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Groups Sponsor 'Religious Week'
Singing, dancing, films and
“thought-provoking” talks will be part
of “Religious Awareness Week” at
PCC next week.
Religious groups on campus are
sponsoring a variety of activities on
campus during the noon hour on
Tuesday and Thursday, according to
Jim Martin, religious commissioner.
Participating in the programs will
be the Christian Science Organization,
Hillel, Lambda Delta Sigma, Lancer
Christian Fellowship and the Catholic
Club.
On Tuesday from noon to 1 p.m.,
Sunny Harris will teach some simple
Israeli folk dances. Hillel will also
have a table set up nearby at which
Hammentashen (traditional Purim
pastries) will be sold.
The Christian Science Organization
will have a literature table. Lambda
Delta Sigma will show the film “An¬
cient America Speaks,” and the group
will also have a display table.
On Thursday at noon the Christian
Science Organization will sponsor a
lecture by Catherine H. Anwandter,
Christian Science teacher and lecturer
in Harbeson Hall. In her speech, “How
to Find Lasting Satisfaction,” she will
discuss mankind’s endless search for a
form- of satisfaction that really means
something and can be expected to
endure.
Mrs. Anwandter speaks four
languages fluently. She became in¬
terested in Christian Science through a
healing she experienced as a young
woman. A number of healings are
related in her lecture.
She attended school in Santiago and
Valpariaso, Chile, but her education
mostly was at home with private
tutors. She studied art, painting and
drawing, French and Spanish, and
later German.
For more than 30 years, Mrs. An¬
wandter has devoted herself to the
study and practice of Christian
Science, and to the organizing of the
movement in Chile.
In 1939, she received primary class
instruction, and entered the public
practice of Christian Science in 1948. A
member of the Normal class of 1961,
she became the first teacher of
Christian Science in South America
and the first to teach in the Spanish
language.
The Christian Science Organization
is open to all members of the campus
community. Students give testimonies
and share insights about how this
religion is an influential power for
good in their daily lives. They meet
every Tuesday in R108 at noon.
A debate on the controversial Jewish
Defense League (JDL) will be held in
Harbeson Hall. JDL is said to advocate
violence as one means of dealing with
Jewish problems. Irv Rubin, a
member of the JDL, will debate Sini
Julian, an anti-JDL activist.
Hillel is a national Jewish student
organization with chapters on cam¬
puses all over the country. Chapter
activities include festival celebrations,
services, films and speakers on Jewish
and non-Jewish topics, ' parties, in¬
tercollegiate weekends, seminars and
community service projects. They
meet weekly on Tuesday at noon in
C303.
There are over 500 Christian Science
organizations on campuses throughout
the world, according to Martin.
Lancer Christian Fellowship is the
Pasadena chapter of the Intervarsity
Christian Fellowship. Its program
includes presenting the claims of
Christ to all students on campus. It
offers opportunities for Bible study,
prayer, inspiration and enrichment to
the spiritual lives of its members.
“What do these religions really
believe? What do they do? Does
religion have the answers?” asks
Martin. “Come and discover for
yourself this week.”
PCC CcmtUeSv
VOL. 35, NO. 18
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 2, 1973
Issue of R & R
Divides Student
R & R Food Services, the company
which operates the cafeteria, snack
bar and catering trucks on campus,
has again become the subject of heated
debate; this time in the Student
Senate.
At this week’s Senate meeting, many
students expressed outrage at the
price rise granted to R & R by the
board of directors of the Student
Services Fund (SSF). The increase,
which went into effect yesterday, was
granted to offset losses totaling
$13,000, which R & R claims to have
suffered since it opened in July of 1972.
The increase applies only to some of
the items sold by R & R, and amounts,
according to the company, to a three
per cent across the board increase.
Jim Brownfield, ASB president,
Baldwin Joins COPES,
Handicapped Program
Mrs. Francisca B. Baldwin, coor¬
dinator for the handicapped students,
will participate in two statewide
programs in community colleges this
spring.
She will serve as a member of the
Community College Occupational
Program Evaluation System (COPES)
which is made up of Presidents, heads
of occupational programs, deans of
instructions, heads of counselling,
directors of poverty of financial
programs. These individuals meet
every year and are trained to conduct
the COPES evaluation program.
