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ISN’T SHE LOVELY— Julianne Hageman reacts as it is announced that she is one of the seven rose princesses. She is from PCC, as is princess Melissa Jo Young. Both live in Arcadia.
Change of Plans
For AS
В
Discos
By Kathy Braidhill
News Editor
The three discos ASB had planned to
support, utilizing the talents of “Let’s
Be Friends”, have been cancelled, the
board voted yesterday. Derek
Coleman, ASB president, brought the
fate of the projects before the board
after talking on Monday with A1 Kauti,
dean of student activities, Les
Thompson, finance commissioner, and
Danna Firth, assemblies com¬
missioner, he said.
The discos were to be done by “Let’s
Be Friends”, a Pasadena-based group
of young men who set up a disco for the
track team last semester.
Coleman said the control ASB would
have to excerise over “Let’s Be
Friends” and the organization of the
discos was “too much, it would be
better to do it ourselves, and get all of
the profit.”
A legal question arising between
private parties and school property
had to be resolved before negotiations
could continue between the board and
Walt Butler, campus relations liason,
acting as spokesman for the group.
If ASB had let “Lets Be Friends”
publicize the dances, decorate the
campus center, print tickets, and
collect the money at the door, Coleman
said they would be subject to the
scrutiny of ASB “We’d have to have a
million kinds of controls on them, like
making sure they had the right
number of security guards controlling
ticket sales, said Coleman. He said
that it would be more profitable for
ASB if they did it themselves
ASB was uncertain whether a
private party, using school grounds,
could profit from an ASB- supported
function. Coleman said he discussed it
with Dr. Charles Miller, vice president
of business services. Miller said the
problem would arise if ASB used funds
to support a business where only the
business profits.
After extensive bargaining and
compromising about distribution of
profits from the discos between the
ASB Board and Butler, spokesman for
the group, it was decided that ASB
would get $180 from each disco, and 10
percent of net profit more than $700.
Searching for a way out of the
problems involved in coordinating the
discos, Kauti, Coleman, Thompson,
and Firth discussed complications in
depth late Monday afternoon, and
decided to bring it before the board.
ASB may still hire “Let’s Be
Friends” to do one or more of their
discos, but the responsibilities of
publicity, ticketing, and security will
remain with ASB.
Have a Poem or
Story— Inscape
Inscape, PCC's student literary
magazine, is accepting submissions
for its next edition. Any student
registered within the last year is
eligible, including day, night, and part
-time students.
The deadline for submitting
manuscripts is November 17. Original
work only is accepted. Manuscripts
should be placed in the Inscape box at
the English office, C 217 or brought to
the Inscape office, C 219.
Instructions for proper manuscript
form are available at both locations.
- Homecoming - - 1
Applications for Homecoming Queen and Court are now available in
the Campus Center. All completed applications must be returned by
October 24.
Contestants must be carrying at least 10 units, showing their computer
print out for verification. Applicants must also be available for all
required meetings and other activities of the Homecoming Court.
There will be a meeting of all Homecoming Court contestants at noon
October 27 in the campus center board room.
The Homecoming Game and festivities are set for November 11.
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1979 Rose
Court Chosen
PCC's Julianne Hageman ,
Melissa Jo Young Bloom
The 60th annual Tournament of
Roses preparations came one step
closer to completion Monday as the
1978-79 Royal Court was named. Of the
seven Pasadena-area coeds, two are
students at PCC, three from La
Canada High School, and one each
from Arcadia High School and Sacred
Heart Academy.
The two PCC students are Julianne
Hageman and Melissa Jo Young.
Miss Hageman said she intends to
study law. She was asked her reaction
to the article in the October 6 Courier,
calling the Rose Queen competition
sexist.
"I haven't read it," she said. She
went on to say that she saw no in¬
consistency between her goals in law
and wanting to win a beauty contest,
and talked about why she wanted to be
Rose Queen.
“I want to make it.” she said. “I
wanted to be in the parade for a long
time," she added, saying she had tried
out twice before.
Miss Hageman said she liked the
idea of being on the Lawrence Welk
show, which she described as one of
the things the Rose Queen would do.
The wardrobe interested her too.
“You get all those clothes,” she
added. “I mean, they give you about 20
different dresses, I think.”
She said the judges had been “very
fair,” adding that the tournament
officials told us they felt they had
gained seven daughters."
Princess Melissa Jo Young, a PCC
student, plans to be a doctor,
specializing in psychology. She was not
available for comment at publication
time.
Lisa Kathleen Gage attends La
.Canada High School. She is 17, and
plans to work as an interpreter-
translater in either government or
private business. Catherine Mary
Gilmour is 17. She said she hopes to
attend USC, majoring in public
relations. Her career plans include
journalism and broadcasting.
Kathleen Caroline Looney, another La
Canada High School student, wants to
be a social worker.
Arcadia High School student
Suzanne Simone is aiming her ex¬
pectations at the bar, but isn’t sure
where she will study law.
Robin Elaine Thompson attends
Sacred Heart Academy where she is
studying fine arts.
The seven princesses were named
from a field of 26 finalists at the
Wrigley Mansion on Orange Grove.
The mansion serves as official
Tournament of Roses headquarters.
