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Student To Sit CDC Coed Works

. On School Board With Astronauts

Without Preferred
By Dolly Hays By Mike Carli
Registration , I'll She walks and talks with astro-
College of the Canyons' Board of
Trustees is expected to seat a never be able to nauts:
Brenda Mauldin, 20, is a student
student representative before long get into the cake- at College of the Canyons. She's also
to comply with a bill . signed by decora ting class a member of NASA's Dryden Flight
Governor Brown recently. Research Center public relations
The bill, AB 591, calls for seating again! staff at Edwards Air Force base,
of a non-voting student on every home of astronauts preparing to
community college board in the take America's Shuttle into space.
state and for one voting student on Ms. Mauldin also is a staff
the Board of Governors of the reporter for The Canyon CalJ, and
California Community Colleges, to the NASA Express. Her main func-
take effect next July. tion for the Express is to write
The bill grants the student board
member "recognition as a full mem- informal articles about astronauts,
and "in-house activities" at the
ber" at board meetings. This is base.
tempered, however, by the fact that Ms. Mauldin other duties include
the student member is excluded giving the public specific informa-
from executive sessions of the board tion about the Shuttle and any other
and he (or she) may not vote. projects in progress at the center.
In executive sessions, the board In providing information, she
goes into closed (secret) discussion, sometimes picks up a telephone and
with the public and press excluded. finds herself talking to the media in
At open board meetings the various parts of the nation. Recently
student member will receive , all she picked up the telephone and
pertinent literature and other found herself on radio coast-to-coast
materials, and participate in the talking about the Space Shuttle.
questioning of witnesses and in She wasn;t aware that it was a
discussion of issues. He, however, coast-to-coast broadcast ( emanating
_yvill not be permitted to vote on the from Washington, D.C.) until
issues. neighbors said they had heard her
"The non-voting student member
shall not be included in determining on the radio.
the vote required to carry any Ms. Mauldin talks to astronauts
measure before the board," the bill as part of her job. She characterizes
Joe Engle (2nd and 4th Shuttle
states.
flights) "as a very spirited and
COC's student board member will outgoing person", who has flown
be selected by the student body over 12,000 hours in jets.
under procedures to be established Another Shuttle astronaut is
by the Board of Trustees, and will Richard Truly. Truly is Ms. Maul-
serve for one year. din's favorite astronaut, referring to
him rather unprofessionally as
At the state level, the governor
will appoint a community college "Teddy Bear".
student to sit in the 15-member Truly has logged over 4,240 hours
Board of Governors next January to in jet aircraft, and was a member of
serve from Jan. 15 through Oct. 14, the astronaut support crew and a
1978. capsule communicator for all three
of the manned Skylab missions.
The bill as originally submitted by Ms. Mauldin also has interviewed
23d district assemblyman John Vas- Deke Slayton, chief coordinator for
concellos provided for a student the Shuttle's Approach and Landing
with full rights to vote and attend Tests (ALT) program. Slayton, as
executive sessions.
Ms. Mauldin puts it, is a "concerned
and resourceful person". She also
added that, "He is a veey intelligent
THE CANYON CALL man with strong humanit8l'ian in-
Published twice monthly by stincts."
journalism students at College Ms. Mauldin said the public is
of the Canyons. Editorial "engrossed" by space travel as
opinions expressed in this witnessed by the extraordinary
publication are those of the
writer and not necessarily popularity of the current science-
those of the college . fiction movie Star Wars.
"People have circled a theater
STAFF
Tom Ball block five times and more waiting to
Robert Buttitta get in to see this space travel
Mike Carli picture," she said. "And Star Trek
Kathy Carver ( a. popular TV series on space
Dolly Hays travel) may soon become reality."
Linda H itzeroth Brenda Mauldin, reporter for The Canyon Call, interviews Deke Slayton, As Slayton told Ms. Mauldin, the
Brenda Mauldin on-sight project manager for the Space Shuttle tests at Edwards Air Force great advantage of the Shuttle over
Kathy McGinnis Base. Ms. Mauldin is employed in the space center's public relations previous space vehicles is that it is
James Walsh department. reuseable.
PHOTOGRAPHERS VOTER REGISTRATION BERKELEY GRANT "It's a transportation system,
Jim Hernan A volunteer county deputy University of California, Berkeley more like an airplane, unlike the
Ron Nicholson registrar of voters will register is offering an Alumni scholarship conventional space ships," he said.
John Williams students, or change party affilia- available to community college and "The Shuttle can be used over and
CARTOONISTS tion, every Monday from 12 noon to high school students planning to over again, up to perhaps 100
Dusty Atkins 1 p.m. in the Student Lounge enter that institution in the fall, flights.
Jeff Fuller hallway, starting Monday, Nov. 28. 1978. Applicants must possess at "The "Enterprise" is the space
ADVISER The Student Senate is sponsoring least a 3.3 overall grade point transportation system of the future
Tony Remenih project which will be in effect average in academic subjects, and - the near future," concluded Ms.
throughout the school year. fill out a data card by Nov. 30. Mauldin.