The Telescope 25.40

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Palomar College 路 Volume 25 Number 40 路 A Publication of the Associated Students

May 16, 1972

San Marcos, Calif.

92069

Speech team places sixth, wins awards

Registration begins for summer session

National recognition was brought to Palomar once again when the Forensics team placed in the "top 10" in the US for the fifth consecutive year, taking a sixth place.

The US National Speech Championships, held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, hosted 90 colleges and 700 competitors with the Palomar squad winning a total of 40 awards during the week-long event.

Cynthia Drinkwater led the way by winning the second-place trophy in speech analysis, discussing "Mark Twain: A Rhetorical Application of Mrs. Drinkwater also His Humor." won the third place national award in expository speaking with a presentation entitled, "The Female Spy. " Buck Webster won the national second-place trophy in expository speaking with, "Kabuki: Japanese Drama."

Third place championship in oratory was taken by Estella McDill with her presentation, "Miscegenation: Is it really accepted in society?"

Floyd McKeithen took sixth place honors in rhetorical analysis with, "David Ross Locke: Early Spokesman for Women's Liberation."

Reaching the semi-finals in the oneweek competition were: Terri Miles, Bonnie Anderson, Donna Reeps, Lori Broomhall and Becky Green.

"Superior" certificates were presented to Drinkwater, McKeithen, Webster, Reeps, McDill and Anderson.

Mary Bareis, Sue Williams, John Sowell, Miles, McKeithen, Drinkwater, McDill, Reeps, Green, Anderson and Broomhall all received "excellent" certificates.

In addition, the two women's debate teams of Williams-Reeps and GreenBareis received honorable mention.

Enrollments are being received now for the six-week summer session at Palomar starting June 26 and concluding August 4.

Students may register for summer classes at the registration desk, Administration Building, at any time during regular working hours, from now to the start of class work June 26.

A wide variety of summer courses will be available in virtually all departments, said Dr. Kent E. Backart, director of the session. ''These range from a large offering of regular college courses, to two-week workshops in a number of special fields, and an eight-week course in higher mathematics, " Backart said. "Credits during the session generally are transferable to the University of California, the state colleges and other major colleges and universities, because of Palomar's full accreditation."

He said a limited number of evening credit classes will be offered and Continuing Education classes are also scheduled .

A comprehensive recreational program will be provided.

The Mathematics Institute is scheduled for an eight-week session, June 19August ll .

Other workshops, institutes and short term courses will include: English, June 12-23; "Shakespeare in the Summer," June 26-July 14 and July 17-August 4; FelicitaPageantWorkshops, June 12-24 (planning) and Augtist 7-Sept. 2 (rehears als); Dance Workshop, June 12-21; Aerospace Workshop, June 19-30; Planetarium Workshop, June 1930, planned especially for school teachers of all grades who bring student groups to the planetarium shows staged weekly during the year for such groups and offering UCSD credits.

Work Experience Program, June 19-

New veterans group supports increased funds Proposals to increase the veterans' education allowance and plans to send petitions for nationwide veteran support were discussed at the May 3 meeting of the newly-formed Veterans For Veternas Benefits (VVB).

"The committee is working for better G.I. education benefits for veterans. College costs are going up faster than G.I. allowances, and many are having to drop out of school because of this lack of funds,~ said John Garner, chairman of the group. "Vets cannot go to college, and Vets in college are forced to work a 40 hour week, sacrificing scholastic attainment," Garner added.

Indiana Senator Vance Hartke chairman of the Senate Veterans Affair Committee has introduced a bill that would boost the rates to $244 for a single veteran, $285 for a Vet with a wife, and $326 for a Vet with a wife and one child.

Hartke said that this increase would make the rate roughly equivalent to the liberal benefits given to the World War II Vets.

World War II Vets received $500 a year for books, fees, and tuition, and then were also given a monthly allowance from $60 to $90 per month.

A $1,000 a year payment for books, fees, and tuition is one of the goals of the VVB and also the National Association of Collegiate Veterans.

