ETELESC Palomar College
· A Publication of the Associated Students
Volume 24 Number 11
Oct. 27, 1970
San Marcos , Calif.
92069
Accreditation team here today 9 educators
'Death of a Salesman' opens this Thursday night A six-performance production of the Broadway hit play, "Death of a Salesman," has been cast and is in the final days of rehearsals at Palomar, under the direction of Mr. Buddy Ashbrook, drama instructor. The Arthur Miller classic will be presented October 29, 30 and 31, and Novem-
New learning center set for next spring Plans are being made for installation of a $24,000 Learning Center this spring to be housed in the periodical section of the library, according to Mrs . Esther Nesbin, head librarian. <'Emphasis toward self instruction with quality training aids is basically the concept of the Learning, or Media Center," Mrs. Nesbin added. The center will be equipped with 30 study cubicles containing cassette tape players, carousel slide projectors and , Super 8 film projectors. Final details for the planned center are being worked out by a Learning Resources Committee comprised of administration and faculty representatives. The committee is also studying behavorial objectives in instruction to facilitate optimum use of the center.
ber 5, 6 and 7, with curtain time at 8 p.m. in the drama lab, P-33. Ticket prices will be $1.50 for nonstudents and $.50 for ASB members and children. Reservations may be made by calling the drama department at Palomar during school hours. Ashbrook invited all performingprospects in the North County to join the production, whether enrolled at Palomar or not, and that "as a result we have a very strong and talented cast." The members include: Mel Schuster, Kris Robertson, Steve Sanders, Cheri Jaques, John Herrera, Hazel Chamlee, Cher Kunz and Larry McDaniel, all of Vista; David Fennessy, Encinitas; Perry Sites, Camp Pendleton; Dr. Rollin Coleman, Claudia Keithley, Escondido; Don O'Rourke, Poway, and Paul Vautier, Oceanside. Assisting Ashbrook in staging the production are Cher Kunz, assistant to the direction and Mr. Norman Gaskins, faculty technical director. Included on Gaskins' staff are Lynda Buendel, Christopher Dubreuil, Victoria Hart, Thomas Henderson, Robert Kendrick, Kathleen Madigan, "Kathy Meyer, Edward Null, Juan Pedroza, Kris Robertson, Michael Schaeffer, Garth Warner, Daniel Winberg, William Horner, Obie O'Brien, Donald Blake, Marjorie Greathhouse, Ed Ahva Molthen and Lee Ann Brink. Rana is in charge of publicity posters.
INews at a ASB cards will only be sold on the first Fridays of every month from 11 a.m. to 12 noon on the patio.
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Thursday at 11 a.m. in R-5 Carl Downing, a former drug user, will hold a rap session on the use and abuse of drugs. This is an open rap session for all interested, with a no-bust policy.
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The Rev. Paul J. Hill, MSC, the Newman Chaplin at Palomar, will be available for counseling on Mondays from 12 noon to 2 p.m. in A-66 (Student Personnel Services).
review all school phases Nine prominent California educators will survey the Palomar College campus today through Thursday as they study all phases of operations upon which-accreditation is based in the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. All colleges and universities regularly receive similar accreditation study, as basis for renewal of the association's approval for transfer of student credits. On the lastsuchstudy and reportin1965, Palomar College received the full fiveyear accreditation rating. The accreditation team will concern itself with these areas: the aims and purposes of the college; curriculum; how the college meets the needs of disadvantaged persons; instruction; student personnel services; community services; administration. The team arrives today and visits classes in the afternoon. Tonight. they will attend a dinner and meet department chairman, administration staff, and student representatives. Tomorrow, the team will visitclasses and examine the campus, taking in all aspects of Palomar. Thursday, they will conclude their visit and the chairman of the team will report on much of what was found by the team.
Glance!
Friday at 11 a.m. in P-32 the Young Democrats are sponsoring a debate between the three 80th Assembly District candidates. They are John Korbel,Democrat; Dick Peacock, Peace and Freedom; John Stull, Republican. Korbel and Peacock have already accepted. Mr. Pat Archer, political science instructor and former candidate for U.S. Congress, will be moderater.
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North County's Ecology Action Committee meets every Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Vista Recreation Center located on Recreation Drive. Members are reorganizing the club and they need help. Any person interested in ecology is welcome to attend. For more information see Steve Sanders in the Student Union or call in Vista at 726-4718.
