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Volume 30 No. 28
A Publication of the Associated Students
June 3,1977
San Marcos, CA
Presidential search reaches final stage Prescreening of the 1H:l completed applications for the presidency of Palomar Co llege has been completed by the Presidential Search Committee. According to Barbara Hinkley,
Concert to honor graduates Sunday
A line of bodies seems to stretch into infinity as hopeful students wait to register for summer school Wednesday. (Photo by Pat Downs)
The President's Concert, honoring graduating students, will be held Sunday, June 5 at 3 p.m. in the Student Union. Four of Palomar's performing groups will be featured in the concert. Admission is free to all graduating students, and $1 general admission. Tickets are available through the Music Department and Community Services. For more information call the Music Department, 744-1150 ext 549 or :349.
Behavioral Science instructor am! chairperson of the committee, the 1:1 voting member committee has selected 44 applica nts from the original list of 24:l. and this list will be broken down to I() or mon• possibilities at a future nweiing of ilw committee. The committeP will tht>n invite these candidatt>s to tht> campus for interviews. On .hu1e I '1 a tina] list of :1 t" (i candidates will lw submitted hy thl' committee to ilw Board of( ~ovl'rnors for a final dl:'cision. The Board of ( rt>vernors will then interview these peop]p and possihl\· visit them at their currPnt plan• of employment. The final rlecision should hP made hy ,July I. when current president, I )r. Fredt>rick Huber's contract E'Xpin·s. "The majority of thl' candidates on the present list resid1• in ( 'alifornia ," said HinklPy.
Orchestra, ensemble Huber to address graduates finish concert season Palomar's Community Orchestra and Wind Ensemble will present the final concert of the season Tuesday in the Dome. Both groups are directed by Robert Gilson, department chairman. The wind ensemble will perform music by George Gershwin, John Cacavas and Frank Erickson. The Gershwin piece, Second Prelude, will feature selections from Porgy and Bess. The Cacavas composition is a concert march, Days of Glory, while the Erickson selection is his Fantasy for Band. Wind players from the orchestra will join the ensemble for the performance. The orchestra, consisting of members of the community as well as Palomar students and neighboring high school students, will play the overture to the opera Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck; Symphony No. 5 in E minor by Tschaikovsky and the Berceuse and
EOPS jobs are offered EOPS is now seeking student summer employees. For further information, contact the EOPS Office, ext. 364, office U-12.
Finale from the Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky. Tickets at $1 are available from the Music and Community Services Departments at the college, or will be available at the door on the evening of the concert.• For more information call the Palomar Music Department, 744-1150 or 727-7529, ext. 549 or 349.
Retiring president Dr. Frederick sence,''says Dr. Huber. Some highlights of the arldn•ss R. Huber will speak on "1964-1977A Perspective" at the thirty-first will be the effect the college has had annual com mencement exercises. on the community and the futun• possibilities for the institution and June 18 at 10 a.m. in the Dome. According to Dr. Huber, he will its people. not recount his personal experiences During commencement, 1warh· at the college, but will use the past 13 800 students will receive AA degrpe:,; years as a "'~'JY in which to provide and over 300 will graduate with graduates with some ideas they can certificates of achievement. take with them. • "I want them to look back and say, Reception in the Student Union 'That's what I really got out of this for the graduates, their families and institution' . . . to feel its es- friends will follow the program.
DESIGN, COMPOSITION IMPORTANT ELEMENTS
Photography course offered in summer Design and composition are two important art elements in every good photograph. Students have the opportunity to develop their ability in these areas by taking the eighth annual Palomar College workshop, "Design through Photography." Art instructor Harry Bliss and photography instructor Justus Ahrend will once again combine their talents in the two-week session, June 20 through July 6 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. "Using their cameras as an instrument of observation, students will
increase their skills as photographers by learning to 'see,'" explains Ahrend. All photography is done in color slides using the students' 35mm cameras. Overnight processing capabilities are available through the college for daily critiques of students' work. Subject matter is provided on field trips to various locations in San Diego and Orange County. In previous years, students have photographed in San Juan Capistrano, Oceanside, Balboa
Park and the San Diego Zoo. Instructors will also use films and lectures to enhance the use of photography as a means of aesthetic communication. Students can earn three units of college credit in either art or photography by taking the course. Registration for summer classes is still going on in the Admissions Office. For further information, contact Justus Ahrend, ext. 308 or Harry Bliss, ext. 340 at Palomar College, 744-1150 or 727-7529.
Directors review land controversy Okun favors city's viewpoint By Lucy Wold San Marcos' population has quadrupled since 1970 and Paloma::: College is bursting at the seams. Growth of this kind is causing problems - problems for the city government and problems for the college which lies within its boundaries. Jeff Okun, Director of Planning for San Marcos hopes to solve some of these problems through a cooperative effort with Palomar. The college has proposed an expansion on 45 and one-half acres of land directly to the east of the present campus and has asked the city for a special use permit to develop it. Okun originally recommended against granting the permit to the college because of problems already existing for the city from the college's growth. "The major problems," said Okun, "are the traffic problems and the impact of the college on the communityofSanMarcos. The proposed expansion would only aggravate the problems. "The real issue is how much of the burden should be placed on the taxpayers of San Marcos. The Palomar District comprises an area of 1,500 square miles (most of the northem half of San Diego County) with a population of over 100,000 people," continued Okun. "Most of the Palomar students do not live in San Marcos. The taxpayers of San Marcos are 12,000 in number and have an area of 20 square miles. The San Marcos taxpayers are also in the college district, but they are basically being asked to pay double. They're asked to pay the tax to the community college, and they're also being asked from their city taxes to pay for improvements to benefit the college. That's one of our big concerns." Discussing possible ways to solve the traffic problems, Okun said, " Mission Road will be widened to four lanes in 12-14 months, but that's not going to solve the problem. There is a plan to provide a secondary access to the college, and Palomar is also looking forward to this access. In the plan, students coming from the Escondido area would be able to take Twin Oaks Valley Road to an overpass toN otch Road (non-existent at present) which would lead into the campus. This would relieve a lot of the congestion on Mission Road and would really help. The question is how this road is going to get there and who's going to pay for it. "They (Palomar) have expressed a point of view that they're waiting for this to be done and that to be done," stressed Okun. "They're waiting for Mission Road to be widened; they're waiting for signals to go in; they're waiting for Las Posas to go through; they're waiting fqr Notch Road to go through. That's one of our objections. They're sitting back and
