PCC Activists Confront ASB Lenders
Vol. 30, No. 10 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California November 20, 1968
Courier Editor, ASB, md
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Presidents Answer Questions
SCO Outlines Half-Unit
8-Week Orientation Course
student activists. The group, num¬
bering close to 100, had met in
front of the C Building for a free
speech forum.
When amplification failed to
operate, the group decided to at¬
tend the open house. Activist
leaders claimed that the admin¬
istration had turned off the pow¬
er. Administration sources de¬
nied such a claim.
Just as the activists had be¬
gun their meeting on the steps of
the C Building, the ASB Board,
on the basis of two letters from
personnel in the C Building, voted
to oppose amplification in that
area.
Walking together across the
campus, the activists added to
their number before reaching the
Campus Center.
Refreshments were being serv¬
ed, but a majority of the students
didn’t bother with them. They sat
in chairs and on the floor in front
of the campus board room. As
more students gathered, they
were forced to stand along the
sides of the crowd to see.
ASB President Ron Firestone
and Courier Editor Bryan Cut-
hill took seats at the board room
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with Coston and other ac¬
tivists. Shortly after the ques¬
tioning started, Linda Edgeworth,
AWS president; Pat Jacobs, ICC
president; and Jim Goodwin,
sophomore president, arrived.
Questions began on the Cour¬
ier, how it was financed, how
students got to write for it, and
why the ASB didn’t operate the
Courier. At that point Firestone
took the floor and asked how
many people in the crowd owned
ASB cards. With a small show
of hands, Firestone pointed out
that that was the reason why the
student government at PCC can’t
do a lot of things — no finances.
Activists responded that they
saw no reason for buying an ASB
Student addresses activists . . .
The Curriculum Committee
(SCC) is drawing up a second
draft of its proposed orientation
program. Proposed orientation
would be expanded to an eight-
week course for one half unit of
credit, thus being mandatory for
incoming freshmen.
Details are yet to be worked
out on what each session should
consist of, but SCC already has
Black Panorama
in Sound Planned
“A Panorama of Black America
in Sound” will be presented in
Sexson Auditorium, Tuesday
Nov. 26 at noon to “to show in
sound how black people have
adapted to a new niche in the
western world.”
A donation of $2 for reserved
seats without ASB card, and $1.50
with ASB card will be asked.
General admission with $1 with¬
out ASB card and 75 cents with
ASB card. The donations will go
to the Martin Luther King Schol¬
arship Fund.
The entire college community
is urged to attend, according to
Joe Barnes, coordinator of the
assembly.
an outline of the eight sessions.
First week’s session would be
an address by the president, the
deans, and the department chair¬
men. In the second week, a movie
on PCC would be set.
The third session would consist
of the ASB president and club
presidents speaking to the stu¬
dents. In the fourth, students
would meet, as a group, with
their counselors, and in the fifth
and sixth sessions, consult with a
“faculty friend” under whom
they had signed up.
The seventh session would be
taken up with explaining the var¬
ious scholarships available to stu¬
dents and other such matters, and
a speaker — one which the students
want to hear — would fill up he
last session.
SCC is also considering a pro¬
posal that a consumer protection
course be added in home econom¬
ics, and a new proposed one-unit
course that would enable geology
and anthropology students to go
on field trips to supplement their
curricula.
Lois Johnston, Women’s P.E.
rep, and Steve Clute, Men’s P.E.
rep, are to report to the commit¬
tee their findings on whether or
not PCC should have more co-ed
courses than the present golf,
swimming, and archery.
card. They expressed the idea
that they found the ASB card
rather worthless.
Questions again returned to
Cuthill and the Courier. Several
students wanted to know if the
paper was so limited in space
why he ran his picture in his col¬
umn.
Cuthill attempted to answer
and said that he would change his
policy of running the picture if
he found reason to.
Questions then turned to the
content of the Courier. Students
wanted to know if areas off cam¬
pus could be included, such as the
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Editor responds . . .
Board Vote Restrkts
Campus Ampiifhation
— Courier photo by Jim Martin
STUDENTS MARCH — across campus to attend ASB open house
where ASB leaders were questioned on a variety of subjects.
Before the motion was passed,
Vice-President Larry Cluff took
special privilege to leave the
meeting and go out to speak in
that area. The amplification
equipment was not working, so
the entire rally moved to the
Campus Center where a debate
session was carried on between
SAC and the members of student
government.
Another motion passed at the
meeting was that requiring teach¬
ers to attach parking stickers to
their cars and park only in the
faculty parking lot. If faculty
members park in the student
parking lots, they are subject to
parking citations.
Bryan Cuthill, Courier editor,
made a resolution concerning the
placement of newsstands under
the overhang of the Campus Cen¬
ter. The motion was passed by
the board after a brief discussion
over the newspapers which would
be made available.
The student body would not be
charged for the maintenance of
the newspaper vending machines,
as the individual publications
would be responsible for this.
Linda Edgeworth, president of
AWS, made a motion that sugges¬
tion boxes be placed on campus
for any ideas students have to
offer t
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student government.
After a lengthly discussion on
whether there should be one box
or two, the motion was passed
with one box being provided for.
A recommendation was made to
the board that there be an inves¬
tigation into the possibility of in¬
cluding more information on the
activities cards. The recommen¬
dation passed.
Bharat Persad, president of the
International Club, reported the
club’s desire to establish an in¬
ternational student forum with
discussion groups.
Movie, ‘Lord Jim,’ Set
“Lord Jim” will be presented
by the Student English Com¬
mittee Monday. Two showings
of the film, at 3:30 and 7:30
p.m., will be held, with the pro¬
ceeds going for honors and
awards. Admission is 50 cents.
European Feelings Due
The Junior Executives will pre¬
sent Randy Bronte and “Hitch
Hike to Prague.” Bronte reports
on European student feelings
he compiled as he traveled
through the continent. The
time, place, and date will be
announced soon.
Courier reader questions . . .
“We asked them to come to us
and they didn’t, so now we’ve
come to them,” shouted sopho¬
more Tom Coston as he became
moderator of a 70-minute ques¬
tion and answer period at the
ASB open house last Thursday.
The open house consisted of
the ASB Board meeting from 11
a.m. to noon and a chance for
students to come and talk to the
ASB leaders from noon to 1 p.m.,
and turned out to be the best-
attended open house in recent
years.
The reason for such a large
turnout was the attendance of the
PCC’s Student Body Board vot¬
ed in favor of a motion opposing
establishment of amplification in
the area in front of C Building
as a final act at the meeting
Thursday.
The issue was raised when ASB
President Ron Firestone read two
letters from faculty members
stating that the use of amplifica¬
tion at the free speech rallies in¬
terfered with the administrative
activities and with the KPCS
radio network.
The letter representing the ad¬
ministration was written by Dr.
Delmas Bugelli, administrative
dean of instruction. The other
came from the Communications
Department and was authored by
Dr. James Gregory.
Pat Jacobs, president of ICC,
made the motion that the board
oppose the use of amplification
in light of the disturbance caused,
and the motion passed.
President explains position . . .
— Courier photos by Dan Hueftle
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