FCC Unveils the Time CapsuleIn 1988, a student trustee wrote a letter to future students of Fresno City College.  In the letter, enclosed in s time capsule excavated from the concrete of the Fresno City College sign on August 11, Bryan S. Lampson, articulated the concerns of his peers as well as his hope for the college and its community.

“The letter to the class of 2010 indicated that students in 1988 were concerned about the threat of nuclear warfare and the threat of AIDS. The author was also concerned about the fate of the Old Administration Building,” said Cynthia Azari, president of FCC. “While we have not achieved world peace nor eradicated AIDS, as a society, we have made some progress, and we will be moving into the OAB this fall.”

The time capsule was planted by the class of 1988 and included various objects from that period such as old issues of the Rampage and the Fresno Bee and an envelope containing the letter.

Inside the envelope containing the letter was also a single condom to represent the students’ efforts to install condom dispersers in certain campus restrooms.  “This particular condom was the first condom sold at Fresno City College after the students convinced administration to install the machines.  It took us two and a half semesters to achieve this goal,” Lampson wrote. The condom dispersers are still in use to this day

Lampson’s letter explained that in 1988 the condom was “a means of sociological survival from the threat of AIDS and the HLVT III virus.”  He stated that convincing the administrators to install the condom vending machines was a big accomplishment.  He wrote, “We truly believe you will thank us in 2010 for our efforts today.”