The Telescope 54.01

Monday, August 21, 2000 -

Palomar College -

Volume 54, Number 1

Locked in 'The Cell'

Final farewell

Going for gold!

Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Lopez star in the new horror flick, check out our full review.

A reflection on Boggs' 15 years at Palomar.

Palomar water polo coach Kathy Sheehy packs for the Olympics in Sydney.

Entertainment, page 6

Opinion, page 4

Sports, page 8

oggs steps down College president to head national organization Tom Chambers Th e Telescope

As students return to classes this week, the college's president is preparing to leave.

George Boggs, Palomar's president for 15 years, is leaving his office in the library this week to head the American Association of Community Colleges in Washington, D.C. The 1,132 member association named. Boggs to the post on June 28. The group promotes and lobbies for community college education in the nation's capital. Boggs resigned effective Sept. 1, leaving his $167,000-a-year salary for the associations $218,000.

"I am excited about the potential that my new position offers to provide leadership for community colleges at the national level," Boggs said.

"Already, my calendar is being filled for the year ahead with speaking engagements and professional conferences around the country."

Boggs, 55 , served on the association 's board of directors from 1990-1995, and chaired the board during the 1993-94 academic year. As the group's president, Boggs will work with the White House , Congress and federal agencies to provide resources and support for community colleges.

"AACC will be addressing issues like financial aid for stu-

dents, preparing new faculty and leaders for community colleges, increasing grant funding for community colleges, work force development, preparation of public school teachers and expanding international education opportunities," Boggs said.

"Advocacy for the nation 's 1, 100 community colleges and their 10 million students is a primary mission."

Boggs came to Palomar in 1985 from Butte College in Oroville, Calif., where he was the assistant dean of instruction and a chemistry professor.

Boggs said he is proud of Palomar's growth. During his time here, Boggs saw Palomar's enrollment increase from 15,500 to more than 27,000.

Palomar opened the Escondido Education Center, the Wellness Fitness Center and the Bus Transit Center. The college also just finished a $10 million remodel of the infrastructure on the main campus.

Palomar was also named one of the top three community colleges in the country under Boggs, and was designated a Vanguard College last year for its support of student learning.

"The most rewarding aspect of my job at Palomar has been to congratulate thousands of graduates each year," Boggs said . "Many of our students have had to overcome tremendous obstacles to attain their degrees or certificates, and

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George Boggs, Palomar's president for 15 years, leaves this week to head the American Association of Community Colleges in Washington, D.C.

many of them could not have done it without Palomar College."

The hardest part of the job was trying to stretch inadequate state budgets, Boggs said.

"I am pleased that we developed very positive relationships with local legislators, and we made some progress," Boggs said. "But community colleges in California are severely underfunded."

To combat that, the college started raising funds privately, Boggs said. The Palomar College Foundation and the President's Associates now raise nearly $2 million a year for the college, paying for things like library automation, bleachers for the Dome and new curtains for the Brubeck Theatre.

"What I am proudest of from my time at Palomar is the work we have done to bring a diverse and high quality faculty and staff to our college," Boggs said.

"We have excellent people here, people who care about student learning and success and people who are on the leading edge of innovation and creativity... Palomar's future is in good hands with the great faculty and staff that we have here."

The Governing Board accepted Boggs retirement, and is naming him President Emeritus to honor his tenure. Boggs is the longest reigning president in Palomar's 54-year history.

"They [governing board members] are proud of what he's done," said ¡ Palomar Spokesman Mike Norton.

"They're proud of working with

someone to get this honor."

"It is difficult to leave our wonderful college after 15 years," Boggs said. "Since 1985, Palomar College has been my life, seven days a week.

"Physically, we are downsizing our possessions by half," he added. "So Palomar College is benefiting from donations of appliances , power tools and garden equipment."

The board named Jack Randall, former president of San Antonio Community College, interim president on July 14.

The Governing Board is currently looking at a few consulting firms to search for a permanent replacement. Board members hope to find one within in the next eight months, Norton said.

Cal State booze gets good marks Claire Zulkey TMS Campus

California State UniversityFresno students interested in biology and botony have an interesting course option open to them that's not available to most other students: they can study wine. And a string of awards would imply that their study habits are good.

