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PCC
VOL. 60, NO. 13 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MAY 17, 1985
Colleges Honor Retiring Administrator
By Joe Holman
News Editor
Dr. Armen Sarafian will be honored
by PCC and the University of La Verne
for 43 years of service in education at a
reception and dinner on May 31. at the
Huntington Sheraton Hotel.
Sarafian served as president of PCC
from 1965 to 1976 and has spent the past
nine years serving as president of La
Verne. Sarafian is retiring on June 30
1985.
“Dr. Sarafian made many outstand¬
ing contributions to the development of
Pasadena City College,’’ said Dr.
Henry P. Kirk, vice president of educa¬
tional services. “He is noted for his
instructinal leadership and his work
with the faculty, staff and com¬
munity."
Kirk added that Sarafian was a key
figure in the development of the two
year R.N. (nursing) program and the
construction of the U Building and
Forum.
Master of ceremonies for the event
will be Ralph Story, commentator for
KCBS-TV, while Jerry Tarkanian, head
coach of the University of Nevada at
Las Vegas basketball team, will deliver
the keynote address. Speakers at the
dinner include Bill Sandstrom, PCC
athletic director, Phyllis Jackson, for¬
mer dean of students activities, and Dr.
Howard Floyd, former PCC president.
Musical entertainment will be provided
in part by the PCC Music Department.
Starting the entire evening of recog¬
nition off will be a reception at 6:30
p.m. will kick off the evening, followed
by dinner at 7:15 p.m. The tax-deduc¬
tible tickets cost $50 a person.
In additon to honoring Sarafian, Kirk
said, all proceeds from the dinner will
be used to create an Armen Sarafian
Scholarship Fund at both PCC and La
Verne. “In order to do this we need to
raise over $5000. The details involving
the requirements of scholarship have
not been ironed out as yet, but we will
know soon.” Kirk said.
The $5000 goal would be put into an
endowment to earn interest. The $500
interest each year would in turn be
awarded to a student on each campus.
A memory book of letters will be
presented to Dr. Sarafian. Information
on the letters is available by calling
(714) 593-3511, ext. 224.
Members of the committee planning
the dinner include Chairman Dr. Rich¬
ard Green. PCC trustee and ULV ad¬
ministrator; Dr. Bob Wright, com¬
munications department professor;
Rick Neuman, faculty senate presi¬
dent; Paul Kilian, music professor
department; Elaine Broerman; and
Kirk.
For more information regarding
tickets for the Dr. Sarafian recognition
dinner call 578-7363.
All proceeds from the dinner will be used to create
an Armen Sarafian Scholarhip Fund.
RTD Demonstrates Wheelchair Lifts
showed that most students will be able
to find alternate methods of transporta¬
tion. The RTD and dial-a-ride services
are improving and the cost to maintain
the van service is too high.
Each semester $1000 of government
funding is used to maintain the cost of
the vans. A total of $25,000 a year is
collected by PCC, to provide transpor¬
tation for the handicapped. The money
comes from $300,000 supplied by gov¬
ernment funding that is granted an¬
nually for handicapped students and
their financial needs.
“I'm working hard to make sure
everyone will get to school," said
Chuck Havard, PCC guidance faciliator
for special services. “It is just one
more obstacle that will be too much. At
best it will urge the handicapped to get
real organized, plan ahead and get
more adept at using public transporta¬
tion. The danger is that some students
will have a lot more work to do. Many
take dial-a-ride, but that only goes
within city boundries. They'll have to
take dial-a-ride to a bus stop, then over
to school. This means getting up and
around one and a half hours earlier
every day."
The van service program began 10
years ago and some fear that without
the vans, handicapped students out of
high school may decide not to attend
college.
RTD currently operates approx¬
imately 1900 lift-equipped buses. The
buses feature a small staircase that
unfolds into a platform with a hydrolic
lift. The passenger wheels themselves
on and is then lifted up. Once in position
a clamp locks onto the wheel and a
strap is available. The wheels on
larger, electric wheelchairs are too
large for the clamp yet there appears
to be no danger. “There's a chair in
front of me and a chair in back of me so
I can't go too far," said PCC student.
