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Refugee pursues a new life in U.S.

By Scott Woodham Kim "Annie" Cuz is a 27 year-old Vietnamese refugee woman worried about her future.She has no home, no job, only lurid memories of fleeing her native land.

Cuz(Koo) has been living in "Tent City", the refugee installation on Camp Pendleton, with her parents, three sisters, and two brothers, since their evacuation from Saigon a month ago.

Like most of the 6000 Vietnamese in Camp #8, and 18,000 refugees spaced out over Camp Pendleton, Annie is hoping to be sponsored soon, so she'll be able to begin a new life elsewhere.

Her 33 year-old sister, who is married to an American serviceman and living in Virginia, is willing to sponsor Cuz and her family, yet red tape has slowed down the process.

While awaiting the day she'll leave, Annie is sleeping on a cot, sharing an outhouse with eight people, and standing in line for her meals, sometimes up to two hours.

"Yesterday I went to lunch and stood there from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. and they ran out of food," said Cuz. Temporary living conditions Despite the temporary living conditions, Annie is happy to be in the US. "I think you have treated us very well. I'm very touched," she replied.

Speaking in almost fluent English she learned from a British doctor in Saigon, Cuz went on to explain wh:y she was among 26,000 refugees who fled South Vietnam and Cambodia.

In Saigon, she lived with her family in a house and worked as a secretary for American Express Travel Agency and ABC News. Since she had close association with Americans during the war, her name appeared on the communists' death list.

"When I found out I was in danger, there was only 30 minutes for me to grab my belongings and get my family on the plane."

There was so little time, she could only manage to bring two shoulder bags full of clothes. For herself, she had only two pair of jeans, a shirt, and one pair of shoes.

Since their arrival at Pendleton though, the Cuz family has purchased new clothing from the military store.

Considered middle-class In Saigon her father worked with a French rubber plantation and was considered upper middle class.Annie's mother spent most of her time in their house, which was modest by American standards, but high class in Saigon.

Prior to their evacuation from Vietnam, Cuz's parents had been refugees t.wice.The first time they were forced to fl§~ th~ir home was in Cambodia in 1972.From a small town in Cambodia, they fled to Saigon .

Sea ttered throughout the refugee camps are attorneys, dentists, journalists, pharmicists, students, teachers, ministers, and librarians. Camp #8 is where most of the elite Vietnamese are staying, among them being former VicePremier Cao Ky. During this interveiw, it marked the first time she had been at her tent for any length of time.Most of the time she had spent at the Processing Center and lining up to buy clothes for her folks.

Rice is not Cuz's main diet anymore, as it is with most of the Viet-

namese. "Ever since I left Vietnam, one month now, I have never eaten rice.

"The only thing I eat here is salad. I'm very lazy to eat.I only have one meal a day." she said.

In Vietnam a normal meal consists of rice, soup, meat or fish, and salad. "In my family salad was the main nutrients.

Eat rice and fish sauce "The poor people in the country would inst. eat rice and fish sauce.Their main food is fish sauce. They put it over everything," Cuz said. - Living with Annie and her family is a man she helped evacuate out of Vietnam. "I can consider him my brother because he has no family here.

"His mother came to me and asked me if I could get him out. They would be very happy to know at least one of their family would survive." said Cuz. · Many of her friends and relatives didn't get out though.Among those were young men in the military who had to stay behind and defend the country.

"I'm not ashamed that I'm not married. I think if I was married I would be very unhappy, because my husband would still be in Saigon now, and I would have kids to support here" said Cuz. Marriage in Vietnam is still traditional in some families. "Some girls have no choice who they marry.Some of my own friends have committed suicide because of that.

"One of my classmates was forced to marry a person on the family side.She ran away.Because of that she was denied by her parents." said Cuz. Engaged for four years Annie was formerly engaged for four years. Her ex-fiance, a Vietnamese, is now maJ:ried to an American girl in Alexandria, Virginia.

When it comes to marriage and sex, Cuz considers herself a liberated woman, like most Vietnamese females her age. "I'm afraid of getting married.

I've seen many, many broken marriages, and because of that I don't mind being single" she said.

