PCC Courier, May 17, 1990

EDITORIAL | FEATURES 1 MY VIEW AS Listens AS listens very hard to tutoring needs of students Page 2 ‘Cuckoo’ Flies Drama department’s ‘ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ insanely good Page 3 Hi? Homeless Pasadena needs to take care of its homeless before Hawkey Page 2 Pasadena City College Pasadena, California Vol. 70 No. 13 тае COURIER Thursday May 17, 1990 NEWSLINE ETHNICITY WORKSHOP The PCC Personnel Services is spon¬ soring a workshop on “Ethnicity and Race: Exploring How We Feel.” The workshop is to be held on Tuesday, May 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Campus Center Student Lounge. The workshop will highlight the question of positive relations built on a foundation of understanding, coopera¬ tion and respect. To register, contact PCC Personnel Services, C215, (818) 578-7388. The workshop is offered free to all students and staff. FASHION SHOW East meets West for an Interna¬ tional look at Fashion ‘90 to be pre¬ sented by student designers in the Fashion program at PCC. The annual spring fashion show will be held on Friday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Student Lounge on campus. Tickets are available at the Student Bank at the door or by calling (818) 578-7238. Several of the students have won awards in the California Commu¬ nity Colleges state contest as well as the Glendale Quilt Guild competition. CITIZEN ACTIVISM WORKSHOP The American Opportunities Work¬ shop will be presented at C20 1 on May 19, Saturday at 9:30 a.m. The work¬ shop is a nationwide teleconference designed to empower citizen activism. More information may be obtained . by calling Rhene Lee (818) 578-7384 or Robert Spitz (714) 395-0909. The workshop is sponsored by the African- American Students Association, American Freedom Coalition and GOPAC. PSYCHOLOGY WORKSHOP Psychological intern Karen Booty will speak on “Self-Esteem: Building a Better You” on May 21, Monday from noon to 12:45 p.m. at the AS Board Room, CC202. The talk is pre¬ sented by the PCC Psychological Serv¬ ices in honor of Mental Health month. OXFORD SEMESTER ABROAD Applications are now being accepted for the Semester Abroad program for February 7 to May 30, 1991. The pro¬ gram includes trips to London, Strat¬ ford-upon-Avon and Stonehenge, housing and an opportunity to earn between 13 and 18 transferable units in English and social sciences. Appli¬ cation forms are available at C209. Tutoring Program The reinstatement of the one-on- one tutoring program is a plus for PCC students. Page 2 INDEX Opinion Editorial 2 My View 2 Features 3 Sports 4 1 3 students run for offices Funds found for tutoring program By MICHAEL ROCHA Editor-in-Chief Thirteen students will put what they learned in their political science classes to the test as they begin campaigning for the 1 990 AS Elections to be held later this month. They will also get a taste of the real world political arena during election day as the Leagueof Women Voters monitors the polling places. At a mandatory candidates meeting Tuesday, AS faculty adviser Connie Hurston briefed the 15 candidates on the rules concerning general elections and warned them to conduct themselves “ in a highly cooperative, professional and humanistic manner.” Hurston added that since all the can¬ didates represent PCC, any misconduct during the campaigning process might hurt PCC’s reputation. Also present at the meeting were several members of this year’s AS Board, who shared their experiences with the candidates. Candidates running for the office of AS President are Robert Casper and Craig Hakola, presently AS Vide President of Academic Affairs. Emily James and Mark Woodsmall are facing each other in the race for the office of Vice President of Academic Affairs. Running unopposed for the office of Vice President of Business Affairs is Kevin Berdou. For the office of Vice President of Student Services, there is a face off be¬ tween Essam Al-Khadra and Allison Please see ELECTIONS, page 4 By MICHAEL ROCHA Editor-in-Chief One-on-one tutoring, which was sup¬ posed to be suspended until June 4 due to lack of funds, was reinstated yesterday. According to John Wood, Learning As¬ sistance Center (LAC) supervisor, he found enough money to keep the program going until the end of the semester. Approximately $8,000 was needed to continue one-on-one tutoring. The funds, said Wood, came from three different sources. The Mosely Foundation, an outside source, donated a “generous amount,’ ’ said Wood. Funds were also trans¬ ferred from the budgets of Dr. William Goldmann, dean of educational services, and the Learning Assistance Center. Last week, the more than 75 tutors and 400 students who use the program every week came in and found a different scenario after officials at the LAC suspended the highly utilized one-on-one tutoring pro¬ gram. Since enough money has been found to keep the program going until early June, ‘ ‘we can continue one-on-one tutoring in the same manner it was being offered before,” said Wood. The LAC opted for small group tutoring last week after lack of funds signaled the suspension of one-on-one tutoring. ‘ ‘The tu¬ toring program was altered to accommodate Please see TUTORING, page 4 Retouching history James Ojeda / The COURIER A worker paints the inside of the C Building lobby after repainting the historic facade facing Colorado Boulevard. This is only one of numerous restoration efforts planned for the college. Plans for new