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-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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Once the game began, it was maddening to watch. an effort to be different, the producers opted to show most plays from behind the quarterback. The shots offered no perspective and at times were too limiting. Hey NBC, there's a reason fans choose 50-yard line seats instead of the end zone.

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Cam us Beat Scholarship applications due

Study abroad in London, England

Deadlines are drawing near for scholarship applications.

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund of $2,500 is due this week.

Some others listed below range from about $100 to $3,500 The National Federation of Republican Women- National Pathfinder scholarship of $2,000 is due Feb. 14. The Gordon R. Cooke- Jazz Scholarship of$375 is due Feb. 14. This scholarship is for the music major or minor.

For more information contact the financial aid office in the Student Services building.

Financial need and community service is also considered.

The Copley Newspaper Journalism scholarship of $250 is due Feb. 15. Career goals, samples of work, and application must be turned in.

Palomar College is offering a language and culture program that will enable students to earn 12 transferable credits while living in London, England.

This study abroad program is open to anyone in the community, not just current Palomar students.

The program will be during the fall, 2001 semester and will offer courses in humanities, English, history and speech, which all meet the same general education and transfer requirements. The trip will last roughly the length of a semester, Sept. 14 to Dec. 14. An optional one-week tour will be available prior to the academic program for an additional cost.

Financial aid may be availabl~ for the academic program for those who qualify.

Informational meetings will be held on Saturdays in the Governing Board room at 10 a.m. Feb. 24 is a mandatory meeting for financial aid students, a March 24 meeting will be offered for all students. For additional information contact Study Abroad Services at (760) 744-1150 ext. 2822 or visit the office in AA-147.

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Outlet offered to creative minds Bravura is Italian and it means, a florid brilliant style.

It is also the name of the Palomar College Literary Magazine as well as its online Webzine.

The publications are now accepting submissions of original works for the following categories; short stories, poetry, excerpts from longer works, non fiction commentary essays, graphic narration, photography and art.

Bravura's co-advisors are Carlton Smith and Rocco Versaci.

Versaci said, "One thing all writers have in common is the self-conscious voice."

He said submitting work and getting involved in the bravura publication is "a great .way for newer writers to begin to silence these voices and insecurities."

The deadline for submissions is March 2.

For more information you can go to the Bravura website and also view last years webzine at http://www.english. palomar. edu/ bravura.htm.

You can also contact Rocco Versaci at (760) 744-1150 ext.

2971 or email him at rversaci @palomar.edu.

Marcelina Contreras performs a comical yet intense theatrical piece called "Suite Argentine" at the modern dance performance in the ·Brubeck Theater saturday night.

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Focus magazine accepting entries Focus, Palomar's visual arts magazine, is accepting submissions for the 2001 edition through Mar. 2.

The magazine is published yearly and showcases the work of Palomar students in the discipline of visual arts.

Students may submit up to three samples of their work from the fields of art, graphics, photography, furniture technology, radio, television, theater arts, interior design, fashion, computer aided drafting, 3-D modeling, cinema and multimedia.

Work may be submitted in the form of original 2-D artwork, 35mm or larger transparencies or negatives, color or black and white reflective prints or digital files on ZIP disk.

Photography should be dropped off in room F-26, artwork in C-13, furniture in T-17C and graphics or anything else in GJ-3.

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Modern dance an adventure for Palon1ar's performing arts Donna Williams The Telescope

Palomar College's Performing Arts Department presented "Adventure in Motion" Feb. 3 and 4.

The show was a unique display of modem dance set off by a variety of great music from The Beatles to Bach.

It is said that modem dance is best defined as what it is not rather than what it is.

"Adventure in Motion" explained that notion to to me perfectly. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before.

Most of the time the dancers were barefoot.

They moved freely all over the stage in somewhat unorganized but somehow perfectly executed patterns.

Modern dance makes use of all available stage space. The dancers form small groups and then often drift off alone.

Each dance, a total of eight, presented a new theme and new costumes. Many of the costumes were hand sewn to fit a particular theme creating a show that was extra appealing to the eye.

In one performance called "At the Dance" each dancer wore a flashy ball gown to portray being done up in their best party dress.

In the middle of "At the Dance" each dancer put gum in their mouths and began to chew wildly. This

technique was used to symbolize their age, because teenage girls are known As the dance went on they made various talking hand gestures to signify that little voice inside every teenage girls head who doesn't get asked to dance.

By the end each dancer realized they don't need a partner to dance with and danced their hearts out alone.

All the while all the dancers continued making those interesting talking hand gestures to symbolize that antagonizing little voice in the back of their mind that just never wants to go away.

It's amazing that they were so easily able to convey such an detailed story with absolutely no words.

"Adventure in Motion" utililized well done theatrics to express a theme in every performance.

Dance instructor and director Faith Jensen-Ismay successfully set over 35 dancers in motion.

She described modern dance as "organized chaos" and said that preparing for "Adventure in Motion" was a delight that created a very special family bond between her and her students.

Each dance is personal to Jensen-Ismay and she is very proud of the final show.

Her only complaint:"It's a bummer that we only get to do it twice after so much hard work."

Modern dance classes began working hard on the production in early September. Different skill levels were involved throughout the dance.

Speak Out! Should. students be able to have sex with their teachers?

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Angelica Becker Nursing

"Yes, then you can develop a better relationship and get better grades."

T.J. Business

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Korin Wade Nursing

Mark Engel Undecided

Leah Reed Criminal Justice

"Yes, everyone has their rights and their own belief systems."

"If it comes between passing and failing, absolutely."

"Yes, as long as you are not enrolled in the class."

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"I was working alongside my parents in the vineyards of Fresno. It served as my motivation to expand my opportunities" -Silverio Haro New Governing Board Member

role model," said Trustee Darrell McMullen.

Board president Michele Nelson said Haro brings diversity to the group as well as his youthfulness and mid-career energy.

Haro said Sunday after learning of his victory "I am interested in making connections in the community" and to ask the question "How are we doing?" meaning Palomar College and "to find out what the needs are an informal table discussion for for students and community."

10 minutes and were asked to "As an institution we must address four questions; make sure there are no walls 1. What do you believe to be standing in our way and that we the mission of the community have relevance for the commu- college? nity," Haro said.

2. As a board member how do ""This is a great community, you believe you can contribute It's tight. There is so much . toward making Palomar an even going on, and we can be such a better college? viable part of peoples' lives," 3. What do you perceive is the Haro said. role of a board member?

There was a small turnout in 4. Do you have anything else the boardroom throughout the you would like to add? day's proceedings. Each candiMany of the candidates date spoke to the five trustees in

touched on key points that seemed to impress the board such as, "the community college as a gateway" and "the board's responsibility is. to set policy, not to micromanage."

They also emphasized the important business of selecting a new president.

Some responses from candidates were: Harold Scofield urged trustees that he be named to the board until the next election in 2003. "The reason I should get

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this is I have 72,884 people who voted for me for this and being a democratic society, they are the ones who wanted me to sit for this," Scofield said.

Scofield also told the panel that his experience on the other boards meant his learning curve for the position would be shorter than other candidates. , Candidate Martha Rivera Richardson said "I have seen the growth here and with the growth also comes many challenges." She has been a resident of San Marcos since 1969 ;;tnd a. local elementary school administrator.

Thomas Robinson, a high school principal for 16 years, said, "Bottom line is to do ari even better job to serve a wonderfully diverse student population."

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As for Minnesota Gov./"The Body" Jesse Ventura, keep your day job. He offered as many keen insights in_to football as Dennis Miller did. He was much better on wrestling when everything was scripted.

Play-by-play-man Matt Vasgersian did read the script and was suitably excitable.

- Perhaps, the energy was all pent up from doing too many Milwaukee Brewers games.

The best stuff actually came from Baltimore Ravens lineman Tony Siragusa. Interviewed on the sidelines, he ripped the New York/New Jersey team for being uninspired. Siragusa obviously was trying out for Vince McMahon.

The XFL did deliver on its promise of being all access with microphones all over the field.

But for every good nugget, there were 20 meaningless sound bites. Football _players and

coaches talk in their own language. How many fans know what "33 Dog" is? And if the players weren't talking football, they were spewing cliches.

Even the halftime was dull.

Despite his team trailing 19-0, Hitman coach Rusty Tillman didn't lay into his players. Look for the XFL to circulate the Knute Rockne memo soon.

All in all, the XFL never will be classified as quality programming. Then again, the WWF never has been classified as upscale, and it certainly attracts plenty of kids.

Even if I never watch again, it doesn't matter. What matters are those young males who don't know any better.

The real game: NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol isn't likely to be bothered by bad reviews. He heard the same thing when he and Lome Michaels pitched "Saturday Night Live" to NBC in the "70s .

"At the end of the meeting, he said the audience that we wanted, young males, would not go home on Saturday night to

watch anything," Ebersol said.

"Well, SNL still is on the air. It's 26 years later."

The league doesn 't have to do a big number to be a success.

Because Saturday night has been a graveyard for television in recent years, NBC would be thrilled with a "five" rating; one national ratings point is the equivalent of 1,008,000 homes.

Extra XFL: For those fans who didn't get enough Saturday, there's more XFL on Sunday.

The Los Angeles Xtreme meets the San Francisco Demons at 3 p.m. on UPN. Then starting next week through the rest of the season, NBC will air a game Saturday at 7 p.m., TNN will have a Sunday game at 3 p.m. and UPN will have another at 6 p.m.

What did you think of the XFL?

The candidates also included a former community college president and administrator, and several attorneys.

Seven applicants had doctoral degrees, There were teachers from Palomar, a former Poway schoolboard member, a phone company employee, an artist/bank employee who was also a Palomar student and a retired major general.

At 3:30p.m., Saturday when all the candidates were finished, each of the trustees went over their notes and chose their top five selections.

Haro was then chosen as the next board member.

He has already resigned his position as adjunct professor at Palomar.

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Entertainment The Telescope

"Hannibal" is the type of film that when I viewed it the envision I had is what it would be like to take a roller coaster ride through Dante's inferno.

From the opening credits, shot in grainy 16 mm film and a flock of pigeons that make up an eerie silhouette of Hannibal Lector's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) face, to a closing scene of an innocent boy.

The movie was non-stop action with very little action at all.

The movie begins with a drug raid gone bad headed up by Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore.)

While she is in her basement office pending further investigation, she is sent back on the very case that made her who she is ¡ today.

It seems there is a new lead in tracking down the infamous Dr. Hannibal Lector.

Mason Verger (Gary Oldman) is a hideous deformation that the doctor is solely responsible for and is set on sweet revenge.

Mason was Hannibal's 4th victim and also the only victim that lived.

Mason was the heir to the largest beef and pork industry in the U.S. and he's got plenty of money to burn in order to catch the diabolical doctor and do what ever he may please with him in order to even the score.

What Clarice doesn't realize is he is about to give her and the F.B.I. bogus information leading to the capture of Hannibal because he is hot on his trail and he doesn't want formal justice, he wants justice on his own terms.

"An eye for an eye so to speak."

Meanwhile, Doctor Hannibal has been in Florence, Italy growing accustomed to the sights, sounds and tastes of this art Mecca of Europe.

Since his stay in Europe, Hannibal has procured a position as a curator in a local museum.

However the doctor's "life of Riley" is about to change dramatically when an Italian police officer begins to investigate the disappearance of the former curator. The agent soon realizes that he has found something much more important and sells the information to the highest bidder.

The highest bidder being none other than Mason Verger.

Now all that Mason needs is to get Hannibal back to the states.

This task would not be so hard if one was dealing with a normal mind, however in this case we are not.

The doctor has a mind stronger than penitentiary steel, thus making things a little more complicated.

After the doctor's cover is blown he decides to head state side to visit an old friend Mason knows this and he's banking on it.

Once state side Hannibal finds a way to talk with Clarice without her finding him. This however backfires and Mason's goons capture him This has been a day in the

making for years for the disfigured Mason and he has crafted it to a "T." Through . various crossbreeds of wild boars he has developed a pig that can devour a buman being bone and all in a matter of minutes.

He has crafted demise so intense and so gruesome you almost feel sorry for the doctor.

Or at least empathize with what is about to happen.

It sort of makes you wonder who the real lunatic is.

The next scene is so intense ~ and surreal that I'm not going to begin to explain.

But I will say this: it's the reason that Jodie Foster turned down the role because she didn't feel that it was conducive to the type of actress that she has become. i read Hannibal when it came out a few years back as well as "The Silence of The Lambs," and Thomas Harris' first novel "The Red Dragon."

All of which I enjoyed very much and was anticipating the release of this film and I will say it was worth the wait.

Directed by Ridley Scott, the cinematography was nothing short of brilliant.

Anthony Hopkins once again played an unforgettable role.

And Julianna Moore did what Jodie Foster couldn't.

I thought the greatest thing about this sequel was that it wasn't a sequel at all.

If you never saw "Silence of the Lambs" it would still make perfect sense so I recommend it to all that are nofsqueamish.

Top: The insane, cannibalistic Doctor Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) glares menacingly, while Left: Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) pulls out he~ weapon and does her best to shoot up the day in the new release "Hannibal"

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Entertainment Sha Sha struts stuff at show Arianne Vaughan The Telescope

The Boehm Gallery is featuring the sculptural costumes and performance art of Sha Sha Higby January 23, through February 16, 2001.

Higby has spent many years studying dance and crafts in Asia.

Higby was influenced by both the simplicity of Japanese artwork, and the ornate details of Indonesian art.

She has designed her sculptural costumes and puppetry to reflect both of those influences.

Higby creates movement in her costumes and sculptures, wanting her work to resemble an

"The Tin Twin" by Sha Sha Higby

apparition.

Using hand dyed silks, bright colors, wood, wire, and buffalo hide, to name a few of her media, Higby creates an ephemeral experience when the costumes are used in performance.

The Tin Twin, 1989, is a costume on display in the Boehm Gallery.

The intricate costume is created out of silk, gypsum, shibori, wire, and wood.

The costume entails many different pieces, ducks sewn out of material, a small man on a bicycle, and small wooden horses all tied together with color and movement, to create one large art piece.

"Ducks embraced by a circle of wind, to the song of tiny wooden horses and stuffed bicycle men, Sha Sha transforms into a glass cloud and disappears into a rock to begin again," Sha Sha Higby says on the inscription which accompanies her costume The'Tin Twin.

"I love her art it is so creative and interesting. All tl}e different medium and texture mixed together is fascinating ... it leaves me a little speechless," said Marty Atwell an art student at UCSD. Sha Sha Higby will be appearing at the Artist's Reception, Thursday, February 15, at 1:30 pm in the Boehm Gallery, the reception will be open to the public.

February 15 and 16, at 8:00 p.m. Sha Sha Higby will be performing at Palomar College in Performance Lab (D-10.)

Mike Shelbu and Rachel Helmer admire Sha Sha Higby's "The Tea Twig'' at Higby's exhibition at the Boehm Gallery. The show runs through February 16.

General Admission for this rare event is $15, however only $10 with a valid Palomar ID card.

"I would love to see the costumes move. Higby's artwork reminds me of Julie Taymor, the costume designer for the Lion King," said Deborah Hammond.

"My costume design professor in graduate school at San Diego State spoke about Sha Sha Higby and I have wanted to see a per-

formance ever since that time," explained Hammond.

Palomar College is also offering a costume workshop being taught by Higby.

The workshops will be held February 12, 13, and 14, from l:OOp.m. to 3:20p.m..

'To register for this class call admissions at 760-744-1150 extension 2160.

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'Wireless City' gives stunning gliinpse into technological future through our interaction with them, and the plot becomes somewhat of a straightforward It would be very easy for some science fiction story - although to simply dismiss "Wireless the means of storytelling continCity" as a pretentious, nonsensi- ue to be unconventional. cal, and most of all noisy per"Wireless City" was originally formance art presentation. conceived by Palomar College Which would more or less be staff members Michael Mufson an accurate description. and Peter Gach, and was perHowever, very few noisy, pre- .formed on the college campus by tentious performances have man- members of the arts department. aged to be this entertaining, The original version was unique, and thoroughly enjoy- equally creative, but the new able.

"Version 2.001," with more Perhaps "bizarre" is the best d e t a i 1 e d word to describe the show. The scenery and CL a more setting is a strange rave-like scene, which most promi\ J J defined nently features a platinum \ (' e~ script, is \\ amazingly blond actress croci• \'/ p r o f e s fied atop a ten - f o o t \ sional. tall One mechanical w o u 1d cross, ramexpect the cast bling about "the members (mostly Palomar students) to great convergence" atop a techbe at least slightly nervno beat, while the ous with material this expericity's other denizens go about mental. their daily business (in this case, But they pull it off flawlessly.

Plus, by making the play intermaking orgasm noises.)

There is no seating, and we the active, the audience is not alienaudience are stuck in the midst of ated by the weirdness, but is these strange goings-on. instead caught up in it.

