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Drug users could lose financial aid

Candidates wrangle for • n1ne posts

' Adolfo Mendez College Press

On July 1, 2000 a federal law goes into effect that could strip students of their college financial aid for any drug conviction, no matter how minor. One conviction could mean a student would lose work-study and financial aid for a full school year.

Congress approved the new provision, which is part of the Higher Education Act, and President Clinton signed it into law in October 1998.

Drug policy reform advocates are mobilizing on college campuses across the country to overturn the provision. . "Twelve student governments have endorsed a resolution calling for the drug provision to be overturned," says 20-year-old Kris Lotlikar, campus coordinator for the Drug Reform Coordination Network, a ....., Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit • organization.

The NAACP and- according to Lotlikar - students on 150 campuses support H.R. 1053, a bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (DMass.), to repeal the drug conviction provision. , The Drug Reforem Coordination Network plans to host the "Sensible Drug Policy Convention" in November, said Lotlikar.

Convention planners have the backing of NAACP's Youth and College Division, which will cosponsor the event, according to Hiewet Senghor, the organization's national college cooridinator.

"This is a NAACP bread and bJtter issue. It's our mission to work against anything that works against the advancement of young people," Senghor says.

The problem, says Senghor, is that the new federal aid restriction could ··worsen an existing imbalance in the justice system when it comes to blacks and whites in jail. Already, more whites are arrested for drugrelated offenses than blacks. But African Americans face convictions at higher rates than whites, she says.

"You could be a high school senior and make a mistake [with drugs] and be hurt by this law," Senghor says, adding that the NAACP is going to take up the issue at its October board meeting, and prepare an official statement.

"But you could be a rich, white kid can abuse drugs and not lose his financial aid under this law," Senghor says.

Under the law, a student who is convicted of any drug offense would be suspended one year for the first offense, two years for the second offense and indefinitely for the third ,offense.

Students can get their financial aid back before the suspension period only if they complete a rehabilitation program. The U.S. Department of Education is expected to acceptable terms for these programs by November l.

The primary sponsor of the provision, U.S. Representative Mark Souder (R-Ind.), an evangelical Christian, has said that taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize the college education of students who use or sell drugs. , "Actions have consequences. If you receive taxpayer assistance to ,pursue your college education, you will be held accountable for investing it wisely," he said.

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Michael Paisner News Editor

Palomar students will go to the polls this week to fill open seats on the Associated Student Government.

Thirteen candidates will vie for ten open positions which include Executive Vice President, Treasurer, MEET THE Vice President of State Affairs, and Vice •,.CANDIDATES President of Social Events. There are no canCandidate didates running for Treasurer. Polls open at statements 8:30 a.m. and close at 8 and positions p.m. on Sept. 22 and 23. on page 9 Over the last several weeks, three ASG members vacated seats won in the spring election, mostly due to class and schedule conflicts .

K.J. Tosaya resigned after being accepted to Cal State San Marcos. Moody Wasif felt that he could not ctdJ ASG re~punsibilities to his 23 unit schedule.

Elaine James could not serve for personal reasons.

Bridgette Ranconc, elected Senator in the election held last April; hopes to win the Vice President of State affairs seat while Israel Cervantes is running again after being turned away last spring.

Praying for Palomar

Student body flounders Patricia S. McAvoy

Yearly gathering draws more than 20 students

Opinion Editor

Tom Chambers Editor-in-Chief

More than 20 Palomar students gathered around the flag pole on Wednesday Sept. 15 to pray at the annual Sec You At The Pole event.

"We are here to make this a day of prayer all around the country," said Walter Toronado, president of the Calvary Collegiate Fellowship, "Which this country really needs."

See You At The Pole is a yearly event where students meet at the flag pole of their campuses to pray. It started in 1990 when more than 45,000 high school students from four states participated.

More than 3 million high school and college students participate in all 50 states.

Photo' hy Senn C'olhurn I The Te/e.<cope

Palomar students gather to pray at "As Christians we believe there's no other solution to the problems in our country than supernatural intervention from God," said Charlie Campbell, a pastor at Calvary Chapel Vista who participated in Palomar's event. "Prayer is the only solution to bring healing in our nation. "

the flagpole last Wednesday Although Palomar's event went as planned, another rally held in Fort Worth, Texas was cut short when a gunman shot six people and then took his own life.

See You At The Pole is held every year in September.

College administrators had right to censor yearbook, court rules Christine Tatum College Press

CINCINATTI, Ohio- College newspapers and yearbooks could be subject to the same content restrictions imposed on many high schools because of a federal appeals court's ruling backing a Kentucky State University administrator's decision to confiscate a campus yearbook.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday rejected the claims of two KSU students who accused the school of violating their First Amendment rights by censoring a yearbook and the campus

newspaper.

The court also upheld the university's removal of the student newspaper's faculty adviser after she refused to censor content criticizing the university.

The students, judges said, failed to show how the yearbook's censorship and their adviser's absence (She was reinstated after filing a grievance.) harmed their rights to free speech.

The ruling has riled journalism professors and groups representing student journalists around the country. They worry that the case could become a precedent tli.at limits the scope and tone of student publications and reduces academic freedom for

faculty members, who have campus publications of their own. The students won combined support from 30 journalism schools and programs and collegiate and professional journalism advocacy groups, including the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

"In this country we don't - or at least we haven't until now - allowed govern-ment officials to confiscate thousands of copies of an otherwise lawful publication because its cover was purple or because it didn't sing the praises of a state institu-

Palomar College enrolled 22,225 students this fall, 1.6 percent less than this time last year.

However, the Mt. Carmel Education Center reported an increase in registration, possibly a result of offering more classes said . Michael Norton, director of public information.

Palomar's rolls hit an all time high in fall 1997 with 27,244 students.

Jerry Patton, vice president of adminstrative services, said the college is not able to tell whether changes in the new registration system effected enrollment.

"We had no choice but to move ahead (with the program)," Patton said.

The college faced a deadline because the old

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computer system was not year 2000 compatible.

"We accomplished our goal in 13 months. We did it so fast." Patton said.

Not al l students were as optimistic. Many people that tried to register using Palomar's automated Phone And Register (PAR) system complained of a slow system, discon-nections, and closed classes due to software glitches (The Telescope, Aug. 23, 1999). In-person registration IS no longer done.

Patton cited other reasons. He says a strong economy could also adversely affect community college enrollment.

Norton says it is too early to determine Palomar's total enrollment. "Actually, peak enrollment is in the middle of November," Norton said.

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Campus Beat

The Telescope • Monday, Sept.' 20, 1999

PALOIVIAR IN BRIEF Blood donors are needed The American Red Cross needs blood donors for unexpected emergencies.

The procedure takes less than 15 minutes. The Red Cross will ask a few routine questions. You cannot donate blood if you have received a tattoo within the last 12 months, chemotherapy for cancer treatment or drug injections without a doctor's supervision.

If you traveled to an area where you may have been exposed to malaria, you must wait one year before donating. If you lived in a country where malaria is common, you must wait three years.

Donors must be at least 17 years old and weigh at least llO pounds. ·The Palomar College Blood Drive will be held in the Student Union Sept. 28 and Sept. 29 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

All donors will receive a free Tshirt and refreshments.

The blood drive is sponsored by the Health Services Department and Phi Theta Kappa.

Sean O'Connor Campus Beat Co-Editor

Celebrate the American Indian California Indian Days will be celebrated at Palomar College and at the Pauma Indian Educatsison Center on the Pauma Indian Reservation.

Indian Days will be held at Polmar between 10 a.m and 1 p.m.

Sept. 24 at the Student Union.

There will be music, dance and displays.

The Indian Day Run will start at 8 a.m. Sept. 25 at the Pauma reservation. Participants can participate in a one-mile run-walk or 5K fun run.

The registration fee for the Indian Day Run is $5 for adults and $1 for children. Participants will receive T-shirts and prizes will be given.

Registration begins at 7 a.m. and the benefit breakfast starts at 6:30 a.m.

For more information, contact American Indian Studies at (760) 744-ll50, Ext. 2425.

Rumiko Takeya Campus Beat Co-Editor

Spend winter in Belize Palomar College students can earn three units of credit by taking a two-week excursion from Jan. 2 to Jan. 16, 2000 to Belize, Central America.

Beth Pearson and Dr. Candi Francis will lead students through rain forests, Mayan ruins, river rafting, snorkeling in the world's second largest coral reef, and swimming with stingrays and sharks.

The trip will cost $ 2,050 per per-

son including air transportation, lodging, meals, local ground and boat transportation and park entry fees.

Students need to enroll either in Biology 195 or Zoology 195.

There is an informational meeting for this program Nov. 19, at 5 p.m. in Room LS-9. · For more information, call Francis at (760) 744-1150 Ext. 2522 or contact Beth Pearson at Ext. 2874. Information is also available at http://lifescience.palomar.edu/ lifescience/Belize.html.

