Hornet Volume 67, Issue 13 Friday, December 9, 1988 Fullerton, California
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ATURE0 SPORTS The Book An old of Love tale with a new twist Please see page 3 Please see page 7 PullowtonZMColloga Hornet Volume 67, Issue 13 Friday, December 9, 1988 Fullerton, California i Latinos stage protest march criminates by not offering enough By Toby Hill remedial courses and ethnic study News Assistant programs,and by not hiring enough Latinos as faculty members and A group of Latino students and administrators. alumni of Fullerton College Dr. Borst denies these charges marched in front of the homes of saying,"Isupporttherightofthese aX FC President Dr. Philip Borst and people to protest, however, I think North Orange County Community in order to protest it's important to College District(NOCCCD) Chan- have good facts to work from, and cellor Dr. James Kellerman pro- it would appear to me that some- testing the alleged discrimination one has been giving these people a against minorities at FC. distorted picture of what's been Wielding picket signs reading going on here at Fullerton College. "FC won't hire minorities" and "So far as affirmative action and "Fair employment at FC and the hiring of minorities is con- Cypress College," members of the cerned, the college and the district Latino Friends and Alumni of have a strong commitment to North Orange County and PC doing that. I don't think you're students walked up and down the going to find anywhere in the state sidewalks of the administrators' or country where those goals have homes chanting slogans such as very effectively been achieved yet. "Down with racism" and "Hey hey But we are committed to making Kellerman, how many Chicanos progress on that, and we have this did you lose today?" and singing year." "We Shall Overcome." However, FC Counselor and Lupe Martinez, president of MEChA Advisor Enrique Zuniga FC's chapter of the Chicano stu- says these claims are not true. dent organization, Movimiento "This fall, there were ten new Estudiante Chicano de Antzlan faculty positions available and not Michelle C. Flores/Hornet (MEChA), said in a recent Los even one minority was hired." Protest march-Led by Jaime Vega (front) and Carlos Duron of the marched last Saturday, Dec. 3 In order to draw attention to alleged Angeles Times article that many Zuniga also cited a California Latino Alumni and Friends of North Orange County, protesters discriminatory policies occuring at Fullerton and Cypress Colleges. Latinos believe the college dis- See Protest, page 4 JACC Student Center expansion set back Hornet, Torch Philip Borst that the College Stra- wouldn't do anything to take away Student Center to build an outdoor By Sharon Sisson tegic Planning from it." glass enclosure, thereby greatly Staff Writer Committee has approved the building of a new "This project (Student Center enlarging the size of the center receive honors computer center...to the side of the remodeling) won't die,"Maw said, This would connect the Cafeteria Two second place awards in FC Student Center will not be student center and may cut down "because the senate wants the and the Disabled .Student Center By Elizabeth W. Hickman magazine categories were picked torn down, rebuilt nor built up, but the size of the student center funds and can't get them without with the Student Center and cost Staff Writer. up, one by Vincent Williams for it may be cut down in size. would be estimated between $1-3 Magazine Illustration and the other "After viewing the blueprints million. Fullerton College brought home by Margo McNeil for Magazine with Joe Langsford (A.S.) at the OMake a small addition to the three firsts among 13 prizes al- Light Humor Essay. North Orange County Community Center Building can't support a south stage area of the Student together awarded to FC jour- College District, I learned that our "Our present Student Other magazine awards includ- second story without major reconstruction..." Center.Cost estimated at $1 mil- nalism students at the Southern ed a third in Magazine Layout, a presen ntStudentCenter Building lion. California Journalism Association 4th place won by Elisse Homing can't support a second story with- Guy Maw DA 20-foot addition to the east of Community Colleges (JACC) for Magazine Photo Essay, and a out major reconstruction and re- Conference held at Rio Hondo modeling,"said A.S. President Guy A.S. President side of the Student Center from the 6th place award won by Kevin northeast corner of the Student College last Saturday. Approxi- Myers for Magazine Human Inter- Maw, at the Remodeling Ad Hoc Affairs Office to the southeast mately 35 colleges were entered in est Story. Committee meeting on Nov.21. the competitions. depending on the design and improving the Student Center." corner of the 800 building. Cost Hornet editor-in- cost of Eric Marson, Maw further said that the regulations in the State Education