PCC Inaugurates New Tutorial Center
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Vol. 25, No. 1
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
Sept. 14, 1966
Revision Committee Suggests
State Board Seiettion Change
instruction Available
in Basic Study Skills
The Los Angeles Times reports
that revision of rules governing
the state’s public schools is being
recommended by the Constitution
Revision Commission of the Leg¬
islature.
They propose changing the
methods of selecting the state su¬
perintendent of public instruction,
members of the State Board of
Education and their respective
terms of office, and virtually elim¬
inating county superintendent of
schools offices.
These suggestions were made in
a report to the committee by Pro¬
fessors Hollis P. Allen and Con¬
rad Briner.
PUBLIC hearings on the rec¬
ommendations in the Allen-Briner
study will begin sometime in Oc¬
tober.
At the present time, the 10
members of the state board of
education serve four-year terms,
the 16 regents serve 16-year
Mason Heads
Honor Society
Omicron Mu Delta, PCC’s high¬
est honor society, encompasses an
ideal — that unselfish service can
be successfully recognized and
that college students are mature
enough to shoulder the responsi¬
bility of being singled out as
leaders and achievers.
OMD officers for the fall 1966
are James Mason, president; Rich
Wheeler, vice-president; Lee Ro¬
sen, treasurer; Julian Bender, sec¬
retary; and former president
Mary Blowers, historian.
The organization will celebrate
its fortieth year at PCC this year.
Plans currently call for a large
celebration banquet in the fall
or spring, which will also honor
the new members.
TRADITIONALLY, member
ship in OMD is kept secret until
the official tapping ceremony.
Upon being 'tapped, each new
member receives a letter of con¬
gratulation, a gold pin, and the
rights and privileges of active
membership.
OMD has the only active alum¬
ni association on the PCC cam¬
pus. Each semester news of cur¬
rent activities is mailed to mem¬
bers of the alumni. All graduates
are invited to every activity and
membership now numbers around
900. However, there are only five
active members now attending
PCC.
TAPPING of new members will
be held January 12. On that day,
they will be introduced to the stu¬
dent body at the semi-annual
OMD assembly in Sexson Audito¬
rium at 12 noon.
Mason, as president of the or¬
ganization, has a long list of ac¬
complishments at the college. He
was the winner of the first AMS
Man of the Month Award, 1965
Harbeson Scholarship Award win¬
ner, 1965 master of ceremonies
for Homecoming activities, com¬
missioner of speech arts, and
president and treasurer of Theta
Rho Pi.
terms, and the 16 trustees serve
eight-year terms.
While four selected state offi¬
cials now serve as ex officio mem¬
bers of the regents and trustees
board, the report recommends
that the governor, certain legisla¬
tors, and the state superintendent
of public instruction be ex officio
members of all three of the gov¬
erning boards.
The consultants feel that Cali¬
fornia should have only two kinds
of school districts — unified (ele¬
mentary and secondary schools
administered by one school
board) and junior college.
WHILE the number of districts
in the state have been consoli¬
dated continually through unifi¬
cation of elementary and high
school districts, there are still
1218 districts today, averaging
3620 students.
With the development of strong
local school districts, the report
JIM MASON
. . . OMD president
Who Will Be
Fresh Prexy?
Applications are now being
taken for candidates for the
Freshman Class presidency. The
Student Activities Office, 111C,
has application blanks and other
related information.
All interested freshman stu¬
dents with ASB cards are urged
to apply. PCC elections commis¬
sioner, Diane Alpert, says, “Your
vital decision may decide the ef¬
fectiveness of your student gov¬
ernment. Apply! I would like to
see all those apply who wish to
see student government carried
to its fullest expectations through
sound leadership.”
Applications will be taken until
2 p.m., September 23.
A meeting for all candidates
and/or their managers in the
Campus Center board room is set
for 3 p.m., September 16. “This
meeting is mandatory for all in¬
terested candidates,” says Miss
Alpert.
Only three names were on the
ballot for frosh president last
year at this time. There were
Miss Darlene Lorenz, Len Gold,
and Scott Ousdahl. Ousdahl was
the winner.
says it is necessary to “reconsid¬
er the educational function of the
county.” A “redistribution of
power and control traditionally
held by the county” is necessary.
On the local level, voters last
April gave approval to formation
of an enlarged separate junior
college district in Pasadena after
State Board of Education hear¬
ings. Formation of the new dis¬
trict added Arcadia and San Ma¬
rino to the existing one which in¬
cluded Pasadena, South Pasadena,
Temple City, and La Canada.
25 students from a field of 80 in¬
terested applicants to participate
in its first eight-week seminar of
computer programming tech¬
niques conducted in the PCC Com¬
puter Center.
AWS Opens
Membership
The Associated Women Stu¬
dents includes all women students
who are members of the Associ¬
ated Student Body.
Meetings are open to all inter¬
ested women who can attend and
who would like to take an active
part in planning AWS activities.
Anastasia Doovas is president.
