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PCC Courier, May 09, 1975
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WHERE IS GEORGE HARRISON? — Members of
the Satarupa Devi Dasi, a musical group repre¬
senting the International Society for Krishna
Consciousness, entertained PCC students in the
Free Speech Area Tuesday. Strictly vegetarians,
—Courier Photo by Bruce Archie
the Krishna chanfers believe in minimizing the
needs and pleasures of the body, which in their
opinion is only a vehicle for the soul. Ex-Beatle
George Harrison recently donated $19,000 to the
society.
Health Groups
Sponsor Fair
l!\ Pat Francis
\ssisl;mt City Editor
“There is so much change in
medicine these days, and we really
need something like a health fair more
often to let people know about them,"
said Dorothy Reynolds, a member of
the Life Science Department faculty.
“Senior citizens often have difficulty
obtaining needed services because of
their limited incomes, and we want our
health fair to be a day when such
people can get information on these
areas."
Mrs. Reynolds is coordinator for the
first San Gabriel Valley Senior
Citizens Health Fair, to be held at PCC
on May l(> from 12 : R0 to 4:30 p.m.
A number of area hospitals, medical
associations and other health, civic
and religious organizations are
combining with PCC to make possible
this opportunity for older citizens.
Exhibits in booths and informational
materials will be avaible on a wide
range of topics and ailments common
to seniors.
“Displays from individual groups
will be staffed throughout the af¬
ternoon by competent medical per¬
sonnel, who will be ready to answer
any questions,” said Mrs. Reynolds.
Tests in a variety of areas will be
available to those attending the fair.
The L.A. County Podiatry Association
plans for staff members to check feet,
and Pasadena’s St. Luke Hospital is
bringing equipment on campus to
examine interested persons for
glaucoma, a serious eye disease.
Latest information on advancements
for diabetics will be available, and the
West Coast Medical Group is spon¬
soring a booth with information on and
possible demonstrations of acupunc¬
ture.
“There are approximately 150
volunteers working to set up the day,”
said Mrs. Reynolds.
The assorted booths and available
testing will be set up both on the
central Quad area and in R Building.
Wheelchairs are being supplied to aid
handicapped persons who otherwise
might not attend.
Mrs. Reynolds added that some
senior citizens who should attend, may
not come because of transportation
problems, and she would appreciate
any volunteer assistance of students or
others with automobiles. For futher
information, contact her at 578-7215.
PCC CaPiieb
High Sthooi Writers
Taste College Life
VOL. 39, N0.12
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MAY 9, 1975
Aldrich.
Hunt
New Journalism Editors Seletted
By Sergio Caponi
Editor-in-Chief
Ernie Aldrich, Pat Francis and
Steve Hunt will head respectively the
Courier, Focus Magazine and Prism,
the school's new yearly magazine,
next fall. Their position as editor-in-
chief were unanimously approved by
the PCC journalism faculty.
\ldrieh has been involved in the PCC
journalism program for two
semesters, as a staff writer on the
Courier. Former art-photo major
Aldrich is totally committed to jour¬
nalism
“I plan to continue my education
only to the point of a bachelor of arts
degree," said Aldrich. “I then hope to
work for a newspaper or magazine
specializing in feature writing. I enjoy
writing and interviewing news stories
and I learn from each assignment I
have. I found in journalism one keeps
on growing with each assignment.”
Essential Part of Competency
“Looking forward to the fall
semester in my capability as Courier
Editor, I intend to completely involve
myself in the duties of this respon¬
sibility. The school paper is an
essential part of the campus com¬
munity.”
Aldrich is an intern with the L.A.
Times this summer, and will also edit
the summer edition of the Courier.
After PCC, he plans to transfer to the
University of Oregon. He is a member
of Beta Phi Gamma, the national
journalism honor society.
Journalism major Pat Francis is the
new editor of Focus Magazine, the
Courier supplement which once a
semester zeros in on a particular
aspect of the college.
Two Issues Possibility
Next fall, however, Focus can come
out with two, rather than one, issues.
"I would definitely like to put out two
issues next semester,” said Miss
Francis.
Plans for the new staff and
production of the magazine are
already underway. “I am grateful for
this new opportunity; I want to do a
good job” she said.