Eric Mungaray. “It's pretty easy for
me to use. I'm a good driver so it
wasn't that hard."
RTD has also implemented a new
policy designed to better serve the
handicapped public. When a bus is full
and a wheelchair will not fit, the driver
must stop to inform the passenger that
the bus is full. He will then call another
bus in to pick up the passengers who did
not fit. Drivers are also available to
help load the passenger or to lock them
in.
Should any handicapped riders run in
to problems with the new policy, a
hotline number has been established at
1-800-621-7828. The passenger can relay
their message. Certain information is
imperative though. The line number,
destination, coach number, date and
time of incident and a description of the
problem should all be reported. The bus
enroute to campus has room for only
one wheelchair yet other buses can
carry more.
Havard, who has ridden on a lift-
equipped bus, said, “It’s a good lift. It
could be improved. It needs to be
roomier. RTD is slowly becoming
usable for the handicapped. Once hand¬
icapped persons get used to using pub¬
lic transportation, they can get almost
anywhere." Though basically happy
with the bus, Havard felt that in order
for the system to flow smoothly the
some buses need to be more reliable.
“In the past lifts have broken, leaving
riders stranded. Ridership by the hand¬
icapped amounts to approximately 100
persons a day. As RTD's track record
improves more people will use.
The local bus lines equipped with the
lifts are line numbers 177,187,188 and
256.
The fare for handicapped riders will
increase on July 1 from 20 cents to 40
cents while the standard fee will in¬
crease from 50 cents to 85 cents.
By Robert Carpenter
Staff Writer
PCC students were given a demon¬
stration Tuesday on RTD’s new driver-
controlled, automated wheelchair lift
buses. These buses could prove useful
to handicapped students in the face of
school cutbacks that may eliminate the
handicapped van pool program.
"We’ll just have to find another way
to get to school," said Jorge Chue, a
handicapped student. “At least two
people I know will have to quit school
next year. I'll take dial-a-ride next
year. The problem is I’ll have to get up
much earlier to get on school on time."
PCC has two vans equipped to carry
up to four wheelchairs each. At the end
of the semester, they will no longer be
available. According to John E. Tulley,
the decision is based on many factors.
Tulley pointed out that most state
community colleges have been moving
towards not providing transportation
for handicapped students. A survey
taken on the transportation problem
HONORED SCHOLAR — Dr. Armen Sarafian, president of the
college from 1 965 to 1 976, will be honored for 43 years of service
to education on May 31.
Organization Develops
Nuclear Protest March
By Keith Gustafson
Special Correspondent
ProPeace, an organization established to build a massive international
citizens movement to immediately create the climate necessary to impel leaders
to reach an agreement on nuclear disarmament, will host The Great Peace March
in March 1986.
The Great March will be from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. organizers
expect approximately 5,000 participants of which one-third will be college
students.
March will try to accomplish three things: to capture the imagination of the
World, so that the American people will be stimulated into thinking about the
threat of nuclear war, inspire and revitalize the American people and give them
a way to send a message to the government and send a message to the Russian
people and in an effort to persuade them to join in this fight for world peace.
The March will cover 3,235 miles, across 15 states, and the District of
Columbia, and will include 37 major population centers. It will touch 65 million
people, one-third of all Americans, who live along the route.
The goal of ProPeace is to start the process of dismantling the nuclear
weapons in order to protect life.
After the Great Peace March, ProPeace plans to create a non-violent civil
disobedience effort. Over 250,000 people on a selected day will put themselves in
the position of being arrested at different locations across the country. Civil
Disobedience Day will show the government their support to move rapidly to end-
the nuclear weapons race. This effort will not try to cause a disruption but will try
to create an atmosphere of unity and hope.