Tiffany Hendsen Staff Writer

Earn credits exploring Mexico Palomar College is offering several. study abroad programs. One such program is the "Romance of Mexico" held Jan. 2 through Jan. 17, 2000.

The "Romance of Mexico" is an art, photo and culture workshop in San Miguel de Allende. On this trip students will live with a Mexican family.

Students will take courses where they will learn about the culture as well as the language of the surrounding area.

Students can earn three credits of Art 197.

There will be informational meetings for the "Romance of Mexico" trip Sept.. 25 and Oct. 30, at 1 p.m. in Room D-5.

For more information, contact Harry Bliss or Jan Burton at (760) 744 - ll50, Ext. 2304 or 2302.

Courtney Adams Staff Writer

Ideas needed for nursing The registered nursing trauung program at Palomar College is now undergoing an accreditation process.

The National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission will be on campus Oct. 12 through Oct.l4.

Kathy Clyne, chair of Palomar's Nursing Education Department, said anyone who wants to make comments to representatives of the commission about Palomar's nursing program, call (760) 744-1150 Ext. 2580.

Comments may also be given in writing and sent to the commission c/o Palomar College, Nursing Education, 1140 W. Mission Road, San Marcos, CA 92069.

The commission headquarters is at 6 1 Broadway, New York, and New York 10006.

Sean O'Connor Campus Beat Co-Editor

WORK SHOPS

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PALOMAR COLLEGE COMMUNITY SERVICES Acting and performing for the camera This workshop is offered on Sept. 25 and Oct. 2 in Room Q-1 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The cost for this w~rkshop is $69.

ADDING A CLASS Only registration in short-term or open-entry/open- exit class is now permitted. If class is closed, secure instructor's signature.

Making money purchasing distressed REO foreclosure properties from banks and savings and loans This seminar is held on Sept. 25 in Room ES-21 from 9 a.m. to 3:30p.m. and the tour of properties is from 3:30p.m. to 6 p.m. The cost is $69 for one person and $99 for a couple.

DROPPING A CLASS On Sept. 18 through Oct. 15 a grade of "W" will appear on student's record. Beginning Oct. 16 through the end of semester, no drops arc permitted and an evaluative grade or " I" will be given.

To register or to get more information about these workshops, contact Palomar College Community Services at (760) 744-1 150, Ext. 2702.

CREDIT/NO CREDIT GRADING The last day to change grading status is Sept. 24.

Instructor's s1gnature is required on CR/NC form.

UNIVERSITY VISITATION AND WORKSHOPS University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Workshop is offered on Sept. 23 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in SU-1 & 3.

For more infonnation, contact the Transfer Center at (760) 744- 1150, Ext. 2552.

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At the Sept. 15 meeting, the Associated Student Government did not make a quorum. A meeting was held for discussion of issues that were not on the agenda.

Rick Kratcoski and Marilyn Starwalker from the Friends of the Palomar Arboretum asked for funding to improve the arboretum. A resolution may be drafted.

Melissa Denham reported that two phones owned by MCI at the Transit Center are not working and there is no information on them to report the problem.

John Doan, a student leaving for UCLA after three years at Palomar, gave suggestions to improve the ASG: Get out and talk to students, giving out free stuff does not build relationships. Let students know what is going on. Even if you can't do something- let them know why-or what's going on.

AUDITING A CLASS The last day to change to audit status is Sept. 24.

Instructor's signature is required on an audit form.

FALL 1999 GRADUATION Deadline to apply for AA or CA is Oct. 1. However, there is no deadline for California State University General Education and Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum applications.

SEMESTER GRADES Summer 1999 grades arc not available on PAR and the Internet at this time. Summer grades can be obtained by submitting self-addressed stamped envelope in a drop box in Admissions lobby. Spring 1999 grades can be obtained by calling 471-2421. Students will be asked to use their birthdate as their PIN number. Spring grades are also available on the Internet. Any discrepancies in grades should be resolved as soon as possible.

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Out! Do you pray?.

Why or why not?

Communication "Yes, because I believe there is a greater being · than ourselves."

Jeremy Kahle Undecided

"Yes, because it's part of my religion and I do want God's help."

"Yes, because I believe in God and in being religious."

"Yes, to keep in contact with my savior, the LORD."

"No, because I don't have any religion."

"Yes, because I cannot get the answers."

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'Speech god' moves up

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Students know him as "the college student's friend." They suggest his classes to friends, and on day one of each semester the room is full of students hoping to crash a class with the "speech god."

Faculty know him as their advocate, their voice to the administration. Now Bruce Bishop takes on a new title and a new role: Interim Director of Student Activities.

Bishop moved into his new post last week, saying goodbye to his classes, his speech department chairmanship, and his faculty presidency.

"The worst part of this is the timmg," he said. "Three weeks into the semester I had to hand my classes over to someone else." He said it was hard leaving his students. "My students give me a hard time now," he said, "they say mean things to me. It feels good."

Bishop, who began teaching at Palomar in 1997, went to San Diego State University with plans to go to law school after completing his bachelor's degree in speech communication, but his ambitions changed. "After getting my BA, the dehate coach at State suggested I get my master·~ and said I could be assistant coach of the debate team and teach a couple of classes," Bishop said. "I was just a kid of 21 offered to teach college courses."

"I loved it,'' he said, "I loved teaching and [ loved coaching debates."

After finishing his master's in speech communication, Bishop till planned to go to law school, but took time off from school and

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started to teach part time. He had and focus of the community coltwo classes at Southwestern lege more than that of a College, two classes at City University. However he continued College, and two classes at San working on his degree and finished Diego State. in 1986.

"I called Palomar to see if there "I'm very happy teaching at the was an opening," he sa1d. "The community college level," Bishop secretary said they were hiring, so said. "Community colleges arc I applied." Bishop thought it was more teaching centered, more stustrange when Palomar asked for an dent centered." interview for what he thought was Bishop applied for the student a part time position. "Without even activities director job because ·it realizing it I applied for a full time was a new challenge. "Not because [ got tired of teaching or disliked position."

Bishop was hired on his 23rd teaching," he said. "I loved everybirthday, and as he began teaching thing I was doing: speech departhe decided not to go to law school. ment chair, faculty president, and After teaching at Palomar for a being on numerous committees. few years, Bishop wanted to teach The job appealed to me because I at a university and started work on could do something else and still his doctorate in 1981. He would work closely with students," he teach during the academic year at said.

Palomar and work on his doctorate In the new position Bishop will during the summer at the . keep only one of his speech classUniversity of Denver. es. His others have been reasHe changed his mind again, real- signed. He is also leaving his posiizing he enjoyed the atmosphere tion as president of the faculty and

chair of the Speech Communi'cation Department.

As director, Bishop will also be the adviser to the Associated Student Government. He was involved with the student council in both high school and college.

Bishop wants to increase student involvement. "We talk about providing students with a well rounded college education," he said, "but most students at Palomar College come to class, go back to their cars and leave. We need to find out what other colleges are doing, find out what works and see if we can do it here."

Bishop also wants to work on recruiting students for student government and clubs. "We have a tremendously effective athletic program that attracts and keeps students," he said. "We ought to be able to expand that to clubs and activities."

When the college fills the position permanently next year, Bishop plans to apply. "My real goal is to make it a permanent position."

Bishop would like the Student Activities Office to be seen as another resource on campus for staff and students. "I'm looking forward to making this office more open for students, and increasing student involvement."

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Palomar's construction p.oise and dust levels should begin to subside as construction workers close more of the trenches and pour concrete to complete the remaining main sidewalk up to the

top of campus.

Construction workers will be moved to the p.-oject phases that affect Comet Circle as the work is completed in the center of the campus.

Currently all traffic is being diverted from Comet Circle before Lot 12 on to Los Posas.

In October construction should begin in lots nine and 11; Mike

Ellis, director of facilities said.

Other majot: constrUction sched~ uled for tht~ semester will tie in the telephone and electrical lines. ''This work will require 12 buildings ~ all on the same electrical circuit ......... to be shut down, when school is out" Ellis said. These proj~ts

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Ballot endorsements The staff of The Telescope was evenly divided as to whether we should voice our opinion on who we felt were the best candidates to fill Associated Student Government positions. On one hand, we felt we should not influence the students choice in an election. And besides, years ago, new<spapers stayed out of it. On the other hand, we felt that we have a responsibility to the student body since we cover the ASG, interviewed the candidates, and we enjoyed their responses to our tough questions. After a long discussion, we felt that it would be a service to Palomar's student body to offer a guide of the candidates who impressed us the most and to briefly outline the position duties.

