Search committee reviews applications Small turnout elects new ASB officials By Cyndie Claypool Less than one percent of the 15,909 enrolled students turned out to elect their new Associated Student Body president and vice president in the elections held two weeks ago. 61 students voted into office president Kim Scanlon and vice president Nadia Almuzaini. Both contestants were running unopposed, which may have been the cause for the low number of voters, according to Marilyn Lunde, secretary to the Dean of Students. In recent years, the highest amount of student voters Lunde has seen was around 400, with the lowest being 48. Despite the voting turnout, Scanlon is looking optimistically towards her new term, which commenced May 13 at 12 noon. "It feels really weird (to be president), but I'm really looking forward to it," Scanlon explained. "I didn't expect to be running unopposed," she said. In fact, she did not know she was running alone until the elections. Almuzaini was also not anticipating running unopposed, but her brother, who was her only competition, dropped out before the elections. Scanlon and Almuzaini, who are both 19, had not really communicated before they were placed in the positions together. "We're very friendly with each other," said Scanlon. "We've just never talked." Scanlon's goal for next year is to get people involved on campus. "We (the ASB) are only what the students are. If a student wants something to get done, as long as it's legitimate," she smiled, "we're the ones to see." The rosy cheek brunette, seated behind her newly acquired desk, excitedly continued explaining her plans. "ASB is going to be very visible next year." For the remainder of the spring semester, the new officers will be carrying out the work started by this year's previous ASB presidents, Kevin Farrow and Bob Klug. (Incidentally, Klug, whose new line is "tell it to Scanlon," left for a week vacation in Mexico the Monday following the swearing-in ceremony of the new president.) Some of Scanlon's plans for next year include getting the cheerleaders involved in the activities, cleaning up the Student Union, with her main emphasis on getting more students involved. Next year, ASB will also enjoy a board conference room, adjacent to (Continued on page 6)
Process runs a little behind schedule Palomar Collega
Volume 38 No. 20
A Publication for the Aaaociated Student•
DISCOVERY- A yCYUng boy named Andy revels in the wonderment of spring. Palomar student and local artist Christian Julliay, a watercolorist,
Friday, May 17, 1985
San Marcoa, CA
painted this scene as ane of the illustrations for his book "Andy in the Bird Forest". (See story below.)
By Chris Reynolds Efforts to select a new president/ superintendent for Palomar are running "a little behind schedule," according to Presidential Search Committee coordinatorI chairperson Jim Bowen. At present, 72 applications received by the committee are being reviewed by its 12 members. Bowen describes the process as a lengthy one, one he may not have chosen if he "were the boss." "I just think it takes longer for a committee (to arrive at a fmal choice)," he said. "But I think everyone will be happier in the long run, . because they have arrived at a consensus." Bowen alluded to the make-up of the committee, noting both of the college's vice presidents, Dr. Theodore Kilman and Dr. Kenneth Burns, an exofficio (non-voting) Board of Trustees member Dr. Robert Dougherty and other notable campus personnel were on the committee. "We've got a powerhouse committee. We don't have any wallflowers on it, which makes it a little tougher," Bowen said. Originally, Bowen says a provision had been made to establish a prescreening committee to pare down the number of candidates. That idea was abandoned because there was the belief that other committee members should have the chance to examine the entire field of candidates. The screening process is lengthy because of the number of applications that were received and because, "To do it right, they have to be looked at thoroughly," Bowen said. Search committee members must devote their free time to the selection process. Bowen says committee members work evenings and weekends reviewing the applications. The next step in the process is for each committee member to choose 10 applicants who they feel are best suited for the position. The choices of each member's top ten candidates will be submitted and a matrix will be developed. Bowen says if committee members choose the same top ten candidates the process will be easier and faster. But since committee members will make those choices independently they may choose different candidates for the post. Names that are selected by the greatest mumber of committee members will get preference, but committee members will be afforded the opportunity to argue for a particular candidate if they think the candidate is being over-looked. The Board of Trustees has specified it wants three-to-five candidates to choose from. Bowen says he would like (Continued on page 6)
Artist hears calling despite hearing loss By Melanie J. Anderson Close yCYUr eyes for a mament and listen. Really listen. What do you hear? Perhaps you hear the sCYUnd of children playing. Or, do you hear, in the stillness of the day, the birds chirping; the wind rustling the leaves?
When Christian J ulliay turns off the hearing aid that rests in his left ear, he hears the ocean. At least it sounds like what one would hear when placing a seashell to the ear, he says. Or perhaps it's Tinitus, ringing of the ears, that he hears. Julliay suffers from otosclerosis, a hearing impairment that has badly damaged both his ears. It began when he returned from Vietnam, and has gradually worsened until he was forced to wear a hearing aid and learned to lip read. Julliay, at age 36, has abandoned previous jobs as a San Diego mailman, a custom home-builder and a French
teacher at San Diego State University because of his hearing impairment. In 1977 he underwent an operation in hopes of repairing the bones in his middle ear which do not vibrate or transmit sound. It was unsuccessful. Recently, he underwent another such operation. This time it was done by the specialists in the House Institute in Los Angeles. It was also unsuccessful. But more important than his hearing impairment, Julliay is an artist, "I was born to paint," Julliay says. He recalls his first painting, a reproduction of Don Quixote by Honore Daumier. He was nine years old and had given it to his teacher who was leaving because "she had treated me so well," he remembers. Born in Algeria, Julliay is of French background. His family moved to France when he was nine years old. Against a Paris backdrop, he must of been inspired.
"My teachers told me that art would be my direction," he recalls. After a year in Paris, Julliay's family moved again. They went to Canada, and Julliay was 15 when they again uprooted. This time they landed in California. "When I was twelve," he says, "I started entering art competitions. But I grew up as a regular kid, collecting pigeons and chasing girls ...." Today Julliay is an accomplished artist who has originated and developed his own style - cubic realism. Cubic realism involves many painted squares and rectangles that are within the composition. His unique style allows the forms to be cut into many sections which allows the expression of the many variances of individual colors, leaving the form to remain. According to Julliay, he ran into his new form of painting "by accident". He tells the story of how, one day,
he was sitting at his desk scribbling out an idea for an illustration. On the back side of the sheet, he had previously drawn out some tenative plans for an addition to his house. As he usually does, he taped the illustration to a wall to better visualize it. As he stood back looking at his drawing, he noticed that the sun shining through an open window sprayed light upon the paper. The light revealed the plans he had drawn on the other side. What he saw, he says, was an illustration of a small boy dissected into many squares and ruler lines. "It made me think of the cubics," he said, "of Picasso and others. And ever since then, I've been working with this style." From that incident, an idea was born and soon developed. Cubic Realism, as Julliay named it, is different from cubism in that its
forms remain flat and the composition whole. Cubism, on the other hand, involved the breakdown of form and a separation of its parts. Cubism also involved three-sided forms with depth. Because of his love for color, Julliay's watercolors express a vibrance that shows of his appreciation of pure and isolated colors. Until two and a half years ago, Julliay was purely an oil painter. He now prefers watercolors because they dry faster, are less expensive, and are easier to store than oil paints. Because of his other love, children, Julliay paints for children. Most of his compositions include children and birds. San Diego landmarks have also become a favorite subject for Julliay. (Continued on page 3)