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PCC Courier, January 19, 1979
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NO. 16
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
JANUARY 19, 1979
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Coleman, Albanese Win
Landslide ASB Victory
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Derek Coleman was elected yesterday as ASB president.
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By Tom Trepiak
Editor
Derek Coleman and Lisa Albanese
won a landslide victory yesterday in an
election that produced one of the
largest voter turnouts ever.
Coleman and Ms. Albanese will
retain their current positions as ASB
president and vice president. This is
the first time an incumbent has won.
The comparatively large turnout,
579, was the direct result of heavy
campaigning by all three presidential
candidates. Coleman and Ms.
Albanese ran together, as did Dana
Richards and Ross Thompson.
Charlotte Hutchins ran as an in¬
dependent candidate.
Coleman won with 266 votes, Ms.
Hutchins received 155, and Richards
114. Ms. Albanese, who clinched the
victory after slightly more than 400
votes were tabulated, won with 349
votes while Thompson, her only op¬
position, received 171. Ms. Albanese
had the largest vote total of all can¬
didates. even those running unop¬
posed.
“I think we won because we got out
there and pushed and even sat in the
rain,” said Ms. Albanese. “We cam¬
paigned person to person.”
Another factor was Coleman's
recognizable face. He was on the cover
of the fall programming booklet ana in
the student handbook. He posted
hundreds of fliers with his name and
picture throughout campus, a cam¬
paigning method he started last year
when he ran for ASB freshman class
president.
Coleman and
developed a flier
silhouetted the two
ticket,
Albanese.” was the reply. Richards
and Thompson had pin-on signs with
their silhouettes as their main cam-
piagning device, along with their large
posters.
“It was a psychological thing,”
Coleman said, explaining his use of the
silhouettes on his fliers. “A lot ot
people had gotten used to seeing those
all around. What we tried to do was
I’d lose by 15-30 votes,” he said. When
campaigning, Ms. Albanese told
potential voters that she desperately
needed their votes. “Last semester I
didn’t say I was desperate, but this
semester I felt we were desperate,”
she said after the polls had closed.
The reason for the pre-election
uneasiness was that their opponents
had strong followings. Ms. Hutchins
COURIER POLL— Heavy canvassing by candidates was the secret to who voters
selected during yesterday’s ASB election. That is, only if the voter did not already
have a friend in mind to vote for.
A poll of 10 percent of the voters showed that more students voted for a friend
or a friend of a friend ( 44 percent ) . Of those who were confronted by candidates or
a confederate, 40 percent voted for that candidate. The final 16 percent voted to
have a voice in campus politics.
Many students said they had no previous knowledge of the election or the
ASB, except they “just happened by,” and were influenced by one of the can¬
didate’s canvassing.
The group that wanted a voice said they had a personal interest in one or
another candidate and their platform. Others said their interest lay in direct
dealings with the ASB (like special interest clubs on campus or the student
senate.)
One student told of his own particular style of voting, “I know two of the
candidates personally. The rest, I just vote for the women.” —Steve Franklin
capitalize on their publicity.”
Both Coleman and Ms. Albanese said
they campaigned harder than usual
because of the well-organized op¬
position. In fact, Coleman thought he
was going to lose after 430 votes had
been counted, even though he was
already 100 ahead. “I estimated that
campaigned hard with her experience
spearheading her platform. There was
talk before and during the election of a
bloc Mormon vote, since both
Richards and Thompson are Mor¬
mons. That bloc vote either didn’t
materialize or wasn't strong enough.
“I think we won because of luck,”
Coleman said. “I’d also like to think
that the voters thought I’d do a good
job."
Coleman agreed that the large
turnout was in his favor. “I figured it
might give me more of a chance,” he
said.
“I think we made a good impression,
we were willing to talk to the voters,”
said Ms. Albanese. “You see, we knew
the answers, too. We could explain
what we do. How can you explain what
a vice president does if you haven’t
done it before?”
Next semester, Coleman is going to
try to overcome the bickerings that
plagued ASB this semester. “I want to
build up student government to where
it’s more workable,” he said.
ASB election results: ASB
president— Derek Coleman-266,
Charlotte Hutchins-155, Dana
Richards-114; ASB vice president —
Lisa Albanese-349, Ross Thompson-
171, sophomore class president— John
Locke-316 (unopposed); freshman
class president- Divinia Corazon M.
