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Stricter gun control laws should be
enacted
In accordance with the second amendment, not
everyone should be allowed to own a firearm.
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Student parents do double duty.
It's not easy to deal with homework and responsi¬
bilities of being a parant.
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PCC Lancers on a quest for
respect as season begins
Tom Maher will debute his coaching
talents against L.A. Harbor this Satur-
day. a
Sexson Auditorium transformed by
Hollywood magic for Emmys show
By DANIEL ARCHULETA
Courier Staff Writer
The Creative Arts Prime Time
Emmys went off without a hitch
atPCC’s Sexson Auditorium last
Saturday. Bill Allen, show com¬
mittee chairman, said during the
opening of the presentation, “Isn’t
this a great place to hold the
ceremony.”
The auditorium made the tran¬
sition from an institution of higher
learning into Hollywood awards
venue without as much as a hick-
up. Gone was the normally drab
look of the auditorium students
and staff have grown accustom to
seeing. In its place was a slick
newly decorated interior.
Giant Emmy statues stoodboth
outside the
С
and along
both sides of the stage. Red
velvet covers disguised the dull
blue seats. Red carpet lined the
aisles and covered the stage.
Throughout the night three im-
menseprojection screens ran clips
from classic TV shows.
Even campus police got into
the act by sporting their formal
honor uniforms.
An estimated 2,000 people
showed up at the event including
enough stars to light the night
sky. Mario Thomas and husband
Phil Donohue, Jane Fonda and
Ted Turner, and Florence
Henderson were in attendance
just to name a few.
The awards presentation also
offered opportunitiesforPCC stu¬
dents to gain valuable experi¬
ence and knowledge on how to
put on a large-scale professional
event.
Several professors in the com¬
munication department used the
chance to bring their classes to
the auditorium during the setting
up of the lights and stage, Tim
Berreth, PCC’s stage director,
said.
Several PCC students served
primarily as ushers escorting
people to their seats. Communi¬
cation students and AS members
made up the majority of the ushers.
Jody Wymar, student trustee, and
Crystal Banasiak, vice president of
student services, were among the
students helping out.
Veronica Castillas, sophomore,
said, “I’m so excited to have the
awards here at PCC. I’m glad I
helped.” Ushers had to wear formal
attire, something most students never
have had to worry about. The uni¬
form was black pants or skirt and a
white top. Men had to wear ties.
Students were also used as seat
fillers. When a nominee is called to
collect his Emmy a person has to
take that seat in order to give the
auditorium a full appearance. They
usually have to remain in that seat for
the remainder of the show, because
after receiving the statuette, winners
had to make rounds through the three
PCC’s Mirror Pools became the
backdrop as VIPs such as Ted
Turner and Jane Fonda attended
the Techiical Emmys at Sexson
Auditorium last Saturday night.
Please see EMMY’S page 4
PHOTOS BY SAMUEL HERNANDEZ
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• BOARD DECIDES TO GIVE STUDENTS
PRIORITY
Trustees to redefine
mission of KPCC
BY DANIEL ARCHULETA
Courier Staff Writer
The board of trustees brought to¬
gether representatives from KPCC
8 9 . 3 , the communication department
and other members of the college
community at a special meeting on
Sept. 4 to consider revising the goals
and practices of the radio station.
The station has been operating
under an unofficial mission state¬
ment since 1983, said Walter Shat-
fordll. He also said the panel needed
to update the statement to 1 996 stan¬
dards.
Dr. James Kossler, PCC presi¬
dent, said at the outset of the meet¬
ing: “The station is not in any way in
trouble. We just need to revaluate
the direction the station will take in
the future.”
KPCC, national public radio sta¬
tion on campus, has recently been
criticized for making program
changes that cancelled various cul¬
tural and educational shows that have
been on the air for years.
However discussion centered
around the charges of lack of student
participation at the station.
Michael Bloebaum, division dean
of the communication department,
emphasized that students need to be
involved and should be the number
one priority of the station. That
sentiment was echoed by other rep¬
resentatives from the communica¬
tion department.
Larry Mantle, KPCC program di¬
rector, said in the station’s defense
that students are used as interns, and
contribute to various on-airprograms.
He also said students are used as D Js
Monday through Thursday from 8
p.m. to midnight. But he added that
the station has had problems recruit¬
ing interns for the classical music
programs. He said students just don’t
have enough knowledge of that type
of music. Also KPCC has not had
enough qualified applicants to fill all
the needed positions, he said.
Robert Wright, communication
professor, said, “I’m puzzled why
more students are not involved.
When I was in school, I couldn't
wait to get into the operations of a
radio station.” Mantle said, the stu¬
dents are not properly trained for the
equipment we use.
