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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol. 72 No. 4
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Thursday
September 20, 1990
NEWSLINE
Oxford program
The deadline to apply for
the 1991 Oxford semester
abroad program is fast ap¬
proaching. Applications must
be submitted by Oct. 12 in
room C209. According to Pa¬
tricia S avoie, associate profes¬
sor, department of English and
foreign languages, the semes¬
ter abroad program is "a mar¬
velous and invaluable experi¬
ence for students." An infor¬
mation meeting will take place
on Monday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. in
the Circadian for all interested
students, their parents and
friends.
Savoie encouraged students
to apply for financial aid, say¬
ing that even those who nor¬
mally aren't eligible for aid
may qualify. The Spring se¬
mester in Oxford goes from
Feb. 7 to May 30, 1991. A
brochure with complete infor¬
mation is available in room
C209. Inquiries can be directed
to Savoie at 578-7424.
Cross Cultural Center
A reception for the new
Cross Cultural Center will be
held on Sept. 2 1 from noon to 3
p.m. at the Student Activities
center in the CC building.
The new center was created
to give students and faculty the
opportunity to bridge cultural
gaps. Refreshments will be
offered at the opening cere¬
mony.
Improv Inferno
"An Evening of Improv" will
happen at the college Forum
on Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. The show
is presented by the Pasadena
Improv Inferno and the AIDS
project Los Angeles.
A $10 general donation is
requested for admission, $6 for
students and senior citizens.
All proceeds will go to AIDS
Project Los Angeles.
For information and reser¬
vations call the Inferno hot¬
line at (213) 258-5113
Car leaks gas on campus
A police cadet on duty in
the vistors parking lot between
D building and C building
noticed a car parked illegally
in a handicapped space was
leaking gasoline. Unit 34 of
the Pasadena Fire Department
was called to the scene.
Fire captain John Penido said
that they tried to seal the leak
but were unable to do so. The
gas was allowed to flow from
the leak and was absorbed by
sand placed beneath the car.
Firemen stood by with a hose
ready in case the fuel ignited.
The car was picked up by
Hillcrest towing at approxi¬
mately 10 a.m.
The car belonged to a fe¬
male student who had in her
posession an application for
handicapped plates. Because
she did not actually have the
plates, she was cited. The vio¬
lation carries a $100 fine.
INDEX
Opinion
2
Editorial
2
Features
3
Sports
4
Letters to the Editor
2
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By BECKY ROUSE
Editor in Chief
PCC Shuttle users who tried to
park at the fonner Old Town Pasad¬
ena location during the first week of
school were suprised to learn that
the lot was closed to them. However,
the free parking and shuttle service
is still available, it was just moved to
a new location. The college has
switched to an East Pasadena lot in
an effort to cut costs and to accom¬
modate students who commute to
PCC from the east.
The new lot is located behind
Charlie Brown’s Restaurant at 3572
E. Foothill Blvd. The one year lease
will cost PCC $42,000, and the dis¬
trict will have an option to extend
the lease for up to six years. There
are 145 parking spaces available for
staff and students, free of charge.
The first shuttle picks up passengers
at approximately 7 a.m. and every
20 minutes thereafter. The last shuttle
departs from campus at 6 p.m.
According to James Kossler,
assistant superintendent of adminis¬
trative services, an earlier analysis
of zip codes for staff and students
indicated that the majority traveled
to the college from the east. The
college was unable to obtain an east¬
ern location last semester.
Sherry Hassan, director of busi¬
ness services, said that efforts to
inform people about the changed
shuttle location included 250 post¬
ers printed up and posted on campus.
In addition, fliers were mailed to
faculty and staff. Campus police
distributed fliers at campus lots dur¬
ing the first week of school to inform
students about the shuttle service
and the new location.
Hassan, describing efforts to al¬
leviate the college’s inadequate
parking situation, mentioned that “we
don’t have a monopoly on the park¬
ing problem.” Nearby Cal Tech
suffers from the lack of paiking space
as well.
The availabity of street parking
in the surrounding community is
further constrained by one and two
hour restrictions placed by the City
of Pasadena. Approximately 70 un¬
limited parking spaces were created
when the city removed limits on two
blocks of Green Street early this
summer. The college enlisted the
support of eight businesses along
Green Street, asking the owners to
sign a petition supporting the change
to unlimited street parking. PCC then
presented the petition to the city.
The idea originated when Board
of Trustee member Walter Shatford
II noticed that many of the busi¬
nesses on Green Street had their own
parking lots to accommodate their
patrons.
All eight proprietors signed the
petition, and the city subsequently
removed the one-hour parking re¬
striction signs on Green Street be¬
tween Chester Avenue and Hill Street.
Shuttle now operates
from new location
Professor Donald Redman dies
later he transferred to PCC as an
instructor of geography.
James Clark, chairman of the
business department, was a close
personal friend as well as profes¬
sional colleague of Redman. Their
friendship spanned 30 years. The
two men often played golf together
at the nearby Altadena Country Club.