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Huber defends college position
By Frederick R. Huber Superintendent/President Palomar College has resided in San Marcos since 1949. The phenomenal growth of the college since that time has matched the growth of San Marcos. There is considerable evidence that over the period of years Palomar College has sought relief from the City of San Marcos for provision of sufficient egress and ingress to the campus which would have relieved the existing traffic problem. Extension of Las Posas Road, establishment of waiting. We want to see them start develop this land. He would have to Notch Road, widening of Mission taking some action and trying to get give land for schools. He would have Road have all been factors supthings done. They might lobby for to put in parks, etc., so he would be ported by Palomar College, and an overpass for instance." less of a burden on the taxpayers of Palomar College has urged the City The city is asking Palomar to San Marcos." of San Marcos to take the necessary comply with five conditions before As a result of previous discussions actions, through county and state developing the 45 acres: 1) To on the problems, representatives of agencies, for their completion. dedicate the portion of Palomar the city staff, the San Marcos Further, the City of San Marcos and Road that crosses the 45 acres, 2) To Chamber of Commerce, the North Palomar College have sought easesign a waiver of protest to an San Diego County Transit District ment from the Santa Fe Railroad assessment district for improve- and Palomar have been meeting to which to date, has not been ment of Palomar:Road to the city of study the feasibility of a shuttle bus forthcoming. San Marcos' urban standards and or "park and ride" system. The plan Palomar College cannot use its not to use thE! road until these would call for parking lots to be funds to build roads for the city. It standards hav¡e been met, 3) To located on major access roads to the can join assessment districts for improve access to Palomar off Twin college where students could park those roads which will be utilized by Oaks Valley Road via Notch Road, and take a bus to the campus. the college and it is willing to do so. 4) To present a plan satisfactory to "The only way that would work, Palomar College is not "sitting back the San Marcos Planning Commis- in my opinion," stressed Okun, "is if and waiting," nor has Palomar sion for reducing peak-hour flow of the college discouraged, through College said that it resents the city traffic into the college, 5) To have an some mechanism, on-campus park- placing conditions on anything. environmental impact report ing. The only way to get a transit Palomar College does feel that the prepared analyzing the impacts system to work in any city is to original response by the Planning associated with the development of discourage driving. However, Director of the City of San Marcos to this property. If these points are Palomar has indicated that they're Palomar College's request for a carried out, the city staff still going to build parking lots." Special Use Permit was not discussrecommends approval of the special ed with college officials prior to its An earlier suggestion made by use permit. presentation to the planning comOkun was the possibility of es"The way I understand it," Okun mission. Since that time concontended, " Palomar has said that tablishing a satellite campus out- siderable discussion has taken side of San Marcos to help both the they object to the city putting place, but the Planning Director conditions on anything. State law city and the college. The college remains adamant on his original master plan, however, does not says that we're the planning agenposition, and, in fact, has added cy, and our job is to plan and to include a secondary campus. "It is further dimension to the conditions not our intent to stiffle the expancoordinate capital improvements to which in essence says that the make sure facilities are available. If sion of the college, but I don't want property acquired by the College to make it become a burden on the a development was coming into this cannot be used until Notch Road is town that would put, maybe, one- residents of San Marcos, which I completed from Twin Oaks Valley think it has. That's what we're here tenth the impact that this college Road. Notch Road appears on the has on this community, substantial to look out for," added Okun. city's General Plan, but there is no Jeffrey Okun, at 27, is the improvements would have to be put other action contemplated at this (Continued on page 10) in by the developer before he could time. Palomar College is a decided asset to San Marcos. It is not a burden on the taxpayers; it provides monies to OK PATTY the city and the merchants. It would seem logical that some efforts should be made by the city to develop the roads that are in the General Plan and thus alleviate the traffic conditions. Palomar College has takeu a number of steps to stagger traffic egress and ingress to .the campus over the past three years. These include public transportation, 7 a.m. classes, encouragement of car pools and bicycle riding. The City of San Marcos installed a traffic signal at Las Posas and Mission. It is regrettable that the Planning Director feels that because most of the students do not live in San Marcos. San Marcos assumes no (Continued on page 10)
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President Huber retires after 13 years By Tom Wilson Mter nearly 13 years as president of Palomar College, Dr. Frederick R. Huber, 62, is retiring on J _u ne 30. Many changes have taken place since Dr. IJuber took the office in August, 1964. There were about 3,000 students and 60 faculty members and most of the buildings that are here now had not been built. " It was," the president said, " a good school." Under Dr. Huber's direction the pace of expansion at Palomar has been steady, so that now even though there are over 15,000 students, there are no real crowding problems. One of the main reasons Palomar has had such a steady guiding hand is that Dr. Huber has an unshakeable faith in a college education. He studied English at UCLA and then took his masters and Ph.D. at USC. Dr. Huber first got on the other side of the desk in 1940 when he started teaching high school in Fresno. After serving in the Army for four years he resumed teaching at Glendale College as an English and social science instructor. He spent three years at Glendale before moving to Orange Coast College as the Dean of Men, spent six years there and then went to Palo Verde College in Blythe. Dr. Huber then moved to Monterey Peninsula College as president where he spent the six years previous to coming to Palomar. Dr. John Dunn, Huber's predecessor, invited him to interview for the job, but Dr. Huberdidn't thinkhe was really going to get it because he already had a job lined up to teach at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Huber got the job, however, and has stayed here ever since. The main change that Huber's administration has seen is the growth of the community college system from a group of glorified high schools to free standing institutions of equal merit with the more celebrated universities. In a recent interview Dr. Huber stated, "That was one of the original purposes of the community college -to provide that bridge between the four-year institution and the high school. "Most of those students, because
Parents, children exchange talents Children and parents will have a unique opportunity to leam from each other in a five week summer session workshop on campus, June 20 through July 22.
