PCC Courier, September 28, 1973

PCC CouSiieb VOL. 36, NO. 1 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER 28, 1973 Asian Scenes frequently featured by numerous TV shows and National Geographic. A member of many explorer clubs all over the world, he has been selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of California’s five outstanding young men. The Tuesday Evening Forum is a series of 16 lectures on topics of current interest. Started in 1937 by David Reidy, it has been annually presented as part of the community services program of PCC. The forum has been directed since 1971 by Manuel Perez, dean of continuing education. DECISION MAKERS— These are the people, members of the Pasadena Area Community College District Board of Trustees, who make important decisions every day which would affect students of PCC. From left, J. Ray Risser, member; Dr. Richard H. Green, member; Charles F. Eckels, vice president; Roger Gertmenian, president; Dr. Armen Sarafian, superintendent-president and secretary to the board; Robert J. Considine, clerk; and Walter T. Shatford II, member. Explorer John Goddard is scheduled to appear in the opening program of the 1973-74 Tuesday Evening Forum series. He will narrate the film, “Exploring Asian Wonderlands” Tuesday, Oct. 9, in Sexson Auditorium. Some of Asia’s most colorful traditions and scenes from such countries as Afghanistan, Burma and Thailand will be featured. Goddard is an authority on the subjects of his lectures which entertain and educate audiences worldwide. The knowledge and experience he gains during his numerous travels make him an expert on a vast range of fields. A USC graduate in anthropology and psychology, Goddard decided to become a professional explorer at the age of 15, when he listed 127 challenging and dangerous adventures to be achieved as his life’s ambition. So far more than 90 of these goals have been completed. In doing so, he has visited 110 countries, logging more than one million land, sea and air miles. Goddard has explored the most remote jungles of South America, New Guinea and Borneo, coming face to face with head hunters and cannibals and living among them. He has run some of the world’s most dangerous rapids in the Colorado and Congo rivers and has scaled many of the highest mountains. He narrowly escaped death during a Japanese earthquake and had a close call with quicksand’s entombment. On a 4100-mile kayak expedition down the entire length of the Nile, Goddard became the first man in history to explore the world’s longest river from the source to its mouth. This adventure gained him in¬ ternational recognition. It was ranked alongside the Kon Tiki and Mt. Everest expeditions. In addition, he set speed and altitude records while he was a combat flyer. “I even crossed the San Bernardino Freeway during the rush hour,” he joked once during one of his lectures. Goddard’s travels have heen Goddard Speaks ASB Board Holds Session; Half of Board Seats Are Vacant More than half of the students at PCC were not represented during the first meeting of the ASB Board. Positions left vacant by last year’s student body elections, combined with the failure of several minority organizations to appoint repre¬ sentatives, resulted in eight out of 16 board seats being left unfilled. This semester’s student body of¬ ficers include former MECHA repre¬ sentative Gene Vasquez, now ASB president; Betty Lou Curtis, AWS The Financial Aids office still has some money available this semester in loans, grants and the work-study program for students with financial need. Gene Miller, coordinator of scholar¬ ships and financial aid, says, “Students must attend at least' half time to qualify for aid. Loans and grants, primarily for books, are also available for law enforcement people already working in the field.” Robert Navarro, a recent graduate of California State University, Los Angeles, is the new director of the work-study program. Students may obtain jobs through this program, either on campus or with non-profit organizations such as the YMCA, Caltech, the Boys’ Club and the Girls’ Club. Every effort is made to find suitable work that will enable a student to acquire valuable experience in his chosen field, as well as to finance his education. Another new member of the staff is Dr. Rachael Golde, assistant coor¬ dinator of scholarships and financial aid. She was a financial aid adviser for two years at Grossmont College in San Diego. Her duties included evaluation and need analysis. A new federally funded program, the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program, went into effect this semester, it provides grants for students who began post-high school studies after July 1, 1973. Although it is not fully funded this year, efforts are being made to obtain additional federal funding for next year. The Financial Aids office remains open until 10 p.m. Tuesday, Wed¬ nesday and Thursday this year to Government Class Teaches Basics of 'Robert’s Rules’ A one-unit class in parliamentary procedures is conducted by Dean Phyllis Jack$on in the Campus Center conference room Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. The class is primarily geared to