Four of the nine members of the accreditation team currently studying all phases of the college are: top left,
Tutorial aid will be offered Palomar's Tutorial Program sponsored by the Alpha Gamma Sigma Society officially began business yesterday in F-3. According to Bill Duerden, AGS president, any student in need of tutorial help in a particular subject, is welcome to come in for free on-campus service. There will always be at feast one per-
from one ot his classes. He is replacing Mr. Angelo Carli. Photo by L. McDaniel
son in room F-3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday, to assist in selection of personal tutors . . The schedule of subjects and names of tutors will be posted on the blackboard in F-3. Anyone desiring more information may contact either Duerden or Mr. Dick Noble or Mr. Frank Martinie.
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ENGLISH EXCHANGE INSTRUOOR
Wilks
Mr. Arthur WilKs, Fullbright exchange English instructor, glances over work
John McCuen; top right, Franz Weinschenk; lower left, Lynn Hollist; and lower right, Leo Thomas.
The conference room located in the administration building will be headquarters for the team. The room is equiped with back-up material files, giving the team a complete picture of the college at its fingertips. Each member of the team will be furnished with a catalogue and a student handbook. Also available for use by the team will be bibliographies from the library, including bibliographies of Chicano, Indian, and ecological materials. Team members will also be equipped with loose-leaf binders containing up-todate information on the student body, curiculum, and student personnel services. Also placed in the conference room will be display samples of announcements, posters, brochures on various programs and events, and copies of THE TELESCOPE, from 1966toJune,1970. Various publications, scrapbooks, and a history of the college will also be placed at the disposal of team members.
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By Willabert Parks East is East and West is West, but occasionally they do meet. Currently in America on a Fullbright exchange is Mr. Arthur Wilks. Serving as an instructor in the English department, Wilks has exchanged cars, houses, and jobs with Mr. Angelo Carli, who taught English at Palomar for years and is now in England. Concerning his vocation in England Wilks stated, "I work at Neville's Cross College, which is a college of education, mainly concerned with the training of teachers in three and four year courses." Neville's Cross College is one of the sections of the Durham University. "It is residential, a small community of about 700, mainly women. I run the English Department, and although perhaps more than half of my time is taken up with administrative chores I do a fair amount of teaching and supervising students in school. "Classes are classes everywhere, and my teaching in England is not so very different from that in Palomar. Perhaps there it was a little more academic, and I spent a good deal of my time suggesting ways how people might teach English in schools . The students and staff in both places are nice and friendly," commented Wilks. Brought up in a suburb ofManchester, Wilks lived in a ''rambling-shambling"
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old house built over and around a bank that was built right in the middle of the town and next to a railway station. The station was "a scheduled target forGerman bombers during the war, which undoubtedly kept us safe, except from our own side. There was an anti-aircraft gun hidden under a bridge which use to · emerge nightly, fire a few rounds and shatter all the windows in the vicinity. It never hit anything, so far as I know," he said. At the end of the war Wilks went into the Air Force "involuntarily," and then went to Oxford for "the big romantic period" in his life. ''I have never lived anywhere so beautiful, or so comfortable. We were just alone with all the books, beauty and comfort, to read and talk for three years." He then went to live in Bloomsbury, in central London, about a fifteen minute quick walk from Piccadilly. ''I got married a year or two after I went to live there, and my wife and I shared a five floor Georgian house with some friends, occupying part ourselves and letting off some in flats. Two of our three children were born there. ''It was an enormously gregarious life; it had to be since the main staircase of the house ran right through our flat. We acquired an enormous number of friends and acquaintances, and learned a tolerance for eccentricity. It was, I suppose, a fairly arty community, to use
the jargon of the day, very mixed and curiously classless. ''The central London streets in those days were like separate villages, each with its set of shops, and its small population of all ages and origins living in flats. ''We lived next to a pub called The Lamb, which before it became respec- · table--it's quite fashionable now--served cheap draught cider to Irish laborers working on the rebuilding of London. They got very drunk, and we always · seemed to be sending for ambulances to carry away the losers in the fights they held at closing time," recalled Wilks. Moving on to Romford, east of London, after nine years, Wilks and his family lived in what he supposed a real estate man would have called "a dream house." "It gave me nightmares, though I must concede it was rather a pretty place. The houses in the area where it stood had all been entries for an architects' competition in 1900, and some of them had had quite distinguished designers. Ours had a mansard roof, french windows, wisteria stuff, a lake next to it, big trees round it, and very respectable neighbors. After two years, I had become so dispirited at the prospect of another twenty-five years in that community or some other like it, that I took my present job in Durham," he said. (Continued on page 2)
