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PCC Courier, February 28, 1975
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ROGER GERTMENIAN
By Sergio Caponi
Editor-in-Chief
Residents from three areas of the
Pasadena Area Community College
district go to the polls Tuesday to
vote on which of the eight candidates
running for office should be their
representative in the PCC Board of
Trustees.
The neighborhoods included in the
district elections are Area 2, en¬
compassing Sierra Madre and part of
Pasadena; Area 4, which includes the
PCC surroundings from California
Boulevard to Washington Boulevard;
and Area 6, containing Temple City
and the newly district-incorporated
cities of Rosemead and part of El
Monte.
Incumbents J. Ray Risser and
Melvin Burt, representing respec¬
tively Area 2 and 4, are not running for
another term, therefore leaving the
race open to six new candidates.
Seeking the Area 2 post are Charles
F. Briscoe from Pasadena, Robert M.
Kick, also from Pasadena; Sidney
Carlin and John Starrs, both from
Altadena. In the race for Area 4 are
Joan Celeste Frey and Robert L.
Spare, both from Pasadena.
The only incumbent running is
Pasadena's Roger M. Gertmenian. His
challenger for the Area 6 seat is Pat
DeMond from Temple City.
Area 2 Candidates
Charles F. Briscoe is an engineer,
administrator and consultant with gas
utilities in the Southland. He has a B.A.
in geology from UCLA and received a
teaching credential for secondary
industrial arts from the ROTC Senior
Division, Infantry.
Briscoe believes PCC graduates
should have adequate prepartion for a
vocation or for continuing their
education. He commended the college
for its “outstanding record with regard
to quality of instruction and prudent
handling of school tax refunds. “If
elected,” he said, “I will help continue
the good work PCC is doing to en¬
courage each student to reach the
highest goal he is capable of attaining,
and to foster an atmosphere that will
be conducive to the best possible in¬
struction and administration.”
Robert M. Fick, a Ph.D. in public
administration from USC, has taught
at the graduate level at several area
universities and was mayor of the city
of Montclair in 1958-59.
As a governing board member he
said he would appoint a task force to
determine the role of the community
college in meeting its educational
PCC CoutUeb
VOL. 39, NO. 3
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FEBRUARY 28, 1975
Board of Trustees Examines
Remodeling of D, E Buildings
The PCC Board of Trustees
examined the long-proposed
remodeling project for the D and E
buildings at its meeting held Feb. 20.
The project calls for the installation of
elevators and air conditioning in the
two structures, plus the remodeling of
the corridors and classrooms on all
three floors.
Architect Howard Morgridge, repre¬
senting Powell, Morgridge, Richards
& Coghlan, Inc., presented the Board
the final drawings of the project and a
model showing where and how the
facilities will be placed in the two
buildings.
The Board did not discuss the
project's estimated cost. The con¬
struction company is expected to
submit more accurate figures at the
next meeting.
According to the plan, an air-
conditioning penthouse similar to the
one on top of the C Building is to be
installed on the roof of the two
structures.
The D Building elevator is expected
to be placed on the outside to save
more space for classrooms and offices.
Handicapped students will be able to
use the facility as provided by the law.
Morgridge said space will also be
gained by opening up the corridors on
the upper floors of the two buildings,
allowing increased room size.
The remodeling of the D Building
includes the placement of student
resources, such as tutoring centers
and reading labs on the first and third
floors and a career guidance area in
the middle floor. The E Building is to
be used for photography, geology and
physics instruction.
Professor Ohrbom Shows Laymen
Earth Tremors; Cause aad Effect
—Courier Photo by Hugh Levine
EARTHQUAKES— Richard R. Ohrbom (center), geology instructor,
discusses movie script with director John Smith (left) and producer
Barrv Clarke.
Scholarship for Home Economics
Majors Offered by State Group
All PCC home economics majors
who will have junior status by fall are
eligible to apply for the Essie Elliott
scholarship sponsored by the
California Home Economics
Association.
Eligibility requirements for the $300
award include a major interest in
home economics, outstanding scholar¬
ship, full-time enrollment, good
character, activities and achieve¬
ments. Applications must be received
by the chairman of the scholarship
committee not later than March 20.
Applications should contain the
JUNIOR EXECUTIVES
Junior Executives, the coed business
and service club on campus, is
having a special open meeting to top
off its membership drive. This
meeting will take place on Thursday,
March 1 at noon in
К
404. Information
about the club and its activities will
be supplied and refreshments ser¬
ved. JE is sponsored by the
Pasadena Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
applicant's full name, address, tele¬
phone number, name of school and
number of persons majoring in home
economics in the department.
A transcript of college credits is also
required, along with the applicant’s
300-w'ord statement on the motivating
influences for selecting a major in
home economics, including
professional aspirations in the field.
Three letters of recommendation
must be supplied and the names of
letter-writers must be included in the
application. Individual evaluations of
applicants should include: how long
and in what capacity the writer has
known the applicant; the writer's
evaluation of the applicant on the
following points— leadership potential,
intellectual interests, personality,
maturity, character, potential for
college success, health and comments.
