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Walker urges future CJCSGA withdrawal "If the new group is still active at next years Fall conference in San Diego, I personally would support Palom ar's withdrawal from the California Junior College Student Government Association (CJC SGA).
These were the words of Palomar ASB president Lloyd Walker after returning from the 47th semi-annual CJCSGA conference held late in April in Palm Springs. The new group of which Walker referred is the liberally-oriented New Junior College Assoc iation, an offs hoot of the Junior College Alliance , an organization dedicated to the betterment of California junior college student government programs.
A special dance program will be held beginning Thursday night in the dance s tudio. Performances are scheduled for
F riday and Saturday nights under the direction of Billie Hutchings. Shown here are five of t he performers to be seen.
T hey are (L to R) June Tatro, Cathy Hicks, Catherine Richards, Mary Neuru, and Kathleen Stuart.
THE TELESCOPE Palomar College · Volume 22 Number 47 · A Publication of the Associated Students ·
May 6, 1969
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Walker feels that if the NJCA presents itself at San Diego as they did a t Palm Springs., Palomar andnextspring's council s hould serious ly conside r joining the new organization. Approximate ly 25 schools in the state have already joined the liberal group, but Palomar is committed to CJCSGA until the conclusion of the Fall conference since Ar ea I, in which Palomar is a m e mber, is hosting the affair. "CJCSGA hasn't done anything in 20 years . Palomar is one of the most conservative junior colleges in the state and its about time we start moving with our program," commented the 32 year old ex-Marine ASB pres ident. Jim Blake, president of the Contra
Costa College delegation and head of the Junior College Alliance, made clear his feelings that the present system wasn't working, at the opening assembly meeting and Walker agreed. Later,atapresident's workshop, a proposal was made to es tablish a Student Government Communications Center in Sacramento. The purpose was to expedite the time element in inter-school communication and generally for a more overall effective relationship between the state's student governme nt programs. The proposal was brought to a general session of the 83 membe r schools and a 2/3 vote was needed to pass the proposal but it failed by seven votes. Area I schools favoring the proposal were Palomar, San Diego City College, San Diego Evening College, and Grossmont. Those opposing the proposal were MiraCosta, Southwestern, and Imperial Valley College. Walke r, who was joined at the confere nce by Council Members Ruth Ann Eicher, Pat Smith, and Karen Schmidt, MAYA representative Jim Valerio, and Deans Robert Bowman and Marjorie Wallace , is serious about the withdrawal and even more dissatisfied with CJCSGA because of its failure to operate effectively. "There's too much riff-raff and not e nough meaningful business being taken care of," he said .
Art Hoppe brings satire to campus I A six week summer tour of Mexico will be conducted by the Art Department as a part of a three unit class. Featuring visits to the Yucatan Penninsula and Mexico City, a special class unde r the direction of the Art Department will go on the road this summer. The tour is open to students, artists, photographers, anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, or anyone with a desire to improve theirpictorial ability and/or with an interest in the arts and culture of Mexico. Other locations to be toured by the· class include Taxco, Lake Patzcuaro Merida, Oaxaca, and Cuernavaca. Instruction will be provided in the basic approaches and- techniques of drawing, painting, and cand id photography. Stress will be on helping the student to gain a strong compos itional sense and a facility in his or her chosen media.
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"Vestiges of an Era", a black and white photographic collection by Justus Ahrend, Palomar photography adviser, is now on display in the Putnam Memorial library.
"Vestiges of an Era" was shot at Aspen, Colorado, and was later displayed in February at the Hunter Galler y at The Center of the Eye , in Aspen. Ahrends ' s show will be on display for several weeks . A new show is brought into the library every month.
