PCC Courier, June 04, 1976

Officers Elected in Heavy Voter Turnout By Jim Proctor Staff Writer In one of the best turnouts by voters in recent years. Michael Schultz was elected to the office of Associated Student Body president. He defeated his opponent Michael Lockwood after a week of campaigning. Jerome Spears, who had campaigned earlier in the week, was disqualified by the Elec¬ tions Commission because he was ineligible. Anna Huizar, president of MECHA, the Chicano students' organization, will take over the ASB vice¬ presidency. She ran unopposed. , Rosemarie Dockstader came out ahead of her opponent Gary Looka- baugh in the race for Senate president. No one ran for Associated Women Students president. Ronald Grant was alone in his bid for Athletics president and will assume office next fall. Ralph Hibbler, Jr., gained the office of Sophomore Class president by ac¬ clamation. The polls closed at 2 p.m. Thursday after two days of voting. Voter turnout was increased over last semester despite initial confusion in setting up the polling tables. Some of the candidates complained that the polls were placed out of the way of many of the students and they were not readily noticed. According to presidential candidate Lockwood, the elections were not as well run as they could have been. He attributed problems to a lack of com¬ munication among the Elections Com¬ mission. the commissioner and the candidates. Lockwood said increased voter turn¬ out was due to more aggressive campaigning by candidates. "I want to thank teachers for allowing us to come into their class¬ rooms to campaign." Lockwood said. "The turnout by voters was excellent. It made the effort worthwhile.” Lockwood had run on a platform that called for increased services for handicapped students. He said he would like to see improvements in the areas of note-taking and interpreters for the deaf. Campaign promises by Lockwood included plans to emphasize noontime entertainment which might include films, carnivals and fairs. Schultz said during campaigning that he would like to work to initiate Co-Op 10 courses in all departments. He indicated an interest in resurrecting the question of a child care center on campus and said student interest would dictate the amount of effort expended on such a project. Both candidates said their first order of business would be to fill ASB posi¬ tions left vacant. The new president has the power to appoint the unwanted Sophomore Class president post as well as a number of appointive offices Wardlow Fills VP Position CANDIDATES VOTE— ASB President Mike Lockwood, left and Mike Schultz, far right receive their ballots from Elections Commissioner Darrel Speights. Mildred M. Wardlow has already moved into the office on the second floor of C Building as Vice President for Administrative Services. Mrs. Wardlow was recently named to the newly created post by the Board of Trustees. The Vice President for Administra¬ tive Services position was created to replace the former post of deputy superintendent, vacated when Dr. E. Howard Floyd became president. “My first duty will be to assist the superintendent-president,” said Mrs. MILDRED WARDLOW . . new vice president Wardlow. "I am to help in the day-to- day operations and take those things off his shoulders." Mrs. Wardlow explained that since Dr. Floyd became president he still did much of the work which she will now also be responsible for. “Public relations with the com¬ munity is of prime importance in my new job of keeping the Pasadena area appraised of what is going on here,” said Mrs. Wardlow. Her other duties include personnel, community services and institutional research. Mrs. Wardlow will be the only woman to serve as one of the four ad¬ ministrative vice persidents. “Throughout the years, the college has given opportunities to women for leadership roles. The opportunity has been here and it will continue. I hope women take advantage of it,” she said. Until a person is named to fill Mrs. Wardlow’s former position, she will continue to handle the responsibilities of both jobs. Mrs. WardloW came to this campus in 1962 as a counselor from John Muir High School. She was named Dean of Personnel Services in 1968. Mrs. Wardlow said her job as dean of personnel services took "a lot of time and energy,” but that this job will not be any more time consuming. “Being Dean of Personnel Services was almost training for this job,” she added. Hammond To Serenade Students Before Finals Thursday at 9:15 a.m. is PCC’s last chance to hear and enjoy the piano colloquim of Frank Hammond, retiring Communications Department chairman and professor of English. Hammond has invited teachers to bring their classes and students who need to relax the day before finals begin. The program will be held in the student lounge upstairs in the Campus Center. The colloquim is Part II (the finale) of "Songs Your Mother Never Taught You.” “This program, like Part I, will be slightly informative, quite