PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VOL. 80 No. 9
THE COURIER
Serving the Pasadena Community since 1915
THURSDAY
October 27, 199-4
Right: Actor Martin
Sheen, Richard
Montoya, from the
comedy group
“Culture Clash,”
Dorian Harewood,
actor, Arturo
Rodriguez,
president of United
Farm Workers, and
Robert Bowman,
Associated
Students president
on the stage in the
quad.
Below: Dorian
Harewood and
Martin Sheen
ANITA NARDINE/THE COURIER
Celebrities speak
against Propostion 187
By CHRISTY PACIOREK
and GILBERT RIVERA
COURIER STAFF WRITERS
Actors, community leaders, and
students bitterly criticized Gov. Pete
Wilson and Proposition 187, the state¬
wide initiative that calls for cutting
government services to undocu¬
mented immigrants, during last
Thursday’s “Empower Your Com¬
munity” rally in the Quad.
A raucous and energized crowd of
more than 400 students, several of
them carrying banners and posters
displaying “No on 187,” gathered to
listen to several guest speakers, in¬
cluding actor and activist Martin
Sheen and Arturo Rodriguez, presi-
dentof United Farm Workers (UFW).
Also in attendance was Maria Chavez ,
niece of the late activist Cesar Chavez.
“I think Pete Wilson is a very
well-groomed man,” said Sheen.
“He’s less than honest because he is
a lawyer and he knows that Proposi¬
tion 187 can never pass. The Consti¬
tution of the United States clearly
states that no state shall make immi¬
gration policies. It’s an excersise in
futilities,” he added.
Originally, the rally was orga¬
nized by the Associated Students
(AS) to motivate more students to
vote. But it ended up focusing on the
opposition to Proposition 187, which
is on the Nov.8 ballot. If passed, it
will also make undocumented immi¬
grants ineligible for attendance at
public schools and requires state/
local agencies to report suspected
illegal aliens.
“Gov. Wilson has declared war,”
exclaimed Richard Montoya, amem-
ber of the comedy group “Culture
Clash,” amid cheers from the crowd.
“We have to defeat Proposition 187
and we must fight this war with our
minds. We must remove Gov. Wil¬
son from office.”
Please see RALLY, Page 3
□ A look at PCC if the
proposition passes.
By DONAJI MUNOZ
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
So what will PCC be like a day
after the election if Proposition 187
passes? Will the Immigration and
Naturalization Service be ready to
bust all the illegals out of PCC and
dump them off at the boarder? Not
quite.
Dr. Stuart A. Wilcox, associate
dean of admission and records, sus¬
pects that about 3 percent of PCC
students are illegal. It has not been
decided if all new enrolling students
will have to show proof of legal resi¬
dence or citizenship if the proposi¬
tion passes.
Of the 21,750 students currently
enrolled, 14,268 are U.S. citizens,
5,970 are permanent resident immi-
Please see EFFECTS, Page 3
PHOTOS
BY
ANDREW
ZIMA
THE
COURIER
Tragedies
spur the
community
into action
By JOE ROSSI
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
For PCC President Dr. Jack Scott, the
month of October marks two solemn anni¬
versaries. A year ago on Oct. 23, 1993, his
son Adam , 27, a recent graduate of US C with
a promising career in law ahead of him, was
shot and killed by a gun. And almost a year
ago on Oct. 3 1 , in what came to be known as
the Halloween homicides, three teenage boys,
Stephen Coats, 14, Reginald Crawford Jr.,
14, and Eddie Evans, 13, were gunned down
on the streets of Pasadena, ambush-style, as
they walked home from a Halloween party.
Shortly thereafter, the “Coalition for a
Non-Violent City” was born. Convened by
the Rev. George Regas, of All Saints Episco¬
pal Church, this alliance was thecommunity ’ s
response to the Halloween homicides. They
turned to Scott for his participation.
“They asked me to head up the chair of the
gun control task force, and I at first hesitated
because obviously I wasn’t in the best of
shape,” Scott said.
Not that his son ’ s death changed his views
about gun control, but it did motivate him to
take a more pro-active stance. “I’ve used
this tragedy as a means of heightening public
awareness of why I think the ready availabil¬
ity of guns is a real scourge,” he said. Natu¬
rally, the coalition became the appropriate
place for Scott to focus his energy and since
its formation a year ago, he has given 12
speeches on the issue.
At the coalition’s urging, the Pasadena
City Council passed two resolutions sup¬
porting gun control legislation such as the
Brady Bill, and the ban on assault style
weapons such as UZIs and AK-47s.
The City Council also helped by giving
the Coalition a $250,000 grant of federally
allocated money. That money is being used
to fund recreational activities, employment
and skill instruction, and other programs
aimed at preventing violence by addressing
its root causes: poverty, unemployment, and
lack of education. The coalition also has
implemented a job placement program for
Please see TRAGEDIES, Page 4
Census shows campus diversity
Four days to Halloween...
SHANE CLARKE/ THE COURIER
Children between 2 and 5 years old from the Child Development Center will be Trick or Treating
around campus on Monday, Oct.1 . They will have a picnic lunch with Ronald McDonald in a
Halloween program sponsored by the Associated Students (AS). AS members will guide them
around the campus. The annual event is becoming Halloween tradition for the campus community.
Asian/Pac Isdr.
29,4%
American
Indian 0.8%
Unknown
6.2%
By DENIS WANG
COURIER STAFF WRITER
More full-time students are at¬
tending PCC in 1 994 despite a sub¬
stantial decrease in the enrollment of
students taking classes for credit.
A census of the PCC studentbody
shows that the number of students
taking classes for credit hits decreased
from 23,699 in 1990 to 21,756 this
semester. However, this decline has
not significantly affected the num¬
ber of full-time students, which has
grown 3.7 percent from approxi¬
mately 6,343 in 1992 to 6,513 in
1994.
The census is taken after the fourth
week of the semester under the di¬
rection of Dr. Stuart Wilcox, assis¬
tant dean of admissions and records.
He gathers results compiled by com¬
puter and sends them to state offi¬
cials. The state then uses those fig¬
ures to determine the amount of
money allocated to PCC.
PCC President Dr. Jack Scott ex¬
plained that the state allocates the
school money according to the num¬
ber of registered full-time student
equivalents. The state considers a
full-time student anyone enrolled in
12 units or more. The entire number
of registered units at PCC divided by
12 gives the number of equivalents.
“The census gives us wonderful
information which serves as useful
data to help us make decisions con¬
cerning the operational costs of the
school,” Scott added.
The allocated money pays for
teachers’ salaries as well as all op¬
erational costs.
The school determines whether
more classes should be offered or
others discontinued from census data.
PCC also decides if additional in¬
structors need to be hired depending
on the demand reflected in the statis¬
tics, Scott said.
The statistics reveal a growing
demand for courses, especially in the
fields of mathematics and English.
However, PCC cannot always ac¬
commodate the demand. The state
has placed a limit on the number of
full-time equivalents the college can
enroll.
Please see CENSUS, Page S
Student body profile
Fall ’94
US Citizen
14,268
Immigrants
5,968
| Hispanic 292%
FI
Visa
Refugees 639
Unknown
483
Females: 11,996
Males: 9,726
Other
2
Filipino 43%
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