Enrollment Decline
May Lower Funds
By Mary Glenn Crawford
Assistant Fine Arts Editor
A four per cent drop in enrollment
may cause the present campus budget
and curriculum plans to be altered.
Total enrollment is 800 students below
enrollment figures of spring of 1977.
Reevaluation of the current
curriculum may be valuable in order
to discourage low enrollment, ac¬
cording to Dr. Stanley Gunstream,
vice-president for instruction. Classes
that consistently have too few students
in enrollment will be dropped, he said.
“The problem is that wd have more
students than classes. Our job is to
adjust the curriculum without
depriving the students or altering the
classes,” said Dr. Gunstream.
The policy for dropping classes now
is to keep the class open until “the last
minute,” according to Gunstream.
The solution, a twofold endeavor,
would be to adjust the curriculum and
budget to fit the enrollment trend and
to improve communication with
perspective students, according to Dr.
Gunstream. In past years, semester
class schedules were mailed to all
members of the Pasadena community.
This year, letters were mailed stating
that if community members wanted
information they should request it by
mail. This type of mailing helps build
enrollment. Enrollment determines
the budget.
Average daily attendance deter¬
mines the amount of state financial aid
PCC receives. The average daily at¬
tendance is computed with the use of
two census tallies at the fourth and
eleventh Mondays of the semester.
Twenty-five per cent of the enrolled
students drop classes between the
fourth and eleventh week, according to
Dr. Irvin Lewis, vice-president for
student personnel services.
The Board of Trustees, at its
February 9 meeting, began to review
the class drop policy in relation to
when and how state aid is determined.
Enrollment figures directly affect
the campus income and expenditures,
according to Dr. E. Howard Floyd,
superintendent-president. A three per
cent budget allowance was tabulated
to allow for a larger enrollment drop,
he said. During the months of
February through April, budget
hearings will be held with department
chairmen to project what the budget
expenditures will be for next year,
according to Dr. Floyd.
Students are planning their
educational goals toward the job
market, explained Lewis. They are
finding that there is no mass employee
hunt and are adjusting to that, he said.
The impact of an enrollment drop on
teachers, voluntary participation in a
teacher evaluation bulletin and the
problem of progress probation will be
discussed at meetings this semester,
said Chrystal Watson, Faculty Senate
president, recently.
Enrollment is down four per cent at
PCC, so the Senate will explore its
effect on class loads and funding for
the college.
Public schools receive a certain
amount of money for each enrolled
student. Since a drop in enrollment
means reduced funding, it could ad¬
versely affect the faculty, she said.
The ASB is planning a teacher
evaluation bulletin and is seeking
assistance from the faculty, she added.
A vote should be taken at the next
Faculty Senate meeting on February
Students are now “working more than
going to school and are more in¬
terested in job training.”
Community college enrollment
figures on the state level have , been
increasing by one million per year.
Full time enrollment, excluding
evening and part time students, varies
in California within the past four
years. In 1974 full time enrollment in
California community colleges was
324,279, jumping to 374,473 in 1975 and
back down to 326,843 last year.
National community college figures
have been decreasing, according to
Dr. Gunstream.
“We are fortunate to feel the pinch
later than other schools,” he said.
27 to see how many instructors are
willing to cooperate voluntarily in
compiling the necessary data.
Progress probation is another
question the Faculty Senate must deal
with, Ms. Watson said. Students who
add and drop a course several- times
must be stopped in some way.
However, many students taking a
course the second time around have
justifiable reasons, such as working or
supporting a family. “We want to
avoid penalizing those people,”, she
said.
Students do not know their rights
well enough, particularly when placed
on probation, said Ms. Watson. The
ASB should inform students better.
There are avenues to get things
corrected, if they are made known, she
said.
— Glenda Cade
Faculty Senate Sets
Agenda for Semester
School Thunderstruck,
Maintenance Picks Up
By Joan Bennet
Assistant Feature Editor
Issues and alternatives involving the
Allen Bakke Supreme Court decision
will be debated by six community
members Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 7:30
p.m. in Harbeson Hall.
Free admission and parking will be
provided by forum sponsors New
Pasadena, ASB Board, Associated
Women Students, president of the
Asian Students and the PASA steering
committee.
Speaking in favor of upholding the
Bakke decision is Star-News editor
Charles Cherniss and PCC faculty
members Stephen Reichert and Allan
Branstater.
Anti Bakke speakers include
Pasadena City Council member
Loretta Glickman, former ACLU
President Marvin Schachter and
representative from the El Centro de
Accion Sacil of Pasadena, Nick
Rodriguez.
The California Supreme Court ruled
in favor of Allan Bakke’s reverse
discrimination plea upon his second
denial of admission to medical school
at Davis campus of the University of
California.
Bakke, 37, was not among the 100
students selected from 2644 applicants
in 1973 nor the 3737 applicants in 1974.
Sixteen of the 100 available positions
were reserved for affirmative action
students, that is, students preferred
due to previous unequal educational
opportunities.
Bakke, who had been rejected from
10 other schools, challenged university
entrance quotas and won.