Executive Vice President: This position is responsible for monitoring the ASG member's compliance with the by-laws. This officer assists the president in most matters and generally manages the ASG. This position require someone with good managerial and most of all, excellent people skills. Since we feel President Buddy Rabaya's strong point i.~ his firm con~ trol of his staff, we feel someone with a lot of enthusiasm would comple~ ment his strong management style. , For this reason, we feel Diane Vasquez is the person of choice.

Treasurer: We are disappointed that no one is running for this position. With a the ASG budget hovering around $1 00.000, we need a treasurer to cloc:ely monitor Palomar's student fees.

Vice President of State Affairs: This position is responsible for organizing Palomar's lobbying efforts on behalf of the student body for off campus trips to places like Sacramento and Washington D.C.

Although no one is running against her, we feel Brldgette Roncone is an excellent choice. She has succe~sfu1ly started a club that has grown to 75 members in only s:ix months. Her main concern is that when ASG members speak to politicians, they promote views that are. of importance to Palomar's student body and to not use the time for personal promotion.

Vice President of Social Events: This position is responsible for spearbeading social activities on campus.

This position is very important because they are respon,sible for a large sum of money. This .(X)Sition requires monitoring to ensure funds earmarked for social events is well spent. In this e1ec~ tion, we must abstain because one of the candidates is on The Telescope staff.

Senator: Senators write resolutions, serve orr committees, and are responsible for "any other duties assigned by the president.'' Resolutions are the only legal way· to get action from the ASG. Committees control what is happening on· campus. We feel that these are important positions requiring dedication' to the Palomar's student body.

We call it dedication when a candidate ca11s The Telescope office to reschedule that day's press conference because she delivered a baby a few hours before. We think you're crazy Melissa Denham, but you have already demonstrated a "no excuses" approach to student government.

We also think that Michelle Arce has what it takes to be a good senator, just not a gteat politician. Michelle has a fantastic background in her high school's student government, and she was the only one to address the neglect of night students, a group we feel has been unjustly rt'garded as the "poor relatives" for far too long.

Focused on Palomar Volume 53 Number 3

Monday. September 20, 1999

Editor-in-Chief Tom Chambers News Editor Michael Paisner Campus Beat Editors Sean O'Connor Rumiko Takeya Opinion Editor Patricia S. McAvoy Entertainment Editor Evari Blewett Sports Editors Anthony Saavedra Mike Stevens Feature Editor Dustin Schwindt Photo Editors Johnny Rabago Mikael Wiley Copy Editors Amy Bolaski Sean O'Connor

Business Manager Janet Dorsey Distribution Manager Tara Hebert Instructional Assistant Daniel Kwan Photojournalism Adviser Paul Stachelek

Staff Writers Janise Deleon, Anne Hathaway, Shigehiro Kondo, Courtney Adams, Joel Christoffersen, Sean Johnston, Nancy Seuschek, Samir Roy, Brandon Fischer, Tiffany Hendren, Derian Messard

people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

Adams makes a strong point. The freedoms Torn given in our Constitution come witll Charnbers responsibilities. If we ignore thos4 responsibilities we will lose our freedom. If public shootings keep happening, th~ government will take our guns away to control t inspired three of the shootings. Two of the the violence. But taking the guns away won't ~ shootings took place at the workplace, one of solve the problem.

A society that gives its citizens the right m which was attributed to losing money. in the stock market. Two took place on high school run their own lives, only works if the citizens campuses with the shooters going after the accept the responsibilities that come with their -rights. popular kids at school.

The stockbroker who kiLled nine people did What is wrong with our society? The economy is strong, unemployment is down, so because he had lost a great deal of money'. the welfare rolls are being cut, the budget is How sad that we have placed such an emphasis balanced - things should be great! But they on money that when things go sour, a man shoots up his office. aren't.

There is more to preserving our freedom While economic stability is good for the country, we have obviously Left something than making money. Freedom only works if out. The 54 people slain this year bear our personal morals govern our actions.

1 t testimony that there are things more Unfortunately, morals are on the decline.

We learn that values are relative, the truth important than a good economy. What good is a balanced budget when high school students doesn't matter (even if you get caught) and the only life thin counts is our own. Parents aren't mow each other down in class?

And for that matter, what good is our paying attention to their children, racism and freedom when we live in fear that we might bigotry are still strong forces, and many of us get blown away at school, or while praying at live our lives for the next paycheck.

People don't go shooting up churches and church? That is not freedom at all.

Can we even have freedom in a society that schools because they have guns - they do SG 1 turns its back on morality? Can our because they are morally bankrupt and we as a society do nothing to fill that void. government even keep the peace?

Perhaps it is time for us to look at our John Adams, our second president said, "We have no government armed with power morality. What do we value? Do we accep1 capable of contending with human passions the responsibility that comes with our unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, freedom? After these shooting are we now ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break willing to recognize the problem starts with. the strongest cords of our constitution as a us? Or shall we continue on a path of self• whale goes through a net. Our Constitution destruction and shoot .America, and het ' was made only for a moral and religious freedom, to death?

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at makes a Texas man walk into a burch, kill six people, sit in a pew and kill himself?

What makes a Los Angeles man go to a day care center and strafe six people?

What makes an Alabama man blast three co-workers in his office?

What makes an Atlanta stockbroker blow away nine people in his office and injure 13?

What makes a live-in boyfriend in Atlanta murder a family with four children?

What makes a white supremacist in Illinois knock off two random men and himself?

What makes a Michigan man nix his psychiatrist, a woman and himself?

What makes a Georgia teen-ager walk into class and open fire on six classmates?

What makes two Colorado high school students conspire against their school and execute 12 students, one teacher, wound 23 other students and kill themselves?

What makes a 71-year-old Utah man spray buLlets in the Mormon Family Library, taking two lives, wounding four and then kill hilnself?

What makes a Tennessee man annihilate his attorney and an unsuspecting client?

These questions haunt America as the number of public shootings is at an all time high. The 11 shootings since January resulted in 54 deaths and 66 injuries - at no other time in history have we had a rash of shootings like we have had this year.

What caused these senseless shootings?

Some blame guns, but that is flawed. Guns have always been present in our society. If guns cause vicious killing, why didn't we have this problem in the first 150 years of om existence?

The truth is these shootings paint a bleak picture of American society. Bigotry and hate

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ecently, I was sitting in the living room of my parents house, talking with my parents and younger brother. It really was not anything special, just a conversation. What I remember about it is the fact that we had it, that we were all actually home at the same time, sitting in the same room, and talking with one another. It is not something that happens too often.

J confess: I am 23 and I still live at home. Well, actually, I recently moved back home. I lived on my own for quite awhile, but moved back home a little over a year ago. Although it is difficult to readjust to hfe with my parents, brother and grandmother, I thil)k it really is a blessing in disguise.

I miss my apartment, my freedom, and the fact that I could leave a radio on all night and the dishes in the sink if I wanted to. Really though, this is my last chance to be a kid in a sense - I play Scrabble with my dad at night sometimes, or have coffee

with my mom in the afternoon, and always squabble with my brother over something. I also get to spend time with my grandmother.

I will be done with college soon, and the next time I move out I think it will be a permanent thing.

That scares me a little bit. I live with my family, yet I do not see a whole lot of anybody in it. When I move forward on my own, I will have even less time to spend with family. I think it is the whole idea of being an adult, not just in age, but a fully responsible person. I have always been responsible, and my parents certainly do not pay any of my bills, but they give me a sense of security nonetheless.

Perhaps a lot of people my age would not agree with me. I know many who do live at home and hate it; they cannot wait to get out. I suppose it would depend each individual's situation, but I feel blessed to have a family, and I do not feel the need to "get out."

Do not get me wrong. I certainly miss my privacy. I would love to have my own

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place again. Right now I do not, and while I choose to stay at home, I think - I might as well enjoy it.

There are a lot of perks. I do not have tqJ worry about rent (except the $ 75 I pay every month for my "rent") or utilities, an<;!

I can focus on saving money for school and paying off my credit card. Which is nearly paid off, as I do not have to toss $ 500 ~ month into apartment expenses. My moll) still buys me soap, toilet paper and socks, not because I cannot afford it but because she knows half the time I am too busy to go shopping.

I must say I am looking forward to the next· chapter of my life, but for now this one is comfortable. I spend so little lime with my family members now that I am beginning to dread the fact that at som~ point I might only see them once a week,. or once a month, or worse. They are, after all, the people with whom I have shared every experience of my life so far. I hop~ they will always continue to be part of my Life, even after I have an apartment and .;;t life of my own. '\

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ifting through the alphabet, we've apparently finished with the A-word (Adultery) and have . moved to the C-word (Cocaine).

Have you ever used cocaine? Prying minds want to know as we begin the quadrennial evisceration of our presidential candidates.

