BRING IN THE SUMMER— This participant in the
jog-a-thon, which was held last weekend, ob¬
viously knows how to cool off. After a week of
finals, which start today, and graduation next
Friday, 20,000 PCC students can join in the fun.
That is, if summer school isn’t a part of their plans.
Summer school begins Monday, June 20, barring
any unforseen complications brought on by the
Jarvis amendment.
—Courier Photo by Blake Sell
Possible Misuse of PCC
Property Leads to Probe
ByJoanBennet
Assistant Feature Editor
Ralph Gutierrez, PCC’s cooperative
education coordinator is under in¬
vestigation for possible “irregularities
according to president-superintendent
Dr. E. Howard Floyd.
Authorities are probing allegations
of possible misuse of school property
for political activities.
Gutierrez, a candidate for the State
Assembly, 60th district was defeated in
the June 6 election.
Although conflicting reports negate
such charges, some sources connect
Gutierrez with improper use of a
school printing press for producing
campaign posters.
An investigation was ordered by Dr.
Floyd when he learned that possible
improprieties may have occurred. Dr.
Charles Miller, vice president for
business services, was appointed by
Dr. Floyd to coordinate the in¬
vestigation.
Gutierrez had no comment regar¬
ding the investigation.
'We've heard nothing but ac¬
cusations and hearsay. You cannot gb
on what just one person says,” said Dr.
Floyd. “We will keep any information
confidential until we have the com¬
plete report.”
When completed, the report may or
may not be public information
depending on its contents said Dr.
Floyd. "If we find any irregularities, it
will be handled as a personnel mat¬
ter.”
VOL. 45, NO. 17
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
JUNE9, 1978
No Consultation, Faculty Claims
Budget Cuts Raise FSB's Ire
FSB Censures Dean
For Erasure of Tapes
Differences between the ad¬
ministration, Faculty Senate, and
Crystal Watson, Faculty Senate
president, continued to grow at last
Thursday’s Board of Trustees’
meeting.
Discussion of proposed budget cuts
aimed at dealing with passage of
Proposition 13, was punctuated by
Nanette Grill’s charge that the ad¬
ministration was lying to the faculty.
The administration has claimed up
to now that proposed cuts are of a
general nature. Ms. Grill claimed that
specific cuts had been decided on
without consulting the faculty.
“Let’s stop lying,” Grill said during
the meeting. “Precise cuts in
classified employees are being for¬
mulated. The administration has a list
all ready to turn over.
“Let the faculty see it too,” Ms. Grill
continued.
The charge surprised Board
members, who said they had been
given no specific information yet. The
administration, represented by Dr. E.
Howard Floyd and Dr. Charles Miller,
denied the list existed.
Trustee Walter Shatford supported
participation of the faculty in budget
discussions. “Let’s make sure that
information is available to everyone at
the same time,” he said.
Trustee Richard H. Green earlier in
the meeting, “I think there’s a high
enough possibility of Proposition 13
passing that we need to get together
and work this out.”
Faculty Senate representative
Chrystal Watson read a Faculty
Senate Baord statement reaffirming
points made in an earlier version
delivered to the Board at its March 18
meeting.
The earlier statement expressed the
faculty’s objections over plans to cut
salaries back to the 1976 level or to
institute overload classroom
assignments to reduce costs. It also
requested the administration supply
specific information on what cutbacks
were being planned and where.
With this information, the faculty
felt it could make responsible
suggestions regarding alternatives to
administrative budget cuts. The
specific information had not been
supplied, according to the new
statement.
The new statement requested the
faculty “be guaranteed retroactive
pay for overtime work or retroactive
pay to return the faculty to their ap¬
propriate salary schedule as soon as
any money from any source becomes
available.”
Responding to the request for
retroactive pay, Board President
Charles Briscoe told Ms. Watson, “You
know we just can’t do that.”
The charges made by Nanette Grill
and the statement of the Faculty
Implementation Committee originated
in the English Department, according
to Ms. Watson.
