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Vol. 25, No. 15
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
December 21, 1966
MARIACHI BRASS PERFORMS — The Mariachi Brass with Marcus
Antonious as their leader, performed at the ASB assembly on
Tuesday, Dec. 13. The next ASB assembly is set for Thursday,
Jan 6.
ABC Scope Features
Pasadena CC Profs
Contract Approved
for Robbins Building
Pasadena's Fine
Social Workers
Deserve Credit
By William Haupt III
Around Christmas each year,
much publicity is given to many
fine, outstanding community serv¬
ice groups. Many times though,
we overlook the people right un¬
der our very noses. I believe our
social-work students should re¬
ceive a little of this praise.
There are some 125 right here
at Pasadena City College doing
outstanding jobs in the field.
These are volunteer student so¬
cial workers, enrolled in the soci¬
ology classes here.
Such work has been going on
for about 20 years, and has be¬
come a tradition here.
The present coordinators of this
program are Di\ Ruth Macfar-
lane, Mrs. Alberta Walker, John
Snyder, and Susan Lippe.
When a student first comes into
a sociology class, he is asked what
kind of agency and type of social
work he would be interested in
assisting. The agencies range
from youth groups such as the
Pasadena Boys Club, to volunteer
work at the Los Angeles County
Hospital.
Purpose of the assignment is to
give to the students a sociological
experience in the group relation¬
ship. Naturally, it is a most re¬
warding experience to the student.
The teachers leave it up to the
students to place themselves.
They are given a list of agencies
from which to chose, make ap¬
pointments as they would for any
job, and are interviewed. If they
are accepted, they will sometimes
go through a limited amount of
“in-service" training for the jobs.
Then the students are placed on
their own.
At the end of the semester, the
student is evaluated by his super¬
visor and then receives a grade
for his work.
Award Session
Set by ICC
Winding up the ICC’s semes¬
ter activities willl be an awards
meeting Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 2:30
in Room 12C where clubs and
members of ICC will receive rec¬
ognition for their work.
A certificate of recognition will
be awarded to one of the 71 cam¬
pus clubs which has had an out¬
standing work record and which
has cooperated in Club Day,
Homecoming, Junior Rose Bowl
and ICC meetings and projects.
There will also be an election
of the new ICC president. A separ¬
ate representative from each club
must be present. Service awards
for outstanding work done by indi¬
viduals will also be presented.
The Automotive Club of PCC
has won the $25 first prize for hav¬
ing sold 74 tickets, to the Junior
Rose Bowl. Varsity Club won sec¬
ond place with 50, and Spartans
was third with 40 tickets.
ICC President Emily Vezerian
noted that all clubs did outstand¬
ing jobs. Most of them sold at
least 30 tickets.
This is the last day for the toy
drive sponsored by ICC. Toys will
go to General Hospital and to
Toys for Tots sponsored by the
Marine Corps.
АВС
will be presenting four
professors (three from Pasadena
City College) during Christmas
vacation on its award-winning
television program, “Scope.”
The purpose of the program is
to highlight the breadth and qual¬
ity of junior college teaching by
featuring local professors.
The first of the shows will fea¬
ture Ronald Koertge on Decem¬
ber 26. He will speak on “The
Function of Fiction.” From PCC’s
English Department, Koertge
spoke on the same subject at a
recent English Colloquium at the
college.
George Luber, English profes¬
sor, also from PCC, will be fea¬
tured December 27 in a discussion
of “Ezra Pound: Man and Poet.”
“Obscenity, an Objective View,”
will be given on Wednesday by
PCC English professor Ben Rude.
Dr. Bruce Conklin, chairman of
Debaters
Finish 8th
Pierce College was the site of
success for Phi Rho Pi, as PCC’s
intercollegiate forensics group
took part in a debate tournament
held there recently.
The Lancer spokesmen, al¬
though only seven strong, won
many individual honors. At the
same time the PCC’ers as a group
placed eighth among the 46 junior
colleges participating.
Ted Roberts, competing in the
championship division, placed
fourth in extemporaneous speak¬
ing. His two certificates of excel¬
lence, one in extemporaneous
and another in impromptu, were
matched by Robert Fain’s two
certificates of excellence in ora-
toi’y and literary interpretation.
Jan Garvey won a certificate
of excellence in extemporaneous
and Ed Chambers won one in in¬
terpretation. Also participating
were Rod Murray, Darlene Lor¬
enz and Judith Pett.
PCC’s Life Science Department,
will speak on the “Meanings of
Love” on December 29. Rounding
out the week will be a second
presentation by Luber, “What
Happens in a Poem” on Friday,
December 30.
The first three programs will
be question and answer periods.
The questions will be directed at
Koertge, Luber and Rude by pro¬
gram coordinator Dr. John Greg¬
ory, head of the telecommunica¬
tions section of the Speech
Department at PCC, and director
of broadcasting at KPCS, PCC’s
radio station (89.3 me.).
The half-hour programs appear
on channel 7 at 7 a.m.
Last year many PCC instruc¬
tors spoke on “Scope.’ Among
them were John Christopher,
Adele Tingey, Robert Levis, Len¬
nox Tierney, Jack Bell, Roberta
Markman, Alberta Craggett,
James Hamilton, Dr. Carmen
Brunol, and Dr. George Feinstein.
