PCC Courier, April 27, 1973

тШШШ 'вс ..... А шш Cinco de Mayo Week Sparks Celebration ШВ “JOAQUIN” REHEARSAL— Studying the script is only part of the intensive preparations behind the events scheduled for Cinco de Mayo festivities. Films, music, dramatic performances and featured speakers are all part of the PCC week celebrating this major Chicano holiday. Teatro Joaquin performers are, from left, Ernie Saenz, Linda Bernal and Marin Gonzalez. PCC celebrates Cinco de Mayo with special activities Monday through Saturday next week. PCC’s festivities honoring this widely celebrated Chicano holiday will begin with the showing of a film en¬ titled, “Yo Soy Joaquin” at noon on Monday in R122. Climax of the week long events is a Saturday dance featuring Cold Sweat, a rock group. Films will also be shown on Tuesday and Wednesday. “Huelga” will be presented on Tuesday and “Invisible Minority” will be shown on Wednesday. Both films will be in R122 at noon. On Thursday, a band, El Camino Real, will play in the Free Speech Area at noon. An all-day program is planned for Friday. At 8:30 a.m. Ed Hernandez, adviser to the Office of Chicano Af¬ fairs, and Tony Aguilar will begin the program with an introduction. They will be followed at 9 by Nuevo Tepaticlan, a Mariachi band. From 10 to 10:30 a.m., Alicia Sandoval, moderator of the KTTV talk show, “Let’s Rap,” will speak in the quad. From 10:30 until noon Teatro Joaquin will perform followed by the Ballet Folklorico. Tentatively scheduled for noon is Cold Sweat, a rock music group. A speaker, Agustin Lira, is scheduled for 1 p.m. From 2 to 3 p.m., El Teatro de los Ninos will perform. Unlike other children’s theater groups, this com¬ pany deals with the realities of life and experiences that people of all ages can relate to. They will present “Nacer Es Para Morir — Sera Esto Un Sueno?” The group is part of the Mexican Bi- Cultural Club of Pasadena. All these activities will be in the quad and Free Speech Area. At 6 p.m. the festivities will move Horrell Field. There will be a carnival with booths sponsored by many of the local high schools. There will be en¬ tertainment including Mariachi bands, singer Agustin Lira and performances by Teatro Joaquin. Two displays of Chicano culture will be presented continuously through the week. The library will feature a display including books about the history and importance of Chicanos in California. There will also be a Chicano art exhibit upstairs in the Campus Center. Murals by Guillermo Martinez will be on display. Martinez has done murals for local schools and is presently working on one for UCLA. -Also part of the exhibit will be jewelry designed and made by Marciano Martinez. Finally, on Saturday, May 5 there will be a dance in the Campus Center at 8 p,m. Music will be provided by Cold Sweat. Tickets will be on sale at the door and will cost $3 apiece. All profits from the dance and other activities will go to the MECHA Scholarship Fund and book loan project. i Cowrie* Speech Contest Entry Dendline Draws Near Vol. 35, No. 24 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California April 27, 1973 ASB Budget Depleted by Two Grants The ASB Board is within one dollar of being broke. At its weekly meeting, the board managed to give away $2070.03 in approximately 50 minutes, leaving just one dollar in the ASB treasury. This week’s largest grant went to the BSU-sponsored Black Expo ’73. The grant, totaling $1950, will pay for 60 per cent of the estimated costs generated by the Black Expo. The Expo, or “Black cultural ex¬ perience,” is slated for May 12 to 25. Proceeds from the event are to be given back to PCC and used for student financial aid. Other funds given away were in the form of a donation to the American Friends Service Committee. ' Patricia Pendleton, speaking for AFSC, asked the board for a donation and an endorsement of a campus fund drive to benefit the North-South Vietnam Fund. According to Miss Pendleton, the fund is to be used to aid victims of the war in Vietnam, both north and south. The board endorsed the drive and donated $120.03, or, as the motion was proposed, “all but one dollar of the board’s funds.” International Awareness Week Nears “The purpose of the International Awareness Week is to foster an aware¬ ness of other nations and cultures by spotlighting our foreign students and faculty who have been involved in international living,” said Ben Rude, foreign student adviser, discussing PCC’s annual event, scheduled May 7 through 11. A wide variety of programs has been planned. There will be talks given by faculty members who have lived or traveled abroad. These talks will be illustrated by slides and films. Foreign students will visit class¬ rooms for rap sessions with the Ameri¬ can students. They will talk about their countries’ customs, cultures and other valuable information. “These students are natural resource persons for the social science as well as other classes,” said Rude. During the week, displays of objects from foreign countries can be found in the showcases in the campus buildings. Folk dancing will be featured in the Free Speech Area at noon. Besides costume displays, there will be a costume day scheduled, when foreign students will wear their national attire to school. Food is, of course, an integral part of the program. Special dishes from different countries will be sold at the cafeteria. One country will be featured every day. Song, Flag Girls Begin Workshops Want to be a song girl or flag girl and perform at Lancer football games next fall? If so, workshops will be held next week. The 1972-73 song girls will teach their routines to interested students Monday upstairs in the Campus Center. The routines must be learned by May 14 when the final tryouts will be held in Sexson Auditorium at 3 p.m. Song and flag girls add a