PCC Courier, March 10, 1971

т>С£ | Cowrie* Vol. 33, No. 18 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California March 10, 1971 PCC Senate Seeks Student Aid for Pasadena Free Clink Detisions Made in Spite of Rowdiness The ASB Board meeting on March 4 became so unruly that Paul Schwartz, ASB president, adjourned the meeting by presidential authority. Despite the raucous behavior of some members of the audience and a few members of the Board, a couple of decisions were made. It was passed to pay the $250 outstanding obligation from the “From Our Bag” concert which was held March 9. It was moved, seconded and carried that the money to pay the ASB insurance premium be transferred to the proper account so the bill can be paid. John Eikenbery, dean of student activities, stated that a written account of the transfer will be given to the Board for its information. Under old business, Schwartz explained that $500 is due on the original $2000 contract for the Wolfman Jack concert. A motion car¬ ried that stated that the Board would pay the $500 and set a date for the concert to be held in Sexson Auditorium. It was amended to say the Board will pay the $500 after the completion of the concert. Roxy Decaro, AWS president, will head the Wolfman Jack con¬ cert planning committee. It was brought to the attention of the Courier that the El Chicano concert was approved by the Board on February 16, six school days before the contract was signed. Also, the Courier reporter at the last meeting misquoted the amount loaned to assemblies by ICC; it was $150, not $750. A motion was made to purchase two ping pong tables and equipment for the use of students, to be placed on the patio upstairs in the Campus Center. This is where the meeting got out of hand and was adjourned. If you’re interested in knowing whether the ping pong tables will or will not be purchased, be upstairs in the Campus Center board room at 11 a.m. on Thursday. New AMS Officer Predicts Fun-Year Kent Mahen, from the Foothill Free Clinic, spoke about the “Hike for Help” at the March 2 Senate meeting. The clinic, along with Project Hope, is sponsoring the April 3 hike in the Pasadena area. The clinic hopes to recruit PCC students for this effort, which is very similar to the Walk from Hunger. Money raised by the hi¬ kers will aid the clinic, which is $57,000 short this year because of cutbacks by the county. The hike will also benefit Project Hope’s health work for American Indians and Mexican- Americans. Mahlen urged Senate members to get a committee started to sign up hikers and issue official hike cards. The 20-mile hike will begin at Brookside Park at 8 a.m. on April 3. Paul Schwartz, ASB president, is one of the coordinators at PCC. Interested students can also call Sally Hoover at 795-8088 for fur¬ ther information. The clinic will be incorporating Planning to attend a California state college after PCC? If prop¬ er transfer procedures are not fol¬ lowed, you could arrive to dis¬ cover that they have no place prepared for you. Begin by consulting the catalog issued by your chosen college. Entrance requirements vary from one institution to another. If you find that you will have met min¬ imum standards for studies com¬ pleted by the date on which you plan to transfer, file application for admission. If uncertain of any details, check with your counselor. Take these steps well in advance of the transfer date, as counselors are severely overworked, and processing can take longer than expected. concerts with PCC, such as the one scheduled for March 28 on Horrell Field. The concert is still in the preliminary planning stages, and it has not yet been officially established what groups will provide entertainment. There is a possibility that the Jefferson Airplane and the Grate¬ ful Dead might be willing to play the Free Clinic Benefit. Student body funds will not be used for the event. ASB will only provide the football field. Tickets will probably be $3. The Senate tabled the measure about the draft appeal tables be¬ cause Jim Jones, coordinator of the project, was not present at the meeting. The song girls requested $75 each for reimbursement of the cost of their uniforms. The Sen¬ ate sent a “yes” vote to the ASB Board with the three Senate rep¬ resentatives, in favor of the meas¬ ure. That money is half the cost that each girl invested in her uniform. File a transcript request in 108C, including current courses, early in the semester, immediate¬ ly prior to enrolling at the state college. Obtain a check sheet of state college requirements from your counselor and check courses which apply. Take this to 108C and ask for the “Student Request for California State College Gen¬ eral Education Certification.” Make out a transcript request for supplementary transcript to be sent at the conclusion of the semester prior to entrance at the state college. Clearly mark the date this supplementary tran¬ script is to be sent. Read the re¬ quest form carefully for condi¬ tions and college procedures, es¬ pecially the footnotes. The Senate also discussed the amendment on Senate member¬ ship that was passed at the last meeting. The amendment stated: Any interested student may be¬ come a member of the Senate (providing he meets all previous qualifications) without the elec¬ tion of his class. The amendment was presented and passed. Senate meetings are usually in 208C at noon on Tuesdays. Inter¬ ested students may attend and are eligible for membership. Decision Allows Grade Make-ups Due to a recent Faculty Senate decision, any student who has earned an E, F, or WF grade will have a chance to earn a higher mark and have the first one re¬ placed with a W. To accomplish this, the student would take the course over, and, upon petition, have the original grade changed. This would make it possible for former students, returning to school with a more serious attitude, to conform to current practice which records a W instead of a previous F for dropping a course up to the six¬ teenth week. The intent is to encourage ma¬ ture students returning to school to continue to pursue valid, ad¬ ditional goals