PCC Courier, September 19, 1975

Financial Aids Offers Help Ш: fflSt ft •ят и ;yj By Sherman I.ohn Staff Writer More than $2 million in student loans, grants, work study funds and scholarships are available to Pasadena City College students for the 1975-76 school year, according to Rachel Golde, financial aids coun¬ selor. “There is no excuse for a person not to get an education because of finan¬ cial reasons,” said Mrs. Gene Miller, financial aids director. “The money is available for those who apply.” Ms. Golde said there is no deadline for applying for aid, and applications are accepted as long as money is available. She said the money is provided to pay for books, living ex¬ penses and transportation during the school year. Mrs. Miller said that last year only about 1400 students received major financial aid when the school could have assisted 2400 students. Ms. Freeman introduces Project Survival Aim гг-ь- SHUTTLE TO SCHOOL — PCC coed Thease Behnae -courier Photo by Pete whan locks up her bike to board the shuttle bus system. The the ride onto the campus costing 10 cents. The hours system runs Monday through Friday from the Sears which it runs are 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30 for the morning parking lot on the corner of Michillinda and Foothill and pickup and at 12:05, 1 :05 and 2:05 the buses leave the from the parking lot of Lake Avenue Congregational campus. The stop on the campus is the front of the Church, 393 N. Lake Ave. Parking in the lots is free with Forum. By Mary Jane Birdsall Staff Writer Pat Freeman, representing Project Survival, will distribute free lemonade and literature on nuclear energy in the Campus Center area from 10 a. m. until 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 25. Project Survival, formed at Stanford University last January, is the organization responsible for the qualification of the Nuclear Safeguard Initiative for the statewide ballot in January of 1976. Mrs. Freeman is a San Gabriel housewife and mother of three. She feels so strongly about the nuclear issue that she is taking time from her schedule which includes duties as a Girl Scout leader, to appear twice weekly on campus at both PCC and California State University at Los Angeles. The remaining day will be PCC CouKiefa VOL. 40, NO. 1 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER 19, 1975 Four To Be Offered Televised Classes Provide Transfer Credit By David Willman News Fditor An unprecedented four televised courses giving college transfer credit are being offered this fall by PCC. Students may enroll in these classes at the Student Personnel office, C206 or at the Instructional Services office, Cl 15. Students taking these courses view them at home, but are required to take midterm and final examinations at PCC. All four of the courses will air over KCET, Channel 2» with КЛВС. 11 Channel 7 and KTTV, Channel carrying two of the programs. David Ledbetter, dean of in¬ structional services, said that while the TV courses do not possess the educationally advantageous classroom one-to-one student-teacher relationship, "TV students do as well on the material covered in the tests.” He bases this opinion on 400 national research projects which have been conducted to determine the differences in classroom and TV student achievement. Campus Construction Brings New Facilities to Students Small machinery tugs and tears at the earth behind a six-foot chain link fence in front of the К Building, and workers gut the D Building, while yet another crew air-conditions К Building. Three years of planning went into bringing additional facilities to the campus and on May 20 bids for the project were opened. Estimates exceeded the budget and bidding was temporarily closed to allow lor an adjusted appraisal. Bidding was reopened on June 24. The Shirley Brothers Construction Company. Inc., won the contract with a bid of $2.9 million. The architectural firm of Powell, Morgridge. Richards and Coghlan was also hired. "The planning and the acquisition of the authority and funding spanned three years and we'll open in the fall of next year," beamed Arthur S. Garr. the college's facility planner. “We’re also installing an addition to the central chiller plant which is responsible for all air-conditioning here. It is a 1000-ton chiller unit which will also be used for future expansional needs,”. he added. The D Building, the former Life Science Department center, will have career guidance on the main floor, and a learning resource center on the first and third floors. The E Building, one of the trio of structures, reflected in the mirror pools between the C Building's eastern entrance and Colorado Boulevard, will house photography and a few geology offices on the ground floor, physics on the second floor and the remainder of the geology