PCC Courier, March 14, 1980

VOL. 49. NO. 6 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MARCH 14, 1980 CONGRATULATIONS ON SAVING ENERGY— Burton Moffitt (shoyvn right), PCC chief engineer, receives the Southern California Gas Company's "CON¬ CERN" award from from Paul Phillips (shown behind Moffitt), gas company representative. The award is presented to congratulate the business services depart¬ ment on its conservation of natural gas. — Courier photo by Dave Clarke Engineer Receives Award For PCC Gas Conservation Up 122 From Fall Semester PCC Enrollment Increases In the Fall of 1977, 6,979 students dead, according to Phyllis C. Jackson, Colleges Review Runner's Records See Story on Page 4 Board of Trustees Defers Budget Cut ★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Trustees Decide I. C C President Resigns Position posed previously were replaced by “equivalencies” of hourly and tem¬ porary employees and retiring per¬ sonnel. In addition, the foreign language (Continued from Page 6) Those posts cut back to 1 1 months are the dean of personal services; the dean of extended day and summer sessions; the dean of instructional services; the dean of occupational services; the supervisor of the community adult training center; the head librarian; the dean of extended campus programs; the nursing depart¬ ment chairperson; the coordinator of oc¬ cupational education support services; the dean of admissions and records; the dean of counseling; two psychologists; and the coordinator of scholarships and financial aid. “It’s not because of what’s been going on lately,” said Miss Nishi in an earlier interview. This statement re¬ ferred to the revocation of approx¬ imately 30 club charters last semester. The legality of her decision is being questioned. Instead, she said she is resigning because “I really don’t have the time to spend. It’s a question of priority.” The ICC had been quite inactive before Miss Nishi was elected presi¬ dent last fall. It had been “practically The Southern California Gas Com¬ pany presented its energy conservation award to PCC Chief Engineer Burton Moffitt at last Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Moffitt received the gas company’s “CONCERN” award for his depart¬ ment’s cutback of 24 percent of its annual gas comsumption. The cutback equals an annual reduction of 78.3 million cubic feet of natural gas. The award was presented to the Boiler House engineer by the com¬ pany’s district manager Paul Phillips. “CONCERN” is an abbreviation for “Conserve Our Nation's Crucial Re¬ sources Now.” The presentation of the award followed a dinner attended by Moffitt and several gas company of¬ ficials. Moffitt said that his department has been involved in energy cutback meas¬ ures in both gas and electricity since 1976 when the price of fuel lor PCC rose 15 percent as compared with a 16 percent decrease in the school’s con- By Rebecca Lockie Contributing Writer Pasadena Community Census Day, a conference to inform area citizens about the 1980 Census, will be held March 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the PCC Campus Center. Co-sponsored by M.E.Ch.A. and the Association of Hispanics Organized for Raza Advancement, the day-long con¬ ference aims to “emphasize the im¬ portance of the 1980 Census to the students of PCC and the many com- By Laura Carlos Staff Writer Four PCC students were selected this semester as winners of the Com¬ munity College Awards program which is sponsored by Bank of America and the Community College Awards Com¬ mittee. Roxanne Mareck, art major, David Rugglerss, business major, Scott An¬ derson, nursing major and Steve Schelpf, science and engineering ma¬ jor, were the top students selected in their fields to represent the college. The next area competition will be held March 26, at the University Hilton in Los Angeles. The selection process begins at the individual community colleges where the top students from each of the following fields— business, science-en¬ gineering, social science-humanities and technical-vocational are selected by a faculty committee to represent their fields. “Now the next competition level will be to compete regionally with other community colleges in the area,” said Ms. Mareck. At this level, winners in each catego¬ ry from approximately nine neighbor¬ ing community colleges will partici¬ pate in group discussions on topics related to their particular field before a judging panel of business and civic leaders. “At the first level you had to respond to questions extemporaneously regard¬ ing business and economic issues,” said Rugglerss. “However, at the next level there will be a broader area of questioning, and it will be a great deal more intense than this level.” sumption. In 1977 the Boiler House, the control center for the heating and cooling of PCC, began to manually shut down areas of the campus where electricity, was not needed. The manual shutdowns have saved the college $62,966 yearly, a number roughly equal to 1,397,886 of kilowatt hours. But despite the cutbacks, the college is still paying almost double for elec¬ tricity now than what it was paying at the beginning of the year. “What’s really killing us are the cost increases (of electricity),” said Moffitt. Because of the efforts in conserva¬ tion of natural gas, PCC has saved over $290,000 on its recent gas bill. But Moffitt feels that this is not enough and he is still trying to enlarge his energy conservation program, which the gas company termed as “an aggressive energy management program.” Moffitt thinks people should realize “we’re (the nation is) in a crisis and we’re going to have to do something.” munity organizations,” said Charles N. Sifuentes, M.E.Ch.A. Census coordi¬ nator. The Mexican American Legal De¬ fence and Education Fund will provide “AHORA SI,” a 50-minute slide show featuring the 1980 Census. Also shown will be “Invisible Americans," a slide presentation from the California Census Project. Ellis Jones, mayor of Pasadena, will be present along with speakers repre- ( Continued on Page 6) Rugglerss plans to continue his stud¬ ies in professional accounting at Cal State L.A. Area winners will be determined by the results of the group discussions, academic performance and records of participation in co-curricular and com¬ munity activities. “We were given a hypothetical situ¬ ation and asked to solve it. The situ¬ ation was discussed and debated in a group, and we were judged on how well we could articulate and were able to express our opinions," said Ms. Mareck. Ms. Mareck plans to continue her art studies at California Institute of the Arts. “Any money I receive will be for my tuition there,” Ms. Mareck said. “I would like to get my master's degree from Cal-Arts and have more exposure to different schools." Two students from each of the four fields will be selected as area winners and advance to the final selection event. All other participants will re¬ ceive a cash award of $150. Final first place winners in each field will receive an award of $2,500 with second place’ students receiving $1,500 and the third place winners receiving $1,000. All other finalists will receive $500. “Any money I’m fortunate enough to receive will definitely go for school related expenditures," said Scott An¬ derson. Anderson plans to continue his stud¬ ies and obtain his master’s in nursing from the Cal State San Francisco. To further carry on his department’s attempts to save energy and money for the school, Moffitt has suggested the purchase of a computer which would automatically shut down energy trav¬ eling to areas where it is not needed. By Charles Egan Contributing Writer Enrollment figures for spring semester have reached a final figure of 19,123 according to the admissions of¬ fice. The majority, 11,709, are enrolled in daytime classes while 7,771 are enrolled in nighttime classes. Opening day enrollment figures for spring semester are up 122 or nearly 1 percent from last semester, according to Dr. Irvin G. Lewis, vice president of Student Personnel Services. On the first day of classes 16,902 students were registered as compared to the 16,780 that were enrolled on the first day of the fall semester. Eight hundred and eight of these 16,902 were new students. Lewis expects total enrollment to level off between 18,500 and 19,000. as it has done since ’76-77 school year. Enrollment rose over 20,000 during the 76-77 school year, but has since hovered around the 18,500 mark. Enrollment figures include day and evening students, as well as credit and non-credit classes. “I don’t think there will be another peak for at least another 10 op 15 years”, Lewis said. In 1954. when Lewis first arrived at PCC, enrollment stood at approximately 6.600. Over the next 25 years, that figure tripled, but “That’s pretty much my general plan, although everything is subject to change. I try to remain as flexible* as possible and ever since 1 started the program my primary interest has been to obtain my master's in nursing.” said Anderson. The Board of Trustees once more postponed a final decision on the 1980-81 budget at its meeting last Thursday. They met again last night to finalize the selection of budget cuts to reach the more than $2.7 million cut goal for a 10 percent cut. The reason for the present cut is the possible passage of Jarvis II in June. If “Jaws II” passes, PCC could lose over 25 percent of its projected income for this year. Although the Trustees have said they would have liked more time to consider the budget, ail termination or change of assignment notices for certificated personnel must be sent out by tomor¬ row at the latest. While the Board had hoped for a reprieve from that deadline through Assembly Bill 1745. the bill was killed in the State Senate Commit¬ tee on Education, said Dr. Richard S. Meyers, PCC superintendent-presi¬ dent. “It seems that the Legislature in its apparent wisdom has failed to pass AB 1745,” Dr. Meyers said. “That bill would have allowed boards of trustees to make personnel decisions after they would have known their budget.” AB 1745 would have allowed junior colleges to issue notices after the June election rather than by tomorrow. In this way, PCC’s administration has argued, the college could have sent out the proper number of notices after learning exactly what its budgeted funds would have been. At the March 3 Board meeting, the cutting proposals studied by the Trustees included a large number of Lewis is quick to point out that statistics are misleading. “There are more students now,” he states, “but they are-not carrying as heavy a load. More are attending part-time." Figures from all 1977 