VOL. 42, N0.15
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 17, 1976
KPCS Awarded
'Mike' for News
By Jim Bi ndley
Assistant Fine Arts Editor
t'he ‘ ‘5 : :J0 News” a 15-minute live
news radio program aired on KPCS-
KM won the "Golden Mike Award” lor
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members Paul Fanell, top, and
Tom Selinse practice for the first
Circle
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Tricycle Race held
Tuesday to raise funds for the
Wendell Hill family of Altadena.
best news writing at the awards
banquet Thursday, Dec. 2.
News Director Marcy Winograd.
wrote, produced and announced the
broadcast which was entered in open
competition with other radio stations,
including commercial stations in the
southland area.
The Radio and Television Industry
Association picked any given week of
the year as the "Golden Mike Week.”
Within that week they select one day to
represent the radio station's broad¬
casts. According to Larry Shirk,
Station Manager the choice is an in¬
dication of the quality of the newscasts
the radio station broadcasts.
Shirk said the award has the same
value in the radio business as an Oscar
has for the film industry.
Prior to her arrival at PCC four
months ago. Ms. Winograd worked at
KPKK, a non-commercial community
supported radio station, reporting and
writing news stories, as well as
working on documentaries.
After leaving KPFK. she worked on
a top 40 radio station in Eugene
Oregon, as news director. She then
worked for seven month at KCBS, an
all news radio station in San Fran-
sisco. where she wrote and edited news
stories.
Ms. Winograd feels KPCS is a station
that the community can listen to while
providing an opportunity for student
involvement in the newsroom.
KPCS-FM also received the "Golden
Mike Award” in 1 972 for a documen¬
tary on drug abuse.
Promoters allowed KPCS-FM to
broadcast the .Junior Rose Bowl last
Saturday because of the station's in¬
volvement with sports anouncing since
1957.
Debaters Rated
Third in Nation
Applications A vaiiabie
for Student Politicos
By Laurel
( арапе
Business Manager
■January 3 is the first day for
students to file applications for ASB
offices. They may be picked up from
elections commissioner David Benzing
or Dorothy Byles in the Campus Center
and must be returned to them no later
than January 10.
Eligible candidates include those
students who: are enrolled in 101-,
units, are not on academic probation,
maintain a 2.2 grade point average
iGPA), and have 11 a.m. Thursdays
free during the Spring semester to
attend ASB Board meetings. Senate
officers must also be available
Tuesdays at noon when the Senate
convenes.
Duties of ASB officers are as
follows: The ASB President chairs the
ASB Board, votes to break a tie or to
complete a quorum, appoints ASB
cabinet officers, acts as presiding
officer at all meetings and assemblies
of the Associated Students, and attends
regional state government con¬
ferences.
The Vice-president presides over the
ASB Cabinet and chairs the Civil
Service Commission. He carries Board
decisions and requests to the Cabinet
for executive consideration and
support. As Civil Service Chairman he
is responsible for promoting interest in
appointive offices through the use of
ail college publications. He also takes
charge of all graduation activities.
Associated Women's and Men's
Students Presidents are responsible
for
со
ordinating their respective
groups' activities.
The Athletic President is responsible
for promoting athletic events and
arranging ASB financial support when
necessary.
The Senate President prepares the
agenda and chairs Senate meetings,
lie is also responsible for attending
any student, administrative or com¬
munity meeting of interest to the
Student Senate. First and Second Vice-
presidents aid the president in
carrying out his duties.
The debate team of Matt Brand-
stetter and Matt Megaro took second
place in the Cross Examination Debate
Association (CEDA) division to lead
the PCC debate squad to a third place
national rating in CEDA debate,
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10-11.
The contest, sponsored by the
University of Southern California,
lifted PCC's debaters past Brigham
Young University to their new spot
behind squads from Cal State Long
Beach and Cal State Northridge.
Michelle Hopkins placed first in the
Lincoln-Douglas debate category
while PCC’s second CEDA debate
squad of Mike Schultz and Gina Iovine
had a score of 4-2 in the preliminary
rounds of competition. "They didn't
w in anything but they were extremely
important in getting us the sweep-
stakes” said Joe Probst, speech in¬
structor. The Community College
Sweepstakes was awarded to PCC.
The third place rating in CEDA was
the result of a complilation of high
scores from meets throughout th
season. PCC's debaters recently too
first place at a similar meet at Cc
State Long Beach.
During remainder of the semeste:
the team will focus on an ‘‘ex
perimental " meet at Cal State Nor
thridge. The spring semester wil
include about 10 meets according t<
Probst. “Next semester we’ve go
some fancy stuff. We're going to try tc
go to the National Championships ir
Salt Lake City, Utah, but we still hav<
to get permission on that.
Probst also mentioned the possibility
of attending the community college
National Championships which are
being held in Washington D.C. this
year.
“We are still very much in need of
more people” said Probst. He em¬
phasized the fact that people do not
need experience in order to par¬
ticipate. "Except for two people, no
one on this year's team had previous
experience.”
Second Trustee Not To
Seek Board Reelection
Unsold Model Home Still Ties Up Space
Local Restrictions, College
Red Tape Discourages Buyers
Bv Tom Godfrey
Stall Writer '
Controversy continues to surround
I the model home, situated somewhat
I symbolically, in the parking lot among
the Engineering and Technology
building, the purchasing offices and
| the journalism bungalow.
