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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
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“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,
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Fliers like the one above are being circulated that announce the lantern festival.
Police chief
talks at town
hall meeting
Bernard Melekian answers student
concerns about police brutality
By Derek Blackway
Calendar Editor
Pasadena City Chief of Police Bernard Melekian invited PCC stu¬
dents to ask him any questions or voice any concerns that they had
regarding the police, and they did.
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
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