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DrinkUS Salsa Club Too Saucy For Gym
A.S. Votes Against Solo War in Iraq
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MARCH 13, 2003
Jaynita Carney
Asst. Sports Editor
The Courier caused a few Candela
Club violations to come to light after
a review and picture of the Rio per¬
formance and workshop appeared in
last week’s issue.
Club Candela held two perform¬
ances in W 102 that were in violation
of ICC and gym polices. The club
invited the women of Rio de Janeiro
to perform a few Samba numbers for
PCC students and staff.
Candela charged for this event to
raise money for club scholarships.
According to Diana Alvarado,
Candela club president, the perform¬
ance and workshop was a success.
However, a few faculty and staff
members felt differently about the sit¬
uation. It seems that despite numer¬
ous warnings from Rebecca Cobb,
student affairs adviser, about the type
of shoes that should be worn in the
gym, Candela members still failed to
comply. The three Rio dancers wore
stiletto heels while doing their fast-
paced numbers.
“I can not control what the dancers
wear on their feet,” said Alvarado
“They are professional dancers. Are
they supposed to wear tennis shoes
during the number? Besides they only
performed four numbers both days.
Also I requested the dance room, and
they denied me. So what did I do that
was wrong?”
“Students don’t understand that
the gym floors are painted and coated
with polyurethane. When a woman,
let’s say 120 pounds, wears a heel
while doing a fast pace route, she is
exerting approximately two tons of
pressure per square inch on the floor,”
said Rick Van Pelt, director of facili¬
ties services.
The rules clearly state that anyone
using the gym must be wearing soft-
sole shoes. This is because hard-sole
shoes, especially high heels, are dam¬
aging to the maple-wood floor. The
heels can cause pits in the floor that
must be sanded out so the basketball
can bounce “true,” said Van Pelt.
After the damage is done Van Pelt
must hire a qualified person to strip
and sand down the floor. Then once it
is leveled out, the lines must be
repainted to a precise measurement.
“This is a very difficult task to
complete. There is such a huge hunk
of wood that has to be ground down,
and then it has to be evened out. It can
also be a very expensive process. It
can cost around $10,000each time,”
Van Pelt said.
However wearing the wrong
shoes was not the only violation in
question.
“The proper channels were' fol¬
lowed when Alvarado filled out the
request form to schedule the event.
However, it was not mentioned that
they would charge for this event,”
said Cobb.
When a club wants to charge for
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see SALSA, page 3
Interns Advise
Healthy Eating
Whitney Porter
Staff Writer
Students can now take advan¬
tage of free nutritional counseling
on campus covering everything
from healthy eating, to exercise, to
weight loss strategies.
Through a joint project between
the Student Health Services and
the Cal-Poly Pomona Dietetic
Interns, students reap the benefit of
having two interns in the health
center willing to provide one-on-
one counseling on healthy dietary
habits.
The dietetic interns are current¬
ly a part of a clinical rotation for
higher certification.
They must complete 1100 hours
of practice time before becoming
registered dietitians (RDs).
However, the interns have
already completed their bachelor
of arts degree in dietetics.
Unlike people who call them¬
selves nutritionists, RDs are
required to have a college degree,
approved/supervised practice time,
pass a certification test, and com¬
plete continuing professional edu¬
cational requirements.
With nearly 70,000 members,
American Dietetic Association is
the world’s largest organization of
food and nutrition professionals.
Members of the ADA are regis¬
tered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic
technicians, registered (DTRs).
“The interns do class presenta-
# see HEALTH, page 3
Ricki Yuen
Staff Writer
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The Associated Students (A.S.)
voted unanimously on March 5 to
adopt a resolution opposing unilat¬
eral war against Iraq and urging the
1 administration and board of
trustees to adopt a similar resolu¬
tion.
The PCC chapter of the
'1 California Teacher’s Association
(СТА)
passed a similar resolution
last week.
After reviewing and discussing
the two proposed resolutions by
Joseph Narvaez, vice president for
campus activities, and Jackson
Baugh, activist for the Anti-War
Coalition, the A.S. endorsed
" Narvaez’s plan.
Board members who favored
Narvaez’s proposal believed that
his measure covered a broad per¬
spective.
“The war doesn’t only affect us
and our community, it affects
everyone,” said Shahin Younessi,
vice president for external affairs.
“(Narvaez) is able to provide
the fact and reasoning why (the
war) would affect us as a commu¬
nity and a nation as a' whole.”
Narvaez wrote in the resolution
that an Iraq war would not meet the
urgent need to eliminate weapons
of mass destruction.
Whereas, a pre-emptive U.S.
strike against Iraq would jeopard¬
ize lives and deepen the U.S. eco¬
nomic crisis.
The resolution calls on the Bush
administration to deploy all diplo¬
matic means to disarm Iraq and to
work through the United Nations.
“The Associated Students of
opposes a U.N. invasion of Iraq,
but supports instead a genuinely
multilateral diplomatic approach to
the Iraq situation, sanctioned and
directed by the United Nations,”
the resolution reads.
