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PCC Courier, December 13, 1974
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Voter Interest Forecast
Elections Scheduled
Registration for posts in the spring
semester's ASB government began
Wednesday, and will continue through
Jan. 6.
Elections are scheduled for two
days, Jan. 16 and 17, from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. Votes may be cast at a central
polling booth, which will be located in
the center of the quad.
This semester’s election, unlike
those in the past, is expected to draw
considerable interest by voters and
candidates alike.
“I’m almost certain we'll have
people running for every office,” said
Stuart Silver, outgoing ASB president.
In the past, some offices went unfilled
for lack of candidate interest.
Voter Turnout
Also, according to Silver, an in¬
creased voter turnout is expected, due
primarily to a massive publicity
campaign.
“We think that by throwing out the
hoopla we can get people to vote,”
Silver said. The hoopla will include a
strolling mariachi band and a jazz
band, which it is hoped will draw a
crowd for candidates' speeches.
On Jan. 14 all candidates will
assemble in the campus Free Speech
Area and give a short talk in support of
their candidacy.
Two days later, candidates will
again be in the quad, this time to field
questions from students.
Publicity Photos
Photos of all candidates, along with
their written statements concerning
their candidacy, will be posted in
locations around campus. This, it is
hoped, will afford students a chance to
learn more about the people who are
seeking their votes.
Each candidate, with the exception
of those seeking the presidency, may
spend $25 of his own personal finances
on his campaign. Presidential con¬
tenders may spend $35. All other
financial support comes from the ASB
general fund and elections fund.
Also on the ballot will be several
proposed amendments to the ASB
Constitution, and questions of per¬
tinence to students in general.
Those wishing to register for office
must submit the necessary materials
to Dorothy Byles, registrar, upstairs in
the Campus Center.
Questions about registration or
campaign guidelines should be
directed to Jeff Taylor, elections
commissioner, or to Silver.
CEC Dissatisfied with Pay Hike;
Eight Per Cent Raise Reietted
By Steve Wright
Assistant News Editor
PCC Board of Trustees representa¬
tive Dr. E. Howard Floyd reported to
the Certificated Employees Council
Monday that the board rejected a CEC
proposal for an eight per cent across-
the-board salary adjustment.
This was in response to CEC
Chairman Nino B. Valmassoi's pre¬
sentation of an eight per cent increase
in salaries to the Board of Trustees at
its Dec. 5 meeting.
Dr. Floyd told the group that the
decisions reached Nov. 14 on salary
adjustments were still in effect. That
decision stated that no further salary
adjustments would be considered until
the 1975-76 salary schedule
discussions, which will begin during
the spring semester.
The board did, however, state that it
would be interested in considering
appropriate adjustments for the 1975-
76 school year at that time.
Valmassoi commented that since
certificated employees only received a
seven per cent adjustment to their
salaries on July 1, when the cost of
living was up nine per cent, employees
lost money and purchasing power.
Cost of Living Increase
The proposed eight per cent figure
was based on the increased cost of
living since July 1, 1974 and would have
become effective Jan. 1, 1975. The
amount was reported as the actual
cost-of-living increase for the Los
Angeles area by the U.S. Government.
The CEC will now meet with repre¬
sentatives from its member groups,
the California Teachers Association,
the PCC Faculty Association, the
Faculty Senate Association and the
Faculty Association of California
Community Colleges before making
any further decisions on salary in¬
creases.
In studying 20 comparable districts,
agreed upon by both the Board of
Trustees and the CEC, the PCC faculty
was in 18th to 20th position salary-wise.
Eliminate Parking Fees
Also presented to the Board of
Trustees by the CEC was a proposal
that the district eliminate parking fees
for the faculty. This would be con¬
sidered a “fringe benefit" for school
employees.
Valmassoi later explained that of 12
community colleges in this area, only
one charged teachers a parking fee.
East Los Angeles City College charges
$2 a year, according to CEC findings.
Some of the schools do require a
deposit on parking cards, but that is
refunded at the end of the school year.
The parking fees would be paid by
the district, so there would be no
financial loss of funds necessary to
provide security. The board referred
the proposal to the staff parking
—Courier Photos by Dave Moore
THE MANY MOVES OF DR. GEORGE— Animated is the word $
for Dr. George Fishbeck, KABC’s Eyewitness News weather- g
§ man. Dr. Fishbeck spoke Wednesday to journalism students at g
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PCC
SuiVs Eclipse Filmed With
PCC Telescope for TV Use
Bv David Gero
Staff Writer
The PCC Communications Depart¬
ment worked concurrently with the
American Broadcasting Company's
local affiliate. KABC Channel 7. in
videotaping a partial solar eclipse this
morning at 6:30.
KABC utilized the solar telescope at
the PCC observatory, which is
equipped with a television receiver.
The picture was transcribed by the
college's telecommunications facili¬
ties. and the tape will be loaned to
Channel 7 for showing on the network’s
committee for further research before
making a final decision.
