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- PCC Courier, April 21, 1978
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PCC Courier, April 21, 1978
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“HIGH” UPON THE ALTAR— New campus minister Father Brad
Dusak is happy to be on campus, where he says his primary goal is to
make friends. —Courier Photo by Suzan Guerra
Campus Priest Wants
Students As Friends
Groups Circulating Petitions
Care Drive Begins
By Amy Miller
Feature Editor
“Dad Brad” is the new campus
minister.
A Catholic priest appointed by the
Ecumenical Council of the Pasadena
area churches, Father Brad Dusak is
available as a friend and counselor to
all students on campus.
Father Dusak, known as Dad Brad to
his friends, spends the hour from 11 to
noon in his Campus Center office. The
rest of the day he wanters around the
campus trying to meet students.
Father Dusak, who was voted the
“Most Beautiful Baby of 1939,” always
wears his collar denoting his priest¬
hood when on campus. He says that he
notices people’s eyes go right for the
collar as they do a double-take. He is
hoping that word will “get around that
there is this weird priest” on campus.
Father Dusak said he is “trying to
express the love and acceptance that
Christ has for people” to PCC students.
He repeats often that Christ “loves us
A constitutional amendment which
may lead to the election of a new
Faculty Senate vice-president will be
voted on in May.
In addition to the amendment, the
faculty will be asked to affirm or
rescind the Faculty Senate Board’s
(FSB) appointment of Joseph Probst,
instructor of communication, to that
post.
If it rescinds the FSB’s appointment,
the senate nominating committee will
submit two names to be put on the
ballot for a new election.
The amendment, in response to a
petition initiated by Pat O’Day,
associate professor of physical
as we are.” That is his operating
procedure.
Dad Brad spent time as music
director at St, John’s College and as a
parish priest in the surrounding area.
He spent the last four years as a
Benedictine monk - at St. Charles’
Priory in Oceanside.
His current project is “trying to
figure out a way to get to know 20,000
students.” The students or student
groups he wants to get to know do not
have to be “religious.” “Any door that
happens to be open, I go through. I
maintain people are people. If some¬
body can take something from me,
terrific.”
Father Dusak feels that he is “more
capable of being a friend than adviser.
Not everyone wants your advice but
they may need a friend.”
So far he has met with “fantastic
acceptance and help” on campus and
finds the people, students and staff
alike, friendly and helpful.
sciences, stipulates new elections shall
be held in the event an officer -elect
resigns or cannot take office.
Presently, vacancies are filled by a
majority vote of the Senate Board. The
amendment deals only with officers-
elect prior to taking office.
Earlier this semester, William
Gibson, a counselor and the FSB
treasurer at the time, was elected vice-
president for the 1978-1979 school year.
When he resigned from the college,
the FSB appointed Probst to take his
place. In the previous at-large elec¬
tions, Probst ran against Gibson and
lost.
O’Day, who would be a candidate for
the office himself, said he thought the
FSB’s appointment of Probst was
undemocratic, FSB President
Child
By Arthur Wood
Staff Writer
Petitions are being circulated at the
Campus Center calling on the Board of
Trustees to set up child care facilities
for PCC students.
A similar petition drive within the
community is attempting to establish
the need and desire for a child
development center. Further, a
random telephone survey will be
conducted soon with the administra¬
tion’s assistance, said PCC’s Student
Senate President Charlotte Hutchins.
Valerie Martin, co-chairperson of a
student child development committee,
said efforts had been made in the past
to establish such facilities but concrete
proposals never reached the Board of
Trustees.
This semester, the committee plans
to submit a detailed proposal for child
care to the board, including funding
ideas and suggestions for a site.
Administration officials have said
there is no room on campus for a child
care center. However, the group is
proposing the land adjacent to the
campus between Bob’s restaurant and
Burger King be purchased for the
facility.
Presently, the college is negotiating
to buy the land, but not for child care.
The college plans to lessen PCC’s
parking problem with the installation
of approximately 150 parking spaces.
A second proposal for a site would be
nearby residential property that could
be purchased by the college for a child
care center.
Response to the community petition
drive has been “pretty good,” ac¬
cording to Ms. Hutchins. Seventy-five
By Vivianne-Marie Parker
Staff Writer
ASB and New Pasadena, a campus
group, are pushing for a no-vote on the
Jarvis initiative.
Plans to demonstrate the group
position include a march from the
school to city hall on April 25 at 1 p.m.
As a result of last Thursday’s ASB
Board meeting, the two groups have
set up a coalition which aims to make
Chrystal Watson said. The petitioners
want the vice-president to be elected
by the Senate as a whole.