About fifteen minutes into the Audience member Rob Close performance, however, the nondescribed the play as "an experisense begins to fall together and ence that stimulates every neumake sense, and the play's dark ron"- and any play that generates storyline about a future overrun that perfect a soundbite from someone not even involved in the with technology starts to surface.

We are introduced to charac- production deserves quite a bit of ters (abstract characters, but credit. characters nonetheless), partially It's a good thing that "Wireless Ben Greenstein

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City" makes the audience feel like part of the cast, because the cast themselves obviously had a lot of fun putting their work into it. Director Mufson excitedly described his creation as having "the energy of a rock and roll concert."

Corinne Trossier, who plays the club kid Nano, called it "a great experience for the actor, and for the audience also," While dancer/choreographer Devon Brawley simply said "it's not Disneyland."

If any of these quotes sound like advertisements, then don't blame the cast - it just happens that "Wireless City" is a very hard production to accurately describe without saying "you have to see it to understand."

It might also be- difficult to enjoy for some: any expecting a traditional performance will most likely be disappointed.

Those expecting an adventure won't be let down.

Cast member Cha Cha Cholaki probably described the show best by saying "I can't guarantee that you'll like it, but it's an experience that you won't get elsewhere."

Bewildered audience member Donal Schultz simply said, "I saw the sh#$ out of it!"

"Wireless City" will is playing at the Reincarnation Project on lOth and J street in downtown San Diego.

Ticket prices are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors, except for Monday shows, which are "pay what you will."

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workshop is listed as #33851.

There will be a $15 materials fee that is payable at the workshop.

"I want to take the workshop, she's a genius and if people don't come down they will be missing out," stressed Hammond.

The Boehm Gallery is open Tuesdays 10-4p.m., Wednesdays and Thursdays 10-7p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 10-2p.m ..

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Donna Williams The Telescope

While driving down the freeway in my car I often daydream. As many others do, I get to where I'm going and wonder, :'How did I get here?" Most of the time I have no idea what I was even spacing out on.

But, from Christmastime to early January I know exactly what I was thinking about every time I began to drift away at the wheel. I was thinking about jumping 13,000 feet out of a perfectly good airplane.

Just the thought of skydiving would bring me back to the last time I rode Freefall at Magic Mountain or went cliff jumping at Lake Havasu. Or, when you notice a cop with his lights flashing, sirens blaring behind you as you speed down the freeway. All of which, by the way, pale drastically in comparison to skydiving.

It's that burning feeling in your chest and stomach that makes your hands shake and your mouth water. It's that uncontrollable tingling sensation of adrenaline pouring through every square inch of your body.

I was scared. Scared out of my mind and it was weeks until my jump date. I couldn't fathom what I was going to feel like driving to the Perris Airport on the morning of Jan. 6.

Skydiving is something that many people talk about doing. Blaise, my fiance, and I agreed that someday we would do it together. We talked about it, saying everso-bravely, ''I'll do it, no problem." But, for some strange reason we never took the initiative. That "some reason" is called scared to deaili!

Making my way through Christmas gift ideas, I had the brilliant idea of making the

move -- we were going to fly.

I used the Internet to do research and found that just inland from me was one of the best-known drop zones in the United States at the Perris Airport. A drop zone is a designated area for skydiving.

I decided to put my life in the hands of the Jim Wallace Skydiving School. I called to make a down payment to hold the date.

For your first dive you have the choice to either take the easier way out and jump tandem, or the more difficult (or stupid, however you want to look at it) and jump Accelerated Free Fall.

I chose to jump tandem. The idea of having a professional skydiver strapped to my back, in control of my fate was extremely comforting. Tandem involves about 30 minutes of instruction. In a tandem jump you are responsible for pulling your ripcord at the instructors call, but that's about it.

Blaise, on the other hand, has one small screw loose so he decided to keep his fate to himself. He chose to jump Accelerated Free Fall. AFF requires that you take a four-hour class the morning of your jump.

To jump AFF, your instructor must evaluate your ability and decide if you're ready.

When jumping AFF, two instructors jump with you, holding on to your sleeves and pant legs. They help you with body form and test you in the air on various hand signals and three practice ripcord pulls.

In other words, while I rely on my instructor during my jump, Blaise had to actually use his brain free-falling from over 10,000 feet in the air.

We both chose to have a video made as well as still photos. The cameramen are amazing. They wear helmets with a still

camera attached to the top and a video camera attached to the side.

