PCC Courier, December 16, 1977

f Roses Bloom: Lancers No. 1 See Sports on Page Four By Mary Glenn Crawford Staff Writer “Mountain Express,” a Christmas party hosted by ASB government, will gather its passengers at 2:30 p.m. December 22 in the Hill and Colorado parking lot. Party-goers will then be transported to the Wrightwood Community Center. Transportation will be provided to and from the party site. The party is open to all students and employees of PCC. There is no ad¬ mission charge. The ASB has allotted $1000 for the costs of the festivities. An extra $500 was approved for emergency ex¬ penses. “Homegrown,” a five-member blue- grass music band, is scheduled to per¬ form the first three hours of the 4:30 to 11:30 p.m. party time slot. Cal State L.A., the ASB Barn Dance and The Ice House have all been sites of its past performances. “Stampede,” a contemporary music group, will provide the second half of the entertainment. An estimated 35 gallons of punch, 200 pieces of fruit, 40 loaves of bread and 50 pounds of lunch meats will be provided. Students involved plan to bake cookies, pies and cakes for the event. Party organizers have offered to purchase any supplies needed for the baking and preparation of refresh¬ ments. ASB is open to any suggestion students may have for the entertain¬ ment plans. The party is a student effort and ASB officers said they will welcome any help that is offered. Santa Claus is expected to join in the fun and tell a unique version of “The Night Before Christmas” story. Santa and the Mountain Express organizers agree that the party will create a mood so the college com-/ munity may share the Christmas spirit. Interested persons can R.S.V.P. by signing up at the second floor of the Campus Center until 3 p.m. on December 19. ASB President Elena Rodriguez said that the party is basically a get- Parking Permit Sales To Prelude Bedlam The rush to apply for student day parking permits for the spring semester will start January 4, 1978. Since on-campus parking by students is limited to approximately 2500 autos, all students who want to park their cars on campus are required to apply for parking permits by mail. The first 2500 requests for day parking permits received by mail at the Office of Security and Parking Services will be sent application forms. The next 500 requests will be placed on a waiting list. These students are eligible to buy parking permits as soon as parking spaces become available. Parking permits can be requested by mail for regular day parking, compact car parking and for carpool parking. Applications for all other on-campus parking permits for cars, bicycles, motorcycles and mopeds will be sold in the Office of Security and Parking Services beginning January 16, 1978. Competition Held For Smoothest Talker Around The annual Davis-Hall speech contest will be held Tuesday, Dec. 20 at 8 p.m. in Harbeson Hall. In its fiftieth year, the contest will feature six to eight students who will give persuasive speeches and be judged by former contest winners. Elimination rounds have been held during the semester. Cash prizes and trophies will be awarded to the top three speakers. In order to apply for regular day, compact car or carpool parking permits, students should request an application form by mailing a self- addressed, stamped envelope and a request form to PCC. The request forms have been placed on the windshields of many cars parked in student lots and are also available from the Office of Security and Parking Services. Do not send cash or checks with the request. Mail the request to Pasadena City College, Security Office, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, Calif. 91106. The letter must not be postmarked before January 4, 1978 nor later than January 11, 1978. Students who receive applications may buy their parking permits on weekdays at the Office of Security and Parking Services from 7:30 a. m. to 10 p.m. Regular day parking permits are $20 per semester. The permits allow students to park in the regular student parking lots from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. These per¬ mits are for both full-sized and com¬ pact cars. Students who have compact cars also have the option of buying permits to park in the two compact car parking lots. Compact cars with maximum body length of 180” and a maximum body width of 66” qualify for permits for these two lots. One lot is located at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Hill Avenue; the other is at the corner of Bonnie and Francisca streets. Small car parking permits are $16 per semester and are valid from 7 a.m. to- 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. Permits for carpools which use more than one car must also be requested by mail. together for people who are involved in the various clubs and organizations on campus. Usually, she explained, the events turn into political forums for the gathering of ideas. “Last. year,” Miss Rodriguez re¬ members, “we had a hay ride. Only 50 or 80 went, but everyone had a fan¬ tastic time.” Other recent ASB action was ap¬ Ho! Ho! Ho! Conveyed Uniquely proval of $295.50 to be used in the purchase of T-shirts to promote the Junior Rose Bowl. The board also confirmed Leslie Thompson as Athletics Commissioner. The post has not been filled until now. Miss Rodriguez also mentioned that she would like to see the ASB govern¬ ment sponsor more activities for the students. —Courier Photo by Blake Sell NUMBER ONE— Head Coach Al Luginbill signals PCC’s position among junior colleges across the nation, the best in football. Last Saturday’s 38-9 victory over Jones County in the Junior Rose Bowl proved Pasadena’s number one ranking was no fluke. Raymond, a 20-year-old physical therapy major, stuffs himself with pillows and arranges a false beard to face the kiddies five nights a week from noon to 9:30 p.m. at shopping malls all over Southern California. Raymond is partially deaf, and was hired in part for his ability to read lips and to use sign language. By Mike Phillips busy man and needs all the help he can fellow, including, among other things, Feature Editor get. Today’s commercial society an increasing degree of specialization Understandably, Santa Claus is a demands more and more of the old from his helpers. Especially helpful to him at this time of year are the many duplicate Santas appearing at shopping centers and malls, and especially specialized this year is PCC student Raymond Oliva, hired by Sears as a sign-language stand-in for St. Nick. “Santa can talk to all children,” he said. Whether or not Santa would actually want to undertake this by himself is doubtful, so Sears has trained 20 "helpers,” including Raymond, to keep him covered. They have Santas fluent in Japanese, Korean, Viet¬ namese, Chinese, Philipino and Spanish, and all of them must speak English as well. . Raymond found . 