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VOL. 50, NO. 3 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JULY 25, 1980
Students' Ideas Vary
Registration
— Courier photo by Larry Goren
SIGNING UP — David Baxter, 19-year-old PCC student who will
be attending San Jose State University this fall, registers for the
draft at the Pasadena Post Office on Monday. "I've been finding
ways to get out of it but I finally decided to just do it," said Baxter.
Air Conditioning
Unit Freezes Up
Registration for the draft
started quietly this week at area
post offices. After last minute
confusion over the constitutionali¬
ty of draft registration, 19- and 20-
year-olds were still confronted
Monday with the decision to reg¬
ister or to face possible punitive
action.
PCC student opinions varied on
both registration and the possi¬
bility of women being required to
register.
By VVvnona Majied-Muhammad
Opinion Editor
l)r. Jo Ann Lee. associate pro¬
fessor of business, will represent
PCC in its first teacher exchange
program with sister college Shih
Chien in Taiwan during the coming
academic year.
The sister college agreement
with Shih Chien. a women’s home
economics college in Taipei, was
one of two arranged through the
Community College Cooperative
for International Development
last December.
"This exchange will show- the
first proof of the value of ex-
By Elloree Lynn
Staff Writer
Humanities 1 and 102 will be
combined next fall and team-
taught as an inner disciplinary
study with a focus on values.
Three different subjects, liter¬
ature, life science and philosophy,
will be packaged together and
taught by three teachers as a
partially experimental course
working within a normal format.
"This is a course in which we
bring people from three different
disciplines together and carry on a
dialogue representing each per¬
son's expertise in his particular
Starting draft registration is
like “planning the war," said
Duane Morris, 18, who said he’s
not planning to register. “If our
foreign policy was stronger, there
would be no need for the draft."
Some students, on the other
hand, felt registering is a duty.
John Garcia, 19, said, “If we are
willing to live in a free nation, we
should have to, fight to keep it that
way."
“I don’t understand why we
change," said Dr. Richard S.
Meyers. PCC superintendent-pres¬
ident.
Taking Dr. Lee’s place at PCC
will be “Candy" Chan from Shih
Chien.
Though her teaching responsi¬
bilities are not yet fully de¬
termined, Dr. Lee suspects she
will teach typing and shorthand.
She believes the opportunity to
teach in Taiwan will give her a
chance to learn more about her
own background. “The fact that
I'm Oriental may cause them to
look at me as a curiosity,” she
said.
However, she believes her an-
area,” said Robert C. Levis, assis¬
tant professor, Department of So¬
cial Sciences. “As a philosophy
teacher. I am concerned with val¬
ues. By bringing in viewpoints
from literature and life science, a
more balanced perspective is
more quickly available than I as a
philosophy teacher alone can
give."
The other two teachers as¬
sociated with this course will be
Dr. Phyllis Mael, assistant pro¬
fessor, Department of English,
and Richard J. Peirce, assistant
professor, Department of Life Sci¬
ences.
Starts
need a draft," said 19-year-old
David Baxter, who registered
Monday. “But I talked to my
family and we decided it would be
best to get it (registration) over
with.”
The U.S. Supreme Court will
consider this fall whether the reg¬
istration discriminates against
men.
“Women should be required to
register as well as men," said
Darryl Cruikshank, 20, who said he
planned to register on Monday.
“They shouldn't fight, but they
should have some participation or
some role just as important as
men in the war.”
However, Rosemary Cameron,
27, said, “Women are not physi¬
cally strong enough to fight. They
could act in the role of support like
they have done in the past. But I'm
not saying they should be tied to
the home. Some women are more
capable than men, but others are
not."
Steve Quartz, 19, said he would
not register and was protesting at
the Pasadena Main Post Office
Monday because “registration
would lead to an unnecessary
draft. There has never been a draft
in the history of this country
without war following it.”
Failure to comply with the reg¬
istration law could mean a max¬
imum penalty of' $10,000 fine and
five years in prison.
cestry will be an advantage. She
thinks the Taiwanese will be in¬
terested in how a Chinese-Ameri-
can sees their country.
Dr. Lee expects the students
will be quite different. “Oriental
culture has high regard for teach¬
ers. Teachers get more respect,"
she said.
Anxious to practice Mandarin,
she is now taking Mandarin
classes at the Poly Languages
Institute in Pasadena and already
speaks two Cantonese dialects.
Her background in Oriental lan¬
guages has been stimulated by her
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In this combined class, students
may enroll in Humanities 102 to
fulfill the AA degree requirements
or Humanities 1 to fulfill transfer
requirements for four-year
schools.
Until the 10th week of the fall
semester, students may switch
from one course to the other. "In
this manner. ” said Levis, “this
class will meet a wide breadth of
students' backgrounds and allow
them to benefit from discussion in
the combined class."
Levis views the class as espe¬
cially challenging. ‘ ‘I'll go in along
By Karen Pickens
Copy Editor
A 1,000-ton electrical unit, which
supplies chilled water to the C, L,
D, E, U,
К
and T buildings for air
Dr. Jo Ann Lee
with two colleagues and present
my views to the students, but I will
also be receiving feedback from
my peers.”
The team teachers will attend
all of the lecture, rather than
splitting into three parts with one
teacher assuming responsibility
for just one section.
"Many schools use the team
teaching approach," said Levis.
“However, there is often a lot of
resistance to team teaching from
the administration. It can be a
useful component in education, but
may not be for everyone."
conditioning, broke down June 6.
Two 500-ton units are still in opera¬
tion.
Parts are on order but have not
arrived yet. When they do, the unit
should be repaired in a few days.
“We have been able to provide
the buildings that have been af¬
fected by this breakdown with
about one-half as much of what it
would normally take to keep it
comfortable," said Burton C. Mof-
fit, chief engineer of the boiler
house, about the remaining air
conditioning.
“The extent of the damage is
quite large,” said Moffit. “The
parts are difficult to obtain." They
are not available on the West
Coast and have to be shipped from
York, Pennsylvania, according to
Moffit.
The cause of the breakdown is
not certain, but Moffit thinks that
a part, called a “prerotation
vane,” broke off, and two more
were loose. This allowed liquid
freon to mix with oil that was
lubricating parts df the machine.
The freon cleaned the oil off the
parts, and the machine stopped
working.
The broken part was not visible
at the last inspection, and the next
inspection is not due until Septem¬
ber 1981.
“Any piece of machinery is
liable to break down no matter
how many safety precautions you
have,” Moffit said. “What we
want to do is to pevent this from
happening again.” One way to
accomplish this would be to send
oil samples for testing, to detect
freon and aluminum chips from
broken parts, according to Moffit.
Retraction
A story on PCC’s budget, July
11, 1980, erroneously stated that
last year’s budget was $430,-
367,778. The amount was actually
$30.367,778.
RESIST THE DRAFT— Protesters of the draft registration
marched in front of the Pasadena Main Post Office last week.
Leading the line are Julie Jesseph and Jack Kovic followed by Tom
Hodson and Pablo Huffsteter. The demonstrations, organized by
PCCs Union for Peace and Jobs, are planned for the remainder of
the registration period. — Courier photo by Larry Goren
Will Participate in Exchange
Dr. Lee To Teach in Taiwan
Experimental Approach Focuses on Values
Humanities Classes Will Be Combined