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Vol. 30, No. 7
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
October 30, 1968
SPEAKING OUT — is an unidentified student at a
recent speech forum held in front of the C Build¬
ing. The student pictured is urging a write-in vote
for Eugene McCarthy. The use of the front of the
C Building instead of the designated speech area
was because of a pep rally being held there.
Supporters of the speech forum want to establish
the steps here for a speech area.
Peace Rally Forced to ll/love;
Urges Dissent on Viet War
Delegates Provided
Action in CJCSGA
Free speech seems to be still
very much alive, as proven by a
large crowd ot students during a
SAC rally last Thursday. Main
purpose was to promote the peace
demonstration held at MacArthur
Park, the following Saturday.
Prepared to talk in the free
speech area, was guest speaker
Mike Maccabe who told of the
International Demonstration Day.
GI’s are the focus of attention of
peace organizations all over.
“Support Our GIs In Vietnam;
Bring Them Home Alive, Now,”
is their cry.
Maccabe thought that the press
has not given enough coverage
to the world wide strikes, espe¬
cially in Japan, that are now go¬
ing on.
At this point in Maccabe’s
speech the rally was interrupted
by a pep rally scheduled for the
same time and place. The group
was allowed to move to the front
of C Building to continue.
Actions of the different com¬
mittees and organizations were
reviewed. The Student Mobiliza¬
tion Committee held demonstra¬
tions October 21-27, while the
National Mobilization Committee
is sponsoring GI week, November
1-5.
It was suggested at this time
that interested students from
PCC, link up with students from
other colleges to voice free speech
rights.
SAC is still trying to obtain
New Holiday
Due to new legislation, when a
legal holiday falls on a Sat¬
urday, school will close the Fri¬
day before. It was announced
in the PCC Official Bulletin
that February 21, 1969 will be
a school holiday celebrating
George Washington’s Birthday,
which falls on a Saturday.
campus status, it was announced.
A request for help and support
was made. “Numbers mean
power,” was a slogan used.
Through meeting and petition
they hope to make their presence
felt here.
Some debates followed on why
SAC or any other organization
couldn’t meet on campus for dis¬
cussion. It was said that on Tues¬
day and Thursday meetings
would assemble in front of C
Building to exercise free speech.
Persons from the crowd rose
to express their points of view
on Vietnam. After an objector
expressed distain for present war
policies, two ex-GIs voiced con-
LOMAX SAYS
Values
After a brief introduction, the
man who needed no introduction,
Louis Lomax, began his informa¬
tive and revealing speech to an
overflow crowd in Sexson Audi¬
torium yesterday.
Starting with comments on the
present political scene, Lomax
noted that the problems facing
the country today are not the
war in Vietnam, not the racial
turmoil in the nation, but that in
four years, the country will be
politically ruled by those who will
be under 30 years of age.
Lomax said that he does not
fear the passing “of the torch to
the young and black’” He said
that he doesn’t fear tomorrow. He
only fears “that his generation
may rip the world apart, or in¬
fect us with their sickness,” be¬
fore youth gets the responsibility
for making changes.
Lomax said that we must un¬
derstand the black man in the
history of the country, and his¬
tory of the country itself, before
we can realistically deal with the
problems of today and tomorrow.
The problems on the college
campus today are caused by the
trary beliefs. Both sides were
given attention.
Next to speak was Allen Test,
a past advocator of SDS on cam¬
pus. He expressed his view that
our fighting in Vietnam is wrong
and must be stopped.
A suggestion was made that a
debate between opposing sides of
the war issue be held with pre¬
pared facts about the war.
Next the topic changed to do¬
mestic affairs.
A student urged a vote for Mc¬
Carthy in the coming elections.
“Vote in the streets,” was heard
from a few in the crowd repre¬
senting SDS supporters. They
plan to boycott schools and dem¬
onstrate in the streets on Novem¬
ber 5.
improper view the U.S. had of its
own history, and specifically the
role of blacks in America.
Lomax went on to “tell it like
it was.” He said you must take
out the romanticism.
According to Lomax, the found¬
ing fathers, the ones who wrote
the documents that this country
was founded on, wrote that all
men were created equal. The men
they were speaking of, though,
were “white, anglo-saxon, protes-
tant males.” The founders owned
slaves while they spoke of equali¬
ty. In fact, “women were the
original niggers in American so¬
ciety.”
These founders decided that
they needed to have someone do
the work. When the Indians held
their first “sit down strike,” the
founders turned to white inden¬
tured servants to do the “sweat¬
ing.” This was an economic dis¬
aster because the whites would
earn some money and then “split
and enter the white society.”
It was then that the founders
decided that the blacks would be
best because they would do well
By BRYAN CUTHILL
“Moved by Pasadena City Col¬
lege . . . Second by Pasadena City
College . . . First pro to Pasadena
City College . . .” Those were
the sounds heard throughout the
night during the Area Nine Con¬
ference of the California Junior
College Student Government As¬
sociation.
