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Monday, Feb. 5 2001- Palomar College- Volume 54, Number 13

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Facuity votes to unionize Tom Chambers The Telescope

After a nine-month campaign led by part-time faculty members at Palomar College, the entire faculty voted to unionize under the Palomar Faculty Federation.

The Public Employment Relations Board tabulated the vote, 559 to 352, in December. Of the 1,400 instructors eligible to vote in the election, 911 cast ballots.

According to the state, Palomar employs 896 part-time, or adjunct, teach-

ers and 282 full-time teachers. Under state rules the votes of part-time instructor carried the same weight as the vote of full-time faculty.

Part-time instructors started the push to unionize last April under the banner of the Palomar Faculty Federation. They said part -time teachers were paid a third of the amount a full-time teacher makes for teaching a class.

"Faculty unionization is the best available approach to improving the professional lives of part-time faculty," said Brent Gowen, associate professor of

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English, before the votes were cast.

'An improvement in the lives of parttime faculty means an improvement in academia, which means, of course, an improvement in the quality of students' educations."

The Palomar governing board rejected two proposals made by the federation to recognize the union. The first came in May, because the federation didn't include full-time instructors.

Con equently, the governing board aid all teachers should be included.

In September the federation started a

petition drive, gathering the signatures of a majority of the entire faculty. The governing board again rejected a voluntary recognition of the union in October, then the federation put the union issue to a vote.

In a memo to all faculty on Jan. 12, Mary Ann Drinan and Mary Millet, interim Co-Chairs of the federation, said the union is working on its constitution and appointing an executive board. The memo said the change is a "fresh start" for see Faculty, page 3

Twin Oaks, on and on

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The earch for a new superintendent/president at Palomar College is under way. The deadline¡ for receiving completed applications is Feb. 23.

"I feel we are doing a very good job,'' Chris Barkley, co-chair of the search committee, said. "We are getting a lot of applicants, mo t probably because we are a Vanguard College and a Learning Paradigm chool. We have a great reputation."

The board of governors lost no time in forming a search committee for the new position.

Actually, the search for a new president began soon after George Boggs. the former president of Palomar College, resigned Sept. 1. 2000.

The board also secured the services of an outside search consultant.

"Getting an outside consultant was important. With an expert consultant. we could cast our net as far as we could to get

our next leader;¡ Rourke said.

The consultant, Al Fernandez of Community College Search Services, has been working with the board and the earch committee in developing, a brochure, a calendar and application packages.

Fernadez said a college may recruit a president every 10 or 15 years, but he works on seven to 10 recruitments in colleges each year.

His organization has an exten ive network and database for this purpo e.

"I can save the committee a lot of time." he said.

In developing what went into

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Bush's daughter still considered an everyday college student Joanna Tom TMS Campus

President George W. Bush's 19-year-old daughter's name is not among the records of students enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin even though she's beginning her fourth semester at the university.

The Austin-based presidential transition press office would not an wer any questions about either of the president- daughters.

"We aren't taking any questions regarding the girls. We just don't talk about them," said a press office employee who refused to give her name.

Whitney Miller, a UT journalism student, said she did not want to talk about Bush's daughter Jenna, who is a mem-

ber of her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta.

The university has been working with president -elect Bush to ensure that Jenna remains safe while in school and is happy to have Jenna as one of its students, said James Vick, vice president for student affairs.

"We're delighted to have her among our students, and we hope she'll have a very positive experience as a student here," he said.

Having a president's daughter attend the University may help the institution because of publicity, but Jenna is not the first president's daughter to attend the University.

"It certainly gives us more see Daughter, page 3

The $9 million Highway 78, Twin Oaks VaJiey Road project goes on, in hopes of creating a more traffic friendly San Marcos. Final construction on a new six lane bridge, westbound onramp and several standard road renovations will begin soon. The construttion will continue until July 13 at the earliest, and July 19 at the latest according to the California Department of Transportation.

Columbine copycat llalted Rodney Foo & Daniel Vasquez TMS Campus

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A De Anza College student who San Jose police said spent two years carefully scripting a mass killing on the Cupertino, Calif., campus was arrested just hours before he allegedly planned to carry out his plot Tuesday, thanks to a tip from a alert drugstore photo clerk.

Inside the modest North San

Jose home of AI Joseph DeGuzman, 19, police found an arsenal of pipe bombs, explosives on timers, booby-trap devices, rifles and sawed-off shotguns, a sketch of the campus and a time line for an attack that was supposed to hit the college at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Police also found what they described as an apologetic audio tape that apparently was meant to be played after the intended massacre and a journal with passages that expressed

sympathy for the two Columbine High School students who shot and killed 12 others before killing themselves in Littleton, Colo. in 1999.

"This was an elaborate plan for mass murder." said San Jose Deputy Chief Michael Miceli.

While police began to piece the plot together Tuesday, all De Anza classes see Caught, page

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Campus Beat Enrollment growth good sign

Web site helps with student jobs

During the academic year, the fall semester usually has more students enrolling than the spring · semester.

This year was no exception.

For the fall semester, 2000, Palomar College had an enrollment of 25, 780 students. For the spring semester, 2001, there are 25, 392 students enrolled. This means there are 368 fewer students enrolled now as compared to the fall semester.

The good news is that this semester, 1,962 more students are enrolled than during spring 2000.