In Saigon a girl is usually married by the time she reaches 17 or 18. "If she was 20, she would be considered too old.She couldn't get married because the men pr~fer younger women," Cuz went on to say.

"One time I went out to dinner and I didn't let my parents know.! went straight from work to dinner then to a nightclub and the movies.! didn't get home until a quarter to twelve and they were standing in front of our house on the street.

Almost reported "They almost reported it to the police because they thought I had been attacked," said Cuz. Naturally, she has a lot of disdain for the communists. "I never believed in the communists. They say one thing and do it differently.

"I didn't like the communist government, but I wouldn't talk out, only just speak to my friends. The newspapers couldn't even write what they should.

"The poor people worked when they wanted to, and didn't when they had no need to.But with 'the communists, they have no choice now," emphasized Cuz. Life will go on for Kim Cuz. Hopefully she'll find a new home soon. "Sitting here, I think back about the streets of Saigon I used to walk on, but know I can no longer see them ."

NEWS AT A GLANCE Returning students wishing to be counseled in classes for the fall semester should do so now.

Counselors will soon be devoting their time in helping new students.

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Representatives from Cutco and WearEver Aluminum, Inc. will be on campus May 29 from 11 a.m. until noon and 1 until ~ p.m. in room R4-B to interview students interested in full and / or parttime sales jobs in the North County and coastal areas.

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Deadline for signing up for the June 2 tour of the San Diego State library is Thursday in the library. A maximum of

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30 people will be taken on the tour, which is open to all students of the college.

The San Diego State Library contains 900,000 volumes, and nearly a dozen of various interests.

The bus will be leaving from Palomar at noon on June 2 and will return at 4 p.m.

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The Veterans Club will hold elections to choose officers for next year today at 11 a.m. in the club office in the Dome.

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Recreation majors are invited to attend a recreation meeting Tuesday at 9 a.m. in 0.12. New officers will be elected at this time.

(Photo by Scott Woodham)

Vietnamese refugee Kim Cuz is now living with 18,000 other Vietnamese in "Tent City" at Camp

Pendelton. She and her fellow refugees are waiting for an American family to sponsor them.

Comedy 0h Dad•• / continues; 1

run concludes next weekend After opening last night the cast and crew of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" continue performances tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the drama lab (P-33).

Director Buddy Ashbrook describes the play thusly:"It's a farce, one of the first we've done here."

Written by Arthur Kopit, the play includes several unusual effects, such as a Siamese cat-eating piranha fish, a stuffed human body and a personified cuckoo clock.

"Oh Dad ... " was introduced on offBroadway, where it won the Obie Award as best play (1962). Ashbrook says, "It has been a favorite of community and educational theatres because it's not only a very funny play, but it also has a lot to say about the overdomineering mother, or, as Philip Wylie would say, "momism."

Concerning Palomar's production of

Opera troupe presents Puccini's ~La Boheme'

the play, Ashbrook comments, "Not only are we trying to use the absurdist style in acting, but we are also mingling with that some commedia del arte to add to the depth of comedy. This play has given the actors the opportunity for inventing and improvising several comedic bits."

The cast of the play includes Nancy Pinkerton as the domineering Madame Rosepettle, Joseph Mallard as her stammering son, Nancy Pentzien as the 'babysitter,' and Perry Skarra as the unsuspecting Commodore Roseabove.

Other characters are bellboys, played

by George Scott, Eric Armstrong, Dave Dunlop, Richard Hornbeck, Don Krout and Bob Saylor; two Venus fly-traps, played by Lisa McLeod and Alicia Pinkerton; a cuckoo clock, played by Phil Day; a waitress, played by Barbara Wesley; and the corpse, played by stage manager Jim Hawn.

The production closes next weekend after performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $1.50 for students and $2.50 for non-students.

Reservations may be made by calling 744-1150.

Puccini's opera "La Boheme" will be performed May 29 by the City of Angels Opera Company in the Dome. The performance will begin at 8 p.m.

The company has toured the West Coast over the past three years. Their aim is to "prove that opera is for everyone" by providing schools with Because of the large divorce rate study guides and performances. among young couples, the Probation Their entourage is complete, including Department of San Diego County has scenery, portable stage, sets, costumes recently shown concern. and an experienced staff of technicians Due to this high rate the law has been and musicians. changed. Now, a couple contemplating Tickets may be obtained free of charge marriage may do so in premarital by sending a stamped self-addressed counseling. Counsel involves social, envelope to the Palomar College Depart- economic and personal responsibilities ment of Community Services, 1140 West incident to marriage.

