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Pasadena City College
Pasadena, California
Vol.74 No. 17
COURIER
Planning committee
reviews educational
goal for 2 1 st century
By EDWIN FOLVEN
Editor-in-Chief
The PCC planning council is
planning a workshop to develop a
mission statement with goals to help
guide the college into the 21st cen¬
tury. The workshop, which will be
comprised of members of the com¬
munity, faculty, staff and student
body, will held on Saturday, March
14 in the Circadian.
Dr. William Goldmann, dean of
educational services, expects the new
mission statement to be a modifica¬
tion of the previous statement. Sev¬
eral assumptions have already been
developed by the Planning Commit¬
tee to help set immediate goals to
improve the quality of the college.
Once the statement is completed,
the Board of Trustees will review
and finalize it. The statement will be
continually updated as new issues
arise in the future.
Goldmann stated that several
different constituent groups, repre¬
senting faculty, staff, students,
management, community members,
the PCC Foundation and the Board
of Trustees have all been invited to
participate.
“The statement will serve to guide
PCC into the 21st century. We very
much want everyone to be included,”
said Goldmann. He said a primary
goal at this time is to work towards
improving the transfer rate among
unrepresented students.
The workshop will be facilitated
by Dr. Ervin L. Harlacher, professor
at Pepperdine University Graduate
School of Education and Psychol¬
ogy, and is scheduled from from 8
a.m. to 2 p.m.
“Our goals will stem from the
mission statement,” said Goldmann.
PCC is rapidly becoming a regional
college rather than a local college.
Members of the community will have
a chance to give advise on how the
college can better serve their needs.
Some of the topics to be dis¬
cussed will include how the college
can become more productive with
Please see Committee: Page 4
Forensics students
awarded honors at
speech competition
By GREGG GUENTHARD
Staff Writer
PCC hosted the Pacific South¬
west Collegiate Forensic Associa¬
tion (PSCFA) Spring Championships
last weekend. The PSCFA Spring
Championships isoneofthetopfive
forensic tournaments in the nation.
Competition was fierce among teams,
for this was the last tournament be-
forestatechampionships. Thethree-
day tournament provided competi¬
tion in events such as debate, readers
theater, poetry, extemporaneous
speaking, prose and many more.
Crystal Watson, director of fo¬
rensics, and forensics coaches Tom
Miller, Tony Georgalis, and Vince
Bohanec conducted the event. “The
tournament was the smoothest run
of the season,” quipped one of the
competitors.
The Awards Ceremony took place
on Sunday, with PCC having many
victories. The forensics team tied
with Cal State Berkley for 4th place
in the Novice division of overall
points Sweepstakes, with Riverside
University, Biola University, and USC
placing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respec¬
tively. The overall Senior Sweep-
stakes went to Cal State San Diego,
with USC and Cal State Fullerton
following. The two year Sweep-
stakes was awarded to Moorpark
College, with Orange Coast Col¬
lege, and Saddleback College plac¬
ing 2nd and 3rd.
The debate event’s honors were
awarded as follows: Senior-Ceda Top
Speaker, John Dean, UCLA; Junior-
Ceda, Gene Juenger, Cal State San
Bernardino; Novice-Ceda, Chandra
Gehri, Cal Lutheran with team hon¬
ors for Senior, Cal State Northridge,
Junior, Cal State San Diego, Novice,
Riverside University. The Lincoln-
Lecture focuses on juvenile delinquents and their problems
Photo by Katrina Ten/The COURIER
Construction of the foundation for the rotunda of the new library is well underway. The main grade beams are also nearly complete.
Construction of new library continues
By EDWIN FOLVEN
Editor-in-Chief
The construction the new li¬
brary continued as cement for the
grade beams was poured last Fri¬
day. As of January, all of the 108
caissons which form part of the
library foundation have been
formed and poured with concrete.
According to a published report
prepared by Ernest Church, director
of facilities, the next phase of con¬
struction involves the forming the
structure that supports the frame of
the building. Some parts of the ro¬
tunda foundation were completed in
December and on Friday, Dec. 27,
one of the elevator pits was formed
The report stated that as the foun¬
dation work is being completed, crews
are placing electrical, plumbing and
communication conduit .
During the preliminary stages of
the construction, an average crew of
20 workers have been employed.
This number will grow as the proc¬
ess becomes intensified. According
to the report, Jack Shulman, the
District’s site coordinator, keeps daily
updated records of progress. He
also records potential holdups
that might occur if they are not
brought to the immediate atten¬
tion of the architects, contractor,
or other representatives involved
in the construction process. An
excellent safety record has been
maintained, with no injuries
reported so far.