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Dance students of Miss Billie Hutchings, modern dance instructor, will be presented in a concert May 8-10 at 8 p.m . in the dance studio. The twcrhour program will include group studies and solos composed and performed by the students, and six dances choreographed by Miss Hutchings. She also directs the program, and designed t he costumes and arranged the music. Her musical assistant for the production is Loren Baker, a Palomar student. Three of Miss Hutchings' dances, "Fire Night," "The Unanswered Question," and "Environment," were first seen in a concert last December. New pieces are "The Answer?", "Serendipity," and "On the Lawn. " Music for "On the Lawn" is a portion of Carl Orff's well-known choral and orchestral composition, "Carmina Burana."
F amed "fictional" characters general Zip- Zapp and Elbie Jay will be invading the Student Union tomorrow as satirist and columnist Art Hoppe brings "Satire and Other Blunt Instruments" to Palomar College. Hoppe will be appearing as part of the Community Services Guest Speaker series. The liberal satirist's columns often appear in the Escondido Daily TimesAdvocate. In them, he uses the instrument of satire to probe bluntly the condition of the human society. Though his columns often attack severely the accepted institutions and figures of the American Scene, he softens the barbs with artful satire. The noted columnist and roving reporter combines satire with facts and his daily humorous political column runs the gamut from the Washington scene to whimsical take-offs on cause-espousing societies. Hoppe, a 1949 Harvard graduate, joined the San Francisco Chronicle soon after leaving those ivy- covered halls. As a reporter he covered many outstanding national stories in the following years, became an ardent yachtsman, traveled extensively, and reported the Alaska to
Florida political campaigns of Presidential candidates Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. Of his writings, Hoppe has said, "Col-
umns s hould express outrageous opinion to be of any value. I don't know anything. I want to stir people up so they'll do their own thinking." Some of Hoppe's favorite targets are the War and the past and present occupant of the White House . He will appear at 10 a.m. in the Student Union. There is no admission charge and the program is open to the public.
BULLETIN Yesterday the ASB council passed by an 11-3-1 vote the budget for next yea r. A last minute move by Nick Ashcraft toremove all funds from FOCUS magazine was defeated without opposition.
Art Hoppe
BRAVURA, the English department literary magazine, was slashed from the budget during the three- hour-long meeting. Unless reinstated by the board of governors, BRAVURA will not be published next year. Neither BRAVURA advisor Gene Jackson or editor Victoria Richardson was available for comment on the cuts.
Art department quality grows By Eleanor L. Halliwell From the days of mud and quonset huts, when Palomar was often referred to as the "wet-back camp", the Art Department has grown to one of the finest facilities in the junior college system . From a one mandepartmentwithabout 75 students, it has grown to the present six instructors with about 400 students. The present compl ex, built three years ago, is many times larger than the original buildings, and is equipped to handle five times as many students. Yet t he facilities are being used to near saturation point at the present time, said John E. Barlow, head of the Art Department. . Every year the Art Department is al. · lotted a sum of money by the Patrons of Palomar to purchase new paintings or sculpture for e ither the Boehm Gallery or the campus grounds. This allows the art student to do individual projects, if he has submitted an acceptable idea for sculpture or mosaic which would be impossible to fit into a regular class. Much of the art work around Palomar has been done by students. The art complex covers a wide range of media. From the fundamentals of art, to sculpturing, oesign, painting with oil or water colors, life drawing, crafts, lettering, and perhaps the most popular, ceramics.
Head of the Art Department, Mr. John Barlow, watches one of his students
put the finishing touches on a sculpture.
