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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 72 No. S'
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COURIER
Thursday
November 1, 1990
NEWSLINE
AUTO SHOWCASE
PCC will host the first
Pasadena Auto Showcase to
be held this weekend. More
than 100 new 1991 domestic
and foreign automobiles will
be displayed on Nov. 3, from
10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Nov.4
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The
showcase is sponsored by the
college and by the American
Cancer Society.
A preview fund-raising
party will be held in the Cir¬
cadian on Nov. 2, from 5 to 9
p.m.
HOMELESS FOOD DRIVE
Alpha Gamma Sigma
Honor Society (AGS) is spear¬
heading the effort to help ease
the pain of homelessness by
launching a semester-long food
drive.
AGS, which is working with
the AS and Earth Wise, re¬
cently placed large containers
for donations in the Campus
Center, C Building and D
Building. Food and clothing
for the homeless are now being
collected.
The donations will be gath¬
ered, boxed and distributed
weekly to the on-campus sup¬
port group, Homeless Educa¬
tional Lifestyle Program
(H.E.L.P.), Union Station and
other agencies in Pasadena.
For more information, contact
Rick Kravette through the office
of AGS adviser Janis Dwyer,
D217.
DATE RAPE
Project LEAP, PCC’s
mentor program, is sponsor¬
ing an informative play about
date rape. The play, “When
No Means No,” will take place
on Thursday, Nov.8 in Harbe-
son Hall, from noon to 1 p.m.
Admission is free.
WURLITZER ORGAN
CONCERT
Lyn Larsen, one of the coun¬
try’s foremost theater organ¬
ists will be performing in
Sexson Auditorium on Satur¬
day, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m.
This is the first anniver¬
sary concert of PCC’s acquisi¬
tion of the Los Angeles Thea¬
ter Organ Society (LATOS) J.
Ross Reed Wurlitzer organ.
General admission is $9, sen¬
iors and students, $8, and
LATOS/FOTO members, $7.
LATOS originally bought
the organ from a Lansing pizza
parlor. It changed ownership
for a time, but when it was
returned to LATOS, they in¬
stalled it at PCC.
Tickets may be purchased
in advance by sending a check
payable to “LATOS,” along
with a self-addressed stamped
envelope to: Lyn Larsen Con¬
cert, 10432TiaraStreet, North
Hollywood, CA 91601. Indi¬
cate number of tickets desired.
INDEX
Opinion
2
Editorial
2
Features
4
Sports
6
News Features
5
Cowabunga, dude!
Carl Scayan
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The COURIER
Trick-or-treating turtles? This child is wearing a rendition of the popular “Teen-age Mutant Ninja
Turtles” costume. He came to PCC with a group of children from the Child Development Center. The
children arrive in costume every Halloween and visit department offices.
MEChA students
picket Vons Co.
By MICHAEL ROCHA
Special Correspondent
Several members of the campus
group Movimiento Estudiantil Chi-
cano de Aztlan (MEChA) staged a
peaceful protest against Vons Gro¬
cery Company Sunday by distribut¬
ing anti-Vons fliers outside one of
its Pasadena stores and persuading
shoppers to take their business else¬
where.
The students converged on the
Vons grocery store at Colorado and
Sierra Madre boulevards late Sun¬
day morning to show their support
for the United Farm Workers (UFW)
boycott of the Arcadia-based com¬
pany, the largest supermarket chain
in Southern California.
The UFW has targeted Vons and
its Tianguis and Pavilions chains
because they have repeatedly refused
to stop advertising and promoting
California table grapes, which are
sprayed with cancer-causing pesti¬
cides, said Heather Brownlee, or¬
ganizer of Sunday’s protest and UFW
representative.
Wearing UFW placards, the stu¬
dents approached shoppers in the
parking lot, telling them that several
children who live near vineyards
have been diagnosed with cancer as
a result of exposure to table grapes
laced with pesticides.
Athena Butler, a 22-year-old PCC
student, dropped by the store with a
friend and was approached by one of
the protesters. After talking briefly
with the picketer, Butler said, “I
didn’t even know that Vons was
related to this (situation). I’ve seen
things
от
TV about kids having cancer,
and I didn’t know it was because of
the grapes. Now, I’m really going to
choose the places I buy my gro¬
cery.”
One of the picketers, Jessica
Jennes, 19, said, “We’re trying to
get people not to shop at Vons be¬
cause of the fact that they said that
they would not promote table grapes.
