VOL. 61, NO. 6
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 4, 1985
AS Candidate Reprimanded; Today Final Day of Voting
By Joe Holman
Editor in Chief
AS presidential candidate Angela
Toft has been allowed to continue
campaigning in the Quad despite being
reprimanded Monday for violating
campaign rules, according to A1 Kauti,
dean of student activities.
Kauti reported that Toft violated a
rule when she attempted to campaign
at last Saturday’s football game after
being told at a mandatory candidates
meeting on Thursday, Sept. 26, that no
campaigning would be allowed at the
game. Toft also failed to have her
campaign posters stamped.
On Monday, after conferring with
Jennifer McKinney, student activities
adivisor, and meeting with Toft Kauti
said, “We took a position to restrict her
Are We Prepared?
from campaigning in the Quad.” How¬
ever, the decision was rescinded after
Toft initiated a picket line on Colorado
Boulevard and sought legal advice.
Kauti said, “There is no existing
regulation regarding that specific type
ofincident in the campaign rules or the
student handbook. What this means is
that in the future we will have to
rework the regulations,” he added.
“We feel that the candidates were
well informed about the regulations,”
said Kauti.
Toft announced Tuesday afternoon
that she would continue her campaign
as planned. “I told Dean Kauti that I
was going to go ahead and campaign
and that if he wanted to stop me I would
get a restraining order against him,”
said Toft as she taped campaign mate¬
rial on a bulletin board in the Quad.
Jim Mares, AS candidate for presi¬
dent, said, “Basically I think it’s a
shame that they don’t follow the rules
and are allowed to continue.”
Joseph Serrato, also a presidential
candidate, said, “The guidelines for
campaigning were set at the man¬
datory meeting and they prohibited
campaigning at the football game and
specified that posters must be
stamped.”
McKinney ordered all of Toft’s cam¬
paign posters to be removed on Monday
because they were not stamped by
Kauti.
“What we based our judgment on is
that everyone should have material
stamped, not for scrutiny or
censorship, but to keep a control on
Earthquake May Strike Any Moment
By Lisa Acosta
News Editor
The devastation that has just struck
Mexico City has been an inclination to
experts that California is long overdue
for a major earthquake.
If an earthquake was to take place
during school hours, would PCC be
prepared? According to the Earth¬
quake plan for PCC, the normal emer¬
gency services, such as local police and
fire departments, will be busy with
high priority areas (i.e. hospitals,
elementary schools, etc.). It could be
some time before they are able to
respond to an area such as PCC. People
on campus “will have to help them¬
selves.”
Campus Investigator, Ralph Evans
said, “We are our own government.
The earliest we could be helped out is
eight hours after the earthquake oc¬
curs.” He added, “since we have al¬
ready set up earthquake plans and we
already have earthquake facilities, the
normal civil defense organizations will
have to care for private citizens needs
first.”
Last semester an earthquake drill
took place on campus. Evans said, “It
was quite helpful. We learned a lot
from our mistakes. A slide presenta¬
tion evolved from the drill. We’d like to
be able to present it to students and
staff.”
The earthquake plan has some gen¬
eral rules to follow during and after a
quake. During a quake, do not run
outdoors, as you may be injured by
fallen debris. After the earth has stop¬
ped moving, move outside and away
from buildings and power lines. Check
for injuries to yourself and others.
Check your specific area for hazards
and select the safest place in your
immediate area. All utilities including
electricity, gas and water should be
shut off and flashlights and battery
operated radios should be made avail¬
able. The plan also suggests that
survival will probably depend on each
individuals own initiative.
“In case of an emergency, we have
to set up a first aid area and a make
shift hospital,” said Evans. “In 1971,
the 405 and 118 freeways collasped. If
that happens to our local freeways, we
would be cut off from external help.”
“Everyone should learn basic first
aid and CPR. We have CPR classes
available. All it takes is calling and
saying you're interested in a class,”
said Evans.
“If you are in a building that has no
way out, you’re just going to have to
stay there. Many buidings on campus
are quite old. The C Building for
instance was built in 1936.”
