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Mankind’s
Cycles
Page 2
The Courier
Returns
Feb. 16
Lancers
Ground
Falcons
Page 4
VOL. 67, NO. 16
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
JANUARY 19, 1989
Alcohol Task Force Brings Lessons to College
By Margie Goodhart
Feature Editor
While Alcohol Awareness Day was a
highly visible event on campus, a new
group has quietly begun work toward
the goal of bringing substance abuse
awareness, education and assistance to
the PCC community.
That group is the Task Force on
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse. The
committee, which includes faculty,
staff and administrators, was originally
formed because of a growing aware¬
ness of alcohol and other substance
abuse problems on college and univer¬
sity campuses nationwide. The group
will assess the magnitude of the
problem within the PCC campus com¬
munity.
‘ ‘The initial tasks will be to gather up
survey devices and other means of
needs assessments, such as interview¬
ing or looking over incidents,” said Dr.
Kent Yamauchi, counseling psycholo¬
gist and chairman of the committee.
Yamauchi is aware that much of the
information the group seeks will not be
found in any documented sources;
members will have to rely on the obser¬
vations and awarenesses of the campus
community. ‘‘The second area,”
Yamauchi said, “is Employee Assis¬
tance Programs. We will look at local
college and universities which have
programs designed to help the
employees who have personal
problems that might interfere with their
work and the quality of services to stu¬
dents.” The third area that is being ex¬
plored is services appropriate to stu¬
dents, such as peer counseling,
education and information, he said.
Attending the first meeting on Dec.
13 were staff members Sheri Cameron
from the physical education depart¬
ment, Fran Franco from Student Health
Services, and Lois O’Connor from the
Learning Assistance Center. Faculty
members attending were Connie
Hurston, student activities adviser, Dr.
Jean Volckmann, associate professor of
social sciences, and Yamauchi. Dr. Jose
Peralez, dean of personnel services,
represented the administration.
That there is a need on campus for
the services the Task Force is seeking is
evidenced by the responses and atten¬
dance at Alcohol Awareness Day on
Dec. 8. The general reaction of the ad¬
ministration to the PCC-sponsored
event was, ‘‘It’s about time!”
Yamauchi said.
Ernest F. Neumann, associate dean
of counseling and curriculum liason,
felt the event was a good gauge show¬
ing the magnitude of the problem on
campus.
“It showed an awareness and indica¬
tion of a significant problem,”
Neumann said, “and the college’s at¬
tempt to deal with it.”
One of the participants in the event
was the City of Pasadena, Alcohol
Recovery Center, represented by
Alcohol Specialist John Tenney. He felt
the event was a success because of the
diversity of the services provided and
the qualifications of many of the par¬
ticipants.
“It offered students a chance to go
into the quad and avail themselves of
good information,” Tenney said, “they
could get the information from people
who had been there and back. In every
booth I saw qualified people.”
Tenney spoke to approximately 50
students during the four-hour event,
and he spoke to at least 10 of them at
length concerning their alcohol
problem or the problem of a person
close to the student.
“If we can educate a whole genera¬
tion, we might make some progress.
But this is where it begins. It is educa¬
tion. It is awareness,” Tenney said.
Another participant in Alcohol
Awareness Day was Day One —
Pasadena/Altadena, which is a coor¬
dinating body that plans ways to reduce
the problems associated with alcohol
and other drug use. Executive Director
Fran Neumann applauded the event and
the way it was presented.
“I want to lend very loud support for
its success,” she said. “PCC had it, and
they sponsored the fuction right out in
the open. And they called it ‘alcohol’
awareness instead of couching it in
vague terms such as chemical depen¬
dency. They called society’s main drug
by its name. Our community will be
way ahead if we can name the number
one problem.”
Although very supportive of the day,
the executive director felt that more in¬
volvement by the instructors would
have benefited the whole campus com-
muntiy.
“I wish more teachers had asked
their students for focused assign¬
ments,” she said, “so there would have
been more probing questions.” For ex¬
ample, students in health education
classes could have been assigned to
research phsyiological effects of
alcohol intoxication, or Early Child¬
hood Education instructors might have
assigned students to look at the effects
alcoholism has on children.
This is precisely one of the goals of
the new task force: to bring education
and awareness into the classroom and
curriculum.
“When you educate the students, the
educators have to be educated as well,”
Yamauchi said. “As we encourage stu¬
dents to discuss alcohol and other drug
abuse, faculty are going to have to be
responsive, dispelling myths, giving
accurate information.”
