PCC Courier, March 30, 1989

COURIER PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA. CALIFORNIA March 30, 1989 Trustees Hear City Light Rail Route Proposals GREEN STREET TRANSIT MALL ALIGNMENT GREEN-COLORADO ALIGNMENT sline Library To Sell Books The campus library will be having a book sale in the quad on Monday and Tuesday, April 3 and 4 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cost of the books will range from 25 cents to $1. There will also be a special feature called “Buck a Bag” with bags full of selected paper back and hard cover books on sale for $1. The money raised from the sale will be put into the library’s budget. “We’re collection building,” said Delois Flower of the library staff. AGS Invites New Members Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society invites all students with a 3.0 GPA to attend its orientation meeting Thursday, April 6 from noon to 1 p.m. in C301. AGS is an academically oriented service organization whose mem¬ bers have the opportunity to develop leadership skills while serving the community. Permanent members in good standing who graduate are granted the distinction of graduating with honors. Drug Awareness Day Night “Hugs not Drugs” is the theme kicking off Drug Awareness Day Night. A special evening edition of Drug Awareness Day will be presented on Tuesday, April 4 from 4-7 p.m. in addition to the events planned for Thursday, April 6, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Day and night activities will take place in the Quad. Many community and college organizations will be in attendance distibuting the latest facts and information on drug abuse. Allied Health Career Day The Allied Health Department will be holding a career day in the Quad today from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. They will be out to show students about the various career options available to people who want to get into the health and beauty fields. Groups from allied health that will be represented are; cosmetology, dental assisting, dental hygiene, dental lab technician, medical assistant and radiologic technician (x-ray). Alcohol and Marijuana Problems Alcoholics Anonymous meets on campus every Tuesday at noon in C308. If you have a problem, you are urged to attend. Marijuana Anonymous meets every Thursday at noon in C336. All interested persons are invited. Scavenger Hunt Held Today A scavenger hunt today, open to all students and clubs, is the last event celebrating National Womens History month. Prizes will include a pizza party for the winning club. Participants should be prepared to run. The event which runs from noon to 1 p.m. begins at the front steps of C bui ding. By Margie Goodhart Editor-in-Chief The Board of Trustees had an oppor¬ tunity to hear a presentation of the three route proposal options for the local leg of the county-wide light rail system. The Light Rail is above ground, state of the art, trolley-like train that will run on overhead pantographs. The Pasadena Light Rail task force, composed of volunteers, is asking for the trustees’ input so that all members of the Pasadena community can reach an agreement on a route. If this agree¬ ment is achieved by late July, the Pasadena area will be in contention for the next phase of construction, making the light rail a reality for this area in this century. “There is $900 million to be spent between now and the end of the cen¬ tury,” said Nat Read, task force mem¬ ber representing the city of Pasadena. “If the light rail goes to the San Fer¬ nando Valley first, there won’t be enough money left in the budget for Pasadena in this century. There’s been so much bickering in the San Fernando Valley over a route that the L.A. County Transportation Commission finally threw up its hands and said they’re going to start looking around.” The task force will make its route recommendation to the City of Pasadena Board of Directors by early August. All three of the proposed routes hold heavy implications for PCC, but two of the routes would place the station virtually on the campus. These routes will take the system right by the college’s western boundry, with the platform terminal either north of Colorado or west of Green. The pro¬ posal sheet studying these routes states that one option will turn historic Green Street into a transit mall closed to auto traffic (the Green Street Transit Mall proposal). This proposed route lists PCC as a “sensitive sight” because the train will travel east on Green Street and turn north on Hill Street. The preliminary assessment of this route is “very difficult,” according to the report which further states, “Much work is needed to make such an alter¬ native work, and the City of Pasadena must feel comfortable with the implica¬ tions of this proposal before this alter¬ native can be pursued and furthered.” The “implication” of this proposed route became clear after the presenta¬ tion when several members of the busi¬ ness community from the Green Street area spoke. One property owner of a business on Green said, “Ninety percent of the businesses are dead set against it.” He urged the board to weigh the loss of the businesses and the elimination of the beautiful street just so students would not have to walk several blocks from the alternate freeway route. The second proposed route (Green- Colorado Alignment) will carry east- bound traffic along Green Street and westbound traffic along Colorado Boulevard. The track would converge at Hill Street to head northward, again making PCC a “sensitive sight.” The report for this route lists parking displacement “moderately high” (one side, 34-40 blocks), and street tree removal as also moderately high (one side, 30 blocks. This route will have “aesthetic impacts on historic district” of Green and Colorado streets, accord¬ ing to the report. The objections of the business owners applied to this route as well. One owner said when she voted yes on Prop. A last fall, she voted for a com¬ muter system, not for an intercity system. Another property owner who is also a PCC alumnus, said, “We’re going to lose some of the charm of the residen¬ tial,” for which Pasadena is noted. Dr. Richard Green, president of the Board of Trustees, said that these ob¬ jections would be seriously considered. The remaining route presented was the Foothill Freeway-Spur Alignment. On this route, the train would run down the median of the freeway, and passengers would have to depart on platforms equipped