The Telescope 23.43

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ETELESC Palomar College · Volume 23 Number 43 · A Publication of the Associa.ted Students

May 5, 1970

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San Marcos, Calif.

SEVEN ORIGINAL DANCES

Dance concert slated here Twenty- six dancers under the direction of Miss Billie Hutchings will perform in concert Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings in the Dance Studio at 8 p.m. General admission is $1 for adults and 50 cents for students and children, with tickets being available at the door. The program will consist of seven dances choreographed by Miss Hutchings as well as some student works. Three of the choreographies, "Mod Cliche," "Joie de Vivre," and "A Chair Is A Chair Is A Chair" were pre-

miered at the college in December. They will be performed again with different groups of dancers.

creating moving sculptural mases which constantly change.

The new dances on the program are varied in style, content, and musical accompaniment. They include a folk dance suite arranged from Israeli and Yugoslavian dances; "Meeting and Partings," two simultaneous duets danced to a contemporary flute and piano duet by Frank Martin; ''Iphigenia in BrooklynHow She Got There Nobody Knows," a comic story dance based, very loosely, on ideas and characters from the Orestrian trilogy sung as a cantata; and "A Sculpture Garden," a dance design

The costumes for the production were designed by Miss Hutchings. Staging assistant is Lee Settle. Students dancing in the concert are Barbara Hulbert, Ann Johnston, Jim Manley, Jane Schlag, Kathy Seidel, Carol Wicklund, Judy Zornes, Maura Peterson, Richard Little, Janet Myers, Kim Smith, Gloria Pennington, Mike Boyer Barbara Aptaker, Susan Montalvo , Mary Neuru, Anne Bedford, Kirk McClure, MaryVollmer, Jo Ann Watkins, John Herrera, Robert Wells, Katie Klies, Jill Snow, Dan White and Lee Settle.

Dance students Jim Manley and Jill Snow rehearse a dance for the upcom-

ing dance concert to be held Thursday through Saturday in the Dance Studio.

BULLETIN Discrepancies in the wording of the Election Code have led to the rescheduling of spring ASB elections, originally slated for May 11 and 12. Polls will now open at 9 a.m . May 25 and remain open until 3 p.m. May 26. According to Article I, Section 3, Part b of the Election Code, "2) All candidates must register with the secretary of the Dean of Student Activities two (2) weeks prior to elections." As originally scheduled, the election date would be only one week following the opening of registration. Registration opened yesterday at 8 a.m. and will close at noon on Friday for 16 elective posts.

Eight one-act plays featured at festival

Palomar campus employees aided area firemen Saturday in extinguishing a brush fire that came within 200 yards of the campus. The fire, which burned over 2,500 acres of land, started Friday at 11 a.m. and was not controlled until late Saturday. The blaze claimed three lives.

A woman and her two children were killed from smoke inhalation . They apparently wandered away from a parked vehicle and were trapped by flames. A campfire at the base of a hill off Twin Oaks Valley Road in San Marcos was the cause of the fire.

Eight one-act plays, most of them o_riginals, will be produced beginning May ll, during Palomar's One Ac t Play Festival. All of the plays are being student directed, produced by members of Mr. Buddy Ashbrook's stage direction and playwrighting classes. The student directors are each assigned a technical assistant from one of Mr. Norman E. Gaskin's stagecraft classes. The plays are free and will be held in the drama lab, P -3 3. Beginning next Monday, a different play will be seen every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at ll:l5 a.m. until all eight have been produced.

HEGLAND SUBMITS RESIGNATION

Educator analyzes student lethargy By Jackie Easley "Too much of education concerns itself with facts and knowledge. The job of the school is not to transmit knowledge, but to develop understanding," according to Mr. Sheridan N. Hegland, political and social science instructor at Palomar. Hegland, who has become well known on campus for his student-submitted test questions, his four two- yea r terms as 77th District assemblyman, and his staunch "old fashion Jeffersonian Democrat' • views, will not return to Palomar nex t year. His resignation has bee n accepted "with regret" by trustees on campus, and will become effective at the close of this semester. Since he began teaching here in 1963, Hegland has been active in junior college legislation, and this activity has given him an insight into the role of the modern day educator. "One of the saddest things about contemporary education is that so many teachers are proud of their scholarship in one field . However, that field in isolation is meaningless. We have segmented education. One cannot discuss political science without reference to economics, sociology and social science. Hegland feels that the basic reason s ocieties and legislatures vote money for education is to "preserve and transmit traditional values", but he feels a weakness of the educational system is that it denies students an opportunity to participate in meaningful decisions . ''Student government is harmful unless it participates in every decision made on campus," the educator said. "Palomar's student government has never been provided meaningful options of significance. This accounts for the lethargy of student concern for student government. If the students were convinced that it has a voice, there would be a solid turnout.

"The test of a college is not how many graduates can read Latin. The basic test should be: 'How active are the students ?' What is the percentage turnout in student body elections? Does the faculty and establishment refer all decisions to the student body government before action? Hegland feels that student militancy has roots in frustration, and that this frustration can be reduced if the students feel their desires are one factor in determining decisions. In his own classroom, he seeks to allow the students a voice in the course by permitting them to submit test questions for exams.' From these questions he makes up his open book tests. "I am the author of a scholarship plan that has paid expenses for over 30,000 students . Schools are close to my heart. I am dismayed that as far as the national scholarship program has gone, California is receiving a smaller proportion of gifted high school seniors than it would have a few yea rs ago. This is telling us something about the state of higher education in California," Hegland commented. As the former editor of the Stanford University "Daily" and editor and publisher of three weekly newspapers, Hegland has had a concerned and advisory interest in the student press at Palomar. Of the obligations of the student newspaper, he has said, "The newspaper has traditional obligations. They are not committed to the government or a slave of any institution. They stand apart and evaluate. "Any effort to censor, control, or throttle the press means that our one impartial arbitrator is no longer available to society." The problem of student lethargy at Palomar has been a problem that Heg-

land has fu lly realized. As a final comment on the present student government situation he said, "During my few years at Palomar student body government has been delinquent. Its leaders have not

insisted effectively on student perogatives. The result has been that Palomar students have boycotted the elections on the supposition that student (Continued on page 2)

News Briefs Various North County stores will offer discounts to students purchasing ASB cards for the 1970-71 year. Businesses participating in the discount program include: auto centers, cleaners , clothing stores, jewelers, photographers, restaurants, theatres. These stores will offer up to 20% off on merchandise. During fall registration packets will be distributed to ASB card purchasers including lists of stores giving steady discounts and coupons from stores giving one-time discounts. This new measure was initiated by members of the ASB Council along with faculty members involved in ASB fundin g.

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Mr. Justus Town, Southern California regional representative for the Bureau of Indian affairs, will address the California Indian Culture Class tomorrow at 12 noon in Q- 4. Mr. Town, a Choctow Indian from Oklahoma will speak on current issues which affect contemporary Indian problems.

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Roger Jones was presented one of the new dramatically redesigned Palomar College rings in a drawing held last Thursday in the Student Union. The Palomar ring, now highlypersonalized, is on display in the ASB Bookstore . The ring is now accepted for trade-in toward a ring at any fouryear college or university.

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Political and social science instructor Sheridan N. Hegland has resigned his

post at Palomar and will be devoting more of his time to political science writing.

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Friday will be the last day to buy bids for the Spring Formal to be held Price of the bids Saturday, May 9. is $4 with an ASB card and $6 without. It is being held at the Escondido Country Club from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The band will be the Woody Williams Quintet, a professional group from San Diego.


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