EDITORIAL
FEATURES
NEWS
Tutoring _
This is the worst time to discontinue
one-on-one tutoring Page 2
Dedication
Seventy-nine-year-old Oliver Frick
volunteers his time to PCC Page 3
Zapata _
Actress Carmen Zapata speaks at
scholarship luncheon Page 5
Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 70 No. 12
COURIER
Thursday
May 10, 1990
NEWSLINE
ACCREDITATION REPORT
Unedited copies of the Fifth Year
Accreditation Report are now avail¬
able for the review of students, staff
and faculty members.
The reports, available in all ad¬
ministrative offices, academic depart¬
ments, the library and the AS offices,
are being released to the college com¬
munity for comments before the print¬
ing of the final draft. The report is the
result of a two-year comprehensive
and extensive self study conducted by
the college to prepare for the visit of
the state accrediting team.
Comments on the report must be
sent in writing to the office of Mary
Jane Cordon, accreditation chair, C221,
no later than tomorrow.
SOCIAL SCIENCE FORUM
Dr. John
В
. Slaughter, president of
Occidental College, will speak on “The
Changing Face of Education” on Tues¬
day, May 15 10:30 am at Room C301.
Slaughter is an engineering graduate
of Kansas State University, UCLA and
UC San Diego, and worked for 15
years at the Naval Electronics Labora¬
tory in San Diego.
Slaughter was appointed professor
of engineering at Washington State
University as well as vice president
and provost. He was also chancellor of
the University of Maryland, College
Park before assuming the presidency
at Occidental College in 1988.
FASHION DESIGN
PCC fashion students were recently
awarded for their excellence in fash¬
ion design at the California Commu¬
nity College Fashion Program sympo¬
sium this April.
Kesara Hakritsuk won first place
for her ornately jeweled, wearable art
design, and second place in the sports¬
wear category for her machine em¬
broidered linen ensemble.
Janel Thurber won second place in
wearable art for her silk appliqued
jacket in a “crazy quilt” pattern. Along
with the winning creations, other out¬
standing designs by Lata Tulachan,
Tricia Angerhofer, Marlene Portillo,
Len Lu and Hakritsuk, were modeled
in the symposium fashion show.
Many of the wearable art designs
will be on display in the business mer¬
chandising case on the ground floor of
the R building until May 17.
Also, a noontime campus fashion
show, highlighting the upcoming an¬
nual fashion extravaganza on June 1,
will take place in the quad on May 17.
Drought
Californians need to conserve wa¬
ter, especially during the drought sea¬
son. Page 2
INDEX
Opinion
2
Editorial
2
Features
3,4
News
5
Sports
6
One-on-one tutoring ends
By MICHAEL ROCHA
Editor-in-Chief
Students who usually come in for tutor¬
ing at the Learning Assistance Center found
a different scene Monday when the center
temporarily suspended one-on-one tutoring
for small group tutoring. The change affects
the more than 75 tutors and 400 students
who use the program every week.
The group tutoring, which will last for
about three weeks, is due to lack of funds,
said John Wood, Learning Assistance Cen¬
ter supervisor. He added, however, that one-
on-one tutoring will be reinstated on June 4
to meet the needs of students during finals.
Only tutoring for transfer curriculum courses
is affected, said Wood.
‘ ‘We are switching so that we have enough
money in the budget to provide one-on-one
tutoring again the week before finals when
students are going to need it greatly,” said
Wood.
Several concerned tutors on Friday spoke
of the repercussions of the switch, adding
that students will be greatly disadvantaged
especially now that finals are coming up.
Wood eased fears by saying that
“tutoring has not stopped. In fact, it’s been
a success this year. This is the first year that
we’ve been fully funded.”
The demand this semester was not what
Tutoring Services had anticipated. “We found
that at this point we couldn’t continue the
same way,” said Wood. “We altered the
system so that, at this point, we could pro¬
vide small group tutoring. In this way, we’ll
have enough funding. So, we’re altering our
tutoring style, which isn’t necessarily a bad
thing.”
Next year, said Wood, the college has
guaranteed that this would not happen again
by agreeing to increase the tutoring budget
by 50 percent, upping this year’s budget
from $20,000 to $30,000.
Meanwhile, Reina Prado, MECh A presi¬
dent, has circulated a memo, asking the
support of AS and various clubs. “It is unfair
for those students who are in need of tutors
to be struggling in classes for which they
have had tutoring,” the memo stated.
Wood said tutoring is available for French,
Spanish, Japanese, German, Philosophy 30,
Accounting and English. Listings of time
schedule is available at the center, located
on the third floor of the D Building.
James Ojeda
/
The COURIER
Dr. John Gregory, professor of communication, was named the best teacher of the year.
Thrill of discovery
Dr. John Gregory inspires students, wins Risser
When Dr. John F. Gregory,
professor of communication,
took a temporary job at PCC in
January of 1963, he thought it
would just be that, temporary.
Now 27 years later, Gregory
still finds himself working for
PCC, where he teaches speech
and television criticism classes.
In those 27 years, Gregory
has done it all. He has been a
college radio station general
manager. He has been a tele¬
communication department
chair. He has been a professor.
He has been a friend. And in
those 27 years, Gregory has
shared his talents, knowledge
and animated sense of humor
with hundreds of students who
have since moved on to be¬
come successful in their cho¬
sen fields.
