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COURIER
VOL. 66, NO. 13 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MAY 19, 1988
Morgan Wins the Election
By Sean DuPont
Associate News Editor
The dust has settled in last week’s
elections. Gilbert Morgan has officially
retained his seat as student trustee
while the A.S. Constitution was ratified
by a margin of a little more than two
percent.
The final count showed that of 577
ballots received, Morgan won 303 votes
and his opponent Jose Rodriquez cur¬
rent A.S. president, captured 233. The
13 percentage gap makes Morgan a
member of the Board of Trustees until
at least May, 1989.
The official results were announced
Tuesday afternoon by Alvar Kauti,
dean of student services. The final
counts were delayed because of com¬
plaints lodged by the two candidates
against one another after the election
had been closed.
According to Kauti, Rodriguez ac¬
cused Morgan of using an excess
amount of butcher paper. Twenty-five
feet of paper is provided by the Student
Activities office to use for campaign
material under the Student Trustee
Election Procedures for Spring, 1988.
“My understanding is that the pri¬
mary rational behind 25 feet is that any
more would cause an abundance of
litter on the campus,” said Connie
Hurston, faculty advisor of the A.S.
Board.
Morgan provided receipts for his
extra campaign paper and was found
not to have exceeded the $50 campaign
expense limit, according to Kauti. The
election procedures call for the collec¬
tion of all campaign receipts by May
12, at 9 a.m.
Morgan, in his complaint against
Rodriguez, contended that the A.S.
Constitution forbade any member of
the board from running in a student
trustee election while holding office.
Kauti, after studying the old constitu¬
tion that was in effect at the time of
elections, decided that the intent of the
document would allow Rodriguez to run
legally.
“They made alligations, and I’ve had
interviews with the two parties,” said
Kauti. “I’ve inspected and measured
the paper used. After collecting as
much information about the situation
as possible, I think we’ve followed
specific written rules and had a fair
election.”
In the same election, students rati¬
fied the revised constitution by 198
votes. Three hundred sixty-six voted
yes, 174 no. The 69 percent yes vote
barely met the needed two-thirds ap¬
proval required for amendments or
rewrites by the constitution in effect at
the time of the election.
As a result of ratification, the re¬
vised constitution went into effect im¬
mediately and was referred to several
times at Monday’s A.S. board meeting.
It was announced that elections for the
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Voters Fight Over $1 Billion Pie
By Coleen Meyers
Editor-in-Chief
When the distribution of money takes
place, everyone seems to want a piece
of the pie. And the supporters of propo¬
sitions 71 and 72 seem to be fighting for
the same piece.
In 1979, California voters passed the
Gann Limit which sets the level of
taxfunded appropriations in the state.
Due to this, state funding can increase
only at the same pace as the U.S.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) and adult
population.
As a result of high inflation, followed
by a slow economic recovery, the
limit’s effects did not appear until 1987.
With the return of economic prosper¬
ity, the state collected a $1.1 billion
surplus. However, the distribution of
the money was prohibited by the Gann
Limit. Suddenly, this became an issue.
The California taxpayer then re¬
ceived this money in the form of a tax
rebate.
Proposition 71 and 72 would like to
modify the Gann Limit so that such
extra funds collected by the state can
be spent on transportation, education
or other budget areas instead of becom¬
ing tax rebates.
According to William Goldmann, ex¬
ecutive assistant to the president, the
passage of proposition 71 will provide
schools “a chance to begin to get
sufficient funds to address the campus
issues. Since proposition 13 came into
effect in 1978, there are a lot of unmet
needs.”
Also known as the Government
Spending Limitation and Accoun¬
tability Act, proposition 71, if passed,
would alter the allowable cost-of-living
adjustments from the CPI or per capita
income. It will replace the CPI with an
index of California personal income
and an index of economic growth;
update population increases by includ¬
ing actual enrollment growth in grades
К
through 12 and community colleges ;
and exempt motor vehicles user fees
and taxes from the Gann limit.
The effect of these changes is ex¬
pected to raise the state limit on
allowable expenditures by an esti¬
mated $700 million in 1988-89 and even
higher amounts in the following years.
“What prop 71 attempts to do is to
change the definition of how the cap is
arrived at. It does not change the Gann
initiative. What it does is allow more
money to be used for schools,” Gold¬
mann continued.
Among the supporters of proposition
71 are Bill Honig, supertintendent of
public instruction, the California
School Boards Association and more
than 100 major statewide education,
senior law enforcement and business
organizations.
Proposition 72, also known as the
Paul Gann Spending Limit Improve¬
ment and Enforcement Act of 1988,
proposes to exclude gas taxes from the
population while requiring that all gas-
tax money be spent on roads and mass
transportation.
If passed, proposition 72 will free
transportation from spending limits,
and leave all other segments of state
spending, such as education, still sub¬
ject to the Gann Limits.
The majority of proposition 72 sup¬
porters are Orange county developers,
construction companies and the state
chamber of commerce.
These two initiatives affect some of
the same sections of the California
Constitution, so if both pass, the meas¬
ure with the greater number of votes
will take effect.
