CRAVEN AIRS FINANCIAL VIEWS
Faculty hears new senator By Jim Duffy Even though Senator-elect William Craven (R-Vista), said, "I failed to bring the crystal ball with me," he made a prediction while speaking to the Faculty Senate late last month. Talking primarily about the financial plight of the community college system in California and possible legislative action to aid school financing, he forecasted, "As far as what we're going to be looking at this coming year ... I would say we will probably be faced with "another bail-out bill similar to what we had last year." Then reflecting on his abi lity to act as a seer, he said , " I have a problem trying to really anticipate what the administration
may well do as relates to education. In my judgment the administration is not particularly disposed toward education as one of their prime priorities." Returning to the forecast he said, "I think that if we are talking about a bail-o ut bill, I think it will come from the surplus as it has before." Not completely agreeing to the surplus as a sol uti on to financial problems he said, " I don 't know that that is the best answer but I am sure that it will be the one approached." Craven brought up one ofthe problems of using the state mon ey in community colleges and his opposition to it when he said, "On e of the things that we've run into
before is that when the state comes in and dumps money into the systematic portion of your operation, there is a vitiation of local control which I think everyone is very much opposed to." He said, "There has been talk in some quarters of an increase in the sales tax to find the money to supply schools and talk of an increase in the personal income tax." Craven rem a rked that each had a certain feasibility about them but predicted that " ... they will not get off the ground by virtue of the governor and his edict of the past which says, 'I will not raise taxes."'
MAKING A POINT - State Senator-elect William Craven (RVista) speaks to the Faculty Senate about the financial problems concerning the community college system in California. (P hoto by Jim Duffy)
Palomar College
ETELESCOPE Volume 32 No. 7
A Publication for the Associated Students
Friday, Dec. 1, 1978
San Marcos, CA
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Second theater production opens Thursday evening S low Dance on the Killing Ground, currently in rehearsal, opens next Thursday in the Drama Lab, P-33, with a 7:30p.m. curtain.
RELAXES LOAN REQUIREMENTS
New legislature takes action
Fredericksen is the senior mem her of the cast. He ha performed professionally and has been in several Palomar productions over the last few years. Most recently , he had the lead role of Jesus in the summer show, Godspell Fever. He has a lso appeared here in, Jack the Ripper, He Who Gets Slapped, Candide, and Major Barbara. Goolkasian is back for her second role on the Palomar stage. She just finished playing the lead role of Rosa in the first production of the year, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
By Jim Duffy With a 5-4 vote the Student Legislature Tuesday weakened the necessity for students to buy ASG The play is th e second Theatre cards by ruling that the cards are Arts production of the year and is not needed for students to obtain being directed by Buddy Ashbrook, loans from the Associated Student drama instructor. Government. Until now the policy for obtaining S low Dance is a powerful tragedy loans was to add the cost of an ASG that involves the coming together of card to the loan. If a student borrowthree total strangers on one fateful ed $50 and did not have a card the evening in a Brooklyn candy store. cost of a card ($6) was added and the Like Satre's No Exit, the characters student paid back $56. each confess their sins. The old That policy was decided in ownerofthecandy store reveals t hat Lathan will make his stage debut he deserted his Jewish wife and in the role of Randall. His previous September when Gene Jackson, children in Nazi Germ any. The experience consists of a few acting Dean of Student Affairs asked the legislature for a policy statement young girl is seeking a n abortion . classes with Ashbrook. concerning the cards in relation to The young black man has just Performances are a lso planned for loans. Since it did not have a quorum murdered his prostitute-mother. December 8 and 9 and 14 , 15, and 16. the legislature directed the dean to Cast in the three roles respectively Tickets are $3 for general admission add the price of a card to the loan are Michael J. Fredericksen, Ellie and $2 for students and Gold Card until the matter could be acted on by holders . a full legislature. Goo lkasian, and Darnell Lathan. This action was the first policy decision taken since the October DEADLINE SET FEBRUARY 1 elections seated six new legislative members, and came after a lengthy debate that locked the legislature with a 4-4 vote. Terry Bowman, chairperson ofthe Cal Grant applications a re now program by June 30, 1979. legislature, broke the deadlock when available in the Financial Aids and For students at institutions charg- she voted not to require cards for the counseling offices. ing postsecondary tuition except loans. In casting her vote Bowman State scholarship awards, falling when tuition payments may be said, "I am against requiring the under the Cal Grant A category, will cards. We represent all the students number approximately 14,900. Tui - made in unusua l circumstances, 49 % of the grants are avai lable and will tion ranging in a mounts from $600 a lso range from $300 to $1100. to $2,700 at independent co lleges or Tuition payments may be made in private postsecondary schools, $300 the second, third a nd fourth years to $700 at the University of Califorfor any grant recipient attending a nia, and approximately $200 at the tuition charging institution. Californ ia State University and Occupational Education and colleges will be co nsid ered. Training Grants . or Cal Grant Care Privile{?e. the film scheduled Criteria for the award s includes geared for students showing apDecember 6 by The Musical series completion of no more than six titude and desire to train for specific has been cancelled. semesters or nin e quarters of prior occupational, vocational. technica l The film Zachariah starring college work to the award. or nursing careers. and will number Country Joe and the Fish will show Applicants in addition must, if 1337. instead at 4 p.m . in P-32 on Wednesattending a non-graded school. take These grants will be awarded for day . the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) training in areas of manpower " A psychedelic parody on movie no later than tomorrow . a nd file a shortages as defined by the Califor- westerns," Richard Peacock of the Cal Grant A s upplement postnia Student Aid Co mmission. They film department said that the film marked by February 1. 