The District Safety Committee is
examining various emergency tech¬
niques for rescue from high rise build¬
ings. One method consists of a reel and
steel cable which is secured to the body
by a harness. It would enable a safe
descent from a building where stairs or
elevators have become useless.
The Disaster Preparedness Plan sug¬
gests that individuals remeber not to
panic. By remaining calm and rational,
much of the trauma related to such a
disaster, can be avoided.
expenses,” said Kauti. “In the past
candidates have violated the $50 per
candidate expenditure rule, so we are
attempting to keep that from happen¬
ing again.”
Mike Tilton, Toft’s running-mate,
said, “We didn’t know that Jennifer
was here on the day we put up our
posters, so we didn’t get a chance to
have her stamp them. Tearing them
down is an abridgement of our rights.”
In regards to campaigning at the
football game, Tilton said, “For the
past several years campaigning was
allowed at games. All summer long we
were planning to campaign there. We
did not find out that candidates would
not be allowed to campaign at the game
until the mandatory meeting. Prob¬
lems arose when we gave volunteers
fliers. We couldn’t get a hold of every¬
one to let them know about the rule. It
was a matter of miscommunication.”
“At the meeting it was established
that candidates are not only responsi¬
ble for their own actions, but also the
actions of those involved in their cam¬
paign,” said Serrato.
Today is the final day of voting in the
heated election. The polls are open in
the Quad from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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PICKET PROTEST — Angela Toft and Mike Tilton organized a
picket line to protest being restricted from campaigning in the Quad
earlier this week. — Courier photo by Bruce Dickson.
News Briefs —
Seven PCC students were
awarded scholarship checks from
the Auxiliary of Garfield Medical
Center.
The students must apply through
financial aid and are then in¬
terviewed by a committee organized
bv The Auxilary of Garfield Medical
Center. The students must show
future promise in the field of nurs¬
ing and remain in good standing
with the department.
“We appreciate this particular
scholarship very much, we have
other very good scholarships but
they usually only apply to students
at the top of the class with a 3.0
grade point average or above. This
scholarship is for the satisfactory
student as well as the over¬
achiever,” said Rosenburg, assist¬
ant to the head of the nursing de¬
partment.
The money for the scholarships is
raised by a gift shop in the Garfield
Medical Center by volunteers, this
year $4450.00 was raised for scholar¬
ships, the PCC nursing students
received $2850.00 of the total sum.
The students who received the
scholarships are: Tamara Brown,
Maria Castro, Jennifer Peery, Lupe
Castro, Pamela Joy Scott, Patrica
Senne, Khanh My Tang.
The International Club will be
collecting food goods in honor of
World Food Day Oct. 15.
Juvencio Jimenez, featured on the
front page of The Courier two weeks
ago for winning the Quick Service
Male Category at a state competi¬
tion, was at it again last weekend.
Jimenez won first place, out of 50
southern California contestants, at
San Diego and brought home $300 for
his award winning effort.
Homecoming is on its way. Ap¬
plications are available in the Cam¬
pus Center beginning Oct. 7. The
theme for this year’s Homecoming
is “Fantasy Celebration.” The
game will take place Nov. 9 at
Horrel Field when the Lancers face
El Camino in a PAC-9 contest.
Don’t forget to pick up your trash!
Governor Deukmejian signed AB
1177 by Assemblyman Tom Hayden
(D-West Los Angeles), a law which
allows community college districts
to use State construction funds for
the purpose of developing or expand¬
ing permanent child care facilities.
'Positive Anti-Pollution Push' With Campus Litter Problem Prompts Teamwork
Before
After
By Joe Holman
Editor in Chief
The most over-looked problem at
PCC is the incredible amount of litter
that accumulates daily throughout the
campus, according to Jim Menath,
director of building and maintenance
services, and Ernie Church, main¬
tenance and grounds manager.
The Courier, in cooperation with
Building and Maintenance Services, is
launching a drive to help eliminate the
litter problem at PCC.
“Our primary efforts have to turn
around from emergency repairs to
preventative maintenance,” said
Menath. He added that emergency re¬
pairs include vandalism of bathrooms,
painted services and windows. Preven¬
tive maintenance would include long
term projects such as seeding the lawn
in front of the C Building.
