations of scenes from audi¬
ence suggestions. Highlights include
“insta-play”, “Harold”, and musical
improvisation. What these have to do
with naked chickens on fire is not
immediately ascertainable. If you’re
curious, and want to have a great time
on a Saturday night, come to Harbe¬
son Hall for this free entertainment.
BERLIN ART 1990
The PCC art department will be
hosting five major young West Berlin
_ artists on March 14. All artists have
received critical European notice.
The artists are: Cornelia Schleime,
performance artist; Ines Berger, painter;
Werner Zein, installation artist; Ulrich
Radke, video artist; and Andreas Ginkel,
sculptor.
All of them will visit classes and
studios all day. And at 7 p.m. in R 1 22,
they will present a public lecture on
their work and its context.
WRITERS' FORUM
PCC’s Community Education De¬
partment is hosting the 36th annual
Writers’ Forum on campus March 17,
starting at 8 a.m.
Sue Ellen Gross is this year’s coor¬
dinator. She has published 17 novels,
and will start the Forum with her open¬
ing remarks at 9 a.m.
Forum par ticipants will choose be¬
tween 12 workshops during four one-
hour sessions. Writers like Gene Per-
ret (writer, The Cosby Show), Wil¬
liam Dwyre (sports editor, Los Ange¬
les Times), David Gerrold (“The
Trouble With Tribbles,” Star Trek),
and Thomas R. Me Donough (Caltech
astrophysicist and author, The Search
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) dem¬
onstrate the quality and diversity or¬
ganizers have planned for this year’s
event.
Prices range from S 14 for a single
session to 50 for a full day’s activities,
including lunch. Call the Community
Educaton Office for more information
at (818) 578-7261.
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MALATHION CONTROVERSY
Editorial cartoonist Anthony
Vukoyevich offers his view on the
recent multiple malathion spraying of
Southern California. Page 2
INDEX
Opinion _ 2
Editorial _ _ _ 2
Letters to the Editor _ 2
Features _ 3
News Features 4
5.5 temblor shakes PCC
Jennifer Landis
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The COURIER
Observers gather around the seismograph (inset) in the E Building as it records the
5.5 earthquake that shook most of Southern California on Feb. 28.
Upland quake
rattles buildings
and nerves all
over Southland
By BECKY ROUSE and
JOE YOBACCIO
Staff Writers
A 5.5 earthquake centered near Upland,
30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles,
rolled across Southern California on Feb.
28, causing hundreds of PCC students, fac¬
ulty and staff members to head for safety.
The afternoon temblor struck at 3:43 p.m.
and shook buildings from San Diego to
Santa Barbara, and as far away as Las Ve¬
gas.
The initial temblor was followed by
hundreds of afterschocks, the largest one
registering 4.7 on the Richter Scale. It gen¬
tly rolled across Southern California on
Friday morning.
The buildings on campus were evacu¬
ated after the shaking ceased on Feb. 28, and
the Emergency Response Team, consisting
of Campus Police and key staff members,
immediately began checking for hazards.
Each member of the Campus Police is as¬
signed a section of the campus to check for
danger areas. In case of a power outage, the
Campus Police arc equipped with an emer¬
gency generator.
“The campus is immediately checked
for chemical spills, electrical failures and
gas leaks,” said Dr. William Goldmann,
dean of institutional advancement. Goldmann
said PCC has wire restraints on the shelves
that hold combustible chemicals in place
during an earthquake.
“Everything worked great,” said Phil
Mullendore, director of Campus Police. “My
staff pitched in and checked the buildings
systematically.”
Mullendore kept in contact with his staff
and with Dr. James Kosslcr, assistant super¬
intendent of administrative services by us¬
ing walkie talkies and a radio. Ralph Evans,
Campus Police investigator, said that Kossler
contacted the Campus Police within 20
seconds after the quake struck. Evans said
that Ernest W. Church, director of facilities
and engineering services, another key member
of the Emergency Response Team, was tuned
in at that time also.
The only problem Mullendore saw was
that some “people did not evacuate when
they heard the bell.” Other than that, Mul¬
lendore said, “we’re ready for the Big One.”
Evans said alarm bells sounded a minute
Please see EARTHQUAKE, page 4
KPCC repays part of $100,000 district loan
By JAY LEBSCH
Staff Writer
KPCC is ahead of schedule repaying
$100,000 advanced to the station by the
Pasadena Area Community College Dis¬
trict. The station made a $10,000 pay¬
ment on the note at a Board of Trustees
meeting Jan. 10.
KPCC borrowed the money primarily
to fund the move of its transmitter irom
the PCC campus to Mt. Wilson in 1988.
“The move gave the community a much
greater awareness of both the station and
the college,” said Larry Shirk, assistant
general manager.
The move to Mt. Wilson boosted the
station’s equivalent radiated power from
the 4,850 watts transmitted from the towers
once located on the roof of C building to
the equivalent of 50,000 watts from the
mountaintop transmitter location. “Now,”
Shirk said, “we’re getting [listener] phone
'The [transmitter] move
gave the community a
much greater awareness
of both the station and the
college.'
Larry Shirk, KPCC assistant
general manager
calls from Santa Barbara to San Diego.”
That, according to Shirk, is part of the
reason the station could make the recent
payment. Recent fund drives have netted
the station record revenues, and that is a
major factor in the station’s ability to repay
the loan. So far, KPCC has returned $20,000,
including the recent $10,000 payment.
