—Courier Photos by Steve Hunt
SAN 1 AS VISIT — Di. John Gregory is presented with a teddy beai, a
common pacifiei used by Santa to calm his lapsitters.
MAKING A LIST— Dr. Gregory shows Santa his long list of gift
suggestions, including a bigger budget foi his department.
MECHA vs. Pasadena Police
Game Benefits T oys for T ots
By Michael Joncich
Club Editor
The MECHA Toys for Tots program
gets a final assist from the Pasadena
Police Department, tomorrow, in a
benefit basketball game at Pasadena
High School.
The game, which begins at 1 p.m.,
will match the PPD against members
of MECHA and the Chicano faculty.
Admission to the game is a $2
donation.
Fund-raising efforts spanning two
months have netted the Toys for Tots
program a room full of gifts for needy
families in the Pasadena area. Ac¬
cording to club president, Ranato
Medina, assistance from the ASB, the
police department and individual
students will enable MECHA to
provide Christmas toys for more
children than originally planned.
Money earned from Saturday’s
basketball game will help with the
final purchase of toys. According to
Medina, the owner of a toy warehouse
in the City of Commerce has agreed to
sell the club toys at on-third the retail
price.
Next week, club members will wrap
and deliver the gifts to needy families
whose names were supplied to the club
by the Villa Parke Center and El
Centro, community service centers.
PCC participants in the basketball
game include: faculty members Bob
Navarro, Arnold Ramirez, Bob Adanto
and Enrique Orozco; and students
Renato Medina, Allan Starbird, Frank
Rubio, Louis Martinez, Rocky Mitchell
and Ricky Medina.
Auto Permit Mail-In
To Begin January 12 Finalists in Davis-Hall
Dates for mailing in self-addressed
stamped envelopes for next semester
parking permits which will go on sale
January 12 through T6 not this week as
publized in last Friday’s Courier.
Requests already sent in by students
will not be honored. They need to re¬
submit their requests. The Security
Office is sending those requests back
with a flyer giving the correct dates.
The plan, devised by PCC Security
Chief Ralph Riddle along with the
Student Parking Committee, is for
students to mail in envelopes.
Students will then be accepted for
permits on a first come first served
basis. Forms will then be sent back to
the students telling them that they
have the opportunity to buy a permit.
Envelopes will only be accepted
between these above dates. Request
for permits will not be honored at any
other times. Students are also asked
not to send money with the requests.
Only 2200 permits will be sold.
Students who are not among the first
2200 to apply will be notified.
Tournament Announced
By Michael Russell
Assistant City Editor
Eight finalists in the annual Davis-
Hall Speech Contest were announced
Tuesday. They were selected from
more than 80 semi-fianlists by students
in Speech 1 classes.
The finalists are Pat Ballard, Anita
Boing, Angela Capobianco, Jim
Cassou, Jeff Goldberg, Roberta Kapp,
Pamela Nicassio and Tammy Stevens.
Courier Wins All-American Award
for The Fourth Consecutive Time
The PCC journalism sub-department
has been notified by the University of
Minnesota that the spring semester
Courier has been awarded an All
American rating. The university
conducts its “National Critical
Review” in conjunction with the
National Scholastic Press Association
(NSPA) and the Associated Collegiate
Press ( ACP) and rates two and four-
year college newspapers.
The significance of this award is
indicated by the NSPA-ACP guide¬
book. “For nearly 50 years the All-
American rating has signified the best
in student publications. To maintain
the significance of this honor, judges
periodically must raise standards for
the All-American rating to recognize
new standards being set by the
publications themselves.
“Usually this adjustment simply is a
reminder to judges that the best publi¬
cations have pushed the standards
higher and that their scoring scales
must be raised.” In light of this, the
guidebook states that “the All-
American paper of 10 years ago would
not even be a first class paper today.”
In order to win the All-American
rating, a publication must receive a
“Mark of Distinction in four of five
categories, Coverage and Content,
Writing and Editing, Editorial Leader¬
ship, Physical Appearance and
Photography.
