Financial Aid Issue Ranks First at
Lobbying Conference in Washington
By Monique Meindl
News Editor
Indications that student activism
could sway Congress to oppose student
financial aid cuts outlined by the Re¬
agan administration, are apparent on
Capitol Hill, according to Edward
Razor, sophomore class president.
Razor recently represented PCC at the
12th Annual Lobbying Conference in
Washington, D.C., and will address the
Student Body next Thursday at noon in
Harbeson Hall.
The conference, sponsored by the
United States Student Association held
April 10-14, worked to stimulate stu¬
dent leaders to start campaigns at
colleges around the nation which would
emphasize issues affecting students.
Financial aid is the primary issue,
according to Razor.
Leadership Skills
“The conference emphasized leader¬
ship skills needed to help initiate pro--
grams on campuses,” Razor said.
The common feeling among approx¬
imately 500 student leaders attending
the conference was that proposed fi¬
nancial aid cuts would cripple higher
education. The USSA, therefore, is
working to secure funds for such pro¬
grams as the National Direct Student
Loan Program, PELL Grant Program,
and the Guaranteed Student Loan Pro¬
gram.
“Writing to congressmen does
work,” said Razor. “Congressmen
take a direct stand from what consti¬
tuents relay to them as their needs.
Writing has a great deal of influence,
but it depends on the number of letters
received.”
Razor, who heads the ASB’s Student
Financial Aid Committee, took 35 let¬
ters from PCC students concerning the
cut to Congressman John Rousselot’s
office in Washington, D.C.
Contrary to popular belief Reagan is
not decreasing federal spending but
increasing it, according to Con¬
gressman George Brown. “Reagan is
taking $43 billion out of education and
social programs and putting $46 billion
into military spending,” Brown said.
People believe Reagan is decreasing
spending to curb inflation in order to
stabilize the economy, however, this is
not true, he added.
“Congress is going on what they
believe is popular opinion because they
do not hear from constituents,” said
Razor, “this is why writing is so
important.
“Congress is getting input from the
conservative Republican Party line
which is for the cuts. If they don’t hear
from us then they will go with the party
line,” Razor said.
Information is the lobbyist’s stock
and trade, according to Razor. “The
lobbyist is an information source. He
must know both sides of an issue, but
show his side is better.
Lobbying Congress
“To lobby I had to go to con¬
gressmen’s offices and make appoint¬
ments to speak to them. If the con¬
gressman was not in I got in touch with
persons handling the budget issue. In
all I went to five offices,” Razor said.
Razor’s strategy was to first find out
what stand the congressman took and
then discussed the issue hoping to
influence a possition in his favor.
“As a whole I became extremely
inspired at the conference,” said
Razor, who is planning to re-form the
letter writing campaign on campus. He
feels that the cuts can be curtailed if
there is enough student input.
“The Congress is aware that there is
only so much money and that everyone
has to take cuts, but the proposed cuts
are going to be crippling,” Razor said.
“A significant amount of money can
be saved by changing administrative
forms of implementation of govern¬
ment programs in general.”
Status Quo
The USSA’s platform suggests that
there has been a change in the status
quo of administration of the Guaran¬
teed Student Loan Program because
President Reagan is using the example
of a small percentage of students tak¬
ing advantage of the program’s benefit
for non-educational purposes as prece¬
dent for massive cuts to the program.
Most financial aid programs dis¬
tribute money on a monthly or quarter¬
ly basis. However, the GSL program
gives the money in a lump sum which is
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PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
APRIL 24, 1981
Senate Proceedings
Stop Impeachment
INTERNATIONAL DAYS — International Club cele¬
brated International Days April 20, 21 and 22. Students
dressed in native costumes to attend a special reception
— Courier photo by Kim Glidden
in the Free Speech Area Tuesday. The festivities
included a bake sale, an international book display in
the library, and special Cafeteria food.
Speech-Language Services Expanded
By Julien Orow
Associate News Editor
Impeachment proceedings against
Mike Valentine, Student Senate first
vice president, were dropped in Tues¬
day’s Student Senate meeting, unless
new charges are brought.
