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EVERYONE’S A WIN¬
NER!— PCC’s track and
swimming pools were
used during the Pasadena
Special Olympics last
Saturday. Over 200
athletes participated in the
various sporting events.
Participants in Saturday’s
meet were from the San
Gabriel valley. All the
athletes received medals
for participating. The
Pasadena Special
Olympics has been held at
PCC for years now.
Roosevelt School for the
Handicapped organizes
the event and a good time
is had by both spectators
and athletes.
—Courier photos by Marcus Wilk
VOL. 47, NO. 13
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MAY 11, 1979
ASB Applications Available
By Terry Robertson
Staff Writer
If you plan on running for a student
government office the deadline to file
is today. Applications for ASB offices
must be turned in to the Campus
Center receptionist by 12:30 p.m. The
receptionist also has blank ap¬
plications for students who need to fill
one out.
Elections for the fall semester
positions will be different than any
other election in the history of PCC, a
new position, independent student
trustee, will be on the ballot. In the
Forum Features
Current Writers
Today the 25th annual Writers’
Forum will begin at 1 p.m. in the U
Building Forum. The event will con¬
tinue through tomorrow evening.
The Writers’ Forum will be a series
of eight lectures, including two panel
discussions tomorrow, given by
current writers.
Tickets may be purchased at the
door of the Forum. The cost for the
entire workshop is $10, while the in¬
dividual lecture price is $2.
Books by the authors speaking will
be available in the foyer of the Forum.
They will be sold for the retail price,
The Writers’ Forum is jointly
sponsored by the English Department
and the Office of Extended Campus
Programs.
Although programs will be available
in both the offices listed above and at
the door of the Forum, a summation of
events will follow herein:
At 1 p.m. Jerene Hewitt, the director
of the Writers' Forum, will introduce
the program.
Helen Hinckley Jones, the initiator
of the Forum and a former PCC
teacher, will speak on “The Alchemy
of Words.” Mrs. Jones has written 15
books.
The writer and editor of over 130
books, Ruth Radlauer will speak about
writing for children in “Striking the
Mother Lode with Kids,” at 2:30 p.m.
John D. Weaver, a writer of books;
news, scripts and other items will
discuss “Words in a Visual World,” at
7:30 p.m. in Friday’s last lecture.
Patricia Zonker will begin Satur¬
day’s program with “For the People:
Investigative Reporting,” at 9:30 a.m.
She is the author of “Murdercycles.”
^Writing a “First Novel” will be the
topic of Ronald B. Koertge’s 10:30 a.m.
talk. Koertge, an Associate Professor
of English at PCC, is author of eight
poetry works and will see his first
novel in print in autumn.
After lunch at 1 p.m., Jean Burden
and Henri Coulette will make up the
poetry panel. Mrs. Burden has edited,
described and written poetry while
Coulette has written and taught
English at Cal State L.A. for 20 years.
At 2:30 a comedy writer for Bob
Hope and Phyllis Diller will speak.
Gene Perret will discuss “Writing for
Television.” He has won three Emmy
and two Writers’ Guild Awards.
Wrapping up the Forum will be the
scientific, technical and medical panel
at 7:30. Dr. Charles F. Richter of
Richter scale fame, Professor Leonard
Franco of PCC and Dr. William F.
Hewitt of the Los Angeles Sex In¬
formation Helpline will analyze dif¬
ferent areas of technical writing.
past, the ASB president held the
position as one of his duties.
Monday, in a special meeting, the
Board of Trustees approved the new
office. ASB President and Student
Trustee Derek Coleman, who is very
disappointed in the board’s decision,
must now decide on whether he will
seek an ASB office or the student
trustee position. At press time, he still
had not reached a decision.
Senate President Mike Tiberi,
author of the independent trustee
paper, now says he’s sorry it passed.
Tiberi stated he feels the decision
takes most of the power away from
student government because it creates
a new branch that operates without the
executive board or student senate
having any say so whatsoever.
The paper was supported by the
senate while the executive board
supported a paper that made the ASB
president the student trustee.
Since becoming senate president,
Tiberi has taken reverse stands on
most issues.
Tiberi, who is area nine CCCSGA
vice president, says he is singing the
same song except in a different key.
When asked if he is going to run for
an office, he said, “I will either run for
ASB president or student trustee
depending on what position Coleman
seeks. I will run for the opposite office.
Derek and I work well together.”
Dean Phylis Jackson urges students
to get involved in ASB government.
Ms. Jackson said, “Don’t worry about
not having any experience, we will
teach you. We’re here to help you.”
However, she did state she prefers
an experienced person as ASB
president.
To hold an ASB office a student must
not be on academic probation, must be
enrolled in at least 10 units and have a
2.2 grade point average ( GP A ) in units
attempted during the semester of
candidacy. A 2.2 GPA must be
maintained in 10 units to remain in
office. The student trustee must meet
the same qualifications except his or
her GPA must be 2.5.
