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PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
1
SEPTEMBER 19, 1980
Mike Carlin IV
in 1980 Trends
VOL. 50, NO. 5
Jeff Dean
Student Hair
Pat Kildow
Demetrius Dixon
Styles Become Living Works of Art
Mark McGee Ernesta Delgado
The Bold, the Unusual, the Daring
Senate Slated for Shake-Up
By Cheryl Robinson
Staff Writer
Twenty-five students came to voice
opinions and hear ASB President
George Caamano talk about the pos¬
sible reorganization of the Student Sen¬
ate Tuesday.
The meeting was called by
Caamano, who is considering eliminat¬
ing the Student Senate in its present
form because of lack of student in¬
volvement.
Chris Williams and Monica Lindrum,
presidential and vice presidential can¬
didates for the 1980-81 Student Senate
were also present at the meeting in the
Campus Center.
Upcoming elections for Student Sen¬
ate officers will be held on Sept. 24 and
25.
“I have spare time; I don’t like to sit
around and do nothing. There’s a lot of
nothing being done around here now,”
Williams, a political science major
said.
“I’d like to get more participation of
students,” he added. Williams would
like to be a lawyer and, if possible, get
into government.
Williams,, a senator last year, would
like to initiate new parking and handi¬
capped committees in the Senate this
Election Process May Change
year. He feels this will elicit more
student responsiveness.
“I was Senate secretary last year,”
said Ms. Lindrum, a physical science
major. “Participation was low. I’d like
to see involvement up.” Also, she
would like to see more health service
activities initiated through the Senate.
“I don’t think we’ll have problems
this year at all,” Caamano said. Of
senates in previous years he com¬
mented, “People enjoyed the Student
Senate when.it was a dogfight.” He
feels the Senate was working against
the ASB rather than with it.
“I think we can make the Senate
more streamlined,” said Caamano. “I
don’t pretend to understand the Student
Senate constitution, it’s too vague. I’ll
be lobbying like crazy for changes in
it.”
Caamano said additions or deletions
to the Senate constitution would be
discussed in the middle of October,
after new Senate officers are elected
and take office.
The Senate is a representative
branch of student government, acting
as a forum for student opinions and
recommending action to the ASB
board. This semester, as in the past,
senatorship can be achieved by being
Student Jobs A vai table
Placement Office Open
By Wynona Majied-Muhammad
Opinion Editor
The PCC placement office receives
job orders every day and records show
nearly 800 job seekers are sent on
interviews every month, according to
Mariann Loniello, counselor specialist
in the Career Planning and Placement
office in D216.
The placement office was open only
two weeks in August, Ms. Loniello said.
Disabled To Get
Campus Access
During that time 250, students were
placed.
This month 484 job orders have al¬
ready come into the office.
The jobs listed are available to cur¬
rently registered students as well as to
former PCC students.
“Employers are very anxious to hire
our students; we just need more stu¬
dents,” Ms. Loniello said.
Part-time, full-time, temporary,
permanent and one-time only jobs are
available through job placement ser¬
vices.
Some jobs require few skills and
some require more specialized skills,
but Ms. Loniello believes the office can
satisfy most specifications given a
little time.
“If you don’t see what you Want the
first time, check back two or three
more times,” she suggests.
Positions are available in technolo¬
gy, business, sales and service, com¬
puter operations, food service, physi¬
cal education and recreation, educa¬
tion, health service, the arts and secur¬
ity.
Margie Teitell and Jeanne Herrick,
the two interviewers, will help appli¬
cants set up interviews or will offer
advice on how to interview, how to
make out applications and resumes and
how to dress appropriately for a specif¬
ic job.
“We always urge students to call
ahead so employers will be much more
receptive,” Ms. Loniello said.
In addition, the office stresses de¬
veloping a sense of reponsibility to the
employer.
The office always likes to hear
positive responses from employers,
she said. A favorable impression made
by one student can reflect well on PCC
and on all the students who are re¬
ferred by the college.
Students interested in finding a posi¬
tion should visit the bulletin board in
D200, outside the job placement office,
where job offerings are listed. After
making two or three job selections, the
applicant should fill out the blue place¬
ment/registration card and sign in at
the placement table.
Job placement personnel request the
applicant be seated until called by an
interviewer.
elected in a 9,a.m. class or attendance
at two consecutive Senate meetings.
“During this semester we’ll amend
and change everything to be a sena¬
tor,” said Caamano. “It’ll be a lot
more difficult.” He feels there should
be one representative to the Senate for
each of the 15 departments of the
college. These students would be
picked by department heads or faculty.
Foreign and hadicapped students
would have Senate representatives
also.