Some proudly trumpet, "no." Some decline to answer. No one says "yes," 'though some muddle through with the equivocal yes-but, as Clinton famously did in 1992: Yes, but, "I didn't inhale."

(Voters' key: No probably means uno." Yes means "yes." Decline means "yes." Yes-but means, "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

Meanwhile, if you want to analyze the relationship between youthful indiscretion and adult behavior, ponder this: For whom would you tather your daughter work? A guy who smoked dope in college, or a guy who pretended' to smoke dope in college?

Such are the ethical dilemmas of our time.

The correct answer to Did-You-Ever questions regarding youthful, victimless activities is, "I'm not going to play that game," as Texas Gov. George W. Bush said recently. The game is childish, unproductive and motivated by a destructive quality within our political process that needs to be exorcised.

Bush was responding to questions regarding a rumor that he had tried cocaine. After initially refusing "to play," he amended his answer to conform with the standard required of federal employees seeking highsecurity clearance.

"As I understand it, the current form asks the question,· 'Did somebody use drugs within the past seven years?"' said Bush. "And I will be glad to answer that question, and the answer is, 'No."' Good enough for me. Even better would · b_e a campaign free of all questions beginning with, "Did you ever ... ?" Isn't "Are you ... ?" more useful, anyway?

Surely what someone did as a college student doesn't fairly predict what he'll do ·as a parent or president. I know a few former addicts I'd trust with my child, as well as some pristine noses I wouldn't trust ·with my lawn mower.

I'd wager that most people who came of age 30 years ago partook of illicit substances .. Let'S just say that when I started college in 1969 at 17, I assumed my campus had a smog problem. I "inhaled" just by showing up.

Bush - to the criticism of his political foe's and the delight of latenight comedians - consistently has said: "When I Wf\S young and irresponsible, I behaved young and irresponsibly." What else. would we have him say? To. what end?

Bot~om line: By forcing qualified candidates to confess the sins of their youth, we embarrass ourselves and our children. We also endanger the supply of good people willing to live public lives. After the Inquisition, who's left?

People who never made a mistake?

The 1960s and 1970s when Bush and I .g.r:ew up was a different era.

There's no excusing some of the behavior we barely recall, but the times were different - chaotic, anarchical, tenuous. Tomorrow was uncertain and today was for sport.

Everybody who was young and irresponsible acted young and irresponsibly.

Scott McClellan, a Bush spokesman, said Bush "isn't going to itemize for the. children of America and his daughters, who _are watching, everything. he did or did not do in the past." .

I hope he .sticks to it and that other , candidates join in the protest. I'm not interested in what George Bush did as a college student, but I'm real interested in what he has done while · governor of Texas. I'm real interested in his proposals for domestic and foreign policies, should he win the election.

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blue-collar manufacturing jobs that pay a livable wage have moved to places where the cost of living is 83 ith every passing election cycle the cents a day. The fastest growing segment of the voters dwindle in numbers. There is economy is the service industry, but Starbuck's obviously widespread discontent with employees are not well known for purchasing new · the electoral process. This trend may be homes. alarming, it might even be offensive but it is The United States is a capitalist culture governed by a completely understandable. democratic institution. Capitalism is an economic It is really no surprise that the fate of democracy in system where the means of production and distribution the new millennium is far from certain. History tells us are privately owned and operated for a profit. A democracy in its purest form contends that the state that once people loose faith in an institution it is abandoned. When the yoke of British rule became should be controlled by the people with all citizens unbearable the American colonists severed allegiance having an equal share of responsibility, duties and with the crown. When communism became unlivable privileges. Capitalism's privileges are only shared the wall was destroyed and the Soviet Union dissolved. amongst the oligarchy that owns the machinery. That In the United States, during the last presidential these two systems are incompatible is only now being election Jess than half of all registered voters bothered popularly recognized. to show up. Eligible voters 18-25, The capitalists control more than as well as minorities and those with - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - the machinery though, they own the low incomes seem to be distancing government. Under the banner of Staff Writer

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themselves from politics. In reality politics are leaving these groups behind. Politics to them are irredeemably flawed. There is no action they can take to influence the outcome of an election in a decisive way. Those who can contribute money decide the issues.

The disenfranchised know the system is broken but they also know there is nothing they can do about it.

The media are quick to label this avoidance of the polls social

Once people lose faith in an institution it is abandoned. When British rule became unbearable the colonists severed allegiance with the crown. When communism became unlivable the Soviet Union dissolved.

apathy. Apathy by definition is a lack of feeling, indifference and a lack of interest. What is commonly mistaken as apathy is a genuine sense of alienation that began with the flower children in the late 1960s and has grown wi,fh each successive generation. The hurdles to national contentment and 100 percent participation are insurmountable.

Belonging to the system has a new set of rules. As little as 20 years ago families generally did not need two incomes for survival. A person could live the American dream without a college degree. Today, even with a higher education the job market is far from ce1tain. The buying power of minimum wage is almost

free trade they are begi~ng to own the world. Corporations give more than 70 percent of all campaign donations. Corporations by nature do not throw money away. Any expenditure a business makes is considered an investment; a financial outlay in expectation of a return. The wealthy groups donating millions of dollars to both sides say their money buys them access. If access was the only thing purchased the politicians would soon be out of business. What the special interest

groups really rece1ve for their contributions is favorable legislation.

This puts people in the untenable position of wanting to make a difference but knowing they are unable to act in a meaningful way. It does not matter if you vote Republican or Democrat, both sides must answer to their financial backers.

When faced with candidates who are going to do nothing to help your interests once elected, a rap~dly changing economic environment where the status quo is making a growing number of citizens poor and the inability to make a difference, it is no wonder no one votes.

Don't stereotype Filipinos Janise Deleon Staff Writer

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ere we are in the closing days of the century and the media is still stereotyping minorities. In real life, minorities can be found in roles other than prostitutes, criminals and maids.

So, why do many film makers cast minorities in the most inferior roles? I may not have all the answers, but I do know as a member of a minority, we have more dignity than we are given credit for in Hollywood.

It is really sad when film ma!:<ers take people of ethnic groups other than their own and make them look so bad. In the 1994 movie , "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," they cast the Australian

man's Filipino wife as a prostitute. My goodness! Not all Filipinos are prostitutes. I should know, I am Filipjno too.

I lived in the Philippines for eight years and I know a Jot of well educated and established people there. Just because Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines was once prostitute territory, it does not mean that all Filipino women are prostitutes.

Filipinos, as well as other minorities, should be known for their more dignified roles in society.

I am sure most people have heard of the Tony award winner and Broadway singer/actress, Lea Salonga. Okay, she may have been cast as a prostitute in the Broadway hit, "Miss Saigon," but she is very talented.

Salonga has been cast for

better roles in hits such as "Les Miserables" and "My Fair Lady."

She is also known for being very intelligent and well educated. [t is bad enough that film makers stereotype minorities and women, must they also make the Philippines look like such a bad place whenever they film on location.

They seem to use the Philippines for depicting war zones or whore-infested locations.

The Philippine Islands are very beautiful, so there is no reason for them to only be seen as dirty and disgusting.

The time has come for film makers to quit generalizing and under-estimating minont1es.

Minorities are more than a group or race, they are people. It is time for them to be treated with the same respect as the white majority.

arning: this column practices "safe-satire" for your protection.

For this reason, you are forewarned that although the underlying fact (the security tower) is true, the following characters/events are indeed fictitious.

I realize I am just an underling clerk at this institution, but I see things. I do not mean dead people, like the boy in "The Sixth Sense." Though, there have been a few administrators around here who gave me that same scary feeling (I have heard of the temperature dropping 20 degrees when one of them enters the room.)

Anyway, the other day I was making my way through the salad bar trying to break the record for the largest salad construction (small paper cup category), when something strange happened. I was strategizing where to place that last cherry tomato when I sensed the presence of two highly excited administrators right behind me. Because I had been warned that most higher-ups do not experience what is commonly known as the warmth of human emotion, I was immediately unsettled. I overheard them say...

"Hey, that puny underling is going to break the record for the largest salad construction (small paper cup category.)

"Don't let her."

"I don't intend to." " ...Say, isn't it the most exciting news? Palomar College is finally getting what it deserves ..."

Their eyes locked at this point as they exclaimed in unison ...

"Our very own gun tower!"

The more excited of the two bubbled over (not literally, of course.)

"It has an armed guard!"

"And it is so easy to operate. It raises and lowers at the push of a button."

"Even we could handle that."

"Have you heard where it is going?"

"Lot 12, I think, but that's not all...it's mobile. Now, every comer of this campus will know respect for law and order."

"Finally! There is no respect when it comes to parking. People refuse to stay within the white line. It's out of control."

"Clearly."

"Where did the administration find such a vital tool to further academic excellence?"

"The Internet, of course ... guntowers.com."

