NEWS
FEATURES
SPORTS
Creators of local program hope
other colleges in the state will
adopt it.
Page 2
Trustee candidate Dan Wimberly focuses
on methods to move transfer programs
to Northwest and Pasadena.
Page 3
Щ
Jr.j i.
Women’s volleyball winning
streak moves to eight as they
beat El C amino and East LA.
Раде
4
THE
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VOL. 77 No. 9
COURIER
Serving the PCC Community for 75 years
THURSDAY
OCTOBER 21, 1993
Candidates head for Nov. 2 election
□ Four of the seven-member panel are up for
re-election on the Nov. 2 ballot. Only two of
them are facing opposition.
By ALFREDO SANTANA
Editor in Chief
Pasadena voters will decide the
fate of lour members of the college’s
Board of Trustees on the Nov. 2
ballot.
Voters from four of the seven
districts that make up the Pasadena
Community Col lege District will cast
ballots to ch(K>se whether Richard
Green, who represents district num¬
ber one, Walter Shatford from the
third district, Warren Weber of dis¬
trict number four and Joseph Sargis,
who is the current president at the
board and represents district seven,
should be re-elected.
While Green and Weber will run
unopposed, the picture looks differ¬
ent for Shatford and Sargis.
Dan Wimberly, a lawyer and
partner in a local real estate devel¬
opment firm, will oppose Shatford.
However, to defeat a trustee who
served as one of the founders of the
board in 1966, will not be easy.
Shatford, 78, has been re-elected
every four years since he took his
seat on the Board.
However, if voters elect
Wimberly, their decision will dra¬
matically reshape the composition
of the board. He would be the first
minority member elected to serve
this college whose non-white stu¬
dents account for more than 50
percent of about 26,000 students.
Meanwhile, Sargis, a financial
consultant in a local firm, was first
voted into office in 1981. He will
face a challenge from Beth Wells-
Miller, a life-long career teacher in
the Pasadena Unified School Dis¬
trict.
Green and Weber’s return to the
board is a virtual certainty. Green,
manager program engineerat the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, was electedto
the board in 1973 and has been in
office ever since. Recently Gov.
Pete Wilson appointed Green to
serve as deputy secretary of the Cali¬
fornia Environmental Protection
Agency.
Meanwhile, Weber, a San Marino
retired business executive and owner
of a liquid fertilizer company, is
expected to continue representing
district number five. Chosen in 1977
for the first time as a college trustee,
Weber represents an area that is es¬
timated to have 50,000 residents.
Some incumbents and challeng¬
ers agreed that budgetary cutbacks
at the colleges are suffering and to
making college education more
accesible to. students are the key
issues in this election.
“We need to bring to the board
financial responsibility to make sure
the college’s budget is spent in such
a way that the academic needs of
students are met,” Wimberly said.
On the other hand, Shatford, em¬
phasized that “making enough fi¬
nancial aid available so that those in
need are not shut out [of the sys¬
tem],” is one solution he will seek.
Flu shots
offered
next week
By RAY ARMENDARIZ
Staff Writer
Tis the season to be sick? But it
could be the season to stay well. It’s
aseasyas gcttingashot,aflushot for
your protection.
BarbaraBondurant, studentheallh
center consultant, feels that “every¬
one” should come in and get a flu
shot. If you decide you would like
one, Lhen the Student Health Center
will do it for free.
The Student Health Center will
prepare students and anyone from
the community for the flu-season by
administering the influenza vaccine
from Oct.25 to Oct. 29 to anyone 50
years or older, those with chronic
illnesses and health-care workers.
On Nov. 1, everyone else can come
to the center and get the shot while
supplies last.
This year the flu-season is ex¬
pected to be severe according to the
Centers for Disease Control.
Bondurant said, because of the new
strains of vintses that are out this
year, our bodies have not been ex¬
posed and have not built a resistance
to them.
“The flu season has already be¬
gun,” said Bondurant. “It’s usually
from the end of December through
February, but it is sating early this
year. Every winter we give flu shots.
Sometimes it is against two types of
flu or three, this year it’s against
three.
The problem with these viruses
is that they can be upper respira¬
tory,” she said.
By being upper respiratory, they
are contagious and can be transmit¬
ted by coughing in other people’s
faces.
The three flu viruses are not yet
in California, but have been discov¬
ered in Louisiana.
The flu is a mutant from two
viruses Lhat keep people sick until
they develop a resistance.
Bondurant said the flu-season
usually occurs in winter months be¬
cause people arc exposed to the vi¬
ruses by slaying indoors in poor ven¬
tilation. They “are not outside in the
open for the sun to kill the virus, ’’she
said.
Early symptoms of the flu are:
runny nose, body aches and some¬
times mild fever. When visiting the
Student Health Care Center, students
need their student identification card.
If necessary , an appoinment with
a physician atn easily be scheduled
anytime.
A crowning moment
KATRINA P. TEN
/
THE COURIER
Erica Beth Brynes .(right) reacts along with other finalists as she was picked as the 1994 Rose Queen on Tuesday afternoon.
