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Hubner Under Siege;
Appointment Probed
VOL. 35, NO. 20
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
MARCH 16, 1973
Trustees Vote for
Registration Fees
By John David
Staff Writer
Martha Hubner’s job as PCC's
Athletice Commissioner is endangered
Beginning next September, PCC’s
general interest classes will cost
students $5 per semester.
The Board of Trustees voted five to
one at last week’s meeting to charge
registration fees for these classes.
Classes which will be affected in¬
clude art. crafts, homemaking, hor¬
ticulture, investments, music,
preparation for travel, health, foreign
language and small group in¬
volvement.
The original proposal by Trustee
Charles F. Eckels was to charge each
person enrolled in a non-credit class $5
per class.
“Personally, I think it’s a very small
fee,” said J. Ray Risser, president of
the Board. “1 think we’ll have more
interested people, teachers will get
along better, enrollment will not drop
off so fast, classes will have more
value for teachers .and students and
the colleges.
“There certainly won't be any ob¬
stacle financially because trans¬
portation, meals and lunches between
periods sometimes amount to more
than that,” said Risser.
Pleading to retain the open door
policy which PCC has observed for
almost 50 years, Trustee Walter T.
Shatford II said, “I don’t see this
crying urgent necessity. Instead of
saying we’re going to follow everybody
else down this road, why don’t we
stand out like a lighthouse and say,
Pasadena is the place where we realize
the value of education, credit or non¬
credit."
"And if we’re the only community
college in the state, we’ll stand alone
and we’ll stand for what’s right and not
just for what everybody else does,”
Shatford concluded.
After much deliberation the Board
finally agreed to change the motion to
state $5 per semester registration fee
instead of per class. Shatford cast the
only dissenting vote.
In February, the Office of Contin¬
uing Education, under the direction of
Dean Herman L. Smith, conducted a
survey to determine how people at¬
tending PCC adult education classes
felt about paying fees.
Responses were varied. Favorable
comments included, “I believe every
effort should be made, including the
charging of reasonable tuition if it is
essential to continue adult classes. It
is very rewarding to the student to
participate in such classes of truly
volunteer interested' participants. It is
aiso certainly beneficial to the com¬
munity to contiue the education of
their citizens.”
Another favorable comment was,
“These classes are as much a benefit
to us as the credit classes are to the
people who take credit classes. More
so at times.”
Comments not so favorable in¬
cluded, "We have paid very high
school taxes all our married life. Now
that I am in a position to attend this
non-credit class, I resent having to pay
again. If I have to pay for this class, I
will, but I’ll do it unwillingly. Besides,
won’t the fee be used for paperwork?
Eliminate the paperwork and elimi¬
nate the fee! Is someone trying to
create jobs? If paying a fee will reduce
my taxes, believe me, I’ll pay it
gladly!”
Also, “I have such a low income I
could not afford to attend if I had to
pay. The fees are not high enough for
all that I have learned in this class—
except for one thing— I cannot afford to
pay."
And, “Have Reagan use the surplus
for public schools rather than reim¬
bursing taxpayers.”
TV Producer Speaks in
Telecom Class Monday
Don Widener, president of Probus
Producations and independent
producer for KNBC-TV, will give a
presentation on the techniques used
and the problems encountered in the
making of documentaries next Mon¬
day.
According to Dr. Robert Wright, an
instructor in PCC’s Communications
Department, Widener has accepted an
invitation to appear in Wright’s Radio
and TV News and Public Affairs class.
The program Room C-126 and begins
at 6:40 p.m.
Part of Widener’s presentation will
be the showing of a documentary
he produced. He has two in mind. One
is a promotional piece on Tahiti
narrated by Marlon Brando. This is a
rare appearance by Brando who
seldom does work for television.
The other film is a controversial
report on the drawbacks and potential
uses of atomic energy. It is entitled
“Power Play.” Neither of these
productions has been shown publicly
before.
Widener is an experienced producer
who has been doing documentaries for
several years and has won' numerous
awards. Among these is the DuPont
Award which he received in 1969 for
the film “Slow Guillotine” Narrated by
Jack Lemmon.
Ancient Science of Soul Travel
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Is death man’s only ticket to the
heavenly regions? Not necessarily so,
according to ECKANKAR, or ECK.
