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VOL 60, NO. 1 1
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MAY 3, 1985
Voters Elect Svonkin Student Trustee
By Joe Holman
News Editor
Scott Svonkin will assume the
position of Student Trustee on May
15 after winning the election held
Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week. Svonkin, AS vice president in
charge of student services, re¬
ceived 298 votes narrowly defeating
write in candidate Keith Gustafson
by 47 votes. The third candidate for
the position Martin A.C. Enriquez-
Marquez finished with 177 votes.
The other write in candidate Les
Nesman received 50 votes.
“I am proud that the students
elected me to represent them,”
said Svonkin. “My involvement as
AS vice president will help create
stronger communication between
the AS government and the Board
of Trustees, which has been a
problem in the past.”
“He will be an excellant
trustee,” said Chris Cofer, AS pres¬
ident. “He is well qualified for the
position and he will be a strong
advocate for the students.”
A total of 808 ballots were cast,
well over the 250 votes tallied in
last year’s Student Trustee elec¬
tion. There was also a 30 percent
increase in voter participation in
last October’s AS election. “The
amount of student participation
speaks well of the school regard¬
less which candidate won,” said
Cofer.
Svonkin will act as the student
representative to the Board of
Trustees. “My responsibility will
be to voice student opinion to the
Board.,” said Svonkin.
Svonkin will replace current
Student Trustee Joseph Serrato.
“Joe should be commended for the
job he did, but I plan to be even
more effective,” Svonkin said.
“Joe rarely got involved in the
meetings.”
As Student Trustee, Svonkin
said that his top three priorities
will be, “To continue to involve
students in the decisions that are
made by the Board, to pursue
lowering tuition and to continue my
work in an attempt to find asolution
to the parking problem.”
Svonkin intends to form letter
writing campaigns to state govern¬
ment early next year in effort to
fight to reduce tuition. He also said
that two major factors will be
involved in the parking issue. “The
first is to establish a parking fund
that would go for the purchase of
land or construction of parking
facilities. The second is to fiqd out
where the money would come
from. We would have to seek out
funds from local and state or¬
ganizations,” said Svonkin.
“In order for me to be most
effective, I really need student
input,” said Svonkin. “I will have
an office in the student center. I
would like to have students keep in
touch with me and tell me how they
feel about certain projects. I also
want them to follow what goes on
so that they are aware of issues
that concern them.”
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SCOTT SVONKIN
Campaign 85 Doubles Goal
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By Eric Bauer
Sports Editor
KPCC completed its fund drive Sunday, and came away
with nothing less than outstanding results. The station easily
surpassed its previous best of approximately $20,000 from
last semester’s fund drive.
This time, the station hauled in $39,626. KPCC’s develop¬
ment director Frank Whiteley predicts that more funds will
continue to come in. “I’m sure the pledge money will get
over 40 grand by the time we’ve finished talking about the
drive,” he said.
“I think the drive was very successful,” said KPCC
program director Larry Shirk. “We’re very pleased with the
money received, considering the location of our transmit¬
ter.”
Whiteley attributed the fund drive’s success to a new
soliciting strategy. “We tried every trick in the book,” said
Whiteley, “and the ploy that worked the best was our
increased ratio of pitch per programming. We pitched easily
30 percent of the programming time.”
Larry Mantle, KPCC’s news director, attributed the fund
drive’s success to staff involvement. “The staff worked
extremely hard to make sure each program was covered and
we continually asked for listener support,” he said. “The
students were also more involved in the fund drive.”
Although some students temporarily forfeited their air
time during some shows for the drive, they assisted by
answering phones, engineering for certain programs and
participating in on-air interviews describing their future and
present plans in the broadcasting world. “The students’
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work added a continuity to the fund drive which I think was
very important,” said Mantle.
The largest number of pledges came from the extended
version of the German American Hour, hosted by Tibor
Paul. The weekend show pulled in nearly half of the overall
pledges, getting over $17,000.
One portion of the programming which did not attract a
great number of pledges was the “Just Jazz" time, which
airs on weekdays from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. That time slot
is when the station gets the most participation from
students. During those hours students intern as disc jockeys
and engineers. They also monitor the stations out put.
Although the “Just Jazz” hours did bring in more money
than it did during previous fund drives, the $1,200 was
deemed signifigantly low by Whitely, considering the
number of hours of air time. Still, a program change would
seem unlikely.
“Anything we would do would certainly include students
and that’s the ultimate priority. “said Mantle.
The money received will go to buy needed equipment, as
well as overall maintenence needed for running the station.
The listener support is very advantageous if used as
leverege if the station decides to move its transmitter from
atop the C building to Mt. Wilson. “We’ll probably need
approximately $130,000 to move the transmitter.” said Shirk.
“But with our demonstrated track record in fund raising, we
may attempt to borrow that money from the college and
we’d repay them over a three to five year period.”
With a larger possible listening audience. Shirk said, the
station could easily pay back the loan due to more money
pledged during future pledge drives.
SPIRITED GROUP-
-Try outs for next year's flag, song and cheerleaders were held on Tuesday.
— Courier Photo by George Willis
Publication Honors Creative Writers
Martinez Selected Sacramento Intern
By Sister Mary Scully
Staff Writer
PCC student Mary Martinez has been
selected to participate in the Student
Affirmative Action (SAA) Capital In¬
ternship Program. Martinez will enroll
at California State University, Sacra¬
mento for an internship which will last
for one academic year from the Fall
1985 semester through the Spring 1986
semester.
This program assists community col¬
lege students in furthering their educa¬
tion by exposing them to the university
environment while studying and work¬
ing directly in state government.