Then they ended up going out and
promoting more so.”
At around noon, Jennes said she
had prevented two people from shop¬
ping at the store. ‘ They (Vons) have
lost at least S 1 00 to $ 150 dollars just
from me, and there are a lot of us out
here.”
At one point during the protest,
Dennis McKeon, general manager
of the store, came out and warned
picketers that if they got within 10
Please see Picket, Page 6
Board of Trustees
supports Prop. 143
A number of items on the Nov. 6
ballot will have an effect on educa¬
tion as a whole and on community
colleges in particular. While PCC is
a public entity and cannot endorse
political candidates or propositions,
the college’s Board of Trustees has a
little more flexibility.
The Board recently passed a
resolution in support of Proposition
143, which calls for $450 million in
bonds to finance the building of new
facilities on community college
campuses.
If Proposition 143 does not pass,
it could endanger or delay such proj¬
ects as new physical education build¬
ings and the expansion of the Com¬
munity Skills Center, according to
Dr. Jack A. Scott, president-superin¬
tendent. Scott said “money for the
new library has already been allo¬
cated, but money for future build¬
ings will be lessened.”
The college receives the bulk of
its money from the state. The 1990-
91 adopted budget anticipates a total
of $44 million in revenue from the
various state funds, $39 million of
which is expected to come from the
state’s general fund.
Due to Proposition 98, grades
К
through 14, which includes commu¬
nity colleges, receive 40 percent of
the general fund. One measure on
the current ballot, Proposition 126,
will place a surtax on alcoholic
beverages that could concievably in¬
crease state revenues, and therefore
mean more dollars for education.
Scott was reluctant to discuss in
detail the Nov. 6 ballot. “I’m hired
to educate students, not to take a
stand on propositions,” he said.
Bayer takes stand on key issues
By AMOR PADILLA
News Features Editor
What was supposed to be a de¬
bate between congressional candi¬
date David Bayer and incumbent
Carlos Moorhead, turned out to be a
campaign stop for Bayer. Moorhead
declined to be part of the debate for
work reasons.
Two months ago, Earth Wise, co-
presidents Shipra Bansal and Mag¬
gie Tracey extended an invitation to
both Bayer and Moorhead to debate,
and to explain their platforms on
campus.
“We thought that with this action
we could decrease the political apa¬
thy of students on campus,” Bansal
commented. “We set two tentative
dates, but Moorhead’ s office said he
couldn’t come and have a debate, so
we went ahead and advertised only
Bayer.”
During his one-hour speech, Bayer
explained issues in his platform, such
as the national health plan, which
according to him is rated among the
four major national health programs.
Present during Bayer’s speech
was one of Moorhead’s representa¬
tives, Peter Musurlian. He defended
Moorhead during the question-an¬
swer period of Bayer’s speech. When
asked by the observers why Moorhead
wasn’t there to defend himself,
Musurlian said Moorhead was busy,
working on the budget in Washing¬
ton. Musurlian tried to start a debate
with Bayer, but he was denied the
opportunity to debate by Earth Wise.
‘ ‘We didn’t want to be portrayed
as a partisan club,” stated Tracey,
“that’s why we invited both candi¬
dates, but Moorhead’s office declined
twice. They had no right to come the
very same day and try to impose a
debate, when all the advertisement
and preparation was for one speaker.”
she said.
According to Tracey, on the
morning of Oct. 25, Moorhead’s office
“called and wanted to send a repre¬
sentative for the debate.” They were
told that no debate was going to take
place because “it was too late to
change the plans and get a modera¬
tor."
However, Musurlian was sent and
“monopolized the question answer
period.” Bansal said. Besides being
prohibited to debate, Musurlian was
forced to hand over the microphone
by the students and by Bayer’s fol¬
lowers who “booed and hissed” at
Musurlian after he had taken up more
than 15 minutes of the question-an¬
swer time.
The students observing the event
also questioned Bayer on his stand
on $audi Arabia. “Under no cir¬
cumstances should we have unilat¬
eral United States action. Under no
circumstances... I do not believe in
any country imposing its rule over
others. I do support President Bush
as long as he stays within the frame
Please see Candidate, Page 3
Carl Scayan
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The COURIER
Congressional candidate David Bayertalked about his platform during
a campaign stop at PCC last Thursday in the Quad.
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