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PCC Courier, March 25, 1977
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Ideas ; Possible Improvements Suggested
New Trustees Explain Future Concepts
By Joseph Kiser
Editor-in-Chief
After the campaigning and speeches
that -precede any local election are
over, there comes a time for the
elected individual to begin work. For
David S. Hannah and Warren L.
Weber, newly elected members of the
PCC Board of Trustees, that time
begins Thursday night when they take
positions on the board.
Both candidates, while agreeing that
it is still too early to make any
judgments, have things to say about
the college and its students.
Hannah, a vice-president of the H. F.
Ahmanson Co., was elected by 69 per
cent of the vote in Area 7. His district
includes primarily the city of Arcadia.
He says that one of the things many
people asked him before the election
was for him to personally look into
some of the things they felt were wrong
with the college. They asked him, in
effect, to spend time on the campus
and step into the students’ shoes.
Hannah says he plans to do just that
when and if it is possible. He plans to
expose himself to these things, find out
if there are legitimate complaints.
Hannah feels that the board should
continue to have an open mind to
things students have to say. “I have a
very open mind to anyone who can
give me input,” he said.
The Arcadia representative said he
also supports the idea of a student at
Doard meetings. He pointed out that in
some high school districts it is now
mandatory for a student to sit with the
school's governing body. Presently
PCC’s board of trustees allows a
representative from the ASB govern¬
ment to sit in an advisory capacity at
boardmeetings.
Hannah said he was appalled at the
low voter turnout in his district (ap¬
proximately 11.5 percent). He feels
that this can be partically blamed on a
lack of good public relations about the
school in that and other cities. “People
in Arcadia don’t know the connection
between Arcadia and PCC,” he said.
Comments he has heard concerning
PCC have been “nothing but good.”
Hannah said the few complaints he did
hear were never the same, but just
individual cases.
Weber, the new trustee for Area 5,
composed of South Pasadena and San
Marino, feels that one of the major
concerns of the college is to try to
maintain enrollment. Drops in
enrollment in nearby community
colleges could stem from how students
have been treated at the colleges,
according to Weber.
Students at a college are just like
customers in a business, according to
the new trustee. Without the
customers, the business cannot sur¬
vive.
While Weber does not feel that
students should necessarily have a
vote in how money is spent, he does
feel that their voices should be listened
to for informative purposes.
His concern is that the board “be
concerned about how the students are
treated.”
One issue that Weber pointed to as
an example is the talk of a possible
curtailment of the radio program
schedule of campus station KPCS-FM.
“There’s a classic case,” he said. “If
you abuse the people in the program,
they’ll lose interest: if vou curtail the
program, you’ll lose the people.”
Weber feels this may sound funny
coming from some one who cam¬
paigned on a platform of fiscal
responsibility, but he does not feel
something like this would necessarily
have to raise taxes. “The last thing I
want to cut is student programs,” he
said.
Weber did say, however, that if a
program is not being used it should be
cut.
Weber said that the problem with
taxes is “not so much saving dollars as
it is saving the right ones.”
While both of the trustees say that it
is too early to set aside any special
goals or programs for their terms,
both feel that there are things to look
into.
“I would like to see a budget in¬
vestigation into the adaptability of
programs to fill student needs,” Weber
said. He would like to see if some
money is being spent on traditional
items that serve no real purpose, “just
because they are traditional.”
Both trustees say that they will begin
their four -year terms with one ear
open to the needs of the college and the
students.
VOL. 43, NO. 6
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 25, 1977
Alleged Unauthorized File
Release Being Investigated
By Susan Andrews
News Editor
Alleged unauthorized release of the
personal student file of Loretta
Thompson Glickman, a former PCC
student, is being investigated by PCC
administrators.
Mrs. Glickman, who defeated in¬
cumbent Henry Wilfong in the March 8
City Board of Directors primary
election, wrote a letter to PCC
Superintendent-President Dr. E.
Howard Floyd in which she stated that
she never authorized the release of her
transcript to anyone. She wrote that
she is demanding an immediate full-
scale investigation into the matter.
The Courier has not seen a copy of
Mrs. Glickman’s transcript. In¬
formation in this article is based on
interviews and a March 19 Pasadena
Star-News article.
On March 10, the Star-News received
a copy of Mrs. Glickman’s PCC
Student Murdered in
Early-Hour Car Blaze
By Blake Sell
Managing Editor
Pasadena police have disclosed that
a PCC student, burned to death in his
car near U Building in the early hours
of March 15, was the victim of
premeditated murder.
