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Volume 91 Number 4 FRIDAY April 13, 2007
In This Issue News...................2-7 Features............8-11 Entertainment......12 Sports...................13 Calendar.............14
Book Costs
Environment
‘Grindhouse’
Prices of books are increasing, but who is to blame?
The campus acknowledges Earth Day 2007.
Film pays homage to ’70s exploitation genre.
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Ballot Measure Would Give Students a Break By Jennifer Tinoco
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lendale College students may find their tuition fees reduced by 25 percent if the “Community College Governance, Funding Stabilization, and Student Fee Reduction Act,” the California Community College Initiative, passes on the June 8 ballot. Although the initiative was first proposed in November of 2006, organizers failed to obtain enough signitures for it to qualify for the ballot. The initiative required one million endorsement signatures from registered voters. According to the California Federation of Teachers, the required signatures are now complete. ASGCC Student Body President David Arakelyan said, “the initiative requires 650,000 signatures,” but some people may have signed it more than once,
therefore the goal was raised to a million. Community College tuition is far lower that at the Cal State and UC campuses, but up until the early 1900s it cost nothing to attend most colleges in the state. The Gavilan Library in Gilroy, Calif., states that community colleges were free dating back to 1916. The website www.gavilan.edu reports that, “... the cost became $5 per unit, then $6, suddenly up to $26, and now back down to $20 per unit as of January 2007.” Full-time students who are currently taking 12 or more units are be paying $240 plus student fees (inlcuding health fees) per semester. If the tuition reduces to $15 per unit, full time students will pay $180 plus student fees per semester. Executive Vice President of
is cause by Proposition 98. Proposition 98 is also known to guarantee “a minimum level of funding for public schools,” since 1996. Its allocation depends on “changes in enrollment, per capita personal income, and projections of state tax revenues,” stated on their Web site. In other words, Prop. 98 distributes funds between elementary schools to high schools, as well as to community colleges. “We are competing — Jonathan Zeron with the K-12 sysStudent tem,” said Serot. The problem lies with the since I was not able to pay it off,” way funds are being distributed. said student Jonathan Zeron. “If Elementary schools have the tuition reduces $5, I think that it right to receive their money first, will help a lot because every dol- then middle schools, followed by high schools and leaving comlar adds up.” This initiative will not only help munity colleges the last schools students financially, if passed, it to receive their money. If the initiative passes it will will legitimize the imbalance that Administrative Services, Larry Serot, said that the decrease in tuition fees has “definitely” raised enrollment in most community colleges throughout the state. “I had to drop my math class
“If tuition reduces $5, I think that it will help a lot because every dollar adds up.”
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take community colleges out of the K-12 shared funds. This will speed up the process for community colleges to receive their funds sooner. “We get a variety of students who are adults, going back to school, high school drop outs and most importantly, we have a lot of undocumented students here,” said Serot. “We need our funds faster to accommodate that growing number of students each semester,” Serot added. The state tried to pass a ballot that would allow members from the Sacramento Board to control community colleges from anywhere in California. However, this ballot did not pass. “I think that it makes sense for community members to take action in their community colleges because we [Board of Trustees] believe that it should be community based,” said Serot. If passed, the initiative will
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A Suggestion for Future Issues of El Vaquero April 5, 2007 Dear El Vaquero, Congratulations on the well deserved awards earned at the recent conference. El Vaquero is continuing to offer excellent information to the campus. One suggestion: If you want people to read the stories, such as the recent important feature article [March 30 issue, pages 8 through 9, “Anti-War Teach-In”], please don’t use a dark green background! I found it impossible to see the print. Black on green just isn’t enough contrast! Thanks for your consideration.
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Corrections * In the last issue of El Vaquero, a mistake was made in the article titled “Vaqueros Slide Their Way In To Victory.” The head coach for the baseball team is not John Cicuto, it is Chris Cicuto. * In the article “Athletic Hall of Fame Welcomes Six New Inductees,” printed in the March 16 issue, Alex Leon is referred to as a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame. Alex Leon is a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame Foundation.
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Parking Fee Hike Will Fund New Project By Sose Frankyan
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tudents will find themselves paying more for parking permits in the fall after a year of parking woes that led many students to out of GCC. As of fall 2007 parking fees will increase from $50 to $65 for the fall and spring semesters and from $20 to $37.50 for the winter and summer sessions. The increase is marked to last for the next 20 years. The Board of Trustees has decided to extend the duration of increased parking fees for the Mountain Street widening project to provide access to the new parking structure. Students have weighed in against this plan. “I think it is ridiculous to increase the price and they better be bringing me coffee and doughnuts,� said student Michael McMaster. The City of Glendale is concerned about increased traffic on Mountain Street when the new lot opens in the fall. To solve the problem the city has determined that they needed to widen the street in order to accommodate the increased vehicle load. The widening of Mountain Street will cost approximately $2.8 million. According to Director of Business Services Bill Taylor “we are borrowing money from what we call a certificate of participation, which is a mechanism for long-term low-interest loan.� The loan will be paid for by the student parking fees. “I think it is necessary for the utilization of the structure to have wide enough roads for people to have access to it and to accommodate the traffic,� said student trustee and ASGCC President David Arakelyan. “But what I don’t like is the use of parking fees to pay for the construction,� added Arakelyan. A proposed alternative route to pay for the construction was the Measure G fund, which is a $98 million bond measure
approved by voters in 2002. The bond money is being used to renovate and improve GCC and the Garfield Campus. The $65 increase for the semesters was set for 17 years, but “the board decided to extend the time to 20 years, which I was opposed to,� said Arakelyan. “I think this [fee] is too much,� said student Irina Melik-Bakhshi. “We already spend a lot of money on books and tuition and now we need to worry about parking a fee increase.� According to Roubik Golanian, Glendale City engineer, “the project was a mitigation measure and [required] the addition of two left two lanes into the parking structure off of Mountain Street.� The widening of the street is scheduled to start next month and will be complete in midAugust. “It will be operational and accessible, although we may have some little things to do here and there,� said Golanian. During the construction one traffic lane will be left open in each direction. On the south side of the street, the sidewalk will be removed and a new lane against the curb will be added. Since it is a hillside it will require a retaining wall to hold the retain the dirt. A traffic signal will also be installed at the intersection of the new entrance to the parking structure. About three years ago a parking task force looked at all the sites on campus in order to find an adequate spot for the placement of the new parking structure. To accommodate a big enough spot the current location of the structure was the best site. The structure will provide additional with 1,185 parking spaces. “I believe when the road widening construction fee is paid off then [maybe] there will be an opportunity to lower the parking fee,� said Arakelyan.
