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COURIER
VOL. 68, NO. 13
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MAY 25, 1989
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Cap and Gown
Attention all June graduates. Tomorrow is the last day to order your cap
and gown for commencement. Reserve yours at the student bank. Bank
hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday
through Thursday.
Alpha Gamma Sigma members Susanna Coughenour (Garfield) and
Gayle Theilacker, pictured with AGS adviser Janis Dwyer, were
presented to the Board of Trustees last week for the $500
scholarships they won at the AGS State Conference in Irvine last
month. Matt Fisher /The Courier
Tribute to Sondheim
If you enjoy the music of Sondheim, the Musical Theater Workshop will
be performing scenes from Oliver and Westside Story. The performances
will be tomorrow night, May 26 at 8 p.m. in Harbeson Hall.
OMD Applications
Omicron Mu Delta (OMD) is currently accepting applications for stu¬
dents interested in being inducted as an OMD member this June. These
honor students have distinguished themselves by sharing their time and
talents with persons or programs where there is a need. Applications are
available at the Information Center in C Building.
Skills Center 5k Run
The Community Skills Center is holding its Sixth Annual 5k Run on June
3. The race will begin at 8 a.m. on Rose Bowl Dr. next to Gate B. Race fee is
$12. For more information, call (818) 792-2124.
Student Injured in Accident
During Early Rush To Park
Hugh Armel
Staff Writer
Two car accidents, involving five
people, four of which were PCC stu¬
dents, occurred at Del Mar and Sierra
Bonita within an hour of each other last
Friday.
The first at 7:50 a.m. involved two
cars. One car swerved to avoid a
pedestrian and ended up colliding with
an oncoming car in cross traffic. Three
people ended up going to the hospital
with lacerations, bruises, and com¬
plaints of head and shoulder aches.
Javier Garcia was driving one car with
Consuelo Rivera and Carolina Villamia
riding with him. Garcia and Rivera are
PCC students. The other car had
Gilbert Anthony Salinas at the wheel.
“The accident could have been
avoided if not for driver error,” said
Investigator Jay D’Angelo of the
Pasadena Police Department. “The guy
was probably late for something and
thought he could save 10 seconds by
going faster. The solution to the
problem is to allow more time,” said
D’Angelo.
An hour later, another accident took
place at the same intersection, this time
involving PCC students Suk Jon Yeung
and Quoc Kien Tran. One of the drivers
was turning into lot four and collided
with the other. No one was injured in
this accident.
“One of the major causes of traffic
accidents is people not yielding the
right of way to oncoming traffic. Peo¬
ple misjudge the speed and distance of
approaching traffic,” said D’Angelo.
D’Angelo added that a car traveling
at 35 mph, the speed limit on Del Mar,
covers 60 feet per second. The actual
average speed on Del Mar, which is in
the neighborhood of 50 mph, has the
car moving 75 feet per second. The
normal response time in an emergency
situation is
3/4
of a second. This means
that before the foot can even leave the
accelerator the car has traveled 55 feet.
Then of course there is skid time before
the car actually stops.
“So if the approaching car is 100
feet away you’re going to get hit,” said
D'Angelo.
Deaf Celebrate Awareness Day
By Hugh Armel
Staff Writer
The Lancers Deaf Students Club is
sponsoring the eighth annual Deaf
Awareness Day celebration at PCC to¬
day. This year’s theme is “Deaf Scien¬
tists and Technology.” The festivities
are in recognition of May as National
Deaf Awareness Month.
Festivities begin at 10 a.m. in the
quad. There will be booths that will
feature organizations and businesses
that serve the deaf. Some of the orga¬
nizations that have agreed to come are
the Silent-Network Information Ser¬
vice, the Center for Independent Living
and the Southern California Recrea¬
tional Association for the Deaf.
“It’s a great oppertunity for students
to learn about the deaf,” said Tracy
Cave, English instructor and interpreter
with Special Services.
Harry Gibbons, an alumnus of PCC
who has set up his own business mak¬
ing dectrical products, such as door¬
bells that blink the lights instead of
ringing, will attend.
Also, there will be a table where deaf
scientists will be available to answer
questions. A special booth will have a
deaf student teaching interested stu¬
dents a few phrases in American sign
language.
At noon in the quad there will be a
talent show featuring skits, dances and
song sign (signing to recorded songs)
from from elementary- to college-age
students.
The Student Health Center will be
offering free hearing tests in Cl 27.
As part of the celebration the library
will have a special display featuring
deaf scientists from around the nation.
The display will be up for the rest of the
month.
Refreshments will be for sale in the
quad. All money raised will go towards
helping to pay for note taking for deaf
students.