Caamano suggests that if other stu¬
dents want to be senators, they could
be elected by petition. Prospective
senators would be required to attain
two hundred student signatures recom¬
mending them for Senate membership.
“What makes you think you’ll get
people to join if you make it harder?”
asked Michael Tiberi, ex-PCC student
and former Student Senate president.
“Changing the constitution isn’t going
to change apathy. It’s the leadership,”
he added.
It’s not the leadership, but it’s the
senators who have to make the or¬
ganization work, said Caamano.
“People should be able to voice their
opinions, they’re busy with work and
school. Many don’t have time to get 200
student signatures,” said Williams.
“I think certain things in the con¬
stitution should be updated,” said Ms.
Lindrum. “I’m pro on the present
system of election; people don’t like to
be hassled,” she added.
Future Senate meetings will be held
Tuesdays at noon, in the Campus Cen¬
ter. All students are invited to attend.
' By Karen Pickens
Copy Editor
The handicapped will have access to
all areas of tbe campus by 1981, which
is the International Year of the Dis¬
abled Person, according to Francisca
B. Neumann, coordinator for handi¬
capped students.
Construction of a ramp and auto¬
matic doors for the library is under¬
way. The Campus Center will also
receive automatic doors. This is the
last phase of construction which is
expected to be completed by February
1981.
“It is significant that PCC will have,
in 11 years, eradicated all architec¬
tural barriers, and it will be completed
in the International Year of the Dis¬
abled Person. It will be a great cele¬
bration,” said Mrs. Neumann, who
came to PCC in 1970 and has worked
toward this goal ever since.
This project, intended to make all
parts of the campus accessible to the
handicapped, was started in 1976. When
it is finished. PCC will meet require¬
ments of Federal Regulation 504 for all
institutions receiving federal funds.
Every part of the campus will be
accessible to the handicapped except
the top floor of the planetarium, which
is architecturally infeasible to modify,
according to Mrs. Neumann.
Federal requirements include access
for the disabled to the campus, the
main entrance level of high-traffic
buildings, facilities within buildings to
meet basic needs (such as restrooms,
drinking fountains and food service
facilities) and access to floors above
and below the entrance level of build¬
ings.
In the past, disabled people could not
get to the auditorium in R122, so they
could not take art history classes. The
lower floor of the
К
Building was
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CONSTRUCTION— A ramp and automatic doors tor
the library will make it accessible to the disabled
Automatic doors will be installed in the Campus Center,
also When the project is completed in February 1 98 i
the entire campus will be accessible to the handi-
/capped. — Courier photo by Zach Harmon
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Fall Enrollment
Up Significantly
By Mike White
Associate News Editor
Fall enrollment may be at a record
high if PCC administration’s projected
figures prove correct. However, state
funding, which is basecj on registration,
may not significantly increase as a
result of the unexpected high figure.
The highest enrollment was recorded
in 1975 at 20,245 compared with the
predicted fall 1980 enrollment of over
21,000, according to Ernest D. Neu¬
mann, dean of admissions and records.
There is not any single reason for the
jump in enrollment, Neumann said.
Enrollment can be affected by econom¬
ic and social conditions as well as the
outreach program designed by PCC, he
added.
Women are attending PCC in larger
numbers than in the past. Men once
out-numbered women 53 to 47, but in
the last count in the fall semester
women out-numbered men by 2,500.
Older students returning to college
also account for part of the increase,
Neumann said. There used to be only
five or six middle-aged students on
campus; now there are more than
3,500. The oldest student is 91 years old.
The final enrollment figures and
other statistical information will not be
available until after the 11th week
computer census, he said.
Neumann had expected enrollment
figures to remain about the same as
last fall semester.
“The prediction business is dif¬
ficult,” he said. Enrollment peaked in
the 1975 spring semester. Usually more
students attend PCC in the spring so
enrollment may rise next semester, he
added.
Attendance may also be affected by
the direct mail outreach program in¬
itiated by the Public Information Of¬
fice, according to Robert J. Gomperz,
director of that office. The office ran a
direct mail campaign aimed at attract¬
ing new students to PCC this semester
during the summer.
Class schedules were mailed to eve¬
ry household in the District at a cost of
$27,000, which included the cost of
producing and mailing the material,
said Gomperz.
Although this was not the first time a
direct mail compaign had been tried, it
was the first time that advertising was
sold in the class schedules.
Advertising sales amounted to $3,600
and, according to Gomperz, PCC will
try to increase sales in the future to
offset direct mailing costs.
Several of the college personnel have
also been working to increase en¬
rollment, said Gomperz. The faculty
and staff are more aware of the en¬
rollment status. They know the college
will be better off if enrollment is
higher. Their efforts include attending
school and community meetings to
speak about what their respective pro¬
grams offer, he explained.
It is not certain whether higher
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