President Frederick R. Huber of grades or whatever, could not meet the particular entrance requirements. And that interested me because I thought it was a very democratic institution that provided an opportunity for a larger group of people than just those who are specifically academically inclined - the chance to go to a four-year institution." Besides providing this necessary step in the educational ladder, Dr. Huber feels that the taxpayers get their money's worth for the community college. The Palomar College District tax rate is the lowest in San Diego County at $.60 for each $100 assessed valuation. Dr. Huber feels, however, that the state should pick up more of the tab because the community colleges provide a statewide service. By having the state provide more of the funds the tax burden would be spread over a much larger tax base. Interestingly enough Dr. Huber was happier with Govemor Reagan on educational money matters than Governor Brown. Brown, who is a graduate of the University of
California feels that five or ten percent of faculty pay ought to be "psychic income." Dr. Huber pointed out that it is impossible to buy food or other necessities with " psychic income." The greatest -danger to the educational system, however, in Dr. Huber's opinion, is the ability of the Department of Finance to control what is taught through the control of money for specific courses. Adult education classes have come under attack by Govemor Brown who feels that they should be restricted or the school should charge for the classes. Dr. Huber feels that this is false
economy because, " ... ~ucation is an investment in the future and frankly there are a number of other public activities - welfare, penal institutions, mental institutions, institutions of care for the elderlythat cost a lot more money than does education, some of them two or three times as much per person." At the local level Dr. Huber has been faced most recently with the traffic problem and the strains it puts on relations with San Marcos. Dr. Huber is confidant however that " ... we're on the verge of working that out ... " The two most needed solutions, the widening of Mission Road and the extension of Las Posas Road are out of the hands of both San Marcos and Palomar College, and neither has yet to be done. Dr. Huber emphasized the efforts that Palomar has made to speed the flow of traffic such as 7 a.m. classes, more weekend and aftemoon classes and staggered hours. The last 13 years have not been without their disappointments, the greatest of which Dr. Huber feels is the lack of a north county performing arts center. Dr. Huber would like to see the north county communities group together and build a complete theater complex on campus. The greatest satisfaction in being president of Palomar College has been "the realization that it has made an impact on the individual student as well as on the community - so that although I'm sure you can walk down a street in Vista or Escondido and stop half a dozen people, they may or may not really know about things at Palomar College. Overall it has made a considerable impact on people. "With very few exceptions, people would say they enjoyed what happened here, that the reason was that people cared about them. So, if (Continued on page 10)
Romantic tragedy finishes season
He Who Gets Slapped, a romantic tragedy by Leonid Andreyev, will close the 1976-1977 theater season at Palomar. The play runs tonight and tomorrow in the Drama Lab (P-33) at "Children leam most of then the San Marcos campus. Curtain habits, attitudes and ideals from time for all performances is 7:30p.m. their parents," says Nadine Abbott, Buddy Ashbrook directs the play child development field study supervisor and coordinator for the with David Boyd serving as technical director. AUmmer class. Tickets are $1.50 for students and For further mformation on the Gold Card holders and $2.50 for nonparent participation class, contact students. Nadine Abbott, 744-3831 or 727Reservations may be made by 7529, ext. 462, or stop by the college calling the college at 744-1150 or 727Children's Center. 7529.
Palomar's coed bowling team captured the 21 college Southern California Intercollegiate Invitational Tournament at Riverside. Most effective for the Comets were Ray Dovel and Carl Cleveland who won the doubles championship with a f"me -1184 total. Denise Henderson had a 545 total in doubles competition. The tied conference race between Palomar and Riverside will be decided in next week's finals. L toR Rear: Dan Winberg, Carl Cleveland1 Coach Chris Pagakis, Ray Dovel, Terry Wood. Front: Denise Henderson, Barbara Parton, Arlene Buenaviaje.
CINDY LIVES TO TELL
Incident gives life new meaning By Joyce P earson "I felt myself float out of my body.'' This is the statement of a person who has had what Dr. Raymond Moody, Jr. in his book, Life After Life, refers to as a " nea r-death experience." However, it is n ot Dr . Moody quoting one of th e people he features in his book. This startlin g revelation comes from Cindy Skagerberg, a twenty-on e year old Palomar student. Tanned, with the healthy look of ..me who loves the outdoors, blueeyed, blond Cindy has inherited the classic Nordic good looks of her Swedish ancestors. With h er physical vitality, an unbounded curiosity and a des i re for " knowledge of everything," she gives the impression th at sh e can't meet life fast enough. Sh e a ttributes her new-found energy and intense interest in the world to events connected with a near-fatal acciden t in September of 1975. On the morning of the 21st, "I woke up and had a very eerie feeling - I didn't know what it was, but I knew something was going to happen to me that day."
head injury. After being under the care of a neurosurgeon for two months, she made a complete and remarkable fast recovery. "Everyone told me that it was a miracle that I was alive, but I never felt there was any possibility I would die. I felt there was no danger at all because of the protected feeling I had. It was like I had an understanding with God." She is aware that several medical doctors and psychologists are doing studies and research on the "neardeath experience" and she has read a few accounts of other people's similar experiences but she feels there is nothing surprising in their stories as they generally have gone through the same sensations she felt.
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r ose up way, way high in the sky- it seemed like the sun was almost next to me. As I rose, I thought it was the sun but I wasn't that high. Then I realized it was more like the light was all around me. I felt like some power, spirit or being was present it seemed connected with the light, but it wasn't the light itself. "I was flat on my stomach I thought, (Wouldn't it be floating and I could see below me strange if I got run over. " everything tha t was going on and I heard everything that was being s aid. There were lots of people, an Cindy's routine that sum mer in- a mbula nce, and paramedics and cluded going out for a late breakfast they were saying I needed to get to a and then on to spend the day at th e h ospit al. They were all excited and beach. When she arrived at Ocean- worried looking, but I couldn't side Harbor Beach that day she put understand why as I was very her things near the lifeguard tower, peaceful a nd happy and not afraid where she settled down to enjoy a n of a n ything. "It's so hard to explain because afternoon of sun worshipping. "I was lying on my back n ear th e tower th ere are no words in our language and as I turned from my back to my to describe the feeling I had or to stomach, I though 'Wouldn't it be describe tha t as I rose up and felt the strange if I got run over .' T hen I pres ence of this being, I was aware immediately put it out of my min d of a voice telling me that I wasn't because it was such a crazy thought. going to die. The voice wasn't really speakin g but I heard the message, "I fell asleep and I thought I was and I was also told that there was dreaming when I felt as though one more thing that I had to do in my someone had pounded me on the life before I could return to this state back with terrific force. I woke up of existence. feeling tires pull at my face and a t "After the voice told me that, I the same time, I was flipped to my remember going back into my body back, lost my bathing suit top a nd and I remember being disappointed noticed I couldn't breathe. It felt like that I had to leave this wonderful all of my ribs were cracked." As sh e feeling of peace arid calm. I felt as spoke, Cindy grasped her ribs, though there was a huge plastic momentarily recalling the sensation bubble that God had put over my of struggling for breath. body and it was protecting me. So I In a freak accident, a lifeguar d never thought that I would die - I jeep being driven by a friend of h ers felt protected from any harm." had run over her. One wheel had gone over her back and on e over h er head, barely missing her left eye. "I ((I rose way up, way high in felt like the jeep had hit me and then the sky. " backed up to see what they hit. There were people gathering around and Cindy was taken to Tri-City the next thing I remember is that Hospital where she spent the next someone was giving me oxygen and two hours in X-ray. "I had so much Steve was holding my hand while I was telling him that I though t sand in me and on me that they had someone had run over me. He was to change me to different X-ray really upset and told me that he was tables twice because the sand was sorry and that he was the on e who fouling up the X-rays." She was lucky. Her cracked ribs were in a had been driving. position just short of puncturing her "Right after my talk with Steve, lung and doctors were concerned she that's when I came out of my body. I might go into a coma due to a severe
it was a mir,acle I was alive. The light and accompanying voice, the calm and peaceful feeling, the awareness of leaving the physical body and the lack of fear are common to all who have reported these extraordinary occurrences. "I didn't even tell my family or my boyfriend about my experience until after I had agreed to this interview. I don't talk about it because I don't think people would understand it, and I think it is something that would frighten them. When people are afraid they often laugh or make fun of things they don't understand. If I knew people who had similar experiences, I'd talk with them as they would understand." It is easy to understand why Cindy is reluctant to tell of the accident. A San Diego television station sent a reporter to interview her. When he asked why she thought that she had lived through the ordeal, she started to explain, but he quickly dropped the subject. The incident reinforced her theory about the typical reaction to stories like hers.
