PCC Courier, May 16, 1975

By Cleophas Griffin Staff Writer New people, serious objectives and a spirit of positive determination are behind the Pan-Afrikan Students Alliance’s (PASA) Black Culture Festival being held May 18 through 24. The theme for the festival, “Black Is,” will illustrate facets of cultural life that relate to blackness. “That’s exactly what we’re hoping to do,” states Adisa Bakari, a black student representative on the ASB Executive Board and a member of the PASA steering committee. “Of course, you must realize that the magnitude of our culture is such that one week will only allow us to do so much. “There are many serious issues that we would like to bring forward, but that’s business, this is a festival. We hope to get participation from the general public and, most of all, the students.” The Black Culture Festival will start with a concert with Gil Scott-Heron, Norman Connors and Jean Carn, on Sunday, May 18, in Sexson Auditorium. Heron is in the middle of a million- seller with his latest album, “First Minute of a New Day .” The “Magic Cloth of Ife-Anyi,” and the movie, “Malcolm X” are featured in Harbeson Hall, Monday, May 19 from noon to 2 p.m. Movies are scheduled for Monday evening in Sexson Auditorium, at 7 p.m. PCC CouSii&v VOL. 39, NO. 13 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MAY 16, 1975 Center Lounge at 8 p.m. En¬ tertainment by “The Originators” will highlight the festival during the final jam session. Javis Johnson, PASA adviser, is enthusiastic about the efforts of the club members. “These students are really working hard. If the campus will participate wholeheartedly in this festival, I think the efforts of the students will be rewarded. That’s what they're trying to gain, campus par¬ ticipation.” “We’ve had great cooperation with our efforts from the people on this campus,” said Umar Abdul, steering committee member, “especially from the students. I hope they participate with us so we can become more aware of each other. That’s what it’s all about.” LOOKING FOR PENNIES — These candidates for Omicron Mu Delta Queen will be collecting money on campus for the next two weeks to support the OMD Scholarship fund. They are identifiable by their decorated money cans and sashes that say OMD Queen Contestant. Next Wednesday the seven girls who have contributed the most money to OMD will be announced as the court. They will continue to accept money until 3 p.m. Thursday, May 29. The Queen will be crowned on the following evening at the close of the OMD Carnival. The money collected by these girls establishes scholarships for two incoming freshmen and two graduating sophomores. Black Cultural Week Scheduled The Bobby Bradford Jazz Ensemble will entertain at noon, Tuesday and Thursday, May 20 and 22. Choirs from community churches will participate in a “Community Sing-Down,” Wednesday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium. “Churches are a definite factor in our community,” said Akili Usawa, finance chairperson, “So when you talk about ‘Black Is,’ there is no way they can be excluded.” City Councilman Henry Wilfong is guest speaker for the Scholarship Banquet, in the student dining room Friday at 7 p.m. “A majority of our efforts have been to, raise scholarship money for minority students,” ex¬ plained Ihuru Sasa, grievance com¬ mittee head of PASA. “Seventy-five per cent of the money we make goes into the scholarship fund. We hope the banquet will increase our rapport as well as our fund.” The festival concludes Saturday, with a Cultural Dance in the Campus Caught by Surprise OMD Taps Students, Fatuity Members Omicron Mu Delta, PCC’s highest honorary service organization, welcomed 24 students and six faculty members. They were tapped by their colleagues at a ceremony last Thurs¬ day afternoon in the Campus Center, announced OMD President Theresa Mattijetz. Criteria for students tapped is at least two consecutive semesters of active service to PCC and the com¬ munity. This does not include service for which they receive class credit or monetary rewards. The students tapped into OMD were: Frances Baum, a member of the Orientation Course To Inform New Students A new orientation course designed to adjust new students to the college is slated for this fall, and possibly as early as the second summer session. The course, which is still in the planning stage, is intended to acquaint the incoming student with the various affairs and programs on campus. Dr. Stanley E. Gunstream, PCC’s vice-president in charge of instruction, said “We’re finding that many problems students encounter could have been alleviated by a better in¬ troduction to the college.” He added that the course “hopefully will be appealing to the students.” The course, which offers a half.