The term "ceramics" --from the Greek 'keramos" meaning clay-- covers a consfderable range of products that are made by shaping moist clay, or similar substance. They are then dried and fired in a kiln to give the finished product strength and permanence. Ceramic products include bricks, tile, and porcelain fittings,
as well as bowls, pitchers, plates, and other decorator items. "There is pleasure and satisfaction in handling and molding clay, explained Barlow. It is undoubtedly the nature of the medium that makes it such a popular craft -- soft, moist, pliable clay, so easily formed into study pottery pieces. Because the material is so responsive, it gives a degree of success, regardless of the skill of the worker. It can be used as a recreational activity, or for theraputic or educational purposes." Most students have probably seen some of Barlows creative works around the campus. One outstanding example of his work is the brick relief in front of the Boehm Gallery, another is the sculpture in the fountain by the planetarium COII"posed of oynx brought up from Baja California. Then there is "Happy Daze" near the entrance to the Boehm Gallery. At the Administration building entrance are four colorful bird mosaics, and opposite is another suspended sculpture . These were done as an example to his students and to encourage them to use their c reative talents. The mosaic near the science area was done by students during the quonset hut days. Students have ranged in age from teen age rs to an 84 year old woman. Students in ceramic classes offer some of their products for sale around the· first of December and near the end of the school year. The semi-annual "Pot Sale" includes many shapes and varieties of ceramics, such as cups, bowls, ash trays, planters, and various decorative objects. Besides seramics Barlow supervises
the teaching of crafts, which includes three dimensional matter other than ceramics. Emphasis is placed on characteristics of craft materials with their limitations and ptentialities fordevelopment. There is a wide diversity of projects -- one student is working on an inlaid bar for his home, while another is working on a piece of jewelry. One of the rare "ones", a native Californian, Barlow was born and raised in San Diego, except for a year in Phoenix, Ari zona. He attended San Diego schools and graduated from San Diego State with a BA degree, and received his Master's from Clairemont Graduate School. He recalled that while teaching elementary grades in Escondido, he built a unique trailer and went from school to school teaching ceramics. He held class outside under covered patios with his trailer near-by. Being outside theywere not concerned with messing up the rooms with clay. He said it has given him a new sense of satisfaction since coming to Palomar that students have remembered him and said, "Aren't you the man with the trailer that used to come around to our school and teach us ceramics?" He taught elementary and secondary school in Escondido for 16 years prior to coming to Palomar. His wife is also a teacher. This summer, Barlow and his wife are planning a trip to Alaska. They will drive to Vancouver, British Columbia, then take the inland passage ferry to Prince their camper to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, then board a ferry -- camper
FROM THE RIGHT SIDE
Supreme Court may review draft protesters' plea
Amatter of conscience By Steven A. Krueger We have heard a great deal these past few months concerning the method this country uses in conscripting young men to serve in the armed forces. Over a year ago, an older voice was added to the youthful protest of Selective Service. Senator Eugene McCarthy, then beginning his successful campaign to oust President Lyndon Johnson from the White House, carried opposition to the war and the draft to the forefront of American politics. Very recently, Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon proposed a measure to modify the draft. There is an outside chance that it may one day be accepted, in a modified version. But these measures to modify the draft come too late . Selective Service must go! If this country truly needs an army, let it compete on the open market for men, rather than bonding them to involuntary servitude. Let the government pay a liveable wage to men. There are many people who are very martial-minded who will still go into the military. The draft is, in the opinion of this editor, unconstitutional. It violates the 13th amendment to the Constitution that prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States. Many well-meaning people are now talking of an all- volunteer army. But it is my fear that when this war is over, people will forget about the ugly aspects of military life and allow the army to "body snatch" young men. The draft discriminates against young men. We have forc ed upon us an unwanted "Big Brother" who we must notify whenever we change address (within 10 days or face reclassification), change jobs, marital status, or schools. In addition, we are denied the basic right of free travel, as we must ask permission of the draft board to leave the country. Many young people are confronted with the ugly face of this monster and are asking themselves, "Is this for me?" Some take the Peace Corp - Vista route (although those aren't definite they are at the discretion of the local board). Some go through as many years of college as Daddy can afford (also not very good - draft deferments are now limited to medical, dental and divinity students at the post-graduate level). Some simply refuse the draft and receive their punishment: up to $10,000 fine and five years in a federal prison. Some flee the country to continue their
