OPINION
FEATURES
SPORTS
Cards
Our society has too many cards for
too many things Page 2
Artistic Thoughts
PCC student and artist Richard Melendy
reveals his inner-most thoughts Page 3
Softball
Lady Lancers clinch tie for
conference title Page 6
Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 70 No. 11
COURIER
Thursday
May 3, 1990
NEWSLINE
LASER FESTIVAL
The PCC Laser Electro-Optics
Association is sponsoring its 12th An¬
nual Laser Festival beginning May 10
through May 12. The festival will be
held in Harbeson Hall. Admission is
free.
On display will be everything from
lasers and holograms to fiber optics
and laser light shows. Top PCC stu¬
dents will also be demonstrating their
projects and giving tours of the festi¬
val and optics lab.
The festival showcases the rapidly
expanding laser electro-optics indus¬
try and its related fields.
“HAVANITAS”
“Havanitas,” written and directed
by Nilo Cruz, will read by actors today
in Cl 26 from noon to 1 p.m.
MEChA invited Cruz to the read¬
ing of seven monologues on the Cu¬
ban experience. The readings will be
in English. Admission is free.
“WEST SIDE STORY”
The Spring musical “West Side
Story” makes its debut tomorrow in
Sexson Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Directed by James Hatch, musi¬
cally directed by Donald Brinegar and
choreographed by Kathy Kilsby, “West
Side Story” continues its perform¬
ances on May 5, 11 and 12 at 8 p.m.
and May 5, 12 and 13 at 3 p.m.
The Spring musical is an all-stu¬
dent production and was based on an
original concept by Jerome Robbins
and the book by Arthur Laurents. Music
is by Leonard Bernstein and words are
by Stephen Sondheim.
Tickets are $12 for general admis¬
sion and $8 for children, senior citi¬
zens and students. For more informa¬
tion and ticket reservations, please
call (818) 578-7124.
MEChA CORONATION BALL
In celebration of Cinco de Mayo,
the student organization MEChA will
be sponsoring a Coronation Ball to¬
morrow at 8 p.m. in the Campus Cen¬
ter Lounge. The crowning of the
MEChA court will take place at the
dance. Tickets are $5 in advance and
S6 at the door.
CONFERENCE DAY
The third annual African American
Student High School Conference Day
will be held on Saturday, May 5, from
8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Campus
Center Lounge.
Keynote speaker will be Frank
Withrow, business instructor at
McClatchy High School in Sacramento.
For further information, please call
Vicki Washington at (818) 578-7439.
AGS “Sink-a-Scholar”
Honor Society to hold its annual
fundraiser on May 24. Page 4
INDEX
Opinion
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Features
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News
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News Features
5
Sports
6
AS elections set for May 30, 31
By MICHAEL ROCHA
Editor-in-Chief
Ten offices, nine for the AS board and
one for student trustee, will be decided dur¬
ing the general elections set for May 30 and
3 1 , the Student Activities Office announced
recently.
Decision ’90
■ AS Elections
Applications and election packets are
available at the Student Activities Office,
CC203. The deadline for application is Fri¬
day, May 1 1 at 4 p.m. in CC203. A manda¬
tory candidates meeting will be held on
Tuesday, May 15 at noon in CC202.
All offices on the AS Executive Board
1 990 AS Elections
Dates: May 30 and 31 , 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Place: Polls in the Quad
Offices available: President, Executive
Vice President, Vice President of
Academic Affairs, Vice President of
are available. The offices are: President,
Executive Vice President, Vice President of
Academic Affairs, Vice President of Busi¬
ness Affairs, Vice President of StudentServ-
ices, Coordinator of Campus Activities,
Coodinator of Cultural Affairs, Coordinator
of External Affairs and Coordinator of Pub¬
licity.
Students running for positions on the AS
Board sign a document promising that he/
Business Affairs, Vice President of
Student Services, Coordinator of
Campus Activities, Coordinator of
Cultural Affaris, Coordinator of
External Affairs and Coordinator of
Publicity
she:
■ shall maintain continuous enrollment
in nine units of college work at PCC.
■ shall have and maintain a minimum of
2.0 GPA.
■ is not currently on academic, discipli¬
nary or progress probation.
■ shall have completed a minimum of
18 units in order to run for the position of
President or Executive Vice President of the
Executive Board. If running for the position
of Vice President of Business Affairs, a
candidate shall have successfully completed
or will enroll in by Fall a college level
accounting class (PCC level 100 or better).
■ has read and agree to follow and abide
by the AS Constitution, its bylaws and all
Election Procedure requirements and to adhere
to the appropriate standards of student con¬
duct as outlined in the Student Handbook
and other Policy Manuals of the Pasadena
Area Community College District, while
campaigning or if elected.
■ certify that he/she is duly qualified and
it is his/her intention to serve the full term of
office if elected.
Students running for student trustee:
■ must be a legal resident of the Pasad¬
ena Area Community College District.
