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PCC
COURIER
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VOL. 57, NO. 1
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FEBRUARY 17, 1984
Women in Politics: First Women Board Members
Jeanette Mann
By Christine del Villar
News Editor
Dr. Jeannette Mann believes that as
a woman educator she can offer a new
and different perspective to board
meetings. She defeated incumbent
Gary B. Adams for the Area 2 seat in
recent board elections.
"Women and men develop different
ways of approaching problems, dif¬
ferent ways of solving problems, and
different ways of interacting with peo¬
ple. I do not believe that the way
women do these things is necessarily
better, but I do believe it is better to
have both perspectives,” Mann said.
Mann has often been the lone woman
on professional and political commit¬
tees and is "quite used to trying to
work with people whose orientation,
Women have, for a long time, been active in politics. Only recently, however, has their
participation been as significant as their male counterparts. In the coming presidential primaries and
the November 1984 election, women voters will account for over 50 percent of the electorate, the
first time ever women will be a voting majority in the United States. However, women still only make
up 10 percent of the elected officials in the United States.
Dr. Jeanette Mann and Susanna Miele are two of these women. They are also the first women
to serve on the PCC Board of Trustees.
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Dr. Jeanette Mann — Board
member, busy but never bored.
— Courier photo by Christine del Villar
experiences and perspectives are dif¬
ferent.”
Mann has other distinctions besides
being the first woman to sit on the PCC
Board. She holds a doctorate in English
literature from the University of Mis¬
souri and was a Rockefeller fellow. The
fellowship was for university adminis¬
tration and was created especially to
provide women and minorites the ex¬
perience and training necessary to as¬
sume university administrative posi¬
tions.
After she completed the three year
fellowship, Mann landed such a posi¬
tion: director of affirmative action at
Cal State Northridge, a position she
still holds. Affirmative Action assures
that women and minorities are given
special consideration in hiring policy.
Once hired, however, Mann believes
professional women “can’t expect spe¬
cial treatment.”
With women making up 51 percent of
the PCC student body, Mann plans to
make women’s issues and educational
programs a priority as a Board mem¬
ber. “L A. Pierce is very active in
women’s re-entry programs. I would
like to see PCC do likewise. Childcare,
for instance, is essential for women to
go to school,” Mann said. “After all,
usually these students do very well.”
An active member of California
Women in Higher Education, Mann has
been a working mother for many years.
Her children, who are all in college, did
not play an active role in her campaign.
Neither did her husband, Dr. Kenneth
Mann, a physicist at JPL. However.'
her family was very supportive of her.
“Before
Д
decided to run, I decided if I
ran I was going to run to win. My
husband gets out my way and leaves
me alone to do what I want and that’s a
tremendous amount of support,” Mann
said.
Mann believes she has always had a
strong identity apart from her children.
She sees motherhood and “wifehood”
not as a career but as important rela¬
tionships. Because of this view she
believes that “every human being has
an obligation to herself to develop her
own potential.” Mann also said often
women discover “in sacrificing parts
of themselves for others isn’t always to
the advantage of the others.” Such
women, Mann said, usually end up with
things they had not bargained for in
their self sacrificing: resentment,
guilt, dependency.
Mann admits her convictions about
women’s roles in society may be seen
as progressive. However, she regards
herself as a “fiscal conservative.”
“You should always get very good
value for your money,” Mann said.
This is something Mann believes that
she and other members of the board
can agree on. Working to increase
quality does not have to mean increas¬
ing costs, Mann maintains.
Mann plans to work not only with the
PCC board members to achieve her
goals, but also with the 400 other board
members in the California Community
College system, and with California’s
legislature and senate.
“You’ve got to go with what you’ve
got,” Mann said. What PCC has got,
according to Mann, is a community
college system whose goals the law¬
makers do not necessarily understand
and a budget inadequate to the needs of
these misunderstood goals.
Fall Will Feature Tuition
By Lisa Lowery
Assistant News Editor
Community college students will pay
tuition for the first time beginning with
the fall 1984 semester. A student who
carries seven units or more will be
classif ied as full-time and must pay the
full $50 per semester. Part-time stu¬
dents will pay $5 per unit for six units
I or fewer.