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On the other hand, the story of how the accident and its accompanying events have changed her life, is something she likes to talk about: " Before that day in September I was just working in a factory and leading a rather humdrum life. I couldn't see myself being a teacher or going into research, but now I find that I would like to learn and to help others learn." Cindy lives in Encinitas with her parents and is attending Palomar at present, but the family plans to move to Oregon this summer. She hopes to go to Oregon Statewhere"I may work toward a teaching credential or go into some type of research work. I have found that library research really turns me on. I believe that by going back to school I am taking the first step in whatever it is the voice told me I had to do."
Not only have her thoughts on life changed, she has a different view of death now too. "I was afraid of death before and didn't understand it, but now I know it is a peaceful feeling and if I'm going to die I'm not afraid of it. I don't mean I plan on dying anytime soon, but I don't fear it anymore." Almost in celebration of freedom from this fear, she sat back, relaxed, and ran her fmgers through her long blond hair several times, obviously enjoying the feel of it flowing around her face . Then, almost as an afterthought, she leaned forward and said, " One important thing I have felt since the accident - I have never really been a religious person, but ever since that experience I have felt that there is a higher power in me and that is what my God is. I feel like I have a higher power with me apart from God as we understand Him."
Teacher aide class to begin in September Ever thought of being a teacher's aide . . . an instructional associate? Do you enjoy children? Are you interested in teaching? Would you like to work with young children in the elementary schools? Then maybe this will interest you! Beginning with the fall semester, Palomar will offer a group of classes leading to certification. These classes have been set up primarily for unemployed persons, and will consist of an average of 10 units to be completed each of three semesters. At the completion of the approximately 30 units, the student will have an Instructional Associate Certificate. Careful planning and consideration has gone into this program to enable the student to become an effective and efficient person in the elementary classroom. If you are interested in this educational opportunity, please call Palomar as soon as possible for an application. This program is open to any interested persons, recent graduates or not. Interviews will be held and final selections determined by August 12. For further information, contact the Child Development office at Palomar, 744-1150 or 727-7529, ext. 423 or 544.
Patrol offers assistance The Campus Patrol has n ow been pr ovided jumper cable equipment to assist the faculty , students, and visitors with stalled v eh icl e problems on our campus roadways and parking lot s. If you are in need of this service, you m ay cont act a patrolperson or t he swit chb oard in the Administraton Building.
Uniqueness of handicapped shown during competition
Denise Doser, the only female motorcycle mechanic in Southern California works on a bike at Honda of Encinitas. (Photo by Cnrole Charfaure)
Female mechanic solos in male dominated field By Tom Kelly Denise Doser is a wrench. No, that's not something a hostile ex-boyfriend with poor spelling capabilities scrawled on a fence. It's a fact that Denise is quite proud of. Denise is a motorcycle mechanic (wrench) for Honda ofEncinitas and was recently a member of a five woman panel at LA Trade Tech's "Women's Career Day." Fielding questions with four other women in traditionally male occupations (a telephone installer, a chemical company vice-president, an engineer and a diesel mechanic) was an experience she sums up in a single word: "Fun." It all began two years ago when Denise bought her first dirt bike and signed up for a maintenance course so she could take care of her own machine. She is now completing her fourth semester at Palomar on a certification program. She is very excited about women breaking the time-honored molds and speaks of her experience at Women's Career Day as "Exciting and fun. I met some great people and made a lot of friends." If there is any animosity toward her for trespassing on male terrain,
Denise has not encountered it in her work environment. "Most of the guys in the shop are quite helpful. Once in a while one of the guys in class will even ask me for advice." When Honda's public relations department was assigned the task of locating a woman motorcycle mechanic to sit on the panel, Denise was the only one found in Southern California.
A.A. degree offered for child studies Child Development will offer a fulltime program for training preschool teachers. A certificate program or an A.A. degree program will be offered for a selected group. Applications for the program are available from the Child Development Department of Palomar. Applications should be made as soon as possible, with applicant interviews to be held in August. For more information about this program , place call the Child Development office at the college, 744-1150 or 727-7529.
By Betty Magruder Webster defines a handicap as "a disadvantage that renders success more difficult." To have handicaps, then, is not unique. What is unique is to overcome them. Six Palomar handicapped students proved their uniqueness recently by winning five medals for best performance in a sports limited contest at Imperial Valley College. "This sports event gave the handicapped students a great opportunity they don't often have. Being able to participate in a favorite sport boosts their morales and self images. It's amazing what the students can achieve; they are 'game' for anything," explains Ruth Tait, counselor assistant for the handicapped. . Lynn Clack, a wheelchair student from Vista, received a special medal for lifting the most weights - 165 pounds. Elmer Hendrickson, a blind student from Oceanside, won two medals, one in a swimming event and the other for the most points in bowling. Debbie Hagen, a cerebral palsy student from Escondido, took a first place medal in checkers. Greg Koons, a mobility handicapped student from Leucadia, won a medal in a swimming relay race. Other participants were bowlers Gladys Whall, a blind student from Carlsbad, and Dianna Wood, a cerebral palsy student from Encinitas; and Palomar staff members Ruth TaitandJimMiller. Taitwon a special medal in scrabble during the competition. Morning sports events were followed by a barbeque lunch. Swimming and a wheelchair obstacle course were on the afternoon agenda. "Students came back very enthusiastic and eager to participate in next year's contest," notes Tait. Plans for the 1978 sports event include a barbeque and overnight campout. These six students together with 200 others at Palomar have identified handicaps. Last year, they banded together to form the U ndefeated Club on campus. It began with a beach party when a Mission Bay fishing trip was cancelled due to bad weather. Tait said the students enjoyed themselves so much, they decided to have regular gettogethers. From there, the organized club began. The Undefeated Club has branched out from being a purely social group. The participants are actively working to improve and extend facilities at the college. They toured the campus and wrote up a report on architectural barriers; as a result of their proposal, special wheelchair ramps were constructed, benches installed, restroom doors widened, sinks lowered and more parking spaces for the handicapped were made available. The club members also provide services for the handicapped in the community. They sponsored a bikea-thon to raise money for the American Diabetes Association and a candy sale with proceeds going to
help in the construction of a therapeutic pool for the California School in Vista. The school, for grades kindergarten through 12, is for handicapped and mentally retarded children. Free services for the handicapped are offered at Palomar. Two vans with motorized lifts transport more than 30 students to and from the campus daily. Personal and academic counseling and tutoring, campus orientation, mobility assistance, instruction in speech therapy and lip reading, reader service, note-takers, priority registration and a handicapped student organization are among services available. Special equipment at Palomar includes motorized wheelchairs. An apollo lazer for the partially sighted enlarges print for reading. Speech compressors speed up talking on tape recorded lessons. The resource center for the disable has braille equipment, closed circuit TV equipment for print enlargement, tape recorders and left- and right-hand typewriters. Tait notes that all the handicapped students have one thing in common: "They are not embarrassed about their handicaps and do not have self pity. For some, it is their belief in God; for others may be the challenge to compensate Whatever the reason, they feel good about themselves." One recently blinded student on campus looks at her handicap this way: "The blind see a lot of things that others don't. We learn to develop other senses like touch and hearing that a seeing person never does. I feel this is a new section ... a new chapter in my life."