without being ob¬ structed by past failures or out¬ moded procedures. This recommendation has re¬ ceived approval by the Faculty Senate Student Personnel Com¬ mittee, the Senate Board and the administration’s Student Person¬ nel Committee. Icon Display at Library Need a miracle to handle that heavy class load? Your campus library has the answer. Pictorial representations of Je¬ sus, the Virgin Mary and other religious figures and icons, are alleged to work miracles (or at least to have been painted to do so by saints). The current exhibition is avail¬ able through the courtesy of Richard Cassady, PCC Art De¬ partment. Presented are examples from Greece, Turkey, India and Mexico, spanning a period from the 12th through the 18th centu¬ ries. Genuine examples of this art form are becoming harder to ob¬ tain. The countries where they originated are now aware of their value, and loath to part with them. Greece’s Government Mu¬ seum has purchasing priority if any are available. So PCC is extremely fortunate to have the exhibit. Drop Deadline Students who are in good stand¬ ing in a class (that is, have not been dropped for non-attend¬ ance) may voluntarily drop the class with a grade of W through Friday, June 4. The student, however, should not put off ac¬ tion until the last minute. A stu¬ dent wishing to drop a class should see his counselor for an official change of program. The class is not officially dropped until the student clears the ap¬ proved change of program in 6C, Data Control Office. Stu¬ dents who withdraw from col¬ lege (Admissions Office, 108C) receive grades of W. The appointment of officers by President Jerome Walters will highlight the AMS meeting to be held at noon today in the Campus Center board room. Five offices are to be filled. They are club adviser, public re¬ lations adviser, publicity chair¬ man, and Freshman and Sopho¬ more class representatives. Art Andrade has already been selected as vice-president by Wal¬ ters, along with Fred Mycroft, treasurer; Lawana Whit, corres¬ ponding secretary; and Patricia Sams, recording secretary. The first meeting of the semes¬ ter was held last week with most¬ ly organization and plans for the future on the docket. A plan to install ping pong ta¬ bles in the Campus Center lounge was voted to appear before the High winds ripped a siding pan¬ el from a fence surrounding air conditioning equipment on the roof of C Building a few minutes before noon last week. Crashing through two extended windows outside 158C, west side second floor, it halted with one quivering end no more than nine feet above the ground. A passerby reported that at least one student, seated on the curbing below, nar¬ rowly escaped possible serious injury. Mrs. Gene Miller of Financial ASB Board in the form of a reso¬ lution. The resolution will reach the board in the near future. The AMS will conduct an ac¬ tivities survey soon in order to determine which types of activi¬ ties and events are most popular with the student body. The organi¬ zation proposes to conduct the survey through the various de¬ partments in its study. “We plan to work within the students of PCC,” Walters re¬ marked. “I see the semester as a pros¬ pective one for AMS,” stated Jerome. “We have a bunch of new ideas and concepts and we expect to work very closely with the Junior Executives. “I expect this semester to be a most promising one and it will be a lot of fun.” Aids was in 158C when the acci¬ dent occurred. Said Mrs. Miller, “It sounded like a big boulder sliding down a plank. To say the least, it was an unusual experi¬ ence. But we weren’t really fright¬ ened, because we didn’t realize what had happened until after¬ ward.” No immediate repair estimate was available. But according to workmen, this type of window is very old, and may be hard to find, expensive to replace, and may even have to be specially made. Professor Helps Plan Government Office On a recent trip to Washington, D.C., PCC Prof. Sam Sogho- monian helped lay before Democratic representatives John Tunney and Alan Cranston plans for establishing an office of Secretary of Education. Discussing the need for such an office with the press, Soghomon- ian said, “The National Education Association, for several decades, has been distressed about the fact that the priorities of administra¬ tions, in the executive branch, have dealt with highways, welfare, health; all legitimate needs, but never has there been a high priority for education.” Education, he indicated, has always been lumped in with the latter two headings. “We have made studies of the time allotments of the secretaries of health, education and welfare. Never has a secretary given more than 15 per cent of his time to education. “Several organizations, including the NEA, National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and state boards of education, are focusing on the need for a cabinet level secretary who is directly responsible to the President. “It would mean that one of the principle issues of the govern¬ ment would be education. Government resources would be used to ameliorate differences between high and low quality educational opportunities in the community. “Case in point: Education is funded by property taxes today. In Beverly Hills, a $2 property tax produces $1200 for each child in school. In Baldwin Park, a $4 property tax only raises $600 per child. “It’s so bad that when you look around the United States, you can see that property tax is no longer a viable way to support public education. “We’re saying that what we need is a massive federal input. At least one third of the cost of education in America should be borne by the federal government, one third by the state, and one third by the local district. That will have a very salutary effect on the quality of education.” Follow Transfer Procedures To Insure College Admission By DAVID SLOCUM — Courier Photo by D. Slocum A SIDING PANEL from atop the C Building extends from the win¬ dow of 158C. The siding was blown through the window last Monday by high winds. Fortunately no one was injured. Wind Rips Roof Paneling; Crashes Through Windows