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PCC Courier, March 23, 1984
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Campus Center Renovations Planned
By Joe Holman
Special Correspondent
Plans to remodel the cafeteria and to
build an outdoor cafe will be included in
the bids from food service companies
vying for the upcoming contract with
the disrict. The Board of Trustees
recently granted authorization to so¬
licit offers for the food service contract
and the lease of district premises,
according to A1 Kauti, dean of students
activities.
“We need to jazz up the place,” said
Kauti. “The idea is that we develop a
food service which is dynamite. More
food is sold when it is attractively
displayed and served in an atmosphere
that students will enjoy eating in." The
redevelopment plans surfaced with the
approaching expiration date of a con¬
tract between the current company
Mannings Food Services and the dis¬
trict.
Mannings’ five year contract expires
on July 1, 1984, and bids are now being
accepted from food service companies
interested in filling the opening. The
new contract will be for five years with
the option for a two year extension
when it expires in 1989. Mannings did
not receive an extension offer because
of the plans to remodel the complex.
Mannings plans to make a bid to
maintain its services, according to
Sharon Baker, cafeteria complex man¬
ager. “I feel I am a part of this school,
and I’m very excited about our bid,”
Baker said. However, bids are sealed,
so information regarding the terms is
not available at this time. The bids are
being handled by Bob Burns, director of
purchasing. The bids will also be re¬
viewed by a special food service com¬
mittee before recommendations are
made to the board.
The renovation plans include build¬
ing an outdoor cafe in the area between
the student bank and cafeteria, re¬
decorating the student dining room,
developing an international food sec¬
tion and renovating the current con¬
ference room into an executive dining
room.
“Right now our number one priority
is the outdoor cafe,” Kauti said. The
cafe would include portable food carts,
trees, new tables and a removable
partition surrounding the area. The
cafeteria revamping cost will be a
major factor in choosing a catering
service. The company selected will be
asked to contribute close to 70 percent
of the required cost while the AS will
contribute the additional 30 percent.
The AS is associated with the project
because the new contract will have the
food service company give a small
portion of the food sales to the AS as it
has previously. In the past the figure
has always been close to four percent
of the total sales. The terms of the new
contract will determine the percentage
to go to AS. AS will give one percent of
the sales to the district to pay for utility
and cleaning bills.
Last year, the cafeteria grossed ap¬
proximately $488,000, and $24,000 was
allocated to the AS. Close to $5,000 of
the AS earnings were then given to the
district for the utility and cleaning
bills.
The funds the AS receives will be put
back into the college in the form of co-
curricular student activities, such as
KPCC and child care. This year, the AS
used the funds to send two AS officers
to Washington, D.C. to attend a na¬
tional conference and two other of¬
ficers to a special study progham.
The construction is slated to begin
this summer, but Kauti said the project
is already two weeks behind schedule.
“It would be tremendous if we could
finish by the end of this summer,”
Kauti said. He also emphasized that he
wished to see at least $100,000 spent on
the project.
In addition to reveiwing the bids, the
special food committee will be involved
in the decision to determine which
redevelopment plans are to be used.
The committee members are Kauti;
Dr. Bonnie James, vice president of
business services; Virginia Dedeaux,
manager of the student bank; Mike
Pettite, faculty representative for
teachers of food service classes; and
several student representatives.
PCC
VOL. 57. NO. 6 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 23, 1984
SMILING DONOR-Amy Rabadi, one of the 157 people whn
gave blood, undergoes process during Red Cross blood drive. To
increase participation. Student Activities offered cash awards to
campus clubs for most donors recruited. Winners will be
announced within two to three weeks.
— Courier photo by Steve Salmon
Art Auction Proceeds To Increase Scholarship Fund
By Lisa Lowery
Assistant News Editor
The Robert Sills Gallery and PCC’s Ital¬
ian/American Scholarship committee will pres¬
ent a fund-raising art exhibition and auction
Sunday, March 25 in the campus cafeteria.
Proceeds will go toward increasing the scholar¬
ship for this year's American student who will
study in Italy.