“The Ancient Science of Soul Travel”
will be the topic of lecture and
Students Help
To Transform
Older House
The Showcase House, sponsored by
the Pasadena Philharmonic and in¬
volving the work of noted professional
designers, will for the second time
benefit from the remodeling talents of
PCC students.
The Showcase House is the
miraculous transformation of a
specially selected older house into a
showplace through original design
efforts.
Jaqueline Coate and Charlsie Finn,
PCC interior design students, were
chosen from among 16 other students
to add their original design work to this
year’s Showcase House.
Last year's showcase project was
the first time PCC students were in¬
vited to participate in this challenging
experience. The resulting display
appeared in Designer’s West Magazine
and Sourcebook, two professional
trade magazines.
This opportunity for PCC students
was made possible largely through a
donation by the Pasadena chapter of
American Institute of Designers
(AID). Kenneth Schwab, education
chairman for AID, was responsible for
arranging this S150 loan.
The Showcase House is a Green and
Green architectural design, styled
along the same classical lines
reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright.
The girls will be able to use one room
and a bathroom in creating their
display. Don Munz, interior design
instructor at PCC, says that their
work, although still in the planning
stages, should be an original rendition
of basic design concepts. “Basically it
will be a potting house,” he says, “with
spring fixtures and bright colors
combining with the wood textures.”
The Showcase House will be open to
the public on March 16, and will
remain open for approximately two
weeks. Located at 1188 Hillcrest in San
Marino, the house should be a dazzling
example of professional trends as well
as original student ideas.
discussion on Tuesday, March 20 at
noon in R121.
Throughout history, mankind has
been told that the normal evolutionary
procedure is asscension into heaven
after death. But according to ECK, the
heavenly worlds are comprised of
several planes of existence, each
denoting a certain amount of spiritual
growth and level of consciousness.
ECK is not a yoga, religion,
philosophy, metaphysical system or an
occult science. It does not use drugs,
hypnosis or other artificial means of
consciousness expansion,
expansion.
Man may, according to ECK beliefs,
through the practice of soul travel,
daily transcend his cloak of flesh and
roam unencumbered through the
mighty God worlds.
Soul travel is said to be the art of
shifting one’s attention away from the
material worlds into the worlds of true
beingness beyond energy, matter,
time and space.
Through the spiritual exercises of
ECK and the inner guidance of the
living ECK master, one proves
through his own experiences,
existence beyond the physical body
and begins his journey back through
the astral, causal, mental and etheric
planes to the Soul Plane, the source
from whence he came.
This is said to break his cycle of
karma and reincarnation and finally
lead him into total realization, the
state of total freesom and wisdom.
This lecture is open to all students
and faculty.
EEA Jobs
Now Opening
Students at PCC seeking em¬
ployment can apply for seven ad¬
ditional jobs provided by the federally
funded Emergency Employment Act.
Four of the jobs must be filled by
Vietnam veterans who have received
honorable discharges after August,
1964.
The jobs for veteran include
Technical Writer starting $771 a
month; Maintenance Man at $619 per
month; Account Clerk at $522 per
month, and Information Assistant at
$619 per month.
Further information on these em¬
ployment opportunities is availble in
the Department of Personnel Services,
Room C-215. Deadline for accepting
applications is Wednesday, March 21.
PCC’s Junior Executive Club is
beginning its spring membership drive
on Monday, March 15.
Robert Elftman, president of Junior
Executives and of Inter- Club Council,
is organizing the club along with
Business Department advisers Joe
Muha and Dr. Delman Bugelli.
Assisting them is Peter Darian of the
Pasadena Junior Chamber of Com¬
merce.
The club will help its members
develop insight into their prospective
business careers. Its activities will
concentrate on enhancing leadership
qualities within its members, an im¬
portant part of the business en¬
vironment.
Counseling Van Visits
Various High Schools
PHILIP WALKER
Commentator
Will Present
Tale of Trip
Philip Walker, cinematographer and
commentor. will present his film
“Journey in Denmark and
Greenland” at PCC’s Tuesday
Evening Forum on March 20.
The film, shown in Sexson
Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., takes the
viewer as far east as tiny Christian’s
Isle and Bornholm in the Baltic Sea,
and to Denmark’s western-most
possession, the world's largest island
of Greenland.
Sophisticated Copenhagen is in the
film with its famous “walking street”
where jet set and hippies mingle.
