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- PCC Courier, April 25, 1975
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PCC Courier, April 25, 1975
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MECHA Festival
Opens Monday
By Wayne Woods
Staff Writer
A weeklong celebration leading up to
Cinco de Mayo (Mexican In¬
dependence Day) starts Monday, April
28, and concludes Monday, May 5.
The weeklong festivities are for all
students to become aware of Chicarios
and their culture. Chicano high school
students from eight area schools will
be invited to attend the daily events.
Schools invited are Blair, Muir,
Pasadena, Rosemead, El Monte,
Arroyo Seco, Mountain View and Foot¬
hill.
According to Lupe Vela, co-chair¬
woman of MECHA, Cinco de Mayo is
celebrated as a reminder of the vic¬
torious small Mexican army that
defeated the French in 1867. Chicanos
and Mexicanos also celebrate to show
their pride in their history, culture and
language.
Ms. Vela says that the celebration
profits will be used to pay back a loan
MECHA received from the ASB. The
remaining money will be used for
scholarships.
Daily events are as follows: Mon¬
day, April 28, Mariachi Uclatlan, noon
to 1 in the free speech area; Tuesday,
April 29, a MECHA presentation by
Lupe Vela and Ana Huizar, co-chair¬
woman for MECHA. There will be a
speaker from Occidental College,
Frank Reyes, and a dance group and
skits from Azusa high school students.
Rio Hondo Ballet Folklorico will be
in the free speech area from noon to 1
on Wednesday, April 30.
A political forum on immigration,
deportation and forced sterilization
will be held on Thursday, May 1.
Antonio Rodriquez, president of CASA
(an organization that works with
immigrant workers and Mexicans);
Antonio Villar, a representative of
Comite Estudiantil del Pueblo; and
Lucy Arguelles, a Chicano feminist
will be the speakers. Other community
leaders are also invited. The forum
will be held in the U Building.
Lee Ma Lama karate exhibition will
be held Friday, May 2 in the free
speech area from noon to 1. A Chicana
award will be presented at a dinner in
the student dining room that evening
from 6 to 9. A dance will start at 9 p.m.
in the student lounge, and a dance
contest, with a cash prize, will high¬
light the evening. Admission is free.
Presentation of the Cinco de Mayo
queen and court will be on Saturday,
May 3. This will be in conjunction with
a dance with two bands, and another
dance with a cash prize. Admission
will be $2.
Chicano Olympics will feature track
and field games, and a boxing exhibi¬
tion with celebrity boxers on Horrell
Field starting at noon Sunday, May 4.
Cinco de Mayo is the culmination of
the festival. The PCC Ballet Folklorico
will perform in the free speech area
from 11 to noon, followed by a play,
“Teatro de los Barrios,” in the free
speech area from noon to 1.
That evening, in Sexson Auditorium,
a movie, “A La Brava;” Chicano-style
modern dances; “Los Vendidos— El
Teatro Campesino,” which is a film;
and David Gomez, author of “Somos
Chicanos, Stranger in Our Own Land,”
will be featured.
The library will also have a display
that week of some Mexican art loaned
by Long Beach City College.
There will be brochures on the fiesta
available around campus. For more
information you can call the Comite
Del Cinco de Mayo in the Chicano
Affairs Office at 578-7486.
ANCHORS AWEIGH — Dancers from the sailor
segment of the Orchesis Club practice their
saluting before the May 2 show. The girls, top row
from left, are Barbara Dorsch, Pam Hydson, Mae
Sue Ibeas, Sharon Winans, Cathy Reilly, Dannalou
Oakes and Denise Daniel. Kneeling, from left, are
Teresa Burke, Mary Johnson and Shari Lorenz.
-Courier Photo by Robert Vance
Modern Dance Students
Offer Annual Concert
What do a Renaissance belly dance,
a “whodunit” and a spaceship journey
into the future have in common?
They are all part of a dance concert
entitled, “Methinks I’ve Been Here
Once Before,” to be presented by the
PCC Coufiieb
Modern Dance Production class and
Orchesis Dance Club on Friday, May 2
at 8:30 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium.
This annual concert, under the
direction of Adele Tingey of the
Women’s PE Department, will feature
30 dance students. Each student has
designed his or her own costume and
has choreographed and worked out all
of the theatrical details of each dance.
The program will include three
viewpoints, with a look at history,
people, and a look at where we are
today. The opening segment will be a
look back into the Renaissance era,
and will feature Sandy Biery, Shirleen
Staffer and Laurie Jennings. This will
be followed by traditional European
dances performed by two dance
groups. The historical view will end
with an American tap dance.