I hightailed it back to the instructors' offices, where I work as a teachers assistant, to check out this web site. Fortunately, the computer was free. All the instructors were out doing something. Oh yeah, teaching, I think. There it was ... a virtual cornucopia of gun towers. The caption read: "Have you ever wanted to build your very own fascist state? Maybe you have always wanted to learn what it is like to live in an oppressive environment. Or, perhaps you just want to create that fun-filled atmosphere of a federal penitentiary. Now you can with your very own gun tower!"

The company freely admitted that these "items" are extremely expensive, but it went on to describe the numerous advantagess of gun tower ownership, including the many happy hours and fond memories you and your militia friends are bound to share around your mobile and higJIIly versatile gun turret.

I suppose we should be impressed. How many colleges (outside of Idaho) have their very own gun tower? If all goes as planned the administration will give us what they think we deserve. Please, we are not worthy.

What's your opinion?

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The Telescope • Monday, Sept. 20, 1999

'Weird AI' to rock SDSU Open Air Theater Concert

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Every mother has told her child, at one time or another, not to run with scissors. Apparently, the reining prince of musical parodies, "Weird Al" Yankovic, didn't listen to his mother. He's not only "Running with Scissors," he's touring with scissors.

Yankovic and his band began their current tour at the end of July, to promote his latest release, "Running with Scissors," and will continue well into the new millennium, stopping briefing for a handful of Southern California dates.

Currently, his only San Diego County date will be at the San Diego State University Open Air Theater Sept. 25.

He has managed to take some of the most popular tunes of the last two years and rehashed them into musical analogies of our persomil lives. If there is one way to describe

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uweird AI" Yankovic is set to perform his hit song parodies at the SDSU .Open Air Theater on Sept. 25.

Yanko vic's music is that he has managed to endear him to audiences by taking a humorous, clean and conservative twist to today's headlines.

Hard-core fans follow the tour from city to city despite the fact the performances are practically the same from venue to venue. Many fans even bring along their children or their grandparents. It's a clean and funny show.

For those who arc not fans or have never been to one of Weird Al's shows, here's what to expect.

He occasionally has to change the order on his song list depending on the venue and any time . constraints for the evening, so don't be disappointed if you don· t hear your favorite Weird AI tune or were told to expect a certain song to . be included in his show. Each show could be as long as two hours.

Typically, fair shows or open-airtheater shows are shorter in length because of the need for darkness to view video clips and/or city ordinances.

Video clips used to accommodate costume ch,anges. Yep, that's right, costume changes. Yankovic isn't one to just stand center stage with his accordion and play his hit songs. He incorporates videos and costumes to give an audience the full effect of a multi-media extravaganza.

With the help of MTV airing Yankovic's videos during his rise to stardom in the early 1980s, Yankovic has created a plethora of entertaining characters in his almost 20-year career. Audiences will be amazed from one ~ong to the next.

The high-en~rgy performances are fun, funny and are clean-cut entertainment.

His most recognizable of parodies have been Michael Jackson's "Beat lt" changed into "Eat It" and "Bad" to ''Fat,'' along with Madonna's "Like a Virgin" to "Like a Surgeon" and the controversial "Gangster's Paradise" by Coolio transformed into "Amish Paradise."

His costume change ,for "Fat" is truly amazing, complete with pr~s­ thetic chin and fat suit.

Songs from his current release are also performed. Even though Yankovic has admitted it's a tough song to do live, "Jerry Springer," a parody of The Barenaked Ladies' hit "One Week," is a crowd favorite.

A song that is sure to get the audience in the mood to rock is "It's All About the Pentiums." "Pentiums'' is an adaptation of "It's All About the Benjamins" by Sean Puffy Combs, and I had not heard Combs song prior to buying "Running with Scissors." I was taken aback by

Plenty of chills in 'The Sixth Sense' Movie Review

Starring: Bruce Willis Joel Osment Toni Colette Samir Roy Staff Writer

The current trend of horror films has attained only a consistency in their inconsistency. Originality has ceased to exist in the modern horror film.

Movies like "Scream" and its sequel didn't re-invent the horror genre, they just made it popular again by transplanting satiric ridiculous cliches for thrills infused with a current of smarmy self-conscious humor. There have been countless imitators of "Jaws" hitting the multiplexes recently, obviously unsuccessful.

"The Blair Witch Project" plays like "Picnic at Hanging Rock", with obnoxious film students standing in for Australian boarding school girls, and photography whose grainy and woozily out-of-focus quality induce little more than motion sickness.

In-between the three or four good scares, you get to hear people arguing with each other to fill up the barely programmer length 80minute running time.

But M. Night Shyamalan 's "The Sixth Sense" is a refreshing change of pace. It's about a child psychologist, played by Bruce Willis (without the crutch of catch phrases and

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Haley Joel Osment and Bruce Willis star the supernatural thriller "The Sixth Sense".

that familiar smirk) who, a year after being confronted with his failure to help an old patient of his (who shoots Willis and then commits suicide), sees the chance to redeem himself for it in Haley Joel Osment, a young boy who has the same symptoms as the patient he failed.

It tums out the young boy is seeing specters of dead people, and doesn't know why.

What is different about the film is that it docsn 't depend on the interesting elements of the plot alone to sustain interest. the way most film versions of Ellery Queen and Ruth Rendell novels do (save · for Almodovar's "Live Flesh"). It spends a good deal of time developing its general plot as well as its subplots, like the one about Willis' failing marriage. At the same time he is trying to reach out to the young boy, Willis is forgetting to reach out to his wife.

The film is leisurely, but not slow.

I've heard complaints from other critics about the film's leisurely pacing. which sound stupid when given that no one 111 the theater [ saw the movie in was bored or rest-

less. Shyamalan 's approach presupposes an attentive and intelligent audience, so there arc no new twists shot slap-dash into the plot every five minutes.

Instead, he finds an ironic image to follow up lines of dialogue in previous scenes to keep us guessing. In one scene, Willis comments on his new patient by saying that both he and the suicidal patient (both of whom had similar scratches on their bodies) had "the same things hanging over their head." In the next scene as the little boy's mother (played very touchingly by Toni Colette) is doing laundry and glances at the pictures on the wall, she notices a small unnatural glimmer by his head in every photograph, dating from his baby pictures all the way to his current ones.

After the little boy shares a small wish with her (in the unique fashion the mother has created) about being picked first for the ·baseball team and hitting the winning home run in the big game, he is later seen walking down the street with Willis, who has just started to connect with the child, as a little league·team trots by at the bottom of the frame.

To make these insights more resounding, Shyamalan bookends them with the Osment's confrontations with ghosts, which are tremendously scary, without relying on sudden plangent noises or exploitation of any kind.

And of course the film's money scene, the one that has built up such strong word-of-mouth, is the ending.

The surprise is precisely the type to restore your faith in surprise endings. It comes totally unexpectedly, but not because it contradicts everything that has come before, but because it's genuinely shocking, and yet it is totally logical, making the previous events take on an extra dimension and meaning.

That's the way a surprise ending should be, as opposed to "Scream 2" which relics on the audience to hugely suspend disbelief in order to swallow it or even be affected by it.

"The Sixth Sense" may not revolutionize the horror genre. but it is smrut, well thought out and trusts the audience's intelligence. which is now the biggest thing one can hope for in most of the garbage that's staining the silver screen.

"Pentiums"' hard edge style.

Yankovic has turned this hard-core rap song into something that •is purely entertaining. And, for anyone who is computer literate, you will get a giggle out of this song for sure. It's a great song performed live or on the CD. Fueled by all the hype surrounding "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace," Yankovic's single, "The Saga Begins," set to the tune of Don McLean's "American Pie," explains the entire movie from the vantage point of a young Obi

Wan Kenobi. He didn't miss a scene or a plot twist. Why bother seeing 111 two-hour movie, when all you have . to do is hear a four-minute song?

Other songs in the show will be the standard polka medley of hits, Yankovic's spin on Nirvana's "Smells Like Nirvana" and more.

"Running with Scissors" is filled with note worthy tunes, which sho~ ~ case much more of Yankovic's talent. So if you can't get to the SDSU Open Air Theater Sept. 25, at least buy the CD. You won't be disappointed.

'Stigmata' is a thorny thriller Dustin Schwindt Feature Editor

After seeing a preview of "Stigmata" one might expect to see a tyPical demon possession film similar to "The Exorcist." However "Stigmata'' had a personality all its own as it delved deep into theological issues and revealed a side of the Christian religion that very few people are exposed to.

"Stigmata" begins in a small Brazilian village called Belo Quinto where an elderly Catholic priest has died and a statue of the Virgin Mary , has begun bleeding from the eyes.

Another priest who is in the area is told by the locals about the statue and comes to the funeral in order to investigate. The priest discovers the existence of some unexplained phenomena and reports it back to a cardinal in the Vatican who is less than enthusiastic about his findings.