-unit of transfer credit, will be required for all full-time freshmen under 21 years of age, although all new students may enroll. Students will also have the option of choosing either three hours one day per week, two hours twice a week or one hour three days a week. The classes will be sufficient in numbers to enable every student to work one into his or her own schedule. There will be orientation classes of¬ fered on Saturdays. Among the areas discussed in the course will be counseling, library and psychological services, Cooperative Education and various student pro¬ grams. According to Dr. Gunstream, the course will also serve as a guide to aid students in improving study skills. “For students who find they need additional help,” he said, “we will start follow-up courses.” One of the areas students will be tested in is reading skills. The course is to be taught by regular faculty members, who will be assisted by guest speakers and video-tape programs. Dietrich Meyer, a PCC instructor and coordinator for development of the course, said he believes it grew out of faculty realization of the problems new college students face. He emphasized that, although it is required for all full-time freshman, the orientation course is constructed to be as enjoyable as possible for the students. — UUUliei rnuiu uy rai invms ORIENTAL ATMOSPHERE— PCC students (from left) Younghee Pack, Young Sook Paik and Cynthia Son, dressed in one of the Korean traditional costumes, participated Wednesday in an arts and crafts show sponsored by the Korean Club upstairs in the Campus Center. The exhibit was part of the Asian Cultural Week which runs through today. Lancer Band and an award-winning member of the forensics team; Ralph Champion, Student Senate president for spring semester; Pat Diggins, president of Spartans, PCC’s honorary women’s service club; and Matthew Evans, who has served in Circle К and as mascot to the Adelphians. Also chosen were: Patricia Francis, assistant city editor of the Courier and lab assistant in the journalism division; Mary Gutierrez, a member of the hockey and women’s basketball teams who has given valuable support to the women’s swim team; and Steve Heins, past president of Circle K, now involved with the Pasadena Little Braves program. Others tapped include: Jana Helton, a member of Adelphians and Spartans and a participant in the Student Senate; John Hitchcock, the recently elected Circle К lieutenant-governor for the district; Rob Howell, president of the Dance Club and a member of Circle К and Inter-Club Council; Gary Kvisler, Sophomore Class president and a participant in the Little Braves program ; a Circle К Sweetheart, Jacquie Lee, also in Adelphians and Spartans; and Laura Lesperance, who has served on the ASB Board and Freshman Class Council. The list of the students continues with: Mark Lucas, newly elected Circle К president; Dave Moore, current editor of Focus and Courier ex¬ sports editor; Brad Nix, another from Circle K, responsible for chairing the Red Cross Blood Drive at PCC this past March; Lynne Peschke from Spartans and a PCC song girl for two semesters; Ruth Phillips, active in both the Black Student Union and PASA; a music major, Richard Ramsey, drum major in the Lancer Band for two semesters; and Teresa Reyes, a member of Adelphians, Spartans and the ASB Board. Completing the new student members of OMD are: Ellen Weier, a Sandpiper and member of Adelphians and Spartans; Philip Mackie from the " Art Department; and Lupe Vela, chairperson for MECHA. Criteria for a teacher or ad¬ ministrator is five years of outstanding service to PCC and the Pasadena community. New faculty members are: Audrey Anderson, adviser to the Women’s Athletic Association and Inter- KCET Airs Melodrama by PGC Deaf Students By David Willman Staff Writer “The Drunkard’s Daughter,” a half- hour melodrama produced by and with deaf students last summer at PCC, will air Saturday, June 7, at 3 p.m. on KCET (Ch. 28). The program is being shown on TV for the first time. Of the 35 students who worked on the production, 18 were deaf and the remaining 17 communicated in sign language. “The Drunkard’s Daughter” was taped without sound. Lucy Miller, coordinator of the impaired hearing program, explains that the melodrama’s charaters used “total communication.” Total com¬ munication involves mouthing words and using sign language. “The Drunkard’s Daughter” was written by PCC English Professor George Feinstein. The story centers Inscape On Sale at PCC Bookstore The PCC student anthology, Inscape, is now on sale at the Campus Book¬ store for 50 cents a copy. The anthology began production early in the fall when students con¬ tributed fiction, photography, poetry and essays. After the November deadline, student-editors began the job of reading and judging each piece of writing. Richard Downer and Dennis Cooper served as co-editor; Jane Parker as fiction editor; Imgard Chow and Bryant Irvine as associate editors. On the editorial board were Mike Applyby, Melissa Blanche, Jill Boekenoogen, Steve Franco, Barbara Hauk and Bill Manly. The faculty advisers were Jerene Cline and Rae Ballard. Besides the literature of the students, there is an Alumni section with contribution from Charles Dana and Samantha Cochan. Every year the staff selects one comtemporary writer as Poet of the Year. This year it is Altadena resident Jean Burden. Mrs. Burden has just edited and compiled a collection called “A Celebration of Cats.” She taught a course in poetry writing at UC Irvine last winter quarter and has been poetry editor of Yankee, a national magazine with a circulation of 700,000. For the first time photography by PCC students has been included in Inscape this semester. his around an alcoholic father, daughter, a villain and a hero. The father, played by Bill Collins, believes he has an unbeatable poker hand, and since he has no more money, bets his daughter, Patti Edwards. John Smith, playing the villain, cheats to win the hand and the drunkard’s daughter. When the daughter refuses to marry the villain , he ties her up and threatens to kill her. A few hours later, the villain goes to the drunkard’s house to foreclose the mortgage. Before this dirty