Eugenio-221, Don Vecchione-165;
athletics president— Patricia Rouse-
320 (unopposed); senate president—
Carolyn Brennan-305 (unop¬
posed) ; senate first vice president —
Michael Tiberi-320 (unopposed);
senpte second vice president— Terry
Swan-313 (unopposed); AMS
president— David Dean-303 (unop¬
posed).
opposing
Thompson,
asked one
Ms. Albanese
yesterday that
members of the
Richards and
“Who are you voting for?”
silhouette. “Coleman and
Trustees Delay Verdict
Sabbatical Decision Put Off Last Night;
Board Wants to Hear More Budget info
By Steve McManus
Staff Writer
The board of trustees has decided to
postpone the issue of sabbatical leaves
indefinitely.
After more than an hour of
discussion at last night’s meeting
during which various alternatives
were loosely talked over, the board
opted to follow an amended recom¬
mendation by Superintendent-
President Richard Meyers.
The original Meyers proposal for a
one-year moratorium on sabbatical
leave was based on input he had
received that a decision on sabbatical
leave policy had to be made by last
night because of the time necessary for
sabbatical grantees to make proper
plans.
That belief was supplanted by the
applicants’ expressed willingness to
wait on a final decision pending a
further knowledge of the state budget.
Geologist Bruce Carter acted as
spokesman for this year’s sabbatical
applicants. “Let us know who is
eligible for sabbaticals,” Carter said,
“but make it very clear that it is
subject to availability of funds. We can
live with that uncertainty and hope we
get the funds.”
Meyers responded by saying,
“Based on the fact that people who are
closest to it say they can wait in¬
definitely, then I’m willing to change
my recommendation to wait in¬
definitely until we have a better budget
picture.”
The board had asked for faculty
input on the sabbatical issue several
weeks ago. The first step was taken by
Dr. Gordon Brown, chairman of the
professional growth and program
committee.
Brown distributed a poll before the
winter vacation to determine how
important sabbaticals were to the
faculty and if they were content to
share the cost of the program.
Though only 30 percent of the faculty
responded, almost all of them felt that
sabbatical leaves contributed
significantly to keeping the faculty
prepared and that sabbaticals should
be retained. They also strongly sup¬
ported the present “joint” funding
plan in which the college district pays
75 percent of the sabbatical salary,
while the employee pays for all sab¬
batical expenses and takes a 25 per¬
cent salary reduction.
With all the supportive data
correlated, the FSB met on January 8
to discuss the results and formulate a
proper recommendation to present to
the board.
However, the action was delayed by
the administration proposal, presented
to the FSB on very short notice by Dr.
Meyers. The FSB was unsure of which
direction it should go. They wanted to
support their new president as a
gesture of solidarity, yet the issqe at
hand was one which they had strong
personal feelings about.
They elected to wait and re-poll the
faculty, presenting the Meyers’
moratorium proposal alongside the
choice to retain sabbaticals, subject to
availability of funds.
The task of re-polling the faculty on
such short notice fell again to Brown.
The FSB convened a special meeting
a week later to review the results. The
response level was approximately the
same as the first poll. The results
clearly showed a majority of those
voting favored retention (70 percent)
of the program to the moratorium
alternative (30 percent).
The FSB voted unanimously on a
faculty policy to recommend to the
board that sabbatical leaves be
retained by the college.
HAVE BALLOT, WILL VOTE— The voting table in
the quad was a major avenue of travel yesterday
and Wednesday. According to a Courier poll,
people mostly voted for either a friend or someone
who had asked for their vote within an hour. Only
16 percent of those who voted actually voted for
someone that they believed would be the best for
the job.
Student Government Alert to Its
Lack of Semester Achievements
Lack of Participants
May End Sandpipers
By Mark Blocker
Feature Editor
The Sandpipers, campus Music-
Comedy ensemble, face the financial
ax due to a lack of student par¬
ticipation, says Gary Castillo,
director.
“The program was started eight
years ago to give the students a chance
to study and work with contemporary
music than what was previously given
to them,” Castillo said.
“When the program was introduced,
there were students lining up to try¬
out, but this semester there was only
one,” he added.
Castillo says the main reason for the
dwindling participation in the program
is “lack of publicity, and a lack of
awareness of what we’re all about.”
He says another reason is the high
turnover in the program which gives
the students a feeling of instability.
Castillo took over this semester when
the previous director left for a more
lucrative career in show business. This
has been the pattern since the Sand¬
pipers were initiated.
Castillo says he receives about 25-30
invitations per year for the Sandpipers
to perform, “but I only have the
equipment, not the personnel.”
Last year the group was the featured
performers for the Downtown Los
Angeles “Dickens Christmas
Program.” All through its history,
Castillo says, “the group has enjoyed
success in the community.”
Plans this spring are for the group to
perform “Scenes from the Musical
Theater.” It will include scenes from
“My Fair Lady,” “West Side Story,”
and “Hair.”
