AMS Croups Gather at PCC Today
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VOL. 18, NO. 7
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 13, 1963
Candidates Vie
for BMOC Spot
Lancers may make their choice
for Big Man on Campus this week
in penny voting in front of Sex-
son Auditorium.
Contestants for BMOC are Rich
Bond, president of Circle K, spon¬
sored by Chi Sigma; LaMoy^o
Durham, sponsored by Adelphi-
ans; Jeff Hess, former ASB vice-
president, backed by the Secretar¬
ial Club; and Eric Johnson, ASB
president, sponsored by Spartans.
Other candidates are Jan Perry,
AMS president, backed by Eta
Delta; Steve Rada, ASB vice-pres¬
ident, supported by SNAP; and
Larry Top j on, sponsored by the
Women’s Athletic Association and
the Women’s Letter Club.
The winner of the BMOC con¬
test will be determined by the
amount of money contributed. An¬
nouncement will be made at the
Associated Women’s Fashion
Show, “A Fling into Spring,”
Tuesday at noon in the lounge of
the Campus Center.
Money collected in the contest
will be placed in the AWS trea¬
sury for use in coming projects
and activities.
W. H. Auden Talks
on ‘Hero Image’
at Tuesday Forum
W. H. Auden, distinguished poet
and essayist, will discuss “Modern
Man; His Changing Hero Image”
Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Sexson Audi¬
torium.
The public is invited to the lec¬
ture which is part of the weekly
Tuesday Evening Forum series.
Auden has been termed the
“most impressive poet of his gen¬
eration” by critics. A recent New
York Herald-Tribune article said,
“No poet today is more sensitive
to the tensions of the age and
none expresses more memorably
and with such barbed, yet essen¬
tially healing wit, the inadequa¬
cies of our responses to it.”
His books of poems include
“The Orator,” “On This Island,”
W. H. AUDEN
. . . on hero image
“The Double Man,” “For the Time
Being,” “The Age of Anxiety,”
and “Nones.”
He has also written several
plays, including “The Dance of
Death,” “The Dog Beneath the
Skin,” and in collaboration with
Christopher Isherwood, “On the
Frontier.”
One of his more spectacular
achievements was the writing of
the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s
opera “The Rake’s Progress’ with
Chester Kallman. The opera is
based on the works of the 18th
century social satirist Hogarth.
In addition to his poetry and
essays, Auden has edited a num¬
ber of books. Among these are
“The Poet’s Tongue,” “The Viking
Series of Poets in the English
Language,” and “The Oxford
Book of Light Verse.”
Delegates Consider Problems,
Seek Solutions in Workshops
Men students from Southern California junior colleges
convene here today from 1 to 8 p.m. in Harbeson Hall for the
annual AMS Spring Convention. Opening the conven¬
tion is Southern California Junior College AMS President Jan
Perry, a PCC student.
After a general assembly dis¬
cussion workshops will be held.
Topics to be considered include
finance, intramural sports, serv¬
ice and social activities, and other
pertinent issues. Special empha¬
sis will be placed upon “How to
Circle K, Junior Execs
Aid Pasadena Cleaning
Circle
К
and the Junior Execu¬
tives Club will participate in
Project PAT Sunday.
Working with the Pasadena
Beautiful Association, the clubs
will wash the windows and the
front of the stores from Pasadena
Avenue to Oak Knoll Avenue.
About 50 men from the two
honorary service organizations
will help out in Project PAT,
which is so named because of St.
Patrick’s Day.
Make Your AMS More Effective.”
Following the discussions, din¬
ner and entertainment will be pro-
sided.
The purpose of the convention
is to give delegates the opportuni¬
ty to aid in formulating needed
recommendations.
In addition, the convention pro¬
vides a means for discussion of
problems encountered in govern¬
ment and activities and the seek¬
ing of solutions. President Perry
notes that the confab also helps
promote better relations among
Southern California junior col¬
leges.
The Southern California AMS
convenes in general session each
fall and spring. Each college has
one vote in the conference. Pro¬
posals are considered in general
sessions and voted upon. Observ¬
ers may attend and participate in
discussions.
READY TO GO? Looking over plans for Religion in Life Week are
Jim Haston, Linda Love, Miss Dorothea Emerson, adviser to the
Religious Activities Commission; Sue Berdahl, commissioner; and
David Pelligrin.
Discussions, Speeches Head
'Religion in Life’ Week
Speech Students to Defend
State Championship Saturday
Religion in Life Week, a time
set aside each year for promoting
moral and spiritual values among
college students, is being observed
here this week.
Sponsored by the Religious Ac¬
tivities Commission, the observ¬
ance provides students the oppor¬
tunity to participate in a number
of religious activities not usual¬
ly offered on campus.
“Religion in Your Life” is be¬
ing discussed by Dr. Paul Smith,
chairman of the speech depart¬
ment, and symposium members
at noon today in Harbeson Hall.
Other participants in the talk
include Dr. Camillus Angle, rabbi;
Ron Daly, Latter Day Saints In¬
stitute; Dr. Charles Ferah, Lake
Avenue Congregational Church;
Margaret O’Donnell, Newman
Club adviser; and Everett Sie-
grest, Christian Scientist.