deed can be con¬ summated, virtue triumphs. Tommy Trueheart, the hero, played by Bill Tiel, proves the villain had cheated in the poker game. The father gets his daughter back, and in best melodramatic fasion, everyone lives happily ever after. Ms. Miller said the idea for a deaf- student production originated during a luncheon conversation with David Ledbetter, dean of instructional ser¬ vices and Sidney Orloff, com¬ munications professor. Ms. Miller said they finally decided “it could be done.” A special telecommunication class, taught by Assistant Professor Orloff, was scheduled for the 1974 summer session. “The Drunkard’s Daughter” was produced in three weeks. By using TV monitors during the production, students in the recording room were able to communicate with other people in the studio through sign language. This was necessary because amplified earphones could not be used. For the benefit of members of the audience who could hear, a complete sound track has been added to the original “Drunkard’s Duaghter” tape. Brothers Dan and Don Stanton, both interpreters for the deaf at PCC, went through the entire tape and added sound to every situation that required it. Dan Stanton also plays the role of a bartender in the show. “The Impossible Dream,” a half- hour documentary, will follow the June 7 airing of “The Drunkard’s Daughter.” The documentary was filmed while the melodrama was being produced, and will explain how the deaf students produced their program. This was also produced at PCC. BATTLE OF THE MEDIA Members of the Courier staff will compete today against representa¬ tives of KPCS in a basketball game. The game, labeled “Battle of the Media,” begins at 12:30 p.m. in the Men’s Gym. The competition will be fierce in the head-on collision, for which admission is free. Collegiate Athletic Council; Bob Carter, Faculty Senate president, instrumental in outfitting the faculty dining area or Circadian Room; and Marion Mosher, faculty adviser to the Student Nurses Association, who started the nursing lab and who has guided many students and teachers through nursing. Stephen Reyes from the Foreign Language Department is active in the Mexican-American community, and is another faculty member tapped by OMD. He has also served as chairman of the Mexican-American Scholarship Fund. He is joined by Ellen Reynolds, who is heavily involved in the Student Resources Center; and Stennis Waldon, organizer of the award¬ winning PCC Sandpipers. The Sand¬ pipers average 20 performances a semester, all under his direction. —Courier Photo by Marilyn Fisher FACULTY MEMBERS, TOO — Bob Carter, member of the library faculty and president of the Faculty Senate, is congratulated by Dr. Armen Sarafian. Carter, five other instructors and 24 students were recently tapped for Omicron Mu Delta. OMD, the highest honorary service organization on campus, has a special initiation each semester for students and faculty contributing outstanding service to the college and community. Nursing Applicants Plentiful ; Qualified Students Rejected The success of PCC’s Nursing Department has never been more evident than during the recent screening of applicants for next semester. Such a large number sought admission to the program that many could not be accommodated. Recently, therefore, the Selections Committee sent letters of non- acceptance to qualified applicants. Reasons for the letters are lack of room and personnel. Despite some unfavorable reactions, Joan Davidson, department chairperson, is pleased with the way the staff handled the problem. “We had a tremendous problem this semester," Mrs. Davidson remarked. “Not including our Nursing Assistant Module, or Paramedics, we had a total of 538 elgible applicants, and we just can’t accommodate that many students. “First of all, there has been a 300 per cent increase in emergency care in the hospital,” Mrs. Davidson explained. “Where we could previously send in a large number of students, we now can only send a few because of the type of care necessary for the patients. We have to consider this situation in our selection process because class size is determined by available faculty, hospital facilities for students and the number of applicants for each module. The staff literally bends over backwards to accommodate as many students as possible, not only to those students who scored admirably on the SCAT tests but students who have completed their general education requirements and have been on the waiting list for some time.” For example, Mrs. Davidson spoke of Module 5, the Registered Nursing Module. Module 5 had a total of 363 applicants, 262 that scored above the required 60 points on the SCAT test. The number of applicants that can be accommodated this semester is 132. “The reason I’m so proud of the staff,” Mrs. Davidson said, “is that, even though they had the maximum number of students for each module, they agreed to accept 50 alternate applicants. We’re trying to take in as many students as we can, and still contribute to their learning ex¬ periences,” Mrs. Davidson added. According to Mrs. Davidson, “We must keep in mind at all times, the necessity of having available the best learning environment for the students. This relates directly to the amount of personnel and facilities.” Students are encouraged to complete their general education requirements listed in the catalog to give them a better chance of acceptance. Com¬ pletion of these courses is considered during the selection process.