Also during the funeral a kid steals the priest's rosary beads and sells them to a middle-aged woman who in tum mails the beads as a gift to her daughter Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) in Pittsburgh.

Rating: As soon as Frankie puts the beads in her hands her life begins to change drastically as she begins receiving severe wounds (out of four stal'$) that are thought by the m.edical community to be self-inflicted or Starring,: the result of epilepsy.

But after one attack is witPatricia Arquette nessed by a local priest, Frankie Gabriel Byrne is told that she is receiving the stigmata or the wounds of Christ.

Jonathan Pryce Frankie has visions and experiences the pain of nails going through her hands and feet and she feels the whipping and the crown of thoms being pushed onto her head.

In addition to the attacks Frankie wakes up several times discovering that she has written or spoken in Aramaic (the language spoken by Christ and his disciples).

All of these ev.ents mixed together makes for a very mysterious movie . that keeps the audience wondering if the thing possessing the girl is of "' good or evil nature.

T~e same priest who witnessed the events in the small Brazilian village is sent to investigate the situation with the girl and immediately the tfO become close and connected by the experience.

As for the filming of the movie, the special effects scenes were very effective. The audience was made to feel safe and these moments of serenity in the film were hru·shly interrupted by a severe attack on the main character.

What made the attack scenes so unsettling is that they would not only show Frankie being injured and in pain but there were additional frames of things like an actual stake going through a human wrist that the audience has to assume to be Christ's.

The visuals of Christ being wounded downplayed the grace that is often attributed to the death and instead revealed the true horror and pain that must have been experienced.

These attacks on Frankie throughout the movie make it on the surfa , very frightening but "Stigmata" is intelligent and mysterious as it attempts to make people question some of the long held beliefs about Christian faiths and organized religion.

The film brings to light some controversial issues like the existence of additional gospels and asks the audience to take a second look at the hierru·chy that exists in today's religions.

Because of the parallel plots, "Stigmata" is a movie for two types of audience. For those who enjoy a good spine-tingling mystery, this fill\. is fun to watch. For those who have an interest in theological issues and tales of ancient manuscripts, it is intellectually stimulating.

As for those who enjoy a good scary movie with a lot of intelligence, "Stigmata," is a must see.

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Frankie (Patricia Arquette) contemplates her recent gift of rosary beads in "Stigmata", a mystery of spiritual proportions.

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The Telescope • Monday, Sept. 20, 1999

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The annual music and arts festival takes over the Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego·· Left: Singer Chris Isaak was one of the headlining acts of the nearly 50 musical groups and artists that performed over the three-day weekend event.

Right: A kabuki style drummer parades through the streets.

Bottom left: A throng of concert-goers enjoys the crisp Sout .hern California atmosphere.

Hundreds of thousands of eager San Diegans gathered together for Street Scene '99, which took place Sept. 10-12 in the Gaslamp Quarter.

Several of downtown's busy avenues were sectioned off for the event, which featured a wide collection of music and talent from around the world on 12 different stages.

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Above: An group of fun-loving drag queens catches the attention of one passerby.

Right: Mexican dancers cavort about, demonstrating just one of the many different dance styles. being represented at Street Scene.

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MEET THE QANDIDATES Students running for ASG seats were asked a set of standardized questions in order to get their views on what they felt is important and what they wanted to accomplish.

Candidate: Michelle Arce Position: Senator Major: History: Class President for two years, Mountain Empire High School in Alpine.

Member of homecoming, prom, and winter ball committees.

Personal statement: "I want to get students more involved so that they look forward to school."

Most important Issue: "If students aren't involved it's because they really don 't care.

There is nothing geared toward night students and there should be.

Pflltlo.n: Executive Vice President M8,lor. l..i"uistlcs History: P~ar $tudent 2.5 years. ASG 1 setlll!$tet. Community volunteer working wll:h high sehOQI. &tl,.tdent$ for .()pproJ<iMat$1y one yeat.

P.i\!rsooal statemeQt; ~1 wal'lt to ttatl&r.r to San Diego,State ot ltVine. EventuallY rwould fik~ to te$Ch coii4Ji& lever l)illngualeQUcation.l mink the ASG sh~ld .rocus on the out~ !ylng education centers. Tile stli~nts tntre are C()ntributing ITIQney but they are getting i'IO benefits."

Why &tudents 8hould get lnYolwMl: Mo&t Important lteue: •ASG IS nat creating enougl\ events f(l( International students.

I also want to l'lelp diSabled s~nts if'l any wwy. They rleed more l?ltt~ntlon. When they ' go into the Stuc:teiif Union, riQbQdy tiskS if they ~'Cr1'1eliS."f· ' • w,,

Candidate: Aya Malhas Position: Executive Vice President Major: Undecided History: International student. Student council four years in high school, president for one year.

Personal statement: "I want to represent the students as best as I can. I will work hard to live up to their expectations.

Why students should get Involved: Most Important Issue: "I want to hear from the students and bring their issues to the higher ups in the college."

candidate: Melissa Denham

PO$ltlon: Senator

" Majon Medical Assisting History: On tne Safety and SecuritY Committee. On the hiring committee for police offi. cers. Been at Palomar for over two years. Involved in getting to know people and the campus environment Pef&Onal statement: .•1 try to he(p disabled students. as much as f can. Also, there are a lot of students that want things done but dOn't know hOw to go about getting them to h!!ppen~ .. ' . · Why $tuderiW sttoutd let Involved: ''It'$ part of the total CQIIege ex~rtence-to have fun; It also looks good on your record when transferring.~ Most important issue: "Gettlng construction over with. And Jetting students know what Is golng on (with the construction).

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Candidate: Susan Thomas Position: Senator Major: Undeclared History: Senior at Alta Vista High School. Will graduate in January or February. Taking eight units at Palomar. Historian for the Palomar Comet Club. , Personal statement: "I want to help students get more involved . I want to know what they want done.

Why students should get Involved: "It will make the college more like a family.

Most important Issue: "Security. People expect that they will be safe and secure on campus. They shouldn't have to worry if they get out of class late."

Position: Exe<:utiv~ Vice Presi4ellt, MaJor. Blologlcal $Ciences Ht.tory: Working on the assembfy campaign of Ed E!>tes. W8$ on stu<tent government in nigh school. b ,, M , Per.cmal ~ "t'm going to ()e a dOCtOr. l tik<Ho take an active rote in what ts going on here at Palomar. If you ~·t ~ invotv«J, nothing will happen. You have to ~~ up for th!:! stl.ld'!:lnts tnat fl() voiCe. Also, I w!lnt different fOOds in the cafeteria. The food here is not very nutritional and there Is ilot enough variety.

W1tY etudenU Oould get lavotved: "Then the whole college experience becomes W<!rtnwhlle. It gives .ttle students a·· fo.rvm for the iSc:Jpes ttley care aboot."· Moat Important ~Hpe: •security•.If >'9!-1.1'1~ guaJ'ds Jhat take an hour respond, how can you feel safe bn campus?"

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Candidate: Bridgette Roncone Position: Vice President, State Affairs Major: Political Science History: Founder, Palomar College Republicans.

Personal statement: "The Palomar College Republicans now has 70 members. I got the most votes when running for senator. I already have speakers coming to the school to give talks."

Why students should get Involved: "It will broaden their horizons. People don't have to do it if they don't want to, but they shouldn't do it just to put something on their resume."

Most important Issue: "How the students are represented in Washington. We must voice outside of campus the broad issues that are important to a majority of students.

We have to make sure that special interests aren't just serving themselves."

Candld;te; O.J. Wolenyl< Posltlon~·Senator

Major.

History: First time running f(l( ASG. Personal •tatement: ~t think I can help .people get fnvolved. People do better if they get involved in the school. I would also hke to make the ASG more viSible so students know it exists.

Candtdite: Tarr.l)ia JoneS.:Johnson Poattton: Vice Presi<tent, Social Events t(ajor. Communtcations tf!Story: Publicil:y <ll),air ?f stude!'ltfttnil'lfJ bQard aU~ancho Buena \(ist~ t)lgh school {equivalent to ASG vP. Social Eventis). Gtaduated RSVfiS in stlrilig ·~. Subset~uently took cl8$ses at Paiom~ COllege during ~r ~$slon.

P«SSMJ •tat~ *I was dh>appQinted to fil'lCI thl!t Palomar has ~ football team but ~ople don't go to ~e games, I want to get ~opt:e iOVQJved. I want to get more pt,tblicfi.Y for events by working with The Tele$CO~ and ETV. 1 would lll<e to ASG members l>t¢ In t~ quad to get students opml<m C)f wtlat they Wf.mt at d~mces an<! otoor events.· Why students sllC>ulq get lnvoivej:lz ~People come Mre J.llst to get an "'A. • If t!1ey got involved they would have more fun. o Most Important tsaue: "That students know what resources are available to themComet Center. A$G, etc. Freshmen should l)e al)te to tum to someone for help.