Cave says that as a result of Deaf
Awareness Day there are several stu¬
dents who sign up for the sign language
classes offered at PCC.
“Deaf Awareness Day is a great ex¬
posure for the student body to be able to
meet and talk to deaf people,” Cave
said.
AS Cancels Benefit Fee
All Students To Become Eligible in Fall for Loans , Lockers , Discounts
By Tim Frank
Staff Writer
Following the recommendation of
the Student Services Committee, the
AS board voted not to sell student
benefits packages next Fall. Instead all
students will be AS members free of
charge.
For the last four years, anyone who
has wanted to be an AS member had to
purchase the $8 benefits package which
make AS members eligible for
emergency loans, lockers in the
Campus Center, and for special dis¬
counts at off campus businesses. All of
these benefits will be available to the
entire student body next year.
Larnoe Dungca, vice president of
student services, and Fernando Marti,
coordinator of cultural affairs, cast the
two affirmative votes, all that was
needed to discontinue the package.
George Castaneda cast the single
dissenting vote while Marguerita
Morgan, executive vice president, and
Tami Abe, vice president of business
affairs, abstained. Greg MacLemore
exercised his right, as president, not to
vote.
When the benefits package was first
offered in the Fall of 1985, 26.28 per¬
cent of the students bought them. By
Fall of 1988 only 9.1 percent of the
student body purchased them. This
Spring only 4.5 percent chose to pay
the $8 benefit fee.
Although the emergency loan pro¬
gram has only been available to
package holders, it has never been
funded by benefits packet sales. Rather,
it has been funded by the flee market
which is run by student services. The
emergency loan program is not
managed in any way by the AS, said
Alvar Kauti, dean of student activities.
However, student services has
restricted emergency loan eligibility to
benefit purchasers to entice students to
buy the benefits.
Additional benefits like the off
campus discounts to AS members for
local theaters, Magic Mountain, and
other businesses, are also not sub¬
sidized by the AS. Those discounts are
given by businesses that welcome stu¬
dent patronage. The AS will continue
to arrange some of those discounts for
next year.
The AS, however, will not continue
to arrange for free admission for its
members at athletic and theatrical
events on campus. Admission to those
events were subsidized with revenue
from the sale of benefits packages. The
fund currently pays the admission fee
for AS members. Those admission fees
amounted to $5,550, which was about
half of the benefits program’s expendi¬
tures this year, said Kauti.
The other half of the expenditures
have been for administrative costs, said
Kauti. Those tasks include keeping
records, accounting, and promoting the
package. Posters and leaflets advertis¬
ing the program and the labor of the
salespeople who peddle the program to
students waiting in line to register, are
all paid for with money raised from
the $8 purchase price.
Students are better off paying normal
admission prices for the on-campus
events than they are paying the $8 stu¬
dent benefit fee, said Kauti.
Connie Hurston, student activities
adviser, does not believe that students
should have that choice. “If we had a
mandatory fee, there is so much we
could do. We could redecorate the eat¬
ing facilities the way we really want to,
bring Oprah Winfrey to campus, and
build parking structures,’’ said
Hurston.
“It is illegal to levy mandatory
fees,” said Kauti. So until the law
changes, students can not be forced to
purchase a benefit package. There will
be no AS fees until the student services
committee, which Kauti chairs, and the
AS Board agree to reinstate it.
However the action of the AS will
keep the money remaining in the stu¬
dent benefits account as a seed fund in
case students decide to resume a fee
based benefits program.
Skills Center Graduation Luncheon
Former Dropouts Urged To Continue Education
By Margie Goodhart
Editor-in-Chief
The atmosphere in the campus center
lounge hums with an undercurrent of
excitement as high school students of
all ages enter to attend a special event.
The tables are decorated in bright
colors, and an archway of balloons
frames the head table, punctuated by
pastel exclamations of upright balloons
floating above their ribbons.
If you listen in, you will hear a con¬
versation that goes something like this:
“I’m looking forward to marching in
June. I didn't get to march with my high
school class,” says Lee Stewart, 19.
Stewart explains that he fell behind in
high school because he spent his
sophomore year in the hospital.
Another young woman at the next
table is speaking about her plans after
graduation: “It’s going to be great com¬
ing to PCC. It's so different to come to
school because I want to, not because I
have to ...”
A hush falls over the room as the first
speaker from the Pasadena City Col¬
lege Community Skills Center (CSC)
steps up to the podium to welcome the
students to the Second Annual High
School Graduation Luncheon last
Thursday. The CSC will graduate 402
students with high school diplomas this
academic year.
Dr. William Goldmann, dean of
educational services, shares with the
assemblage of graduates and faculty
that he understands the problems of
going back to high school.
