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Volume 96, Issue 12
" The Independent Student Voice of PCC, Sen/ing Pasadena Since 1915 :
A week dedicated
to the cardinal
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007
What's Inside
William Hallstrom
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Courier
Sports
The Promised Land:
Women's soccer team
makes its way to the
play-offs. Page 9
What's Going
Down
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Thursday, Nov. 29.
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Entertainment
Rock Out: Get involved
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Rafael Delgado
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Courier
A dummy hangs strapped into a Tyrolian traverse suspension rescue system brought to
PCC by JPL on Wednesday for a demonstration for Safety Week.
Emergency Drills Shine
Light On Safety Week
Karoline Steavenson
Staff Writer
The quad was swarming with police, nurses,
sheriffs, and the bomb squad Wednesday as
PCC’s emergency preparedness was tested for
Safety Week.
The various law enforcement representatives
practicing their responses also informed stu¬
dents of criminal justice careers and on how to
cope with emergencies.
LAPD, the Pasadena Police, and the L.A.
County Sheriff’s Department participated. The
PCC Police practiced establishing its first
Emergency Operations Center in response to
simulated disasters on campus.
Led by Lt. Brad Young, the PCC officers
and cadets dealt with two different explosion
simulations. One practice involved an accident
near the R-Building caused by a welding spark
igniting a leak from a propane tank.
In the second scenario, a bomb detonated in
Sexson Auditorium.
For such emergencies, the campus police
plan to establish an Emergency Operations
Center in a secure building, officials said.
Officers would be assigned various roles on
the EOC team in order to coordinate all the
outside officials that would respond to treat the
injured, extinguish fires, investigate the inci-
See ‘Safety’ - on Page 3
Faculty
Upset
By New
Union
Teacher Threatens Lawsuit Over
Alleged Broken Promise on Dues
Christian Daly
News Editor
A battle is brewing for PCC’s new faculty union.
The Pasadena City College Faculty Association may
face a lawsuit from one of its members if it does not change
and explain why it has kept the 1 percent union dues it
promised to lower.
Richard McKee, an instructor in the natural sciences
division, printed and distributed a memo stating he
would sue, not for money but to protect the interests of
the faculty.
"No documents were presented to the faculty as to why
'fair share' should be 1 percent instead of the promised 0.6
percent," said McKee.
"We had a new union in name only, and the old news,
the lies, became all too relevant. Imposing the 1 percent
dues was the first clear evidence," said McKee.
In a memo McKee addressed to President Paulette Per-
fumo, Richard Beyer and Suzanne Anderson,
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chairs of
the union, on Wednesday he claims the PCCFA has no
authority to deduct fees.
He contacted Perfumo for public records about the
PCCFA's certification as the faculty's collective bargaining
representative.
In the records the union only provided one document -
signed by Anderson - informing the Pasadena Area Com¬
munity College District of the union's "assumption and
implementation of its obligations as exclusive representa¬
tive of PCC's certified bargaining unit."
The district did not receive a notice from the PCCFA
to the deduct fair share fee from the pay of the non-union
faculty.
McKee put the memo that he distributed on Tuesday
together over the weekend.
"I have not read this memo, and we need time to reply
to it," said Richard Beyer, co-chairman of the faculty.
Beyer gave no further comment due to past problems he
claimed with the Courier’s repotting..
A meeting was held on Tuesday with some of the chem¬
istry instructors and seven faculty members of the union
board about issues they had raised.
See ‘Lawsuit’ - on Page 3
A general information meeting for
faculty members regarding the PCC
Faculty Association will be held today
from noon to 1 p.m. in C323.
