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PCC Courier, January 12, 1979
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Football Coach Widmark
Resigns; Oregon Bound
Head football coach Erik Widmark
resigned last week and no new coach
was selected. Widmark will go to the
University of Oregon as offensive
coordinator. He became PCC head
coach last year when A1 Luginbill
resigned and became defensive
secondary coach at the Unversity of
Wyoming.
Next year will be Widmark’s 10th as
Interview, Page Four
a coach. He began his coaching career
with Cal Western University of San
Diego where he also attended college.
After three years there as quarterback
and receiver coach, Widmark coached
a year as offensive coordinator at San
Diego University.
He then worked as offensive coor¬
dinator at Cal Poly Pomona for three
years where he coached Jim Zorn, who
is quarterback for the NFL’s Seattle
Seahawks. Zorn was among eight all-
Americans that Widmark has coached,
the last being Sheldon Paris,
Pasadena’s quarterback last year.
Widmark, 31 years old, took over as
offensive coordinator for a PCC team
that was 3-6 the year before. The team
was 19-4 during his two year stay. This
season, his first as a head coach, the
Lancers started slowly, losing 6-3 to
L.A. Southwest, a team that had lost 17
straight.
Undaunted, Widmark went on to win
the Metropolitan Conference title for
an unprecedented second consecutive
year. Then, in a replay of last year’s
Potato Bowl game, PCC defeated
College of the Sequoias by three points,
this time 31-28.
The fifth head football coach in just
as many years will lead the 1979
Lancer squad .
Widmark, who succeeded A1
Luginbill (1977), Bill Sandstrom (1976)
and Myron Tarkanian (1975), has
accepted an assistant coaching
position at the University of Oregon.
His new position will be similar to
the one he had in his first year with the
Lancers in 1977, coordinating the
passing game and working with the
quarterbacks and receivers for the
Ducks.
The new head coach will be hired
most likely from outside the school,
within the next month, according to
athletic director Sandstrom.
“I really regret leaving,” said
Widmark. “This program has been one
of the most rewarding experiences in
my life.”
“I'd like to thank PCC, the com¬
munity, friends and parents. This
year’s staff is directly responsible for
the success that we have had. I will
truly miss coaching here, but life goes
on.”
“This year was the first time in
history that a team has won the Metro
title two years, and I’m proud of that.
They say it’s best to leave a program
while it’s on top, I feel the tradition will
carry on,” said Widmark.
Sandstrom considers the annual
turnover of coaches in an optimistic
way. “It shows the strength of our
overall football program, (because
they have been successful
throughout), and it shows that four
year schools are interested in our
coaches.”
Next year’s squad figures to con¬
tinue the tradition. “We look great on
paper,” said Sandstrom, “We have 50
players returning. But only time will
tell.”
—Courier photo by S.K
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JANUARY
12, 1979
SABBATICAL PROPOSAL— Dick Meyers, superintendent-president,
presents the administration sabbatical proposal to the FSB Monday.
The proposal calls for a one year moratorium on all sabbaticals.
—Courier photo by Marcus Wilk
Leaves Doubtful
Faculty to Discuss Results
of Sabbatical Questionnaires
An adminstrative proposal, calling
for a one year moratorium on sab¬
batical leaves, was recommended to
the Faculty Senate Board (FSB)
Monday by superintendent-president
Dick Meyers.
“I could not go the the Board (of
Trustees) and recommend sab¬
baticals, because I do not believe the
Board will accept any cost on sab¬
baticals,” Dr. Meyers declared.
Dr. Meyers met with Stanley
Gunstream, vice president of in¬
struction, and John Madden, dean of
personnel services, to research the
issue. After investigating the financial
aspects of the program, they con¬
cluded that the salary savings could
not equal or outweigh the cost factors
involved, including replacement of
employees on leave.
“It’s a decision,” Dr. Meyers said,
“that was not made without a lot of
grief on my part.”
A special meeting of the FSB was
called for next Monday to discuss the
results of a special faculty question¬
naire on the sabbatical leave issue,
distributed Wednesday by Dr. Gordon
Brown, chairman of the professional
growth program committee.
It is the second poll distributed by
Brown. The first was handed out the
week before winter vacation. The
results of that poll were presented by
Brown at Monday’s regularly
scheduled FSB meeting along with the
administrative proposal.
