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VOL. 32, NO. 9 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA NOVEMBER 19, 1969
Moratorium Reveals Polar iziag Tread
By LEWIS W. TROUT
“Every kingdom divided against
itself goes to ruin; and no town,
no household, that is divided
against itself can stand.”
In the views of many anti-Viet¬
nam war demonstrators, Nixon
administration supporters, and
neutral observers, that principle
spoken by Christ definitely applies
to the present crisis confronting
America because of the war in
Vietnam.
In the opinion of many of these
people, the days of the United
States as a world power are num¬
bered, and the likelihood of ex¬
ternal aggression and attack on
this country has been increased
and will continue to rise as long
as present divisions continue or
intensify. ,
Sharp Polarization of Opinion
A polarization of feelings and
opinions about the war into two
opposing camps, those supporting
the Nixon administration and op¬
ponents of present policies, has
occurred during the three-day
Moratorium from last Thursday,
Nov. 13, through Saturday, Nov.
15. The polarization was signifi¬
cantly apparent both at PCC and
nationwide.
John M. Eikenbery, dean of
student activities, said late Thurs¬
day that much tension had been
visible on campus from both sides
throughout the day. He noted that
both pro-Nixon administration
Have you ever been sitting in a
new class, wondering why you
chose that teacher as you listen
incredulously to him explain that
the only way to get a C from his
course is to turn in one book re¬
port a day?
Or have you ever asked your¬
self what you are doing in a class
taught by a teacher who is obvi¬
ously the only one in the world
who knows what he is saying?
signs and anti-war posters had
been displayed on campus. He
said that there had been numer¬
ous reports of students from both
sides having ripped off armbands
and removed signs of the oppos¬
ing side.
One possible incident was avert¬
ed by the swift action of the
president of the Young Peace
and Freedom Club. Dean Eiken¬
bery explained, “Inadvertantly,
some student took down a pro¬
war sign. Ian McIntyre, YPF
president, offered to redo the sign
and hang it.”
McIntyre’s offer calmed a poten¬
tially explosive situation, con¬
tinued Dean Eikenbery, and was
a sample of the responsible man¬
ner in which leaders of the YPF
conducted themselves.
YPF sponsored two significant
events on campus Thursday. One
was the controversial Film Fes¬
tival from noon to 4:30 in Har-
beson Hall. The other was a pray¬
er vigil in the evening.
Film Festival Covered
A Courier reporter attended the
film program from about 3 until
4:30. Audiences ranged from 9 to
25 people. The films were distrib¬
uted by Newsreel, a motion pic¬
ture agency with offices in Venice,
a Los Angeles suberb.
The Newsreel catalog quoted
Fidel Castro to explain in part
the objectives of the group and
its productions. The quotation
Perhaps the reason you find
yourself asking these questions
lies in the fact that you didn’t
know what the instructor was
like before you put his class into
your schedule.
Students plagued by this un¬
nerving problem in the past have,
with the help of the Student Se¬
nate, devised a plan by which to
inform future students of what
each instructor at PCC is like.
stated partially that the aims in¬
cluded “systematically denounc¬
ing the criminal policies of inter¬
vention, plunder and aggression
employed by the world-wide im¬
perialist system and particularly
U.S. imperialism against Afro-
Asian-Latin American people.”
The catalog also explained that,
“Newsreel hopes to serve as a
medium of agitation, diffusion and
exchange of revolutionary experi¬
ences ...”
The films shown were biased,
prejudiced, and unobjective. Un¬
printable four-letter words were
commonly heard. Open rebellion
against constituted authority was
not only advocated, but glorified.
Violence, aggression and murder
of police officers and government
officials was encouraged.
The saddest thing of all about
the films was that they clearly
showed the hatred that has been
aroused in many people during
the past four years. Members of
the Black Panthers were quoted
as saying that they wanted “to
trample this nation into the dirt.”
The People’s Park in Berkeley
and the controversy surrounding
it were the subjects of one film.