Montana senator Charles Mathias has introduced legislation for the $1,000 payment.

The House has passed a bill that would increase the college attendence rate for Vets from $175 to $200 a month for a single Vet, $205 to $234 for a Vet with a wife, and $230 to $262 for a Vet, wife, and child.

"Membership has already reached 40 compared to almost 1,000 veterans on campus,~ Garner replied. "There will be another meeting of the VVB at 11 a.m. in front of the Student Union May 17.

"I would like to see more Vets attend this meeting to inform you of your responsibility, since adequate education benefits are needed. The committee alone cannot do everything," Garner added.

National speech champions from the forensics squad include (left from bottom), Estella McDill, 3rd in oratory, Cynthia Drinkwater, 2nd in analysis and

3rd for expository; and Floyd McKeithen, 6th in rhetorical analysis. Also pictured are coaches Ray Dahlin and Mitties McDonald. (Photo by Cochrane)

'Week of the Young Child' includes exhibits, discussions "The Week of the Young Child," a nationwide observance , will continue for the next three days.

The purpos e of the week's presentations is to alert the community about the special problems and needs of young children between the ages of three and eight.

Ruth Sonnenchein, student teacher, will preside today at 11 in the Student Union over a musical demonstration by students from the Richland Nursery School.

Dr. Kenneth Hensell, project director of the ESEA Project in the San Diego City School system, will discuss "Multi-aged Grouping and Early Childhood." the presentation is in P-32 today at 3 p.m.

A panel discussion titled "The Young Child: Needs and Services," will take place in P-32 at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.

Mrs. Patricia Maloney, a coordinator for preschools, will talk about "Programs Available for Young Children," while Dr. Oliver Thomas is planned to speak on "The Doctor and the Young Child." Mrs. Beverly Kilman is to talk on "The Psychologist and the Young Child."

Rounding out the panel is Jack Wilson, who assists in licensing foster homes.

He is scheduled to discuss "Foster Homes and Day Care for the Young Child."

Throughout the week, an exhibit of children's art will be on display in the

Psychologist will

campus library, student union, and adm!!listration building as well as P-32.

"If They Were Your Children," a film presented by Metropolitan Life Insurance, will be shown Thursday at 3 p.m.

It can be seen in P-32.

A panel program, "The Young Child: Needs and Services," will be moderated

by Mrs. Clothier at 7:30 p.m. May 17 in Room P-32. Panel speakers are Mrs. Beverly Kilman, Dr. Oliver Thomas, Mrs. Patricia Maloney and Jack Wilson.

Also on Thursday will be a demonstration by the children from the Vista Headstart center.

discuss futurology

Agnes Meum watches as nursing student Cindy Shoemaker 路is video-taped while presenting a talk. "Micro-teach-

ing'' is used in the obstetrical nursing portion of the course.

(Photo by Nora Cochrane)

Dr. Joe Broadbeck, widely- known clinical psychologist and former holder of professorships in several leading universities, will speak tonight in P-32 at 7:30 p.m. on "The Future and Futurology."

Dr. Brodbeck is the author of many books and articles, recipient of numerous awards, and has been a professor at West Georgia and USIU. He will be conducting a seminar on "The Search for Wisdom," May 19-21, in Del Mar.

Anti-Communist will speak here Friday Dr. Fred Schwarz, president of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, will speak from 10:50 a.m. to 12 noon Friday in Room P-32.

Dr. Beauford Chambless, faculty sponsor of the college "Young Americans for Freedom," said Schwarz is to speak under auspices of that organization, on "American and the Future of Mankind."

He said the talk "will be non-partisan and of a patriotic nature."

Chambless said Schwarz, of Long Beach, will also speak that evening following a dinner at 6:45 at the Escondido Country Club, on "Herbert Marcuse, Rodger McAfee, and Angela Davis."

Chambless said dinner reservations may be made by phoning him at 746-7006.

