PCC Courier, March 07, 1975

What Does the Future Hold? Vocational Planning In the past six years people seeking employment in the health profession have doubled while those interested in the teaching profession have declined by half. The ratio of employed accountants to employed psychologists is roughly 12 to 1. It is anticipated more jobs will be created from deaths, retirements, and- or other labor separations between now and 1985 than from employement growth. These rather grim-sounding predictions are what students need to face in future job markets. Since it takes most students four years to get through college they should know something about the future job market. Psych 117, vocational planning, was developed to provide information, what the future holds for today’s students. “It is distressing,” said Dr. John E. Tulley, instructor for the course, “when a student comes into my office and says, T have to decide by next Wednesday what I’m going to do with the rest of my life.’ ” Many students don’t have a clear cut career chosen upon entering college but one of the first questions they are asked when programming is “What is your major?” According to Dr. John J. Risser, also an instructor, Psych 117 is designed to help students make an intelligent descision about their careers. “Not only is salary determined by choice of career, but also associates, life style and control over the future,” Dr. Risser pointed out. Six years ago a person could ask himself what he enjoyed and could then make a vocational choice based on that answer, but now we must be more practical,” said Dr. Tulley. “The question is, ‘Am I going to be employed or not?’ ” Psych 117 is offered on Monday at 7- The pocket calculator is one of the newest additions to the many study- aids offered by the library for student’s use. The calculators can compute from math up to trigonometry. The calculators are available upon request at the calculation desk, for use in the library only. Bob Carter, audio visual librarian, says, “We’ll try them on an ex¬ perimental basis, and if we find the 10 p.m., and is also taught by Mrs. JoAnn Billingsley and on Wednesday from 7-10 p.m., taught alternately by Drs. Risser and Tulley. The program is set up to test students’ abilities, interests, and to suggest possible careers. During the ninth and tenth weeks of the 13-week course private ap¬ pointments are arranged for students to discuss their personal career plans. The final exam consists of writing a need we’ll order more.” Carter, who is responsible for new audio-visual equipment in the library, says he is always open for suggestions from students who want new and improved equipment in the library. Other items for use that few students know about, are tape recorders and tape players, posters, pictures, records, radio, and closed-circuit TV. Most are circulated for two weeks, like books. Radios, TV and tape recorders are not to be taken home. The tape recorders used to be circulated, but are no longer offered in this manner. statement of plans on the basis of the conferences with the teacher. “Traditionally,” said Dr. Risser, “there are always some people in the class who already hold college degrees.” The Wednesday night class has many people who already have one career but are considering a change, many housewives whose children have grown and who now want to do something with their time, and ex- servicemen. Students may check out tape players and cassettes that have pre-recorded lessons or information on them. Pic¬ tures and posters used with reports in classrooms are available. Besides academic posters, the library carries many art prints. The artistic learning devices are circulated like books. TV can be watched or radio listened to with headphones in the audio-visual area. These headphones can go anywhere in the room. Not only can students view live or pre-recorded programs from right on campus, but outside stations are also picked up. Calculators Intiutled in Library's Study-Aids By Wayne Woods Staff Writer —Courier Photo by Robert W. Vance BIRTHDAY WISHES — Mrs. Armen Sarafian, wife of the college presi¬ dent, gives her husband a kiss on his fifty-fifth birthday. A party was given for Dr. Sarafian by the ASB last Wednesday at noon in the Campus Center. PCC Coufri&i Extended Day Classes Meeting Varied Needs VOL. 39, NO. 4 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MARCH 7, 1975 Leonard Cross To Speak on the Great New York Stock Exchange Scandal The story of “The Great Wall Street Scandal” will be told by Leonard Gross, a journalist and former senior editor for “Look” Magazine, on the March 11 Tuesday Evening Forum. Gross has authored a book with Ray Dirks, who exposed the illegal activity of Equity Funding. Equity Funding began as a small Illinois operation in 1960. Through fraudulent means the organization and its assets grew from a mere $10,000 at conception to a supposed $1 billion in 1973. Dirks, a securities analyst, was then tipped to the hoax and exposed a complex operation involving forged and counterfeited insurance policies, PE Activity 35 bonds, phony company figures and illegal records and tapes. Dirks risked his career to uncover the Wall Street activities, only to receive the wrath of the New York Stock Exchange at his violation of the exchanges rules. “Not one of the people whose witness enabled me to expose the fraud had been willing to go to the authorities. They were afraid the authorities would do nothing,” says Dirks. Criminal proceedings were begun, however, in Nov. 1973, with other civil and criminal motions now in preparation. Gross says in his book, “The Equity Funding scandal is not an indictment of all big business, but it is a nightmare vision of what can happen when many tendencies present in all big businesses are carried to the logical extension.” After graduating from UCLA in 1949 Gross received a Masters Degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1950. He has some 300 magazine articles to his credit, and spent five of his 12 years with “Look” as a foreign correspondent. He has also written an ABC Movie of the Week, a television series for CBS, a novel titljed “The Man Who Ran the World” and a book about exercise called “No Sweat.” Extended day classes sponsored by PCC attract students from a number of area cities. All come with one purpose in mind, to use to the full extent all educational tools available to them. A course is included in the extended day category if it is a credit class which meets after 4:30 p.m. daily or on Saturdays. The program is serving more than 8000 students right now, who attend classes both on campus and at area high schools and businesses. Subjects taken off the actual campus are all taught by qualified college personnel in a manner similar to that used at school. Courses in all of the standard academic areas as well as vocational training are offered. Cooperation with local residents and businesses is a vital part of the program organization. “We want to take the program to the community,” said William G. Norris, Dean of Ex¬ tended Day and Evening classes. “In working with the Ralph Parsons Company, for example, we have in¬ stituted new courses in drafting and pipe design, to name only two,” said Norris. A cooperative effort is also in progress with Bell and Howell, the American Institute for Banking, and several area convalescent hospitals. “We also established classes for the travel industry, musical instrument repair, soil technology, and night geology courses, which have all been well received,” he added. “We are in business to serve the community, and want to meet its needs in any way we can,” said Norris. Judging from the increasing enrollment, he feels the program as a whole has been quite successful. Pounds, Inches Shed in Gym Students enrolled in PE Activity 35 have a lot to lose. The class known as WCP or Weight Control Program is for those who are 15 per cent overweight or more. Instructor Chris MacIntyre places emphasis on three basic approaches to losing weight: behavior modification, diet and exercise, with behavior modification the main key to losing weight. Overweight persons usually don't eat because they are hungry, Mrs. MacIntyre teaches, but because they are frustrated, lonely, in a par¬ ticular mood, or just because a little demon in the back of their mind is singing “Everybody Loves Sara-Lee.” All of these urges to overeat can be recognized and suppressed through behavior modification, she believes. The class is encouraged to work together and help each other get through one day at a time. Mrs. MacIntyre is for “food planning” and totally against fad dieting or crash diets, which deprive the body of cer¬ tain foods and cause a dieter to go on eating binges, usually regaining more weight than was originally lost. Weight control students are trying to impress upon food buyers for the school cafeteria the importance of having a diet plate or other suitable foods available for those who are making an effort to lose weight. Results of past WCP classes show that those who had a lot to lose did indeed lose a lot. Last semester, for example, one student lost 60 pounds, several between 25 to 30 pounds, and most students averaged losses of 13 to 18 pounds. According to Mrs. MacIntyre, a class of about 20 students will usually lose well over 200 pounds. Lecture Series for the Novice Slated by Geology Department LEONARD GROSS . Tuesday's speaker Aquathenics Expert To Recruit Instructors for New Body-Conditioning Exercise System A geology lecture series will be repeated April 3 on the campus. Scheduled to speak on geological topics of interest to the public are Dr. Clarence R. Allen of Caltech, Dr. William J. Morris of Occidental College, Dr. Gary Novak, Cal State Los Angeles, and H. Stanton Hill, a retired PCC geology professor. The series of lectures was popular last Fall, according to Richard Ohr- bom, geology instructor. Hill, who taught here for 37 years, will begin the series with a talk about the geology and scenery of Mono Lake, a region located approximately 40 miles north of Bishop, Calif. “Dinosaurs of Baja, Calif.” is the subject for April 17 from Dr. Morris, and on May 1 Dr. Allen is scheduled to discuss the San Andreas Fault. Dr. Allen is one of the world’s foremost PASADENA CHORALE The Pasadena Chorale and Or¬ chestra, directed by William Hat¬ cher, PCC music instructor, will perform March 9 at the Pasadena Congregational Church. Adult ad¬ mission is $3, children $2. The church is located at the corner of Walnut and Los Robles. authorities on earthquakes and seismology, according to Ohrbom. Dr. Allen was involved in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) film production “The City That Waits to Die." The documentary, shown twice on CBS. explored the possibility of another San Francisco earthquake and the damage that would result from it. W i th two branches of the infamous San Andreas Fault sandwiching the city, it is estimated that between 50,000- 100. 