Senate, Ecology Club Plan Teach-In
PCC CoufiieSt
VOL. 32, NO. 8
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
APRIL 1, 1970
Class Time Allotted
to Attend Program
The Student Senate and the Ecology Action Club wili
sponsor a day-long Ecology Teach-In on the PCC campus
Wednesday, April 22. This program has been timed to coincide
with similar programs to be held on that day throughout the
country. The major event planned _ _
is a series of lectures to be pre¬
sented in Harbeson Hall. This part
of the day’s events will begin at
9:30 a.m. and will include:
Donald and Gwen Moffat, sat¬
irists from the Music Center, who
recently appeared at PCC in one
of the English Department Col¬
loquium programs;
Dr. Alan Sweezy, a professor
from Cal Tech, who will speak on
the problems of over-population;
Ed Essertier, editor of the Pasa¬
dena Star -News and congressional
candidate. Essertier’s topic will be
“Politics and Pollution”;
PCC professor Bill Cotton, who
will discuss the decay of our en¬
vironment.
Programs for Mornings
These programs will be present¬
ed from 9:30 a.m. until noon. A
question and answer period is
planned after each speaker. The
times for the individual speakers
will be announced shortly.
In other areas of the campus,
the Ecology Action Club will be
presenting discussion groups con¬
cerned with various aspects of the
environment and its problems.
These groups are planned for the
afternoon hours and will not con¬
flict with the lectures in Harbeson
Hall.
In the Campus Art Gallery, an
exhibit of art relating to the pol¬
lution problem will be shown.
This exhibit, which will tentative¬
ly be held over for the rest of that
week, will contain photographs,
graphics and displays showing en¬
vironmental destruction and its
effects on man.
One of the objects planned for
view is the first tree killed by
smog in San Bernardino National
Forest. With the cooperation of
the Forestry Service, this tree, or
part of it, will be brought to the
PCC campus for the exhibit.
Another presentation in the
planning stage involves the South¬
ern California Gas Company’s ef¬
forts at converting their trucks to
low-pollution propane fuel. It is
hoped that the gas company will
send one of these trucks with a
representative who will be able
to discuss the benefits of propane
as an automobile fuel.
Student Senate Works!
The Student Senate has done
much work to insure the success
of the “Teach-In” program. It has
made arrangements for the use of
facilities at PCC and has worked
to get permission for all students
to attend programs during their
class hours without penalty.
Through their efforts the “Teach-
In” wifi stand a greater chance
of being a success.
The Ecology Action Club has
been the motivating force behind
the program. It is working with
the speakers, the gas company,
and the U. S. Forestry Service to
plan and prepare the many ex¬
hibits and lectures planned for
that day.
The Ecology Teach-In will re¬
quire the support and the attend¬
ance of the student body if it is
to be a success, since its major
function is to educate students
and warn them of the many dan¬
gers to our environment.
CRAIG HOLDEN, Richard Jones and Marchelle
Seymor act out a scene from the comedy, "The
Great Sebastians," put on by PCC drama stu¬
dents. The play ran March 27 and 28 in Sexson
— Courier Photo by Darrell Slocum
Auditorium. The spirited comedy marked the
third PCC production of this year's drama sea¬
son. “The Great Sebastians" was directed by
Donald Liercke.
Superiority of PCC Students,
Teuchers, Educution Revealed
PCC transfers to UC do better
in their junior year than do those
who enter UC as freshmen.
This interesting data was re¬
vealed by Dr. John Tulley of the
Hawaiian Band Trip Canceled;
Sacramento To Be Bestination
By MAKY SULLIVAN
Sacramento! The PCC Lancer
Band is headin’ your way.
Despite an all-out effort by the
band members and the booster
club to finance a trip to Hawaii,
they fell several thousand dollars
short of their goal.
Dr. Richard Coy, director, des¬
cribed the band’s recation to the
cancelling of the Hawaiian trip as
“relieved.” In order to have made
the trip possible, the band would
have had to shell out a couple of
hundred dollars each, which many
could not afford.
“Some students were probably
disappointed,” said Dr. Coy, “but
they hid their feelings well.” Dr.
Coy has found no change in the
morale of the band. “They are all
enthused about the trip” up
north.
The Lancers will fly north to
Sacramento April 7. From there
they will be bussed to Chico State
to play a performance Tuesday
afternoon.
Wednesday, April 8, the band
will play at either Yuba College
or UC Davis. That concert’s plans
have not been completed.
A special performance in the
Rotunda of the Capitol in Sacra¬
mento will be held at 10 a.m. on
Ronald Reagan Reel
Offered as Alternative
By LYNNE BIANCO
This writer would like to per¬
sonally apologize for printing mis¬
information concerning the lec¬
ture series, “Multi-Dimensional
Man.” Due to the lack of a date
on the brochure I obtained, I in¬
terpreted last year’s series as
being current. I hope that no one
was seriously inconvenienced by
this oversight.