August ll; Art Program, June 26-July 28; Institute for Native American Students, a six week session in the Pala area and offering regular college credits; Nursing Seminar, July 10-August 18; Art-Photography Workshop, August 21Sept.l; Body Conditioning Workshop, Aug. 27-Sept. 11.

A full program of physical education and health courses is provided, including basketball, football, wrestling, aquatics, physical fitness and track and field.

Evening classes, most of them meeting on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 7 p.m., include carpentry, astronomy, business law, accounting, real estate, mathematics for teaching assistants, introduction to daata processing, literature and the film, introduction to automotives, and introduction to modern math.

Backart said the Summer Session Bulletin, with detailed description of all course offerings and workshop programs, amy be obtained at the college or at area high schools.

ASG reveals plans for ICC pleasure fair Plans were finally revealed for Palomar's upcoming "Fair for All Seasons" by vice-president Steve Miller at last Monday's meeting of the ASG. The fair, sponsored by the Inter Club Council (ICC), will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 19 and 20.

Eight clubs on campus are involved, according to Miller, and activities will include dances, craft demonstrations, games and dramatic and comedic skits.

In addition, several different organizations will be selling either concessions or their group-made wares.

Miller noted that there might be further additions to this list, saying that he and the ICC were "trying to get a glass-J;>lowing demonstration." Assembly chairman John Glenn suggested "getting a barbecue out there," but Miller felt there were too many concessions already.

The event will be held in front of the Student Union both days, with activities both on the grass and sidewalk areas, depending on the type. Everyone is in路vited to one or both day's events.

Teachers pmise new learning tool

By Andrea Berkovsky "The students just love it. TV is the students' media," said nursing instructors Joan Mahoney and Ruth Murphy in their appraisal of "microteaching.''

A new learning tool introduced this semester in the nursing department, micro-teaching involves the video-taping of a student as she delivers a lecture or teaching segment.

36 freshman nursing students are currently utilizing this learning program as part of their obstetrical nursing course.

According to Mrs. Murphy, they got the idea for micro-teaching at a nursing conference they attended at the University of Portland. There they had several sessions with a nursing micro-teaching specialist who demonstrated this concept. Both teachers attribute its success to the fact that television plays an important role in modern society, especially among young people.

An unstructured approach is emphasized in micro-teaching, with each student able to choose her own material for presentation.

A maximum of 10 minutes is allowed for a presentation.

Because of the size of the class and the equipment used, students tape a program only twice a semester.

So far, say the instructors, there has been no repetition of material. Past programs include segments on the psychological aspects of nursing care, baby bath and exercise demonstrations, and talks on medications and diseases. Photographs and graphs are used to illustrate a presentation.

As the first teachers at Palomar to use micro-teaching in their classes, .Mrs. Mahoney and Mrs. Murphy are enthusiastic and satisfied with its success here.

They plan to use it again this fall and hope to use it during the summer session.

Opinions varied on Vietnam policy

By Tony Borders In what could very well become the most decisive move of the Vietnam war President Nixon has escalated the air and naval war around and in North Vietnam by ordering: (1) the mining of all North Vietnamese ports, (2) authorization for the bombing of all rail and communication lines, up to the Chinese border, ·and (3) the interception of all ships going to any port in North Vietnam.

What will happen? Of course, only time will tell. But how effective will Mr. Nixon's moves be in getting the North Vietnamese to the peace table and what are the risks?

Let's look at how effective the plan will be.

First, Russia, according to Saigon sources, already has equipped the North Vietnamese with several minesweepers at Haiphong harbor. Thus, as the United States lays them, these minesweepers will coiiect the mines, making the port 4seable again.

What about the bombing? As President Johnson found out in 1965, bombing Hanoi and Haiphong is relatively ineffective in stopping supplies from coming into North Vietnam since a majority come from China, overland by night.

Can a slowing of supplies stop the recent North Vietnamese advances in the South? Probably not. By our own advisers' estimates, the North Vietnamese have enough stockpiled supplies to carry out their advances for another six weeks.

In that amount of time, many experts fear, the North Vietmanese may have split South Vietnam in two, jeopardizing the South Vietnamese government.