Police originally thought that Mark
Jack Jensen, 25, a Pasadena resident,
was the victim of suicide but the
County Coroner's Office found that he
was unconscious before being con¬
sumed by the flames.
A report filed by fire department
investigators said the incident was
suspicious because of the total in¬
volvement of the car with fire, ruling
out the possibility of an accident.
According to Huey Long, Pasadena
Police investigator handling the case,
the police have suspects and are
certain Jensen was not the victim of a
random slaying. Long would not
disclose any possible motives for the
act.
John McAlister, a police department
spokesman, said both Jensen and the
car were doused with a flammable
liquid and then ignited. The body and
identification were burned beyond
recognition but the victim was
positively identified through Navy
dental records.
Police and fire units responded to
multiple calls informing them that a
car was burning on Francesca Street,
which borders the north side of U
Building, at 2:56 a.m. and arrived at
the scene minutes later.
PCC maintenance worker Bob
Duffield spotted the burning car and
informed Santiago Claudio, PCC
security officer on duty, who called the
police and ran to the location.
Claudio said that when he arrived at
the scene, police and fire units were
there. He said the body was slumped
over towards the passenger side of the
front seat of the car, a 1966 Chevrolet,
and the passenger door was open. He
added that the fire was so intense, no
one could get near the car.
Duffield, who works in the area of
the incident, saw the car parked there
as early as 1 a.m. with its headlights on
but did not see anyone in it.
Agent Long said he has established
where Jensen was before the fire but it
is not known how long he had been in
the car. Long said Jensen had been
drinking but would not say where he
had been.
Jensen attended Pasadena High
School before attending PCC. He is
survived by a wife and two daughters.
Memorial services were held
Tuesday .
transcript, dated March 7. It was
stamped “Unofficial . . . Pasadena
City College” and was received from
an anonymous source, according to the
paper.
A comparison with a transcript copy
obtained by Mrs. Glickman showed the
information received by the Star-News
to be correct.
On March 11, Wilfong criticized Mrs.
Glickman’s academic record, saying
that she held a “D” average at PCC.
According to the article in the Star-
News, she “requested the PCC probe
out of concern for the confidentiality of
her files.”
There are cases, however, in which a
student’s file can be released without
his permission.
According to the student handbook,
“without the student’s consent and
upon authorization of the Dean of
Admissions and Records or his
designate, the college may release
copies of . . . material in student
education records” to agencies and
individuals who are expressly for¬
bidden from permitting access of said
education records to third parties.
It also states that the college will
maintain an access list which includes
the identity of persons who have
requested and have been denied or who
have had access to student records, the
dates of said requests and the reasons
for such access. The access list is not
required of college officials.
WHO’S POINT?— ASB president Brad Baldwin
(left) and Javis Johnson, PASA adviser, tangle
themselves in the net during a student-faculty
volleyball game held Tuesday. The faculty emerged
from the match victorious by a score of 15-10. ASB
members have challenged the faculty to a rematch
after the spring holiday.
— Courier Photos by Blake Sell
CATC Course Meets Twice Daily
Secretaries, , Clerks Earn Work Experience
By Vivianne-Marie Parker
Fine Arts Editor
When students pound the pavement
looking for jobs, it is not hard for them
to become discouraged because they
lack basic skills. If these students had
known about the Community Adult
Training Center (CATC), they could
have avoided pounding the pavements.
By enrolling in the clerical-
secretarial course that is offered,
students have found that they receive
learning opportunities to achieve work
experience and recommendations for
jobs.
Offered from 8a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 to
6 p.m. daily with Friday classes
meeting from 1 to 5 p.m., students
Shop Tour Reveals
Research Inventions
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—Courier Photo by Brad Haugaard
ONE STEP AT A TIME— George Siltanen, a student in the machine
shop, works on the housing for a device he designed and is building.
He hopes the device will one day measure waste particles in the air.
By Brad Haugaard
” Staff Writer
A tour through the machine shop any
weekday evening can turn up a
number of interesting people working
on their personal projects, inventions,
or just learning to work with the
lathes, drill presses, milling machines
and other metal working equipment
that cover the floor of the shop.
For instance, George Siltanen, a
student is a consultant in electronics
and metrics. He came to the United
States ten years ago from Finland and
is working on a laser device that wili
measure air pollution particles by
spectroanalysis. The device, if it
works, will measure both solids and
gases in the atmosphere.
