Monday, Sept. 25, 2000- Palomar College- Volume 54, Number 4
Taking the 'Bait'
School Vouchers
Danger ahead
Jamie Foxx reels in audiences in the new action/comedy/thriller.
Offering students a choice would raise academic standards.
Studies show college students ignore the dangers of sex.
Entertainme nt, page 4
Opinion, page 6
F ocus, page 8
Part-time faculty push • for un1on Travis Usrey The Telescope
Christopher Donez I The Telescope Akesa Kirkpatrick, Shannon Cockreham and Jackie Vander Griend sift through rocks and soil for Native American Indian artifacts on campus. The ongoing dig is part of a new archaeology class.
Palomar students dig for artifacts on campus Ramin Falahi The Telescope
An archaeological dig is taking place on the future site of the Palomar College Life Sciences building. Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Program, Phil de Barros, will be heading the effort, which began on Sept. 9. Students from two of his anthropology classes will dig out the ground to find artifacts left by American Indians. Along with · hired assistance, one advanced student from anthropology 250 will be matched with two beginning students from anthropology 120. Gallegos and Associates, an archaeology firm, found the site to have a potential for finding
artifacts. The test excavation gave Palomar the needed information to begin a major excavation, de Barros said. "We started out by doing shovel test pits," de Barros said. The STPs will be 10 centimeters in depth and will provide a feel for where artifacts can be found. The STPs can be as deep as 80 centimeters. The students will stop digging once they have reached bedrock, de Barros said. After a few weeks of digging STPs the students will excavate areas of the ground marked 1-by2 meters in diameter. The students will use a shovel, trowel and a screen device to reveal artifacts . "Archaeology is only about things left behind by humans," de Barros said. Fiacks are chipped pieces of
rock coming from tool making. Flacks will be found, de Barros said. The groups may find some sharp black glass that came from a volcano, called obsidian. Mostly the artifacts will be toolrelated, de Barros said. .The Life Sciences Building is in former Luisefio Indian Territory. It is unclear which tribes created the artifacts. The excavations have just started and some information is unknown at this time, de Barros said. Patricia Dixon, Associate Professor of American Indian studies is a Pauma Indian. The Pauma Indians are descendants of the Luisefio Indians. Dixon has made contact with the Pauma Indians and invited the tribe to witness the excavation, de Barros said. See Artifacts, page 5
$65.7 million· budget approved Laura Mitchell The Telescope
Palomar College's governing board approved a $65.7 million budget for the 2000-01 academic year on Tuesday, Sept. 12, by a vote of 4-0. Board Secretary Michele Nelson was absent. The budget is made up of $6.8 million in beginning fund. balance, $58.9 million in expected revenue and $62.7 million in expenditures. "We went through last year and tried to deliberately save some money," said Jerry Patton, vice president of finance and administrative services. He noted that savings came from a number of areas including supplies and capital outlay. The budget includes an increase over last year in academic and classified salaries from $40.8 million to $42.4 million. The salary increases are based on agreements, added classes and several new software specialist positions. The budget also includes $9.9 million in benefits and $1.6 million for a 4.17 percent cost of living salary adjustment, also known as COLA.
Later in the meeting, the board received information on a proposal to revise the wording in its policy, changing the residency requirements for the student trustee. The student trustee casts an advisory vote at governing board meetings and must live within the district. The proposal would allow the student trustee to live outside the district boundary. The change is expected to be voted on at the next board meeting, Sept. 26. Student body President Shannon Gyde said that the Associated Student Government is in agreement with the proposal and had already amended their bylaws to this effect last semester. In other business, the board acknowledged receiving a notice of intent from the City of San Marcos to change neighborhood boundaries for a development of 193 single family residential units. The project, east of Palomar college, would put a road between a student parking lot and the campus, impact archaeological sites, create more traffic at the Borden road entrance, and impact the sports field-expansion project.
The Palomar Faculty Fe<feration, a collection of parttime instructors at Palomar College, is continuing its effort to form a union. On September 8, the federation filed an amended petition with the administration of Palomar and the California State Public Employment Relations board (PERB). This petition hopes to create a union which includes all full-time and part-time faculty members. Last May, the Faculty Federation filed a petition that requested to form a union of part-time members only. The
Board of Governors at Palomar rejected this, as it did not include all faculty members. Mark Evilsizer, ·who represents the part-time members of the faculty, said in a statement, "In its attempt to prohibit parttime collective bargaining, the district forced communication between full and part-time faculty, and we discovered that we shared many of the same problems:" · If the current petition is
accepted, ali faculty members at Palomar will take a vote and decide if they wish to form a collective union or not. If it is denied, then the Federation hopes to receive a See Union, page 5
Classified staff set to protest Laura M itchell The Telescope
Several dozen of Palomar College's classified employees went to the Sept. 12 meeting of the governing board to warn board members that they will protest if they are not given a Cost of Living Allowance increase (COLA). The members of the Council of Classified Employees I American Federation of Teachers, Local 4522 attended the meeting carrying signs and balloons that read "UNION YES!" Although none of the union members spoke during the public hearing on the budget, CCE/ AFT President Ernie Carson later addressed the board. Carson said the classified staff were the lowest paid people on campus and yet were always, except for last year, the last to get COLAs. "Over half or classified staff does not have a savings account or funds worth mentioning in a
savings account," Carson said, adding that everyone on campus has gotten their COLA and raises except classified staff. "Silence or the word 'no' is not talking, nor is it a counterproposal," Carson said. "Since you won't talk, we will walk and continue to do so at successive board meetings." Carson also announced a demonstration planned for Oct. 4 at the college. Sandra Harmon, speaking on behalf of Labor Council President Dave Moore, acknowledged the Labor Council' support of Local 4522 for the demonstration. "Brother Carson," Harmon said, "I'm here to inform you tonight that Street Heat (the mobilization ru:IIJ of the Labor Council) will be here to help you on the morning of Oct. 4." Harmon reminded the governing board that the district has three of five seats open on the November" ballot.
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