SPORTS
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OPINION
ENTERTAINMENT
Is the price of investigating the President's fund-raising ethics worth the cost to us?
Battle of the bugs hits the screen with "Starship Troopers" See Page 12
THE Palomar College
Friday, Nov. 7, 1997
New programs for welfare recipients • Colleges to receive funding Melody Cruz Staff Writer
Palomar students on welfare will have to keep their eyes open for new programs being initiated in order to comply with last year's welfare reform legislation. According to Paul Kelly, dean of vocational technology, California passed welfare laws that mirror the federal laws. He said that each community college with welfare recipients will have a certain amount of money allocated to the schools to get the new welfare programs up and running. According to the state welfare ·law, the first of the year will mark the required time that the adult of a single parent household will have to do welfare-to-work activities for 20 hours a week.
On July 1 of 1998, the hours will be increased to 26 and on July 1 of 1999, the requirement will be 32 hours a week. Kelly said that San Diego County will be very much in tune with the "work first" theme. The welfare- to- work activrties are within a broad topic of work training and the types of activities will include volunteerism and work study. Students enrolled in a community college will be sent to a college by their appointed case manager, leaving Palomar with no control over who is sent to the • school. Those who are working towards a degree that will help them in the work force will have to complete their degree within a year. Students will also have to work with their case manager who will closely monitor their progress in their vocational study. Palomar's President Dr. George SEE
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Senada Lekovic I The Telescope
Daniel Cook, Joshua Hranek, Kayla Safarik and Lauryn Duffer (left to right) were among more than a dozen children who received bags of candy that were prepared by members of Pan African Student Movement Club of Palomar last Friday. See story page 4.
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"You and the Nina, full speed ahead"
Prop 209 decision has no immediate impact Liz Bennett Staff Writer
Courtesy of Morgan
Palomar student Anthony Wiese sailed halfway around the world on a recreation of Christopher Columbus' Nina. The full story of Wiese's adventure and information on future voyages can be found on page 10.
On Nov. 3, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Proposition 209, but for the time being hiring procedures at Palomar and other community colleges will remain unchanged. "In terms of hiring and employee selection practices, nothing will change_until we receive an advisory from the chancellor's office,'~ said Dr. Teresa Doyle assistant superintendent/vice president of human resources and affirmative action. Prop. 209 bans the use of affirmative action or preferential treatment for ethnic minorities and women. The chancellor of all California community colleges stated in a memo to Dr. George Boggs, superintendent/president of Palomar College that "affirmative action programs required by statute must continue to be enforced because Article III, section 3.5 of the California Constitution provides that a government agency may not discon-
tinue enforcing a statute until an appellate court has ruled that the statute is unconstitutional." Education Code Section 87100 et seq. states that a community college must have a faculty and staff diversity program. Also, Education Code Section 71028 requires that a system-wide goal is met when firms owned by women, disabled veterans, and ethnic minorities are contracted by community colleges. Despite this, Doyle said that affirmative action programs are not likely in the long run to remain in place. "As affirmative action officer for this district, that trend grieves me a great deal, but it seems to be the way that we're headed,'' she said. "Every decision that has been made since the first injunction that prevented the implementation of 209 has been in favor of 209." Dr. Michael Newbrough, associate professor of social sciences anticipates other states following California's lead in reversSEE
PROP 209,
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