ETELESCOPE Palomar College
Volume 32 No. 3
A Publication for the Associated Students
JACKSON TEACHES CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Ex-policeman has n~w beat By Kevin Folan The distance from a policeman 's world of violent crime and desperate men to the tranquil environs of Palomar College where midterms and parking spaces are the predominant worries , is a distan ce greater than can be measured in mere miles. Few individuals on campus are familiar with two such disparate realities . One who is - instructor Bob Jackson - answers in a direct, co ncise manner. He 's a man who would make a good witness in a court oflaw. As a matter offact, it's a role he's enacted more than a few times in the course of twenty years as a Los Angeles poli ce officer. Actually, being a policema n wasn't originally in the game plan. " I wanted to be a footba ll coach ," he says. The time flashes back to 1943 and Bob J ackson is in college. Time out for a stint in the Army Air Force. After discharge, he plans to go back to school, but finds he needs to work full time . " I had three skills," h e recalls with a grin. " I could type, fly a plane, and make babies. " Soon h e learned that the police departmen t was accepting applications . He a pplied, hoping to be able to work nights a nd go to school days . It didn't work out quite that way , but it was the beginning of a varied and interesting career. In all those years there must be one case th a t stands out as memorable. There is. Officer J ac kson is just out of the police academy. He is working in Accident Investigation one night when a report of a chase in progress involving the Red Light Bandit comes over the radio. Jackson joins in the chase a nd soon the man is ca ught when his car overturns. At the time, the nam e is not significant, but before he dies on May 2, 1960, in the gas ch a mber at San Quentin,
Drama cast chosen for production Saturday, Sunday, Monda y, the first Theatre Arts production of the year, h as been cast by dra ma instructor / director, Buddy Ashbrook. Receiving major roles were Perry E. Skarra, Ellie Goolkasian, John Mensching, Dan Bennett, Sharon Stults and Pat Newton. Supporting parts were taken by Connie Moschiano , Craig Stearman, Richard A. Wright, Robin Wooden, Stan Hagar , Douglas M. Salewsky, Marilyn Ritz , David S. Lyon , James McKeown , David Hanson a nd Steve Session. The play is a new release by Eduardo de Filippo and adapted to English by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Ha ll . Saturday, Sunday, M onday is a comedy a bout a large Italian famil y living in Naples. It was a hit on Broadway in 1974 with Eli Wa llach and Sada Thompson in th e lead roles. Ashbrook believes he h as a good mixture of "old-timers" and "newcomers" in the cast to present a great show. David Boyd serves as technical director as well as set designer . The rehearsal secretary is Linda Buckman . Performance dates are scheduled for October 26, 27 and 28 and November 2, 3 and 4. Curtain is a t 7:30 p.m . and admission is $3 for non-students and $2 for students and gold card holders .
Criminal Justice Instructor Bob Jackson (Ph oto by Kevin Folan )
Caryl Chessman will become known to milli ons. Another case was a ls o m emorable, but for different reasons. It happened in West Los Angeles. There, the division was being plagued by a series of unsolved burglaries. Every stake-out that was set failed to catch the culprits. An uneasy suspicion was aroused. The next stake-out was comprised of officers from ano ther division . Caught in the act were those responsible - six police officers. Four officers were discharged from the force. The other two went to San Quentin , where they were forced to remain in isolation in order to be protected frm their fellow inmates. Most cases, however, are soon forgotten in the on flow of business. "That's the unique thing abo-at
being a poli ce officer ," says Jackson. " Unless you have an unhealthy attitude, your main con cern is to catch the criminal. After that, the detectives take over. There's always more to take care of on the streets." Shortly after the Chessman episode, Jackson became the adjutant for the Chief of Traffic and helped put together a new traffic manual for the LAPD. A promotion to sergeant followed shortly. Then came a post with a department known as administrative vice. It's job where, "You need someone who, after prolonged association , won 't begin to look kindly on orga nized crime." Hollywood , West Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, Wilshire, University, Watts and th e main jail (Continued on page 3)
Friday, Oct. 6, 1978
San Marcos, CA
legislators nominate six to fill vacancies By Jim Duffy After four attempts to thwart nominations to fill va c ant legislative seats a t last week's meeting, Terry Bowman, chairperson of the Student Legislature accepted six nominees. Also presented at that meeting were the announcement of a plan to provide a second entrance to college parking area s , a request for the clarification of the ASG policy concerning student loans and the angry resignation of the ASG secretary. The move to replenish the depleted legislature , first brought to legislative attention by Bruce Robbins, ASG president, when he named two students as possible replacements, enlisted legislator Kathy Martin who named four additional students to fill the empty positions. The a ction was challenged by Bowman, who ruled th e nominations were out of order in the Executive Report and stated that they were not on the legislative agenda. Martin then requested that the secretary place nominations on the agenda under New Business . When the nominations were brought up again , Bowman claimed that appointments to the legislature could not be made because a quorum did not exist. Martin defended the action by showing that the wording in the Student Government Constitution did not require a quorum to fill vacan c1es. The constitution states, " A twothirds vote of th e St udent Legislature present shall constitute confirmation until the next election . .. "
