‘College faces crisis in vo-tech versus academic education’ – Maier
By RICH OLSON
“Peninsula is facing a
problem like all Washington
community colleges, and that is
the continuing struggle of
academic versus vocational
emphasis, and declining
enrollment.”
The remarks by President E.
John Maier came during a news
conference, with journalism
students Feb. 16.
“While academic enrollment
dropped by 18 percent,
vocational-technical enrollment
climbed almost 38 per cent
during the 1970-71 school year,”
Maier said. “At the same time,
our total number of full time
enrollments (FTE’s) was down
by 14 per cent over this period
last year.”
According to Maier, until last
year Peninsula had always
experienced a “fair increase”
in enrollment each year.
He is hesitant to offer a
reason for the change, but is
convinced it is a trend.
“Fewer and fewer young
people are going directly into
college out of high school,” he
said.
“No longer are young men
faced with the draft, and there
is more tendency for college age
people to travel or seek the
immediate rewards of
unemployment compensation
and food stamps.”
He said another factor in the
reluctance of young people to
seek higher education is the
tight job market in the
Northwest.
Budgetary and Legislative
The legislative sessions in
Olympia continue to command
a good deal of attention by
Maier, with several significant
and far reaching bills under
consideration.
House Bill 418, which would
allow high schools to offer
vocational education programs
in direct competition with
community colleges, is one of
the measures the president is
watching carefully.
“I don’t disagree with the
right of high schools to offer
such programs, but how will
they be financed?” he asked.
“Also, community colleges
are required by law to charge
set fees and tuition for such
training, and high schools and
vo-tech institutes are not,” he
added.
The governor’s proposed
budget is another concern.
“College administrators are
constantly having to plan for
operation costs and capital
expenditure without knowing
whether the funds for these
projects will be approved,”
Maier said.
Beginnings
Maier has been president of
the college since its inception in
1960.
He has watched Peninsula
grow from its early beginnings
at Port Angeles High School,
through its expansion and
building stage in the spring of
1966, and finally to its present
size of a student body of some
1700 day and evening division
students.
Prior to coming to Peninsula,
Maier was dean of faculty and
registrar at Yakima Valley
College.
A graduate in accounting of
Northern State College in South
Dakota, President Maier has
done graduate work at
Washington State University,
UCLA, Stanford University, and
the University of California at
Berkeley.
Directions
In the state’s six-year plan all
community colleges are
expected to strive for an equal
enrollment of academic and votech students.
“With the figures from last
year, Peninsula is fast
approaching that goal with a 42
per cent enrollment in
vocational programs,” Maier
said.
“Labor has traditionally
placed an emphasis on
vocational – technical education,” said Maier, “and is
becoming increasingly worktrained oriented.”
This has created a plight for
the faculty of academic
disciplines as fewer and fewer
academic courses are taught.
The problems of job
placement for graduates
continues, with some fields
completely stagnant.
“An instructor in humanities
is pretty well out of luck,
especially at the secondary
school level,” he said. “But,
opportunities remain in the
engineering, health sciences
and nursing fields.”
Two Futures
“I plan to retire in another
two years,” the president said,
“but before I do I would like to
see several things
accomplished.”
“The building projects
approved under Ref. 31 is one
goal I personally would like to
see met,” he said.
“Also I would like to see
Peninsula reach a point where it
can meet the demands of the
district and provide for all its
students.”
In short, E. John Maier is an
administrator wedged between
two poles: the pressure of
meeting the academicvocational education ratios
prescribed by the state, and at
the same time making the
college fulfill what many see as
its role — that of a preparatory
institution for transfers to fouryear schools.
Then there is the task of
continuing such civic
involvement as the college’s
community services committee
in taking Peninsula to the
citizens of District 1.
The role of the college is
varied and changing, and so too
is the job of president.
Maier, in his 12 years at the
helm, has attempted to fill this
role, and will take an enormous
amount of experience and
energy and drive with him to
the end.