4he job through PCCrs Student Assistance Center, where an ad had been posted. After an interview and the discovery of his talents (he also speaks Spanish), Raymond was fitted with his bright red Santa suit and sent to school. Being a Santa, apparently, is not as easy as it looks. “They told us how to act with children and what to expect from them . . . how to tell when there is a real smart alec kid in line and what to say when they don’t think you look like Santa,” Raymond said. Raymond, besides being the youngest Santa in the group, also has a distinctly Latin complexion and does not really resemble the traditional pink-cheeked fat man. “I just tell them that this summer I spent my vacation at the beach,” he said. Besides the notoriously direct questioning of children, there are the wet kids on the lap, r e candy in the beard, crying infant rate parents and the constant flow of requests and promises. Shopping center Santas have it tough. Pay is $3.50 an hour for Raymond, higher than for other Santas because of his ability to sign. He is also receiving a lot of publicity. Raymond has been interviewed on all three of the major network stations as well as several local newspapers. But commercializa¬ tion of the season crept in even here. “They just wanted to get film of the children signing to me and me signing to them,” Raymond said. “Some of these kids were about five or six and they saw all those cameras and were really scared.” Santa would be proud. PROMISES, PROMISES— PCC student Raymond Oliva was enlisted into the ranks of toymaking elves and red-nosed beasts of burden earlier this month when he was hired by Sears to masquerade as Santa Claus. Raymond, who is partially deaf, has received a lot of local publicity because of his talents as a sign language interpreter. —Courier Photo by Blake Sell DECEMBER 16, 1977 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA VOL. 44, N0.15 A SB Throws Free Party In High Mountain Retreat New Year's March No Bed of Roses For Lancer Band By Mike Phillips Feature Editor | ЩМШЩ RON HOAR . . . behind the baton Would it make any difference to the halftime audience at a PCC football game if the entire Lancer marching band entered the field and stripped.? Band Director Ron Hoar thinks it probably would not, and is trying to do something about it. “We’re going to stop being called ‘marching’ bands,” he said. “I just wonder if there wasn’t any band if there would be any other support at all at the football games,” he said. “Oh, maybe a parent, the coaches, a board member . . . but there is no student body support.” And neither, according to Hoar, is there student support for his band. “The band exists because of me and the students who are in it,” he said. Tradition also plays a part in the reasons for the band’s existence. PCC's “marching” band has been the official Tournament of Roses Parade Band since 1930. The question of whether or not PCC should take the position, year after year, has never come up. With the job goes a schedule of performances before Rotary clubs, senior citizen groups, high schools and at the Civic Auditorium, the Corona¬ tion Ball and Disneyland. There is also that long walk up Colorado Boulevard on January second and numerous rehearsals. “We’re the PCC Band through December and then take on the name of ‘The Tournament of Roses Band’,” Hoar said. The 70-piece band has been so- named again this year, for which each band member receives a Big Mac, an apple turnover, a Dr. Pepper and a T of R patch. And probably sore feet. “They used to give them tickets,” the director added. What he wants more than these things, however, is for the band to step back into its original role as an “enter¬ tainment unit.” In the 1930s and AOs, he said, PCC’s band played arrange¬ ments all over the country to audi¬ ences that wanted to hear them play. Since then things have changed and “marching” bands are out of style. “Parades are going out,” Hoar said. He gave an example of a place where bands are still “in.” Ahead of the times or behind them, they like bands in Hawaii. Hoar was a judge and clinician at a band contest there recently and said that the music and drills were modern and entertaining, drawing a crowd of 14,000 people for the show. “They had to hold up the contest for 20 minutes for the traffic,” he said. "And we can't get 15,000 people to attend our national Junior College football contest.” Contributing to the difficulties the band is having reaching its audience are many factors. The high school orientation of a lot of the band mem¬ bers makes it difficult for Hoar to attempt new drill styles. “Kids out of high school are tired of band.” he said. The class. Music 61. meets five times a week and practices constantly, learning new tunes every week. They learn the theme from "Star Wars” or “Rocky" or selections from "A Chorus Line" and “The Wiz,” trying to keep up with the times, such as they are. They use about $60,000 worth of equip¬ ment. not including $25,000 in uniforms (“They look like tents,” Hoar said). All of this, not to mention the dedication of a man like Hoar, to fill up the halftime at PCC football games. “We want to be entertaining.” Hoar said. TAKE A KNEE— Things are not going as well as one might think for the Lancer Band, which will ’march in the 89th annual Tournament of Roses Parade. Director Ron Hoar claims that the student body is not interested in the band.