PCC Courier, March 28, 1975

$3.3 Million Remodel Plan Gets Approval BUYERS AND SELLERS— The quad was filled Monday and Tuesday when merchants brought their wares in the Easter Craft Fair. On sale were many items including jewelry, clothing, paintings and leather goods. —Courier Photo by Cass Luke By Sergio Caponi Editor-in Chief An estimated $3.3 million for the long-proposed remodeling of the D, E and К buildings was approved by the PCC Board of Trustees at its March 20 meeting. The project, which calls for the in¬ stallation of air-conditioning, elevators and the re-arrangement of in¬ structional facilities, is to be partially financed by the state for ap¬ proximately $1.8 million. The district’s funding was estimated at $1,205,400. The board gave its ap¬ proval to the installation of a 1000-ton electric chiller, however, which will cost the district an additional $40,000. According to architect Howard Morgridge, representing Powell, Morgridge, Richards & Coghlan, Inc., the chiller would ultimately save money for the school by providing for all estimated air-conditioning loads in future expansion of campus facilities. The installation of the chiller must be approved by the California Office of Architectural Construction before the entire project can enter the bidding phase. School authorities hope to ask for bids by April 10. The final contract is expected to be awarded by June 30. U Building According to the project, an outside elevator will be installed on the west side of the D Building. In so doing, additional teaching space will be provided. The basements of the building are to house business and key punching labs, an instructional resource center, a graphic arts studio and a TV production-control room. The first floor is to be occupied by study areas, placement and cooperative education offices, a scholarship and financial aid center, registration, testing and counselors’ offices. The second floor is reserved for reading labs and a tutoring center. E Building The E Building will have an elevator installed inside. The basements and first floor will accomodate geology and photography facilities, including a geology museum, labs, lecture rooms and offices. The second floor will include physics lecture rooms, offices and a study area. К Building The project also calls for the placement of air-conditioning in К Building. A penthouse containing air- condition machinery similar to the one on top of the C Building is to be in¬ stalled on the roof of all three struc¬ tures. Construction works are expected to be completed by fall 1977. Board Approves Survey of Handicap Barriers PCC CouAieSi VOL. 39, NO. 7 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MARCH 28, 1975 Campus Lecture Series To Show Scope of National Alcohol Woes By Sandra VVegge Staff Writer A series of four lectures, "Alcoholism: Four Major Facets,” will be presented by the Office of Continuing Education on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 on April 23 and 30 and May 7 and 14. The lectures take place in the Faculty Dining Room and ad¬ mission is free. Registration is at the first lecture attended and subsequent signing of an attendance, sheet is required by the college. A minimum attendance of two lectures is requested. Jean B. Yandervoort. executive director. Pasadena Council on Alcoholism is the coordinator of the series and also the first speaker. She will be speaking on "The Scope of the Problem.” "Alcohol is the nation's number one drug of choice. It contaminates and destroys a population of 35 to 40 million Americans who are living with someone so afflicted. In terms of human suffering it has no peer,” she said. Mrs. Vandervoort has taught classes on alcoholism counseling at UCLA, UC Irvine, UC Riverside,. UC San Diego, Harbor College and PCC. She has also Euell Gibbons Is Coming To Talk on Wild Foods Euell Gibbons, the world-famous naturalist and authority on wild foods, will be coming to PCC to speak at the April 1 Tuesday Evening Forum. "Living off Nature’s Bounty,” or “A Wild Way to Feast.” will be the topic of Gibbons’ speech. This appearance will be to make up his cancellation for the Jan. 21 Tuesday Evening Forum. Gibbons cancelled his first appearance because of illness. _ _ _ Gibbons is not a natural food treak, and he isn’t that sort of crazy forager his neighbors in Troxelville, Penn, once considered him. He is practically a self-made world authority on the gathering and the preparation of food, his knowledge coming from his ex¬ periences as a small starving kid in Mexico, learning to survive on a pinto bean diet. He is a man who spent the depression years on the road, bum¬ ming around California in freight trains, developing what he calls a "hobo instinct;” that is. his special way of seeing wild plants as wild coins, and his affection for roadside foraging. "There is nothing I would rather do than eat my way through a roadside ditch." he once commented. John McPhee, ot New Yorker magazine, who knows Gibbons per¬ sonally, once wrote about him: "He eats acorns because he likes them. He is neither an ascetic nor an obessed nutritionist. He is not trying to prove that wild food is better than tame food, that he can survive without the nor EUELL GIBBONS . . . Tuesday Forum speaker Insurance Covers Stolen Equipment The Board of Trustees of the Pasadena Area Community College District has authorized