The preview begins at 7 p.m. followed by the
bidding at 8:30 p.m. Admission and refresh¬
ments are free. Those who attend will have a
chance to win an original oil painting donated
by the gallery said Mariella Urbani, scholarship
committe chairwoman.
The gallery guarantees the authenticity of
each work of art by such masters as Rockwell,
Calder, Dali and Curry among others. Original
lithographs, etchings and graphics signed and
numbered along with an array of water colors
and oil paintings make up the collection to be
offered. Each piece is framed and ready to
hang. Each will be presented with a brief
history by the auctioneer.
While the gallery has presented the auctions
for many fund-raising organizations na¬
tionwide, this will be the first time the auction
has come to PCC. The proceeds are based on
attendance or a percentage of the total sales.
The gallery has selected works ranging in price
from $20 to $200 with a sprinkle of more
expensive pieces for the serious collector. The
gallery offers a variety of payment plans
ranging from credit cards to time payments.
Alice Mothershed, director of the campus
liasion center, said the Italian/American schol¬
arship consists of three parts. The committee is
presently concentrating on the “Tippy Mother-
shed” award for the American student who is to
study in Italy. This part of the scholarship was
named after her husband who matched the
committee’s funds to send the first American
student to Italy in 1975. The other two parts of
the scholarship award are for the Italian
student, who will come to study at PCC and a
cash award to a high acheiving student studying
Italian.
“The original intent of the scholarship was to
show each country what an intelligent young
student is and to build a better understanding
between the countries," Mothershed said. The
scholarship started in 1973 to bring an Italian
student here.
Now, the scholarship committee hopes to
increase the Tippy Mothershed award to an
amount which would provide travel and housing
costs in addition to educational expenses, ac¬
cording to Urbani. former scholarship recei-
pient. This year's award winning students will
be announced at the awards luncheon early in
June. To be eligible for the Tippy Mothershed
award a student must be an American studying
Italian at PCC, and they cannot have previously
studied in Italy. Elgible students may apply for
both the travel-study scholarship and cash
award by contacting Dr. Carmen Brunol in the
English-foreign language department. More in¬
formation about the art auction is available at
the community liaison center. C221,. 578-7363.
BREAKING — The current rage, fun to watch and
fun to do! Watching Pat Gargon's exhibition proves
to be loo much for Brett Schaeffer. Pat becomes the
spectator and Brett the breaker. Top from left Chuck
O’Hayon, Schaeffer, Shawn Sullivan and Gargon.
— Courier photo by Andy Glove
Faculty , District Reach Agreement,
Copyright Policy Refinements Begin
By Lisa Lowery
Assistant News Editor
The faculty and district copyright
policy committee members reached a
tenative agreement regarding the con¬
tent of a policy proposal. The district
committe began working on a
copyright policy proposal over two
years ago when it was descovered that
the district did not have a policy to
govern faculty-developed materials.
The district committee, which con¬
sists of representatives from both fac¬
ulty and administration, discussed par¬
ticulars on Monday and agreed that
five principal parts should make up the
policy. Three or four of the five parts
already exist within the faculty’s policy
.proposal. Several more meetings are
scheduled through April so committee
members can determine and suggest
refinements in order to present a
copyright policy proposal to the Board
of Trustees.
“It was an extremly positive meet¬
ing,” said Robert Miller, assistant
dean of instruction and district com¬
mittee member. He explained that the
next step is to be a meeting today
between himself and Mary Jane Cor¬
don, copyright committee member,
who has chaired the project for the
faculty. He said, he hopes the outcome
of the meeting will be to develop
agreeable suggestions to refine the
faculty’s copyright policy proposal.
The following steps will take the
proposal back to the district committee
and the Faculty Senate for approval.
The campus clocks have not operated
since March 6 but should be repaired by
today, said James Menath, director of
facilities and engineering services.
Menath said that the major obstacle
in repairing the system is “diagnosing
the problem.” The clocks are powered
by an underground system that has
over 150 different wire circuits. To find
the problem, each wire must be tested
individualy with an engineer with a
voltage meter on each of the two ends,
according to Menath.
