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PCC Courier, January 19, 1973
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VOL. 35, NO. 15
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
JANUARY 19, 1973
INDIAN DAY— A member of the United Native American Club on
campus prepares some beadwork for Indian Day held last week. UNA
President Harley Swiftdear said, “The purpose of Indian Day was to let
the college and community see the native American through his art.”
Displays of bead, metal, bone and leather crafts and authentic Indian
food were all part of the day. Indian music and dance were also
featured.
El Teutro Joaquin
Performs in February
One of PCC’s newest clubs, El
Teatro Joaquin, is busy rehearsing two
plays which it hopes to perform on
campus about the third week of
February.
Meeting on Mondays at 3 p.m. in
A108, the club is designed to promote
Chicano and Mexican culture through
the performance of plays with social
significance.
According to Ed Hernandez, director
of Chicano affairs and adviser to the
club, the group is now rehearsing “Los
Vendidos” (The Sellouts) and “The
Militants.”
“These students are people who noi
only perform plays,” says Hernandez,
“but they are also involved in music,
writing and directing.”
The plays will have a message, says
Hernandez; they are not just enter¬
tainment. “As we become more pro¬
fessional we will perform for local
schools and community groups. We
also plan a performance at the “Cinco
de Mayo” program on campus,” he
says.
Both Spanish and English will be
spoken in the plays, explains Her¬
nandez. “But when Spanish is spoken,
an English translation will follow.”
One of the members of El Teatro de
la Tierra, a professional group, is help¬
ing PCC’s club, and has submitted
original plays and poems for the group
to perform.
Hernandez says that the club is
encouraging local high school students
to become involved, since they are the
future PCC students.
But the organization is based on
strict rules, he says. “Members must
meet their obligation and responsibili¬
ties because you can’t practice a play
if no one shows up to play the parts.
“We’d like to see more students of
Chicano and Mexican culture get in¬
volved,” adds Hernandez. “Anyone
interested in joining this club should
see me in A108.”
Election
Aired
By Charles Peterson
News Editor
Cancellation of the ASB election was
motioned and seconded at the ASB
Board meeting last Thursday.
The motion was made by a con¬
cerned board member when candi¬
dates complained of misunderstand¬
ings of when the polls were to be open
for the night classes. Some candidates
thought the polls would be open
Monday through Thursday nights,
while others understood it would be
open only Thursday night.
Several of the candidates at the
Board meeting agreed that it was
decided at the mandatory candidates’
meeting that the polls were open only
Thursday night.
Alan George, elections com¬
missioner, showed up during the
discussion. He seemed unaware of the
misunderstanding, having believed
that the polls would be open Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
nights. No minutes of the mandatory
candidates’ meeting were taken, how¬
ever.
Kathy Raffee, Senate president and
a candidate, had been first to bring up
this misunderstanding. She also said
that there was a possibility of wrong¬
doing at the polls. She refused to make
any accusations, saying that she
trusted the person involved, but that
the possibility of such a thing should
not even be allowed to happen.
She also pointed out that there was
no current way to tell how many people
had voted. Since only a small per¬
centage of the student body will vote,
she said that it would be possible to
stuff the ballots.
On further discussion, the motion
was amended to include just the
questionable three nights of voting.
Several points came up for
discussion. One member said that if
the election were declared invalid, the
candidates would have to continue
campaigning. They have already spent
many hours on the campaign, and a
postponement could mean campaign¬
ing during finals.
Chris Lucas, ASB president, pointed
out that a postponed election would
hinder the next Board, for it would be
late in getting started. Lucas said the
current Board didn’t get started until a
month and a half into this semester be-
Off-Campus Class Gives
Disaster Survival Skills
How to control bleeding, give ar¬
tificial respiration, what to do in an
emergency childbirth, and how to take
care of narcotic problems are but a
few of the skills taught in a new
“Disaster Survival” class offered off-
campus by PCC.
“This medical self-help class is part
of an in-depth course designed to equip
the average layman with the skills
necessary to help him survive in case
of a disaster,” says Mrs. Elise Ro He
Slagle, instructor.
Students will learn some para¬
medical skills, and how to assist others
who may be in need of medical
assistance.
The 30-hour course will cover basic
first aid skills, both standard and
advanced, plus additional skills
needed when no medical help is
available as is likely in the event of a
major disaster,” she said.
“The course,” said Mrs. Slagle, “is
not intended to be a substitute for
Students Demonstrate
Welding Skill in Quad
“The purpose of these welding
demonstrations out in the campus
quad is to make contact with the stu¬
dents; to get closer to them,” said
welding instructor Vincent Uhl, “so
that they can have an idea of what we
do.”
Uhl pointed out that welding is a
versatile skill. It is practical in every¬
day life and extremely interesting as
an art form.
“Everything today is associated
with metal, mostly welded,” he said.
“It can be used in fixing your car, your
motorcycles, curtain hanger in the
home, and many other things.
“We have a lot of artists in the class.