PCC students will continue to pay $10
I and $20 drop deposits and fees for
parking permits. Even though the tui¬
tion will be collected by the local
districts, it dods not represent “new
state money,” said Dr. Bonnie R.
j James, vice president of business serv¬
ices. Any additional funding for next
year still has to pass the state Legisla¬
ture.
The base funding for 1983-84 was
I restored when Democratic leaders and
Gov. George Deukmejian reached a
compromise in late January. Accord¬
ing to James, the settlement leaves the
colleges with the same spending level
as in 1982-83.
James explained that the colleges’
funding base is calculated on average
daily attendance (ADA). Tuition fees,
local property tax revenues and the
state apportionment, which is gener¬
ated by ADA, will be the three con¬
tributing sources for next year’s fund¬
ing. Depending on how much money is
collected from tuition and local prop¬
erty taxes, the state allocation will
adjust to the ADA level.
Campus services which previously
had been provided for by a fee will now
be covered by tuition. Therefore,
health services, which are mandated
by law, and general class materials
become an addtional expenditure for
the district. James said that based on
his projected tuition intake for next
fall, the college is in better financial
shape than other community colleges.
James said he knew of two colleges
which claim their current instuctional
fees exceed the $50 per semester.
Although he would not disclose his
projected figures, he concluded that
fees do not exceed tuition at PCC.
James added students will still pay
fees for student records, child care
services, optional community service
classes and trips. Tuition will cover
some field trips and any required insur¬
ance. Material fees for adult noncredit
classes; charges for the use of non¬
district physical educational facilities
such as a bowling event; and fees for
eye protection devices in industrial
classes will also be covered by tuition.
Meal Money Restored By SSFC
$15 Per Day Deemed Necessary
By Tony Mitchell
Staff Writer
The restriction prohibiting the use of
funds for meals for students participat¬
ing in co-curricular activities was re¬
moved by the Student Service Fund
Committee (SSFC) in a 4 to 1 vote last
[ Thursday.
“Meal money for co-curricular ac-
| tivities will be restored to a limit of $15
per diem for each participant, at the
discretion of each program director,”
said Glenn Schoenfeld, chairman of the
SSFC and AS vice president of business
affairs. “This is based on the idea that
if you are participating in a co-cur¬
ricular activity that takes you away
from your residence for eight hours or
I more, you should be funded for meals.”
This action comes after controversy
| surrounding the Nov. 3 decision by the
SSFC not to allow its funds to be spent
on meals. Forensics, directed by
Joseph Probst, was one group that
formally protested the SSFC’s de-
I cision.
“We found out through certain pro-
I gram directors that several programs
were really hurt by not having meals
funded,” said Schoenfeld. “SSFC mem¬
bers had a change of heart since we
originally adopted our position con-
| eerning meals.”
The primary purpose of the SSFC is
I to interpret the SSFC charter when
reviewing requests for funds by various
campus groups, Schoenfeld said. The
committee examines the requests to
determine whether they are reasonable
and fall within the charter’s guidelines.
“There is a need for certain co-
curricular activities and if they can’t
be funded through other means, they
can’t exist. They need to exist because
they are educational, directly and in¬
directly,” said Schoenfeld.
In' other action Jan. 20, the SSFC
granted 15 requests totalling $32,076.
Among these were petitions from the
"We found out through
certain program directors
that several programs were
really hurt by not having
meals funded. "
-GLENN SCHOENFELD
Chairman SSFC
commencement program, the music
department, the Campus Beautifica¬
tion Committee and the English depart¬
ment’s foreign student program.
“The students who participate in the
music program are taking something
for themselves, learning talents that
will assist them in the ’professional
world,” said Michael Wilson, chairman
of the music department, in a presenta¬
tion to the committee. “But when they
Susanna Miele
By Lisa Lowery
Assistant News Editor
Susanna Miele, one of the first two
women recently elected to the PCC
Board of Trustees, spoke frankly at an
interview about her decision to run, her
prolonged campaign and her priorities
as a new member.
Miele, who ran as a reform can¬
didate, attributed her winning margin
to the “huge volunteer effort” backing
her and the voter’s prevalent attitude
that one person’s vote could make a
difference. “The combination of the
two elections and the college presi¬
dent’s work in all areas has already
boosted morale,” Miele said. After a
period of orientation, she will decide
which of her priority issues she will
pursue to sustain her campaign plat¬
form.
