PCC Courier, February 19, 1971

Quak e Damage Repairs Underway 'Jo\. 33, No. 15 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California February 19, 1971 Bookstore Suffers Most Damage Toll By DON MARQUIS The damages caused by last week’s killer earthquake are cur¬ rently being repaired, according to Arthur Garr, head of new con¬ struction on the campus. The damages to the school con¬ sisted mainly of the partial col¬ lapse of the book store ceiling, the falling down of a few light fixtures, and a few minor cracks in some of the walls. By far the most spectacular and costly damage was done to the college book store. According to Garr and Dr. E. Howard Floyd, vice-president of the college, when the earthquake hit about 6 a.m., the ground beneath the school shifted two or three inches. This caused several sections of the false ceiling to slip from the tracks which hold them up and fall to the floor 15 feet below. Each of these panels weighs be¬ tween 40 and 50 pounds. The light fixtures that fell were in the A Building, a portable wooden structure located near the gym. It was used during World War II as an army barracks be¬ fore being brought on this campus for use as a “temporary” class¬ room. Fixtures Fall The light fixtures that fell were suspended from the ceiling in one of the classrooms above the stu¬ dents’ desks. Had these desks been occupied as they are for most of the day, said Dr. Floyd, the results could have been trag¬ ic. The only other visible damages on the campus were some minor cracks in the walls of the Robbins Building. Since these walls are reinforced with steel beams, the cracks, according to Garr, pose no threat to safety. Since both the book store and the A Building, where most of the damage was done, were built be¬ fore the devastating Santa Rosa earthquake, neither of these two buildings met the current stand¬ ards for resistance to earthquake, but this situation is being recti¬ fied as the damages are being repaired. Experts Check Immediately following the quake, three structural engineers, two from private companies and one from the state, were brought in to ascertain just what damage was done and what steps should be taken to repair the damage. First of all, the book store ceil¬ ing was repaired so that it meets current standards of construction. Each section of the ceiling that fell is now connected independent¬ ly by wire to the roof of the build¬ ing in addition to being set on the railings. Eventually this will be done to the entire ceiling. In A Building it was determined by the engineer that the damage was done because of the failure of some aluminum parts to stand the strain of the tremors. These aluminum parts have been replaced with steel ones, and it is hoped that if another quake ever does hit they will stand the strain more easily. Once the book store is repaired, the only remaining scars from the ordeal will be the minute cracks in the walls of the Robbins Build¬ ing. If you stand in the doorway between the corridor and the stair¬ well and look up you can see scratches where the entire build¬ ing has shifted. Nouveau. Art On Exhibit at Huntington Gallery THE PCC CAMPUS suffered mild damage in last Tuesday's earthquake disaster compared to many other areas, but the damage was enough to cause a great deal of inconvenience to many — Courier Photo by Darrel Slocum of the students. The book store was the most seriously damaged facility. Parts of the ceiling fell in and many light fixtures were knocked down. Other buildings damaged were A and R. New BmIs Cover ieci Last fall a program was begun at the PCC library encouraging students to fill out request forms for new books. A student could request the purchase of any book not already on the shelves. Between October and the end of December the library received 32 student requests, which were processed along with requests from the faculty and the library staff. The books suggested by student covered a wide range of subjects. Five books containing informat¬ ion of various ethnic groups were listed among the requests. There were four requests each for fict¬ ion, religion and philosophy, and general social problems. In addition, sex, psychology, ed¬ ucation, and chemistry each were represented by two titles. The remainder of the order cards were devoted to such wide¬ ly differing information as wom¬ en’s liberation, reincarnation, com¬ munication, electrical systems de¬ sign, architecture, ship model bui¬ lding, and summer employment. Rodda Reappointed Reappointment of Sen. Albert S. Rodda as chairman of the Sen¬ ate Education Committee was announced recently by Sen. James Mjlls (D-San Diego), president pro tern of the State Senate. This will be the Sacra¬ mento Democrat’s fifth year as head of the committee, vital to all legislation affecting the pub¬ lic schools, their pupils and per¬ sonnel. Utah Terpsichoreans Feature PCC Grad The Utah Repertory Theater is coming to Pasadena City College next Monday at 8:15 p.m. in Sex- son Auditorium. This unique group of men and women dancers grew out of the dance theater at the University of Utah. They were good enough to receive sufficient funds from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1966 to support a cast working at chore¬ ography and performance full¬ time. This makes the difference be¬ tween concert dancers who love