Pasadena to Host Area 9 Conference
PCC CoufiieSv
VOL. 31, NO. 3
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 5, 1969
RAUL DORANTES receives a summer scholarship
which will send him to Mexico. Presenting the
scholarship to him are Mrs. Dave Eliot and Mrs.
Alice Mothershead. Josephine Pepito (right) re¬
ceived a $50 savings bond. The awards are given
by the Experiment in International Living.
Dorantes Wins Summer Scholarship
from Experiment in International Living
Student Government
Leaders Meet Here
Raul Dorantes has been award¬
ed a summer scholarship in Mex¬
ico by the Experiment in Inter¬
national Living.
As the twelfth ambassador
from the San Gabriel Valley, Dor¬
antes will join 2500 other Ameri¬
cans traveling in 38 lands this
summer.
Rather than winning a package
tour of goodies, each ambassador
has an opportunity to meet a new
culture on its own terms. Doran¬
tes will live in a private home for
a month and become a working
member of the household and the
community. He will also travel
with other young people and en¬
joy a Mexico City visit.
At the awards luncheon, Dr.
Armen Saraflan congratulated
Pilot Class
Set Here
The Summer School Education¬
al Program for Disadvantaged
Students will consist of English
401 and Communication 401, and
if the program proves a success,
it will be expanded next fall, prob¬
ably permanently.
Approximately 60 students are
expected to be enrolled in the pi¬
lot course which will most likely
be offered credit — no credit, there¬
by eliminating the threat of puni¬
tive grading.
Since the basic purpose of the
course is to enable students who
otherwise would be left out of
college altogether, to continue
their education, the credit — no
credit system would make the
course more flexible for both stu¬
dents and teachers .
An inservice workshop to be
conducted this semester will give
teachers for the summer pro¬
gram more insight as to where
the emphasis should be, as stu¬
dents’ suggestions will probably
be sought.
A team-teaching approach will
most likely be tried, so that more
attention can be given each indi¬
vidual student, thus insuring
greater probability of success in
continuing courses in the fall.
The program might include the
use of paid student tutors.
the winner and first alternate, Jo¬
sephine Pepito who won a $50
savings bond. He stated that the
Experiment has benefltted the
Vice Prexy
Tells Plans
“I’m willing to listen to ideas,
suggestions, and complaints; any¬
thing from students who want to
get involved,” quotes Valerie Lew¬
is, ASB vice-president.
Miss Lewis was elevated to
the position of vice-president
when two officers elected in the
spring were dropped. She had
been elected president of AWS.
One of the first things she
wants to see completed is the
Faculty Evaluation Booklet.
“Even when I was a commission¬
er, I wished to see this accom¬
plished.”
For the future, Miss Lewis
plans to move the cabinet into
action. “There will be many cab¬
inet meetings. We have just com¬
pleted the appointments, so the
first meeting will be held very
soon.”
This movement on the part of
the cabinet would help to bridge
the gap between the students
who believe that the student gov¬
ernment is “up there, and we are
down here” and the government
officials “up there” wanting the
students to come and talk to
them and relate their ideas.
According to Miss Lewis, “We
have 50 clubs on campus that
could be active, and actually only
17 are active now. This is what
student apathy is.”
Another hope of Miss Lewis is
to see an elevation in the grade
requirement for student body of¬
fice candidates. “We should ei¬
ther require a 2.5 mid-term grade
point average, or if the student
cannot make that grade in a giv¬
en period of time, the total GPA
should be considered.
“I don’t think the idea of post¬
poning the elections until after
semester grades come out would
work because of the delay in the
new administration taking over.
The incoming administration
would not get anything done in
the short amount of time left.”
student, the college, and the com¬
munity.
Each year the Experiment in
International Living arranges for
student travel, academic study,
postgraduate education, and em¬
ployment for those meeting the
qualifications. The experiment
also trains Peace Corps volunteers
and is a consultative member of
UNESCO.
Students interested in interna¬
tional living or desiring informa¬
tion about the scholarship for
next year are invited to obtain
information from Mrs. Alice
Mothershead, 121C.
Pasadena City College has
opened one of the first classes
west of the Mississippi River to
teach assembly line packaging
machinery.
Several manufacturers have
donated thousands of dollars
worth of packaging machinery to
the college.
The only other such classes are
in Chicago and New Jersey. The
courses are so new that there
was no text until recently, when
the Packaging Machinery Manu¬
facturers Institute produced a
mimeographed syllabus on com¬
ponents to be used by the three
schools.
The PCC classes are held in the
new Community Adult Training
Center, 1450 N. Lake Ave., and
ICC Elects
Elections to form the new ICC
cabinet held recently named
Bryan Cuthill president, Steve
Lantz vice-president, and Holly
Sanders treasurer. Seven other
students were elected, each one
representing one of the seven
clubs now active on campus.
Elected officers will meet with
their adviser, Mrs. Evelyn Bell,
to cut down the heavy bureauc¬
racy, and to simplify the whole
organization.
Seven junior colleges will be
represented at the Area 9 Con¬
ference being sponsored by the
student government of PCC,
Thursday.