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Students Break Bank to Buy Textbooks By Susan Aksu
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epresentatives from California Public Interest Group (CALPIRG) gave Glendale students a presentation on April 6, about the high costs of college textbooks and suggested how to bring the costs down. CALPIRG is an organization that focuses on issues dealing with higher education, the environment and other social issues. In California there are eight UC chapters and a USC chapter as well as chapters at in the community college level. The representatives, Campus Organization Director Ben Smith and Pierce College student Abraham White, presented CALPIRG’s research on why textbook prices are so high. According to the studies, book costs are high due to the publishing company releasing new editions of the books to prevent a large market in used book sales, which are more economical for college students. “I’ve never heard a student say ‘oh, that was a cheap book,’” said Hoover Zariani, Director of the Service Learning Center. Zariani said that if GCC becomes involved with CALPIRG, it will help with the cost of books.
According to Smith, publishing in the new editions. New editions bookstore is run by the student companies say that CALPIRGS’s also lack noticeable changes. government; they should find studies are biased and college In many new editions the only ways to save money for the stufaculty are really at fault. How- change made is an added sentence dents.” ever, the Government Account- or chapter. Publishers are charging more ability Office conducted its own “They come out with new edi- than the cost of the finished book research and found that and are also increasing the publishers were setthe edition-to-edition ting textbook costs unprice by two times the reasonably high. rate of inflation, acPublishers have the cording to the studies ability to release new by CALPIRG presented editions of textbooks as by Smith. often as they want on a Publishers often subject that may have practice book-bundling, not made a significant which also inflates pricchange in a hundred es. Publishers wrap the years such as calculus. textbook, workbook However for classes and CD-ROM’s tosuch as computer digether, causing students agnostics and science, to pay at least $100 for which are constantly extra items they may changing, CALPIRG never need in class. suggests manuals to In a recent survey be published instead of conducted by CALtextbooks. PIRG, 76 percent of “Shakespeare hasn’t faculty said new edichanged,” said White tions are justified only in regards to the pubhalf the time or less lishers and the release even though publishof new editions. ers say faculty ask for Photo by Richard Kontas Professors from Ben Smith informs students and faculty about the rising the editions. About 65 various colleges have costs of textbooks. percent of faculty said reported to CALPIRG they rarely or never use that mistakes found in older edi- tions to destroy the used book the bundled items that come with tions, which were pointed out to market,” said Mike Allen, Presi- textbooks. publishers, were never corrected dent of the Faculty Guild. “The A disadvantage in buying bundled textbooks is that if it comes with a workbook, students are unable to sell back any of the bundled items to the bookstore if it has been written in, even though the workbook is meant to be written in. The bookstore is not responsible for the prices of the textbooks; the publishing company sets the prices. However, the faculty and student government have the option to refuse ordering textbooks from publishers that do not meet students’ needs. “Many instructors are mindful of the publishers,” said Tammy Hall, assistant bookbuyer for the bookstore. “Oftentimes teachers that are concerned about the price research the prices themselves.” Students are under the impression that their professors are the ones responsible for choosing costly books to be the required reading material, but often professors place orders for books in advance, which can be beneficial for students who want to shop for the cheapest used book. “Teachers order books six months before the semester begins. The bookstore knows way
in advance what books are going to be used,” said Professor Mona Field of the political science department. However, within that sixmonth time frame, publishers some choose to limit the amount of the ordered edition to be released and then release a brand new edition, forcing students to purchase the brand new and expensive book instead of giving students the chance to buy used books. “That money is not going into the state budget and it’s not going to lower fees or go into financial aid,” said Smith. “It’s going right into the publisher’s [profits].” Three of the four mentioned classes require textbooks which are bundled, increasing the cost of a single textbook which could be found used for a cheaper price on Web sites such as Amazon. com or from other students who sell their books. Student Alejandra Morataya, 22, said she had purchased a few of her textbooks online from Amazon.com and was surprised at how much cheaper they were selling than the current editions offered by the college bookstore. The bookstore sets a margin over the cost the publisher sells the books for in order to make a profit. “Our prices have been compared to several colleges and universities and were the lowest in terms of margin,” said Hall. CALPIRG members from Pierce College interviewed students about where they stand financially with school expenses and put together a “Debt Yearbook,” which included their pictures. They presented the yearbook to members of Congress in Washington D.C. “Financial aid only covers so much,” said White. “Students are faced with taking out loans just to pay for [community colleges].” Margaret Nadir, a concerned parent and faculty member, suggested that publishers should stop printing hardbound books because hardbound books tend to be more expensive than paperback books. She was also concerned with the weight of the books being damaging for students’ backs. “What are they trying to do, break their backs and then their pockets?” said Nadir.