Siltanen considers the air “very
important. Man can survive days
without food and water, but only
minutes without air,” he said.
He expects to be working on it for the
next two years in his spare time before
he can find out if it works. He has
worked on it one year already and
plans to show it to a “federal agency.”
Also spending most of their free time
in the machineshop are two other
inventors, Don Richardson and Guy
Cazort, they decided to “take a risk”
on something and have developed a
new suspension system for motor¬
cycles.
According to Richardson, similar
suspension systems tested on formula
racing cars had shown weaknesses
that were not corrected.
After having run into the same
problems with their suspension
system, Richardson and Cazort
discovered that the difficulty was the
shock absorber they were using. “We
believe we were the first to discover
that it wasn’t the suspension system,
but the shock absorber,” said
Richardson.
After using the best shock absorber
they could find, they decided that it
was designed wrong. So, using current
technical data on hydraulics and
consulting suspension specialists, they
completely redesigned and rebuilt the
shock absorber.
When the new system was complete,
they tested it at Indian Dunes
motorcycle racing park. “The whole
system came alive, it did everything it
was supposed to do," Richardson said.
Rolf Tibblin, three time world
motorcross champion was at the track
and tested the bike. According to
Richardson, he was very impressed
and wanted his engineers to examine
it.
Boat builders also seem to be
abundant in the machine shop. Bill
Davis recently launched a boat which
was partially constructed in the
machine shop. He intends to spend the
rest of his life island-hopping in the
South Pacific.
Another boat builder with similar
ideas is working on a ferrocement boat
and a third is making parts for a speed
boat.
learn shorthand, typewriting, business
English, business math, office practice
and filing.
Before entering the class, students
have a choice among clerical,
secretarial or stenographer programs
which will prepare them for a suitable,
well-paying job as quickly as possible.
The clerical class has existed for 14
years. In the beginning, the class met
only once a day. Now it is offered both
mornings and afternoons.
The class began as part of a 1962
government-funded program, the
Manpower Development Training Act
. (MDTA).
After MDTA funds ran out, PCC
continued the class but required that
students buy their own books.
“It has continued since,” said Mary
Butler, instructor of the afternoon
class.
Two instructors teach in shifts, each
one teaching English, math or filing.
When the students have progressed,
they advance to different clerical
duties.
“The one good thing about our class
is that everyone progresses at his own
rate. No one has to keep up with
anyone else,” said Miss Butler. “This
is what we call individualized
progress.”
Being an “open ended” class,
students may consider themselves
finished with the class any time after
they have completed the work for the
particular job they want to get.
“There’s no beginning and no end of a
class group. The class is continuous,”
Miss Butler said.
To receive credit upon completion of
the shorthand course, a student must
transcribe at least 80 words per minute
(wpm) with 98 per cent accuracy on a
three-minute test letter.
Students are granted a typing cer¬
tificate when they have increased their
typing speed to at least 40 wpm or
more with a five error limit on a five-
minute timing.
Approximately 60 students in both
the clerk and steno morning classes
have obtained jobs. In the afternoon
class, approximately 45 to 50 students
have obtained jobs from their courses.
Albertha Hall, a housewife who has
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Talent Show Planned as
ASB Seeks Budget Boost
The ASB is organizing two end-of-
the-semester activities in an effort to
boost its budget for ASB programs and
scholarships.
A talent show featuring student and
faculty performers will be held June 3
in Sexson Auditorium.
Any persons interested in par¬
ticipating may sign up for auditions
starting April 18. Performers will be
screened by a panel of faculty and
student representatives from April 26
through May 6. Applications may be
obtained in the Campus Center.
According to Brad Baldwin, ASB
president, the last talent show held at
PCC was 24 years ago.
Baldwin said that acts of any variety
will be considered and that
professional performers will not be
excluded.
Ticket prices have been tentatively
set for $2 for the two-and-a-half hour
program.
Also planned by the ASB is an
auction and flea market to be held
June 4.
Campus clubs are seeking mer¬
chandise donations from local
businesses for sale in the auction and
flea market. In return, the merchant’s
name will be listed in the program as a
contributer. Donations are tax
deductible.
The auction will be open to the
general public.
A1 Kauti, dean of student activities,
said that St. Francis High School held
a similar auction recently and netted
$100,000. Baldwin feels that PCC
should be able to raise more than that.