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PCC Courier, May 16, 1975
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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.