PCC Courier, April 20, 1966

IMPORTANT EVENTS: i Comie% Vol. 24, No. 1 1 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California April 20, 1966 Gym Team National Champs * * * PAGE 4, COLUMN 3 Basic Change in JC Structure * * * PAGE 1, COLUMN 4 Jerry Tarkanian New Coach * * * PAGE 4, COLUMN 1 Noted Authors in Convocation * * * PAGE 1, COLUMN 1 Convocation Brings Modern Revolution The third annual Pasadena City College convocation, “Modem Revolution: Freedom and Responsibility,” will be held tomorrow and Friday. The two-day program will feature two outstanding professors- in-residence, Ray Bradbury and Dr. Russell Kirk. Ray Bradbury, probably Americas most popular science fiction author, will speak on “The Challenge of the Space Age." The author of hundreds of stories, Bradbury has written for literary quarter¬ lies, the best magazines, movies, radio, television, and has been an¬ thologized in more than 130 vol¬ umes. He wrote the script for John Huston's movie version of “Moby Dick,” which was recently shown on campus. Bradbury has said his science fiction has drawn him into a world he never dreamed of enter¬ ing. He is one of the five most popular American writers in the Soviet Union, along with Heming¬ way, Faulkner, and Steinbeck. Dr. Russell Kirk will give his convocation address on “Religion, Ideology, and Revolution.” Kirk, author, educator, and columnist, is regarded as one of the chief philosophers of the new American conservatism. He describes the conservatives with whom he associates as “resolved that all the intricate fabric of the civil social order, woven by the spirit of religion and the spirit of a gentle¬ man, shall not be destroyed by the appetites of our present unruly generation.” In addition to writing a syndicated column, which appears in 30 newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Kirk has written many articles on higher education, and his books include “Programs for Conservatives” and “Academic Freedom.” Since 1956 he has been professor of politics at С. M. Post College of Long Island University. The purpose of PCCs convoca¬ tions has been to emphasize schol¬ arship, self-evaluation, and creat¬ ive thinking in students as well as in faculty. The convocation this year will have a split program, with a mini¬ mum day tomorrow. All classes will be dismissed at 1:30 p.m. At this time, the faculty and the invit¬ ed guests will assembly in Sexson Auditorium to hear the speakers. On Friday, there will be a gen¬ eral session open to all students at 9 a.m. Draft Test This is the final week to obtain applications for the Selective Service System College Qualifi¬ cation Tests which will be given May 14, 21, and June 3 at PCC. The apiications must be post¬ marked no later than Saturday. Applications are available in the counseling center, 138C, or in special services, 14C. An appli¬ cant must be a selective service registrant. The tost score will be one of the factors influenc¬ ing 2S deferments in the future. JC Distrkt Voting Slated for Tuesday By Buss Pooler The proposed unification of neighboring public schools sys¬ tems into a greater Pasadena Ju¬ nior College District will be voted upon April 26 by voters in these six districts. A separate board of trustees would govern the new JC district. 'V' Building Dedicated to Howard E. Marvin RAY BRADBURY science fiction writer Campus Corner PCC GYMNASTS HOST NATIONAL INVITATIONALS The Pasadena National Invita¬ tional gymnastics competition will be held Saturday in the Men’s Gym at 8 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at the College Bank for $2.50. Top gymnasts throughout the country will compete, along with the collegiate champion from Ja¬ pan. Sally “Gidget” Field will be handing out the awards to each winner. KPCS BROADCASTS VIET NAM HEARINGS Senate Foreign Relations tape on the recent Viet Nam hearings can be heard today on KPCS-FM, 89.3 me., from 3 to 5:30 p.m. UCLA MARDI GRAS RAISES CHARITY FUNDS Mardi Gras ’66 will be held on the UCLA athletic field Friday and Saturday. Funds raised from the carnival go to the University Camp, mountain camp for blind, diabetic, and underprivileged chil¬ dren in the Los Angeles area. DR. RUSSELL KIRK . conservative author Dedication ceremonies for the recently finished Howard E. Mar¬ vin Technology Building will be held Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The building was completed in the summer of 1965, and has been in use since September. Marvin was director of voca¬ tional education for the Pasadena City Schools from September 1928, to July 1961. Wesley Smith, state director of vocational education, will deliver the principal address outside the building which houses classes in industrial design, nuclear technol¬ ogy, machine shop, and instru¬ ment engineering technology. Tours and demonstrations of the Marvin Building and the first unit of the Catherine J. Robbins Building, will be held Friday from noon until 3 p.m. for PCC stu¬ dents as well as eleventh and twelfth grade students who have an interest in PCC’s two-year vo¬ cational programs. Twenty-five high schools have been