Rafael Delgado/ Courier
TAKING A SWIM BREAK: On Wednesday, March 16, Sacco Nazzoomian (top
right), Starr Rules (center) and Alan Gillette (below) relaxed by the pool in
the campus aquatic center. The pool is made available to all students,
staff, and faculty by the physical education division throughout the school
week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
and Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 1 p.m.
Sister Cities Heads to Beijing, China
Kate Murray
Staff Writer
Japan, Finland, Germany and Armenia
are all places that the Pasadena Sister Cities
Student Exchange Program has sent stu¬
dents in past years. Now back in its seventh
year, the exchange program to Beijing,
China is being offered to PCC students for
summer 2005:
“China is an old country with more than
5,000 years of rich history,” said Dr. Cathy
Wei, coordinator of the exchange program
at PCC. “Beijing has been the capital city of
China for more than 1,000 years. Students
will definitely learn a lot through this trip.”
The program is offered to full-time col¬
lege students aged 18 to 24 who are either
enrolled at a college in the Pasadena Area
Community College District or are
Pasadena residents. In addition, applicants
must be able to demonstrate basic fluency in
Mandarin Chinese. Two applicants will be
chosen to represent Pasadena. These “young
ambassadors” will be flown to Xicheng, the
center of Beijing, where they will stay with a
Chinese family for four to six weeks.
“[The students] will have the first-hand
opportunity to observe how the Chinese
people live daily life,” Wei said. “The
Chinese host families may take the students
to visit the historical sites around Beijing,
[like] the Forbidden City, the Great Wall,
the Temple of Heaven and the Summer
Palace.”
The exchange program will give stu¬
dents a chance to immerse themselves in
Chinese culture and practice the language
in its native land. Once in Beijing, students
may also have internship opportunities in
the area of their majors.
“If a selected student is a business major
he or she may have the chance to be an
intern at the famous Financial Street
Business Center in Beijing and observe a
variety of international business interac¬
tions,” Wei said.
Application packages for the Beijing
exchange program are currently available in
the languages division office in C247. The
deadline for applications is March 25. For
more information, contact Cathy Wei in
R223D or email her at
cjwei@pasadena.edu.
Edward Li Elected as
New Student Trustee
Officers, Lieutenant
File Separate Claims
Against the District
■ Lawyers just make the
six-month deadline to file
damage claims.
John Avery
Staff Writer
On the last day to file, attorneys repre¬
senting employees of the campus police
department have independently filed two
separate claims against the Pasadena Area
Community College District, continuing the
tension that erupted last semester with alle¬
gations that Lt. Brad Young secretly taped
conversations in the officers’ locker room.
The claims were submitted as consent
items to the board of trustees after the
Courier went to press, but action to “receive
and reject” the claims was expected to be
approved March 16. Such action is standard
procedure with claims against the district,
pursuant to the government code. It allows
up to six additional months during which a
lawsuit on either claim may be filed.
The invasion of privacy claim is for
unspecified damages on behalf of officers
John Hynes and Alan Chan and dispatcher
Ralph Humphrey. Their attorney, Michael
McGill with the law firm of Lackie and
Dammeier, stated that “we will not permit
surreptitious recording of officers,” which he
believed to be “nothing short of an egregious
violation of property rights.” Neither of the
officers in the claim would respond to ques¬
tions.
The other claim, filed on behalf of Lt.
Brad Young, charges libel and slander and
asks for $1.8 million in damages. Young
would not speak for attribution, on the
advice of “high-priced lawyers” who told
him to “keep his fat cop mouth shut.”
■ The special elec¬
tion held on March
10 filled the vacant
student trustee post.
John Avery
Staff Writer
Edward Li is PCC's new stu¬
dent representative on the board of
trustees, receiving nearly half the
votes cast in a low-turnout online election.
With only 289 votes tallied, Li received
134, or 46 percent of the turnout. His oppo¬
nents, Ric Arguelles and Chelena Fisher,
received 104 and 51 votes, respectively. The
ASPCC bylaws allow a plurality of votes
cast to decide this election. Also as directed
by the bylaws, the results of this election
have been reviewed and certified by the
League of Women Voters, and then certified
by the student trustee special election com¬
mittee.
Online voting was scheduled for all 24
hours of March 10, but the website was not
useable to students attempting to vote early
Edward Li
that morning. After fixing the
problem, Stephen Johnson,
assistant dean of student
affairs, chose to extend voting
to 9:30 a.m. the next day.
Although accessed through a
link on the PCC home page, the
voting site was developed and
hosted outside of PCC by
Elexpert, which has run all of
our previous online elections,
using a limited database pro¬
vided by the MIS department.
Upon learning of his victo¬
ry, Li gave an exuberant shout of “YES!”
and continued with “Unbelievable!... My
hands are cold right now.” He said, “I never
thought I would win the election - for real,”
but expressed confidence about the job itself.
To illustrate, he noted that when he came
to this country three years ago he could not
converse in English, but he determined to
improve and now expects to take English 1A
next year. "I don't have as much experience
as the other candidates," he said, "but I’m
going to try very hard." A first- year student,
Li works in a bank four days a week, is
majoring in business, and intends to pursue a
career on Wall Street.
Pasadena City College
Courier
Up, Up and Away
Relieve Stress Poolside
Daniel Lottes/ Courier
Student William Porras took first place for
his kite designed and constructed for the
Battle of the Kites competition.
Vol. 91, Issue 5
Orlando Pina /Courier
Students Justin Yang and Dana Lee built a kite for their
product application and 3-D design class, which they
entered in the kite-flying contest.
Get Free Nutrition Counseling
pcc-courieronline.com
Brandi Tyrone
Staff Writer
Women’s basketball falls just
short at state championships
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sparked debate recently when
he suggested new legislation that would ban all junk food from
California’s elementary schools and replace them with vending
machines stuffed with fresh fruit, vegetables and milk. In addi¬
tion to the popularity of diet crazes and a barrage of special
offers from fitness clubs, it seems the newest topic that has
everyone buzzing is the nation’s growing obesity rate. However,
it is not just elementary students who will be undergoing
changes.
On the heels of the Governor’s recent anti-junk food legisla¬
tion, PCC has begun offering nutrition counseling services to
students. The program was the idea of the Health Services staff
that felt there was a need for students to be more aware of prop¬
er nutrition and its importance. Though it has been in develop¬
ment since November, the program gained momentum after an
overwhelming response from students surveyed by the Health
Services Center staff in classes. Surprisingly, of the several
classes surveyed, most of the 700 respondents ranked nutrition
and fitness as their most important health concerns.
The nutrition counseling program consists of several servic¬
es including body fat analysis, nutritional profiles, and if neces¬
sary, blood and other lab work. All of these services will be per¬
formed by trained dietetic interns, most of whom are students
working toward or who have obtained a degree in nutrition or
Michelle Falerne/ Courier
With free nutrition counseling, students will learn
to “stop” their poor eating habits.
food services from Cal Poly Pomona. Even more important to stu¬
dents on tight budgets: all components of the program are free.
All PCC students qualify for the Nutrition Counseling pro¬
gram. If you are interested in participating, call (626) 585-7244
to schedule an appointment. Office hours are 9 a.m. -5:30 p.m.
Tuesdays through Thursdays, and 8 a.m. -12:30 p.m. on Fridays.
The program will last until May.
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