the spending of $100 to replace equipment lost after PCC’s planetarium was burglarized last month. The equipment, a photometric telescope coupler valued at $1000 and various other items costing nearly $300, were insured under a policy carrying a $100 deductible clause, for which the school is liable. The in¬ surance company will pay the other $1200. The payments will be credited to the district's operational budget. The break-in was discovered on the morning of February 18. and was immediately reported to the Pasadena Police Department. No suspects have been arrested. assistance of a grocer. He is app- parentlv not trying to prove anything at all except that there is a marvelous variety of good food in the world and that only a modest part of the whole can be found in even the most super of supermarkets." Season ticket holders may use the front cover of their season ticket book to gain admittance. Non-ticket holders will be seated for the free performance at 7:30 p.m. on a first -come, first- served basis. OMD Theme Entries Due Today is the last chance to win $5 by submitting a theme idea for the Omicron Mu Delta Carnival which will be held May 29-30. OMD, an honorary service organization, is sponsoring the contest and requests all entries to be placed in the mailbox upstairs in the campus center by noon today. Each entry should be accompanied by name, address, phone number and class level. Established in 1927, OMD honors students excelling in areas of service to the school and community. Their carnival was first held as a small entertainment project in 1928, and has become one of the largest events on campus. It has been held every year since, except during World War II. Last year's winner of the contest chose "Those were the days” as the theme. The members are searching for an idea which will not be too ex¬ pensive in decorations -and costuming, but is original and colorful. The car¬ nival will be held in the campus quad. appeared on major television networks in programs about alcoholism and drug related disorders. Otto J. Williman will present the second lecture, April 30, titled "The Problem in Industry.” He is an ad¬ ministrative adviser of Pacific Telephone Co. in Pasadena. Williman attended the University of Utah, Cal State Los Angeles and the Center for Training in Community Psychiatry. “Youth and Alcohol” will be presented by Norman and Alexandra Southerby on May 7. Southerby is a former consultant with the County of Los Angeles Alcohol Safety Action Proect, he received his BS from Nyack Missionary College, New York and his MA from New York State University ’with additional graduate work at the University of San Diego Law School, University of Utah. San Diego State College and Cal State Northridge. He is the Western Sector Representative of the NIAAA (National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse). Mrs. Southerby and her husband have co-authored a book, “Twelve Young Women.” and a script for an educational film, “So Long Pal.” Priscilla Cleveland, of the Alcoholism Council of the South Bay, will discuss “The Family of the Alcoholic" May 14. She has attended Circle К Blood Drive Draws Record Number A record number of 222 pints of blood were donated at last Thursday’s blood drive, sponsored by Circle K. The previous high was 166 pints, according to Brad Nix. chairman of the drive. He believes the excellent turnout was due to good advertising by the club and a willingness by students to respond. Approximately 270 people actually showed, with 47 being rejected. Of the 222 accepted, ap¬ proximately two out of three were first time donors. After one gives blood, Red Cross takes the sample to their lab for analysis. In about two weeks each donor will receive a card indicating blood type. A record is also made of the donation, and credit goes to the in¬ dividual and to the school for every pint given. Nix said he was pleased with the outcome of the drive. “When one gives blood, he is saving at least one life. The body replaces the blood within 24 hours, so there is absolutely no harm to the individual. “In fact. Red Cross recommends that healthy people donate blood every two months, up to five times a year. At most, only 10 per cent of the population is unable to give blood, yet only three per cent of the remaining 90 percent supply volunteer blood.” Nix concluded by saying that colleges are the best source for volunteers in the country. LIBRARY VACATION HOURS Library hours during spring vaca¬ tion will be as follows: Monday through Thursday, April 7-10, !) a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday the library will be closed. Columbia University Teachers College, University of Utah, School of Alcoholism Studies and Berkeley School of Public Health. Mrs. Cleveland has served as training director with various alcoholism councils and from 1964 to 1971 was voluntary consultant with the Alcoholism Council of Greater Los Angeles. The Board of Trustees last week approved sending to Sacramento recommendations on the eliminations of architectural barriers for handi¬ capped students as specified by a recent survey conducted on campus. The survey was part of a program to remove any obstacle and facilitate handicapped students' mobility within campus, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Rehabilitation. The college district is expected to finance 20 per cent of