“Almost everybody there (at the
Board meeting) was the English
department,” she said, with a
“smattering” of science, business and
engineering department people.
“When you assign fourteen or fifteen
papers a semester because you believe
it’s a good teaching method,” she said,
“you don’t want to cut down on the
quality of education.
“The prospect of teaching another
class,” she continued, “and correcting
another 350 papers a semester is pretty
awful.”
Lack of trust in administration
policy goes back to early March when
English department members already
were expressing misgivings about
overloads.
It was learned then from a reliable
source in the department that teachers
already suspected the ad¬
ministration’s lack of candor.
“When you ask for information
around here you get hemming and
hawing about figures being
‘unavailable,’ the source said. The
administration seems to feel that
withholding figures is the best way to
protect programs they want protec¬
ted,” the source said.
Ms. Grill contended the ad¬
ministration has “30 specific points for
cuts which they are keeping from us.
They plan to use them in the budget
and inform us later.”
“If you look at the March figures,
you’ll see that cuts were made and the
overloads agreed to in order to save as
many jobs as possible,” she said. “A
lot of people forget that. It’s a lot better
to keep your job than to go down in a
blaze of glory.”
Ms. Watson said the specific in¬
formation would be released in time
for the faculty to contribute to budget
planning.
Trustee William Shatford called for
extra sessions if necessary to work out
Tuition will very likely be instituted
at PCC because of the Jarvis Amend¬
ment’s passage, according to Dr.
William G. Craig, Chancellor of
California Community Colleges.
In a letter to community colleges,
Dr. Craig outlined the affects
Proposition 13 will have on the state’s
schools. Between 40 and 60 per cent of
district operating budgets will be lost
due to the mandate issued by the
voters Tuesday.
“The governor has pledged no new
state taxes and the Legislature will
likely follow suit,” he said. “Tuition
appears to be the only answer to
recovering those (lost) funds."
PCC’s Board of Trustees has
scheduled a meeting Monday night at
the proposed budget cuts. “The normal
reaction to the cuts will be, ‘my field
shouldn’t be cut but that one should’.”
Shatford stated the Board has been
reluctant to consider necessary cuts,
adding it was “imperative” to do so.
“Tomorrow is not too soon,” he said.
— Arthur Wood
7:30 in the Board Room to discuss
possible actions.
On Monday, the Faculty Senate will
review the administration’s proposals,
which have been revealed only as
general possibilities.
Although the effort was in vain,
based on Tuesday’s election results,
Jarvis opponents sponsored a march
down Colorado Boulevard last Sunday.
The demonstration seemed to have
little affect on the voters who handed
Jarvis a 63 per cent victory at the polls.
The Board of Trustees is expected to
take action in the next three weeks,
though they are somewhat at the
mercy of lawmakers in Sacramento
who will decide how remaining and
reserve funds will be alloted.
By Glenda Cade
Assistant News Editor
Faculty Senate Board voted to
censure Dr. David A. Ledbetter as
dean of instructional services at
Monday’s meeting.
After changing an amendment to a
draft submitted by an ad hoc com¬
mittee on videotapes, the Senate Board
took its action despite strong ob¬
jections by Joseph Probst, com¬
munications instructor.
Probst had moved to delete the
draft’s recommendation to censure
Dr. Ledbetter for not consulting the
faculty before directing the erasure of
some 70 tapes taken from broadcast
TV for use in the classroom.
An amendment to his motion, which
encompassed several other changes
aimed at softening the draft’s
statement, put the censure back into
the recommendation but allowed for
his other objections concerning the
draft’s rather strong wording.
“As far as I know, this body (FSB)
has never censured anybody before,”
Probst said. “I think he (Dr. Led¬
better) acted hastily, but I just can’t
see censuring.”
Ben Rude, English professor,
disagreed, saying the Senate Board’s
censure of Dr. Ledbetter would be the
“only way of guaranteeing that ad¬
ministrators will come to the faculty in
the future. There is nothing the Senate
can do except scream when we feel we
have been sidestepped. This is a prime
case for that step.”
