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COURIER
VOL. 68, NO. 3
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
AQMD Orders Carpools
For All Faculty,
By David Sands
Staff Writer
PCC superintendent-president Dr.
Jack Scott could face criminal prosecu¬
tion and severe financial penalties if
PCC employees fail to comply with the
South Coast Air Quality Management
District’s (AQMD) recently adopted
“Commuter Program” (Regulation 15,
Trip Reduction/Indirect Source.)
To comply with that regulation, any
institution that employs more than 100
people will be required to develop a
plan to reduce auto miles to and from
work.
The objective of Regulation 15 is to
reduce air pollution by lessening the
number of vehicle miles driven bet¬
ween home and work. That rule applies
directly to the 550 PCC staff members
who arrive on campus between 6 and 10
a.m. daily. The AQMD notified Chief
of Police Phil Mullendore on Oct. 24,
1988, that a trip reduction plan must be
submitted within 90 days.
Failure to reply with a properly com¬
pleted plan can result in criminal
prosecution with penalties of up to
$25,000 per day of violation and/or up
to one year in jail that would be
assumed by the chief executive officer
or president of the college.
In order to meet AQMD standards,
PCC must ensure that an average of 1.5
people ride per car.
“It would be good to settle the park¬
ing problem and reduce air pollution all
at once,” said Scott.
“As the CEO, I am required to sub¬
mit an approvable plan that complies
with the ordinance, and that is my will¬
ful duty,” said Scott.
Sgt. Barbara Keith, a trained
transportation coordinator, was respon¬
sible for devising a suitable plan.
Keith’s recommendations were submit¬
ted on Feb. 24. The plan’s goals include
education of employees regarding
alternative modes of transportation,
development of incentives to promote
trip reduction, and on-going evaluation
Staff
to measure the effectiveness of the pro¬
gram.
Keith distributed an employee
transportation survey with an attached
letter from Scott asking staff members
to cooperate. The survey’s purpose was
to gather information which could be
used to determine more efficient ways
to use vehicles. However, only 43 per¬
cent of the staff responded. “People
just don’t want to ride-share,” said
Keith. However, despite such a small
response, PCC officials expect to meet
the AQMD’s target.
“Federal and State regulations have
mandated a reduction of vehicles on
campus. There will be a time when un¬
less you find another means of
transportation, such as ride-share, it
will be impossible to park.” said Chief
Mullendore.
A reduction plan that is submitted
and not approved must be revised by
the college and then resubmitted within
30 days.
Ralph Parra/ The Courier
The Air Quality Management District has ordered PCC employees to begin carpool procedures to reduce the sea
of cars that plague the college.
Apartheid in America, Look Over the Rainbow
By Margie Goodhart
Editor-in-Chief
If the apartheid issue occurring in Sourh Africa is a little
too far away to hit home, California students should try
looking in their own backyard. Look towards Arizona. Look
towards the rainbow’s end where corporate America has
scooped up the pot of gold, leaving broken hopes, dreams
and broken pastureland. Take a close look at the broken
rainbow.
Broken Rainbow, the 1986 Oscar-winning documentary
that powerfully portrays the grief of the Hopi and Navajo
(Dineh) peoples who are being forced from their land by the
federal government, was presented by the Anthropology
Club March 3 in an attempt to heighten awareness and raise
funds. The club donated $362 to the Big Mountain Support
Group.
“We’re trying to help the Indians fight,” said Nicaela
Eaks, Anthropology Club president. “All the money will go
to the Big Mountain resistance. We feel this is the most
important event to enlighten people to the fact that this is the
same thing that’s happening in South Africa.”
Just as native South Africans are protesting relocation to
“phony homelands,” so are Native Americans protesting
relocation to “phony new lands.”
“There is no word for relocate in the Navajo language,”
the documentary states. “To relocate is to disappear.”