Summer chorus has wide music variety Persons whose taste in music includes everything from Handel to Appalachian folk songs will be interested in the Palomar summer chorus. The singing group will meet six Tuesday evenings, June 21 to July 26, from 7-10 p.m. The conclusion of the session will be an outdoor concert in Escondido on Saturday afternoon, July 30. Accompanied by a chamber orchestra composed of members of the San Diego Symphony, the chorus will perform music which runs the gamut of style, including Handel's Chandos Anthem No. 1 and every sort of American music from William Billings to Appalachian folk songs. The group will be conducted by David Chase, instructor at Palomar and conductor of the La Jolla Civic/University Symphony Chorus. Chase is patterning the concert after a performance held two years ago in the Vineyard. He sees the concert as" a festive, community affair."
ALMOST THREE QECADES
Science instructor looks at memories By Betty Magruder life science instructor Eugene Stevens will retire this summer taking with him 29 years of memories of a school that grew from 200 students to 15,000. Those memories began in 1948 when he launched his teaching career at Palomar following six years as an instr~ctor in priv~te industry. He was hired as the entire head of the biology department. "I remember that department well," he says with a touch of his dry humor, ''because I was it. We had only four instructors in the college ... Dean Coutts two others, and myself." Whe~ Stevens began his teaching here, the college was located at the old Vista high school campus. H£ recalls the hardships of workin( from 3 to 10 -p.m. immediate!) following the close of the high school rlay. "There was a constant hassle Nith the high school teachers who I think resented us being there." Shortly after, the college moved to a temporary site in Vista and held classes in Navy war surplus buildings. . Then in 1950, he doffed his academic gown and doned a hard hat for a summer oflabor. Students and faculty faced the growing pains of the school together. "We all pitched in to help move the school to its present site .. . temporary buildings with no windows, bulldozers tearing up the brush, and dust all over. That first winter when the heavy rains came, the campus was a quagmire of mud. One morning I came to work and there was water all over the floor with no place for it to drain out. So I went over to the custodial shack, got a brace a1,1d a bit and drilled a hole in the floor. I couldn't let my students sit there with their feet in the water, so I had to arrange for my own drainage." Stevens smiles as he remembers the camaraderie between the faculty and students. "In those days," he says, ''we were one l;Jig happy family . We even had speCial days for what we called 'campus improvement.' The instructors and students came in their work clothes, installed windows, and painted window sills ... things like that. It was fun! It gave the students pride in their school which I regret that many of them do not have today. "Now you walk outside my door and find 'thousands' of cigaret butts on the grass. It troubles me a great deal because we worked so darn hard to get this place started. But when you get larger . .. ex¡ pand . .. you lose that family feeling. How can you possibly have a family with over 15,000 students?!" However, growth has certain positive aspects too. Stevens realizes ''We are now able to have very s~cialized programs and high quality students. Actually, I'm fortunate to teach a very special group of people. For the last two years, I've taught microbiology, a first love of mine. Most of my students are in the
nursing profession or aspire to be. They've got their heads on." Proof of his ability to teach well and the outstanding caliber of his nursing students is seen in their overall average of 88 on the national examinations. Stevens is also very proud that a few years ago, the top nursing student in the country was one of his students. Besides teaching microbiology, he has worked twenty five years as Eugene Stevens, science instructor, sits at his desk for the department chairman for life last time, pondering the future. (Photo by Marcia Earnshaw) sciences and thirteen years as a counselor for the college. He still enjoys counseling students during registration. Stevens feels helping students in whatever way he can is of primary importance. "The most rewarding thing about my jobislookingbackovertheyears By Mary Dickinson composers have certain messages." and vicariously enjoying the success Musica] selections will be discussed of a lot of my students. I've had some "How do I love thee? Let me count as well as played in class. excellent . . . outstanding . . . indi- the ways .. ." said English poetress The purpose of presenting the viduals." Now and then he gets Elizabeth Barret Browning nearly class as interdisciplinary was to letters from his students who inform 100 years ago. have "the arts dealing with the same him of what they are doing ... what According to Pat Zevin and the they have achieved. "It makes me members of a committee of teachers subject from different points of view," said Ms. Montiel. feel very good," he says. compiling a new class on love, there He feels that his part in the are nine different ways love can be students' success is "just a little bit." counted. But Dean Charles A Coutts, diviThe class, Interdisciplinary sion head, credits Stevens for ''being Studies 10 The Human Experience: largely responsible for making the Dimensio~s of L>ve, will begin in life Science Department as strong the '.'all as a one semester, three unit as it is today." He says, "Stevens is a ~la~ s offered weekly on Tuesdays very, very dedicated ~stru~r from 2-5 p.m. in P-32. whose interest is havmg his Each class will be taught jointly students well taught. He's done a by philosophy instructors Gene beautiful job." Forty-nine graduates of the nurSager and Donald Piche, art instrucTeaching has been much more tor Donna Tryon, music instructor sing program will receive . their than just a job for Stevens. With his Brenda Montiel, cinema instructor nursing pins at 7 p.m . June 17m the sense of humor showing again, he Richard Peacock, and language Student Union. says, "I'm probably the only instruc- culture and class coordinator Pat Liza Zopp, nursing student, will tor in the world who has never taken Zevin. chair the pinning ceremony. a sabbatical when I was eligible. I The Associate of Arts degree in All will be involved but said Sager, never wanted to. I never felt this was "We want to stay away from each nursing will be presented to the a hardship. This has been fun ... taking a block of time, like going graduates during commencem~nt my livelihood . . . everyth~ng. from biology to philosophy to exercises at 10 a .m. the followmg Jokingly, a few weeks ago, I said to another class." day in the Dome. Dean Virgil Bergman, "How about Art, music, philosophy, andmul~i The graduates will take their State giving me my sabbatical now .. : a media will explore the nine basic Boards for registered nurses licenses terminal one, one year off and With types oflove: love of God, humanity, on July 6 and 7. pay." self nature homeland, sensual love, The following class of 1977 inHe has continued to stay at the rom'antic ldve, and family love with cludes: Sharon Lane, Mary college beyond his eligible retire- the use of films and slides, lectures, Rhatigan, Donna