PCC Courier, December 06, 1974

—Courier Photos by Marilyn Fisher £ FINAL PRODUCT— A styled set is turned out for use by a Santa going out Christmas eve to distribute food to needy families. HAIR LIKE SNOW— A Santa wig is fitted on Kolle. Beards and wigs will be used by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. OLD SAINT NICK— Cosmetology instructor Ken Kolle tries on a Santa beard to be styled by student Nancy Spangle. x*x*x*x*x PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 6, 1974 Journalism Convention Meets Here for Workshops, Photo and Writing Contests By Dave Moore Managing Editor Don Richman, Burt Pines and Bill Farr head a cast of guest speakers for the Beta Phi Gamma journalism convention and contest sponsored by the society’s PCC chapter. The con¬ vention will be held here today and tomorrow. Beta Phi Gamma is a national society for journalism students. The convention, which for Beta Phi Gamma members means stiff compe¬ tition in various contests, also features speakers and workshops that are open for anyone to attend. Students are welcome to attend the sessions but must realize that speakers, in some cases, will be for the benefit of the contestants, and that competition is the most important part of the convention for the members. The speakers whose talks will be the subjects for contests are Pines, Los Angeles City Attorney; Darnell Garcia, a black belt in karate; and Ollie Prickett, a character actor. Pines Trustee Area Reapportionment To Be Delayed Until ilext Year Despite the addition of 17,000 El Monte residents to the Pasadena Area Community College District, plans to reapportion the district’s seven trustee areas will have to wait until sometime next year. During the recent election, voters in the El Monte Union High School District approved a plan which will allow students attending Rosemead or Arroyo high schools to be eligible to attend PCC. However, the decision by the officials would not allow the El Monte Union High School District to be grafted onto existing trustee areas until 1977. The college district is divided into seven trustee areas of approximately the same size, and the PCC trustees are elected by their individual area. The El Monte High School District was assigned to trustee area six and seven, thus throwing the two sectors out of balance with the other five areas. According to Dr. E. Howard Floyd, deputy superintendent of PCC, 11,000 of the 17,000 new residents are to be included in area six, and the rest in area seven. This would increase the population in those two areas by 34,000, which would be six to nine thousand more residents than in area one, two, MECHA DINNER Mariachis, dancers, guest speakers and a play will be featured at a benefit dinner sponsored by PCC’s MECHA in the campus cafeteria Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets for the dinner are available at the Chicano Affairs office, A110-A, or in A108. Adult prices are $3 before Friday, and $3.50 at the door. four and five, and over 21,000 more than in area three. The imbalance will require the district’s first reapportionment. However, it would be too late to complete the process before the March 4 trustee election. The reapportionment will be com¬ pleted within a year, but the new boundaries will probably not be ef¬ fective until the 1977 trustee election. PCC officials are discussing the possibility of acquiring the full Arroyo High School attendance. Arroyo High School graduates who live north of the river must attend PCC. The graduates living south of the river may attend any of California’s 100 community colleges. According to college personnel, it would be logical to include the entire Arroyo High School attendance, but chances of having another election are slim. The Board of Education will meet Dec. 10 to discuss the college district boundaries, but sources say it would be difficult for the district to pay for another election without further cutting back on educational programs. speaks tonight at 8 in R122. Prickett at 7:30 p.m. in R102, and . Garcia at 7:30 p.m. in the Women’s Gym. Richman’s “KIIS (pronounced kiss) of Sports” program on KIIS radio station will be the topic when Richman speaks at the opening session today at 3:30 p.m. in R122. Highlighting the workshop tomorrow will be a discussion on “Investigative Reporting” by Farr, a reporter for the L.A. Times who spent time in jail as a result of his refusal to reveal sources for a story on activities of the Manson family. He will speak at 11:30 a.m. in R122. The convention will host an estimated 200 Beta Phi Gamma members from the Western United States. It was organized by the PCC chapter, which is headed by Steve Ripley, president. The contestants will compete in the following categories: news writing, sports writing, feature writing, editorial writing, news photography, sports photography, feature photography and layout. For those wishing to attend work¬ shops but who are not familiar with the campus, an information booth in the foyer of the campus center will be manned at all times. COMING BAZAAR— Abeba Sahle of Ethiopia and Stefania Ramoli, a student attending PCC from the University of Rome, finish up hand¬ crafted dolls to be sold Sunday at the Christmas Bazaar. Christmas Bazaar Proceeds Back Italian Scholar Fund New Office Opens Doors to Asian Students, Provides Counseling Aid By Eliza Chan Staff Writer “We want students to come in and talk about their problems, so that we can try and work toward their needs,” says Carol Imai, commenting on the function of PCC’s new Asian Affairs office. Mrs. Imai is a PCC counselor and representative for Asian and Asian-American students on campus. The office, located upstairs in the Campus Center, will serve hundreds of students from both the far east and America. It will serve not only as a place of business but also as a meeting place for both Asian and Asian- American students. “It’s nice to have a place to go where you can associate with other people, especially when you are totally new on campus,” says Kim Noda, who will be coming to PCC in the spring. Ms. Imai received her B.A. and M.A. from USC. She came to PCC two years ago and had worked with Asian students since then. As a counselor -specialist in Asian affairs, Ms. Imai will have numerous duties, which include supervision of the Asian Affairs office, recruiting Asian students from the high schools and serving as a consultant for Asian youth organizations in the Pasadena area. She hopes to represent the college to the Asian community and the needs of that community to the college. She and her steering committee will work toward the promotion of cultural understanding between Asian and Asian-American students and attempt to arouse political awareness of re¬ spective groups. They will also seek to develop an atmosphere of involvement with other PCC organizations and activities, and to gain general recog¬ nition of social status on campus. Other student services include peer