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VOL. 69 NO. 2
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 5, 1989
College Clean Air Plan Approved
Marheine Found Guilty
Gets 50-day
Jail Sentence
And Probation
Margie Goodhart
Arts Editor
Roger Marheine, assistant pro¬
fessor of English, was convicted
on two misdemeanor counts, fail¬
ure to disperse and battery. He was
sentenced to two years summary
probation and a 50-day jail sen¬
tence, which he will serve on week¬
ends.
Judge Charles E. Horan of Glen¬
dale Municipal Court, Division 5,
sentenced Marheine Tuesday on
charges stemming from a demon¬
stration in November 1987 at the
Glendale Holiday Inn where J.B.
Stoner, convicted terrorist and white
supremist leader, was speaking.
Stoner’s speech was sponsored
by the Crusade Against Corrup¬
tion, commonly known as the
Ku Klux Klan, and representa¬
tives of 25 “radical” groups--in-
cluding the American Nazi Party,
PACE Amendment Advocates,
Sovereign Order of Aryan Christ
and Skinheads, according to the
police report.
Present in front of the court¬
house and in the courtroom were
approximately 30 members of the
International Committee Against
Racism (InCAR) from PCC, UCLA,
Cal State L.A. and Los Angeles
CountyMJSC Medical Center to
protest racism in the Glendale
Police Department and Glendale
Municiple Courts, said JodiGrippo,
PCC student and InCAR member.
The police report further states
Richard Ivler I The Courier
"STOP RACISM!" -A member of InCAR and a nurse
from the L.A. County/USC Medical Center rally outside the
Glendale Municipal Court, Division 5, before the conviction
of PCC English Professor Roger Marheine.
that taunts were exchanged be¬
tween the Skinheads and the dem¬
onstrators as the Skinheads exited
the hotel. Violence broke out when
one of the suspects allegedly threw
a soda can, striking one of the Skin¬
heads, and the fight escalated from
there. Marheine was originally
charged with six counts, inducing
unlawful assembly, participating in
a riot, disturbing the peace, use of
force and violence, remaining
after warning to disperse, ob¬
structing public officers, and
battery. After a lengthy plea bar¬
gaining session, Marheine pled
guilty to two counts.
Before Horan passed sentence,
Marheine’s attorney, Hugh Manes,
said he felt jail time was inappro¬
priate because the battery inci-
Please see MARHEINE, page 6
Theater Organ Finds Its Home
Michael Rocha and Maha Karam
News Editor and Staff Writer
Today it sits quietly under the
spotlights of the Sexson Auditorium
stage.
But nine days from now, the fin¬
gers of featured musician Lyn Larsen
will tickle its keys to produce music
never before heard in the PCC audi¬
torium. The harmonious notes to
come out of it will be sweet music to
everyone’s ears.
The “it” is the $750,000 Wurlitzer
Theater Pipe Organ that arrived last
week.
Named after Pasadena electrical
engineer J. Ross Reed, the pipe or¬
gan will make its PCC musical debut
on Oct. 14 at 8 p.m.
After its long awaited and his¬
toric trip from a warehouse in La
Mirada to its permanent home be¬
neath the stage spotlights at Sexson,
the faces of the men and women who
worked hard to install it said it all.
They didn’t have to say a single
word. Their smiles and grins were
gleefully shouting: “Yeah! We did
it!”
They did it alright. Although it
took them the better part of three
years to permanently install this dream
machine of sorts, it was all worth it.
After all, they just installed an or¬
gan. Well, it isn’t just any organ; it
is a theater pipe organ.
A theater pipe organ accompa¬
nied the wit and ingenuity of Charlie
Chaplin’s movies. Its tabs control
the 1,500 wood, brass, lead and tin
Please see WURLITZER, page 6
Tim Frank
Staff Writer
The Air Quality Management
District (AQMD) has approved PCC’s
plan to reduce traffic coming to
campus. The plan is PCC’s contri¬
bution to clean air in the San Gabriel
Valley.
All businesses employing more
than one hundred people must adopt
a plan to cut their employees com¬
muting mileage. It may encourage
employees to ride share, or to use
public transportation, or even to ride
a bike, said Jeanie Kelley, AQMD
spokeswoman.
The AQMD will approve any
plan it thinks will work, said Kelley.
So far, only 60 percent of the plans
submitted have passed muster.
PCC submitted its plan May 18.
The original deadline had been ear¬
lier, but the AQMD granted PCC an
extension. According to Kelley said,
the AQMD will not fine anyone who
has made a good effort to comply, as
had PCC.
The goal of PCC’s plan is to
reduce the number of cars used by
commuting employees to two cars
for every three employees. In the
language of the AQMD that is an
average vehicle ridership, AVR, of
1.5.
Average vehicle ridership is a
slightly inaccurate title for the sta¬
tistic because it implies that only
commuters using a vehicle, whether
a bus or a car, are counted. In fact the
AQMD’s AVR accounts for bicycle
and pedestrian commuters by count¬
ing them as passengers.
The AQMD’s regulations are
designed to reduce pollution, but
that is not their only result. “The
regulations make sense to us be-
Please see AQMD, page 6
Mentor Program Seeks To
Help Part-timers Adjust
Jay Lebsch
Staff Writer
A new program designed to help
new part-time faculty members has
started this semester.
Dr. David Ledbetter, Asst. Super¬
intendent of Educational Services,
said the Mentor Program will help
new part-time faculty adjust to col¬
lege procedures.
