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VOL 50, NO. 4
PA tSADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 12. 1980
By Cheryl Robinson
Staff Writer
The J. Ray Risser award was pres¬
ented to Marion L. Pavlovich Tuesday
at the first PCC faculty meeting of the
year.
In addition to the annual award
presentation in the Forum, new faculty
members were acknowledged and wel¬
comed to the staff by Superintendant-
President Dr. Richard S. Meyers.
J. Ray Risser, former faculty mem¬
ber and trustee awarded Miss
Pavlovich with a $1,000 check and a
plaque.
“I am more concerned about the
health of this country now than ever,
and I believe that education through
good teachers will save us,” said
Risser.
He feels the award is very important
in recognizing good teachers and hopes
the tradition will continue long after he
is gone. Risser said momentum for the
award has noticeably increased. There
were twice as many applications this'
year as last year.
Miss Pavlovich, assistant professor
in the Life Sciences Department, re¬
ceived her bachelor’s degree from
Caldwell College and a doctorate from
USC. She specializes in physiology and
anatomy courses and has been at PCC
since September 1971.
To be eligible for the Risser award, a
teacher must be nominated by a peti¬
tion of at least 20 students. The nomi¬
nations are considered by a committee
of three persons which includes one
faculty member, one administator and
Risser. Nominath )ns are made in the
spring and the aw; ird is presented each
September.
Miss Pavlovich is the fifth recipient
of the award. In tl le past four years, it
has also been give ;n to Dorothy Kolts,
associate- profess or of journalism;
Roland Sink, pro) lessor of business;
Norman Juster, pi 'ofessor qf physical
science and Dr. ’ William Goldmann,
professor of social science.
Risser has establ ished a fund for the
award’s use each year and says, “I
don’t know of any r noney I spent to be
more rewarding.” 1
Те
hopes his effort
will encourage othe r colleges to estab¬
lish similar awards
The new facul ty members in¬
troduced at the mee ting include Candy
Mei-Kuei Chan, Ren
ее
Copeland, Rob¬
ert Farrington, MicI lael Hardy, Mary_-
ann Mayer, Joyce D looneyhan, Joyce
Nakano, Kathleen Peters, David.
Rentchler and Brend a Scranton.
WALL TO WALL PEOPLE— The PCC Bookstore was
not lacking business this week as students came in
throngs to buy books and supplies needed for the
semeter. The bookstore will be open next week, 7:45
— Courier photo by Larry Goren
a m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 6 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday. In case you
haven't made it to the bookstore yet, it is" located sduth
of the cafeteria and north of the Women's Gym.
Campus Crimes Probed
Cash, Mercedes Taken
Approximately $6,50( I in cash and
checks was taken from the health fee
office in D Building We dnesday, Sept.
3, according to Pasadi ;na police. A
week earlier a Mercec les Benz was
stolen at gunpoint from a woman in a
PCC parking lot, officer; i said.
“I’m from security— I’m here for
the money” was what th e still uniden¬
tified male suspect told the employee
behind the window at 4 p.i m., according
to Ralph Riddle, director of Security
and Parking Services. Since the sus¬
pect was wearing the red cap frequent¬
ly worn by student assistants in PCC
Security, the employee handed him the
money, said Riddle.
The theft was discovered 45 minutes
later when a Student Bank officer
called the health fee office asking
where the money was.
Periodic pick-ups of health fee re¬
ceipts are made each day by Security
personnel, who take it to the bank.
Student assistants, however, are not
assigned this task, according to Riddle.
“We have a couple of pretty good
suspects but no arrests yet,” said
Riddle, who said the Pasadena Police
Department is still investigating the
crime.
The theft of the Mercedes Benz is
also being probed by police.
OUTSTANDING TEACHER AWARD — J. Ray Risser, former teacher,
administrator and president of the Board of Trustees, presents Marion L.
Pavlovich, assistant professor of life sciences, with the prestigious award
named for him. Recipients are nominated by students in the spring, and the
awards given the following fall. —Courier photo by Dave Clarke
Pasadena YMCA May
House Foreign Students
By Mike White
Associate News Editor
The Pasadena YMCA Board of Di¬
rectors will consider offering PCC for¬
eign students housing at the presently
vacant Y building at its Sept. 20 meet¬
ing.
