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VOL. 48. NO. 18
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
JANUARY 11. 1980
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-Courier photos by Katrin Wegelius and Dave Clarke
Agreement Reached
On New CATC Site
By Laura Carlos
Staff Writer
An agreement of understanding con¬
cerning the use of William McKinley
Junior High School for the new Com¬
munity Adult Training Center was ap¬
proved unanimously by the Board of
Trustees at their Jan. 2 meeting.
“The college plans to move in by the
end of February in order to have time
to improve the facility since there
hasn’t been any school (program)
there for awhile,” said Dr. Stanley
Gunstream, vice president for instruc¬
tion.
Discussions with the Pasadena Uni¬
fied School District for the new center
began in early November last year.
However, action was delayed because
of the failure to reach an agreement
about the type of courses to be offered
at the site.
“Initially I think that the Unified
Board’s goal was to have adequate
courses for high school juniors and
seniors, said Ramon Cortines, super¬
intendent of the Pasadena Unified
School District.
The agreement allows the college,
the Unified District and other high
school districts included in the PCC
college district to assess vocational
needs in the area. The college may use
the facility for “any educational
purpose” as long as the majority of
course offerings are appropriate for
high school juniors and seniors.
Moreover, course offerings will have to
be discussed with the Unified District
before being included in the program.
“The college has the responsibility
and administration of the program, but
the Board would at least like to discuss
the course offerings before they’re
offered,” said Cortines.
PCC’s four-year lease for McKinley
began Dec. 1, 1979 and will end June 30,
1984. There is an option to renew upon
the agreement of both parties.
Facility rental will be free of charge.
In return, the college will have to
remodel and maintain the buildings.
McKinley facilities that will be made
available to the college include A and
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buildings (excluding the auditorium),
the canteen pergola, 10 handball
courts, three volleyball courts and
parking areas immediately south of
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and C buildings.
The four-year contract calls for PCC
to set up a marketable skills program
in conjunction with the school district.
The program would be for PCC stu¬
dents and primarily high school juniors
and seniors.
“I believe this community should
have one training center which will
provide employment through acquisi¬
tion of skills and retraining,” said
Cortines.
The college is canceling its $67,250
per year lease for the North Lake
Street building which currently houses
the Community Adult Training Center.
The decision to end the lease is due to
the college’s revenue loss resulting
from the passage of Proposition 13.
The center provides classes in oc¬
cupational skills such as power sewing,
clerical and secretarial training, key
punching, supermarket work and elec¬
tronics assembly. It also offers
academic courses for students who
wish to complete high school gradu¬
ation requirements, transfer credit to a
senior institution or earn credit
towards an Associate in Arts degree.
“This program could be the most
valuable in the community if it’s ad¬
ministered and developed correctly
... I feel the college is the most
qualified to administer it,” said Cor¬
tines.
Seven Hopefuls Run
In Spring Election
Seven candidates are running for
five different ASB posts in the Jan. 16
and 17 student body elections.
In the only contest Andrea Dees,, Dan
Hutson and Michael Low are running
for the office of ASB President. Ms.
Dees, currently treasurer for the
Aliance for Survival, feels “the ASB
needs to be more out in the open.
People have to see us. This means
more than having a dance up here
every once in a while.”
Hutson, editor-in-chief of the Courier
for the fall semester, hopes “to make
ASB a stronger, more active student
voice.”
Low, a member of the student sen¬
ate, would work to “improve the pres¬
tige of student government. Student
government has become a joke on this
campus.”
Joan Hermann is running unopposed
for the office of ASB Vice President.
Ms. Hermann feels that it is “very
important for the students to know
what ASB does. People need to be
pulled in, to be involved in ASB.”
Alan Large is running unopposed for
re-election to the post of Athletics
Commissioner. He was unavailable for
comment.
Jeff Zucker, running unopposed for
the office of senate president, would
like to see “more participation” in the
student senate. “You can’t make any
type of noteworthy progress with less
than one percent of the student body
involved.”
Mark Bogdanchik, the only can¬
didate running for the office of senate
second vice president, feels that the
main problem at this time is publicity.
He would like to see greater “teacher
involvement” in getting students in¬
volved in the student senate.
The four offices for which no can¬
didates have filed are associated men
students president, associated women
students president and sophomore and
freshman class presidents.
According to policy outlined in the
student handbook vacancies in ASB
offices are filled by ASB presidential
appointment with ratification by the
student senate.
‘Raisin’ Plays This Weekend
The award winning “A Raisin in the Sun” will be
presented by the Laboratory Theater Ensemble this
weekend in the Little Theater.
The play, written by Lorraine Hansberry, portrays
the struggles of a black family trying to take charge of
their lives in the '50s.
, Cast members include Elaine Porter, Kevin Hock-
enhull, Stephen McCain, Robin Townsend, Valerie
Henderson, Michael Wheeler, Ron Hudson, John
Booker, James Sheperd and Todd Dean.
Performances are at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow
night and 2 p.m. on Sunday. The $2 tickets may be
purchased in the Drama Office (C155) or for reserva¬
tions, call 578-7485.
Dr. Hutchinson Assumes Duties
Rude Resigns Negotiator Post
By Mike White
Contributing Writer
Ben Rude has., resigned as chief
negotiator for the California Teachers
Association. Dr. Stanley Hutchinson,
associate professor of business educa¬
tion and a former
СТА
president, has
been named to replace Rude. It was
also reported that two other
СТА
nego¬
tiators may step down at the end of the
semester.
