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PCC Courier, February 16, 1973
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Board Holds
FIRST MEETING— Jim Brownfield, newly elected
ASB president, presided over the first ASB meeting
of this semester on Thursday, Feb. 8. Brownfield,
as well as other new members of the Board, was
officially installed by Dr. E. Howard Floyd, vice
president of the college.
First Meeting
By John Fox
News Editor
The ASB Board held its first meeting
on Thursday, Feb. 8 and installed new
members.
The board then quickly got down to
business. After voting to pay some
outstanding bills, the board took up the
question of paying the corresponding
and recording secretaries. The
recording secretary is responsible for
taking down the minutes of the board
meetings and transcribing them onto a
ditto so that they can be distributed.
The corresponding secretary deals
with all mail sent to the Board and
types and mails the replies. In the
past, both of these jobs have been done
on a voluntary basis.
After passing the gravel, ASB
President Jim Brownfield moved that
both positions carry a salary of $2 per
hour. As is normal for meetings early
in the semester, the motion prompted
heated debate. Some Board members
took the position that the secretaries
were involved in a service to the school
just as are members of the board
themselves. They had, according to
these members, no more reason to
expect pay than the officers them¬
selves. The question was raised as to
how much work and how many hours
were involved in the jobs. The Board
then called on Rebecca Magdaleno,
acting recording secretary. She
described the job and said that it took
about five hours a week.
The motion was finally voted on and
carried by a margin of five to three.
Then the meeting was opened to
discussion from the floor. Denny
Meehan, last semester’s second vice-
president of the Student Senate, said
that John M. Eikenberry, dean of
student activities, had borrowed $1500
from the ASB general fund for in¬
stallation of the bleachers on Colorado
Boulevard in preparation for last
year's January’s Tournament of
Hoses. A motion was passed to in¬
vestigate the allegation.
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The meeting was then adjourned and
the board went into executive sesion in
the office of Jim Brownfield, ASB
president. Executive sessions are
private but, according to Brownfield,
Floyd Beatty was nominated to fill the
office of Associated Men Students
president, left vacant after the ASB
elections last semester.
Members of the ASB board are; Jim
Brownfield, ASB president; Asmat
Siddique, vice president; Mark
Walther, Senate president; Kris
Champion, Senate first vice president;
Paul Knoll, Senate second vice
president; Betty Lou Curtis,
Associated Women Students’
president; Floyd Beatty, Associated
Men Students’ president; Lee Hines,
Sophomore president; Wilbur Smith,
Freshman president; Phyllis deVine,
Black Student representative and
Gene Vasqez, the representative from
MECHA.
Child Care
Studied in
Psyth 121
Vol. 35, No. 16
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
February 16, 1973
Dr. Rust Appointed
Department Chairman
Dr. Zell 0. Rust, a professor in the
Foreign Language Department since
1958, has been appointed chairman of
the department.
Since taking over the post, Dr. Rust
has started a campaign to get students
interested in the foreign languages.
“My goal is to make the languages
as attractive as possible,” said Dr.
Rust.
One of his plans for the semester is a
class for Mexican-American students
that will teach native Spanish from
Spain and Mexico. This class is
Class Offered in
Sign Language
A beginning course in sign language
will be offered to students here at PCC
starting Feb. 20.
The class will be taught by an ex¬
perienced teacher of the deaf. It will be
noncredit, no registration course
which means that anyone, whether
they’re enrolled at the college or not,
may attend.
“We have quite a number of deaf
students here on campus,” said Lucy
Miller, coordinator of the impaired
hearing program. “About 15 are ex¬
pected this semester. Their major
problem is one of communication.
They are provided with interpreters
when they go to class, but com¬
munication with other students, which
is important, is extremely difficult.
“Besides helping the deaf, this will
also provide students with job op¬
portunities as interpreters or tutors for
the deaf,” said Mrs. Miller.
The class will be held every Thur¬
sday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in R104.
Additional information can be ob¬
tained by calling Mrs. Miller on ext.
488.
Coed Archers Nab
Postal Tournament
For the first time in six years, PCC’s
intramural archery team has won the
Intercollegiate Archery Postal
Tournament Class
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competition. Out
of 41 colleges and universities, PCC’s
Team finished first in the coed
division.
Ellsworth Goshorn finished the
tournament as the highest male
scorer, getting 510 out of a possible 548
points. The second place individual
scored a lesser 468. Mark Herron of
PCC placed fourth.
The second team of PCC archers
placed fourth overall with Cal State
Humboldt, second, and San Diego
State, third, to fill out the top four.
International Dance
Features Latin Rock
A welcome dance will be held
Friday, Feb. 23, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
It is sponsored by the International
Club to welcome new foreign students.
“The Headwinds” will be featured at
the dance. They were well received in
their performance at the first Julian
Tellez benefit dance last fall. They
play a variety of music ranging from
Latin rock to “oldies.”