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ASGCC Awards Clubs With Emergency Funding for Campus-Related Projects By Kara Aranas
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he Associated Students legislature debated Tuesday how funds would be allocated to organizations and clubs on campus. In the end, there were both winners and losers. Campus Project Support (CPS) uses student government funds to benefit the various organizations and clubs on campus that serve students. The legislature’s job is to determine what money will go to the groups requesting it. A list of those organizations was provided at the meeting for ASGCC President David Arakelyan to discuss with the rest of the committee. The Association of Latin American Students (ALAS) requested funding for food and supplies for Peña, a fund-raiser event hosted by the club every year. “The ALAS funds should come from their club money, not from CPS,” said Arakelyan, as he explained why the request was denied. The Athletics department re-
quested $3,000 to help purchase a commercial washing machine normally costing between $6,500 to $10,000. Arakelyan explained that they do not approve more than one project per department, and that they already approved a previous request for an electrotherapy system to expedite the healing process for the athletes. Both Theatre Arts and the Music department requested a copy machine, but Arakelyan explained that large scale equipment such as copy machines should be the college’s responsibility and should not come from student funds. The Center for Students with Disabilities request for an interpreter for deaf students on the track team was granted. The Study Abroad Program was granted its request for funds to avoid the cancellation of the
National Field Studies can now purchase a heavy canvas tent for its program. The cheer Team needs a carpeted mat to accommodate training and safety needs. AS approved its $3,000 request. Student Outreach Services wanted to purchase a laptop and a projector for off-campus presentations had their requests granted by the legislature also. “CPS is meant to help these organizations give back to students without taking too much away from them,” saidArakelyan. Finally, the legislature also discussed another important matter: the student govern— David Arakelyan ment election petiASGCC President tions that will be circulated starting May will now be able to provide tours 9. Those interested in running for the Garfield Campus stu- for office need at least 100 sigdents. natures from students to qualify Speech and Communications for the ballot. will get the financial help they need to participate in a national Kara Aranas can be reached at Kara_Aranas@elvaq.com competition. program. The Academic Decathlon received its request for awards, supplies, and equipment for the event. The Delta Sigma Omicron asked support to aid the Disabled Student Fair and AS granted the request. The Counseling Department
“CPS is meant to help these organizations give back to students without taking too much away from them.”
If Ballot Measure Passes Tuition Will Decrease Next Year [Tuition, from Page 2]
change the constitution and state that every California community college should be run by community members, as it is done currently. The next phase for the initiative
is campaigning and raising public awareness. “It cost approximately $1.4 billion to gather the required signatures,” added Serot. “I estimate that it would probably cost about
$3 to $4 million to campaign.” If the Community College Governance, Funding Stabilization and Student Fee Reduction Act passes, the tuition fees will be lowered by fall 2008. This tuition
decrease would be implemented in the 109 community college campuses throughout the state.
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he Los Angeles Times joined Town Hall Los Angeles at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Oct. 3 to give members of the media, an opportunity to ask questions about its series “Altered Oceans.” “Altered Oceans” a five-part series concerning the effects of pollution in our oceans, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. Members of the Los Angeles Times speaking at the event included Marc Duvoisin, assistant managing editor, John Vande Wege, editorial multimedia manager, and Kenneth R. Weiss, staff reporter on California Coasts and Oceans. Weiss, a key writer of the series, has studied the California coast and the world’s oceans for the last five years. “We decided to attack the problems existing in our oceans now, rather than future problems, which lead to critics responding as though someone is saying that the sky is falling,” said Weiss. The series shows that there is a great decline of fish in the sea. Fisherman are now filling their shrimp boats with jellyfish rather than shrimp. There also sea turtles developing tumors in Hawaii, and toxic algae is killing marine mammals. “Altered Oceans” makes the point that sick and dying sea lions indicate something is wrong in the ocean. As residents of Los Angeles, we must be aware that piles of garbage are washing down the Los Angeles River to Long Beach, and most of this trash ends up in the ocean itself. “That there is garbage almost equal to the size of Texas floating
all around the Pacific Ocean, and almost all of the debris, is plastic. Now there are many sea birds such as the albatross discovered dead with trash, mainly plastic, found in their stomachs,” Weiss said. Part of the plastic pollution consists of billions of little pellets known as “nurdles” spilling everywhere from manufacturing companies, and ending up in the ocean. State Assemblymember Paul Krekorian of Glendale has a bill AB258 awaiting final approval from the governor which will require manufacturers to prevent the plastic pellets from spilling into the ocean. “The bill is now on Gov.ernor Schwarzenegger’s desk,” said Krekorian. When asked what an individual can do to contribute to this crisis, Weiss replied with his own personal actions; and said that he drives a less toxic car, tries not to eat big fish, and picks up after himself. Weiss is also making the public aware of the issues existing in the oceans. As an individual, there are several groups, volunteer programs, and organizations such as Heal The Bay that you can join to help fight the existing problems in our oceans. “A toilet and a refrigerator are something that you would not mistake in your own home,” Weiss said, referring to how we are treating our oceans like a refrigerator (as a place we keep the fish we eat) and a toilet (as the receptacle we dump our waste into). To view the 20 minute ”Altered Oceans” multimedia series; Visit www.latimes.com/oceans. Eyonna Andreatte can be reached at Eyonna_Andreatte@elvaq.com
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Ken Weiss (left) and John Van De Wege present “Altered Oceans,” a twenty-minute multi-media examination of pollutants in the marine environment.
