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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 73 No. 1
COURIER
Thursday
October 3, 1991
Sizzling weather puts the heat on Fall
Gary McCarthy/The COURIER
Record breaking temperatures bring back summer days
For the past week temperatures have reached the highest since 1906. PCC
felt the effects after thermometers hit three digit readings. On Tuesday,
Pasadena registered a temeperature of 104 and on Wednesday 105.
Students could be seen soaking their in the mirror pools and making use
of every bit of shade on the campus. Ice cream, sodas, and ice water were
big sellers in the cafeteria. The weather bureau is not offering much hope
that temperatures will drop soon. So stay cool!
Katrina Ten /The COURIER
Carlo Bacor/The COURIER
Campus ranked
among the safest
BY EDWIN FOLVEN
News Features Editor
Despite a record number of
people visiting the campus every¬
day, published federal crime reports
cite PCC as having lower crime
statistics than other colleges and
cities of similar size and demo¬
graphics.
The Uniform Crime Reports
(UCR), published Aug. 11, 1991,
are the result of a federal law
enacted in 1990 requiring all law
enforcement agencies to report
general crime statistics. The re¬
ports list crimes reported to police
in 1990. PCC has been reporting
crime statistics since 1988 said
Philip Mullendore, director of campus
police and safety.
The UCR determines crime rates
by calculating the number of crimes
reported divided by the population
of each department’s jurisdicton.
This makes comparison of large
and small areas possible by deter¬
mining a crime rate per 100,000
people. They also specifically list
each crime by category.
The report lists PCC as having
only two violent crime, one robbery,
the other an aggravated assault.
Violent crime is up statistically
everywhere in 1991. The robbery,
two aggravated assaults on the first
day of the fall semester and the
damage caused to the campus center
building reflect how PCC has been
impacted by the rising crime rate.
Violent crime on campus is very
rare, however, and is considerably
less common than at other area cam¬
puses.
The UCR reports California State
University at Los Angeles had a
population of 17,960 with 10 inci¬
dents of violent crime. Santa Rosa
Junior College, located in a nice
community north of San Francisco,
has a population almost the same as
PCC with six reported violent crimes.
Although property crime reports
rose in 1990 from the previous year,
the campus is considerably lower
statistically than other colleges and
universities. PCC had 226 reported
property crimes as compared to 269
at Santa Rosa Junior College and
559 at California State University at
Los Angeles.
Campuses are also reportedly
much safer than the cities surround¬
ing them. “You are 10 times more
likely to be assaulted in Pasadena
than on campus,” said Mullendore.
The city of Pasadena has acrime rate
of 668 aggravated assaults per 100,000
people compared to PCC’s 1.7 per
100,000, said Mullendore.
Most crimes occur in the parking
lots. “With such a large number of
people on campus it’s hard for a
thief to do something and not be
noticed exept in the parking lots.
Criminals know this and they tend to
stay away,” said Mullendore.
The campus police will continue
to concentrate on keeping the cam¬
pus crime rate low, ensuring the
safety of the community and its
members, Mullendore said.
Women in the Middle
East is topic of forum
By AMOR PADILLA
Editor in Chief
The roles of women in Middle
Eastern society are as diverse as the
cultures comprising it.
Dr. Eliz Sanasarian lifted the veil
and cleared misconceptions on the
conditions of Middle Eastern women
during last Monday’s Social Sci¬
ence Forum.
Sanisarian, professor of Middle
Eastern studies at USC argues that
the reason why the condition of
Middle Eastern women is general¬
ized has to do with the misuse of the
term “Middle East” “Many students,
and the American population in gen¬
eral, have thought of the Middle
East as one unit and they also as¬
sume that the condition of the women
Please see Diversity, page 5
Winning the war on air pollution is a SNAPP
By PATRICIA DOLPHIN
Staff Writer
The South Coast Air Quality Manage¬
ment District is predicting more than 60
percent reduction in smog over a 10 year
period if everyone does his part in helping
to eliminate air pollution.
To help battle the air pollution and traffic
problems, Pasadena City
College has developed
a ride sharing program
which has been in effect
for three years. Also the
college has recently de¬
veloped the SNAPP
program, Stop Neglect¬
ing Air Pollution Prob¬
lems. This program is
the college’s way of
doing its part.