Braun, Margr~t ment because he finds his work and group discussions. "We want to Smith Karen L. Collins, J uhe pleasant. But now, he is looking show the interrelation of all the Curra~, Magdalena D. Dietz, Mary forward to retirement living. areas," said Zevin. A. Fox, Denise Hartnett, Sharon What will he do? If you see a man History will be included with the Heleman, Mary Jane Morocco, with fishing tackle and pole in one class looking to past cultures and Michelle Niehuus, Pamela Powell, hand camera gear in the other, and their feelings on love as compared Schmidt, Vicki Sticka a his~ry book balanced on his head, and contrasted with love in America Victoria Lawrence Wilcox, Wendy Anderson, it will probably be Eugene Stevens. in 1977. "As an example, family love Y'Ola Cebula, Patrice M. Jones, He plans to pursue these hobbies in the average California home Juanita Bart, Bernadine Smith, this summer traveling in his Dodge contrasts greatly from Confucius' Rosa Triste and Vicki V anDeerlin. motor home to Alaska via Nevada, China," said Sager. Also included are: Jackie Dotson, Utah, Wyoming, and Canada. "My The subjective field of art will be Helen Grimmett, Mary Sonntag, wife and I are going as far north as explored in a much different way liza Zopp, Kim Eidson, Marion the weather and roads permit," he than philosophy. "I won't bend Holmes, Linda Ropelato, Marion says. "We'll start moving south things to fit a specific category," Yakoushkin, Julie Fieldler, Cheryl again with the birds." said Ms. Tryon, "but, for example, E. Gann, Patricia A. Greene, Adele . L>ts of fishing is on the agenda. Rembrandt painted a portrait of Horton, Ken Leisher, Anne Ovesen, "I'm going to fish all the way up and himself and his last and youngest Barbara Rotter, Linda L. Klaus, all the way back," he says. "I've wife that shows concern for this Elizabeth Montgomery, Betty Janet always wanted to hit the fall run of much younger wife. This is an Hackman, Nila Abreu, Anne salmon and do not plan to come example of conjugal love." Gethard, Cheryl Schulze, Laura home until I've caught some." "Music makes love clearer," said Selleck, Laura Sikorski, Debra When he returns from Alaska, Ms. Montiel, "There are no Weatherly and Sandra L. (Continued on page 10) statements in the arts, but the Wehmeyer.
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Women capture second at national net championships "In five of six events we were runner-ups," said Haugen . "The team was fantastic and fabulous. Every player gave a 125 percent effort in every match ," stated Haugen. "I've never seen four players play so hard," Individual winners in singles for the Comets were Leslie Edman, 9-2, second place; Linda Owen, 10-1, second place; Leslie Koman , 9-1, second place; and B. Koebke, 6-2, third place. Singles were played in a round robin tournament. Owen and Koebke lost in doubles in the finals. Edman and Koman lost in the semi-finals in the single elimination play.
Placing second in five of six events, the women's tennis team won second place in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women National Junior/ Community College Championship in Tampa, Florida last week. "We were within six points of the first place team until the last day. After the first day, I knew we had a solid second place," said coach Nan Haugen. The top five team results were Indian River of Florida, 53; Palomar, 41; Peace College of North Carolina, 34; Grossmont, 32 and Hillsboro of Florida, 21. Sixteen teams were competing from all over the United States .
Chism (.33 J) named MVP his 42 hits placed him second behind Porter Wyatt. Wyatt was named co-captain along with Jesse Moore, and in the other awards given, Stan Sutton was named most improved player, Jim Scranton was named most valuable freshman, and William "Punkin" Wyatt was named most inspirational. The Comets finished a successful year under coaches Jim Clayton and Stan Crouch with a 22-18 record. The Comets competed in the Southern California playoffs for the first time and played impressively, collecting 22 hits in losses to defending state champion College of the Canyons and Orange Coast.
Third baseman Butch Chism was named most valuable player at the 1977 baseball awards Tuesday. Chism, who was named to the Mission Conference first team, ended the year with a .331 batting average, tops among the Comets. Chism's 41 hits tied him for third on the club and his seven doubles and 21 RBI were among the leaders. George Robins followed Chism in batting with a .316 mark, and tied ' Tab Y etzer for RBI crown (27). Robins' 11 doubles led the team and
A great community college track career came to an end last week for Palomar's Luc Laperriere, who won his second consecutive state crown in the javelin throw. Luc had a state record effort of 266-8 to win the event and the Comets went on to take the team title.
McClosky gains diving honors
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Diver Glenn McClosky has been named to the Community College All American Swimming and Di ving Team for 1977. McClosky, a graduate of Oceanside High School and a sophomore here, has placed in the California State Meet two years in a row. McClosky is the second diver in six years of competition to win this award.
banner year for track There is no tomorrow for the 1977 track team. But for coaches Doc Marrin, Mario Mendez and Mark Eldridge, and the entire Comet squad, 1977 will be the year to remember. Eight dual-meets have gone by without a loss, the Mission Conference Relays have gone by with a championship, the Mission Conference Finals have gone by with a championship, and the highlyregarded West Coast Relays have gone by with a championship. And the Comets concluded all of that by sending eight athletes to last Saturday's state meet at Bakersfield College. They came away with another championship, this one the biggest in the school's history. Three of the eight were individual state champions, and the others had lifetime best efforts as the Comets totaled 48 points to finally have the upper edge on an old rival, Grossmont, which placed second with 42 points. San Jose City had 41 points for third place. State champions for Palomar included Shannon Laird in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (8:53.2), Rowland Joe Siai Siai in the 110meter high hurdles (14.18), and Luc
Laperriere in the javelin (266-8). Tom Petranoffs effort of 236-8 made it a one-two finish for the Comets in the javelin, while Bob Short placed third in the 800 meters with a time of 1:49.9. Siai Siai teamed with Tim Edet, Steve Martin and Jerry Barker to place fifth in the 440-yard relay (41.72), and Laird came back to garner a fifth-place finish in the 5,000 meters with a 14:48.8 time. Laird was leading by 50 yards and on his way to a possible national record before he fell on the water jump near the end of the steeplechase. He bounced back to erase his previous best time of9:07.6. Siai Siai had placed second to Fullerton's Tom Turner at the Southern California Finals after being bumped during the race, but he gained revenge by defeating Turner handily in a cleanly-run race. Laperriere, who won his second straight California crown, set a state meet record, but was short of his lifetime best of 267-10. What's in the future? Marrin has many of the quality athletes, including Siai Siai and Petranoff, returning, but for some of the others, Moscow 1980 is not very far away.