library reveal future of old library building By ANISSA VICENTE Staff Writer The construction of the new $ 19.5-million library has paved the way for plans to turn the present library site into a student services building, where offices that deal with students will be housed. The student services building will house the offices of admissions and records, health center, registration, coun¬ seling, financial aid, special services, career planning, placement, re-entry center and the radio and broadcast station, said Dr James Kossler, assistant superintendent of administrative services. Kossler said observes the value of putting student- related offices in one building, noting that while “for now, students have to go to the C building to get admitted, then to the D building to get registered, etc. But by then it’ll just be a matter of going down a corridor.” Proposed projects concerning the offices in the C and D buildings currently occupied by student services are being Please see PLAN, page 4 Students invited to spring ball ‘Pasadena Now’ Art Gallery exhibit showcases students’ works BY U LISES VELASCO By ANISSA VICENTE Staff Writer Emphasis on racial harmony among dif¬ ferent clubs on campus give special signifi¬ cance to this year’s third annual Spring ball entitled, “A Black and White Affair.” Sponsored by the AS and organized by Stu¬ dent Services, the Spring Ball will be held at the Pasadena Hilton’s California Ballroom on Saturday, June 2, from 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Тепа M. Rubio, AS coordinator of cam¬ pus activities, says that as the unifying or¬ ganization on campus, the AS “is trying to get people together and get all the other clubs involved. This is a way where every¬ one can get together in a more relaxed envi¬ ronment where they’re not on campus.” Rubio added that the Spring Ball is also a joint celebration of graduation and the coming By SUSAN BOWEN Special Correspondent Pasadena’s First Annual Videofair will be held this Saturday, May 19, in the PCC Forum from 1 1 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. Presented by the Light Bringer Project, a non-profit support group for local artists, the show provides a unique opportunity to view a diverse range of video techniques and styles. Student works from PCC, Art Center of summer. “ABlackand White Affair,” in fact, will be the last chance for students to relax before the coming of final examina¬ tions. An awards ceremony is planned to honor AS officers for their outstanding service to the campus, she added. The Spring Ball, Rubio said, will give students a feeling of camaraderie not usually found in two-year community colleges. She hopes this year’s affair will surpass the pre¬ vious year’s successful attendance. More information may be obtained from Student Activities in the Campus Center. Tickets are $35 per person, which in¬ cludes dinner, entertainment by both a mobile group and live band and novelty party masks for the first 200 guests. A shuttle service will also be available for students who may not be able to drive themselves. Guests will be shuttled from PCC to the Hilton and back. College of Design, Otis Parsons, USC and Cal Arts will be featured along with those from internationally and nationally known prize-winning artists. Works range from the highly experi¬ mental to documentary style. Artists include O. Funmilayo Makarah whose “Creating a Different Image” was featured recently in L.A. Weekly’s “Video Pick of the Week,” computer animation artist Sol Bernstein, Please see VIDEO, page 4 Staff Writer While judging each piece of artwork in front of him, the face of Edward Den Lau, curator of the Space Gallery, almost seemed to tighten with intensity. After viewing and judging over 300 pieces of artwork, Den Lau needed to rest. Before he was finished, Den Lau would have re¬ duced the number of submitted pieces from over 300 to only 38. Those pieces comprise the 1990 student exhibition, Pasad¬ ena Now, pre¬ sented from now until May 30 in the PCC Art Gallery. Den Lau stated that his decision making mostly on the way a piece could hold his attention. And that’s exactly what those 38 pieces did. “It did not matter where the piece came from or what medium it is. As long as it kept drawing me back, the better I liked the piece,” said Den Lau of his judging process. After being a landscape designer for 1 5 years, Den Lau decided that he wanted to be a part of the contemporary arts scene. He thus created the Space Gallery here in Los Angeles, where he tries to en¬ courage and promote the work of young artists. One of the pieces that kept drawing Den Lau back is ‘ ‘ Baby Plant,’ ’ by David Rodgers, which was selected as the best of show. The sculpture piece, according to Rodgers, “ex¬ presses my want to have a family and a home.” Rodgers recieved $100 grand prize money for his piece. “I think that he states a profound statement with a sense of humour by using a clay pot with a baby in it,” said Den Lau of Rodgers work. The winner of best photograph, Atsuko Parker’s “Last Summer on Mars”, pres¬ ents a very stylized view of lakeside view that is made unsettling by tinting it red and placing a mannequin in the fore¬ ground. Please see ART, page 4 Videos by various schools featured in Pasadena’s First Annual Videofaire ‘It did not matter where the piece came from or what medium it is. As long as it kept drawing me back, the better I like the piece.’ Edward Den Lau, "Pasadena Now" judge (