Mission Rd., San Marcos, CA 92069.

The obvious intent is to hopefully turn Tickets may also be picked up at the box the tide of divorce among young couples. office.

The majority of young marriage For further information contact the applicants are completely unaware of Palomar Department of Continuing the law, which leads to many problems Education. and pressures for the couple and their

Despite last-minute wrangles that kept the members of the constitution rewriting committee working until Wednesday, the constitution election will take place according to schedule: Polls will open in the Student Union Monday morning and continue to operate morning and afternoon until Friday.

Initial objections to the constitution arose in the Assembly two weeks ago.

Some members of the Assembly were unhappy to learn that, according to the original agreement that set up the committee last year, the Constitution was not subject to amendment by the Assembly. In other words it would go on the ballot despite any objections that the student representatives brought up.

Several student officers specifically found fault with portions of the document. The first of these was Article IX, sections one and two in which it was written that elections of both the Executive and Legislative branches would take place in the spring.

According to F.F. "Doc" Hollady, a member of the Assembly, those portions would "disenfranchise the freshman class, by depriving them of the right to vote." Holladay objected that "since twothirds of the students in the fall are freshmen, you are not allowing the great majority of the students to vote."

Members of the Assembly also disagreed with the stipulation that a majority of the students voting would be sufficient to put the constitution into effect. One member argued that "According to the rules of the constitution under which we are working, amendments require a two-thirds vote."

A special meeting of the Assembly was held Tuesday and members of the constitution rewriting committee, including Charles Hanlen, political science instructor who moderated the class, attended to help clarify any issues and iron out the basic objections of the Assembly members.

Hanlen stated that the committee was quite willing to receive suggestions from the school officials, but that "it is interesting to note that there was little or no input during the four and a half months when we worked on it."

He disagreed that the new constitution had to adopted using the rules of the old one. "The constitution is an entity within itself, owing no allegiance to the old one." He cited historical precedent such as the fact that the U.S. Constitution was adopted by three-fourths majority of the states, when the previous Articles of Confederation required a unanimous consent for any decisions.

Hanlen also felt that the election procedure for officers and members of the Student Legislature was fair. "No matter what date you have elections, you will disenfranchize someone. If you have elections in the spring, then you will be ready to function on the first day you come back to school."

Eventually, some compromises, acceptable to both sides, were worked out.

With parts of the document altered by the committee, the Student Assembly and Executive Thursday voted to support its adoption.

According to the revision, the constitution will require three fifths of the students voting to become in effect, a compromise between the simple majority favored by the committee and the two-thirds majority favored by others.

Also, in addition to the election that will be held in the spring, another election will take place in the fall to replace any vacancies that may occur during the summer, thus affording the freshmen the opportunity to vote.

Premarital counseling oHered because of high divorce rate families. If a couple under 18 is thinking of marriage and interested in the program there are two requirements.

1) In California, those couples intending to marry, where one or both are under 18, will first need the court's permisswn.

2) The court is requiring these couples to participate in premarital counseling before requesting the court's permission to marry.

For additional information, you should contact the San Diego County Probation Department premarital counseling program at 565-3401 or 5653257.

7 QUALIFIERS

Page, archery team score in nationals

Jorgensen, Nilsson lead local spikers

Scott Page became the number-two ranked collegiate archer in the nation, shooting a total score of 1790 at the US National Intercollegiate Archery Championships at Cerritos, May 15-17_ Palomar placed fourth ·in the tourney (second place in the national junior colleges, fourth in competition with two and four-year schools).

Page, third in the Mission Conference, broke the record for the 70 meter Middle Metric Round, scoring 303 points in that event. He earned a nomination to the National All-American Archery Team for this feat.

Teammates Pat Palmer and Dick · Nelson also earned All-American nominations with single event scores of 803 and 795, respectively.