Early Retirement
Valmassoi also asked that the Board
of Trustees adopt Assembly Bill 3339,
which permits school district gover¬
ning boards to reduce workloads of
certificated employees to a minimum
of half-time. This would provide such
employees with a choice of part-time
employment to phase into their retire¬
ment program.
It would also allow teachers 55 years
of age and older who have at least 10
years of full-time service to request
that their workload be reduced by half,
at half the salary, for a period not to
exceed five years.
The CEC received no definite answer
to this request, but it was reported that
the board had no negative comments
on early retirement. Dr. Floyd told the
group that it was still being discussed
and the establishment of some rules
was being considered.
—Courier Photo by Richard Andersen
FINAL STAGE— The new mall between C and Paramedical Sciences
buildings is in the final stages of completion. Students now have a
walkway between the buildings and the faculty will get more parking
spaces in the lot below the mall.
PCC Coufueb
VOL. 38, NO. 11
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 13, 1974
Board of Trustees Votes Not to Arbitrate
in Pasadena Board of Education Difficulties
Eyewitness News broadcast tonight.
In addition to recording the eclipse,
which lasted roughly 40 minutes, (he
PCC telecommunications facilities
added color to the picture, since the
camera in the telescope is only
equipped for black-and-white recep¬
tion.
To cover the astrophenomena. the
television network brought some of its
own equipment to the campus in ad¬
dition to using the college’s videotape.
About 10 per cent of the sun's rays
were blocked out by the moon during
this morning’s eclipse.
By Eric W. Epling
Editor-In-Chief
The Pasadena Unified School
District Board of Education will have
to look somewhere other than the PCC
Board of Trustees for a solution to its
administrative quagmire.
The trustees voted 5-2 against
playing an active role in the Board of
Education’s difficulties, which stem
from the Board's attempt to fill two
assistant superintendent posts.
By refusing the Board’s request that
they arbitrate, the trustees have
perhaps consigned the ultimate
decision to state hearing officers or
professional arbitrators. A lottery plan
to fill the posts has also been con¬
sidered.
The two spots were vacated earlier
this year by order of the U.S. District
Court, and have remained unfilled.
The order was issued when it was ruled
that the process used to fill the
positions was in violation of the
district’s integration guidelines.
The two former holders of the posts,
Willard Craft and John McHale, both
of whom were hand picked by the
Board of Education, refiled for con¬
sideration to be reinstated to the
positions. They were joined by some 60
others, all vying for the job.
The selection narrowed down the
candidates to five finalists, none of
whom was either of the former office
holders. Feeling that the selection
process was unfair, the two filed an
appeal.
The PCC trustees were approached
Vets to Get
Retroactive
Allowances
Retroactive allowance checks will
be mailed to veteran-students at PCC
beginning Dec. 15.
Public law 93-508. enacted Dec. 3,
provides allowance increases
retroactive to Sept. 1, 1974, of 22.7 per
cent for most veterans and 18.2 per
cent for veterans taking vocational
rehabilitation, apprenticeship and job
training.
VA computer tapes providing in¬
formation for the production of the
first checks will be going to the
Department of the Treasury Dec. 6.
Despite the heavy volume of regular
Christmas mail, it is hoped that the
vast majority of the approximately 1.2
million retroactive checks can be
delivered before the Christmas
holidays. Checks that require special
computation at VA regional offices for
veterans who dropped out of or
completed training during the
retroactive period, had a change in
course load or dependency status, or
are otherwise outside of the regular
pattern of training . . . will require
somewhat longer for processing and
delivery.
Check amounts will vary widely
because of the different VA programs
involved, and the differing veteran
situations in regard to dependents,
length of enrollment and extent of the
training workload.
All of the new rates included in the
new law will be reflected in regular VA
checks issued on and after January 1.
in an effort to comply with the so-
called “Pasadena Plan,” which calls
for an appeals board to be part of the
selection process. The difficulty lies
with the fact that stipulations for
filling such a board were never
established.
In voting against PCC’s par¬
ticipation in what has turned out to be
rather lengthy search for mediation,
trustee Walter Shatford said that,
should the PCC Board become in¬
volved, “We’re needlessly sticking our
necks into a situation which will get a
lot of people angry.”
Shatford also said that he feels PCC
serves a wide geographical area, and
should not become mired in local
district issues. t
Trustees Roger Gertmenian and J.
Ray Risser voted for PCC’s in¬
volvement in the Board of Education’s
problems. Viewing it as a matter of
one board asking for the help of
another, Gertmenian said, “We
shouldn’t avoid it just because it’s a
tough situation.”
The vote, however, illustrated that
Gertmenian 's argument was that of
the minority.
Senate Committee Presents Possible
Solutions to Transportation Problems
Transportation and parking,
problems that have long plagued PCC,
were under discussion this week in the
Student Senate meeting. The Senate
Transportation Committee outlined
several ideas to ease the cramped
situation Tuesday at the Senate
meeting.