“I have a non-traditional high school
diploma,” he says. “I understand
working at night and on Saturdays.”
He congratulates the students on
their tenacity, and he congratulates the
skills center faculty and staff on the
services they’re performing.
The skills center has been a part of
PCC since it was formed in 1980 by a
tripartite agreement between the col¬
lege, Pasadena Unified School District
and the City of Pasadena. The high
school diploma program is only one of
several programs offered. Others in¬
clude a host of vocational short-term
training programs, English as a Second
Language courses with the amnesty
component and Adult Basic Education
Classes. Programs range in variety
from animal care to marketing to silk
screening.
“The skills center is an all-purpose
school attending to the needs of a wide
veriety of interests and aptitudes that
cannot be met within a conventional
educational setting,” said Goldmann.
The high school students comprise
about one quarter of the 4000
ethnically diverse students attending
the center.
“Given our high-tech society,” said
Dr. Jack Scott, president/superinten¬
dent, to the graduates, “there is nothing
that will give you the tools for advance¬
ment more than education. It’s the key.
You’ve taken this important step, now
let encourage you to continue on.”
These sentiments were amplified by
the guest speaker, Carmen O. Perez,
chief deputy to county Supervisor Ken¬
neth Hahn. Perez told the graduates
how she had gotten married at 16 and
soon had four children and no high
school diploma.
“I know what it was to go back to
school,” she said, illustrating a day in
the life of a single parent/student. The
last thing she would do each day was to
check her kids’ homework before start¬
ing her own. “I know what it’s like to
have older brain cells that just can’t
figure out what the heck the teachers
are talking about.”
Perez spoke of her near involvement
in the East LA gangs and the oppor¬
tunities she missed by dropping out of
school. Currently in law school, she
also spoke of the career and life that has
opened up to her through continuing
her education.
“When I look at any graduate in this
room, 13 to 39, 1 know they have taken
a step,” she said. “This world is chang¬
ing. Everywhere you go for a job,
they’re going to ask you for a
diploma.”
Sink- a- Scholar Raises More Than $1,800
Alpha Gamma Sigma Dunks Staff and Students for Cash;
Bookstore Employee Winner of the Exotic Hawaiian Vacation
(Counterclockwise from
below) These scholars are in var¬
ious phases of being sunk:
Joseph Barnes, Jr., professor of
physical sciences, takes the
plunge; Dr. William Goldmann,
executive assistant to the presi¬
dent, emerges; Jane Hallinger,
assistant professor of English, is
pushed by Anthony Georgilas,
associate professor of com¬
munication. Dr. Jack A. Scott,
president/superintendent, hur¬
ries to get dry.
Denise Garcia/ The Courier
By Michael Rocha
Staff Writer
With the sun shining peacefully
on the crisp blue waters of the PCC
swimming pool, Alpha Gamma
Sigma (AGS) launched its annual
fundraiser Sink-a-Scholar last
Thursday.
With more than 50 jumpers par¬
ticipating, AGS raised more than
$1,800 which will finance scholar¬
ship programs administered by the
organization. The scholarships go to
students who are members of AGS
and have either demonstrated out¬
standing service, superior leader¬
ship or academic excellence.
The pool of jumpers represented
various departments on campus.
The social science department was
represented by its chairperson, Ken-
non G. Miedema. The other depart¬
ments that participated included the
Nelson Green
/
The Courier
communication, engineering and
technology, English and foreign
languages and physical science
departments.
Before the jumpers could take the
plunge, a certain amount of money
had to be raised in their name. To
sink a student required $15. To sink
a college employee required $20,
and $50 was required to sink a com¬
munity person.
Part of the $1,800 came from the
ticket sales for the Hawaiian Trip
drawing. Bookstore employee Sally
Shuster walked away with the
prized trip to the Hawaiian Islands.
“She was in the crowd when we
announced the winner. She was very
happy because she said this was the
first thing she has ever won,” said
Janis Dwyer, AGS adviser.
As emcee Anthony Georgilas,
associate professor of communica-
Denise Garcia/ The Courier
tion, gave the crowd some
background on AGS, a student
dressed in a “Beetlejuice” costume
initiated the festivities by being the
first jumper.
With $50 raised in his name, '
president/superintendent Jack A.
Scott took to the waters dressed in a
matching sky blue shirt and denim
jeans. Scott jumped from the small
diving board with numerous ad¬
ministrators and students cheering
him on.
Scholarship applications are due
June 1, and scholarship winners will
be announced at the June 8 AGS
Awards Banquet. For more informa¬
tion, please contact Janis Dwyer at
578-7251.