"Scott is only in his second year of

Distance ace John Arne Nilsson and pole vaulter Bill Jorgensen will lead a contingent of seven Palomar trackmen who will be competing in eight events in the Southern Cal finals tomorrow night at Bakerfield College.

Nilsson, a Swedish freshman, won his heats in the 880-yard run and the mile in last Friday's prelims at Bakersfield.

Mter winning the second heat of the mile in 4:10.8, Nilsson came back less than two hours later to win the fourth heat of the 880 in 1:53.7.

Neither was the fastest qualifying time of the day . Tom Fox of Rio Hondo leads the 880 qualifiers at 1:52.2, while Terry Cotton of Grossmont won the only other heat of the mile in 4:10.6. Nilsson will face Cotton for the first time this season tomorrow night, as injuries sidelined the Gross mont distance runner earlier 'this season.

Cotton is the national junior college indoor mile co-record holder at 4:07,5, set in the San Diego Indoor Games in February.

Jorgensen is one of four leading qualifiers in the pole vault at 15-6. On a clear, sunny day with the tailwind he likes, Jorgensen cleared the bar on his third attempt, breaking his own school record of 15-1 set last season.

Other Comets who qualified for tomorrow's finals include Mike Damewood, fourth in the javelin at 19610; Cary Cotten, sixth in the shot put at a season best 50-111/2; and Al McClure, eleventh in the triple jump at 47-11/.i.

There were no preliminaries held in the 3,000 meter steeplechase.Humberto Barajas and Steve Ball are entered for the Comets.

Outstanding nonqualifying efforts included: a lifetime best of 55.6 in the 440yard intermediate hurdles by Mike Grein, 14.9 and 15.0 in the 120-yard high hurdles by Richard Osterberg and Grein, 49.7 in the 440 by Hokan Bjork, 140-7 in the discus by Mark Truncale, 6-6 and 6-4 in the high jump by McClure and Mike Morasco and a season best of 3:20.7 in the mile relay by Morasco (51.5), Per Reinholtz (49.8), Donn Marrin (50.6) and Bjork (48.9).

Jeff Kennedy, Palomar's top hurdler, was with the leaders in the 120-yard high hurdles when he hit a hurdle in the middle of the race and fell. Although he ran the intermediates later in the meet, his scrapes and bruises from the previous race kept him from a good performance.

Johnson takes So Cal second Janis Johnson, number two singles player for the Palomar women's tennis squad, took second place in the number two singles division of the Southern California Community College Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Regional Tennis Tournament last Saturday at Golden West College.

Johnson lost in the finals to Debbie Hicks of Cypress College, 6-4, 6-2, after defeating three other players. Among those was an upset in the first round of top-seeded Debbie Miller from Pasadena City College, 7-5, 6-3.

The tournament divisions were broken down according to the position the women occupied on their college's team.

As a result of her finish, Johnson will be Palomar's representative in the SCCCIAC finals this weekend at Mt. San Antonio College, where she will compete against women from the number one and two divisions.

In other matches last weekend, number one Comet player Melana Peer reached the quarterfinals before losing to Della Mitchel of Golden West, 6-7,6-4, 6-4. Number four Comet Jeri Hogen also reached the quarterfinals in her division before being ousted by the number one seed Ann Driscoll of Pasadena, 7-6, 6-4.

In doubles action, the number one Palomar team of Erin Hickox and Kathy Lebedeff reached the quarterfinals, losing to a team from San Diego Mesa, 6-2, 6-4.

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archery, and is competing against people from four-year schools," said Rose Svarc, archery coach. "The person that beat Scott out of first place has been shooting for seven years. Frankly I was surprised at his performance. He shot well beyond his ability, and even surprised himself.

"Dick Nelson is a rookie by anyone's definition, since this is only his first semester of archery. When he first turned in a score to me, I was surprised by his high total, a 713. Scoring 795, his personal best of the season, at the nationals was an inspiration to the team, and gave us a burst of confidence," said Svarc.

"Pat Palmer normally shoots near 780. At the finals he shot 20 points above his average, a commendable effort," said Svarc.

"Palomar has a record of starting off slow, and then finishing in the top ranks. Except for Scott's recordbreaking performance on May 15, this is exactly what happened.On the second day, we settled down and began to hit_ Considering that the only four-year schools that beat us were Ohio State and Tough competition faced the four Stroudsberg, I'd say we did an excellent Palomar tennis players who competed in job," said Svarc.

