■^""OPINION — —
Stringent administrative policies by the
CSU and UC systems will adversely affect
PCC
The college will become a dumping ground for
CSU and UC rejects under the new system. *
FEATURES
English Instructor discovers the
memoirs of jazz legend
Phil Pastras stumbled upon the memoirs of Jelly
Roll Morton, who was a popular musician early in
the century.
SPORTS — 1 ■
PCC splits series with El Camino College.
The baseball team was shelled by the Warriors by a margin of 1 5-
4, while the softball team earned a victory by scoring 1 1 points to
the Warriors' 4.
6
Selection called
biased by Black
Student Alliance
By YUSEF ROBB
Courier Staff Writer
TheBlack Student Alliance has charged
Catherine Hazelton, coordinator of exter¬
nal affairs, with “a gross abuse of power
and at worst, a blatant attempt at exclu¬
sion” in regard to the selection process of
students attending the USSA Conference
in Washington D.C.
Hazelton said that “virtually no one”
has spoken to her about their concerns,
and that the BS A letter was “going merely
on assumption.”
The charges were made in a letter to
Stephen Johnson, assistant dean of stu¬
dent affairs.
The 10 students that were selected to
attend the conference will spendtwo weeks
in Washington D C. lobbying federal of¬
ficials on the behalf of PCC.
The trip will cost $12,000 and will be
paid for out of the Student Representation
fee of $1 that is assessed at registration.
The lettefwas written to protest Valenda
DeCohen’s failure to be chosen for the
trip.
According to the letter, DeCohen was
not treated fairly or interviewed adequately
by Hazelton during the process.
The BSA requests that “additional
students be selected to attend [the confer¬
ence] and that their accommodations be
paid for by the student lobby fund.” They
also requested that DeCohen “a qualified
candidate who clearly should have been
selected in the first place” be added to the
trip. This solution is not feasible, though,
as the USSA places a cap on the number
of students that may attend the trip.
The letter alleges that when DeCohen
asked Hazelton why she was not selected
for the conference, Hazelton replied that
DeCohen wasn’t enthusiastic enough,
couldn’t articulate students’ concerns in
Washington and that she “spoke too slowly
and sounded like she was on drugs.”
Though Hazelton would not comment
on why she did not select DeCohen to go
on the trip, she vehemently denied mak¬
ing the drug comment. “I did not say [it],”
she said.
The BSA also contends that the event
was not publicized and said that neither
they nor MEChA or PASA were in¬
formed about the conference.
But Hazelton maintains that she pub¬
licized the event fairly.
She said that she had put up a “huge
banner” which received “lots of compli¬
ments.” She also said that she informed
the ICC about the event and asked them
to inform the clubs, which would include
MEChA, PASA and BSA. “That is how
DeCohen heard about it,” she said. The
event was also advertised in the Campus
Crier. Hazelton also called every politi¬
cal science instructor on campus and
encouraged them to speak to their stu¬
dents about the conference and make
applications available. These included
Francis Nyong, a past adviser to BSA, as
wellasHugo SchwyzerandDavidUranga
who currently advise clubs.
Hazelton also said that she told the
current BSA treasurer to “spread the
word” about the conference.
Dean Johnson had no fault with
Hazelton’ s publicity of the trip and said
that she had “advertised the event
heavily.”
But a random survey of students in the
Quad conducted by the BSA found that
not one student they spoke to knew of the
trip.
After reviewing the results of the sur¬
vey, Levi Jackson, coordinator of cam¬
pus activities, believes that the selection
process was either “pre-planned or meant
for only an immediate circle of people.”
Hazelton said that she is “so disap¬
pointed that Jackson said that,” and that
he does not have “all the facts.”
In fact, Jackson had an opportunity to
be involved in the selection process, but
he “bailed,” Hazelton said.
“I asked him to be one of the readers,”
she said.
Hazelton attributes the lack of knowl¬
edge about the event to “student apathy.”
When it comes to student government,
Hazelton said, “a lot of students don’t
know what is going on.”
The BSA maintains that there was
Please see BSA, page 6
SPRING SOLSTICE
% Mother Nature’s show of sunshine and flowers makes sure that one does not need a
calendar to know that today is the first day of spring.
