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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 74 No. 29
COURIER
Thursday
May 28, 1992
Special election outlines future of AS constitution
LI Students’ votes will determine whether
the AS constitution should be modified at a
special campus election in early June.
By CHRIS CATHCART
Staff Writer
Constitutional reform for the
Associated Students (AS) will be
decided sometime before finals,
according to Alvar Kauti, dean of
student services. “We will have a
special election, probably on June
10 and 11.”
The Students for Constitutional
Reform (SCFR) have been collect¬
ing signatures since mid- April, hop¬
ing to gain the number needed to call
for a special election. The members
of the SFCR were required to collect
signatures from five percent of the
total student body. They submitted
the petitions, with more than 1200
signatures, to Kauti’s office on May
20. Representatives had asked that
the general election be postponed,
until the proposed constitution was
ratified or defeated, but the elections
were held this week as scheduled.
“According to the current constitution,
we have to hold general elections by
the end of May ,” said Kauti. By sub¬
mitting their petition on the 20th of
May, the SFCR is asking for “the
impossible.” “We need to verify the
petition’s signatures, then post the
Panel explores ways
to improve relations
with the community
By ANISSA VICENTE
Features Editor
Standing by his belief that educa¬
tion can overcome violence, Dr. Jack
Scott, president-superintendent, will
moderate a panel made up of local
community leaders in order to plan
strategies to combat the problems of
Southern California’s inner cities.
“I am convinced that quality higher
education is one important step toward
improving living conditions in our
society,” Scott said. PCC is in a
position to assume a leadership role
in developing strategies to meet the
needs of the depressed cities in the
area.
The panel discussion will be held
today from noon to 1 p.m. in the
Forum. Panelists include Rick Cole,
mayor of Pasadena, Shirley Adams,
director of the Pasadena-Altadena
Urban League and Jerry Oliver, chief
of the Pasadena police department.
Each will comment on the recent
civil unrest in Los Angeles. Com¬
ments and questions will also be en¬
tertained from the audience.
Several officers from various cam¬
pus clubs are also invited. The dis¬
cussion could not be open to all
students due to space constraints.
Sally Huguley, assistant to the
president, agrees that the problems
that boiled over into violence this
month lie in the lack of attention
given the issues of massive umem-
ployment, lack of decent housing,
high crime rates and rising gang ac¬
tivities.
“The plans to solve these prob¬
lems will come from the panel,”
Huguley said. “You have to start
somewhere and this exchange of ideas
between faculty and staff will give
some helpful suggestions.”
Huguley said PCC has a good
track record in developing programs
and strategies with which the col¬
lege and the community can respond
to the needs of the depressed areas in
Los Angeles and Pasadena.
Huguley mentioned the Mentor
Program, Project Leap, Title
П1
Grant,
La Puente Project and the Curricu¬
lum Integration Project as positive
models for future projects.
The students, with their club ac¬
tivities, also contribute greatly to the
alleviation of the urban problem.
“There’s a need to communicate
more,” Huguley said. The panel
discussion, she said, will hopefully
be the start of Southern California’s
healing process.
proposed document for five days
prior to the election. The signatures
are being verified as quickly as they
can be,” said Kauti.
Kauti believes that a special elec¬
tion is important to the students. “In
all fairness to the people who signed
the petition, we should have the
election before the school year ends.”
Any petition submitted to the ad¬
ministration is valid for 30 days, so
if the election is not held before
finals, the SFCR would have to start
from the beginning in the Fall.
SFCR member Rick Vera is an¬
gered by a lack of communication
between his group and Kauti’s of¬
fice. “I waited outside of his office
for an hour and 20 minutes,” Vera
said. “I couldn’t get him to say when
the special election was going to
be.” Vera believes that Kauti and
Rebecca Cobb, Associated Student
adviser, don’t want this constitution
passed. “It might put power into the
hands of the students,” Vera said.
“Students have to find out what is
going on around here.”
While signatures were being veri¬
fied, the Constitution Review Com¬
mittee (CRC), established by Karen
Koch, AS president, worked through
the Memorial Day weekend exam¬
ining the SFCR constitution and writ¬
ing recommendations to the AS board.
They released their report yesterday
calling for a “no” vote on the SFCR
constitution. “The idea behind the
reformist movement is good,” said
Paul Dolk, chairman of the CRC,
“but the document is garbage.”
The SFCR constitution will be
posted around the campus, so that
students can see for themselves what
the benefits and weaknesses of the
document are. Among the changes
proposed are reforms to limit the AS
executive board to five members,
create a Chief Justice, Supreme Court
and make the Inter-Club Council a
legislative branch of the government.
The document also outlines the
percentages of the budget that are to
be spent for specific activities and
groups.
Koch has released a synopsis of
the findings of the CRC for the gen¬
eral student body. She has accepted
the recommendations of the CRC
and stated that the SFCR constitution
contains too many problems. “I have
to believe what I am told by the
CRC,” said Koch. “I want a good,
solid constitution that will last at
least three to five years. I don’t think
this is it.”