All is not lost, however, for in
place of the lecture series you
can attend a free movie starring
our esteemed governor, Ronald
Reagan.
“King’s Row” is based on the
best-selling novel by Henry Bell¬
man. It “ . . . tells the story of two
boys growing up in a small mid-
western town around the turn of
the century and of the successes
and failure, happiness and trag¬
edy, that mark their lives.”
Come witness Reagan’s “widely
acclaimed performance” in this
“highly dramatic, adult film.”
Presented on Monday, April 6
at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. at the Pasa¬
dena Public Library, 285 E. Wal¬
nut St., “King’s Row” is not to
be missed.
Practice your clapping or hiss¬
ing (whichever is appropriate)
and see Gov. Reagan at his finest
hour in this most exciting drama.
Thursday. Afterwards the band
will be taken on a guided tour of
the Capitol. That night members
of the band will have free time
in San Francisco. They will fly
home Friday.
The tour was made possible by
a large donation from the Tourna¬
ment of Roses Association. With¬
out it the band would not have
been able to make the trip.
Music includes “March Slave”
by Tchaikowsky, “Suite for Band”
by Pottenger, “Beguine for Band”
by Osser, “Incantation and Dance”
by Chance, “Fantasia in G Minor”
by Band, and other selected
marches.
The band will feature A1 Miller
as trombone soloist. A clarinet
quartet composed of Mike O’Grat¬
tan, Darryl Stevens, Linda La-
Pointe, and Marlyn Macabtis, will
also perform.
Another group will be a dixie¬
land combo. Members are A1 Mil¬
ler, trombone; Bob Snyder, trum¬
pet; Randy Brown, tenor sax;
O’Grattan, clarinet; Larry Rice,
string bass; and Dennis Watson,
tuba.
Besides the 60-member band and
Dr. Coy, Jim Leehy, president of
the Band Booster Club, and John
McFarlane, counselor, will also go
on the tour.
The band and Dr. Coy appreci¬
ated all the support and help they
had from the students and com¬
munity members. Dr. Coy said the
band will represent PCC as best
it can.
PCC staff at a most informative
Board of Trustees meeting at La
Canada on Monday of last week.
PCC transfers to UC showed an
average drop in GPA of — .23. The
overall average drop for those
entering UC is one whole point.
It is felt that the outstanding
faculty at PCC must account for
some of this good showing. Under
the leadership of Dr. Armen Sara-
fian, teachers have been free to
experiment with innovative meth¬
ods which get difficult materials
across to students.
The administration has also
wisely listened to student com¬
plaints before they become insur¬
mountable tensions. In this com¬
paratively tension-free atmos¬
phere, students have been free
to learn.
Dr. Tulley pointed out that the
studies he presented are an ave¬
rage of all students and do not
reflect the student’s GPA from
high school.
Other matters covered by the
Board of Trustees included a plan
being developed to enable more
qualified juniors and seniors from
high schools in the area to take
classes at PCC.
The model high school plan now
in experimental stages through¬
out the nation was presented and
discussed at length.
The meeting was well attended.
Many local La Canada residents
were present, as well as faculty
and administrators from local
high schools and PCC.
PCC Reacts Smoothly
To Tightened Parking
Space requirements for the air
conditioning and remodeling proj¬
ect groundwork have already
shoved many faculty members out
of reserved parking spaces. But
according to security chief Gil
Robinson, “The transition has
been very good as far as the staff
is concerned.”
The first weeks of the tighten¬
ed parking situation have passed
without any major difficulty, but
this peace may not last.
An increase in the facilities
south of the Robbins Building, as
well as the 17 compact car spaces
in the new staff lot east of V
Building have absorbed much of
the overflow.
However, Robinson says, when
new construction claims more
parking near the model home
area, “We expect to have not as
much serenity as we do now. It
may be that some of our staff and
faculty members will have to in¬
vestigate the lost art of hiking.”
Re-design and expansion of the
parking lot south of Winship on
the east side has been set for
within four or five weeks and wifi
also help to ease the problem.
Work should begin, according to
Robinson, as soon as the houses
on that property can be cleared
away.
Re-design will involve another
compact car area and possibly
the closing of Winship for more
parking.
ASPECT Available
ASPECT, PCC’s magazine, put
out twice a year by the journal¬
ism section, can be obtained in
31C between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
this week. ASPECT is free to
SBAC cardholders who pick it
up before April 3. After that
date all unclaimed copies will
be put on sale. If students don’t
have an SBAC card, they can
buy the magazine for 75 cents.