Herman Lee, director of enrollment services, said enrollment seems to be stable right now. It may go up a little, 1 to 2 percent for next year: Lee , however, is not sure of the reason for enrollment changes in any year. When the economy is good, students tend to work more and attend classes less. If the economy goes into recession, students will go back into school to pursue education on a full-time basis.

Another possible reason for the downswing in enrollment comes from increased competition from educational institutions such as California State University at San Marcos, National University and University of Phoenix for high school graduates.

"Our non-credit program is tip about 6 1/2 percent," Herman Lee, director of enrollment serv, ices, said. He also said, although the last day to add full-length semester courses was Monday, Jan. 29, Palomar has other classes which start later in the semester.

Student employment forms needed by the hiring department as well as the new hires, can now be accessed on the new student employment Web site.

"I think once the departments and students start using this it will relieve a lot of stress," said Janeice Pettit, student placement specialist.

"We are streamlining the process. After a student gets hired, it gets hairy when they realize all the forms they need to fill out after being hired," Pettit said.

Pettit, once a student herself said, "there are so many lines a student has to stand in, if we can reduce the lines it helps."

Also if a student loses a form they now have access to reprint it off the Web site.

"It's something new, it's a new concept, we are excited about it and human resources are excited about it. We have tried to make it a little different to catch peoples eyes," Pettit said.

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New Planetarium season begins

Thursdays around noon if you head down toward D-10, you're bound to hear some music being made.That's because Palomar is once again hosting that free concert series known as the concert hour.

On Feb. 8 Gerd Wuestemann will be playing Canto Guitar Masterworks from Europe and South America. On Feb. 15, Sha Sha Higby, whose work can presently be viewed in the Boehm Gallery, will be giving a lecture on sculptural costumes.

Palomar's observation domes will be open for star viewing on Friday nights after planetarium programs starting this month.

The domes will be open on clear nights for about an hour after each show. There will be several telescopes of various sizes available for viewing objects in the sky, said Planetarium Director Jim Pessavento.

The planetarium programs, which begin Feb. 2, take place the first and second Friday of each month.

This semester marks the second semester that will see the use of the school's new projector.

The first program is "The Winter Sky" which will detail the stars, constellations and planets visible during the winter.

Making use of the new projector, the show will include features like a look at how the sky has changed over a million years.

The shows run from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., and cost $3 for adults $2 w1th a current PIC card) or $2 for children aged 5-12. For more information or reservations call (760) 744-1150 ext. 2833.

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Weekly music concerts return

Performance Jam provides stage for Palomar talent Leslie Donovan The Telescope

The first Performance Jam of 2001 was held Jan. 31. The open-mike show draws a variety of spotlight seekers from Palomar College.

The Performance Jam is held at 1 p.m. the last Wednesday of each month in front of the Pavilion Cafe, behind the Boehm Gallery in the Performing Arts Department.

The Palomar College Theatre Guild members hosts the show and everyone is invited to step up to the microphone to perform with song, poetry, skits and more.

"Please, feel free to tell thoughts, poems, jokes, or stories, or anything else," Craig Wilson told the crowd before he read a poem about a laundry mat's bathroom.

The seats filled and people topped in. the walkways to watch the show.

Jeremy Larsen hopped onto the stage and recited a monologue from Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."

A bystander, Roderick Frazier, was asked to sing a ballad. Noelle Stanton read poems and introduced the acts.

Students are invited to stop by at next month's Performance Jam and drink coffee or eat lunch while watching the show or waiting for their turn on stage.

For more information, students can contact The Theatre Guild, which meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:20 to 1:50 p.m. in front of the Howard Brubeck Theater.

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Roderick Frazier performs at the Performance Jam on Jan. -31.

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Tammy Frazier Marine Biology

"Led Zepplin, because they're musical geniuses; and Dr.Dre."

Sean-Colin Fort Biomedical Engineering

"Anthrax, because they represent something great from the and ~ Bahz past; Luhrman, because he's very insightful."

Sheri Herrick English Major

"Aerosmith and Faith Hill. I like a variety of music and I really like both of their sounds."

Amanda Reilly Computer Sciences

Gerald Sykes Undecided

"Johnny Cash, "Anything rap or because they came out . R&B because they before music got crap- really mellow me out." py; and the Misfits, because they're real punk .."

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old system was working fine and produced better working conditions for all faculty. continued from page 1.

"Nowhere in any literature distributed by union advocates Palomar and will bring the col- have I seen any plan better than lege to a "new level of profes- the system we have now," she said. sionalism."

Under the old system, the But not all faculty members are happy with the change. Some Faculty Senate would appoint are concerned that the union will members to negotiate salary not be able to balance the needs increases and benefits with the of part-time faculty and full-time district. Now, a union will represent them, associated with the faculty.

Before the vote, Chris American Federation of Teachers.

Some full-time faculty have Barkley, associate professor of English and Faculty Senate . already said they would like to President, said she believed the separate and form their own

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the brochure, the committee reviewed criteria especially pertinent to Palomar College and listed qualities they would like to see in Palomar's next president."

"We are making every effort to make sure that the process is fair, open, inclusive and that we get a large number of highly qualified applicants ," Rourke said.

To help the committee in this process, Barbara Baldridge wears two hats, one as the affirmative action representative and another asthe search liaison officer.

