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The new leader of the United States
must be held accountable for the prom¬
ises made during the election campaign
Will another four years mean more fighting be¬
tween a Republican Congress and a Democratic,
president?
Computer artists7 work featured in
Gallery exhibition through Nov. 1 5
Susan Silton and Anne Marie Karlsen create
digital art through the use of modern technology.
Cross country men and
women place first and
fourth in qualifying meet
Sophomore Phillip Gonzales led
Lancer runners to top finish. Both
teams qualify for state meet. ‘
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• DAY FOR THE DEAD BECOMES JOYOUS OCCASION
PHOTOS BY GABINO MENDOZA/ THE COURIER
Festive 'Day of the Dead'
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanos de Aztlan (MEChA) sponsored
the fourth annual Dia de los Muertos. An Aztec dance troupe
complete with traditional instruments entertained students in the
Quad on Oct. 31 .
Included in the festivities was a giant sand mural designed by local
artist Leo Limon, that depicted ancient symbols of creativity and the
Aztec calendar. Limon said, “Without death there is no life.”
Members of MEChA helped to complete the mural. There was also
an altar of flowers, pictures and incense, which payed homage to
the dead.
Dia de Los Muertos is celebrated throughout Latin America, but
nowhere is it more fervently celebrated than in Mexico. It’s origins
date back to the pre-Colombian period.
DANIEL ARCHULETA, THE COURIER
Student reaction
to 209 passage
BY JASAI MADDEN
Courier Staff Writer
The shock and disbelief of the
passing of Proposition 209 came to
Saul Sandoval at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday
night, as he was listening to the radio
anticipating the evening sports re¬
port.
“I was pissed off,” Sandoval said.
“I spent a lot of time and energy
fighting against this proposition.”
Despite all the efforts by local groups
like PCC’s M.E.Ch.A organization
and national groups like the NAACP
and the League of Women Voters.
209 was destined to pass according
to news reports on Wednesday. With
one hundred percent of the piccinct
votes accounted for, votes in favor of
the initiative were in the lead by 8.8
percent.
Exit polls showed that the major¬
ity 6f African American and Latino
voters seemed to have strong
oppsition to the initiative. Demo¬
crats also expressed opposition
through their votes although the
margin was small. Republicans on
the other hand favored the measure
by a landslide.
Frank Fernandez, associated stu¬
dent vice president of academic af¬
fairs at PCC, is a Republican who
was openly in support of the proposi¬
tion and the potential effects of its
passing. “I felt encouraged that now
everyone would be treated equally
and no one would be given preferen¬
tial treatment.”
Fie is convinced that Affirmative
Action and other government regu¬
lated programs can not serve as com¬
batants against people who want to
hire their own kind. “It’s just an
unfortunate consequence of life. The
people who are doing the hiring have
to want to change'” In his opinion,
racism will always be highlighted
when there are programs that support
preferential treatment.
Melva Alvarez, a Chicana student
at PCC is a 1 9-year-old singel mother
of two. As a member of M.E.Ch.A,
she spent countless hours devoted to
the task of defeating Proposition 209.
Despite the “precinct walks” and
passing out flyers to inform fellow
students, neighbors and friends, they
were defeated. Alvarez said, “I wasn’t
surprised. There is no way to reach
every single person and inform them
of the deceitful, devisive and confus-
Please see REACTION, page 3.
Dr. ]ack Scott beats
Hoge for 44th seat
BY YUSEF ROBB
Courier Staff Writer
Despite early reports to the con¬
trary, former PCC President Jack
Scott has won the race for the 44th
Assembly District seat. Election day
television results had Scott losing
throughout the night to incumbent
Bill Hoge. Wednesday morning
newspapers also echoed this senti¬
ment, showing the Republican, Hoge,
in the lead by a margin of 5 1 percent
to 47 percent. But at 9 a.m. Wednes¬
day, it was officially announced that
Scott had become the Assemblyman
from the 44th district, winning 53.2
percent of the popular vote.
He is the first Democrat to be
elected to the Assemblv in that dis¬
trict. Hoge earned 43.6 percent of
the popular vote while the Libertar¬
ian candidate Ted Brown received
DR. JACK SCOTT
3.2 percent of
the vote.
The 44th
district encom¬
passes the cit¬
ies made up of
A 1 1 ad e n a ,
Pasadena, San
Marino, South
Pasadena and
Temple City, and has 210,673 regis¬
tered votes. Though the majority of
the district’s voter’s are registered
Democrats, it is regarded as a very
conservative area.
Scott ran on a platform that was
pro-choice and anti-gun, while Hoge
ran a staunchly conservative cam¬
paign, calling himself the “Crime
fighter’s Candidate.”
Hoge was beleaguered in his cam¬
paign by such issues as campaign
Please see DR. SCOTT, page 4.
Poindexter detained
after Sunday incident
BY ROCKI HERNANDEZ
Special Correspondent
Associated Students president
Forrest Poindexter had to be forcibly
removed from the Campus Center on
Sunday for repeatedly screaming
obscenties at people who were on
campus for a speech tournament,
according to campus police.
Officer Steven Lester said,
Poindexter became very belligerent
when officers tried to settle the dis¬
pute that resulted when Poindexter
challenged two students photo copy¬
ing material for the speech event.
“He (Poindexter beganyelling, “You
can’t make me do nothing, you can’t
do nothing to me, f—
к
you, f—
к
you, kiss my a — ,”
Lester said in his report.
Poindexter also repeatedly called
Lester profane names in the pres¬
ence of several people who were in
the lobby hallway. Visitors from the
flea market were also on campus
while the incident was going on.