Overlooked completely was the
fact that demonstrators illegally
seized property that did not be¬
long to them. The film portrayed
the police and soldiers called to
restore order as ruthless and ir¬
responsible.
It attacked the use of non-lethal
The plan is in the form of a
Teacher Evaluation which will be
conducted November 19-20-21.
According to Pete Kuretski,
chairman of the Evaluation Com¬
mittee, students will be asked to
rate their teachers on a 1-5 scale
in categories involving the in¬
structor’s interest in the student,
his respect for student opinion,
his interest in the course, the
level of understanding at which
the course is taught, the method
of grading the instructor uses,
his lectures and his teaching me¬
thods.
The evaluating will be done on
printed cards that will be passed
out by Senate members at distri¬
buting areas located in the Cam¬
pus Center and the main hall of
the C Building.
The cards will list the categor¬
ies, with the 1-5 rating written to
the right of the category. Stu¬
dents, upon deciding what rating
the teacher deserves, will circle
the mumber that best exempli¬
fies his decision.
Kuretski revealed that similar
programs have been on the draw¬
ing board in the past years and
that one was finally approved
last year.
It seems that this year’s evalua¬
tion, according to Kuretski, fell
through because of apathy on the
part of both senators and stu¬
dents.
Kuretski feels that this year’s
evaluation will be helpful to the
teachers as well as the students.
We believe this program will
benefit the students, commented
Kuretski, “by showing them a
little of what goes into teaching,
and also by letting them know
about certain teachers and how
they are in the clessroom. This
way the student will be able to
decide what instructor he wants
for a class, with a little more cer¬
tainty.”
Kuretski expressed hope that
teachers will allow these ratings
to go on during class time and
that the instructors will encour¬
age objective evaluations.
Upon completion of the rating
of a teacher, the cards will be re¬
turned by the students to the dis¬
tributing areas.
tear gas, and other riot control
measures in which at least one
demonstrator was killed.
The police and soldiers brought
in to enforce a decision of the le¬
gal owners of the property, the
Regents of the University of Cal¬
ifornia as representatives of all
the people of California, did not
roll in with tanks and kill 25,000
people as the Russians did in
Hungary in 1956.
The film showed injuries to
both demonstrators and to law
enforcement officials, and excess¬
es by both sides were seemingly
evident.
Columbia University Film
The longest film shown during
the one and one-half hours that
the Courier reporter was present
was a 50-minute motion picture
about the illegal seizure of Co¬
lumbia University buildings by
student demonstrators last year.
Destruction of university property
by the demonstrators was present¬
ed as not only justifiable, but as
deserving praise and applause.
The actions of police required
to remove the demonstrators, who
had barricaded themselves into at
least one building, were pictured
as harsh and extreme. Numerous
police officers and students were
injured, and evidently some stu¬
dent demonstrators were denied
first aid attention while police
were removing demonstrators
from occupied buildings. Some
demonstrators stated tnat prop¬
erty of theirs left behind when
they were removed by police dis¬
appeared or was stolen when po¬
lice and university officials in¬
spected damage to the university
facilities.
Columbia University had not
forced or required any students
to attend that school. Students
had to submit applications for ad¬
mission and asK to be accepted
to either undergraduate or grad¬
uate status. Those unhappy with
Columbia policies should have
withdrawn from that university,
or sought to change what they
did not like by peaceful means,
not seize and destroy property
that did not belong to them. Had
the student demonstrators taken
either alternate course, countless
policemen and demonstrators
would not have been injured.
Assessment of Thursday
In assessing the content of the
Film Festival, the tension on
campus, and other incidents
throughout much of Thursday, I
was saddened by the degree of
polarization apparent. In the
films, black men and white men,
demonstrators and law enforce¬
ment officers, were too often en¬
gaging in acts of violence against
one another, or else advocating
violence against others. Hatred on
the part of many was obvious. On
campus, deep hatred for different
ideas, and too often for different
people, was displayed in numer¬
ous instances.
