VOL. 47, NO. 8
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 30. 1979
Forensics Team Takes
Four Medals Home
The PCC Forensics squad “made its
best showing in the past four years” at
the State Championship tournament,
according to Dr. Patrick Brown,
speech instructor. The competition
was held last weekend at Bakersfield
College.
“We received more awards this year
than in the past four years combined,”
said Dr. Brown. Beth Fernandez took a
gold medal in the Expository Speaking
event, the first gold taken in many
years by PCC. Ms. Fernandez also
received a silver medal in After
Dinner Speaking.
Marji Dolnic and Leslie Paddock
both took bronze medals in the Oral
Interpretation event.
Eight students will compete in the
National competition to be held April
11-16 in Minnesota. The tournament
will be held in Minneapolis at the South
Raddison Hotel. All events will be held
in rooms throughout the hotel.
The students are: Judith Dineen,
Marji Dolnic, Beth Fernandez, Laura
Horton, Leslie Paddock, Paul Roberts,
Erin Stevens and Don Vecchione. All
eight also participated in the State
Championship.
Rotary Program Brings
Danes to PCC Campus
By Katrin Wegelius
Associate News Editor
A Danish team, in conjunction with
the Rotary Foundation Study Ex¬
change program, visited the campus
Monday, March 26. The program is
designed to provide young business
and professional men opportunities to
study a foreign country.
The group of five business and
professional men chosen from a total
of 20 applicants from the district of
Southern Jutland and Funen in Den¬
mark, were hosted by Mildred M.
Wardlow, vice president for ad¬
ministrative services, and David A.
Ledbetter, dean of instructional ser¬
vices.
Bent Warburg, oldest member of the
group and team leader, is a former
retail and wholesale business man. He
is the only Rotary Club member of the
team. The other men, Ole Kaersaa,
student counselor; Jens U. Schroder,
wholesalesman ; Niels C. Pedersen,
banker; Steen E. Laursen, teacher,
and Bengt Lagoni, forwarding agent,
applied for eligibility for the trip
through various Rotary Clubs in
Denmark.
“This practice allows the men to
meet, talk and live with natives of the
country they are visiting and furthers
their international understanding,”
said a brochure issued by Rotary
International, which hopes to promote
lasting international friendships
through this program.
The tour of the campus began in the
Board Chambers located in the C
Building, where a series of slides
entitled “A College Designed For
You,” was projected.
The men were then guided by Dean
Ledbetter through the film studios of
the Communication Department to the
Machine Shop in the V Building. There,
Craig Gillingham gave a short ex¬
planation of the program offered and
answered questions such as what is
done with all the metal works and what
kind of job opportunities the program
offers. The team was surprised to hear
that the two-year PCC graduates of the
program can easily get any job in the
area.
The team was then taken through the
Auto Shop where questions were an¬
swered by Tom McEntyre. The
Computer Center in the D Building was
the next stop. There the visitors ad¬
mired the vast amount of technological
material offered to students.
The last stop of the tour was the
Learning Assistance Center. A brief
movie about the Center was projected
before James Crayton, teacher
coordinator of the Center, introduced
the team to all the facilities offered by
the Center.
Being a teacher, Laursen was
especially attracted by the methods
used in the reading and writing
laboratories. Kaersaa and Lagoni
were amazed by the Speech Plus
Calculator created for the blind
students.
Upon their return to the Board
Chambers, they were welcomed by
Superintendent-President Dr. Richard
Meyers.
“We are happy to have you here,”
Dr. Meyers said, “and as a Rotarian I
am doubly happy!
“According to the rules, we are
allowed to take up to 14 people,” said
Dr. Brown. “Unfortunately, we don’t
have that many this year.”
This year’s performance has
steadily improved, culminating with
last weekend’s victories. At the Pacific
Southwestern Collegiate Forensic
Association tournament held here
March 9-11, Judith Dineen received
first prize in Oral Interpretation. Mark
Watney placed second in Impromptu
Speaking and Beth Fernandez placed
third in the Expository Speaking
event.