EDITORIAL
Letters to the Editor
Smog relief possible So serious is the smog emergency in Southern California that members of the State Air Resources Board warned last week that it may be necessarytoprevent more people from moving into metropolitan Los Angeles. The Air Resources Board urged the voters to approve Proposition 18. It would permit the use of gasoline taxes for smog control and for building public transportation systems as an alternative to more motor vehicles and more freeways. At present, the State Constitution restricts such tax spending solely to construction and maintenance of state freeways and highways and local streets. Proposition 18 would allow up to 25% of the tax revenue generated in counties and transit districts to be allocated to public transportation facilities--if the affected local voters approve. Expenditure to control "environmental pollution caused by motor vehicles'' would be determined by the Legislature. As expected, a heavily financed and misleading propaganda campaign is being waged by oil companies, auto clubs and other members of the highway lobby. Gov. Reagan, a number of state legislators and the League of Women Voters, on the other hand, have endorsed Proposition 18. So has the League of California Cities, the principal spokesman in
the state for local governments. Southern Californians are now more aware than ever of the ways in which motor vehicles can make their lives miserable. The continuing ordeal of traffic congestion is made far worse by air pollution, most of it created by the cars and trucks upon which we are so dependent. Smog has indeed become a sustained public emergency - an environmental threat . so serious that 10,000 persons annually leave the Los Angeles Basin to escape it on the advice of their physicians.
THE TELESCOPE can only print what news and photos are available to it. If some of the contents seem to be filler it may well be because more interested people like :\liss l'\akanishi do not join the small group of dedicated, overworked people who get the paper out thirty or so ~imes a semester.
Compounding the situation has been the frustration felt by individuals unable to take direct action to relieve their plight.
To make the paper more current, it would seem to me a daily publishing schedule would be much more appropriate than bi-weekly. The present plan for two editions a week was chosen, not because it is easy, but so TELESCOPE readers will be better served with more up-to-date coverage of campus events. As far as I know, we are the only community college in the state doing this.
But now every citizen can take positive and constructive action to ease auto-caused air pollution and traffic congestion by voting Yes on Proposition 18 on the Nov. 3 ballot. This measure gives voters for the first time an opportunity to decide if gasoline tax revenue should be used to alleviate smog and to help build public transportation systems. (Editor's note: The above is a reprint from the Los Angeles Times.)
PARK AND OPEN SPACES BONDS
Your vote needed County Proposition A--Open Space and Park Bonds. San Diego County is not like the Nature Conservancy; it does not have a fund from which to buy park and open space lands when opportunity knocks. Yet the County is making a modest step in that direction. On the November 3 ballot there will be a $7,000,000 bond proposal for open space and park acquisition. Any expenditure from the bond fund will require a public hearing and a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors. First consideration for an expenditure will be San Elijo Lagoon, There will be no increase in the property tax required for this bond issue. This is because the county portion of fines and forfeitures will be used over the years for the redemption of the bonds. Since $7,000,000 is not enough to acquire the county parks proposed in the County General Plan (such as Guajome, Los Penasquitos, Sweetwater), the Board of Supervisors may consider a bond issue for them in the spring, if the bond proposal is supported by the citizens. Many people are pleased with the action the Board of Supervisors have
Dear Editor, I was interested in Faye Nakanishi's letter in the last issue commenting on ways to better THE TELESCOPE. Basically her ideas were to (1) eliminate copy and photos which are only fillers, (2) become more current by publishing twice a month, rather than twice a week, and (3) print the paper on newsprint. I would like to comment on each of these briefly.
taken. It gives us an opportunity to show our support for open space and park acquisition. All registered voters in the county are eligible to vote on this proposal. Help make it a YES vote. Tell your friends, neighbors and members of groups you belong how important a YES vote is. Call Jean Morley, 583-8295, for further information. Proposition 20 The State Department of Parks and Recreation reports that passage of Proposition 20 would make available $60,000,000 for recreational facilities along the California Water Project. While some people may disagree with the merits of the California Water Project, facilities which will accomodate 15 million recreationists annually will relieve substantial pressure from our overload park system. Passage of Proposition 20 will increase the capacity of the State Park System by one-third, according to State Park authorities. (Editor's note: The above is an excerpt from the Sierra Club magazine.)
