EDITORIAL
| FEATURES
1 SPORTS
Textbooks
Are textbooks really necessary, or
are they just a formality. Page 2
Professor is a fitness buff
Ellen Shockro has a competive side to her quite apart from
the classroom. Page 3
Defeat
Football team loses to Rancho
Santiago 21-24. Page 4
Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 72 No. 8
COURIER
Thursday
October 18, 1990
PCC to host
MEChA conference
NEWSLINE
Oxford deadline extended
Due to the low turn out of
applicants, the deadline for the
1991 Oxford Semester Program
has been extended to Monday,
Oct. 29. Applications must be
in C209 by 4:30 p.m.
The program is “a marvel¬
ous and invaluable experience
for students,” said Patricia Sa¬
voie, program organizer. She’s
encouraging students to apply
for financial aid, adding that
even those who normally aren’t
eligible for aid may qualify.
The Spring semester abroad
begin Feb. 7 and ends May 30,
1991. A brochure with com¬
plete information is available
in C209. For more informa¬
tion, please call (818) 578-7424.
A Speller’s Heaven
Attention all spellers, here’s
another chance to test your wits
with fellow word-lovers. The
1990 Annual Corporate Spell¬
ing Bee is being held on Tues¬
day , Oct. 23 at 7 p .m . in Harbe-
son Hall. Already included in
the list of participants are the
Pasadena Star-News and the
Pasadena Literacy Action Net¬
work (PLAN). Each group must
be comprised of three people.
For further information, please
call (818) 578-7203 or (818)
578-6536.
Forensics update
PCC’s speech and forensics
team continues to build a
formidible reputation on the
California Circuit. At a tour¬
nament on Oct. 14 and 15 at
Cal Poly Pomona, Pamela
Wilson placed first in Novice
Persuasion, and PCC’s top nov¬
ice Cross Examination Debate
Association (Ceda) team, Craig
Hakola and Marco Couch,
placed second against 27
schools. Paul Stuart finished
in the top six National Debate
Topic Lincoln Douglas com¬
petitors.
In the individual events,
Vince Bohanec placed fourth
in Junior Extemporaneous
speech, and Dan Cory placed
fifth in Novice Impromtu. The
top Junior Ceda debate team,
Woodsmall and Bohanec,
reached the quarter-finals, but
suffered their first defeat this
year.
The week before, on the week¬
end of Oct. 6 and 7, Woods¬
mall and Bohanec competed at
Fresno State University against
27 teams including Cornell,
Pepperdine, and UCLA. The
competition, according to
Nancy Perry, Assistant Direc¬
tor of Forensics at PCC, was
particularly tough. “When we
realized the caliber of the teams
we were facing,” said Bohanec,
“it was a little intimidating.”
But the team swept the Junior
division, becoming the team to
beat on the California circuit
INDEX
Opinion
2
Editorial
2
Features
3
Sports
4
By AMOR PADILLA
News Features Editor
T
о
honor the memory of journal¬
ist Ruben Salazar, killed 20 years
ago, the “Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan”, better known
as MEChA, will celebrate its 21st.
bi-annual statewide conference on
Oct. 19 and 20.
For the first time, PCC will host
this conference which expects to
attract more than 600 participants
from all over the state. According to
Reina Prado, co-chair of the confer¬
ence, the entertainment and organi¬
zation of the workshops are a com¬
bined effort among several college
and high school MEChA groups from
around the state. Topics involving
the Hispanic community and the
problems it faces will be addressed
in this two-day conference. Issues
like "Where is the LAUSD,” "Over¬
view of California politics," "Insti¬
tutional Racism," "Sexism within
the Latino Community," and "Af¬
firmative Action" will be discussed
by panels in workshops on Saturday,
Oct. 20.
"Overall, the message is unity.
We want people to see that we need
to work together to accomplish our
goals,” Prado said. She wants the
conferenceto show that MEChA
does live up to its motto “La
union hace la fuerza,” (unity makes
power.)
To open the two-day conference,
L.A. Valley College has organized
and booked several performers that
will highlight festivities in Harbe-
son Hall on cultural night, Friday
Oct. 19. The groups America Mes-
tiza. The Aliens, the Roosevelt High
School Mariachi, and the theatrical
group of Latins Anonymous will
perform beginning at 7:30 p.m. The
Ballet Folklorico from Pasadena
Community Skills Center will per¬
form on Saturday.
Speakers from all over the state
will be featured at Saturday’s work¬
shops. Special guest Raul Ruiz, a
photojoumalist and one of Salazar’s
friends, will open the morning ses¬
sion with a message honoring Salazar.
Salazar was killed during a mora¬
torium held in Los Angeles to pro¬
test, among other injustices commit¬
ted against minorities, the high casu¬
alty rate among marines with his-
panic backround in Vietnam.
“It’s important to remember what
happened 20 years ago, because some
injustices are still happening. Some
of us were just being bom at the time
of Salazar’s death, but his strength
and sense of justice is still alive.”
Prado said.
Other keynote speakers include
Sal Castro, a role model to many for
his continual fight against Hispanic
school drop-out rates, and Richard
Amador, from the Mexican Ameri¬
can Legal Defense Education Fund.
“The important thing is that
people realize that the conference is
not just for chicanos. The confer¬
ence is for everyone concerned with
minority situations and rights.” Prado
said.
Saturday’s opening session will
take place in the student dining room
in the campus center, where partici¬
pants must register. The cost is $7
for general admission, including
college students and $5 for high school
students.
The registration fee includes the
workshops, lunch and entertainment
during the lunch break. The cost for
attending Cultural Night only is $5
which must be paid at the door of
Harbeson Hall.
