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PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 3, 1978
Voting Rights Given
To Student Trustees
and other areas of student concern at
the state conference October 20-22.
Derek Coleman. ASB president.
Tyrone Patrick, senate president, and
Charlotte Hutchins, a member of the
student senate, attended the three-day
conference.
The CCCSGA is the most important
student representative organization in
California. It is also a lobbying
-organization with an office in
Sacramento, the only such
organization recognized by the state
government. A CCCSGA represen¬
tative sits on both the Community
College Board of Governors and the
Board of Chancellors.
The part of AB 591 still needing
clarification is how student
representatives on trustee boards are
to bring motions before the boards to
recognize them as full-voting mem¬
bers. According to parliamentary
procedure, only a voting member of
the board may make, second or table a
motion. i
Unless a present board member
moves for recognition of the student
member, or a student representative
addresses the board in audience
The student right to a voting
trustee position is being ignored
by most community colleges.
participation, voting rights can be
delayed indefinitely.
Patrick doesn't see a possibility of a
board member ignoring a student
trustee.
"The board knows a voting student
can have an impact on the outcome of
a board issue," Patrick said. “It
scares them."
According to Joseph Scardino, one of
two CCCSGA Sacramento lobbyists at
the conference. the student
representative now sitting on the
Board of Trustees will have to
challenge the board for the right to
make, table, and amend motions. This
will be necessary, he added, to
determine the county’s legal stand on
the admission of voting rights.
If the board votes to deny the voting
rights to the student representative,
Scardino will come down to the college
along with other CCCSGA members to
argue the point with the Trustees. This
was done, Scardino said, with success
at Los Cerritos College.
Since passage of AB 591. legal
counsels in each California county
have been preparing legal opinions
and supplying them to community
college trustee boards.
It is not known if PCC’s Board of
The student representatives now
on boards will have to challenge
the board to get their vote.
Trustees has received the L A. County
Counsel's legal opinion. The board has
not brought the matter up in any of its
meetings.
Coleman said he did not intend to
bring the matter before the Board of
Trustees at its next meeting. He said
the CCCSGA would do most of the work
in the matter and that he would not act
without student support.
"I may send a copy of a motion (to
allow a voting student representative)
to each Trustee with a request to each
that they introduce the motion.”
Coleman said. "The best method to
use ir. obtaining a voting student
trustee is to state my position to the
Board of Trustees and let them decide.
"But the board already knows my
position," he said. “The only way we
can be successful is through a
statewide policy provided by the
Chancellor's office"
"I’m sorry to hear he's not going to
do it,” Patrick said about Coleman's
statement. He added that he would
“It’s one of the only really im¬
portant student positions there
is.”
bring the matter up with the Senate if
Coleman didn't.
Patrick also said he believed
students should be informed of the new
law, "so when the Board of Trustees
votes it down, they (the students) can
bring pressure to bear.”
ASB Senate member Charlotte
Hutchins said she would bring the
voting issue before the Board of
Trustees if Coleman did not.
"It 's one of the only really important
student positions there is,” she said in
an earlier statement.
Coleman also said he would not call
for discussion of a student trustee
election.
One of the possible arguments a
board can employ to block granting
voting rights to a current student,
according to Ms. Hutchins, is the fact
that the student representative was not
elected to represent the student
community as a voting trustee.
Trustees must be elected by the
communities they represent.
"Elections cost money," Coleman
“Elections cost money. Who’s
going to plan it?”
said. "Who's going to plan it? It means
I'd have to organize it, and I can't do
everything.”
He said if a student volunteer group
wanted to organize an election, "I'd
give them all the support I can."
Patrick stated he would bring the
subject of an election before the ASB
Senate if Coleman failed to do so, “but
it s really up to Derek," he said.
In further action, the CCCSGA
conference passed resolutions sup¬
porting further legislation to clarify
and uphold AB 591 and the legal
opinion of the legislative council of
California. The opinion issued July 31,
stated student members of community
college governing boards may make
motions to be voted upon by the board.
It further stated that student
representatives may receive health
benefits provided by districts to other
board members.
At the CCCSGA conference a
resolution supporting rent controls
was withdrawn, while one supporting
legalization of marijuana so that tax
revenues could be used for schools was
defeated. Also passed was a resolution
against Proposition 6, the anti-gay
initiative.
THIS IS YOUR LIFE— Dr. Floyd cradles his newborn son, Steve,
while bouncing his other son, Fred, on his knee in this 1947 snap¬
shot. In one of his first positions in the Pasadena School District, Dr.
Floyd as he appeared in 1953 as principal of McKinley Junior High
School.
Is Gayness Taught
By Mark Watney
Staff Writer
“That’s the best science fiction story
I've ever heard . . . better than ‘Star
Wars’." Dr. Mike Shaw (No on 6)
"What you have heard is not science
fiction, it is cold, hard facts.” Fay
Angus (Yes on 6)
"Science fiction," was Dr. Shaw’s
Prop. 6
Debate
first response when evidence against
gays was thrown at him by “Yes on (>"
opponent Ms. Angus, a representative
from” Decency and Morality” during
Monday evening’s Prop. 6 debate in
tlarbeson Hall.
Tired, cliched arguments for and
against Prop. 6 were shunned by the
debators for new and fresh evidence.
“I have evidence here that the
current law, (which prohibits teachers
from sexually molesting children) is
by no means sufficient," said Ms.
Angus in her opening speech.