Accreditation team reviews actions of college during last five years (Continued from page 1) Members on the visiting accreditation team are: Dr. John T. McCuen, president, Glendale College, and former dean of instruction of Fresno City College, chairmanof the panel. Dr. Robert C. Rockwell, superintendent-president, Santa Clarita Junior College District, and former president of Santa Barbara City College. Miss Beverly C. Andre, R.N., Nursing Education Consultant, Board of Nursing Education and Nurse Registration, Sacramento, and former acting executive secretary of the board.
Young ladies invited to Marine Corps ball All young ladies between the ages of 18 and 30 are cordially invited to attend the Marine Corps 195th Birthday Ball (Buffett Dinner-Dance) to be held at the Del Mar Enlisted Club, November 7. Reservations should be made no later than October 28, in the office of the dean of women. Further information is available from Dean Marjorie Wallace in A-62.
Mr. Alfonso C. Urias, specialist with the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services, California Community Colleges, Sacramento, and currently doing graduate work at Sacramento State College. Mr. Lynn 0. Hollist, dean of Continuing Education, Chaffey College, Alta Lorna, Calif., and former administrative assistant in the office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools. Mrs. Janet Matsuyama, faculty member, Fullerton Junior College, Fullerton, Calif;, chairman of the college's Secretarial Advisory Committee, and former president of the southern section, California Business Education Association. Mr. Franz A. Weinschenk, associate dean of Humanities Division, Fresno City College, Korean war veteran, former debate coach at Fresno City College. Dr. Leo M. Thomas, vice president, Citrus College, Azusa, Calif., and graduate level instructor in courses in education, psychology and sociology; former director of the evening college and summer session of Chapman College, and former dean of instruction, Nebraska State College. Assistant to the chairman of the accreditation team during its Palomar stay will be Mr. John Davitt, dean of students, Glendale College.
American society seen from English (Continued from page 1) Although Wilks finds similarities between teaching at Nevill's Cross and Palomar, he also finds many differences. "The English approach to education is a good deal more pragmatic than the American one. American educators seem obsessed with structure. They feel the constant necessity to produce some rationale, some philosophy to justify what they are up to. On the whole, English teachers muddle along by trial and error, experimenting with things they feel may work, happy if a lesson goes well, and feeling no pressure to fit it into some overall scheme. "There is still a very strong feeling in England, in higher education, that its proper purposes are the development of the mind and social maturation, and if someone remembers a few facts on the way, so much the better. I ~t the impression that the chief purpose of attending courses at Palomar is-fhe acquisition of skills, which in its own way is fine. "Many features of the junior college, especially the way in which everyone can have a go at almost anything , strikes me as splendid. Palomar is clean, handsome and very well equipped, which is a great deal more than you can say for most of its equivalent in England, the technical colleges. "But I doubt if it would prove a great social experience for many people. "Groups are too large, too transitory, too various to _provic!~ much continuous contact. Departments are isolated; there isn't even a faculty common room or time reserved when all the staff can meet. If I were dictator, I would ordain a coffee break and a siesta." Wilks feels that Palomar, in this way, is probably only reflecting the general
social pattern of the community as a whole. "To the outsider, the various settlements seem highly unsociable places, by which I don't mean--and I do want to stress this and double stress it--that individual people are unfriendly or inhospitable; in fact quite the reverse. "We have had showered on us since we arrived an enormous amount ofkindness, hospitality and friendliness, both from people in the college and from the Association of Overseas Educators. "What I do mean, and this surprises me, is that so far as I can tell people appear to have verylimitedcasualsocial contact. I have persuaded myself that the villain of the piece here is the motor car. "Folk travel in their lonely tin boxes from home and work, or to the supermarket, where they concentrate on the merchandise, never exchanging more than a word with anyone--and then it's often some synthetic formula like 'Have a nice day.' Nobody meets in shops or buses, because there are no shops or buses. They don't meet on the sidewalk because they don't walk; and they all depart for work and return home in different directions. ''There are probably other factors operating, like the fact that many people must have found themselvesreclassed in a mobile society and are tentatively feeling their way towards establishing new social mores," he concluded. Wilks has been obsessed with the idea of American social structure since his arrival here. "Perhaps it's because Durham is the antithesis of Carlsbad, where we are living. "Durham is about lOOO years old, and the present shape of the city has been