The concepts, said Robert Cham¬
pion, Senate president, are designed to
bring about immediate action. He said
there are already plans for a multi¬
million dollar parking structure at the
southeast corner of the campus, but
even if such plans were to go into ef¬
fect, there would be a five-year delay.
He and members of the Tran¬
sportation Committee met with
Facilities Planner Arthur Garr
yesterday at noon for further
discussion of a parking structure.
Top priority is being given to one
concept and two as alternate plans.
The main plan involves cooperation
between PCC and the Rapid Transit
District (RTD). If the plan is suc¬
cessful, there would be five RTD
routes that would run from outlying
areas such as Rosemead, El Monte,
Arcadia, Temple City and Pasadena’s
west side directly to the campus.
Parking would be provided at the
place of departure, and the buses
would make no stops between the
pickup point and PCC. Student guards
may be provided in the parking areas
to aid local police departments.
The committee plans to meet with
RTD officials in El Monte in two weeks
to see if such a plan would be feasible.
If it does not prove to be workable, the
committee is ready with two alternate
plans.
The first one would have the ASB
buy its own buses and run them on
shuttle lines as in the first proposal. At
first this plan provided for bus drivers
to be hired from outside, but the
committee later felt that properly
qualified students could do some or all
of the driving.
The second alternative is to contact
with a local private bus line to provide
shuttle bus service to PCC.
Class Sizes Surveyed ;
Social Sciences Gorged
By Dave Moore
Managing Editor
More PCC students are enrolled in
social science classes than in any other
department, an enrollment and
teacher work load report for the 1974-
75 fall semester shows.
The report, compiled by the
Pasadena Area Community College
District Office of Institutional
Research, is based on student-teacher
data in all classes scheduled for
college credit as of Census Date, Oct.
7, 1974.
Communications Classes Added
to Broaden Campus Coverage
New courses in communication
which reflect the broadened scope of
the department and enlarged
television department are being of¬
fered in spring semester.
A PCC campus closed curcuit TV
station will soon be available for
classroom use, according to Dr.
Harold Salisbury, Communication
Department head.
“The basic idea,” said Dr.
Salisbury, “is to add television to
supplement our existing Courier and
KPCS to serve our PCC community of
20,000 people.” These three media will
be coordinated into a combined facility
to work together in one eventual mass
communication network.
“All three would provide coverage,
pre and post, of campus activities. We
hope that such things as football,
basketball, career guidance and
enrollment could be given broader
coverage.”
Faculty Increased
To achieve the expanded coverage, a
new instructor will be hired to teach
advanced television production as well
as work with staff in preparation of
instructional classroom planning.
Other staff additions will be the
promotion of Gerald Finn from part to
full time instructor and a course in
filming for TV by Wilhelm Bleckmann.
Dr. Salisbury said, “This curricular
development will prepare a student for
his first hour on a job in areas not
offered before. To do this the TV studio
here will as closely as possible ap¬
proximate a commercial station.”
New Courses Offered
A pilot program for spring will be a
course which combines Journalism 2
and Telcom 11, both introductory
courses in separate mediums, which
overlap in content. It will by fall
become Communication 1 and will be
prerequisite for any communication
major so that a full survey of the
media can be offered.
Other new classes available in the
spring are small station management
techniques and filming for television,
which will do the on-campus taping
needed for the closed circuit
programs.
Out of 18,920 classroom students,
11,572 are enrolled in a Department of
Social Sciences class. The report
further shows that out of 312 social
science classes, 128, or 41 per cent,
have over 40 students enrolled.
The next largest accumulation of
students is in the Business Depart¬
ment. There are 7838 enrolled in a total
of 221 business classes. The average
size of business classes is 35.5, com¬
pared to a social science class average
of 37.1, the largest of any department.
An average FCC student is enrolled
in three classes, carrying a load of
approximately 11.5 class hours per
week. The average class size is 31.8.
The smallest average class size is in
the Nursing Department, where the
average is 24.9, but the smallest
number of total students is in library
classes, where there are only 187
students enrolled.
Communications, Foreign
Languages and Music departments
also have small average class sizes.
Communications classes average 25.9
students, foreign language classes
25.8, and music classes 26.1.
Other enrollment figures show that
1885 students are enrolled in the
Cooperative Education program, 768
in television courses only, and 146 in
Student Services.
A total of 1805 classes is being of¬
fered to PCC students, and once again
the Department of Social Sciences
leads the way. There are 312 social
science classes, Compared to the next
largest total of 221 business classes.
The library offers the smallest
number of classes, seven. The Com¬
munications Department has 105
classes, there are 88 music classes,
and 69 foreign language classes.
According to the report, more men
(3561) are enrolled in physical
education than women (2788), but
there are 105 men’s classes, whereas
women have only 93 to choose from.
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