The reason the Hopis and Dineh are being relocated from
their ancestral homelands, said Little Buck Harjo of the Big
Mountain Support Group, is “because of the natural
resources in this land. The government will say that the
Navajo have encroached on Hopi land which has caused a
dispute, but there is no dispute. There’s 80 billion tons of
coal, 70 billion tons of uranuim, 25 trillion cubic feet of
natural gas, and oil in the Big Mountain reservation area in
Arizona.”
“Sixty percent of the energy for this country is on Indian
land,” said PCC student Ed Roybal who is also a Native
American and member of the Big Mountain Support Group.
The film depicts terrorist tactics to get the Indians to move,
tactics such as “livestock reduction” and incineration of
dwellings, both of which coincided with the discovery in the
1940s of huge reserves of high-grade coal Hear Big Moun¬
tain. Also described is an intricate puppet government run
through members of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and
the Tribal Council which basically leases the land and its
mineral rights out from under the Hopis and Navajos. Since
1940, the government has reduced the Indians’ livestock by
90 percent by slaughtering their animals, many times right in
front of the family who owns them.
“It’s opened my eyes to the structure of the U.S. govern¬
ment, and how corporations run it,” said Harjo.
The BIA receives more than $1 billion annually to oversee
many programs and to act as trustees for Indian lands and
interests, according to The Christian Science Monitor.
Charges of “clear dereliction of duties,” and lack of “in¬
tegrity and accountability” have been lodged by two sena¬
tors. A senate panel will be investigating allegations of
mismanaged funds by the BIA totalling “$1.8 billion in
1988; that Indian housing projects are shoddily built; and that
oil and gas companies drilling on Indian lands are bilking
Indians out of billions of dollars of profit,” according to The
Monitor.
Since Native Americans feel that all land is sacred, that it
is the Mother, lost profits are not the only concern. Strip
mining Her for coal, taking something from Her and return¬
ing pollution, is worse than sacrilege. It is obscene.
“Strip mining Black Mesa is a sacrilegious as mining St.
Peter’s Basilica for its marble,” states the film. “We are not
following the law of the Great Spirit.”
“For every child that’s bom upon the land,” Harjo said,
“they cut the umbilical cord. It’s buried outside so they’re
tied to the land.” The Indians lose a portion of their soul
when they can’t go back to the land; it is the integrating
principle of the culture.
Many of the Hopi and Dineh have no dollar income; they
are being relocated in tract housing and in cities where they
have to pay utilities and taxes. In addition to often losing
their homes because of lack of income, many die because
they can no longer feel the bond with the land.
“I’d rather live someplace where I can see the sunset and
sunrise,” said Harjo. “Relocated people will die. They don’t
know the language, the ways, the money.”
The most current resurgence of stmggle began in 1974
with the passage of the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act
(Public Law 93-531) which forces the relocation of 10,000
Navajo and 100 Hopi families.
“In response to continued demands from the Hopi Tribal
Council lawyer John Boyden, who also happened to repre¬
sent Peabody Coal Company, the U.S. Congress led by
Wayne Owens (Democrat from Utah), Stan Steiger
(Republican from Arizona), and Boyden’s friend Sen. Barry
Goldwater, passed the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act,”
according to facts provided by the Big Mountain Support
Group.
The Tribal Council was established in the 1920s to sign
contracts for energy resources and the development of
Navajo lands, the film said. The Hopis don’t recognize the
Tribal Council.
“As an Indian Nation, we have no voice,” said Harjo. The
Tribal Council is handpicked and is often sabbotaged by
covert self interest, the film points out. “We are standing up
for our sovereign rights, our spirituality, our religion.”
“My 5-year-old daughter is learning the Pledge of
Allegiance,” said Roybal. “I don’t want her learning a racist
statement. Think about it.”
Roybal urges people to write to Sen. Alan Cranston to
reintroduce the moratorium bill, previously known as s2452.
This will halt the relocation action that is wiping out the
Native cultures or forcing them to homogenize themselves
with “American” culture.