Carnival postponed,
homecoming goes on
□ Forecast for rain forces organizers to
reschedule Mardi Gras carnival. Other
events draw large numbers of students.
By ENRICO PIAZZA
and JOSE INOSTROZ
Staff Writers
Homecoming celebrations
continue on campus as PCC is
getting ready for the homecom ing
game on Saturday. All events held
so far have drawn large numberof
student participation arid satisfied
the organizers with the exception
of the Mardi Gras Carnival. That
event had to be postponed be¬
cause of the damages the rain
could have caused to the wooden
stage and the booths equipment.
The day-long celebration will
probably be held around spring
break, although an exact date has
not yet been set.
Seven teams participated in
the volleyball tournament on Sun¬
day, Oct. 17. The teams were di¬
vided in two pools, and the top
four teams advanced to the semi¬
finals. The tournament was won
by the team called “Smack.”
“It was a good tournament, the
play was competitive and every¬
body had a good time,” said
Michael Fitzgerald, vice presi¬
dent of student services, who was
in charge of organizing the tour¬
nament. Fitzgerald is in fact a
member of the PCC volleyball
team, that next spring will start
competing in the intercollegiate
play for the first lime. It func¬
tioned as a club-team for a least a
year.
“I like the combination of speed
and power, and I like to jump,”
Fitzgerald said about his favorite
sport.
Another event in the week-
long homecoming celebration was
the three-point/slam dunk con¬
test, held on Monday, Oct. 18
before a capacity crowd in the
Men’s Gym.
According to Chcan-Han Lee,
the contest’s organizer, 28 stu¬
dents participated in the three-
point contest and five in the slam
dunk event. Preston Lee, a mem¬
ber of the Lancer football team,
won the three point contest that
consisted of 18 shots from three
different spots behind the three-
Please see EVENTS, Page 2
Ciaremont University president to
dedicate Shatford Library
Dr.John David Maguire, presi¬
dent of the Claremont University
Center of Claremont Graduate
School will be the keynote
speaker next Wednesday, Oct. 27
at 4 p.m. at the dedication of the
new Shatford Library .He is a
graduate in theology and psy¬
chiatry from Yale University. He
became Claremont president in
1981. Maguire has served as a
leader of the NAACP Legal De
fense in Education Fund in South
em California. He is also a vice
chairof the national Latino policy
studies institute at Claremont.
MONTES DE OCA AND ASSOC.
John David Maguire
Variety of scholarships
available to students
By REGINA PARIS
Staff Writer
Would you be willing to spend a
few hours filling paperwork to re¬
ceive hundreds, possibly thousands,
of dollars?
Thousands of unclaimed scholar¬
ships slip by each year,because no
one applied for them.
To a lot of people, the word schol¬
arship makes them think of grades.
While some scholarships require
academic excellence, there are just
as many that focus on other criteria,
such as the students major, financial
need, heritage and activities that may
not be ordinarily associated with
school.
Favorite hobbies and activities
may make a student eligible for cer¬
tain scholarships. Here are few ex¬
amples from the scholarship refer¬
ence book in the library:
Does anyone in your family sell
Tuppcrware? The company offers
two annual scholarships of $2,000.
One of them is open to any applicant
majoring in journalism or home eco¬
nomics, the other requires that a
Please see MONEY, Page 4
GET OUT AND
VOTE!
Students
react to
verdicts’
outcome
*Editor’ snote: Rodney Mitchell
was at the First AME church when
some of the verdicts on the trial of
two men accused of beating trucker
Reginald Denny were announced.
BY RODNEY MITCHELL
Associate Editor
The jurors in the Reginald Denny
beating trial returned yesterday af¬
ternoon and acquitted Damian Wil¬
liams of the last charge of premedi¬
tated attempted murder: Amistrial
was declared for the attempted mur¬
der charge against Henry Watson.
Watson was released from jail on his
own recognizance later in the day.
However, federal prosecutors will
review the state trial and decide
whether any federal charges can be
filed against Watson and Williams.
The jury has until Monday to decide
whether to retry Watson on an at¬
tempted murder charge which car¬
ries maximum carries a life sen¬
tence.
However, at the First AMEchurch
which has served as the “heart beat”
of the African American community
in Los Angeles since the days of the
civil rights movement, the pulse of
the black community could barely
be felt on Monday after Williams
and Watson were acquitted of some
of the most serious charges against
them for the beating of Denny.
As this on going racially and emo¬
tionally inflamed case comes to an
end, it appears that interest has
dwindled. Unlike last year when
spectators jammed inside the AME
church to watch on T.V. monitors
the announcement of the verdict of
the two ex-policemen Stacy Koon
and Laurence Powell, there were
only a few spectators and they did
not appear to be moved by the ac¬
quittal of the two defendants. Al¬
though, cautiously satisfied with the
outcome, most of the spectators ex¬
pressed being fatigued by the entire
year and and a half long drama. Yet
Rev. Cecil Murray moved quickly to
put the meaning of these verdicts
in to perspective, say ing “people take
for granted that justice will be served
when they are before a court of law,
however, people of color have been
historically discriminatedagainstby
Please see TRIAL, Page 4