Originally, the loan was to have been repaid
over five years. Shirk said the current pro¬
jection is to pay the balance over four years.
According to Shirk, there is more support
of the fund drive process, resulting in an
increase of in donations. The station re¬
ceived more that $140,000 in pledges
during the most recent fund drive last
semester.
The increased listener response to KPCC
programming has a positive effect on col¬
lege programs. Katie Peters, speech pa¬
thologist in the hearing impaired pro¬
gram, asked the station to air a public
service announcement publicizing a work¬
shop she organized.
“The response was wonderful,” Pe¬
ters said. “I got all these calls asking
about the workshop. I’d never gotten that
good a response before.” Peters enthusi¬
astically credited the move to Mt. Wilson
as a key in the success of the workshop.
Shirk expects the effectiveness of KPCC
programming will continue to improve as
more listeners discover KPCC. The sta¬
tion can be heard at 89.3m Hz throughout
Southern California.
Students chosen to attend symposium
By MICHAEL ROCHA
Editor-in-Chief
Two students have been chosen to repre¬
sent PCC in the 2 1 st Annual S tudent Sympo¬
sium, sponsored by the Center for the Study
of the Presidency.
Tcna Rubio and Becky Barnes were chosen
by a four-member selection committee, which
consisted of two faculty members, one staff
member and one student, to attend the pres¬
tigious symposium in the nation’s capital.
The symposium, themed ‘ ‘Congress and
the Presidency of the 1990s,” will convene
at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capi¬
tol Hill on March 16 to 18.
Immediately after the opening session
and reception dinner on March 1 6, President
Bush is scheduled to deliver the keynote
address, examining the United States’ pri¬
orities for the next decade.
Besides the President, symposium or¬
ganizers have invited other speakers, includ¬
ing Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of The
Joint Chiefs of Staff; Ambassador Carla Hills,
the U.S. Trade Representative; Rep. Lee H.
Hamilton, D-Ind.; and Fred McClure, assis¬
tant to the president for Legislative Affairs.
Numerous scholars and media leaders are
also on the program.
Trainer
resigns after
altercation
A heated verbal confrontation between
PCC athletic trainer Fernando Montes and
head football coach Dennis Gossard lasl
month resulted in the trainer’s resignation
effective March 9. Montes resigned his po
sition after an altercation with Gossard in
which a hostile verbal encounter ended in
Montes striking Gossard.
The heated argument stemmed from
Montes’challcnging of Gossard’s authority
to enter a locked training room to retrieve
special rubber-coated weight-lifting equip
ment.
Gossard did not do anything out of line
because “all of PCC’s coaches have keys
and access to such area,” William Sand-
strom, athletic director, told the Star-News
Montes, who was unavailable for com
ment, told the Star-News that he admits
hitting the football coach, but “only as a
reaction to his pushing me.”
A1 though Gossard and Montes agree thai
the physical confrontation never should have
occurred, observers say it was only the cul¬
mination of an existing personality conflict
between the two men.
Montes, who is in his fifth year at PCC,
told the Star-News last week that there is
more to the conflict than the recent confron
tation. He added it began five years ago.
After being contacted on Tuesday, Gos¬
sard said the incident is "old news," and
declined to talk about it further.
-MICHAEL ROCHA
Arbitron statistics show high listenership for KPCC
181,700 listeners tune
in to KPCC 89.3 ,
rating survey shows
By JAY LEBSCH
Staff Writer
The newest radio ratings are in, and
KPCC has received its highest ratings ever.
According to the most recent rating fig¬
ures from Arbitron Rating Service, the
company that collects and publishes radio
ratings data, KPCC is enjoying a greater
listenership than ever before.
“There is a significant rise [in our Arbi¬
tron rating] over the last ratings period.”
said Larry Mantle, program and news direc¬
tor. “[Figures show] continued strength in
our 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. slot, and National Public
Radio (NPR) programming is excellent. An
area we hope to improve is the rating for
evening programs, 8 p.m. to midnight.”
Arbitron statistics show that more than
1 8 1 ,700 listeners tune to KPCC every week.
Listeners are selected by Arbitron according
to precise demographic criteria. The com¬
pany then issues “diaries” to listening
families, in which they record information
about radio listening habits.
“It forms a good statistical pool,” Mantle
said. In a survey of 4,584 total diaries, KPCC
is logged into 77 of them. The station is rated
against all other radio stations in the metro¬
politan Los Angeles area.
One show that does well, Mantle pointed
out, is Morning Edition. According to the
ratings report, about 12,000 people tune in.
“That represents about one-half of 1 percent
of all radio listeners,” Mantle said. “It’s
about a 15 percent increase over the last
Arbitron . ’ ’ Over the lasl 1 8 months, he said,
current figures show about a five-fold in¬
crease.
Two factors play important roles in the
new ratings, Mantle said. He cites the in¬
creasingly vital role of communication
department students to the programming
and other departments within the station,
including news and promotion departments.
The other influence on ratings has been the
move to Mt. Wilson of the station’s trans
mitter. Moving the transmitter increased the
station’s equivalent radiated power from
under 5,000 watts to 50,000 watts.
“The key,” Mantle said, “is to not get
complacent and continue to do the better job
(we’ve been doing]. We are the face of die
college to the community.”