Among the areas of competition are :
Oral Interpretation of Literature,
Informative Speech, Entertainment
Speech, Oratory, Persuasive Speech,
Communication. Analysis and En¬
tertainment Speech.
“We should do reasonably well this
year, " said Joseph Probst, speech
instructor. There are some strong
individual eventers on the team this
year. PCC placed third in the National
competition three years ago, both in
debate and overall competition.
GOING TO THE NATIONALS— Don Vecchione is one of eight
students going to the National Championship in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Held April 11-16, the competition will be held at the
South Raddison Hotel. All events will be held in the various hotel
rooms. —Courier photo by Lynette Ker
'Peace in Our Time' -
Senate Goes to Work
Danish businessmen visit PCC campus.
Peace. The 28 week long war bet¬
ween the ASB executive board and
student senate ended Thursday.
The cease-fire commenced when the
senate replaced arguing and point of
orders with approval-mania.
The frozen ASB budget was quickly
thawed and approved.
Scott Woodburn, Norman Ortiz and
Keith Whitfield were approved as
supreme council members.
Mario Castro is the new finance
commissioner. Karen Christensen was
approved as elections commissioner
and Susan James will be the assem¬
blies commissioner.
New second and third vice
presidents and a joint (ASB and
senate) financial code reconstruction
committee were also approved during
the noon meeting.
Other approvals include Ms.
Charlotte Hutchins and Dave DeRosa
as the senate’s representatives at the
California Community College Student
Government Association’s (CCCSGA)
convention to be held April 6, 7, 8 in
Sacramento.
The need for new second and third
vice presidents was caused when Ms.
Carolyn Brenner was ousted as senate
president last week.
Miss Brennan’s ouster also caused
Miss Terry Swan, then second vice
president, to quietly resign.
In a letter to this newspaper, Miss
Swan wrote, “The manner in which
Miss Brennan was forced into
resigning was unfeeling and cruel. It is
my personal opinion that when “Boys”
and “Girls” feel that they must
degrade a person and in so doing feel
“Big and Mighty,” they are severly
lacking in basic human consideration.
“I feel no need to maintain my
present standing as vice president of
the senate. I feel embarrassed for that
part of student government and a little
sorry for it.”
Miss Brennan was forced to resign
when it was learned she is on academic
probation.
The combination of Miss Brennan’s
and Miss Swan’s resignations vaulted
Fernando Vargas, then third vice
president, into the first vice president
position.
President Mike Tiberi, then first
vice president, was also in the process
of resigning but has halted that en¬
deavor at least temporarily.
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D Card Replacement
Will Cost Students $5
Financial aid students, who lose
their PCC ID cards may be in for an
unpleasant surprise. It’s going to cost
$5 to replace it.
This may seem like a rather large
amount of money to replace something
that originally was free. In fact, even
PCC Women Enjoy Activities
Students Celebrate Week of Awareness
By Laura Carlos
Staff Writer
Women's major social achievements
were widely celebrated throughout the
U.S. this week during what
traditionally is known as “Women's
Awareness Week.”
“Women's Awareness Week is an
exchange of ideas and talents. It's
meant to inspire and mobilize women
to take part in life on a grander scale,”
said Susan Borg. PCC Career
Guidance Counselor.
Women speakers from many areas
of the community and from out of state
came to PCC to share the keys to their
U Building Robbery Foiled
Robbers Flee Monday Night
success. Among the major speakers
was Lynn Francis, an ex -PCC student
whose topic was, “Starting Your Own
Business.” Ms. Francis is co-founder
of a "multimillion dollar" career
planning center for women, founded in
1978. She later left the center to open
her own cleaning service business on
which she builds a $100,000 a year
income.
Susan Bravender, artist, PCC
professor, spoke about women's
contributions in the arts. She discussed
Jewish feminist, Judy Chicago’s
exhibition, now in San Francisco's
Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibition, termed "The Dinner
Party.” is a non-traditional work of art
created with very traditional
techniques. Chicago has utilized
women's techniques, such as stitching
and china painting to create a major
feminist statement. Her main em¬
phasis is to represent women's role
throughout history in western
civilization.