The Board of Trustees is scheduled
to take up the sabbatical leave issue on
its January 18 agenda. With the un-
ASB Elections
Elections for ASB officers
are next Wednesday and
Thursday. Students can
listen to the candidates'
views Tuesday in the
free speech area.
'Team Effort' Resolves Problem
for Hearing Impaired Students
By Steve McManus
Staff Writer
The severe shortage of qualified
interpreters which had been plaguing
PCC’s hearing impaired students for
several weeks appears to have been
resolved.
The Board of Trustees, in its
December 20 meeting, passed a
resolution which creates a new
classification of interpreter. The new
position carries with it both a higher
pay scale and higher qualifications.
The formulation of the solution was
termed a “team effort” by Superin¬
tendent-President Dr. Meyers. In
presenting the proposal to the board
Dr. Meyers said, “Their main concern
was that we were not breaking SB 2212
(state legislation which prohibits the
use of college funds for any kind of pay
raise) in that the new classification
might be interpreted as a raise,
because if you raise salaries you can
lose all your state funding. We’ve
derstanding that a further post¬
ponement of the issue was not feasible,
Dr. Meyers wanted to share the ad¬
ministrative viewpoint with the
faculty. He hopes to work together
toward a consensus policy to advance
to the Board of Trustees.
The initial questionnaire was sent to
approximately 425 faculty members;
123 responded in whole or in part. In
reporting the results last Monday,
Brown cited four responses that were
significant.
Firstly, 89 percent of those
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POLL RESULTS— Gordon Brown, chairman of the professional
growth and program committee, expresses to the FSB Monday the
results of a poll he distributed before winter vacation on sabbaticals.
—Courier photo by Marcus Wilk
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Summer School Hangs in There
Money from State Will Decide Future of Extra Session
By Arthur Wood
Circulation Manager
The future of a summer session at
PCC hinges, once again, on money
which may or may not be forthcoming
from the state. Whether it comes or
not, Dr. Charles Miller, vice president
for business services, said Monday the
regular summer school pattern will be
modified to a “no-frills” approach.
Miller, whose job is putting together
the financial reports used by trustees
and administration to make budget
decisions, said he believes the best
approach to planning for a summer
session is an “elastic budget plan”
where the existence of a single sum¬
mer session is assumed. The
availability of money would, he said,
determine the final budget, and the
future of summer school.
“A decision will have to be made
soon,” Miller continued, because
students need to know what plans to
make in their class scheduling.
Students planning to transfer after
summer may also find themselves
short of units, should a summer
session be cancelled.
The biggest money concern in
summer sessions is teachers’ salaries.
Teachers work at a summer rate of
approximately 50 percent of their
regular salaries. Teachers’ salaries
for last summer’s session totaled
approximately $325,000.
Those teachers on 12-month con¬
tracts must also be notified by March
15 of any changes in their contracts,
and cancellation of summer sessions
would mean a reduction in their em¬
ployment from 12 to 10 months.
At the December 18 Faculty Senate
Board meeting. Dr. Edward Ortell,
associate professor of business
education, pointed out that no summer
session would mean no teachers, no
students and a considerable savings in
support services costs.
He also pointed out the possibility of
the state adopting a program similar
to this year’s, where school reserves
above a certain percentage are lost to
the state, with the result that savings
are lost.
With Proposition 13 litigation going
on, results of budget projections and
funding alternatives remain unclear.
checked it out with the county and
we’re legal.”
The previous pay rates, the highest
of which was $5.53 an hour, could not
be raised because of the current wage-
freeze law. As a result, four in¬
terpreters had quit so far this year and
some deaf students had been missing
classes. The new classification has a
$6.56 an hour salary. It also requires
the applicant to be certified by the
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf,
or at least be eligible for such cer¬
tification since the examination is
given only once every two years.
Dr. Vernon Halcromb, dean of oc¬
cupational education, and Dr. Lucille
Miller, director of the hearing im¬
paired program, have both endorsed
the action.
Some handicapped students had
been looking into possible legal action
in early December. In conjunction
with CLIP (Center for Living In¬
dependently in Pasadena)
representatives Bruce Curtis and
Nancy Blaustein, the students were
considering either a formal complaint
or a lawsuit to prevent an abridgment
of educational rights for the han¬
dicapped. According to CLIP
headquarters in Pasadena all such
efforts have “been put on the back
burner.”
A positive outgrowth of the new
position may be the return of David
Bateman to the interpreter staff.
Bateman’s resignation in early
December earmarked the struggle for
an interpreter-coordinator position.