The nice thing about metal is that it’s
so strong you can do more things with
it than with wood, concrete or plaster.
Each person can do his own individual
thing.”
Uhl is the inventor of flame artistry.
Using extreme heat, various gases and
light, he has learned to rearrange
molecules and create an art form that
might be described as visual emotion.
The result is a mind-expanding
glimpse of pristine beauty, filled with
radiating pools of color giving an effect
of many layers of depth. Yet in reality,
the color lies on the surface, the
thickness of a few thousandths of an
inch.
He predicted that this is going to be
the big thing eventually, commercially
as well as in art. “Tall and large metal
sculptures will also be the thing,” he
said, “as it is now displayed in many
public squares and compounds.”
There are credit and noncredit weld¬
ing classes throughout the day. Non¬
credit students are allowed to drop into
class at their convenience, since Uhl
believes in letting his students work at
a pace most comfortable for them.
“There are different grades of
welding,” he explained. “Some stu¬
dents get an AA degree here at PCC
and then transfer to a four-year insti¬
tution to get a degree in welding and
engineering.
“Others get a few units in welding
and then get a job, but at the same
time go to night classes to increase
their skill to get a better job later.
“Job opportunities in this field are
extremely good,” he concluded, as
there is a shortage of welding
engineers in the industry, and this is a
new thing.”
Controversy
ASB Board
cause of the question of who was the
president.
The motion cancelling the election
was brought to a vote and defeated.
Since the meeting was already 25
minutes overtime, and some Board
members had other pressing appoint¬
ments, the meeting was adjourned.
However, it was quickly reopened.
While the members were standing in a
circle waiting to leave, the motion was
made to have the polls open Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday nights this
week. It was passed 8-1.
Earlier in the meeting a cafeteria
report was made, bringing out the
desire for R & R Food Service cafe¬
teria managers, to change their
contract. The contract currently says
that R & R will give five per cent of the
gross profit to the ASB. R & R wanted
it changed to give a certain percentage
of the net profit to them, resulting in
less money being given.
The other alternative was to raise
prices. The reason they gave was the
high increase of wholesale costs of food
since September.
The Board made no decision as to
what it would do, but decided to in¬
vestigate the situation further and take
student opinion into consideration.
Vincent Hughes, Engineering and
Technology Department instructor,
spoke at the meeting about bikeways.
He felt that the need for bikeways in
Pasadena is important. He felt it was
no longer safe to ride them in the city,
and that accidents have been on the
increase.
He wanted to get volunteers to sign
and circulate petitions asking the city
board to build some bikeways in Pasa¬
dena.
Several new clubs were quickly
ratified by the Board, which went over
the head of the Intercollegiate Club
Council because of its lack of work.
A committee to study the student
activity procedures was proposed by
Floyd Beatty, AMS president. Com¬
plaints have been made about all the
red tape students had to go through to
get an activity approved.
Beatty passed out a long list of in¬
structions of what one had to do to get
the activity passed. Mrs. Phyllis
Jackson, dean of women, agreed that
this matter should be investigated. The
Board tabled the matter until the next
Board takes over.
A bulletin board was removed from
the area near the new medical building
because of the construction work. The
question posed before the Board was
where should it now be put. Denny
Meehan, Senate vice president, said
the Board should wait to vote on this
issue. He suggested that the members
look around campus for a new site, and
talk with students about it. The Board
agreed.
PCC Cafeteria Wants
Raise in Food Prices
professional care when such is
available. There is no better care than
that which can be given by trained and
'icensed physicians.”
Experienced in the instruction and
application of first aid, Mrs. Slagle
once delivered a baby on the roof of a
Hoating garage during a flood.
She has been cited by the Depart¬
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare for her work in training people
in disaster survival.
This noncredit class is offered from 7
to 9:30 p.m. each Wednesday at the
Civil Defense Training Center, 2783
New York Dr., Pasadena.
R & R Food Services Systems, Inc.,
the company that operates the cafe¬
teria, vending machines and food
trucks, will ask the ASB Board to
approve a raise in the prices of food
sold on campus.
The raise, which is expected to
amount to about two or three per cent,
is necessary because of rising food
costs, according to Melvin Jackson,
food services manager. Since it began
operations in July, R & R has been
running at an increasing loss. As of the
end of last December, the company
had lost about $8000.
“The prices of many foods have
increased more than anyone could
have foreseen,” said Jackson. “Beef
and pork have risen 10 per cent since
July and the price of a dozen eggs has
gone from 41 cents to 65 cents. We are
not reneging on our contract,” Jackson
continued. “We have been turning over
five per cent of the gross to the ASB
just as we agreed to do. We have paid
about $10,000 to date.”
The money paid to the ASB is used in
three ways. Twenty per cent is used to
pay the operating costs of the cafe¬
teria, clean up, the light bill, main¬
tenance, etc. Another 20 per cent is put
into the ASB general fund.
The fund pays for many student and
club activities, such as dances and
some community service projects such
as the Toys for Tots drive last Christ¬
mas. The remaining 60 per cent is
given to the student services fund and
used for field trips and the like.