casual and just barely academic,” Hammond says. He insists that the program will exhaust his repertoire in addition to being his final word on the subject. He calls it a last attempt to uplift the culturally deprived on this campus. “So, react accordingly,” Hammond says. Hammond played the piano professionally during the "Big Band” era of the 1940s. He still likes to play and sing the tunes which eased the pain of World War II and now provide a soothing prelude to finals week. COIRiE3 VOL. 41 . NO. 16 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JUNE 4, 1976 Rainier, Whitehead Take Top Honors in Literary Contest Literary contest winners in three categories were honored Tuesday at the English Department’s annual awards tea held in Harbeson Hall. First place winners receiving $25 cash awards were Joyce Radloff Rainier and Roark Whitehead in the poetry category and Bill Weinstein in both the essay and short story categories. Mike Appleby and Jim Glaeser received $10 second place awards in poetry. Others were Meredith Babeaux Brucker in essay and Roark Whitehead in the short story categories. Awards of Merit went to Clark Carlton, Irmgard Chow, Kenneth Funsten, Lee Mothershead and James Muhlstein for poetry; Lee Mother¬ shead for essay; and Amita Boing, СТА Petitions Board To Be Recognized as Teacher Rep The California Teachers Association has petitioned the PCC Board of Trustees Tor recognition as the ex¬ clusive representative for all full time teaching employees, department chairmen, librarians and counselors. The СТА submitted a letter requesting recognition by the Board at its May 27 meeting. Accompanying the letter was proof of support by 193 of the 321 eligible employees in the form of authorization cards, petitions, membership lists and the dues deduction register. The move was in accordance with a change in the laws governing repre¬ sentation of public school employees passed last year in the state legislature. The Rhodda collective bargaining bill (SB 160) allows teacher organizations to seek school board recognition as exclusive bargaining agents for all teachers and certificated employees. . If over 50 per cent of the qualified personnel support one organization, the group can then be recognized by the school board as the exclusive bar¬ gaining agent. The law allows for a challenge to the appointment through a secret ballot election forced by a petition signed by 30 percent ol the qualified personnel. The challenging organization has 15 days from the board's acceptance of the CTA's petition to file a request for a representation election. At deadline, no organization had requested a repre¬ sentation election. The СТА is a statewide organization with over 500 local chapters. The group claims to represent 175,000 of the 200,000 teachers and personnel covered by the Rhodda bill. Note-Taking Services — Proposal Made to ASB TEMPLE CITY OBJECTS— Temple City School District trustee Allen Ossian, right, explains stand on PCC Board-approved redistricting plan at public hearing last week in the Forum. Listening, from —Courier Photo by Jill Boekenoogon left, are county Committee on School District Or¬ ganization members Dale Harrecht, Morwick Ross, R. Wayne Stark, John Clay and Richard F. Wales, committee secretary. Voting in November County Committee Gives Redistricting Approval The approved Board of Trustees plan of redistricting was given the go- ahead Wednesday to be placed on the November ballot by the County Committee on School District Organi¬ zation. The committee held a hearing required by law last week to hear public opinion on the plan. At that time. Temple City residents and school board members voiced their opposi¬ tion to the adopted plan. Residents of La Canada, San Marino. Arcadia and other district cities were there to support the plan. The main objection the Temple City residents had to the plan was the boundary between the trustee areas of four and six which cut through the Temple City Unified School District. One Temple City resident, Shirley Norman, said that the city could not be represented if the district was divided into two trustee areas. Mrs. Norman also said that the “sphere of influence" of the school district would be separated from the rest ot the system. The Temple City residents felt that the district line should be moved north to Duarte Road instead of along Longden Avenue where it is now placed. But it was pointed out that the move would bring the population figure of area four up another 8000 people to 60.547. The trustees were aiming for a mean population figure of just over 50.000 per area. W. H. Ungles. from San Marino, spoke in favor of the plan, saying that he had "never seen Temple City present a plan." He also said that there is "no close relationship between city- officials and school officials." Dr. Richard Wales, county com¬ mittee secretary, said "They (the committee) realized what the problem was." The committee felt "the trustees had done