“I don’t have a dream right now,” says a young Native
American father in the film who was relocated in a city. “The
government took it away.”
For further information, contact L.A. Big Mountain Sup¬
port Group, (213) 654-4107, or write to Big Mountain, P.O.
Box 1742, Los Angeles, CA 90054.
For reintroduction of the moratorium bill, write to Sen.
Alan Cranston, U.S. Senate, Washington D.C. 20510.
Praises Resounding for
Chamber Singers Group
By Hugh Armel
Staff Writer
The PCC Chamber Singers returned
from the Chapman Choral Festival with
a glowing review.
The Chapman festival is the most
prestigious non-competitive invita¬
tional gathering of choral groups in
Southern California, said Don Bri-
negar, director of the Chamber Singers.
“It’s non-competitive, but it’s competi¬
tive. Everyone comes to show their
best. Being asked to go means this en¬
semble is one of the top choirs in the
area.”
All the groups that attended were
evaluated by two judges. James Chute,
the head music critic at the Orange
County Register, and Gregory Wait, a
choral professor at Stanford University,
evaluated the 15 groups that performed
at the event.
Wait said the Chamber Singers, are
“a splendid ensemble with much to
offer the listener.”
Chute said, “a well considered, well
put together impressive effort.”
Proud of the fact that PCC was the
only full time student organization at
the festival, Brinegar said, “Everybody
else has evening groups and include
adults from the community that are
professional singers.”
Though the Chamber Singers are all
full time students, Brinegar said, “most
of the 26 members have outstanding
potential to be professional singers.”
“They are a very good group of peo¬
ple to work with and have a strong
desire to excel and represent the col¬
lege well.”
The Chamber Singers have two per¬
formances for the Music Association of
California Community Colleges com¬
ing up in April and May. The April
performance will be in Victorville and
in May they will sing in Santa Barbara.
The Chamber Singers will have their
spring concert with the PCC Chamber
Orchestra June 9, in Harbeson Hall.
They will perform a difficult group of
pieces including works in French,
Latin, and German. This performance
will cost $2 for the public, $1.00 for
students and senior citizens.
James Ojeda/ The Courier
Model boat enthusiast Albert Rocas operates his radio control boat in the
historic PCC mirror pools.
Moore Honored With
Award for Service
Ernestine Moore, dean of student
services at PCC, received the Honorary
Service Award from the Parent Teacher
Student Association in recognition of
her outstanding service to youth and
community.
Moore was presented with the award
at the P.T.S.A.’s annual Founders Day
luncheon Tuesday, February 21. The
organization’s board voted
unanimously to make the award to
Moore. “We couldn’t think of anyone
more deserving this year than Er¬
nestine, ’ ’ said Linda Jenkins, president.
Frankie Hutchenson, long time
friend of Moore, said, “Ernestine is
truly an advocate of education.”
Moore, a transplant from Bedford
Virginia, has lived in Pasadena for 17
years. PCC hired Moore in 1971 as a
counselor and promoted her to Dean of
counseling in 1976. Moore became
dean of student services in 1984. In
1988 PCC declared Moore woman of
the year.
Before Moore came to PCC she
worked as a counselor at San Jose city
college and a supervisor of counselors
for the Los Angeles Urban League’s
man power training act/on job training
program. Also Moore was a school
psychologist for Norfolk, Virginia City
Schools.
Moore earned B.S. and M.S. degrees
in psychology from Virginia State Col¬
lege. Moore did additional graduate
work at Santa Clara University, Univer¬
sity of Virginia at Amherst, and UCLA.
Moore currently serves as the presi¬
dent of the Pasadena/Foothill Y.W.C.A.
board of directors. She is also the im¬
mediate past president of the Gamma
Lambda chapter of the national sorority
of Phi Delta Kappa.
Lancer
Season
Ends
With a
Bomb
March Is
National Women’s
History Month
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