PCC Courier, March 14, 1991

LETTER TO EDITOR FEATURES SPORTS Bookstore Holography Exhibit Success! Policies are set by committee Page 2 Holographers demystified holography through lecture and exhibit organized by the Laser Club Page 3 Football players awarded with scholarships Page 5 Pasadena City College Pasadena, California Vol. 73 No. 4 ^ COURIER д Scott rallies for Proposition 98 NEWSLINE CLUB FAIRE Meet new people and get involved as you learn about the various clubs and organization on campus at the club faire today in the Quad. MUSIC CONCERTS The music department will present a Jazz, Rock and Big Band concert to¬ day in the Quad at noon. The Jazz Combo will be performed by students from Music 57A, March 21, at noon in the Quad. Students from the Brass Ensemble and Woodwind Ensemble will performance March 22, at 8 p.m. in Harbeson Hall. CHANNEL 52 Managers and staff from KVEA Channel 52 will give a lecture about career opportunities in television. The talk is scheduled on March 19 in the Forum from noon to 1:30 p.m. ONE-ACT PLAYS The Theater Arts department will present “A Night of Three Major One- Act Plays’ ’ on March 22, 23 , 29 and 30. All performances begin at 8 p.m. Matinees are scheduled on March 23 and 30 at 2 p.m. The one-act plays are titled “The Brick and the Rose,” “The Lesson,” and ‘ ‘The Zoo Story. ’ ’ General admis¬ sion is $5, senior citizens are $3, mati¬ nees $3. For more information call 585- 7485. WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Celebrating the Fourteenth Annual Pasadena Women’s Conference, PCC will honor the women on campus with a reception today from 2 to 4 p.m. at Circadian room. All women are wel¬ come. Child care will be provided. BLOOD DRIVE Sign ups for the Red Cross Blood Drive are continuing today and tomor¬ row from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Quad. The blood drive will be held March 20 and 21 from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the campus center. For more informa¬ tion, call the Student Activities Office, 585-7384. VISITING SCHOLAR A series of historical lectures will be given by visiting scholar, Robert L. MiddleKauff, from UC Berkley, March 26 and 27. On March 26, MiddleKauff will lecture on “Thomas Jefferson and Liberty” at 10:30 a.m. in C301 and ‘ ‘Revolutionary Origins on the Bill of Rights” at 8 p.m. in the Forum. On March 27, MiddleKauff will discuss ‘ ‘Religion and Liberty in Early Ameri¬ can” at 10 a.m. in C301. ACADEMIC TUTORS Academic Student Support Serv¬ ices needs tutors in all subjects. Appli¬ cants must have completed one semes¬ ter at PCC; be enrolled in at least three units; have received a “B” in the sub¬ ject they are interested in tutoring and have some time available, Monday through Friday, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. For more information, call Dr. Charles Clay at 585-7815. INDEX Opinion 2 Editorial 2 Features 3 News Features 4 Sports 5 By CANDY DANIELSON Staff Writer Dr. Jack Scott, superintendent-president, presided over a meeting of faculty and staff at the Forum last Tuesday. Scott was armed with active tactics for the political action, to ignite the fight against suspension of Prop. 98. Scott and Chrystal Watson, academic senate president, jointly called for the cam¬ pus-wide rally to move from rhetoric to action in the fight against Gov. Pete Wilson’s proposed suspension of Prop. 98 to help Staff Writer Success and how to attain it was the topic of a panel discussion of Women of Color in the Quad last Tuesday. The panelists were Sandy Lynch, an independent business woman; Patti D’Orange-Martin, acounselor and head of the California Humanities Proj¬ ect at PCC; and Dr. Gerda Steele, host of the Ebony ’9 1 on KPCC and her own television show. Robin Johnson, student activities assistant, was the moderator. Steele’s described her key to success as her ability to be inner-directed. “I looked at what was inside myself, my goals, and my objectives, regardless of what other people thought or felt. We have to look at what our conditions are and specify our choices. I can decide what I need to do regardless of statistics, because statistics don’t rule your life," Steel said. She added that happiness is a result of being true to oneself, and taking responsibil¬ ity to make one’s life work. It is not blaming others for being obstacles. D’Orange-Martin said an individual needs to have a clear idea of goals and a persistence in achieving them. “Look at your goal and steer clear of all other obstacles.” She said advice from friends is welcome, but do what you think is best to continue toward that goal. Lynch agrees that goal definition is important, and advises that a proper attitude is also significant. “Always be ready to be flexible with your attitude and how you perceive things. We must be able to stretch with our surroundings. Another key to being successful is taking the negative and making them positive.” Lynch, who used to be homeless and is now a software developer, alleviate the state’s $7 - $10 billion deficit. The meeting took a non-stop life of its own, alternately as pep rally, part gloom and doom prediction, a time to circle the wagons, and a political action primer, but through¬ out, a clear call to arms-this was WAR. “We spent over a million dollars to get Prop. 98 passed, just to protect our 40 per¬ cent of the budget. There is over $200 million at stake , between layoffs, salary negotiations and the quality of our programs which is now up for grabs,” said Ed Ortell, СТА grievance officer. The urgency for letter writing to state said color or appearance should not be an obstacle. During a question and answer period, the panelists were asked why child care was considered primarily a woman’s issue and if parental leave could adversely affect a woman’s advancement opportunity. D’Orange-Martin said it is a woman’s issue because it is a man’s world, and if men bore children, the issue would be handled differ¬ ently. Also children have a low priority in the United States. The United States was one of three countries, along with South Africa and Bangladesh, that did