PCC Courier, October 06, 1978

\ BON VOYAGE— Charles Miller, vice president of business services, will be retiring in January. He is planning a two-year cruise before attempting to start a navigation school. Business VP Cruising Out Miller's Last Semester By Tom Trepiak Editor Dr. Charles Miller, vice president of business services, will be joining Superintendent-President E. Howard Floyd on the retirement list. He retires in January. If popularity counts, the college will be losing two of its most-liked ad¬ ministrators. And we can’t even blame Proposition 13. But we can thank Charles Miller, whose retirement becomes effective January 31, for the order restored from the temporary Prop. 13 chaos. It wasn't the first budget-saving maneuver by the 29-year veteran of the public school system. “Fortunately, I had gone through this same type of thing before,” Dr. Miller said. It was in Washington, where he was superintendent of the school system. “In that state, the public votes every year on the tax levy. One year we had to cut about 37 per¬ cent. “We (at PCC) just had to go through and do the same thing, figure out where the priorities really were. “It was a matter of getting all of them to realize that any idiot can cut somebody else’s budget; it takes a lot of guts to cut your own, along with ability and analysis.” It’s Miller’s ability and analysis that PCC will have to replace when he steps down in January. “The time of my retirement was coordinated with Dr. Floyd’s,” Miller said. “I had planned on leaving right after my 60th birthday which is next month. But Dr. Floyd wanted me to stay on for another couple of months to permit his successor to pick my suc¬ cessor. “Dr. Floyd doesn’t want to pick somebody for the spot when he isn’t going to be here. Therefore, I delayed mine a couple of months.” Then, Miller will also have time to familiarize his successor with his position. Miller has done other things besides pull schools out of the depths of budget cuts. He started as a teacher, moved up to elementary and junior high principal, then to business consultant for a county office, assistant superintendent of business services for several districts, and superintendent of schools in Washington. He’s been at PCC for four years. “Many in my immediate family were teachers. They were either teachers or ministers. I preferred to be a teacher. Although I was sent to college to be a minister, it didn’t take but one semester for me to say, ‘get me out of here’.” “I enjoyed the management type of thing,” Miller explained the move to management. “At that time I was a squadron commander in the Navy Reserve, a weekend warrior type of thing. I was the boss of the show there. I had a big squadron— a couple of hundred guys in it. “I figured if I can run that, I ought to be able to run that little school there, so why not? I enjoy the management aspects of it.” Miller will continue his managing skills during retirement. “We’re (Miller and his wife) seriously con¬ sidering starting a navigation school.” There are almost none on this part of the west coast and he hopes to set it up in the Newport Beach area. But that will come after the two-year cruise, the “long boat ride” to the coast of Central America, through the Panama Canal, to the Caribbean, up the east coast, and back again. Miller's feelings about PCC: “This has been a good spot.” Student Buyer's Guide Awaits Further Support Coupons To Offer Free Items for I.D. Card By Kathy Braidhill News Editor A Student Buyer's Guide containing a list of local businesses with a possible coupon section has been approved by ASB to go to Dr. Charles Miller, PCC's business manager, for further scrutiny. The guide, free to all students, staff, and faculty, would provide a com¬ prehensive list of businesses in the Pasadena area, offering discounts. It would also reacquaint students with local merchants Approximately 20,000 guides would be printed. Gorden Warady. a representative of the Western Pictorial Publication Co., who would print the guide, said that there would be no cost to the school. “We will guarantee to print 20,000 copies, if you would guarantee to distribute them. It will cost the Associated Students nothing." The company has done community business directories for cities and organizations, and has done a Student Buyer's Guide for Cal State Nor- thridge. The “most important feature" in the Cal State Northridge Student Buyer’s Guide, according to Warady. was the coupon section in the back. This of¬ fered items for free, not tied to a sale. This is in addition to the standard two for one, and discounted coupon offers. Students would have to show their Sierra Bonita Avenue Closed to Commuters By Steve McManus Staff Writer PCC commuters are having to do without one of the major avenues of constructive relief in the never ending parking battle. Construction was begun last Friday on Sierra Bonita Avenue between Walnut and Locust streets. The detour came as an unpleasant surprise to many who use the north- south artery