Lancers Rebel Against
Vol. 20, No. 4 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California February 26, 1964
WAA Announces
Athletic Contest
for PCC Women
Girls interested in the Women’s
Athletic Association are invited to
take part in this semester’s inter¬
collegiate competition. Partici¬
pants need only own an ASB book.
Tennis and swimming competi¬
tion will be held Tuesdays and
Inursdays from 2 to 4 p.m., and
badminton Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays from 2 to 4 p.m. Bad¬
minton will be replaced by soft-
ball during the last nine weeks of
the semester.
Persons interested may contact
the teacher in charge of the par¬
ticular sport.
WAA Calendar
March 4 — Badminton — Glendale, Here
March 11 — Badminton — Ventura, Here
March 12 — Tennis and Swimming — Mt.
SAC, Here
March 6-8 — PSRARFCW Conference,
Asilomar
March 19 — Tennis — East LA, Here;
Swimming — East LA, LACC, Here
March 31 — Tennis and Swimming —
Orange Coast, Here
April 1 — Badminton — LA Valley, Here
April 9 — Tennis and Swimming — LA
Valley, Here
April 19 — Badminton SCJC Tourna¬
ment at LA Valley
April 11 — High School Sports Day,
Here
April 17 — AWS-WAA Conference;
WAA Planning Meeting at River¬
side
April 29 — Softball at Citrus
April 30 — Tennis and Swimming at
Fullerton JC
May 6— Softball— Mt. SAC, Here
May 9 — SCJC Tennis Tournament at
Fullerton
May 13— Softball at LA Valley
May 14 — SCJC Swimming Meet, Here
May 18 — Softball — East LA, Here
May 19 — Tennis at Compton
May 28 — WAA Annual Banquet
Clubs Convene
TICKET TIME — PCC traffic officer Sam Adams cites a student car
parked in an unauthorized parking lot area. Full lots and re¬
stricted street parking force many to try this stunt.
Campus Schedules
March Convocation
PCC’s 49 clubs will hold meet¬
ings tomorrow at noon as a part
of the Student Organizations
Day program held twice a year.
Many of the clubs will feature
guest speakers, and will plan
future club activities.
YD Speaker
Carol Hoover, administrative
secretary to Dr. Martin Luther
King, told a meeting of PCC’s
Young Democrats last Thursday
that Negroes in Mississippi
could probably expect to be sub¬
jected to the violence of “another
Birmingham” before summer.
Miss Hoover, executive director
of Rev. King’s Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, discussed
the problems of Negroes attempt¬
ing to vote in the deep South
and commented on the SCLC’s
plans for the civil rights fight in
the coming year. But she would
not comment on civil rights issues
closer to home.
Miss Hoover declined to dis¬
cuss the Rumford Fair Housing
Act in California, and said she
was not acquainted with the fail¬
ure of a Negro television station
in Los Angeles.
Miss Hoover began by mention¬
ing briefly Rev. King’s new book,
“Strength to Love,” saying that
the book is “a religious work; not
a treatise on civil rights.” She
then took up the problem of Ne¬
gro voting registration in the
South.
“The conference is having
trouble registering Negroes, par¬
ticularly in Louisiana,” she said.
“In tests of ‘literacy’ to determine
eligibility to vote, Negroes are be¬
ing asked such nonsense ques¬
tions as, ‘How high is high?’ and,
The first Pasadena City College
convocation will be held March 11
and 12 on the subject of “Creativi¬
ty: Bridge from Science to the
Humanities.” It will be the first
phase of a long term self-study on
the part of the faculty, students,
and community in the college’s
Sees New
‘How many seeds are there in a
watermelon?,’ in order to disqual¬
ify them.”
She further commented that Ne¬
groes who press for voting rights
in the South are being laid off of
their jobs, refused credit, and, in
some cases, subjected to physical
violence.
Following Miss Hoover’s brief
talk, the meeting was thrown
open to questions from the floor.
Miss Hoover was assisted in an¬
swering the queries by the presi¬
dent of the Negro History Asso¬
ciation of Pasadena; and by Rev.
Dr. A. A. Peters, pastor of the
Victory Baptist Church of Los An¬
geles.
The trio emphatically denied
that the SCLC has ever received
either financial or moral support
from a communist organization.
Some time was spent in discuss¬
ing whether or not Sen. Barry
Goldwater of Arizona is a segre¬
gationist. Comments from the po¬
dium indicated that he might be
considered so by the SCLC.
Miss Hoover said that the SCLC
is planning a selective buying
program to deal with big busi¬
ness, along with local demonstra¬
tions in the North and a possible
second march on Washington.
These marches will deal with
equal job opportunities and de-
facto segregation, according to
Miss Hoover.
goals and objectives.
The purpose of the symposium
is to improve instruction through
an intensive investigation of the
relationships of science, mathe¬
matics, and linguistics to the hu¬
manities at PCC.
Nine o’clock classes will be in¬
vited to attend general assemblies.
Both faculty members and stu¬
dents will have the opportunity to
take part in panels and lecture-
discussion series which will occur
later in the day.
Two professors in residence will
participate in each day’s assem¬
bly and panel discussions. The
March 11 program will feature
Dr. Harrison Brown, geochemis¬
try professor at Caltech, and Dr.
S. I. Hayakawa, language arts
professor at San Francisco State
College. Dr. Brown will return
March 12 and will be joined by
Sister Mary William, president of
Immaculate Heart College.
Symposium Hosts
Lancer Instructor
Leslie D. Lowry will speak on
“The New Look in Teacher Edu¬
cation,” Tuesday, March 3, at 4
p.m. at the fifth of the 1963-64
mathematics symposiums.