As the affirmative action representative, she said, "My job is to be sure erse pool of applicants."

As search liaison officer, all applications for the position of president are processed through her, and not through the usual route of Human Resources Services.

The reason for this is to assure confidentiality to the applicants for this highly public position.

She said she has already received 15 applications.

During the months of January and February, the search committee sent the brochure to all community colleges in the

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union, but the current one cannot be dissolved for at least a year under state law.

College officials do not deny that part-time faculty are paid less than full-time faculty members, however, they say the college cannot afford to add enough full-time faculty to meet a state legislated goal of having 75 percent of all classes taught by a full-time instructor. Full-time instructors teach about 60 percent of all classes at Palomar.

Before the vote, Palomar was one of two of California's 108 communiry colleges in the state without a faculty union.

United States. They also advertised in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Rourke said he expects the number of applicants may be close to 100 by the February deadline.

During February and March, Rourke said the search committee will review these applications.

They intend to narrow the number down to possibly 12 or 15 candidates. The committee will then conduct interviews .

Rourke said after this interviewing process, the committee will choose two or three candidates.

The consultant will then conduct a thorough background reference check on them.

These final candidates will then be requested to answer questions in an open forum from students, faculty, administrators or the community classified staff or, in short, anyone

associated with or interested in Palomar College.

The governing board will then conduct final interviews and will appoint the new president in May. The search committee has 16 members, including three nonvoting members.

Five represent the faculty, three come from the administration, two from the classified staff, two are community representatives and one is a Palomar College student.

The non-voting members are the affirmative action and the search liaison representative, the search consultant from Community College Search Services and a representative from the board of governors.

The whole process in selecting a superintendent/president for Palomar College will have taken from September until May or one academic year.

An ethical, honest and trustworthy individual, who appreciates the role of the board and is committed to the development to a solid CEO/board relationship

• An individual who is student-centered and sensitive to the effects of all decisions on students and the campus community • A team player, a proponent of shared governance who values, includes, supports, motivates, evaluates and develops employees, acknowledges and rewards their contributions, and who is an open and approachable, and accessible leader.

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• A leader with fiscal acumen and strong budget experience • An innovator, an active, direct user of educational technology who understands its value in the work place • .A decisive leader and problem solver who is willing to delegate and to simplify decision-making processes

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1n1on Editorial New union forces college to listen to all faculty members ftet years of being one of only two community colleges in the state without a faculty union, the Palomar College faculty has voted to unionize.

This seems to fly in the face of Palomar's reputation of "shared governance" and "collegiality," but it's time for the change.

Some faculty members, and administrators as well, are concerned that things at Palomar could get ugly with a unionized faculty. Their concerns are legitimate, but it's up to the administration to keep things from going awry by listening to the concerns of the faculty, and making sure their needs are met.

Had this happened before, the union may have never materialized. Part-time faculty members have been trying for years to get the district to recognize them equally with full-time instructors.

The district balked at the idea, choosing to balance the college's budget on the backs of our teachers.

Even the full-time faculty has had its fights with the district. Durring the past three years, the faculty had to fight to receive state-mandated cost-of living- allowances while watching the administrators receive raises.

It seems the college has banked on the idea that faculty will never strike or walk out on the job because their focus is on the students. The college didn't see the faculty as a force to be reckoned with, but it is.

Without the faculty, there would be no Palomar College. Our teachers, full and part time, should be given the respect they deserve from the college a respect that has been on the back burner for too long.

The fact that a majority of all of the teachers at Palomar voted to start a union shows that even the full-time instructors are tired of playing the district's games.

The installment of a union doesn't mean the fights have to start. But it does force the administration to listen to the f~culty- all of the faculty.

It also puts the ball in the college's court. It's up to the governing board and the administration to keep things from getting ugly. Let's hope they deal honestly with our teachers, and keep the "collegial" attitude afloat.

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Integrity disappeared Tim McMahon The Telescope

here did it go?" I asked myself while sitting at a coffee shop in Carlsbad. The integrity of our people seems to have been lost somewhere, and nobody cares enough to find out where it went.

How did we get to the point where two people do not give a second thought of gossiping about a co-worker in front of customers?

As a child, I always was told tp follow the example of my elders. The example I was shown here was nothing to be repeated.

It was a most disturbing display. It was something I would expect from teenage girls as they are having their never-to-be understood group bathroom parties; no offense intended.

These two individuals were completely ignorant of the fact that every person in the room could clearly hear every word they said.

It reminded me of the time when I was sitting drinking a cup of coffee and two people were obviously speaking about me, and for some reason they thought I could not hear them.

The loss of integrity is so blatantly clear that I must say something about it. I would feel as if I were contributing to the problem if I did nothing.

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aware of life outside of their bubble is our former president, William Jefferson Clinton. I wonder if he even knows the meaning of the word integrity.

A man who made me shameful of being male, and even more shameful of being an American.

Personally I had absolutely no problem with him getting a little on the side with Monica Lewinsky, but when he repeatedly lied about it I determined his integrity had been compromised.

A more recent failure to live up to the integrity of ones position comes from former presidential candidate AI Gore.

Clinton made me frown. Gore made me want to bum a flag.

When he finally conceded he won back a few of the points he had lost, but he still is one to be reckoned with.

They say that Generation-Xis lazy, rebellious, and that their integrity is at an all-time low. I ask them, "What did you expect?"