‘Bad Seed’ tonight
“Bad Seed,” the winter
quarter drama production,
opens tonight for the general
public at 8 p.m. in the Little
Theater.
This modern day
presentation, directed by Carl
Booton, already held two
special performances
yesterday for Forks, Sequim,
and Port Townsend High
schools, and for senior citizens.
A special early afternoon
performance will be put on
today for Port Angeles High
School drama students.
The murder-drama, written
by Maxwell Anderson, has a
cast of 10, and has been
rehearsing “Bad Seed” for six
weeks.
Mary Roblan leads the cast as
Christine Penmark, Susan
Spillane plays Rhoda, her
daughter, and the part of Col.
Penmark will be played by
Chuck Rondeau.
Others in the play are Jim
Lotzgesell, Dan Parrish,
Michael Hare, Mike Sobiec,
Rita Reandeau, Nancy Beam,
and Rose Tangeant.
Dr. Jack Evans will be in
charge of the stage lighting, and
Lawrence Welch in charge of
make-up.
The final performance will bt
Saturday at 8 p.m.
Store becomes classroom
Peninsula’s elect r o –
mechanical program has found
a new home at the Cherry and
Eighth Street grocery.
Through a lease, the entire
vocational program was
transferred from its cramped
quarters on campus to the fairly
spacious main floor of the
former store.
In a report to the Board of
Trustees Feb. 21, instructor
Fred Schuneman said the move
was necessary to allow space
for storage of appliances and
other training equipment.
While on campus, classroom
space was at a premium, and
the course’s laboratory was set
up in the physics lab.
With some 40 students now
enrolled, the electromechanical program is the first
of its type in any Washington
community college.
Mr. Schuneman indicated the
program of study the first year
covers fundamental electronic
theory, advanced electronics
and small appliance repair and
servicing.
The second year features
study of marine radio and
navigational equipment and its
repair, eventually leading to
radar systems.
Skoal
In a welcome gesture, the legislature in Olympia
sent to the governor a bill to lower the drinking age to 19. Gov. Evans is expected to sign the bill and it will
become law in June after a 90-day waiting period.
The move to bring the drinking age in line with the
new “age of majority” was long overdue. For
consistency, it would have been pleasant to have had
the age lowered to 18, but any kind of change was a
step in the right direction.
Before going out and toasting your new-found
maturity, we would like to ask several favors. First;
don’t blow it by jumping the gun: wait till June when
it’s official. Second, when and if you do decide to
partake, remember to stay off the highways. Don’t
wrap yourself around a tree in celebration of success.
Third, please write your congressman and
representatives on other matters important to you.
Show the same initiative and drive that brought you
this right to drink in exercising your right of other
change. Oh, and by the way, “here’s looking at ya’.”
— Rich Olson
Survey now
The response in the last issue to our recent cartoon
and editorial on the proposed English curriculum
change was the sharpest so far this school year.
Though the controversy has cooled for the moment,
there are several points we would like to again
emphasize.
The proposal to allow more freedom of course
selection in the communications areas is not
inherently bad. However, the English 101, 102, and 103
sequence should be retained in there present form for
those who wish to take them. No matter what is
retained, one course should include an open research
paper as part of the course requirements. We feel
every college student should be able to write a
documented paper.
New course offerings, such as Shakespeare or the
contemporary novel, are refreshing thoughts, but not
at the expense of the standard, albeit “old fashioned,”
English disciplines. Maybe not so much more, as just
better.
Finally, before re consideration by the instructional
council, a survey should be conducted during finals
week in all English 102 sections by all English
Department faculty to obtain a wider, and more
meaningful opinion base on which to study the
reaction to the change. — Rich Olson
Graffitti Gazette
This school has turned out some really fine writers,
but none so talented as the lads who decorate the stalls
of our men’s restrooms.
Notable examples of their work are profuse.