to dance and manage to feed themselves with outside jobs, and people who can devote their full creative energy to the task. The grant also pays for some of the greatest talents in the world to choreograph works es¬ pecially for them. When this group was beginning to give concert tours, PCC invited them to perform in Pasadena. It was the second performance they gave outside of Utah. One of its members was a stu¬ dent here in 1963. Kay Clark was president of our Orchesis Modern Dance Club. She danced the role of Elizabeth Proctor in a dance drama of Arthur Miller’s “Cruci¬ ble” in 1963. She also choreographed a suc¬ cessful modern hoedown called “The Unsquare Square Dance” for six men and six women. She was active as a dancer at Pasadena High School before that, and won a scholarship to PCC to study dance. It should be a privilege to see “the home town girl who made good.” The repertory company will give a performance that in¬ cludes humor as well as serious “food for thought” movement. They are always ahead of the theater by pointing ways to avant garde ideas and thoughts for fu¬ ture theater. Art students, drama students, music students, and of course, dance students should not miss the opportunity of seeing one of the world’s most skillful and cre¬ ative team of performers. Each dance is costumed, pro¬ fessionally lighted, with a musical orchestration often written espec¬ ially for that work. This will be the first performance in the new¬ ly renovated Sexson Auditorium at PCC. Student tickets will be $1. To those concerned with history of taste in the visual arts, one of the most fascinating phenomena of recent years has been the tre¬ mendous surge of interest in Art Nouveau. This highly wrought, elegant, linear style, dominated by sinuous and sensuous forms, had a brief but luxuriant flowering all over Europe and America in the 1890’s. Art Nouveau has been whole¬ heartedly adopted by the “hippie culture” during the last few years. Drawings and posters by a lead¬ ing American exponent of Art Nouveau are not material one would normally expect to find on exhibition at the Huntington Art Gallery. LA Philharmonic Tickets Special $2 tickets are now available at the Music Center box office for Los Angeles Phil¬ harmonic concerts of February 25 at 8:30 p.m., and 26 and 28 at 3 p.m. in the Music Center Pavilion. Guest conductor Carlo Maria Giulini concludes his two- week visit to Los Angeles with violinist Pinchas Zukerman as soloist. Donations Sought for Foothill Free Clinic PCC comes to the aid of the Foothill Free Clinic. Two weeks of fund-raising on campus began last Wednesday and will continue until March 3. Tables are set up in four loca¬ tions: the Campus Center, quad, Men’s Gym and Women’s Gym for donations. The tables will be open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. This is a joint service club and organization project. Iris Black, a student volunteer worker at the clinic, is the chairman of the event. The clinic is under financial dis¬ tress because the $57,000 allotted to them by the County Board of Supervisors was frozen due to a $59 million county deficit. That money was five-eighths of the clin¬ ic’s budget, according to John Binkley, clinic director. It is hoped that $30,000 can be raised in the next two or three months so that the facility will be able to survive the rest of the year. They have enough operating funds to last through May, but it is up to the community to sup¬ port the clinic after that. Binkley states that any amount will be appreciated and that they really rely on small donations. The Free Clinic is located at 35 S. Raymond But, as a result of circum¬ stances, the Huntington is a major repository for the work of Will Bradley. In view of the cur¬ rent enthusiasm for Art Nouvean, they have broken trend so that the public can share in this de¬ lightful design art. The exhibition, which occupies three rooms on the second floor of the gallery, includes all of Bradley’s drawings, plus a selec¬ tion of his posters and books. It Is scheduled to open tomorrow. Returning Vets Offered Aid Since May 1968 there have been 144,962 Southern California Vietnam Era veterans alerted by Veterans Administration letters telling them of the availability of GI Bill benefits and programs. Nationally, such letters have gone to 2,180,269 veterans. Elliott explained that veterans can get monthly payments while completing high school under the GI Bill without having VA pay¬ ments charged against later ed¬ ucation and training benefits. He also pointed out that while the VA helps all veterans, it makes a special effort to assist those without a high school edu¬ cation. First, Elliott said, a letter is sent to every new veteran, tell¬ ing him about the GI Bill (includ¬ ing on-the-job training), VA med¬ ical and dental care, and other VA benefits, as well as offering him assistance in finding a job. Veterans who have completed high school receive one type of let¬ ter; another type goes to those who have not. Also, if the veter¬ an’s military discharge indicates a possible service disability, the letter tells the veteran how he can file a claim with the VA. The veteran is told, “We can help you get started in a trade, go back to school, and pay you while you do. If you are looking for a job, we may be able to refer you to one which is just what you want.”