The changing roles of women in
society was also a major point of
discussion through a literature topic,
"Images of Women in Literature.
Literature offers us the tool to re¬
evaluate ourselves and society," said
feminist. English professor Karen
Norris
Womens Awareness Week is
sponsored by the Commission on the
Status ot Women and PCC. It was
previously sponsored by Mrs. Phyllis
Jackson, dean of student activities.
However. PCC has not been entirely
supportive of such women's activities
and educational programs. "Our
Board of Trustees has not only been
against women's programs but also of
having a women s center.” said Mrs.
Borg. "There isn't enough money and
it's sexist. 1 believe that's the majority
of the board's feelings, although some
have been supportive."
Mrs. Borg further emphasized the
need for a women's center at PCC as a
necessary support facility for women
returning to the college.
"One of the goals for a women's
center is taking an active part in
shaping curriculum, to have more
courses available to women. En¬
couragement and support is very
important to show they can do it." said
Borg
Library exhibitions featuring books,
articles and art on women will be on
display through April.
An attempted burglary of the U
Building, that would have netted the
thieves $12,000 in equipment, was th¬
warted Monday night when two PCC
patrolmen scared the burglars off.
DONALD A. COLCA
The patrolmen, Donald A. Colca, and
Fred Aquirre, were on their routine
patrol. At about 10:30 p.m. they
spotted two people running from the
southeast entrance to the U Building,
who got into a green Rambler AMX
two-door, and drove away at a high
rate of speed.
The patrolmen investigated the U
Building, and found the equipment
piled on the floor in the nursing area on
the first floor. The equipment, ap¬
parently from the electronics
department on the same floor, con¬
sisted of several television sets, video
tape machines with power packs, and
motion picture equipment, including a
60mm projector.
While the two patrolmen were not
able to actually see the burglars to
determine their sex, they believed
them to be male due to the large
amount of equipment moved.
The fleeing men were not pursued,
because the patrolmen did not observe
them carrying any equipment, and
decided to secure the building.
After a check of the building, it was
determined no equipment was
missing.
Alvar Kauti, dean of student activities,
admits the cards cost only about 40
cents apiece to make in the first place.
So why the high replacement fee?
According to Kauti, it is “to give the
card some value, and to act as an in¬
centive for students to keep the card.”
He said many students use tha card
for things other than strictly school
related activities. Some need them to
show to their employers, bank, or even
insurance company. Many theaters
accept them as
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for cut-rate movies.
Also the cards are valuable as a
more positive form of ID when cashing
checks at the student store, or when
borrowing a book from the library.
“If the students kept losing cards,
then there would be all kinds of
duplicates floating around. They can
be used fraudulently, and maybe to the
detriment of the student who originally
used the card.”
Last year, according to Kauti, PCC
spent nearly $7,000 on program sheets
that were mailed to each individual
student.
Since the new ID card has been
available, over 5,000 cards have been
issued. If this were to be repeated
every semester the savings would
amount to approximately $3,000 per
annum.
In the future, however, some
discussion has been conducted on the
subject of updating cards with a
sticker each semester. This would
further reduce the cost of producing
cards each semester.
The cards are not available to every
one, if you want one, you have to go ask
for it,” said Kauti.
What about those on financial aid,
who legitimately lose their cards?
Many find themselves caught in a
viscous circle. They need $5 to replace
the card but they need to get their aid
check to have the $5, but they can’t get
the check without the card.
“Emergency loans are available,”
said Kauti, “also some money is
available through the Student Bank,
and even through the ASB. We can
always work something out for the
student.”
WOMEN’S WEEK — PCC women
Women’s Awareness Week this
were honored all over the nation.
participated in
week. Women
Guest speakers
and special activities were on hand at PCC.
Exhibits of past accomplishments of women are
in the library.
School Open
Although classes will not be in
session over spring vacation, the
school will be open.
The various offices on campus will
not be open at night but will be
operating from 8 a. m. to 4 p.m.
The Bookstore will be closed the
entire week for inventory and the
Library will be open from 9 a. m. to 4
p.m.