Also planned for today is “Re¬
ligion and the History of Music”
to be discussed at 10 and 11 this
morning and 2 p.m. by Isobel
Smith of the music department.
All day tomorrow an open
Alpha Mu Gamma
Honors 5 Students
Five foreign language majors
were accepted into the ranks of
Alpha Mu Gamma on the basis
of outstanding scholaship.
Robert Carr, French student;
Gary Dolin, Rita Shipman, Clau¬
dia Workman, and Betty Yamada,
Spanish students, were initiated
Sunday at the home of Leslie
Koltai, chairman of the foreign
language department.
Basis for acceptance into the
honorary society is three “A’s” in
a college foreign language or
two “A’s” in college and one in
high school.
Officers elected at the meeting
were Dolin as president and Miss
Workman as secretary-treasurer.
house for all campus religious
clubs will be held in the Campus
Center.
Friday at noon in Harbeson
Hall John Christopher of the so¬
cial science department will lead a
panel discussion on “Compara¬
tive Religions.” Students from the
social science department and for¬
eign students will participate.
Also included in the Religious
Activities Week are bookstore and
library displays.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Lancer orators travel to Santa
Barbara this weekend to defend
PCC’s California championship.
Twelve students will participate
in the state individual and debate
championships.
At the Southern California de¬
bate championships at San Fer¬
nando State College last weekend
five PCC debate teams collected
11 wins competing against such
colleges as the University of
Southern California, Cal Western,
Chaffey, Brigham Young, and
LA State.
The debate team of Eric John¬
son and Bud Zeuschner were rat¬
ed superior. The teams of Nancy
Tooker and Evi Bean, Duke Dobbs
and Art Hewitt, and Jan Perry
and Marti Paskov placed with
excellence ratings.
There were no school team plac-
ings at the tournament. No in¬
dividual teams placed in the fi¬
nals.
Speech coach Ray Benoit ex¬
pressed hope that the debate
teams and individual orators
would repeat their win of last
year and recapture the California
junior college speech trophy this
weekend.
Scholarship Filing
Ends This Week
Students applying for various
community and school scholar¬
ships offered through PCC must
file applications with the dean of
guidance in 138C by Friday.
Scholarships available are a
$100 scholarship for women offer¬
ed by the Panhellenic Associa¬
tion; two $100 faculty association
scholarships to a graduating man
and woman; $250 Pasadena Busi¬
ness and Professional Women’s
scholarship for a woman gradu¬
ate.
Others are two $1000 scholar¬
ships for JC business graduates;
two Altadena Exchange Club $100
scholarships for graduates, one
man and one woman; 15 Pasadena
Education Association awards of
$100 each available to graduat¬
ing men or women.
The Pasadena Exchange Club
offers a $500 scholarship; the
American Legion Post 13 awards
$1000; the American Association
of University Women offer two
$100 scholarships to women grad¬
uates; the Altrusa International
ofers a $100 award to a woman
graduate, and many others.
Students should pick up appli¬
cations in 138C and check quali¬
fications before applying. All ap¬
plications are due by Friday.
Aerojet Awards
Awards of $125, $100, and $75
will be given to first year engi¬
neering, science, or mathemat¬
ics majors by the Aerojet-Azusa
Management Club. Those hav¬
ing a
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or better average must
apply by March 15 to be eligible.
Applications are available in
112C.
PCC Offers Greater Variety
of Literature > Ohlsen Says
PCC’s English department offers a greater variety of literature
courses than the majority of junior colleges, H. Woodrow Ohlsen,
chairman of the English department, told reporters at the Courier’s
weekly press conference.
The weekly press conference may be heard Thursday evening
at 7:45 over PCC radio station KPCS, 89.3 FM.
Although four-fifths of the English courses taught are in the
area of composition, he pointed out that the additional offerings are
nevertheless diverse.
Such classes as Modern Poetry, American Literature 30 A and B,
Masterpieces of Literature 44A,
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C, and D, English Literature A and
B, and Understanding Literature A and
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are given.
“In addition, all these courses except one will transfer to four
year colleges or universities,” he said.
Ohlsen revealed that the new Masterpieces of Literature course
dealing with religions of the world was proving successful. The
classes are smaller. Only 25 and 16 students are enrolled.
“Religion still discourages some students,” he said. “Or quite
often students associate religion with narrow-mindedness. Others
aren’t interested. Consequently, since it is labeled religious, many
won’t take it. Also, while it does transfer to LA State and the Uni¬
versity of California at Berkeley, it does not transfer to UCLA.”
Ohlsen had the following comments to make concerning other
topics:
Creative Reading Club: “We read things which are not read in
other classes. Students choose the material to be read. It is open
to any student.”
Courier: “I approve of anything which stimulates student thought
and even student emotion. This, however, often involves taking a
risk.”
Literary Contest: “The contest is now in its third year. We are
accepting entries in 109C in the categories of poetry, short stories,
and essays or articles.”