Svarc also feels that Page is assured of the state tournament last weekend at West Valley College near San Francisco, a spot on the six-man All-American but coach Mike Curran was pleased with Archery Team and believes that Nelson and Palmer will win spots on the alterthe performances. .

The doubles teams tJf Peter Hansson- nate squad. She is also confident that the Thomas Wallin and Ken Peet-Roger · trio will be named to the Southwest (Pboto by Dale O.ldma) Hulburt were pitted against the number Regional team. · tablish himself as one of four_ one and two seeded teams in the first The women archery team did not comleading vaulters for the finals round and were eliminated. Peet and pete at the nationals, having been tomorrow night at Bakersfield.

Hulburt lost a close match with the eliminated in a preliminary round. number one team from Foothill College, 7-5, 6-4.

"They played very well," said Curran_ "Just to make .it to the state meet was an accomplishment." It marked the first time. Palomar was represented in the state tournament.

Foothill, from Northern California, Is VD increasing in California? defeated defending champs San Diego defeated in dual match competition, City Coll~ge to capture the state crown.

There has been a 20% increase in the compiling a 13-0-1 record.W arren Nikuls number of venereal disease cases won the state championship at 190 reported in California for 1975 as compounds, while the locals placed sixth at pared to the same time period in 1974 acstate. Palomar also won three important cording to USPHS statistics. wrestling tournaments: the California has the dubious honor of Southwestern, Pierce, and Cal Poly baving more reported cases than any tourneys.

Bodo Karkow, consul of the German other state. ., The baseball team ended their season Statistically in this state, one person with an 8-16 conference record, 13-23 Federal Republic in Los Angeles, will in every 500, (perhaps 100 at Palomar overall, in a rebuilding season. speak to political science students at College due to the median age) may be Don Hubbard's swimmers placed fifth Iioon Wednesday in room P-32. undergoing treatment. in the conference with a 3-4 conference Topics to be covered in the talk will inFor every reported case, there are record, 6-5 overall. clude the university system in West Ger- many, many more infected persons in Four school records were broken by the many and the problems it has entrackmen this year, including John Arne countered recently. Following the short the population.

The Public Health Clinic in Oceanside Nilsson in the mile, Bill Jorgensen in the talk will be a question and answer period has the only complete venereal disease pole-vault, the 880 relay team of Per for students and the public. center in North County (Diagnosis, Reinholtz, Richard Osterberg, Hokan Previous speakers have included the Bjork, and James Anderson, and the British press attache and the French treatment and control). This service is sprint medley team of Reinholtz, Bjork,· cultural attache, both from Los Angeles. free of charge and confidential.

Anderson and Nilsson. Overall, the State law permits physicians to treat For further information, contact the track team finished the season in second Social Science Department at 744-1150 minors without parental consent. Call place with a 7-1 record, 7-2 overall.

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The tennis team ended their season in second place in the conference with a 7-4 conference record.

Robert Luskey's golfers were knocked out of post-season play when Jay Provisional AccrediFeatherstone was disqualified for hittation granted by the . ting a second ball in the conference tourney. Overall, the locals finished in California Committee of fourth place at the conference finals, Bar Examiners. first in dual matches.Steve Wickliffe and Jay Featherstone were named to the AllConference team.

The J.D. or LL.B. degree

Netters ousted quickly at state

Sophomore Bill Jorgensen cleared 15-6 last weekend at the Southern Cal prelims in Bakersfield to es-

VD on upswing 1n North County

Wrestling, tennis, track star in men's 74-75 sports year Wrestling, tennis, and track highlighted the 1974-75 Palomar athletic program.

Other highlights in male varsity level sports include: The '74 football team's trip to Boulder, Colorado, where the Comets faced the University of Colorado's junior varisty team.Palomar ended the season in sixth place in the conference with a 4-6 record.

Steve Simunec was named to the Second Team All-Conference as an offensive back, while Don Houghton was named to the second team All-Conference as a defensive back.

Two records were broken by the local water-polo team: least number of goals scored by opponents during a season (133) and least goals averaged by opponents (6.8 per game). The locals won 12 games and lost 8, placing third in the Mission Conference.