Look at the role models we

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have had, fir t and foremost, our free baby-sitter, otherwise know as the television.

We have grown up watching MTV. The everything-I-want-Imust-have channel for. Where doing nothing and getting everything is perfectly fine.

Our television taught us that lying, cheating, and stealing is not wrong, as long a you do not get caught. Like the T-shirt says, "He who dies with the most toys, still dies." That is reality.

So to ask the question once more, where has our integrity gone? Personally I have no idea.

It seems just to have dropped off the cover of our magazines, and completely out of our minds. It was lost somewhere in the sixties, when we were fighting a war without knowing why.

It was lost when Howard Stern became the most popular radio talk show host. When Jerry Springer, and all the other slew of pointless talk shows burst onto our airwaves, degrading American society by showing us at our worst and exploiting it.

When our politicians, role models, and even parents forgot how much they affected the younger generation. When people realized that integrity was scarce, and did not care to do anything about it.

As a wise man once said, " He who has no integrity, also has no honesty.

A person with no integrity has no place in power, and must not be trusted."

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Look back, when you say goodbye eteran's Day, Nov. 11, 1959 was a cold, damp, drizzly day or, as New Englanders say, Sean J. a clammy day - a day for the clams. ¡. I had returned to my parents' home in Somerville, Mass. from my apartment in Hingham where I was teaching he had run out of the house, American history in high school. clutching his breast. He dropped It was a holiday. My younger dead on the street. Neighbors brothers and sisters, all teen- carried him back to the house. agers, and another sister, also a They put him in my mother's teacher, were housebound arms. She believed he died in her arms. because of the weather.

As I drove back to Somerville I spent the day at the dining room table correcting papers. I was stunned. The thought of My father, however, was ill. The pushing back the door and saydoctor diagnosed him with a ing "Goodbye" resurfaced. It cracked rib the day before. He bothered me. I dismissed it, was in pain. The doctor had also however.

When we buried my father, it given him pills to assuage his was another bleak November pain.

The day did not get any better day. It wasn't raining, but it was as it wore on. If anything, it got bitter cold. A gray sky hung darker and colder. After supper, overhead. The weather suited my I decided to return to Hingham. mood.

Some 20 years later, I was sitIt wa dark now, till rainy, gloomy and wet. I stuffed my ting in my office at 3 p.m. Friday. attache case with papers, had I was very busy at my desk long some books under one arm and a after others had gone. The stubundle of laundry under the dent aide, Cathy, however, was in other. I kissed my mother and the office finishing her chores on told her goodbye in the kitchen. the other side of the partition.

She then sang out from behind I also said goodbye to my broththe pattition, "Goodbye, Sean. ers and sisters.

As I walked into the front hall, See you on Monday."

The memory of what hapmy father, who.was in the adjoining room, said, "Goodbye, pened long ago came back to me.

Bunk." Bunk is the shortened I hadn't thought about it for form of Bunky, my family nick- some time. Nor had I told anyname. His words startled me. I one about it.

"Cathy, could I see you a thought he was asleep. He certainly was heavily sedated. minute before you leave?" I "Goodbye, Dad," I said. "I hope asked in the gentlest way I could.

I explained how I said "goodyou are feeling better tomorrow."

I felt I should have pushed bye" in the same way she did back the door leading to the par- several years before and how I lor where he sat, but I didn't. I now regretted it. She listened, had my arms full and was strug- smiled at me, said, "Goodbye!" gling with the keys in my hand. and was off for the weekend. I The name Bunky has stuck with sat there alone in my office, papers piled high on my desk. I me all these years.

As I drove my 1952 Ford looked over them into space and along the shore to Hingham, thought of my father and that some 30 miles away, I was alone Veteran's Day. Then something strange hapwith my thoughts. I always enjoyed driving along the ocean pened.

It was then, and only then, that in all kinds of weather, this night perhaps more than many others. I realized, out of all his 10 chilIt is very conducive to reflective dren, I was the only one who actually said "goodbye" to my meditation.

Why didn't I push back that father. No one else did. Not even my mother. I was stunned. It door? I asked myself.

Funny. Something like that took me 20 years to realize this. never bothered me before. I had Then I felt an emotional release, run out of the house many times the kind of thing psychologists before saying, "Goodbye!" with- describe after a person gets out looking back. But it bothered something off his chest.

A peaceful, emotional bath me now.

The next morning at 7:30, as I swelled in my breast.

The moral of the story is a was ready to go to school, my mother called. My father had simple one. Whenever you say died. I found it hard to believe. goodbye to anyone, look at him It took many months to realize or her. It may be the last time the enormity of his death. My you see them. That's what hapmother was now a widow with pened to me. four children at home, without any visible income.

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Activism no longer exists few days ago a chunk of their paycheck for daycare. prominent Los Angeles radio It's time to bring news station (KNX) ran activism back into our an editorial. The general Michael daily lives. The patriots who founded America manager explained the station's position regard- Paisner were activists. Activism ing schools and the enerin the '60s stopped the Vietnam war. gy crisis California is now experiencing.

Now, we don't want to This powerful radio station felt that if there become activists or get involved in anything were to be rolling blackouts, schools should that doesn't disturb our little apple cart. be excluded for the sake of the children.

