PCC Courier, December 14, 1973

Former ASB Financing Under Senate Scrutiny on, it lost $291.80. Finance com¬ missioner Joe Chavez was never told in those two months that the festival was operating at a loss. The Senate will also investigate how four student government members managed to spend $115 just on food and gas while attending the California Community College Student Govern¬ ment Association convention for one day last month at Newport Beach. What infuriated Senate President Latrielle was that the ASB agreed to reimburse the $115 the four students said they spent without even asking for one receipt. The Senate also plans to investigate thoroughly where and how the $5925 designated for the Extravaganza was spent. Latrielle said that he and ASB President Gene Vasquez had agreed at an ASB meeting last week to have $315 designated for fliers advertising tomorrow’s children’s matinee. Now Vasquez says he has no money left. Latrielle said that if there is a question of the Senate’s authority to do the investigating he will bring the matter before the Supreme Council and get the authority there. PCC CotPli&V Vol. 36, No. 10 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA December 14, 1973 The Senate will also look into the rdason that the posters and fliers advertising the Extravaganza were printed off campus instead of in the college print shop. Some student senators were astounded at the cost for tomorrow’s matinee beginning at 10 a.m. in Harbeson Hall featuring magician Kirk Kirkand and the “Fantazmic Express.” Kirkand’s fee is $200 for 45 minutes. The Senate passed a motion to in¬ vestigate the feasibility of reinstating voluntary student activity cards. Latreille hopes to interest local businessmen into giving discounts to students who present the card. The student activity card would bring customers to local businessmen, give students discounts, and help supply the ASB with funds gained from the sale of the cards to students. Gene Vasquez Refutes Impropriety Charges Coming Panel Examines Problem of Child Abuse The Social Science Department is sponsoring a panel on child abuse to be held Friday, Jan. 11 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the forum auditorium of the Paramedical Building. Dubbed “A New Approach to an Old Problem,” by Shirley Dessent, assistant professor of psychology, the program is featuring representatives of three aspects of the problem of child abuse. The parent’s point of view is represented by Jolly K., founder of Parents Anonymous. Parents Anonymous is a self-help program for child abusers. Jolly K. is a former child-abuser who founded Parents Anonymous in her quest for a method to stop abusing her own child. Dr. James Kent, director of the Child Abuse program at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, is offering the medical point of view. Dr. Kent is also assistant professor of pediatrics (psychology) at the USC School of Medicine. The legal aspect is represented by Jean Matusinka, deputy district at¬ torney, County of Los Angeles. Ms. Dessent, who is coordinating the child abuse panel, defines child abuse as “severe physical abuse, verbal abuse, or neglect. “The problem has been with us throughout the ages, and we hope to present a new, more effective ap¬ proach of handling the problem of child abuse. This three-part program will offer a way of coping with the problem. “Parents who are child abusers were usually abused as children themselves,” Ms. Dessent says. “Although society has long recognized this as a growing problem, there have been few effective techniques toward its control. “The speakers who will deliniate the three points of view related to child abuse are all very dynamic,” Ms. Dessent concludes. “The public is welcome to attend.” The Student Senate passed a motion made by Terry Collier, senator, to create a committee to investigate all financial practices of the ASB since September. In the Senate meeting last Tuesday, it also agreed to provide whatever costs necessary to carry out the in¬ vestigation. The committee will consist of Lynn Calamia, Senate first vice president; Stuart Silver, Senate second vice president; Steve Radmall, Senate treasurer; and Tania Horton, public relations director for the Senate. It will call its first meeting in the first week in January. Andre Latrielle, Senate president, said the committee, totally independent of the ASB Board, will issue a letter to all those involved to come before the committee to an¬ swer. questions. Members of the Senate believe there are several questions that need to be answered about certain financial expenditures this semester. The biggest question is how $300 was spent on the Film Festival fiasco before anyone realized what a financial disaster it was. In the two months the festival was Journalists Take First in Contest Journalism students took overall honors at Mt. San Jacinto College last weekend. They beat Valley College, which has previously dominated the contest, by two points. Michaelene Bolliger, adviser to the Courier, says, “All of the advisers in the journalism division know that our students are great. Last weekend’s convention was a good opportunity for students to compete against writers and photographers from other colleges. It was particularly nice to have outside judges reinforce what we’ve known all along.” Agnes Leung, editor in chief of the Courier, won first place in the front page layout category. Ms. Leung designed the best front page for a daily community tabloid-size paper. She had 15 stories and five pictures to choose from. John Fox, circulation manager, took a first in editorial writing. He wrote an editorial contradicting a statement made by guest congressman from the 25th District, Charles Wiggins. Wiggins spoke at the banquet Friday evening