"They know exactly what it takes to produce a bottle of wine," said Vincent Petrucci, a viticulture (study of the grape) professor, who founded the program in 1948. "Our program is unique, historically, as one of

the heaviest science programs in the country."

The production is no joke, either: the university ' s 1999 Barbera wine won the Best of Region and Best of Class in Region statewide honors after winning a gold medal in the California State Fair competition.

This July, the school garnered top awards from the Grape and Gourmet Event in Sacramento for the second year in a row.

"Of course, students have a lot of fun with it," said Winemaster Ken Fugelsang, who directs the students' wine production. "We're kind of like

the mouse that roared. After all, we are the only governmentlicensed school that produces its own wine.

"From 3,000 of the Barbera wine, we are already down to just a few hundred, and a few years ago, with our Syrah wine, after winning awards, we sold out in one week. We're earning notoriety." However, the enology (the study of wine) classes may be compared to astronomy courses; it sounds like a fun and unique experience to the average student, but in reality, it involves a great deal of work, including math and science.

"Our students have to have

knowledge of all the basic sciences," Fugelsang said. "Often we get students who decide that this isn't for them."

Students who major in enology study a variety of graperelated subjects, such as wine production, the process of the grape to the bottle to the buyers, wine chemistry, wine microbiology, and sensory, the oftexaggerated process of identifying and appreciating wine.

As a requirement, all students must take care of one acre of land, from the harvest, the production, the marketing, and the selling.Several students go on to become involved in the

enology and viticulture field, often working for their family businesses or become apprentices ¡ to other winemakers, Petrucci said.Do the wine students have a reputation for ever, er, "enjoying" their classes a bit too much?

"Absolutely not," Fugelsang said. "This is a very serious course, and we can't tolerate that type of behavior.

"However, there is an enology society, which Petrucci admits is "very popular."

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Campus Beat Palomar • 1n Brief

Palomar offers 'Seven Habits' course Palomar College will be offering a three-unit evening course based on the bestselling book "The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People" by Dr. Steven Covey.

"We are offering this class in the evening so that business owners and employees will be able to participate at a very reasonable cost," said Nona McClure, course instructor.

The course will focus on developing skills to increase personal and professional effectiveness as outlined in the Covey book.

The "Seven Habits" seminar course elsewhere can cost up to $1,500, but the course is available at Palomar for $33.

The class located under the catalog category "Supervision" will meet Thursdays from 6:30 p.m. to 9:20 p.m. in Room FCS1.

Students awarded $1,000 scholarships

Beating the rush ...

Hospice seeks volunteers The Elizabeth Hospice in Escondido is looking for volunteers to offer companionship to terminally ill patients.

Beginning September 12, the hospice will be offering a five week volunteer training class on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at its office at 150 W. Crest, Escondido.

For more information or to sign up for the class, contact Heather Melton at 800-7972050.

Students nominated for Emmy awards Former Radio and Television Palomar College students received a total of 10 Emmy Award nominations for pieces they produced, directed, edited, photographed, or lighting directed.

Mitch Merback, Hal Parham, Greg Schneider, Nic Fiorina, Martha Bishop, Michelle Sahuque, Michelle Tillman, Rie Kanasugi, Chris Maue, Suzanne Bartole and Janet Nichols were nominated for the San Diego Area Emmy 2000 Awards this past June.

Although none of the nominees received awards at the June ceremony, previously former Palomar students have received 14 Emmy Awards in the past eight years.

Two Palomar College students are the recipients of the CocaCola Two-Year College Scholarship.

Amy Brooker of Escondido, and Ambria Hammel of Poway will each receive $1,000 scholarships for demonstrating academic success and by completing at · least 100 hours of community service.

"A scholarship of this nature provides the support and sense of encouragement these students For the first time in more than need to continue to succeed." said Mark Davis, president of the a decade, Palomar College is offering a semester-length course Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. entirely devoted to California history this fall.

The course, History 121, to be led by Dr. Chris Johnson will have a multi-cultural emphasis and will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.

Palomar offers California history class

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A Palomar bookstore employee aided a student in selecting books, as the store prepared for the rush of the first week of classes.

Campus Calendar FALL SEMESTER CLASSES BEGIN August 19

ASG ELECTION PACKETS AVAILABLE ASG election packets will be available on August 22 and will be due by September 19.