The People segment of the concert
will show how we, as individuals, are
affected by different forces
surrounding us. It will demonstrate
how each of us looks back and reflects
upon the past, and our reaction to our¬
selves and to those around us.
The finale will be a look at where we
are today, and asking if we have really
learned from the past. What we have
already seen and experienced will be
shown.
A tearjerker and a “whodunit” will
be featured. The concert will close
with a look into the future, a
destination unknown.
Tickets for the dance concert are
now available in the College Bank for
$1. General admission at the door will
be $1.50 and 50 cents for children under
12.
VOL. 39, N0.10 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
U Building Evacuated
APRIL 25, 1975
Physical Sciences Professor
Saves Suffocating Woman
Bomb Stare Causes Major Alarm
By James Kevin Ahern
Staff Writer
You are a campus security officer,
responsible for the safety of students
and faculty members, and you hear a
bomb threat has been made, citing a
heavily occupied building as the
target. What do you do?
PCC administrative and security
personnel were placed in that spot
Monday morning, April 14. At 9:09
a.m., Maeda Hall, a switchboard
operator, took a call. An unidentified
man told her there was a bomb in U
Building, scheduled to detonate at 9:30
a.m. After copying down on paper
precisely what he said, she notified
security.
Campus security head Gil Robinson,
and Dean of Student Activities John
Eikenbery immediately responded.
The entire security force was
amassed, and the building was
evacuated at 9:15.
The Pasadena Police, already
notified, arrived within minutes and
took charge of the search operations.
False Alarm
No explosion had occurred by 10
a.m. No bomb was found, it was a
hoax. The students had been kept from
class for 45 minutes.
Bomb threats, usually uncommon at
PCC, are of great concern to officials
of all schools. What is done in the event
one occurs is of utmost priority,
because lives are at stake.
The first step in a bomb scare is the
switchboard operator’s procedures.
Each is trained to stall the caller as
long as possible, using the time to copy
down exactly what he says, and
writing down anything notable about
his voice. This material can be used
later by the police to aid them in their
investigation." Police withheld Mrs.
Hall’s information pending appre¬
hension of possible suspects.
Eikenbery and Robinson both face a
difficult decision when a bomb threat
is received: “Is it, or is it not, ahoax?”
Eikenbery says, “If we have any
feelings it is not a hoax, we will im¬
mediately evacuate the building until
we think it is safe to re-enter. We will
cordon off the building and secure the
doors until we are sure it is safe.”
At one point, following the Monday
evacuation, several students tried to
leave the parking lot and re-enter the
building for their own reasons. They
almost did, because one entrance had
not been locked.
“Some buildings,” says Eikenbery,
“are more difficult to conduct a bomb
search in than others. U Building is one
of the more difficult. With all those
halls, side rooms, nooks and crannies,
it is like a rat maze, and cannot be
covered quickly.”
Time Loss
Eikenbery is concerned with the
cost-in-education-loss caused by a
bomb hoax. “If you multiply the 45
minutes those students were kept out
of class by the educational content of
the classes in that building, all that
heavy biology, anatomy, nursing, the
educational loss is tremendous. He
makes it clear, though, that the
primary concern is that of student and
faculty safety.
Security officers take that position,
too. One officer says, “You cannot
ignore any of these threats. You must
always assume there is a bomb, even if
you have never found one before.
“You cannot base the present on
your past experiences. If you said,
‘Well, it is just a false threat, so let us
go get a cup of coffee, and forget about
it . . . ’, that may be the one time there
really is a bomb.”
Though the members of campus
security have police and military
By Jill Boekenoogen
City Editor
“During the past months several
thefts have occurred on campus which
could have been avoided if more pre¬
cautions were taken,” said Gil
Robinson, district director of security
and parking services.
“What usually happens is that
crimes on campus follow what is
happening in the community. When
community crime is relatively low, it
also is on campus. But when there is
high unemployment in a community,
you will find a rise in crime on cam¬
pus,” said Robinson. “At least more
than half occurs when people make it a
habit to go from campus to campus to
steal.”
Recently there were two thefts, one
at the observatory and the other in
Sexson Auditorium. “Both occurred on
weekends when security is limited to
one person a shift. It is difficult to have
good campus surveillance when
limited to this kind of security,” said
Robinson. “There has also been an
increase in personal losses, too.”
Women’s purses are a prime target.
“Students’ pocketbooks are taken
from restrooms and the library when
students are careless. A student gets
up to get a book and leaves her purse
on the desk; a second later it is taken
into the restroom, the money taken out
and the rest dumped.
“With all the equipment on campus,
like typewriters and sewing machines,
we are being more alert to
unauthorized persons in areas in which
they should not be. We have found wire
on doors to rooms with expensive
equipment. Security is a never-ending
problem.”
