e Telesco Friday, March 8, 1991
Volume 44, Number 16
Palomar College, l 140 West Mission Road, San Marcos CA 92069-1 487
TOO MANY STUDENTS. TOO LITILE PARKING AT ESCONDIDO CENTER
Merchants not happy with parking situation By Stacy Alessio Staff Writer While the opening of a satellite campus in Escondido may have made a dent in parking problems on Palomar's main campus, the new campus has generated parking problems of its own. Students are complaining that there are not enough official parking spaces for them, and local businesses are warning them to stay out of theirs. Jeff Gildark, an employee of The Hair Force describes the parking situation as "horrible and pathetic. The whole thing (the new campus) was a bad idea, it should have never been done in the first place." According to Mike Ellis, director of building and grounds, the original enrollment estimate at the new campus was 3,000 students. Currently there are 5,234 students taking classes there. ''The initial influx of students was way beyond our expectations," he said.
According to Campus Patrol officer, Mark Evans, officers at the Escondido campus ticket 12 to 15 students a day who have parked their vehicles in spaces that belong to the nearby businesses. But Evans hopes that the problem will soon be remedied. "Rumor has it that the dirt field behind the school is going to be turned into a parking lot," he said. According to Ellis, however, no land has yet been acquired. Some local merchants say measures taken by the school to deal with the parking problems have not been good enough. "We're going to get some SCUD missiles and start launching them in the parking lot," said one employee of a nearby business. Not all the businesses are upset with their new neighbor, however. Some are making a profit off the new center. "Palomar has been providing good clientele, so we really don't mind so much," said Steve Jensen from The Copy Shop. Phyllis Thvieger, from Lino's Italian (see CENTER • page 4)
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Search is on for stolen campus art By Hank Tritchka Staff Writer It wasn't a pretty picture in the Art Department when studentMarkBaccay realized his only watercolor and ink drawing had been stolen from room C-3 where it was displayed. "I was hoping that maybe someone toOk it by mistake," said Baccay. The art piece was stolen Feb. 22 from the bulletin board in his classroom where it had been hanging for grading. A friend ofBaccay' s, Andy Clarke, said he saw a woman walking with it about 1 p.m. towards the Student Union, but not knowing if she was authorized to have it, he said nothing. Baccay informed Val Sanders, Art De-
partrnent chairman, of the loss and a memorandum was distributed describing the alleged thief, with a plea to return the artwork. The woman in question is 5 feet 2 inches tall, 120 pounds, has brown hair and an olive complexion. "I don 't understand why somebody would steal something so readily identifiable," said Sanders. The missing art piece depicts a large mousetrap with blood around it and a piece of fluorescent cheese sitting in the trap. "I am surprised that a woman took it," said Baccay. "It was pretty sick." The picture fulfilled an assignment to paint a kitchen from a mouse's paint of view. "It had a really. good eerie feeling to it," said Baccay. (see STOLEN • page 4)
Michael Bagstad/Photography Editor
Mark Evans, a Campus Patrol officer at the Escondido satellite campus, writes out a ticket to a student motorist parked in a space designated for customer use of the shopping center's businesses. The satellite is located in a former catalog showroom.