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Campus Celebrates Ecology, Healthy Living By Rachel Mills
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arth Day, officially celebrated April 22, came to El Vaquero Plaza this week with the community coming together to celebrate its love of Mother Earth. GCC participated by distributing information and giveaways from companies and groups such as Whole Foods Market. The week which kicked off on April 9, was hosted by Project Earth Tomorrow, a club at GCC that held a variety of events for students to take part in. “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and the recent hit documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” were shown on April 9 and 10. “An Inconvenient Truth” was shown again on April 12 in the planetarium. On April 11 Carolyn Laskowsky, a representative from the Los Angeles Zoo came to lecture students on endangered species and what is currently being done to protect them. “Who Killed the Electric Car” tells the story behind the GM EV1 electric zero emissions car. “An Inconvenient Truth” is a film that follows former Vice President Al Gore lecture series that touched on the topic of global warming. The final event on April 12 took place in Plaza Vaquero. Community based groups like Greenpeace and businesses such as Whole Foods Market, set up information booths and distributed information to
students on subjects such as global warming, conservation, endangered species, and organic food. The Glendale Department of Water and Power came to campus with a load of brochures and pamphlets telling students how they could begin to slowly conserve energy and water. “Some suggestions I tell elementary kids are things like take shorter showers and turn off the water while you brush your teeth,” said Herbert Garcia, the public education coordinator. The members from Greenpeace used the opportunity to try to recruit members and educate GCC students on the pressing issues of the environment. Abigail Smith, from Greenpeace said that Greenpeace’s’ primary power and focus is their people power compared to other associations and groups. Whole Foods Market had various nutrition bars, bananas, and other food to give away to students along with bags and information. Becky Felicina the marketing specialist of the Glendale branch said, “We have a lot of earth conscious messages to send to the community. We have products that have stories we want to tell.” Two products that Whole Foods featured to students were preserve toothbrushes and razors. These products are special, Felicina explained, because they are made out of recyclable plastic from objects like yogurt cups. The students from the Earth Tomorrow club sold organic
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hot dogs for $3. Nadia Castro, the vice president of the club explained the importance of eating and choosing organic food. Castro said organic food is free of pesticides that often harm people. The toxins found in pesticides can lead to various cancers. The club also helped to educate students on the various ways that they could change up their lifestyles to better the environment and lower their
carbon footprint. There were 15 different suggestions offered to students. Each of them were posted on a different board and lined across the walk way between the library and San Rafael. Emerson Reyes, 28, a student said, “I could probably plant a tree.” He said that he thought it was important for students to understand and know the information to help survive. Earth Day may be celebrated
differently in other schools but students from GCC hopefully gained a better insight to the topics and issues surrounding this day. “Everything is connected,” Castro said reminding students just how delicate and inter connected the smallest of our actions are. Rachel Mills can be reached at Rachel_Mills@elvaq.com
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Facilities Seeks to Cleanup M
Campus aintenance and Facilities has responded to the concern on campus over the deteriorating maintenance conditions. According to Dan Padilla, manager of Maintenance and Facilities, the consultant will be arriving in the next couple of weeks to survey the campus and help the department establish a permanent cleaning schedule. With the addition of two new custodians, who were hired for the new building and parking structure, Padilla hopes that more can be done around campus to ensure that it remains clean. “I think that the administration recognized that not only do we need them for the new building, but we are [currently] short-handed as well,” said Padilla. There are currently 20 custodians in charge of campus cleanup. These 20 custodians are split between morning and evening shifts in order to balance the workload and, most importantly, keep the campus clean during school hours. However, the evening shift will soon undergo a change in scheduling in order to facilitate the maintenance of the campus as well as the individual classrooms. The evening shift is currently scheduled from 6 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., which has proven to be an inconvenience for custodial personnel. Aide Trejo, an evening shift custodian in charge of the first floor of the San Gabriel building, said that it is difficult to work while evening classes are in session. Trejo has had to skip classrooms and return to them when they are unoccupied, which she said results in time loss and inefficient clean up. In order to cover more ground on campus and avoid having to skip classrooms, the evening shift will work from 10 p.m. through 6:30 a.m., a change which Trejo believes is “good” and will allow her to go “directly into cleaning.” Generally, two custodians are assigned to a building on campus, but when one is sick, the responsibility to clean the entire building falls on the shoulders of a single worker. Trejo has had to cover for colleagues on several occasions, doubling her workload. She said that she “wants to keep her own [assigned] building clean,” but it is difficult when she does the job of others, forcing her to “neglect” some of her custodial duties. She believes that the newly hired custodians will help the workload “balance out.” Bill Taylor, director of Business Services, concurs with Trejo’s sentiment. He recognizes that the custodial shortage makes it difficult for the campus to remain consistently clean. “[Sometimes] we are lucky if we even get our trash removed,” said Taylor. However, the biggest cleaning issue for custodians is not the removal of trash in the classrooms and offices; it is the consistent maintenance of bathrooms. According to Padilla, the bathrooms on campus are the biggest problem and require cleanup at least twice a day. Padilla has designated some members of the custodial crew to specifically maintain the bathrooms during school hours. The first round of bathroom cleanup is in the early hours of the day when the custodians re-stock toilet paper, toilet seat covers and do emergency cleanup, if need be. The second and final round of bathroom maintenance is the “final cleanup,” when personnel goes into the bathrooms and inspects the conditions. Any final cleaning that needs to be made is taken care of before the end of the school day. To keep track of how many times a day the bathrooms are being taken care of, Padilla has placed inspection cards on the bathroom doors that record
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Graffiti is not just limited to walls on campus. According to Dan Padilla, manager of Maintenance and Facilities, there has been a recent wave of vandalized mirrors. The only way facilities can get rid of this problem is by removing the entire mirror, process which triggers a monetary blow to department.