with escalators to take them down to ground level. The terminal used by PCC students would be at Hill Street and the freeway, re¬ quiring a walk of several blocks. The environmental issues and traffic im¬ pacts of this route are less than the other two. With this route, there would proba¬ bly be a feeder mode from the freeway to the campus, said Read. Task force members invited the Board of Trustees and administrators to attend their March 29 meeting. Dr. Jack Scott, superintendent-president, and Dr. James Kossler, assistant superinten¬ dent attended this meeting at which a majority of the city board of directors expressed dissatisfaction with the in¬ tracity routes after a 90-minute hearing before an audience of approximately 120 people, according to the Star- News. This will probably eliminate the two Green Street routes, but a formal vote will not be taken until April 11. The board needs to come to a decision in May when there will be a complete review of route refinement studies. During June and July, public meet¬ ings will be held in Pasadena so the community can give its input. Com¬ munity members wishing further infor¬ mation of this project can call Pasadena Light Rail at 577-4514. Richard Frederick Suffers Heart Attack Courier Staff Mourns Production Manager By Tim Frank Associate News Editor The Courier Production Manager Richard Frederick, 49, died on campus Friday after suffering a massive heart attack after leaving the print depart¬ ment office to return to The Courier. At 11:31 a.m Tim Freeman, a student, noticed Frederick lying in the first floor hallway of the T building. At 11:35 a.m. the campus police were alerted that so¬ meone needed medical assistance. Two minutes later campus police officer Leroy Henderson arrived and requested paramedics and assistance from the health center. The college nurse arrived at 11:42 a.m. and administered CPR with the help of Frederick’s brother, Don. The ambulance arrived at 11:50 a.m., and took Frederick to Saint Luke’s hospital where he was pronounced dead. Richard Frederick Frederick is survived by three children, Duane Frederick, Denise Harlan and Colleen Frederick of Santa Cruz, California; mother, Elizabeth Frederick; two brothers, Dr. H.T. Fre¬ derick of Downey and Donald Fre¬ derick of Pasadena. Frederick had no history of heart disease, but his father died of a heart attack when only 45 years old. Frederick first came to PCC after being discharged from the army about 25 years ago. He studied geology. Shortly after that, his brother Don and he operated a gold mine for a few months. “Back when gold cost $35 an ounce,” said Don. Richard then went to work for Dunn and Bradstreet in Portland, Oregon as a business reporter. He stayed in Portland for six years, then moved to Santa Cruz. For 12 years he operated a com¬ puter for the Santa Cruz County court. He developed eye problems so severe that he could neither read nor drive and was unable to work. “He was blind in one eye and could barely see out of the other,” said Don. After extensive operations over a three year period, Richard’s sight was restored. “He ended up seeing better than he had his whole life,” said his mother. He returned to PCC in the Fall of 1987 determined to get an A. A. and a B.A., said his mother. He was in¬ terested in publishing. In June of 1988, he earned his A. A. in English and gra¬ duated with honors. He remained at PCC through the fall and was taking 19 units this spring. As production manager of the campus newspaper, Frederick was in¬ volved in all aspects of Courier pro¬ duction. In addition to all his hard work and all the many contributions he made to the paper, he also was instrumental in helping The Courier to adopt a new computer system. The staff remembers him for his sense of humor. So does his family. When his daughter Colleen lost a tooth, she put it under her pillow with a note in ten-year-old handwriting which read: Dear tooth fairy, here is my tooth. I got it out the second of June 1979. It is close to summer vacation. I am in fifth grade and / am 10 years old. My school is called Natural Bridges. Love Colleen Frederick. On the bottom of the note Richard A heart attack can kill a man in four minutes. The brain cannot survive longer without oxygen. But timely medical intervention can save the victim. The key to saving the victim is to act quickly, says Ann Davis, a college nurse. If the victim loses his pulse, the quality of his life could be determined by the number of se¬ conds his brain is deprived of ox¬ ygen. The first person a heart attack victim must rely on is usually not a doctor, but whoever is nearby when the attack occurs, often a family member or a friend. The first thing that a person should do to help a possible heart attack victim is to call for help. If he is in a public place, he can just yell. If he has any reason to suspect a heart attack, says Davis, it’s wrote in officious bold print: Dear Col¬ leen of Natural Bridges fifth grade. Due to a high incidence of tooth ex¬ traction this month, and accounts payable in excess of our current budget for canine teeth, we find our time limited to rounds in the Southern Hemisphere. Please accept an IOU for 50 cents. This Day of our Lord 6-4-79. I hereby set my seal, Tooth Fairy, Order of the Elves, Northern Hemisphere Division. Colleen said the tooth fairy made good his promise. Services were held Tuesday at Mountain View Mortuary. best to get help immediately because every second counts. The signs of heart attack are: gasping and shortness of breath; extreme pallor or bluish discoloration of the lips, skin, and fingernail beds; extreme ex¬ haustion; shock; persistent chest pain, sometimes mistaken by the victim for acute indigestion, par¬ ticularly since a heart attack may induce nausea or vomiting. PCC’s Community Education office will offer a Red Cross cer¬ tified New and Improved Respiratory and Circulatory Emergencies class April 25 and 27 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.. For more information call 578-7261. The Red Cross regularly offers a variety of first aid courses. For more information call (818) 441-1893 or (818) 799-0841. What To Do for a Heart Attack Victim Several PCC students attended the landing of the space shuttle landed. The truly awesome size of the craft dwarfs the people and Discovery on March 18 at Edwards Air Force Base. Printing student vehicles on the ground. Mark Musser captured this close-up shot of the shuttle just after it