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By Monique Meindl
Staff Writer
Tension was evident on the faces of
the 25 semifinalists as 12 women were
named as finalists for the Homecoming
Queen and Court on Wednesday, in the
Campus Center.
Students will vote for the Queen and
Court Nov. 12 and 13 between 9 a.m.
and 2 p.m. in the Quad.
The finalists are Lisa Brown, Sylvia
Cann, Teresa Cardenas, Yvonne de
Raad, Rose Marie Evans, Jeannine
Gutierrez, Jacqueline Huizar, Deanna
Navarro, Keli Powell, Leticia Prieto,
Roxanne Seas and Norma Vega.
Seven women will be elected to the
Court with- the one receiving the most
votes reigning as Queen throughout
Homecoming festivities.
Eight judges voted on appearance,
personality, poise, smile and verbal
expression of the 57 contestants. The
first screening, held Monday, nar¬
rowed the candidates down to 25.
In the second screening, each contes¬
tant faced the panel of judges, who
asked them two questions, such- as,
‘‘What do you like best about PCC?”
and ‘‘why do you want to be on the
Homecoming Court?”
‘‘It 'was difficult to make a de¬
cision,” said one judge. “They were 25
sweethearts who are a fine representa¬
tion of PCC.” Judges were composed of
a cross-section of students and faculty
on campus.
In the first screening, the contes¬
tants faced the judges, telling them
their names and a little bit about
themselves. Refreshments were
served as a relaxed atmosphere was
promoted.
“The tryouts were fun,” said finalist
Rose Evans. “Everyone was able to
talk and be sociable.”
Homecoming week begins Monday.
A variety of activities will take place
on campus throughout the week, in¬
cluding contests, a car bash, tug-o’-
war, Homecoming breakfast and a
Homecoming Dance in the Campus
Center, Saturday, Nov. 15, at 10 p.m.
Details about Homecoming activities
will be posted around campus.
The Homecoming Court will reign
over the Homecoming game Nov. 15, as
well as the post game dance. The
Queen will be crowned during half-time
festivities.
HOMECOMING COURT-FINALISTS — The 1 2 finalists for the Home¬
coming Court will be narrowed down to seven next week. Students may
vote for the Homecoming Court Wednesday and Thursday between 9 a.m.
and 2 p.m. in the Quad. Results will be posted in the Campus Center
— Courier photo by Bryan Thompson
Thursday afternoon. Sitting from left are: Teresa Cardenas, Yvonne de
Raad, Keli Powell, Sylvia Cann and Rose Evans. Standing from left are:
Roxanne Seas, Lisa Brown, Leticia Prieto, Deanna Navarro, Jeannine
Gutierrez, Jacqueline Huizar and Norma Vega.
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VOL. 50, NO. 12 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA NOVEMBER 7, 1 980
Votes for A ccreditation Addendum
By Rosemary Cameron
Contributing Writer
A propsed addendum to the Self
Study Institutional (Accreditation) Re¬
port, which cites the office of the
president and “administrative at¬
titude” as being significantly respon¬
sible for low faculty morale, was un-
By Sylvia Cann
Editor-in-Chief
Tuition for nonresident and non¬
citizen students at PCC will rise from
$59 to $75 per semester unit starting
spring 1981, according to Dr. Irvin G.
Lewis, vice president for student per¬
sonnel' services.
A board report recommending the
Pasadena Area Community College
District Board of Trustees adopt the
increased fee was approved by the
Board at its Oct. 23 meeting.
There are approximately 923 stu¬
dents at PCC who will be affected by
this move, according to Lewis. At least
668 of them are foreign students and 255
inamously accepted by the Faculty
Senate Board during an executive ses¬
sion of its bi-weekly meeting Monday.
Communication Department repre¬
sentative Lee Reinhartsen left the
are from out of state.
The bill involved, AB 2825, 1980,
amended Education Code section 76140
to revise the means of computing the
tuition rate. Now the projected Con¬
sumer Price Index must be added to
the costs for the preceding fiscal year.
This computation results in a 27.7
percent increase over the $59 a
semester unit rate, which the Board
previously approved for tfiis college
year, according to the fcipard report.