students who are interested in student government. Tuesdays the class studies parliamentary procedure, based on Robert’s Rules of Order. The Thursday class is devoted to the Associated Student Body board meeting. It is not a civics or government class, but is designed to help students become more knowledgable in parlia¬ mentary procedure, “with a view to rewriting the ASB Constitution,” says Dean Jackson. Five students are enrolled, but the class is open to everyone and provides practical preparation for anyone who is considering running for student body office. president for her third term ; and Glen Ehlig, athletics president serving his first term on student government. Other elected officials include Lynn Calamia, first vice president of the Student Senate; Terry Collier, second vice president of the Student Senate; ICC president Patricia Moberg and the new Sophomore Class president, Mark Clark. Joe Chavira, MECHA repre¬ sentative, was the only board member in an appointed position to attend the meeting. provide additional time for students to get help from the staff. Mrs. Miller reminds students, “We will also assist transferring students with aid arrangements for four -year colleges.” Students transferring to a four -year college in the fall may obtain ap¬ plications in the Financial Aids office for a California State Scholarship. Arrangements should be made by Oct. 1 to take the SAT on Nov. 3 in order to meet the deadline for filing the scholarship application. Bruce Parham, a student in Astronomy 2, presented one of his own inventions to PCC and the Board of Trustees last Thursday evening. “Parham’s gift will considerably en¬ hance the astronomy program here,” said Clyde B. Eaton, professor of mathematics at PCC. During the summer, Parham built a mounting apparatus with which the detector portion of the photoelectric photometer system could be properly mounted on the 20-inch telescope. The existing method of mounting the detector was not satisfactory enough to use the photoelectric photometer effectively. The highest post not represented was that of ASB vice president. Bob Wright won the office in the spring elections but failed to register for classes this fall. The positions of AMS president and Student Senate president were won by “none of the above” in last year’s election and therefore are still vacant. Appointed offices still seeking repre¬ sentation are the International Stu¬ dents’ representative, an Asian repre¬ sentative, representative from the BSU, the United Native Americans representative and a finance com¬ missioner. According to Dean Phyllis Jackson, the empty elected positions will be filled by a special election which will take place Oct. 12. That is the date normally set aside for the election of a Freshman Class president. Any student who wants to run for an office in that election must apply for the desired position prior to Oct. 1 at 4:30 p.m. Committee Hearings Assemblyman Frank Lanterman’s Committee on Water is scheduled to hold hearings on Oct. 2 and 3 in Har- beson Hall. The meeting will con¬ vene at 10 a.m. and is open to the public. The device was designed by Parham on his own time and built with his own materials. By donating it to PCC, he has made the apparatus available to other qualified students as well. Parham was also able to obtain, from the Hewlett-Packard Corp.,the donation of a used HP Strip Chart Recorder, in good working condition, for use with the photoelectric photo¬ meter system. This apparatus will greatly increase the speed of acquisi¬ tion and accuracy of the data obtained with the photometer. The Pacific Photometric photo¬ electric photometer system was purchased by PCC last year. STUDENT INVENTION— Bruce Parham (center), astronomy student, presents one of his own inventions to PCC. Dr. Richard Green, new Board of Trustees member (left); and Roger Gertmenian (right), president of the board, accept the specially designed device that will help mount the photoelectric photometer to PCC’s 20-inch telescope. Money Still Available for PCC Student Loans, Grants PCC Student Designs Innovative Apparatus — Courier Photo by Dave Rust , REFLECTIONS OF ACADEME— Like an imposing castle by the sea, PCC’s reflection in the mirror pools provides evening scholars with visual dramaon a slightly less scale. Evening students, some in pensive moods, can ponder existence (or assignments) by both electric illumination as well as the silvery moon. 6100 students are enrolled for evening courses at PCC. This is clear evidence that many people, reflecting a desire to do other things during the day, prefer their education in a slightly different light. JOHN GODDARD Local Agencies Join to Sponsor Leadership Class Leadership Training for Community Agencies is being offered for the first time in Pasadena beginning today from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Girls’ Club of Pasadena, 3160 E. Del Mar. Sponsors of the class, in addition to PCC, include many community agencies such as the Junior League, YWCA, PTA and the Voluntary Action Center. The program is designed to help participants develop leadership in their own group, organization or community. It is an adaptation of a similar