PCC Courier, November 16, 2000

When was the first Thanksgiving? Why did the Pilgrims come to America? What was the name of the Pilgrims ship? Where did the Pilgrims land? Where is Plymouth Rock? Thanksgiving is always on what day? What do the Pilgrims wear on their hats? Why? Pasadena C i t y С О L L E Ct E the f ' ss ' у ’ ’ ШШШ$ щщш Hill Since 1915 VOL. 86 NO. 13 www.pcc-courieronline.com November 16, 2000 Lantern festival moves ahead without AS funds By Kristen Glover Entertainment Editor Only two weeks left until the highly anticipated Asian Lantern Festival is scheduled to take place, and so far the Associated Student Executive Board (AS) has not voted to provide any funding. Previous proposals to fund the Lantern Festival have been reject¬ ed by the AS board. The Asian Student Coalition, AS president Daniel Loh and other Asian groups at PCC are planning the event. Loh, appearing to disassociate himself from the festival, is let¬ ting Cliff Law, president of the Asian Student Coalition (ASC), present all proposals to the AS board. Loh and Law both said they were looking for outside funding to help sponsor the expensive affair. Neither is aware of how much they are going to receive from outside sponsors, yet they pro¬ posed a budget to the AS to foot most of the bill. “We just asked for the most money we thought the AS would give us,” said Law. The $3,000 request was reduced from an initial amount of $25,000. Even though the festival hasn’t been approved, a full color flyer publicizing the event has been distributed on campus. It lists Loh as a backer, but there is no mention of the AS sponsoring the event. At its Nov. 8 meeting, the AS board tabled the festival proposal until the Nov. 15 meeting, after concerns were raised by AS board members. However, yesterday the meeting was cancelled because the board violated the Brown Act by not posting its agenda 24 hours in advance. So the festival still has no funding. Sophia Corleone, chief justice, said the festival should be renamed the “Asian Food Festival,” after learning theat the original proposal asked upwards of $3,000 for food alone. She advised they look to outside restaurants to donate food. However, Gorge Magdaleno, vice president of internal affairs, LANTERN, page 4 Matt Robinson/The Courier “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno laughes with PCC student Aaron Taylor as he questions him about Thanksgiving Day history at the Mirror Pool. ‘Jaywalking’ on campus By Derek Blackway ‘Tonight Show ’ host Jay Leno films students for a comedy segment at the Mirror Pools Take the leno test Periodically, Jay Leno heads to Southland locales to ask people com¬ mon knowledge questions. The responses range from the slightly amusing to laughably absurd. To see how you d stack up if Jay shoved a microphone in your face, answer these questions he asked students here on campus. Live from Pasadena, it’s. ..Jay Leno!” In a surprise visit to PCC, Jay Leno appeared on campus yesterday, tap¬ ing his “JAYWALK” segment for the Tonight Show. During that segment, Leno walks, with microphone in hand and cameras rolling, through the city streets of Southern California, randomly quizzing pedestrians about basic history or current events. “It was a good time here,” Leno said about PCC. “We have been to many colleges around Southern California includ¬ ing USC, UCLA and some other two-year schools. The number of correct and wrong answers has been just about the same every¬ where.” Beginning at 9 a.m. Leno and his team casually walked onto PCC’s campus with the camera ready to film and began randomly selecting students for a light-hearted quiz about the his¬ tory of Thanksgiving. Cell Sangco, the first student chosen, was caught off guard as Leno quickly looked at him, pointed and then motioned and asked him to approach. “1 was nervous,” Sangco said. “He just pointed at me and called me out. The questions were kinda tough. I was not really prepared.” The buzz around town is that Leno only asks people who do not look like they would be able to answer the questions. He has also been criticized for only airing those who get the questions wrong and only taping this part of the show in Hollywood or on Melrose. Well, JAYWALKING, page 4 Matt Robinsonl / The Courier DATE: DECEMBER 1ST 2000 TIME: 8:00 PM TO II :OOPM LOCATION: QUAO OF PA8A0CN A CITY COLLEGE 1 5706, COLORADO DLVO. PASAOCNA.CA91 106 2003 COMI AND JOIN IS I HI IISIIVIIIIGAGWI ИНЫМ YOUWIIH I IVI » NO HIAiNMI N1 I «ОМ Л1 I AMAN CUI IURIS INCI UIIING A M'l Cl At Al'CI AliASC.t BV .lAMtIOl Hi COMBING AMI IS, IS ■ At BRINK AND IXPlRH NCf III! VARIOUS A MAMIICtPAll IN llll MANVACIIVITII SOP( N tOII IOJOIN. 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Melekian was the featured guest at an intense, two-hour long Town Hall meeting Tuesday night, hosted by sociology instructor Dr. Milton Brown. The Campus Center Lounge was filled with a mixed crowd of approximately 150 students and non-students. An out-of-uniform Melekian candidly answered questions about the safety of the citizens of Pasadena and the unfair treatment of citi¬ zens by police officers. Brown, who is no stranger to police unfairness, began the meet¬ ing raising issues and asking questions regarding police brutality and unequal treatment to minority citizens by the city’s police force. Then he opened the floor to questions. “I can’t trust cops because cops have the freedom to mistakenly fire their guns at will on any one of my kids and take them away from me, and there is nothing I can do to stop it, said Brown. One African American student complained to Melekian saying that he gets hassled by cops even though he has never committed a crime and is the president of a dub on PCC. He went on to say that his time is valuable and the cops waste almost an hour of his time hassling him for nothing. “You should never have to fear the police, “Melekian told every¬ one at the meeting, “If you feel like you get jerked around (by PPD), you have an obligation to complain.” He told the students that required more in-depth answers to their questions to talk to him after the meeting. He also said that he returns phone calls, “believe it or not. It’s not my police department, it’s your police depart- FORUM, page 5, Student DJs want to get back on air By Steve Shenefield Courier Correspondent Quietly tucked away in room 139 on the first floor of the “C” Building lies a dormant training ground for student radio broadcasters called Pasadena Free Radio. The voice of Pasadena Free Radio, which was first heard campus-wide in 1998 on the frequency 88.9 FM, has been silenced since the end of the spring semester 2000. More than $50,000 worth of audio equipment is currently collecting dust as once hopeful broadcasting students had to put their educational plans on hold this semester. The reason that Pasadena Free Radio has been (and please par¬ don the much-over-used expres¬ sion) “unplugged” is the campus radio station/lab room was to be used in conjunction with the Telcom 14B class, Advanced Radio Production, which was cancelled this fall. “Basically we just didn’t have enough students signing up for the class, and the previous instructor wasn’t able to teach it,” explained Dr. Michael Bloebaum, dean of the communication division. Hopefully, the Spring 2001 semester will look a little brighter for the future broadcasters because a new instructor, Mark Morris, a one-time production manager and on-air personality at KCMG (formerly known as Mega 100 FM), has been hired to teach the 14B class. “I wanted to bring in a professional, real-world instructor to give students on-air production work,” said Bloebaum. Morris is also venturing into Internet radio, and there is a distinct RADIO, page 4 Editor’s note: This is the first in at i oa asionul set ks looking at the students role at the two campus radio start, ms. К PCC 89. 3 EM ami Pasadena Free Radio 88.9 FM.