PCC Courier, March 12, 1976

Socialists Seek Sanction to Sell By Anthony Sibcrt Staff Writer Representatives from the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), a chartered club at Pasadena City College, ap¬ peared before the Board of Trustees last week with the accusation that certain PCC administrators were restricting the sales of their club literature and newspapers, “Militant” and “Young Socialist,” according to club president Joanne Tortorici. Ms. Tortorici claimed that the ad¬ ministrators had based their action on an interpretation of Section 9021 of the Education Code. This section gives the board the right to deny any solicitation on campus if the sponsoring organization is “not directly under the control of the school authorities.” The board may approve solicitation from organizations if the group is a “non-partisan, charitable organization Dramas Set Next Week A recital in Italian and an English Language skit, both patterned after Medieval performances, will be pre¬ sented Thursday at noon in R121 as part of the Foreign Language Depart¬ ment cultural hour series. Entitled “The Dawn of Modern Theater,” the program is designed to explore the roots of contemporary drama. Both the Italian language, “Sacra Rappresentaziore,” and the skit from the “Comedia del Arts” were selected to provide the audience with a view of early theater, said Dr. Carmen Brunol, foreign language instructor. The “Sacra Rappresentaziore” represents the first form of present day drama, Dr. Brunol added. The religious theme readings were written and performed for the townspeople in the main squares of Italian cities during the medieval centuries. “Fiddling on a Hot Tin Roof,” a satire on the Comedia del Arts “Comedy of Errors,” comprises the second part of the performance. The parody on the medieval theater form will provide a contrast to the simpler Italian reading. Performers in the “Sarca Rappre¬ sentaziore” include Dr. Brunol; her Asian Club Offers Film The Asian Affairs Club will present the Felix Green film, “Peoples Ar¬ my,” in the student cafeteria at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18. Students and non-students are in¬ vited to attend the complimentary film. A question and answer period, led by Howard Harrison of the Political Science Department at Whittier College, will follow the film. The film shows the Chinese educational and cultural revolution. Green won an international award for his first film about China in 1963. The Times Literary Supplement, a British Journal, said, “Green is a reporter of immense reputation, and the reputation is fully justified. Everything he has to say is true and important.” Green roamed China with his family for five months in 1972, traveling to remote areas where no Westerner had visited for 20 years. His numerous films have been shown on Channel 28 in addition to being presented in several California colleges and universites. MINERAL SALE Quartz crystals, geodes, colemanite, copper ore and various exotic minerals will be up for sale in the Quad for the next several Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ranging in price from 25 cents to $3, the money collected from the sale of the minerals will go for equipment to furnish the new geology sub¬ department now under construction. daughter, Anna Brunol; and Italian foreign student, Ilaria Pulini. A group of students recruited from Italian classes will provide the chorus for the performance. Slides of major art works and Italian scenery photographed by Art Department chairman Richard Cassady will provide a background for the recital. The farce on the Comedia del Arts will be performed by drama students Holly Caldwell, Steve Caldwell and Bill Quinones. All students are invited to the program. More information is available from the Foreign Language Department in R225. Forum on 'Loving, Knowing' Dr. Ralph Hallman, chairman of the Social Science Department and Dr. Margaret Bennett, social science professor, will discuss “The Art of Loving, the Act of Knowing” March 17 in C301. The program is scheduled for 9 a.m. and is part of the Social Science Forum, which is open to everyone. The Forum will operate on a “question-discussion” basis with social science professor John Snyder as moderator. Dr. Hallman will ask the question, “What is the meaning of life?” Dr. Bennett will discuss the points Dr. Hallman makes in his attempt to answer the question. Dr. Hallman has been a member of the PCC faculty since 1946. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University and received his Ph D. from Claremont Graduate School. His research in the philosophy of art and creativity has resulted in 30 articles published in professional journals, and one book, “Psychology of Literature.” He is working on a second book, “Edu¬ cation and Creativity.” Dr. Bennett is a California state licensed psychologist in marriage, family and child counseling, who serves on the psychologist panel of the Los Angeles County Superior Court and the Pasadena Community Plan¬ ning Council’s consortium on child care. She received a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in philosophy from UCLA. Her Ph.D. in psychology was obtained from Claremont Graduate School. At PCC, Dr. Bennett teaches child development, introductory psy¬ chology, personal and social adjust¬ ment and early childhood education. Social science professors Snyder and David Leary are responsible for the Social Science Forum. Leary says the forum provides opportunities /or students to reflect on a variety of social and cultural topics. organized for charitable purposes by an act of Congress or under the laws of the state; the purpose of the solicita¬ tion is non-partisan and charitable; and the solicitation has been approved by the county board of education or by the governing board of the school district in which the school is located.” “Interpreting this code in such a way that it restricts the sale of a campus group's newspaper and literature is unconstitutional and infringes upon our rights,” Ms. Tortorici said. The board decided to seek advice from County Counsel before making any decision. The YSA has contacted a lawyer and the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), according to Ms. Tortorici. YSA’s lawyer has refused to discuss the matter, and the ACLU could not be reached prior to the Courier’s publication deadline. Publications Sold Here The YSA started selling publications the first week of the second semester. “Some administrators stopped us from selling, saying we could not solicit our publications on campus,” Ms. Tortorici stated. The YSA sent a letter to the dean of student activities, John Eikenbery, late in February expressing the YSA’s desire to continue selling the publications. “We received Eikenbery’s reply that no group could sell a newspaper on campus,” Ms. Tortorici added. “Eikenbery told me personally that the rule prohibiting the YSA from selling