Admission is 50 cents for members of
the club, $1 for all other students, and
new foreign students will be admitted
free. However, they have to pick up
their tickets in advance at the Foreign
Student office, C121.
New officers of the International
Club have been elected. They are
Marcos Orellana, president; Lewis
Davila, vice president; Mahammad
Islam, treasurer; and Donna
Berggren, secretary and publicity
chairwoman.
specially designed so that once the
students complete it, they will be able
to go into the regular Spanish courses.
“The main emphasis will be a pride
in their heritage and an awareness in
culture, comparable with Spanish
spoken in Latin America, Spain and
Mexico,” Dr. Rust said.
The instructor in this course would
be Mexican-American.
Other classes that Dr. Rust hopes to
start are Spanish, French and German
literature and translation courses. He
also wants to establish communication
with other community colleges and
high schools to see how they progress
in teaching foreign languages.
One of the biggest problems for the
Foreign Language Department is the
curtailing of requirements to the four-
year colleges and universities. This is
a primary reason why Dr. Rust is
trying to make the foreign languages
as attractive as possible.
Paper Runs
TV Lecture
Viewers of PCC’s television course,
“The Great Consumer Contest,” now
have the opportunity to “talk back,”
according to Dean David A. Ledbetter.
The column, which appears every
Wednesday in the Pasadena Star
News, is coordinated with the
television course being telecast on
Channel 7 each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday from 7 to 7:30 p.m., and on
Channel 28 every Monday, Wednesday
and Friday from 6:30 to 7 p.m.
“This column will classify consumer
choices of needs versus wants,” says
Dean Ledbetter. “Sources and
techniques appropriate to solutions of
consumer problems will be iden¬
tified.”
Prof. Joseph Muha of the Business
Department writes the column. He will
answer questions submitted by
viewers of the television program and
readers of the column as long as they
are related to consumer interests.
Dena Ledbetter adds that PCC
students are welcome to submit
questions if they are of broad interest.
Topics that will be covered in the
course and column include “Ad¬
vertising Games People Play,”
“Ecology and the Market Place,” “Do
It Yourself,” “Of Cars and Coughs,”
“The Weighting Game” and “The
Junk in Your Medicine Cabinet.”
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FRANK BAUM, newly promoted chairman of the Math Department,
scans a list of texts which could be used in upcoming mathematics
classes. Baum views his new promotion as a “reassignment,” and
plans to be both counselor and evaluator in addition to other duties as
math chairman.
Informal Reading Club
Undertakes 'Seagull'
Frank Baum
Promoted to
Head Math
Frank Baum, associate professor of
math, has been promoted to the
chairmanship of the Math Depart¬
ment.
His duties will encompass the
reviewing of textbooks, and books that
are proposed for adoption in the math
area. He will participate in the
evaluation of the instructors in his
department, as well as counseling
students that need direction in the
mathematical field.
“I am viewing this as a reassign¬
ment, not a promotion. I plan to be an
agent for the department, and to help
work out any area of concern,” Baum
said.
In addition to an active schedule, he
is also teaching at night, and is
currently serving as president of the
Faculty Senate.
Baum received his AA degree at
PCC, and his BA from Pomona
College. He was awarded the Master of
Science degree from Stanford
University.
A new class is being offered this
semester for parents and consumers
interested in new techniques and
developmental needs of children in day
care situations.
Designated as Psychology 121, the
course will be worth three units of
credit and will be a starting point for
the provision of a child care facility
adjacent to the PCC campus.
Dr. Margaret Bennett and Ethel
Roberts, instructors in child
development, stress the increased
need for qualified people to care for
children of working parents. The type
of program being initiated here is a
growing plan being utilized in many
community colleges, but the fact was
brought up that PCC has a particular
need for student groups to make their
needs known in this and other areas.
The projected day care facility will
be a comfortable home setting, which
will provide maximum freedom and
familiarity for the children. The class
itself will be aimed primarily toward
improving child care skills and
enriching the child care program.
As a meeting place for mothers, it will
facilitate parent communication and
provide a referral source for PCC
students to other student mothers.
The class will be held at the PCC
Community Adult Training Center,
1450 N. Lake Ave., in room E from 7 to
10 p.m. The instructor will be Ms.
Barbara Northern, and inthrested
people are urged to contact her at 381-
5643. Dr. Margaret Bennett, 792-7116,
and Ms. Ethel Roberts, 795-6961, ext.
404 or 208 can also be contacted for
information.
After School Conservatory
Offers Musical Instruction
PCC’s most informal club— no dues,
no officers— will have its next meeting
Friday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
The Reading Club will meet at the
home of English teacher Karen Norris,
599 N. Madison Ave., Pasadena.
Anyone interested in reading and
joining others in discussing “Jon-
nathan Livingston Seagull” by
Richard Bach is invited. The book is
currently at the top of the best seller
list and is available in Avon paperback
at the PCC Bookstore.
Those attending the meeting choose
the next book to be discussed. The only,
limitations are that the book be of
reasonable price and length,
preferably a paperback.
