CO URIER
VOL. 69 NO. 7
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 9, 1989
Incumbent Wins in Only Contested Area
What's Hopping
at the Flea
Market?
More than
Ш.000
people flock to see
what’s going on at the PCC Flea Market
service to the Pasadena community and the
college, the PCC Flea Market celebrated its
I Oth Anniversary on Nov. 5 . The flea
market currently has 400 vendors .selling
"unique” items, one of which is this stuffed
dog (right).
Photos by Lisa Jaramillo
/
The Courier
Dr. Elaine Kim, professor of Asian
American studies at UC Berkeley,
will speak on California’s Asian
American writers as part of the near
ending lecture series entitled “Asian
Pacific Americans: Six Generations
in California.”
Kim will review texts that in¬
clude Kim Ronyoung’s “Clay
Walls,” Hisaye Yamamoto’s “Sev¬
enteen Syllables,” Maxine Hong
Kingston’s “Women Warrior,”
Carlos Bulosan’s “America is in the
Heart” and David Henry Hwang’s
“M. Butterfly.”
Kim received her doctorate in
education from UC Berkeley and
her M.A. in American and Com¬
parative literature from Columbia
University. She has been on the
Berkeley faculty for 20 years. “Dr.
Kim is a dynamic person full of
energy. It will be extremely inter¬
esting to listen to her speak on Asian
literature. She has extensive knowl¬
edge under this subject,” said Suzie
Ling, assistant professor of social
sciences and coordinator of the lec¬
ture series.
Kim has recently returned from a
fulbright scholarship to Korea where
she independently studied abroad.
Kim is the author of “Asian Ameri¬
can Literature: An Introduction to
the Writings and Their Social Con¬
text.” “This lecture will give stu¬
dents exposure to a field of literature
that is reflective of California. Asian
literature lets us appreciate what the
Asians are thinking,” said Ling.
The lecture will be held in the
PCC Forum on Tuesday, Nov. 14
from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and will be open
to the public.
David Sands
Staff Writer
of 22 precincts reporting, Weber had
garnered 1,903 votes, while chal¬
lenger Almanza had 1,426 votes.
Although Weber has run unop¬
posed in the last two board elections,
the race between the two candidates
was quiet and free of controversy.
Area 5 encompasses San Marino,
parts of South Pasadena and Alham¬
bra.
Almanza, dean of academic af¬
fairs at East Los Angeles College,
brought more than 30 years of edu¬
cational experience to the race.
Weber, a retired businessman, is a
27-year resident of San Marino.
Weber said he is delighted to
return to the trusteeship. He consid¬
ers it "a privilege because he loves
the college."
The other three positions open on
the board were uncontested and will
be filled by the incumbents. The
uncontested areas were Area 1, La
Canada Flintridge, Pasadena and parts
Please see WEBER, page 6
Warren Weber
UC Berkeley
Professor To
Speak on
AsianWriters
Gigi Hanna
Editor-in-Chief
Incumbent Warren Weber held
on to his Board of Trustees seat by
beating opponent Robert Almanza
in Tuesday’s election, gamering 58
percent of the vote and leaving
Almanza with an insufficient 42
percent. Weber, Area 5 trustee, will
be serving his fourth four-year term
on the board.
Late Tuesday night, with 10 out
Michael Rocha
/
The Courier
Child Care Task
Force Formed
Parking Problem at PCC Creates
Problem at Child Development Center
Michael Rocha
News Editor
Many departments in the college
have recently added more afternoon
classes in their curriculum, hoping
that the parking problem plaguing
PCC would be alleviated.
Although the parking problem is
an on-campus dilemma, many groups
closely associated with the college
have also been affected.
The Child Development Center
(CDC), located only a few blocks
away from the college, is one group
that has faced numerous crises since
PCC’s parking problem developed.
The CDC, a school for children
of parents who attend PCC and the
Community Skills Center, currently
closes its doors between 4:15 and
6:15 p.m. Since the college intro¬
duced afternoon classes, however,
many parents who take those classes
have found themselves facing a
problem because they are left with
no one to care for their children.
Due to the college’s ever- wors¬
ening parking problem, the CDC re¬
cently formed a Child Care Task
Force which will try to change the
existing schedule, said Nadine Perry,
task force commissioner.
The task force, which currently
has three members, Perry, Lana
Fields and Dell Norton, put the sched¬
ule dilemma on top of its list of prob¬
lems that need to be dealt with in
order to create a safe atmosphere for
the children, Perry said.
The CDC, which charges $4.50
per session, currently has three ses¬
sions: 7:30a.m. to 12:15p.m., 12:15
to 4:15 p.m. and 6:15 to 10:15 p.m.
The 7:30 a.m. to 12: 1 5 p.m. time
slot, which is open to families who
have used the facility in previous se¬
mesters, is “always full,” Perry said.
Perry said that since most of the
college’s 25,000 students attend
morning and evening classes, most
of the children attend CDC in the
morning and the evening.
Recently, however, more and more
parents are taking advantage of the
new wave of afternoon classes being
offered by the college. As a result of
that, the demand for late afternoon
slots in the CDC’s schedule has in¬
creased.
“As you can see, the center isn’t
Please see CHILD, page 6
SPRING REGISTRATION
Continuing students can now
start taking advantage of the
mail-in registration. Mail-in reg¬
istration begins Nov. 20. Mail-in
registrants are given priority over
walk-in registrants. Continuing
students can pick-up their
permits to register and a mail-in
registration information packet.
Since Spring catalogs won’t be
available in the bookstore until
Dec. 1, students wishing to register
before December can check class
schedules now posted in D200.
FORENSICS COMPETITION
The Forensics team will
compete at home this weekend
when the college hosts the Lancer
speech tournament. Forensics
teams from southern California
colleges and universities will
compete in the two-day event.
The events will include team
debate and individual events. Most
of the events of this weekend are
part of all collegiate speech
tournaments, but one is unique to
the Lancer tournament. PCC is
the only college on the debate
circuit that hosts a radio news
competition.
INFORMATION NIGHT
Tonight is College Information
Night. The event will take place
in D200 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Representatives from local uni¬
versities will be available to
provide students with information
of continuing their education.
DISNEY COMES TO PCC
"The art and History of Disney
Animation," a special behind-the-
scenes look at Disney animation
throughout the years will be
presented in R122 on Tuesday,
Nov. 14 at noon.
This audio/visual presenta¬
tion, sponsored by Walt Disney I
Pictures and Student Activities, |
will include a brief history of
Disney animation and a
discussion of the steps in the
making of this hand-drawn
American art form. A question
and answer session will follow.
Mourning the Examiner
The demise of the Herald
Examiner: what's in store for
us? Please see Page 2
INDEX
Opinion
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Features
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Sports
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Sports
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News Features
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