— Courier photo by Tom Anderson
DR. HARLAN HATCHER talked of the problems created by the
poor planning of roads and highways through our cities. He said
that highways may tend to create physical barriers between parts
of the city where social barriers are already causing problems.
One Thousand Pounds Netted
In Adelphian Food Drive
Williams Speaks on
Black Consciousness
The Adelphian canned food
drive held recently netted 1000
pounds of food for the Pasadena
Welfare Department and a lot of
surprises for members of the par¬
ticipating clubs.
About 85 PCC students, mem¬
bers of Adelphians, Spartans,
Circle K, Junior Executives, and
OMD, spent two hours collect¬
ing canned food in the Lower
Hastings Ranch area. The food
was distributed at Easter through
the Pasadena Welfare Deprtment
to needy families in the Pasadena
area.
One of the more unusual mo¬
ments of the evening came when
Robert Lett, Adelphian mascot,
who was driving one group,
thought he saw a frog in the mid¬
dle of New York Drive. Lett stop¬
ped the car and got out to rescue
the frog from its rather precari¬
ous position.
Naturally, the only other car in
a radius of five miles was from
the Highway Patrol, and the gen¬
darme whipped out his citation
book to give the humanitarian
(amphibitarian?) a ticket for
stopping a vehicle in the middle
of the street. Lett is planning to
fight the ticket and still has the
The annual PCC literary con¬
test is again being held by the
English Department.
All students taking six or more
units in the regular session or
extended day are invited to enter.
La Canada Seniors
Take Calculus Here
Two high school seniors who
begin each day by taking calcu¬
lus at PCC, recently won the Po¬
mona Invitational Math Contest
for high schools.
As members of the four-person
team from La Canada High
School, Jerry Griggs and Susan
Marsh won trophies and $75
apiece when their team narrowly
beat Arcadia High School in the
final round of competition at Po¬
mona College.
With the math contest follow¬
ing the format developed for
Scholarquiz on television, teams
competed for toss-up questions
and bonus questions.
frog to be used as evidence in
court.
At the party following the ac¬
tual drive, Larry Rollins and Dale
Wade were crowned King Can, be¬
ing the two men the group col¬
lecting the largest amount. The
biggest can was a can of peaches
weighing 6 pounds, 12 ounces.
The second part of Convocation
’69 featured Dr. Julian Nava and
Prof. Joseph Lyford.
Prof. Lyford spoke first and
told of the plight of the “Desper¬
ate City.” Lyford views the “large
swollen city with decaying inner
core” as a symptom of illness in
our country and its politics.
The problems of rural life are
inter-related with those of the
city. Starvation, poor education,
poor health, and joblessness drive
thousands from rural areas into
the already crowded cities.
Figures show that 3.8 per .cent
The final day to hand in manu¬
scripts is Monday, April 21, in
117C.
Manuscripts must be typewrit¬
ten when submitted to Mrs. Alice
Cloran, secretary. Manuscripts
must be submitted anonymously;
each manuscript must bear a pen
name, and must be accompanied
by a sealed envelope containing
the author’s real name, address,
and phone number. The pen name
should be written on the outside
of the envelope.
Students my submit more than
one manuscript and may enter in
more than one category. The
name of the category — poetry,
short story, essay, or article —
should appear in the upper right
hand corner of the front of each
manuscript.
Awards will be given in each
of the categories and will consist
of book orders, $10 for the first
prize and $5 for second in each of
the categories. Awards will be
made at the spring English Hon¬
ors Tea.
Writers' Week
Held May 5-8
“Writing for Today’s World” is
the theme for this year’s fifteenth
annual Writers’ Week to be con¬
ducted by PCC Office of Commun¬
ity Services, May 5 through 8.
Writers’ Week features accom¬
plished writers speaking about the
fields of writing in which they
have succeeded. Morning sessions
will convene at 9:30 at Holliston
Hall, Holliston Avenue Methodist
Church, 55 N. Holliston.
Different speakers will be heard
each evening at 7:30 in Harbeson
Hall.
Mrs. Helen Hinckley Jones, who
is both a teacher here and a pub¬
lished author, is chairman of the
event. She heads the list of speak¬
ers on each day.
Bobker Ben Ali, who has writ¬
ten four contemporary plays, will
speak on “The Transforming The¬
ater: A Writer’s Dilemma.”
Monday evening William F. No¬
lan will speak. He has sold over
350 works for publication, includ¬
ing 19 books. His articles have
appeared in Playboy, Sports Illus¬
trated, and Prairie Schooner.
Writers’ Week, which is held
by PCC for the benefit of the com¬
munity, always attracts many
people from local areas as well as
from throughout Southern Cali¬
fornia.
A total of 11 guests will address
audiences during the three-day
event.
of the country is unemployed. Ly¬
ford noted subemployment un¬
counted makes the situation
worse. Lyford says it is estimated
that 35 per cent of the country
is subemployed.
Lyford’s talk consisted of many
other statistics on the conditions
in both the city and rural areas.
He told of the shortage of hous¬
ing and the need for prefabri¬
cated building materials as a so¬
lution to the problems in the ghet¬
to.