spirited dimension to the performances of the band for PCC events. The flag girl workshop will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in K100. The tryouts will be next Friday. isss :§||!!p The annual Phil Robinson Speech Contest will accept entry forms in the Communications Department office, C120, as late as May 14. The central topic of the contest is safety. Not only physical safety, but mental as well. Issues on bampus, in the cities, or across the nation, that could affect students morally or physically, are the preferred topics for competition. Twenty-eight years ago, Phil Robinson was killed while playing in a PCC football game. After his death, his parents established “The Phil Robinson Speech Contest,” as a memorial to their son. The Robinson family has donated"$60 every year as an incentive to get students to air fheir views in the contest. The cash is to be distributed among the winners after the judging has taken place. Chrystal Watson, of the Com¬ munications Department said, “This is a chance to get up and say what you feel. Many of the students with the finest ideas hang back in the crowd because they are afraid to get up an express themselves. In a crowd they are being pushed by a leader who isn’t afraid to get up and do it. If you’ve got an idea that could help to better all of us, we’d like to hear it.” Office Seeks Increase In Chicano Enrollment Щ: SBt DA MOUSE To Ше&е e Й ••4- , YOU SEND ME— Only 51 cents buys a mouse for cancer research. The Adelphians, who are sponsoring the “Send a Mouse to College” drive, have a table set up in front of the Campus Center today. Celeste Sanders, chairman of the Adelphian campaign, says thousands of mice are needed to help save lives from cancer. Cancer is a major killer in the U.S., and support is needed to fight this disease. The drive ends today. The Chicano recruitment and orien¬ tation program sponsored by the Of¬ fice of Chicano Affairs is well under¬ way in its five-point plan to increase chicano enrollment at PCC. High school seniors in the Pasadena and El Monte school districts have already received letters in Spanish and English informing them of the op¬ portunities available at PCC. Informa¬ tion tables have been set up at many of the local high schools and series of meetings with Chicano student groups have presented information on various programs, admissions procedures and financial aid requirements. Presently, community and youth agencies are being contacted and meetings are being established to provide necessary information about the Chicano recruitment project. The orientation phase of the program will be held the second week of May, after Cinco de Mayo activities. Participating seniors will be given tours of PCC and will attend an orientation session with staff and faculty members concerning im¬ portant aspects of the campus. Transportation will be provided for needy students. Ed Hernandez, educational special¬ ist for Chicano Affairs, is supervising the program through the Office of Chicano Affairs. Linda Reyes, Olga Furguson and Ernie Saenz, hired by the Student Personnel office, are assisting Hernandez. Tony Aguilar and Tom Hernandez, hired through the college Work-Study program, are also aides. These student assistants are “one of the most important aspects of the project,” according to Hernandez. “They can effectively promote an interest in attending the college by using themselves as examples.” He explains that the recruiters undergo extensive training before they contact their potential enrollees. “Sometimes a second, third and fourth contact is necessary,” he continues, “before a senior finally understands the opportunities and advantages in attending a community college.” One of the reasons for the recruit¬ ment and orientation program was the supposed Chicano dropout problem. A Chicano withdrawal followup study done in the fall of 1971 implied that the Chicano, an average of six years above the median age for PCC students, had a higher dropout per¬ centage. According to Hernandez, however, “The Chicano has the lowest dropout rate of any group at PCC, including the Anglos.” He cites that the Chicano problem is at the beginning. “The trouble,” he says, “is providing the programs to get them here.” Rules for entering the contest are as follows : —The speech must be developed from the theme of ‘Problems of Safety in Student Life.” These may include moral as well as physical problems. —Speeches may not be longer than seven minutes. —Speeches may be delivered from notes, but may not be read from the manuscript. —Members of the forensics team, and winners of first, second, or third place in any previous Phil Robinson contest are excluded from par¬ ticipation. —Any regularly enrolled student may enter a speech in one of the elimination rounds. Students enrolled in Speech 1 classes will be entered from their in-class competition. All others must complete an entry form at the Communications Department office, C120, before May 14, to be eligible. —Speeches must be extemporaneous (memorization not required) and must be phrased and delivered in a “con¬ versational” style, simple, direct and sincere. This is an excellent opportunity to express your views in competition, and have a chance at some prize money. Comedy 'Butterflies' Shown Here “Butterflies Are Free,” a lightheart¬ ed comedy starring Goldie Hawn, will be presented on Friday, May 11 at 8 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. The film, produced by Michael Frankovich, is sponsored by the voca¬ tional nursing students. General admission to “Butterflies Are Free” is $1.50. All proceeds from the film will go to the Variety Club, a charity organization, and to the voca¬ tional nursing treasury. Tickets for the film are on sale in the PCC Bookstore. For additional information, call the PCC Bank