Although she had been involved in
campaigning for others, Miele never
had any idea she would become a
candidate herself. Miele’s volunteer
work on the city’s Commission on the
Status of Women, with the Pasadena
Area League of Women Voters, and
other service groups, built for Miele a
broad base of community contacts. “As
you become involved with one thing in
the community, other people call on
you,” Miele said. “Last July, in one
week, I had six calls from” individuals
representing various groups “in the
community who asked if I would con¬
sider running for this seat.” Miele
waited until the last filing day, Aug. 12,
to see whether anyone else might enter
the race. She said she thought long and
hard before making her commitment
as a candidate.
Miele, 38, a PCC graduate, married
and a mother of three, began to estab¬
lish her campaign platform by re¬
organizing her agenda and studying the
college’s standings. Soon her home,
which is a few blocks south of the
college, was to become her campaign
headquarters.
“I became particularly interested
because of what I considered to be
Roger Gertmenian’s poor record of
openness in government and of support
for women and ethnic studies,” Miele
said. “We (Miele and her campaign
committee) just felt it was very impor¬
tant that this district not run unopposed
... as a statement of dissatisfaction
and hopefully victory.”
The second time around, Miele took
63.3 percent of the vote, winning 29
precincts out of 31. But for Miele,
victory did not come easy. The unof¬
ficial results of the initial election
disclosed Miele to be the loser by a nine
vote margin which changed in her
favor by two votes when the official
results were announced. A recount was
requested producing a tie which called
the voters back to the polls for a runoff
election. She was officially sworn into
office Feb. 2.
Miele admitted her apprehensive¬
ness was based on prior elections she
had experienced. But her fears of
campaign committees and supporters
falling to the wayside dissipated as
volunteers and funds formed an “in¬
credible effort.” In organizing her
campaign, the more college related
people she talked to the more she
uncovered dissatisfactions matching
her own, Miele said. “What began as a
minimal effort became a maximum
effort” due to the receptive volunteers.
Miele said the most important aspect
of her campaign was the personal
contact made with the voters while
“walking the areas, knocking on doors
and telling PCC’s story.” She said the
importance of voter contact was evi¬
dent in a study of the numbers chart, a
tally sheet of each precinct’s voter
turnout. The chart showed that she lost
a Temple City precinct which Miele
said was not walked by herself or her
campaign volunteers.
After the tie vote was determined,
Miele said her campaign effort in¬
creased. The holidays had not slowed
her campaign momentum as she
thought they might. Many had con¬
tinued to join her effort. “I had some
wonderful men who helped, but by and
large, it was the women in the com¬
munity who put themselves out again
and again. It is the best way to run for
an office ... to have people come to
you places you in a strong position
because they then have a commitment
to you.”
Miele plans to maintain a receptive
attitude as a board member. She said
she will work methodically and gradu¬
ally to build up to what she really wants
to emphasize. She hopes to build coop¬
erative relationships with the other
trustees and people on campus by
remaining open and accessible.
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Proud daughter and happy mother — Christine Miele, left, with
her mother, Susanna Miele, one of the first women to be elected to
the Board of Trustees. — Courier photo by Christine del Villar
AS Will Wait For Review
Board Postpones Sports' Funds
walk down Colorado on Jan. 1, they
take the name of Pasadena City College
with them.”
The SSFC also granted a request
from the Community Skills Center for
campus activities. “There are a
number of activities that go on at the
Skills Center. We try to provide our
students with something to do besides
just attending school,” said David
Barksdale, Student Council president.
According to Schoenfeld, there are
many groups on campus that are un¬
aware that they can request funds from
the SSFC. He said that AS needs to
make students aware of this.
“We need to solicit the different
departments, letting them know that
these funds are available for educa¬
tional, co-curricular activities.”
Schoenfeld said that the SSFC re¬
ceives its funds from bookstore profits.
The committee expended approx¬
imately $80,000 in the first semester of
this school year. “It is a heavy respon¬
sibility to determine how to spend this
money to best serve student needs,”
said Schoenfeld.
However, Schoenfeld said that the
function the SSFC serves, supporting
student activities, is a necessary one.