not sign a U.N. resolu¬ tion that addressed the rights of children. D’Orange-Martin went on to say, “Women in their mid-twenties now attend college and wait to have children, which is contrary to how it used to be. Therefore, employers are more hesitant to hire a woman out of college due to the fear she will take a maternity leave fairly soon after being hired. ’ ’ Steele advises researching the policies of a potential employer before applying for a position if child care, equal advancement, and wages are a personal issue. “A person needs to do her homework before getting into a situation that could be potentially damaging to career advancement. However, companies are shifting their policies to ac¬ commodate the growing number of women in the work force. So there are positives on the horizon, but I still suggest doing your homework.” One of Lynch’s suggestion is self- employment because a woman can create her own job and marketing niche. Working out of the home is another suggestion. With modem technology such as fax machines and home computers, networking is no longer a problem and a woman can stay home with the children and the company is not risking anything. legislators was echoed by Ray Martin, chief shop steward, Teamsters, Local 911, Sylvia Ryan, IS8U representative, Jay Blackshaw, and field representative for Pasadena Mayor Jess Housghton. Craig Hakola, student body president, asked the faculty to allow him five minutes in their classrooms to mobilize the students. Scott previously mentioned the student involvement idea in the Prop. 98 fight, which arose following a speech last week by As¬ sembly Speaker Willie Brown. Scott quoted Brown’s opposition to sus¬ pension of Prop. 98, and the advice he “You Computer failure delays financial aid The financial aid office is three weeks behind in distributing checks to eligible students because of computer problems. The new computer system installed in July is not programming and storing information properly. “In the fall semester checks were late because of manual procedures. This semester, we are computerize and encountering problems with our soft¬ ware,” said Carla Henderson, assis¬ tant dean of student services. The financial aid office issued $15,000 in emergency loans due to the delay in distribution of checks. Stu- dents can obtain an emergency loan if they are currently enrolled, show proof of financial need along with a method of repayment, according to Hender¬ son. There is a $2 fee for all emergency loans. This can be waived if the stu¬ dent proves their financial hardship is due to the delay in receiving their check, said Henderson. Dale Pittman, director of administrative computing, Tom Grahm, assistant director of fi¬ nancial aid, and Cleon Allan, the in- house data control clerk have been trying to work out the bug in the sys¬ tem. For those students in need of an emergency can go to D205, or call 585-7401. • JENNIFER ANDERSON and ROSEANN RENZULLO need to get more political. You have a great constituency in the students.” “It is easier to sit down and talk about how to split up a pie than when there is no pie at all," said Scott. "Rhetoric is one thing but a budget is reality, and this fight against suspension of Prop. 98 is reality. Political action is very, very important,” said Scott. Form letters urging a “no” vote on sus¬ pension of Prop. 98 are available to faculty and staff for addressing to state legislators. These form letters can be picked up in R 308B. Legislation calls for new community college post By CANDY DANIELSON Staff Writer The nation’s community colleges were given a Congressional boost recently with the introduction of legislation to establish an Office of Community Colleges within the U.S. Department of Education. The bill also calls for establishing the position of Assis¬ tant $ecretary of Community Colleges to ad¬ minister and coordinate all federal programs pertaining to community colleges, technical institutions and junior colleges. Rep. Les AuCoin (D-Oregon) and Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Oregon) introduced the legislation in both houses of Congress on February 22 “to advance the cause of com¬ munity colleges across the coun¬ try by increas¬ ing their profile in the U.S. De¬ partment of Education,” ac¬ cording to Au¬ Coin. The Con- gressman pointed out that “community colleges have the largest en¬ rollment of any of the higher education insti- tutions-over 5 million stu¬ dents.” He cited predictions that 75 percent or more of new jobs between now and the year 2000 will require more than a high school de¬ gree. ‘ ‘ Community colleges are the best re¬ source this nation has for providing a trained and competent work force to meet these de¬ mands in the future,” AuCoin said. He added that in many rural communities the community colleges are the only source of technical or higher education available to the local population. AuCoin said his recognition of the in¬ creased role of community colleges did not diminish the importance of other higher edu¬ cation institutions, such as universities, col¬ leges and graduate schools. ‘ ‘Educating our citizens and work force in a changing world is the job of many differ¬ ent kinds of institutions. But we need to recognize and enhance the contribution of community colleges to these major chal¬ lenges.” he said. The Congressman described the intro¬ duction of his bill as “a first step toward the recognition that community colleges are criti¬ cal to providing our students access to a quality education and addressing the needs of a 21st century work force.” Protests continue Alfred Madin, member of the International Committee Against Racism, protests U.S. involvement in the Middle East. The demostraton was held last Thrusday and was the latest of student-initiated protests against U.S. imperialism. ‘Women of color’discuss success and give advice on how to attain it By MARI SUNNAA ‘Community colleges are the best resource this nation has for providing a trained and competent work force to meet these demands in the future.’ Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore.