-Palomar College- Volume 54, Number 14
Sleeping around
Football transfers
Skydiving
Should you get romantically involved with your teachers?
Palomar football players make it to the big game.
A Palomar student takes a leap into the sky and loves it.
Opinion, page 9
Sports, page 11
Women's softball, a winner
Focus, page 6
Governing board selects new member Julie Devaney The Telescope
The Palomar Comets win their first two games at the beginning of the season. It promises to be a winning season for the women's softball team, judging from
past contests, it may be a winning season.
Palomar College trustees spent a long day Saturday, Feb. 3 interviewing 21 applicants to fill the empty governing board seat left when Trustee Charles Duncan who died Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2000. They had all agreed Silverio Haro, a California State San Marcos graduation adviser and 10-year resident of San Marcos, would now fill the governing board seat. Haro was an adjunct faculty member at Palomar in the Chicano Studies program when he applied for the position. He received his master's degree in education from Harvard University. He grew up in the Fresno area. His parents were agricultural workers. Haro was one of 12 children, four of whom attended college. "I was working alongside my parents in the vineyards of Fresno. It served as my motivation to expand my opportunities,· h.aro said. "'I hare this glimpse into my background as a means to communicate that I have come from a background very similar to a growing number of our area students and to reveal my source of commitment to higher education," he said.
Silverio Haro is the newly appointed member to the Board of Governors at Palomar College
In addition to Haro 's educational background, he has a long list of community service involvement since coming to San Marcos in 1990. Board member Dr. Robert Dougherty said, "I think he wlll be an inspiration." ''We have needed a strong ~ ,atino
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Retired business education instructor dies Sean O'Connor The Telescope
James Joseph "Jim" Felton died Jan. 27 at Tri City Medical Center. Felton taught at Palomar College for 30 years in the Business Education Department. He retired 10 years ago with the status of Faculty "Emeritus. Jack Randall, interim president of Palomar, said his former students characterized Felton "as a wonderful instructor and person." "We sincerely appreciate his contribution to students and his commitment to Palomar College," Randall said.
Tom Humphrey, a colleague from the Business Education Department, said Felton "was a good close friend of mine all through the years. I came in 1966. He was a great guy." Humphrey retired this year from Palomar. Humphrey said Felton taught salesmanship, retailing, marketing, advertising, business law and business math. He wrote a math textbook which Palomar instructors used for a number of years. "Just before he died," Humphrey said, "he sent me an e-mail thanking me for my help on the textbook." Felton had found some old paperwork with Humphrey's handwriting and was afraid he didn't thank
Humphrey for that work. Felton told Humphrey the way he got his job at Palomar was unique in that perhaps he was the only mail order instructor Palomar College ever hired. He applied for his position through the mail and got his appointment through the mail. Felton was a native of New York where he taught business subjects in high school. Before that he was an officer in the Marine Corps in the 1950s and spent some time at Camp Pendleton. "That's the reason he wanted to come to San Diego," Humphrey said. He got his bachelor's degree in business management from St. John's University and his
master's degree in educational administration from National University. Humphrey said Felton enjoyed excellent health. On the day he died, he was chopping wood when he had a massiv·e heart attack. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, five children and 11 grandchildren. His family wrote in a memorial to him, "Dad's whole life was a model to our family on how to strive to be the best possible person you could be. "He gave us insights into what were truly the important things in life. His life was defined not so much by his accomplishments, which were many, but by the people he
touched and those whose lives touched his." Members of the family said he loved teaching. and his students and the people he worked with at Palomar. "If every child could have a father like Jim Felton, the world would be a very different place ... We'll drive safely, use good judgment and we'll call you when we get home." Felton was born Feb. 14, 1930. "We always had a cake shaped like a heart on his birthday," Humphrey said. Felton would have been 71 Feb. 14, Valentine's Day.
XFL: sport, show, or just low-grade football? Ed Sherman Chicago Tribune TMS Campus
During the middle of the first quarter Saturday, the scene shifted from the field to a staged bit in the locker room. A Las Vegas cheerleader, standing next to quarterback Ryan Clement, said with a wink, "Ryan knows how to score."
Clement then launched into some footballese about scoring complete with the XFL-required double entendre. Yuk, yuk, yuk. My initial reaction is, boy, is this lame. Then I think, maybe I'm not qualified to review NBC's first broadcast of the XFL. I'm 41, father of two, and long past running to see movies that begin with "Dude ..." This whole XFL experiment
isn't going to ride on middleaged men like me. It's going to hinge on whether 17 -year-old kids thought the cheerleader skit was funny. And if those kids like lowbrow football, the XFL will be a big success. I can only imagine what Bob Costas and other · longtime staffers of NBC Sports must have thought about their division stooping to WWF levels •
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Saturday. It couldn't have been a proud moment. The first game was a mixture of bad football, bad lines and an overdose of political incorrectness. You were expecting "Masterpiece Theater?" The tone was set with the pregame show that focused surprise, surprise - on the cheerleaders. Who needs players when you've got young •
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