PCC Courier, March 22, 1990

OPINION FEATURES SPORTS Raiders Good-bye Raiders! Los Angeles shouldn ' t mourn them Page 2 Mr. President AS President Larnoe G. Dungca is of the student and for the students Page 3 Golf _ Bobby Hinds tees it to the top of PCC ’s golf team Page 6 Pasadena City College Pasadena, California Vol. 70 No. 6 тае COURIER Thursday March 22, 1990 NEWSLINE VISITING SCHOLAR The PCC social sciences department will be present¬ ing Dr. Sandra L. Myers, a specialist in United States, Colonial Latin America history and comparative fron¬ tiers, in a two-day event. Myers, this year’s Visiting Scholar, received her doctorate in history from Texas Christian University and is a member of the department of history at the University of Texas in Arling¬ ton. In 1987, she served as the presi¬ dent of the Western History Associa¬ tion. Myers will talk about the ‘ ‘Origins of the Cowboy: The Hispanic Heri¬ tage,” March 27, 10:30 a.m., C301; “Women on the Santa Fe Trail,” March 27, 8 p.m., PCC Forum; and “Women and the Military in the West,” March 28, 10 a.m., C301. All lectures and free and open to the public. MEDIA DAY PCC and the La Raza Faculty and Staff Association are sponsoring “Media Day” today in the PCC Fo¬ rum from 1 1:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. KVEA Channel 52 is coming to PCC to talk about career opportunities available to students in television. Representatives will be talking to student who are majoring in Account¬ ing, Engineering, Business, Market¬ ing, Advertising, Communications, Graphic Arts, Computers, Journalism, Public Relations, TV/RADIO/FILM, Theater and Spanish. GUPS LECTURE The General Union Of Palestinian Students and the Women’s History Month Committe will be presenting a slide show and a discussion on the roles of women in the development of the State of the Palestine. The lectture will be held in C301 on March 28 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The lecture, to be delivered by Sherna Berger Gluck, will focus on the struggle for National Liberation and Women's Liberation in Occupied Pal¬ estine. Bobby Hinds: No. 1 golf player PCC's no. 1 golf player has a 73.5 stroke average in tournament play and advanced to the South Coast Confer¬ ence Regional playoffs. Page 6 INDEX Opinion 2 Features 3 Entertainment 4 News Features 5 Sports 6 Magazine-format show debuts today By KATHLEEN A. CRAVEN Special Correspondent The adage “Everything old becomes new again” is the cornerstone of recy¬ cling, and the current trend of magazine- format news shows is no exception. Wit¬ ness the arrival of “MID DAY AT PCC, ’ ’ a live campus show, today at 3 p.m. and again at 3:30 p.m. The scheduled segments to be fea¬ tured on “MID DAY AT PCC,” sports, calendar of events, academic-faculty spot¬ light and a person-on-the-street type inter¬ view, will provide those watching with in¬ sights into what is happening on campus. Thefactthat “MID DAY” is being brought to the viewers live may very well provide an entertainment quite unexpected. Not unlike its commercial counterparts, “MID DAY” will have co-hosts. Claude Beltran and Monica Silvera will introduce the segments and the on-air personalities: Solomon Pulgar, Sports; Catherine Anaya, Calendar of Events; and Jolyn Andrews and Kristen Hernandez, field reporters. While ‘ ‘MID DAY AT PCC” is primar¬ ily a student project of Patricia Staub’ s tele¬ vision production class, thte crew members have some very impressive credits. Hostess Silvera received her B.A. in Theater from Cal State Fullerton. Active in a variety of children’s theater groups, she has also done film work and many stage productions. A versatile person, Silvera has studied mime, dance, voice and improvisa¬ tion before joining “MID DAY.” Doug Montoya, a producer for “MID DAY,” maintains a position with the In¬ structional Television Network here at PCC. He is projecting a Fall 1 990 transfer to USC’s Film School to prepare for a career in film production and direction. Said Montoya: “The show is fun, excit¬ ing and a lot of hard work, but it’s also a rewarding educational experience.” He also expressed his appreciation of this Please see MID DAY, page 5 Tow-away zone Will Lester /The COURIER Students who parked their cars on the west side of Sierra Bonita found empty spaces after the Pasadena Police Department towed away their cars. The PPD posted signs warning motorists that cars cannot Dark on that side of the street from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Foundation holds ' Day at the Races' By KEN BARTLETT Special Correspondent Santa Anita Park will be the site of the Sixth Annual “PCC Day at the Races” for staff and students this Saturday, March 