Recently Robinson sent a list of pre¬
cautions to staff personnel. These
should be taken to prevent thefts of
equipment and personal belongings.
These include such things as not
leaving offices unattended, keeping an
accurate and current record of all
property under the office’s super¬
vision; making a record of any equip¬
ment removed; not leaving any money
or valuable items in desks; not loaning
keys to anyone; and asking for identi¬
fication from any repairmen who
attempt to remove equipment.
“Several weeks ago two unknown
men approached a teacher in her office
and tried to pass themselves off as
book salesmen, but in conversation she
became suspicious and reported it,”
said Robinson.
“Monday a student saw a person
with a coat hanger by a car and
reported it to us. It tufned out to be a
student trying to retrieve keys he had
locked in his car. Let us (security)
determine any basis for apprehen¬
sion,” concluded Robinson.
training, including, in some cases, a
small amount of bomb-disposal
training, they always relinquish
authority in bomb scares to the police.
If a bomb is found, the “Bomb Squad”
can move in to dispose of it.
“We will always let the police ex¬
perts handle explosives,” says one
officer. “We are not heroes.”
One more thing. What does an in¬
structor do if a bomb hoax disrupts an
exam in his class? Richard Peirce, a
biology instructor, says, “I told my
students, ‘If this should ever happen
again, grab your tests, run down to the
parking lot, and take your tests using
the nearest car hoods for desks.’ None
of them thought that was funny.”
While dining at nearby Bob’s
Restaurant, Harry Lawrence,
assistant professor of physical
sciences, rushed to the aid of a choking
woman, saving her from suffocation.
Noticing a woman who had just
walked out of the restaurant gasping,
Lawrence dashed out to help the
woman, yelling while a number of
people clustered by the door. The in¬
cident occurred on the Wednesday
before spring vacation.
Dr. Norman Juster and Mrs. Alice
Corey, also physical
science
Lecture on Space Exploration
To Launch Journalism Day
E.G. Ted Cook, manpower resource
manager at JPL, will be the guest
speaker at the annual Journalism Day,
to be held on campus on May 1. Cook is
to speak on “What on Earth Are We
Doing In Space?,” a presentation of
past space explorations and
achievements and NASA’s plan for
future missions.
The free lecture is scheduled for 3:30
p.m. in R122.
Approximately 25 high schools from
the San Gabriel Valley area have been
invited to send students to compete in
various writings contests. Past par¬
ticipants have often expressed great
satisfaction in Journalism Day.
Students see it as an opportunity of a
high competitive gathering of jour¬
nalists from different schools, com¬
bined with positive PCC recruiting of
journalism majors.
Professor of Geophysics To Lecture
on Cause of Calif. Earth Tremors
Safeguards Proposed
by Chief of Security
By Ernie Aldrich
Staff Writer
The San Andreas Fault is a valid
concern for those of us living in
Southern California, said Richard
Orbohm, PCC geology instructor and
lecture series organizer. A noted
authority on earthquakes and the San
Andreas Fault in particular, Dr.
Clarence Allen, will speak on these
subjects Thursday night at 7:30.
This is the third in a series of four
campus Forum lectures presented by
the geology sub-department.
Dr. Allen, Caltech professor of
geophysics and geology, did his doc¬
toral dissertation on the San Andreas
Fault. He is also involved with the
seismological laboratory at the school.
According to Ohrbom, the work done
by Dr. Allen in his field was one of the
reasons he was chosen to go to
mainland China last fall. In China he
toured the seismological and
geological facilities and discussed the
problems of earthquake prediction
with Chinese scientists.
China has a fault that is over 504
miles long. This fault makes the San
Andreas only the second longest in the
world, at 420 miles.
The San Andreas Fault runs from
Bodega Bay, above San Francisco, to
the head of the Gulf of California, just
below the Mexican border. Many of the
earthquakes in California occur along
this fault and related faults.
The most noted earthquakes that
have occurred on the San Andreas
Fault were:. -one between Cajon and
Tejon passes in 1857, with maximum
movement along the fault of 20 feet,
the San Francisco earthquake of 1906
with a maximum movement of 21 feet
and the earthquake of 1941 near the
Salton Sea which had an 11-foot
maximum movement.
Dr. Allen will discuss the history of
this great fault, show slides of in¬
teresting fault segments, and tell what
might be expected from the fault in the
future.
The lecture is free and parking for 50
cents is available.
According to Belinda Busteed, PCC
journalism major and chairman of the
event, Journalism Day gives a chance
to different instructors and students to
meet and exchange information about
the journalism curriculums being
offered at area high schools and PCC.