Detailed questionnaires on all
aspects of college programs are sent
out. The community colleges staff
members fill them out and evaluate
themselves. “That way we can have an
accurate picture of what we’re
doing,” explained Mrs. Baldwin.
COPES will then send out objective
observers to different campuses for
three days, during which time they will
interview, observe and check on all
aspects of the programs offered in the
colleges.
Mrs. Baldwin will be evaluating
projects for the handicapped at
Riverside Community College from
March 13 to 15. She will make
recommendations to the college for
improvement and development of the
program.
Her other job will be to redesign
evaluation models for the evaluation
programs for the handicapped.
“This system is effective only if the
institutions make use of the
suggestions offered to improve and
build up their programs,” she said. “If
they just disregard the recom¬
mendations, this program 'would be
useless.”
Ten trainers are selected by the
Chancellor’s office to put on a series of
workshops throughout the states. Its
purpose is to train other community
college personnels to supervise han¬
dicapped programs. Those who are
selected are considered pioneers in
starting handicapped programs in
California at the college level. Mrs.
Baldwin is among them.
Together with another trainer from
Golden West Community College, she
will organize a workshop on April 12 at
the Huntington Sheraton Hotel. The
subject is regional planning for han¬
dicapped programs throughout the
tate.
“Out of the 96 community colleges in
California, 45 have programs for the
handicapped.” said Mrs. Baldwin.
“Therefore regional planning has
become important, to pull together
what’s happening. That way we can be
sure that there will be no duplication,
and to help each other out.”
The other participating colleges are
Fresno, Merced, San Diego, San Jose,
American River, El Camino, Cerritos,
Chabot and Golden West.
Mrs. Baldwin is also on the Chan¬
cellor’s Advisory Committee on
programs for the handicapped, 'the
only woman among the 11 board
members.
Prices
Senate
estimates that the increase is closer to
20 per cent.
The Senate voted unanimously to
pass a resolution stating that Mark
Walther did not act according to the
wishes of the Senate when he cast his
vote to increase the prices. Walther,
who is the Senate president, sits on the
board of directors of SSF.
More was at stake than just an in¬
crease in food prices. R & R contracts
directly with the ASB. The power to
negotiate price increases and other
administrative procedures, however,
is in the hands of the board of directors
of SSF, on which students are a
minority.
The power left to the ASB is simply
to let R & R continue to operate at PCC
or to terminate the contract. In the
latter case, it is necessary only to give
the company 60 days notice. An¬
ticipating the possibility that the ASB
Board would consider such a move this
week, the Senate pondered whether to
bind its three votes on that board to a
yes vote or to leave its delegates free to
vote their own consciences.
The Senate president and the first
and second vice presidents sit on the
ASB Board and are voting members. A
majority vote in the Senate could
obligate them to vote as a block on a
given issue. By a margin of three votes
with two abstentions the Senate left
these votes undecided.
Dick Peckron, president of R & R,
attended the meeting armed with
figures and facts to defend the need for
the price hike. Complaints from the
Senate and from interested students
went far beyond the matter of price,
however. Brownfield said that he had
heard from many students on campus
that they would not mind the increase
if it was accompanied by a
corresponding increase in the quality
of food served in the cafeteria.
Peckron responded that R & R is
always willing to listen to complaints
and suggestions from students.
Martha Hubner responded to this
saying that although they listened, the
situation was not being corrected.
The real issue is one of power. The
feeling of most student government
members is that the Board of Trustees
is shirking its responsibility.
Agnes Leung, Foreign Student,
Receives Elks 'Bates' Award
PCC’s PROUD ORATORS— Millie Crisp, Tom Carter and Pat Love are
the winners of the beautiful second place trophy won in the Cerritos
Oral Interpretation Festival. Speaking in the Readers’ Theater cate¬
gory, these three students won them over with “Who’s Got His Own.”
Five PCC Students Win
Speech Festival Award
AMBITIOUS JOURNALIST— Agnes Leung busily at work in the
Publications Lab. Managing editor for the Courier, Agnes plans to ge
her masters in the journalism field. Deeply involved in this profession,
she was elected outstanding PCC journalism student, and presen
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Agnes Leung, foreign student from
Hong Kong and PCC journalism
major, is the recipient of the Pasadena
Elks Lodge “1973 Emer D. Bates
Award.”
