counterparts (not shown) engage in a Weismann
Theater reunion, the young lovers reappear. In
the middle picture, showgirls (from left) Susan
Eriksen, Christine Kiwan, Ronny DeJong,
Esperanza Palmer and Melinda Bob are critiqued
by theater owner Mark Rodriguez. At left, Maritza
Marnon portrays a Weissman showgirl ghost.
—Courier Photos by Blake Sell
OPENING NIGHT— To prepare for tonight’s 8:30
premiere performance, the cast of “Follies” has
been practicing since the beginning of the
semester. This week it has worked from noon
until midnight. Kathy Patton and Tom Davis,
who portray the anachronistic young Phyllis and
Ben Stone, are at left. As their present-day
• See Story on Page Three
for Use ffJarvis Passes
Massive Budget Cuts Planned
By Blake Sell
Photo Editor
All certificated employees working for PCC,
numbering more than 1300, will face either change of
jobs, reassignment of teaching duties, additional but
unpaid work hours or complete loss of work, should the
Jarvis-Gann initiative become law in the June 6
primary elections.
Part of the classified work force of more than 360
people as well as student assistants would also be
eliminated.
These decisions came earlier this week after two
special meetings of the Board of Trustees were called.
It was necessary to call the meetings because of a law
which required the administration to notify full-time,
tenured certificated employees, those holding teaching
credentials, by March 15 if they would not be rehired for
th,e 1978-79 school year.
Action by the trustees is made necessary because of
an estimated $8.2 million loss in tax revenue if the
initiative passes.
The trustees, upon recommendations by the ad¬
ministration and faculty representatives, decided not to
dismiss any full-time teachers and therefore did not
authorize the notification letters to be sent.
However, the trustees authorized the change in
status of approximately 60 certificated personnel that
could take effect in July if Proposition 13 passes.
The changes include the elimination of services of
Dr. Joel Reid, dean of continuing education and ex¬
tended campus programs; Dr. Bruce Conklin, dean of
institutional research and Dr. John Gregory, television
teacher-consultant and general manager of KPCS-FM.
Dr. Reid, Dr. Conklin and Dr. Gregory are tenured
classroom instructors and do have the option of
assuming teaching positions.
Another change authorized by the trustees is the
reduction in assignment of the 20-member counseling
staff from 12 months to 11 months. The counselors will
also have to assume teaching duties.
In addition, Paul Dickerson, dean of the Com¬
munity Adult Training Center, Phyllis Jackson and
Alvar Kauti, deans of student activities, will also have
their assignments cut by one month.
The trustees also authorized the changes in
assignment for all non-teaching certificated personnel,
including librarians and all administrators. They are to
assume an additional 20 per cent workload including the
possibility that they may have to also assume teaching
responsibilities.
While these were the only actions taken by the
Board, its decision not to send out letters to the full¬
time, tenured faculty and its expressed desire for a
minimum $750,000 reserve fund is tantamount to a
Board decision regarding the types of cuts still needed
to make the necessary $8.2 million budget reduction.
Included among the options is the reassignment of
teachers from their present workloads to include an
additional three hours a week work, without com¬
pensation
The additional hours shared by the tenured, full¬
time faculty would allow the elimination of all part-time
teachers. This, as well as the elimination of sabbatical
leaves for next year, the elimination of short-term
substitute pay and non-teaching overtime pay, a
reduction in the number of counselors and ad¬
ministrators and simply not filling normal teaching and
counseling vacancies, would result in a savings of
approximately $2 million, according to administration
figures. This reduction in certificated salaries
represents the largest single area of savings of all the
expected cutback areas.
Ben Rude, president of the PCC Chapter of the
California Teachers Association said he did not think
the faculty would accept a three-hour
-а
addition
in assignment unless no other steps could be taken.
However, "ways can be found," he said, without having
to resort to this measure.
Rude noted that he and other faculty-members were
opposed to accepting the additional workload because
tenured, full-time teachers would be removing part-
time teachers from their jobs.
There is "money hidden in cookie jars,” and it just
needs to be found. Rude said.
Chrystal Watson, Faculty Senate president, said
she thinks the faculty is willing to work together to get
PCC through the emergency and will accept the 20 per
cent assignment increase.
One area which faces possible deletion is health and
welfare and other fringe benefits for all employees,
although trustees expressed concern about this matter.
The consensus of the Board was to try to maintain a
minimum of $300,000 in the fund, which would include a
minimum medical plan for employees only and not
employees' dependents. The original fund was budgeted
$1.3 million.
Ms. Watson said the faculty would also be willing to
accept a temporary loss in fringe benefits. However,
she said, both the teaching assignment load and the
benefits should be restored as “soon as possible.”