Students should ~ ~le to eom~ ll'lto an ASG meeting and ~t their qplnion heard.

Candidate: Johnny Rabago Position: Vice President, Social Events Major: Photography History: Member of the social committee 98-99. Photographer for the ASG 98-99.

Personal statement: "I want to try to make the school more student friendly so that people wouldn't just come to school then go home, I want to get more money from the ASG to make school activities bigger and better."

Why students should get involved: "People don't know about what's going on-both in sports and with other student activities. They don't know about things like The Telescope."

Most important issue: "Parking."

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Court lets college censor student publications Continued from page 1 tion," said Mike Hiestand, an attorney with the Student Press Law Center. "I can't imagine allowing such reprehensible conduct to go 'Yithout a fight to the end now."

The case stems from a dispute :nvolving the two students, who worked on the school's 1992-94 yearbook, and Betty Gibson, KSU's vice president of student affairs.

After seeing the book's purple cover -- not decorated in the school's colors -- and leafing through it to find pictures of current events and public figures unrelated to the university, several photos without captions and what she considered an overall vague theme and title, Gibson confiscated all 2,000 copies and refused to distribute them.

The appellate court panel concurred 2-1 with a lower coUit's I 997 ruling that the yearbook was not a "public forum," therefore giving the university a right to approve

its content before distributing it.

Judges Alan E. Norris and James L. Ryan, who ruled in favor of the university, said college publications are subject to the same restrictions placed on high school newspapers by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hazelwood School District v.

Kuhlmeier, a 1988 case that deemed high school administrators could censor student publications.

In writing the court's majority opinion, Norris reasoned that the university had a right to consider the yearbook an official publication. He noted that KSU's rules for student publications, as stipulated in the student handbook, contained no disclaimers stating that the views of the yearbook were those only of students.

"It is no doubt reasonable that K.S.U. should seek to maintain its image to potential students, alumni and the general public," Norris wrote. "In light of the undisputedly

poor quality of the yearbook, it is also reasonable that KS, U. might cut its losses by refusing to distribute a university publication that might tarnish, rather than enhance, that image."

In a dissenting opinion, JudgeR. Guy Cole, Jr., disagreed that the yearbook was not a "public forum."

He also rejected his colleagues' application of the Hazelwood case.

"It is worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court in that case was addressing the scope of the First Amendment in the context of high school student publications," Cole wrote. "I believe there is reason for courts to afford colleges and universities greater deference than they do high schools."

School officials said they're pleased with the decision.

Attorneys for the two students said they would ask the full appellate court to review the decision rendered by the three-judge panel.

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Comet 1320 is changing its music format from variety to mainly music from the 90s. The radio station has been playing jazz, rock, alternative and classic hits, and now they are shifting to newer music.

On his note to all the staff of Comet 1320, Program Director Rich Clements announced the current identifier "Underground Radio From Palomar College" would be "North County's New Music-KKSM" as of Oct. l.

Clements explained that the word "underground" in the current identifier suggests progressive radio stations of the 60s and 70s, and since Comet 1320 is now changing its music format to newer music, he thinks the new identifier Photos by .Jessica Tennis I The Telescope "North County's New Steve Perry broadcasting live on "Underground Radio From Palomar College" Comet 1320, soon to be renamed Music-1320" is more suitFM 92.3 FM. just reach more college age educational purposes and is manager of Comet 1320, able. students," he added.

In order to stay on the air, recommended to the not a profit-making entity.

However, Clements also After all, KKSM is a stu- Last year, due to financial Governing Operations Manager Leta Board that said the independent spirit, B o w e n dent-run radio station with Palomar problems, Comet which the p u 1I e d 1320 almost lost its College give w o r d together a AM license, the up the the "undergroup of more popular outlet trasmitter to ground" sugenthusiastic save m<.mey. for listeners. gests, still students.

If Comet It was just over remams m The group had three years ago 1320 the station. created and when the station lost its AM "We · will executed a acquired the AM signal, the never be plan to bring way transmitter, but low only controlled m money. It that listeners income made the by compaworked. payments for the could hear mes or any" T h e station difficult. the station thing. What Then last year, Rob would be on cos may soon be obsolete as f i n an c i a 1 we are trystatus of general Cox Cable Comet 1320 goes digital. ing to do is Perry gets some hands-on training with the sound board. Branch,

(the station) is a lot better now," said Bowen.

One strategy that helped was to sell block timewhere the station sells their airtime by the hour.

Currently two groups buy block time each day. Student DJ's still get their air time just by enrolling in the RTV program, but those outside the program pay the station for their own shows.

Jim Puplava, one of the three new block time customers, has a show where he gives financial advice to listeners. Puplava's show is called "Financial Sense News Hour" and airs from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

Another block time show features Jane and Howard Bonfietti. This couple hosts "Home Bodies," a show about California style cooking. It airs from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays.

Now that the financial pressure has eased, Comet 1320 has been upgrading to digital equipment.

The first purchase was six mini-disc recorders. These sound like CD's but they are editable. Also new is an automation system. This allows students to record music, spots, and DJ's onto computers and then play everything back manually or automatically.

In manual mode, the DJ touches a computer screen to play any sound element. In auto mode, the computer runs the station, doing everything so searnlessly you cannot tell it's a computer.

What a difference a career makes Dustin J. Schwindt Feature Editor

When most people think of a career they think of someone spending 20 to 30 years slaving away at a nine-to-five job and waiting for the day when retirement and their pension will arrive.

But there are some careers that go against this grain and leave a lasting mark. In the field of broadcasting and education Dana

Hawkes has left such a mark.

When Hawkes began his career with Palomar there were no studios and very little equipment for students to learn with.

However during his 25 years at Palomar, Hawkes not only helped start a very successful college radio station but was the first director of Educational Television (ETV) at Palomar and was chiefly responsible for building the Radio and Television (RTV) program into what it is today.

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Top: Dana Hawkes (right) discusses using the ROP studio for RTV production with Director of Speech Communication and Bob Blanks, an ROP instructor. (circa 1974) Right: Dana Hawkes explains the construction of a crystal radio to his RTV 100 class.

When it came to expanding the RTV program, his biggest roadblocks were money and space for classrooms and labs. "At the time P-33 was the drama lab and there was a large closet no one was using," Hawkes said, "So we built a mobile radio unit to be rolled out during class."

This method of improvising was only needed for a short time as Hawkes ambitiously applied for grants and lobbied administra~ tors for permanent RTV rooms.

His effort paid off.

In 1975 RTV was given a grant that allowed the department to acquire enough television equipment to have a working studio.

In 1976 RTV was allowed to use Q- l for the television studio and in the same year, Russ Jackson took over the radio and built a station for it in Q-3.

The late seventies was a very busy time for Hawkes. Not only was he continually building the department, but Hawkes was also teaching courses and serving as the director of ETV. While shooting a documentary on location for ETV, Hawkes suffered a back injury that gave him an opportunity to reevaluate his life and the amount of responsibility he was taking on.

"I decided to resign from ETV and go back to teaching," Hawkes said. While concentrating on teaching, Hawkes became chaimian of the Communications Department, a posiJennifer Gordon I The Telescope

tion he held for nine years.

During Hawkes' absence from ETV Ron Page served as the pro- · duction manager but a tragic event drew Hawkes back to his former work.

"In 1989 I was on a trip in Memphis, Tenn. and I got a call that Ron Page had died of a heart attack," Hawkes explained, "I took the job as interim director for two and a half years."

After this second stint as ETV director Hawkes again concentrated his efforts on teaching and building the RTV department.

As far as recognition, Hawkes has received Emmy nominations from the San Diego Chapter of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for a television taping of a live performance of J.S. Bach's "Mass in B-Minor" and for a documentary titled "Earthly Man and Heavenly Music."

In 1998 Hawkes' received the Silver Circle Award from NATAS for 25 years of signifigant contribution to San Diego in the field of broadcasting.

Pat Hahn, the current full-time assistant in the video lab was a student at Palomar in the early seventies. "I wasn't sure what I wanted to do at the time and Dana inspired me to go into radio,'' Hahn said.

Bob Sheppard, director of the

Cinema Department also has an appreciation for Hawkes' contributions. "A lot of people who have worked here since (Hawkes started at Palomar) owe their careers to him," Sheppard said.

Another thing that sets Hawkes apart from many of his peers is his constant striving to improve as an instructor. "He's been here 26 years and at the start of each semester he updates each course," Hahn said, "He never lets his courses get stale."

Hawkes attributes this updating of courses to the relentless changing and evolution of the industry.