as a favorite access route into and out of the college. As a result, all of the traffic on the north side of the campus must use either Hill or Allen avenues. This condition will exist through the end of the month, according to City Inspector Tom Walski. The project is federally funded through Cal Trans and construction has been contracted to the J. В . Crosby Construction Co. There is a rise in the street where the railroad tracks used to run parallel to Walnut. The tracks were removed when the new freeway opened, but the bump remained, creating an ob¬ structed view of traffic and a hazar¬ dous condition, Walski said. To alleviate this. Sierra Bonita will be lowered three feet where the tracks were and widened by two feet on each side. New flood drains will exist by Walnut Avenue to accommodate the downward Hood of this winter's ex¬ pected rains. Carrotwood trees will line new sidewalks, the roots of which will not cause the buckling situation which presently exists on Sierra Bonita between Colorado Blvd. and Walnut Avenue. PCC identification card to take ad¬ vantage of the coupon specials. The guide would last for one school year. Warady said students only need to supply PCC's sports schedules, editorial content, information about any groups and organizations, and a keynote address from the current student body president. The book will span one year. If the students will provide this in¬ formation about PCC, Wardey said, his company will arrange it in the guide and print it. Businesses purchasing advertising space in the guide will provide Western Pictorial Publication Co. with the revenue to publish the booklet. Using the name of PCC. Warad> plans to contact “reputable ' businesses in the community to solicit advertising space. He mentioned massage parlors as the type of business he would not contact for an ad. He mentioned that businesses operating from a residence could be included in the guide. ■Ml-Ammcaiv rP associated 11 colwiatfe 5nvdomtf&qnot merit awards - * тсс courier TERRY JONES TYRONE PATRICK New Faces—Election Results By Kathy Braidhill News Editor Freshman president Terry Jones and Senate President Tyrone Patrick have been elected by about .()<> percent of the student body last week. Both said they had no concrete plans for curing the wave of student apathy that blankets the campus. Patrick is planning to tour 9 a.m. classes with his senators to determine student needs. "Student government is ignorant to student problems." he said. “They tend to let it go in one ear and out the other." Jones also wants to “reach out and find out what all the students want. " The freshman president was unsure how she could serve the older fresh¬ man students. “I know the freshmen aren't all people right out of high school." she said. “I don't exactly know what their needs are; they're harder to talk to." By contrast. Patrick felt that more mature students tended to take an interest in student government. “The older students realize the type of power they have." Aside from the plans the newly State Fights Junk Food Crisis DePew on Nutrition Committee GOOD FOR YOU — Robert DePew, life sciences professor, plans to inform Californians about nutritional needs through his new appointment to the California Commission on Food And Nutrition. By Kathy Braidhill News Editor “When it comes to food, California is the leader,” said Robert DePew discussing his recent appointment to the California Commission on Food and Nutrition. “The other states look to us. It will be our duty to provide nutrition information to all population groups (in California).” DePew, life sciences professor, was appointed to the newly formed food and nutrition committee September 22 by Merv Dymally, lieutenant governor of California. What the committee must do, ac¬ cording to DePew, is review everything that’s been published or programs implemented concerning food and nutrition in the state of California. “Our basic duty is to educate and inform the public according to all nutrition research,” he said. DePew mentioned a friend of his who was also serving on the committee, who pointed out that if the average Californian spends $1200 a year on food, the committee wants to be sure they are getting their $1200 worth. “Do we want them to have junk food?” Although DePew admits that “providing information” to California residents about proper nutritional needs is an ambiguous goal, the 17- member committee spent three or four hours at its first meeting discussing he "what we're supposed to be doing said. They decided to have each member research and submit ideas in his specialty, put it on the agenda, give background, and be ready to answer questions to the best of his ability. Of the members of the commission, there is a representative from HEW, the founder of Weight Watchers, the director of cardiology at Stanford University, and the mayor of Redondo Beach. DePew said Dymally wanted people representing all ethnic groups, and whose specialties encompass health, nutrition, and the human