invited to tour the new facilities. Tours in the new $1,707,830, five- story Robbins Building which opened its doors for occupancy following Easter vacation, will be conducted in the cosmetology, dental assisting, medical assist¬ ing, nursing, and business pro¬ grams. Dr. Armen Sarafian, PCC pres¬ ident, feels that this is a real op¬ portunity for exploration of a vo- Polynesian Paradise Candidates Chosen Who will be the queen to reign over the annual OMD Carnival, with “Polynesian Paradise” as the theme, on Horrell Field, May 6, from 6 p.m. to midnight? The OMD interviewing committee selected 15 lovely coeds last Thursday to represent PCC departments. cation and the exciting facilities available in the vocations for pros¬ pective students. Koertge Tape Replay Slated Ronald Koertge’s discussion of “Three New American Writers — - Susan Sontag, Walter Percy, and Rona Jaffe” will be replayed on video tape tomorrow at noon in 19C-1. The characters in Sontag’s “The Benefactor,” Percy’s “The Movie¬ goer,” and Jaffe’s “Mr. Right is Dead,” were given light yester¬ day at the English Department’s colloquium. Koertge discusses the unique ways these characters go about getting their various needs fulfilled. The unnamed narrator in “Mr. Right" is a frustrated career girl with no career; she meets Melba Toast, the skinniest stripper in the world, who gets everything the little narrator ever wanted. Binx Bolling, the moviegoer in the “Moviegoer,” seems normal enough, but he believes in only one thing — the movies. His funny and unfunny condition is the re¬ sult of the war, the 20th century, the modern dilemma. Susan Sontag’s benefactor in “The Benefactor” is a serious dreamer who wants his life to in¬ terpret his dreams. He may be a benefactor to the wrong people, but as an introspective searcher, his discoveries are generally use¬ ful to us all. The addition of Arcadia and San Marino School Districts to the Pasadena City Junior College Dis¬ trict, consisting of La Canada, Pasadena, South Pasadena, and Temple City, is planned. Dr. Armen Sarafian, PCC presi¬ dent, said, “This proposal will help maintain the high standards of Pasadena City College and en¬ hance the common goals of the surrounding school districts.” He added that it will establish the boundary lines of the district so PCC can continue with a diversi¬ fied program for all students. The plan includes the setting up of a seven-member board elect¬ ed by a ward system. Residents of each trustee area will select their own representative. An installment plan will be in¬ stituted for paying off the present junior college district’s bonded in¬ debtedness amounting to $6.3 mil¬ lion. Also to be established is a tax ceiling of 58 cents per $100 assessed valuation for the new dis¬ trict. The County Districting Commit¬ tee has recommended this tax ceil¬ ing because the current JC dis¬ trict budget is approaching its present ceiling of 52 cents. Pasadena voters must amend their charter so the junior college will be free to have a separate board with separate trustee areas. This will divorce the Pasadena Board of Education from its pow¬ er over the present JC district. About 45 per cent of the stu¬ dents now attending PCC come from areas outside present boun¬ daries of the district. For more than 40 years the college has edu¬ cated most of the junior college level students from Arcadia and San Marino. This election formalizes the present geographical, social, and economic ties that link these neighboring cities together, ac¬ cording to Dr. Sarafian. Recent state legislative action requires adjoining “free” terri¬ tories, such as the Arcadia and San Marino districts, to affiliate themselves with a junior college by Sept. 15, 1967. All propositions on the April 26 ballot must pass by majority vote. They include: Mathematics and Astronomy, Bonnie Mittler; Engi¬ neering and Technology, Joyce Mossberg; Art, Anastasia Doovas; Communicati ons (formerly Speech), Jessica Ford; and Physi¬ cal Science, Patti Garren. For Womens Physical Educa¬ tion, Barbara Batts; Men’s PE, Lynn Ratzman; Social Science, Kathy Weigand ; Life Science, Margaret Kliebert; and Library Science, Barbara Long. Also Nursing, Janet Lucas; Mu¬ sic, Frances Cash; Foreign Lan¬ guage, Patricia Harte; English, Judy Williams; and Business, Jeanette Eix. OMD officers report that 36 clubs, councils, and organizations make this year’s carnival the best ever.” Selection of the queen will be by the traditional penny-a-vote ballot. Each Lancer is encour¬ aged to support the candidate of his choice. Bookstore Gives Early Bird Sale In the spring a young man’s fancy often turns to thoughts of graduation, commencement exer¬ cises, and expenses. PCC spring grads must pay their $3.75 cap and gown rental fees at the Col¬ lege Bank before an April 27 dead¬ line. A 20 per cent discount awaits those who take advantage of the PCC Bookstore’s “early bird sale” on PCC rings. PCC OF THE FUTURE is depicted in this artist's conception of what the campus will look like when the second half of the Robbins Building is finished and the ancient "temporary" buildings razed.