If Castillo can’t generate the group
above its present 15 student count,
there won’t be any spring for the
Sandpipers.
Kathy Braidhill
News Editor
They’ve bickered and quarreled,
■ argued and snubbed each other until
harsh political rumors flew about each
group.
Fighting among the ASB senate and
board may be nothing new, but con¬
tinuous battling has left student
government awkwardly aware of its
lack of concrete accomplishments this
semester.
A theme of inactivity characterized
the responses of ASB officers.
“I didn’t accomplish much of what I
wanted to. But I learned how to type.”
“Don’t know that we accomplished
anything.”
“What did we do last year . . .
nothing I”
“It was a semester of learning . . .”
“This semester we got off on the
wrong foot.”
“That’s a good one.”
ASB officers queried had difficulty
recalling the past semester’s major
feats.
Fall ’78 was a semester of
"mistakes, unfortunate mishaps, and
apathy among (ASB) board mem¬
bers," according to Derek Coleman,
ASB president. “One of our biggest
problems is that most were new, and
had a lack of experience.”
Coleman mentioned ASB attendance
of the Board of Trustees meetings had
improved, many committees were
formed, voter turnout in homecoming
elections increased, and said he hopes
voter turnout in the next election will
increase also.
“Mario did good work on health fees.
1 did work on it too. Where (people)
needed help the most, that's where I’d
go”
He credited the board’s lack of ex¬
perience, poor publicity, and apathy
among board members as contributing
to the situation.
Projects ASB was working towards
—the student trustee, health fees and
foreign students’ insurance— remain
unresolved.
On homecoming: “It would have
worked out. Homecoming was
probably one of the most organized
things this year, we had a lot of weird
things happening. We lost a lot of
money.”
The discos ASB had planned as
money makers never materialized.
“They fell through. At the last dance
we had very low turnout.
“It takes time to build these things
up’. You need a month, month and a
half to work on something. Between
that you have breaks. It’s hard to keep
consistency, keep people interested.”
The relations between the ASB board
and senate were described as
“strained,” “could have been better,”
and a “power play.” Tyrone Patrick,
senate president, felt responsible.
“It’s what they call a power play,”
said Coleman. “It happens every
semester. You can almost predict it,
wonder what the issue is this time.”
“Failing at student unity” is how
Patrick terms the senate’s semester.
"It was one of my campaign promises.
I’d like to start the whole semester all
over again.”
Patrick was critical of his officers.
“I was very dissatisfied with most of
my officers as student represen¬
tatives. They let me down in the
department of getting student in¬
volvement."
His big success, said Patrick, was
his student questionnaire, “Time to be
Heard.” He distributed about 1,000
copies of a survey aimed at learning
what student gripes are.
The grievance committee, and an
amendment on impeachment
proceedings are other achievements
he lists.
Patrick feels responsible for the
senate-board squabbles, but is not sure
of how they will end up. “Maybe it will
lead to more togetherness and
listening to each other, or it may lead
to stabbing each other in the back. I
feel if I would have been stronger in
my leadership, it wouldn’t have caused
. . . the semester to get off on a bad
foot.”
“It's been one heckuva year. I hope
the next person will take off from
where I left off. If they keep up in¬
terest, the senate can be good. We
failed in a lot of ways, but have also
succeeded in a lot of ways. The reason
is because I didn’t enforce things.”
“I’m going to come out of this
looking like a nerdo,” said Lisa
Albanese, ASB vice-president, of her
inability to recall ASB’s fall per¬
formance. Ms. Albanese could not
recall any ASB board ac¬
complishments.
"Oh, what did we accomplish,” said
Charlotte Hutchins, senate vice-
president. “I don’t know that we ac¬
complished anything. We got the
student trustee thing out in the open.
All we did was fight all semester.”
Ms. Hutchins said the senate
meetings were poorly handled, and
they “needed a little bit of
parlimentary procedure to be kept
Continued on Page Six
FALL SEMESTER 1978-1979 FINAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
8 a.m.
10 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
12:15 p.m.
1 p.m.
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3:15 p.m.
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Monday,
January 32
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2 Daily
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3-6 M 4-7 M
Tuesday,
January 23
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9 TTh 9:10:30 TTh
9:30-11 TTh 10 TTh
10-12 TTh
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2:30-4 TTh
2-5 T 3-6 T
4 TTh 4-7 T
Wednesday,
January 24
8 MWF
8 Daily
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3-G W 4-7 W
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Thursday,
January 25
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Friday,
January 26
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9 Daily
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11 Daily
1-4 F
2-5 F
3-6 F 4-7 F
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Monday,
January 20
7 MWF
12 MWF
Unscheduled
Make-up Exams
Unscheduled
Make-up Exams
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