Since there is “so much time”
between now and next October, when
the new officers assume their duties,
Ms. Watson agreed the constitution
should be “democratized.” She also
said she was quite happy with the
present choice but that the decision is
up to the faculty.
If new elections are held, Probst said
he does not know if he would run again.
“I hate to make speculations about
something that hasn’t happened yet.”
It appears Probst, who represents
the Communication Department,
might end up without any position on
the board. Once the FSB appointed
him vice-president, his department
chose another representative to
replace him for next year. If his ap¬
pointment were rescinded by the
faculty and he failed to win a new
election, he would have no position on
the FSB.
Maria DiMassa, associate professor
of English, recently was appointed by
the FSB to finish Gibson’s term as
treasurer for this year. The whole
Senate elected her treasurer for next
year.
A third item on the May ballot deals
with another petition submitted to the
FSB about one month ago. Signed by
more than 40 faculty members, it
stipulates certification of competency
for continued employment past age 65
be based on the same standards of
competency as for other faculty
members. <
Petitioners felt a new retirement
policy recently approved by the Board
of Trustees was discriminatory to
teachers over 65. They wanted the
trustees to delay action on the matter
until the Faculty Senate had a chance
to voice its opinion through an election.
Ms. Watson said the wording of the
petition makes it a statement of
principle more than an effort to change
the new retirement policy. “Mixed
signals” between the FSB and the
administration over the new policy had
been the biggest problem, she said.
signatures have already been obtained
and more are expected, she said.
Volunteers are still needed to assist
the committee in its telephone survey,
she said.
The California Community College
Student Government Association
(CCCSGA) officially came out against
lowering the drinking age to 19 at a
spring conference held in Sacramento
recently.
PCC’s four delegates to the confer¬
ence also voted against lowering the
drinking age. They were Ron Grant,
ASB president; Charlotte Hutchins,
Student Senate president; Anita
Cosey, Sophomore Class president;
and Elena Rodriguez.
Ms. Cosey said the four representa¬
tives felt it would “cause more
problems with drunk driving” if 19-
year -olds could buy liquor.
Since PCC’s ASB just recently joined
the statewide organization, position
papers on various resolutions such as
the drinking age measure were not
sent to the college in time to get
student input. Consequently, our four
delegates had to vote according to
their own consciences, she said.
information available to the students.
A voter registration booth is set up
outside the cafeteria to urge non¬
voters to become aware of the issues in
the community and school. Several
petitions to extend the deadline on the
equal rights amendment are also being
circulated. Information on Jarvis is
listed on a poster above the booth and
more information can be obtained by
speaking to the representatives
present.
A child care petition is also available
there. The coalition hopes to join the
Faculty Coalition, according to Steve
Skordiles, ASB finance commissioner,
who heads the student group.
Senator Albert Rolda is being con¬
tacted to speak at the school on the
initiative.
Other plans include flyers
distributed throughout the school and
the community. The group is trying to
get a special discount rate for
mailings.
The Jarvis initiative proposes
reduced property taxes, commercial
and personal. Assessments will return
to 1975-76 market values and remain
there at an annual increase of two per
cent as long as the same owner keeps
the property.
Spaulding Fills
In as Interim
Head of CATC
Vernon G. Spaulding, the supervisor
of Occupational Education at PCC, has
been chosen for an interim assignment
as supervisor of the Community Adult
Training Center (CATC).
The position has been vacant since
the March death of longtime CATC
supervisor Bob Dickerson.
Spaulding said that his interim
assignment “would only fc?e until
further notice.
“I accept the job as a challenge and
will do everything possible to bridge
the gap left due to the untimely passing
pi Bob Dickerson. I will be working
under the jurisdiction of Manny Perez,
dean of Extended Campus Programs.”
Due to “the new political winds of
Jarvis,” Spaulding said that he may be
forced to cut certain classes and will
“do everything necessary in the
college interest to maintain cost effec¬
tiveness.”
Spaulding emphasized that CATC
“would continue to develop classes
that will meet the needs of the com¬
munity.”
“We’re trying to keep the calling
load at 20 calls per person,” she said,
so it will take at least 20 volunteers to
contact the 400 people in the survey.
The survey will determine how many
community college students and
organizations to cease doing business
with banks maintaining financial
interests in the “racist South African
regime,” as the resolution terms it.
Chase, Security Pacific and Bank of
America were some of the banks
mentioned.
CCCSGA also officially opposes the
Jarvis-Gann tax initiative.