Antelope Valley, East Los An¬
geles, Glendale, Ventura, Santa
Barbara, and Moorpark college
representatives will attend.
Purpose is to “organize schools
to produce recommendations and
suggestions relevant to the prob¬
lems of the junior colleges and
send them to the state confer¬
ence.”
Delegates will also set statutes
which will pertain to the run¬
ning of student government in
the junior colleges.
Seven' workshops have been
planned to aid the delegates in
probing the many facets of stu¬
dent government at the junior
college level.
The events of the day will be¬
gin with a general assembly in
Harbeson Hall. The delegates will
be welcomed and announcements
of activities will be made.
Workshops begin at 1:30 p.m.
with a presidents’ workshop at
the top of the list. This session
will be a meeting of all student
body presidents and will deal with
the problems and responsibilities
of that post.
Other workshops will deal with
financing the student government
and its activities, communications
and publications media on the
campus, campus-community rela¬
tions, clubs and other campus ac-
t i v i t les, student-administration-
faculty cooperation, student
rights, responsibilities, and re¬
sponses, and finally a meeting of
the deans of student activities.
Entertainment will be a presen¬
tation by each of the participat¬
ing schools. A skit satirizing the
are designed to equip heads of
household for gainful employ¬
ment in jobs where there is a
shortagie of skilled manpower.
Donations include bottle label¬
ing machines from Adolph’s Food
Products in Burbank, and the
Carnation Co. Alexander’s Mar¬
kets in Glendale provided a
Compton-Knowles machine that
wraps packages.
Biner-Ellison Manufacturing Co.
of L.A., donated a new bottle-
filling machine, and H. A. Olinger
Co. of Altadena, a machine that
puts items in cellophane pack¬
ages.
Rabin-Winters Pharmaceuticals,
El Segundo, provided a pueremat-
ic scale labeler which weighs and
labels packages, and Spaty Lab¬
oratories in Venice, a Redding
cartoning machine which puts
items such as toothbrushes in
their cartons.
Studio Cosmetics in West Los
Angeles gave a large tank in
which to store liquid before it is
bottled. Riker Laboratories in
Northridge provided a Worthing¬
ton air compressor.
Because the new equipment is
so heavy and hard to handle,
Avon Products Co. donated $500
in cash which is being used to
rent a fork lift to aid in setting
the machinery up in the teaching
lab.
Other donations have come
from the Stuart Co. of Pasadena
and Danfoods Co. of L.A.
method of student government on
each campus will be acted out by
the delegates.
The conference will move on to
dinner in the student dining room,
and from there the delegates will
go back to the workshop business
at hand.
Another general assembly last¬
ing for over two hours will wind
up the conference.
The workshop issues being
pushed by the PCC officials will
deal with acceptance of political¬
ly affiliated clubs on campus, the
role of militant groups on cam¬
pus, the prohibition of certain
forms of literature on junior col¬
leges that are allowed on the
campuses of larger colleges and
universities, and a discussion of
the law which prohibits holding
certain classes on Saturdays.
Acting as president of the con¬
ference will be Marlene Marks.
Marilyn Plummer will be vice-
president; Raoul Gagne, treasur¬
er; Bilenda Harris, secretary;
Sharon Thomure, historian; and
Wayne Traylor, parliamentarian.
Circle
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Blood
Drive : Life Saver
Your contribution to the Circle
К
Blood Drive Tuesday could save
another person’s life. Or even
your own.
A Red Cross bloodmobile will
be at the PCC band room, 100K,
on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. Contributions of all types of
blood will be welcomed, and facul¬
ty members, non-certificated per¬
sonnel, and students are urged to
contribute.
Any member of the college com¬
munity and members of his fam¬
ily are eligible to withdraw blood
from the bank. Once blood has
been given, the blood credit is
good anywhere in the United
States to the donor during his
lifetime.
In other words, a blood donor
is entitled to receive, free of
charge, as much blood as he
might need throughout his life¬
time.
This means that both the indi¬
vidual and PCC receive credit for
the donation.
There is great need for blood in
this area. In fact, 25 pints will
be used for an operation the aft¬
ernoon of the drive. In past years
the PCC Blood Bank has contrib¬
uted to the needs of other Pasa¬
dena groups as well as caring for
PCC personnel or their families.
Appointment cards for donors
may be obtained from faculty
members, or upstairs in the Cam¬
pus Center.
Nursing Students
Request Changes
Nursing students at PCC have
come up with a list of requests,
submitted by the Student Curric¬
ulum Committee nursing repre¬
sentative, Marilyn H. Gallagher,
at a SCC meeting last semester.
Major requests include reduc¬
tion of busy work required as as¬
signments, and of days at Chil¬
dren’s Hospital (now required in
pediatric nursing) and use of
those facilities closer to campus.
Also, elimination of Veterans
Hospital in psychiatric nursing.
Child care is provided in a pre¬
school nursery care center since
the cost of taking care of chil¬
dren often tends to be more than
a student can handle.
Packaging Course,
Unique in U.S. West