“An educational institution has respon¬
sibilities other than just in the
classroom,” said Schoenfeld. “These
activities help to enhance the educa¬
tional experience itself.”
By Greg Augustyn
Staff Writer
The AS Board postponed a decision
regarding allocated funds to the ath¬
letic department until a review of the
department’s student bank trust and
agency accounts is recieved by the AS
executive board. Dr. Bonnie R. James,
vice president of business services, is
conducting the review.
The athletic department requested of
AS a $5,000 donation to refurbish the
weight room facilities. AS members
want to see how much money the
athletic department has before the
board votes, said Glenn Schoenfield,
vice president of student affairs. Ac¬
cording to Schoenfeild, he would like to
see the athletic department “spend
thier money before spending ours.”
Opposing the request, Schoenfield
considers the $5,000 donation a “dis¬
proportionate amount going to one de¬
partment.” He backed his statement
with his belief of a donotion that large
should be used for a greater percentage
of the student body. The sum repre¬
sents 17 percent of the AS govern¬
ment’s projected annual budget,
Schoenfield said. However, he said he
would consider a significantly smaller
sum.
The athletic department estimated
the costs of reconditioning two weight
rooms at $18,000. The facilities would
then meet the needs of the physical
educational classes and the athletic
teams.
The department has already spent
$6,500 on the rooms with funds raised
by the the department and the sales of
football programs, but an additional
$12,000 is needed according to the de¬
partment. &
In other AS action, The board elected
Tom Wickel as coordinator of external
affairs to fill the vacancy when the
former coordinator David
Leatherberry became ineligible. Ac¬
cording to AS by-laws, a candidate has
to be enroll during the semesters of his
term. Leatherberry failed to do so.
Wickel, current secretary of the Col¬
legiate Republicans, answered board
member’s questions concerning his
club affiliation. “I don’t think it will be
any conflict of interest. I will not use
one (position) in connection with the
other,” Wickel replied. The AS position
represents the student lobby.
Others elected were Chris Cofer,
commissioner of the social science
department, and Steve Nash, com¬
missioner of the foreign language de¬
partment. All appointments are pend¬
ing verification of eligibility according
to the AS constitution.
Helen Hanson, AS president, ex¬
pressed a need for additional com¬
missioners within the student govern¬
ment. She said only four out of 15
positions are filled, and they are “very
important.” She considers the com¬
missioners an extention of the board
into the departments. Commissioners
supervise various college committees
and collect information from the de¬
partments they represent.
Schoenfield added, “We need com¬
missioners from all programs to know
what student’s needs are. It is difficult
for us to say why we should supply your
program when you are not supporting
us.” As a commissioner you have the
right to bring up board issues and to
second a motion, but you do not have
the right to vote. All unfilled positions
are open to all interested students
enrolled in a least nine units with a
cummulative 2.0 grade point average.
Campus News Briefs
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The search for the portrait of Bill
Cosby, valued at $20,000 stolen from the
Art Gallery last semester has gone
nationwide. The artwork has been re¬
cently listed in the FBI’s “Stolen Arts”
file according to Jerry Saladin, in¬
vestigator with the college’s Safety
Department. A $1,000 reward is still
being offered for the safe return of the
painting, Saladin said.
“Although $20,000 is the estimated
value of the painting, the artist
wouldn’t have sold it for any amount of
money. It was a sentimental piece of
work,” Saladin said. The artist lent the
portrait to the college for an art festi¬
val last May.
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Henriette Wymar has been “in love
with the English Language” ever since
her first exposure to it while attending
school in her native Holland. Wymar
has been named Editor of Focus Maga¬
zine by the Journalism faculty for the
Spring 1984 semester.
A naturalized U.S. citizen, Wymar
immigrated to this country when she
was a teenager. A member of MENSA,
and the mother of two, Wymar has
worked as an executive secretary for
business firms and at Caltech. She has
taken classes at PCC as her time
permitted for several years.
“In 1982 I got started on a part time
writing program — taking all classes
that piqued my interest. I was never
really interested in pursuing a degree. I
don’t want to be limited. They’d have to
design a new curriculum just for me,”
Wymar said.
Wymar plans to find work writing
“any and all media.” Besides her post
as Focus editor, Wymar is interning at
KPCC as a newswriter.
Henriette Wymar
Focus Editor