We wanted to jump out of the same plane, so I waited all day long for Blaise to finish his class.

While I bit all of my nails off, I watched hundreds of jumpers plunge into the beautiful sky. From beginners to experts, they sailed along ever so peacefully above me.

It was nerve-racking but encouraging seeing them land so easily on their tiptoes just about every time.

By 3 p.m. we were ready to go. We put our suits on and watched the real people responsible for our lives, the people effortlessly folding our parachutes.

As I walked to the plane, my knees felt weak. It was as if I was floating towards the plane called "Shark Air." At this point you want to back out, but you know you cannot. I have never been so ready and not so ready at the very same time.

"Shark Air" is an old warplane with metal interior walls and two long steel benches. The walls were plastered with stickers like "Adrenaline Junkie."

As we took off, my heart pounded in my chest and fell down the length of my body and then exited it completely. My tandem partner, John, kept on making jokes to comfort me, and I gave him nice courtesy laughs, unable to find humor in the moment.

At about 9,000 feet, I began to sweat.

Swallowing was becoming a major task,

and breathing was even more difficult. I thought it was just me until I looked at Blaise he was having the same problem.

We both felt the need to throw UJ Then at about 12,000 feet .they opened the door. Fresh air has never been so wonderfully wrong. I mean, when was the last time you've been in a plane with the windows open?

One by one, others began to jump. couldn't even think straight. My instructor asked if was nervous, I said, "YES!" "If you aren't nervous you are abnom1al,'' he said, trying to calm me, again unsuccessfully.

Blaise jumped just before I did. I saw him disappear into thin air, then it was my tum. We were last in the plane to jump.

We slid down the cold steel bench strapped almost uncomfortably close to each other.

The closer the better, I thought, just don't come undone!

I looked out of the plane in disbelief. I was finally going to fly. I slid my toe ') the edge of the door and we tilted in, out, in then JUMPED! The immediate feeling is a heavy stomach drop, then you are floating.

I screamed the entire time, but I was no longer scared. I was having the time of my life.

At a certain point you cannot feel yourself falling and you are flying. Amazing, the cameraman would be right in my fa~.:--e as I waved while my cheeks and ears flapped wildly in the wind. Then, he

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Skydiving seems to become more and more popular every year. The extreme sport gives the participant a real rush of adrenaline, making falling through the air almost an addiction. So what important things should be known before venturing out of a plane?

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would disappear and reappear again.

We flew for about 45 seconds, and I was in la-la land like never before. I could only scream with satisfaction as the adrenaline continued to explode like fireworks in my body.

Suddenly I heard "PULL!" I could barely comprehend what to do, even though we had practiced countless times on the b)'ound. Just as John was going to pull the cord for me, I grabbed it and pulled.

STOP. That's what happened. We immediately began to sail through the amazing afternoon breeze. Surreal, it's as if you are dreaming. You just safely managed to jump out of a freaking airplane.

I got a chance to control the chute, then John took over. He maneuvered hard right and left-hand turns and we would fall fast, spiraling down closer to the earth.

Before I knew it, we were preparing for landing. Smooth as silk, we glided in with great ease. On the ground my knees were weak; my body felt like Jell-0. My cameraman was there to capture my reaction on tape. I hugged John and smiled and jumped because I flew, and I loved it.

My first thought was not that I made it safely to the ground. It was more like I can't wait to do this again.

I will never forget my cameraman saying at the end of my video, "Welcome to the sky." I will do it again. One day, I would like to be certified so I can fly on my own.

It is an experience like no other, and anybody who has even considered it ~.~auld go for it. Like John said, "It's the best experience you can have with your clothes on."

There are a few different types of jumps someone can try their first time out in the air.

• Tandem jumps are probably the easiest way to get an introduction to the sport. It requires 15 to 45 minutes of ground preparation and allows the student to ride wi.th an experienced jumper called a "tandem master." The student is attached to the tandem master and they free-fall together for approximately 30-45 seconds until the tandem master instructs the pulling of the ripcord. They then land together on the ground.

• Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) will provide a real taste of skydiving. The ground training is a little longer, four or five hours, because the student will be doing a 50 second freefall on his/her first jump. The student will exit the aircraft with two AFF · jumpmasters who will assist the student during free-fall. The jumpmasters maintain grips on the student from the moment they leave the plane until the student pulls his/her own ripcord.