Martinez will take a regular college
program along with courses in govern¬
ment fields. She will work closely with
a legislator, attend government com¬
mittee meetings and discover how the
California State government works.
Martinez filed an application for the
program after Henry Guzman, social
science instructor suggested her name
to Elizabeth Walsh, counselour for Ex¬
tended Oppurtunity Program Services.
Guzman, having taught Martinez, re¬
alized she had the qualifications and
was eligible to enter Cal State Univer¬
sity, Sacramento in good standing. In
addition to the application, Martinez
was requested to submit a 500 word
essay on any topic about which she felt
strongly. Her topic dealt with helping
the poor people in California. Martinez
indicated that she wanted the poor
people to help themselves by learning a
craft in a trade school. Her hope is that
a law will be passed to assist those on
the poverty level so that they might
become more independent and more
self supporting.
Martinez felt that Joyce Moore, her
American Government teacher at San
Gabriel Mission High School was very
influential. “Moore made the govern¬
ment class really live for me. She
encouraged each of us to be part of the
government and be an active partici¬
pant in it,” Martinez said. Later some
her friends who were politically
of
active also urged Martinez to become
involved in governmental issues. She
began to clarfy her thinking and
duscuss matters of government seri¬
ously, realizing the need for active
participation.
After the year of internship,
Martinez plans to continue studying at
California State University. Sacra¬
mento.
By Mark Morel
Staff Writer
The editorial staff of “Inscape”
magazine will be holding a reception
Monday, May 13 from 7:30-9 p.m. in the
Circadian Room, located on the north
end of the Cafeteria.
“Inscape” is an annual publication of
creative works by PCC student writers,
artists and photographers. According
to staff editor Linda Friday, “The main
purpose of the reception is to promote
the interest in PCC’s Creative Writing
Department as well as honoring the
students published in the latest editions
of “Inscape. " She also added that by
publishing the talents of artists and
photographers “Inscape” gives all
creative students the opportunity to
display their works.
Forensics members Michelle Jones,
Valerie Villagran and Linda Friday are
scheduled to read both prose and poetry
at the reception. Also planned for the
evening is a reading of poetry by John
Ashbery and Ron Koertge.
An announcement of the Scott Han¬
dley Award will also be made at the
reception. This year’s award will be
shared by two students A1 Reid and
David Tindall, both writers and editors
of “Inscape.”
According to faculty adviser Jane
Hallinger. inscape” is celebrating its
10th year of production in 1985. Copies
of the 1985 edition may be obtained at
the Student Bookstore or at the English
Department Office C217. The cost is $1.
All are welcomed to the reception
and refreshments will be served.
Campus Briefs
The arrival of spring in Indiana
coincided with the arrival of almost
2.000 nursing students for the 33rd
Annual National Student Nurses As¬
sociation (NSNA) convention April
17-21 at the Hooiser Dome in Indian¬
apolis. Included were three PCC nurs¬
ing students who represented the local
Student Nurses Association of Califor¬
nia (SNAC) chapter: Jenifer Peery,
Nursing 1, Susan McCreay, SNAC-PCC
president, and Sue Strong, graduate of
the nurshing program.
Students from 34 state associations
attended the five day convention. The
convention included a legislative semi¬
nar where the SNAC-PCC was
presented with a certificate of recogni¬
tion for participating in the NSNA’s
nation wide voeter registrationd drive
last fall. SNAC-PCC was one of only 20
chapters to receive such recognition.
The college library will sponsor a
Book Sale on May 15 and 16 from 9 a m.
to 1 p.m. in the Quad. Prices of books
will range from 10 cents to $1 depend¬
ing upon the condition and subject
matter. These books are a combination
of discards from the library’s collec¬
tion and gifts that were not added to the
collection. There will also be discarded
reference books available at higher
prices. Proceeds will benefit the li¬
brary and enable librarians to buy
additional materials. For further in¬
formation call Joanne Kim. Library
Director, at 578-7221.
May 23 is the last day for PCC
students to apply to attend the
Shakespearean F’estival in Ashland, Or¬
egon. The festival is scheduled from
June 22 to June 29. Each student
interested in attending must be
enrolled in English 60, a three unit
transferable course or English 35, a one
unit transferable course. The amount
for a double room for seven days is $260
and a single room is $291. For further
information call Phyllis Mael at
578-7428 or 578-7371 or Jane Hallinger at
578-7249.
An art exhibition and auction, to
benefit the Italian/American Scholar¬
ship Fund, will be held Sat. May 4, at
the PCC cafeteria. A preview will be
held from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. and will
preceed the auction which is st 7:30
p.m. Admission is free and refresh¬
ments will be served. Parking is avail¬
able at Colorado and Hill streets.
Arranged by Robert Sills Gallery
Inc., the exhibition and auction fea¬
tures original lithographs, etchings and
graphics, signed and numbered by
many of the world's most reknowned
artists, as well as original water-colors
and oil paintings from all parts of the
world. Two door prizes of original oil
paintings will be given away.
The Italian/American Scholarship
Fund, started in 1972, brings one Italian
student to PCC ever year and also
sends an American student to Italy.
This is a private scholarship, provided
by less than 100 Fund Committee mem¬
bers with no government aide. Since
inception, the Fund has brought 12
Italian students to PCC from all parts
of Italy.
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
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ANNUAL FUND CAMPAIGN
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NEARING GOAL — Dr. Henry P. Kirk, left, and Paul Cushman,
president of the PCC Foundation, proudly display a chart
indicating that $55,000 has been raised for the 60th Anniversary
fund raising campaign. The goal is $60,00 by June 1 Members of
the PCC Foundation Board of Directors personally gave $20,000
to kick off the drive in February.
— Photo courtesy of Oscar Chavez, educational services