LAST DAY TO ADD OR REGISTER FOR FALL SEMESTER CLASSES September 1 [San Marcos campus only]

ASGMEETING August 23

LAST DAY TO CHANGE TO AUDIT STATUS September 22

WELCOME WEEK August 21 -25

LAST DAY TO CHANGE TO GRADING STATUS September 22 LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR GRADUATION October 1

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CLUB RUSH August 30-31 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY : NO CLASSES September 4

2000 ASG GENERAL ELECTIONS September 26-27

LAST DAY TO DROP A CLASS October 13 FINAL EXAMS December 11-16

-Want to have your dub or campus information listed? Contact the Telescope at (760) 744-1150, Ext. 2450 or stop by Room TCB-1.

Speak Out! How has the rising cost of electricity affected you?

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Matt Condomitti Comp. Science

Renee Ross Business

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"It has affected me more at work. Our store has half of the lights out."

''I'm using the computer a lot less now, because my parents are complaining."

"At home, the rising prices make it difficult.

We are not using as much air conditioning or lights as much."

"It's not that bad. I live with my parents and they pay the bill."

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Fifteen years of thank you n September 1985, Dr. George Boggs, wearing a three-piece pinstriped suit and cowboy boots, took residence on the second floor of the library. The 40-year-old college president · said he wanted Palomar to grow, to improve its program, and refurbish the aging campus.

Fifteen years later, Boggs has done just that at Palomar - and more.

Enrollment has gone from 15,500 to more than 27,000. The Escondido Education Center opened, as did the Wellness Fitness Center and the Transit Center. The College just finished replacing the infrastructure on the main campus and is poised to open another education center in Poway, and build a new high-tech science building.

Under Boggs' leadership, two fundraising groups were started, the Palomar College Foundation and the President's Associates, which now bring in more than $2 million a year for scholarships and projects.

Palomar has also received national recognition for the quality of education it offers its students.

Last year it was named one of 12 Vanguard Colleges in the United States and Canada and is recognized as one of the top three community colleges in the country.

Boggs will be quick to note that he cannot take credit for these achievements, but it is hard to see them taking place without his leadership.

When he came here he said he liked to work with l?eople, that people make things happen. He .. was tight.

Throughout his tenure, Boggs built a team to make Palomar a better place. Now he is moving on, to build a new team, to help all the community colleges in the country.

On Aug. 25, Boggs is moving to Washington, D.C., to head the American Association of Community Colleges - a group that lobbies for and supports community colleges in the United States. No doubt, America's community colleges will benefit from his leadership.

Palomar will be hard pressed to find another leader like Boggs, and it is perhaps unfair to compare the applicants to the example of Dr. Boggs.

In 1985 he said, "I'll spend whatever time to make Palomar the best place it can be." Those of . us who benefited from that commitment owe Boggs a great deal of gratitude. Palomar has a bright future, and so do the students who have passed through its corridors.

You will be missed here, Dr. Boggs. We are grateful for your dedication to making our education the best it can be.

Thank you, and good luck.

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Let's look at school differently new school year. A new beginning.The sultry days of the summer will give way to cooler temperatures.

It's time to look at ourselves again and think about what's going on with our education.

One of the men who helped me see school differently was Alfred North Whitehead, a philosopher and mathematician who taught at Cambridge and Harvard.

Whitehead writes there are three main periods in educational enterprises: a period of romance, a period of precision and a period of generalization.

During the period of romance, we are fascinated by a field of knowledge, which attracts us. But the romance cools. Interest wanes.

We then undergo a period of precision, a dry spell, where we have to spend many an hour looking at details and developing a rigorous scientific attitude toward the subject. Sadly, this is where many students falter.

A last stage, Whitehead says, is the period of generalization where students delight in doing difficult things gracefully.

The process can be compared to a world-class athlete. There is the initial attraction to the sport, the period of romance. Then, there is excruciatingly difficult training, the period of precision. Finally, comes the time when the difficult looks graceful and beautiful, even easy to do, the period of generalization.

Whitehead also writes we have slipped from looking at the ideal in Western education where we tried to reach for wisdom. Today, he writes, we have "a more humble" aim: to teach subjects, to cram information into a student's head.