the redesigning project, with the state and federal govern¬ ments sharing the funding of the remaining 80 per cent. Roger Gertmenian, member of the Board of Trustees, said. “Taking care of problems for the handicapped should be the trustees’ first priority." The board recommended that ob¬ stacles be removed as the money became available. The barriers were listed in priorities beginning with ramps, elevators and doors. These priorities, formulated by PCC handicapped students themselves, are not in agreement with the list of priorities compiled by the state. Elevators, for example, which are top priority at PCC, are listed in fourth place by Sacramento. This, according to school authorities, may lead to some conflict in the elimination of the barriers. It was also suggested that removal of the obstacles could be worked out as a whole, rather than eliminating them one by one according to priority. The point was made that what's top priority for students with a particular handicap is not necessarily equally important to students with another type of physical handicap. In order to be fair to all students, a project that would take care of the removal of obstacles all at once was said to be more desirable. Many PCC handicapped students felt existing ramps were too slippery and steep, but many places did not even have ramps. Elevators were put in the buildings to make the upper floors available to handicapped students, but many students have found trouble in using them. Doors which lead to the outside are too heavy for students with a handicap. Windows built into the doors are too high for the person in a wheelchair to see through. The next priorities were the toilets. The stalls are too narrow for the para¬ plegic to wheel into and close the doors. The final priorities were the water fountains and telephones. The water fountains, which were put in especially for the person in a wheel¬ chair, are low enough, but the refriger¬ ation unit is beneath the fountain and the student cannot wheel under the unit. The telephones on campus are either so high or the booth is so small that the handicapped student cannot wheel into them. The final survey will be filed in Sacramento by April 1. Students Misunderstand Price Mark-up, Says Bookstore Head “Prices are established by the publisher,” said Albert De Ponte, director of the bookstore on campus. “Most misunderstand that the 20 per cent margin of mark-up goes to cover all operating expenses like salaries, rent and utilities. We are totally self- sufficient. “Every book we buy comes with a 20 percent discount so a book listed at $10 costs $8," explained De Ponte. “Freight comes to $1.50 on a $10 book.” The bookstore buys back books at the end of each semester at 55 per cent. "We are the only junior college book store in the state that pays 55 per cent : the rest pay 50 per cent," said De Ponte. “We get back not nearly enough books from the students. We buy $15,000 worth of books back from the students. “Before we contact the publishers we contact used book sources,” commented De Ponte. “At the beginning of the semester we put all used books out first before we put out new." If the Bookstore orginally sold a new book to a student for $10, it would buy it back at $5.50 and resell it as a used book, with a mark-up of 25 percent for $7.50. “What profit is made goes to the ASB. Each year $5000 goes into the college service fund and the remaining amount is divided. Ten percent goes to the store for replenishing of supplies, which is controlled by the bookstore management, 20 per cent goes to the ASB general fund, and 70 per cent to the associated students service fund. "All profits go back to the student body,” said De Ponte. Recent Fossil Findings Featured Next T uesday A free lecture by Dr. Michael H. Day on recent fossil finds in human evolution will be presented Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Harbeson Hall. Day is a colleague of Kichara Leakey, who are both well-known specialists in fossil evolution, plan to release information on some of their most recent finds in the near future. These new fossils are expected to push back the earliest date of man's presumed existence three or four million years, according to Linda Hasten, social science instructor. Covered in this lecture, sponsored jointly by the Social Science Depart¬ ment and the Anthropology Club, are evaluating and analyzing the fossil evidence of man’s origins and evolution, the relations of brain size to behavior and survival and what can be learned from fossil teeth and jaws. Recent finds at fossil sites in East Africa include a female skeleton more than three million years old, of the genus homo. The skeleton, 45 per cent complete, is estimated to have stood three and one-half feet tall. Its discoverer, Dr. Donald Johanson, an American anthropologist and member of the Leakey Foundation, named the skeleton Lucy. Dr. Day, whose lecture will be illustrated by color slides, holds fellowships in the Royal Society of Medicine, the Linnean Society, the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Zoological Society. He is also the author of numerous books and articles. LIFE SAVING— Student Wayne Woods is being last Thursday tested by a Red Cross volunteer to see whether he collected, can donate blood. The blood drive was on campus with a record amount of pints —Courier Photo by Pete Whan