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ETELESCOPE
Volume 22 Number
4
A Publication of the Associated Students
Oct. 4, 1968
San Marcos, Calif.
92069
ASB elections declared invalid Violations force new eledion Wednesday Bill White, ASB Judicial Chairman, has announced that the student body elections held last Friday are invalid. The invalidation was based on the violation of the Election Code and also dissent among many of the students and canidates. The new elections will be held Wednesday. All candidates will give their speeches Monday. "Basically the Election Code is adequate," according to White, "and all it needs is enforcing. However, finding people to help run activities efficiently is difficult, especially on this campus, where student participation is almost non-existent." · "There are many items that we are considering adding to the Election Code," stated White. "Some of them being to set dates for filing applications, allowing for speeches by all candidates, publishing articles about each candidate in the Telescope, and making an assembly for the introduction of candidates mandatory. Also we are considering the possibility of a petition. This would require a person seeking an office to get out ana at least meet people., White stated that there were fundamental violations that should not be allowed in any election. Some of the violations that were evident, according to White, were electioneering within 50 feet of the polls, some of those voting
not presenting signed student identification cards, and many students not signing their name and/ or student identification card number on the signature papers provided." "Some students who were running for an office had absolutely no publicity. And as for the publicity given to the election itself, that was somewhat of a farce." White also made it clear that in the future, elections would be run in accordance with the Election Code and that any candidate violating this code would be subject to disqualification. Many students voiced a dissatisfaction as to the amount of publicity that was given. "Of the 314 ballots cast, according to White, a large amount of them had derogatory remarks concerning the election procedures and the candidates'
According to Simecka, the dance policy requested last spring was composed by himself, Bill White, Kathy Taft, and Kim Clark, then refused by Dr. John Schettler, finance adviser of the college early this semester. According to Simecka, it was refused because of poor grammar rather than because of any basic weakness ofthe policy itself. The wording has been clarified and now awaits final rewriting by the committee before it will be resubmitted to
"All of the remarks on the ballots brought out one important point which seems to be becoming quite noticeable on a lot of college campuses throughout the country," stated White, "and this point is the lack of student participation. It seems that it is the same students that do all the work and when the work isn't done properly, the students that haven't worked are always the first to complain."
Inter-club tricycle race to open Club Week action Palomar's second annual "club week" festivities begin Monday with a rerun of last year's tricycle race sponsered by· the Pep club and inter-club council. Racers will follow the course set last year by the then ASB vice-President Paul Hauptman. Beginning at the flag
Administration downs dance policy; Ashcraft to head rewrite committee Newly written dance guidelines have been refused by the Adminstrative Council, according to Ron Simecka, ASB vice president. The wording is to be changed by a committee headed by D. Jess Ashcraft and resubmitted to the Council sometime in the next two weeks.
campaigns. Some of the remarks were as follows: 1) "Introductions and campaigns should be mandatory," 2) "let's get some publicity," 3) "who are these people, why weren't we informed"? 4) "Should have candidates present a speech," 5) "how can you expect one to vote, if he doesn't know any of the candidates," and 6) "the candidates should campaign."
Simecka says that the policy will be more of a guideline to help clubs and off campus organizations organize dances. The vice-president claims that most first year students could not, if they desired organize a dance on this campus. The rules, or guidelines as Simecka prefers them called, will bar non-students from the dances. School disability insurance is invalidated when a non-school person enters the dance. The financial responsibility -for any damage or injuries is then left to the group sponsering the dance. Simecka hopes that, through the guidelines, students will learn from the present leader•s· mistakes in planning and executing dances.
pole in front of the Student Union building, the racers then depart onto their seperate race courses , one set aside for each sex. Women will start at the flagpole, then head towards the chemistry building, then turn left to pass the life science buildings. Turning left again, racers will streak by the library to the men's locker building, the racers will put on a last burst of speed for a driving finish at the flagpole. The men's course begins at the flagpole, but turns past the science wing to the earth-life science complex. Turning south the racers will pass the library and head north through the earth science department. From there the racers must climb the stairs and head toward the "P" wing of the school At the "P" wing, the men will turn into parking lot number two for the last lap of their race. The combination of gravity and the last surge of speed should send the men speeding past the finish line at the flag pole. The tricycle race is but the first of many events planned for the second annual Club Week, stated Ron Simecka, ASB vice president. Weather permitting, later in the week there will be another kite-flying contest, with other events not firm at press time. Club Scope, a special newspaper to be printed by the InterClub Council, was cancelled Tuesday due to a lack of interest on the part of the clubs.