We teach geometry, from which nothing follows, science from which nothing follows, a couple of languages never mastered and liter-

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ature consisting of analysis of plot without relationship to life and how we live.

Better, he says, to teach a few subjects arid thoroughly master them than overload ourselves with many subjects.

All too often what comes about after all our efforts, he says, are inert ideas. I would even go a step further and say we now seem to be on an even lower step of the ladder than imparting information.

We are busying ourselves with methods on how to teach which often get in the way of subject matter. Process substitutes for content.

Now we are into testing and accountability. Whitehead takes aim at what he calls the "external examination," administered from a central bureaucracy. We soon learn to teach to the test and students learn what the test requires.

Inert ideas! Dryrot!

What is to be done?

Seek first the kingdom of heaven or, in this case, keep the aims of education clear. The rest will follow.

Whitehead says we can only be content with the ideal which has been present from the dawn of civilization. He thinks education has to be religious.

Religious?

Yes, religious. It is not a dirty word. He is not referring to dogma, liturgy or creed.

He thinks education has to instill in the student a sense of duty and reverence. This is what he means by religious. It is at the heart of the

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educational process.

Duty. A sense of urgency should be part of the academic endeavor.

We have a duty, an obligation to know as much as possible. Where knowledge could have changed events for the better and we failed to acquire that knowledge, ignorance, he says, then carries with it the guilt of vice.

Vice?

Will we be thrown into jail or have the vice squad come after us?

Hardly. But, not knowing or being ignorant of what we could have known is a first class tragedy.

Reverence is the second characteristic of education. Whitehead bids us to see the present as having within itself, "the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time which is eternity."

Quite a statement. And worth pondering.

He wants us to be involved in the here and now, but also to get a glimpse into the wider picture, even if our knowledge of it falls pitifully short, to peer into the infinite, even if we are finite, to become experts in our narrow specialization but also to use the specialization as a telescope to probe our distant origins and measureless horizons.

In this way, we get a sense of where we come from, where we are, and where we are going.

Contenting ourselves with less robs us of the sense of wonder, awe, reverence and direction.

Yes, education helps us get a job. but it's more than that. Hitting the books and taking tests is also not enough. Teachers help, but in the end, it's up to each of us to do our own seeking and to try to change the world for the better.

It is a responsibility we dare not shirk.

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Hom, the former deputy mayor of San Diego, concluded, "We too must work for those who are not included in our society." He also aid it was important for the Chinese to be involved in the political process.

Ah Ouin Dorothy Hom died in December 1999. It was a loss which was felt throughout San Diego. She was an activist and worked with the Maritime Museum, the Salvation Army, the Arts Commission and the Chinese community.

Tom Hom said he and his wife wanted to share the Chinese culture with the world.

Dorothy Hom was tireless in reclaiming San Diego's heritage.

She helped rebuild the old Chinese Mission which was in

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The exhibition has dispelling stereotypes ot'Cblitl immigrants and the having "incompatible" ttliit$ Wit~) the American character.

More recently, some feel a present-day stereotype, .df tb.¢ Chinese may be emerglu.g. ·t~;te suspicion of being undel't;OVet agents because of their affection with China.

"The purpose of the exhibit, is to explain how some Chinese Americans followed the American Dream," said Tom Lee, museum financial officer. It is an incredible story.

This is the story of Dorothy Hom, Ah Quin, Gorman Fong Yuan Cheng Fung and George Yim.

'in teal estate and $t®ks and bgntls, owned a service.stationin~allejo for 21 years abd was jn charge of Surety }JatJk.in Vallejo for 17 years. In his retir-ement, he became president <)1 the Vallejo Rotary Club an!fwas called upon to assist in ~ redevelopment of Vallejo in his later years .

Yim said, "I have been all over tb1;} world. There is no country like the United States ... Arnerica is really the land of opportunity, if you work hard at it."

Murray K. Lee, the museum's curator of Chinese-American history, spoke about Quin who is considered the patriarch of the Chinese community in San Diego.

Missionaries in Canton, China taught him English. After working in Santa Barbara and Alaska, he came to San Diego in 1888 where he acted as a broker for workers being recruited for the railroad between National City and San Bernardino.

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Angel Island has been called the West Coast Ellis Island for Asian immigrants. It is now an historic landmark.