The conference was held at
Antelope Valley College in Lan¬
caster last Thursday. Pasadena
sent 12 delegates and two advi¬
sers to represent PCC. They
were:
Celeste Biddison, social affairs
commissioner; Bryan Cu thill, pub¬
lications commissioner; Linda
Edgewood, AWS president; Ron
Firestone, ASB president; Bill
Goodwin, Sophomore president ;
Martin Green, finance commis¬
sioner; Marlene Marks, ICC vice-
president; Bob Medina, Supreme
Council; Adrienne Melieste, Sen¬
ate president; Bob Serrano, Su¬
preme Council; Wayne Traylor,
Senate vice-president; and Murry
Williams, AMS president. Dean
S. Luke Curtis and Mrs. Evelyn
Bell served as adviser.
Leaving at 10 a.m. from Pasa¬
dena, the delegation arrived in
two white station wagons at the
conference shortly after noon.
After a quick lunch, the delega¬
tion met with Firestone to make
sure that PCC had even coverage
in the workshops, that would be
held that afternoon, and then re¬
gistered accordingly.
After the general meeting,
members of the PCC delegation,
along with delegates from Ante¬
lope Valley College, East Los An¬
geles College, Glendale College,
Moorpark College, Santa Barbara
City College and Ventura College,
broke up and went to workshop
sessions.
There were seven workshops
dealing with different aspects of
student government and the cam¬
pus. In each one the delegates
were to draw up resolutions and
recommendations dealing with
the area in which they were
working.
Pasadena led the way in each
of the workshops. Individually,
PCC delegates took active posi¬
tions in the committees. Most of
PCC’s delegates took a leadership
position in the workshops, by lead¬
ing the direction of discussion and
action.
After the workshops, the dele¬
gates returned to the dining room
for dinner. Throughout the meal,
Pasadena’s delegates discussed
the workshops they had attended.
The delegates explained the mo¬
tions that their workshops had
prepared to Firestone, since he
would be going with other presi¬
dents to decide the priority of
the resolutions.
“in the hot sun and be socially
visible.”
Lomax paused, and added, “You
black militants should listen to
this. It was the blacks who sold
the blacks.”
He explained how it was not
Lincoln behind the freeing of the
slaves, but it was the cotton gin
that turned slavery into an un¬
profitable business.
After that it was brought out
that white man kept offering the
blacks different means to get to
be equal citizens. First religion
was supposed to be the key; then
the blacks became protestants in
wholesale numbers.
Then they were told that educa¬
tion was to be the key. Between
1880 and 1900 more blacks got
college degrees than any other
place in the world.
“Here, today this hasn’t proved
a thing, because Martin Luther
King had a PhD and went to the
South and couldn’t even go to the
bathroom.”
Lomax then went through the
attempts through legal processes
that won blacks their rights, but
only technically.
After the meal, there was a
band and some dancing while the
resolutions were being distribu¬
ted to the delegates.
Following the dancing, the
presidents went to the priority
meeting while the delegates went
to school caucuses.
At the PCC caucus, each dele¬
gate explained to the delegation
the resolutions his workshop had
prepared. At the general assem¬
bly following, the delegates would
vote with either a thumbs up or
thumbs down signal to Firestone,
who would act as a representative
of the delegation on the floor.
When the general meeting be¬
gan, it became all quiet evident
that PCC was truly a leader at
the conference. Motion after mo¬
tion was made by PCC. “Pasa¬
dena City College” was heard
over and over again as the author
of the resolutions brought to the
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SCC Proposes
Faculty Friend
A first draft of the Student
Curriculum Committee’s (SCC)
proposed orientation program
consists of three one-hour
sessions:
One session combing the pre¬
sent three sessions.
One session where students
could ask questions and discuss
problems with their counselors.
And a final session for students
to meet with the department
chairman or a faculty representa¬
tive of their major division, and
where they could also sign up
under a teacher’s name so that
the teacher become a “faculty
friend” who would be available
for further consulation.
Although orientation would
still consist of three sessions, SCC
feels the result under its plan
would be a greater awareness of
the college, a personal feeling
with counselors and faculty, and
also it would lead to a more in¬
formed student.
The committee will study the
program more in detail and get
faculty and counselor opinion of
the proposal.
SCC will also consider a propo¬
sal for cutting Women’s PE from
its present three hours a week
to two hours a week, with one
hour optional, and the need for
more co-ed courses in physical
education.
He next turned his attention to
violence. He said that violence is
not new but has been around for
years in this country. It is only
now the whites are reacting. They
didn’t react when blacks were
being hung in the swamps in the
South.
He summarized by saying that
the big problem in the U.S. today
is the problem of values. The
country is being run on a system
of double values.
“The value system must be put
in order.” We go around blaming
everything that is wrong on com¬
munism instead of facing the
blame ourselves.
“Right is right, and wrong is
wrong,” according to Lomax. He
urged the black people not to
place themselves where the whites
have — “on the brink of disaster.”
Lomax finished with the idea
that the blacks and whites had
better start talking. “Black power
will not solve these problems.
White power will not solve these
problems.
“Only human power will solve
the problems that we are faced
with today.”
Must Be Put in Order