Services, 793-4528. Two New Soil Courses Featured For Physical Science Program и’ Two new courses in soil technology will be added to the Physical Science Department offerings, with one begin¬ ning in the fall semester and the other in the spring. Fundamentals of Soil Technology, Soil Tech 110, will be on the fall sched¬ ule and will provide the basis for course objectives which are aimed toward employment as soils and foundation technicians. This basic course is described as “Soil engineering and related engineering geology as applied to the technician’s role in field and laboratory.” Soil and Geological Field Pro¬ cedures, Soil Tech 112, covers prob¬ lems of earth materials and forma¬ tions. Scheduled for the spring semester, the course has as its pre¬ requisite Soil Tech 110 or equivalent experience. Students enrolled in this class will learn to prepare preliminary reports, compaction reports, field diaries and pile and cassion inspection. Vernon Spaulding, supervisor of Occupational Education, reports that after three educational advisory committee meetings, these two courses were approved and it is antici¬ pated that two more will be added. “Soil Technology will constitute a major study area in the field of geology,” he says. “The typical place a soil tech graduate would work is 'Gone the Rainbow' Pockets National Broadcast Award In competition with national stations, PCC’s radio station KPCS has received the Class III Gabriel Award “for outstanding achievements in youth-oriented programming.” The Eighth Annual Gabrial Awards, sponsored by Unda-USA, the Catholic Association for Broadcasters and Allied Communicators, gave the award for KPCS’ “Gone the Rain¬ bow,” a hard-hitting documentary on drug use and youth rehabilitation. This program has already won four other awards in similar national com¬ petition. The last award won by the station was the Golden Mike Award, presented last December by the Southern California Radio and Tele¬ vision News Directors Association. The Gabriel Awards Program is of high competitive quality, according to Dr. John Gregory, director of the Tele¬ communications division and executive producer of “Gone the Rainbow.” “The awards themselves are ex¬ cellent recognition of the high caliber work done by students of the KPCS production staff,” he says. “It is amazing to realize that our student station has been receiving these awards in competition with the national commercial stations.” Other stations which have been awarded citations for this category include KNX, ABC Radio News and KMOX, a St. Louis station. The awards presentation will be held May 3. Other station members in¬ volved in award-winning programs are Peter Schofield, producer; Howard Kutzley, associate producer; and Andy Zall and Gary Johnson, engineers. Converse and Davis, a soils engineering firm in Pasadena.” Suggested technical electives are chemistry, geology, mathematics, surveying (computation and drafting), physics, instrumentation, structural inspection, concrete construction, land subdivisions and legal descriptions. TV Education Gives Course On 1970 s Law Law for the ’70s will be topic of the summer program of broadcast education sponsored by the Con¬ sortium for Community College Television. The law course, which is worth three units of college credit, will cover many aspects of law including California court structure, criminal procedure, contracts, use of real property, nuisances, leases, wills, probate, partnerships and tax avoidance. The classes will be aired on both KABC (Channel 7) and KCET (Channel 28). The first broadcast on KABC will be on June 18 from 7 to 7:30 a.m. KCET will follow one week later on June 25 from 3:30 to 4 p.m. Separate application must be made for television. The deadline for ap¬ plications is June 25. Students may receive credit through PCC or any of the participating community colleges. All study and class time is spent at home. Students need only be at the campus twice; once for the mid-term and again for the final exam. Ж . s- -л* < f€.:, WHOOSH— Swinging into spring with original fashion creation is Robin Knott, student designer in Charles Teske’s advanced apparel arts class. Wares will be displayed in a show in Sexson Auditorium. Apparel Arts Presents 'Fashion Theater' Show Charles E. Teske’s advanced apparel arts class will present a fashion show in Sexson Auditorium May 31 at 8 p.m. According to instructor Lilly Heftman, the show will “reflect contemporary values— casual, comfortable and fun. It will not be oriented to retail.” This year’s show is patterned after the famed Chouinard shows, with the •emphasis on the art of design accentuated by the bodily expressions of dance. Modern dancers will model the creations, in what student assistant Van- Martin Rowe describes as “fashion theater.” Because the purpose of the class is not primarily to sell, but rather to create, the clothes modeled will not be the typical pink linen suit type, he says. Each student in the workshop class produces 10 outfits during the course of the semester, all centered on a particular theme. Many of these themes involve a great deal of imagination, resulting in what Rowe calls “gaspy” clothes, in reference to the reactions of the typically conservative audience. The premise of the class is to grasp an idea, play with it and enjoy it, rather than work around the limitations of the buyers’ tastes. Because of the varied age groups involved in the class, totally different ideas are born, and a diversified selection of designs will be displayed in the show. The students themselves did all of the designing, choosing of fabrics, making of patterns and final constructing of the outfits. All were made in size 12 or under, and will be available for purchasing the Friday following the fashion show in R422. Alterations can be made to fit the buyer.