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THE
LESC Friday, October 6, 1995
Palomar Community College
San Marcos, CA
Volume 49, Number 5
New education center planned
Palomar reacts to the Simpson verdict
Seanna Lee Staff Writer
Brian Wallace/ The Ttlescope
Students watching television in R·19A react with smiles, cheers and applause upon hearing the not guilty verdict delivered by the jury in the O.J. Slmpson murder case last Tuesday.
After using spare high school classrooms for 20 years, students in the southern part of the Palomar College District might soon have their own campus. According to President/Superintendent Dr. George Boggs, Palomar is currently taking steps to purchase a site for a new education center in Poway, accommodating 6.000 students. Though a detinite time frame for the campus opening has not been set, Boggs said the Poway site should be operational within the next ten years. The news comes nearly five years after the Redevelopment District of Poway originally appropriated $5.2 million for the college in 1991. Currently, Palomar is looking at a site on Pomerado Road adjacent to St. Michael's Catholic Church. The new campus would be similar to the Escondido Education Center. According to Boggs. ;m expans1on like this is inevitable for Palomar because the San Marcos main campus is near capacity. The best options for growth are satellite centers and Educational Television, Boggs said. "It might be possible to have about 40,000 students by the year2005, but we can't have them all getting on the road to get to Palomar College in San Marcos," said Dr. Boggs. Currently about 3,000students attend night-only classes at Poway and Mt. Carmel High Schools' extension campuses. A new education center would allow Palomar to offer day classes and serve about 6,000 students. Poway was picked as the best area for an Education Center because of the large number of potential students and their
See POWAY, Page 5
Francis T. Crowley Stt({f ll'ritn
Causing canceled classes and outdoor instruction, a power failure darkened buildings throughout a third of the campus Monday. According to Phil Ryan. Facilities Manager, a cable in one of the manholes blew, killing power to the campus. When Rick Beach. Facilities Electrician, found the campus powerless at 5 a.m .. the maintenance crew discovered the ··B circuit." one of three main campus power lines, had blown. Ryan explained. "The age of our infrastructure is the cause for this failure . Stress, age and water just causes wear on these things ," Ryan said. According to Ryan , the electrical infrastructure dates to the 1950s. Palomar's radio station. KKSM. was shut down along with the library and several buildings throughout campus. Repairs wcrcn 't made until 5 p.m. As a result, some buildings closed for the remainder of the day . Judi Stafford. associate professor of English, was one instructor affected by the outage. Taking students' advice, she taught through the darkness. "The biggest problem was the heat," said Stafford. 'The students adj usted very well and we JUSt went right on in the dark.''
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Cafeteria mes gets resolved Jenni Kendall St{{ff Wrtter
Following complaints about cleanliness and threats to call the County Health Supervisor. an agreement has been reached mandating a more comprehensive cleaning schedule for Palomar's Student Union. Breaking from a two week argument over department responsibility. the food service and custodial departments have decided to split the duties of cleaning. The decision to share the responsibility came after discussions between both departments. Their objective is to have the Student Union looking the same or better than when the morning students come in. "Everyone is trying to work together. After all, somebody has to do it,'' said Cindy Shand, Food Service supervisor. The agreement saves the Associated Student Government from creating a new paid Federal Work Study position dedicated to Student Union cleaning in the afternoon. The new position, which would be paid at $5 an hour. would have someone bussing tables, sweepmg floors. emptying trash cans and cleaning them icrowavc throughout the afternoon. This cleaning would follow the presently existing morning cleaning . With the new agreement. the ASG tabled their resolution O~:t. 3. Already. some of the new cleaning procedures are
See MESS, Page 5