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- Photo by Sumaya Mehai time and dates of when the bathrooms were cleaned and by whom. “Sometimes they’ll [custodians] go and they’ll clean it at 11 a.m. and by noon, students come in and trash the place,” said Padilla, in reference to the bathrooms on campus. “If the students were more considerate of the mess that they’re leaving, it would make our job so much easier.” Dinh Luu, an EOPS counselor, agrees that there are many things one can do to contribute to campus cleanup. Luu said that she tries to stomp down papers in the trash can in order to make room for more trash. However, she said that sometimes even this does not motivate people to dispose of trash in their proper place. The second biggest problem on campus is graffiti and vandalism, which Padilla assures, is a “huge” problem. The graffiti, according to Padilla, goes through waves, occurring on a sporadic basis. “The hardest thing is to get rid of it on an immediate basis,” he added. “It’s not a problem we can stop.” Maintenance and Facilities has asked the faculty and staff to report any graffiti immediately in order to quickly address it. Padilla believes that the longer the graffiti stays up, the more people are inclined to add to it. According to Padilla, the campus police take photos of the graffiti
and catalogues it in an effort to determine whether or not the tagging is gang- related. Some of the areas that have been the recent target of graffiti and vandalism are restrooms [stalls], elevators and the outside of buildings. For the most part, the graffiti in the elevators is done with markers, which is not difficult to remove. However, when people start to scratch into the steel, it makes it much more difficult for maintenance personnel to remove it, and in turn it generates a financial blow to the campus. It costs $1,100 to $1,500 to polish out the scratches in each elevator. Maintenance and Facilities plans to purchase patterned steel panels to halt vandalism in the elevators; however, Padilla said that such panels are expensive. The department also plans to hire a full-time painter who will take care of painting over graffiti as well as taking care of remedial painting jobs throughout the campus. As a standard, painting is supposed to be done every three years for the inside of the buildings and every five years for the outside. But with the shortage of employees and the lack of funds, painting duties have been irregular. Trash around the campus is also a problem, according to Padilla. Although Maintenance and Facilities try to keep trash cans readily
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Maintenance and Facilities tries to keep trash cans readily available all throughout the campus so that people dispose of their garbage properly. Still, people have a tendency to leave their trash behind, creating a bigger mess for custodians.
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Voces del Mañana Supports Undocumented Students program, Moreno and her friends met UCLA students who had formed a group called Ideas on oces del Mañana, which their campus. Ideas, like Voces del translates from Spanish as Mañana, focuses on promoting Voices of Tomorrow, supports awareness for undocumented the nearly 300 undocumented students. After meeting Ideas, students on campus. Moreno along with her friends The club has been active for were inspired to begin a similar three semesters and received the club on the GCC campus, and in Most Outstanding Club Award fall 2007 Voces del Mañana was (MOCHA) in 2006 for the spring established. and fall semesters. MOCHA, “We noticed that their was no which is nominated by the 35 other club here [GCC] like them, registered so we felt that clubs on we should start campus, Inter“Voces del Mañana one ourselves,” O rg a n i z a t i o n said Moreno plays and important Committee Since their (IOC), is an establishment, award that is role of being a mutual Voces del given to the club Mañana has support group for that displays evolved from AB-540 students on being an idea to the most involvement being an actual campus.” on campus as voice for the well as in the undocumented — Greg Perkins students c o m m u n i t y. on EOPS Counselor and Adviser to campus. They Y a z m i n Voces del Mañana Moreno, who are not only serves as coactive on president for Voces del Mañana, campus, but many of the members said that the club was first also work with California Dream established by a group of five Network, which is another other students after attending committee that supports higher the Summer Intensive Transfer education and awareness for Experience (SITE) program at undocumented students. Along UCLA. with the Dream Network, club Moreno, along with a few members are also involved in friends heard about the SITE outreach toward potential AB-540 program from Moreno’s brother, students in local High Schools. and decided to attend. SITE is a According to Greg Perkins, program in which prospective EOPS Counselor and adviser transfer students attend UCLA to Voces del Mañana, there free of charge for a few days are around 290 AB-540 and participate in workshops (undocumented) students informing them about various enrolled at GCC. Among these transfer information. students only about 10 percent While attending the SITE of them are involved with Voces
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Hungry students wait in line while Francisco Guzman, a member of Voces del Mañana, helps out at the club’s burrito sale and fund-raiser.