COURIER STAFF PHOTO
Parking proposal to make parking
easier and provide an athletic field
By YtlSEF ROBB
Courier Staff Writer
Philip Mullendore, director of
police and safety sendees, ob¬
tained the AS Board’s support
for a new
parking
structure to
be built on
Lot 5 by a
vote of four
to three.
He also
asked for
the Board’s
support re¬
garding a
change in
the current
parking
permit sys¬
tem.
Thepro-
posed
structure
will consist
of three sto-
The new
parking
structure will
‘solve the
parking
problem for a
very long time’
Philip
Mullendore
ries, two of which will be used to
accommodate 800 to 900 parking
spaces.
The third story will be a multi¬
purpose athletic field.
In order to finance the pro¬
posal, Mullendore says that only
one parking permit will be sold,
costing $64. The permit will be
valid at all times.
Daily permit costs will rise,
increasing to $2 from the current
$1 price. The increases will go
into effect when construction be¬
gins, which, according to
Mullendore, won’t be for two or
three years.
PCC is behind the curve when
it comes to parking spaces per
full-time students.
While the Los Angeles and
Orange County community col¬
lege average is one space per 3 .64
students, PCC maintains an aver¬
age of one space per 4.94 stu¬
dents.
Though this is far better than
in previous years. Mullendore
says there is still room for im¬
provement.
“We’re still short of having
enough spaces,” he said.
He also said that the problem
will get worse with the expansion
of the P.E. facilities and the con¬
struction of a sculpture garden.
These projects will eliminate
over 300 parking spaces.
Mullendore said that the new
structure would “solve the park¬
ing problem for a very long time. ”
The chief supports the change
to having only one parking per¬
mit as it will streamline the cur¬
rent system which he calls a
“pain in the neck.”
Under the present parking sys¬
tem, permits are available for
students who wish to park for
one, two, three, or six days a
week.
This leads to a huge problem
for the police department.
Last semester there were 1000
permit exchanges out of the 8000
that were issued.
This is due to the fact that when
students shift schedules, they must
also change parking permits to ac¬
commodate this change.
The Chief said that the new sys¬
tem would do four things: make ad¬
ministration of the permits easier,
lessen the confusion for the students,
shorten lines at registration time and
lessen the likelihood of students re¬
ceiving tickets, which is also in the
police department's interests as cita¬
tions are “bad for public relations.”
According to results of a survey
that the police department conducted
last semester, 5 5 percent of the 1,246
students who returned the surveys
supported a change to only one per¬
mit. In total, 5000 surveys were
distributed.
Board members expressed reser¬
vations about supporting the pro¬
posal, questioning necessity of the
athletic field as well as the doubling
in price of the daily fee permits.
Mullendore' defended the need
for the athletic field as, to say the
least, PCC is “a little short on grass.”
Cultural Affairs
l«i
Publicity
'
Spring
budget
passes
By RACHEL U RANG A
Courier Staff Writer
After operating for two months
without an official budget, the AS
board passed the Spring budget of
$42,700 on Tuesday. The unusually
late passage of the budget was due,
in part, to the failure of the AS Board
to fill the vacant position of vice
president of business affairs, now
held by Steve Chung. But acting on
a tentative budget, the AS has been
able to allocate funds rolled over
from the previous semester. Chung,
who is responsible for the budget,
consolidated accounts and made
money more accessible for AS
projects. The bulk of the funding
went to business support, which re¬
ceived $14,950, and ICC, which was
allocated $13,250. Funds for busi¬
ness support go to AS supplies, elec¬
tions and equipment. The ICC money
fgoes directly to clubs. For quad and
special events, cultural affairs was
given $3600 while campus activities
received $6800 for the same pur¬
pose.
•Blackout
Ablackout struck the entire
PCC campus, and parts of the
Pasadena area yesterday at
approximately 3 p.m. Power
was restored within 30 min¬
utes.
All campus buildings were
evacuated as a precaution.
Classes that were in session at
the time of the outage were
dismissed early.
Campus police reported no
problems other than a few
people who were stuck in el¬
evators. A police spokesper¬
son said that a local transformer
blew up causing the temporary
loss of power.
/DANIEL ARCHULETA