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PCC Courier, February 15, 1980
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State Notes 'Community College Week'
Center Sharpens Learning Skills
Career Guidance Shapes Lives
By Michael Imlay
Staff Writer
“Community College Week” will be
observed statewide Feb. 16 through 23
in recognition of California’s 107 com¬
munity colleges and the services pro¬
vided by them. Two such services
offered by PCC are the Learning As¬
sistance Center and the Career Center.
Students having problems with tests
or study skills need not wrestle with
their troubles on their own. PCC’s
Learning Assistance Center seeks to
help students develop these skills.
The LAC, which is housed in the
third floor of the campus D Building, is
filled with literature and audio-visual
equipment designed to help individuals
develop the academic skills needed for
college work..
“One of the key words this semester
is ‘options,’ ” said Mrs. Mary
McGuire, LAC supervisor. She ex¬
plained that this semester the center is
trying to 'satisfy the needs of each
individual student, especially those of
the “nontraditional” students like
those who are returning to school from
retirement or those who are sup¬
plementing their education after com¬
pleting school.
A new addition to the LAC is the
Study Skills Bibliography, an index of
written material designed to help stu¬
dents aquaint themselves with skills
such as memory concentration, note
taking and test taking.
Each month the center holds semi¬
nars on a variety of study-related
subjects. For these the LAC tries to
“pull in specialists” to give the talks,
according to Mrs. McGuire. The center
also can act as a reserve for “en¬
richment” materials that the faculty
might want to leave for students to
study on their own time.
The center is also geared to aid
handicapped students by supplying spe¬
cial equipment adaptable to their
needs. Some of the specialized equip¬
ment includes a machine which repro¬
duces print when it is placed under a
lense and projected onto a television
screen. The print is enlarged on the
screen for visually impaired students
to read. A Brailler, which allows the
blind to type in braille, is also avail¬
able.
For seeing impaired students there
is a cassette player which plays listen¬
ing material at several speeds.
By Tamarah Johnson
Contributing Writer
PCC’s Career Center is equipped to
help students decide what to do with
the rest of their lives. Occupying the
second floor of PCC’s D Building, it
features up-to-date information about
career choices, development and plan¬
ning.
The Career Center’s library is a
conglomeration of college catalogs,
both in book form and on microfilm.
Some materials include the “California
Occupational Guides,” the “Occupa¬
tional Outlook Handbook” and many
pamphlets from the L.A. County career
guidance center.
One exceptional facet of the PCC
Career Center is the System of Interac¬
tive Guidance and Information. SIGI, a
computer designed to aid in career
decision making, has been at PCC since
1975. It can accommodate two students
at a time. They proceed at their own
pace during one or two-hour segments
for a total of approximately four hours.
The SIGI program is constructed to
give a student a definite idea of what
he’s looking for in a job, how to prepare
for that job and where to find it once
the preparing is done.
In addition to the files of information
about different schools, jobs, and ca¬
reers, the Career Center works jointly
with the job placement office on cam¬
pus.
Last month nine representatives
from various employers were available
to students to talk about opportunities
in their companies. In May a complete
job fair featuring Pasadena area em¬
ployers will be coming to PCC.
If the road to a chosen profession
includes transfer to a four-year univer¬
sity, college representatives are avail-,
able one, two, or three times each
week. For two-year courses, the Ca¬
reer Center offers directories to other
schools if PCC does not provide a
certain program.
Aplications for the California State
and University of California Colleges
are available from the desk at the apex
of the Career Center.
The second floor of the D Building on
campus also holds the financial aid
office, the registration department,
and the Career Guidance counseling
team. These three divisions, in com¬
bination with the many other aspects of
the Career Planning program, work to
provide PCC students with the in¬
formation needed to get their careers
off the ground.
COMMUNITY COLLEGE WEEK — Proclamations honoring PCC are
presented to Superintendent- President Dr. Richard S. Meyers by Mayor
Ellis W. Jones of Pasadena and to Board of Trustees member Warren L.
Weber by Mayor Ted Shaw of South Pasadena. The proclamations
commend the college for its contributions to the community and urge all
citizens to support the school in every way.
Black History Observed
Black American art is on display this
month in the PCC library to honor
Black History Month, which was pro¬
claimed last year by President Carter
and is taking place this month.
The display contains drawings by
Charles White taken from the book
“Images of Dignity.” White was a
black Pasadena-Altadena artist who
died last fall at the age of 61.
Another display is being prepared
for the library by Librarian Delois J.