A product of Pasadena schools, Miss
Francis came to PCC in 1974. “Writing
is one of the things I have always been
good at. and PCC journalism
programs have helped me put that
ability together to make it work.” Miss
Francis has been working on both
Focus and Prism as a staff writer and
Adelphian Drive
Grosses 1030
Pounds of Food
The semi-annual Canned Food
Drive, sponsored by Adelphians,
PCC’s women’s service organization,
grossed a total of 1030 pounds of food,
reports Elizabeth Plyler, president.
The drive was held on the campus
for two weeks with deposit boxes
situated at central locations on
campus. Ninetv-tour pounds were
collected from students and faculty.
(Ml the evening of Friday. May 2.
members oi Adelphums. assisted by
other campus service organizations,
went to the Chapman Woods area oi
Pasadena. The community con¬
tributed 936 pounds of canned goods.
The food will now be turned over to
the Pasadena Welfare Department,
which will be distributed to needy
families in the Pasadena area.
Miss Plyler wishes to thank all who
assisted in the drive. She says, “This is
really what Adelphians is all about. It
is our way of helping the community as
best we can. The Canned Food Drive
has traditionally been part ot
Adelphians' scheduled activites each
semester. We are most grateful to all
who took part in the drive.
is assistant city editor for the Courier.
She has taken all the journalism
courses that PCC has to offer. “These
have given me a broad education in
every aspect of journalistic writing,”
she said.
Miss Francis also plans to join the
internship program with the Los
Angeles Times this summer.
“I would like to work in the area of
religious journalism although I will
probably start in newspaper work. I
have especially enjoyed the courses in
magazine produciion and I feel this is
where my ability can be best utilized."
Miss Francis is a member of Beta
Phi Gamma and OMD.
Steve Hunt, also a Beta Phi Gamma
member, will edit Prism, the new 104-
page school magazine which features
major events of PCC throughout the
entire year.
Since the first issue of Prism has not
been published yet. Hunt said, “I am
waiting to take a look at it so that I will
know what is expected of me next
year. This is a brand new experience
from which I hope to learn a lot," he
said.
A graduate of Aviation High School
in Redondo Beach, Hunt joined the
Courier staff in 1974, where he covered
the position of copy editor and sports
editor. At this time he is sports writer.
Still undecided on the four-year
institution he will transfer to later to
pursue a B.A. in journalism, Hunt is
primarily interested in becoming a
play-by-play announcer for a major
league baseball team.
After participating in the internship
program at the Pasadena Star-News
last summer, he is now there full time
as a copy boy and reporter.
Speaking of his new editorship, Hunt
said. “I will do everything I can to
make Prism a good magazine. I feel
that to do this I will be giving
something to PCC, which is the least I
can do after all this college has done
for me.”
ERNIE ALDRICH
. . . Courier
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PAT FRANCIS
. . . Focus
STEVE HUNT
. . . Prism
ICC Sponsors Volleyball Match,
Slates Outstanding Club Award
By Wavne Woods
' Staff Writer
The Inter Club Council (ICC) is
sponsoring a volleyball tournament,
and an award for the best club of the
spring semester.
Joe Fisbeck, ICC president, says
“There is good participation so far ; we
are expecting a good turnout ; it should
be a good tournament.”
The requirements for the volleyball
tournament are: club teams can
consist of six members, with one
substitute; clubs can enter as many
teams as they want.
Fourteen teams have signed up and
there will lie a double elimination,
meaning that if a team drops two
games it is out of the competition.
There will be three rounds a day, at 20
minutes a round. All except the semi¬
finals and the finals will be played
outside at noon. Playing dates will be
May 20, 22, 27 and 29 (if necessary);
the finals will be on June 3.
Another activity that the ICC is
sponsoring, the Most Outstanding Club
Award, will soon become a permanent
thing each spring and fall, says
Fisbeck.
This semester for the first time, the
ICC will present an award to the best
club on campus. Clubs will be judged
on how well members follow its pur¬
pose as stated in its constitution, how
well it participates in ASB activities,
how involved it becomes in ICC
business and activities. And most
important of all, its outstanding ac¬
complishments, and goals achieved
this semester.
Fisbeck states that the winning club
will receive a plaque to keep. There
will be a large running plaque in the
Campus Center, with the club's name
engraved into it.
