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PCC Courier, November 18, 1977
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Homecoming Activities Slated
CAMPUS ROYALTY— PCC’s Homecoming Court
was chosen last Thursday in the Campus Center by
a committee of 12 students and faculty. Pictured
from left are winners Michelle Adler, Laura Win¬
ders, Kim Watkins, Marva Jones, Elizabeth Cox,
April Polk and Debbie Jacobsohn. They were
chosen from a field of 50 applicants and will reign
over homecoming activities tomorrow night.
VOL. 44, NO. 12
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 18, 1977
Bomb Search Interrupts
Tuesday Evening Forum
By Mary Glenn Crawford
Staff Writer
Homecoming ’77 will bloom
tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. on Horrell
Field. A wide panorama of banners,
floats, princesses, football skills and
bands will be displayed at the annual
event.
One of the seven princesses chosen
last week will be crowned Queen right
before the PCC-Pierce football game.
The reigning princesses are Marva
Jones, a business administration
major; April Polk, who is studying
physical therapy; Laura Winders,
semi-finalist in the Rose Bowl Court
last year; Elizabeth Cox, interior
design student; Debbie Jacobsohn, a
builder of the Sophomore-Freshman
float , Michelle Adler, voice and piano
student; and Kim Watkins, who is
interested in fashion design.
“Most people think you are not into
school if you try out (for Homecoming
Queen),” said Miss Polk. She and Miss
Jones agreed that they place studies as
a top priority and are having a good
time with Homecoming activities.
The seven princesses will be on hand
to cheer on the nationally ranked
Lancers. PCC’s record against Pierce
stands at 14-8 since competition
started in 1955. Last year the Lancers
beat Pierce, 28-21.
Floats Planned
A parade of floats created by 12
campus clubs will precede the football
game.
Last minute plans and a lack of
involvement have delayed float
preparation.
Circle
К
Vice President Perry
O’Brien said, “Lack of interest is
basically where we are at.” Jim
Hoelscher, member of Circle
К
added,
“I have been trying to bring the float
up for the last few meetings, and it is
always postponed.” O’Brien added
however, that Circle
К
will probably
form a kazoo band with club
sweethearts, Cyrile Burgess, Loretta
Clark, Carmela Denton and Irene
Makauskas, with the “Star Wars” as
their theme.
MEChA adviser Robert Navarro
said that he had hoped a longer allotted
time would be allowed for their float
presentation. Last year, the club won
an award with their combination
dancing and float event. The club met
Wednesday to work out specifics of
their cultural presentation.
PASA members who feel a need to
participate in the Homecoming fan¬
fare will participate, according to
adviser Javis Johnson, Jr. The group’s
head of communication, Stephanie
Johnson said that the group will dress
in African garb “depicting them¬
selves” rather than a traditional
slogan and theme float.
Senate Float
Senate President Steve Lambert is
organizing the Senate float with the
Homecoming theme “The Future of
Education. Tim Chapman, third vice-
president, will don a dunce cap and
pull a “symbolic 1959 VW” van. He will
also drag along a few scholarly
graduates in the rear.
Freshman and Sophomore forces
have joined to create a float. Ac¬
cording to Derek Coleman, freshman
president, the exhibit will feature a
giant book teaching a computer.
Other groups partcicpating in
Homecoming Parade are the Inter-
Club Council, Omicron Mu Delta, the
Medical Assistants, the French Club,
and Sigma Iota Delta, dental
assistants club.
Trophies will be awarded during the
halftime to the clubs with floats judged
on excellence of creativity, humor and
pertinence to the theme.
ASB will sponsor a semi-formal
dance featuring Skyhawk following the
game from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the
Campus Center. Tickets are $2 at the
door and $1.50 in advance in the
College Bank.
PROTEST— Dexter Bevel (foreground) and Jerome Spears were
among 75 people who took part in a demonstration held Tuesday
night in front of C Building to protest the Board of Trustees' decision
to present a film entitled “South Africa: The Beauty of a Jewel
Under the Southern Cross” as part of the Tuesday Evening Forum
series. —Courier Photos by S.K.
By Mike Phillips
Staff Writer
A bomb threat disrupted classes and
the Tuesday Evening Forum film-
lecture “South Africa: The Beauty of a
Jewel Under the Southern Cross”
Tuesday night when the entire C
Building was evacuated for nearly 20
minutes while police searched for the
bomb.