What are the risks involved?

First, the actions move the United States into direct confrontation with Russia and Red China. Any incident, such as a plane bombing a Chinese village by mistake, could allow a nation to escalate the war, using these type of "incidents" as justification.

Secondly, the President's action will increase the number of the United State's pilots either killed or taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese, increasing the number of US prisoners of war in North Vietnamese prisons.

In conclusion, no one questions President Nixon's intentions to get us out of Vietnam,. It is the way in which he does it that one must question. Whether these actions will accomplish his and all America's goal is a very debatable question.

President Nixon, after exhausting all avenues for an honorable solution of the Vietnamese conflict, ordered all North Vietnamese ports mined on May 8.

His plan also called for the cutting of rail and other communications to the maximum extent so that the weapons of war be denied to North Vietnam.

The severe measures which had been contemplated during the Johnson administration were ordered implemented after Hanoi arrogantly rejected all of the U.S. offers for a negotiated settlement.

In Paris, the North Vietnamese responded to the US peace plans with a blatant invasion of South Vietnam. Their march south was made with complete disregard of the civilian population. Cities and villages were shelled savagely, killing thousands of i'lllocent bystanders.

The sole purpose of the move, according to Mr. Nixon, was "to protect the lives of 60,000 Americans who would be gravely endangered in the event the Communist offensive continues to roll forward and to prevent the imposition of a Communist government by brutal agression."

In referring to the new US Indochina role the President also remarked that, "The actions would cease when all American prisoners of war were returned and there was an internationally supervised cease-fire in Indochina." Additionally, "The withdrawal of all American forces would be complete within four months after those conditions are met." he also added.

Reaction to the President's speech was swift in coming. Leading Democratic Presidential candidates, who signed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which subsequently was responsible for the increased troop level in South Vietnam, were critical of the President's decision.

George McGovern said it was "reckless, unnecessary and unworkable. It is a flirtation With World War III. " Hubert Humphrey, a vice-presidentduring the Johnson years, remarked that the President's course "is filled with unpredicted danger.

It offers no real hope for ending the war nor protecting American forces."

Short of retreating home into an isolationist posture and abandoning our world commitments, the President's latest effort to settle the Vietnamese problem deserves the support of the American people.

A fragmentized American society only adds fuel to the enemy's will and determination to continue their offensive. A united America will give notice to those bent on agression that their actions will not be tolerated.

Disagreements with this administration's foreign policy should be voiced at the polls, not in the streets.

The Vietnam war may have taken a new turn--whether for the better or for the worse is yet to be shown-- as a result of President Richard M. Nixon's recent decision to mine Haiphong harbor in North Vietnam. The following are randomly-gathered student responses to Nixon's actions.

work. · I served in Quang Tri in 1969 and '70, in what Nixon and 'Wastemoreland' called one of the most effective paci.fication efforts in North Vietnam. Quang Tri didn't fall--it ran. "NfxonTs r1sKffig nuclear war in his present policy.

Paul Groves: I just think he's carrying the old adage of 'try, try again' to staleness. The only thing that scares me is what's · next. All they have left to do is invade North Vietnam with American . troops. I think this war is Nixon's war, the POWs are Nixon's POWs, and they're dropping Nixon's bombs on North Viet Nam.

Dennis Balduff: No matter what you do one side's going to war against the other. I don't like the whole war, I don't like them or us. I am a citizen of the world.

Paul McBride: I think something should have been done five years ago. Personally, I think Nixon's choice was a really good one. The biggest thing I hope on that is that Nixon doesn't pull another 'John F. Kennedy.'

Terry Hill: President Nixon's actions at this time of grave military crisis have been decisive and strong--just what you'd expect from a President in 1944. However, this is 1972. Vietnamization and pacification haven't worked and won't

Grace Salley: dangerous move.

I think he's made a

Fred Rasp: I'm for peace--we should have pulled out. Too many lives are lost and we've been there too long.

Besides, I may have to go.