A friend of mine is an activist. He went to Baloney. malls this past Christmas with about a dozen If Californians are going to live with black- people and sang carols with anti-corporation outs, then schools should too. Including lyrics.

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"Rest Easy Wealthy Gentlemen" is sung to The problem is not the usual "we have to the tune of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" think of the children," - - - - - -......¡ - - - - - - - - - and is about children in sweatshops in thirdthe problem is that we as a society are apathetworld countries workic in our lives and we ing for pennies a day don't expect any interwhile the wealthy genruptions in that compla" tlemen get rich on the cency. profits.

Sure, blackouts This activism garmight stop work and nered a few paragraphs might slow traffic. We in the LA Times. can live with that.

I sent the article to And if we can live with it, we won't do any- someone else that knows my activist pal. His thing about it. But if students are forced to response? Not the proud-to-know-him attitude stay home (lights aren't the whole problem, that I was expecting. "How could he ruin the traffic and lack of heat contribute, too), par- Christmas spirit for all the parents and kids ents will have to stay home with the young- shopping? And besides, that's not going to sters or make arrangements for daycare. And stop anything!" then the parents themselves will be inconveFirst of all, I explained, children younger nienced. And then maybe, just maybe, a cry than about 17 aren't going to understand the will go out and something will have to be message. Second, if one parent doesn't buy done. from The Gap or some other exploitive megaYou see, activism is essentially dead. We conglomerate, then they made a difference. have become a society that doesn't care about It's about time we raised our collective voicanything that doesn't affect us. A long time es and demanded more from our government. ago someone murdered a woman named Kitty From reading the paper, it looks to me as if Genovese in the streets of New York about an the electric companies have cooked up this hour before midnight. energy crisis to make bigger profits and please Kitty screamed for quite some time as her their shareholders. attacker chased her, stabbed her and left her to If not, then why did one of these companies, die in the street. Lots of people heard her cries on the verge of bankruptcy two weeks ago, for help but no one wanted to get involved and declare a dividend of almost $100 million? make a simple call to the police.

We've got to do something about the corporaDeregulated electricity is our modern-day tions constantly laughing in our face.

Kitty Genovese, and California is the neighIf it takes shutting off the lights in borhood. We don't want to get involved.

California, then call me. I'll bring some canWell people would be screaming for the dles over to your house so we can phone a few police - in this case the government - if politicians. they had to stay home from work to take care - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - of their kids. Or if they had to shell out a Paisner is an Opinion columnist and can be reached via e-mail

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Entertainment Geddy Lee is a not-so favourite headache

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Former K.D. Lang collaborator Ben Mink is all over the record, playing guitars and vioGeddy Lee's old band, Rush, lins in addition to producing and made a name for itself by comco-writing every track. bining the instrumental virtuosiBut despite the fact that the ty and overblown mysticism <;>f album is essentially a collaboraYes with the gritty-yet-clean guition between the two, it still tar tone of Black Sabbath, singlesounds very close to the classic handedly creating the genre of Rush sound. Which should make "progressive metal." it very enjoyable to most Rush Modern bands like Primus and fans. For me, however, it's a Dream Theater tip their hats problem ... heavily to Rush, especially to You see, I've never been much Lee's bass heroics. · of a Rush fan myself. Although With his new the band (mainly solo album, Lee and drumLee seems to mer Neil Peart) be tipping his had a great hat back. clean-yet-angry Review sound, the songYou'd be forgiven for miswriting usually taking the left a lot to b'e heavy, distortdesired. ed bass riff After their first which opens three albums "My Favourite (absolutely Headache" for unlistenable something off early heavy of a Tool metal), the band album. found itself split That is, until between a (out Qf four stars) Lee's distinc"heavy pop" tive nasal sound and a whine comes "complex proon to remind us who we're dealgressive" one. ing with.

This would have worked out Whatever shortcomings are perfectly fine - unfortunately, examined later in this review the band too often forgot to should be canceled out by the include memorable riffs to bal"My Favourite ance out the complex ones fact that Headache" is a very well persomething which set them apart formed and produced record. from their much more innovative Although I've always felt that predecessors (Yes and King there were far better bass players Crimson). in the rock world, Lee is still a As a result, very few Rush fantastic showman with his songs can really qualify as great instrument - making each track - the 1982 hit "Tom Sawyer" pulse aggressively with very disbeing the only one which springs ciplined noise. to my mind.

But, although he is also In addition, Lee's lyrics always renowned for being a virtual onecame across as pretentious, surman-band, Lee is not alone. realist mumbo-jumbo which is The Telescope

The party may still be mging, but the cops ate on the way.

German publishi!lg conglomerate Bertelsmann announced this week that it will introduce this summer a subscrtption plan requiring surfers to pay for Napster. tbe popular online music-swappjng service that attracts more than eight million users a day.

Neither Bertelsmann nor Napster <lisclosed information. regarding how much a subscription to the service. currently nonexi tent, would cost. what limitations it might carry, or exactly when the new plan takes effect.

Additionally, no information was available on what music Napster would offet subscribers. Bertelsmann owns music publisher BMG Music.

'Tm convinced we ~n introduce in June or Jtt,ly of this year a subscription model, with a real working digital rigbts management system;' said Bertelsmann Chief Executive

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Geddy _Lee of the band Rush plays a bass riff. Lee released a solo album earlier this year.

impossible to take seriously, especially when sung through his high, cartoonish voice.

