EDITORIAL
FEATURES
NEWS
Elections
Students need to go out and vote
for their student leaders Pa ge 2
Fashion
Fashion department to put on its annual
fashion show next week Page 3
AS Elections
Meet the candidates running in the
1990 AS Elections Page 6
Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 70 No. 14
COURIER
Thursday
May 24, 1990
NEWSLINE
5K RUN
The PCC Community Skills Cen¬
ter is seeking participants for its Sev¬
enth Annual 5K Run to be held on
Saturday, June 2, at the Rose Bowl.
More information may be obtained
from Glenn Wilkerson or Raleigh Littles
at the center, (818) 792-2124.
DANCE TEAM AUDITIONS
Students interested in joining PCC’s
Dance/Cheer team can audition for the
squad on Friday, May 25 at 3 p.m. in
the Men’s Gym. There are 10 open
spots on the team.
The “Lancer Girls” won third place
at the state competition held at Uni¬
versal Studios. They took 16th at the
national competition in Dallas, Texas
last January. For more information,
please call adviser Dede Limon, (8 1 8)
578-7384.
IMPROV INFERNO
“The Next Two Lines,” the latest
from the Improv Inferno, will be pre¬
sented tomorrow at 8:03 p.m. in the
Forum. Admission is $5. For addi¬
tional information, please call (818)
5788-7485.
SPRING BALL 1990
Students, staff and faculty are in¬
vited to this year’s Spring Ball, themed
“Black and White Affair.” The ball
will be held at the Pasadena Hilton on
Saturday, June 2. Tickets are $35 per
person and are available at the S tudent
Bank. More information is available
at the Student Activities Office, CC203.
“DICK TRACY” PROMOTION
The Walt Disney Company will be
on campus on Tuesday, May 29, at
noon to promote their new movie “Dick
Tracy.’ ’ Excerpts never shown before
wil be shown at this half-hour event in
the PCC Forum.
OMD TAPPING
Come join the crowd at the OMD
Spring Tapping Ceremony on Tues¬
day, June 5, at noon in the PCC Forum .
The office of Student Activities
will also present their awards and
scholarships at this time and the irre¬
pressible Tony Georgilas will emcee
the event. Refreshments will be served
afterwards.
CANDIDATE’S FORUM
Come hear the candidates state their
views at the candidate's forum bn May
29 in the Campus Center Lounge at
noon. There will also be a question and
answer portion at the event.
Alpha Gamma Sigma will be hold¬
ing it’s annual fund-raiser today at
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the swimming
pool.
INDEX
Opinion
2
Editorial
2
News Features
3
Features
4,5
News
6
AS seeks voter approval on
mandatory representation fee
Self-study says PCC
fulfills requirements
College meets all accreditation recommendations
If approved, mandatory
fee would fund student
lobbying efforts
The AS Board on Friday unanimously
approved the placement of a $1 manda¬
tory representation fee measure on the
ballot.
If approved, the measure would im¬
pose a $1 mandatory fee per semester,
which would be paid at registration.
In order to take effect, it must receive
two-thirds of the majority vote during
the AS Elections slated for May 30 and
31.
Assembly Bill 2576 allows the stu¬
dent government to include the measure
in the ballot. Funds collected from this
fee will be maintained in a separate AS
account, according to the draft of the
ballot measure.
The funds will be used to support
PCC students or their representatives at
local, state and federal government af¬
fairs.
S tudents may refuse to pay for the fee
for religious, political, moral or finan¬
cial reasons.
In addition, AB 2576 also allows for
the termination of the imposed represen¬
tation fee if it receives a majority vote in
an election held for that purpose.
By MICHAEL ROCHA
Editor-in-Chief
The unedited copy of the college-com¬
missioned self-study proclaims that PCC
has successfully met all 17 recommenda¬
tions left by the 1985 visiting accreditation
team.
The 56-page report, which is only one-
third of the entire accreditation booklet to be
released in August, outlines the results of a
comprehensive study of the college’s func¬
tions in preparation for the reaffirmation of
PCC’s accreditation scheduled for Novem¬
ber. Approximately 100 members of seven
committees were involved in the self study.
The committees were composed of various
members of the college community.
The report states that PCC, currently
enrolling 21,000 students, has responded
accordingly to the 17 recommendations from
the 1985 accrediting team.