The Mark of Distinction indicates
“unusually high quality and especially
creative or distinctly lively, appealing
work."
The Courier received an All-
American rating in the category of
junior college weekly with an at¬
tendance of 4000 or over.
This is the fourth consecutive
semester that the Courier has won this
honor. The first All-American editor
was Agnes Leung, Fall 1973. After Ms.
Leung came Bernie Horner, Spring
1974; Eric Epling, Fall 1974 and last
semester’s winner, Sergio Caponi.
This semester’s Courier editor,
Ernie Aldrich, said, “This is especially
exciting for myself and several
members of my staff because we had
worked for the paper during Sergio’s
editorship. An award like this places
an added responsibility on the staff to
uphold the standards set by Sergio and
his predecessors. We have our hands
full in our efforts to uphold these
standards.”
“The journalism advisers are proud
of the students who helped earn this
award for the Courier,” according to
Michaelene Bolliger, chief adviser for
the paper. “Those involved in the
production of the weekly paper work
very hard and this type of recognition
just makes official what we knew all
along— hard work and dedication
make for a good publication!”
Courier advisers are Mrs. Bolliger,
news and production; Dorothy Kolts,
editorial; Donna Chick, sports and
Wilhelm Bleckmann, photography.
Finals in the competition will be held
in Harbeson Hall at 8 p.m. on Thurs¬
day, Jan. 8. The public is invited to
attend and the competition will be
broadcast by KPCS at a later date.
Topics of the speeches, according to
the contest coordinator, Chrystal
Watson, include a wide variety of
diverse student interests. Speeches
were judged on delivery, importance
of topic, originality and speech con¬
struction.
Judges for the Davis-Hall contest
are students prominent in school ac¬
tivities.
First and second place winners
receive gold medals and monetary
awards. Finalists receive PCC Book¬
store gift certificates along with
commemorative certificates.
Hall Jewelers sponsor the contest.
They have financed the competition
since 1907. The Davis-Hall Speech
Contest is considered to be one of the
oldest forensic contests in California.
Another coming speech contest is the
annual Phil Robinson Safety Competi¬
tion. Held in the spring, that competi¬
tion emphasizes speeches with a safety
slant.
Evidence of Kris Kringle
Decks the Halls of PCC
Reader's Theater Walks Away
With a First Place Trophy
A blending of several familiar
Christmas stories and the work of Keri
Bowman, Craig Cox, Scott Fuller.
Debbie Pillon and Sue Robertson
helped the drama division’s Reader’s
Theater group walk away with a first
place trophy in competition last
weekend at the University of Southern
California.
In their fourth meet this year, held
Dec. 12 and 13, the program titled “A
Christmas Gift to You” was chosen
over entries from two and four year
schools such as Santa Ana College, Cal
State Northridge, Biola College, USC
and UCLA.
Directed by speech instructor Qarol
Norheim, the Readers Theater squad
Will be involved in two competitions
during January.
By Barbara Dorsch
Business Manager
Tis the season round the campus as
many of the departments are finding
their own ways of celebrating the
holiday. With each passing party, the
faculty gets merrier.
' For example, the maintenance
department chips in every year to
sponsor a catered bash for the whole
group. In the past they have partied in
such snazzy places as the Chalon in
Pasadena and the Pepper Mill Inn. Of
course it does not have to be expensive
to be fun, laughs Chuck Richardson of
the gardening crew. “We went to
Shakey’s.” As of yet, they have not
come to a decision where they will be
going, but the plans should be finalized
soon.
Planned in advance is the Annual
Staff Coffee, held today. This is for the
entire faculty and the classified staff.
Sponsored by the administration, it
will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. This
should certainly be a good warm-up for
the coming vacation.
Actually, the staff has been warming
up all week in the faculty lounge at
lunch time to Christmas music by
Doris Hancock at the piano. Unknown
to many of the students on campus, the
same fingers that punch the switch¬
board all year long also tickle the key¬
board at Christmas time.
Meanwhile, the mailroom is busy
making plans for a party at the
Westward Ho. They already leaped
into the Christmas spirit by investing
in a tiny plastic fir tree.