Applications for membership
are available in 111C through
September 20. Interviews will be
held this Friday and next Mon¬
day and Tuesday from 1 to 3 p.m.
in the Campus Center board room.
An AWS sponsored coffee hour
will be held Tuesday at 7 a.m. It
will provide interested women
students with an opportunity to
get acquainted with the officers
and the organization itself.
Complimentary reserv a t i
о
n s
will be taken by the receptionist
in the Campus Center until Mon¬
day. The event will be held in the
student dining room.
AWS will sponsor an assembly,
September 23 at 12 noon, in Har¬
beson Hall. It will feature guest
speaker Michael Vance, who
spoke at the spring ASB banquet.
He is director of organizational
development at Walt Disney Pro¬
ductions.
This assembly will be the first
of one a month to be presented
by AWS.
Placement
If you are interested in part-
time work, it may be to your
advantage to register with the
College Placement Services,
113C. This office has many
contacts with business and in¬
dustrial firms of this area.
By A1 Merino
A student once walked into Dr.
Armen Sarafian’s office and told
PCC’s president he was flunking
but wanted to remain in school.
His plight is not unusual.
Joint faculty meetings under¬
scored the need to do something
for dropout-prone students who
have the desire to stay in school
but have poor study skills.
The Pasadena YMCA offered a
one-week course on how to im¬
prove study skills, which was very
well attended despite an $18 tui¬
tion charge. This indicated a de¬
mand for this type of service.
“HOW TO Study and Succeed
in College,” a one-week non-credit
course taught by Mrs. Alberta
Craggett of the English Depart¬
ment during the second summer
session attracted 155 students
from 25 colleges.
The result of all this activity
is a Tutorial Center under the di¬
rection of Dr. Delmas A. Bugelli,
dean of student instruction, and
Mrs. Alberta Craggett, Tutorial
Center chairman.
One service the new center
will provide is instruction in basic
study skills which will aid learn¬
ing in many fields. Among these
are how to learn from lectures
(listening and note-taking), how
This service to high school stu¬
dents, while widening their scope
of educational interests, also in¬
troduces them to the high stan¬
dards of vocational training avail¬
able at the college.
The seminar was part of a long¬
term policy aimed at making the
PCC computer science course the
best available at a two-year col¬
lege.
Also instituted was an eight-
week in-training course in pro¬
gramming for teachers, enabling
them to include forms of pro¬
gramming problems in business
and data analysis in their classes.
Thus, by initiating 12 teachers
into the art, Department Chair¬
man Frank Yett hopes to have
several hundred students involved
in computer work in such widely
ranging subjects as engineering,
medicine, and business this se¬
mester.
to find learning deficiencies and
correct them, how to improve
memory, and how to prepare for
examinations.
ALTHOUGH designed primari¬
ly for students with study prob¬
lems, the center also plans to of¬
fer enrichment for gifted stu¬
dents.
Self-study will be eased by pro¬
grammed learning and such sup¬
plementary devices as slides and
tape recorders.
Mrs. Craggett says that wher¬
ever there is a need, the center
will try to meet it. Dr. Bugelli
supports her wholeheartedly,
“This is an extreme example, but
if you were a student who needed
help in Sanskrit we would make
an effort to find someone who
could help you.”
Scheduling for Tutorial Center
assistance is taking place now in
115R. Mrs. Craggett says, “My
only concern is the student’s atti¬
tude. They should not feel stig¬
matized for coming for aid.”
The Tutorial Center will be
open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
until 6 p.m. on Thursdays. Tu¬
tors to help students with indi¬
vidual problems will include
teacher trainees from the state
colleges and universities, retired
teachers, and qualified volunteers.
All faculty members are urged
to support the new Tutorial Cen¬
ter program by telling their class¬
es about it and by urging poor
and failing students to go to it
for help. With the full participa¬
tion of both faculty and student
body alike, the center is sure to
be a success in lowering the rate
of college dropouts.
’Sergeant' Roles
Now Being Cast
Tryouts for “No Time for Ser¬
geants” will be held Monday,
Sept. 12 through Friday, Sept. 16,
from 3 to 5 p.m. in Sexson Audi¬
torium.
Over 30 men are needed for all
kinds of parts, both with and
without speaking parts for the
play, the first major production
of the year for PCC’s Theater
Arts Association.
Other plays of the year will be
“Royal Gambit” by Hermann
Gressieker, “The Diary of Anne
Frank” by Francis Goodrich and
Albert Hackett, and “The Servant
of Two Masters" by Carlo Gol-
dini.
Interested students should see
Donald Liercke, faculty director,
in the speech office for further
details.
COMPUTER CENTER — Dr. Frank Yett, Computer Science Depart¬
ment chairman, and PCC student Lee Rosen talk over the use of
computers to tabulate elections. The center now offers a course
in computer programming techniques for interested teachers.
Computer Department
Instructs Teachers
PCC’s expanding Computer Science Department now
teaches not only college students, but also high school students
and teachers as well. After conducting aptitude tests in eight
valley high schools last year, the department selected the top