“Support the society for the preservation of wooden
toilet seats, more commonly known as the Birch John
Society.” Earlier, before sandpaper and paint did it
in, the same “resting place” also featured “He who
stands on toilet is high on pot.”
Though I have no way of checking, I would imagine
the graffitti in the women’s lavatories is equally
grand. It is food for thought as to whether there are as
many guys’ phone numbers in theirs as there are girls’
numbers in ours. Or even, are the numbers the same?
Meanwhile, while the literary geniuses practice
their craft, the business office is busy special ordering
plenty of burnt-sienna and passionate pink paint with
which to obliterate the sayings.
A shame that such creativeness should be met with
so ignoble an end. —Rich Olson
Christians sponser ‘The Hat’
Christians on Campus will
present a film, ‘‘The Hat,” with
open discussion to follow, in
Room SSI at noon today.
“The Hat” is a contemporary
film about the tendency of
people to bicker and fight over
trivial matters and the
discontent which can result
from it. The film pursues this
theme from a person to person
scale through international
disagreements which lead to
world wars.
According to group president
Cynthia Hill, COC’s last film,
“Timepiece,” was followed by
an active discussion. More than
15 people watched the short
film, which concerned the
tendency of people to get
uptight under the stresses of
daily living.
COC has begun posting a
series of weekly messages on
the BOC calendar wall in the
Pub. These may be biblical
quotations of secular
observances which should be
meaningful to the reader.
Officers Mark Torrence, vice
president, and Ella Caughie,
secretary-treasurer, met with
Miss Hill this week at the club’s first business meeting. They
have not collected any dues
from club members as yet, and
meetings remain open to all
students.
SEARCH
A group of 35 PC instructors
and administrators met at
Alderbrook Inn March 2 and 3
for a two-day review and
discussion of the college’s goals
and problems. They drew up a
priority list of objectives they
hope to achieve this year.
First on the list is to reexamine educational
requirements at Peninsula in
order to agree with freshman
and sophomore requirements of
most four-year schools.
Of second importance, the
group voted to explore and
encourage innovative
approaches to learning.
To assist students in
developing a career plan was
designated third priority at the
meeting.
Fourth and fifth were the
further development of
programs and services specific
to the needs of Olympic
Peninsula communities, and of
a system to deliver these
programs and services to the
community.
SEARCH is a group of 12
instructors and administrators,
under the chairmanship of
Wilfred Morrish, whose
objective has been to explore all
areas of Peninsula College
policy and determine its
problems. At Alderbrook,
SEARCH related its findings to
the faculty and administrators,
inviting their response.
Another result of the
conference was the
establishment of four task force
advisory groups to examine
specific areas of policy and
make recommendations to the
board of trustees. These will be
an administrative council,
student services council,
instructional council, and
financial budgeting council.
The Motley Crew
By DAN DANIELS
During the course of his education at P.C., just about
every student runs into a Sociology class of some kind.
Despite this, the Sociology department is undoubtedly the
shortest-staffed of any in the school.
The problem of having sociology is that the teacher
always knows what you’re thinking. It’s very hard to come
up with an excuse for missing the mid-term while he’s
standing there finishing the sentence for you. The best you
can hope for is that your excuse will be so original, he’ll
figure you had to have spent at least an hour devising it and
will grant you dictatorial amnesty.
I’ve always found it somewhat unnerving to be sitting in
the classroom, waiting for the class to start, and to glance
out the window to see Jerry Spicer in his office, his feet up
on the desk, and watching my own actions through his
window.
Somehow it gives one the sensation that he’s part of a
vital study into the temperament of student failure.
Then too, he occasionally slipssomething into his room so
that he can test the students’ reactions. Recently it was a
pencil sharpener on the wall with the handle welded so that
it wouldn’t turn. It confounded so many students that he
must have had enough notes to write an entire book on the
reactions of the masses to a major psyche-social dilemma.