Christopher and the PCC Black Student
Union. It will contain art dealing with
black heritage, according to BSU Pres¬
ident Arthur Robinson.
Our (the BSU) goal is to “bring
about a more aware and definite under¬
standing of black culture in a positive
light,” said Robinson.
Other black history observances in¬
clude a black American art exhibit
being shown in the Campus Quad today
and a tribute to Martin Luther King to
take place Thursday, Feb. 21, at noon
in PCC’s Harbeson Hall.
By JCrista Haugness
Staff Writer
PCC’s Department of Cooperative
Education in a joint venture with the
Inter-American University of Puerto
Rico has produced a video tape written
and performed entirely in Spanish.
The half-hour tape was funded
through the U.S. Department of Educa¬
tion and will be shown in Puerto Rico
and other Latin American countries.
Ada Marin, director of the Inter-
American Cooperative Education In¬
stitute of Puerto Rico, was invited to
film the tape in PCC’s color television
studio.
The film is aimed toward encourag¬
ing business firms in Puerto Rico to
employ students and toward informing
Puerto Rico’s public of Cooperative
Education. Puerto Rico’s Cooperative
Education program, which is modeled
after PCC’s program, is geared to
enroll students in a course designed to
relate classroom theory to on-the-job
experience.
PCC counselor Arnold Ramirez
acted as host and commentator for the
program, which is the first one PCC
has produced in a foreign language,
according to Ralph Gutierrez, Cooper-
FEBRUARY 15. 1980
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VOL. 49, NO. 2
Dr. Lewis Says ' Not True'
Charge Made at INCAR Rally
By Michael Imlay
Staff Writer
— Courier photo by Dave Clarke
BLACK ART IN AMERICA— Byron George, PCC student, views prints
made by Charles White, renowned black American artist. The prints are part
of the display in the PCC library set up in honor of Black History Month:
Coop. Education Makes
Video Tape in Spanish
ative Education coordinator at PCC.
Gutierrez also said the film is impor¬
tant for Puerto Ricans because a large
majority of Puerto Rico’s graduating
students either cannot find jobs or
come to the United States to find
employment.
The film is scheduled to be broadcast
over Puerto Rico’s Educational Tele¬
vision Station WIPR and will be used to
prepare short public service announce¬
ments for commercial television.
Dr. Irvin G. Lewis, PCC vice presi¬
dent for student personnel services,
was accused of discriminating against
Japanese and Iranian applicants for
admission to PCC at an International
Committee Against Racism rally last
week.
The hour-long rally held in the Free
Speech Area was held to protest racism
and the introduction of draft regis¬
tration, according to INCAR President
Laura Brown.
About half way into the rally one
speaker, Jeanette Bowton, made an
accusation against Dr. Lewis and the
Student Personnel Services Office of
changing racial quotas in order to
discriminate against Japanese and Ira¬
nians who file for admission to PCC.
Dr. Lewis was not present at the
INCAR demonstration, but he said in a
later interview that Miss Bowton’s
statement was “not true. The Board of
Trustees has a policy to spread en¬
rollment,” he said, referring to foreign
students.
At the rally Miss Bowton also said
that Dr. Lewis had been involved in
denying a visa to an Iranian student
wishing to return to Iran after partici¬
pating in last year’s Beverly Hills
demonstration. She said later that the
only way Dr. Lewis could know that the
student participated was through FBI
or CIA channels.
However, Dr. Lewis called that
statement an “absolute falsehood.” “I
have nothing to do with visas,” he said.
Visas are the responsibility of immi¬
gration officials and not school admin¬
istrators, he added.
Last semester 62 countries were
represented by 350 foreign students,
Dr. Lewis said. PCC has a quota policy,
which has been in existence for 10
years, according to Dr. Lewis. He
added that the policy was in print for
all to see in the student handbook.
The only change in the enrollment
policy was made last December when
the Board of Trustees adopted a policy
that would help increase the en¬
rollment of foreign students, according
to Dr. Lewis. The new policy amended
the old one by allowing foreign student
Arthur Kelley Correction
In the lead news story in the Courier
last week entitled “Professor Disrupts
Meeting,” “disrupts” was an un¬
fortunate word choice. The story
focused on the California Teachers
Association’s intention to take up
Arthur J. Kelley’s dispute with Dr.
Richard S. Meyers.
The story did not mention anything
about “disrupting” the meeting, but it
did mention “interrupting” it. Al¬
though the PCC District and Pasadena
numbers to reflect three percent of
total student enrollment rather than
three percent of the day student en¬
rollment.