Even if he does return to the staff, the
formation of such a post seems
unlikely this year. This is in light of
Proposition 13 cutbacks in staff size. “I
think he’s doing a good job,” Dr.
Meyers said of Bateman, “but with the
budget the way iT is, there’s no way to
guarantee a thing.”
Dean of Personnel Services John
Madden was also instrumental in the
formulation of the proposal. “We’re
not going to start anybody (at the new
classification) until the spring
semester,” he said. “If we had a need
we could probably hire a few people
before the end of the semester.”
Madden also pointed out that
Proposition 13 has created em¬
ployment problems which are not
exclusive to the handicapped services
area, but which reach into all branches
of an educational institution.
If educational funding is cut again
this year, and there is every indication
from Governor Brown that it will be,
then the wage dilemma of PCC’s in¬
terpreters could signal the beginning
of employment problems in many
areas of college personnel.
Trustees Mash
Logan's Gripes
PCC nas a $1.3 million reserve,
Miller said, more than enough to fund
a summer session, “if that’s what you
want to use it for.”
But, he also pointed out, last year the
school had more than $3 million in
reserves. The $2 million difference,
which Miller called a spending deficit,
resulted from $2 million being used to
help finance the 1977-78 school year.
State funds might make up the deficit,
he added, but the state may choose to
limit the amount of reserves a school
may keep, as they did last year.
“If there is another block grant,” he
said, “there probably won’t be strings
attached.” The “strings" are spending
requirements the state would tack on
to the money, such as a requirement
that a specified amount of money be
used for summer sessions. If no sum¬
mer session were required, the Board
of Trustees could cancel summer
school without fear of losing state
money.
No decision has been made yet, and
the Board of Trustees may take up
discussion of summer session at its
January 18 meeting.
By Kathy Braidhill
News Editor
ihe Board of Trustees have
dismissed the complaints regarding
charges of discrimination, being
“tried” by the Courier, and failure to
comply with faculty handbook and
education code procedures filed by
William Logan, speech instructor.
Logan’s grievances centered around
events leading up to and following his
unsatisfactory teacher evaluation last
spring. He feels the evaluation was
unfair, and has exercised his academic
due process rights as set forth in the
faculty handbook for grievances.
The complaints as Logan presented
them to the board are as follows:
— Racial discrimination of an
employee in evaluation procedures
and general treatment in a crisis
situation.
— Fabrication of teaching com¬
petency with unchallenged letters and
several solicited memorandums typed
by the former department chairman,
William Shanks, who has since
resigned and reassigned to the English
Department.
— Failure to stop derogatory in¬
formation being placed in the campus
newspaper, and in effect, trying a
faculty personnel in newsprint before
the facts are presented.
— Failure to allow any derogatory
information placed in my personnel
file to be challenged or responded to in
writing.
— Failure to observe the written
procedures on faculty evaluations and
“reading into the rules” what is not
written or spelled out.
— Failure to provide equal treat¬
ment of a faculty personnel by
withholding a specific account of the
altercation with the Black girl from
the Board of Trustees and from my
personnel file, and failing to observe a
direct order and agreement from the
Board to drop the matter which has
surfaced on three separate occasions—
the first being a formal reprimand, the
second being an unsatisfactory
evaluation, and the third being the
usage of the unsatisfactory evaluation
to deny me the assigned night classes.
— Violation of the faculty handbook
“self evaluations” by using the
evaluation and my freedom of speech
to again write me a formal reprimand
for supposedly maligning my
colleagues while ignoring my
colleagues’ public attempt to malign
me in the campus newspaper.
— Failure to observe the California
State Education Code on freedom of
speech in public and private affairs not
directly related to classroom teaching.
— Violation of the faculty handbook
on faculty evaluations and procedures
on unsatisfactory evaluations, and also
the California State Education Code on
due process by indicating an assump¬
tion of guilt in denying me the two
night classes assigned to me last
semester based on an unsigned,
contested evaluation whose validity
had not been validated by the faculty
grievance committee on the final
authority here at Pasadena City
College, the Board of Trustees.
Logan presented his grievances at
the November 2 Board of Trustees
meeting. He has exhausted every due
process procedure for faculty
grievances.
“I have no comments, period,”
Logan said.
The Board of Trustees found no
evidence to support the complaints of
Logan and further found the education
code and district faculty handbook
statutes and procedures were com¬
plied with in all instances.