One poor chap went totally bananas when faced by the
problem — from that day forward he tries to chew points
onto his pencils.
There is a certain “sociologist smile” which I genuinely
believe is intended to drive the student totally insane as it
poses there saying “I know, I know.”
Actually the classes aren’t at all bad if the student can
take the dry jokes and can keep from laughing at the astute
comments coming from the back of the room. Taking a
make-up exam, a student is sent to the library on his honor
that he won t cheat. As long as he spells “sociology” correct
at the top of the page he’s passed the class. Odd, how many
students fail each quarter.
The student couldn’t conceivably cheat, however. He
knowsfull well that if he did, he’d be immediately collected
by the Grim Reaper and sentenced to an eternity of short,
smiling, sociology teachers.
History course on TV
A Television home study course, “History of the Pacific Northwest,” is being shown on KOMO (channel 4) in the Port Angeles area.
The telecourse, which started March 4, is being presented by Washington Community colleges and is worth three credits at Peninsula.
In addition to the $24.90 registration fee, the textbook “Empire on the Columbia” is required. Mr. Richard Fisch will be available for guidance throughout the duration of the course.
Students may enroll in the course at the main desk in the administration building.
Dorm residency down, cause unknown
By RICH OLSON
and FRANK McDOWELL
Since its completion in
September 1970, the Peninsula
College dormitory has proven to
be a pilot venture both unique
and varied.
During fall quarter of the
1971-72 school year, the
population of the dorm swelled
to 105. Theoretically, the dorm
has housing for 50 men and 50
women students, though the
ratioshave never been realized.
Since the start of the present
academic year, however, the
dorm’s population, like the
college’s enrollment, has been
on a steady decline. It now
stands at some 67 residents, 50
men and 17 women.
A study of the reasons for this
decline in residency is at the
same time both interesting and
puzzling.
Dorm History
Built through a $625,000 loan
from the Department of
Housing and Urban
Development, Peninsula’s
dorm was the first on any
Washington community college
campus.
In its early days, the dorm
underwent some changes and
growing pains.
Residents had already moved
in for the fall quarter of 1970
before the facility, particularly
the lounge, was completely
furnished. Through the efforts
of Director of Student Activities
and Housing, Jim Lunt, the
dorm was made liveable in a
short time.
The first resident managers,
Mike and Linda Kesl, were
praised by students in
December of that year for their
help in opening and making the
adjustments necessary to make
Peninsula a “resident”
campus.
When the present parking lot
was completed in winter of 1971,
the dorm had at last become its
own separate entity and
practically self sufficient.
Early residents survived the
first few cautious attempts at
dorm government by working
closely with the BOC and
administrative personnel.
During the formulation of
dorm rules and policies, the
first “crisis” in the dorm’s brief
history came when residents
brought a number of complaints
to Dean of Students Art Feiro.
Of top priority was the dorm
parking squeeze, which at that
time was being solved and-was soon relieved. Saturday mail deliveries and ahn,neV.r’encding comPlaints about the food were also discussed. In most cases, the MS!idenlS’ under chairmen Alan Moller and Paul Richmond, roanaged to work in harmony with the administration during those first uncertain days. Until the fall of the present academic year, the dorm was under the influence of Mr. Lunt who followed the Kesls as resident manager. With few exceptions, operation of the facility was rather smooth and uneventful during this era—though the climate on campus was rather uneasy due to the involvement with the war in Vietnam. Jn Jhe past few months though, the climate in the dorm has changed considerably, so much so thatsome residents are blaming it for the drop in residency. The Decline The college’s board of trustees is vitally concerned with this enrollment drop, having viewed what is occurring at other Washington schools. The University of Washington has been forced to close several residence halls due to a drop in on-campus residents, and the dorm at Olympic College in Bremerton isin a similar plight. Of the over 200 resident capacity, the dorm remains occupied only to the extent of 90 students. Of this total, about half are enrolled in the college’s law enforcement program, and thus are a temporary factor. At Peninsula though, the speculation as to decline is striking in its variables. Mr. Lunt, who processes all applications for the dorm, lists several reasons for the decline. “For one thing, the present housing situation in Port Angeles is improving,” he said. “More and more apartments and houses suitable for students are opening up, and so the demand for dorm space isless.” “There are also a number of disadvantages to dorm life that are too regulatory for some students,” he continued. “Privacy is sacrificed, and meal times regulated, all at a price that most students feel they could probably beat on the outside.”
