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PCC Courier, May 14, 1976
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Murders Abound in
Weekend Mysteries
By Rob Wagner
Staff Writer
Drama division students under the
direction of Duke Stroud are
presenting two one-act plays in the
Little Theater tonight and tomorrow at
8 and Sunday at 5 p.m.
The first play, “The Book of Mur¬
der” by Roy Cowen, was an ABC
Movie-of-the-Week starring Fritz
Weaver and Joyce Van Patten. The
play deals with a man, portrayed by
Charles Power, who invites all five of
his ex-wives to his home at the same
time. Power is murdered by one of the
wives, because he was blackmailing
them with his little black book.
Nancy Tait, Debi McFarland and
Holly Cardwell play the ex-wives.
Stacy Pruitt will play the current wife
while Steve Cardwell plays the part of
the English detective who solves the
mystery.
The second play, “The Real In-
Construction Limits
Wheelchair Access
spector Hound” by Tony award¬
winning playwright Tom Stoppard,
involves a mass murder at the
mysterious Muldoon Manor with
Power in the leading role and Steve
Cardwell in the supporting role. Miss
McFarland will play opposite Power
as Lady Muldoon, Ms. Cardwell is
Felicity Cunningham and Kevin Reilly
portrays the crippled half-brother. Bill
Quinones plays the mysterious
stranger while Miss Tait plays the
dead body.
Both plays are a parody of English
mystery movies, complete with rolling
fog under the door, creaking floor¬
boards and staircases, dead bodies and
mysterious shadows. “Power and
Cardwell, both veterans of PCC plays,
are well-suited for the lead roles,”
according to Stroud.
By Jim Bradley
Staff Writer
Wheelchair and other handicapped
students and staff are not able to use
the top floor of the Campus Center for
the remainder of the semester because
the elevator has been closed to all
persons during the building’s
remodeling.
The elevator, which leads to the
Campus Center deck, will not be in use
because of the potential for accidents
to persons traveling through the work
area, said John Eikenbery, dean of
student activities.
Eikenbery said the action barring
use of the elevator is necessary to
conform to a state education code
relating to the school's liability in the
event of an accident.
Veterans'
Pay Period
Shortened
Intersession pay, a Veteran’s Ad¬
ministration program which allows a
veteran to be paid for the second
summer session without attending
school, will not be available to many
PCC veterans this year.
Veterans who plan to attend the six-
week first summer session will not be
eligible to collect. However, those
attending the special nine-week
summer session will be eligible if they
enroll for the fall at the same time and
request intersession pay.
Ineligibility resulted for the
remaining veterans when July 30 was
announced as the ending date for the
first summer session.
Clifford L. King, Veterans’
Representative on campus, said, “VA
regulations provide for intersession
pay only when a veteran attends school
at least one day in each calendar
month of the period involved.
Authors To
Discuss Job
Techniques
Authors and editors will discuss
various aspects and techniques of
writing at the twenty-second annual
Pasadena Writers’ Forum today and
tomorrow in the PCC Forum. The
public is invited to attend.
Admission is $5 for the series or $2
for an individual discussion, and
tickets are available at the College
Bank.
Helen Hinkley Jones, retired PCC
teacher, will open the series at 1 p.m.
today with her address “Write
Angles.” Eve Bunting and Terry
Dunnahoo will discuss “The Juvenile
and Young People Angle” at 2:30 p.m.,
and author Jacqueline Briskin will
present “The Fiction Angle” at 7:30
p.m.
Francesca Neumann, coordinator
for handicapped services, said she was
unaware the elevator had been closed
to students. The move will cause an
inconvenience for handicapped
students, she said, and will make them
think twice before trying to get to the
top floor.
Handicapped students with business
on the second floor will find it
necessary to be carried or pulled up
the stairs, she said.
Mrs. Neumann added that with
completion of the new offices and a
return to elevator service, handi¬
capped students will have more in¬
centive to use the second level of the
center.