Humberto Barajas placed seventh at the Southern California Cross Country Finals, and led the team to a 5-2 overall record.

Forward Henry Walther was named to the first team All-Conference as the leading scorer on the fourth place Comet squad (18-11 overall, 10-6 in conference action).This was the first time since 1965 that Palomar has had a winning basketball team.

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By Debby Thomas-Scheers Concentration camps and the Dutch Olympic track team.

What do they have in common? Sonja Swart, that's what and who.

Overcoming the fears and tragedy of the camp, she became a track star in Holland by winning medals in Holland, Belguim, England, and Israel.

She describes the German concentration camps as "An inferno of hell. My father and brother were beaten and shot to death."

Her family was taken from their house because they were of Jewish blood and spent the next two years in concentration camps. She spent nine months at Westerbrok in Holland, six weeks at Amersfort in Holland, and one year and four months at Bergen-Belsen in Germany.

"Anne Frank was one of my friends in the camp," she recalled. She was the author of the book "The Diary of Anne Frank," which told of a group of Jews in Holland who hid from the Nazi's in World War II. Brown sad eyes Anne was described as being skinny, having dark hair, and big brown eyes that looked sad. "She never told me about her diary, but then, we all wrote in diaries. I don't know where mine is. All I have left are some notes I jot~ed down after we had just been released from camp."

Sonja Swart continued with gruesome stories of certain events that are still painful to her and hard for some of us to understand.

"They (the Germans) made men dig their own graves. After digging the holes, they were ordered to get in. When they got in, they were shot.

"Every Monday, all the prisoners were called together at midnight. A list of names was read off. These people were told that they were going to be transported to another camp.

"We knew better though," she continued. "When your name was called, you weren't transported to another camp. You were killed. Everyone felt relieved when their names weren't called, because you knew that you would have at least one more week to live."

Death and sickness She continued by saying that "death, sickness, and screaming were all around her." There were hundreds of people in her barracks and there was only one toilet. They had dug holes outside, but there were instances where people would go outside and take a few steps too far away from the holes. This resulted in people insta ntly being shot to death.

Punishment was cruel. If you had done something wrong, you were placed in these holes and ordered to shovel out the human waste.

Meals consisted of one inch of bread and cabbage in water. " Mostly water," she added.

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They would tell each other stories of how food used to be, and of their lives before the camps to try to make people forget about the hurt in their stomachs because of the starvation.

Swart would dream looking out of her window at the barb wire wondering whether she was ever going to get out. "I wanted to live so much ."

Trainload of death During one of the times that they were being transported to another camp, there was a train load of 1,700 people. " Many among them were dead. We had no food for 18 days . My mother's head was resting on the body of a dead man and a 19 year old died right in front of me.

"Everytime the train stopped, we would jump out and steal wild vegetables." They were then herded back into the train like cattle.

"We found cans and made holes in them. Pieces of wood were gathered when the train stopped and we would put them in the cans and try to cook the vegetables."

Two days after the liberation of Russian and American troops, her mother died of starvation. Sonja felt guilty that

she got out of it a live and her mother didn't.

"If the war had lasted any longer, I don't think I would have survived." She believes that the reason she probably survived that long was because she was a very strong child .

Happy to be free She was happy to be free, but felt embarrassed because h er h ead had been sh aved because of lice and the fact that she had no clothes.

"I tried to forget everything that happened because I didn't want to live in the past, but then I didn't want to forget because I wanted to remember my family and the fact of how lucky I was to have survived.

"It is amazing how a person can adjust and come back into civilization after having to live like an animal."

After their release, lists of names ofthe Jews were posted in all of the cities. Her two brothers read her and her sister's names and found them by hitchhiking in army jeeps.

The two brothers had survived the camps. One was never suspected as being a Jew, but the other had been captured. He escaped and went into the underground pretending to be a Dutch Nazi.

After being released , she went into an orphanage and had to make up the two years of schooling that she had missed.

Interest in track Along with her regular school studies, she became interested in track. She was chosen on the Dutch team that competed at Tel Aviv in the 1950 Maccabiah Games after a distinguished career as a runner and broad jumper in the Sagetto Club (Holland's most powerful women's athletic organization).

