PC C CouSiieSv
VOL. 33, NO. 22
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
APRIL 21, 1971
Free Clink Sends
out May Day Plea
By DENISE de VINES
— Courier Photo by Lee Aniel
MIKE HARRIGAN, president of the Ecology Ac- student in the cafeteria. The service will be
tion Committee, serves organic food to a PCC carried on through the week.
Mother Nature Gives
Blessing to Festival
By SALLY HANDFORTH
“May Day” has been appropri¬
ately chosen as the title of the
Free Clinic Concert to be held
May 1 at the Hollywood Bowl.
The objective of the event is to
raise money to help support the
Southern California Council of
Free Clinics.
Several of the clinics are on
the verge of total collapse because
of a lack of funds. The concert
will hopefully “get them back on
their feet.”
The Free Clinics are set up in
certain areas of Southern Cali¬
fornia to provide free medical,
psychiatric, and legal aid to any¬
one on a non-discriminatory basis.
Expenses from Gross
All expenses for the concert,
Bowl rental, musicians’ scale,
stage hands and security will
come out of the gross receipts
with 85 per cent of the net going
to the Council to disburse among
the clinics as it sees fit. The re¬
maining 15 per cent will go to
Garfewga Productions to cover
costs.
Talent for “May Day” are: The
Association, Joan Baez, Country
Joe McDonald, Joy-of-Cooking,
Lee Montgomery, Redeye, Rockin’
Foo, Earth, Wind and Fire,
Stone Ground, Honorary Chair¬
man Jack Nicholson and special
guest speaker David Harris.
Tickets went on sale April 16
at Wallichs Music City, Mutual
Ticket Agencies and the Holly¬
wood Bowl box office. Ticket
prices range from $2.50 to $8.50.
Show times are 2 to 6 p.m.; 6 to
7 p.m., intermission; 7 to 11 p.m.
Many Help
The following organizations
have been helpful in the presen¬
tation of “May Day”: Tycobrahe
Sound, McCune Sound, Castle
Lighting, Sunset Limousine Serv¬
ice and the Hollywood Bowl Asso¬
ciation.
The Free Clinics are private,
non-profit, neighborhood health
centers, run by the people (vol¬
unteers except for a paid admini¬
strator) who use the clinics’
services.
The Los Angeles Free Clinic,
the first Free Clinic in Los An¬
geles, opened in early January,
1968 for counseling and treatment
of drug overdoses. Shortly there¬
after, the Free Clinic, recognizing
the acute need in the community
for treatment of all medical prob¬
lems, began adding services and
programs to meet the needs of
the community.
During the last three years,
over 25 Free Clinics have been
established in Southern Califor-
Vets Get More
Pay for Families
Veterans in training under the
GI Bill were reminded by the
Veterans Administration today
that they are entitled to more
money when they get married or
have children.
For example, VA said, a full¬
time student in school will have
his $175 a month increased to
$205 when he gets married and
to $230 if he becomes a father.
Previously, VA said, veterans
could be paid the additional
amounts only from the date they
notified the VA of their new de¬
pendent. Under legislation effec¬
tive last December 24, however,
students have one year from the
event to present the marriage li¬
cense of birth certificate to the
VA.
Since the new law is not retro¬
active, veteran students who were
married or had a child before De¬
cember 24, 1970, and failed to no¬
tify the VA, can be paid only from
that date, VA said.
Veterans who are eligible for
increased payments were urged to
contact their local VA office.
nia. In July, 1970, the Free Clinics
in Southern California organized
the Southern California Council
of Free Clinics to coordinate the
services and activities and espe¬
cially to see that the clinics sur¬
vive with sufficient funds, sup¬
plies, and staffing.
The council feels that in view of
the number of patients treated
and counseled (approximately
175,000 in 1970), financial support
must be accorded the Free Clin¬
ics so that they may become self-
sustaining, self-sufficient entities.
Petrology Class
Back from Trip
The petrology class took its an¬
nual trip to Death Valley last
weekend, March 19 through 21,
to see field occurrences of rocks
and discuss their origin.
Harry Lawrence accompanied
his petrology students on the trip.
The class visited places like
Joshua Tree National Park, the
Calico Mountains, the Pinto Moun¬
tains, and Death Valley. Partici¬
pants camped out each night.
The first night was spent near
Joshua Tree National Park, and
the second night was spent in an
old deserted mining camp outside
Тороса
Hot Springs in Death Val¬
ley.
In Tocopa Springs the students
saw the only Armagosa pup fish
in the world. There are other spe¬
cies of the fish, but the Armagosa
pup fish is only found at this
spot.
No one knows why this type of
pup fish is found only in Death
Valley. It is a natural phenome¬
non.