Lyford gave examples from the
building and scientific advance¬
ments in Russia to point out the
deficiencies in the United States.
Community political action will
be just a starting point in solving
the city problems. National efforts
are also needed for success.
Dr. Julian Nava
The next speaker, Dr. Julian
Nava, spoke on “Practicing What
We Preach.”
Young people are better than
ever, according to this champion
of the Mexican-American move¬
ment. The young people are not
just tall and strong, long-lived,
and healthy, but certainly more
intelligent and well-informed.
The four main things which are
occurring among the young peo¬
ple today are outlined in a plan
by Nava.
More and more young people
are willing to change the rules
to their individual circumstances.
State College Transfers
Students expecting to transfer
to a California state college
next fall must make application
by May 15, according to Cleon
Butz, dean of guidance and
counseling.
Franklin H. Williams, former
ambassador to Ghana and current
director of the Urban Center at
Columbia University, addressed
the closing session of the Convo¬
cation ’69 series, “Crises in Our
Cities” last week.
Also speaking was Dr. Harlan
Hatcher, the former president of
Michigan University.
Unexpectedly Williams spoke
on the rising of black conscious¬
ness. “Black consciousness is the
hope of the future,” he said. He
attributed the typical white reac¬
tion to black consciousness — fear
of ignorance.
Blacks survived the inferior
self-image they were forced to ac¬
cept of themselves only through
their music and their religion,
Williams said. But for the most
part, the slaves’ lives were ones
of self pity and self hate.
Williams traced the history of
the black self image to the pres¬
ent day. He said that today
blacks are finding it necessary to
separate from the rest of society
in an effort to form their own
consciousness for themselves.
He noted that this separation is
different from segregation. He
California junior college stu¬
dents are invited to spend Sunday
at the University of Southern Cal¬
ifornia for the first open house
in the university’s 89-year history.
Parents, brothers and sisters,
and friends will be welcome also
for the day-long “USCaleido-
scope,” a fast-paced, constantly
changing program free and open
to all.
All USC schools and depart¬
ments will be participating. Ma¬
jor laboratories, art galleries,
some classroom areas, and many
other points of special interest
will be open with demonstrations,
lectures, panels, and multi-media
presentations.
They are looking for an increase
in opportunity.
There is an increase in aliena¬
tion among young circles. They
are withdrawing from church,
neighborhood, and family.
An increase in sensitivity can
be observed. The young people
are more affected by what the
adults do than by the principles
which the actions reflect.
Escapism, often harmless but
sometimes destructive or detrac¬
tive, makes adjustment a problem
beyond their ability to cope.
His final statement was that all
people should enlighten and in¬
form young people of what to do.
concluded saying that only
when blacks are secure in their
own consciousness wifi be they be
able to join the rest of society
as equals.
For hundreds of years whites
have divided the black man. Only
recently have blacks rid them¬
selves of this abasement. They are
now beginning to define them¬
selves for themselves.
Williams said that the white
domination and definition of the
black man has never fit into the
American democracy and that we
are only now waking up to the
fact that “we have after all, a rac¬
ist society.”
Through slavery, he said, it was
possible to build the self decep¬
tion that slavery was a part of
democracy. It was necessary to
view the black man as not only
subservient but also inferior.
Dr. Hatcher discussed the prob¬
lems created by the outflow of the
upper and middle classes to the
suburbs and the influx of poor
to the central city. He also dis¬
cussed the problems created by
our poorly planned transportation
systems.
While USCaleidoscope is design¬
ed to show the university’s all-
important role in the urban com¬
munity, much of the program will
be heavily weighted in the direc¬
tion of the prospective college stu¬
dent.
A counseling session has been
scheduled for 10 a.m., with ques¬
tions on admissions, financial aid,
housing, and curricula.
A play and program will be pre¬
sented at noon in Bovard Audito¬
rium to acquaint prospective stu¬
dents with aids and advantages
of a university education.
“Students in the Society of the
Sixties” will be a panel presenta¬
tion by USC’s Associated Students
and will deal with the generation
gap, conflict, change, and respon¬
sibility.
On the entertainment side will
be the showing of experimental
films produced by USC’s Division
of Cinema.
Sports enthusiasts will be treat¬
ed to demonstrations and compe¬
tition in SCUBA diving, rugby,
and gymnastics.
The would-be scientist will find
a wide range of demonstrations
and exhibits from astronomy to
usban design including comput¬
ers, laser beams, presentations in
medicine, pharmacy, dentistry,
and engineering.
Some of the entertainment will
be on the serious side: USC’s In¬
ternational Relations Club will
run a simulation of a world crisis
projected to 1975, with students
and faculty playing the roles of
the world’s leaders in making de¬
cisions.
If students do include their fam¬
ilies in their trips, there will be
free baby-sitting service all day.
POET AND ACTOR — Roscoe Lee Brown will present a poetry
reading program in 122R at noon Thursday.
English Department Accepting
Literary Contest Submissions
Julian Nava, Joseph Lyford
Featured at Convocation 69
JC Students Invited
To SC Open House