The South Coast Air
Quality Management
District, (SCAQMD),
is the regulatory agency formed to achieve
and maintain healthful air quality through
a program of regulation, research and com¬
munication throughout the L.A. Basin and
other areas.
SCAQMD oversees the implementation
of Regulation XV. Which pertains to
cleaning the air by mandating an employer
to create incentives for employees to utilize
alternate means of transportation in com¬
muting to and from work. In the Pasadena
area, we must establish an Average Vehicle
Ridership (AVR) of 1.5. This equates to
three riders every two cars that come to
work.
The goal of
Regulation XV is
to reduce air pol¬
lution by reducing
the number of
commute trips be¬
tween home and
work during the
peak traffic pe¬
riod of 6 a.m. to
10 a.m. These four
hours are the most
important to air
quality because the
pollutants emitted during this period are the
culprits that react with sunlight and lead to
high ozone concentrations later in the day.
Regulation XV is mandatory for businesses
of 100 or more employees.
Vince Palermo, employee transportation
coordinator of the ridesharing program and
developer of SNAPP said,” Wliat we’re trying
to do is get a program that becomes synony¬
mous with the entire work populous on our
campus, where we want this to be upper
most in their minds. We’ll have brochures,
literature, posters which will give informa¬
tion about the SNAPP program. We want
people to ‘ think SNAPP. ’ One of our slogans
is, ‘It’s a SNAPP to rideshare. ’ We want this
to stick in people’s minds. I’d like to see
the program really take off,” he said.
One program involved in SNAPP is: A
carpooling program , in
which faculty members
ride to work with two
or more in a vehicle and receive preferential
parking and a carpool voucher between 6
a.m.and -10a.m.; If a carpooler obtains 65
vouchers they can be turned in for a free
parking permit for the next semester.
A carpooling program is in effect for
faculty members now, with lot 8, east of the
C building being the preferential parking
lot. Teachers who don’t carpool often ques¬
tion why they can ’ t park in the empty slots if
they’re not being used. ’If the parking spaces
‘We’ll have brochures, litera¬
ture, posters which will give
information about the SNAPP
program, we want people to
‘think SNAPP’, one of our slo¬
gans is, ‘It’s a SNAPP to ride-
share.’
Sgt. Vince Palermo
Developer of SNAPP
in the carpooling area are not used for car¬
pooling, they’re used for no one.” Palermo
said,” When the program expands to stu¬
dents, we’ll do the same thing for them. We
may block off lot fourand make it nothing
but carpool. There might be 500 spaces that
aren’t filled and some students may have a
fit, but we have to force them into rideshar¬
ing somehow,” he added.
Another program in SNAPP is the Van-
pool program. A vanpool is a group of seven
to fifteen people who commute together on
a regular basis in a van.
One person normally
drives the van and is
responsible for mainte¬
nance, while the otherriders share gas, main¬
tenance, and insurance expenses. Some van-
pools are company sponsored, with the
employer subsidizing some of the costs of
the vanpool. Some incentives of vanpooling
include a permanent preferential parking
space on campus for a PCC vanpooler, also
active registered vanpoolers are eligible for
all the prizes at the end of the semester.
A third program available in the SNAPP
program is a bicycle program in which bicy¬
clists, using their own bikes to commute to
work will receive a voucher at the end of the
semester for a tuneup and maintenance at a
local cyclist shop. Persons wishing to bi¬
cycle to work, but do not have a bike can use
a PCC loaner bike on a first come first serve
basis.
The alternate travel program in S N APP is
devised for all employees utilizing an al¬
ternate means of commute other than car¬
pooling, vanpooling or bicycling, such as
walking, skating, wheelchairing or any other
inventive means of coming to work. At the
end of a qualifying semester, commuters
shall be issued a voucher for $50 for the pur¬
chase of shoes at a local store.
The transit pass program is in effect now
for faculty as well as all PCC students. A
monthly bus pass normally costs $42. Under
the corporate pass pro¬
gram, the college will
sell the pass to an em¬
ployee for $20 which is
a savings of $22 per
month.
PCC has also initiated a ridesharing match
list computer program. The program con¬
tains the names and designated telephone
numbers of anyone within the Pasadena
Please see Computer, page 5