“If anything is to be continued from
here on, it’s like starting back at
square one,” said Jennifer McKinney,
student activities adviser and Senate
Parliamentarian.
There was also discussion as to
whether Associated Student Body
Board members could vote on Senate
issues. ASB Board members were ex¬
cluded from voting on the ratification
of the Supreme Council, but were al¬
lowed to vote on the impeachment
issue.
Conflict of Interest
“I think it would be a conflict of
interest if the ASB Board members
vote on ratification of the Supreme
Retiring Vice President Is Honored
By Rosemary Cameron
Staff Writer
Dr. Irvin G. Lewis, vice president of
Student Personnel Services, will be
honored at PCC’s Speech-Language
Clinic and Counseling Center’s official
opening to be held April 29 at 3 p.m.
“Dr. Lewis has been very supportive
in helping to develop the clinic,” said
Kathleen M. Peters, certified speech
and language pathologist. Through his
concern and interest in college and
community speech language needs he
has enabled us to expand our facilities
and services, Mrs. Peters said.
The official opening, held in C222,
will include hanging a plaque engraved
with Lewis’s name on the clinic wall.
Community leaders as well as faculty
from speech and language programs in
neighboring universities have been in¬
vited, Mrs. Peters said. “We are hold¬
ing the opening in the clinic rooms so
everyone can see our facilities,” she
Two Sessions Offered
For Summer Schedule
By Lisabet Seek
Contributing Writer
This summer, for the first time since
the passage of Proposition 13, PCC will
offer two six-week summer school ses¬
sions.
The first session begins on June 22
and runs until July 31. The second
session will last from Aug. 3 to Sept. 11.
A limited number of selected classes
from the various departments of the
school will be offered. The variety and
number of classes is greater for the
first session than for the second ses¬
sion. Classes and times are now posted
in D200.
In order to avoid chaos and confusion
during registration, the priority
number system will be used.
On April 27 continuing students can
see their counselors to obtain a permit
to register which can be exchanged for
a priority number. The priority num¬
bers, which are available in D200,
indicate the earliest day and time a
student can register.
New and re-entering students can
get a permit to register beginning April
30.
Students should indicate which ses¬
sion they are planning to attend when
they request a permit to register.
Because of the limited number of
classes offered, students wishing to
attend a certain class should try to
obtain a permit to register as soon as
possible.
added.
Prior to September 1980, the clinic
operated from a small room in D
Building with little equipment. A
speech pathologist was in attendance
for only 15 hours each week, according
to Mrs. Peters.
The clinic then moved to C Building
where facilities were extended to sev¬
eral rooms including a group therapy
room. A speech pathologist is now on
campus for 80 percent of the time, Mrs.
Peters said.
“Extra room enables us to have
graduate students from speech
pathology university programs work
with our speech and language handi¬
capped students,” Mrs. Peters said.
“We are now able to serve far more
students than we were previously.”
The clinic helps students with a
variety of speech and language prob¬
lems that inhibit communication. Some
of the difficulties dealt with include
stuttering,, where sounds or words are
excessively repeated, and articulation,
a pronounciation problem. Abnormal
voice disorders such as words spoken
too loudly or softly are also corrected.
Mrs. Peters said that Lewis has also
encouraged the campus to provide pub¬
licity for the clinic.” This has greatly
helped our outreach program,” she
said. “A lot more people know about
the services we provide now.”
Also recognized at the opening will
be the Pasadena Lions and Kiwanis
Clubs, for gifts of equipment they have
given to the clinic. The Lions Club
donated an auditory feedack unit that
works like a tape recorder. The high
fidelity machine enables students to
clearly hear speech defects, said Mrs.
Peters.
The Kiwanis Club gave a delayed
auditory feedback machine which can
be used for fluency and other com¬
munication disorders, Mrs. Peters
said.
The opening, which is planned to
coincide with Lewis’s birthday, will be
followed by a reception for Lewis in the
Board Chambers in C201. Everyone is
welcome to attend both the opening
ceremony and the reception.
