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VOL. 34, NO. 16
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
Newly-Formed Croup
for Political Action
A group of PCC students has organized a new political association
in order to present the radical non-violent point of view on campus.
The group, calling itself the Student Union for Peace and Justice,
plans to serve as an active information center on the issues of
national, state, and local politics.
The SUPJ has organized chapters on many of the high school
and college campuses in the Southern California area. It is a
student-controlled organization, dedicated to the preservation and
and extension of freedom in this country and the rest of the world.
Meetings are held every Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the ASB Board
Room on the second floor of the Campus Center. Anyone interested
in an alternative to the present political morality is welcome to
attend.
For further information, leave a note with the receptionist
upstairs in the Campus Center.
Gripes Will Be Heard
Senate Committee
MARCH 1, 1972
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Grievances between faculty and
students may soon be aired before
a joint committee of the Faculty
and Student senates.
The proposal for a committee
giving disgruntled students the
chance to settle grievances by an
impartial group of students and
faculty was made by Steve Gold¬
man, Student Senate president.
Goldman revealed that the only
time students have the chance
for a hearing is when they have
been accused of violations in the
conduct code or they have aca¬
demic problems with a teacher.
“Under the existing program,
students have no voice in the out¬
come of disputes and a fair hear¬
ing cannot be the result,” says
Goldman. Many student problems
are not related to disciplinary
action but need the consideration
of an arbitration board.
The formal presentation of this
proposal was made in the Senate
meeting Tuesday. The Faculty
Senate will be asked to consider
it at their next meeting.
Goldman advises that any prob¬
lems which would be properly
dealt with by the board when it
comes into existence may now be
submitted to the Student Senate,
which meets Tuesdays at noon in
C300.
The board would include four
faculty members and four stu¬
dents. Three of the student mem¬
bers will be members from the
Senate. The fourth will be either
the Associated Men or Women
president, depending on the sex of
the party involved.
“The Senate, by this action, is
not trying to drum up controver¬
sy between students and faculty,”
says Goldman. “We are only try¬
ing to fill an existing need.”
PRESCHOOL CHILDREN at play under watchful
supervision of their mothers, part of the Parent
Preschool Observation Group Program, a non¬
credit adult education course offered at PCC.
Minority Enrollment
by College Research
A New Soph President
Chosen by ASB Board
The ASB Board went into
closed session to appoint a new
Sophomore Class president. After
Dana Ehlig announced his resig¬
nation, two people were nominat¬
ed to succeed him.
After a long and serious dis¬
cussion, Robert Jones was chosen
to be the new president.
A ping pong tournament was
approved, and will take place up¬
stairs in the Campus Center.
Two new clubs were officially
accepted. They are: the Student
Union for Peace and Justice, and
the Veterans Club. The Board is
also looking into other official
clubs on campus to see if they are
participating actively; all inactive
clubs will be dropped.
Ray Thursby stressed the point
of turning in publicity applica¬
tions two weeks in advance.
Marianne Cordova discussed the
possibility of PCC participating
with other colleges on a program
of inviting political candidates to
speak on campus. While the can¬
didate is in the area, he would
cover several colleges on a cir¬
cuit.
Denny Meehan announced that
the Ecology Commission is trying
to get a factory to recycle flyers
that have been printed but have
not been used. He also stated that
there is a petition against the
freeway in his office in the Cam¬
pus Center for all interested stu¬
dents to sign.
Welcome Dance
A welcome dance for new stu¬
dents and others, sponsored by
the International Club, will be
held Friday in the Campus
Center from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Proceeds will be used for schol¬
arships. A live band will enter¬
tain, and refreshments will be
available. New foreign students
will be admitted free with mem¬
bership cards. Members will pay
76 cents and non-members $1.
The Circle
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is sponsoring a
blood bank drive on campus on
March 6 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Everyone is urged to donate a
pint.
More and more young minority
students are going to college, as
reflected in a recent research re¬
port submitted to the California
Community Colleges.
Minority enrollments increased
20.5 per cent in a year, bringing
the total to 160,000 full and part-
time minority students in the 94-
campus network.
Statewide, minority students
now representing more than 22
per cent of the total community
college enrollment, the largest
single element of higher educa¬
tion in the free world. This figure
compares closely with the 25 per
cent minority throughout, and 28
per cent of the California elem-
Paperbacks To Be on Display
for College Faculty Members
A1 DePonte, manager of the
PCC Bookstore, is one of 38 col¬
lege store managers cooperating
in sponsoring a Paperback Book
Expedition for college faculty
which is being held under the aus¬
pices of the College Division of
the Association of American Pub¬
lishers (AAP) March 7 and 8 in
the Sheraton Universal Hotel,
North Hollywood.