"It's frustrating," Hawkes said.

"You can never really relax because technology changes so rapidly."

Hahn thinks Hawkes' ambition is not just because of the industry but due to another reason as well. "The passion he had 26 years ago," Hahn said, "he still seems to have it today."

"He's known by people in the industry in San Diego and Los Angeles," Hahn said, "If you mention you work at Palomar to people at local radio and television stations, they say 'How's Dana?' ." · "I got to travel the world, meet a lot of people and do a lot of things and it all started with his first class."

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0 ·Women's v-ball gain experience Mike Stevens Co-Sports Editor

At this time last year, women's volleyball coach Karl Seiler was dealt a team consisting mainly of players with potential and lacking the experience needed to fare well in conference play.

The Comets came up short of a playoff appearance last year but this season Seiler has a squad he hopes will finish among the top three in the conference.

"We have a good core group from last year but we are a very different team, " Seiler said. "We're a bit more experienced, athletic, and confident team than last year and that is the biggest thing. In this league, the teams that win have confidence."

Patt of that core group of returners includes Christy Ruiterman, Barackman, Shannon Kelly Brotherton, Meghan Leathem, Natalie Stovall and Shenda Pincock.

Ruiterman spent last season as the Comets' setter and impressed the coaches with her playing ability and leadership qualities. She will spend this season in the back row, and as a secondary setter.

"If we are struggling I'm not afraid to put her (Ruiterman ) as the setter.

Either way she will play because she is very valuable in the back row," Seiler said.

Brotherton, Barackman, Leathem and Stovall are filling the middle blocker and outside hitter positions.

They will pose as a defensive, as

well as an offensi.ve threat in Seiler's scheme.

Stovall led the team in kills and was among the top players in the conference in that category last year.

"We'\~ already shown in the preseason that we are a better blocking team. That will be a big factor this season," Seiler said.

Pincock will sec action at the opposite hitter and defensive specialist spot and Lydia Del Rio, who played for Palomar two years ago, will also fit into the mix as an outside hitter.

Newcomers for the Comets include Brooke Wasano, Bridgette Tackaberry, Molly Saxton, Melia Cotter and Dora Cerda.

Wasano will do most of the set-

ting this year and has experience at the position.

This gives Palomar the edge of two pairs of setting hands on the floor, when Ruiterman is also on the court.

Although the Comets have a new look this year and are more·experienced, Seiler will stick to the game plan he's grown accustomed to, and will change the lineup constantly depending on what kind of team they are playing.

"I have a lot of players who can play different positions and the lineup can change at any time. We can change people to give teams a different look," Seiler said.

Seiler is also happy to be back practicing here at Palomar as his team has been forced to practice in

local gyms while their home floor was being refinished.

"We need to get comfortable with our surroundings and getting back into The Dome is definitely a good thing," Seiler said.

So with a new fangled team and a new gym floor, the Comets should make a run at the playoffs along with typical conference powerhouses, Mesa and Grossm0nt Colleges.

"We're working on staying together and trying to become a team," Seiler said. "We have a lot of good athletes and we feel that we can win."

The Comets travel to Saddleback College Sept. 22 and return home to take on Citrus College at the Dome on Sept. 24. Both games will start at 7 p.m.

Men's soccer season ·kicks off Anthony Saavedra

A Palomar forward (left) takes a kick to the head. Freshman forward Velente Sanchez (below) celebrates his gamewinning goal.

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Palomar's men's soccer team continued it's early season domination last Wednesday with a 2-1 come from behind victory over the Fullerton College Hornets.

"It's a great team victory," said head coach Carlos Hernandez. "We never, never gave up."

The Comets erased an early 1-0 deficit by scoring twice in the closing minutes of the game.

Palomar scored the game-winning goal just before time expired.

Freshman Velente Sanchez was able to get past a Hornet defender just in front of the goal. After his initial shot was blocked, Sanchez scored off the rebound.

Not only did the Comets come from behind for the win, but they also had Lo battle some controversial calls by the officials, including a first half red card called on Palomar that led to a Fullerton penalty kick.

Palomar goalkeeper Francisco Sanchez was unable stop the shot, which gave the Hornets a 1-0 lead.

"I think the referees were poor," Hernandez said. "It wasn't even.

They were kicking us as much as (we kicked them) ."

The win improved the Comets' record to 3-0-1, including a first place finish in the Cosumnes River Tournament.

The team scored 19 goals in a two game period during that tournament.

Unlike last year, the Comets'

depth is a strength. Injuries early in the season put them in a hole. They were not fazed after missing midfielder Gareth Atkins, who returned from an ankle injury he suffered during the summer.

This year's team also features a more balanced attack, that is prepared for the unexpected.

"We have people to counter attack anything the other team gives us," Hernandez said.

Palomar returns several key players from Jast season.

The forwards should have no trouble scoring their share of goals.

Tomas omero, one of the team's leading scorers, returns.

Forwards Raul Castillo and Vele nte Sanchez could add plenty of goals also.

The defense is solid as well. Not only does Francisco Sanchez return, but so do defenders Scott Gray and Mario Aguero.

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Over the summer, the Palomar Athletic Department decided not to re-hire men's basketball head coach Irv Leifer for this season, despite a respectable 15-16 record last season.

Although the Comets finished the season with an injury depleted roster, Leifer's team finished the season strong, qualifying the team for the slale tournament.

Unfortunately, Leifer fell victim to standard procedures.

As an adjunct faculty member, Palomar was forced to open Leifer's position to all applicants, once his contract expired.

"Whenever a full contract expires in the institution, we open it up," said Director of Athletics John Woods. "We screen all applicants who meet the minimum qualifications and interview the remaining people."

According to Woods, Palomar was not looking for j ust a basketball coach to replace Leifer.

"The job is primarily teaching,"

Woods said. "It is 75 percent physical education, and 25 percent athletics."

Despite his dismissal, there is no denying Leifer's track record . The year before his hiring, the Comets finished with a dismal six wins . Leifer quickly h elped the program, winning 19 games his first season, and 22 th e n ext.

"He turned the program around and did a good job for us," Woods said.

Virgil Watson replaces Leifer on the bench of the Comets. Watson last coached at the junior college level at Ventura College.

While at Ventura, he led his team to a state championship. Ventura also recorded a second place finish in the state under Watson.

As with any level of sports, a coaching c hange has affected Palomar's recruiting for this season. "(Watson) continued to recruit," said Woods, "but students get uneasy. And that affects it."

The Watson era starts with the beginning of the basketball season in November.

Anthony Saavedra

• Fantasy football teams start off season So, you want to own an NFL franchise? But, you don' t have the nearly $1 billion it took to start up the new Cleveland Browns organization? I have a solution. And it doesn't require you to deal with agents, contracts, or selling luxury suites.

Fantasy football leagues are starting almost everywhere. It's hard to look through sports websites and television shows, without seeing ads for leagues.

In fantasy football, a team "owner" picks players who they feel will have the best season.

You don't have to be a genius like Bill Walsh or Don Shula to be successful in fantasy football.

Heck, you don't even have to be Kevin Gilbride.

The world of fantasy football is based on two things: statistical knowledge and pure luck. And not necessarily in that order.

Take the first week of the NFL season. Who would have known that Germane Crowell would catch seven passes for 141 yards and two touchdowns. Germane Crowell!

Or, how about quarterback Kurt Warner. No, Tecmo Super Bowl fans, that's not the same Kurt Warner who played for the Rams in 1991.

This Kurt Warner was last seen playing in the Arena Football League. He passed for Joe Montanaesque 305 yards and three touchdowns in his first career NFL start.

Just because you know that Steve Young was one of the tof quarterbacks last season, it doesn't mean that he will put up great numbers this season.

And that is the essence of fantasy football.

Just· a week into the season, and I have already found myself screaming at the televisioU< because Kordell Stewart is being replaced midway through the third quarter of a 43-0 romp over the expansion Browns.

And this is for the league that has no money on the line.

The stakes are a bit higher in my other league. When ·moner is involved, the game is much more serious.

That league's draft was as competitive as the NFL Draft Everyone there carried player rankings that accounted for everything from coaches to shoe size.

There is one extremely important reminder going around: Don't drink and draft.

This irresponsibility could min your team and your chances at the big money. One mistake could change your pick from Arizona Cardinals' franchise wide receiver Rob Moore, to Jay Mohr, the guy who kissed Scott Wolf in the movie "Go".

Fourteen teams in the league means that sleepers are key to any draft.

While other teams are drafting bad teams' backups, and their backups, my team chose to draft Barry Sanders, with the 209th pick. Sanders is currently retired, but the mere chance oi his return is worth the risk of taking him. The question is, will a retired Sanders be better than a · benched Ryan Leaf?

Who knows, maybe Sander" will be our Kurt Warner.