Dr. Sarafian will present the award
in June. Judges will be Dean Phyllis
Jackson. Fisbeck, ICC projects
commissioner, ASB and Senate
presidents and the presidents of the
Associated Men and Women Students.
A resume on why they feel that one’s
club can and will win must be turned in
to Fisbeck no later than Monday, May
26 at 2 p.m., in duplicate. The award
will be presented the first week of
June.
Journalism students from Pasadena
area high schools competed in a
writing contest and got a taste of the
kind of journalism training PCC can
offer them when they attended the
annual Journalism Day on campus last
week.
The students toured the Courier,
television, radio and print shop
facilities and received information on
the programs offered in the four
communication areas. The writing
contest was based on a speech
delivered by E. G. (Ted) Cook,
manpower resource manager at JPL,
on space exploration.
Professional Judges
The contest covered news, feature,
editorial, sports writing and a special
category for best high school
newspaper. The judging was done by
professional journalists from the L.A.
Times, the Pasadena Star-News and
other local publications.
For the second consecutive year, the
Arcadia High School Pow-Wow was
judged the best newspaper. The Muir
Blazer was second and the PHS
Chronicle placed third.
In newswriting Susan Lonborg from
PHS came in first, followed by Emily
Buchanan from South Pasadena and
Connie Boltz from PHS.
First place for features went to Mark
Tountree from Arcadia. Runners-up
were Mark Maggiorao from Arroyo
and Kathy Braidhill from Temple City.
Jeff Ettinger from Muir and Richard
Belansky from Flintridge tied for top
honors in the editorial competition.
Richard Coleman from La Salle
grabbed second place and Karen
Brown from San Marino was third.
First place in sports writing went to
Mike Amodei from Temple City. Todd
Axtell from Blair came in second and
Mark Gunther from Flintridge was
third.
Traditionally the Courier has
published the winning news story. This
year's follows:
Winning Story
By Susan Lonborg
“Will the 1960s be remembered as a
decade of riot, strife and
assassination, or will it be remem¬
bered as a decade of man's first step
into space?”
This question and others like it were
posed to student writers by Ted Cook,
manpower planning manager for Jet
Propulsion Laboratory at the annual
Journalism Day, held Thursday, May 1
at Pasadena City College. His topic,
“What on Earth Are We Doing in
Space?", covered both positive and
negative reactions to the space
program.
Faced by an endless barrage of
criticism by the American public for
the billions of dollars spent on space
exploration, Cook stated that for many
“The challenge (of space technology)
has disappeared and the frustrations
have taken over.”
According to Cook, the most
frequently posed question in opposition
to the continuation of space ex¬
ploration is “Why isn’t the U.S. taking
care of social diseases that plague the
country instead of spending millions of
dollars putting men on the moon?”
In reply, he commented that a nation
cannot hold up all progress until it
solves all the problems of mankind,
but rather, he says, moving toward
progress may help eliminate some of
these very problems.
One Cent Spent
In actuality, according to the figures
presented by Cook, for every tax dollar
spent, 42 cents is used to combat social
ailments, such as poverty, crime and
hunger, while one cent goes toward
space exploration. Said Cook. "What
more can 43 cents do than 42 cents?"
Throughout his discussion. Cook
returned to the theme that in order for
the United States to remain a major
world leader in space technology the
race must be continued and the
challenge of discovery must be met.
“Living in space has forced man to
think of doing things better . . . space
flights have pushed computer
technology forward fast. Satellites are
now used in weather surveillance and
observation, saving perhaps 50,000
lives a year. The cardiac pacemaker,
the kidney machine, monitoring units
and heart pumps have added much to
medicine today.
“The greatest lesson learned from
exploration in space is that we can
forsee problems that might occur
before they actually do,” he said.
Exhaustible Earth
Cook said that man sees the earth as
inexhaustible, but in reality the en¬
vironment conducive to life is narrow
and limited. Technology, in his
opinion, must be used to preserve it.
“It is not the lack of money or tech¬
nology that prevents the support of the
space programs,” said Cook, “but the
reluctance of the people to accept rules
and costs. People are willing to trans¬
form ideas to reality.” Cook reasoned
that a budget of $4.5 million could
maintain an adequate space program
each year.