Drafted into the army, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge in World War ll. After the war, he fulfilled his dream and received his degree from Armstrong College.

His mother, however, never got to see her husband and son. One night in 1947, the army demanded $7,200 from her in China.

Chinese Facts •After I$50. Cbiuese were lured to. California by the "Gold .Mountain,.. another name for San ·FranCisco, because of the discovery of gold.

• The Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 forbade virtually all inunig:ra.tion frQm ChiM. It was the only act that singled out one natiottality for exclusion. It lasted untill943.

-chinese were forbidden to become citizens until 1943, almost J 00 years after they started corning to America.

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Sun Vat Sen gate on Third Avenue provides a touch of China in San Diego at the Chinese Historical Museum.

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• In 1973, the Chittese won a

court case, Lau vs. Nichols,

y....._ ~ng Fun~ Fung received his Ph.D. from Central University in Chongqing, China but left for the United States soon after the "Rape of Nanjing" where 300,000 Chinese lost their lives in 1937. He went to Cal Poly Tech and later studied at Stanford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Today, he is a professor at the University of California in San Diego and is considered a pioneer in bioengineering.

He said, " ... a dream of freedom is a dream of doing things

against the city of San Francisco.

This law required edncatoJ:S to know the cultural background, linguistic patteros and customs of the Chinese students they were teaching. .

Bilingual~bitultural education has since become politically ctwged, but. sensitivity to the background of the students is now taken as a matter of course.

• Chop Suey was discovered in New Yotk , !lot Chip.a. Jt js tnade from bean sprouts, bamboo shQots. water chestnuts, onions, mushroom and meat or fish.

• The Fortune Cookie originated in San Francisco. Americans, after finishing a Chinese meal, asked for dessert. The Chinese did not have dessert, but offered forrune cookies instead.

• dung Bo i.s a Chinese word, which means, "to Work together.''

Lt. Col. Evans Carl.$Qn, USMC w.as impressed bY the Chinese troops in the 1930s.

Carlson adopted this as a motto for his troops. These

and, singsong girls, and or swim" approach to the eoucation of Chinese chilgren which brought about the Lau versus Nichols court decision.

Because of this decision, teachers are more knowledgeable in language patterns and cultural background of students throughout the United States.

The exhibit will open at the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum in the Gaslamp District at 404 Third Ave. through September.

From there, it will be displayed at the University of California, San Diego during October and at San Diego State University Love Library in November.

The museum is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free .

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Calling on their experience in the Pearl River Delta. the Chinese constructed networks of irrigation canals and miles of dikes and ditches.It increased from $8 per acre in 1875 to $100 per acre two years later.

• The Chinese proved to be skillful and resourceful in building tlle Central Padfic through the mountains.

In contrast to the "individualistic'' European Americans, the Chinese worked in groups, If a man fell sick, another "sick'' man would take his place. Because they had a designated cook and boiled all their food they were healttUer.

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Entertainment Cell' A journey into the depths of nowhere James Rolfsen

Movie Review

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Starring: Jennifer Lopez Vince Vaughn Vincent D'Onofrio

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Jennifer Lopez in "The Cell".

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Imagine being kidnapped and held hostage by a deranged madman and then tortured until the point of death. Surprisingly, that is exactly what you feel like when you sit down and watch the new horror/thriller "The Cell."

"The Cell", starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D'Onofrio, is essentially a movie with a completely disastrous plot, semi-quality acting, and a whole lot of special effects.

D'Onofrio plays Carl Stagher, a disea ed psychopathic serial killer who has constructed an automated glass "cell" in which he drowns innocent young girls and then performs sadistic rituals with them after they die.

Carl slips up and makes a mistake that sends FBI agent Peter Novak (Vaughn) howling on his trail. Before Novak and his fellow agents close in, Carl manages to secure himself yet another young girl and store her away into his glass cell.

The FBI catches up to Carl right after his disease overcomes him and forces him into a coma.

The FBI must now find his final victim before the cell drowns her.

They tum for help at a neurological center that is conducting an experimental procedure which involves putting the mind of one person into the mind of another.

They enlist the help of Catherine Deane (Lopez)who is

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Yve Adam's debut album "Fiction" we could only wish was just that.