A check for $100 was presented to
Ms. Leung during the Elk’s annual
“Leadership Award Night.” Tommy
Keyser, chairman of the Emer D.
Bates Award Committee, made the
presentation.
Selected as the outstanding jour¬
nalism student from PCC, Ms. Leung
is presently the Managing Editor of the
Courier. Last semester she served as
Courier Assignment Editor and
chairman for Journalism- Day, an
event held for high achool journalism
students in the Pasadeqa area.
In her third semester, she is a
member of Beta Phi Gamma, national
journalism honorary society, and of
College Women in Broadcasting. She is
also a member of Associated Women
Students, and works as the secretary
for the journalism division at the
college.
Earlier last month she represented
the Courier at the California
Newspaper Publishers Association
convention in San Francisco.,
Throughout her attendance at PCC,
Ms. Leung has maintained a high
scholastic record, and has been on the
Dean’s Honor List.
Besides her parents, Ms. Leung has
five sisters and one brother. Her father
works in a travel agency in Hong
Kong.
She plans to transfer to California
State University at San Diego next
semester.
After that she will work for her
master’s degree in journalism. She
doesn't know yet is she will return to
Hong Kong.
“It's too far away yet to decide,”
says Ms. Leung. “I love the United
States.”
Five PCC students won three awards
in the Cerritos Oral Interpretation
Festival held Feb. 17 at Cerritos
College. In the readers’ theater
category, Tom Carter, Millie Crisp and
Pat Love won the second place posi¬
tion. “Who’s Got His Own” was the
subject title of the competition.
In the category of oral interpreta¬
tion, Eric Bergren placed second and
Craig Coulter received a certificate of
excellence. Thirty schools participated
in this forensic competition held at
Cerritos.
Instructor Bruce Gill, ’ who is
responsible for the Readers’ Theater,
defines it in this way : ‘ ‘Basically it is a
play, poetic reading or mixture read
by students using scripts to an audi¬
ence with a minimum of staging. The
emphasis is on voice.”
The Readers’ Theater Workshop is a
non-credit class that meets on Wed¬
nesday evenings. According to Gill, it
has two basic purposes, the first of
which is to reduce things to 25-minute
cuttings for contests. It is a com¬
petition-oriented class that partici¬
pates in four major contests during the
semester.
The first of these was the one held at
Cerritos. The . second contest takes
place on March 16 and 17 at Santa Rosa
Junior College.
PCC’s readers’ theater group is
Robin Reed
Featured in
Song Cycle
Robin Reed, tenor soloist, will be the
feature attraction at Harbeson Hall on
Sunday, March 18, at 3 p.m.
He will be accompanied by Robert
Heckman, pianist, when they present
“Dichterliebe,” a song cycle set to
music by Robert Schwann.
The poems written by Heinrich
Heine were combined into a musical,
medley of 16 songs. The songs are of
extreme variety and complexity, and
are a challenge to most professionals.
“We haven’t had a student with this
young man’s potential at PCC in better
than 10 years,” Heckman said. Reed, a
music major, also sings in his church
choir, and in the Chamber Choir.
He is an active member of the
Madrigal Singers, a group of talented
performers that represent PCC in off-
campus productions.
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Catherine H. Anwandter
Security Aide
Apprehended
in Burglary
William Meyers, a security aide at
PCC since Sept. 29 of last year, was
arrested with two other men last week
on suspicion of stealing tools from the
campus.
Meyers and the other suspects, Paul
T. Siebert and Stanley Hauxhurst,
were booked on suspicion of taking
more than $2500 worth of tools. In
addition, they are all accused of auto
theft.
The stolen car, a Lola, led to the
arrest of the three at Lake Avenue and
California Boulevard. All the tools and
parts of the sports car that were
stripped, were recovered in the arrest.
According to Gill Robinson, head of
PCC security, the tools were taken
from the paramedical science building
construction site over an unspecified
period of time.