counseling, tutoring, self-help study, career guidance and financial assistance. The Asian Affairs office will hold its open house on Wednesday and Thurs¬ day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. All students are welcome. For more information, see Ms. Imai in the Campus Center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Ms. Imai may also be reached through the Counseling Center in C216 or by calling 578-7251. By Lynn Baker Staff Writer Christmas season comes early to campus this year, on Sunday in fact, when the PCC Italian Scholarship Committee will present its Christmas Bazaar from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Campus Center. Original gifts at pre-inflation prices will please both eye and pocketbook, according to Mary Lea Ray, head of the committee. Added to the hand¬ made items are some which are im¬ ported from Italy. Christmas tree skirts and ornaments, table runners and Mrs. Santa Claus dolls are among the handmade gifts. Year round items available include plants, bridge cloths and grooming aids. Bakery treats are also in store for the shopper. Besides cakes and cookies made for the occasion, the committee has compiled a special group of recipes for the holiday season. Purpose of the bazaar is to support the Italian scholarship fund, which makes it possible for a student from Italy to spend a year at PCC. Mrs. Alice Mothershead, head of the Foreign Student Liaison at PCC, ex¬ pressed the hope that “The bazaar will be such a success it will become an annual event, enabling the program to enlarge.” This year’s recipient is Stefania Romoli, from the University of Rome. Miss Romoli feels that working on the bazaar gives her the feeling of con¬ tributing in a small way to the next year’s scholarship winner. Miss Romoli, who has been in Pasadena only two months, said, “I have been so busy with school and seeing the area that I have not become homesick— at least not yet.” She feels fortunate to have been able to come here in her second year of college be¬ cause many students have to wait much longer. “Especially appreciated is the guidance given by Mrs. Mother¬ shead,” said Miss Romoli. The committee is receiving extra help from campus service clubs, the Adelphians, Spartans, Circle К and Junior Executives. Special parking for the bazaar is available on the Hill and Colorado lots, next to the Campus Center. 1 ] Psychology Students Participate Mental Health Program Started By Steve Ripley News Editor Several PCC psychology students are offering their aid to the mentally disturbed in residential care homes this semester as part of a unique pilot program established by the Los Angeles County Mental Health Association. The 11 students, most of whom are enrolled in Lisa Lawrence’s Psy¬ chology 1. class, donate two hours of their time each week to provide com¬ panionship" a listening ear and super¬ vision over entertaining activities for patients in four of the area’s seven residential care homes. Residential care homes, formerly known as “board and care” homes, are a halfway point between the en¬ vironment of a mental hospital and the everyday community. For some patients, the facilities are a means of social support, on a non¬ medical basis. For others, the residen¬ tial care home is a transitional stage where they can learn or relearn skills necessary for life in the community. Due to government cutbacks and re¬ apportionments of funds for mental health, and due to changing attitudes toward treatment in the mental health field, many patients have been trans¬ ferred from mental hospitals to resi¬ dential care homes. However, prob¬ lems have arisen. The biggest problem has been a lack of staffing for the homes. The volun¬ teer program was started to fill this need. Volunteers were recruited from each of four county regions; Long Beach, central Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and the San Gabriel Valley. The four San Gabriel Valley residen¬ tial homes manned by PCC volunteers are Hacienda Home in Pasadena, Dis¬ covery Four in Eagle Rock, American Guest Home in Pasadena and Hope Manor in Altadena. According to a Mental Health Asso¬ ciation booklet, the gurpose of the pilot program “is to establish a volunteer services program to residential care homes on a self-sustaining basis ... to develop self-esteem, self-motivation, and individual independence of the residents.” Students from Long Beach City College, Cal State Long Beach, Los Angeles City College, USC and Cal State Los Angeles are also involved in the other three county regions. However, PCC’s students have been in the program longer and PCC supplies more volunteers than most of the other schools, according to Martha Edens, program coordinator. Ms. Lawrence’s students, Janice Bair, Ibby Bond, Liz Fox, Eloise Gomez, Steve Heins, Ted Kopecka, Nancy Linnar, Aletha Rogers, Ed Stanislawski and Kathryn Wulsch- lager go in teams of two to the homes and help the “provider,” who is in charge of the home. The provider is often engaged with most of the mundane duties— cooking, administration, finances and general care of the residents, so the volunteers are an invaluable aid. They set up art projects, organize games and activities for the patients, and take them out for shopping, field trips or an occasional movie. Excursions are limited, however, because of lack of funds. Residents of the homes are given only $283 per month as “supple¬ mentary security income,” which, says Mrs. Edens, is a euphemistic term for welfare payments. Board and care costs the patient $250 per month, leaving a meager $33 for all the per¬ sonal needs or entertainment costs of the residents. Most of them smoke, and that alone takes $10 to $15. For those patients who have no other income from their families, going downtown to shop is a depressing experience, and movies or sports events are out of the question after the resident has bought even one pair of inexpensive shoes for the month. The volunteers, as well as Ms. Lawrence and Mrs. Edens, agree that this is a serious problem, as is a similar problem with medical care. Despite these problems, Mrs. Edens says, the residential homes are suc¬ cessful in helping patients “un-learn that helpless feeling of being trapped by circumstances” by giving them freedom to move around in the com¬ munity. She cited Camarillo State Hospital as an example: “The hospital is surrounded by miles of fields, and the patient is utterly dependent on the hospital for transportation into town to do anything, while the patient in a resi¬ dential care home can hop on a bus and go get a hamburger or go shopping.” And despite experiences of “culture shock” upon entering the new environ¬ ment, the student volunteers express great satisfaction and feel fulfillment with the pilot program. Ms. Lawrence feels the program is a good test bed for students thinking about entering the mental health field. “It can deter some and attract others,” she said. 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