000 lives would be lost, if a tremor the size of the 1906 temblor struck again. The final lecture on May 15, “Mineral Collecting in California,” will be given by Dr. Novak, a mineralogy professor. These lectures are designed for persons not involved with geology. Programs begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum of the Paramedical Building. Questions about the lectures may be directed to Ohrbom or any staff member of the Geology Department. FOOD SERVICES CENTER Pat Cohen, education executive for the Southern California Restaurant Association, is expected to discuss career opportunities in food ser¬ vices, today at 2 p.m. in the faculty conference dining room. Admission is free. Language Dept. Shows A Man and A Woman “A Man and a Woman” will be presented free of charge to PCC students Thursday, April 24, by the Foreign Language Department. The award-winning film will be shown at 4 and 7:30 p.m. in the forum of the Paramedical Building: The department sets aside funds to obtain two movies, one per semester, to screen for students free of charge. Is there a way of conditioning the body and improving the figure without paying expensive fees for practising supervised, strenuous exercises at the local European spa? The answer is aquathenics, a word totally unknown to Webster but familiar to Janet Carpenter, director of aquathenics in Southern California. Miss Carpenter is expected to be on hand in the campus quad Monday, with an information booth on the new body¬ conditioning discipline. The principle of aquathenics is simple. Over 150 different exercises are performed for an hour in about four feet of water. No swimming skills are necessary. Pushing against the water, every major muscle group in the body is automatically or reflexively exer¬ cised. Since resistance is gentle and —Courier Photo by Hugh Levine SWIM SHAPELY— Janet Carpenter shows students how to trim their Mrs. Carpenter is coming to figures with underwater exercises, recruit instructors for aquathenics. uniform, the water gives a massage to moving limbs. At the end of the hour, instead of feeling sore and tired, one is exhilarated and relaxed. More instructors for the program are needed, and that is the main reason for Miss Carpenter’s recruiting on campus. She said that to be eligible, aquathenics instructors must have official credentials in senior lifesaving and first aid, must be at least 18 years old, in good physical condition and of neat appearance. Their main job would consist of teaching men and women from two to 10 hours a week. Miss Carpenter, now teaching at the Pasadena YMCA, said aquathenics was started about nine years ago in the bay area by a woman named Sue Jane Keleman. “She was exercising with a group of ladies on land. One day she put them in the water and went from there,” said Miss Carpenter. In 1970, an official aquathenics program was developed, with five instructors working with it. Today there are about 100 instructors working all over California, Arizona and Florida. Miss Carpenter said approximately 6000 people have been or are participating in the program. She said in June 1973 five cities in the L.A. area were offering aquathenics: Anaheim, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, La Habra and Thousand Oaks. By this summer, the program expects to expand to as many as 20 cities, most of them in the San Gabriel Valley. Cultural Math Available for Minus Classrooms Math in Our Culture is not just another math class. Assistant Prof. Orlie Laing, who originated the class, met with opposition numerous times because the course had no prerequi- KPCS Director , Manager Attend Radio Conference Dr. John Gregory, station manager, and Larry Shirk, program director, will represent KPCS at the 1975 Public Radio Conference. The meeting, sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, will be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. March 24 to 28. Topics to be discussed include Congressional legislation affecting public radio, educational activities, local and national programming, programs for the blind to be aired over the Subsidiary Communication Authorization (SCA) channel, the related activites of women, minorities and volunteers, and program promotion. The first day of the conference will end with a Congressional reception. sites. The semester, available country. course is in its however, and anywhere else seventh not the is in Laing designed the course with the student in mind, enabling the student to understand the history of mathe¬ matics and its impact on our culture today. There is no text for the course. The only prerequisite is the willingness of the student to teach himself and others. In setting it up, Laing gave four major objectives: involving the student in mathematical activities, and making them aware of the mathe¬ matical nature of the environment while trying to understand the learning mechanisms each person has. The instructor's last goal is to help them not to compare and measure, but rather to nurture and cultivate the imagination. The non-classroom environment aids students, giving them an atmos¬ phere for open discussion of mathe¬ matics, our culture, or the impact of math throughout history in a way that retains the basic classroom ideals. This year the money for both films was consolidated, and one film of out¬ standing quality was obtained. “A Man and a Woman” was chosen because “it is a beautiful movie, people should see the film and enjoy the music,” according to Gisele Georgeon, department secretary. “It is a film of quality.” The French film, directed by Claude Lelouche, won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and was a winnner of the Golden Globe. It will be shown with English subtitles, with the music composed by Francis Lai. The story is of two young adults who meet and fall in love after each of their respective marriages ends in tragedy. They fear that their happiness might be tar¬ nished by their memories of the past. Briscoe, Spare, Gertmenian Win Trustees Election Board of Trustee members elected Tuesday, with 99 per cent of the precincts reporting, were Charles Briscoe for Area 2, Robert Spares for Area 4, and Roger Gertmenian, in¬ cumbent for Area 6. Briscoe won with 43.5 per cent or 4030 votes. Sidney Carlin came in with 3602 votes or 38.9 per cent, Robert Fick had 731 votes or 7.9 per cent, Starrs took 672 votes with 7.27 per cent, and dropped candidate James Smith had 214 or 2.3 per cent of the vote. Spare, who had 4773 or 51.5 per cent of votes cast, won over Pat Frey, who received 4478 votes or 48.4 per cent. Roger Gertmenian captured 4495 votes or 55.3 per cent to beat out his opponent Pat Demond, who had 3591 votes or 54.7 per cent.