PCC Courier, July 30, 1976

C/ass Scripts Series on Dilemmas of Deaf By Paul Bremner Staff Writer Telcom 120 is just a normal telecommunications class, except that half the students are deaf. “Now, we are producing a series of seven films dealing with the problems deaf people have in dealing with society. We hope to get these aired on Channel 28,” says instructor Joe Keane. The class format permits all students to submit scripts for possible production. Each film is 15-30 minutes long. All the sequences are filmed by students in the class, says Keane, including deaf students who do both filming and acting. The class recently filmed a sequence in which a deaf person spots a burglar prowling around a house and sends a message by teletype to the police asking for Public Hearing Set for College Budget PCC trustees will hold a public hearing on the proposed 1976-77 budget Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum. The hearing is the final step before the adoption of the $30,482,747 publication budget. The budget shows a $606,501 increase over a tentative budget approved earlier this summer. The increase reflects a six per cent salary increase for classified and certificated employees and increases in state aid and in district property valuation. Built on a continuation of the current tax rate, the proposed budget shows an increase of $2,138,956 over last year’s budget. Trustees have indicated that increased revenues should allow the current tax rate to remain at the current 81 cents per $100 assessed valuation. Previous concern about the degree of state support for community colleges proved un¬ necessary. The legislature ap¬ proved a three-year funding program which will allot the district $600,000 more than was expected. The new budget allows $372,550 for building improvements in¬ cluding $40,000 to be used for remodeling in the men’s gym. VOL. 42, NO. 3 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JULY 30, 1976 assistance. The police arrive and arrest the suspect who is also deaf. "The whole sequence, including the call and arrest, is designed to show people how deaf persons would react to different situations. Normally, a deaf person tries to identify himself when challenged by a policeman. Too offen, when he reaches in a back pocket for I D. he is thought to be going for a gun,” said Keane. Lack of verbal communication creates other problems. “To be deaf is expensive,” said Mary Francis Brightwood, a deaf student in Telcom 120. She said the cheapest teletype used to com¬ municate with the police costs $300, a hearing aid $400 and hiring a good interpreter is $7.50 an hour. Moreover, the deaf must spend time driving around doing things like making reservations at restaurants because these can’t be made over the telephone. Keane hopes that the films his class is making will help to negate some of the public indifference towards deaf people and make contacts between deaf people and society easier. —Courier photo bv Dawn Adams SIGN LANGUAGE— PCC teacher Mary Frances (Muffy) Brightman and Media Specialist for Hearing Impaired Program George Dorough, Both deaf, discuss the proper signs for the television play, “Unnamed Title,” being produced by the Telcom 120 class as student interpreters Barbara Piliero and David Bateman listen. —Courier photo by Steve Hunt GATHERS NO MOSS— From right, Bruce Carter, Richard Ohrbom, Ted Bolden and Paul Bremner struggle to push boulder onto metal sheet serving as a sled. The boulder will be used in a mineral display. Geologists Rock Out Carter Nabs Boulder To Electrify South Pacific Island Students Welding 'Sun fire' By Brad Haugaard News Editor Welding students, Manuel Gomez, Daniel Kone and Doug Solwick are helping to construct a solar generator which will, if it works, be transported to Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Project “Sunfire” or “Energy for Remote Islands from the Sun” was started by Howard Broyles in the spring of 1974, who then in¬ terested Crescenta Valley High School teacher Jim Akers and his physics class. The class was given permission to construct the generator at JPL in cooperation with the Space Exploration (Explorer Scout) Post which is based there. The generator will be 32” high, 27” across and 28” long. It will have a trough-shaped parabolic mirror that will focus the sup on a boiler pipe that will run the length of the trough at the focal point. The steam created in the boiler will be used to turn a double set of turbines which will then turn an KPCS Radio Will Air Annual All-Star Game Edwin Lewis, KPCS sports director, will share the an¬ nouncer’s mike with Glenn Parsons of the Pasadena Star- News when KPCS (89.3 FM) broadcasts the 11th Annual San Gabriel Valley High School All- Star Football Game from Citrus College at 8 p.m. tonight. “I'm looking forward to football season,” said Lewis, who will broadcast PCC games and selected Blair, Muir and Pasadena high school contests over KPCS in the fall. “I enjoy the games, the