The 60th Rose Queen will be an¬
nounced October 24, 9:30 a.m., at the
Wrigley Mansion. A coronation lun¬
cheon will follow the announcement.
PRETTY AS A ROSE— Melissa Jo Young carries the bouquet that goes
with her rose princess title. The Rose Queen will be announced 9:30
a.m. next Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Tournament House on Orange Grove
Boulevard.
—Courier photo by Marcus Wilk
Political Science Profs React to Editorial
Public Record Facts Altered by Legislators
By Sylvia Posner
Staff Writer
If legislators deliberately alter facts
of the public record to deceive the
people, what can the people do about
it?
Two newspaper items dated nine day
apart recently appeared to raise this
question.
On September 27, the South
Pasadena Review carried a story by
George Kenney citing the California
State Assembly’s practice of allowing
members to change their votes for
public record.
On October 6, the PCC Courier ran
an editorial by its Editorial Board
alleging that the minutes of Board of
Trustees meetings are “pleasant
summaries” that omit “what doesn’t
make (the trustees) look good,” and
“add what they wish they had said.”
Kenney’s story named the Sep¬
tember 22 issue of Alert a publication
of the California Chamber of Com¬
merce, as its source. Alert exposed
and Kenney publicized the maneuver
by which assemblymen, if the
Assembly unanimously consents, can
have their votes changed for the
record when they expect the way they
actually voted will anger their con¬
stituents.
“Improved votes” are allowed to the
extent that the number of those
requesting them does not contradict
the actual victory or defeat of the issue
that was voted upon. Whenever they
wish to extend the courtesy to their
colleagues, the assemblymen vote to
suspend Standing Rule 106, which says
in part, “No member shall be allowed
to change his vote, or have his vote
recorded, after the vote is an¬
nounced.”
How can the public learn which way
its representatives really voted?
“Apparently,” wrote Kenney, “the
only solution is a watchdog committee
of an occasional publication like
Alert.”
The Courier editorial said the
trustees' frank discussions of vital
college and community topics,
together with audience feedback, are
significant data about how the trustees
reach their decisions. This data should
be included in the public record: “As
defined by law, the minutes of a public
meeting should contain everything
that happens, period.” To this end,
said the editors, the meetings should
be officially tape-recorded.
Four PCC political science
professors were asked to comment on
both the news story and the editorial,
and discuss ways these situations
could be remedied.
All four deplored legislative
dishonesty. They urged the public to
Assemblymen . . . can have
their votes changed for the
record when they expect that the
way they voted will anger
constituents.
become better informed and start
putting pressure on the legislators to
shape up. They differed in their
estimates of the relative importance of
pressure groups in achieving
legislative reform, and in their
responses to the idea of getting a
remedial initiative on the ballot. They
also differed in their reactions to the
PCC editorial. Their remarks follow.
On Kenney News Story
Stephen B. Reichert: “Changing the
vote for the record happens in
Congress too. The public record is not
very revealing— it never is. Much
legislation gets done in committees.”
“People can get accurate in¬
formation about legislative voting
through public interest groups, such as
Common Cause and the League of
Women Voters, or interest groups
organized around special issues. These
groups retain professional lobbyists
who find out how legislators vote by
being present in the chamber.
“Lobby groups are most important.
The average voter doesn't participate
in government directly. Outside of the
lobbyists, who else is going to know
someone changed his vote? Unless a
competitor or adversary wants to
blame him.
“What would happen if you couldn’t
have a vote changed for the record?
Suppose a legislator made an honest
mistake because of a breakdown in
communications?” One concrete
suggestion might be to have the record
“show when a vote has been changed
under any circumstances— notation
could be made on the public record
that the vote had been changed. Then
both the public and a legislator’s op¬
ponents could note the consistency of
the legislator's voting record.”
This suggestion “could be for the
legislator’s benefit. And the case could
be made that there would be no ob¬
jection to it— that whoever opposes it is
against the public’s right to know. That
would be putting them on the spot.”
The suggestion might be actualized
by getting an initiative law on the
ballot. “But first the public has to care.
To file an initiative petition requires
political organization, and it’s a
tedious and expensive process.” It
would be faster to work with and
through public intereset groups.
“People can write to their legislators.”
Sam Soghomonian: Some years age
Common Cause spearheaded a suc¬
cessful drive to open, to the public, all
Congressional committee sessions,
which used to be closed. “The state
legislature should be required by its
“Every bit of hardware and
software ought to be made
available in the cause of public
information.” \
own in-house rules to open all com¬
mittee meetings to the public.
“The legislature should not suspend
the rules” and allow vote-changing for
the record. “But for many reasons the
legislature wouldn't be willing to get
the requisite rule” against suspending
Rule 106 on its own books.
“The initative process is costly and
slow.” Filing an initiative petition
would require collecting a number of
signatures amounting to 5 percent of
the votes cast for all gubernatorial
candidates at the last general election.
“If the petition asks for a con¬
stitutional amendment rather than a
law, the number of signatures required
is 8 percent. That means either about
350,000 to 560,000 signatures, for
something people know nothing about.
“If legislative dishonesty were
better publicized, it would help; for
example, if the Times did an article.
The lawmakers bend when the public
leans.
“Interested individuals ought to
confront campaigning candidates”
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