Mr. Lunt did note that certain
regulations are becoming more
and more liberal.
“The visiting hours on week
nights and weekends were
extended recently, and there
have been some improvements
in the activities available for
residents,” he said.
Yet, Mr. Lunt does admit that
it is becoming less and less
popular to live in the regulated
atmosphere imposed in a
dormitory situation if one can
afford to live elsewhere.
“The recent increases in
dorm fees will also have some
effect, but probably not to any
great extent,” he said.
Residents’ Views
Randy Tweed feels that the
lack of privacy is a main
consideration that made him
move out of the dorm at the end
of last quarter. He came back
because he was “tired of his
own cooking” and will most
likely live in the dorm next
year.
“I feel the rates next year will
be awfully high,” Randy said,
but he does not believe it will
influence his decision to live
there.
Frosh class president Diane
Hoffman says simply, “I’d
rather live off campus.” She
says she will move out at the
end of this school year.
Jim Ray, a new resident this
quarter, also indicates he will
be moving out to find an
apartment in town, and feels
that several students together
can live more cheaply on the
“outside.”
Charlotte Gannaway feels the
dorm rules “are too strict” and
lists the food as one reason she
may move out.
Sozi Kujore, an exchange
student from Nigeria, defends
the dorm by saying “I like
living here better than off
campus,” and thinks the
residents get along fairly well.
Keith Baker views the dorm
as “a convenient place to live.”
He is the men’s resident aide.
Most residents seemed to
agree that the present rules
were necessary to some degree.
They also had praise for the
current resident managers,
Coach and Mrs. Don Huston, but
they said it was natural that
there would be some adversary
feeling between the manager
and the residents.
The Future
With the drop in residence, it
can be said that it is due in part
to the availability, in student’s
minds at least, of a better
“living” deal within the
community.
Although there are some
random complaints about the
food and regulations, all
seemed to agree that this was
secondary to the economic
reality that the dorm is too expensive for what a resident
receives.
Most agreed that the dorm
was a tolerable situation for a
quarter or two, but said living
there is unsuitable over a long
period of time.
It can be predicted, then, that
the population in Peninsula’s
dorm will continue to decline
either until total enrollment
goes up, or until the housing
availability in the community
becomes saturated.
Vo-tech bills debated
Community college
vocational education bills were
the main topics at the last
meeting of the Washington
State Board for Community
College Education held in
Olympia.
State Director John Mundt
reported that all bills in the
Legislative Council’s legislative
program had been introduced.
President John Maier of
Peninsula College, explained
that House Bill 415 would allow
each district a vocationaltechnical school, and said the
duplication of facilities were of
administrative concern
statewide.
“I don’t see why we should
start duplicating facilities,”
said Mr. Maier. “It isn’t good
educational policy—or good for
the taxpayers’ expenditure of
money.”
Mr. Maier added that if the
board of community colleges
hadn’t spent all of its energies
fighting the bill, it might have
gone farther than it did.
“While labor was pushing the
legislature, it wasn’t certain that the bill wouldn’t pass,”
said Mr. Maier, but he added
that now there are “no
worries.”
Other happenings in the
legislature include the lowering
of the drinking age to 19 by the
House and the Senate. The bill
has to be signed by Gov. Dan
Evans before it goes into effect
June 6.