It was reported that Meyers was a
fire science student here at PCC and
worked as a security aide on weekends
only. Meyers was released on bail and
had his case presented to the district
attorney last Friday. It was not
disclosed whether Siebert or
Hauxhurst were freed on bail.
El Mahdy
Memorial
Set Up
presently at work on Lewis John
Carlino’s “The Brick and the Rose” for
this performance.
The State Junior College Cham¬
pionship, to be held at Orange Coast
College, will be held April 6, 7 and 8.
The fourth competition PCC will enter
is the National Championship in Nash¬
ville, Tenn., to be held April 17 through
21.
In addition to the four major con¬
tests, PCC will participate in the
Saddleback Festival May 17 and 18.
The second objective in the class is
to gain experience through shows
presented to the public every four or
five weeks. These programs include
anywhere from 30 minutes to two
hours of poetry and song productions.
The Wednesday night classes
themselves are also open to the public,
and are held in the Little Theater from
7 to 10 p.m.
Last Wednesday’s air tragedy over
the Sinai desert hit home for 41-year
old PCC nursing student Omar El-
Mahdy, whose wife and three-year-old
daughter were killed when their plane
was shot down over Israeli-held
territory.
Leila Es-Said and El Mahdy’s
daughter Nefertiti were en route to the
funeral of Leila’s father when the 747
jet airliner mistakenly strayed into
Israeli-held territory. The ensuing mix-
up took over 100 lives, including El-
Mahdy’s family.
The pilot of the plane somehow failed
to heed urgent landing orders, and
Israeli warplanes, fearing enemy
intrusion, opened fire on the jet.
El-Mahdy has a background of such
tragedy. Nine years ago he lost his
first wife, German-born Katrina, and
another child when they were killed in
an automobile accident that occured in
Pennsylvania.
This week an anonymous nursing
student announced in the freshman
nursing class that a memorial fund for
El-Mahdy has been set up through the
PCC Bank, with both students and
faculty contributing. This fund was
originally established by the students,
and the nursing faculty has also given
El-Mahdy a separate gift.
El-Mahdy, whose education is being
sponsored by a governmental program
here, will be able to use the fund at his
discretion, whether for charity, the
International Education fund, or if
need be, his own private use.
Anyone interested in contributing to
the El-Mahdy Memorial Fund need
only contact the PCC bank.
El-Mahdy will graduate in 1974 and
has plans to become a registered
nurse-anesthetist.
First Speech Tourney
Invites New Talent
On March 9 and 10, Pasadena City
College will be hosting a speech
tournament that will include schools
from California and Arizona as par¬
ticipants.
Individual events will be primary
and this simply means that anyone
who is interested in participating
writes a presentation on some topic
that is of concern to them, whether it
is in the realm of current events,
controversial issues, philosophical
thought, or anything that will suffice
as a topic which can be presented in an
interesting verbal form.
The written presentation will then ne
used as a basis for the participant’s'
speech.
Anyone here at PCC is eligible— the
only requirements being interest, both
in forensics and in the individual topic.
All are welcome to compete.
The events will be separated into
categories as following: expository or
informative speaking, persuasive, oral
interpretation, extemporaneous, and
impromptu.
If anyone is interested in joining the
speech squad, or participating in the
tournament, either in joining the
competition, helping to run it or just to
ask a few questions, come to the
speech squad’s office in the A building
and talk to either Miss Chrystal
Watson, or Mr. Dave Chambers.
The squad has been active this year,
having gone to several tournaments.
The last one they attended was the
Riverside Invitional Tournament at
Riverside Junior College, where they
came back proudly bearing a third
place award and two certificates of
excellence for PCC.
Forum To Feature
Drury on 'You
the Consumer'
“You, the Consumer” will be the
topic of discussion when columnist and
television-radio personality Treesa
Drury lectures at PCC’s Tuesday Eve¬
ning Forum on March 6.
Ms. Drury, consumer affairs
director for the RKO General
Broadcasting outlet, can be seen
nightly giving her consumer affairs
report at 9:30 p.m. during Channel 9’s
“News Watch.”
The nationally recognized consumer
advocate reports each day on the good
buys, whether they be food, clothing,
linen, furniture or any other item on
her syndicated radio show, “Treesa
Drury's Consumer Notebook.”