Castles and manor houses of Den¬
mark, the blue ribbon bacon farmers
of Funen and the story of Hans
Christian Andersen at Odense, are
subjects of Walker's film.
Greenland’s mountainous icecap
spews 17,000 year-old icebergs of
compressed snow into the bay at
Jakobshavn in the Artie Circle. Some
are 10 stories high and a city block
wide. There are twice as many sled
dogs at Jakobshavn as there are
people. The dogs live on one fresh fish
per day. ..a dried fish when no fresh
fish are obtainable.
Denmark, with four and one-half
million people, and the most densely
populated of the Scandinavian coun¬
tries, has one of the highest living
standards of the world - and no
illiteracy. There are no natural
resource, no mountains and very few
hills in Denmark. The country is all
islands except for the Jutlan Peninsula
which borders northwest Germany,
and is part of the European mainland.
Set in historical and modern day
settings, the film is mostly about
people. It is Walker’s 14th full-length
color motion picture of far away
places.
For further information call PCC at
795-6961, Ext. 261.
PCC’s counseling van will visit a
number of local high schools to
distribute information on the college to
prospective students in the area.
At the request of the high schools,
PCC’s moblie classroom becomes an
information center which
disseminates all types of information
to students on the high school cam¬
puses.
The van will be at Passadena High
School on Monday, Tuesday, and
Friday, and at Arcadia High School
Wednesday and Thursday.
The kinds of information available
from the van during its period as a
counseling vehicle include brochures
on a wide range of subjects, career
information, and audio-visual
material.
Students will also receive with first¬
hand information from the various
counselors who operate the van.
Each department is scheduled for a
half day this week to answer questions
about a specific program.
Department representatives and
counselors operate the van on a
rotating basis.
The information is supplemented by
applications to the college for those
who want them.
The van is only occasionally used for
publicity and recruitment for PCC. Its
primary function is that of a moblile
classroom specializing in consumer
education.
—Courier Photo by Mark Rohr
DENTAL TECH INFORMATION— Akira Kawai, dental technology
instructor, offers Pasadena High School student Donna Keefer
abundant literature on his department. The PCC Counseling van and
its representatives from various departments will be servicing high
schools in the area.
Elimination of Funds
Threatens Students
The student aid programs, par¬
ticularly the new Basic Opportunity
Grants (BOG), if eliminated, would
result in a loss of $600,000 in funds for
PCC. The already small number of
students who receive federal aid,
around 600, would be reduced even
more.
Awall of controversy surrounds such
programs particularly the new Basic
Opportunity Grants program (BOG).
Under this program, authorized by a
1972 law, any student who wishes to
continue an education beyond high
school, would be entitled to an award
$1400, “minus his expected family
contribution" determined according to
the family income and assets.
The propsals have been greeted with
sharp questioning in Congress, which is
actually debating them. One reason for
the criticism is, the proposed budget
does not include any funds for the
present student aid programs, the
National Direct Student Loan and the
Educational Opportunity Grants.
However under the same law that
authorizes the BOG program, such
program cannot be funded until the old
programs are first funded.
According to Mrs. Gene Miller, PCC
financial aids counselor, and en-
titlment program cannot operate as
such unless there is enough money.
She feels that the $622 million the
President is asking the BOGs is not
enough. “There has to be as much
money available as students who can
qualify,” says Mrs Miller.
The lack of funds in the BOG
program would reduce every student
award by a certain percentage, based
on the number of dollars available and
the number of students eligible.
Mrs. Miller believes BOG is a very
good program, with the appropriate
funds. For one thing, it would en¬
courage high cost schools to accept
more low income students. The school
funds distribution would indeed be
largely improved if the students could
partially support themselves with the
money given to them by the Federal
Government.
Beside the “accredited” colleges the
program also includes non-accredited
institutions such as vocational schools.
In Mrs. Miller’s opinion however, all
this will be of little or no use if the
already existing programs are not
retained along with the BOGs.
as ASB members are supporting a
drive to get her out of office.
The supreme council determined
that Ms. Hubner’s office is elective A
petition will be circulated to obtain
1,500 student signatures required to get
her out of office, according to Glen
Ehlig, sophomore vice president.
Ehlig feels that, “Because of her
inexperience in athletics and her"
unsympathic actions towards sports
activities, she is unfit to hold the of¬
fice.”
According to Glenn, Martha had
voted yes to a move to change R and R
Food Services, the food management
company that runs vending machines,
the Cafeteria and the food trucks at
PCC, so they would not have to pay 5
per cent of its gross profits to the ASB.