The combination of golden oldies music and wannabe thought provoking lyrics has left this CD as just a bad impression of The Cranberries.

The wide varieties of songs that reach from hilarious to hard hitting take you on a journey of confusion.

Not even the wise Confucius would be able to decipher any of these lyrics.

This CD kept me glued to the edge of my seat waiting anxiously only for the end, but 11 tracks later there were still three more

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Jennifer Lopez and Vincent D'Onofrio star in the new horror/thriller "The Cell". a child psychiatrist. She must go inside the mind of the serial killer and get Carl to reveal the location of the young girl.

Unfortunately, Carl's mind proves too much for Catherine and she succumbs to his psychopathic fantasies.

This forces agent Novak to journey into Carl's mind and retrieve her.

The story basically putters out at that point leaving you with an ending that is so pathetic that it makes you believe that Carl Stagher had gotten his hands on the screenplay.

The special effects in thi movie are breathless to say the least. You can definitely tell that they were shooting for shock value when they created theses effects.

In some cases, the special effects add a dimension to the film . In other cases, it makes you glad that you are not epileptic.

Blood and gore abounds in this movie. Considering that

Carl has a thing with water and other liquids, it shouldn't be any shock that you see enough blood in this movie to float an aircraft carrier.

The plot leaves much to be desired, like maybe a point.

Seriously, this movie is made on the premises that though technology is available to enter into the mind of another, there is no technology able to find a girl · floating in a tank of water that is being taped on a live feed in Carl Stagher's basement. ot only that, but the main clue that drives agent Novak to a wondrous conclu ion of where the young girl is located happens to be sitting in front of his nose even before the FBI ever thought of entering Carl's brain.

Ever hear of detective work boys?

Then there is the wonderful acting by the two leading actors, Lopez and Vaughn.

Lopez couldn't act her way out of a phone booth and Vaughn (who did not do that great of a

job as Norman Bates in the remake of the classic "Psycho") acts like he is on Prozac.

The only person who can boast that they can act is D'Onofrio, who did such a credible job that I honestly believed he was a psychopath; of course, anyone who would agree to co-star in this movie should get a thorough examination.

The only positive thing outside of D'Onofrio 's acting is Jennifer Lopez. Somehow, she manages to look ravishing in every shot taken of her.

Of course its all airbrushed and glamorized, but still, she is breathtaking.

All in all, the only reason this movie would be classified as horror is because it is horrible in every sense of the word. It should not be viewed unless you are willing to lower your intelligence.

If you must go see "The Cell", make sure you have an escape plan because you will almost certainly make a hasty exit.

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bonus tracks that they decided would be sufficient torture to finish off any listener who may still be hanging on for dear life.

Musically "Fiction" is not bad; the mixing of beats and rhythms are decent, holding a strong resemblance of a 60s theme.

For an album marketed to a college crowd they obviously were aiming at the professors not the students.

The music was enjoyed 40 years ago when my parents listened to it, not now in the dawning of the new millennium.

Wake up and clear the haze, the 60s are over and they are not corning back. We are a new generation.

As far as the lyrics are concerned there is not much I can

say about them except that my mother told me, if you have nothing nice to say than you should not say anything at all, but if I did that, you would end up listening to these pointless and poignant lyrics.

Simply because I do not believe in torture and that is exactly what listening to what these people have to say is.

The words are meant to be hard hitting with hidden messages to persuade you to look at the world around and make you change how you are living in it.

The only thing I wanted to change was the CD. The lyrics were terribly confusing and lead you only in circles with the repetition of the chorus in every song so many

times that I thought the CD was skipping.

If you wish you were living in the 60s and enjoy confusing lyrics that cause migraines, then this CD is for you.

Rating:

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Courtesy Atlantic Records

Yve Adam shown on the cover of their debut album ''Fiction".

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Monday, Aug. 21, 2000

Colleges Strive To Help Newcomers Adjust To Campus Life Lynn Franey and Diane Carroll College Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Ryan Broyles of Troy, Mo., remembers being intimidated when he arrived as a freshman at Rockhurst University two years ago.

"It was just me and my stuff; there was nobody else here from Troy," he said. "I didn't know a soul."

Every fall, thousands of college freshmen around the country are dropped suddenly into a different place with new people, new expectations and new social activities.