Presently there are no definite plans
for use of the 128 room building, lo¬
cated at 235 E. Holly St. Former
tenants were evicted last June because
the Y was operating with an $89,000
deficit and could not afford to repair
the building, according to Y officials.
The proposal to open the rooms to
PCC foreign students was prompted by
a newspaper article about the housing
shortage in Pasadena, said Peyton H.
Woll, YMCA general director.
There is no housing offered by PCC,
said Alice B. Mothershead, community
liaison director, who has been assisting
foreign students at PCC for the past 30
years.
She is hopeful the Y will rent to PCC
foreign students, because it would
“help the community and the students
at the same time.”
Foreign students living at the Y
would be close to the campus and be
part of the city, she said.
Another advantage the Y would offer
is interaction between Americans who
come to the Y to use the exercise
facilities and foreign students, Mrs.
Mothershead said.
One reason PCC was considered is
because the college has used the Y
facilities for the past 20 years for
extended day courses, Woll explained.
Although the details have not been
worked out, Mrs. Mothershead said the
rooms will probably rent for $125 a
month. The college will not administer
the program but students will be in¬
formed that the rooms are available
and they will apply at the Y, she
explained. If the Y Board of Directors
decide to open the rooms to PCC
students, it is planned the building will
be repaired and remodeled, she added.
The Y directors will also consider
renting out rooms and office space to
Fuller Seminary, said Woll. A third
option would be to rent out office space
to church-related groups or non-profit
organizations, he said.
Nothing is settled yet, he added. The '
Y directors are leaving the doors open
to explore all the possibilities.
If the Y building was open to tenants,
the management would have to get a
return on the money invested to re¬
furbish the rooms, he said.
Student Senate Reviewed
By Karrie Steri rett
Staff Writer
PCC’s Student Senate may be a
thing of the past in the ; very near
future, according to Assi ociated Stu¬
dent Body President Jorg e Caamano,
who is. considering elim inating the
Student Senate in its pres ent form.
“In previous years, it was a dull,
lifeless organization,” saic l Caamano.
“There was lack of involv ement.”
According to Caamano, a former
student senator himself, t he lack of
student involvement is a re '.suit of not
having much to do besides ! ratifying
the ASB budget and officer s.
“If the Senate had more programs
and incentives, such as the i ‘Share a
Ride’ program last semeste r, it could
be more responsive and involved,”
Caamano said.
Presently there is no Senate presi¬
dent or vice president because there
were no candidates interested in
these offices in last semester’s elec¬
tions.
* In an effort to revitalize the Senate,
Caamano would like to try a new way
of choosing senators. According to
Caamano, his plan would give the
Senate “far more clout” since they
would be representing 400 people in¬
stead of 40.
Caamano plans to have an informal
student committee consisting of one
senator from each of the 15 depart¬
ments on campus. If successful, the
permanent plan would call for two
senators from every department. The
senator would be chosen by either the
department head or the faculty and
would attend faculty board meetings.
This would replace the old system of
selecting a senator from each 9 a.m.
class.
Caamano has been exploring alter¬
nate forms of student government
and is planning to write other colleges
and universities to find out how their
student governments are organized.
“There are a number of student
government avenues,” said A1 Kauti,
Dean of Student Activities. It really
needs to be representative of the
whole campus. “There may be anoth¬
er form of government to the stu¬
dent's advantage,” he said.
Before reaching a final decision on
the fate of the Student Senate,
Caamano would like to hear the views
of the students. He will be available
at noon in the ASB office on Tuesday,
Sept. 16.
Instructor Gets Involved
Actors Still On Strike
ROCK TO YOUR LUNCH — Students crowd around the Free Speech
Area to listen to rock group Hermie and Marx on Tuesday. Check this area
at noon Tuesdays and Thursdays for free entertainment and speeches. Were
you there? — Courier photo by Doug Ayres
By Madeline Franco
Fine Arts Editor
Most of his time is spent conducting
classes at PCC, but recently Anthony
Georgilas, communications instructor,
has been devoting his spare time to
help settle the ongoing actors’, strike.