After conferring with the new¬
ly elected Pasadena Junior Col¬
lege District trustees, the Board
of Education recently approved a
Soph Council
Holds Caucus
Why are open forums a failure
at PCC?
Yesterday, the Sophomore Coun¬
cil held a caucus where any soph¬
omore who wanted to could come
and voice, his gripes, complaints,
or criticisms about his council.
There were about 18 student
body officers in attendance and
only one student who was not a
member of the government.
Chairman John Bohart, who had
spoken optimistically of a success¬
ful meeting earlier in the week,
was clearly disappointed by the
poor tunout. He noted that not
even all of the members of the
Soph Council were in attendance.
KPCS Covers
Sports Events
With the expansion of its ra¬
dio and TV facilities, PCC’s tele¬
communications section is able to
bring more sports events to its
500 to 1000 listeners.
In its expanded sports program,
KPCS-FM broadcast all of the
1966 Lancer football games, and
has started broadcasting basket¬
ball games. A special request to
KNX radio to relinquish its FM
rights to KPCS was required to
enable the college station to broad¬
cast the Junior Rose Bowl game.
The newest innovation is closed
circuit TV which allows the sta¬
tion to video-tape football team
practices and to play them back in
the locker rooms for the coaches
and players to study and correct
errors.
The KPCS staff is manned pri¬
marily by students, including Tim
Price, who does most of the play-
by-play, and Roger Stark, who
handles the interviews. The teach¬
ers are all professionals in tele¬
communications, and include Dr.
John Gregory, station manager;
Ken Johnson, chief engineer; and
Sid Orloff, TV engineer.
Non-Citizens Report
The Federal Government re¬
quires every person who is not
a citizen of the United States
to report his address to the gov¬
ernment each January. Cards
are available at post offices
during January. The law re¬
quires that these cards be filled
out and submitted before Jan¬
uary 31.
contract with the Pinner Con¬
struction Company to build the
west half of the Robbins Building
for a sum of $2,160,000.
This project had been delayed
for more than three months be¬
cause the competitive bids ex¬
ceeded both the architects’ esti¬
mate and the college’s building
funds. By December 15, the
accumulation of seat tax reve¬
nues from the current property
tax payments makes it legally
possible now to grant the con¬
tract.
THE ROBBINS Building has
been planned for six years by
architects, building coordinators,
and faculties of the Art, Com¬
puter Sciences, Foreign Lan¬
guages, and Mathematics Depart¬
ments.
The areas vacated by these
departments in the C Building
will be renovated and reassigned
to English, social sciences, and
other units of the college.
When the Board of Education
first considered contractors’ bids
for the five-story addition, they
faced the problem of rising con¬
struction costs. The lowest con¬
struction bid (the $2.16 million
offered by the Pinner Co.) was
$340,000 over the budgeted esti¬
mate.
THE REASON FOR the over¬
estimate, said George Allison of
Allison, Rible, Robinson, and Zieg¬
ler, Los Angeles architects for
the PCC project, was that since
the contract runs for two years,
“the general uncertainty in future
trends in labor and material costs
have caused some apprehension
in building contractors.”
At the time the Board of Edu¬
cation first considered the Pinner
bid last October, Dr. Armen Sara-
fian, PCC president, advocated
accepting the option offer, point¬
ing out that funds from students
outside the existing Pasadena
school district would be available
in December.
Occupancy of the Robbins
Building west wing is planned for
the spring semester of 1968-69.
Kickoff
Luncheon
Dec. 30
With the Rose Bowl just around
the corner, the Pasadena Kiwanis
Club is making plans for the an¬
nual Kick-off Luncheon to be held
Friday, December 30 at the Civic
Auditorium.
Providing entertainment will be
the PCC Lancer Band, official
Tournament of Roses Band since
1932. Daniel Hiestand will direct.
Both the USC and Purdue teams
will be honored with their coaches
at the 12 noon banquet. Tickets
may be purchased by the general
public at the local Kiwanis Club.
Among those present will be
several of the parade dignitaries,
such as the grand marshal, the
mayor and the tournament presi¬
dent. Reigning over the luncheon
will be PCC’s own Barbara Hew¬
itt, 1967 Tournament of Roses
queen, and her court.
Final Exams
Seminar Set
The PCC Tutorial Center will
conduct a seminar on Prepara¬
tion for Final Exams January 4
from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in 404R
and January 6 from 2 to 4 p.m.
in 103D.
Guest speaker is Dr. Elton
Davis, PCC psychologist-psychom-
etrist, who will discuss the atti¬
tude, preliminary prepara t i
о
n s,
and study techniques for final
exams.
All students are encouraged to
attend this informative seminar,
but reservations must be made in
115R no later than today.
This is another of the services
performed by the Tutorial Cen¬
ter which now aids over 275 stu¬
dents with the assistance of 86
student-tutors.
—Courier photo by Dennis McCarthy
HAVING A GOOD TIME — Everyone is having a good time at the
Pasadena City College Christmas Ball held Friday night at the
Altadena Town and Country Club. A fine crowd was on hand
for the annual event.