These are problems which still plague Lee. Not content with being a great bass player, he tragically strives to prove himself to be a singer and songwriter, of which be is sadly neither.

However, I can't really criticize Lee too much for "My Favourite Headache."

In a world where most classic rock icons reaching their olden years mellow their sound and deliver tame product, Lee continues to do what he has done all along.

At some points on the album, such as the opening title track, be even does it better than he did with Rush.

And, by any standards, it's far better than a Limp Bizkit album.

Thomas Middelhoff.

N~pstetJorged a parroersbip with Bettelsmann in OctOber of last year after more ,than a dozen breach-of-copyright lawsuits from music pllblisJl..

ers, BMG included. threatened to puU the company under.

Middelhoff said tbathe does not expect a sign,ifieant decline in Napster's user base once the

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'Head Over Heels' lands on its ·feet Ethan Quillen The Telescope

"Head over Heels" is one of those movies that you find yourself watching and wondering why you're enjoying such a simple film as much as you are.

Maybe it's the simple humor or the fast paced story line you enjoy so much. Maybe it's the cheap laughs or the gorgeous, but

stereotypical supermodels falling all over themselves that catches your attention.

Or maybe it's just that you're finally relieved to see a decent movie.

Andrea Pearce (Monica Potter) has trouble finding love, and like so many women in the world today, just can't find the right guy.

Finding herself in this situa-

tion again after catching her latest boyfriend in bed with what she calls a Victoria's Secret model, and finding not much help staying with her very helpful but lesbian best friend, she goes in search of a new apartment.

Finding refuge in probably the most unlikely of all places, a large furnished apartment in New York City at only five hun-

dred dollars a month, she moves and most grotesque situations in. possible.

But she suddenly realizes she The scenes flow together well is now the fifth roommate in a and move quickly enough for group of four struggling, but you to laugh, and then move on non-smoking supermodels. before the joke gets too old.

Pearce now finds herself surFrom then on the film moves rounded by the ditzy lifestyle of from funny to funnier as the girls her four new friends and become runway models in a obsessed with the boy next door, large F.B.I. sting operation and Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze Jr.). embarrass themselves in front of A prosperous fashion execu- the world. It is then that they tive, she meets find out the him after his truth behind neighbor's dog who the handtackles her in some boy next the middle of door is. the street.

Throughout Trying to find the film, from a flaw in her beginning with new love at first ·analogies relatsight, Pearce ing to the renand her temaissance era .of porarily blind painting and the Aussie roomuse of the word Rating: mate watch him ·love and all the through their power it holds, back window you are renlind(out of four stars) and witness ed that no matwhat seems to ter what, you be a murder. should never Starring: Convinced give up on findFreddie Prinze Jr. Winston is, in ing the right fact, a psychotic person. This is Monica Potter murderer she a great date and her roommovie and I mates set out to find the truth. suggest you see it with someone In the process they encounter you love. many incidents in which the clean and proper models find (127 min. PG-13) themselves in some of the dirtiest

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Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze Jr.) moves in for the kill on Andrea Pearce (Monica Potter) in the new release "Head Over Heels."

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gy conference on campus a few weeks ago that president Bush attended and overheard that if Bush's daughter lived in a dorm, the whole floor would have to be closed for security.

Other students may be excited to have a president's daughter attend the University, but Archer said he doesn't think it's a big deal.

"She's just a normal person," he said. "Just because her father is the president doesn't mean much."

The security alone probably makes it hard for her to live a normal life, so the media should leave her alone like they did with Chelsea Clinton, Archer said.

"That would really interfere with her personal life," he said.

Bush's daughter will be safe from coverage in UT's student newspaper, The Daily Texan, unless she draws attention to herself with her actions, said Cecily Sailer, the paper's editor.

"We're not going to make news out of her just because she's the president's daughter," she said. "She's a student like anybody else. We don't want to give her special attention, and it may not be what she wants."

continued from page i attention in the media," Vick said.

"We have had a president's daughter before: LBJ's daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson."

If he was aware of special security for Bush, Vick said he would not be able to discuss any security details. · He said be believes Bush will receive the same treatment as other students at the University.

"I think we're interested in providing the best for all of our students," Vick said. "I would anticipate she would like to be treated like other students."

With her sister Barbara attending Yale and her mother and father moved into the White House, Jenna will be a long way from the rest of her family except cousin Jeb Bush, who attends the UT School of Law. While her father was governor of Texas, the family lived in the Governor's mansion, less than a mile from the University of Texas campus. · Bush's attention among UT students is similar to that of UT star athletes.

Caught: continued from pagei were canceled and the 25,000student campus was evacuated as bomb squads combed the 65 buildings and 110 acres in a fruitless search of any munitions.

The master plan was under way and thwarted hours before DeGuzman could get started.

His nemesis, stranger a Longs drug store photo clerk, whose father is a police officer.

"She saw photos of guns, pipe bombs and a guy holding a gun," said Reubens Dalaison, San Jose Police spokesman.

The clerk immediately called her father, an off-duty police officer. Mter hearing a quick description, the officer told his daughter "Hang up the phone and call 911 now!"

The emergency call came in at 6:02 p.m. and within minutes a police dispatcher obtained the information from the clerk, including DeGuzman's name taken from a roll of film, and sent a patrol officer who was already near the Long's store.