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1977 Final Baseball Stats
HITTING Butch Chism George Robins Jim Scranton Jesse Moore John Machado Porter Wyatt Dave Fonseca Tab Yetzer Bob Rucci Jim Enterline Mike Collins John Christiansen Others COMETS Opponents
AB R 124 25 133 30 96 14 132 25 29 11 164 30 155 32 144 20 126 19 76 9 44 6 70 12 42 9 1335 242 1344 213
PITCHING Stan Sutton William Wyatt Ric Somers Kenny Putnam Dave Marabella Mike Duffy Pete Chapin COMETS
G 20 4 16 4 16 10 9 40
IP 81.1 10.1 101 21.1 53.1 49 36.2 353
H 41 42 27 37 8 44 41 37 32 19 11 14 7 360 348
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5 5 1 5 10 3 5 1 2 7 1 58 57
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3b HR BB SB SAC RBI AVG 2 11 15 0 5 6 21 .331 7 5 3 23 19 6 27 .316 7 0 13 15 1 5 15 .281 3 2 26 .280 3 3 19 26 4 0 0 3 5 3 .276 2 19 35 12 2 4 18 .268 1 1 10 12 7 21 .265 8 2 2 14 25 10 27 .257 3 0 10 29 3 14 .254 4 1 1 9 9 3 2 8 .250 0 0 9 15 2 3 .250 2 1 2 7 .200 0 15 19 0 0 10 16 2 5 3 .167 15 16 165 240 68 47 193 .270 47 177 .259 7 12 198 208 69
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AB R ER H BB 307 34 22 88 30 39 35 5 7 10 5 3 381 57 38 92 56 75 80 15 9 24 9 8 202 37 30 48 37 45 204 37 28 57 29 16 135 28 23 32 27 20 1344 213 153 348 198 208
3 1 0 0 3 1 0 8
ERA 2.44 2.70 3.39 3.86 5.09 5.14 5.59 3.90
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Wrightson like gold to PC divers By Mary Dickinson How would you feel if Mark Spitz or Bruce Jenner was your next-door neighbor? What if your neighbor was Bernie Wrightson? Spitz and Jenner, though certainly more wellknown, do have something in common with diving coach Bernie Wrightson - all are Olympic gold medalists. As part of the U.S. Olympic team, Bernie Wrightson went to Mexico City in 1968 and captured the gold medal in three-meter springboard diving. Now a diving, swimming, and racquetball coach at The Courtyard in Escondido Wrightson; his
wife, Cathy; and their two children; they have to dive up to the quality I Terry, 8; and Kristin, 6; live in San expect. Just by being challenged Marcos. they can exceed." The Courtyard swimming pool, Most Olympic champions like which Wrightson designed perfectly Nadia Comanecia heian very young for diving, is the official meeting to prepare for the Olympics. Wrightplace for divers from Palomar and son began relatively late, at 17, all the area high schools. Under his when his swimming c.oa<;h at East tutelage the Comet' s Glenn Denver High, Colorado, needed a · McCloskey recently was named best diver and recognizing Wrightson's. diver in the Mission Conference for ability "drafted" him into diving. the second straight year. "I dived like I swam an event. My Wrightson said of the Palomar only ambition was to be a good 400divers, "They are the best in the yard and 200-yard individual area, but they have to dive under an medley swimmer," he said. He dived extra strain. I paint them a picture of and swam during the season and what the dive should look like, and placed on the average scale- fourth or fifth out of five or six competitors. "I was just hacking around." he said. "Then, all of a sudden, at a city meet, I saw I could do better. I practiced hard for the week before the slated meet and went on to win. "That was the springboard to get me going," he said. The summer after the state meet and before his freshman year in college Wrightson spent much of his time practicing. With no one to coach him, he'd call to passers-by and ask them to tell'him what looked right. "Nobody knew how to help me; I had gone past the coaches," he said. At Arizona State University in Phoenix there was a coach, Di'ck Smith, who knew how to help him. "After Dick Smith came to see me, I went to Arizona State and worked on my diving," Wrightson said. In a short time the young college freshman was competing in national meets. At 18 he was third in the nation. His marriage to Cathy came soon after that; a son was born, and he was on his way to Mexico City. The i~ad to the Olympics was not that simple, however, "I won nine national championships, but I entered 54," he said, adding, "You have tO know to win the big competitions and lose the little ones." Wrightson views his being a champion as a combination of many important "ifs.'' "A lot of it is luck, you happen to oo in shape, and happen to be well," he explained. The timing that worked so well for Wrightson did notforotherOlympic hopefuls. "Some would get there
(Mexico City) 45 days early just to get acclimatized, then two days ·before competition get diarrhea and be.sick in bed during their event," he srud. People who excel in their fields are often asked how they got to be '~great." Wrightson's answer to his success in diving involves physical and mental factors. Physically: a straight spine with little or no lumbar curve (spinal curve); long toes, for making a smooth entry in the water; and a slim build make for a good diver. Greg Luganis, an Olympic diver from San Diego, has no lumbar curve. "Diving is also a sport where the short guy can do well," said Wrightson, who is small and trim. Worth more than a straight back is the mind of the athlete. "A champion does what he does without much apparent effort. If you asked him why he does it, he wouldn't be able to tell you why. It's · not hard to spot a champion. He's the one that nobody can stop. You can spot the hacker, one out of five times he does something. The great diver does something every time. People ~an see and feel a champion." After he won his gold and came back home, Wrightson did just that. He did not have movie offers, and broadcasting companies did not bang on his door. Although he has been offered coaching jobs in foreign countries, Wrightson has not gotten the big money out of his medal as Spitz, Jenner, and Dorothy Hamill have. "There has never been a diver who has gotten much commercial value out of his medal; diving not being as closely followed as swimming or the decathalon," he said. But he doesn't seem to regret his small amount of publicity. "I've gotten what I've gotten." What does the future hold for the once-best diver in the world? "I want to be good in business; make good, sound business decisions and take care of my family," he said. Business and coaching take up twelve to fourteen hours of his days. The hours that were once spent plunging from a three-meter board are now, for Bernie Wrightson, spent plunging into family and work.