laid down for about eight hundred years. You can see the lines of the medieval st'reets in the present town, and it is dominated by a huge and very beautiful cathedral and a castle, now one of the residential colleges of Durham University. "Church and university own most of the land in Durham, and, consequently, the place has been carefully nurtured and is full of distinguished buildings, old and new. University employees and their families perhaps make up a quarter of the total population of 25,000. Most people live within a mile of the center of the city. Consequently, you have a curiously homogenous social group, living close together, culturally and financially pretty equal. It sounds fairly excluseve, and in a sense it is. But the size of the group is large, and takes in a lot of people not directly concerned with the university. "There is a lot of social activity in which both wives and husbands share and which they both create. People meet when shopping in the town. You know the shop assistants; you travel on buses and walk busy streets . During the day there will be a multiplicity of minor social contacts. "Whereas in Carlsbad, I don't think it would be difficult to pass a week in which no conversation exceeded a sentence in length. It must be one of the deadest, places, socially, in the world. "Mark you, I think Durham is exceptional in England. Romford, where we lived before, was more typical, and there social contact was pretty minimal. But it hadn't witheiO:,ed under the impact of the car and the supermarket as it has done here. In England, for instance,
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mums meet other mums when they go to meet their children out of school. Here they all sit in their cars outside the school gates. "I hope this doesn't sound too carping and grudging, I find the place (America) totally absorbing--quite, quite fascinating. "My early impressions of the states had been filtered through literature and the American intellectuals who contribute to the British press and who appear on English telly. It seemed a lively, ironic, self-questioning society, vigorous, the center of social experiment and still with plenty of space to spare. "It's something of a shock to come to Southern California after that kind of preparation, and to find how little influence the writers and thinkers have in the United States generally. England can hardly take a holier-than-thou stance, though. Like all the West, it would be like California if only it could, which was one of the things that the last election was about. Fortunately-at least I think fortunately-it will probably be saved by the natural inertia of the whole society. British conservatism ensures very slow social and economic change." Wilks said that he could talk for "ages" about his impression of America. "My senses haven't been so wide awake for years," he stated. What has he enjoyed most? "The acquisition of new friends, who I'm sure we shall get to know well and see again after we leave; a football game; dolphins off the Mexican coast; the aquarium at San Diego-these and a hundred other things. But most of all new friends and talking to people."
Finally, why not print THE TELESCOPE on newsprint? \Ve are able to buy the white paper now used for THE TELESCOPE at a cost less than wholesale. Paper for the two weekly editions costs $24.00. The use of newsprint would save $3.72 weekly. However, newsprint in extremely difficult to handle and could not be gotten through the press in the two and a half or three hours available to print each edition. Finally, I must disagree with Miss Nakanishi as she opines that the cost of getting THE TELESCOPE out must be exhausting. It is not the cost. Jim McNutt Graphic Arts Advisor
THE TELESCOPE Published Tuesday and Friday of each school week, except during final examinations or holidays, by the Communications Department of Palomar -College, San Marcos, Calif., 92069. Phone: 744IISO, Ext. ll9. ¡ Advertising rates are $1.50 per column inch. Opinions expressed in signed editorials and articles are the views of the writers and do not necessarily represent opinions of the staff, views of the Associated Student Body Council, college administration, or the Board of Governors. The TELESCOPE invites responsible "guest editorials" or letters to the editor. All communications must be signed by the author, including I.D. number. Names will be withheld upon request. Letters may be submitted to the TELESCOPE editorial office, H-4. Editor-in- Chief. . . . . . . Jan Gustina Page 1, Tuesday . . . . . . . Mike Hicks Page 2, Tuesday . . . . . Willabert Parks Page I, Friday. . Carolyn Stedd Sports Editors. . .Ken Carr Mike Hicks .Frank Hoffa Reporters . . Debbie Ingraham . . . . Bill Grote Staff Artist. . . Ken Wheeland Photographers. Larry McDaniel Randee Tracko .Jerrie Cheung Ad Manager . . . . . . Fred Wilhelm Journalism Adviser. Photography Adviser. .Justus Ahrend Graphic Arts Adviser. . . Jim McNutt
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