section on the third floor. In the fall of next year the new buildings will open to the Bicentennial Class of '76. Lecture Series To Evaluate Alcoholism and Drug Abuse In an effort to provide a service to all members of the Pasadena community, the PCC Office of Continuing Education is presenting a series of 14 lectures on “Alcoholism and Otfyer Drug Addictions.” The lectures are being conducted each Wednesday evening through December 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Harbeson Hall. Admission to all of the lectures is free and open to the public. F. William Simmons, PCC dean of adult education, stresses that the emphasis of the series is upon alcohol abuse. It is coordinated by director of the Pasadena Council on Alcoholism Jean Vandervoort. Simmons feels the lectures will provide an "in depth program,” where members of the community can be exposed to an "outstanding group of lecturers. "The program should be helpful not only to alcoholics themselves, but also to family members, friends and em¬ ployers of alcoholics." "Films. Media and Youth— Other Drugs" is the title of the second lec¬ ture. to be delivered September 24 by Nolan Warner. Warner is a member of the Board of Directors of the Impact Drug Center. Those wanting further information may call the Office of Continuing Education at 578-7261. Spartans, Adelphians Recruiting New Members for Service to PCC Two of the large service clubs on campus, both open to women, have designated special days for recruit¬ ment of new members. Spartans, an honorary organization, invites applications on September 24 and 25. It is open to women who have fiiven at least one semester of service in any extracurricular activities at PCC. A special get-together of Spar¬ tans is planned for September 26. The membership drive for Adelphians is being held now until September 24. Included in activities of this service group arc various types of service to PCC. Membership applications and ad¬ ditional information on Adelphians and Spartans are available in the Campus Center. lie said the findings from these reports prove that TV students "do as well" as the average classroom pupil. Two of the courses have been produced by the British Broadcasting Corp. and will be televised nationwide. Ascent of Man Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 23 and continuing weekly throughout the semester on KCET. the BBC-produced "Ascent of Man" will be shown from 9 to 10 a.m. In the PCC catalog, the course will be listed as Humanities 2— Themes in Cultural Evolution. It offers two units. For those who cannot watch the class on Tuesday, it will be repeated weekly on Thursdays from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. beginning September 25. Freeman, First Board Head, Dies Dr. Robert Freeman, first president of the PCC Board of Trustees, died earlier this month. He was elected to the Pasadena Board of Education in 1957. In 1966. he participated in the formation of the Pasadena Area Community College District. Dr. Freeman served as a trustee for five years. When he retired, the board gave him a citation which read. “ . . . The Board of Trustees commends Dr. Robert Freeman ... for his dedication to the idea that each student should have a fair chance for an excellent education . . . lor the wisdom and judgment which he has brought to the board; for, in sum. his devoted service to the Pasadena City College.” Sense of Humor Dr. Armen Sarafian, president of PCC, said Dr. Freeman was a man with a keen sense of humor and "could make a disagreement agreeable. He called himself a P.K. or preacher's kid." His father was the pastor of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church. His family was also strongly involved in Occidental College. This is a legacy which continues with his son being head of the Drama and Speech Department there. Dr. Freeman attended PJC and was involved in music. “Apparently music played quite a part in his life,” said Dr. Sarafian. Alice Oliver, secretary to Dr. Sarafian. told how once Dr. Freeman and several other campus per¬ sonalities formed a musical group to perform at a secretarial lunch for the PCC staff. Served Hospital Dr. Freeman, a radiologist, was on the staff of Huntington Memorial Hospital and served as a member of the Board of Directors. He is survived by his daughter, two sons, two stepdaughters, five grand¬ children. a brother and two sisters. A memorial scholarship fund in Dr. Freeman's name has been established at PCC. Classic Theater "Classic Theater: The Humanities in Drama” is the other BBC produc¬ tion. Beginning Monday. Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. on KCET. the lecture portion of the course will be aired on a weekly basis. The lectures will be repeated on Thursday at 8:30 a.m., beginning Sept. 25. Also on that date, the play segment will begin. It will run weekly from 9 to 11:30 p.m. The remaining two courses are produced by separate members of the Southern California Consortium for Community College Television. The Consortium is comprised of 35 schools, including PCC. Human Development "A Time to Grow: Human Development" will be aired over two Ixjs Angeles stations. In the PCC catalog, it is Psychology 21— Developmental Psychology: The Child, and offers three units of credit. Beginning the week of September 29, the Santa Monica City College production will air over Channel 28 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3 (o 3:30 p.m. KTTV. Channel 11 will present the course from 6 to 6:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday starting September 22. Personal Meaning A humanities class, "Search: The Quest for Personal Meaning." will also air over two local stations. This PCC- produced three-unit course is entitled Humanities 101 — Roots of Con¬ temporary Culture, in the college catalog. К ABC, Channel 7 will present the class Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5:55 to 6:30 a.m. beginning September 29. Dean Ledbetter expects enrollment for the fall TV courses to exceed the 1975 summer TV figure of 675 students, lie adds that although the dropout rate for TV students is usually higher, this is because “many of the students taking home TV courses have never before taken a college class and don’t realize the amount of work involved." Students living outside of the PCC district may take these courses without affecting their class unit limit. Spears, Jennings See New Interest in ASB Activities ASB Executive Board President Larry Jennings and Senate President Jerome Spears both expect renewed student interest in ASB activities this year because of the large voter turnout last spring. "Both Larry Jennings and I will be going to each 9 a.m. class to get students interested in the ASB,” said Spears. Students for the Senate are elected in the 9 a.m. classes with one representative and one alternate. “We will also make students aware that they can become Senators by at¬ tending two consecutive meetings," said the Senate head. Spears is head of the new shuttle bus system for PCC. "Any student can ride it," said Spears. "We are looking for students to serve as guards at the lots for $2 an hour." spent each week, alternately, at Cal Tech or at Occidental College. Her husband. Lee, is an energy sales engineer with a local firm. From now until January, Mrs. Freeman will help establish a nucleus on these campuses with her classroom presentations and informal discussion groups. She will endeavor to promote the goal of Project Survival— passage of the initiative in January, which she says will help insure life on this planet now and in the future. According to Mrs. Freeman, the initiative is not a moratorium on nuclear power plants. It places the burden of proof for nuclear power plant safety directly on the nuclear industry with its four points: First is insuring equitable com¬ pensation to the public in the event of a nuclear accident. Second, it requires demonstratable proof that plant safety systems ac¬ tually work; for example, emergency core-cooling systems and other safety systems. The third point requires that the methods used to transport and to store radioactive waste products be secure enough to preclude hazards to the public and to all other life forms. Finally, it requires that emergency evacuation plans be published and be made available to communities located near nuclear power plants. Mrs. Freeman's favorite quote was made by Albert Einstein in 1955. “To the village square we must carry the facts of atomic energy. From there must come America's voice.” "We need to learn the facts about nuclear power in order to make a creative decision on the nuclear safe¬ guard initiative," said Mrs. Freeman. “The nuclear question is a survival issue, and each of us must be responsible for making the decision on whether or not we are going to be committed to a nuclear age.” Rose Court Meeting Set for Tuesday By Jill Zavidowsky Staff Writer Young females who are looking for fun are urged to attend an informal meeting lor the Tournament of Roses Queen and Court next Tuesday at noon in Harbeson Hall. Candidates must be at least a senior in high school or enrolled in an ac¬ credited school or college or be a resident in the Pasadena Area Community College District. They must have a minimum 2.0 grade point average in the current and previous year's work, and be enrolled in 12 or more units. Candidates must also be 17 years of age by December t, and may not turn. 21 years old until after January 1, 1976. Applicants cannot be married or must agree not to marry before January 2, 1976, and they must be present at one of the first judging sessions held