Approximately 75 students and
community members opposed to the
showing of the film staged a peaceful
Permits Still A vailable
Parking Options Offered
By Kathy Prohs
Managing Editor
A1 Kauti, dean of student activities,
offered a few suggestions recently to
help alleviate some of the parking
hassles for PCC students.
He said that there are still some PCC
parking permits for sale from the
Office of Security and Parking Ser¬
vices.
There are now a few more day
permits (8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday
through Friday) available for regular¬
sized and compact cars.
The permits were being sold only to
students who were on the waiting list
compiled at the beginning of the
semester. Only about 40 per cent of the
students on the list bought permits
when they were notified that spaces in
the lots were obtainable, according to
the Office of Security and Parking
Services.
Now those permits are being sold on
a first-come, first-served basis.
There are also Tuesday-Thursday
parking permits for sale. They allow a
student to park in a campus lot from 8
a.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday and
Thursday and from 1 to 10 p.m.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
the evening permits allow parking
from 1 to 10 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
Permits for motorcycles and
mopeds allow parking from 8 a.m. to 10
p.m. in the motorcycle compound.
A moped is described as a motorized
bicycle and is treated as a motorcycle
at PCC. Current regulations require
that they be parked and left in the
motorcycle compound east of the U
Building.
Mopeds are not supposed to be
ridden through the campus at any
time, according to the Office of
Security and Parking Services.
An ID card from the security office,
as well as a parking permit, is
required to park either mopeds or
motorcycles in this compound.
Prices for all parking permits are
prorated and as the semester
progresses they become less expensive
until they reach the minimum charge.
Dean Kauti also suggested that
students take advantage of the free
parking on city streets.
He stated that a few blocks from
PCC there is all-day parking on Del
Mar and on the streets around the 210
freeway.
He also said that on the residential
streets around the college are signs
which read “one hour parking 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m.” He pointed out that this
means that students can park there
fron 8 a.m. until noon before having to
move their cars.
Kauti said that alleviating the
parking situation is his “highest
priority.” He said that PCC has added
Special Ballot Will Determine
Students Unlimited Representation
Students Unlimited representation
to the ASB Board will be determined
by PCC students on November 29. A
special ballot will be taken in the Quad
between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
“We need a voice on campus. I was
shocked to find that we didn’t have a
voice on the Board,” said Michael
Williams, president of Students
Unlimited.
Presently in the ASB Constitution,
“The representative positions on the
Board will be filled by representatives
designated by the Inter Club Council,
the Pan Afrikan Students Alliance,
MEChA and the Associated Asian
Students.” (Article II, Section 2,
clause b)
Added representation of Students
Unlimited is the proposed amendment
of the special poll.
ASB Board has been putting off a lot
of small problems of the handicapped,
according to Williams.
“My main concern is transportation.
What we wind up with is a lot of people
staying at home because handicapped
commuters have to schedule classes
around the school van,” said Williams.
Handicapped Students Services
sponsor the transportation aid of one
van for PCC students. Williams said he
hopes to get another van to alleviate
the problems.
Voting is open to all students with
I.D.
more than 150 extra parking spaces
since last year.
He said that PCC is making efforts to
acquire the Bob’s and Copp’s
properties but that it takes time and
about $750,000. This includes $450,000 to
acquire the properties and $250,000 to
convert them.
demonstration in front of the C
Building from 6 p.m. until almost 9
p.m., with signs, chants, flyers and
drums.
At approximately 7:50 p.m. at least
1000 people were evacuated from the
Sexson Auditorium and night classes
on the second and third floors. The
Tuesday Evening Forum program
traditionally begins at 7:30 p.m.
Security personnel were made
aware of the first call shortly after the
lecture began, according to Ralph
Riddle, head of Campus Security.
Riddle said that the male caller told
the switchboard operator that a bomb
would go off in the Sexson Auditorium
between 7:30 and 8 p.m., and hung up.
A second caller, female, repeated the
threat sometime after the evacuation
was ordered.
A police search found no bombs.
Eight to ten police were called to the
scene.
Demonstrators outside marched
around to the west side of C Building
where a crowd of people evacuated
from the building had gathered,
waiting for the bomb search to end.