An expanded Vietnam
veterans’ bonus bill has passed
the Senate. It would pay $250
bonuses to many veterans who
didn’t quality for the earlier
bonus. This bill still has to be
considered by the House.
The House of Representatives
has passed the equal rights
amendment, but despite
frequent efforts to bring it out,
the bill didn’t make it through
the Senate Rules Committee.
Although it died during the
regular session due to a
deadline, the bill will come up
again in a special session
following the end of the regular
legislative session.
Kismet
By JEAN IVERSON —
Anyone who hasn’t signed up for a P.E. course yet this
year can’t appreciate the true joy of a coed volleyball class.
Too many girls, that first day in class could be described
as the ultimate goal or wish of any girl — to be one of five
girls in a volleyball class made up of five girls and 25 boys.
And it was, until we found that the male instructor was
really down on girls.
“I’m going to attempt to make you girls a little more than
what you are,” he said the first day of class. “Girls are just
naturally lousy volleyball players.”
And the more he kept on saying it, the worse we did. It
was very discouraging to have him jump up in the middle of
the game and shout “Aha! I said you’d do that wrong, didn’t
I!”
Things got a little better as we did, and he decided to let
us have our own tournaments. Now one thing I learned was
that there are two types of players. There are the ones that
play for the pure fun of the game, and the ones that play for
blood.
And of course, with my luck, I always ended up playing
with a bunch of blood chasers. So many times I got the “hit
it up, up, up, up!!! hissed at me by an exasperated player
through her teeth.
But there were good times, too. Since the instructor was a
man, he couldn’t chase us out of the ladies locker room to
make us take down the nets. That was about the only thing
to our advantage.
One amusing and somewhat embarrassing incident
involved the towels. Since there wasn’t a woman instructor
around, we never, we never had any. And there weren’t
enough paper towels to go around. We just had to drip dry.
It gotso bad that when I managed to smuggle a towel into
class, I had to race out of the shower to my locker, dry off
and stuffmy towel back into my locker before anybody saw
me or had a chance to get suspicious. Then I’d noncholantly
stroll out of class, by all of the dripping bodies. I thought
about charging, say, a dime a limb, but I didn’t like the idea
of taking money from any of my friends.
So as a warning to anyone who is planning on taking a
coed class, just remember, that as with everything else,
you have to take the good, bad, and the ugly.
Campus Sports Seen
Summarizing the 1972-73 basketball season, I went to
Coach Huston for his thoughts and future plans. The 12
lettermen this year include sophomores Bob Coma, Jim
Clem, Larry Sharrett, Tom Dosey, Ken Singhose and Bill
Schwanbeck. Returning lettermen for next year will be
Tom Kingshott, Paul Stroeder, Levi Ballard, Guy Madison,
Boyd Millet and Gordie Rowe.
Coach Huston’s biggest recruiting problem will be to
replace the play of guard Bob Coma. He stated that he will
need to find another quick guard who shoots well and plays
good defense. Coach also stated he will be looking for one
other postman and some more height at the forward spots.
Asked how he felt arout the season as a whole, Coach
Huston stressed the last four games of the season give
promise for next year. He stated that the Highline game
“we should have won,” the Grays Harbor game “we played
very well,” and the Lower Columbia and Clark game “we
could have won but we didn’t have enough poise at the end.”
Coach said the season might have been different “if we
had played the way we did at the last, when the season
started.”
“We played as good as the best in our league at the end
and this is encouraging for next year,” he stated. “There
will be two starters back and there will be more lettermen
back next year than we had this year.”
Asked for future plans and programs, Coach Huston said
there will be a spring league beginning soon in which all
basektball prospects on campus and basketball players in
this area will be able to participate. For next year he stated
he will try more things offensively according to material,
and will try to install a fast break.
McLain wins BB guesser
This week’s top hoop guesser
is Scott McLain of Rt. 2, Box
488, Port Angeles.
Scott won the contest on the
tie breaker in which the
University of Washington
defeated Oregon State
University by a score of 83-72.
