PCC Chronicle, January 13, 1954

ASB Voting Urged Friday PCC Chronkte Vol. 54, No. 13 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California January 13, 1954 Board Set to OK New School Plan Pasadena’s educational system will definitely be changed from the present 6-4-4 plan to a new 6-3-3-2 arrangement unless mem¬ bers of the Board of Education, now in agreement over the switch, reversed their decisions at a special meeting late yester¬ day. Superintendent of Schools Stu¬ art F. McComb told the Chroni¬ cle yesterday that none of the Board members were then against the proposed educational change, and that it was likely that a switch to the 6-3-3-2 would be made. According to an article publish¬ ed in the Los Angeles Daily News, the complete changeover would cost up to $18,900,000 in building programs during the next five years. One plan that has been sug¬ gested, requiring a $10,800,000 high school bond issue and an $8,100,000 junior college bond is¬ sue, involves improving the city’s six junior high schools, the con¬ version of John Muir College and Pasadena City College to senior high schools, and the construc¬ tion of a new junior college. A second plan, costing $16,700,- 000, would have ^CC remain a two-year junior college, with John Muir College being deleted to a senior high school; and the 'con¬ struction of two new senior high schools. Improvements under the 6-4-4 plan would have cost $18,800,000 had that system been retained, according to Dr, McComb. Three Vie for ASB Vice-proxy Members of the Associated Stu¬ dent Body will have the oppor¬ tunity to vote for one of three candidates when they select the new vice-president this Friday. Aspirants for that office are Sylvia Pauloo, Ron Fox and Tom Littlefield. Sylvia Pauloo now holds the office of president of the Associ¬ ated Women Students at City College. As Pup Commissioner, Sylvia was a member of the ASB Cabinet. She participated on the Art Council and is a mem¬ ber of Spartans. According to Sylvia, if she is elected to the office of vice-presi¬ dent, she will strive to maintain the high standards set in the past and to promote further coopera¬ tion between the students and board of PCC. Ron Fox, who is presently. Ju¬ nior Class president, has held the offices of commissioner of organi¬ zations, Key Club, director, and was a member of the Associated Mens’ Board. Ron is a Lancer. As to his platform, Ron ad¬ vocates weekly meetings of the Cabinet before the Board meet¬ ing so it . would be possible to discuss, vote on, and recommend • Continued on Page Four Are ASB Elettions a Farce? Pictured above is a procedure that has become famous in our society as one of our greatest American principles: the casting of ballots to elect leaders chosen by a self- governing people. Has this tradition be¬ come a farce in recent years on the Pasa¬ dena City College campus? It most certainly has! During the past few semesters, the Associated Student Body elections, in which the holders of student body membership books elect their representatives in student government, have reached a new low in student popularity and interest. On each election day, a handful of students (a mere few hundred at the most) have turned out to vote for a skeleton slate of candidates. We’re not going to whitewash the As¬ sociated Student Body election situation any longer. The facts are all too evident — and the facts are bad. They paint a dark picture of student democracy as far as Pasadena City College is concerned! Why? Ask the Associated Student Body of¬ ficers. They’ll solemnly shake their heads and declare in mournful tones that “it is too bad that the students aren’t taking more of an interest in ASB government” and “something should certainly be done to create more of an interest in Associated Student Body elections.” The lack of action on the matter stemming from room 17C makes these righteous sounding declara¬ tions rather weak. Perhaps it is a case of the Associated Student Body government officials themselves not showing much of an interest in Associated Student Body gov¬ ernment. Such headlines as “ASB Presi¬ dent Race Draws Six Candidates” in the El Camino College Warhoop, and similar ones in other junior college newspapers, make us wonder what the trouble could be on our own campus! What is wrong with our elections sit¬ uation? Ask the campus newspaper editor! In the past, he has been all too willing' to point out the faults that are only too evident — but he has done little to offer any sort of remedy. His editorials have demanded ac¬ tion, but that is all the farther he has gone. Ask the average student! “Yes, I vote,” he may tell you, “but I don’t know who I am voting for or why. Why don’t I attend the elections assembly and listen to what the various candidates have to offer? What difference does it make! They’re all the same to me!” We only hope that Mr. Aver¬ age Student changes his ways before he becomes Mr. Average Citizen. Did you, reader, vote in the last Asso¬ ciated Student Body election? Why? Or why not ? We could sign off this editorial with a demand for immediate action! But we’re not going to do so. That would only be “passing the buck” to others, when the job is as much ours as any body elses. We’re going * on record to say that this newspaper will be only too glad to take part in any sort of program offered by the Associated Student Body to remedy the elections situation! And we would like to know if our readers (the voters them¬ selves) have any suggestions to offer. Why aren’t the student elections a center of campus- wide interest? We’d like to know! Of course we want everyone to vote Friday! But the disinterest that has been shown in past elections shows us that something more than a mere announce¬ ment of an election is necessary to get our voters to respond. How about it, students of Pasadena City College? Any ideas? — Dick Anderson, Editor ASB Posts Sought by 26 Hopefuls All members of the Associated Student Body are urged to cast their ballots in the ASB general election slated to come off this Friday, Jan. 15, according to Jeanette Payne, commissioner of elections. In the running for the ASB top spot are two presidential candi¬ dates, Phil Bauman and Jim Blixt, with a trio of office seekers after the vice-presidency. Sylvia Pauloo, Ron Fox, and Tom Little¬ field makeup the slate running for Associated Student Body veep. The presidential and vice- presidential candidates are dis¬ cussed more fully in other arti¬ cles on this page. The female voters on campus will ballot for Nancy Wichman or Sue Doehring, candidates for Associated Women Students pres¬ ident, while George Jenkins and Ed ’Linberg are seeking the top post in the Associated Men Stu¬ dents organization. Shirley Smith and Chris Tam- be are campaigning for the office • Continued on Page Four Pair Run for Sthool Top Offke Two candidates are in the race for the presidency of the Associ¬ ated Student Body, top student office on the Pasadena City Col-, lege campus. Phil Bauman, a veteran, and Jim Blixt, president of the Lancers, are vying for the ASB top-spot in the student gen¬ eral election scheduled for this Friday. Bauman, who attended PCC be¬ fore his stint in the armed forces, would like to lay the groundwork for compulsary ASB Bauman Blixt membership, keeping in mind that increased membership would no doubt lower the cost of the book. He feels that the affairs of the Associated Student Body are the affairs of the school, and therefore should be made more public. Bauman also feels that the college students will bene¬ fit under the 6-3-3-2 program, and he would like to guide the stu¬ dent body through the transition. Blixt, if elected, will try and get social clubs back on campus, sponsor veterans’ activities, place a new emphasis upon student government, bringing it back in¬ to the confidence of the students. He hopes that Pasadena City Col¬ lege may have a better all-around student government program during the coming semester.