lives uninterrupted by military service. The majority do serve in the military, however . But even after they have made that step, many don't stay for the full "hitch". Over 50,000 men deserted from the military services last year, or the equivalent of three and a third divisions. If a man enters the service because he feels it is his moral duty to his country, then he is following his conscience. If a man refuses service and goes to prison because he is opposed to the system, then he is following his conscience. If a man leaves the country to avoid a system he feels to be totally unjust, then he is fo llowing his conscience. But if any of these groups bow to pressure from society or from their peer groups, then they are betraying the ir basic freedom to choose. Every young man must make a dec ision he can live with. But for those who take the daily, $40 flight to Vancouver, they must face the barbs of the society they have left behind. Many are lite rally disowned by their families. But, I ask you: if he had been 40 years old instead of 20, and he had left the country to protest government policy, would the same voices be raised to decry him as unpatriotic and a coward? I sincerely doubt it. The 15,000 or so young men who are living in exile in Canada and other nondraftable countries have followed their consciences, as have the men in Vietnam. But those exiles in Canada are making a useful contribution to that society. The average "draft dodger" who comes to Canada has had two years of college, i s in good health, is thoughtful and intelligent, and speaks the language of the country. Most hold jobs and are selfsufficent. Many people ask why Canada doesn't close the door on draft dodgers. They won't for the same reason the United States didn't r efuse draft dodgers during the last century from the wars on the European continent. Canada is profiting in manpower as much as the United States is losing. For this country it is an irrevocable loss that will be felt in looking for tomorrow's leaders . If a man truly follows his conscience, not the wishes of others, then we should respect him not necessarily for his opinion, but because he has the intelligence to form it and the courage to hold it.
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Smash the army By Jim Strain I'm not a pacifist. I believe that there have been times when war, horrible as it is, has been the only alternative to the enslavement and death of millions of innocent people. I believe that there have been times when violent revolution has been the only r ecourse open to groups of oppressed masses . In short, I believe that men have not only the right but the duty to defend, by whatever means neeessary, their lives and their liberty. More often than not, however, war has been used as an instrument of economic stimulation and the lives of countless millions have been sacrificed on the altar of wealth, national prestige, and territorial expansion. The very ground on which you stand as you read this has known four different flags and men have died to wrest it from one another; not for any high principle, but for acreage and for gold. Governments which have been in possession of a large, professional, armed force have historically been more disposed to use it for reasons other than the protection of the citizenry. In 1969 the United States not only has such a force but it is using it and has used it to maintain dictatorships which would otherwise be at the mercy of popular revolution. This armed force and the influence it wields over our nation and its economy must be smashed. The army, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the incredible leprous bureaucracy which is the Department of Defense have assumed such inordinate power over the formation of our national policy, both foreign and domestic, that the time has come for a free people to call for its destruction. I am not so foolis h as to call for unilateral disarmament on the part of the United States. Mankind has unfortunately not yet progressed far enough as to have no need of defe nse against its fellows. What I do advocate is a compl ete reorganization of the defense structure of our country. I would call for a complete review of the assets of the Department of Defense and as far as possible I would place t hese in the hands of other branches of the government. For example , the lands which are under the jurisdiction of t he
military (army bases, nationalcemeteries, etc.) could be placed in the hands of the Department of the Interior. The Military Air Transport Service and the Military Sea Transport Service could fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce, much as the Coast Guard is under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department now . I would reorganize the army in much the same way that the West German Bundeswehr is, in which enlisted personnel would have recourse to civilian authority for grievances they may have against the military hierarchy. I would abolish the social privileges of the officer class and attempt to organize a corps of professional but humanistically oriented military leaders along the lines of a corporate management, always subject to civilian review, in the same manner that the directors of a company are answerable to the stockholders. The electorate should serve notice on the President that he will be held responsible for the actions of the armed forces as their commander-in-chief, and then they should hold him to it. Far from abolition of the draft, I could call for a truly universal conscription of all young people for two years of "service to the nation". I would allow for a choice of fields in which individuals who are averse to the military could direct their labors. A huge domestic construction force could be mobilized to build the things our nation so sorely needs. States which asked for it and were willing to bear a part of the cost could be provided with high quality low rent housing for its peeple. Illiteracy could be stamped out once and for all, and in the process millions ¡ would gain skills much more useful than proficiency with a rifle. In the case of a legitimate, declared war, the nation would be provided with a vast pool of well trained citizens prepared to do what might be necessary. None of the proposals is new, but if they were to be adopted they could well lead to something completely unheard of: a nation of peaceful people , truly free and secure in that freedom -- a model for the world. PEACE
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed recently to consider c laims that the accelerated draft of Vietnam war protestors is in viol ation to the Consti tution. Two separate appeals c hallenging the draft delinquency regulations will be heard next term. They were taken by the court over the oppos ition of the justice department.