• After 20 freefalls and meeting certain other basic requirements, the student receives his/her 'A' license and is cleared off student status.

*Cost Prices will vary according to different companies but they range about the same.

• A tandem will cost about $140-$200 and includes the ground school and first jump.

• An AFF will cost about $250-$300 and also includes the ground school and first jump.

• Some companies will provide a free-fall videographer to tape your skydive for an additional $50-$7 5.

• After the first jump, the cost of each successive jump decreases as less supervision is required. Once off student status and owning his/her own equipment, the jumps will costabout$15-$17.

* Requirements

• First of all, a student must be at least 18 years old.

• A student should also be in reasonably good physical shape since he/she will be required to wear around 35 pounds of equipment, endure opening shock, maneuver the canopy, and land. A student will also experience 30-degree changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure changes.

• Problems may arise if the prospective student is too heavy (over 230 pounds) or if they have a medical condition that may affect them during the jump, such as fainting spells, blackouts, or heart problems.

* Information and Contacts • SKYDIVE, Air Adventures Skydiving, Inc. 1-800-992-700 www.airadventures.com • Jim Wallace Skydiving School 1-800-795-3483 www.jimwallace-skydiving.com • Skydive Perris 1"800-SKY-DIVE 1-800-832-8818 www.skydiveperris.com • Skydive! Archive www.afn.org/skydive • United States Parachute Association www.uspa.org

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Oginion Editorial Black History reflections

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ebruary is Black History Month. It is a cause for reflection, celebration and renewed co~tm~nt. First, _reflection. Many Africans were captured m therr home villages, a few miles from the West African coast. Forced to march to the sea, they were thrown into separate dark, dank, windowless dungeons within fortresses built along the coast. There, husbands were separated from wives. Tribal members were separated from other tribal members in an effort to prevent any communication and mutiny.

Today, these castles stand as sacred shrines in mute testimony to the sufferings endured by Africans who were about to experience the horror of an ocean voyage on slave ships. Four hundred years of slavery awaited them in what to others was the land of hope and opportunity in the New World. And in the United States, we still feel the aftereffects. One way we feel it: Twenty-five percent of the world's prisoners are in our jails - not an enviable record. The overwhelming majority of these are black Americans.

Black History Month is also cause for celebration. We have come a long way in doing away with racial injustice in the United States because of the civil rights movement in the '50s, '60s and the '70s. The principle of "separate but equal" was overturned, thus throwing the Jim Crow laws onto the scrapheap of history in 1954. The Civil Rights Act followed. Then, the Johnson administration enacted Affirmative Action guidelines, putting an end to discrimination in jobs, housing and college admissions.

No matter how we look at the record, the accomplishments of the past 50 years have been spectacular.

When Carter G. Woodson, the son of former slaves and a Harvard Ph.D., established Negro History Week in 1926, he believed blacks were largely ignored in American history or depicted as social inferiors in the stereotypes of the day. Today, Black Studies are part of the curriculum. Every school, classroom, television and radio station pay homage to his work. Negro History Week became Black History Month. .

Of course, there is still plenty of work to do. A man m Texas was dragaed to his death on the back of pickup truck two years ago for n~ other reason than that he was black. And in our own backyard, a national car rental agency recently was accused of discrimination because it refused to rent its vehicles to a black man, not once but on two different occasions in two different locations.

In related causes, women and gays and other groups have also experienced the whiplash of prejudice. Matthew Shepard was murdered on a Wyoming ranch in a desolate field for no other reason than that he was gay. The laws enacted during the civil rights movement have helped everyone to assert his or her rights.

Finally, there is cause for renewed commitment to our ideals.

Woodson chose February as the month for black history because it was not only the birthday of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, but it was also the birthday of Frederick Douglass, a fugitive from a slave state before the Civil War, made his home in Massachusetts, where he became a newspaper editor and fo~­ lowed William Lloyd Garrison as an active crusader in the abolitionist movement. Later, he joined Susan B. Anthony in supporting women's rights.

There are many more: W.E.B. DuBois,. cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and first black Harvard Ph.D., Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskeegee Institute, Marcus Garvey, an early proponent of black pride, Malcom X, whose autobiography still inspires ~~y _men and women, Martin Luther King, the acknowledged ctvil nghts leader and Toni Morrison, the winner of the Nobel prize for literature, to mention a few.

