PCC Courier, January 17, 1975

If it were not for four candidates running for two offices, the ASB election yesterday and today would be unnecessary. The election was narrowed to only two contested offices when Thomas Pepitone withdrew from the race for Senate president. Up until Thursday, Pepitone opposed Ralph Champion for the position. Candidates for eight offices, ASB president, ASB vice president, Student Senate second vice president, Associated Men Students (AMS) presi¬ dent, AWS president. Senate president, Sophomore Class president and Athletics president, are uncontested and thus are virtually assured of receiving the positions. The offices of Freshman Class presi¬ JOHN LEHMAN . . . Senate VP candidate dent and Senate first vice president are sought by two candidates each. The final ballot will read as follows: ASB president, Nick Martinez; ASB vice president, Larry Jennings; Sophomore Class president, Gary Kvisler; Freshman Class president, Julie Byers, Joanne Nakayama; Associated Men Students president, Tony Smith; Associated Women Students president, Galinda Velasco; Athletics president, Alan Mozee; Senate president, Ralph Champion, Thomas Pepitone (Pepitone’s name appears on the ballot in spite of his withdrawal); Senate First Vice president, John (Skip) Lehman, Kenneth Bernard; Senate second vice president, Dennis Sugasawara. The following are the platform statements of the candidates running for the contested offices. Julie Byers for Freshman Class President Apathy. An overworked word these days, but unfortunately for PCC students, it’s true. Compare the number of students who could have voted in last ' semester’s Freshman election, 1200 plus, and the number of students who either knew about and-or took the time to vote, 149. That just about proves that there is an apathy problem on campus. What is the key to solving this problem? Communication. Something there is a lack of between the student body and ASB government. As Freshman Class president, I would work on bridging this “gap” between student govern¬ ment, as I believe that if students were better informed, they would be in¬ terested in what ASB government could do for them. That is why I am running for this office: to promote involvement and to get involved. Joanne Nakayama, also a candidate for Freshman Class president, had not filed a statement prior to the Courier deadline. Kenneth Bernard for Senate First Vice President I would like to introduce myself to you. My name is Kenneth Bernard, and my major is Business Ad- minstration and this is my second year at PCC. I am running for the office, of Senate first vice president because I feel I can do a capable enough job. Although new to these ASB procedures, I consider myself to be a fast learner and having the capacity to cope with this official position. All I seek is a chance. A chance to prove that I am a dedicated individual who could prove to be an asset to the ASB. I guess my platform would be an opportunity to prove my worth while holding office. Skip Lehman for Senate First Vice President The Senate has been responsible in the past only because the people running it are responsible. To continue with its success the people must continue to be dedicated and at least somewhat level-headed in its handling. Most of how I feel toward myself is subjective but 1 feel I am dedicated enough and honest enough to care about the events, such as the Forum, continued. 1 would push for shuttle busses to carry students from the entire area. I would like to see a better form of representing the entire student body. When I was senator at Blair High only five or ten of us tried to keep the school out of debt. I want to work for this school, and by being the Senate first vice president I believe I can do my part. 13 Vie for 10 ASB Positions Seven Candidates Running Unopposed KENNETH BERNARD . . . Senate VP candidate JOANNE NAKAYAMA . . . Frosh prexy candidate JULIE BYERS . . . Frosh prexy candidate NICK MARTINEZ . . . ASB prexy unopposed LARRY JENNINGS . . . ASB VP running unopposed PCC CotViie/i PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 17, 1975 Income Tax Training Seminars Slated Here A training session in income tax assistance and a business-taxation conference will be held throughout the day tommorrow at PCC. A session in volunteer income tax assistance, to be held in R122, will provide training in aiding low-income families. It is to be held from 8 a.m. to noon and continue from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Two subsequent sessions are to be held on Feb. 1 and 8. The course includes 32 hours of in¬ struction in the preparation of basic income taxes (form 1040 and 1040A), and requires 40 hours of field ex¬ perience in preparing returns for low income families over a 10 week period, ending April 15. Instruction will be conducted by Gordon Wulke, and Internal Revenue agents. Field work will also be done under the guidance of experienced IRS agents. The courses are non-graded and have no registration fees. All material used will be furnished free. A business-taxation conference is also being held tommorrow in the PCC Forum (in the Paramedical Building) from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Six speakers are scheduled to lecture at the conference. The fee for attending the conference is $20, including lunch and parking. More information may be obtained by contacting Dr. Harry Sarkisian, at 795- 9716 or 795-9717. The training sessions and conference are part of PCC’s tax studies programs, which includes seven classes next semester. PCC Job Placement Office Handicapped Use Library By Lynn Baker Staff Writer Another name has been added to the list of those doing things to further the handicapped program at PCC. The name is that of James E. Crayton, PCC librarian. Crayton, whose special assignment is to make the library as accessible as possible to the handicapped, also works with the foreign students and the disadvantaged. One of the first improvements made for the handicapped student is a buzzer system which enables the student to enter the library from the back, thus avoiding the front steps. Once inside, Crayton and his assistants provide the extra attention needed by those students who have difficulty with sight, hearing, coor¬ dination or any other kind of problem. Runners are provided so that books housed in the basement or other hard to get to places can be obtained by the students. Readers find books and other materials for the blind and help them select the proper section needed for their projects. Most blind students take the material home and have it read to them in its entirety. Large print books and magnifying equipment make it possible for the partially sighted to obtain most of the needed material on their own. The library staff finds cassette tapes offer another useful