Four years before she had won in the 200 meter sprint championships for women in North Holland. She also won in the women's 220 yard relay team which set a new Dutch record.

"I was very strong and I liked to run.

In school as a child I seemed to win all the races. We had gymnastics classes twice a week, and the fast races were always the most exciting part of the program," she explained.

She came under the coaching of track and field only after joining the Sagetto Club. "Then the training program was so rigorous," she recalls, ''that we had no time for anything else. It was always

early to bed, no smoking, no drinking, no late hours or parties."

In the competition in Israel she won the bronze medal, beating 26 other countries. She was also the first Dutch girl to compete in track in Israel.

Her clocking time during one of the races was 2.3 seconds slower than that of Fanny Blankers-Koem of Holland, who won four gold medals in the 1948 Olympic games.

She has many fond memories of those days and is especially proud of her two

sons who entered track and field in high school.

She has a son at Palomar and a son and daughter in high school.

Recently being divorced, she has come back to school to find a new direction in her life. She is taking yoga and Spanish here.

Swart said that she has started to run around the track, which brought back many memories as one of Holland's most outstanding track and field athletes.

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Captain Jerry's Trtanic adventure

By David Ross It was election time aboard the USS mind. They thought that he wore a Titanic. Everybody gathered on deck to lifepreserver as a joke and they were pick a new skipper. amused by his WMW button which stood The ship had been unlucky when it for "What Me Worry?" came to good skippers. The last one had The Titanic was going full-speed been set adrift in a life-boat made out of towards a giant white iceberg looming pieces of his own stateroom. up ahead. She was being shadowed by a Cap'n Jerry , the new skipper, was a sinister red submarine that had recently happy fellow who had been a captain torpedoed several junks filled with orienbefore -of a football team. Everybody tals. The passengers would have been figured that he smiled a ll the time worried, but Cap'n Jerry nonchalantly because he didn't have anything on his organized a game of shuffle-board.

Garbage skow skipper Of course some people complain no matter how well things are going, so the passengers decided to vote who should be captain. " I think we all oughta quit pussy footin ' around heah," said Cap'n G€orge, the skipper of a garbage skow that had once been a part of the Confederate navy. "That theah bigol' chunk o' ice is a headn' owah way fast. That commie submahrine is gwahn to put a fish in owah gizzard 'for we kin count ta three. So let's pass out the life-jackets to the co lahed folk, get aboard them We shall all soon have a valuable op- lifeboats and get the hell outta heah!" portunity to practice a little self- There was general round of booing. government at Palomar. The new stu- Nobody liked Cap'n George. dent body constitution will be offered to "Hey we can'thave a Captain who's in the electorate in the very near future . a wheel chair!" somebody yelled.

There is one thing you should do. Vote.

Aussie crawl champ If you have never voted in a college Senator G€orge, who everybody liked, election before, do it anyway. Cast away but who had failed to get to be Captain for a little while your prejudices against the last timP because he got his percenstudent body politics and do your tage points mixed up, had a new plan. neighbor and yourself a favor. Certainly "We'll head straight into the iceberg, school "government" is picayune at on ly we'll speed up so we'll get there times, and abs urd . A few of its goals are faster. Then everything will be peachy childish; some are meaningless. The of- keen!" ficers are sometimes filled with self"What about the submarine, George?" importance and not a littl e pompous.

"Why, I'll swim out there (I'm the Nevertheless, it is useful. It is the most champion of the Australian crawl, effectve student lobby on campus. It can y'know) and tell them that we'll give and does wield considerable influence back those refugees we kidnapped from with the Board of Governors. It can, at drowning, and that we'll promise to get times, help to a lleviate some of the little rid of those two cannons we've got irritations that consistently confront us; mounted aft!"

Teddy, the race car driver, was dismany of which, admittedly, it is the qualified for captain when it was dissource of. covered that he had failed his examinaIt is important that we keep it going in tion to be a lifeguard. Still, one of his as efficient and effective a manner as relatives had been a sea captain and possible. Which brings us back to the some people figured that Teddy might Constitution. end up on the bridge yet.

