Candidates Tell
Platform Plans
FOR STUBBORN CONGRESSMEN— Dr Vernon C
Halcromb, dean of occupational education, hands a
meat tenderizer, which "can also be used on stubborn
Congressmen," to Shirley Hufstedler, U.S. secretary of
— Courier photo by Dave Clarke
education. The meat tenderizer and a "screwball," both
made in the PCC machine shop, were given to Mrs.
Hufstedler last Saturday. Standing between the two is
Pierce O'Donnell, Democratic candidate for Congress.
By Wynona Majied-Muhammad
Copy Editor
Four candidates for ASB president
and two candidates for student trustee
have filed their applications to appear
on the ballot May 28 and 29 in student
government elections for the fall
semester.
Student government hopefuls will be
formally presented to the school in an
open forum in the Free Speech Area
Tuesday where they will speak to the
student body, said ASB President Dan
Hutson who urges all students to vote.
The primary concerns in the upcom¬
ing elections appears to be in obtaining
a strong student voice in political
issues and in strengthening com¬
munication between students, adminis¬
tration and faculty.
Robert J. Carroll has applied to run
for student trustee.
Carroll feels the Board of Trustees
and the student body should work more
closely together. “There’s a lot of
conflict there, and I’d like to see it
resolved. My • main objective is to
reduce friction.”
Carroll’s decision to run for office
was based on the students’ need to have
an influence on the decisions made
about the student body.
Carroll said, “I’ll do what I can to
resolve the student-faculty problems
and student-trustee problems.”
Christopher Rex Williams is espe¬
cially interested in student apathy and
wants to inspire the people to become
more involved in student activities.
Though he’s a student senator, Wil¬
liams does not represent a 9 a.m. class,
rather he’s involved only as an in¬
terested student, he said.
Williams said, if elected, he won’t be
a “typical president.” To be a good
leader, he wants to have an active vice
president and people working under
him to whom he could delegate respon¬
sibility.
“I’d have a vice president that will
go to meetings with me or for me. The
cabinet would be working just as hard
as I would if not harder,” he said.
Williams believes it doesn’t really
matter who people vote for as long as
they vote. He said it’s not important to
know the name of the president, re¬
gardless of who it is, but rather, “the
people should know that there is a
president and that he’s working. Fame
is not important.’
Herman wants to see the student
body come to work as a team and be
more active on world issues such as
world hunger and wants to take these
issues to the administration, the facul¬
ty and the community.
“I haven’t seen anything other than
posters on the wall, I haven’t seen
people walk up to other people and ask
them to participate. I want to be out
there more.”
According to Nancy R. Floyd, she
and Cheri Brown are running on an
InCAR (International Committee
Against Racism) platform and hope to
make this “a more political election.”
With Ms. Brown running for ASB
president and Ms. Floyd as candidate
for vice president, the team would like
to see tuition waived for Iranian stu¬
dents, support for the
СТА
and any
teachers’ strike that may occur and to
protest the draft.
“We want to bring important and
crucial issues on campus,” said Ms.
Floyd.
Ms. Brown, the presidential can¬
didate, said, “The school in not in¬
volved in politics; I’d like to see more
politics out in the open.”
“We’re college students and the
Academics Discussed by
U.S. Education Secretary
Carl Bradley Herman wants to es- world will be left up to us. Students
By Brad Lehman
Editor-in-chief
Shirley Hufstedler, U.S. secretary of
education, visited PCC in a hurried,
hour-long visit last Saturday.
Beginning with a reception in the
Board Chambers, Mrs. Hufstedler
spoke to the Board of Trustees, staff
and student leaders about her depart¬
ment and her impressions of communi¬
ty college education.
After meeting with the college repre¬
sentatives, Mrs. Hufstedler took a
whirlwind tour of the campus.
In her reception speech, the secre¬
tary seemed especially concerned
about the effects Proposition 9 will
have on California education if it is
passed.
“The community colleges in Califor¬
nia are a major contributor to the
economic vitality of the state,” Mrs.
Hufstedler said. “Cutbacks will have
long-term, adverse and serious im¬
pacts.”
“We must continue the investment in
human resources in the state. Invest¬
ment in education is investment in
captial resources. Htiman beings are
the most valuable resource.”
Mrs. Hufstedler also said during her
tour that Proposition 9 would hurt
California’s colleges and universities
in academic standing compared to the
rest of the nation’s schools.
“It will hurt their respectability
because they won’t have the resources
to put together the same quality of
education that they have in the past.
They’d be respectable as martyrs.”
However, she said California schools
could not expect the federal govern¬
ment to cushion any Proposition 9
impact.
Teacher Seeking Party
Nomination to Congress
Dr. Cecil F. Osoff, PCC assistant
professor, is seeking the Republican
Party nomination for the 35th Con¬
gressional District.
Dr. Osoff, at PCC since 1973, has
specialized in the fields of cooperative
education, government, and speech."
My education and business ex¬
perience have prepared me for this
challenging assignment, ”he said. “I
would consider it an honor and a
privilege to represent the 35th District
in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
Osoff is campaigning with a “grass
roots” approach to the issues, based on
small contributions from people who
are fed up with inflation. “The cleans¬
ing must start with the three branches
of government,” Osoff said. “The
‘cancer’ of non-action permeates all
those in Congress who cannot on their
own merits defend their inadequacies
which have been allowed to exist in the
United States.
“What we need is controlled spend-
Cecil Osoff
ing by balancing the national debt,” he
said.
Very much concerned with the youth
of this country, Osoff believes leaders
should be what the youth of this nation
should look to as “models” to follow in
their career goals. “Where is the lead¬
ership that will take us from negation
to being politically, economically and
socially equipped to cope with every
day life problems?” he asked.