The Reading Club, which was
started 10 years ago by H. Woodrow
Ohlsen, current English Department
chairman, has been under the
guidance of Ms. Norris for the past two
years. It meets the last Friday of each
month.
“There is a nucleus of five to 10
people, but as many as 30 people at¬
tend some meetings,” according to
Ms. Norris.
The atmosphere is informal, with the
absence of the usual classroom
pressure of grades. Students who
have attended in the past report that
that it is exciting and really fun.
Music students in junior high, high
school or PCC may take conservatory
lessons at the college beginning some¬
time in late February or early March.
Instruction is available to students
on all instruments of orchestra and
band in voice, piano and on guitar.
“Classes will be grouped according
to instrument and level of ability,”
said director Max Cramer. “Students
will have the opportunity to develop
individual skills, and to receive
coaching.”
Classes will be offered each weekdav
at 4 p.m., at 5 p.m. and on Saturdays,
subject to enrollment. Lessons will
cost $1.50 per visit.
Materials, instruments and tran¬
sportation must be furnished by
students.
Cramer’s musical background in¬
cludes being a professional trumpet
player for 35 years with dance bands,
orchestras, concert bands and
recording groups. At present he is a
member of the Los Angeles concert
group.
In addition, he teaches music ap¬
preciation at PCC, and is a counselor
at Arcadia High School.
“The conservatory is not intended as
a substitute for private instruction,”
said Cramer. “But for those who can’t
afford private instruction, it’s great.”
Students interested in attending this
conservatory may request application
blanks by phone or in person at the
college.
For more information call
college at 795-6961, ext. 208.
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Washburn's 'The Dreamer
First
Place in College Annual Cinema Festival
Political Activist Ron Ridenour
Gives View on Media and Arrest
Ron Ridenour, political activist and
writer for the LA Free Press, will be on
campus next Thursday, Feb. 22. He
will talk to the students about photo¬
journalism and his recent arrest
during a demonstration at Nixon
campaign headquarters.
Ridenour will be in the small
publications class in C141 from 10:30
a.m. until noon. He will share his
experiences as a photo-journalist with
students.
At noon, Ridenour will go to the Free
Speech Area on the south side of the
Campus Center to talk to students
about his recent arrest.
Ridenour was taking pictures of the
arrest of Ron Kovic, president of
Vietnam Veterans Against the War at
the time of his own arrest. Kovic,
wounded in Vietnam, is confined to a
wheelchair.
Ridenour is 33 years old. He is a
reporter for the LA Free Press and has
worked for the Hanford Sentinal, the
Citizen News, the LA News Advocate
and the Riverside Press Enterprise.
He served in the U.S. Air Force from
1956 to 1960. He earned his BA from Cal
State LA. From 1960-68. he attended El
Camino College, Oklahoma U. ana
UCLA.
Ridenour’s noon lecture is sponsored
by the Associated Men Students.
Gold Passes Given
to Senior Citizens
Free admission to PCC lectures,
plays, concerts, art shows and athletic
events is now possible for residents of
the Pasadena Area Community
College District.
Senior citizens, who are 65 years or
older, may request “Gold Cards" from
the college. These cards entitle the
holder to attend college activities at no
charge, and are valid indefinitely,
The cards also allow bearers to use
the library, including borrowing
privileges. This is subject to restric¬
tion of hours.
Anyone interested in obtaining these
cards may come to Cl 17 of the college.
Proof of age is required.
For more information call PCC at
795-6961, ext. 261.
Gerald Washburn’s “The Dreamer”
won first place in PCC’s first Film
Festival. Matt Roe’s “Cycles” picked
up a second, and Bob Helin’s “Light of
Other Days” placed third.
This festival is the final project of
students in Walter W. Girdner’s Photo
126, cinematography class. It is the
lirst part of the annual him festival
with the second part taking place at
the end of the semester.
Judging was done by the students in
the two cinematography classes; the
participants as well as the non¬
participants of the contest helped with
the judging. All of the judges agreed on
first and second places. Girdner
believes that this shows that the
results are valid.
“ ‘The Dreamer' has extremely
effective coordination in sound and
image," said Girdner. He also gave
credit to the amount of work that
students did during the location
shooting.
He is excited about the students'
work-, and said that some of the movies
are even better than those he saw by
four-year college students.
"I must be a good teacher." he said
unabashedly. "A teacher should be
judged by what his students do. and
my students are doing well.”
But he emphasized that he does not
try to shape the student's taste to
adapt to his own.
"And’I don't set out to train great
artists,” he continued. “Some of them
just want to learn the techniques of
film-making to make money, and
that's all right with me. It’s a choice
they have to make themselves.”
Students are trained with the
professional equipment that they will
encounter in the movie industry.
GERALD WASHBURN, PCC’s first award-winning young filmmaker,
gauges the distance before he begins shooting. Washburn, along with
second and third place winners Matt Roe and Bob Helin, is expected
to participate in the second half of the Film Festival at the end of this
semester.