“The two engineers have been liter¬
ally working underground since the
initial outage,” said Menath.
In addition to the clocks, the outage
affected the alarm and exterior light¬
ing systems. The alarms, which had
been ringing at the wrong times, have
since been repaired. However, the ex¬
terior lighting, which has gone out in
parts of the R and V buildings, mall and
At the recent Faculty Senate meet¬
ing, members rewrote their proposal
based on the departments’ favorable
reaction. After minimal changes, they
voted unanimously to submit the
proposal to the district copyright policy
committee.
The changes consisted of defining the
district’s right to recover costs and
ownership rights of district initiated
projects. Marion Murphy, senate presi¬
dent, turned the meeting over to Cor¬
don, associate math professor, to ad¬
dress the suggested changes made by
the department representatives.
The notable change stemmed from
the majority of the group siding with
the philosophy that the district should
be reimbursed to some degree for the
author’s use of campus facilities
and/or staff. Members voted to include
this philosophy within the proposal’s
section which refers to materials de¬
veloped on campus and owned by the
author. Pat O’Day, newly elected sen¬
ate vice president, suggested a
sentence that would reflect the adopted
philosophy, “The district abrogates its
rights to recover costs unless the costs
are negotiated in advance between the
district and the faculty member." It
was added to replace the sentence that
said royalties would be split between
the district and author until the district
recovered its predetermined costs.
Miller said he could not disclose
exactly what has been agreed upon at
this time. However, he emphasized
that since a copyright policy directly
parking lots, is still out. The lights in
these areas are now controlled man¬
ually.
Menath said that the last major work
on the system was done in 1981, when a
similiar problem occurred and the
clocks were out for six weeks. PCC had
to commission an outside firm to han¬
dle the ‘81 situation, but Menath said
that outside help would not be required
now.
The current system was developed
for the campus over 30 years ago,
according to Menath. Menath also said
that a new system, which would cost
over a $100,000, should replace the one
used now. The new system design is
still in the planning stages, being re¬
viewed by administrators.
“We are diligently working on the
problem, expediting the return to nor¬
mal service, within manpower limita¬
tions,” Menath said.
—Joe Holman
affects the faculty members, the com¬
mittee has chosen to refine the fac¬
ulty's policy proposal rather than the
district's policy proposal.
Band Series
Plans Vary
Prospects of bringing renowned
bands to Sexson Auditorium through
Silver Lining Entertainment dissipated
Tuesday, according to Helen Hanson,
AS president. Recent relations with the
management company were severed
because weeks of negotiations did not
yield a compromise.
At Tuesday’s AS meeting, Hanson
described the concert picture as one
"looking less and less like a money
making proposition. If we (the AS)
can't get back what we put in and a
little more then the concerts probably
won't go.”
However, efforts to attain top per¬
formers have not been abandoned.
Hanson has established communica¬
tions with Avalon, another manage¬
ment company, in hopes of contracting
bands.
An acceptable contract would cost
AS approximately $3000 to provide fa¬
cilities, security and stage personnel,
according to Hanson. The other expen¬
ditures such as advertising and ticket
production would be handled by
Avalon. A favorable agreement would
also include a guarantee that AS would
be reimbursed for production expen¬
ditures and a profit cut of 10 to 15
percent.
Obtaining a secure agreement had
been a major obstacle in previous
barganing with Silver Lining. The com¬
pany had sought a 60 percent downpay¬
ment of a $8000 or $9000 production
budget. In return. Silver Lining prom¬
ised a 25 percent profit cut for AS.
Hanson doubted that the performances
offered by the company would yield
enough profits to cover the production
costs. “I don't want to take that kind of
risk with student money,” Hanson said.
The main intent of the concerts is to
raise money for the Student Foundation
Association and a possible donation to
the Child Devlopment Center. Another
use for the money could be to start an
AS scholarship fund.
A fifty-fifty chance of having a con¬
cert series still exists, according to
Hanson. A contract must be solidified
within the next month to allow time for
promotion.
—Greg Augustyn
Difficulty in Troubleshooting
Hampers Repair of System