Scott predicted a score of 96-87,
Washington for the win.
He, Dan Estes, Bob Maxfield
and Jerry Ross each predicted
seven right and three wrong.
Winner McLain missed on his
prediction of Southern Cal to
defeat Stanford, Marquette to
beat Long Beach State and the
Detroit Pistons to defeat the
Seattle Sonics.
Scott may pick up his choice
of two tickets to the next college
dance or two tickets to the next
college Sunday afternoon
movie, from Mr. Lunt.
IM team 1 wins All Star
The intramural basketball
season came to an end with the
Intramural All-Star game held
Feb. 21. All-Star Team 1 won the
game by a score of 47-45. Team
1 consisted of Coach Huston
with 10 points, Doug Wiley and
Tom O’Meara eight each, Paul
Reed and Jay Kalla hit six each,
Darrell Dick and Doug
Hockenbury four each and
Chuck Hamstreet for 1.
For All-Star Team 2, Bob
Sheldon took scoring honors
with 13, Charlie Piercy nine,
Louie DeLeo eight, Bob Shold
five, Jim Brooks and Ed Coppen
four each and Jim Jones, 2.
The first half ended with
Team 1 ahead 26-24. The second
half showed both teams scoring
21 points each, and at one point
in the second half Team 1 held a
10-point lead only to see it
dissolve in the closing minutes
of the game as Team 2 made a
charge but fell short. Officials
for the game were Tom Dosey
and Boyd Millet. Scorers were
Shelly Davidson and Brenda K.
Williams.
In the intramural foul shoot
contest held Feb. 26, the
preliminary winners were May,
20-25; Dick, 21-25; Olson, 22-25;
Jones, 19-25; R. DeLeo, 18-25;
and Francis, 19-25.
These preliminary winners
advanced to the finals with the
results as follows: First place,
Gary Olson, 24-25; second, Jim
Jones, 21-25; tied for third, Ron
DeLeo and Rob May, 19-25;
fourth, Gary Francis, 18-25; and
fifth, Darrell Dick, 17-15.
Intramural events now in full
swing are bowling, men’s,
double elimination, and
badminton, with men’s singles,
women’s singles, men’s
doubles, women’s doubles and
mixed doubles. These events
are held under a double
elimination, and will complete
the winter quarter intramural
events.
PC judo club places in 50-club tourney
The third Annual Northwest
Judo Championship was held
March 3, and the Peninsula
College Judo Club was one of 50
Judo Clubs present. The
tournament, held at Moses
Lake, had a total of 350
contestants.
The Peninsula College Judo
Club, under the direction of Cal
Hayashi, took 10 competitors to
the tournament along with a few
from the Port Angeles YMCA.
In the 35 matches, five
members of the Peninsula Judo
Club placed high enough to gain
recognition.
Matt Neal placed first in
men’s middleweight division,
beating Peninsula’s Chris
DeReis in the semi-finals. Chris
gained fourth spot.
Mark Price placed second in
intermediate division (16-yearold heavyweight); Duane
McCollough, fourth in men’s
heavyweight; Tom Goin fourth
in Brown Belt division
middleweight division.
Other participants were Tom
Riepe, lightweight division;
Terry Morgan, middleweight
Brown Belt division, and Steve
Miller, heavyweight division.
Hayashi stated that
unexpected turnovers caused
many to place lower than
expected, such as injuries,
some team members battling
each other before finals, and
bad draws. There were 11
hours of straight competition.
Coming up for the Peninsula
Judo Club will be tournaments
in Seattle on March 24, Spokane
April 14, the Northwest
Collegiate Championships at
WSU in Pullman on April 28 and
an Oregon State University
Tournament on May 5.
Tennis court site, fee schedule approved
A new fee schedule and the
construction site for the new
tennis courts were approved at
the Board of Trustees meeting
Feb. 21.