■ must be enrolled in 10 or more units of
Please see ELECTIONS, page 6
9 suspects
linked to
vehicular
burglaries
By BECKY ROUSE
Opinion Editor
Nine suspects, none of them students, were
arrested as a result of an undercover police
investigation on car thefts in campus parking
lots, police authorities said. There have been
37 reported car thefts since December of last
year, police said.
The suspects were allegedly ‘ ‘ caught in the
act’ ’ by surveillance teams that had been work¬
ing undercover for the past three months, ac¬
cording to operation leader and investigator
Larry Morrow.
He declined to release the names of the
suspects, one of whom is a juvenile, until
further investigation. All of the adult suspects
were booked on charges of auto burglary and
attempted auto theft, said Morrow.
Campus Police decided to go undercover in
February, as reports of break-in incidents in¬
creased. “The suspects were mostly after car
stereos,’ ’ said Morrow. He added that since the
arrests, no more car thefts have been reported.
In a related incident, Morrow traveled to
Wayside Honor Ranch facility near Saugus to
interview a prisoner held there in connection
with more than 60 break-ins in the Pasadena
area. The 22-year-old man was arrested by
Pasadena Police, who contacted the college
when information about PCC burglaries sur¬
faced during questioning.
Morrow traveled to the Wayside facility to
Please see THEFTS, page 5
Community resources reach out to
students at Drug Awareness Faire
By KATHLEEN A. CRAVEN
Special Correspondent
' 7 think it’ s time to change something
in my life.”
-Unidentified PCC student
The Drug Awareness Faire held last
week was designed to heighten aware¬
ness, offer information and provide a
choice of solutions to the dependency
problems of our campus students.
“If all the participating groups here today
only reach that one person, then the whole
event is worthwhile,” said one staff mem¬
ber.
“This is not the answer but only one
facet of a comprehensive approach...denial
is one of the most primitive defense systems
and a comprehensive drug awareness pro¬
gram at the community college level must
be established on a broad-based support
network, current information infused within
course curriculum and confidentiality guar¬
anteed to all program participants,”
said Dr. Kent Yamauchi, counseling
psychologist. “This does not happen
with one or two events a year.”
According to members of the par¬
ticipating organizations at the Faire,
the Pasadena area has an operational
support network that is responsive to
the alcohol and drug problems in the
community.
Drug Awareness Faire participant
Please see FAIRE, page 6
Hilde Wold /The COURIER
Students observe this coffin containing a cigarette butt at last week’s Drug Awareness Faire held in the Quad.
Scott strongly endorses
propositions 111 and 121
By CANDY DANIELSON
Special Correspondent
Dr. Jack Scott, superintendent-president,
has fired the opening shot on campus by
strongly endorsing two higher education-
benefiting propositions on the June 5 ballot.
Proposition 1 1 1, the Traffic Congestion
Relief and Spending Limitation Act, and
Proposition 121, a $450 million bond issue
to provide money for expansion at Califor¬
nia’s colleges and universities, are neces¬
sary to provide California educational insti¬
tutions with the funding needed to meet
rising enrollment.
Declaring current spending limits “un¬
realistic,” Scott said “that 111 will modify
the Gann Limit which, unfortunately, will
increasingly hamstring the state in meeting
its obligations in terms of transportation,
education, welfare, mental health and the
urgent needs that the Slate of California will
confront in the next decade.”
Specifically, PCC and other community
colleges will benefit significantly by the
passage of Proposition 111, Scott added,
because “education in general will be helped.
There would not be the mad scramble for
state funds by all state agencies as a result of
the Gann Limit that now exists because of
the limitations of state revenues.”
He quickly pointed out that “111 is not
a specific bill for education alone; it’s a bill
Please see PROPOSITIONS, page 5
Growing need for faculty
prompts recruitment effort
By BECKY ROUSE
Opinion Editor
The growing demand on community
colleges has prompted the largest faculty
recruitment effort ever launched by the
higher education sector.
A key element in the effort is the
elimination of the community college
teaching credential requirement. Effec¬
tive July 1, 1990, credentials will be
replaced by a minimum qualifications
standard-generally a master’s degree, a
bachelor’s and the equivalent of a mas¬
ter’s degree or, for vocational courses, a
bachelor’s or associate degree and expe¬
rience in the career field to be taught.
PCC is one of the largest colleges in
the district, said Jose Peralez, dean of
personnel services. Staffing needs for the
next year alone are for 15 full-time teach¬
ers and approximately seven to eight sab¬
batical replacements, said Peralez.
The need for hiring new teachers is
far more than the available funding, he
added. “There is a growth cap on com¬
munity colleges. We could take in more
students but we won’t be paid for it. We
can only grow 1 percent a year, basically.
Over that, we don’t get any state fund¬
ing,” said Peralez. He estimated that
PCC is currently operating at three per¬
cent over the cap. Removing the
Please see FACULTY, page