Occupants for the six new offices will
include MECHA (the Chicano students
organization); the Pan Afrikan
Students Alliance; the Women's
Center; Asian Affairs; Walter Butler,
campus liason officer; and campus
chaplain Paul Menke. Currently, the
organizations have offices located in
various buildings on campus.
The offices are being built to con¬
form to a state code requiring an
adviser to be present during students
activities.
Currently, advisers to the
organizations are often unavailable
and cannot be in the offices full time,
said Eikenbery. The activities deans
and other faculty members with of¬
fices in the center will provide the
necessary supervision when the offices
are completed, he said.
The Drama Division will feature
“Barefoot in the Park” later this
month and another series of one-act
plays in June. Admission is $2.
WHO-DUN-IT?— Debi McFarland; left, takes part of one of five ex-
wives among whom is the murderer of former husband played by
Charles Power, right. “The Book of Murder” is one of the single-act
plays opening tonight in the Little Theater.
COU3i
VOL. 41 , N0.13
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MAY 14, 1976
Civic Groups Participating
Food Awareness Slated Today
The what, where, when and why of
eating may be discovered today in the
Quad during PCC’s second annual
Food Awareness Day from 10 a. m. to 2
p.m.
Student organizations, area chur¬
ches and civic groups are manning the
display tables to distribute literature,
sell distinctive foods or distribute free
food samples, according to Dorothy
Reynolds, home economics professor.
Thdater and mime performers from
the Pasadena Bicentennial Per¬
forming Arts Program will circulate to
emphasize the political, social and
human implications of food, which
faces possible worldwide shortages,
according to Mrs. Reynolds.
“The food problems of the future are
going to have to be solved by the young
people today,” Mrs. Reynolds says.
Pan-Afrikan Culture Week To
Include Music , Dance , Fashion
By Michael Joncich
News Editor
A special appearance by the Watts
Prophets will complement seven days
of music, dance and fashion during
Pan-Afrikan Culture Week beginning
Monday. The well-known traveling
troupe of poets will appear in'Harbe-
son Hall Monday at noon.
Also Monday, apparel arts students
will exhibit their fashion creations at a
noon show in Harbeson Hall featuring
the unique clothing and accessories
concieved, created and modeled by the
students enrolled in clothing, design
and sewing classes.
Later, at 7 p.m., amateur per¬
formers with hopes of someday
becoming professionals will perform
during a talent search in Sexson
Auditorium. Three of the bands ap¬
pearing on stage will be invited to
perform there again Saturday during a
community attended band concert.
Students interested in performing
during the talent search may obtain
more information from the PASA
(Pan-Afrikan Students Alliance) of¬
fice. Admission to the talent search
program is 50 cents and the band
concert tickets are $1.
Ruth Phillips, of Efi-Anyi creations,
takes the spotlight Tuesday during a
fashion show at noon in Harbeson Hall.
Models in the PCC student’s original
“African wrap” creations will share
the stage with the fast-moving Jr.
Lockers dance team.
Wednesday of next week is devoted
to art.
An exhibit featuring the artistic
creations of students and others from
the Black community will be held from
noon to 10 p.m. upstairs in the Campus
Center.
An arts and crafts fair, continuing
through Thursday, will take place all
day. Craftsmen in the Quad will hawk
their wares to early Father’s Day
shoppers.
Dancing, singing, poetry and an
address from a speaker from the
African National Council makes up a
Bicentennial Performing Arts
Program which begins at noon Thurs¬
day in the Free Speech Area. A
documentary film on the life of
Malcolm X follows at 2 p.m. in the
PASA trailer on the west side of the
library.
The religious community takes a
part in Pan-Afrikan Culture Week
activities Thursday at 7 p.m. when a
number of community church
members assemble in Sexson
Auditorium for a Community Church
“Sing Down.”
Disco music and a live band take
double billing at a dance Friday at 9
p.m. A live band will trade respon¬
sibility for the beat with disco records
on the Altadena Country Club dance
floor. Admission is $2 to the dressy
affair.