1979. They pertain to tuition ranging in also features the New York Rock must also be a resident of Ca lifornia , amounts up to $2000 for the ca lendar Ensemble and Elvin Jones. have a Social Security number and year, in addition to $500 for costs The film was scripted in 1971 by submit a Student Aid Application. relative to training such as specia l the Firesign Theater. and "reflects Applicants for the Cal Grant B clothing, local transportation , re- ¡ 'the style and co nsciousness of those (College Opportunity Gra nts) must quired tools, equipment, supplies years ," accord in g to Peacock. come from a generally though not and books. The Cinema Art Series presents exclusively minority background and a low-income family a nd file a Applicants for these grants must, Sacco and Vanzetti in P-32 on Cal Grant B supplement postaccording to standards developed by Thursday, December 7 at 2 and 7 marked by February 1, 1979. Also , the Com mission . demonstrate oc- p.m. The Italian film. written in 1972 they must not yet have completed cupational achievement or aptitude, by Guilliano Montaldo, deals with more than one &mester of college and must file a Cal Grant C s upple- the trial and conviction of two work as a full-time student or 16 ment postmarked by Februrary 1, suspected traitors. There will be a $1 semester units on a part-time ch a rge for admission to the film. 1979.
Cal Grants available
Fi Im series shows through December
not just the ones who have ASG cards." Legislator Dwight Langham and Bob Fusco had argued that the people who buy the cards should receive some benefit from them and since the money received from card sales goes into the ASG treasury to support the loans, the cards should be required to obtain one. Kathy Martin, a legislator who opposed the card requirement, felt that charging the cost of a card to the loan olaced a serious financial burden o~ the student needing the loan. She said, "When someone asks for an emergency loan it means they really need the money. It doesn't mean much when you have it, but when you don't, it could mean a couple of meals." In other action, a committee was formed to investigate the removal and re-installation of the telephone to the Black Student Alliance's (BSA) office. Duane Gaston, vice president of BSA and members Tommy Clark, Gwen Jones and Bruce Cartwright were at the meeting to protest a previous legi slative decision to charge BSA for the removal and reinstallation of its telephone. Dr. John Schettler, assistant superintendent of business services, ordered the phone removed from the BSA office on September 12 in a memorandum which cited the "illegal splicing of telephone connections" as the reason. The phone was re-installed on November 17 when BSA and the ASG agreed on guidelines for telephone use that were approved by Schettler. The legislature was informed by the business office that they would be billed for the removal and reinstallation and in turn ruled to bill BSA. BSA is protesting those charges. It feels that since the phone was removed without prior notice, therefore not giving BSA a chan ce to correct any of the problems listed in the removal memorandam , it should not be required to pay for the removal or re-installation . The legislature, however, has said it would not pay th e charges beca use it was not its responsibility, but agreed that it was unfairfor BSA to be charged for them. The committee was formed with BSA and legislative members in order to gather all information co ncerning the phone removal and to recommend a course of action for
the legislature to take. The removal of BSA's phone prompted the legislature to draft a request to be sent to the administration asking that student organizations be notified in advance if equipment was going to be removed from its offices. Another committee was formed to recommend ways in which the legislature could attempt to correct the pedestrian crossing in front of the school on Mission Road. A student was fatally injured when struck by a car while attempting to cross that street on October 18. Since that accident there have been no safety precautions taken at the crossing to insure that an accident does not happen again. The legislature expressed a dissatisfaction with the present crossing situation and requested the committee to find ways in which the ASG could relate its concern about the danger to students crossing Mission Road to the authorities. Concerned with the lack of student input at legislative meetings, the legislature discussed ways in which to enco urage more students to attend and voice their opinion on ASG matters . It decided to publicize the meeting times a nd to invite all students who wish to attend. Also a decision was made to have coffee, cookies and punch available at the meetings as a possible enticement for more student input. This will cost $5 per meeting paid for by th e ASG. The legislature meets every Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. in R-1.
Abstract artist exhibits in Boehm Abstract artist Richard Allen Morris is the featured exhibitionist in the Boehm Gallery now through January 2. Morris has been an abstract painter since 1953. He began his art career by sending out several cartoons to magazines. A painter's painter, Morris paints on anything possible, including cardboard cartons. He presently has 10,000 paintings, 200 of which will be selected for the exhibit. He offers a long list of influences among them being Kurt Schwitters' Corbusier, Monet, Manet, variou~ Japanese painters, and German expressionists.