Any ratification of the present
constitution or approval of a new
document requires a two-thirds ma¬
jority of votes by the associated stu¬
dents.
While both sides of the reform
issue state that their reasons are
important, only an election will be
able to decide how students want
their government to be run.
Vera believes that students will
realize that ratification is neccessary
once they see the revisions. “Some
people have painted a terrible pic¬
ture of us,” he said. “But we set out
to make the ASB more efficient. We
wrote a document that makes people
do their jobs.”
Photos by Lupe Montalvo
Dr. Willim Goldmann, dean of
educational services, cleverly
stresses the importance of
Proposition 1 53 as he prepares
to take a plunge during this
year’s Sink-a-Scholar event last
Thursday.
Sink-a-Scholar
program leaves
jumpers all wet
□ Faculty, staff and students take
the plunge to raise scholarship
money for the Alpha Gamma
Sigma honor society.
By AZADOUHIE KALYDJIAN
Staff Writer
As the weather gels progressively warmer towards
the end of the spring semester, people welcome outdoor
activities, especially ones involving water. That is proba¬
bly why the Alpha Gamma Sigma (AGS) honor soci¬
ety ’ s Sink-a-Scholar program is so successful each year.
Last Thursday, many members of the college com¬
munity took a plunge into the pool to help support AGS
members through scholarship money generated from
the event. Members raise money by charging $50 to
“sink” an administration or community member, $30 for
a faculty member and $20 for students.
Every year, AGS members scout the campus for
people who are willing to jump into the swimming pool
fully clothed for a specific amount of money raised in
their name. During the ceremony, more than 20 profes¬
sors, students, faculty and administration members
participated by comically jumping from the diving
boards. This year’s cast of jumpers included DrJack
Scott, superintendent-president, and Dr. William
Goldmann, dean of educational services.
Aside from dressing in outrageous costumes for the
jump, each year participants devise unique and innova-
Jack Scott, PCC president, takes a flying leap.
tive ways to commemorate the event. For this year’s
event, one participant raised more than $100 by
selling stickers that people applied to his body for $ 1
each.
During previous presentations, AGS members have
raised more than $2,000. Janice Dwyer, AGS adviser
said, “This year we are hoping to put the mark at
$1,700.” She added that the event is usually the
biggest and most popular fundraiser of the year.
Students display their artwork at annual Art Gallery exhibit
Two of the aesthetically pleasing exhibits are both made of wood.
□ Student artists from campus art classes
present their work at the annual gallery
exhibit. Aproximately 80 pieces are displayed.
Photos by Katrina P. Ten/The COURIER
Wall sculptures and pottery are among the exhibits at the gallery.
By DANIELLE POTOCIK
Staff Writer
A variety of paintings, photogra¬
phy, drawings, jewelry, and sculp¬
tures are currently represented at the
Art Gallery’s annual student art
exhibit. Works by students from
several art classes were selected for
display by the show’s curator, artist
Ramone Munez. He is the assistant
chairman of graphics and packaging
design at the Art Center of Design in
Pasadena. The show began Tuesday
and will run through next Wednes¬
day.
According to Alex Kritselis, Art
Gallery director, approximately 250
pieces were submitted for the show.
Only 80 were chosen for display,
and 12 of the finest were each given
$50 prizes. He added that Munoz
unselfishly donated his fee for pre¬
senting the exhibit to the prize money.
There are many themes repre¬
sented in the students’ work. One
piece is labeled “Gay Bias Y” and
displays a condom. Other pieces
include serene black and white land¬
scape photographs, silver jewelry,
and a jagged, pear shaped, metal
bed. Peter B. Parise, gallery atten¬
dant, did not wish to speculate on the
artist’s inspiration or meaning of the
metal bed, but says he interprets it to
have a sexual connotation.
Parise thinks there is a lot of
strong work represented at the ex¬
hibit and is pleased the students are
using different techniques along
with new and innovative ideas. “This
is the only student show to have wall
sculpture, its a good sign,” he said.
Mario Pagole, a campus visitor
from Mexico and an artist himself,
said the artwork represented here is
much better than similar works he’d
seen in Mexico. He especially en¬
joyed the black and white photogra¬
phy. Student Richard Marchetti was
also pleasantly surprised by the
contrast of works shown. “I think
it’s really nice. I haven’t seen any
show like it. Students are working
with really different materials and
coming up with a good cross-sec¬
tional of works that are both func¬
tional and decorative. Some are
decorative and also make an impor¬
tant statement,” he said.
All types of people frequent the
show, says Parise. The art depart¬
ment also mails invitations to pri¬
vate collectors and museums.
Anyone interested in purchasing
the artwork is put in contact with the
artist to make private arrangements,
according to Parise. “They may be
for sale, but we’re not pushing it.
It’s mainly just a showing.”