The exact numbers of those who
meandered through the quad on
Alcohol Awareness Day are impossible
to count. But the 500 key chains with
the PCC logo and the slogan “Think!
Before You Drink” were gone within a
couple of hours, Yamauchi said. Of the
2000 alcohol awareness test booklets,
almost all were given out.
“I think it was successful just
because we were able to get it off the
ground,” Yamauchi said. “It brought
different departments together and cre¬
ated a clarity of thought in this area.
And it brought the outside community
together with us.”
“It was a wonderful beginning,”
Ms. Neumann said.
Risser Outstanding Support
Awards Go to Hulsebos, Pulley
By Lauren Holland
Staff Writer
For the first time in the eight year
history of the award, two people
walked away with the Risser Award for
Outstanding Support to Education.
Lynn A. Hulsebos, senior clerk in Spe¬
cial Services, and Edith L. Pulley, Ex¬
tended Day assistant, were each
awarded $500 and a commemorative
plaque at the Management Associa¬
tion’s Annual Christmas Tea on Dec.
15.
Edith Pulley
Dr. William E. Goldmann, Dean of
Educational Services, said, “It’s get¬
ting tougher every year to select a win¬
ner.” The selection committee (com¬
prised of former winners of the award)
could not settle on just one winner this
year. Both women have worked at PCC
for more than 20 years and each has
been nominated for the award several
times since its inception in 1981.
Pulley was approached in 1968 by
Albert V. Bean to fill a secretarial posi¬
tion at the newly opened Community
Skills Center. She remained there until
cutbacks in 1978. She then moved to
admissions at PCC. After one summer,
Pulley moved to Extended Day and has
been working there ever since.
Her job involves providing direction
for the 8,000 plus Extended Day stu¬
dents and the 350 instructors who serve
the college after 4:30 p.m. She must
also cope with a myriad of secretarial
tasks associated with the office.
The letters of recommendation ac¬
companying her nomination for the
award describe her as, “an invaluable
source of correct information,” “ the
nucleus for harmony,” and “the ‘old
school’ type of support staff person.”
Pulley says her job keeps her con¬
tinually interested and challenged; ‘ ‘the
work is diversified — not the same thing
day in, day out. The vast majority of
people are super to work with,” she
said. One individual summed up his
feelings about Pulley when he wrote,
‘‘I am continually reminded,
everywhere, that staff people of her
caliber are becoming scarce.”
Perhaps he hasn’t met Hulsebos.
Pasadena bom Hulsebos is as much a
part of the institution as the Mirror
Pools. Hulsebos attended PCC when it
was a high school. PCC moved into
higher education with her and she con¬
tinued her college education within its
walls. She left briefly to pursue a nurs¬
ing career. Returning for more school¬
ing, she answered an advertisement for
a PCC clerical position and is in her
28th year of employment. Hulsebos
says, “I’ve been here my whole life.”
Judging criteria for the Risser Award
include: quality of job performance, at¬
titude and qualities of character, service
beyond the job requirements, and
loyalty to both the college and the
United States. According to the infor¬
mation in Hulsebos’ nomination file,
she personifies those qualities.
One admirer wrote, “Lynn is the
‘glue’ that holds the Disabled Students’
Program together.” Another supporter
wrote, “She never says ‘no’ — instead,
her response is usually, T think so’ or
‘I’ll try’ — which often results in new¬
found campus resources or help that
only Lynn could have procured.”
Her committee activities over the
years have earned Hulsebos a lifetime
membership in the Omega Mu Delta
(OMD) Campus Honorary Society. She
seems never to stop giving back to
society. She gave $300 of the $500
Lynn Hulsebos
check award which accompanied the
Risser award to a co-worker who
desperately needed a typewriter. The
remaining $200, she donated to her
church. Even without this act of
generosity, Hulsebos imbues the
qualities Joe Risser had in mind when
he expanded the concept of his father’s
recognition for education award.
‘‘While there are many fine
employees of the college,” said one
letter, “Mrs. Hulsebos is truly deserv¬
ing of this recognition and is an inspira¬
tion to all.”
‘Shining’ Photo Exhibit Opens
By James Gunther
Staff Writer
PCC’s Art Gallery is currently
displaying an “unique” photo exhibit
entitled Platinum 1988 — 89 on display
from January 4th thru the 31st. The
displayed works represent the talents of
some of the photography community’s
most talented artists.
The exhibit features a wide variety
of themes in the various works. Accor¬
ding to campus photo instructor Roland
Percey who helped put together the ex¬
hibit, the prints on display are excep¬
tional in that they use a platinum
process in coating the paper.