Saturday, Sept. 27 from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m., or Mon¬ day, Sept. 29 from 3 to 5 p.m. Information on where the sessions will be held can be obtained at the PCC assembly or by calling 449-4100 or 681- 3724. Golde said any federal money that remains at the end of the year must be returned to the government. “It is a shame to send money back when students need it,” she said. Mrs. Golde said that financial aid has not been cut back by the govern¬ ment. despite inflation. The amount of money given to the school is based on the need for this area. She added that the school has increased aid to in¬ dividual students because of the cost of living increases. Mrs. Miller said that about 20 per cent of the students at PCC qualify for some kind of financial aid. Eligibility for financial aid is par¬ tially determined by the family’s financial strength for dependent students and source of income for independent students, Ms. Golde said. But she added that each student ap¬ plying for aid is personally in¬ terviewed about need by the Financial Aids office. She said the average age for students receiving assistance is 25. Ms. Golde said that many students do not know about the financial aids program. She said one student took four years to get an associate in arts degree while she was working, when it would have taken her only two years if she had received financial assistance.' Mrs. Miller said students that definitely should be getting financial aid are either “dropping out or doing it by working 40 hours a week.” Ms. Golde said that about 60 students receiving aid last quarter were on the Dean's List. Counseling To Alter Fall System Plans for a comprehensive three- phase counseling system were revealed recently by E. F. Neumann, dean of counseling services. The program, scheduled to be im¬ plemented after completion of D. E and К building renovation, will involve three office locations, dealing with career, program and personal coun¬ seling. The career counseling center will be located on the second floor of one of the renovated buildings, along with ad¬ ministrative offices for counseling, Neumann said. Computers Help Students “SIGI,” the computer-based career information data bank, will be the main thrust of career counseling, according to Neumann. Staffers will be on hand to assist students in resear¬ ching career goals and opportunities. Various government and other oc¬ cupational handbooks will also be available. Program problems will be handled in another office, possibly located in C Building. Counselors will be available to assist with class scheduling, prerequisites, certification or any other programming problem. The third office area has not been assigned as yet, but will house per¬ sonal counseling offices. Psychologists and psychology-oriented and ex¬ perienced counselors will be available to help with student-teacher relationships, and any personal problems a student may have. Ft educes Paperwork “I’ve watched the PCC counseling system grow over the past 10 years into a very fine organization,” Neumann explained. “At first, counselors were required to duplicate files for their own use. Now computer programming has reduced the paperwork to a one-half page form. “We have been hampered by lack of space," he continues, “but we won’t be when we get our new facilities. We are currently in a transition phase, and will have one of the most com¬ prehensive counseling systems in Southern California under the new plan.” Sarafian Retires To Explore New Realms of Creativity Dr. Armen Sarafian, PCC president and founding superintendent of the Pasadena Area Community College District, announced his retirement August 14, effective March 6, 1976. Dr. Sarafian has spent almost 34 years in the education field. In a letter to the Board of Trustees, Dr. Sarafian said that he was requesting retirement because there are "a number of creative and in¬ tellectual pursuits, such as research and writing, I wish to undertake and complete. It has been virtually im¬ possible to engage in these activities while discharging the demanding responsibilities I currently have in this District." Dr. Sarafian pointed out that he has spent 29 years in the Pasadena junior college system as a teacher, coor¬ dinator, administrative dean for in¬ struction, in addition to his present duties. His goal throughout his years of service has been "to give unstintingly of my time and ability to make this college a premier college. To a large degree this goal has been achieved." He said that he will receive word on an “exciting assignment" in three months that could serve as his next position. He did not elaborate on what that post might be, but he did say that he would still reside in Pasadena and remain active in community affairs. DR. ARMEN SARAFIAN . . . March retirement