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Volume 46, Number 5
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Family demands force ASG president to re gn By Roger Fregoso
ASG panel according to Bowen. "Lowell is extremely well qualified," he said. Larimer said that dividing her time be"I feel that whether I let them down or not, tween family, school and ASG was too they are (the students) better off," said Asso- difficult ciated Student Government President "My time was so thin, I feel that I would Darlene Larimer as she officially resigned become ineffective in all areas," Larimer from her post this week. said. The student that only months ago headed a The decision came after months of contemrecall election to oust top ASG leaders and plationLarimet said. Sunday afternoon when then moved into the Palomar College Dis- she returned from an ASG weekend retreat trict from Leucadia so she could run once "I found myself pushing my family away they were gone, resigned on Monday morn- so I could do my homework," said Larimer. ing. She cites her departure from office in "My family's has to come first, that's the order to spend time with her husband, 10- way it should be." Students who voted for Larimer should not year-old son and 13-year-old nephew. "I'm sorry to have her resign but, I concur . feel let down, according to Bowen. with her decision," said Student Activities "I hope they forgive her, her reason for Director Jim Bowen. resigning is perfectly understandable," said Following constitutional by-laws, current Bowen. vice president Lowell Kepics was promoted Larimer took the ASG position in May to the chief position at Wednesday's ASG after leading the effort to remove three ASG meeting. The future looks bright for the officers and a former president by collecting
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Darlene Larimer
over 500 signatures for the recall election. Before the recall could happen, the president resigned. When Larimer decided to run for office, she changed her residence in order to meet the state by-law requirements in California's Education Code. Because she did not live in thePCC district she was unable to run unless she moved within the district. Kepics, who was handed the gavel this week, now occupies the position that seems to have a revolving door. He was one of the senators ousted from ASG last year when he, President Eric Johnson and two other senators were found in the ASG office on a late November evening with empty beer cans. His probationary status does not prevent him from fulfllling the presidential duties. "Something that happened a year ago should be put behind," said Bowen. "Nobody in student government has worked harder than Lowell Kepics."
CoNSTRUCTION
AHEAD By Michael Barcler Staff Writer While portions of Parking Lot 9 get paved, ¡ many students get peeved as they are forced to drive around the campus in search of a place to park. Walter Bliss. beavyequipmentoperator fer Fill Dirt. Inc. operates an excavator. Formerly a dirt lot, the new parking lot will
connect with Borden Rd. Thedirtlotalongwithalreadypavedspaces bas been fenced off so crews can pave over the din in order to create more student parking spaces.The project is expected to last at 1~ tWo months.
Magazine sales pitch leads to sexual assault By Sara Skol Arts & Entertainment Editor
subscription with cash, then insisted she could not leave until she gave him a hug and
a kiss. A 16-year-old student was conned out of her cash and then sexually assaulted on Palomar's campus Oct. 1 by a man claiming to sell magazine subscriptions, campus authorities said. According to a Campus Patrol report, the young woman was confronted by a man sitting on the brick wall of a planter between Building S and the Student Union while walking to a 4 p.m. class. Reportedly using high-pressure sales tactics, he convinced the student to purchase a
The woman said that the man appeared to her to be "kind-hearted" and told her he would win a trip to Acapulco if he sold enough subscriptions. She tried to appease him, thinking "a little hug and a peck on the cheek would suffice," however, the assailant responded with a French kiss, she said. The man then left with a companion who was standing nearby.The student reported when she purchased the subscription, she did not have the total amount of money. So, she agreed to let the assailant accompany her to an ATM near Palomar's campus once
her class was dismissed. After class she returned to the meeting place intending to meet the assailant and to demand her money back due to a change of heart, but the man was not there. Campus Patrol Superviscr Boyd Mahan said this was the first time this type of assault has been reported. John Clausen, a campus patrol officer, said that Campus Patrol had received a call the previous day to alert them that someone was selling magazine subscriptions on campus. "There was no time to check this out because we were shorthanded on W ednesday," said Clausen. The student's mother called Campus Pa-
trol to report the incident She said she was
not demanding any particular course of action, nor is she complaining about the college. According to Mahan, she called Campus Patrol because "she wanted to make us aware of this." She said ~he is a former Palomar student and hopes that Campus Patrol can fmd the two men. The student described the man as a Caucasian approximately 21 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches tall with short, slightly wavy light brown hair. She described the companion as Caucasian, approximately 25 years old with blond. curly hair and a mustache.