Four Amendments were added
to the resolution. Including a few
passages of Baugh’s resolution.
A copy of the resolution will be
sent to the board of trustees for
review.
According to the New York
Times, currently there are over 100
city and county governments
nationwide opposing military
action against Iraq.
Los Angeles is one California
city that went on record opposing
the war against Iraq.
and be
Merry
Irish Beer
Petitions for
St. Patrick's
Day Holiday
File Photos
Manny Torres, vice president for internal affairs, was one of many stu¬
dents who got their groove on with the lovely ladies of Rio.
Mitchell Wright
Sports Editor
Good
Times
Helping to
keep St.
Patrick’s Day
from losing its
150-year festive
thrill, the
Guinness Bass
Import
Company has
launched a petition to persuade
Capitol Hill to make March 17 a
national U.S. holiday.
So, instead of turning rivers green
for no reason at all, cities will be able
to say they are being patriotic.
But not everyone seems to think
Guinness has the nation’s best inter¬
ests at heart.
Chuck Champlin, director of pub¬
lic relations said, “It sounds just like
a great market¬
ing stunt.”
He remem¬
bers that lately
big companies
have been com¬
ing up with
newer and big¬
ger ways to sell
their products.
He sees a
resemblance to last fall’s Taco Bell
giveaway. The plan was to give
away free tacos to cveiy U.S. citizen
if San Francisco Giant’s Barry
Bonds hit a homerun onto a floating
bull’s-eye out in the Pacific Ocean.
And, he might be right. When
someone signs up, they will auto¬
matically be entered in the
Guinness® St. Patrick’s Day
Sweepstakes to win a Keg-O-Rator,
a beer tap for the avid Guinness fan.
But on its website, Guinness says
the reason beyond the campaign is
that it goes beyond the “Irish her¬
itage and the legendary patron saint.
The celebration encompasses not
Champlin
# see GUINNESS, page 3
However, not all cities hold the
same anti-war sentiment.
Pasadena Star News reported
that the Pasadena City Council a
voted to support an anti-war reso¬
lution ended in a tie.
A councilman who voted
against the anti-war resolution said
that for them to take a stand on the
issue is beyond the council’s juris¬
diction.
Allen Tran, a PCC student said
after learning the AS passed a res¬
olution against the war said, “I
don’t think this is the student gov¬
ernment’s business to take such a
stand.”
He added, “The Bush’s admin¬
istration doesn’t even listen to
other countries like France and
China, why would they listen to
us?”
Sheryl McQuilkin/Courier
So close and yet so far away. Marine
recruiters were on campus yesterday set
up not too far from the anti-war tables.
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Trustees Critique
Class Rating System
“No
Terrance Parker
News Editor
Pasadena City College is creating
a system to rate courses according to
how much each one benefits stu¬
dents.
PCC may be the only school in
the country working on this concept,
called the student benefit index
(SBI).
Stewart Wilcox, dean of planning
and research, outlined the _
project at yesterday’s board
of trustees spring retreat
meeting, held at Cal Tech’s
Athenaeum building.
“Other schools want to
see what we come up with,” _
said Wilcox.
“This started about two years
ago,” said James Kossler, president
of PCC. “Some divisions seemed to
have ‘rights’ to classrooms. This
caused problems when we needed to
put another class in there.
“We want a way to measure the
most critical classes first,” he contin¬
ued. “These are big blocks of classes.
We’re not doing a detailed ranking,
comparing number one to number
two. It’s the first 500 classes, then the
next 1000, then the last 1000. We
offer about 2500 different courses.”
“We looked at the college mission
statement, read the state recommen¬
dations, and talked to tire division
deans,” Wilcox said. “For example,
one course transfers, and tire next one
transfers plus leads to an A.A. The
third one might transfer, lead to an
matter what, someone’s ox is
going to get gored. ”
—board of trustees president,
John Martin
A.A., and fill CSU general education
requirements.
“The deans asked us to provide
for ‘fuzzy’ things, like providing
flexibility or independent study pro¬
grams,” he said. “We need a way to
measure these.”
Wilcox called some courses
“gatekeepers.” He used CIS 10 as an
example.
“This is a pre-requisite to 20
courses. Those 20 are pre-requisites
to 1 3 more, so that one class leads to
33 other classes.”
Wilcox emphasized that this is a
work in process and said he wel¬
comed comments from everyone.
Rod Foster, visual arts and media
studies instructor, emphasized the
importance of watching for unin¬
tended consequences.
_ “The data is
helpful,” he said,
“but it risks
becoming a crude
way to make
changes. If we
don’t adopt this as
policy, but just
look at it as data, it will be useful to
help the deans decide at their local
level.”
“I go with what Rod said, but I
can’t say it as elegantly,” said John
Martin, president of the board of
trustees. “We’re writing a consumer
report on classes.
“Like a report on a car, people
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