The scene included picket signs about
Faculty Set for Decision
On Collective Bargaining
By Steve Johnston
Staff Writer
A run-off election to determine
whether PCC’s faculty will be
represented by a collective bargaining
unit has been scheduled for December
1, according to John Madden, dean of
personnel services.
The outcome of the election will
determine the manner in which cer¬
tificated staff members, including
instructors, counselors and librarians,
are represented before the Board of
Trustees in negotiations concerning
wages, health benefits, class size and
other employment conditions.
Madden said the faculty’s decision
will have indirect consequences for
students. “Any time you deal with
issues such as wages and class size
you’re bound to have either short-term
or long-term effects,” he said.
Earlier this month, certificated staff
went to the polls to choose among “no
collective bargaining” alternative and
two groups, the PCC chapter of the
California Teachers Association and
the Faculty Senate Association, vying
to represent the staff as collective
bargaining units. With 306 votes cast,
PCC-CTA fell two votes short of a
majority, forcing a runoff with the no
collective bargaining category.
The elections stem from the Rodda
Act, a bill passed by the state
legislature in 1975 allowing collective
bargaining in public education.
“Effects of a change to collective
bargaining are uncertain;” Madden
said. He noted that other states have
had collective bargaining for several
years. “Both horror stories and ap¬
parently improved relations have
emerged from those situations,” he
said.
In the past, Certificated Employees
Council, a collection of faculty groups,
has represented certificated staff in
discussions of working conditions with
the Board of Trustees. However, that
arrangement does not have the same
legal force as a collective bargaining
agreement.
The impetus for the Rodda Act,
which covers public education through
junior college, came mainly from
elementary and secondary schools,
according to Madden. “Those grade
levels have been facing declining
enrollments which in turn has led to
tight-money constraints,” he ex¬
plained. Madden said junior colleges
have not faced enrollment problems to
the same extent because students are
not limited to certain age levels, unlike
the lower grades.
But Madden added that some
community colleges have been “less
than up front” with their staffs, which
helped create support for the bill.
In the first election, PCC faculty
found itself in the unusual postition of
voting for a collective bargaining
representative and at the same time
voting for whether or not they wanted
collective bargaining. “That’s the way
the law says it has to be done,”
Madden said.
He noted that it took two years to
have the election because, shortly
after the law was passed, the state was
deluged with nearly 600 petitions for
elections.
According to Madden, the Faculty
Senate would be the most likely
representative in discussions of em¬
ployment conditions should the staff
elect not to have collective bargaining.
the Board’s November 3 decision to
show the film.
Most of the protesters were mem¬
bers of PCC’s Pan-Afrikan Student
Alliance, although community
members and members of a Pasadena
and Los Angeles based group called
the Southern African Support Com¬
mittee did participate. Also par¬
ticipating in the protest were ASB
President Elena Rodriquez, Vice-
President Ron Grant and Film Ad¬
visory Committe member Don
Wheeldin.
A spokesman for the group said that
the purpose of the demonstration was
to show to the Board of Trustees and
the administration that students don’t
condone a film on racism. He said that
he hoped the picketing would make the
feelings of Black students obvious to
the Board.
The entire security staff was
assigned to the event according to
Riddle, along with a special
arrangement with the Pasadena
police. Riddle said that before the
demonstration he had talked with
representatives from the Pan-Afrikan
Student Alliance about the legalities of
such a protest.
The Pan Afrikan Student Alliance
has been fighting the Board’s decision
to show the film, against the advice of
the Film Advisory Committee, for
some time. The Board decided on
November 3 to show the film along
with an anti-apartheid film about the
political situation in South Africa
called “Last Grave at Dimbaza.”
Tuesday Evening Forum director
Manuel Perez, dean of extended
campus activities, estimated the
crowd at 900, which is average at¬
tendance. Season ticket holders were
notified by mail of the second feature.
Dr. E. Howard Floyd, superin¬
tendent-president, said that he based
his decision to show “South Africa:
The Beauty of a Jewel Under the
Southern Cross” at the beginning on
the fact that it was the original
program and “Last Grave at Dim¬
baza” an addition.
By the second film the crowd, mostly
senior citizens, had thinned somewhat.
UNITED— Age was of little issue as demonstrators chanted out
against racism Tuesday night. PCC students, organized by Pan-
African Student Alliance, were joined by community members of
ages ranging from senior citizens to the young lady depicted.