Homecoming winners
Carl Scayan
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The COURIER
Homecoming court members Maggie Tracey, Leandrena Jackson, Claudia Leyva, and Jerry Dorris
pose at the mirror pools. Not shown are Lisa Rivers, Kym Vallejos, and Paulette Crawford. Dorris will
be the Homecoming king, the queen will be announced at today's noon pep rally in the Quad.
Radio station opens
fund-raising drive
By ROSEANN RENZULLO
Staff Writer
KPCC FM 89.3 hopes to raise an
unprecedented $175,000 during its
fall fund-raiser which will begin
Nov. 1 and last through Nov. 11.
KPCC raised $157,759 at last year’s
fall fund-raiser and with the release
of last week’s high ratings KPCC’s
staff is hoping that the new goal can
be reached.
KPCC’s total audience has
reached an all time high of 223,000
listeners, according to Arbitron’s
Rating Figures Service. This is an
increase of more than 50,000 listen¬
ers from the previous ratings period
three months ago, that figure marks
the first time KPCC has crossed over
the 200,000 mark for weekly audi¬
ence.
KPCC offers its listeners local
and world news, traffic, weather,
NPR features, classical American
music, ethnic programs, Larry
Mantle’s Airtalk, and atthe same
time offers PCC’s advanced tele¬
communication students extensive
broadcasting experience.
“The radio station was origi¬
nally created as a laboratory for
engineering students to learn how to
transmit, operate and learn theories
of radio frequencies. Since then, the
communications department has
tapped into the radio station and
students began using it,” said Larry
Mantel, KPCC’s program/news di¬
rector.
“It’s amazing that we have a
station that reaches the number of
listeners that we do, works within
the budget we have and can still
train so many students. It’s is a real
unique situation and there isn’t
anything like it anywhere in the
country,” said Mantle.
For example, KUSC and KCRW
which is run out of Santa Monica
college operate without any student
participation.
Nursing students in the
market for an education
By BECKY ROUSE
Editor in Chief
Nursing students from PCC
received some on the job training
when they were hired to work a
cholesterol screening project at
Ralphs supermarkets throughout
the Los Angeles county area.
Just inside the entrance of
Ralphs store #43 , located at 3035
Huntington Dr. in Pasadena, first
semester nursing students Veron¬
ica Guillen, Genoveive Scott,
Rachel Lozano, Teena Phan, and
Laura Martin worked almostnon-
stop as customers took advantage
of the free screening. Scott was
busy at a table, running five
computers simeltaneously to ana¬
lyze the blood tests. “It’s been a
lot of fun, and we’ve met a lot of
people, most of whom feel this is
a valuable service,” said Scott,
“I’m really glad to be a part of
it.”
The women have worked as a
team for the last three week-ends,
carpooling first to Mission Viejo
two weeks ago, and then to Long
Beach last weekend before get¬
ting assigned to the local Pasad¬
ena store. “I found out about this
when the nursing department put out
a brochure for people who wanted to
make extra money,” said Veronica
Guillen, who has attended PCC for
one year. Guillen is studying to be a
Registered Nurse. “This job was
interesting, it was a good hands-on
experience,” she said. The students
were hired at $6 per hour, but if they
woriced all three weekends they would
be paid $8 per hour retroactive.
The screenings were conducted
■ by Consumer Diagnostics, a Michi¬
gan-based company that works with
retailers to put health promoting
projects at the point of purchase.
Sponsers for the event were Ralphs
Stores, KABC, and Heallhnet. Ac¬
cording to Gwen Dorazio, health
services director at Consumer Diag¬
nostics, "the grocery store is where
people buy all their food, so what
better place to be the nutrition head¬
quarters?” Dorazio said that it’s
important for people to get a sense of
what their personal cholesterol range
is, as the level can fluctuate as much
as 20 percent at any given time, on
any given day. The higher the blood
cholesterol, the greater the risk of
coronary heart disease.
Ralphs customers responded
positively to the availability of
the testing at the grocery store.
“I’m constantly aware of the
problems of high cholesterol,”
said customer William Ariano,
“I wanted to get it checked to see
where it is now, it has been bor¬
derline high.” One customer asked
to comment on the screening
turned out to be PCC student
Dianna Engelman, who was at
the store shopping with her boy¬
friend. “I’ve never had my cho¬
lesterol level tested before,’ ’ said
Engelman, “but as I walked in
they told me it was free, so here I
am.” Mary Sloan, another cus¬
tomer, was glad that the free
screening was offered. “I have¬
n’t had mine tested since Janu¬
ary,” said the San Gabriel resi¬
dent, ‘ ‘and I’d rather have it done
here than pay a doctor for the
same test.”
The cholesterol test consists
of a finger stick draw of blood.
Approximately 30 microliters are
drawn into a capillary tube, and
then spread on a plastic tab. The
Teena Phan, a PCC nursing student, takes blood from a Ralphs
customer at the blood cholestoral screening held last weekend.
technology for the test is built into a
mesh section of the tab, which pro¬
duces a color change as red blood
cells are separated from the serum.
The color change is then analy¬
sed and read by a Refiotron, a desk¬
top analyser manufactured by
Boehringer-Mannheim. The process
takes about three minutes, after which
participants are given a copy of the
test results. A desireable cholesterol
level is less than 200 mg/dl, the high
risk category is 240m g/dl or greater.
With PCC students doing the
testing, and PCC students doing some
shopping, it shouldn’t have come as
a surprise that Ralphs Grocery Man¬
ager Mime Loli turned out to be an
cx-PCC student “It’s great,” said
Loli, of the testing. "On Saturday,
our sales were up $2,300 from what
we normally average on that day.”