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PCC Courier, March 12, 1976
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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.