Georgilas, who has been involved
with television series and theatrical
films since 1952 as a cost and budget
supervisor and producer, picketed his
offices at 20th Century Fox.
What the actors are asking for is 6
percent pay for films being released
through cable television, Georgilas
said, explaining the reason behind the
eight-week-old strike.
“I was on the legislative committee,
which set up the contract for actors,”
he said.
The producers provide the money
necessary for a film and essentially
they own it, according to Georgilas.
“The actors are paid their initial fee
for the first time the film is dis¬
tributed. The producer, in turn, can
release the film a second time through
pay television which is a new ’ au¬
dience,” he explained.
For Georgilas the strike has not been
during just the past eight weeks. “I’ve
been involved since the beginning, ‘the
beginning’ being the first part of the
year," he said.
Striking along .with the Screen Ac¬
tors Guild are the American Feder¬
ation of Television and Radio Artists
and the American Federation of Musi¬
cians.
“It’s costing the industry close to $40
million a week,” Georgilas estimated.
“But many independent producers
have signed the contractual agree¬
ments,” he added.
Production is at a standstill, and all
the guilds are affected, he said. “Sup¬
portive guilds and unions such as the
International Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees and the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Unions are
just as affected,” he explained.
“The actors themselves are per¬
mitted to do television commercials
because that’s a different contract,”
Georgilas said. “However, the actors
are cutting back on game shows and
talk shows.”
They can still audition for parts in
theatrical films and once the strike is
settled they’ll start shooting,” he ex¬
plained.
“We’re still negotiating,” concluded
Georgilas, who is involved with the
negotiating team. “We’ve gone 24
hours, weekends included. Presently,
the state mediators are here to bring
the two sides together. But, as of yet,
they haven’t come to terms.”
The victim, who was waiting for her
son to finish registering for classes at
PCC, was sitting in her car with the
driver's door open in the college’s
southeast parking lot at 4:30 p.m. Aug.
28.
Two men drove past her once and
then returned a few minutes later. One
of the men approached her and asked,
“Are you waiting for your husband?”
When she answered yes, he walked
around to the open passenger window,
leaned in and said, “Can you tell me
directions to South Campus?” When
she replied no, he pulled out a pistol
and told her to get out of the car, walk
away and leave the keys.
Sterling flatware worth ’$14,000 was
in the truhk of the car when it was
taken, according to the report the
victim gave police.
Trustees OK
New Budget,
Keep Grants
By Sylvia Cann
Editor-in-Chief
Students at PCC need not fear
elimination of grants in the near
future.
In a vote separate from that on the
1980-81 budget, the Board of Trustees of
the Pasadena Area Community College
District agreed 4-2 on Aug. 28 to in¬
clude student grants in the budget.
Trustee Roger Gertmenian and Board
President David S. Hannah voted
against the motion.
Discussion on the possible elimina¬
tion of grants began this summer at the
urging of Gertmenian, who felt any
person going to schookon other people's
money should have to pay it back. He
pointed out that last year a motion to
delete grants lost by a 4-3 vote.
However, David Ruggless, spring
1980 valedictorian, said that without
financial aid, in terms of outright
grants and College Work Study (which
ties in with some of the grants), it
would have been impossible for him to
continue his education. Ruggless was
one of several students who spoke at
the July 10 Board meeting in favor of
keeping grants.
Also during the Aug. 28 meeting, a
budget of $35 million for 1980-81 was
adopted in its entirety as presented to
the Board.
In a 6-0 vote, the Board approved the
final budget, which restores PCC to its
pre-Proposition 13 financial position.
With about $1 million more than in the
publication budget adopted in July, the
budget contains more money than ex¬
pected from the state and federal
governments.
The new budget is an example of the
shift in funding from local to state
money PCC has experienced since
Proposition 13 became law, according
to Dr. Bonnie R. James, vice president
of Business Services.
Risser Award
Winner Named