publications also prevented the selling of other partisan publications. “I asked what partisan meant, and Eikenbery gave me examples of religious groups,” Ms. Tortorici said. Publications Sold Elsewhere Later, the YSA gave Eikenbery copies of court briefs in a case dealing with the right of selling socialist news¬ papers and literature on the campus of West Los Angeles College, according to Ms. Tortorici. “I told him that I would appreciate it if he would give the briefs to the school attorney,” she added. Eikenbery says he has been given authority by PCC President Dr. E. Howard Floyd to restrict groups from selling publications on campus. “I checked with the county counsel and sent a letter to the YSA telling them that I had decided to use Section 9021 in restricting the YSA from selling their newspaper and literature,” Eikenbery said. “I looked at the briefs that the YSA gave me and returned them, telling them they should see Dr. Floyd if they wanted to carry the matter further,” he went on. Dr. Floyd says that as of last Monday, he has not heard from the YSA, the YSA lawyer or from the ACLU. According to Ms. Tortorici, the YSA plans to send an open letter to Dr. Floyd urging him to “rectify this abridgement of student, staff and faculty freedoms.” A petition has already been drafted and circulated in support of the YSA cause. “All we want,” says Ms. Tortorici, “is free press and free speech. “If we can't win this by a pressure campaign, then we definitely plan to take this to court,” she concluded. —Courier Photo by Jon Van Bogart SOCIALIST LITERATURE CONTROVERSY— Gary Sanza, right, ex¬ plains the Young Socialist Alliance's position to fellow student Tom Xelowski. The club is involved in a controversy with the Board of Trustees concerning the right to sell literature on the PCC campus. Board Accepts Study Report Suggests Pay Changes The Board of Trustees has accepted for study the first report since 1968 on classifications and salaries of PCC’s classified employees made by Grif- fenhagen-Kroeger Inc., consultants. Compiled at the cost of $11,250, the report is based on 371 positions. It recommends no salary adjustments for 50 per cent of the classified jobs, an upward adjustment for 32 per cent and a downward adjustment for 18 per cent. Local Comparisons These percentages are determined by comparisons of PCC’s classified positions with those in 15 other surrounding community college districts, the Pasadena Unified School District, local businesses and industry and other organizations such as California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratories and Cal State L.A. “Good personnel policy dictates that classification and salary studies should be made periodically— ideally every five years— to correct inequities which occur as duties and respon¬ sibilities change in the classified staff,” says Lloyd L. Frisbie of the Personnel Department. Present employees in the 18 per cent downward adjustment group would become “Y” rated, or frozen, at their present salary levels until periodic blanket salary increases meet these levels, according to Frisbie. New employees would be hired into the 18 per cent group at the lower range recommended in the report, Frisbie added. Last year the Board granted a 7.2 per cent salary increase to PCC’s classified employees although the consumer price index, published monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, indicated a 10.85 cost of living increase for the same period. Fringe Benefits The difference is more than made up in fringe benefits, according to Frisbie. “PCC has an excellent fringe benefit program. Last year the Board decided to absorb a 23.87 per cent increase in the fringe benefit program,” Frisbie says. Salary negotiations between the Board and the classified employees are conducted by the Classified. Salaries Committee composed of seven classified employee representatives elected at large to serve one-year terms. The present committee chose Robert Gomperz, information officer, to serve as president from September 1, 1975, to August 31, 1976. Other committee members are Judy Gilbert, accounting clerk; Burley Johnson, carpenter; Kenneth Barnes, science laboratory assistant; Dorthy Bodo, Instructional Materials Center supervisor; Ellen Reynolds, student personnel services clerk and Jerald Matta, warehouse supervisor. Approximately half of the 360 in classified positions belong to Educational Assistants Association, headed by Frank Way, assistant stage technician. Another 40 have mem¬ bership in the local chapter of the California School Employees Association, headed by Nursing Department secretary Elizabeth White, according to Frisbie. Signatures Solicited for Handgun Control By David Willman Staff Writer Representatives from the Com¬ mittee for Handgun Control will be on campus Monday through Friday next week to solicit signatures for a han¬ dgun control initiative they hope to place on the November, 1976 ballot. Tables containing details of the initiative and supplementary literature will be set up in the Quad during daytime class hours. If passed, the “California Handgun Control Initiative” would institute a ban on the private possession of handguns. The ownership restriction hypothetically would go into effect January 1, 1978. Owners would have until December 31, 1977, to surrender their weapons for which they would be compensated. The initiative does allow members of the armed forces, law enforcement officers, private security guards and members of pistol clubs to possess the firearms, but pistol club members would be required to leave their guns locked up at their respective facilities. Other exceptions to the initiative’s restraints include collectors of antique handguns, state, county, or city operated museums and licensed merchants. Also, the use of handguns with blanks would be allowed in television or motion picture produc¬ tions. The initiative would not end the sale of handguns, as dealers would be able to obtain a license enabling them to continue buying and selling the weapons. 'West Side Story' Opens Tonight for Two-Weekend Showing —Courier Photo by Katie Shimada ENDEARS LOVER— Cassie Monsour strikes a classic “Juliet” pose in her role as Maria in the PCC production of “West Side Story which opens tonight at 8 in Sexson Auditorium. The show is a modern version of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” —Courier Photo by Pat Francis STREET GANG FIGHT— Bill Quinones, left, assaults Kevin Riley, center, in their roles as members of contending “West Side Story” street gangs. Milan Dragicevich, right, stands ready to help his side in his role of Bernardo, leader of the “Sharks.” —Courier Photo by Katie Shimada COMFORTS LOVER — Bill Davis, left, in role of Tony, comforts his lover, Maria, played by Cassie Monsour, right. Tony belongs to the “Jets” street gang that has just killed Maria’s brother, Bernardo. “West Side Story” features a cast of 31 PCC students.