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STATE GOVERNMENT BEAT
Offenders
Prohibited
Gov. signs legislation
prohibiting schools from
hiring those with sex record
By CHRY5T0PHGR SAHGAL
Special Correspondent
Gov. Pete Wilson signed into law new leg¬
islation on Monday that makes misdemeanor
sex offenders ineligible to work in private, as
well as public schools.
This new law was inspired in part by the
case of John Gottuso, a minister who legally
continued to operate a private Christian school
in Altadena, despite a record of sexual mis¬
conduct. Gottuso was never convicted of a
felony sex crime, and was therefore not
required to register as a sex offender. That
enabled him to operate and teach in a private
school.
Had this legislation been in place during the
time of Gottuso, he would have been removed
from the classroom after being convicted of
sexual misconduct.
The list of crimes covered in the new legis¬
lation includes sexual battery, lewd and dis¬
solute conduct in public, child molestation,
and indecent exposure.
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Campus News
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New Supreme Council Appointees:
Berish.a. Black
Sophia Corleone
Gabriel Garcia
William Jones
Patricia Tovar
IVTelvin Vega
Week Without Hunger Kicks Off
on the last Week ot October
The second annual Week
Without Hunger will continue its
campaign to feed the poor from
Oct. 26 to the 30th.
Activities will range from swing
dancing to the return of last
year’s Comedy Night. All of these
events are designed to raise
canned goods.
NEW CAMPUS ORGANIZATION
Gay and Lesbian
Faculty Group
Seeks to Inform
College’s public relations director serves as
first president of groundbreaking group
By FRED ORTEGA
Staff Writer
Gay and lesbian faculty and staff at PCC have found a voice of
their own in the Gay and Lesbian Staff Organization. GaLSO is one
of only two organizations of its kind among California’s communi¬
ty colleges, and the first in Southern California. A similar group has
also been established at San Francisco City College.
Boasting 20 active members, GaLSO will primarily concern
itself with providing financial and moral support to the campus’ gay
and lesbian population, according to Mark Wallace, campus public
relations director and GaLSO president.
“We’d been kind of an informal social group for many years. It
wasn’t until January of this year that we decided to formalize the
group,” Wallace said, stating that the group’s formation was a result
of gay and lesbian students’ concerns over the atmosphere at the col-
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INVESTIGATION: PART 2 OF 2
Solving
Diversity
Problems
Some members of the campus community feel that
faculty staffing should reflect ethnic demographic
breakdown of student body
By LUIS €. REYES
Staff Writer
A controversy raised by
California lawmakers’ approving
October as European-American
Heritage Month at the same time the
nation is celebrating Filipino
Heritage Month, has caused diversi¬
ty to come under scrutiny statewide.
Whether it is deciding which her¬
itage classes will be featured or how
many minorities should be
employed, diversity is also a hot
topic at the college.
Some believe that neither the
faculty nor the curricula are as var¬
ied as they should be in order to rep¬
resent the campus demographics.
“As an institution, we need to be
more aggressive in our hiring,” said
Carrie Afuso, cross cultural center
coordinator. We need more minority
staff members on the campus.
Of the 588 teachers, 266 are
Caucasians, 37 are Asian, 36 are
Latino, and the remaining 49
include various races. It should be
noted that, percentage wise, 43.5 of
the 28,000 students are Asian and
Pacific Islanders, 35.6 are Latino,
20.7 are Caucasian.
The college does its best to fill
vacancies with minorities, accord¬
ing to the Human Resources Office.
“The whole idea is to be as fair as
humanly possible,” said an anony¬
mous source from the office.
“I’ve been on a lot of hiring com¬
mittees. We always try to introduce
as many minorities as possible,”
said English professor Lee
Reinharsten. “Often times if the
pool that we select is not diverse
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Departments that
stress ethnic studies
History:
General
Ethnic
English:
General 2 3
Ethnic 4
Psychology &
Sociology
General 1 3
Ethnic 6
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enough, we are asked by personnel
to try again.”
In addition to a more diverse
staff, some faculty believe addition¬
al classes are the answer.
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ELECTION '98
Local Assembly Seat
Election Gets Heated
Former college president takes on political newcomer in race
Ken LaCorte
Dr. Jack Scott
By ERICK RUIZ
Staff Writer
The heated race for the 44th State Assembly
seat is an extremely close race in what is consid¬
ered a swing district. Its outcome will directly
affect college students throughout the state.
Republican Ken LaCorte and Democrat Dr.
Jack Scott, the incumbent, are involved in one of
the closest races in this election. They have
totally different views on how this district should
be led into the next century.
The two candidates come from very different
backgrounds. LaCorte brings a business back¬
ground and experience in national politics. Scott
has been a part of higher education for 36 years.
LaCorte, who got his MPS at State University
of New York, is the vice president of Healthline
Medical, a manufacturing company that special¬
izes in aerosol-based drug delivery systems.
Before that, he was vice president of Ailes
Communication where he worked for the White
House Fellowship Program, Covenant House
and Twentieth Century Fox, as well as dozens of
Republican candidates nationwide.
Scott, who got his doctorate from Claremont
Graduate School, was Pasadena City College’s
president from 1987 to 1995. His $100 million
master plan is still changing the face of the cam¬
pus. Before that, he was the president at Cypress
College, a dean at Orange Coast College, and a
professor at Pepperdine University, where he
continues to teach as legislative duties permit.
Their glaring differences surface as they take
their positions on the issues. Education provides
ELECTION, page 4
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