The decision is being appealed by the
University of California and is
currently being reviewed by the
Supreme Court.
Marvin Schachter, assistant
executive director for the ACLU, will
speak on behalf of the organization and
its position supporting the University
of California.
“The ACLU believes in equal
treatment under the law. However, the
factor of race cannot be ignored. We
must develop an educational system
that will serve all people,” Schachter
stated.
Whites, according to Schachter,
must relinquish their position of
superiority. “We live in a society
where racists’ ideas prevail. If we
make no special effort such as af¬
firmative action, we will revert to the
situation we had before the Civil
Rights Movement.”
Schachter, who holds a masters
degree from the University of
Colorado, states that California’s
former educational systems en¬
couraged programs which excluded
minorities.
“Until there was affirmative action, .
TIMBER!— Heavy winds and rains last Thursday
night were too much for this tree located in front of
the Campus Center. Sometime during the blustery
night the tree fell, partially blocking a flight of
stairs in the process. In the calm of the morning
after, Maintenance and Operations men Boyd
Demus, left and Julian Villalobos were faced with
the task of undoing what Mother Nature had
wrouqht.
w —Courier Photos by S.K.
The thunderstorms and high winds
that moved through the Pasadena area
on Thursday night and Friday morning
left the PCC Maintenance Department
with several days of work cleaning up
the mess.
Boyd Demus, from the PCC Main-
tenence Department, said that three
trees had been uprooted by the storm.
Two of the trees were small an{l werq
immediately put back in place. The
third tree, located to the right of the
stairs that lead from the quad to the
cafeteria, was too large for the PCC
Maintenance Department to handle.
Demus said that an outside tree
company was called in to decide
whether to put the downed tree back up
or cut it into sections and remove it.
Friday afternoon it was discovered
that a fourth tree on the left side of the
same stairwell had been damaged and
was in danger of falling down.
PCC maintenance ^workers were
immediately called. They spent
several hours bracing the tree with
guy wires. PCC maintenance person,
Chuck Richardson, said that once the
guy wires were in place, there was no
danger of the tree falling.
TAKEN BY STORM— Attempting
to prop up a pine tree felled by
the storm are, from left, Bob
Constante, Burley Johnson,
Chuck Richardson and, high in
the branches, Hal Moore. Efforts
to save the tree by high wire
failed.
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the University of California never
graduated any minority into a
professional field. Without affirmative
action, minorities have been deprived
of the professional training needed.
Speaking in opposition to admission
quotas is Star-News editor Cherniss.
“Bakke is a bad case. A bad case is a
bad law. There are too many side
issues involved here. The case itself is
ridiculous. Bakke offends me.”
Cherniss distinguishes affirmative
action from quotas as a program
which “makes an extra effort to seek
out minorities who are qualified. Af¬
firmative action doesn’t mean to
advantage someone who isn’t
qualified.” ,
Obligation or repentance for
historical injustice does not warrant
current reverse discrimination, says
Cherniss.
“Two wrongs don’t make a right. No
one will have any rights if someone is
allowed to stomp on another’s rights.”
Forum 'coordinator and New
Pasadena Club president Jim Height
states, “Newspapers don’t give both
sides of the Bakke issue. This forum
will present a fair comparison.”
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OR REVERSE
DISCRIMINATION?— Among community leaders
speaking on the issues and alternatives surround¬
ing the Allen Bakke decision will be anti-Bakke
supporter Marvin Schachter, former ACLU
(American Civil Liberties Union) president (left) and
pro-Bakke supporter Charles Cherniss, Star-News
editor (right) at a debate to be held February 22 at
7:30 p.m. in Harbeson Hall.
— Courier Photos by S.K ./Blake Sell
Noted Israeli Philosopher
Visits on Lecture Tour
Professor Abraham Kaplan, native
of USSR and a dual citizen of Israel
and the United States, will address
students on “Science and Human
Values” February 23, from 10:30 to
noon in the Forum.
Kaplan will address the question of
the scientist’s responsibility to moral
preservation. He will question the
scientific manipulations of cloning,
genetic engineering and nuclear
weapons.
Completing his American lecture
tour with PCC and USC audiences,
Kaplan will return to the University of
Haifa, Israel and resume his position
as philosophy professor.
Kaplan appeared in the Time cover
story “Great Teachers” and in ad¬
dition, was featured on the national
educational television program, “Men
Who Teach.”
Author of seven books, Kaplan also
serves as president of the Israel
Philosophical Association. He is a
member of the board of editors for
“Inquiry,” “Journal of Applied
Behavioral Science,” and “Journal of
Humanistic Psychology” publications.
Kaplan attended the College of St.
Thomas where he received hs B.A. and
the University of California where he
earned his Ph.D. in philosophy.
Kaplan is a member of the
Association for Jewish Philosophy and
the World Congress for Soviet Jewry.
He is also a member of the Suicide
Prevention Advisory Committee and
the National Institute of Mental
Health.
ABE KAPLAN
. . philosopher
VOL. 45, NO. 2
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FEBRUARY 17, 1978
Community, Faculty Debate
California Bakke Decision