Community Concert Band Presents
Spring Music Festival Performance
By Heather Corrie
Staff Writer
The PCC Community Concert Band
will perform their Spring Music Festi¬
val on Sunday, April 26, at 3 p.m. in
Sexson Auditorium. This marks the
band’s first concert of the second
semester. Directed and conducted by
Robert Ferrington, PCC’s music in¬
structor, admission is free.
The 55-piece band, made up strictly
of percussion and wind instruments,
with membership primarily from the
Tuesday evening class called Com¬
munity Concert Band. However, there
are many members in the band who are
simply community members who felt a
need to audition for the school band and
did so. “The class is open to all
members of the community, as well as
music majors, and full time students,”
Ferrington said . “We get some of our
finest musicians by word of mouth.”
Featured in the production will be
pieces from “A Chorus Line,” as well
as Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Procession of
the Nobles,” and Juleus Rusick’s
“Florentine March.”
Ferrington, who offers the Concert
Band course every semester including
summer, wishes to encourage all stu¬
dents who can’t make it to the per¬
formance but are nevertheless in¬
terested in music to audition for the
band and join up in the class.
“We offer a lot of different types of
music. That way people who are in¬
terested in things like Broadway shows
such as ‘A Chorus Line,’ or other types
of music may get the opportunity to
enjoy that as well as the classical
pieces.”
For those who are just interested in
the viewing side of the musical sphere
Ferrington said to “<r’f>nie and see the
concert on April 2i
Council because it would be dealing
with whether or not they vote per¬
manently in the Senate,” said John
McTeague, senator-at-large.
Barry McGowan, Student Senate
president, read the definition of im¬
peachment, saying, “I’m not sure that
everybody knows it.” The definition is,
“To accuse a public official before an
appropriate tribunal of misconduct in
office; to challenge the credibility of.”
“When you impeach somebody, you
don’t throw them out of office, you are
in essence putting them on trial,” he
said. In the Constitution the proceed¬
ings against Valentine are technically
referred to as recall, McTeague said.
There was debate as to whether the
committee that made the impeach¬
ment report last week was official.
“It states in Robert’s rules that the
president or chairman can appoint a
committee without a vote by the Sen¬
ate. In that respect the committee was
official. However, since there were no
charges ever brought against Mike
Valentine, the committee was out of
order in that respect,” said Barte
Masciarelli, ASB vice president and
senator-at-large.
“There was an informal discussion,
but never a formal committee,” said
McTeague, who was named as being on
the committee, along with Masciarelli
and Larry Conover, senator-at-large.
However, McTeague said, “I have nev¬
er formally attended a committee
meeting.”
During committee reports,
McGowan said, “It’s a debatable com¬
mittee, and I’m not going to recognize
it.” Bob Carroll, Student Trustee and
senator-at-large, objected. He said,
“You recognized it in the last meeting
as being a committee.”
There were charges made last week
that the committee was biased. “Peo¬
ple seem to feel that this is a personal
vendetta on my part. That’s a total
fallacy from A to Z,” said Masciarelli.
However, he feels that this is “a fairly
important issue” and intends to bring it
up again next week. “I don’t intend to
compromise this issue,” he said.
Senate Progresss
There was a feeling among several
senators that the issue had gone far
enough, and was just delaying other
Senate matters. “Now that the objec¬
tion to consideration is passed, it effec¬
tively allows the Senate to progress
constructively,” McTeague said.
“What we have done is gotten it out
of the Senate. It was causing too many
problems,” McGowan said.
Masciarelli is now circulating a let¬
ter which reads, “We the undersigned,
feel that Mike Valentine, first vice
president of the Senate, is not fulfilling
the duties of his office.”
Masciarelli feels that the absence of
the Parliamentarian at last week’s
meeting added to the confusion.
McGowan agrees that having a parlia¬
mentarian present “would have made
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—Courier photo by Davis Barber
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE — Dana Hobart, ASB president, takes
time during Tuesday's Student Senate meeting to look through Robert's
Rules of Order, a guide to Parliamentary Procedure.