Sue Bradley: I think it's a big political maneuver; I think Nixon's doing this because people are tired of the war and election time is coming up.

I'm not for war, but if we're going to have one, it's best to get it over with--something we should have done ten years ago.

Richard Noble: It was a mistake to get involved. We could have helped South Vietnam in other ways short of military-political commitment. If we'd withdrawn our troops more rapidly, we wouldn't have this problem. Though I understand the problems involved in this bad situation, a more rapid withdrawal of American troops would have avoided this situation altogether; however I do fault the present administration for not expediting with greater alacrity, our troop withdrawal.

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By George Salinas

Student responses given in Haiphong controversy

Holly McCone: I think it was a mistake to be in Vietnam in the first place, but once we're in there we can't just abandon them to be massacred. We've already committed ourselves, we ought to go ahead and win the war. I think Nixon's doing what he believes is right. It may be wrong and it may be right, but at least he's not copping out because he might not be re-elected.

Letters...

'You have done this to my son!'

Frustration, disillusionment about war felt by writer

By Richard Peacock · The other day the Editor of The Telescope approached me and asked if I would write a guest editorial for the paper.

It was to be a response to Richard Nixon's declaration on television last week of the bombing "escalation," coupled with the mining of its harbors.

My first reaction was negative. The subject sickens me and to put it all on paper was double unpleasant.

But I dispelled those feelings and said yes.

Part of the problem I face is the bored<?m of repetition (has it been 8 years already that I've been marching? I think back to the numberless meetings and rallies, trying to keep our spirit up, outnumbered and slightly frightened but electrified by an unspoken brotherhood).

By now every thing has been said.

Who hasn't heard the political and moral arguments--the Geneva Agreements which the United States refused to sign, the puppet government of Diem, the CIA's overthrow of Saigon regimes, the Gulf of Tonkin hoax, the Ellsberg revelations, the Thieu "one party elections," the massive heroine addiction--on and on and on.

Logical appeal So where does one start? I .thoi!K_ht of sorting it all out, then making a lon_g logical appeal to reason and political sanity, filling the page with great bridges of logic and good sense. Then I thought of writing in a humorous or cynical vein.

It is rather easy to mock the vulgarity of the Nixon ·r egime.

They love sport, you know. Nixon in the locke·r room. His game plans fill both the front page and the sport page.

Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird the other day compared Thieu's army to an expansion baseball team (does this mean they lose for the next five years?).

These grotesque analogies are still a shock, even after these many years of political obscenities.

And so I cannot write in neat categories and cool analysis any more. The experience of these past years has been too staggering. I'm left with fragmented thoughts and feelings--disconnected.

So in writing about Vietnam, I can only write about myself, what changes Vietnam ' has made in me, what Vietnam has done to me.

Desire to strike out It has made me angry.

I feel the strong desire to strike out, despite any pacifist leanings, In fury to compensate for the silent numbers who have suffered so cruelly. To break the cold face of my television set.

And I'm angry when I put my eight year old son to bed and he can' t go to sleep and says he dreams of war and will he have to go. Goddamn you who have done this to my son.

Vietnam has caused me to lose my faith. I was brought up a Roman Catholic and trusted in the judgments and humanity of that church.

But it has been shamefully silent as millions are exposed to · the most brutal death the Twentieth Century can conjure.

Pope Paul asks for "peace;,- in gutless language every Christmas and Easter. The American Bishops worry more .about unborn fetuses than burned children. Parish priests become poll takers . .

There has been the bravery of the Berrigan group but they are an embarrassment for most Catholics.

All Churches the Same The Protestant Churches' record is no better. So I look to the new religio~s­ ity of the young.

But somehow they can't be bothered with "social or political" questions. They are other-worldly.

The Jesus Freaks quote me 14 passages from the Bible proving that war is inevitable. In fact, it is God's just punishment. We must seek life in another place.

What about the morality of napalm?