A ProPeace representative said, “For those that actively join, it will mean
alteration, disruption, anguish, frustration, and at times dispair and pain. It will
mean sacrifice in the face of making one great choice to serve the people. It will
also mean new values, new hope, a new kind of freedom and joy of victory. The
victory of knowing that there will be a next generation. "
ProPeace information is available at (213) 653-6245 or by writing ProPeace,
8150 Beverly Blvd., Suite 301, Los Angeles, CA 90048.
NEW SERVICE — RTD demonstrated the wheelchair lifts that will
be implemented on several lines to accommodate handicapped
Students — Courier photo by Detliff Jess
Campus Briefs
The English Department will host several guest lecturers next week.
On Monday, May 20, John Weston, a novelist and short story writer who
teaches at Cal State LA, will conduct workshops at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. for
creative writing. See Jane Hallinger for details. There will also be a
reading of his works tentatively planned for the Forum at noon and is open
to everyone.
On Wednesday, May 22, Frank O'Holohan, formerly of the University
of Dublin and an expert on Joyce, will give a series of lectures. At 10 a.m.
in C225, He will discuss Ulysses. At 1 p.m. “The Boarding House” will be
the topic of his lecture and 2 p.m. will feature “A Painful Case. Copies
of the stories will be available in the English Office.
The 1985 issue of PCC’s Inscape magazine was celebrated in the
Circadiun Monday evening. It was the first of its kind for the anthology
and quite a successful occasion.
Ron Koertge, Inscapes Poet of the Year for 1983 and member of the
faculty, read selections from his work.
Readers of the selections from Inscape s essays, poems, and short
stories are from PCC’s award winning Forensic team.
Pulitzer Prize winner John Ashbery was chose as Poet of the Year
for 1985 and is currently an art critic for Newsweek magazine and a
professor of English at Brooklyn College.
The first celebration of Inscapes publication was deemed success and
credit goes to the magazines faculty advisor, Jane Hallinger, the editorial
staff and especially the contributers.
Campus Parking Violation Procedures Assessed
By Keith Gustafson
Special Correspondent
According to Philip Mullendore,
Director of College Safety, over
10,000 parking citations are issued to
PCC students each year.
In the month of March, 779 tickets
were issued. Most of these were
issued between 8-10 a.m. and 7-9 p.m.
One-third of these were issued be¬
cause no valid parking permit was
displayed on the vehicle. The re¬
maining tickets were issued for vari¬
ous reasons including overnight
parking, blocking driveways, parking
in restricted areas, parking in the
guest lot, and parking outside of
marked stalls. Tickets are issued by
the Safety Department including
Cadets and Officers.
After the ticket has been issued the
department sends all the tickets to a
data processing company for proc¬
essing of the tickets. If the ticket is
not paid within 15 days the company
sends a reminder and warning to the
student. If he still hasn't paid the
ticket, a fine of $18.00 will be added.
If the student still fails to pay his
ticket after a three or more months
the company will put a hold on the
vehicles registration. This means
when the student goes to pay for his
registration these fees will also be
included in his bill.
“As long as the car is in the state
and tries to renew it's registration
someone will be responsible for the
fine,” said Mullendore
At PCC close to 20,000 students
attend classes. There are 2062 park¬
ing spots available to the students,
450 of these are in the pay lot located
on Del Mar and Hill.
In the Fall of 85 the Safety Depart¬
ment issued some 6.750 parking per¬
mits to students: 3000 day^permits,
3000 night permits, and 750 Tuesday
and Thursday permits.
“If students would take afternoon
classes and apply early for parking
permits the students would have no
problems finding parking," said
Mullendore
In 1983 the parking income for PCC
was $413,843.94. This income is bro¬
ken down into several areas: Park¬
Philip Mullendore
$17,000, the total of the expenditures
was $430,674.80. This bill included the
costs of Parking and Traffic,
$350,518.80; student business serv¬
ices (account clerk), $28,356.00; and
maintainance and operations of the
campus, $51,800.00.
ing Permits (student and staff) and
daily fees for parking totaled
$318,207.99, the citations issued to¬
taled $83,940.50 and the summer ses¬
sion parking pulled in $9,360.45.
The parking expenditures of 83
exceeded the profits by almost