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Dear Mr. President From The Public Forum Escondido Daily Tim es Advocate March 4, 1969 Editor; This is a copy of a letter I have sent to President Nixon. Writing to a President! What nonsense, I tell myself - I have never done such a thing before . But I feel so strongly about this war, I can contain it no longer - and he seemed the most logical one to protest to. Dear Mr. President: I have a son who will be 18 in August. (How man letters must a mother write in a lifetime ?" . .. . please excuse my son's absence yesterday ... . very sorry about your broken window, Mr. Ford . .. I agree with you that Warren is capable of doing better in English but.. . . ") But this is a different letter. I would like to keep my son at home as long as he wants to stay with us - until his young feet carry him off to his own place in this country. I don't want him to go to Vietnam, because I am afraid he will die there. He is unafraid - confident, as the young always are. We talked about it just the other day. "Don't you worry about me, Mom -when the time comes I'll go - but nothing is going to happen to me." How many thousands of the hundreds of thousands of American boys killed in our wars have told their mothers this same thing? I heard my brother say it to m y mother, before he went off to join the army in World War II ... Words can never describe the awful desolation that came to us that bleak winter back in Ke ntucky in 1944, when the telegram regretting to inform that son and brother had died of wounds received in action, near Metz, France. We did not believe it. But then his personal possessions came: an empty wallet, a pair of shoes, a few faded lette rs and photographs, and a pocket comb with two tee th missing. A special packet came with a Purple Heart medal - and a letter of condolence from President Roosevelt. There was a letter from a Catholic Chaplain to my Protestant mother, advising her that he had been with her son at the end . His company commander wrote that Bill had been one of his best soldiers. The realization c ame that he was dead; and we accepted it, finally. The sight of my mother's grieving face that long winter haunts me still. She came to the tobacco barn where the rest of us were stripping tobacco, when her grief became unbearable. My Dad stopped working long enough to try to comfort
her, while the rest of us wiped our eyes and stood silent at the stripping bench each of is thinking his own thoughts. (Dear brother, 20 is so you ng to die!) Only time can help assuage a grief so great. And if statistics don't lie, it is still the sharecroppers' sons and day laborers' sons - Mexican Americans, poor Southern whites and blacks and Northern ghe tto blacks that carry the greatest burdens in a war. Raised in poverty, and with little education, these are the boys that volunteer, and are drafted, in great numbers for the Army and Marine Corps. This is one way out of the economic tie that binds: a chance to have a little spending money of their own - a chance to see California, Texas, or Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. And when he comes home for his last furlough before he leaves for Vietnam, he adjusts his cap and gazes at himself in a mirror. Yes, some may die in Vietnam - but it won't be him. This word of reassurance he leaves for his mother before he goes out the door for the last time, "Don't you worry about me." But I do worry about him - and every son that goes off to war. Look at those faces that come to us on the TV screen at night - faces without names, but somebody's boy - all fighting and dying together; American boys, South and North Vietnamese boys, all fighting and dying in a war they did not make . Mr. President, this is truly another time, another season. The bugle call that united and rallied us, and brought tears to our eyes during troubled times, is not calling us together now. The ravings of a fanatic dictator does not spur us to a Herculean effort, and the impassioned oratory of a Winston Churchill does not inspire us to defeat an e nemy at any and all cost. None of is can agree on any one issue; yet there must be a solution. I propose that you canvass this big country of ours and contact all the finest young minds we have, (and some of the finer old minds, if they show they can adjust to the times) and closet them all together. Have them labor there diligently and without ceasing until they come up with a plan to end this war. It is somehow preposterous to think that a country that will soon chart the moon, cannot end this conflict. Treat this sickness that blights our nation as the great physicians have treated tuberculosis , polio, leprosy. Find a cure and end it. We are depending on you. Mary Lou Brown Valley Center