Raising the constitutionality of the issue, Bowman refused to call for nominations until the Judicial Advocates made a ruling. According to the constitution the Judicial Advocates, "shall rule on the constitutionality of policies, legislation, and activities of the Associated Students . .. " Martin pointed out that the constitution requires the chairperson to announce vacancies and accept nominations "at the next regular legislative meeting." Claiming the Chair did not have to anno un ce the vacancies " . . . because thi s is not a regular meeting. It is an information meeting," Bowman again tried to block the nominations. Gen e Jackson , Dean of Student Affairs, reminded the Chair that the constitution calls for regular meetings every ten days and that a scheduled meeting was regular whether a quorum was present or not. Bowman then conceded, announced the vacancie s , and accepted the nominations. Nominated by Martin were John Lombard, Tom Michalek, Sherry Dolan , and John Iipari. Robbins nominated Jacob Berghuis and Bob Fusco. In the repOrt from the Student (Continued on page 3)
Library switches to new letter system of filing
Something new has been added in the library! The Library of Congress Classification system has superceded the Dewey Decimal System of filing books. Several other colleges in the area, By Karen Ossenfort Greenpeace as well. Wray sculpted "At this point we had no intention of including UCSD, San Diego State Moby Dick would have been sorely the tail and donated it to stealing the tail. " and Grossmont h ave adopted the insulted. Greenpeace, an environmenta l The next night a t work Had new system . The great whale that swallowed group. The t ail was put on display at announced to Tom that he had Prior to the change, the Dewey Jonah would have swallowed these Le ucadia's flea market and in the brought his truck and they were Decimal System provided a method two never to spit them out again. Greenpeace booth at the Del Mar going to steal t he tail. which classifies books into ten basic For Tom and Had got involved Fair. Last Wednesday night the areas of knowledge, such as natural with the tail end of a whale of a It was brought to campus last pranksters drove to the college about science, literature and history, story. month for display and use in the 9:30 p.m. with th e intention of numbering from 000 to 999. This is Tom and Had are freshmen on P.E.A.C.E. sponsored World Life taking the tail. Having "cased the because many areas of knowledge campus and when they first sighted Day. The festiva l was held on the place" and deciding that too many have only recently been discovered, the whale 's tail in front of the flag grassy go lf range next to the ski people were around to pull off the and must be worked into the pole their immediate thought was, slope. This is where Tom and Had heist, th ey went to Samba's . numerical system . Subsequently, "how gaudy and disgusting. " discovered the ta il the night before Mter Sam bo's and an a dequate the system was revised 18 times to The whale's tail in this tale was the great robbery. amount of time they returned to accommodate the new s ubj ects and created by a sc ulptor n a med Russel "After work la st Tuesday night we parking lot #9 to find the campus students often experienced difficulty Wray who is an associate member of drove back to the college and saw the less crowded and the whale 's tail in locating books they wa nted. the P.E.A.C.E. (ecology) club on whale's tail sitting outside the shack the sam e place. In using the Library of Congress camp u s and a m ember of next to the ski slope," they relate. (Continued on Page 3) Classification System, the books are separated into 21 areas of knowledge, which are identified by letters instead of numbers. This allows a more expansive use of subdivision, which in turn creates more room for new books. "It is definitely a better system," states Ms. Alexis Ciurczak of Reference/ Technical Services . "It is easier to understand and much better suited to a college library." As of now, the li brary h as only a moderate number of books using the library of Congress System, and all incoming books are automatically adapted to it. The professional library staff, who m ade the initial decision to switch, are now in the pro cess of r e-class ifying the remainder of the books to the new system. With only a manual system, supplemented by volunteers, the en tire reclassification will take more than five years, whereas with an automated system, it would on ly take two to five years. "We strongly suggest that a ll MIGRATORY WHALE'S TAIL?- R eport ed near th e llagpole, has been retrieued. But{or how students ask us for assistance when stolen once. th e filched flukf', us ually in position long ? l l'huto hv llryce Sutton) needed," urges Ms. Ciurczak.
WHALE'S TAIL STOLEN
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