Now many colleges, including Rockhurst, where Broyles will be a mentor to freshmen this fall , are doing more than ever to try to ease these teen-agers' transition from home to college campus.

College leaders around the country are realizing it's not enough to ju t give young people a campus tour and some fun days of orientation games, concerts and information fairs . They're figuring out that some teens do better when they get help adjusting, rather than just being left on their own to sort out how they fit in.

So at many colleges, administrators have extended and expanded the old freshman standby, "orientation." They've added mentoring programs, freshman-only courses and dorms, and "first-year experience" programs that get freshmen out into a college's city for bike tours, service days and music nights.

College leaders hope that paying more attention to freshmen will help prevent the problems - from excessive drinking and neglected schoolwork to extreme shyness and homesickness that sometimes make freshmen call it quits before the year is out.

Freshmen deserve special attention, said Kathy Nasteff, director of first-year experience at William Jewell College. The Liberty school offers a freshman mentoring program, freshman housing, a survival guide and a special course for freshmen called "The Responsible Self."

"Everything that could possibly change in their lives changes.

The rooms they're in often are smaller than their walk-in closets at home, and they're sharing it with someone," she said, only half-joking. "They're homesick.

The academic program is tougher than they're used to.

And, sometimes, there's too much partying. So we try to intervene. Not handholding, but getting them help when they need it."

At Rockhurst for the first time this year, 35 juniors and seniors, including Broyles, will be social mentors to small groups of freshmen.

Broyles, 20, already has called

the students he'll be working ·with. He told them about the new "RU Social Crew" mentoring program, and that if they have questions , he will get the answers.

So when the teens arrive next week at the Rockhurst campus, 53rd Street and Troost Avenue, for the fall semester, they'll already know at least one person, someone committed to smoothing their adjustment to college life.

But the help won't end when classes start.

Up through the Thanksgiving break, Broyles and the other mentors will meet with their groups and take them to campus activities and Kansas City area events.

The program has several aims: to help younger students meet more people and become familiar with the city and the school, and to give them social alternatives to liquor-laced parties.

"The party is played up so much. What are you going to drink?" if you don't drink alcohol, Broyles said. "Kool-Aid and ice water? Freshmen have to adjust to that. The social mentoring program really targets the population that is trying to find friends without compromising.

You don't have to drink, or sit in the dorm room and study and be a nerd. " It's fairly easy for small, private schools like Rockhurst and Jewell to introduce mentoring programs because they have just a few hundred freshmen .

But at large public universities, where thousands of freshmen arrive each year, it's more difficult to give them personal attention.

Administrators at the big schools do what they can.

In the past few years, the University of MissouriColumbia has introduced voluntary "Freshman Interest Groups," which other colleges are replicating.

Billed as "a community within a community," each group has approximately 20 freshmen with the same academic interests.

They live in the same dorm and take three classes together, as well as a one-credit freshman seminar.

The freshmen spend time with a mentor professor and a peer adviser, usually a junior or senior studying a similar subject.

At the University of Kansas, freshmen take part in a summer orientation day and "Hawk Week" the week before school starts. On the orientation day, they learn about the university's programs, set up their class schedules and talk to older students who act as mentors for the day.

Erin Carlson, 21, who graduated from KU last spring and

served as a mentor this summer and last, said freshmen .often wanted to know how much they would have to study and what it was like to live in a dormitory.

If the teens are intimidated by the mass of students and the university's size, Carlson tells them: "No matter what you need, there is alway someone on campus who can help you . The key is, you have to take the initiative and find out where the resources are."

But some college administrators are starting to believe it's not smart to leave it to 17- and 18year-olds to find help for themselves.

More and more colleges are offering a course for freshmen that helps them adjust.

Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan., requires freshmen to take a one-credit, eight-week "First Year Experience" course.

The course uses a Baker-oriented textbook that includes discussions of alcohol and drugs, said Jim Troha, the university's dean of students.

Eating disorders also have become more of a concern in recent years , he said, so some experts on that topic have talked to the class.

Like many other colleges, Baker also has added events

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orts Palomar's water polo coach goes for the gold in Sydne.y Ed Wehde Contributing writer

Many kids have lifelong Olympic dreams, and their training begins before their age hits double digits. Imagine training one year, and making the national team. Train six more, Kathy Sheehy and you're an Olympian.