a very good job" (in relining the areas). By Blake Sell Staff Writer The ASB Board heard a proposal last week about the possibility of establish¬ ing a note taking service for PCC classes. The proposal was made by Jeff Eliel on behalf of the deaf students on campus. Eliel. through his interpreter, pointed out that other college cam¬ puses have note taking services and that they have been successful. He said a pool of trained note takers Students Win Speech Awards Six speakers delivered their safety speeches for the Phil Robinson Memorial Speech Contest last week in Harbeson Hall. First place was won by Paul Munous. He discussed the dangers of nuclear power and advocated a yes vote on Proposition 15. Carolyn Fink took second place with “Heat Alarms.” According to Ms. Fink. "Eighty per cent of the fires start while people sleep.” Third place went to Mary Amato who talked on the dangers of hitch hiking. "Beware of the Good Samaritan. He may be a potential rapist. That last free ride may be the most expensive of them all, ” said Ms. Amato. The last three contestants tied for fourth place. Gina Iovin spoke on ambulance protection. John Fisher on Ihe dangers of nuclear power and Bill Poulos discussed the advantages of propane. The contest began as a safety precaution course by the Robinson family whose son. Phil, was a student on campus in the early forties. While playing football, he was hit too hard and knocked fatally unconscious. The four judges were Dr. Irvin G. Lewis. PCC vice president and former speech teacher; Lee Reinhartsen. journalism instructor: Mike Schultz. ASB vice president: and Helen Swift from the speech squad. would be hired and would wait until a request is made by a student to have notes taken in a specific class. The note taker would then be assigned to go to the class and provide the student with the notes after payment of a fee for the services. This service, as suggested, would not only be for deaf or hard of hearing stu¬ dents, but available to all, Eliel said. The number of note takers needed to provide this service was not known. It is expected that this proposal will need a great deal of'study. The board suggested that attendance could be a problem if students knew that they could have notes taken for them when they were not in class. Board members said they expect teachers to express a great deal of concern over the proposal. President Paul Yao said the board will look into the suggestion and make its recommendations in the future after more study. In related business, the board heard a suggestion on behalf of hard of hearing students to have additional amplified pay phones installed at locations on campus. Currently there are only two such phones. One is in the student lounge, the other is in the U Building and is only available to nursing students. According to Eliel, federal funds are available for the additional installa¬ tions. Board president Paul Yao said the suggestions for new phones would be made to the director of building ser¬ vices. Clark Carlton, Mandala Karakas, Katy Koetters and Mark Watt for short stories. The winning manuscripts appear in the third edition of “Inscape, ” PCC’s literary magazine which is now available in the bookstore and at the English Department office in C217. The English Department added a new dimension to the contest this year with the inclusion of high school contestants within the community college district. First place $20 cash prizes went to Perry Bush of John Muir High School for poetry, David Ramsey of Temple City High School for essay and Dale Sumida of Muir High School for short story. The second place high school win¬ ners receiving $10 were D'Arcy Mee of John Muir High School for poetry, Sue Saunders of Temple City High School for essay and Tim Stafford of Blair High School for short story. Keith Ullrich and Kathryn Heather of Temple City High School and Richard Esbenshade of Blair High School won $5 each for their entries in the respective categories of poetry, essay and short story. On-campus judges selected the winners for the first time this semester. “Our judges are just as qualified as any outside judges,” said Woodrow Ohlsen, English Department chairman. The English Council, consisting of both students and faculty and outside associations provided the cash awards. VETS' PROGRAM CHANGES A new procedure for drops, with¬ drawals and changes in programs for PCC's veterans entails notifying records personnel in CIOS of any changes recently made, or any about to he made. Vets are encouraged to do this immediately after the change is initiated so that the veterans office may notify the V.A\ Failure to do so will result in an overpayment and create confusion for future pay¬ ments. Information may be obtained in CIOS. “PRISM” NOW AVAILABLE— Student Robert Trevino relaxes while reading his copy of PCC’s photographic magazine which can be purchased for $1 in the -College Bookstore. "Prism" tells this school year’s PCC story.