del Mañana. With this number of undocumented students on campus it is very important that they are aware of the networks like Voces del Mañana, which allow them to understand that they are not alone. “Voces del Mañana plays
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an important role of being a mutual support group for AB540 students on the campus” said Perkins. As well as providing support, Perkins also feels that the club prepares these students for transferring. According to Perkins many past members have transferred to four-year schools like Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State LA. Students involved in the club are strongly encouraged to form study groups, as well as participate in various transfer programs. AB-540 students, were recognized after a ruling on Jan. 1, 2002. The bill allows any student that wants to attend California public colleges and universities to pay the in-state fees, but they are not eligible to receive any type of financial aid. Since these students usually do not have many other financial alternatives to pay for college, school expenses are a serious issue for them. One major alternative for
these students to afford school is through scholarships. According to the scholarship office, most scholarships do ask students’ legal status. Voces del Mañana also offers scholarships through fund-raising efforts like a burrito sale held on April 2. There is also a car wash planned for later this semester. The club has a long-range plan of holding informational conferences for AB-540 students. Although the name of the club is Voces del Mañana, Moreno wants students to understand that the it is not only for students of Hispanic descent but is open to all students who are interested in establishing better recognition for undocumented students. The club meets in LB 220 on Tuesdays from noon to 1 p.m. For more information, contact Greg Perkins at (818) 240-1000, ext. 5571. Tamara Baskin can be reached at Tamara_Baskin@elvaq.com
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Campus Makes Effort to Keep Clean
* Special Announcement * Invitation to attend
Ecumenical Commemoration of the
Armenian Genocide Under the auspices of
His Grace Bishop Bruno His Grace Bishop JohnJon Bruno, Primate Episcopal Church, Diocese of Los Angeles
and His Eminence Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, Primate Armenian Church, Western Diocese
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:00PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 1020 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, California The solemn requiem service is organized by the committee promoting dialogue between the Episcopal Church and Armenian Church. The choirs of St. Mark’s and the St. Peter’s of Glendale will be participating. The homily will be delivered by
Deacon R. Hrair Dekmejian, Ph.D. The commemoration begins promptly at 7:00PM The public is cordially invited to participate in this special service of remembrance, healing and worship. More information is available by calling or visiting St. Peter Armenian Church: (818) 244.9696 / hyeyouth.org St. Mark’s Episcopal Church: (818) 240-3860 / stmarksglendale.org
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In spite of visible signs on campus asking people to help maintain the campus clean, trash still makes it onto the floor.
[Maintenance, from Pages 8-9] available throughout the campus, there are still a handful of people who disregard them and dump their trash on the ground. “It’s unfortunate, but a lot of students like to throw trash on the ground,” he said. “[It seems like, to them, it’s an] extra effort to walk to a trash can.” However, there are some people on campus who pick up, not only for themselves, but for other people as well. “I don’t mind picking up after people [when they leave trash behind],” said 18-year-old student Levik Megerdishian.” “But people should make an effort to throw away their trash.” As it stands, Maintenance and Facilities does not have a fixed budget needed to carry out their
duties. It takes approximately $1.5 million to maintain the campus on a yearly basis. Currently, Padilla is working on obtaining a yearly budget for the department. It is Padilla’s hope that the outside consultant will be able to determine the “actual workload of this campus,” how much work is actually required and how long it takes to accomplish these tasks. “We want to develop [fixed] routines based on how many people we have,” he said. “What I want to do [then] is publish this [routine] so that the campus knows what is going to be done and what they can expect to see accomplished on a regular basis.” “I think that it’s going to help a lot if people know what to expect,” he added. “And if they want
more [to be done on campus], then they are going to help me [pitch in or hire more people.]” Although Padilla expects the current conditions to improve, he recognizes that there has to be some sort of accountability from everyone on campus in order to keep GCC clean. “It’s difficult to do more than just mention these kinds of things,” he said. “I don’t think there is enough accountability with the students or the faculty, and I know that their job is difficult just trying to teach, but if everyone was working together with the common goal to keep the campus clean, it would really help.” Olga Ramaz can be reached at Olga_Ramaz@elvaq.com
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‘Grindhouse’ Pays Tribute to Blood, Guts and Guns By Vartanoosh Kiourktzian
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irls with guns for legs, deadly stuntmen who use cars as weapons and an army of zombies is the latest from bad boy directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. “Grindhouse” does not just celebrate the pure trash art of grindhouse films, but it is meant to give the feeling of spending the night in a run-down and dirty theater watching the kinds of movies that not only shock, but disgust and arouse. This is grindhouse cinema reinvented. The first segment, titled “Planet Terror,” is directed by Rodriguez who does his best to give homage to old zombie film makers such as George Romero (“Dawn of the Dead”) and Lucio Fulci (“Zombi II”). The characters set to fight off a horde of zombies are a go-go
dancer named Cherry Darling, played by the gorgeous but edgy Rose McGowan, and her biker boyfriend El Wray, played by Freddy Rodriguez. Cherry, who loses her leg during a zombie attack, gets a replacement for it from El Wray. He replaces it with a machine gun that Cherry uses to shoot down enemies without having to pull the trigger once, no doubt a deliberate mistake made by the director. McGowan does a great job of playing the girl who was wronged and is now out to get justice and blood. Like a white Foxy Brown, she is kicking ass and taking names. Freddy Rodriguez is amazing as Cherry’s love interest and oddly enough, her sidekick. He is completely convincing as a lovestruck boyfriend who wants to do nothing more than to help his girlfriend get revenge. Although complete with cigarette burns and missing scenes, “Planet Terror” ends up looking
Rose McGowan as go-go dancer Cherry Darling, fights off a horde of zombies in “Planet Terror.”