According to Ledbetter, the pur¬
pose of the program, initiated this
semester, is to match part-timers with
experienced, full-time “mentors,”
giving new instructors the opportu¬
nity to easily assimilate procedures,
information, budgeting processes, and
other “pragmatic things,” Ledbetter
said.
The program also allows for
coordination of curriculum within
disciplines, letting experienced staff
help newcomers in their understand¬
ing of college instructional goals.
Mentors are chosen by depart¬
ment chairs, based on experience on
campus.Not all full-time instructors
are mentors. That is one reason
some instructors mentor up to four
new teachers.
Some departments, Ledbetter
said, know the program works. “A
couple departments have done it
successfully; that’s why we’re ex¬
panding it to the whole faculty.”
The Art department has been
especially successful using full-time
staff to mentor new, part-time in¬
structors. Linda Malm, department
chair, initiated her program two years
ago. ‘ ‘We found it to be very versa¬
tile. When I ask if an instructor
wants to mentor, the answer is al¬
ways ‘yes.’”
‘ ‘Our goal is [to form] a spirit of
formative evaluation versus summa-
tive [evaluation].” The difference,
Malm said, is between an attitude
encouraging instructors during the
semester, and one ignoring possible
problems until departmental evalu¬
ations at the end of the semester.
Please see MENTOR, page 6
College To Receive Share of
$84 Million In Excess Money
Gjames Dyce
Special Correspondent
PCC, along with the other Cali¬
fornia community colleges that make
up the newly designed higher educa¬
tional system under AB 1725, will
receive $84 million as its portion of
the excess wind fall tax money left
over in the 1989 budget.
Previously, all money in excess
of the Gann spending limit left over
at the end of the fiscal year was
returned to the taxpayers under the
Gann amendment.
This was the case in 1987, when
Gov. George Deukmejian refused to
sign the state legislature’s spending
plan for that year’s excess tax money
on the grounds that it violated the
Gann amendment. The court subse¬
quently ruled in favor of Deukmejian’s
interpretation.
This year, however, under Propo¬
sition 98, the excess moneys could
be dispersed to California’s educa¬
tional institutions.
This led to eleventh hour nego¬
tiations between State School Chief
Bill Honig and state legislators over
the dispersing of the $2.5 billion of
windfall tax money left at the end of
the fiscal year.
Seventy million dollars of the
$84 million appropriated by the
legislature in bill AB 198 and signed
by Deukmejian on June 30 is ear¬
marked for law AB 1725 in the re¬
structuring of the California com¬
munity colleges.
The purposed is he implementa¬
tion of AB 1725 which has already
started. It will change the structure
of California community colleges
elevating them to a peer status with
the Universities of California and
the California State Universities. The
other $14 million is to be used for
matriculation.
Carol Richards, financial coor¬
dinator of the community college’s
Chancellor office, said that while
the final figures have yet to come
down, PCC’s share of the $70 mil¬
lion, within 5 percent, would be $1 .956
million.
From the $14 million also in¬
cluded in AB 198, PCC will receive
approximately $600,000 for matricu¬
lation money. Ernestine Moore, dean
of student services, said “This money
will allow us to fully fund student
services support for the first time in
a number of years.”
PCC will also receive close to $1
million from SB 98.
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ASSEMBLYMAN VISITS
Assembly speaker Willie L.
Brown, Jr., the most powerful
man in the California Assembly,
will speak at PCC about the role
of community colleges in
California’s higher education
system.
The event will take place in
the PCC Forum at 1:30 p.m. on
Oct. 13. The lecture is free and
open to the public.
BLOOD DRIVE
By donating one pint of blood
in this fall’s PCC/Red Cross Blood
Drive, you can help save four
lives.
The Blood Drive will be held
on Oct. 1 1 and 12 in Harbeson
Hall from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Interested donors may sign up
in CC203.
ENGLAND IN THE SPRING
Don’t miss an opportunity to
study in Oxford for a semester.
Applications for Oxford 1990 are
now available in C201. The
semester in England offers 13 to
18 transferable units in English,
History and Humanities. Don’t
miss the Oct. 16 deadline. For
more information, contact (818)
578-7203.
ASIANS IN AMERICA
The “Asian Pacific Americans:
Six Generations in California”
lecture series continues Oct. 10
with “Pilipino Americans: From
Colony to Immigrants to Citi¬
zens,” a lecture by Dr. Roy Mo¬
rales.
Morales will speak in the PCC
Forum at 7:30 p.m. The lecture is
free and open to public. More in¬
formation can be obtained from
Joanne Kim at (818) 578-7221.
JAZZ CONCERT
Kirk Whalum, Abraham
Laboriel, Bobby Lyle and other
jazz/rock hot shots will play in a
benefit concert for the Boys
Club of Pasadena and PCC’s
Music department.
Also featured is Diane
Reeves, Gerald Albright and
George Howard.
The concert will be held at 8
p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8. Infor¬
mation and tickets are available
at the PCC Music department,
(818) 578-7208, or at the
Mackenzie Scott branch of the
Boys Club, (818) 798-3925.
Inside In
Foreign Visitors
Japanese dental students
visit PCC's Dental Assisting
laboratories.
Please see Page 4
INDEX
Opinion _ 2
Features _ 3
Arts & Entertainment 4
Sports _ 5
News Features 6