Since parents often find them¬
selves confused and unable to help
their children with homework,
guidance in mathematical think¬
ing must generally come from
only one source — the teacher.
Teacher training has had to be
modified to meet this challenge.
Lowry, a PCC teacher, will out¬
line the latest recommendations
of the College Undergraduate Pro¬
gram in Mathematics. This theme
should be of special interest to
elementary teachers as they pre¬
pare for the new state textbooks
in grades 1 to 8.
Racial Turmoil in South
Parking Tickets
ASB Leaders Bask
Rising Resentment
The ASB Board voted yesterday
to investigate the time restric¬
tions on parking now enforced by
police on the streets around PCC.
Board action followed Senate
approval of a resolution condemn¬
ing the parking situation as “un¬
reasonable” and urging remedial
action by the city Board of Direc¬
tors. Commissioner of Publicity
Dr. Robbins Cites
Incoming Students
at Spring Entrance
Honors at entrance have been
granted by Dr. Catherine Robbins
to five spring semester Pasadena
City College students.
These entering students will re¬
ceive a letter from PCC’s presi¬
dent welcoming them to college
and campus life and compliment¬
ing them on their scholastic
achievement in high school. An
overall average of 3.5 must be ob¬
tained in high school to qualify
for this award.
Andrea Beck, Ursula Britton,
Vena Lou Garrett, Blanche Pile,
and Michael Weinberg were se¬
lected as this semester’s honor
students.
Last semester, winners also
were given a chance for the first
time to compete for several schol¬
arships. Fourteen $50 book schol¬
arships were awarded.
This semester’s winners and
their parents were also invited to
attend a program here in order
to acquaint them with scholar¬
ships they may wish to apply for
before graduating.
Dennis Thompson introduced the
resolution.
THOMPSON and Senate Vice-
president Michael Gallagher prod¬
ded the subsequent board action,
which authorized a committee to
study and report on the street
parking problem.
Thompson cited “growing re¬
sentment of all students” against
the parking tickets as his reason
for urging ASB action.
“Many Lancers feel that the
tickets are unfair,” he said, “be¬
cause street parking is necessary
when the lots are full, and it is
not always possible to run and
move a car between classes.”
The majority of street parking
stalls near the campus are now
limited to one and two hour
parking. Gallagher and Thomp¬
son agreed that “removal of all
street parking restrictions” is
their ultimate goal, but conceded
that a compromise is more likely.
LIMITATION of the time lim¬
its to afternoon would help, they
said, because the “big problem is
in the morning.”
Similar ASB action two years
ago snow-balled into a community
campaign for better parking fa¬
cilities at PCC. Pressure exerted
on the board of education, police
department, and Board of Direc¬
tors resulted in the condemnation
of some nearby property to in¬
crease the size of PCC’s parking
lots.
“It is doubtful that there will
be any future enlargement of our
off-street facilities for at least
two years,” Thompson said, “so
we must work for sensible street
parking regulations.”
Actor Ronald Reagan Slates
Tuesday Evening Forum Talk
Film star Ronald Reagan will
appear at the Tuesday Evening
Forum March 3 to discuss the top¬
ic, “Conflicting Political Ideals:
Conservatism.”
Reagan, who has been active in
California politics for several
years, was graduated with an
economics degree from Eureka
College. He was a football an-
Local Red Cross Offers
Water Safety Program
The Pasadena chapter of the
American Red Cross is offering
water safety classes through the
end of May at the Pasadena High
School pool.
The first course offered is sen¬
ior life saving, open to persons 16
and older. Applicants should be
able to swim side stroke, breast
stroke, and either American crawl
or trudgen, with reasonable ease
and acceptable form. It is to be
held February 18, 20, 25, and 27,
and March 3, 5, 10, 12, from 7 to
10 p.m. Instructing are Ralph
Miller and Joan Varnum.
The second course is a water
safety instructor course to be
held in two parts. The first is
April 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 28, and 30.
Those interested must be 18 or
over and hold a current life sav¬
ing card.
Those completing part one suc¬
cessfully are eligible for part two,
to be held May 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21,
and 26. The time for these classes
also is 7 to 10 p.m. Instructor
for parts one and two of the in¬
structor course are to be an¬
nounced.
Two classes are free and certifi¬
cates will be issued to those pass¬
ing.
Interested parties should regis¬
ter as soon as possible with the
Pasadena Red Cross at 48 N. El
Molino Ave, or call 796-9141, ext.
31.
nouncer for the Big Ten, and later
a baseball announcer for the
Chicago Cubs and Boston Red
Sox.
While covering a spring train¬
ing trip in California, Reagan was
screen tested and given a contract
by Warner Brothers studios, and
since then has played in motion
pictures such as “King’s Row,”
“Knute Rockne, All American,”
and “Voice of the Turtle.”
He now lectures throughout the
country on the topics of econom¬
ics and politics, and has served
six times as president of the
Screen Actors Guild.
Reagan was host and program
supervisor for the General Elec¬
tric Theater for eight years. He
was selected screen father of the
year in 1957 by the National
Father’s Day Committee.
Reagan’s Tuesday night discus¬
sion will be held in Sexson Audi¬
torium. The public is invited and
seats will be available after 8 p.m.
RONALD REAGAN
. . . Forum Speaker
Folksingers Appear
Folksingers Joe and Eddie will
headline the March 5 ASB as¬
sembly in Sexson Auditorium.
ASB books will be required for
the noon concert.