more like a big budget studio release than the low-budget grindhouse gorefest Rodriguez tried to achieve. The dialogue is also slightly disappointing. It lacks
the cheesy campiness of its ’70s counterparts and the allegories for society. It seemed like Rodriguez was more interested in making the viewer nauseous. However, it does the one thing he set out to do, entertain. Between the two segments there are “prevues” for upcoming shock horror films, which include Rodriguez’s “Machete,” Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving,” Edgar Wright’s “Don’t Scream” and Rob Zombie’s play on “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS,” titled, “Werewolf Women of the SS.” “Machete,” which stars Danny Trejo as the resident badass, and Roth’s “Thanksgiving,” are especially good. They feel as though they are really from the ’70s, right down to the background voice. These two are crying out to be real films. Tarantino takes the reigns with the second film “Death Proof” which stars Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike, an insanely vicious stuntman who hunts women down and kills them with his car. Similar to Tarantino’s other films such as “Reservoir Dogs” and “Jackie Brown,” “Death Proof” boasts the slow build up and unintentionally funny and realistic dialogue. “Death Proof” lacks the continual gore and bloodshed that its companion film has, however it excels where “Planet Terror” fails. “Death Proof” is completely believable as a ’70s
B-movie complete with badass female heroines played by Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Ferlito, similar to Reiko Ike in Japan’s famous pink violence film “Girl Boss Guerilla,” the Pussy Cats in the 1965 classic “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” or more recently, Uma Thurman’s character in “Kill Bill Vol. I and II.” It is obvious that Tarantino’s other films have been influenced by B movies and grindhouse horror flicks and he uses his vast knowledge of cheap and cheesy movies to his benefit. “Death Proof” has no CGI effects and has a jaw-droppingly real car chase that is sure to blow the mind of any viewer. Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike is like Snake from “Escape from L.A.” with the calculating coldness of Rutger Hauer from “The Hitcher.” His sex appeal is what lures the ladies in, and then the crazy killer in him takes over. “Grindhouse” is two amazing films packaged together in Bmovie appeal. Though film nerds will undoubtedly love these stylized exploitation films, so will other audiences. Tarantino and Rodriguez have come together to produce a piece of gold in the cinematic world, and these films should not be missed. Vartanoosh Kiourktzian can be reached at Vartanoosh_Kiourktziani@elvaq.com
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Updates • Scores • Highlights BASEBALL
in singles as did the doubles team of Taoatao and Arutyunyan.
Glendale swept three games in the Glendale College Spring Tournament last week to improve last week to 1916 overall and 4-11 in the Western State Conference South. They beat College of the Desert 4-1 last Tuesday, beat San Bernardino 4-3 Thursday and Rio Hondo 52 Friday. In the win over Rio Hondo, Nadav Poringer got the complete game win and Michael Pacheco drove in two runs and Chris Hertz also scored twice. The Vaqs return to WSC play this week and host Bakersfield Tuesday at 6 p.m., play at Mission Thursday and host Mission Saturday at 1 p.m. All home games are played at Stengel Field.
MEN’S TENNIS The Vaqueros are 8-5 overall and 6-2 in the WSC after beating Pierce 7-2 April 3. They had a bye on April 5. In the win over Pierce, the Vaqs swept all six matches in singles as Dylan Kim, Norik Otuzbiryan, Derik DerMegerdichian, Matt Taoatao, Greg Arutyunyan and Craig Strazzeri had wins
The Vaqueros host Ventura Tuesday and Santa Barbara Thursday at 2 p.m.
WOMEN’S TENNIS The Vaqueros split a pair of matches last week and are now 54 in WSC and 5-6 overall. In the win over Santa Monica, Maria Bagoforo, Miyuki Yokozuka, Sonia Rodriguez, Nancy Bogado and Zaira Rojas had wins in singles as did the doubles teams of Yokozuka and Rodriguez and Bogado and Rojas. Glendale plays at Ventura Tuesday and Santa Barbara. Both matches start at 2 p.m.
SOFTBALL The Vaqueros dropped a doubleheader to Valley Thursday 8-6 and 8-7 to fall to 8-9 in WSC and 13-21-1 overall. In the 8-7 loss to Valley, Ashley Messenger hit a three-run winning homer and Jennifer Nazarian had a tworun homer. Jamie Avancena had four hits including a double.
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The Vaqueros devote extra time to batting practice honing their skills. They face L.A. Mission College Saturday at Stengel Field.
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TRACK & FIELD The Vaqueros had a bye last week and compete in the Azusa Pacific Invitational Friday. Alex Leon Sports Information Director can be reached at (818) 240-1000, ext. 5764 aleon@glendale.edu
Glendale plays at Citrus Tuesday and hosts Santa Monica Thursday in a doubleheader that starts at 1 p.m. at the Glendale
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Sports Schedule Baseball • Tomorrow: The Vaqueros take on L.A. Mission College. The game gets underway at 1 p.m. • Thursday: The men face Citrus College at 2:30 p.m. • April 24: GCC v. L.A. Valley College at 2:30 p.m.
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Calendar On Campus exhibition “Modern Lovers” — A group art exhibition curated by Kathryn Andrews will feature works by Jeffrey Rugh, Stan Kaplan, Brett Cody Rogers, Jonas Wood and many more. The show runs at the Glendale College Art Gallery, located in the library building, until May 5. Admission is free. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 6 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call (818) 240-1000, ext. 5663 or visit www.glendale.edu/artgallery
film “Why We Fight” — The Association of Latin American Students (ALAS) and the Latin American Studies Department will screen “Why We Fight,” tonight at 7 p.m. at the J.W. Smith Student Center, room 212. This film was a 2005 Grand Jury Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and was writen and directed by Eugene Jarecki. The film examines the history of American militarism since World War II and the entanglement of US political, corporate
and Defense Department interests. Admission to the screening is free and refreshments will be provided.
theatre “All in the Timing” — The Glendale College Theatre Arts Department is showcasing five one-act comedies by David Ives. Guest artist and former GCC student, Matt Foyer, will be directing these performances, which plays at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Auditorium Studio Theatre. The ensemble cast includes Daniel Kim, Amber Blackburn, Carlo Morelli and Nick Campbell, among others. Reservations are stronlgy advised due to limited seating. Tickets are $10 general admission and $6 for students and seniors. Groups of 10 or more pay $4 per person. For more information or to make reservations call (818) 240-1000, ext. 5618. “Oklahoma” — Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein’s classic musical, “Oklahoma,” takes center stage starting Friday April 27 at 8 p.m. and runs through Sunday May 6. Performances will take place at the Auditorium Mainstage Theatre
starting at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 for students and seniors, and $8 for children 12 and under, or groups of 10 or more. For additional information or ticket reservations, call (818) 240-1000, ext. 5618.
