PCC Courier, June 05, 1969

OMD Selects 15 for Unselfish Service BENKE FILLHART FUKUMOTO GILES HENTOSZ HODGSON HOFER JACKSON LAING LANTZ LEE MELIESTE REEDY SAULINO JOHNSON Million Dollar Slash To College Budget VOL. 31, NO. 13 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California JUNE 5, 1969 Highest Honorary Organization Holds Traditional Tapping Fete In traditional tapping cere¬ monies Tuesday, 15 new mem¬ bers were taken into OMD, PCC’s order of distinguished service, for the second semester. The college’s highest honorary organization, which selects mem¬ bers for unselfish service to PCC, named 14 students and one fac¬ ulty member, according to Den¬ ise Lutgen, president Following the tapping in morn¬ ing classes, the honorees were guests at a reception in the Cam¬ pus Center. The semi-annual banquet for new member is set for Sunday at 5:30 p.m. in the faculty dining room, Joseph Mathias, adviser, re¬ ports. Spring 1969 tappees are: DONALD BENKE, sophomore telecommunications major, is serving his second term as the staff program director of KPCS. He is the first vice-president of the Speech Arts Council and trea¬ surer of Theta Rho Pi. MARSHA FILLHART has been a member of the Student Curriculum Committee for four semesters, serving as president during the fall semester. She is Spartin vice-president and a mem¬ ber of the Graduation Commit¬ tee. MAYE FUKUMOTO is PCC’s head song girl. She is a member of the Pep Commission, serves as publicity commissioner, and has been named PCC’s woman of the year. MARY GILES, a registered nursing student, is president of the Student Nurses Association of Pasadena. She has represented PCC at nursing conferences and was selected as the outstanding freshman nursing student and re¬ cipient of the Medical Auxiliary Scholarship. BRUCE HENTOSZ, a _ sopho¬ more is a member of Circle К International. He has served as club treasurer and was the fall Circle president. He has also devoted many hours to the Fred Nelles Home for delinquent boys. DIANA HODGSON, a sopho more cosmetology major, is pre¬ sident of Eta Delta, a Spartan, ICC representative, and president of the Life Science Council. In addition, she serves as a hostess within the cosmetology section. KATHY HOFER is a freshman in physical therapy. She is a member of PCC’s Chamber Or¬ chestra, Adelphians and is serving as Spartan treasurer. Kathy was named the outstanding freshman woman student and the recipient of the John W. Harbeson Scholar¬ ship. FAYE JACKSON, a sophomore secretarial major, has given over 300 hours of service to PCC. She is an Adelphian, serving as com¬ munications chairman and a s recording secretary. She is also a member of Spartans. JENNY LAING, a freshman, is the ICC projects and finance chairman. She is a member of Adelphians and devoted over 200 hours of service to the Compu¬ ter Science Department in her first semester. She is a Spartan and reigned as an OMD Carnival princess this year. STEVE LANTZ, a freshman, is ICC president, a member of the Student Personnel Committee, the representative to the Faculty Senate, and a member of Circle- K Internation. He is also a member of the Aspect staff and will be editor next year. Steve was named the outstanding freshman man and recipient of the John W. Harbeson Award. MENNO LEE is president of both Alpha Mu Gamma and the Foreign Language Council this semester. He has been active on the Foreign Language Council in previous semesters and instru¬ mental in planning council events. ADRIENNE MELIESTE, a sophomore, has been an active member of the President’s Advi¬ sory Committee for two semes¬ ters. She was the fall Senate pre¬ sident and is serving on the Sen¬ ate committee to further the sale of ASB cards. Adrienne was a state delegate to the student government convention, is Spar¬ tan’s recording secretary, and was an OMD Carnival princess. PATRICIA REEDY, a sopho more, is active in the Women’s Athletic Association. She served as club president in the fall, was secretary, and is treasurer, and assumed many committee chair¬ manships within WAA. In addi¬ tion, she is a member of the Stu¬ dent Curriculum Committee and an ICC representative. ANNE SAULINO, a sophomore history major, has been a mem¬ ber of Adelphians for four semes¬ ters, rendering nearly 500 hours of service. She has held the offic¬ es of communications esairman and corresponding secretary. She is also corresponding secretary of Spartans, and devoted hours of service to the OMD Carnival. LORNE JOHNSON, an instruc¬ tor in the Engineering and Tech¬ nology Department, was elected an honorary member of OMD. He is the adviser of the Model Home Club, faculty social chair¬ man, and has served on advisory committees. Johnson has devoted countless hours to the success of the OMD Carnivals for the past five years. Editor Named for Fall Term Editor-elect for the fall semes¬ ter’s Courier is Mary Jo Young, serving now as managing editor. Miss Young, a 1968 graduate of Arroyo High, was selected by the other members of the newspaper staff. At Arroyo she was a reporter for the Knights’ Banner, the school newspaper. Miss Young also served as student chairman of the high school press bureau, which provided news stories of school activities to the El Monte Herald