Osoff favors the draft “or at least
the registration of our youth. No trib¬
unal or United Nations should dictate
to us how we should act when our
embassy is ‘kidnapped’ and held for
ransom and equate the crimes of the
shah with the freeing of the hostages.
Ridiculous!”
Of the economy, he said, “ ‘Pay
later and charge now’ is a phrase of
deficit spending that we have lived
with since the ’30s. Inflation leads to
recession, and recession can lead into a
depression— this is something that can
and should be controlled.”
Osoff feels the system is wrong
because it takes money. “This system
has failed the citizenry. Try new
blood.”
Osoff obtained his LL.B. and J.D.
law degrees at Southwestern School of
Law after earning his M.S. degree in
education from the University of
Southern California. He received his
B.A. degree in political science from
UCLA.
Having spent 20 previous years in the
industry as supervisor of retail stores
and as a special insurance agent, Osoff
has been in the field of education for
the past 18 years. He has taught at
junior high, high school, junior college,
university, state and county adminis¬
tration levels.
“I do not perceive In the immediate
future any large increase in educa¬
tional spending by the government,”
she said. “The feeling is that one
should not be too heavy-handed in
giving federal money.
“There are not enough resources to
go around. We will try to put dollars
where Congress lets us.”
One of those areas will continue to be
programs for the gifted, she said. The
federal money is given for the benefit
of both gifted and handicapped pro¬
grams because many states combine
the two areas.
Mrs. Hufstedler also discussed the
concern over falling SAT scores in
recent years. She said falling averages
“can be extremely deceptive ”
There are some trends causing the
SAT drops, however.
“It is very difficult to convince
youngsters that reading is an impor¬
tant skill if they don’t see anyone in
their family doing it.”
Another problem creating lower ap¬
titude levels, Mrs. Hufstedler said, has
been immigration.
“From 1930 to 1965, a combination of
circumstances slowed immigration
. . . But that has turned around and has
had an impact on the test scores.”
After her reception she continued
speaking about her department and
community college education, between
her tour stops at the machine shop, the
satellite dish, the art gallery, a typing
class and KPCC.
Although Mrs. Hufstedler said she
has no specific plan for community
colleges, she will “make sure they’re
heard.”
tablish an open channel of communica¬
tion between the ASB and the student
body. He wants the students to have
some input in the actions of ASB and
would like ASB to be responsive to the
needs and desires of the student body.
Herman is concerned that there’s not
a lot of student participation in school
and world issues. He wants to “open
people up to the fact that they do make
a difference.”
He says if they begin to understand
that, there’ll be more participation.
Active with the Los Angeles World
Hunger effort and EST in San Fernan¬
do Valley, Herman is familiar with the
difficulties of “presenting people with
the opportunity to make a difference in
their own individual lives.”
should be aware of some of the impor¬
tant issues (while they’re) at PCC so
they won’t be so naive to politics when
they go on to a university,” she said.
Ms. Brown believes there should be
no military recruiters on campus, no
part time teachers and racism on
campus needs to be destroyed.
A former Black Student Union presi¬
dent at John Muir High School, Ms.
Brown said she can handle responsi¬
bility in business matters. She believes
she can organize students and let stu¬
dents know what student government is
doing and what student government
plans to do.
Ms. Brown doesn’t want to limit
herself to one specific group, “I want
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Traffic May Be Congested
Street Repairs Start Soon
Construction on Del Mar Boulevard
will begin tentatively on June 2 or 3,
according to a Pasadena official.
Associate Engineer James T. Lloyd
said the section of Del Mar between
Allen and Hill Avenues will be re¬
constructed in asphalt in a 90-day
period beginning early in June. In
addition, the intersection at Hill and
Del Mar will be completely remodeled.
The reason for the repairs, said
Leonard C. Knapp, PCC director of
building services, is “the street has
deteriorated to the point where they
have to repair the subbase.”
Knapp has been attending the meet¬
ings between Pasadena officials and
the contractor, Cal/Ex.
The construction will be done in two
sections along Del Mar— first one side
of the street and then the other. The
exact schedule will be set next week.
“Traffic will be maintained at all
times,” Knapp said. “When they tear
up the north side, though, there will be
an access problem to the school. Stu¬
dents might want to come off Colorado
Boulvard down Bonnie Avenue.”
Along with the two-part Del Mar
repair, the Hill and Del Mar intersec¬
tion will be remodeled in four parts.
“The remodeling will involve street
lighting and wheelchair ramps,” said
Lloyd. “They will take the island out of
there to make a shorter radius curve.
There will be a longer right turn lane
(for those traveling west on Del
Mar).”
Lloyd said the reason the island will
be removed is because it
is incom¬
patible with wheelchair ramps.
Although traffic will continue on Del
Mar, there may be a detour that would
affect the intersection at Cordova
Street and Hill, Lloyd added.
Despite the award of a 90-day con¬
tract, “they (Cal/Ex) indicated they
won’t take 90 days,” Lloyd said.
The associated engineer indicated
traffic should not be too heavy because
when the work starts final exams will
be taking place and students will not be
at school all day. he added that the
summer school traffic is also lighter
than regular-session auto flow.
The exact starting date of the con¬
struction will be decided at a meeting
next week.
The bid accepted from Cal/Ex was
for $457,339.
GOING . . . GOING . . . — PCC's solar house was moved from the
campus to it new home in Chatsworth Wednesday night. The home was
first purchased in the summer of 1978 by Kirsten Finlay, a PCC nursing
— Courier photos by Katrin Wegelius and Dave Clarke
student. Ms. Finlay was forced to withdraw her bid due to a series of
financial misunderstandings. The home was put up for sale for a second
time last fall and was purchased by a local doctor.
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