Meanwhile, the clerk looked up from her counter and noticed DeGuzman was in line to retrieve his photos.

"She knew what to do, she began asking questions," said Dalaison. The stall worked and the clerk pointed out DeGuzman just as the first officer walked into the store.

DeGuzman walked away from the line and tried to hide in the store but was caught, police said.

When confronted with the photographs, Dalaison said, DeGuzman admitted they were his and said they were toys.

"It's just sugar in them," he told police.

DeGuzman would not talk to police and would not allow them to search the home he shared with his parents, authorities said.

Police detained DeGuzman and obtained a search warrant at 11 p.rr.. for the student's Flickinger Avenue home. His family did not know about their son's bomb-making, polioe said.

Fifteen minutes later officers were knocking on the doors of neighbors and evacuating everyone to a nearby school. '

The Bush family from left to right: George W., Barbara, Jenna, Laura, while at the University of Texas

Irma Espino, a senior Economics student, is curious if Secret Service agents will be on campus to protect Jenna and if they'll be dressed like college students to blend in and what

kind of vehicles they drive.

Curiosities aside, Espino is glad Bush chose to study at the University.

"I think it's cool," she said. "I think it's different because presi-

dents' kids usually go to East Coast schools or Ivy League schools. It's kind of a nice change that she goes to a state school."

John Archer, a computer science senior, went to a technolo-

Officers did not go into the Independence High School graduate's room, fearing that bombs might be rigged to go off.

About 2:30 a.m. when they got inside and found the bombs - some already stashed in a satchel, timing devices, two rifles, and two sawed-off shotguns with pistol grips.

DeGuzman was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on suspicion of the manufacture or possession a disguised weapon, a destructive device, intent to make a d·e structive device without a permit, and possession or manufacture of an explosive device.

The guns were purchased legally in San Jose at a firearms store and a sporting goods store.

Police believe the suspect modified the shotguns himself.

The bombs were sophisticated some had mercury switches, some could be triggered with a remote device but their components could be purchased easily at stores.

DeGuzman's blueprint for the bombs were culled off the Internet, said Sgt. Mike Fernandez of the San Jose police's bomb squad.

The array of bombs were "mind-boggling,'' Miceli said.

Already faced with a homemade bomb-designer and manufacturer, it was just after 4:30 a.m. when police finally .realized what they were up against: a bomber who was prepared.

As much as the explosives and guns, DeGuzman's writings and tape recording he left for posterity were equally disturbing. Fernandez said he believed DeGuzman intended to end his life after the alleged attack or during it.

"The tape recording we found was just bone-chilling," Miceli said. "In my 30 years of law enforcement, I can't describe it any other way."

DeGuzman's intricate plans were up-ended by his own hubris - he had taken photographs of himself with the bombs and weapons - and by an 18-year-old woman who worked at photo section counter at a Longs Drug, where DeGuzman bad the pictures developed. The woman was praised for her bravery by police chief Bill Landsdowne and Mayor Ron Gonzales.

DeGuzman's decision to take

pictures of himself and leave a tape recording follows a familiar pattern, Fernandez said.

"It's not uncommon, bombers do stuff like this," Fernandez said. "They want that final glory or something for memory, for the press, for the public."

DeGuzman's journal indicated he'd been building up to the attack for two years. Police were unable to provide a motive for his anger.

His plans gave instructions for the attack on the cafeteria at 12:30 p.m.

DeGuzman's parents never went into his bedroom, said Fernandez. "He was an adult and they gave him his privacy."

Police are concerned that the plans refer to "we" and also refers to snipers. And on-going investigation is trying to determine if others were also in on the scheme or helped DeGuzman, although police believe he probably acted alone.

Faced with evacuating the equivalent of a small city, college officials immediately triggered a plan intended largely for earthquakes and other natural calamities. They evacuated 14,000 people in 40 minutes, by putting out universal voice mes-

sages on the campus phone network and sending deans to interrupt class Jim McCarthy, dean of library services, told students to leave the library. ."I was shocked how quickly they got out," McCarthy said.

"Usually, they joke around and think it's a drill. But there was something in the tone of our voices that told them it was serious.

By 7 p.m., De Anza College president Martha Kanter said the search was concluded and nothing was found. "They've gone through the school and we're safe." The campus was scheduled to reopen at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31.

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tennis ready to 1nake noise Jo Appleton The Telescope

Palomar's women's tennis team is gearing up for the season with new players and a new coach.

Coach Ronnie Mancao is replacing Dr. Nan Haugen, who coached the women's tennis team at Palomar since 1974 and is leaving for health reasons.

Haugen is still working with the team through the transition and said the team has a promising season. "It's the best team in three years," she said.

Mancao is also optimistic and said the team looks really good.

The team's first match was at home Feb. 1 against Fullerton.

Other home games this month are against Irvine Tue day, Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. and San Diego City College Tuesday, Feb. 20 at 2 p.m.

The team's biggest competitor is Southwestern College, who currently has the o. 1 singles and doubles teams in the state.

"We're putting in extra time and will continue to because our record last year was 1 in 14," Mancao said.

"We should improve our overall record but our number one goal is to be competitive for the Pacific Coast Conference which begins the end of February."

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that football is TilE sport every-

be assisted by coach Cheryl Arthur Anderson I The Telescope Skye Boyd prepares for the next serve during practice last week.