atmosphere . . . it’s exhilarating.” alternator to produce five kilowatts of electricity. Art Monroe, PCC welding in¬ structor and adviser for the proj¬ ect, recommended the three PCC students to do the welding. They are involved in making the mirror racks which will hold the different segments of the parabolic reflector. .Because there are a large number of racks to be made, they intend to speed construction by making a jig, a device that maintains the correct positional relationship between the parts being worked upon and the welding tool. The students are not only volunteering their time but are also paying an insurance fee to work on the project. Kone said about the project that he “loves it" and “can't see how those kids can figure it out at their age.” According to Monroe, several small islands have expressed an interest in the generator, but this one is headed for Pitcairn Island. By Paul Bremner Staff Writer A giant pet rock was captured in Big Tujunga Canyon for eventual display in the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. The boulder, a Porhpyritic Quartz Monzonite, believed to weigh 1800 pounds, was caught by Bruce Carter and Richard Ohrbom, PCC geology instructors, Theodre Downs, chief curator of earth sciences at the museum, and truck driver Ted Bolden. Hired as a consultant by the museum, Carter had explored a three-mile stretch of the stream bed and had located the rock before the capture. He has been advising the museum staff on mineral placement and information for its display now under construction. The boulder had to be dragged 60 feet. Halfway through the operation the jeep’s winch broke. However, the captors attached a chain to the truck and the unwieldy boulder was successfully dragged out of the stream bed. The whole operation took three hours and included several bruised fingers. The rock is one of two collected by the museum with Carter’s help. The other is a Hornblende Gneiss found in Cucamonga Canyon. Both will be part of an exhibit at the Natural History Museum which will feature minerals from all over the world. The exhibit will explain minerals to visitors while the rocks will be displayed to show how different minerals form to make a rock. “The reason this rock was chosen is that it has huge phenocrysts of hornblende and feldspar,” said Carter. Phenocrysts are large chunks of minerals in a rock. The exhibit will tell how these rocks were formed and how and where they were deposited. According to Downs, the museum is still collecting rocks and minerals and the exhibit may not be open for another year. DiMassas Embark on 40 State U.S. Tour The contest, a charity game sponsored by the Glendora Rotary Club, should be exciting, Lewis feels, if past encounters are a reliable guide. There have been few lopsided games, and last year’s fray, a 32- 31 battle, was ‘‘one of the best all- star-type games I’ve seen,” Lewis said, “and there are as many good players this year.” Most of the players come from the eastern part of the valley. ‘ Day student parking permits for the fall will be issued on a “mail- in” request basis only. The requests must be post marked after August 22 and no later than August 27. Daytime students may mail a request in the form of a self- addressed stamped envelop to Security Parking Office, Pasadena City College, 1570 Colorado Blvd., - Pasadena, California 91106. Students are requested not to send money with their requests. Anxiously awaiting the end of this summer session, Joseph F. Di Massa, associate professor of cooperative education, and his wife, Maria D. Di Massa, assistant professor of English, prepare to embark on their Requests will be processed as they are received. An application will be mailed to the first 2200 students requesting parking permits. This will entitle them to purchase a permit for $20. An additional 500 students will receive notification that they are on a waiting list. Permits for night students, physically handicapped, students with motorcycles and Tuesday- Thursday only students are available over the counter at the Security Office. journey to 40 states during this bicentennial year. “We have researched ex¬ tensively and plan to visit the different places around the country which relate with American literature,” said Mrs. Di Massa. She also will gather material for a book she plans to write on early American women writers. “There is plenty of material tucked away in undusted shelves in libraries around the country.” Di Massa, who also' teaches philosophy, will visit historical religious sites and different religious groups such as the Quaker and Amish communities. He, too, will gather material for his book on community college student’s study habits and visit sites which relate with his work in cooperative education. As a treat for their four-year-old daughter, a friend who owns a farm in the Midwest will pretend to be Old McDonald while the family spends a few days there. Student Parking Permits Issued on a Mail-In Basis