He explained that the majority of
prints today when developed use a
silver coated paper due to its relative
low cost and the ease of use for most
amateur photographers. Whereas
platinum processing is an old world
developing technique that was widely
used by phototgraphers until the early
1900’s when it was replaced by silver.
Since then, the price of platnum has
sky — rocketed to almost $560 an ounce
in comparsion to silver at less than $6
an ounce. This has restricted the use of
the platinum to a relatively small group
of professional artists. The particular
artistic value with the platinum prints is
that thy provide the photographer with
a softer tone range in the prints, and
that they are of gallery quality. They
last much longer than the traditional
silver coated prints, and are much more
durable.
The difficulty in producing such
prints is that the paper used must be
coated by the developer himself
whereas the traditonal pre — coated
silver paper that can be purchased in
any photo supply store.
Percey is associated with a group
known as the playtpus group, which is a
group of photographers who are using
this process, members set out to pro¬
mote this technique among the
photography and artistic communities.
He stressed that the purpose of such an
exhibit is to bring about “Public and
community awareness of photography
as an art.”
Gallery hours are Monday —
Thursday 12 — 4 p.m. and Tuesday and
Wednesday 7 — 9 p.m.
Bill Honig, superintendent of schools, speaks to faculty and students during last month’s La Raza luncheon.
Honig Assesses State of Schools
By Tim Frank
Special Correspondent
Bill Honig, California’s state
superintendent of public instruction,
wants every child to learn to read and
write, and he wants one-quarter of
California’s students to get at least the
equivalent of an A.A. degree.
Currently only one-tenth of Califor¬
nia’s students get the equivalent of an
A.A. degree, and 24 percent drop out of
high school, said Honig.
To substantially improve the school
system, the state will need to improve
child development programs, build
classrooms, maintain the quality of its
staff and continue to implement a host
of reforms begun in 1983, he said last
month at a PCC luncheon sponsored by
La Raza, a faculty and staff club which
helps primarilly Hispanic students to
succeed in college.
Honig says that California needs to
substantially improve the quality and
availability of child development pro¬
grams. Unlike child care programs,
which Honig calls “warehousing,”
child development programs provide
instruction. “It makes everybody’s job
down the road easier,” he said.
It costs a few thousand dollars more
to place a kid in a child development
program than in child care, but the
return is five-to-one on each dollar in¬
vested. “The participants of child
development programs are much less
likely to go to jail, have illegitimate
children, or have other social
pathologies or need assistance. That’s
where the savings is, Honig says.
Only nine percent of the children
from poor families that are qualified for
state funded child development pro¬
grams are enrolled. To enroll the other
91 percent will require an additional
two to three billion dollars.
California also needs to spend
money to build new classrooms. The
voters approved two $800-million
bond issues in June and November by
huge margins. That will allow the
school system to continue its expansion
until June. But Honig said that Califor¬
nia will need to spend another $5 to $6
billion in the next five years to provide
classrooms for all of its new students.
But Honig is optimistic about
California’s prospects. Proposition 98
will guarantee adequate financing for
instruction. More rigorous programs
have boosted SAT scores and doubled
the number for Advanced Placement
tests passed to 48,000 while slightly
reducing the dropout rate. “We’re on
the right path,” he said.
“Give us the funds and we will give
aa first-rate school system” Honig
said.
Students Building their Futures
By David Sands
Staff Writer
PCC building construction students
have completed 70 percent of the fram¬
ing and plumbing on a three-bedroom
home in Pasadena as part of their fall
project.
The project is currently in construc¬
tion on the west end of the Community
Skills Center parking lot, which is lo¬
cated on the comer of Del Mar and El
Molino. The 1988 housing project
began last June at the end of the spring
semester with the budget of $45,000 set
by the Board of Trustees.
Approximately 26 students are
working on the project. The students
are supervised by building instuctor
Rich Wheeler, a licensed contractor.
The home is completely student built.
“I am very proud of my students.
They are all doing a great job,”
Wheeler said. The project has three
bedrooms, two full baths and a laundry
room. The house is scheduled for com¬
pletion, depending on weather condi¬
tions, by June of this year.
At the point of the house’s comple¬
tion, it will be auctioned off for sale by
the college board, though there has not
been an established price for he bid¬
ding.
The home lies on a constructed con¬
crete foundation and is separated into
two whole parts. The home will be
transported in two halves at the time of
relocation.
“Often with these circumstances,
whoever buys the house may hire the
students to dig and build a new founda¬
tion,” said student John Rudek.