and held a news conference afterwards for editorial and news writers. Second places were captured by Roberta Riese in feature writing and Jim Douglas in sports photography. Ms. Riese, Courier copy editor, wrote her story on Japanese folk dancing, a presentation made by Mt. San Jacinto students for all feature writers. Douglas, staff writer and editor of ASPECT, captured a painful moment in his picture of Thailand kick boxing. He was given a 70-minute time limit to develop his film and make his print. Douglas is a first-semester photography student. Mike Barker, staff writer, placed third in sports writing on the Thai boxing exhibition. It was Barker’s first attempt at sports writing. The contest was the major portion of the regional convention of Beta Phi Gamma, a national community college journalism honorary. PCC will host the convention next year. NBC Features Sandpipers in Parade Preview PCC’s musical theater group, the Sandpipers, will combine their singing, acting and dancing New Year’s Day to perform on NBC’s “Doc Severenson’s Rose Parade Preview Special,” at 8:45 a.m. This will be the second time the group has appeared on nationwide television. The musical selections chosen are from the musical, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” written by Charles Schultz, the grand marshal of the 1974 Rose Parade, and “Marathon,” from the musical, “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.” The special is hosted by Doc Severenson, trumpet player and or¬ chestra leader on the “Tonight Show.” The Sandpipers, consisting of 12 PCC students, will prerecord and videotape the selections on Dec. 29 and will lip- synchronize on the program. Since the special will be aired 45 minutes before the Rose Parade, millions of viewers across the country will have a Chance to watch the Sand¬ pipers perform. “There are no grounds for a Senate investigation of ASB spending prac¬ tices,” said Gene Vasquez, ASB presi¬ dent. Vasquez and the ASB Board are under investigation for alleged mis¬ spending of student body funds. Senate officers, led by Andre Latrielle. are questioning the lack of receipts for programs sponsored by student government. Specifically, the Senate questioned Board funding for a convention held in Newport Beach in November. The Board appropriated $100 for represen¬ tatives to attend the student con¬ vention, but failed to specify who the delegates were and how money should be spent. The student government representa¬ tives, including Vasquez, Joe Chavez, finance commissioner; Carol Davis, a student; and Tim Johnson, Sophomore Class president, spent the $100 plus an additional $115 to cover the cost of registration, room, board, and gas. Upon returning to PCC, the Board reimbursed the representatives, even though the students did not present receipts for expenditures. According to Vasquez. the Board voted to pay for the trip but it did not request any receipts. “The additional costs were for reasonable expenses, such as meals, transportation and registration,” added Vasquez. Senators are also investigating the funding of the Toys for Tots Extrava¬ ganza and what the Senate terms “a financially disastrous student film festival.” The film festival budget was ap¬ proved by the student government in Entertainers Bring Delight to Children Pasadena students will provide the entertainment for the Children’s Hospital Christmas party at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center on Dec. 18. Seventy-five children, their parents and guests are expected to attend the performance of “Fantazmic Ex¬ press.” Included in the program are songs, skits and dnace numbers, all written by the students themselves. Duke Stroud directs the cast whose members are Steve Cardwell, Holly Cardwell, Mark Lewis, Craig Coulter, Bill Zube, Eric Bergren, Nora Masterson, Frances Baum, Kathy Morris and Barbara Amromin. “We have had the ‘Fantazmic Ex¬ press’ at the hospital twice before and they really do a fantastic job,” says Mary Taylor, coordinator of volunteer services for the Children’s Hospital. After seeing the “Fantazmic Ex¬ press,” the children, ranging in age from two to eight years old, will be visited by Santa Claus and receive Christmas gifts. Also during the Christmas holidays, “Fantazmic Express” will be presented to Head Start students and to between four and five hundred children of employees of the Bank of America. In the spring the group will work on turning a children’s book, entitled “The Revised Standard By-Standard or The First Mark Lewis Lap Book for Lap Landers” into a musical play for both children and adults. The book was written by cast member Mark Lewis. Football Games and Carols Top List in Full Holiday Schedule for Circle К Circle K, the men’s service organization sponsored by Pasadena Kiwanis, has scheduled a full holiday season for its members. Sunday, Dec. 16 at 1 p.m. Circle К meets the Junior Executives, a campus junior business club, is a football game on the PCC baseball field. There is no charge. An all service club Christmas carol takes place Dec. 18. Spartans and Adelphians join Circle К in visiting extended care facilities in the com¬ munity to bring some Christmas cheer to those who can not get out to enjoy the holidays. Continuing their service to the elderly, Circle К members will visit convalescent homes Dec. 21. This project is in cooperation with the Kiwanis Club. They will talk with the patients and try to make them feel as if someone really does care about them. “Many elderly people have no visitors at all,” says project chairman Gary Wickel. “We would like to bring them a little cheer so they will not feel left out at Christmas time.” Members are also assisting the Kiwanis Club at the Rose Bowl kickoff luncheon Dec. 31 at the new Pasadena Civic Auditorium. They