compared to 1979 prove Lewis correct. By Madeline Franco Staff Writer As teacher negotiations continue here at PCC and problems arise around the county over salaries and contracts, a local retired schoolmistress looks back at the conditions of educators 50 years ago. In the 1920s, no student was con¬ sidered to have an education unless he “finished all his books,” meaning he could read, capably, spell correctly, write in a clear and even script and handle almost anything less than calcu¬ lus in his head. Regarding her teaching agreement, she said. “There never were any ques- Schelpf was not available for com¬ ment. The Community College Awards is a statewide program designed to recog¬ nize outstanding second-year college students in the fields previously men¬ tioned. termination notices in the plan. How¬ ever, “Alternate F,” proposed at the March 6 meeting, only would send notices for one-half full-time equivalent positions. John S. Madden, dean of personnel, said the large number of notices pro- The Board of Trustees passed a resolu¬ tion to eliminate seven positions and cut¬ back 17 others from 12-month to 11- month jobs. The resolution eliminated KPCC’s general manager; the athletic director and department chairperson from both men’s and women’s physical education; the chairpersons from the life and physical sciences departments; the assis¬ tant chairperson of the social sciences department; and the coordinator of cooperative education. By Karrie Sterrett Contributing Writer Shannon Nishi, Inter-Club Council President, resigned because of person¬ al reasons at last week's meeting. attended full-time, 11,459 part-time. In the Fall of 1979, two years later, the number of full-time students dropped to 6,004. while the number of part-time students rose to 18,552. (A student (Continued on Page 6) tions asked." Teachers were paid the sum of $75 a month. There was no such thing as arbi¬ tration over salaries or contracts five decades ago. Teaching was an honor. The contract' was strict, but Mrs. Smith did not think it was unbearable. "I didn't do half the things the contract said we shouldn't anyway." She taught mainly in small com¬ munities and added, “If you were caught doing something you weren't supposed to. the whole town found out immediately." She did, however, con¬ fess to going dancing and playing cards. "I played bridge once a week with some other teachers, but we never Developed by Bank of America and the Community College Awards Com¬ mittee, this program includes more than 160,000 second-year students from virtually all of California’s 105 com¬ munity colleges and with cash awards exceeding $117,000 annually. ICC adviser and dean of student ac¬ tivities. Miss Nishi is staying on as a repre¬ sentative in ICC and also as publicity chairman. “I'd like to see it (ICC) continue to grow,” she added. made the papers.” The teacher's contract of 1923 looked like this: This is an agreement between Miss _ teacher and the Board of Education of the _ school, whereby Miss _ agrees to teach in the _ school for a peri¬ od of eight months, beginning Sept. 1, 1923. The Board of Education agrees to pay Miss _ the sum of $75 per month. Miss _ agrees: 1. Not to get married. This contract becomes null and void immediately if teacher marries. 2. Not to keep company with men. 3. To be at home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. unless in atten¬ dance at a school function. 4. Not to loiter downtown in ice cream stores. 5. Not to leave town at any time without the permission of the Chair¬ man of the Board of Trustees. 6. Not to smoke cigarettes. This contract becomes null and void im¬ mediately if teacher is found smoking. 7. Not to drink beer, wine or whiskey. This contract becomes null and void immediately if teacher is found drinking beer, wine or whiskey. 8. Not to ride in a carriage with any man except her brother or father. 9. Not to dress in bright colors. 10. Not to dye her hair. 11. To wear at least two petticoats. 12. Not to wear dresses more than two inches above the ankle. 13. To keep the classroom clean: a. to sweep the classroom floor at least once daily. b. to scrub the classroom floor with hot water and soap at least once weekly. c. to clean the blackboard at least once daily. d. to start the fire at 7 a.m. so the room will be warm at 8 a.m. when the children arrive. 14. Not to use face powder, mascara or paint . . . It is hard to imagine abiding by such a contract today. Mrs. Smith advised, “If the schools hired people with good quality from the beginning, rules wouldn't be necessary and they would have nothing to worry about.” But then again maybe such strict policies were not so bad, after all kids used to graduate knowing how to read, whereas they are now at college level with the reading skills of a fifth grader and have to bring a pocket calculator to MacDonald's. Courier photo by Robbi Steuhmer — Courier photo by Leure Curios STUDENTS GO FOR SCHOLARHSIPS — David to represent their fields at the Area Competition March Rugglerss, Roxanne Mareck (left picture) and Scott 26 to be sponsored by Bank of America. Anderson (right picture) were the top students selected Population Count Marks 20th Decennial Census Four Students Selected to Represent Teaching Contracts: Now They Aren't Anything Like They Were Yesterday PCC in Area Competition