Saturday, five bands take turns on
the Sexson stage at a live concert
featuring “Justice” and Bobby
Bradford’s PCC Jazz Rock Ensemble.
The music begins at 8 p.m. Admission
is a $1 donation.
Finally, a community picnic at
Farnsworth Park in Altadena tops off
Pan-Afrikan Culture Week activities.
Everyone is invited to begin spreading
picnic blankets at 9 a.m. for the all-day
event. Free soda and ice cream will
complement the pot luck contributions
brought by those attending. A live
band is scheduled to provide en¬
tertainment.
Pan-Afrikan Culture Week is
sponsored by PASA. The events are
designed to involve PCC students with
the community while inspiring pride in
their achievements. “More in¬
formation and changes in scheduling
will appear in the Crier,” according to
Ronald Grant, PASA steering com¬
mittee representative.
Handicapped Services
Recognizes Helpers
The staff and students of the
Resource Center for the Handicapped
and the Hearing Impaired Program
said thank you to five “very special
friends” Wednesday at a first annual
awards ceremony held in the Cir¬
cadian.
Francisca Neumann, Resource
Center coordinator and Dr. Lucille
Miller, hearing impaired program
coordinator, were co-hostesses.
“We are becoming increasingly
aware of the attention, caring and time
that people are giving to the
program,” said Mrs. Neumann in
explaining the awards.
Selected by Journalism Faculty
Joncich, Baxter, Ritchie Named Editors
Michael Joncich, Ted Baxter and
Thomas Ritchie have been named new
editors of the Courier, Focus and
Prism respectively by the journalism
faculty.
Joncich will be editor-in-chief of the
Courier beginning with the summer
editions and continuing through the
fall semester. Baxter is this
semester’s editor of Focus, a supple¬
ment-insert to the last edition of the
Courier on June 11, and Ritchie will be
editor of next year's edition of Prism, a
PCC photo magazine published each
May.
Named as page editors by Joncich
are Joe Riser, city editor; George
Ilefeldt, managing editor; Dana
Pedersen, fine arts editor; Sue An¬
drews, sports editor and Brad
Haugaard, news editor. All hold
current Courier positions as staff
members or writers.
Joncich’s qualifications include five
years of work with the Pasadena Star
News in both the newsroom and
display advertising in addition to staff
MICHAEL JONCICH
TED BAXTER
THOMAS RITCHIE
reporting and news editor for the PCC
Courier.
He plans to pursue higher education
at California State University at San
Jose in the spring of 1977. His PCC
journalistic experience, coupled with
an anticipated economics major and
work on the San Jose State student
newspaper, will prepare him for his
professional goal in economic affairs
journalism.
Joncich’s other interests include
photography and reading. He is a
member of Beta Phi Gamma, the
journalism honorory.
Baxter has served as managing
editor of this semester’s editions of the
Courier as well as a writer for Prism
magazine. He is secretary of Beta Phi
Gamma and a member of Omicron Mu
Delta (OMD), PCC’s highest honor
society. He plans a major in public
relations at California State University
at Pomona following graduation from
PCC next month.
Ritchie has been a staff writer for
the Courier and Prism this semester
and is a member of Beta Phi Gamma.
Canadian born, he is a graduate of
Highline High School in Seattle. He
plans to major in either English or
journalism at California State
University at Northridge following
graduation from PCC next year.
The five honored were Robert
Carter, audio visual librarian; Kay
Haines, JPL reference librarian;
Mary McGuire, Reading and Writing
Center secretary; Deputy Barry
Perrou of the Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department; and Dr. Ralph
Williams, Math Department professor.
Carter has greatly extended the use
of library materials for the han¬
dicapped and especially for students
with hearing impairments. “The
expansion program was a joint effort
by the entire staff who made it work.
I’m extremely honored and pleased to
receive the award,” Carter said.