According to Chris Lucas, ASB
president, the Board has decided, in
principle, to allow the increase. The
alternative, he says, to give up all or
part of the five per cent returned to the
school, would not be realistic. This is
only tentative approval, and the Board
is not expected to make a final decision
until after the food service submits a
complete request stating exactly what
increases would be needed. This is
expected sometime next week.
At a special meeting at 2 yesterday
afternoon the ASB Board withheld
ratification of the presidential election
winner Jim Brownfield, pending
further investigation.
The meeting was called by Kathy
Raffee, one of the candidates, who
charged that a person who manned the
polls was campaigning for one of the
candidates while on duty. Other
irregularities and illegalities in
election procedures were also
suggested by students in the meeting.
However, election results in other
offices stand. Asmat (Sami) Siddiqui
was elected to ASB vice president and
Betty Lou Curtis will be AWS
Dresident.
The revised ASB Constitution was
passed overwhelmingly by students.
At presstime, the meeting was still
in session.
IAC Gives
Athletics
Awards
PCC’s second annual Intercollegiate
Athletic Council Awards night was
held Wednesday evening, paying trib¬
ute to the women’s athletic teams.
All five members of the IAC Fall
Board plus three members who are
team representatives received beauti¬
ful plaques. Members from the fall
board are George Smith, chairman;
Nancy Larson, secretary; Leslie Cam¬
eron, treasurer; Nadine Bonner, pub¬
licity; Kathy Nicassio, spring ’71 IAC
Board.
Team representatives were Debbie
Jackson, women’s basketball; Nadine
Bonner, coed volleyball; and Gregg
Whitfield, coed tennis.
The AA team of coed volleyball
played tremendously throughout the
season, finishing first in its league. The
team was led by Mike McLean.
Both the A and
В
teams of women’s
basketball played well this season.
The A team finished second in the
league but ended up Southern Cal
champions. They were led by Linda
Russell, captain.
The
В
team was led by captain
Diana Miles and finished in first place
in league play. The
В
team won some
beautiful trophies.
The men’s and women’s tennis
teams fared well this year, both
finishing second in the league. They all
received medals.
The women’s volleyball teams both
played very well, and won first place
league trophies for the A team and
second place league medals for the
В
team. The A team was led by captain
Nancy Larson and ended up Southern
Cal champions. The
В
team, captained
by Pat Hill, was also Southern Cal
champ.
Four Students Sought:
Bunk of America Awurds
Tedious screening will begin at PCC
this spring to determine what students
will compete for the annual Bank of
America Awards.
Along with 95 community colleges
throughout California, PCC must
select only four students to send into
this rigid test of knowledge.
One student will be selected from
each of the business, science-engineer¬
ing, social science-humanities, and
technical-vocational subject fields.
The first step toward winning the
$2000 top cash award is inter-college
selection of candidates.
At PCC, department heads will meet
with Ernest F. Neumann, dean of
counseling services. Together they will
identify outstanding students and
BLOWTORCH ART— Richard Chambers, a student
in Vincent Uhl’s welding class, is demonstrating his
skill out in the campus quad. “The purpose of these
demonstrations is to get closer to the students, so
that they can have an idea of what we do,” said Uhl,
himself an accomplished welding artist.
determine their eligibility for further
competition.
This will be based on scholastic
achievement and extra-curricular
activities, both on campus and in the
community.
Students identified as having met
these rigid qualifications will undergo
intensive verbal testing. According to
Neumann, a student’s proficiency in
verbal communication may be the
deciding factor in winning the final
competition. This spring is the first
time PCC will assist its candidates
with noncredit classes in oral com¬
munication.
Winners from PCC are then eligible
for the next level of competition : Area
Selection Events. They will compete
with about 36 other students from at
least nine neighboring community
colleges.
The students are divided into groups
according to their academic field.
Before a judging panel of business and
civic leaders, they will participate in
group discussions relating to their
interests.
Winners of this event will be
determined on group discussion,
academic achievement and records of
extra-curricular and community
services.
Only two students from each of the
four fields represented will go on to the
Final Selection Event.
No one leaves Area Competition a
loser. Those who didn’t advance into
the finals are each presented with a
$150 cash award.
Area winners will again participate
in topic-related group discussions
before a judging panel. Proficiency in
verbal communication and knowledge
of their academic field will be the
deciding factors for winners here.
Final winners from each field
receive a $2000 cash award. Second
place finalists receive $1000, and third
place finalists receive $500.
Again, no one goes away losing. All
other finalists each receive a $250 cash
award.
Winners in the Final Selection Event
will be announced and awards present¬
ed at a banquet sponsored by the Bank
of America, in their honor.
The current awards program recog¬
nizing outstanding students evolved
from other bank-sponsored programs
such as honoring the Man and Woman
of the Year and recognizing business
leaders.
Bank of America has been honoring
outstanding student achievers since
1953.