Sixty per cent of the ASB payments
fo to fund sports activities. Ehlig feels
that if Ms. Hubner is Athletics Com¬
missioner, she should support athletics
more than she does.
Jim Brownfield, ASB President,
feels that Ms. Hubner has not been
given the opportunity to prove herself.
He feels that her "political experience
overshadows her possible lack of
sports experience.”
The problem started when Martha
Hubner, Glenn Ehlig, and Bruce
Thomas applied for the vacant office.
Brownfield used his constitutional
right to appoint Ms. Hubner over the
other two applicants. His choice was
ratified by the ASB board and she took
the office.
Ehlig said that Ms. Hubner had
turned in her application long after he
and Thomas had and expressed his
disappointment that they did not get a
better chance.
When told of Ehlig’s response,
Brownfield replied, “The first ap¬
plication is not necessarily the one that
wins. I pick the person who I feel can
function well in government and can
represent the interests of the
students.”
Brownfield believes that a petition
will be the most efficient. He said that
if the decision is appointive and the
vote goes to the ASB Board it will not
be an efficient means of decision
because Ms. Hubner, is a member of
the Board. He doesn't feel she should
be voting on a decision that will effect
her.
Parent Ed.
Concentrates
on Family
“Family Strengths” will be the
theme of four lectures at the Sierra
Madre Community Nursery School,
701 E. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra
Madre by the PCC Parent Education
Program.
Beginning at 8p.m., the lectures are
open to the public. Admission is free.
“Basic Dimensions of Marital ana
Personal Gowth” will be the topic of
Dr. H. Newton Malony’s lecture on
Monday, March 26.
Dr. Jack E. Wright will speack on
“Listening To and Talking With Your
Partner” on Wednesday, April 25.
“Effective Parenting and Marital
Happiness” will be presented by Gary
Brainerd, Saturday May 8.
Thursday, May 24, Dr. David
deVidal will share his ideas on Some
Goals and Methods for Parents.”
Patron Elections
Time Announced
Election of PCC Patrons PTA of¬
ficers for 1973-74 will be held at the
annual Spring Association Meeting on
Thursday, March 22. at 7:30 p.m. in
Room R122 at the college.
Slate of officers include Mrs.
William B. Whistler, president; Mrs.
James M. Jones, first vice president;
Mrs. George B. Dawley, second vice
president; Mrs. Charles Smith, third
vice president; Mrs. Douglas Condon,
fourth vice president; Mrs. J. G.
Servais, recording secretary.
Also running for office will be Mrs.
Arnold DeMond, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. J. H. Bennett,
treasurer; Donald L. Busche, auditor;
and Mrs. Richard Madrid, historian.
Fifteen Ford Foundation Winners Detlared;
Thirty Win in Honorable Mention Category
Fifteen PCC students have been
declared winners of Ford Foundation
Scholarships while another 30 were
awarded honorable mentions from the
College Entrance Examination Board.
Each winner will be awared
a scholarship which is determined by
his or her financial need and the cost of
the tuition at any four-year college or
university chosen. The 15 winners are:
Larita J. Bass, Elisa Calderon, Con¬
stance Chambers, Allen C. Edson,
George Fierro. Yolanda Garcia, and
Francisco Guardado.
Other winners are Lorraine S.
Lopez, Melvin Mills, Debra Morris,
Alfretta Palmer, Isabell E. Reed,
George Rivera, Joseph R. Saldana,
Beulah Williams.
To be eligible for a F.F.S., the
student must be of a minority race.
The winners per college depend on
the percentage of minority students. In
winning the award, the student must
show acaemic promise, have a good
GPA, and must transfer to a four-year
college or university.
Students receiving honorable
mention have their names and ad¬
dresses distributed to the directors of
admission of all four-year, degree¬
granting senior colleges and univer¬
sities in the United States.
FORD FOUNDATION WINNERS — Scholarship
awards have been given these 15 students: Larita
J. Bass, Elisa Calderon, Constance Chambers,
Allen C. Edson, George Fierro, Yolanda Garcia,
Franciscao Guardado, Lorraine S. Lopez, Melvin
Mills, Debra Morris, Alfretta Palmer, Isabell E.
Reed, George Riviera, Joseph R. Saldana and
Beulah Williams.
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