Two double tennis courts will
be built in the area immediately
south of the gymnasium.
Business Manager Frank
Thayer indicated bids for
construction will be called soon.
The same fieid has been
designated as the future site of
an all weather track.
A move to standardize the
college’s fees brought increases
as well as decreases.
Application and matriculation
fees will be combined into one $5
non-refundable fee applied
toward tuition.
Late registration fees were
dropped entirely, and transcript
copies will now cost $1 after tne
first free set.
Welding course lab fees were
raised to $16, while tool rental
for mechanics stayed at $15.
A full-time resident student
may now register for 12 credit
hours for $83, instead of 10. The
same allowance was approved
for non-resident, full-time
students.
Cost per credit hour for less
than full time is now $7 per
credit.
All these changes will go into
effect Julj 1, 1973.
The most significant increase
was that of dormitory rates.
Rates for fall quarter are now
$360, an increase of $15. Winter
and spring quarters are $330
and $315 respectively, or
increases of $10 and $5.
President E. John Maier said
the increases were due to bring
Peninsula’s dorm rates “in line
with what other colleges are
charging.”
In other action, the board
approved alteration of the
stairway leading to the
projection room of the Little
Theatre. The stairs, which are
extremely steep, were ordered
changed by the state safety
inspector after a custodian fell
down them, and became
permanently disabled.
Remodeling of the stairs will
result in the loss of the music
practice room directly
underneath.
The board authorized moving
the fish hatchery from White
Creek, on the east side of the
campus, into the fisheries
building. It was reported that
the hatchery had trouble with
seasonal water fluctuations and
that it was the target for
considerable vandalism.
WAA beaten at Wala Wala
The Peninsula College WAA
Basketball team traveled to
Walla Walla Community
College March 1 for the season
end WAA basketball
tournament.
The three-day affair saw the
Pirate girls beaten in all three
games, although two of the
three were closely contested
battles.
Peninsula was beaten by Blue
Mountain Community Colllege
in the opener by a score of 40-27.
Rose Tegeant led the Pirates
with 12, Brenda Williams,
Jenny Seeker and Mary Stock
hit for 4 each, and Vicky
Samples 3. Vicky Duncan also
saw action.
In the second day’s game the
Centralia girls defeated the
Pirates 43-35. Brenda Williams
was high scorer for her team
with 12, Jenny Seeker and Mary
Stock hit for 8 each, Rose
Tegeant hooped 7, and Vicky
Duncan and Vicky Samples also
saw action. Joan Morehouse
scored 21 to take game high
honors for Centralia.
In the last game of the
tournament, the Pirate girls
were outscored by the Lower
Columbia Red Devil girls, 50-46.
In the closely-contested game,
Rose Tegeant hit for a game
high 24 points. Jenny Seeker
chipped in 9, Mary Stock 7, Pat
Scarano and Brenda Williams
hit for three each. Lower
Columbia’s Kimber was high
for her team with 22.
BOC hires coach, sets dance, party
Athletic Director Mr. Arthur
Feiro successfully applied to
BOC for the transferral of $450
from ASB funds to the baseball
budget, to be used as the salary
for an assistant baseball coach.
Mr. Feiro explained that $375
was designated as salary for an
assistant coach last year, but
rising taxes and living costs
mandated an additional $75 this
year. The transfer of funds is
not automatic, but must be
applied for from BOC each
year.
Elvin Sofie, who served as
assistant baseball coach last
year, will be enlisted to serve
again this year, Feiro said.
Filure to produce a quorum
forced BOC to cancel its
meeting scheduled for March 5.
It will meet next Monday
instead.
The next BOC-sponsored
dance will be March 30, when
Lightfoot will play in the pub
from 9 to 12 .
April 6 is the tentative date
set by Phi Theta for its second
“Something for everyone”
party.
Other planned activities are
the staging of a rock n’ roll
revival day here, a hiking trip,
and a group trip to Victoria in
the spring.