Kathy (Gubba) Sheehy, assistant girls water polo coach at Palomar, is a member of this year's Olympic women's water team. She wouldn't have thought as a youngster it would be in this sport.

"Growing up, I always watched the Olympic swimming.

I (thought), 'That's what I want to do when I get older,"' Sheehy said. "It just never happened in swimming, but now I have the chance in another sport."

In actuality, the dream may have come true in any sport.

Growing up in Moraga, sports were her childhood.

"If I didn't have swim practice, then I went to soccer practice. If it wasn't soccer practice, it was playing softball," said Sheehy. "My parents kept me moving from sport to sport."

At Campolindo High, Sheehy played volleyball, soccer, softball, and swam, her favorite.

It was only after Sheehy moved on to college that she began to play on the water polo team; her high school didn't have one, and then only by coincidence.

She began dating the coach of the club water polo team at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She fell in love with the sport.

"It was all about water polo," Sheehy said. "We'd sit around and watch films. We'd play wherever we could. We'd watch games when we could."

Shortly after making the national team, she transferred to San Diego State, where she helped the club program advance to the intercollegiate level.

Seven years later, Sheehy is on a team that will be playing for the first Olympic medal in the sport.

"Kathy brings spunk to the team," teammate Julie Swail said. "We put her in front of the goal and she's so hard to guard because she moves around a lot.

She's tenacious.~' Sheehy, who was USA Water Polo Female Athlete of the Year in 1997, is aggressive in the pool. "(Two-meter players) tend to be a little more grabby, a little more physical, a little bigger, a little meaner," Sheehy said. "It kind of goes with the job."

Outside of the pool, Sheehy brings something different to the team. "She's definitely the light of the team," Swail said. "We can be in a meeting before the most important match and no matter how heavy the air is, she can say something to make us laugh."

Sheehy plans to retire from serious polo play after the Olympics to pursue the coaching career she began three years ago at Palomar. She plans to finish her master's degree so she can coach at the college level.

Said Sheehy- "Coaching is fun because you get to take what you've learned in the sport and give it back to people."

Watch Sheehy in this year's Olympic games. Check your TV guide for local listings.

Courtesy of USOC

Palomar's assistant water polo coach "Gubba" Sheehy readies a side shot. Sheehy, captain of the 2000 USA Olympic water polo team, will try to lead the team to a medal next month in Sydney.

A return to sports ... and a look back Arlene Martinez The Telescope

I walked past the first official football practice Tuesday afternoon. Seeing the dozens of red and white untouched uniforms as the sun set to the right, the dozens of hopefuls running sprints warmed my heart.

It's football season.

What could be nicer than to wake up to football on Sunday morning and spend the rest of the day enjoying the sport lazy and free? There can be no guilt in enjoying the one leisure day of the week watching this sport of drama and athletic prowess.

And it's better live. Palomar is lucky enough to have one of the top junior college football programs in the nation. This semester spend your Saturday afternoon watching the 1991, 1993 and 1998 state and national champions.

If football isn't for you, fall also brings soccer matches, water polo games, wrestling and cross-country meets. Let's look at some of the individual and team accomplishments from spring 2000.

Softball coach Mark Eldridge won his 800th game during spring, finishing his season with an 818-206-5 overall record as

the Comets coach.

The Comets softball team captured the state championship, losing only seven times in 56 games (.087 winning percentage). It was the team's 15th straight Pacific Coast Conference championship, and their 13th consecutive appearance in the State Final Eight.

Along the way, 12 players received scholarships at fouryear universities.

All-Americans include Heather Allister, Jessica Jenkins and Brandy Chavez.

Bob Vetter also achieved a coaching milestone. He received his SOOth career victory in the spring, and the Comets baseball team also clinched the PCC division title, its third straight. The team finished with a record of 32 wins and 11 losses.

Shortstop Gera Alvarez and pitcher Scott Honsowetz were All-Americans. Pitcher Nate Meza was drafted by the Cardinals and is playing A ball in New Jersey.

The man who led the Comets wrestling team to five state titles was inducted into three Halls of Fame, including the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Athletic director John Woods gives this year's wrestlers something to strive toward.

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