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Facts ; Figures on Jarvis Initiative
Jarvis Garni initiative, will be voted
upon in the June 6 slate primary
election
If passed, the initiative will cut all
property taxes, commercial and
personal as well as residential, to
about one per eent of appraised value.
Assessments will be rolled back to
fiscal 1975-1976 market values and kept
at an annual increase of two per cent
as long as the same owner held the
property. The cut for a home worth
$60,000 would be approximately $765.
I ndt-r no circumstances could
property taxes be hiked, and a two-
house would be necessary to raise
state taxes.
However, if two-thirds of the
registered \ol«rs agreed, local
governments could impose "special”
taxes as long as the> w ere not property
In effect, the Jarvis measure would
cut property taxes approximately 57
per cent statewide, causing an annual
revenue loss of $7 billion to $8 billion
for local ' governments, The result
would be a tremendous cut in local
government- services such as
education, police and lire protection,
hospital can . etc , unless a massive
state tax increase were imposed to
compensate tor the revenue loss
Effective date of the measure would
be July 1. 1978.
—Glenda Cade
Dousing the Flames
STOP SMOKE— Security officer Bill Johnson
enforces the no-smoking area in the coffee shop by
squirting “violators” Dana Firth and Tom Verbich.
If smokers insist on puffing up a storm in these
areas, they will be asked to remove themselves or
their cigarettes. This, obviously, will not become a
common sight, but this posted picture would be
what some non-smokers would like to see done to
smokers. ,
—Courier Photo by Vivlanne-Marie Parker
List of Tape Erasures
Given to Faculty Board
By Glenda Cade
Staff Writer
Instructional Resources Center
released a list of 70 videotapes marked
“erased” at last Monday’s Faculty
Senate Board meeting.
The tapes, recorded from broadcast
TV for instructional purposes, range
from “The Blue Angel” to “Casa¬
blanca” to “Bathing a Baby.”
Dr. David Ledbetter, dean of in-
Student assistants or “red hats” and
Campus Center administrators will be
stationed in the campus coffee shop to
stop violators of no-smoking
regulations, according to A1 Kauti and
Phyllis Jackson, deans of student
activities.
Supervision of the non-smoking
areas will cost about $9000, Kauti said.
Under the program, the enforcement
staff is required to ask violators to
respect the rights of non-smokers by
not smoking or leave the area.
Violators will be referred to
security, Walter Butler, campus
liaison or Kauti !
The Board of Trustees prompted the
enforcement action because some
people would not voluntarily comply
with the no smoking order.
Each attendant, identified by a red
hat, will be supplied with information
structional services, told the Faculty
Board, “I don't know that they’re
erased. They’re not available for play,
for showing.
“There has been no mass erasing of
tapes. Some had to be erased, but not
anything since September.”
John Gilbreath, supervisor of IRC,
confirmed Tuesday the tapes had been
erased over the Christmas holidays.
An order was sent out from Dr. Harold
sheets which outline the no-smoking
policy. The information bulletins are
designed to “avoid hassles” and to
refer violators to a staff member in
authority for further information.
New signs have also been ordered
which list the authorities a student
may call when assistants are not on
duty and infractions are observed.
“I had been hoping for enforcement
from the student body, but it didn’t
work the way it should. Now other
means have been deemed necessary,”
Kauti said.
“It is unfortunate that when we are
talking about eliminating staff
positions, that we have to spend money
to enforce a regulation that hasn’t been
a problem based on student ex¬
pressions.”
—Joan Bennet
Salisbury, acting chairman, academic
productions, in September to “get rid
of them,” Gilbreath said, “but we
didn’t get around to it until the break.”
While PCC-TV restricted its
erasures to dramatic material, In¬
structional Resources just started at
the top of the list and worked down,
Gilbreath said. “They were just erased
at random. There was no discrimina¬
tion at all.”
The new copyright law was to
become effective in January of this
year, and the school did not want to
risk a lawsuit, he explained. Then a
Faculty Senate ad hoc committee
began to study off-air recording and
the copyright law, so another order
was sent out to stop the erasures, Gil¬
breath said.
The rest of the tapes are locked up
until the courts clear up the issue, he
added. That, of course, could take
years. First some school must be sued ;
then the case might be settled legally.
As for PCC-TV’s videotapes, “none
of that material was erased while I
was general manager,” William
Shanks, chairman of the Communica¬
tion Department, said recently. “I did
not give orders to erase any tapes.”
Since February 1, 1978, when he left
the general manager’s post, “The only
material they have erased are
movies,” he said. “Whoever gave that
order gave the right one, though,
because movies can be rented from
film houses that make a business of
selling and renting 16-mm prints of
movies to schools.”
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'Red Hat7 Enforcement
Officials Regulate Smoke