“We re still hoping to find a party
I that has a lot, the financial history to
■get a loan, and the money to move it,”
I said Robert Burns, Director of Pur-
I chasing, who dotjs not regard the
I problem as a major one. “No house
[has gone easily. I had one where I. sat
Jup every night until midnight for two
Iweeks trying to get a hold of a
[prospective buyer.”
Burns feels the only pressure to
|move the house at this time is coming
[from the “Courier” and some of the
|students.
"We will sell this house. Right now
|l'm not worried,” he said.
But among those who are worried
lore the students in Lome Johnson's
[building construction class, presently
pit work on the new model home.
"We could have sold that house long
logo,” complained one of them. "1 had
[someone who was' interested in it, but
he was turned off by all the red tape
|und run around he got over there.”
Johnson himself, while saying the
oile of the model home is not his
■concern, did admit that problems with
■the sale had lowered the morale of the
■class. "There's no question it ’affected
Things here, but it has improved since
|"o got the alternative building site for
pho new home.”
Basically, Johnson explained, the
problem has been a growing im¬
pression the model home is a "white
elephant" "There's nothing wrong
with the home itself. It's a well-built,
well-designed house.”
Johnson regrets that controversy
over the sale of the home has been
allowed to reflect on the program.
“We're continuing to place over 75
percent of our students in jobs in an
industry that's been depressed for the
past few years. Two of my students
from last year's class are going on to
advanced academic training. That's a
pretty good record.” he said.
The excellence of the program is not
now being contested. Burns, himself,
termed it a “viable, excellent program
that should not be affected.”
Indications, however, are that it will
be. Dr. Charles F. Miller, Vice
President for Business Services,
conceded that, if the model home goes
Deal for Sale of Project
Collapses; Rebidding Set
PCC's model home will be back up
for bids, following the collapse of
arrangements with a prospective
buyer earlier this week. The bidding
wiil begin again in January, according
to John J. Carson, buyer in the Pur¬
chasing office.
As late as last week, the college had
been exploring a possible sale with an
interested party, described by Dr.
Charles F. Miller, vice president of
business services, as a “taculty
member familiar with the building
construction program.”
According to Miller, the prospective
buyer had a suitable lot and the
necessary finances to conclude the
move. but. following a meeting
Tuesday, the buyer was out of the
picture.
This latest complication concluded a '
six month effort to find a qualified
individual to whom property rights
could be assigned by the original
bidder This procedure was preferred
to rebidding the home, according to
Purchasing Director Robert Burns,
because it avoided legal and ad¬
ministrative entanglements, which
now confront those still involved in
marketing the building project.
unsold, the program would have to be
drastically changed. “We might even
end up in the demolition business," he
said. "We just can't keep collecting
unsold houses."
Both Miller and Burns expect the
sale of future homes to be more dif¬
ficult. Miller noted the sharp drop in
bids i to only one on this year's house)
is "indicative of the problem.”
Available lots are declining in
number in the Pasadena area, they
pointed out, plus access to other
available sites was being cut off by the
construction of underpasses on the
Foothill Freeway that are too small to
accommodate trailers carrying the
houses. "We're becoming effectively
landlocked,” Burns concluded.
Another problem Burns outlined was
the increasing number of local
restrictions on standards of home
construction. “One of the lots chosen
by this year's highest bidder (Mr.
James Dorsi, now out of the picture)
proved unsuitable because the home
didn't have the particular type of
fireproof roof required by the local
ordinance. Our roof was fireproof, but
not the one the law required. He would
have had to put a whole new roof on the
building before he could have moved it
to that site.”
Miller and Burns also anticipate that
the home presently under construction
will be particularly difficult to place
because of its special feature. Plans
call for solar panels that will require
the house to be situated on a lot on a the
north side of an east-west street w ith
an unobstructed southern exposure.
And. as Burns said, "you just aren't
Continued on Pace Six
A second member of the PCC Board
of Trustees announced last week that
he will not run for re-election in the
March 8 balloting.
Robert Considine, a member of the
board for almost four years, said he
may move out of the district within the
next four years and did not feel it was
fair to keep potential candidates in the
dark as to his intentions.
Considine represents Area 1, which
encompasses the city of Arcadia.
The deadline for filing for candidacy
in the four trustee areas up for re-
election is January 7.
Considine said many of the ob¬
jectives he set out to accomplish when
he ran for election in 1973 have been
achieved. He cited maintaining the
integrity of Arcadia as a trustee area a
major accomplishment during his
tenure in office.
Tighter control of the $30 million
district budget was one of Considine's
campaign issues. He said he considers
the board's stabilization of expendi-
tires and the maintenance of the
current tax rate during his term in
office one of the objectives of his
campaign.
Another goal was a comprehensive
insurance program to adequately
protect the school from disaster and
liability. Considine was one of the most
outspoken members of the board who
called for an increase in the college’s
athletic protection and a review of the
total insurance program.
Dr. E. Howard Floyd. PCC
superintendent-president, said of
Considine, "Bob served on the board
as an able and conscientious leader.
He knows the needs of the community
and has brought to PCC his broad
wisdom. We shall miss his great in¬
sight to the needs of community
college education."
—Courier Photo by Dana Pedersen
FACULTY FRAMED— Nursing student Suzanne Murphy views one of
the many artworks on display in the Art Gallery during the Art Faculty
Art Show. Thirty-one members of the Art Department submitted
material for the show which began December 5 and ends today.