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Vol. 9, No. 12
Pasadena City Coliege, Pasadena, California
January 14, 1959
Candidates Vie for 7 Elective
Offices
SOMETIMES
YOU HAVE TO
HOLD ON . . .
It’s Your Decision
Students Select
Campus Officers
for Coming Term
With tomorrow’s Associated
Student Body assembly, featuring
Teddy Buckner and his Dixieland
All-Stars, Pasadena City College’s
student body elections will get
underway to decide the officers
for the coming semester.
A total of 24 candidates have
registered for the election, which
will name the ASB president and
vice-president, the Sophomore
Class president, Associated Wom¬
en and Associated Men Students
president and three of the six rep¬
resentative at large posts.
Candidates will be presented
to the students attending the as¬
sembly, after which balloting
will begin. Polls will be locat¬
ed on the Prairie, by the Sierra
Bonita entrance, in the C Build¬
ing main hall, by the Music
Building, on the Library steps
and by the Women’s Gym.
Polls will be open from 12:30
to 3:30 on Thursday and 8:30 to
3:30 on Friday. All voters must
present their ASB book and stu¬
dent identification card to be al¬
lowed to vote.
Elections Commissioner Audrey
Hession and the members of her
commission have voiced a hope
that students will feel a greater
responsibility to stop at the polls
and to cast their votes than they
have in the past.
Four posts will not be filled
during this election. They are
Freshman Class president and
the three remaining representa¬
tive at large posts. When school
reconvenes in September an
election will be held to fill these
jobs.
In order to aid students in their
choice of officers, sample ballots
will be displayed on campus and
the Courier also has one printed
in this issue.
Following the close of the polls
on Friday, final counting of the
ballots will begin. This counting
will be supervised by members of
the elections commission. Results
of the election will be announced
following the tabulation.
TOOTING HIS OWN HORN ... is jazz trumpeter Teddy
Buckner, who will appear at tomorrow’s elections assembly. A
disciple of the old school of jazz, Buckner has such accomplish¬
ments to his credit as playing with the Louis Armstrong aggre¬
gation and a more recent appearance at the Cannes Jazz Festival
in France. There, he performed along side such great artists as
Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald.
(AN EDITORIAL)
All of the posters and cards urging us to vote for one
candidate or another have made their semesterly appearance
on campus and with them has come the plea made by the
members of the Elections Commission that every active mem¬
ber of the Pasadena City College Associated Student Body will
go to the polls tomorrow or Friday to vote for the candidates
of his choice.
All of us are hearing pretty much the same theme re¬
peated over and over in hopes of getting us out to the polls
during the election. College is the place where we are trained
to go out into the working world, and the place where we will
be sure to vote for the candidates of our choice.
We sometimes wonder just why people take the time and
trouble to vote. As we see it, there are five reasons: expedi¬
ency, a sense of duty, a desire to “keep up with the Joneses,”
a wish to set an example for others, and a real feeling of re¬
sponsibility for the choice of qualified candidates for the
positions in question.
Expediency is perhaps the least commendable of reasons
for voting. The person just happens to be near a polling place
and decides to stop in and vote. If he had to go out of his way
to get to the polls, he would probably just forget about it.
Simply feeling it a duty to vote isn’t enough either.
Voting just for its own sake begets a feeling of “who cares?”
when it comes down to a real discussion of campaign issues.
Then there are those who vote simply because the man
next door did and they don’t want to fall behind their neigh¬
bor. They’d probably buy a new car in just about the same
spirit: simply because the guy next door did.
“It sets a good example for the kids,” is another common
attitude. The old pal, the family man is always willing to set
an example for his kids, and if voting happens to be one of
these examples, good.
However, thank goodness, there are a few souls in the
country who really care about who is in charge, and care
enough to take the time to register and to get down to the
polls on election day to vote for the candidates of their choice.
What- we are leading up to is this : There is an election on
campus tomorrow and Friday and we hope, by means of this
editorial, to get a few people out to the polls. There is an out¬
standing field of candidates running for offices, so we feel that
is the duty of every eligible student to back up these office-
seekers by voting.
There is certainly no better place, in our opinion, to learn
the rudiments of intelligent voting than in college, where the
finishing touches of one’s education are applied. Therefore,
we hope that all of you will pay attention to the platforms and
that you will vote, we repeat VOTE, either tomorrow or
Friday.
•Like to Sing?
PCC A Cappella Choir has open¬
ings for singers, especially men.
Plans include a semester full of
the usual activities including a
spring tour of Northern Cali¬
fornia. Class will meet daily at
8 a.m. Two units of credit
given.
HANDING IN THEIR PETITIONS ... to Elections Commis¬
sioner Audrey Hession in preparation for the coming campaign,
are ASB presidential candidates Pete Caputo and Stu Brown.
They, along with 22 other hopefuls, will go before PCC voters
tomorrow and Friday when members of the student body will
cast their ballots in the election of spring semester officers.
Intelligence Expert
Relates Adventures
at Evening Forum
When Dan Moore ascends the po¬
dium at the January 20 Tuesday
Evening Forum to lecture on “Spy
Warfare Today,” he will bring
with him a most illustrious back¬
ground of cloak and dagger mili¬
tary counter-intelligence activi¬
ties, gained through years of spy-
manhunts in the Middle East.
Moore attended Sheffield Scien¬
tific School of Yale, Stock Ex¬
change Institute, New York Uni¬
versity in Finance, George Wash¬
ington University in Law and
was a graduate of the Fort Ben-
ning Parachute School.
During World War II he served
as executive assistant to the chief
of X-2 counter-intelligence opera¬
tions. He Was then assigned to
the Middle East, where from his
office in Cairo, Egypt, he headed
counter-intelligence operations.
•Oh You Ham!
Tryouts for “Winterset,” a po¬
etic drama by Maxwell Ander¬
son will be held during the
week of January 19-23 from 3
to 5 p.m. daily in the Little The¬
ater, 30C. Any regularly enroll¬
ed student at PCC is eligible to
try out for a role in this play
and is encouraged to do so. A
large cast will be needed for
the production, with a wide va¬
riety in types of parts.
JOIN THE
MARCH OF DIMES
March of Dimes Drive
Combats More Maladies
For 20 years the American press has told the story of
the fight against the dread crippler — polio. As a result of this
well-told story the Salk vaccine has led the way to controlling
this disease. However, there are thousands of Americans who
hit by infantile paralysis _
were
before the miracle of the vaccine.
Therefore, the task of the rehabil¬
itation of our stricken fellow
Americans lies yet before us.
This year’s drive, which lasts
from January 2 through January
31, is currently underway and the
National Foundation is hoping for
a record contribution total.
The March of Dimes campaign
cannot possibly be a success with¬
out the generous, unselfish sup¬
port of the American people. With
our help, and only with our help,
will those who are crippled be
able to find the hope and the
strength that they so desperately
need.
However, the March of Dimes
campaign does not end with the
polio fight. This year the Nation¬
al Foundation has adopted the
slogan “Toward Greater Victo¬
ries” to symbolize their attack on
two of the greatest cripplers of
all — arthritis and birth defects.
At least 11,000,000 Americans
suffer the pain of arthritis and
rheumatism, and an estimated
250,000 infants are born each year
with some «sort of defect.
The support of the American
people is needed now more than
ever before to enable the vital re¬
search and training programs to
continue. So give generously and
help the 1959 March of Dimes pro¬
gram aim “Toward Greater Vic¬
tories.”