course offered by the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Eva Schindler-Rainman, an internationally known organizational consultant, directs the class. Enroll¬ ment is in teams of three or more people. They can be from the same agency or organization or can be rep¬ resentatives from three different agencies who want to work together. Each group will decide on a specific goal to achieve by the end of the six sessions. Instruction will be individ¬ ualized to help each team meet these goals. The class is a non-credit course with a $5 fee for each person enrolled, although no fee is charged for the first session. Certificates are awarded on completion, and for an additional $24, four units of credit can be obtained from California State University, Los Angeles. Library Hours Monday through Thursday: 7:30 a.m. to 9:45 p.m., Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Saturday: noon to 4 p.m. PCC Workstudy Program Continues, Students Receive On-the-Job Training PCC’s popular Work Study program, which received national mention in a “Time” magazine article last year, has joined forces with Placement Services and now has a new name: Cooperative Education and Placement Services. Ralph Gutierrez, a graduate of PCC and California State University, Los Angeles, has been named coordinator of the enlarged program, which has grown from 71 students to 1600 students in just two years. The Cooperative Education program is designed to let the student have actual work experience in the field of his choice and interest so that he may¬ be certain that he is working toward the right goal. The program gets its name because it enlists the cooperation and par¬ ticipation of area businesses, schools, and other employers to hire and train students under actual field working conditions. As a bonus, the program awards students college units for their work experience at the ratio of one unit for each five hours of work per week. The value of cooperative education is manifold. Social scientists have recognized for years that a great meny people are unhappy because they are spending their lives in jobs that are not suited for their personalities and In¬ terests. Instead of planning their lives and occupational objectives, they set their sights on the wrong goal or, equally bad. had no goal at all but just let life happen. Even those who worked and achieved a specific goal often find out when they get there that they were chasing the wrong rainbow. Gutierrez, using the example of a major in education, said, “Many young people choose education simply because it is supposed to be easy or that it is a field they could handle. Later they discover that it isn’t all that easy after all, but, in fact can be very demanding, nerve-racking, and often tedious. “By that time, however, they may have a family, financial obligations, or achieved a certain social position, or any number of things that will not permit them to start over again into a new career for which they’re better suited.” A recent PCC student, for example, thought he wanted to be a teacher. The Co-op Ed office found him a teaching assistantship job at a local high school. It was not long before the flustered student showed up in the Co-op Ed office, exclaiming, “Nothing doing . . . that just isn’t for me.” What the Cooperative Education and Placement Services does do for the student is to counsel him and analyze his abilities and interests. It attempts to find a job locally where the student can have actual field experience in the line of work he or she would some¬ day be doing full time. The student then works on an average of 15 hours a week at the job and receives college credit for his work in addition to discovering if it’s really what he or she is interested in. Often the student, particularly the student entering college for the first time, is unsure of what he is interested in or what goals to pursue. The Cooperative Education program allows the student an opportunity to experiment and try different jobs before he actually commits himself to years of specialized study and con¬ centration. Such a student was Connie Booth, a freshman. Miss Booth came to PCC this year unsure of her goals. While counseling with Gutierrez and his staff, she mentioned she thought she was interested in' working with problem children. Then Miss Booth got a job working with emotionally dis¬ turbed children at one of the local institutions specializing in that type of work. Connie said of the program that it was “very helpful and efficient.” She knows that if she is not interested in this type of work she can always come back and Gutierrez and his staff will try to place her in another job more suited to her personality and interests. The Southern California area is rich in job potential. Students can almost always be placed in a job of interest to them— from radio and television stations, to schools, community ser¬ vice organizations, city offices, news¬ papers, or even one of our own departments here on campus. This helps explain why the program has grown so rapidly. Many students believe that cooperative education makes college more relevant by giving them a practical goal for their education.