The Telescope 35.03

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Palomar College

ETELESCOPE

Volume 35 No. 3

A Publication for the Associated Students

Tuesday,October13,1981

San Marcos, CA

New cause found in Resources fire 1

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By Lois Humphreys

FIRE DAMAGE- The burned out remains of the roof of the Learning Center appears as an

almost abstract design.

(Photo by Lois Humphreys)

Drama runs two weekends

'Cyrano de Bergerac' opens season One of literature's most memorable figures, Cyrano de Bergerac, will come to life October 22 through the end of the month. Directed by David H . Boyd, the play features Rick Pallaziol in the role of Cyrano, Barbara Anderson playing the beautiful Roxane and David Bleth portraying the hand-

Renaissance music, John Biggs Consort featured tomorrow

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Medieval and Renaissance music from England and Spain highlights tomorrow's edition of the concert hour series. The John Biggs Consort is featured. Dressed in Elizabethan costume, the vocal group utilizes a variety of authentic instruments: recorders, krumhoms, rauschpfeife, hurdygurdy, hand bells, portative organ, percussion, and viol da gamba. The concert begins at 11 a.m. precisely. Next Wednesday, Oceanside soprano Ellen Lawson performs Samuel Barber's "Hermit Songs," several Bach arias, and "Alleluia" from Mozart 's "Exsultate, Jubilate." Rounding out the month, percussionist Donald Knaack presents an unusual mixed-media show. Knaack, who recently returned from a tour of Germany, has scheduled a program whlch includes tape, film, and inflatable sculpture. All three concerts are in the Performance Lab (C-27), located in the music complex adjacent to the theatre. Admission is free. For more information, contact the music department at #2316.

Orchestra performs The Palomar College orchestra, conducted by Robert Gilson, will perform Brahms' "First Serenade" and Tschaikovsky's "Symphony No. 4" November 14 and again N ovem her 15, in the college theater. Admission is $3.50 for the general public. For reservations , call 744-1150 or 727-7529.

some heartbreaker Christian. Set in the days of the Three Musketeers, this 17th Century Cavalier period play is both a romance and a comedy. Based on the hlstorical figure Cyrano de Bergerac, the play basically tells of an ugly man's love for a beautiful woman. The long-nosed Cyrano falls in love with his distant cousin Roxane, who in turn is in love with the extremely handsome Christian de Neuvillette. Through Cyrano, Roxane asks to assist her love Christian in making poetic love to her. The play presents both a spiritual and physical love. Spiritual in the sense that Cyrano loves Roxane from the soul, and physical because the love between Roxane and Christian is only that. Other cast members are Roger Lewis, Lance Scroggins, Gregg Monzeglio, Tom Daly, RayTafejian, Jordan Jenkins, Philip Drenth, Andy Kayets, Pat Riley, Cali Maus, Annette Sullivan, Jim Baxter, Craig Birmingham, George Willis, JoAnn McStravick, Mike Cook, Tanya Riley, Tonya Plumer, Mike Brenner,

P.J. Connolly and Karen Tacke. Tickets are priced at $4 general admission and $3 students and seniors. They can be picked up at the Palomar College Theatre box office 24 hours in advance or can be mailed out if a self-addressed stamped envelope has been enclosed with advance payment. Play dates other than the 22nd are October 23,24,29,30 and 31. Curtain call is 7:30 p.m. A matinee performance will be held Saturday, October 31 at 2 p.m. The box office telephone number is 744-1156 from 2 until 5 p.m. daily.

A.A.deadline nears The deadline for applications for certificates and the A.A degrees for the fall semester is November 13. Spring 1982 applications will also be accepted at the records office.

New evidence turned up last Friday by San Marcos Fire Marshall Cliff Hunter has shown that the devastating September 30 fire in the Learning Center started in a trash can in the audio-visual repair shop, and not by an electricle source as first reported. Hunter's investigation is continuing, and he should have more information later this week. With the odor of charred equipment still lingering in the air, the clean-up of what remains of the Center has begun. The Learning Center was almost totally destroyed by the fire which spread quickly to the computer room, tape storage, and future room of the hlstorical society. The fire . reported to the San Marcos Fire Department by campus patrolman Paul Root, damaged the entire building because of the smoke, heat and water. The only area that can be salvaged successfuJly is the audio-visual distribution room, whlch received only minor smoke and water damage. According to Dr. Omar Scheidt, president of the college, "We will probably go down to the bare skeleton(of the building)and work up because of the extensive smoke damage. This fire really hits the students hard because they have lost their independent study area. We're going to have to start all over again." Dr. Scheidt was referring to the invaluable tape library that was

Free ragtime show set for November Bob Long, winner of the 1980 Scott Joplin Award for hls performances of Ragtime piano music, and also of Belly-Up Tavern fame will give a lecture and recital of ragtime and boogie-woogie piano music as part of the course on American Popular Music run by Billy Hawkins in the Music Department. Everyone is welcome to come to this special event in C-27. The concert will be held on October 19 at 9 a.m. Admission is free. For further information call extension 2317.

90% destroyed in the fire. Dr. Scheidt added that the school was buying a small portable building to store salvaged equipment, and that the new temporary location of the Learning Resource Center would be in R-19 until a new facility can be built. Estimated loss to the building structure is $40,000, and insurance adjustors are still working on a report to estimate the losses of the contents. New Hampshire Granite, the insurance company, has given the school an emergency fund to purchase needed equipment so that the Learning Center can function in the interim. The fire insurance policy has a $10,000 deductible clause, which means the college pays the first $10,000 of the damages.

Center door blue again To be blue or not to be blue? That has been the question regarding the Student Help Center's door over the past few months. It all started last June when the door, whlch was originally brown, was painted blue at the request of Karl Waack, director of the Student Help Center. Waack, inspired by the painting of a mural in the Student Help Center, asked to have the door painted in "a brighter color for identification purposes." Superintendent of Buildings William Eddy, however, denies that he ever gave hls permission for the change. Three days after the door was painted blue, a crew was dispatched to scrape down and repaint the door brown. Waack immediately went into action and collected 221 student signatures on a petition requesting that the door be restored. The petition was then presented to the ASG on September 16. Finally, at the September 28 ASG meeting, Dean Norman Price reported that the door could again be painted blue.

Undefeated Club schedules outing Undefeated Club members will take to the hills at Camper's Paradise October 15 to 18. Handicapped Services has scheduled a campout, free to members and $3 per day for nonmembers. The fee covers transportation and meals, and promises to be an " unforgetable experience," according to Ron Haines, a Handicapped Services staff member. The outing, whlch begins Thursday afternoon, will include fishing, swimming, and other activities guaranteed to "try the endurance of family members, friends, and counselors who try to keep up with the undefeated bunch," adds staffer Jim Miller. The camp is a few miles north of Escondido andjusteastoflnterstate 15. Specific directions are at the Handicapped Center.

IN WITH THE NEW - Dr. Omar Scheidt, college president (left), and William Eddy, building and grounds superintendent, show the

contrast between Palomar's new computerized telephone system (left) and the antiquated verswn.


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