Poindexter’s outburst was also
directed at faculty. According to a
statement to police by Mark
Whitworth, director of forensics,
Poindexter screamed, “F — kyou, you
have no power.” He said that
Whitworth could not use the copy
machine because it was the property
of the Associated Student Body.
According to the police report,
Whitworth said Poindexter was very
agitated and was talking in a loud
voice stating that Stephen Johnson,
assistant dean of student affairs
should have notified him about the
speech team using the machine.
At about 12:35 p.m., a call was
made to Lester and officer Leroy
Henderson to break up a disturbance
in the copy room between Poindexter
and two females.
“I don’t think that the incident
Please see FORENSICS, page 3.
CEC site of special six-week credit classes
BY DOUGLAS WILKIE
Courier Staff Writer
PCC students may register as early
as this week for a series of six-week
core credit courses offered in the
1997 spring semester. The classes
will be held at the Community Edu¬
cation Center, located at 3035 E.
Foothill Blvd. Students will be able
to select from a total of 15 core
classes including math, English, ge¬
ography, business, political science,
economics, history, psychology,
philosphy and health education. Most
of the classes will meet Monday
through Thursday afternoons.
Because most CEC classes meet
at times other than in the afternoon,
PCC’s information support services
was able to schedule the time-com¬
pressed classes while still giving pri¬
ority to the satellite center’s non¬
credit programs.
Ramona Nale, scheduling techni¬
cian, was largely responsible for es¬
tablishing class meeting times that
would not conflict with the CEC’s
extensive non-credit curriculum.
“The CEC administration was
very helpful and kind to us,” Nale
said. “The most important consider¬
ation for me as the scheduler was to
ensure instructor availability for the
six-week classes. We always at¬
tempted to dovetail our course offer¬
ings with those of the CEC.”
Although PCC now uses the off-
campus facility for credit courses
such as cosmetology, scheduling core
curriculum is new, according to Nale.
Dr. James Crayton, CEC direc¬
tor, said he isn’t “territorial” about
PCC students using the new, off-
campus facility. He said the after¬
noon time slots were available be¬
cause the great majority of CEC
students are working people whose
classes tend to meet in the morning
or afternoon. He stressed, however,
that non-credit classes will continue
to have priority with respect to class¬
room space.
While scheduling the credit
classes generally came off without a
hitch, he cited one instance in which
a divisional dean was turned down
when a particular CEC classroom
was requested.
“One math instructor had re¬
quested the use of one of our ESL
computer labs,” he said. “Unfortu¬
nately, that wasn’t possible because
the math class would have conflicted
with one of our ESL classes.”
Outside of its computer labs, the
CEC does not have the facilities to
accommodate classes whose needs
go beyond those of the standard class¬
room. As a result, all of the lab
science, music and art classes, as
well as vocational instruction such
as welding, printing and automotive
repair, will be confined to the main
campus with classes meeting on
Saturday.
Crayton described vice president
Joyce Black as supportive in her
efforts to work around the CEC’s
Please see SIX-WEEK page 6.
Forensics participates in
2 f -campus tournament
PHOTO BY ROCKI HERNANDEZ
PCC’s Forensics participated in tournament hosted by the college.
BY ROCKI HERNANDEZ
Special Correspondent
The 1996 Lancer Speech and
Debate Tournament on Nov. 2
and 3 was an award-packed week¬
end that attracted 2 1 colleges and
universities. Participants received
a suprise visit from debaters from
Japan who were there to view
American-style debate.
Crystal Watson, former foren¬
sics coach, was honored with a
plaque for her many years of ser¬
vice and her contribution to speech
and debate at PCC.
At the awards ceremony on
Sunday, professor Anthony
Georgilas announced thatthe tour¬
nament, which had been called
the Lancer Tournament for 20
years, would now be known as the
Crystal Watson Lancer Tourna¬
ment.
“I am very happy that my fel¬
low instructors honored me with
the award,” said Watson. “I had
no idea!”
The tournament was a two-
day competition filled with six
rounds of both debate and individual
events. Finalists in each event com¬
peted Sunday for trophies and
plaques.
PCC forensics and debate mem¬
bers Erica Barba and Tamar
Garabedian received the first place
award in the novice duo category.
They performed a 10-minute memo¬
rized interpretation of a poem. Barba
was also a finalist in the radio cat¬
egory.
PCC awardees also included fi¬
nalist Tori Newby in impromptu
speaking and Sean Nevala, who made
the finals in the extemporaneous
speaking event.
Mark Whitworth, director of fo¬
rensics, supervised the event, along
with Kelly Hughes, forensics coach.
Coaches and instructors from the
attending schools also helped with
preparations, judging and the awards
banquet.
On Saturday, thetournament wel¬
comed 10 debators who flew to PCC
from Japan. The group was headed
by Michihiro Matsumoto, president
of the Kodokan Debating Society.
The Japanese team observed the
American-style debate tournament
in action and they also taught par¬
ticipants about their country’s style
of debate called Hexagon. This was
developed and is being promoted by
Matsumoto. He has published more
than 85 books in Japanese.
The Japanese debaters have been
to New York for a National Team
Debate demonstration, as well as to
Harvard and George Washington
University.
The members of Matsumoto ’s
team were not students but employ¬
ees ofbusinesse s such as Fuji, Kodak
and Sony.
“We are truly honored to have
the Japanese Debaters here at
PCC,” said Mark Whitworth.
Debate is relatively new to
Japan, a country where conflict is
not encouraged. Though the Japa¬
nese visitors seemed interested in
American-style debate, they were
even more excited when they met
Georgelas, who was in the movie
“Listen To Me,” the visitors’ fa¬
vorite movie.
They took plenty of photo-
Please see FORENSICS, page 5.