Miss Bowton was not available for
comment on the policy change.
Miss Bowton, who said later that she
was speaking as a member of a “com¬
munist group” and not officially as a
member of INCAR, identified herself
as a PCC student. But subsequent
investigation found that she was not on
the student enrollment lists for either
this semester or the last one. However,
INCAR President Brown, when ques¬
tioned about this, said that Miss
Bowton was enrolled at PCC.
Dean of Student Activities Alvar
Kauti was asked about Miss Bowton’s
speaking on campus when she was not
an enrolled student. “I take the posi¬
tion that most people are honest,” he
said, referring to the fact that his
office did not request any identification
for the student speakers because the
procedure for bringing off-campus
speakers onto campus is usually fol¬
lowed without policing. “We ask that
they, follow the guidelines (for use of
free speech) just as we follow them
ourselves.”
During the INCAR rally there were
four other speakers besides Miss
Bowton. They all protested President
Carter’s call for draft registration and
what they called “American im¬
perialism.” About 300 students wit-
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Tiberi Locates ICC Constitution
Revoked Club Charters Wrong?
By Elly Mixsell
Staff Writer
The validity of the Inter-Club Coun¬
cil’s decision to revoke over 35 club
charters last semester, is now under
question.
Circle
К
was one of the clubs whose
charter was revoked. Mike Tiberi, Cir¬
cle
К
president, said by this action
“the ICC acted in gross violation of
their own constitution.” Until Tiberi
brought the constitution to a meeting,
the ICC members were unaware of its
existence.
According to Tiberi, the council vio¬
lated at least two sections of the
constitution. The first controversial
section states that all suspensions of
clubs shall automatically be termi¬
nated at the end of each semester.
However, another somewhat conflict¬
ing section states that actual revoca¬
tions are handled in a different
manner.
The second section of the constitu¬
tion under question by Tiberi states:
“When the existence of any club is
challenged the accused shall enjoy the
right of a hearing before the assembled
executive board.”
“It’s ICC’s responsibility to make
sure the constitution is fulfilled,” said
Tiberi.
ICC President Shannon Nishi said,
“We went by the handbook and voted
on everything involved in the club
revocations.” She continued, “We
should have operated by the constitu¬
tion and should have let the clubs know
they had the right (of a hearing).”
According to Miss Nishi the club
charters are still revoked. She said the
clubs will “have the opportunity to
defend themselves” and speak out at
an ASB meeting next week.
The controversy may be resolved
then, but Miss Nishi said the clubs will
not necessarily be reinstated.
Dean of Student Activities Phyllis
Jackson said the constitution is dated
May 1970 and was aware of its ex¬
istence. Mrs. Jackson said “techni¬
cally, the constitution should have been
invoked before the club charters were
revoked.” However, she continued,
“Sometimes when a situation goes on
and on after several warnings you blow
your fuse.”
The club (referring to Circle K) has
ignored warnings, misused property
and conducted themselves in a ques¬
tionable way, according to Dean Jack-
son.
Unified Schools representratives were
in the act of coming together, the
technical definition of meeting, they
were not yet sitting down in a con¬
ference.
Dr. Meyers also pointed out the
reprimand was not placed in Kelley’s
personnel file until five days after he
sent it. Dr. Meyers said there is a law
which prohibits placing such a letter in
a file until after a five-day period has
passed.
Olympics Boycott: Yes Or No?
The Courier recently asked PCC students their feelings on the proposed American
boycott of the summer Olympics in Moscow.
Margaret L. Mickens, public rela¬
tions major, third semester: “I can
go along with the boycott. We don’t
want any more trouble. For example,
if the athletes were held as hostages,
then what?”
James Adams, fine arts major, first
semester: “Sports and politics should
not be mixed. I think politics— the
heads of government— should handle
that.”
Derrek Cotton, business and finance
major, second semester: “It’s politi¬
cal, and sports shouldn’t get involved
in political activities.”
Shelley Shigetomi, art major, third
semester: “I don’t think they should
boycott it. I don’t think it’s fair to the
athletes, they’ve been training four
years.”
Janett Luke, medical technology ma¬
jor, third semester: “It’s unfair in a
way because you know how long
they’ve been training, and they don’t
get paid . . . But if I had to choose I’d
go along with the president.”
Valerie Robison, social science ma¬
jor, fourth semester: I don’t think we
should send them over there. When
you’re looking at the future outlook of
the world and the nation, we have to
boycott.”