Applications and letters of recom¬
mendation should be mailed to Mrs.
Vivienne Webber, chairman, Los
Angeles District Scholarship Com¬
mittee, 6925 Chisholm Ave., Van Nuys,
Calif.
objectives within the framework of
commmunity and student needs.
"This task force,” he said, “would
evalute the curriculum, methods of
teaching, packaging of courses,
relevancy of subject matter to
students and community needs, and
determine most appropriate com¬
bination of resources for meeting
educational objectives.”
Dr. Fick also pledges to devote his
attention primarly on budgeting
procedurees and to work toward an
equitable funding of the educational
system by all communities in the
district.
Dr. Sidney Carlin taught at PCC for
seven years before moving to Cal Poly,
Pomona, five years ago. An education
specialist for the U.S. Army, he owns
and operates rental units in Pasadena
and Los Angeles.
His name of the game is “change.”
“All people in higher education agree
that the future will bring change,” he
commented. He said problems of
campus disturbances and social unrest
have given way to problems of
declining enrollment and inflation.
“To continue the excellence and
diversity that PCC offers will require
innovative thought,” he said.
Dr. Carlin mentioned as an example
that more mature students could be
attracted with a school-sponsored
child care center in which parents
participate. He suggested the two-year
para-professional programs in health,
legal and technical fields be extended,
and programs directed to senior
citizens encouraged.
Dr. Carlin is also concerned with
putting the college finances to their
best possible use. “The need to get the
most effective return for the tax dollar
is paramount in these challenging
times,” he said.
John Starrs majored in business
administration at Cal State Long
Beach and UCLA. Formerly assistant
chief accountant in a $30 million real
estate development corporation, he is
assistant vice president, operations
manger with the United California
Bank.
He proposes better handling of fiscal
responsibilities and more effective
training of students. “The cost of
education in our college system con¬
tinues to rise while the quality of
education declines,” he said. “I would
like to se" a review made of our
grading standards and greater fiscal
responsibility exercised.”
Starrs also lamented that many
college gradutes are unprepared to
earn a living, and must find work in a
job which affords them the training
they should have received in college.
“I propose that the emphasis in our
colleges be placed on the basics
necessary to prepare students to join
Continued on Page Three
ASB Prexy
Looking for
Secretaries
By Margaret Duncan
Staff Writer
ASL President Nick Martinez an¬
nounced that he will strive for more
student participation this semester, as
he opened the first ASB Board meeting
last Thursday in the Campus Center
board room. He also said that two
positions on the board remain open,
those of recording and corresponding
secretaries. Anyone interested in
filling one of these offices may contact
him in the Campus Center.
Other business conducted included a
grant of $250 to Omicron Mu Delta for
the purpose of advertising for the
annual OMD Carnival to be held at
PCC on May 29 and 30. It was an¬
nounced that tickets are still on sale
for Disneyland College Night tonight.
They may be purchased in the College
Bank for $4.75.
At the Student Senate meeting
Tuesday, Art Garr, facilities planner,
addressed the senators regarding the
PCC parking situation. He said that the
district is considering a closed bus
shuttle system, a plan that has proved
effective at Cal State L.A. The buses
would operate from central location
points in our college district.
The senators were presented a
tentative working budget from Mar¬
tinez. The figures show that the ASB
has a working budget of $6250.76.
Budgeted accounts total $5014.41. This
will leave the ASB with a balance of
$1236.35. This budget is under con¬
sideration.
Senate President Ralph Champion
said that the student evaluation sheets
will be sent to the senators’ classes
within two weeks.
Students are encouraged to attend
the Senate meetings Tuesdays at noon,
and the ASB Board meetings Thurs¬
days at 11 a.m.
bombs, at eight 27,000 bombs and at
nine 810,000 bombs.
There could never be an earthquake
at a magnitude of nine, because the
rocks of the earth are not strong
enough to store up that much energy.
The San Andreas Fault runs from
Northern California to the Mexican
border. It is the contact between the
western part of the Northern
American Plate and the eastern part of
the Pacific Plate. The Pacific Plate,
which moves northwards, extends to
Japan while the North American
Plate, which moves south at its con¬
tact, to the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean.
It is the pressure and slipping of
these two plates against each other
which causes some of the California
earthquake phenomenon.
The tape, produced by Barry Clark,
and directed by John Smith, will be
kept in the videotape library as a
teaching aid. Later, after rights are
obtained, it may be shown on Public
Broadcasting System.
Anthropologist Dr. Richard
on His Archeological Finds
Leakey to Speak
and Expeditions
Leakey went to Great Britain for
further study.
Returning to Kenya, he took a job
with the Nairobi National Museum and
later became director, a position his
father once held. At the age of 24 he
began his dig at Lake Rudolf, where
the “1470” skull was found. Dr. Leakey
is currently director of national
museums of Kenya.