These funds were recently made estimated between $2-3 million. The spring 1988 issue of the chief, won a first place award for this remodeling, approximately Code," Maw said. available by passage of Senate Bill Maw said he would recommend Torch Magazine, commemorating his critical review of a Bruce $10-13 million, would nearly equal Norman Price, Associate Dean proposals two and three to the A.S. the 75th anniversary of Fullerton the cost of tearing down the #135. Springsteen concert. A reprint of Student Affairs, said recently, According to Maw, the original Planning and Research Commit- College, took first place in the appeared in the conference news- present structure and building a "It seems almost impossible to cut proposals have tee but said he doesn't think overall General Excellence cate- paper honoring the mail-in contest new one. Either way, Maw felt, the seven remodeling down the size of the Student been narrowed to three. These are construction will actually begin for gory, much to the delight of Torch winners. cost would be prohibitive. Center. The administration is very as follows: two to three years with completion advisor, Larry Taylor, and the "I have learned from President supportive of our program and aUse the patio area north of the not for about five years from now. entire delegation from Fullerton. See Awards, page 4 Yorba Linda Nixon archive to open ember on the 9-acre knoll where parking, as well as a 96-foot By Esther A. Privett the Nixon family homestead sits. reflecting pool highlighting the Staff Writer The homely little white frame farm- simple, formal U-shaped sand- house, with its green trim, seems stone buildings. "I was born in a house my father just the ordinary sort of place many Nixon's archives will be the ninth built," Richard Nixon said in his Americans like to imagine would in a series of presidential autobiography, and he was to go be the birthplace of a President. libraries, and like the others, is pri- on from these humble beginnings Built in 1912, one year before vately funded. Papers, manu- to the White House before resign- Nixon's birth, the little house scripts, tapes and audio-visual ing his office in 1974, amidst the looks forlorn, in need of paint materials will be housed there for scandals of Watergate. and tending. The huge pepper public viewing at completion of Nixon, the 37th president, now tree, out front, where the three the complex in early 1990. Iron- 75 years of age, was not present Nixon boys swung as children, is ically, Nixon's personal tapes for the festive ground-breaking more impressive and graceful from the Watergate era are part ceremonies for his presidential than 'the dwelling. of a collection in the National archives,lastFridayaftemooninYorbi: As the house is-tiry, the $25 Archives in Washington, D.C. Linda. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, million structure planned to Red, white and blue balloons his younger daughter, came as his house the Richard Nixon arched over the seating area for stand-in. Presidential Archive will be the invited guests; about a It was a glorious, summer-like impressive. Plans include a thousand more onlookers stood museum, theatre, multi-storied Nlxon's place-An artists rendering of the Richard Nixon Presidential Archive set to open In 1990. afternoon this second day of Dec- See Nixon, page 4 Editorial Friday, December 9, 1988-2 The HORNET is distributed every Friday, excluding intersessions, exam Vince Williams periods and school holidays. Published byithe Fullerton College Communications division,321. E. Chapman Avenue, Fullerton, CA. 92634. the HORNET is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press, the California Newspapers Association, and the Journalism Association of Community Colleges. All un-bylined editorials reflect the majority of staff opinion; views expressed in bylined editorials are solely the author's, and do not OF o4Lid&tOcStoS A C~gXfL( necessarily reflect those of the HORNET. The HORNET operates within, and is protected by, the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. Eric Marson Vince Williams Julie Davey Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Advisor A.S. overview Throughout the semester, the Hornet has without fuss. Heated arguments over who taken a close look at Associated Student gets to use what copier when is not only (A.S.) government activities. childish but a waste of time. And in looking back over the entire scope The other side of the A.S. however, shows of a semester, the picture painted is that of a large contingent of senators eager to an A.S. with two distinct personalities. improve student life on campus. Certain Many senators felt that the parking senators seem to be moving in the right problem should be the main topic addres- direction, and if this holds true, Fullerton sed, yet few senators bothered to attend College students can look forward to a parking committee meetings, and the A.S.