will set up for the luncheon as well as direct traffic. The annual event attracts 4000 to 5000 people including the football teams, their coaches and supporters, newspaper and business men, and members of the community. Programs at the Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1 will be sold by 12 Circle К members in conjunction with the Junior Chamber of Commerce. They will sell for the first quarter of the game and then get to watch the rest Rose Parade Tickets On Sale for College Grandstand Seats Rose Parade tickets are on sale in the PCC Bank for the 4908 grandstand seats in front of the college. The price is $7.25. “We try to keep our prices lower. Seats at the beginning of the parade are $10. We are about in the- middle, but some of those farther down from ours are more expensive,” says Lois Ramey, bank services. “We have the same people coming back year after year. We sell to in¬ dividuals, bus companies, senior citizens and fraternal organizations. Sales seem to be slower this year, though.” There are several advantages to buying a seat in the PCC stand. The seats are reserved by number, they have backs on them and buyers may park their cars in the PCC lots for $2, One reason the price is so high is the stands are expensive to maintain. The student body stand, which ac¬ commodates 2300 people, is old. It is the same one used on Horrell Field. Stands must pass city inspection and repairs must be current. Tickets will be sold every day except Christmas starting Saturday in Harbeson Hall from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Overnight camper parking permits are available in the campus security office. Only a few spaces remain. First row parking in front of the Campus Center and Harbeson Hall is $15, the second row is $7.50. Camper parking alongside Harbeson Hall and on the Quad is $5. without charge. A percentage of the profit from the sale will benefit the Circle К treasury. In keeping with service to the community, Adelphians, the women’s service organization, plans a party Dec. 28 for the children at Villa Esperanza, a school in Pasadena for the developmentally disabled. Speeches on Youth, Aged Win Contest Topics about the young and the old were the winners in the Davis-Hall public speaking contest held Dec. 4 here. Robert Myer won a first place gold medal and a monetary award for his speech on teenage suicides, and Barbara Mitchell won a silver medal and a cash prize for her discourse on retired people. Four other runners-up, Janis An- dary, Stanley Brown, Patty Gill and David Mebl also competed in the contest. Judges in the event were Dr. Harold Salisbury, chairman of the Communi¬ cation Department; Charles Hauren, student; and Mark Murdock, also a student. Entrants were drawn from in-class competition in Speech I classes and any other students who wished to compete. The speeches had to be “essentially persuasive” in nature— to change attitudes, cause action, or strengthen already established at¬ titudes. Members of the Davis-Hall families sponsored the contest, awarding first and second place gold and . silver medals. The Communication Arts Council awarded monetary prizes. September: since then, the festival has lost almost $300 because of poor at¬ tendance. The Senate officers are blaming Vasquez for the loss, claiming that the ASB president should have cancelled the festival after the first few programs. Criticizing the Senate for failure to support the films, Vasquez said it was not his responsibility to monitor the festival. “Concerning the Extravaganza," commented Vasquez, "it is a separate budget and we have credit vouchers for every penny the student govern¬ ment spent on the program. “The senators investigating my financial practices are doing so just for their own publicity,” said Vasquez. “Latrielle and Stuart Silver are both running for ASB offices next year and they want the publicity.” и —Courier Photo by Jeremy Ketelsen DECK THE HALLS— Student senator Cathy Beedle admires the living Christmas tree bought by the Senate for $35 and displayed in Har¬ beson Hall. The unlit tree is decorated with ornaments hand-made by members of the Senate. Following Christmas, the tree will be donated to the college and planted on campus. PCC Alumnus Elected Public Relations Chief right by each other. The error has since been corrected with the use of a little black paint to cover the runaway line, finishing this portion of the many details necessary for completion of the project. Tony Ott, son of Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Ott of Huntington Dr. in San Gabriel, has been elected the Southern Pacific District Director for the Public Relations Student Society of America. The election was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the 26th annual Public Relations Society of America national convention. As director, Ott will coordinate communication between eight public relations student chapters for the colleges and universities in the Southern Pacific region. Ott, a junior at the University of Southern California, expresses his goals as “achieving a creative inter¬ action between our schools to continue to raise the academic standards for the nation’s public relations student programs.” Ott is a PCC alumnus and their immediate past president of Beta Phi Gamma, a national junior college journalistic fraternity. He served as business manager for the Courier and was a member of the ASPECT magazine staff. Through October of this year, Ott worked as advertising manager for Pasadena Now, the Chamber of Commerce magazine. Anthony L. Ott < < < A r- WE’VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS— Workmen painting the center divider line on the newly paved intersection beside the Paramedical Building were surprised when the lines just passed