Dr. Leakey has been a contributor to
many publications including. National
Geographic, Science, and Journal of
World History.
Leakey is chairman of Wildlife Clubs
of Kenya; trustee, East African Wild¬
life Society; member of the American
Association of Physical Anthropolo¬
gists; and a Fellow, Royal Anthropo¬
logical Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland.
ROBERT SPARE
JOHN STARRS
By Ernie Aldrich
Staff Writer
Exacly what is an earthquake? By
definition, an earthquake is a per¬
ceptible trembling or shaking of the
ground, produced by the sudden
displacement of rocks below the
earth's surface.
Jhe why of earthquakes is explained
by PCC geology instructor Richard R.
Ohrbom in a program titled “Ear¬
thquakes Why?" videotaped in PCC
studios late last week.
For two years Ohrbom has wanted to
do a 30-minute show explaining ear¬
thquakes to the layman. Two years ago
a program on telescopes was taped at
PCC. This program turned him on to
the advantages of videotape as an
instruction medium for large groups.
“The c1a««rnn>T-. |s ideal setting
for teaching," said Ohrbom. “There is
an interchange of ideas and any
misunderstandings can he corrected
immediately. Howevever, not
everyone can attend school. The power
of a videotape reaches thousands with
one braodcast.”
Ohrbom said that, “people who live
in California, an area of earthquake
activity, should understand the hows
and whys of the phenomenon. This is
earthquake country.”
Ohrbom explains such subjects in
the program as earthquake intensity,
earthquake magnitude, a:'d the San
Andreas Fault.
The intensity of an earthquake,
which is a measure of the damage it
does, depends on conditions below the
surface of the earth. On one side of a
street there may be an unconsolidated
base of sand or poorly cemented
sedimentary rock while on the other
side of the street there may be a well
consolidated base of granite. The side
of the street with the poorly con¬
solidated base will sustain much more
damage if all other factors are equal.
Ohrbom demonstrates this with the aid
of a rubber hose. When the hose is
pulled tightly and is struck, it has a
small amount of movement analogous
to the movement in a well-consolidated
base.
When the hose is loosened and struck
with the same amount of force it
produces a slower, more violent
shaking as that found in a poorly
consolidated base.
The magnitude of an earthquake, as
measured by the Richter scale, was
explained by Ohrbom. At a magnitude
of five, the energy is equal to that
released by one “atomic” bomb. At six
it is approximately equal to that
released by 30 bombs. At seven it is
equal to that energy released by 900
By Jill Boekenoogen
City Editor
World famous anthropologist Dr.
Richard E. Leakey will be speaking at
the March 4 Tuesday Evening Forum
on the topic, “Exciting New Early Man
Discoveries in East Africa.”
A documentary will also be
presented entitled “Early Man in the
Rift Valley of East Africa.” Dr.
Leakey's on-the-spot commentary will
cover his expeditions in Tanzania,
Kenya and Ethiopia, and the major
archeological find in each area.
In the fall of 1972 on the eastern
shore of Kenya's Lake Rudolf, Dr.
Leakey uncovered a skull which had
lived 2.8 million years ago. This
discovery pushed back the accepted
date of man’s earliest ancestors at
least 10,000 centuries. Dr. Leakey’s
find, pictured at right, was later called
“1470” after the registration number it
was given by the National Museums of
Kenya.
Before this find, man's oldest-
thought ancestor was Homo Habilis,
discovered in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge by
Dr. Leakey's parents, Dr. Louis B. and
Mary Leakey.
At the site at Lake Rudolf the ex¬
pedition also found some simple stone
tools and chopping implements. Dr.
Leakey thought the user of these tools
had a high level of intelligence and
dexterity.
At the time of “1470,” another
primitive creature named Australo¬
pithecus lived; however, he had a
small brain cavity and was a vegetar¬
ian. Leakey feels his “1470" rather
than Australopithecus was man’s
direct ancestor and that Australo¬
pithecus was a dead end branch.
Alter finding the first skull, the
expedition uncovered a leg bone and
another skull which dated to the same
period. The leg bone showed a well¬
ADELPHIAN MEMBERSHIP
Adelphians, the women’s com¬
munity service organization, has
extended its membership drive until
today. Applications are available in
the Campus Center, Women’s Gym
and Library. Anyone may apply for
admission (o the club.
developed stance, which is one of the
ways anthropologists date the develop¬
ment of a species. The skull belonged
to a child no more than six years old at
time of death.
A native ot Kenya, Dr. Leakey
learned in his early teens to trap small
animals. At 16 he was recapturing
lions which had escaped from a Kenya
national game park. Later, when he
became interested in prehistory, Dr.
DR. RICHARD E. LEAKEY
. . . forum speaker
CHARLES BRISCOE
SIDNEY CARLIN
PAT DeMOND
ROBERT FICK
JOAN FREY
Trustees to be Elected