The women's tennis team will have its next two home games Feb. 6 against Irvine Valley and Feb. 20 against San Diego City. Both games begin at 2 p.m. on the tennis courts near the 0-building.

Palomar gets eighth win with 98-67 victory Richardson Miron Specwl for The Telescope

Brett A. Frost I The Telescope Number 42, Lamar Abbott shoots and scores to help Comets win against Imperial Valley Jan. 31

get a win. I'm just glad it wasn't tonight."

The Comets had six players score in double figures as the club took Imperial Valley through an offensive clinic.

The Comets missed just 37 of 61 shots for a 51 percentage. On the completely opposite side of the spectrum was Imperial Valley, who connected on just 25 of 78 shots for a horrific 32 percent from the field.

"We played a better game tonight," Watson said. "Our con-

Mark Beerman

nother football season has passed us by. For some of us, the season couldn't end soon enough. But for others, like me, the football season will be mi sed.

It just seems to me that football is the ultimate sport and nothing comes close to the emotions and reactions.

Watching Oklahoma win their first national championship in nearly two decades and then watcbing the Baltimore Ravens's improbable playoff run that ended with the capturing of their first Vince Lombardi trophy and Super Bowl wa stunning.

Football is a release of emotions that boil over for nearly eight months. No sport has a longer layoff between seasons and no sport creates more hope than football.

Whether you're a college or a pro football fan, your life will revolve around the autumn battles that esclate into winter wars. Sure, a non-football fan out there will say there's more to life than just one port.

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Comets trounce Arabs

Palomar College men's basketball coach Virgil Watson thinks Imperial Valley will win a conference game one of these days.

He's just thankful it didn't come against the Comets last week (Jan. 31) when the two schools hooked up in a Pacific Coast Conference game.

The Comets (14-10, 7-2) were able to take advantage of Imperial Valley's sloppy and undisciplined play as they went on to 98-67 victory.

Imperial Valley, who is 0-9 in league play and 3-19 overall, was every bit as bad as the score would indicate.

"They really are a team in search of a win," Watson said.

'They don't usually give up like that. I mean, that game isn't indicitive of how they usually play. ''They've got a good coach and they play hard. They're going to

Orange Empire Relays: Feb. 9, 10 a.m.

Football: the ultimate sport

The top four players are Skye Boyd, former No. 1 player from Porterville College, Abby O'Leary from Ramona, Sarah Del Castillo from Oceanside and Yoko Suzuki from Kanagawa, Japan. All are freshman except for Boyd, who is a sophomore. player Kyana Returning Branch said the team looks wop:' derful this year, and added that all the girls get along like sister .

The record last year may not be impressive, but Mancao is excited about this eason and aid he is looking forward to success.

Mancao comes to the team with excellent credentials and experience. Former coach of pro tennis player Christina Papadaki for ten years, he is now in his sixth season as the men's tennis coach at Palomar.

In 1999 he coached Palomar tudent Scott Thomp on, the top player in the nation that year, and in 2000 he led the men's team to sixth place in the state for the second consecutive year. He will Olivas, who is also new to the women's team this season.

So the season is shaping up to be exciting; the coaches are enthusiastic and so are the girls.

"I think that it's going to be a lot of fun, hopefully we can just get out there and win,'' O'Leary aid.

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ference is up for grabs right now and we're starting to play well.

"We've been improving and it's a good sign. We've been making small steps but tonight was a good win."

Comets' forward Ryan Meier led the charge as he scored 18 points and played tremendous defense.

"Coach (Watson) really wanted us to respect that team and we did," Meier said. ''We played as hard agamst them as anyone else and we've got a good win to show

for it."

Charlie Mercado pitched in with 13 points and six rebounds in the Comets' victory. Patrick Freeman (14 points) and Reggie Harmon (11 points) also played well for Palomar.

Imperial Valley's lone bright spot was Clarence Campbell, who scored 17 points in the win.

The next home game will be against Mira Costa College, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m ..

one cares about. Yes, baseball has made a comeback. But the disparity in baseball is what keeps it behind football in terms of sheer excitement.

Careers can be made or broken in an attempt to win a championship. Three prime examples are John Elway, Dan Marino, and Peyton Manning.

Elway had a brilliant career, but the championships that slipped through his fingers in three previous Super Bowls haunted him until he and the Denver Broncos won Super Bowl XXXII and XXXIII. These games made Elway's legend grow just a bit more, but they gave him validation that he was one of the games best quarterbacks.

Dan Marino. on the other hand, only had one shot at a Super Bowl championship. It came during his second season in the league. inwhich he tossed an incredible 48 touchdown passes. Everyone thought Matino would get to this point again. But they were wrong.

Marino never got another shot at the Super Bowl and had to retire knowing he only had statistical accomplishments and no championships to show for it.

Payton Manning had one of the most brilliant collegiate careers during his days at Tennessee. But every year there was one game that eluded him and his hopes to bring a national championship to the Volunteer State. These games were against Florida. The year after Manning left Tennessee, the Vols were able to beat Florida and win the national championship.

Football is not a forgiving sport when it comes to failure. Careers hinge on these games and there is never an easy excuse when it comes time to answer for your loss.

Maybe it is because only truly great players can win a championship. With a ring, no one will question that you are a champion in the ultimate sport.

Beerman is a staff writer and can be reached at telescope@palomar.edu