MAJOR DECISIONS— Superintendent-President Dr. Richard Meyers
and Board of Trustee members Robert L. Spare, Walter Shatford and
Dr. Rjchard Green, along with the other board members voted on
major issues this past week, including faculty raises and the student
trustee problem. —courier photo by s.k.
Retroactive Pay Raise
Approved By Trustees
Faculty Wants
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As Bargaining Agent
The approval of collective bargining
by an overwheling 211 to 66 votes in the
May 9 election signifies a 76.2 percent
voting faculty approval.
Three-fourths of the 371 eligible
voters, as defined by the unit, cast
their ballots between 10 a.m. and 3
p.m. in the Circadian Lounge. In a
similar election last year, collective
bargaining was defeated by about four
votes.
The administration was represented
at the ballot count by Vice President
for Business Services Bonnie James.
Dr. James said-, “We will work as
cooperatively in the future as we have
in the past with the faculty.”
“We feel that we have been open and
above board in response to the issues
and' concerns of the faculty,” he
stated. “We hope that the relationship
would continue.”
On the other hand, Hutchinson said,
“Frankly, I hope the relations between
the faculty and the administration will
be improved.”
“The faculty,” he explained, “gave
the district the opportunity one year
ago to be fairly reasonable and to work
for the common objective, which is the
student, and they didn’t. The faculty
said we’ll look at what goes on for one
year. They did. The result is indicative
of what they saw this year.”
As for the negotiating team, the
California Teachers Association will
represent us (the faculty).
“I imagine the administration will
have fewer representatives on
negotiating team because they do not
need to represent the variety of in¬
terests that the faculty must. I’m not
sure though.”
The one thing Ortell, Mrs. DiMassa,
Alan Lamson and at least 25 other
celebrators at the victory party were
sure of was that collective bargaining
is the “knight in shining armor” for
the present.
The Board of Trustees voted 4-2 at its
May 3 meeting to grant a 5 percent pay
raise, retroactive to July 1, 1978, to all
“regular, probationary and tem¬
porary employees on monthly con¬
tract.”
The 5 percent resolution was drafted
unilaterally by the administration
after four meetings with the faculty
Budget and Salary Committee failed to
produce a joint agreement.
In presenting the resolution to the
board, Superintendent-President
Richard Meyers said there had been a
“great deal of working together” and a
“great deal of give and take” in the
negotiations.
Director of Business Services Bonnie
James gave a breakdown of the ad¬
ministration’s figures for a projected
ending balance. The sources of the
additional $1.1 million were:
— a $600,000 increase in income
(state apportionment, local revenues
and state surplus) over what was
budgeted, and
— - $500,000 in anticipated salary
savings.
Dr. Meyers sent notice of the 5
percent resolution to Budget and
Salary Committee chairman Pat
O’Day on April 30. O’Day read the
memo to the Faculty Senate Board at
their meeting Monday afternoon.
The senate countered by, passing a
motion that the committee recom¬
mend a 10 percent retroactive pay
raise to the administration at the last
of their four meetings, May 3. At that
meeting the administration reiterated
that sufficient funds were not available
to give more than a 5 percent raise.
Trustees Robert Spare and Roger
Gertmenian were critical of the idea of
giving a pay raise without in¬
corporating a commensurate increase
in “productivity.”
Faculty Senate President Joe Probst
argued that the purpose of the raise
was not to increase productivity, but to
help keep up with the cost of living.
Spare then introduced a motion to
amend the resolution to include “that
the certificated employees be required
to teach one additional hour beginning
in the fall semester.”
When asked for his opinion, Dr.
Meyers responded that he did not think
productivity should be attached to the
resolution.
Taiwanese Will Visit
PCC on Way Home
By Brad Lehman
Staff Writer
After a postponement and
speculation, two Taiwanese college
presidents will finally come to PCC on
May 18.
The visit will be short compared to
the original schedule. There had been
three days set in mid-April for a tour
here, but the visit was canceled due to
the educators’ inability to obtain their
travel visas soon enough.
However, a day at the end of the
presidents’ schedule was open, so they
arranged a short stay in Pasadena.
Superintendent-President Dr. Richard
S. Meyers finalized the arrangements
while at a junior college convention in
Chicago.
But after all the problems, they are
coming. Rbally.
Dr. Meyers has planned everything
the educators will have time to do.
“We’re trying to jam as much in as
we can,” he said. “We’ll be picking
them up early in the morning.”
From then on, the Chinese will be
booked up. They will tour the school,
lunch with administrators and
department chairmen in the cafeteria,
go to a student reception in the campus
center at 1:15 p.m. and visit the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in the af¬
ternoon. In the evening the presidents
will dine with Dr. Meyers at his home.
The Taiwanese, Dr. Milton Hsieh
and Dr. Mong Shang-Kuo, are one
group of three that visited the United
States. Each group visited seven
different colleges.
Hsieh, as well as being a college
president, is a practicing gynecologist
and the son of the Vice President of
Taiwan.
PCC will be the last college they are
visiting,” Dr. Meyers said. “They will
fly back to Taiwan on the 19th.”
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Trustee Office on Ballot
