Prexy Potentials Present Platforms
The election of Associated Student Body officers
for the fall semester gets underway today. Voting for
the 13 candidates takes place today, tomorrow and Friday
in the polling booths situated around the campus.
Competing for ASB president are John Holder,
David Laidig, and Steve Zirbel.
Holder's platform centers on ASB officers carrying
out the ideas of the students. He feels that the president’s
duty of leadership is to discover what the students want
and then seeing to it that these ideas are used.
HE DOESN’T want the government dictating to the
students, as it has in the past. There should be a revising
of the leader’s philosophy from government of internal
action to one of external motivation emenating from
the entire school.
Holder says that the government must prove its
worth to the students. “It was originally set up to serve
special interests on campus, but it has drifted off into
functions unconcerned with these interests, and the
majority of students are not being represented.”
The Senate, he maintains, should be used for gather¬
ing the opinions of the students. When this is done,
there should be committees organized to carry out the
ideas.
He plans to get what the students want for campus
activities.
HE ALSO considers publicity as important in en¬
couraging students to participate in governmental
meetings. He wants the students to feel they are the
purpose of the government and its guiding force.
Laidig also feels the need for student government
functioning more as a representative body, in behalf
of the general student body.
To accomplish this, he wants to form the post of
commissioner of Public Relations and a speakers’ bureau
for representation of students to the community.
The new commissioner would be a special assistant
to the president appointed by the Cabinet. One of his
functions would be to accompany the president to the
new JC district Board of Trustees meetings. Laidig sees
the new board as the main indicator of the need for a
student government beyond student activities.
The student speakers’ bureau would inform com¬
munity organizations about the college’s activities, such
as concerts, plays, and sporting events.
THESE ARE some answers, but he also poses ques¬
tions about how things are run on campus. “Do the
Freshman and Sophomore Class Councils represent their
classes, and is there a need for class government at
PCC?”
“Is the Pageant in its present form worth $12,500
to the student body?”
He wants to find answers to these and other ques¬
tions.
He would push for a larger Courier, promote home¬
coming to the alumni, and get speakers of vital interest
to students.
Zirbel thinks it necessary that all students on campus
be represented in the government.
HE LOOKS to displacing the “figurehead” idea of
president and making the office active by going among
the students to find out what is most wanted throughout
the college.
The Senate and ICC meetings should be attended
by the president and vice-president in order to further
communicative relations with each.
He finds the structure of the Cabinet a problem,
along with the commissioner’s representation and pub¬
licity needed around campus. He plans to work hard on
these difficult problems.
“Foreign students at PCC have no voice in the
government,” he says. “The ICC and Senate should
work closer to remedy this lack and also provide better
communication with other groups.”
As for campus activities, he wants student-sponsored
intellectual events such as forums and debates. He also
thinks that the big-name assemblies should be continued
with better entertainment.
He feels that the ASB backing of convocations and
open forums for students would give the students a
chance to present their ideas to the Cabinet.
Rough Road Ahead
for June Graduates
Faculty Evaluation
Backed by Teachers
Graduating sophomores have a
busy schedule ahead of them fol¬
lowing the Memorial Day holiday.
Between May 31 and June 16,
the last day of the semester,
graduates will participate in two
awards assemblies, the plaque
laying ceremonies, Sophomore
Class Breakfast, Baccalaureate
services, various club teas and
luncheons, commencement exer¬
cises, and the Freshman-Sopho¬
more Prom — in addition to bear¬
ing the brunt of final exams.
First is the ASB Awards As¬
sembly next Tuesday at noon in
Sexson Auditorium.
The plaque-laying ceremony
will be held in front of the C
building Tuesday, June 7. Bacca¬
laureate rehearsal will be held
BALLAD OF
WILL ROGERS
Arnold Marquis, a veteran of
the theater, radio, and television,
will direct Theater Americana’s
final production, “A Ballad of
Will Rogers,” which opens June
1 in the Davies Auditorium in
Altadena. “A Ballad of Will
Rogers” is a musical review of
the life of the American humor¬
ist, played by Jack Mathers.
CLOSED DOOR SESSION
IN PAGEANT OFFICE
What’s going on behind the
closed doors of the Pageant of¬
fice? Only the editor of the Pag¬
eant may know for sure, but you
can find out on June 8, when
you pick up your copy at the Col¬
lege Bank. Extra copies are still
available and may be ordered now
for $6.24 at the bank.
the same day in Sexson from 3
to 5 p.m.
The final Baccalaureate service
is slated for Sunday, June 12, at
8:15 p.m. in Sexson Auditorium.
The Sophomore Class Breakfast
will be held June 7 at 7 a.m. in
the faculty dining room of the
Campus Center.
A Commencement rehearsal
will be held from 9:30 a.m. to
noon Wednesday, June 15, at the
Rose Bowl. The actual Commence¬
ment will take place Thursday,
June 16, in the Rose Bowl from
6:45 to 8:30 p.m.
The Freshman-S ophomore
Prom will culminate the gradua¬
tion activities and the school year
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Thursday,
June 16, at the Huntington Shera¬
ton Hotel.
CIRCLE
К
ACCEPTING
APPLICATIONS
Today is the last day that Cir¬
cle
К
application forms will be
available. PCC’s Circle
К
has
been honored many times as one
of the outstanding Circle
К
chap¬
ters by the national organization.