The censure, which covers any
administrative superiors in-so-far as
they knew of and condoned his actions,
is nothing but an official way of
disapproving someone’s conduct.
However, it will be taken to the
Board of Trustees with a request to
adopt whatever rules are necessary to
prevent “the repetition of the
destruction of College property
without prior consultation with and
consent of the faculty and trustees,” as
the recommendation reads.
NICE TRY— Concerned citizens made their views known on Sunday
with a march down Colorado Boulevard to voice opposition to the
Jarvis amendment. Their efforts, however, were not enough to
convince the voters, who propelled Proposition 13 to a landslide
victory in Tuesday’s California primary. The march was sponsored by
New Pasadena. -Courier Photos by S.K./Blake Sell
Jarvis Passage Makes
Tuition Likely Option
Child Care Motion
Defeated by Board
By Arthur Wood
Staff Writer
Lack of specific cost listings on an
application for state funds for child
care led to defeat of a motion to for¬
ward the application to Sacramento at
a special Board of Trustees meeting
Saturday morning.
In spite of the setback, Valerie
Martin, co-chairperson of the ASB
Child Development Committee, said
she was “pleased with what hap¬
pened.”
“We’ll keep this alive through the
summer,” she said. “One way or
another we’ll be starting up a child
kare center in the fall. We’ll come
before the Board at the end of this
month with more concrete figures,”
Ms. Martin added.
Ms. Martin presented the proposal at
the early morning meeting along with
the results of a telephone survey
compiled by Bruce Conklin, dean of
Institutional Research.
The survey results were not ready
until late Friday night, according to
President E. Howard Floyd. They
were prepared by Conklin when the
Board voted to hold the special session
at its Thursday meeting.
According to a statement delivered
Thursday night by Anita Cosey, Child
Development Committee co¬
chairperson, delays in conducting the
survey resulted from “inaccessibility
of data. The Committee did not receive
all of the information necessary to
complete its ‘needs assessment’
survey until May 25.”
In spite of the difficulty, the Com¬
mittee finished the survey and
presented the results to the Office of
Institutional Research on May 31.
The results indicated among other
things:
—PCC has approximately 1436 student
mothers with children five years old or
less.
—Only about 223 mothers pay for child
care as in a center. About 383 pay a
babysitter part-time, and about 64
have dropped out because they were
unable to combine school and care for
their child as well.
—The number of mothers who pay $100
or more a month for child care is 351,
totalling about $40,860 per month.
—About 1244 mothers would use a child
care facility operated by the college
and approximately 1276 would be
willing to pay.
“We’re not asking the Board to
commit themselves to a child care
center at this time,” Ms. Martin said.
The comprehensive plan presented
by Ms. Martin included such items as
health care plans, salary rates,
number and type of employees, and
expected income based on 75 per cent
utilization of the facility.
“We expect to use 100 per cent of its
capacity within one month because of
the need, though,” she said.
The Board commented the proposal
as “very good,” but said statistics had
been developed too late for thorough
analysis.
“Forwarding the application in no
way commits the Board to any ex¬
penditure whatsoever,” explained
Trustee Walter Shatford.
Shatford had proposed the motion
that the Board authorize forwarding
the application “with that un¬
derstanding.” He wanted to be sure, he
said, that funds derived from the
center would exceed its cost.
Voting-for the motion were Trustees
Richard Green, Walter Shatford, and
Board President Charles Briscoe.
Voting against it were Robert S.
Hannah, Roger Gertmenian, and
Warren Weber.
Gertmenian’s presence at the
meeting was unexpected. Thursday
night he had stated he would not attend
any meeting unless held Friday af¬
ternoon.
Efforts to establish a child care
center at or near PCC have been going
on for 10 years but, this is the first real
application put together with a
proposal, according to Dr. Floyd.
Anita Cosey said in the meeting that
the ASB committee will still send in the
application even if the Board approve
it.