McHale named swim MVP Sandee McHale was named Most Valuable Swimmer of the women's swim team at their banquet last week. Other awards were presented to Diane Tostado, most inspirational; Yvonne Yanke, most improved and Jo Samuels, team captain.
Bernie Wrightson shows his 1968 gold medal to his son Terry, in the top photo. The bottom photo shows the Paloma; diving coach on the victory stand flanked by silver medalist Klaus DiBiasi Oeft) and bronze medalist Jim Henry.
"The swimmers had their peak at the Southern California championships" said coach Teri McFarland. "The two relay teams were selected to the 'All American' squad and McHale was 'All American' in the 50 yard backstroke where she broke the meet record and in the 100 yard backstroke."
Seven school records were broken this season including the 500 yard freestyle by Samuels at 6:05.8; the 50 yard backstroke by McHale at29.76; the 100 yard backstroke by McHale at 1:03.83; the 50 yard breast stroke by Jamie Thomson at 35.5; the 100 yard breast stroke by Thomson at 1 :19.2; the 200 yard medley relay at 2:03.5 and 200 yard freestyle relay at 1:48.4. Medley team mem hers are McHale, Thomson, Samuels and Nancy Golden while the freestyle team include McHale, Samuels, Golden and Diane Craig. The team ended the season with a 3-5 record.
SM planning director s~:,~~ro?p~.~e~~!!,~dE,~~d~allW ~~~~~ssal~~;~;~h1~~~~~o~a~~: do"~:::.~;;~¡h::~:e::i:~ti::tidea Wants to CooPerate (Continued from page 2) youngest planning director in S an Diego County. He graduated from San Diego State Uni versity with a B.A. in Public Administration and Urban Studies. He also attended graduate school there in the Masters of City Planning program. Coming to San Marcos in 1973 as Associate Planner, Okun advanced to Senior Planner, Assistant Planning Director, and in September of 1976 became Planning Director . He lives in San Marcos with his wife, Chris, and their one-year-old daughter, Laura. Okun has taught classes in political science at Palomar at night for two years until last fall and has spoken in other Palomar classes. He said that the students seem to understand the problems he's involved with. He warms visibly when speaking of the future of San Marcos. He estimates that by 1980 there will be about 15,000 people in the city limits an d by 1990 about 34,000 people. San Marcos' present boundaries represent about twenty square miles - almost the same as the city of Escondido, but presently with onefifth the population. So there is room to grow. Hopes a nd plans for the future
include" ... continuing with attractive s ubdivisions such as we have now. We do anticipate having a good mixture of land useage, keeping some areas in one acre and one-half acre zones. We are trying very hard to keep a lot of open space and to keep some hilltops open space. One of the distinguishing features of San Marcos is its topography . It's not flat. It breaks up the density to have hills and valleys, all of which con tributes to the fee ling of spaciousn ess ... "We also hope to integrate our comm unity with bicycle and horse trails throughout the city. We want to provide an opportunity for varying the types of houses in San Marcos. We're working to make San Marcos a little different and a little more attractive," continued Okun. Okun feels that the growth control efforts in San Diego are resulting in an increased burden for cities such as San Marcos. The question of impact returns. " Impact is becoming increasingly a very important consideration both at local and county levels ," claimed Okun. " It's not just what you do in your little community that matters, but the impact that you have on areas beyond your own ."
Rock, disco dance french, Russian Lit set for tomorrow offered 1n summer H.ock and disco so unds will reverberate from the Student Union walls tomorrow during a two day musical in vol vment. Four of Los Angeles' hottest bands will be appearing at this "Battle of the Bands" with disco dancing starting at 9 p.m . Performing will be Ming Tai Sxpress, Power Feel Express, Featherstone, and Balance. Sponsoring this event is the Extended Opportunities Programs and Services Association. Tickets may be purchased at the Student Union , the EOPS Office and also at the door the night of the concert for $2 a ticket. Please call EOPS Office at 744 -1150 Ext. 398 or 364 for further information.
Courses will be offered on the masterpieces of French and Russian literature in translation during the first five-week summer session, from June 20 to July 22. Jay Johnson, a member of the college language faculty and instructor in French and Russian will teach the classes. The courses, which will meet five days a week from 8 a.m . to noon, will be worth three units each . They will comprise a survey, reading and analysis of selected masterworks of the respective literatures from the medieval era to the 20th century. T he course will be enhanced by a multi-media presentation of the civilizations of the two nations as reflected in t heir literature.
Science club created Life science majors have formed a new club to promote interest in biological research and nature studies. Craig Johnson, outgoing president of the Lambda Sigma club has announced that membership is now open to anyone interested in biological research and life sciences . A membership drive is on to increase t he present membership of twenty four. Newly elected president Frank Snyder says two field trips a
month are sch eduled to different environme ntal areas . Also a backpacking trip to the Sierras is set for this s ummer . Advisors for Lambda Sigma a re Dr. Nan cy Jessop and Dr. Gary Alderson . Dues are $1 for the summer ,$3 per semester and $5 fo r the whole year. Coming events are today at Moonlight Beach, tomorrow, a pot lu ck at Dr. Jessop's , June 25, a beach party at Craig Johnson 's house in Oceanside.
on nature , especially wildlife. "I already have thousands of pictures , but I want a few more . I've bought some new camera equipment and have it ready for the trip." Photography a nd fishing are his main hobbies , but he is also a history buff. He searches out historica l points of interest on his travels in the states. " I visit old forts , ghost towns , whatever." Traveling in the United States first and then on to foreign travels is Stevens ' desire. " My first s pot abroad would not be Europe where most people want to go, but rather the South Pacific. That appeals to me. Not only Hawaii,but the other small islands as well.
1t would t um out th1s way , I would be happy to because, although t here were a lot of hardships , it was a great challenge . .. a wonderful experience. " '
Stevens is leaving with a very good feeling about his years at Palomar. He remembers that a few years ago, on the 20th anniversary of the college, a local newspaper
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Huber defends college position (Continued from page 2) responsibility. The realm of cooperation becomes very difficult when a city staff member decides that he is going to control the program of an ed ucation a l institution and force it to limit its growth. Palom a r College will support a ll the present conditions proposed by the Planning Commission relative to th e Special Use Permit except the Notch Road condition . This it will appeal to the City Council.
Huber retires (Continued from page 4) we've done that type of job, made that kind of an impact, that to me is satisfaction. " Dr. Huber's plans for the future include teaching, consulting work and writing. Along more leisurely lines the president would like to travel, especially in Asia and catch up on his professional reading.
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Yogurt Shop of San Marcos Now featuring Natural wheat yogurt cones More fresh fruit Frozen yogurt pies Sundaes Shakes Homemade cookies More to come
Mission Center of San Marcos Corner of Mission and Rancho Santa Fe 235 No. Rancho Santa Fe Road, Suite 205 Free Samples