Cultural
Library
heritage
showcase
promotes
ethnicity
By ENRICO PIAZZA
Staff Writer
By AL SANTANA
Staff Writer
Latino/Chicano history and art
will be showcased with the crea¬
tion of an exhibitional room in
the new library designed to per¬
manently house representative
crafted and history related arti¬
facts.
The heritage room will dis¬
play a variety of painting and
writing as well as hand-crafted
art works, which are elements of
this culture.
The goal is to create a collec¬
tion which will increase cultural
awareness and be a source of
pride for all Latino/Chicanos in
the surrounding areas, said Ma¬
ria Garcia, president of La Raza
Faculty and Staff Association.
For this purposes, La Raza
Association has created a mone¬
tary fund, aimed at obtaining
Please see Ethnic: page 4
A room in the new library will
be entirely dedicated to African-
American heritage. It will func¬
tion as an aesthetic focal point as
well as a community center and
and a place to celebrate African-
American culture.
The success of the project,
which needed $50,000 to begin,
is due to the generosity of indi¬
vidual donors including many
African-American staff members.
An pledge of $25,000 was con¬
tributed by the Delta S igma Theta
sorority. The sorority is an asso¬
ciation of African-American
women who provide scholar¬
ships and public services to the
community.
“The African-American com¬
munity is very excited,” said
Gwendolyn Sherard-Bishop, a
Please see Cuture: Page 4
Artists conception of new library
Photo courtesy of Oscar Chavez
Crews work to erect the foundation of the rotunda. The first floor of the
rotunda will be even with the second floor of the main library building.
By WES KAWANO
Staff Writer
An almost capacity crowd heard
Paul Price, history instructor, speak
on the issue of, “Challenging Au¬
thority; The Care of the Juvenile
Deliquent” Tuesday morning. Price
spoke about how juveniles react to
authority in a restricted environ¬
ment, where respect for others is an
important part of every day life. He
also discussed the problems faced
by staff members at these facilities.
“What we want to get at today or
what I try to get at in my own re¬
search is how a staff experiences on
one hand, and responds on the other,
to defiance by residents in the juve¬
nile detention center.” Price ex¬
plained, “The type of authority I’m
talking about is this rational, legal
authority. It’s the type of authority
that has and stems from rules, proce¬
dures, certain guidlines. In sociol¬
ogy, we recognize three types of
authority. The first one is judicial
authority, the second is rational au¬
thority, and final is charismatic au¬
thority.”
Price, who received a Masters
degree from Fisk University, started
his two and a half year research in a
juvenile placement facility in Eagle
Rock.
According to Price, the place¬
ment facility is a treatment center
which is less restrictive and is a little
more open. Juvenile Hall on the other
hand, is more of a closed or “locked-
up” facility which concerns itself
less with treatment and more with
confinement.
He also said that the language is
quite different between facilities.
Inmates that would be sent to units
in juvenile hall are residents living
in dorms at the placement facility.
The placement facility, which
houses an average of 80 residents in
five dorms, is made up of individu¬
als from various ethnic backgrounds
from ages 13 to 18. It also has a rec¬
reation room, gym, dining area,
chapel, and school to support those
living there. This facility is also
maintained and supervised by what
Price called a hierarchy.
“The methodology that I used to
conduct this study is ethnology or
ethnographic participant observa¬
tion,” said Price, who has also taught
atGlendale Community Collegeand
Mt. San Antonio Community Col¬
lege. “I was directly involved with
the study. I interacted with the staff,
with the residents, with the adminis¬
trative staff, and at different times I
held varing statuses. A counselor. A
case aide. Finally, I became what
was called an Officer of the Day.”
While Price interacted with vari¬
ous individuals in his research, he
also wrote down or recorded his own
observations.
The treatment methods included
individual counseling, group coun¬
seling, family counseling and psy-
cholical evaluations with the idea of
impacting and changing an individu¬
als behavior. The period of confine¬
ment usually lasted up to 12 months.
The bottom line was whether or not
the resident would follow the insti¬
tutional rules or if they would suc¬
cumb to peer pressure.
If a resident were to challenge
the staff or the authority he would be
seen as an individual worthy of re¬
spect among the residents. Where
those who did not challenge the
keepers were seen as a wimp.
In fact the same would be said for
the staff, for if a staff member did
not face or meet a challenge by a
resident, the respect for that staff
member would be practically non¬
existent.
Price also discussed overt and
covert challenges, or open and hid¬
den challenges faced by the staff and
residents.
At the end of his research, Price
felt that the staff and administrative
officials were not as qualified as
they should have been. He also sug¬
gested that more training should be
given to those staff members who
are under qualified for the difficult
job, especially in the areas of dealing
with situations where minor infrac¬
tions should be played down and
given less attention and major inci¬
dents should be given the required
attention they deserve.
Photo by Teresa Rochester
Dr. Paul Price
History Instructor