Students Need A ction A gainst Insanity
Board Calls
Courier Editorial
Judicial Council
Can Hit Problem
Anyone noticing certain actions of stu¬
dents around the campus recently might form
the impression that Pasadena City College
could be converted to either a garbage dump
or a mental institution by merely a change
in name.
Student conduct extended to new lows
last week with tree climbing and lawn-rolling
contests predominating on the east side and
noisy card playing, gambling, littering and
match book burning presenting a surrealistic
scene in the Campus Center lounge.
Now is the time for students to act if
there is to be any student action at all.
A truly responsible student body can han¬
dle the problem of student discipline within
itself with the help of, but not
total reliance on, the college ad¬
ministration.
The Men’s and Women’s Coun¬
cils and the Supreme Council, as
provided for in Article VI of the
ASB Constitution, need to be re¬
vived. The only way to handle
problems of student conduct is
through the councils.
There must be a means of pun¬
ishing the individuals responsi¬
ble for vandalism, littering, and
other misconduct without punish¬
ing the students in general as was
done last semester by the closing
of the lounge.
The responsibility for the situ¬
ation in the lounge rests with the
student body as a whole. Students
who enjoyed the relaxed, clean,
and quiet atmosphere, as it was
for a few weeks at the beginning
of the year, have given up with¬
out a fight.
It is time for ASB officers to
show leadership in giving the
lounge back to the students who
want a comfortable place for
study and relaxation. Instead of
thinking merely of their own per¬
sonal problem of not being able to
conduct a Board meeting in peace
and quiet, Board members should
also consider the students who
have been driven away from the
lounge by the antics of the card
players.
But student officers cannot
form the judicial councils without
a show of support from the gen¬
eral student body. If the students
are to insure a civilized standard
of conduct on the campus, sup¬
port must come from members of
all factions of the student body.
— Courier photo by Larry Watkins
IN THE BEST of lounge lizard traditions, Brian Tobin will probably
stomp out his cigarette on the floor because the two ash trays on
the table are just out of reach.
for Card Ban
The ASB Board emerged from an emer¬
gency session last Thursday with a recom¬
mendation that College President Armen
Sarafian act to prohibit card playing on the
PCC campus.
The special session was called by ASB
President Steve Scott after administration
officials seized money and cards that were
being used for gambling in the Campus Cen¬
ter. This and several other factors were men¬
tioned in the Board recommendation.
In calling Dr. Sarafian to act, Board mem¬
bers noted that “damage to furniture in the
Campus Center lounge has resulted in an ex¬
penditure of over $1000 for repairs.” Rowdy
card players have been blamed for this damage
at recent Board meetings.
The recommendation also cited interrup-
I Coutieb
Vol. 24, No. 7
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
March 16, 1966
Delegates Dominate At t ion at
Area 4 Government Meeting
Twenty PCC delegates trekked
to LA Valley College for the Area
4 Student Government Confer¬
ence, March 4. The purpose of
this and similar conferences is to
prepare legislation for the Cal¬
ifornia Junior College Student
Government Association Confer¬
ence held shortly after each of the
eight regional meetings.
PCC dominated much of the
conference from both the floor
and rostrum. In addition to Lee
Rosen, Area 4 treasurer, PCC sent
Rich Wheeler and Dave Carroll
who participated as workshop
chairmen. Wheeler and Carroll
had also led workshops in last
semester’s PCC-hosted confer¬
ence. Rosen headed the finance
workshop. Wheeler the orienta-
Scalapino to Discuss
Far Eastern Affairs
Dr. Robert A. Scalapino, Po¬
litical Science Department chair¬
man at the University of Califor¬
nia, Berkeley, and a specialist in
Far Eastern affairs, will discuss
the topic, “Battle of Giants: Rus¬
sia and China” at the Tuesday
Evening Forum next Tuesday at
8 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium.
His talk will be a highlight of
the forum season. Currently in
its twenty-ninth year of outstand¬
ing programs for the community,
the forum has been managed by
David Reidy, Dr. William B.
DR. ROBERT SCALAPINO
. . . Asian expert
Langsdorf, John E. Twomey, Dr.
Lowell F. Barker, and since 1957,
Dr. Ralph J. Hallman, chairman
of the Social Science Department.
Dr. Scalapino has earned many
distinctions in his illustrious ca¬
reer. He is editor of the journal,
Asian Survey, and serves as con¬
sultant to the Governmental Af¬
fairs Institute. He has been award¬
ed research grants by the Social
Science Research Council and by
the Carnegie and Rockefeller
Foundations. He has also been a
consultant for the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund, the Ford Founda¬
tion, and the American Assembly
at Columbia University.
For 20 years Dr. Scalapino has
traversed most of the Orient,
Asia, and Africa, gaining a knowl¬
edge of the people and the politi¬
cal climate of the individual coun¬
tries and the areas as a whole. He
has also been a guest lecturer at
Korea, Hong Kong, Manila, Ma¬
laya, and Japan universities.
He is a member of the Ameri¬
can Political Science Association,
the Foreign Policy Association,
the Institute of Pacific Relations,
and he is on the board of directors
of the Association for Asian
Studies.
The public is invited without
charge.
tion of new students workshop,
and Carroll the community-college
image workshop.
PCC passed several important
resolutions. Among them was a
request authored by Senate presi¬
dent Shelley Linderman, for all
junior colleges to adopt a quarter
system of education.
OMD Sets Sail
for 'Paradise'
Freshman Lancer Cheri Rich¬
mond is the OMD “Guess the
Theme” contest winner, and $10
richer. Cheri was informed of her
fortune last Thursday evening.