Two of the strongest pieces of
evidence she brought up were a gay
teacher brought to court for involving
100 of his pupils in homosexual ac¬
tivities, and the Gay Community
Services Center, which advocates
homosexual education and gay clubs to
be incorporated into the school system .
Dr. Shaw retaliated by referring to
the evidence as ^’science fiction," and
mentioned several prominent
organizations and politicians who
denounce Prop. 6. Howard Jarvis and
Ronald Reagan were among those he
said backed him.
Dr. Shaw further supported his
position by referring to the Jewish
groups who had spoken out against
Prop. 6, with fears that "they were
next in line."
“If Prop, ti is defeated, our battle has
just begun." said Dr. Shaw.
Ms. Angus felt “we would be opening
up a Pandora’s box" if Prop. 6 is
defeated. Various other lifestyles,
which she termed "immoral.” would
come fourth and ask to be legalized,
she said, such as the Gyron Society,
which promotes intra-marital in¬
tercourse, and the Penthouse Forum,
which speaks of the benefits of incest.
The -wording of the proposition
caused considerable disagreement
between both debators. Dr. Shaw in¬
terpreted the proposition to mean any
teachers who sympathized with the
gay movement could be fired.
Ms. Angus felt the proposition
referred to only those teachers who
advocate and practice homosexuality
as a viable alternate lifestyle are
subject to dismissal.
Another controversial issue
thrashed about between the two
debators concerned whether gays are
born gay.
Dr. Shaw said it was impossible to
teach someone to be a homosexual,
"You either are or you’re not.” Using
himself as an example, Dr. Shaw
mentioned he had been brought up in a
loving. God-fearing home, and none of
his teachers had influenced him at all.
He said he had simply found himself
being attracted towards people of the
same sex.
Ms. Angus argued that there has
been no scientific evidence to prove
genetic differences between gay and
straight people. She forwarded the
theory of "Biographical Program¬
ming" which accounts for people in¬
fluencing others to become gay.
Children in elementary and
adolescent years are in their most
impressionable stages of life, she said,
and were entering the vital period of
sexual awareness and ex¬
perimentation.
“I am a homosexual, not a deviant or
immoralist," said Dr. Shaw’ amid
claps and laughter from the audience.
He said in his studies, the majority of
psychologists and psychiatrists are
opposed to the “Biographical
Programming" theory.
Dr. Shaw stressed acceptance of
gays into society, not hiding them from
children.
TERRIBLE TWO— Snapshots of a younger Dr. E. Howard Floyd, from
left, at age two, and when he was called “pretty boy Floyd” upon
graduation from high school in 1931, inset. Dr. Floyd stepped down
Tuesday as superintendent-president of PCC after 41 years in the public
schools, and four years here.
By Arthur Wood
Circulation Manager
Student members of the community
college board of trustees may be
voting members due to nassage of
State Assembly Bill 591, though most
community colleges are withholding
recognition. The California Com¬
munity College Student Government
Association < CCCSGA i dealt with this
Students, Take Your Pick
Beauty, Poise, Personality Typify Homecoming Court
The 1978 homecoming judges selected a seven-
member court in the Campus Center Ixrunge Tuesday
afternoon. They are Colette Jaubert, 28; Erika Linzn er.
20; Debbie Locke, 18; Diane Newman, 18; Catherine
Sanford, 18; Dana Smith, 18; and Chung-Jin Yoon, 20,
More than 100 girls tried out for Homecoming Queen,
said Derek Coleman, ASB president, “because it was
publicized a little better. Last year, only about 50 tried
out." he said.
Twenty-one young women were selected from the
original 100 competitors Monday, and the final seven
members of the court were chosen Tuesday.
A Homecoming Queen will be selected by the student
body next Wednesday and Thursday.
The young women were judged by their poise, verbal
expression, personality, appearance, posture, and smile.
Questions such as “What are the characteristics of a
modern woman9,” “What are your goals in life? ,” and
"What would you do if you were Homecoming Queen?”
were asked of the contestants.
Representatives from student government, the
cafeteria, campus clubs, two students of fashion, a
cheerleader, and two of last year’s homecoming court
judged and selected the queen and court.
The Pasadena City College Lancers will host the
Long Beach Vikings at the November 11 homecoming
game. A parade of campus club floats, with the theme of
Days Gone By,” will start the evening's activities
before the football game.
A homecoming dance following the game will be held
in the Campus Center Lounge from 10 p.m to 1 a.m.
Court member Vickey Turner, a sophomore, wanted
a chance to represent PCC, and termed the tryouts
“nerve wracking.”
Ms. Linzner. also a sophomore, wants more in¬
volvement with PCC. "1 want to work with the airlines
and it would be a good experience," she said.
Ms. Jaubert. an art major, said being on the court
would give her a chance to meet potential clientele. Also
an art major. Chung-Jin Yoon wanted to“be a part of an
important annual event such as homecoming. It can be
treasured for all your life.”
Freshman Dana Smith, a business administration
major, said she liked PCC, and wanted a chance to
represent it through the homecoming activities. Ms.
Sanford, also a freshman, wanted to “give what I can of
myself" towards representing PCC. '
Ms. Locke, a telecommunications major, just
"thought it would be fun” to try out.
The queen and her court will be engaged in a flurry of
homecoming activities, including a PCC -TV interview on
Monday.
RADIANT ROYALTY— The 1978 Homecoming
Court selected Tuesday, from left; Erika Linzner,
Debbie Locke, Catherine Sanford, Vickey Turner,
Dana Smith, Colette Jaubert, and Chung-Jin
Yoon.
—Courier photo by Steve Franklin