One black student commented
that he too was sorry to sense
the air of confrontation every¬
where. To him and to me, it
seemed that in hearts, words, and
actions of many students, black
was against black, white against
white, black and white against
A pop concert featuring Poco
(formerly members of the Buf¬
falo Springfield), The Sunshine
Company, and Matchbox will be
held in Sexson Auditorium on
Friday. November 21, at 7:30. The
performance, emceed by the
wacky KFI superstar, Jay Law¬
rence, was obtained for PCC by
Don Welch and Ray Dodson, both
members of the cabinet. Admis-
one another, left against right
and vice versa, and pro-Nixon
administration students against
anti-Vietnam policy students.
The words of counsel, the
words of wisdom and discretion
spoken by Councilman Thomas
Bradley at PCC in October seemed
absent from the air on campus
last Thursday. He said, according
to the Courier article of Novem¬
ber 5, that “Regardless of the
means we pursue to accomplish
change . . . ‘we are dealing with
other human beings.’ This reality
cannot be blatantly disregarded,
and we cannot think in just ideo¬
logical terms.”
The point Bradley was making
was that while we may disagree
with other people, violence, law¬
lessness, and hatred have no
place in the exchange of ideas
and opinions among free people
of differing beliefs; respect for
each individual and his beliefs
does have such a place.
Attitudes Change Thursday
Thursday evening a different
spirit was present at PCC. The
prayer vigil and demonstration by
YPF club members and other
sympathetic students was carried
out peacefully and without inci¬
dent. The detailed impressions of
one reporter are printed on page
two.
On Friday, better conduct by
both the pro-Nixon administration
students, and by those opposing
current war policy was apparent.
No incidents of poster or arm-
band ripping were reported or
known to Dean Eikenbery. Some
students wore black bands, and
others red, white, and blue ones.
An exact number of who wore
which was impossible to determ¬
ine, but it seems that black bands
may have been slightly more nu¬
merous than the others. Over 90
per cent of the student body wore
neither.
One sophomore woman, a sup¬
porter of the Nixon administra¬
tion, said that she’d tried to find
some “Silent Majority” buttons,
and some red, white, and blue pa¬
per for armbands in downtown
stores, but had been unsuccessful.
When asked why she opposed the
Moratorium, she replied, “Because
(by participating in the Moratori¬
um) you are not supporting the
President and the nation. I just
feel sorry for all the Vietnamese
who wifi be executed if we pull
out without a military victory.”
A sophomore man, who backed
the Moratorium, explained, “I
personally find violence distaste¬
ful .. . ”
Dean Eikenbery summed up
Friday’s activity and atmosphere
on campus by saying that he was
glad to see peaceful expression
of opinion on campus by both
sides.
On Saturday afternoon and eve¬
ning, the Pasadena Area Vietnam
Moratorium Committee sponsored
a march from PCC to the park
across the street from Pasadena
City Hall. A rally at the park
followed the march. Pasadena
Police Department estimates
placed the number of marchers
and participants at between 1000
and 1500 persons.
To be continued next week.
sion will be $2 for PCC students
with ASB card, and $3 for all
other students with student body
cards, and $3.50 regular admis¬
sion. The proceeds will go to the
meager and rapidly depleting
ASB funds.
The AMS and AWS are spon¬
soring a dance after the Santa
Monica vs. PCC game on Satur¬
day, Nov. 22.
— Photo Courtesy of Pasadena Star-News
PCC COED Pamela Tedesco was selected to reign as Queen at
the annual Tournament of Roses parade out of a beginning
field of over 400 girls. The 5'5" brown-eyed blonde, along with
three other PCC girls who were selected princesses, Deborah
Carroll, Christina Nurches, and Rebecca Gonzales, will be treated
as royalty as she reigns over the parade which has the theme
of “Holidays Around the World."
Fatuity Evaluation Scheduled
for November
/9,
20 and 21
Jay Lawrence ; Others
To Perform in Concert