PCC has five full-time gardeners, but
according to Church, the gardeners
have to spend two hours daily just
picking up trash. “If we can get our
gardeners loose on projects, that will
really help improve the environment at
PCC,” Church said. “We need every¬
one to lend a hand by not littering. It
can be a contagious effort.”
Menath and Church emphasized that
they did not want a negative picture
associated with the anti-litter cam¬
paign. “We are trying to shake the
negative ‘Litter-bug’ image of the sev¬
enties,” said Church. “We want this to
be a positive thing.”
Church also stressed that the litter is
“not just from the students, but the
entire staff as well.”
Another problem that results from
the litter is pest control. “Litter con¬
tributes to the incubation and survival
of pests,” said Menath. Pigeons, ro¬
dents, ants and roaches have created a
major challenge to the maintenance
department. “Eliminating the litter
would make it easier for us to con-
trolthe situation,” Menath said.
In addition to litter, time is
“wasted” each day by watering down
food spills, hosing down stopped-up
plumbing and policing buildings.
“We have to provide a serivce to the
students. We want to be able to get to a
defective light-bulb before it is re¬
ported, but we can’t do that if we have
all our people out picking up trash,”
said Menath.
The Courier and PCC’s Building and
Maintenance Services would like to
urge all students to take part in clean¬
ing up the campus.
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New Campus
Minister Has
Mass Appeal
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By Lisa Acosta
News Editor
Supertramp, Cat Stevens or rock
music in general, are topics most
students would not likely discuss with
their priest. Yet, this is not the case
with new campus minister Father
Charles Murphy.
Murphy, a Roman Catholic Priest,
has relocated from New York, where
he served as student chaplain at the
Albany Law School in New York.
“I think we are experiencing a return
to church. I’m taking the music of your
generation and making this state¬
ment.”
When asked how he felt about possi¬
ble messages from the devil in rock
lyrics, he replied, “If I was to hear the
devil’s voice, I don’t know if I would
recognize it.”
“Though I’m not completely opposed
to the rating of rock albums. I don’t
feel it’s censorship anymore than the
networks do their share in finding
proper TV programs for family view¬
ing,” said Murphy, “I would fall back
to the old distinction of liberty and
license. I don’t think our democracy
has found that.”
Father Murphy has been quite
surprised since his arrival in Califor¬
nia, “The media has projected an
inaccurate image of California’s col¬
lege students. College students are
very deeply religious, very much at
ease with their clergy person and I’ve
found they bespeak a new kind of
respect. A respect that goes to the
person,” said Father Murphy.
Father Murphy will work with the
Council of Churches in Pasadena and
plans to meet next week with Reverend
Mary Ellen Kilsby and Reverend Dan
Ekstrand. He will share the office of
campus ministry with Reverend
Ekstrand which will be located in the
student center.
“When I came on campus, I realized
a campus minister should be available
for all students, for whatever their
faith or lack of faith.”
“We will have a Newman Club (Ro¬
man Catholic Club), as well as a bible
study. In the Newman Club, we will
discuss the serious social issues of the
day including the rights of minorities,
women in religion and the working
world and much more.”
“П1
be in attendance for sports
events as well as activities in the arts.
I want to be present for students and
supply to their needs. I hangout where
students hang out. I am here for those
who want my services and will respond
to them according to their needs.”
Father Murphy attended St.
Bernards College in Collman, Alabama
where he received his bachelor’s
degree. He received his master’s
degree in Theology from the Catholic
University of Washington D.C. and his
master’s in communication from
Loyola University of Chicago.
Father Murphy enjoys his work on
college campuses, “I find everyone to
be naturally religious. I have not yet in
my decade of work with college stu¬
dents come upon one atheist.” Refer¬
ring to interaction with students he
adds, “when you enter into an intimate
exchange, you enter not only into
surprises, but beautiful surprises.”
Father Murphy plans to organize a
Christmas mass to be held on campus
later in the semester.
Father Charles Murphy