In addition, AB 2825 removed the
former 15 unit a semester maximum
■charge’. Therefore, each semester unit
will be charged aat $75 starting next
semester.
meeting before the Board went into
executive session, saying he believed
the issue was critical and of campus¬
wide importance.
“It should have been discussed in the
open,” he said. “I felt they (the Senate
Board) were violating the spirit and
essence of open-meeting laws.”
The addendum is based on the results
of a recent faculty poll initiated by the
Senate that focused on the question of
morale. Faculty members were asked
to determine the seriousness of the
morale problem on campus— if in fact
there was a morale problem, according
to Dr. Gordon Brown, Faculty Senate
president. The survey also listed a
number of factors thought by the Sen¬
ate Board to be possible causes for low
morale and asked faculty to rank them
in order of significance.
Committee Established
The Senate Board, which called for
an addendum to the Accreditation Re¬
port in June after receiving a copy of
the final dr&ft, had recently estab¬
lished an ad hoc committee to
formulate an addendum based on a
faculty poll.
From 360 circulated survey sheets,,
out of which 180 faculty responded, 84
percent saw morale as being a serious
problem. Fifty-five percent of the re¬
spondents named the office of the
president in particular as being signifi¬
cantly responsible, with 28 percent
blaming the administration in general.
The remaining respondents attributed
low morale to other issues, including
collective bargaining, Proposition 13
and the turnover in administrative
staff.
According to Brown, the Senate
Board believes the Accreditation Re¬
port, especially the institutional staff
section of the report, which details
faculty-administration relations, con¬
flicts with the findings of the original
campus survey committees which
were set up in 1979 to gather data for
the report.
Senate Board members feel, due to
the many complaints received by the
survey committees, that the report
inaccurately reflects the seriousness of
faculty morale, said Brown. Com¬
plaints indicate the report has been
toned down to project a more positive
image of faculty-administrative rela¬
tions than actually exist, he added.
The report also fails to cite a factor
that the Senate Board believes may be
substantially responsible for low facul¬
ty morale, namely Dr. Richard S.
Meyers, the college president, he said»
According to Brown, reports that
came in specifically named Meyers as
being responsible for many of the
dissatisfactions faculty members had,
but the final draft of the Accreditation
Report failed to mention the president
as being in any way connected to the
problems.
“The Board feels that the most
significant problem hasn’t been in¬
cluded in the report and that is the
reason for the addendum,” he said.
In a statement released Tuesday
afternoon, Meyers said, “I can under¬
stand that some faculty may be con¬
cerned With an ‘outside’ administrator
who has an unfamiliar method of oper-
By Mike White
Associate News Editor
Members of the reorganized Gay
Student Union have established their
right to use the word “lesbian” in
posters publicizing meetings and club
activities.
The GSU, which had only one female
member when the club was reac¬
tivated, sought to use the word “les¬
bian” in its posters announcing the
first meeting in October. Alvar Kauti,
dean of Student Activities, at first
approved the posters but then advised
the GSU to leave the word out.
ation and somewhat different goals.
There has been an attempt on the part
of my administration to accommodate
these concerns in the past year.
“However, it is difficult to accept
the validity of an instrument that
negatively loads a survey to the point
of bias. This bias is compounded by a
(Continued on Page 6)
“It is the kind of. poster some stu¬
dents might object to,” he said.
The GSU followed his advice and
changed the poster excluding the word
lesbian; however, only one woman
attended the first meeting.
Steve Share, president, and Lisa S.
Ervin, vice president, claimed there
was a lack of women members because
the word “lesbian” was left out.
Share said Kauti actually refused to
allow the word so the GSU took its case
to Dr. Irvin G. Lewis, vice president
(Continued on Page 6)
Tuition Rises for
Some Students
Gay Club Wins
Publicity Dispute
EVERY LITTER BIT HURTS— Today marked the close of Anti-Litter
week at PCC Student Trustee Bob Carroll, on the left, and Assemblies
Commissioner Richard Franklin, right, tied for first place in the hamburger
eating contest held Wednesday Many clubs participated in Anti- Litter
events held daily in the Quad. Business professor Al Turnbull and Dr David
Ledbetter, dean of Instructional Services, coordinated activities In the
center photo. ASB Vice President Charles Sifuentes. on the right,
responsible for planning many of the events, interviews ICC President Keith
Wethall. — Courier photos by Elly Mixsell
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