Thousands of different paper¬
back titles from more than 20
publishers will be on exhibit from
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on both days. In¬
vitations to the exposition, which
is intended to demonstrate the
diversity of subjects and titles
available in paperback form and
also to provide a forum for closer
cooperation between the book¬
store and the teacher, have been
sent to 30,000 college faculty
members in the Los Angeles
County area.
Information on all aspects of
publishing will be provided from
a special booth sponsored by the
R. R. Bowker company, a pub¬
lisher of book industry reference
works, and by members and staff
of the College Division of the
AAP.
The AAP is the trade associa¬
tion of the book-publishing in¬
dustry in the United States.
After the exposition, the books
will be donated by the publishers
to the Tehachapi Institution and
the Ontario (Califonia) Youth
Training School.
But Is It
Portable?
There are many ways $10,000
would be spent, but PCC has come
up with a strikingly original way.
We rented a typewriter.
That’s right, a $10,000 typewrit¬
er. It’s part of a course being
offered on the IBM Magnetic
Tape Selectric Typewriter.
Enrolled are 17 students, each
of whom gets 45 hours of machine
time, plus conference and testing.
Instructor Donald L. Busche
explained that the machine al¬
lows the typist to type at top
speed without worrying about
mistakes. If a mistake is made,
the correction is recorded on a
tape and played back correctly
at 150 words per minute, with no
visible signs of error or correc¬
tion.
The typewriter is rented from
IBM. The course was begun on
the suggestion of the PCC Secre¬
tarial advisory Council after re¬
search into job possibilities for
students who could operate it.
The only prerequisite is that the
student be able to type 45 words
a minute.
entary and high school enroll¬
ments.
The racial and ethnic survey
found that minority membership
on the community college staffs
have also increased at a rate of
4.8 per cent.
The increases In both enroll¬
ment and staffing corresponded
closely with a national trend in
which the number of black stu¬
dents enrolled in colleges has
doubled in the last five years. The
increases have been slower at
individual California four-year in¬
stitutions.
At Stanford, black students
have increased from 2.8 to 4 per
cent from 1968 to 1970, and at the
University of California at Berk¬
eley, from 2.3 to 4.5 per cent.
The community college survey
reported there are 50 districts
with Mexican-American enroll¬
ments which are improving but
still under the proportion of the
local population. Eight districts
are below the community propor¬
tions for black students.
In contrast, Oriental enroll-
Counted
Report
ment is 3.6 per cent in the com¬
munity colleges compared with
the 2.2 per cent in lower grades.
The American Indians make up
1.2 per cent of the enrollment,
compared with .3 per cent in low¬
er grades.
Community College Chancellor
Sidney W. Brossman called for
recruitment efforts to attract
more ethnic minorities and said
that "Primary consideration
should be given to the hiring of
minority staff members at levels
and locations where they are not
proportionally represented.”
“Whenever possible,” said
Brossman, “minorities should be
given opportunities to be involved
in and participate in selecting
staff members for college teach¬
ing, administration and non-aca¬
demic staff.”
Happy Teeth
Get them cleaned at the PCC
Dental Hygiene Clinic, R511.
Call 792-1827 for appointment.
Red Cross Blood Drive
Set for Campus Center
The American Red Cross will
be on campus collecting blood
donations next Monday from 10
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The annual
spring drive is being sponsored
by the Circle
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service club. Last
year a record 160 pints were do¬
nated.
During all of this week you can
sign up between the hours of 8
and 3 either at the table at the
entrance to the Campus Center
or upstairs on the bulletin boards
there. The Red Cross can take
14 donors every 20 minutes.
Requirements for donation are:
you must be at least 18 years old
or have a parent permission slip,
you must have a minimum weight
of 110 pounds, and never have
had any diseases such as hepa¬
titis or typhoid.
At the time you make your ap¬
pointment you will receive a
blood “credit card” and be tested
for health and type of blood.
When you donate blood you are
entitled to one pint self-credit
and the school receives one pint
credit. You can draw from either
source while you’re attending
PCC and your own self-credit is
transferrable afterwards.
Normally, blood costs between
$25 and $65 a pint, depending on
blood type.
The process is relatively pain¬
less, most of the donated blood
goes to returning Vietnam veter¬
ans, and free refreshments are
served to the donors.
UCLA ROTC
Enrollment for the two-year Air
Force BOTC program at UCLA
is now in progress. Any student
transferring to UCLA in the
fall of 1972 and interested in
applying for the Air Force pro¬
gram should call 825-1742 or
visit the Department of Aero¬
space Studies, Boom 251, Social
Welfare Building, on the UCLA
campus. Deadline for applica¬
tion is March 15. Changes in the
two-year AFBOTC program in¬
clude a significant increase in
scholarship opportunities and a
stipend increase from $50 to
$100 a month while on student
status.