Today also is an open house in the
Business Department. The Art
Department is already into the swing
of things with yesterday 's presentation
of “Christmas Through the Ages.”
Ironically enough, one of the most
spirited places on campus is the
College Bank. The ladies there have
launched into full Christmas swing
with a large and varied assortment of
ornaments and decorations.
COUNSELING SEMINARS
January 7 is the next date for the
counseling seminars held for
students who wish to self-program
without having an appointment with
their counselors. A location for the
seminars has not been announced as
yet. For additional information,
students should contact the coun¬
seling office.
LAS! MINUTE DETAILS — Santa hears Dr. Gregory’s last request for
Christmas. No one knows what it was, but it is rumored that Santa
said he could not get it down the chimney.
Energy Class
Plans
By Chris Nyerges
Staff Writer
Thirteen representatives from in¬
dustry, business and education met
Monday in the faculty dining room to
discuss possible directions PCC might
take to develop courses in the tech¬
nology of energy management and
conservation.
Present at the meeting were repre¬
sentatives from the public and private
sectors having concerns about the
short and long term energy crises.
Representatives from Parsons
Company,
О.
K. Earl Corporation,
JPL, the Federal Energy Administra¬
tion, Southern California Gas Co.,
Aerospace Corporation, Pasadena
Water and Power and others were
present.
Four of the 13 members will meet
January 9 and develop for fall ’76
several courses aimed at energy
management for the owners and
operators of energy-consuming in¬
dustries and building establishments.
The courses will attempt to teach
how to conserve energy and to im¬
plement actual energy conservation
plans.
A second objective of the meeting
was to design a one or two-unit day
class that might be offered to students
to provide general information on
energy sources and time lines for the
end of these resources.
Vernon G. Spaulding, supervisor of
Occupational Education, points out
that the courses have not been ap¬
proved, but the energy-planning com¬
mittee is the first step to get the new
program a partol the PCC curriculum.
If PCC does finally accept the
courses, it will be one of the first in the
state on the community college level to
implement energy-planning and tech¬
nology courses.
In a report from the National
Science Teachers Association, all the
world's stockpiles of oil will be gone in
80 years if a constant rate of today’s
consumption is projected. More
realistically, with oil consumption
doubling every nine years, all the
Made
world’s oil may be gone by the year
2003.
Natural gas, the report states, will
last another 112 years if the constant
rate of today’s consumption is
projected. But once world growth
consumption is considered, the life¬
time of natural gas may only be 30
more years. Coal could last another 693
years at a constant rate of today’s use.
However, with the growth of energy
use calculated, the study says we may
be out of coal in the year 2043, a little
under 70 years from now. Uranium
fuel is said to have only a lifespan of 27
years.
What is fuel used for today? Tran¬
sportation accounts for approximately
25 per cent of total U.S. energy con¬
sumption and 60 per cent of U.S.
petroleum consumption, stated one of
the committee’s summary reports.
Industry accounts for 35 per cent of
consumption, with residential sector
responsible for 24 per cent, com¬
mercial sector 10 per cent and raw
materials 6 per cent.
Buildings alone consume 33 per cent
of all energy used in the U.S. for
heating, air conditioning, lights and
power, which is the equivalent of 10
million barrels of oil per day when oil
imports are only approximately 6
million barrels per day.
The Urgency of Energy Education
paper stated, “More than 500 million
years was required for nature to
create the earth’s resources, yet man
is using them up in approximately 200
years. The basic fact is that these
resources will be exhausted in the near
future.”
Speaking to the committee,
Spaulding said, “In conclusion,
technology has created the problem.
We must now turn to technology to
solve the problem.”
The committee hopes to generate
“increased consciousness of the new
conservation attitude” to protect
ourselves against the “shameless
energy wastes . . . known by almost
everyone.”
—Courier Photo by Chris Nyerges
MISTLETOE — A member of Mrs. Ila Dennis’ botany class picks
mistletoe off a scrub oak bush. The class was on its once-a-semester
field trip. The area was in the South Mojave Desert.