Proposition 72 would allow legisla¬
tors to take road building and repair
money right out of the general fund, the
source of the funding for schools. This
is why the people for propositiom 71 are
opposed to proposition 72, Goldmann
said.
Courier/John Geraghty
The laser exhibit showed student projects, state of the art full scale hole
grams and holographic workshops. The display included multiple light shows.
Victory, Defeat
As Student Board
Fills Vacancies
A.S. Fills Them
With Little Time
By Sean DuPont
Associate News Editor
Two weeks before the elections man¬
dated by the new constitution, the A.S.
Board was busy filling in the slots
vacated earlier this month. After some
heated debate and hard ball politics,
the board failed to install two executive
officers, leaving that until tomorrow.
The board defeated the nomination of
Supreme Council member Martin A.C.
Enriquez-Marquez to the post of Vice
President of Academic Affairs at Mon¬
day’s meeting. The vote, three against
to one for, came after Enriquez-Mar¬
quez asked the board not to turn the
vote into a popularity contest.
“I hope you vote for me on my
merit.” Enriquez-Marquez told the
board.
After that, Enriguez-Marquez picked
up only Regina Ringo’s vote while
being rejected by Mike Matsuda, Tif¬
fany Morgan and Greg McLemore in a
rare roll-call vote asked for by Jose
Rodriquez, A.S. president. He said that
he wanted to, “add a little spice” to the
meeting by asking for the roll-call.
“I’ll continue to serve this board on
the supreme council,” Enriquez-Mar¬
quez told the board.
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club member Noel Truick
was nominated Monday for the post of
co-ordinator of exteral affairs, but the
nomination was delayed after some
board members questioned if the
higher ranking office of vice president
of academic affairs shouldn’t come to a
vote first. Matsuda motioned for and
got passed a change in the order of
filling the vacancies, altering Rodri¬
quez’s agenda. If the original order was
followed and Truick approved, Truick
would immediatly have been able to
vote on the Enriquez-Marquez nomina¬
tion.
But by the time the debate concern¬
ing Enriquez-Marquez ended, the board
had lost its quorum when McLemore
left the board room. The nomination is
scheduled for a vote at a noon meeting
tomorrow.
Daniel Hurst was unanimously ap¬
pointed to serve as the A.S. Com¬
missioner of Communication. He will
serve as a liaison between the board
and that department.
“He knows almost everyone in the
communications department,” said
Rodriquez while nominating Hurst.
“And take my word for it — he is
carrying nine units and has at least a
2.0 Grade Point Average,” the presi¬
dent said in reference to eligibility
requierments that both Santana and
Adesina failed to meet. Hurst recently
won a bronze metal at the Phi Rho Pi
Nationals for extemporaneous speak¬
ing.
After being approved, Hurst was told
that according to by-laws, he as com¬
missioner has the power to motion and
Courier/Steven May
Students arranged this case showing many aspects of the African culture.
Perceiving the
‘Unity of Africa’
By Sally Blake
News Editor
Three professors who have lived in West Africa will share their views of
this changing continent this morning at 10:30 in C301. The Unity of Africa will
be discussed by Marjorie Forsythe, associate professor of social sciences,
Francis Nyong, instructor of social sciences and Earl Phillips, California
State University professor.
According to Forsythe, the purpose of the lecture is to discuss Africa and
hopefully create a better understanding of it.
“We want students to become more interested in Africa, and think about
the information that the media is giving them. We want them to think about
what they are reading.”
She will be discussing the similarities in the cultures among the
differentpeoples of Africa.
“We did not have any particular topics that we had to talk about,” she
explained. “I chose to talk about African cultures because it is the teaching
of this subject that fascinates me the most.
“I want to show social patterns that differ to America’s. In doing so, I
hope that African patterns won’t seem so strange to Americans anymore.”
“I lived in Africa three different times as a graduate student and enjoyed
it very much,” Forsythe said.
“Either I lived in a university, or near a university,” she explained.
“Some people wondered how my parents let me stay by myself, because
they thought a woman being by herself was somewhat unsafe, but actually
I didn’t mind. There would be times that people would offer to travel with
me, and I welcomed the company.”
Forsythe was born in Washington D.C., and also lived in Missouri and
New York. She received a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Adelphi
University in New York. She is currently working on her doctoral
dissertation at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Phillips will be talking about the changes Africa has experienced since
the colonial rule. Nyong will be talking about the independence struggle
Africa’s people have encountered up until now.
second proposals before the board but
is not allowed to vote. Hurst promptly
used his new-found power when he
seconded Ringo’s motion to nominate
Enriquez-Martinez to the board.
Another new face was introduced as
the board presented Pamela Schoon-
hoven the new A.S. secretary. The post
was vacated two weeks ago by Ver¬
onica Morenski.
With the school and election year
winding down, both Truick and Hurst
acknowleged that there wasn’t much
time to do a lot for the board or the
students with the limited time to serve
in their positions.
“I want to work for the board be¬
cause I want to help out and work.
Even though it is very late, this helps to
get the ball rolling,” said Truick.