Interviews will be held May 26
and 27 at 7 a.m. in the faculty
dining room. Application forms
may be picked up in 111C and the
Circle
К
office.
RIFLE CLUB
SHOT DOWN
The campus firing range will
be demolished and the weight lift¬
ing room enlarged. The rifle club
now has no place to meet. The
firing range was also used by
Muir and Caltech.
NEWSMAN TO TALK ON
“INSTANT COMMUNICATION"
"Instant communication” prob¬
lems will be discussed by KNXT
news director Grant Holcomb to¬
morrow night at 7 :30 in the Little
Theater as part of “The Computer
and the Mind of Man” series.
LITTLE THEATER
PRODUCTION
The San Gabriel Little Thea¬
ter’s “White Sheep of the Fami¬
ly” is scheduled to open for a four
weekend run on May 27. Frank
Boers of Pasadena plays the lead,
Peter, with Kris Klain portray¬
ing the commissioner’s daughter.
VISTA Insert
Inserted in this week’s Courier
is a paper from the national
headquarters of Vista, Repre¬
sentatives from Vista will be
available to answer questions
in front of the Campus Center
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday,
May 31.
MICHAEL HYDE
. . . 9800 per cent brighter?
Hyde Visits
Small Planet'
Michael Hyde, drama student
from Australia, will end his two-
year stay at PCC with his por¬
trayal of Kreton, the visitor from
outer space in Gore Vidal’s “A
Visit to a Small Planet.” The
Theater Arts Association’s final
production of the semester is set
for Sexson Auditorium, May 26
and 27.
As Kreton, he will portray what
has been described as an "ageless
idiot child, 9800 per cent brighter
than Earthlings.” He visits the
Spelding family and overturns
their normal way of life.
Bruce McGuire and Candy St.
Claire play the supporting roles
of Mr. and Mrs. Spelding. Other
members of the cast include Con¬
nie Freund, Louis Barrios, Ferd¬
inand Iwasko, Steve Landon, and
Robert Artz.
Tickets can be bought at the
door as well as at the College
Bank.
By Russ Pooler
The Faculty Information Reg¬
ister, a proposed student program
of faculty evaluation, is going
into final stages of development
and the decision on its future is
near.
Working with a faculty dele¬
gation, Shelley Linderman, presi¬
dent of the ASB Senate and chair¬
man of the committee assigned
to draft the register, reports that
the majority of teachers favor the
proposal, and two weeks should
see the register formulated.
ORIGINALLY the register was
to be the student’s subjective rat¬
ing of each teacher, but faculty
opposition was strong.
The plan soon to be approved
consists of two parts. First, there
will be a booklet of objective in¬
formation submitted by the teach¬
er, dealing with his methods,
homework, tests, and class ap¬
proach.
Second, a new idea has been
suggested of having open classes
in the two weeks before registra¬
tion each semester to let students
view the teachers and to decide
subjectively which one to take.
TEACHER reaction to this plan
is almost totally positive. The op¬
position consists of those faculty
members who question the way
students might use the booklet —
for example, trying to maneuver
for the easiest classes.
Linderman has been working
for three months on the project.
Last week a poll of the entire
faculty showed the great majority
wanted the booklet. Next week he
plans to submit the open classes
idea and he expects “no negative
response.”
He says, “The student will get
much more needed information
out of this than he ever could
from the catalogue — or the grape¬
vine.”
THE TWO weeks of open class¬
es prior to registration would
come after mid-terms each semes¬
ter. This would be around No¬
vember during the fall and March
in the spring.
Robert Erhlich, Senate adviser,
said the idea of open clasess “is
definite, but the mechanics must
be experimented with in the first
semester.”
Such problems as class space
and student participation will be
worked out over a period of time.
Most of the teachers agree that
there will probably not be a great
response by the students to the
open classes. However, they feel
that mostly freshmen will be tak¬
ing advantage of the opportunity
for personal observation of the
teachers.
The register, to be printed in
the PCC print shop, should be
ready by next semester, according
to Linderman.
Colloquium on
Battle of Bilge
Is our free press becoming too
free?
Tropic of Cancer, Ulysses, An¬
thony Comstock’s “stranglehold
on the windpipe of literature,”
and a legal definition of obscenity
will be part of Dr. George Fein-
stein’s “Censorship: the Battle of
the Bilge” colloquium Friday.
All of the Tarzan books were
once removed from a Downey
school library because there was
no evidence that Tarzan and Jane
were legally married, according
to Dr. Feinstein. Sex is not all
that is censored, however. The
Chrysler Company, for example,
once sponsored a Civil War drama
and eliminated all references to
Lincoln.
Dr. Feinstein, associate profes¬
sor of English, taught at the Uni¬
versity of North Dakota before
coming to Pasadena in 1948. His
articles, poems, and short stories
have been published in various
magazines, including American
Literature, Modem Language
Notes, College English, NEA
Journal, American School Board
Journal, Your Life, TV Guide,
and Magazine Digest. He also
writes weekly book reviews for
the Pasadena Independent Star-
News and has written reviews for
the Vancouver Sun, the New York
Post, and the Philadelphia Bulle¬
tin.
Last in this year’s colloquium
series, “Censorship” will be held
in Harbeson Hall from 1 to 2 p.m.
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