Her lucky guess came closest to
the correct theme title.
A “Polynesian Paradise” will be
the setting of this year’s OMD
Carnival, May 6, on Horrell Field.
Frank Eastman, carnival booth
chairman, urges all clubs on cam¬
pus to participate, and to turn in
their booth preference forms as
soon as possible. Organizations
that have not yet applied and
that do wish to participate in the
carnival are urged to contact
OMD or ICC representatives soon.
‘Murcfer’ Stages
in Sexson Aud.
PCC’s first major theater arts
production of the semester, “Mur¬
der in the Cathedral,” will be pre¬
sented Friday and Saturday in
Sexson Auditorium at 8 p.m.
The play, written by T. S. Eliot,
revolves around the rise to power
and subsequent murder of Arch¬
bishop Thomas a Becket.
Michael Rapport, drama major,
plays a powerful but humble
Becket. Other lead roles will be
played by Lee Collins, Keith
Erickson, Bruce McGuire, and
Sam Trussell.
The cast of 20 includes an all¬
girl, 11-member verse choir for
an unusual narration of the play.
Sets for the presentation will
be augmented by a multi-level
unit with frontal arches design¬
ed to convey the impression of the
inside of an eleventh century
cathedral.
Admission is free with an ASB
card, $1 without.
Another resolution submitted
by Pasadena and passed in the
general assembly asked that local
boards have control of political
organizations on campus. The res¬
olution was drafted by AMS pres¬
ident Bill Meyers and David Lai-
dig. A similar piece of legisla¬
tion was passed by the state leg¬
islature last year but was pocket-
vetoed by Gov. Edmund G. Brown.
All resolutions passed at the
Area 4 conference will be sent to
the state conference, March 31
to April 2, in San Diego. Each of
the 80 juniors colleges in Cali¬
fornia will send five delegates to
that conference.
The state CJCSGA has much in¬
fluence, as it comprises approxi¬
mately 70 per cent of all junior
colleges in the nation, and all its
passed resolutions go to its par¬
ent organization, the California
Junior College Association, which
has a professional lobby in the
state legislature in Sacramento.
tion of the ASB Board meetings
(by boisterous conduct of the card
players) and the “daily increase
of litter surrounding card tables”
as reasons for the suggested ban
on card playing.
The problem of student conduct
in the Campus Center was fresh
in the ASB officers’ minds. A
committee was formed during
their regular Board meeting at
11 o’clock that morning to work
out a policy of conduct that would
end the chronic disturbance pat¬
tern the Board faces in its regu¬
lar meeting each week.
Even though they were amused
at reports of Lancers in the “pit”
and mirror pool areas climbing
trees, the officers voted Thurs¬
day morning to form a committee
to study campus conduct and en¬
forcement of the dress code.
In reference to the recent con¬
duct, Dr. Sarafian said, “In the
past, PCC students have shown
mature conduct in handling many
problems, and I am confident
that, beginning with this recog¬
nition of the problem of student
discipline, a viable solution will
be achieved.
“Gambling is against the penal
code of the state and therefore
is already illegal. If we are to
ban card playing for disciplinary
reasons, the final decision must
rest on a broad base of student
and faculty opinion.”
The issue of noise during Board
meetings has been under constant
discussion since the semester be¬
gan. Board opinion up until last
week’s action tended toward re¬
striction of card playing in cer¬
tain areas — such as the balconies.
Last semester, attempting to
call student attention to the prob¬
lems of furniture destruction and
lounge cleanliness, the Board
closed the lounge for two weeks.
The typical reaction of students to
that move was, “They’re just try¬
ing to be big shots.”
Campus Corner
PLAYBOY VS. CHRISTIAN
IN WEEKEND CONFAB
“The Playboy Philosophy vs.
the Christian Faith,” a retreat or¬
ganized by PCC’s College Y, is
open to all students who wish to
sign up with Craig Travis at 447-
5427. The cost will be $8.50 per
person and transportation will be
provided from the Campus Center
at 6:45 a.m. Saturday. The re¬
treat will be held at the YMCA
Winter Lodge, and will be con¬
ducted by the Rev. William Allen-
der.
PROM THEME
CONTESTED
The Social Affairs Commission
is sponsoring a theme contest to
name the Freshman-Sophomore
Prom. Entry blanks may be
picked up in 111C or in 212 in the
Campus Center. Deadline for en¬
tries is tomorrow.
use INTERVIEWS
BUS AD MAJORS
Dean Himstreet of the USC
School of Business will be on
campus March 22 to interview bus¬
iness administration transfers. He
will be in 146C from 9:30 to noon
and in 110B from 1 to 4 p.m. Sign
up for an interview in 138C with
Mrs. Laura Holty, counselor.
MOBY DICK'
SCREENS MONDAY
The motion picture, “Moby
Dick,” will be shown next Mon¬
day at 3:45 and 7:30 p.m., in Sex¬
son Auditorium. Sponsored by
the English Council, the movie is
a literary epic based on Herman
Melville’s classic novel.
Tickets are on sale for 50 cents
in the English Department office,
109C.
According to H. Woodrow Ohl-
sen, chairman of the department,
proceeds will support English
scholarships and awards and Eng¬
lish Council projects.
RELIGIOUS CLUB
REPS MEET
The Religious Activities Com¬
mission will hold a meeting in
the ASB board room at noon to¬
morrow to discuss its program
for this semester. All religious
clubs on campus are urged to
have representatives present.