body. In addition to those who represent the schools, those active in social and ethnic groups and civic affairs will help to ease communication. A diverse cross-section of specialists was needed, said DePew, to have a “library” of talent and knowledge right there for the commission to utilize. Just as important as getting the ideas together, he said, “we’re sup¬ posed to get the information out.” That is why the non-nutritional experts are serving on the commission. “It’s not funded by any agency, therefore we don’t have to listen to any agency,” DePew said of the com¬ mission. “That’s $80 to $100 a month out of our pockets. We have to pay our own way in airfare to and from the meetings, all of us. But that’s OK,” he said. “We don’t want to be obligated to any one.” elected presidents have in mind, both said they are anxious to get started and will try their best. The presidents and the other ap¬ pointed ASB officers were sworn in at the ASB meeting by Dr. Floyd yesterday. The appointed ASB positions for the semester were unanimously voted into office by the board. Usually the ASB president appoints people to the of¬ fices. but Derek Coleman said. "I gave up my right to the board." In five unanimous votes, the ASB Ixtard approved: Keven Makarow, ICC president: Colette Jaubert and Ellen Kotz. publicity commissioners: Connie Lira, elections commissioner; Les Thompson, finance commissioner: and Cheryl Moore, pep commissioner. Coleman Says 'No' to Journalism Students By Arthur Wood and Sharon Stafford ASB President Derek Coleman, citing what he termed “conflict of interest." said Tuesday he would oppose appointment of PCC jour¬ nalism student Laura Carlos to recording secretary of the ASB Board. Lisa Albanese, ASB vice president, supported Coleman saying Ms. Carlos would have “divided loyalties” bet¬ ween the ASB Board and the Courier. The possible effect may be to bar all journalism students from holding ASB office. Ms. Carlos said she told Coleman and Ms. Albanese September 14 she was interested in being recording secretary. “They told me they were en¬ thusiastic," she said, “and would call me on Friday (September 19)." Ms. Carlos said she was not called so she went back to the Campus Center and spoke to Coleman. Coleman, she said, told her she would have a hard time because she was a journalism student. Coleman agreed that he had been enthusiastic about Ms. Carlos earlier but, “then I got to thinking," he said, “about conflict of interest” Ms. Carlos said, “I asked him (Coleman), ‘does this mean that a journalism student will be unable to ever run for ASB office?' He replied that was basically what he meant.” The recording secretary is appointed by the ASB Board to keep accurate minutes of regular board meetings. Executive sessions where personel matters are discussed are sometimes called by the board and recorded by the secretary when the board wishes, according to Phyllis Jackson, dean of student activities. Coleman quoted Dean Jackson as saying a journalism staff writer would pose, “a direct case of conflict of in¬ terest," and stated the ASB Board has held an executive session in each of its three meetings. “I’m sure she could keep accurate records,” Coleman said. But the problem of being both an ASB government member and a Courier writer was a conflict,. “I don’t think anyone could handle." Coleman added he felt personel conflicts bet¬ ween ASB Board members might become a factor in decision making and Ms. Carlos might furnish the in¬ formation to the Courier. “She might be asked by the Courier what goes on." he said, "and if he wanted to know what was going on at the Courier we might ask her. She would be torn between two loyalties.” Ms. Albanese agreed, saying the Courier and the student government work on a system of “checks and balances." that, “one keeps watch on the other." When asked why she Continued on Page Six Breakfasts Cut From Financial Aids Program The student breakfast program has been discontinued due to lack of fun¬ ding. Needy students used to receive a free breakfast every morning. Once a month $1 was deducted from each teacher’s paycheck so the program could survive. Because of the high cost of living and the effects of Proposition 13 the teachers no longer donate the money. The ASB funded the project for a while, but found the financial burden too great. Aside from the breakfast program, Prop. 13 did not affect any programs the financial aid office offers. Book loans, academic scholarships and other loans are still available. Twenty-five percent of the students are receiving some form of financial assistance. Book loans of $35 are available to students who need extra money to purchase books. No interest is charged but the loan must be repaid within 30 days or the student’s name will be submitted to a collection agency. Almost 30 percent of the students who take advantage of these loans do not repay within the month. The department has approximately $8000 to loan and with repayment each month. $61,000 can be loaned each year.