PCC representatives voted in favor
of the resolution, which states the
initiative, or Proposition 13, would
“seriously reduce the necessary
financial support for community
colleges.”
The resolution further exhorts
member colleges of CCCSGA to work
actively against Proposition 13 by
educating students and community
members of the potential cutbacks in
services, programs and personnel in
community colleges.
Obtaining a student vote on the State
Board of Governors was discussed,
said Ms. Hutchins, “but that’s all.”
While this bill benefits homeowners
because their property taxes would not
be hiked, local governments such as
education, police and fire protection
and hospital care may face sizable cut¬
backs.
If passed, the bill goes into effect
July 1.
Besides the Jarvis issue, the ASB
Board is still trying to set up a political
forum on campus for candidates in the
42nd district.
Also at Thursday’s meeting, there
was a motion to grant Circle
К
the
remaining $100 it requested. The group
women would attend PCC if low-cost
child care were provided by the
college.
As soon as Robert Berger, director
of Computer Services, provides a
computer printout of names and phone
numbers, the random survey will
begin, Ms. Hutchins said.
From the printout, every twentieth
number will be chosen to ensure a
random sample is taken, she added.
The phone numbers of the prospective
contacts will be provided, but she
emphasized no information will be
removed from the files in order to
protect the privacy of the people to be
contacted.
Dr. I. G. Lewis, vice-president of
Student Personnel Services,
authorized the release of the informa¬
tion by Bruce E. Conklin, dean of in¬
stitutional research, according to
Berger. The phoning will be done from
Conklin’s office, he said.
Through the telephone survey and
the various petitions, the committee
hopes to prove establishment of a child
care center would attract new students
who otherwise would be unable to
afford private child care.
The committee hopes this plan might
appeal to the trustees because a drop
in enrollment at PCC is causing a
reduction of the school’s budget.
The committee is also seeking state
funding for child care needs, Ms.
Martin said. If the trustees approve
the center, an effort would be made to
make it self-supporting. The center
could handle approximately 90
children a day.
For more information on the child
care proposal or on volunteering to
help, call 578-7384.
asked for $200 for its international con¬
ference, which it attended last week.
Previously the board only granted
Circle
К
a loan because it wanted to
keep enough money in the general
account for emergencies.
But Skordiles commented that if
members of the board give money
from their accounts, a grant can be
given instead.
Associated Men Students President
Ron Dixon gave $50 to Circle K. Ath¬
letics Commissioner Les Thompson
and Freshman Class President Lisa
Albanese gave $25 each.
Regional Peer Counseling
Conference Set for PCC
Peer counselors, Equal Opportunity Program students and personnel from
18 colleges have been sent intentions to attend the regional Peer Counseling
Conference which begins here next Friday from 8 : 30 a.m . until 2p.m.
Nat Jackson, associate dean at El Camino College, will be a guest speaker.
He plans to discuss the profile of peer counseling and the general impact it has
made on the professional field of counseling.
Six schools will present workshops. Southwest College plans to do “Show
and Tell, What's New;” Fullerton, “Working Relationships;” and Rio Hondo
College, “Where Do We Go From Here?” These workshops will be presented
from 10:30 to 11:30a.m. in the Circadian lounge near the Campus Center.
Los Angeles City College will present “How Do We Take Care of Ourselves ; ”
Harbor College, “Values Clarification” and Glendale College, “Groups vs.
One-to-One.” These run from 11 :30 a.m. to 12:30p.m. also in the Circadian.
PCC, host of the conference, has 12 certificated peer counselors, all of
whom must have a background in psychology or sociology.
Students then must enter a nine-week training session, including field
practice in counseling. After that, they had to go before a committee for cer¬
tification.
Students interested in peer counseling do not need a specific grade point
average to be admitted. Counselor Dorothy Emerson feels that since students
must help solve others’ problems, they generally solve theirs first.
Eighteen more students are taking training now.
—Vivianne-Marie Parker
—Courier Photo by Paul Fanci
DESIGNED FOR TODAY— Student construction workers install the
solar energy panels which will power the model home now reaching
its final stages of construction. Steve Mueller (left), Willie Haywood
(center) and Xavier Pichardo are shown doing the heavy work. The
panels circulate 15,000 gallons of chemically treated water which
heat copper coils and transfer energy to the house.
FSB Constitutional Amendment
May Recall Probst as Vice-Prexy
By Glenda Cade
Assistant News Editor
Another resolution PCC voted for
and saw passed was one urging
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ASB Mounting Effort To Raise
Voter Opposition to Jarvis-Gann
Student Gov't Group Says
No to Drinking Age Cut