Of Redman’s professional reputa¬
tion, Clark said that ‘ ‘Redman was a
tiger in the classroom. He had high
standards, and was a tough teacher
who expected his students to per-
Please see Redman, page 3
Oscar Chavez
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Don Redman
Asbestos removed from campus
By GINA SANCHEZ
Opinion Editor
Have signs like ‘ ‘DANGER--
Asbestos-CANCER AND LUNG
DISEASE HAZARD...” scared
you? Well, there is nothing to
fear. There is no hazard to any
passers-by. PCC administrators,
a representative from Cal-OSHA
and the site foreman, agree that
asbestos removal on the campus
is being done safely. The deadline
for completing the asbestos removal
is Oct. 30. However, the job should
be completed in two weeks, accord¬
ing to PCC’s Assistant Superinten¬
dent of Administrative Services, Dr.
James Kossler. Workers from the
PW Stephens Company began re¬
moving asbestos from plumbing on
Aug. 16.
Kossler said that PCC receives
about $100,000 each year from the
state to pay for asbestos removal.
The college also gets additional
funding from special programs. This
year’s PCC budget for asbestos re¬
moval is $112,289. Kossler expects
the cost of removal to exceed
$118,000, so he needs to transfer
funds from other areas. He said the
college has been removing asbestos
from the campus since the early 80s.
The site foreman said that his
crew has already cleared about 1500
feet of tunnel. Presently they’re
making their way from the women’s
physical education building to the
boiler room. The asbestos insula¬
tion is being replaced with fiber glass.
So far, five buildings have had
significant removal done. The C
building, built in 1937, has had the
asbestos removed from its mechani¬
cal rooms, its ceiling tiles, and all its
floor tiles. The U building, built in
1973, and the R building, built in
1957, have had only their mechani¬
cal rooms done. The V building,
built in 1954, has had its ceiling tiles
completed. The T building, built in
1951, will be completed when its
roof is finished. Kossler said that
during its construction asbestos was
used to cover the roof and then tar
was poured over the pipe packing.
The U.S. Environmental Protec¬
tion Agency (EPA) outlawed asbes-
Please see Asbestos, pace 4
By BECKY ROUSE
Editor in Chief
PCC lost a well liked and well
respected professor when Donald
Redman, professor of geography,
passed away on Aug. 5. One week in
to the second summer session, Red¬
man, who had been under a doctor’s
care for health problems related to a
heart condition, sufferred a massive
stroke and died. He was 59 years
old.Redman began his teaching ca¬
reer at Marshall Junior High School
in Pasadena in 1957. Three years
James Ojeda
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Student passes beneath welcoming banner. An air vent sheathed in plastic and adorned with tape
notifying of asbestos removal appears in the background.
Mike Robbins
/
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Officer George Winovitch issues a parking ticket using the new
system. PCC is the first community college to use the device.
Campus police issue parking
tickets bv hand-held computers
By EDWIN FOLVEN
Staff Writer
Campus police have installed a
new computerized ticketing proce¬
dure for on campus parking viola¬
tions. The new system is designed to
save time and to free cadets and
officers for other duties. The new
system is effective as of Sept. 10.
The new system involves a hand
held computer which eliminates the
time consuming process of writing a
ticket by hand.
The computer, which is manu¬
factured by Clancy Systems Interna¬
tional and coordinated by Phoenix
Systems, is worn from the officer's
shoulder. They simply enter the
violation along with the vehicle’s
information into a keyboard resem¬
bling a walkie-talkie. A ticket is
printed automatically from a small
computer at the officer's hip. The
citation is then placed in a bright
green envelope and set on the ve¬
hicle’s windshield.
Using the old system, the officer
would write a ticket out by hand.
Later that night another officer would
enter all the information into a
computer to be transferred to the
Pasadena Municipal Court.
With the new system, all infor¬
mation is recorded into the com¬
puter on the spot. At midnight, the
information for that day is automati¬
cally sent to Phoenix Systems which
in turn sends the record to the Pasad¬
ena Municipal Court
“There will be heavy enforce¬
ment of citations to both students
and faculty.” said Palermo. “The
citations will open spaces taken by
persons without proper decals.”
Campus police cadet Ralph
Humphrey expressed enthusiasm for
the new computerized ticketing. ‘ ‘It
makes it easier to write tickets. It
should be very successful.”
Humphrey wrote three tickets in
less than one hour at the small guest
parking lot where new meters were
installed this summer. “Its mostly
students trying to get away with
parking illegally.” he said.
Officer L. Henderson also favors
the new procedure. “It's much eas-
to use and it makes it easier for the
people at night.” he said refer¬
ring to the people who used to
process the information at night.
“Hopefully we will have it squared
away this week.”
A new system for operating
the gate arms at the faculty lots
was also installed for the begin¬
ning of the fall semester. The
system involves a new card with a
magnetized strip for operating the
gate arms.
The system is designed to better
control the parking in the guest
and faculty lots. “This system
can eliminate cards that have been
lost or stolen and are still being
used.” said Palermo.
Cadets were posted at the gates
to explain and help with the new
procedure. Once people get used
to it we will not have to use ca¬
dets, said Palermo.
In the future, those who vio¬
late the parking rules on campus
can expect to get ticketed more
quickly and more efficiently than
ever.
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