Class members collected up to
60 rocks of igneous and sedimen¬
tary type, and covered over 1000
miles during the weekend. The
only unpleasant experience, re¬
ported Karen Miller, was that
there was smog in Southern
Death Valley, which had come
through Cajon Pass and traveled
over the mountains from Los An¬
geles.
A photographic survey of the
designs of the street lights of
Los Angeles by Eddy Feldman
are currently on view in the meet¬
ing room of the Pasadena Art
Museum.
The installation is part of the
California Design XI exhibition
that is drawing record-breaking
crowds to the museum, located
at Colorado and Orange Grove
boulevards.
As president of the Los Angeles
Art Commission which is charged
with the selection of street light
The first of the three-day cele¬
bration of Earth Days was damp¬
ened by Nature’s own way of
saying that it is the wrong time
to celebrate the state of the earth.
The second day, however,
brightened a bit and children and
puppies romped on the grass by
the pools, young and old hailed
biodegradables, and an accent on
Mother Nature . . . i.e., braless,
barefooted nymphs walked to the
fixtures for the city, Feldman has
recorded an astonishing diversity
of designs for light standards
which have been installed over
the years.
Also in the meeting room is a
continuous multi-projection pro¬
gram of Los Angeles scenes — its
people, buildings, sounds and
faces — photographed, edited and
recorded by Robert Jahnke, pho¬
tography instructor at PCC.
California Design XI continues
through April 25.
beat of KPCS, Eco-Man paraded
the campus in his green cape,
and all saw more of the sun.
The quad held tables of litera¬
ture on how Joe Student can help
our Ecotastrophy and students
mingled in conviviality and com-
araderie of a common cause, some
seeking the treasured word of
those who spoke in warning tones
of the coming disasters.
While Roger Lovin, Free Press
writer and author suggested
ways of peaceably finding a new
solution to the internal combus¬
tion engine, the John Birch So¬
ciety shrugged regretfully that
their request to outlaw him from
the program was refused. An of¬
fer for equal time was also de¬
clined.
Ed Koupal, director of the
People’s Lobby, tried to empha¬
size the fact that smog is not a
new killer. Billie Shoecraft at¬
tacked herbicides, Laura Tillian,
author of the “Pesticide Jungle,”
expounding on the poison in our
food, Stan Sweeny gave the al¬
ternatives for a natural gas car.
But how many of us did these
speakers reach? Who heard these
pleas to save lives? Who was
aware that our own beautiful
mountains were not to be seen
through the muck of political gar¬
bage floating between PCC and
those disappearing peaks?
“Man Now” — the annual mod¬
ern dance concert presented by
Orchesis Dance Club and the
Dance Production class at PCC
will be presented in Sexson Audi¬
torium on Friday, April 30, at
8:30 p.m.
The public is invited and ample
free parking is available. Admis¬
sion is a $1 donation.
Directed by Mrs. Adele Tingey
of the Women’s Physical Educa¬
tion Department, “Man Now” de¬
picts man and his struggle to
exist, excel, and resist: his fate
and struggle; that which he can
control and that which he can’t.
Let us count those who possibly
became aware of the pollutants.
We can undoubtedly count the 20
active members of Ecology Action
who did all the work to plan the
events of Earth Days, and the 80
semi-active members who are at
least aware of the need for the
eco-minded.
Then we will count the 100 or
so who followed the speakers re¬
ligiously and who probably had
some interest or involvement in
the movement before Earth Days
set out to inform PCC students of
the problems and availability of
solutions.
Perhaps if we considered that
each of the audiences Who listened
to the various speeches might
have been composed of different
individuals, it would be a gratify¬
ing thought that information had
at least been spread thinly among
many, but unfortunately the same
faces appeared.
Well, folks, it was old Mother
Earth’s party and she’s going to
bust you if you don’t stop taking
her goodies and being ungrateful.
Suppose Monday is the first day
of a new decade. It is the last first
day of a new decade for some of
us who will die because we did
not remember that there is a
time element for our involvement
in the celebration of the Earth.
Thirty students have created
the program: the original chore¬
ography; planned and executed
the costumes and sets; organized
the details of crew and backstage
managing.
Citing the success of the recent
Mark Taper productions of “Story
Theater” and “Metamorphoses,”
Mrs. Tingey points out the im¬
portance of dance as a vital part
of theater development of the fu¬
ture.
An abridged version of “Man
Now” will be presented free of
charge Thursday, April 29 at noon
THREE MEMBERS of PCC's Petrology Club are shown above as
they explore some of the mysteries of Death Valley while on the
club's recent voyage to one of the most desolate places on earth.
Lamp Post Designs
Showing at PAM
Dance Club, Production Class
Slate Concert, 'Man Now'