Gregory is a giver. He knows
that. His students know that.
And his colleagues know that.
On Monday, however,
Gregory took on a new role.
Instead of being the giver, he
became the receiver when he
was named teacher of the year
and awarded the 1990 Ray Risser
Outstanding Teacher Award.
The Risser Award is the most
prestigious honor a faculty
member can gamer.
Immediately after he ap¬
proached the lectern, the five¬
time Risser Award nominee
became the giver once again.
He said that because his stu¬
dents deserved the award more
than he did, he would be estab¬
lishing a scholarship using the
$1,000 he received from the
Risser family.
“I have had a love affair
with my students for many, many
years,” he said. Teaching, he
says, means giving students a
taste of the thrill of discovery.
“That means helping them push
back the frontiers of discovery
instead of being enveloped by
it,” he said.
Amidst the serious and for¬
mal mood in the room, Gregory
managed to use his sense of
humor to entertain his colleagues
when he jokingly told Dr. Jack
Scott, superintendent-president,
that since he has been selected
as Risser recipient, he cannot
be nominated anymore, which
means “I don’t have to try harder
anymore.”
But seriously, he said, ‘ ‘this
Please see GREGORY,
page 6
Neighbors combat
plan to acquire city
land for skills center
By MICHAEL ROCHA
Editor-in-Chief
The Pasadena Board of City Di¬
rectors decided last week to form an
ad hoc committee to investigate PCC’s
plan to acquire a strip of land in east
Pasadena after neighborhood resi¬
dents publicly opposed the project.
Speaking before the board on
May 1 were members of the Daisy
Villa Homeowners Association who
asked the board to look at PCC’s
plan to move the Community Skills
Center to the area more carefully.
Also present at the meeting were Dr.
Jack Scott, superintendent-president,
Walter Shatford
П
and Warren Weber,
both PCC Board of Trustee mem¬
bers.
Neighborhood residents said they
opposed the plan because it would
not be the best use of the land, which
is surrounded primarily by single
family homes.
In a report to the Board of Trus¬
tees on May 2, Scott said that the
Board of City Directors passed a
resolution authorizing City Manager
Donald McIntyre and Pasadena
Unified School District (PUSD)
Superintendent Philip Linscomb to
enter into a three-way talks with him
over the proposed project.
However, Scott said “there have
been some heated opposition to this.
They [neighborhood residents] feel
the threat of perhaps hundreds of
cars circling their neighborhood and
parking in their neighborhood. That
doesn’t mean that everyone in the
area is opposed to the idea.” Scott
added that he has launched meetings
with several members of the com¬
munity, one of which was held on
Please see CSC, page 4
AS snubs invitation to
racial relations seminar
Student government
irked by workshop’s
lack of student input
Members of the AS Board turned
their backs on Dr. Jose L. Peralez,
dean of personnel services, Friday
by choosing not to participate in a
racial relations workshop sponsored
by his office, citing the workshop’s
lack of student input as the primary
reason.
With seven of nine board mem¬
bers present at the time of the discus¬
sion, the AS chose not to endorse the
workshop and to send a letter to
Peralez, explaining the reasons for
not endorsing the workshop.
In the letter dated May 4, the
board wrote Peralez that ‘ ‘due to the
fact that it [the workshop] is on a
Tuesday, when classes will be held,
and since no students or AS repre¬
sentatives were involved in the deci¬
sion making process to initiate this
event, we are not able at this time to
support participation in this work¬
shop.”
Signed by all AS board mem¬
bers, the letter to Peralez further
states: “We cannot expect stu¬
dents to skip their classes. We were
Please see AS, page 6
Part-time PCC teacher Jess Hughston becomes mayor
By JOE YOBACCIO
Feature Editor
Jess Hughston, vice-mayor of Pasadena
and part-time instructor at PCC , was inaugu¬
rated as the 48th mayor of Pasadena in a
Pasadena Board of City Directors meeting at
City Hall on Monday.
Hughston, who is serving his third term
on the board succeeds William E. Thomson
Jr. in the two-year position. Rick Cole, in
his second term, will serve as Vice Mayor.
First elected in March 1981, Hughston is
mayor by virtue of seniority. “Who ever is
senior on council, and hasn’t been mayor,
gets to become mayor,” he said. As mem¬
ber of the board, Hughston served about
17,000 citizens in the 5th District .
Hughston thinks of himself as a neigh¬
borhood advocate and wants to be known as
the “human services mayor of Pasadena.”
“My concern is what the quality of life is
for the residents of the neighborhood. There
is a considerable split among residents in the
city, particularly the minority community,
as to whether or not services have been
adequately provided for the minority members
in the community. It’s obvious to me that
they have not been adequately supplied.”
Child care, education, job training and
greater family orientation are a few of
Hughston ’ s main priorities. Ways to encour¬
age more of a greater family situation rather
than the break-up of the family is to provide
jobs and adequate housing, according to
Hughston.
The first Pasadena Unified School Dis¬
trict teacher to become mayor of Pasadena,
Hughston said he wants the ties between the
Please see MAYOR, page 5
Caroline Valdez
/
The COURIER
Mayor William Thomson handed over mayoral duties to Jess Hughston on Monday.