After a welcoming speech by PCC
President Dr. Armen Sarafian,
students competing in the news,
editorial and feature writing contests
will attend Cook’s lecture.
Writers competing in the sports
category will view a film of a Blair
High School football game, then write
about it.
Participating schools are also ex¬
pected to submit copies of their student
newspapers, which are to be judged in
the ■ Best High School Newspaper
contest.
TED COOK
. JPL lecturer
ASB Senate Votes to Limit
General Account Allocations
DR. CLARENCE ALLEN
.... earthquakes
The ASB Senate voted to approve a
revision to the ASB financial code
limiting allotments of funds to in¬
dividual organizations from the
General Account. Allocations shall not
exceed $700 per year or $350 a
semester, so that available money
may be spread through all
organizations.
The amendment for loans or grants
or both stated that active
organizations may request money to
defray no more than 40 per cent of real
or estimated debts which they may
incur by sponsoring campus or
community activities.
Tim Fuller, Senate historian, said,
“If a group wants an activity they
should pay for it, because they are
sponsoring it.”
Any club or organization wishing to
have more money may request a
waiver by petition, which has to be
signed by 10 per cent of the total
enrollment before being presented to
the Senate and ASB presidents.
‘We used to accumulate $60-80,000 in
the general fund in past years,”
continued Champion, “much of it from
student body cards. And even then,
only 24 per cent of the students bought
them.
“Next semester we will have about
$1300 from the cafeteria and $1000 from
other funds. That makes about $8000
and a good working fund is at least
$5000.
“We have to look at the problem
realistically, unless the students can
come up with a way to make money,”
concluded Champion.
The amendment was approved by a
14-to-ll vote.
At last Friday’s emergency Senate
meeting, the financial request for $1824
by the Pan Afrikan Students’ Alliance
was discussed. The Alliance needs the
money for its Black Cultural Week.
The Senate approved $1000 only, then
sent the request to the ASB Board,
which voted a $600 grant and $300 loan
to PAS A.
professors, were eating nearby before
teaching evening classes.
According to Mrs. Corey, when
Lawrence ran to help, the lady’s face
was turning purple. Lawrence
carefully began to slap her on the
back, then reached into her throat and
pulled out a chunk of lettuce.
The lady straightened up, thanked
Lawrence, and walked back into the
restaurant to eat.
Dr. Juster, who also witnessed the
incident, explained that “restaurant
syndrome” cases are becoming more
common.
Juster mentioned that while persons
eat, something can get caught inside
their windpipe, causing them to choke,
keel over and sometimes die. It is
sometimes mistaken by doctors as
heart attack, Juster said.
Thousands have choked to death on
food in the last two years, and many
could have survived if a special plastic
tweezer or small, hand-operated
vacuum pump had been used by the
restaurants. Some parts of the state
are or will be requiring that special
devices such as these be made
available.
When asked how a person could help
someone in this kind of trouble,
Lawrence emphasized careful
removal of whatever is blocking the
victim’s throat.
“She had a narrow escape,” com¬
mented Juster. “I have the greatest
admiration for Professor Lawrence’s
alertness, corret diagnosis of the
problem, and speedy action.”
Bike Expert
To Conduct
Workshop
An all-day bicycle workshop is
planned for May 17, on the PCC
campus. It will be a 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
seminar which will be directed by
Mike Iannone, photo-journalist, lec¬
turer and international bicyclist. All
people coming are invited to bring
their 10-speed bicycles. Cost will be $2
for adults and $1 for everyone under 18
years of age.
There will be lunch in the cafeteria
at noontime, but before and after this
the day will be full of information
about bicycles, bicycle equipment and
its use, and places you can go with a
bicycle.
There will be thousands of dollars
worth of bicycles and equipment on
display. Ten-speed bikes will be
repaired free of charge, and there will
also be spare parts available to buy if
needed.
Also on exhibit will be touring bags,
tents, tools, clothing, food, lubricants
and cooking gear used in touring.
Iannone will show film highlights of
visits to 43 states and 11 foreign
countries. There will be an indoor
roller training exhibit, and
preparation for weekend and long¬
distance cycling will be discussed.
Experienced cyclists will represent
local racing and touring clubs. They
will answer questions, and give in¬
structions on bicycle touring.
Iannone has spent the last four years
conducting bicycle workshops in junior
high schools and universities. He says
that he wants to help people satisfy the
universal dream to see the world.
The first part of the seminar will be
held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in Sexson
Auditorium, and the second session
will be in the quad from noon until 4
p.m. More information can be obtained
by calling the college at 578-7261.