At that point Beth Wells-Miller,
trustee, informed the panel that she
had received an anonymous letter
from a former KPCC intern who was
disgruntled by the way the station
used students.
She read aloud from the letter
which described menial jobs that
interns had to perform. The intern
complained of having to do filing
and photo copying.
Forrest Poindexter, AS president,
added that he had been approached
by interns as well. They said they
were primarily used as clerical help,
not on-air technicians or in the DJ
positions they were hired to per¬
form.
Mimika Goettling, the producer
of “Echoes of Greece,” one of the
cancelled programs, was at the
meeting.
She commented afterward that
she used more interns during her 2 1
years as producer than the rest of the
station did. She said if students are
involved in the station, she wanted
to see names.
During the meeting, only one
intern’s name was brought up: Dou¬
glas Wilke. Mantle said Wilke
worked for the station during the
summer and had to quit because he
was offered an internship at the Star
News. He did not provide any other
names.
The discussion continued for two
hours to no avail. The panel could
not agree on a definitive mission
statement. Trustee, JohnMartin then
requested, “Anyone energetic
enough to draft a new statement
should make students the station’s
main priority.” However, nobody
was officially selected to draft the
statement.
The panel agreed to meet at a
later date to adopt a new mission
whenever one is written.
Conflict grows in AS
over morning meetings
Parking proposal to lower fees under review
BY DANIEL ARCHULETA
Courier Staff Writer
Forrest Poindexter, Associated
Students president, has charged four
AS members with placingtheir club’s
interest over that of the students.
The charge centers around four
AS board members, Crystal
Banasiak, vice president for student
affairs, Frank Fernandez, vice presi¬
dent of academic affairs, Leila
Jeruselam, coordinator of publicity,
and Catherine Hazleton, coordinator
of external affairs, who belong to
Alpha Gamma Sigma, the honor so¬
ciety on campus. That club meets
Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon.
Poindexter said the fact that so many
AS members are also AGS members
is a motivating factor behind the
board voting to schedule AS meeting
time at 8 a.m. instead of the tradi¬
tional noon meeting time.
Poindexter said that is not a con¬
venient time for students who want
to attend board meetings. Hazleton
said that AGS had nothing to do with
theboard’s decision to have the meet¬
ings at 8 a.m. The members’ avail¬
ability did.
She went on to say that Ben
Bushnell, executive vice president,
has even expressed interest in join¬
ing AGS. Bushnell said of her com¬
ment, “I am?” indicating he had no
intention of joining that or any club.
He said, “I’m the inter-club presi¬
dent, I wouldn’t be neutral if I did.”
Poindexter said the meeting is too
early for students to attend adding
that audience attendance at the meet¬
ings this semester has been dismal.
During the AS meeting on Sept.
4, Manny Luna, an interested stu¬
dent, read the published minutes
emphasizing the fact that the board
approved the 8 a.m. time despite
Poindexter’s objections. He also
said, that most students don’t know
whats going on in the AS.
The vote at the July 6 meeting that
approved the 8 a.m. time was passed
unanimously, despite Poindexter’s
objections. The AS president does
not represent a vote on the board
unless his vote breaks a tie. Accord-
Please see AS CONFLICT page 4
BY JULIE DRAKE
Courier Staff Writer
A proposal to lower the four and
five-day semester parking permit fees
from $64 to $55, and eliminate lim¬
ited parking permits, has been sent
back to the parking committee for
reconsideration by the AS Board af¬
ter two student officers opposed the
changes.
The parking committee’s pro¬
posal was sent to the AS board mem¬
bers for their consideration. After
reviewing the changes, Forrest
Poindexter, Associated Student
president, and Catherine Hazelton,
coordinator of external affairs, ob¬
jected to the elimination of the one,
two, and three day passes, and the
effect it would have on part-time
students who do not need a fall week
of parking.
“I don’t think they are consider¬
ing the majority of the students,”
said Poindexter, who originally sup¬
ported the proposal. He changed his
position after speaking with
Hazelton, and reviewing statistics
for the Spring 1996 semester and the
parking trend for this Fall.
“I think that people are only tak¬
ing the concerns of the students on
the four and five-day pass into con¬
sideration, and not the students who
purchase the two or three-day pass,”
said Hazelton. She believes the fee
reduction should benefit all students.
The parking committee is com-
Please see PARKING FEES page 4
CORRECTION
Last week’s article on
Dr. Jack Scott running
for the 44th Assembly
seat was written by
Doug Wilkie.
In last week’s AS
CCRI story, it was
stated that the board
voted to back CCRI.
In actuality a vote had
been taken to con¬
sider opposing CCRI.
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