aid to many students. Fran Baldwin, head of the handi¬ capped students program on campus, found in a recent survey, conducted by the department to identify campus barriers, that the library has done “an excellent job” in making things easier for the handicapped. “Everything that could be done has been done,” said Miss Baldwin. “Personal attention is important and the librarians have bent over backward to provide this.” The book-drop located in the front of the library, making it possible for the handicapped person to easily return books, has run into difficulty. Misused by some students returning overdue books, it has caused the library staff extra work. It is hoped that when people become aware of the problem and the trouble it causes, it will no longer exist. Future plans may someday include the remodeling of the library with special needs in mind. However, today is what counts and PCC is fortunate to have a special project like Crayton’s, where every effort is taken to make the library an important part of the learning experience for everyone. ALIEN STUDENTS All aliens in the United States must report their addresses during Janu¬ ary of each year. The penalty for not doing so is deportation. For further information contact the Foreign Student office. 0121 . WHEW! — Record-breaking temperatures in the San Gabriel Valley brought on class sessions on the lawn and general good spirits. The heat hit an all-time high of 90 degrees Tuesday. Even campus Optimistic Despite Recession Euell Gibbons Is Not a Foraging Foliage Freak; Naturalist Scheduled for Tuesday Forum Talk By Sergio Caponi Assistant Managing Editor For months, millions of Americans have talked and joked about him. He had been a nationally known naturalist and lecturer for years, but it was the "back to nature cereal” TV com¬ mercial that earned him instant nationwide popularity. Not even the books he wrote contributed to his prominence as much as the “wild hickory nuts” did. Now Euell Gibbons is coming to PCC to speak on “Living Off Nature’s Bounty, or A Wild Way to Feast.” The lecture is the tenth program of the Tuesday Evening Forum series, and it is scheduled for Jan. 21 at 7:30 in Sexson Auditorium. Despite his popularity as a TV personality and as one of Johnny Carson's favorites, few people actually know who Euell Gibbons really is. The average tube addict wouldn’t be surprised, for example, to know that he ( Gibbons ) once reached through the fence that surrounds the White House and harvested four edible weeds from the President's garden. Or that he found light but satisfying snacks in concrete flower tubes in the mall at Rockefeller Center, and that he once bagged 15 wild foods in a vacant lot in Chicago. He also foraged in Central Park in New York, collected materials for a three-course dinner, which he prepared and ate in a friend’s apart¬ ment on East 82nd Street. Gibbons is not a natural food freak, and he isn't that sort of crazy forager his neighbors in Troxelville, Penn, once considered him. He is practically a self-made world authority on the gathering and the preparation of food, his knowledge coming from his ex¬ periences as a small starving kid in Mexico, learning to survive on a pinto bean diet. He is a man who spent the depression years on the road, bum¬ ming around California in freight trains, developing what he calls a “hobo instinct;” that is, his special way of seeing wild plants as wild coins, and his affection for roadside foraging. “There is nothing I would rather do than eat my way through a roadside ditch,” he once commented. Going through a countless number of deadend jobs, exploring at the same time numerous West Coast locations, Gibbons found himself enlisted in the Navy, which stationed him as a war time boat repairman in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After the war and its honors, which made him a conscientious objector, Gibbons decided to enter the University of Hawaii as a 36-year-old freshman. He majored in anthropology and studied creative writing. Mean¬ while he continued his research on wild food. He then moved to New Jersey, and to Pennsylvania, where he started to write his first book, “Stalking the Wild Asparagus.” Contrary to other prominent authors, Gibbons gathered, cooked and ate everything he wrote about. He rejected some foods that had been generally reported to be edible because he had found them un¬ palatable. After his first publication, others followed. Since then he has worked at the United States Navy’s survival school in Brunswick, Maine, and each summer camp he gives survival courses for boys at the Maine Outward Bound summer camp. John McPhee, of New Yorker magazine, who knows Gibbons per¬ sonally, once wrote about him: “He eats acorns because he likes them. He is neither an ascetic nor an obessed nutritionist. He is not trying to prove that wild food is better than tame food, nor that he can survive without the assistance of a grocer. He is app- parently not trying to prove anything at all except that there is a marvelous variety of good food in the world and that only a modest part of the whole can be found in even the most super of supermarkets.” EUELL GIBBONS . . . Tuesday Forum speaker Librariaa Crayton Helps By Amy Stephens Assistant News Editor In spite of national rising unem¬ ployment figures, cautious optimism prevails at the campus placement office. Jean Herrick, placement officer, said that the holidays were slow in terms of jobs available, but that on the first day back to school January 6, there were 22 new jobs called in. “We have an optimistic outlook,” she said, but hastened to add she was no prophet and could only report what was hap¬ pening in her own office. She recalled that in 1968-69 when the employment figures were bleak, her office was “still in business” and helping students find employment. Then as now, she felt, PCC has an advantage in its central location. “Mt. SAC and Cerritos are hurting,” she said, “because they are not as ac¬ cessible as we are. “We hope more employers will use part-time college students in an effort to keep down the cost of hiring more highly skilled, full time employees.” Dr. Joseph DiMassa, supervising teacher of cooperative education, noted that the number of jobs available is only one-third of last year’s. He said that of last fall’s 2000 co-op students, 60 per cent worked full time. Registration is running well ahead of last year. On Jan. 9, 1974, 793 students had registered. This year by Jan. 8, 910 students had registered. Since they must have the job before they register, 910 students have proved that unemployment is not yet a problem for PCC students. —Courier Photo by Joe Candiotta fashions reflected the heat wave, as witnessed by the young lady at right, who took the opportunity to revive last year’s hot pants . . . and male students’ interest.