Five years ago Ms. Haines helped
organize the William Brackenridge
Memorial Fund for the Resource
Center for the Handicapped to provide
interest-free loans to handicapped stu¬
dents and funds for institutional trips
and other programs.
Mrs. McGuire is well-known for her
“very loving interest in all students
who are handicapped and the time she
takes with them,” said Mrs. Neumann.
Mrs. McGuire accepted the award in
the name of all the staff and student
assistants who work in the center and
“go an extra two miles” to help people.
Deputy Perrou is a former PCC
student honored for “being open to the
needs of the handicapped, especially
those with communications
problems,” Mrs. Neumann said. He
established and is coordinating a deaf
awareness program with the Sheriff’s
Department.
Perrou also taught a PCC class on
law enforcement to students with
hearing impairments. He brought to
the attention of the Sheriff’s Depart¬
ment the “gap” between them and all
handicapped people, especially the
deaf, making the department aware of
the need for changes in some depart¬
mental procedures, said Mrs.
Neumann.
Dr. Williams has spent more than
100 hours of his own time developing
video tapes on math for deaf students.
Mike Pettite, Food Services
Department instructor, coordinated
the tea which handicapped students
helped serve, and Ken Harris of the
Instructional Resources Center
designed the gold-framed plaques that
were presented to the honorees.
Students Marie Lirette and Barbara
Ferber, who were the PCC delegates to
last Hall’s national Conference on
Hunger sponsored in Texas by the
Universities of America, have
organized the displays with the help of
fellow student Steve Buesch and Mrs.
Reynolds.
The world’s wheat supply is of
particular concern because of a
possible change in climate, Mrs.
Reynolds says.
Canada and Russia are the world’s
largest wheat producers next to the
U.S., according to Mrs. Reynolds. She
is concerned that even a decrease of a
single degree in temperature may
make wheat-producing impractical for
the two countries situated at the
northernmost latitude, placing the
entire burden on the U.S.
“We used to have a 90-day supply of
wheat which is now down to three
weeks. We’re helping others, but there
is no one to help us,” she adds while
suggesting international “food pools”
for emergencies such as weather
changes.
Nutrition, protein supplement and
cooking methods which include drying
and other methods of food preserva¬
tion will also be discussed and ex¬
plained in the literature or by repre¬
sentatives of the 20 groups par¬
ticipating in Food Awareness Day.
The various PCC ethnic clubs will
either sell or distribute samples of food
particular to their respective countries
of origin.
Samples of vegetarian diet food will
be available in Better Living Center’s
trailer postioned in front R Building,
and film strips will be shown by
members of CROP, otherwise known
as Community Hunger Appeal of
Church World Service.
Other participants include the
American Friends Service Committee,
the United Nations of the USA, the U.S.
Committee for the United Nations
International Children’s Emergency
Fund (UNICEF) and Caltech
professor Petronia Rios.
T rustees
Presented
Budget
The preliminary 1976-77 budget with
a pay increase for classfied and cer¬
tificated employees was presented by
Dr. Gharles Miller, vice-persident
business services at last Tuesday’s
meeting along with a request by the
Asian students to be placed on the
agenda for next meeting in regard to
hiring a full-time Asian counselor.
The prelimary budget showed total
expenditures up five per cent from this
year to $27,123,558.
Accounting for most of the proposed
expenditures will be salaries and
fringe benefits. Certificated salaries
would be up 1.6 per cent while
classified salaries would be up 3.6 per
cent. Fringe benefits would go up 15
per cent. Health and welfare benefits
would account for most of the 15 per
cent increase.
Income to PCC will be up 7.2 per cent
to $26,634,600.
The board will go through the budget
area by area in much greater detail at
their Wednesday meeting.
Asian students agreed to make a 15-
minute presentation in regard to the
Asian counselor.
According to students, the Asian
counselor, Carol Imai, spends 60 per
cent of her time in the counseling office
while 40 per cent is spent upstairs in
the Campus Center as an ethnic
specialist.