In order to carry out the the functions 'pleased as punch' mentioned above, the student body ofHubert, a former first mate who was ficials need an effective tool, a guideline trying a second time to be captain, said, if you will. They are all not the brightest "Well, I'm as pleased as punch to be people in the world (they represent a aboard the Titanic and all you wonderful cross-section of the students) and they folks are such fun to travel with. You need to be told what they can and cannot know, Muriel and I have always liked do. In many respects the present con- ridip.g the Titanic. And I think that if we stitution is deficient because it does not stick together, thatdumboldicebergwill tell them what they can do, or else does just melt before we get there!" so in an ambiguous manner, leading to Scoop, a steward, had earlier been in foul-ups and all manner of screwball favor of adding more guns to the ship. He notions. toned his arguments down and said that The members of the constitutional it was all right to sink little oriental rewriting committee have created what junks, so long as the red sub didn't shoot they believe to be a better constitution. at the small ship up ahead that was armYou may disagree. I may even disagree ed to the teeth and carrying matzohs. (though that, dear reader, is something This was a good idea, because he made that may be only known for sure at the friends of Teddy and Hubert_ ballot box) but I will admit it is clearer. 'can't go backwards' and less subject to bizarre interRocky, the first mate of the Titanic, pretations. offered to buy the ship.

In short, it is controversial. How may Ronnie, who had been the Captain of you ask (though I doubt it) can I find out the only ship of US register to avoid a the pros a nd cons of this argument? leak, thought that the Titanic ought to That's a good question, a well build bigger guns and go full-speed in though tout question. The answer is that reverse to avoid the iceberg. you will have many such opportunities "That's stupid," said everybody at to hear fanatical partisans pleading for once, "You can't go backwards!" or against the constitution in such And so they argued, back and forth, places as the public forum that is for hours. And finally they turned back scheduled for the near future. Go and to good ol' Cap'n Jerry. He offered a comlisten. Decide for yourself what you promise, "We'll slow down, so we won't think. hit the iceberg so fast. And we'll keep our When you have decided, vote. Ignore cannons to protect our friends; we'll just the amused stare of that simian hunched throw away the ammunition!" And over in the corner. He probably has a everybody agreed that it was a grand comic book hidden under that psy- idea to keep Cap'n Jerry on as skipper .. chology text anyway. Just vote.

Pass the ice!

EDITORIAL

Vote urged in election next week

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SUMMER ENGLisH CLASSS

Advanced gram mer offert Ferdinand A. Funk, M.A., a recent graduate of SMIMB, will teach a special advanced gram mer class for the summer session.

Funk, a 4.0 student throughout his educational career, stresses good grammer,spelling, and pronunciation in his class. The proper verb placement his forte is. "I stress the student's out-ofclass useage of proper grammarital phrases, sentence construction, useage, etc."

Funk often uses famous and obscure quotetations during his lectures, to help make a certain point more vivid. From The Left-Handed Dictionary, a popular Funk reference, comes this definition of a grammar text:"A book about the way people talk in books."

"One of the cardinal sins of mankind," says Funk, "is making students diagram sentences, phrases, and paragraphs."I"do not require any of my students to do any outlining in the

course. My only strict requirements are that students appear on test days, do occassional reading assignments, and turn in one short report at the end of the session."

tive English Grammer, Revisited, and The Joy of Grammer by "Z".These texts are extensively drawn upon .Class sessions will last from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., and will be held daily.

Assisting Funk will be another graduate ofthe San Marcos Institute for the Momentarily Befuddled, Willifred Wagnalls.

"I teach my students to emulate some of the great grammarian authors, such as Mark Twain, in their speech and writin. ""At the class meetings, I require each student present, on a rote basis, to read a short paragraph from the text, and to place proper emphasis on the proper words, to use pauses in the appropriate places, and to use the appropriate tone of voice with the appropriate words," said Funk.

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The preceding article is a product of the humorous section of Dave Reynolds' mind. Actually his command of diction, grammar, and lingual expression are second to none. Also, he talks good.

"During the class sessions, I often make short practice essay assignments.In my examination of them.I often make note of improperer spelling, punctuation; and such".

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Text's used by Funk include Havelock Trellis's Speling for Advanced Grammer Students, House and Hartman'sDescrip-

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