Cook quoted John F. Kennedy, who
said on September 12, 1962, “We
choose to go to the moon in this decade
not because it is easy, but because it is
hard ... It is a challenge we wish to
accept ... a challenge we wish to
win.”
ASB Senate Passes Financial Code Compromise
Amendment; Executive Board Decision Awaited
A compromise amendment to the
financial code was passed by the ASB
Senate at last Tuesday’s meeting and
is now pending before the Executive
Board. The original amendment was
passed by the Senate several weeks
ago. but was unsatisfactory to the
board.
The compromise amendment now
says that any club or organization may
request up to a $1000 grant if the grant
is for 40 per cent of debts incurred. The
amendment does not apply to loans
because the ASB government will not
be losing that money. Clubs may
request a loan for another 60 per cent.
There is an elastic clause which would
waive these restrictions for 15 days.
When a petition is signed by 10 per cent
of the enrolled students and is passed
by a three-quarters majority vote in
the Senate, a waiver would be ap¬
proved.
Results of the transportation survey
have been 2 to 1 in favor of some sort of
shuttle bus system. This system would
run from specific areas directly to
PCC on a regular schedule.
Buses would be driven by licensed
student drivers. Security for parked
cars and bikes would be provided at
the designated pickup points. Mem¬
bers of the Senate will be meeting with
Embree Bus representatives and the
Southern California Rapid Transit
District to discuss proposed routes and
scheduling.
The ASB Executive Board with Dean
John Eikenbery are negotiating with
pinball machine companies to replace
the machines which were taken out of
the Campus Center earlier this year.
The pinball machines are one source of
revenue for the ASB General Fund.
The board also approved a financial
request from the Litho Club to help
sponsor a Haitian child.
A committee to look into the
possibility of PCC going on a quarter
system of semesters, which is four 10-
week sessions with two weeks in
between, was formed by the Senate
with Tina Camp as chairman. Another
suggestion was to start the first
semester around August 18 and to end
the semester before Christmas
vacation. The second semester would
end around May 5. Summer school
would have the same dates as now.
ICC President Joe Fisbeck showed
the Senate the plaques which will be
given to the outstanding clubs
beginning this semester. The practice
was stopped about five years ago.
Class Visits Radio Station To Get
Information on Sales, Advertising
By Melissa Ludgren
Staff Writer
KMPC, a personality and middle-of-
the-road (MOR) music station,
greeted PCC's Telcom 118 class with a
sign that read: “Welcome, Harry
Spitzer's Sales and Advertising class.”
1'he session took place in KMPCs
plush Hollywood meeting room on
Tuesday, April 29, where Mike
Davison, director of research and
sales development, and Ken Miller,
general sales manager, spoke on their
respective areas in broadcasting.
Davison presented a slide
demostration. while explaining what
market research is. According to
Davison, it reflects the effectivness of
TV and radio commercials, judged by
who is buying in categories of sex, age,
time of day. type of station, income
level and geographic area.
Computers are used to integrate all
the criteria. Most stations depend on
an advertising or research agency, but
KMPC has its own computer facilities.
Davison also discussed the Com¬
mercial Impact Study, a one-year
study on the effectivness of radio and
TV stations as conveyors of com¬
mercial advertising. Sponsored by
KMPC in 1973, this study related the'
different types of stations and formats
to audience characteristics. This is
considered a deeper level of
measurement. The most significant
conclusion was that personality-MOR
radio stations are superior to TV
stations in commercial impact.
Miller took the class on a station tour
showing the newsroom in action,
general offices, engineering, disc
jockey booths, where Roger Carroll
was on the air live, and the production
facilities, where Wink Martindale was
preparing for a show.
After returning to the meeting room,
Miller gave two demonstrations of
sales presentations he makes to adver¬
tisers when trying to sell radio air
time. The first approach was done with
large cards with pictures on them,
using numbers as the theme to show
the strong points of the station. The
second, also with cards, used KMPCs
news and traffic departments to
illustrate its strengths.
Miller stressed that before making a
presentation a salesman must estab¬
lish the importance of his media,
develop a strong profile of his station,
know the market and how his station
will move the product, what the
product is and the company and its
problems. He then relates strong
points to the advertiser and the
audience