The PCC Chapter of
СТА,
which
represents non-management
certificated personnel, has been en¬
gaged in collective bargaining with the
Pasadena Community College School
District since last June.
Rude, a professor in the English
Department and coordinator of the
Foreign Student Program, was in¬
strumental in getting support from the
PCC faculty to choose the
СТА
as
bargaining agent. For this reason,
Rude said, he felt obligated to volun¬
teer to work on the faculty negotiating
team for one semester.
Rude said he now anticipates the
talks will continue at least until the end
of next semester.
Explaining his decision to resign
early, Rude indicated that if nego¬
tiations were not concluded by the end
of the fall semester, there would be
very little time for the new chief
negotiator to acquaint himself with his
duties before plunging into nego¬
tiations. The holidays gave Dr.
Hutchinson time to prepare for nego¬
tiations which resumed this week.
Campus Study Groups To Convene
Prop . 4 May Cause Cutbacks
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GIMME SHELTER— It's hard to stay dry once the rainy season begins, as
it finally did this week. —Courier photo by Judith Gordon
By Dan Hutson
Editor-in-Chief
The effects of Proposition 4 on next
year’s budget here are unknown but
may result in further cutbacks, accord¬
ing to Superintendent-President Dr.
Richard S. Meyers.
“There are so many uncertainties in
this legislation,” said Dr. Meyers. “I
guess it's a commentary on the present
mood we have in society when people
are voting for things that they don’t
even know the consequences of.
“We don’t know what it’s going to
mean for us; it could mean almost
nothing, or it could mean a significant
cutback.”
Proposition 4 states that state expen¬
ditures be limited to the 1978-79 budget
but doesn’t specify actual or budgeted
monies, according to Dr. Meyers.
“We had $1 million left over in last
year’s budget. Either way it’s restric¬
tive. Prop. 4 uses a base year when we
had 14 percent less money than the
previous year.”
According to Dr. Bonnie James, vice
president of business services, any
possible effects depend upon “the reac¬
tion of the state legislature. They may
use it for re-trenching and call for the
reopener clause. This means if the
state has less revenue than expected,
they can call all bets off— in other
words, change their minds.”
Another problem is the fact that
although the state may take in more
money, anything over a certain amount
must be returned to the taxpayers,
according to Dr. James.
However, this year's budget Will not
be affected unless the state feels this
year’s revenues are less than antici¬
pated.
Each year the vice president of
business services presents to the Board
of Trustees a list of “assumptions” on
which to build the budget.
“In the past,” said Dr. James, “I
could make these assumptions based
on a formula that changes every three
or four years. I could then utilize the
formula to determine income because
we could estimate property taxes com¬
ing in.
“I had tools at my disposal to arrive
at an income estimate. Now I don’t
have those tools.”
Under Prop. 4, Dr. James will have
to make the “best calculated guess,”
using state sources of information such
as the county assessor’s office. “The
certainty of information is not there as
before.”
The “big cruncher,” according to
Dr. James, would come if Howard
Jarvis’ second proposed bill passes.
“The effect would be similar to that of
. Prop. 13. With Prop. 4, any effects are
unknown. With Jarvis 2, there will
definitely be an effect.”
Jarvis’ proposed amendment would
place a level on state personal income
tax. Jarvis 2 is to state revenues as
Prop. 13 was to local revenues.
To anticipate further budget cuts,
Dr. Meyers recommended to the Board
the convening of one or more campus
study groups to look into “developing
alternate staffing patterns and or¬
ganization in the classified, faculty and
administrative personnel areas."
The Board passed the recommenda¬
tion Nov. 15.
The first study group will focus on
the current department structure.
“We have 16 departments now,” said
Dr. Meyers. “We’re hoping for a more
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“This is the most comfortable time
for a change,” explained Rude. “Most
of the economic issues are defined, the
outline of the contract is settled and
the areas of agreement and disagree¬
ment are settled.”
Looking back at the negotiation proc¬
ess during the past semester, Rude
indicated that most of the progress has
been in defining the issues. Those
issues fall into two main categories:
salary and non-salary.
“We haven’t spent enough time on
salaries yet,” Rude said, “but this is
because it is common practice in col¬
lective bargaining to leave the toughest
issues to be discussed last.”
Rude could not go into detail about
the position of either the District or the
СТА.
However, he did explain why ah
impasse was declared early in Decem¬
ber.
Hoping to get a “serious salary,
proposal” from the District, the
СТА
declared an impasse but informed the.
District that it did not intend to file an.
impasse with the Public Employees:
Relations Board responsible for over-
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Courier Editor Named
Brad Lehman has been named
Courier editor-in-chief for the spring
semester. The 19-year-old Lehman,
who served as Courier sports editor
during the summer session and fall
semester, has also worked on the staff
of two local weekly newspapers,
Altadenan Pasadenan and the Chroni¬
cle, since June 1978.
He first became involved in news¬
paper work during his senior year at
Muir High School where he served as
feature editor on the school paper, the
Blazer.
A humanities major at PCC, Lehman
plans to switch to a journalism major
when he transfers to the University of
Missouri next fall.
Assessing his future duties, Lehman
cited the need to provide coverage of
all the important events on campus. “I
don't think everyone is satisfied with
the paper all of the time. We need more
coverage. I don't know whether I can
achieve it. It’s a pretty high goal.”
Lehman plans to name the other
editors who will serve on his editorial
board before finals week.
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Brad Lehman