The ethical consideration seems almost embarrassing in the comfort and security of the Southern California sky. Besides, the surf is up and Christ is my brother and all is one in that great everlasting tidepool. We are grooming a new breed of blond, clear-eyed spiritual fascists.

And I'm ashamed of America. Traditionally one of the most basic American standards has been the concept of "fair play." It may have been vague, but you KNEW what it meant. I was taught to hate bullies, to pull for the underdog. We had been a refuge for the poor and alienated of the world.

War is a game But if war is a game, then surely the United States has taken unfair advantage. It inherited the deadly harvest of an immense industrial and electronic technology. The sheer power of it all is almost too much to imagine.

But it is experienced--at this moment-by the Vietnamese people. It is destroying their land, their traditions, their agrarian culture. In the south as well as the north. Silver bombers manned by nameless crews shower the countryside, then return to the base for coffee at the officer's mess and sleep between white sheets.

This is done in the name of "saving face." Not my face, not a Vietnamese peasant's face--Richard Nixon's face. He feels that his political future depends on winning this deadly game.

I feel like I'm caught up in a bad dream, of living in the same house wi.t h a madman.

He is taking me on his bad trip. He has created the context, yes the very language, of a new reality.

This reality is a barren landscape marked with craters filled with stagnant pools in which dead bodies float.

Nations don't respond Am I a dupe? Russia does not respond, China does not respond, Europe does not respond.

My paranoia is rampant.

The Russian ambassador smiles at Nixon on television.

The four power blocks have already made their understandings and there is no real contest among these cou.n tries .

It is Africa, South America and Southeast Asia that holds their interest. Despite the cold war rhetoric, it is the poor; underdeveloped people of the world who are raped and murdered for their lands.

I am lost in it all--at once apart from it, the moral critic; yet part of it, a hypocrite. The one compensation as an English teacher is that I no longer have to explain the works of Franz Kafka to most students.

As the days go by since our President's announcement of the blockade and it appears the administration has pulled off another coup I feel that a reflection on his statements may be valuable.

Our President contends that his action was m response to the massive invasion from the North.

The ability of the President and his administration to continue to use the word invasion with the implications which it has, points to the very sad fact that we as an American people have been simply unwilling to look at the facts involved.

Anyone desiring the truth about our involvement in Vietnam need only go as far as the library. The South VIetnamese government is part of a creation of the US and a poor creation by any standards used. The rhetoric about freedom and democracy has very little legitimacy when viewed in the light of the last elections and the most recent imposition of marshall law throughout the south.

Included in the President's presentation was his appeal to the 'people for support on the grounds that his action was being taken to nrotect our POWs and 60,000 American lines threatened by the new offensive. It is my personal feeling that the factual basis for that statement is very questionable. In a recent interview on TV with Dan Rather the President made a comparable statement that the only thing holding the US in Vietnam was the question of the POWs. Mr. Rather's p.ext question was if the US had ever asked the North Vietnamese if they would agree to a release of all POWs and a guarantee of safe conduct to all American forces in response to a definite withdrawal date.

The President's response on nationwide TV was that the North had summarily dismissed such a proposal.

The following day in response to the inquiry regarding that statement, a White House source concluded that in actuality no such proposal had ever been made or rejected. These facts and many others are available to anyone who will take the time to look.

It is again my personal opinion that our President has not explored all approaches to peace and the saving of American lives, contrary to what he publicly would have us believe. My appeal not only to students of this campus but to all Americans is to take a few extra minutes to get the truth before we allow our government to speak in our name.

A Veteran and an Ame1·ican Hal Coffman Dear Editor:

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I would like to say that I think the fellow who disconnected the microphone at Wednesday's Veterans meeting in the free-speech area was very rude.

You could have at least waited until the guy had finished his sentence before you broke in to protect your skin.

I'm sure that you have good reason for not wanting the "Veterans for Veterans Benefits" movement linked with the current anti-war sentiment--and can understand it.

I think, though, that the group that was gathered there had the necessary intelligBeee to make that distinction for themselves and--speaking for myself-regretted your censure.

Respectfully, Danny Boone

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