and the San Gabriel Val¬ ley Daily Tribune. Mary Jo served as a reporter for the Courier last semester. She is a journalism major. Bernard Comas, this semester’s editor-in-chief, and six other edi¬ tors of the Courier, were honored with special certficates — “Awards of Merit for Editorial Leadership” — at the annual English Depart¬ ment honors tea, Tuesday. Others honored were Tom An¬ dersen, photo editor; Bryan Cut- hill, editor-in-chief last semester; Vaughan Inman, executive editor; Jon Thurber, sports editor; Miss Young managing editor; and Lar¬ ry Johnson, exchange editor. By SUSAN PLATTE Administrators face the grave task of cutting $1 million from PCC’s budget this week. For months now budget planners have tried to estimate next year’s in¬ come and expenditures. It is now apparent to them that with the present sources for in¬ come and no increases in expendi¬ tures PCC will still be $1 million short for next year. What are the reasons? Dr. Armen Sarafian named five specflic causes. First, state ap¬ portionment to the school through Bill 272, Unruh Bill, will not be $600,000 in 1969 as it was in 1968. Instead this bill will give $42,000 less to PCC. A maintenance contract made with the Pasadena Unified School District failed last year causing the income to be $154,000 less for 1969. The school district found it could not fulfill its part of the contract for complete mainten¬ ance of PCC for the amount of money apportioned to it. Tight Budget More spending of budget money within departments has created a tight budget with no room for ex¬ pansion. Previously, departments spent less of the budget, thus cre¬ ating an excess for use in the future. Now budget costs have been cut to just operational costs with no reserves. Student weekly attendance hours will be four per cent less in 1969, cutting state allotments for students. The final cause for decrease in income is a change in tuition con¬ tracts with other school districts. Los Angeles Junior College Dis¬ trict will not renew a five-year contract for its students to at¬ tend PCC. This will mean no new permits will be issued next year. Monrovia, Alhambra, and Du¬ arte also are withdrawing their students from the Pasadena dis¬ trict. Together this loss will mean $350,000 to PCC’s income, not to mention the cut in students Who will be able to attend PCC in com¬ ing years. Budget Increases Budget increases from depart¬ ments were filed this past week. They have been estimated to be $500,000. Dr. Sarafian has therefore re¬ quested that $1 million be cut from total school expenditure. One stipulation has been made — that the quality of education in no way be sacrificed by cuts. Very controversial proposals have been made. Some adminis¬ trators feel that summer school, an added cost to PCC, should be discontinued. This, however, would harm those who need extra units to graduate to a four-year college. It is not seriously considered as a desired cut. .More practical solutions are be¬ ing considered this week by ad¬ ministrators. An example of this is the possibility that the coffee shop be closed nights to eliminate clean up costs. Maintenance Expense Maintenance, one of the larg¬ est expenses, will probably be cut. Supplies, such as paper and of¬ fice equipment are likely candi¬ dates for department cuts. Hand¬ out sheets would become scarce in class and sometimes students would be required to pay for ex¬ tra ones. Fewer student assistants will be hired, and those who keep a position will probably receive less hours of work. Disadvantaged students will not be affected because legislative ac¬ tion will give them added support. As of now, Personnel has stop¬ ped hiring new teachers. How¬ ever, teacher salary raises will probably be given in the near fu¬ ture to keep up with the cost of living. C Building Set for Rebuilding By LAURAN LEES Stanley L. Riordan, dean of ed¬ ucational business services, re¬ cently disclosed proposed plans for the PCC 10-year revamping program. Dr. Archie L. McPherran, chief of the Bureau of Administration and Finances for the California Junor Colleges, must review the college program at PCC and other junior colleges to decide which of the construction programs are valid. PCC is number 89 on the priority list of the 150 JC’s throughout California. This summer, reconstruction of both the library and administra¬ tion buildings will begin if the program is passed. The first floor of C Building will be provided with additional offices and conference rooms. In the east wing of C Building, groups of offices for the English Depart¬ ment will be built. The second floor will be the ob¬ ject of extensive remodeling for the rooms housing social science classes. A large lecture room will be added, and the existing facili¬ ty for the anthropology classes will be improved. The third floor will be planned to house the psychological lab fa¬ cilities and offices. The Little Theater in the base¬ ment of C Building will be im¬ proved with new seats and more adequate lighting. Also, utilizing the space of the basement area will be several small rooms for data processing facilities. Acoustic ceilings for C Building hallways will be a welcome sight, covering unsightly pipes which are now visible throughout the building.