dance “Memories of Carla J. Stewart: Dancer, Soldier, Friend” — The GCC Dance Department presents a special memorial performance in honor of Carla J. Stewart, a former GCC student and fallen solider in Iraq. There will be an open microphone for anyone wishing to share comments with Stewart’s family and the members of her platoon who have returned from Iraq and will be present at the memorial. The performance will take place in the Dance Theatre, located in Sierra Nevada 104 on Saturday, starting at 8 p.m. For more information contact the Dance Department at (818) 2401000, ext. 5556.
lectures “A Shameful Act” — Turkish historian Dr. Taner Akcam, the first Turkish historian who openly acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, will
be on campus on April 23 from 10:45 a.m. to noon in the J.W. Smith Student Center, room 212, to speak about his latest book, “A Shameful Act.” This event is sponsored by the Armenian Student Association. The lecture is free and open to the public. “The Relevance of Leonardo Da Vinci in the 21st Century” —The Humanities/Social Science Lecture Series presents a “Lang Lecture” titled, “The Relevance of Leonardo Da Vinci in the 21st Century.” The lecturer will be Godfrey Harris, curator of an international exhibition of the machines Da Vinci designed. The lecture will take place at Kreider Hall at noon on April 26. Admission is free and open to the public.
health “Finding Joy in Life: A Meditation Series” — The Health Center is sponsoring “Finding Joy in Life: A Meditation Series” begining on Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. Pamela Bothwell, former director of Shambhala Center, will present the series. The presentation will take place in San Rafael 112. For more information contact
the Health Center at (818) 2401000, ext. 5909.
academic news Spring Break — Campus will be closed Monday through Saturday. Classes resume April 23.
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Registration for Summer intersession — Deadline to apply for admission for summer session and be eligible for priority registration is April 20. Six- and eight-week classes — The next six- and eight -week classes start on April 23.
training Diversity Training Exercise — The Equal Employment Oppportunity (EEO) committee is sponsoring a diversity training exercise on April 26 from noon to 2 p.m. at Plaza Vaquero. The actual exercise will be 30 to 45 minutes and there will be time for discussion afterward. This is intended to be a way for diverse participants to share life experiences. The training is free. For additional information, contact Donna Capka in counseling at (818) 240-1000, ext. 5417.
Around Town exhibitions “Signs + Symbols - Exhibition” — Artworks by Shannon Fincke, C. Martino and Stephanie Han Windman are on display at the Art Center at the Brand Library at 1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale. The exhibition will feature an assortment of paintings and mixed media works by all three artists. “Signs + Symbols - Exhibition” runs through April 20. For more information, call (818) 548-2051. For additional information visit www.ci.glendale. ca.us/library/brand_index.asp
theatre “Romeo and Juliet” — A Noise Within presents Shake-
speare’s classic tale of romance and death, “Romeo and Juliet.” The play runs through May 25. Since its first performance, “Romeo and Juliet” has spawned three operas, two major ballets, two musicals — most notably “West Side Story” — and countless film versions. Tickets range from $26 to $58. A Noise Within is located at 234 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale. To make reservations call (818) 240-0910, ext. 1. For additional information, visit www.anoisewithin.org
environmental Step It Up 2007 — A project initiated by environmental author and activist, Bill McKibben and some friends, Step It Up is an effort to get people to hold
events across the country that will bring attention to the Global Warming crisis with a goal to get people and Congress to do something about the issue. Step It Up Glendale will hold two events on Saturday from 9 a.m to noon and then from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The morning event, a palm tree planting ceremony, will take place on Royal Boulevard and Del Monte Avenue. Participants are encouraged to bring their own gloves. The second event, a “March for Cleaner Cars,” will begin at 12:30 p.m. in front of the Bicycle Mart located at 1601 S. Brand Blvd. The actual march starts at 1 p.m. Those in attendace are encouraged to bring original signs and banners. The total turn around walk will be two miles. For additional information on either
events, visit www.stepitup2007. org then scroll to Glendale, CA or call Adam at (323) 6691284.
reading “The Last Mojito” — Award winning poet and GCC professor Bart Edelman reads from his newest collection of poems called “The Last Mojito” at the Glendale Public Library in the auditorium on Sunday, April 29 at 2 p.m. His poetry reading is part of the celebration for National Poetry Month. The library is located at 222 E. Harvard St. For more information call (818)548-2042.
book-signing “This Moment on Earth” — Teresa Heinz Kerry and Sen. John Kerry discuss and sign their new book “This Moment on Earth” at Vroman’s Bookstore on Monday, April 23 at 12 p.m. The book shines a spotlight on an inspiring cross-section of new environmental pioneers and offers a guide on how to get involved to protect the world. The bookstore is located at 695 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena. For more information call (626) 449-5320. * To place a listing on the calendar, contact Olga Ramaz at Olga_Ramaz@elvaq.com
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Campus Comments Why is it OK for minorities to make fun of each other, but if a white person does it, it’s not? Yvette Tejada 24
Labib Markas 18
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“Minority to minority they feel like they both relate to eachother. They have minority in common.”
“It’s more accepted in their own race. It’s not okay to say it at all.”
“I think in Southern California there’s a lot of minorities and makes it okay.”
“Cause they’re white. It’s not okay. That’s just the way people talk.”
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www.calstatela.edu WANT TO LEARN MORE? Make an appointment in your transfer center with your CSULA representative,
Tammie Leung, Recruitment Specialist (323) 343-3838 TLeung1@cslanet.calstatela.edu
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