Art department adds sculpture to campus scene
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As you walk around thecampusofPalomar College, you cannot help but notice the many pieces of sculpture scattered about. They did not just grow there. Some are the work of nationally known artists, such as the ceramic sculpture outside the Boehm Gallery, by Michael Arntz. Each year the art department is alloted a sum of money to purchase new paintings and/ or sculpture for the Boehm Gallery and the grounds. Over the past three : years the collection has increased, in value and is now worth over $4000. Much of the sculpture was done by Palomar students. Any student who has been enrolled in an art class for one semester or more may submit his idea f<r a sculpture or mosaic to any theacher in the art department. Rick Cole, an art major, thinks this is a good program because, "It makes possible for the student to do individual work, work that c_ouldn't be" done otherwise, because of money because ft would be too hard to fit the work into a regular class.
Students admire sculpture created by art major, Rick Cole, near library. The
structure was constructed out of wooden blocks cemented together
Cole has made the most recent addition to the collection of s_c\ll_pture on campus, it is thE large wooden · sculpture,located near the library. Cole spentaproxmately 126 hours on it during the months of April-July. Unfortunately, the large amounts of water sprayed on it by the sprinkling system is weakening_ the glue and some of the blocks are falling off. Cole requests that the student3 do not touch either the sculpture or the fallen blocks.
The Marine band (above) played for Palomar College students Wednesday. They band was recently revived by
former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, due to the war in Viet Nam, after being disbanded.
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to revamp const1tut1on When all else fails, start over. This seems to be the motto of this year's ASB Council following Monday's student council meeting. The ASB constitution along with the publicity code, elections code, judicial code and the dance policy will all be rewritten and submitted to the student council for ratification. Next Monday's meeting will be a very decisive one as several major issues will be voted on including approval of the free speech area as well as ratification of the new constitution and the various codes according to ASB president Kim Clark. Judicial chairman of the Student Body, Bill White, has rewritten the college's constitution because certain parts have become obsolete. The major change in the constitution will deal with Article II, Section I, which reads, "A quorum shall consist of two-thirds of the voting members of' the executive council." Presently, according to White, the executive council consists of four people, making it impossible to obtain a two-thirds majority. The new constitution will read, "A quorum shall consist of two-thirds of the voting members of the Associated Student Body Council." Under the present constitution four people could make all rulings rendering the student council useless. Several items of the publicity code need to be rewritten, according to Clark, due to the fact that they do not lay down guidelines which can be easily interpreted and enforced concerning all on-campus publicity. The student council was forced into the realization that the elections code
needed to be changed following the recent ASB elections when several portions of the code were violated. The judicial code is probably undergoing the most extensive revamping of any of the parts of the constitution. The code is being changed in order that t he judicial branch of student government will be able to operate more eff iciently. Under the new set-up to be voted on Monday, the judicial commissioner will have a vote on the student council but will not be a voting member of the judicial committee. Instead, he will act as either defense attorney or prosecutor during cases brought before the committee. One ·of the other members of the committee will also act as defense or prosecutor thus leaving five members of the committee to act as the jury. Those five committee members cannot be members of the Associated Student Council or any club or organization on campus. Jess Ashcraft was appointed as chairman of the committee to rewrite the dance policy following its refusal by the Administrative Council. Other business taken care of in Monday's meeting was a building fund which has been started aiming toward the goal of raising $100,000 for a new bookstore. The fund will receive money left over at the end of the year as well as contributions from individuals. It was also decided that there will be correspondence representatives to the Faculty Senate and the Curriculum Committee. Clark will act as a correspondent to the Administrative Council. The correspondent to the curriculum committee will be required to be a member of the student curriculum committee.
Cod~a revised over campus
publicity regulation conflict Disagreements · over the policing and regulation of on-campus publicity have led to a revision of the Publicity Code of the Associated Student Body Constitution. The code is being expanded and will clarify campus publicity. Revision of Article I of the Publicity Code will allow for an executive Publicity Committee made up of a director of publicity, one public commissioner from the ASB, one publicity chairman from the Inter-Club Council, and one publicity representative from each club on campus. The publicity committee will be responsible for clearing all campus publicity. • 'Tl.e committee is a student committee to police on-campus publicity. Under the revised edition of the cOde the publicity committee will have the right to decide whether publicity put up on campus is in accordance with the rules
and . regulations set up in the code. If an individual or club wants to further appeal its stand, they must go t o the judicial committee, which then decides the matter. "As it stands, the codeisincomplete," Clark said. "It just mentions where to put up signs and things like that." The code used now allows for a committee composed of a director of publicity appointed by the ASB president with the approval of the Council.
Democrats meet
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candidate will speak There will be a Young Democrats meeting today in P-18. Sophomore class presidential candidate Tom Leonard will be there to answer any questions about his candidacy.