24. This event, presented by the PCC Foundation, will raise money to benefit a new on-campus Fitness Center. The event will feature all the fun and ex¬ citement one can expect from horse racing. The purpose of the PCC Foundation is “to raise money from private sources for the college to augment our state funding,” explained Elaine Broerman, assistant director of the Foundation and coordinator of the “Day at the Races.” The funds generated by this event will be used by the PCC Fitness Center. “The Fitness Center,” Broerman stated, “is a facility that is going to be developed in the gym for faculty, staff, and students.” The Foundation hopes to sell all 125 tickets and raise at least $500 for the Center. “We’re hoping for a sell-out,” she said. Ticketsare$10 each and are selling quickly. For $ 10 partiepants get not only admission to the race track, but also a buffet lunch and a chance to meet some new friends. “This has always been a really popular event; everybody always has a wonderful time,” stated Broerman Naturally, the major attraction will be th horses and, of course, the betting. “We take no responsibility for the losers,” Broerman good- naturedly proclaimed. “All bettors are on their own!” “Although,” she added, “We usually have people that do quite well.” For more information call (818) 578-7363 or stop by the Foundation office in A104. KABC launches ’Turn the Tide’ to fight violence By MICHAEL ROCHA Editor-in-Chief The facts say it all. Since the arrival of crack cocaine in the mid- ’80s, youth gang violence in Los Angeles has killed nearly 2,500 people. Last year, a new record was set: 515 people were killed in one year-one person every 17 hours. Attacks against police increased more than 131 percent. Assaults are up 25 percent. Robberies are up 12 per¬ cent. Attempted murder in gang- related cases is up 58 percent. In response to the dramatic in¬ crease in gang violence in Los An¬ geles, KABC Talkradio and KABC- TV, in cooperation with a Van Nuys- based ad agency and other corpora¬ tions, launched “Turn the Tide,” a public awareness and clean up cam¬ paign urging Southern Californians to help fight drugs, gangs and urban violence. As a part of this city-wide cam- College planning to launch exchange program with China tion for the visit of more than 30 Taiwanese students in late April. The program, which Wong said is primarily aimed at Chinese busi¬ ness and professional community, will be launched with the April visit and should continue about every month. “There will be two types [of trips] . Members of the local Chinese business community can go to Tai¬ wan for short trips,” said Wong. “Taiwanese can visit the U.S. for special workshops and seminars.” The first group, Chinese beauti¬ cians, will visit the cosmetology departent next month. “They’ll leam the ‘Dream Collection,’ all the hot¬ test hairstyles in America,” Cordon said. ‘ ‘The systems are different here,’ ’ Wong said. “In Taiwan, make-up and hair styling are distinctly sepa¬ rate, unlike the American system.” Chang, a dentist and Monterey Park businessman, expressed an inter¬ est in bringing dental students here for workshops and seminars. All three Chinese representatives were impressed with PCC’s facili¬ ties and resources. “PCC is well- known in the Chinese community,’ ’ Wong said. Taiwanese students to visit cosmetology department in April By JAY LEBSCH Staff Writer Three representatives of the Chinese community-two living here and one from Taiwan-met March 9 with college officials to start plan¬ ning an international educational exchange program between PCC and Nationalist China. Representatives were greeted by Mary Jane Cordon, associate dean of economic development. She in¬ troduced Taiwanese representative Davy Yang and two American busi¬ nessmen to Dr. Jack A. Scott, super¬ intendent-president and Dr. William Goldmann, dean of institutional advancement. Y ang is dean of studies at Nanhai Institute of Art and Science in Tainan, Taiwan. The other men are Dr. Danny Change, vice president of AMPM Investment and Trust Co. and Dr. Edward Wong, with the California Investment Finance Co. The trio visited PCC to tour the cosmetology department in prepara- A Frankel & Anderson print ad. paign, KABC has organized a march at Exposition Park at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 31. The march, geared to help turn the tide away from gangs, drugs and urban vio¬ lence, will be attended by Mayor Tom Bradley, political leaders and celebrities. According to a campaign repre¬ sentative, “This campaign represents a beginning for the Los Angeles community to change the course of a wave of destruction that threatens Please see TIDE, page 3