The following are some of the 17 recom¬
mendations met by PCC:
■ A Mission Statement for the college
has been developed through broad participa¬
tion by staff, faculty, administration and
Please see REPORT, page 5
Sidewalk
Cafe
takes last
order
Lights are permanently
off inside the historic
Sidewalk Cafe building
By ELIZABETH R. STEVENS
Special Correspondent
The lights are permanently off
inside the building of one of PCC’s
neighbors. Trash is collecting around
the grounds. The soiled oil-cloth table
coverings invite only old newspapers
instead of customers. A padlock and
chain bar the rear entrance. Two bold
“closed” signs are in the front win¬
dows and the sign “Try our Gyros” is
gone. Long-time residents will recall
the property was once the home of
Bob’s Big Boy.
As of May 21 , ownership of the
Sidewalk Cafe, site of one of the more
familiar restaurant buildings on
Colorado Boulevard has been turned
over to PCC, not without struggle on
the part of the college and disappoint¬
ment on the part of the former man¬
ager.
After the expiration of a 90-day
eviction notice, which was extended by
PCC for an additional week to May 9,
it took a court ordered ‘ ‘writ of
assistance,” which allows forcible
eviction by the sheriff, to finally
convince the manager of the Sidewalk
Cafe to leave and turn over his keys.
The struggle for possession may be
over, but the resolution of financial
compensation is not.
As reported by The COURIER on
Dec. 14, 1989, Resolution 158, which
Please see CAFE, page 3
Tom Hernandez/ The COURIER
Sidewalk Cafe operations manager Nick Pavlides, top, takes out telephone from
the building. A hand-made sign, bottom, informs customers about the eviction.
Task force formed to save Mother Earth
By ANISSA VICENTE
Staff Writer
PCC has joined the environmental con¬
cern bandwagon with the formation of an
Environmental Task Force that will look at
many earth-oriented campus improvements
such as encouraging campus recycling,
conserving water and energy and integrating
environmental issues into the curriculum.
Dr. Stanley E. Gunstream, chair of life
sciences department, will head the task force
and pledges to “generate motivation and
eliminate apathy” about the environment
on campus.
Being concerned about the world we live
in has to ‘ ‘become more and more a part of
our lives,” Gunstream said. “We’re going
to have to adapt to conservation and recy¬
cling. It isn’t going to change, and it isn’t
going to go away as we become more popu¬
lous and more congested.”
In a memo to the staff on Earth Day
1990, Dr. Jack Scott, superintendent-presi¬
dent, notes that while a committee has been
formed to cut down on paper usage, “the
issue is obviously broader than that. How
can we conserve energy, reduce auto pollu¬
tion, recycle waste? Are we too often part of
the problem rather than part of the solu¬
tion?”
Under the leadership of Gunstream, the
Please see FORCE, page 5
Student cars
vandalized in
parking lot
By GARY DEVON
Special Correspondent
A PCC student returning to his car at 10
a.m. on Tuesday, May 15, discovered all
four tires slashed, according to Campus Police
officer Nick Hoekstra.
The 22-year-old male student reported at
noon the same day that his 1990 Mitsubishi
Eclipse, parked in Lot No. 4, was vandalized
between 8 and 10 a.m.
Hoekstra said that the one-inch- wide tire
slashes indicated the blade was “a possible
stiletto’ ’ or switchblade knife. He added that
this incident was “one of the worst because
the tires were so expensive.” Replacement
cost, including labor, for four Goodyear
Eagle GTs were $675, he said.
The student said he did not “have any
idea at all who might have done this.” No
suspects have been discovered.
“Every two months, someone reports
his car vandalized,” Hoekstra added. “Those
lots can be bad, with lots of little fender-
benders’ ’ and nicks and scratches caused by
doors. But it should be “better now that the
lots have been redrawn.”
Police photos
help crack
forgery case
By BECKY ROUSE
Opinion Editor
Photos taken of a man cited for indecent
exposure on campus led to the identification
of a major Southland forgery suspect, said
Campus Police.
The suspect, whose real name is Stephen
“Wayland” Smith, was using a Houston
man’s identification when he was questioned
by campus police after exposing himself to
a student in the library.
Inspector Ralph Evans said that the first
incident occurred in the student dining room
on Monday evening, Sept. 25, 1989. A female
student sitting in the cafeteria noticed the
man across from her rubbing his legs in an
agitated manner. He then allegedly exposed
his genitals. The student left the cafeteria
immediately and notified Campus Police.
But when officers arrived at the scene, the
man was gone. The suspect was described as
a male Caucasian, bearded, approximately
35 years of age and using a cane to walk.
Three days later, on Sept. 28, a man
matching that description allegedly exposed
himself to another female student, this time
in the library. The student went to the circu-
Please see FLASHER, page 3