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A school bus carryiug students from San Marcos JuniOr High Sc:hool was bit Tuesday by au RV travelillg west oa East Missioo Road just two mileS from Palomar. Thirteen¡year-old Jeanifer Loscber, daughter of San Marcos councilman Mark Loseher~ was kil1ed and 13 of the 28 other stndeuts ou 'board we~ injured. See pagt 6 fOI' additiooal photo coverage.
Volume 46, Number 11
Faculty v to union By Joey Christensen Staff Writer
Palomar faculty members have overwhelmingly rejected the drive to unionize teaching staff. In ballots tallied Nov. 19, antiunion sentiment held sway with a landslide 2-to-1 vote. Those who spearheaded the campaign against unionizing faculty see the outcome as a vote of confidence for shared governance. "I'm very excited that collective bargaining has been defeated," said Joe Stanford, Associate Professor of Arts and 26-year veteran ofPalomar. "It shows that Palomar is unique in that we can work in a collegiate fashion without the adversarial approach of a union." Sixty-nine percent of the 1,194 full and part-timefaculty members eligible to vote returned their ballots making the final count 555 to 259. "I thought we had more support than that." said Mario Mendez, Associate Professor of Physical Education. Mendez headed the drive for Collective Bargaining.
"We tried to make our case in the best interest of the faculty, but they made their's better." Of the 106 community colleges in the state, only six are without union representation. Two of the six colleges are in North County, Palomar and Mira Costa College in Oceanside. Currently Palomar uses what is called a "meet and and confer" system to decide upon teachers' salary and fringe benefits. The system utilizes a series of recommendations from faculty committees in order to arrive at decisions on issues. All final decisions are made by the Palomar College Governing Board OfTrustees. Theodore Kilman, Associate Professor of Art. interpreted the vote as faculty wanting to maintain the present role of the Faculty Senate organization on campus, which uses the meet and confer system. This had been a three-year effort for Mendez and other union supporters who had fmally generated enough support to call for an election. Mendez says he has no plans to pursue the cause. "The faculty has spoken," he said.
New class teaches planet management By Cherlyn Wisdom Staff Writer
What do boiling frogs and humanshaveincommon? According to William Leslie, a philosophy instructor at Palomar, humans are suffering from the boiling frog syndrome. Leslie, along with two other Palomar faculty members, will be putting the boiling frog syndromeintoauniversal context in "Global Concerns," a new class they are team teaching this spring. When one puts a frog in boiling water, it will jump right out because the water is too hot But if the same frog is placed in cold water and the heat is gradually turned up, the frog will boil and die. "Humans are sort of like that." Leslie said. "As long as the degradation of the environment is very gradual, we adjust and learn to live with it H we continue, we will be like the frogs." Leslie along with Gene Sager, instructor for religious studies and another teacher for the class, LearningCommunity105,bothagreethat
the environmental crisis is the most serious crisis facing our world today. They decided to start a class to educate people on the problem. Teaching the class with them will be speech teacher Dr. Kris Stonebreaker. "We offer classes in hotel management. why not planet management?" asked Leslie. LC 105 will focus on issues such as family and population management, land use and diet, energy use and technology pollution and the ozone layer, according to Sager and Leslie. "We want people to become part of the solution, because if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." LC 105 will meet from 8 am.12:20p.m.onTuesdaysandThursdays for a total of nine units. LC 105 will take the place of three classes; either Philosophy 100 or 101, and either Religious Studies 101 or 105,andSpeechCommunication 100 for general education requirements. "When you register for classes, sign up for LC 105 as well as one class in each of the three categories because those classes are what appear on your transcripts, not LC 105," said Sager.
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For AIDS Awareness Day, free condoms were handed out at the ASG office. ASG Treasurer Gabriel Watson and Afrikan-American Student Alliance Vice President David Mathis are pictured.
EYENTS PROMOTE AWARENESS
Students at risk for AIDS By Barbra Dijak Staff Writer
To heighten student awareness about AIDS and to promote safe sex, Palomar's student government handed out free condoms this week. Dec. 1 was National AIDS Awareness Day. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, two of the most difficult andelusiveaudiencestoreachwith
AIDS prevention messages are teenagers and young adults. A recent study found young people often place themselves at serious risk for AIDS by theiruseofdrugsand alcohol.DHHSstatisticsshowthat . using drugs or getting drunk can cloud good judgment about sex. Hoping to alert Palomar students about the risk of AIDS, campus radio station KKSM, in conjunction with Student Health Services recently posted AIDS Awareness Week, Nov. 16 through Nov. 20.
Coordinating the activities were Patty Lane, News Director at KKSM, Jeanie. Dolan, a station staff member, and Pam Webb, a registered nurse at Student Health Services. The station ran 30 and 60 second spots about myths and facts sur-
see AIDS, page 4
TOUCHES STUDENTS' UVES FOR SPECIAL SEE PAGE 4