Matt sees draft asrequirement By Frank Mott ASB Judicial Chairman and member of the United States Marine Corp. Compulsory military service has been one of our requirements for many yea rs and hopefully in the future it will continue to be one. On of our basic rights as Americans is to be able lo live in peace. From time beginning to date this has not been possible . There is always somone or a group of somebodies that want to take what is not rightfully theirs. War is a means of achieving economic means and t his we can't change . We hear students today speak of not having rights. Young men are dying in Vietnam every day to allow other young men and women to protest their rights on campuses throughout our country. Many of these young men don't want to die, but they believe that by defending freedom for a free nation they are also defending their freedom. The dissenters of today are young, immature students who have been partially educated by ind ividuals who do not
fully believe in the basic rights of individuals. The dissenters are right so long as everyone agrees with them. There is no better education and training for a young man that a tour in the military service. The service can build character and discipline. Through the service a young man can travel , see new places , meet new and intriguing people and broaden his knowledge. Many young men, after a tour, choose to make the military service a career. There are many advantages such as a steady income, medical and dental benefits, guarenteed retirement, and others. If a man chooses not to make the service a career, then the service will give him a chance to obtain a skill that can be used in civilian life or at least give him ideas of what he wants to do after discharge. Just remember, things that we need are hard to remove; things we like can be removed. Frank Mott (Ed. Note: THE TELESCOPE wishes to thank Mr. Mott for submitting this excellent guest editorial. )
Among the claims to be considered by the court are that the draft is being used to punish dissidents from US war policy and that it is being used to stifle freedom of speech and expression. Just a year ago the court upheld the 1965 federal law that made it a crime to burn or mutilate a draft card. However, last December the court struck a blow at Selective Servicepolicy by ruling draft boards have no authority to order the induction of divinity students as a means of punishing them for objecting to this c ountry's actions in Vietnam. The appeals granted recently could strike at the heart of Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey 's draft policy because the students involved are not in a special category such as divinity students and had deferments rather than exemptions. Draft Director He rshey, in a memorandum to local draft boards in October 19 67 , e ncouraged them to use the delinquency regulations against young men who e ngage in "illegal activity." The Justice department, in response to the appeals, told the court it found no fault with the speeded - up induction of youths who do not have draft cards in their possession. The department also rejected the contention that the F irst Amendment's fre e speech guarantee was being violated .
Editor : Congratulations on your letter to the T - A. It was well done and I heartily agree with your sentiments. There is one other point which you could use. The militants on campus are using the same tactics which the military are using in sending men to Vietnam. Therefore since actions speak louder than words, they believe that force is the only means to an e nd despite thei r protestations against the war. Joe Maxfield (Ed. Note : Mr. Maxfield is a Palomar College district taxpayer who has taken a great interest in the various activities here. He refers to Steven A. Krueger's "From The Right Side" that appeared as a le tter to the editor of the Escondido Daily Times Advocate April 25. The column in which it first appeared was published April 22 in THE TELESCOPE,
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