It is a list of exceptional people not only for African-Americans but for all Americans. We can take pride in their accomplishments.

These and others serve as role models for the renewal of our commitment to human rights and making prejudice a thing of the past, once and for all.

Monday, February 12, 2001

'War on drugs' failed The so-called "War on Drugs" is a fluke. Ever increasing numbers of drug laws have failed miserably.

Individuals need to rethink their view on drug policy altogether and focus on new ways to deal with the drug epidemic in the United States.

Statistics undeniably show that current drug laws do not work.

Drug use has been increasing since the early 1960s, and continues today in a drastic upward trend. According to the U.S Department of Justice, four million Americans had tried an illegal drug in 1962. Their studies show that by 1999 the number increased to a staggering 87.7 million.

We should have learned long ago from alcohol prohibition. In a tireless attempt to keep people from drinking, organized crime stepped in to supply the heavy demand for alcohol. Crime rings were abundant, and the black market thrived due to massive profits.

When the American people realized that prohibition caused more problems than it solved they overwhelmingly supported its repeal.

That exact typ7 of organized crime is alive and well today.

Drug rings are simply reacting to the same supply and demand that was experienced in the 1920s.

As long as the government makes a product in demand illegal, the black market will support it. This, in turn, raises the product value to more than its worth.

That is why violence and illegal drugs are comrades. Dealers will stop at nothing to make a deal.

Hence, legalizing drugs would decrease the product value and

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lower the danger toward all parties involved in making a sale.

While it may appear that keeping drugs illegal would lower the crime rate and amount of drug use, just the opposite is true.

Countless studies involving the Netherlands prove that legalizing drugs lowers the usage rate while decreasing crime associated with drugs.

In 1998, the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that the United States' rate of heroin use was 260 percent higher than that of the Netherlands. In 1998, the FBI Uniform Crime Report, along with the Dutch Bureau of Statistics, found that the U.S. drug-related homicide rate was an amazing 440 percent higher than in the Netherlands.

So, who is doing a better job at controlling drug use? Who is doing a better job controlling crime? Those answers are clear.

Drug abuse will never go away.

Not by legalizing drugs or keeping them illegal. It is a fact of life that human beings on this planet need to accept.

There is a clear, obvious way to solve the problems that have been created by keeping drugs illegal.

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the right to put what they want into their system, because this world is by no means a perfect place.

There are solutions to this problem, obvious solutions that for some reason remain ignored by the general population. Our society has been brain-washed.

Brain-washed into believing that we cannot control ourselves.

Ironically, in defense we attempt to control others.

People need to know that personal responsibility is the best way to deal with drug abuse, not jail time. Rehabilitation, education and a chance to better oneself are the keys to winning the "War on Drugs."

All Americans want to feel safer. Many would feel safer if the entire population were clear -minded and drug-free. We base our lives on freedom, and we pay the price for freedom's imperfections. It's about time we exercise our freedoms with a little self-responsibility.

We have the freedom to put whatever drug we'd like into our own bodies.

Mark Twain nailed it when he wrote, "Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffers, not the state."

It is happening right now. Drug use rates are through the roof.

Don't fool yourself into believing that our current drug laws work.

They do not. They only create more unnecessary problems.

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Open .mind or washed brain? n this journey we call higher education, students are confronted with what education types like to call "critical thinking." Courses are required under this subhead, and many syllabi encourage and expect it.

But really, critical thinking as taught by college professors is anything but.

According to the critical thinking elite, college students are encouraged to look beyond their own world view- to be open minded and willing to learn about other opinions and cultures. We are taught to look inside ourselves and examine the biases and thoughts we've grown up with, and analyze their validity.

There should be no problem with this.

Everyone should be able to question their own and others' opinions. But that's not what's happening on college campuses quite the opposite really.

As it stands right now, critical thinking is a guise to force a certain viewpoint down our throats and discount the rest. Far too often it is used to trash the European worldview and focus on the "minority, disadvantaged" point.

Don't think so? Look at the curricula of local colleges and universities. Students studying English literature at Cal State San Marcos will find themselves locked in a series of classes on post-colonial women authors (whatever that means) and multiethnic, multi-cultural unknown writers.

They won't be reading any Dickens or Hemingway.

The brainwashing seems to have worked. Many students go to class expecting the anti-European point of view.

In my "Ideas in America" class a few students were upset that our readings' main focus is on the ideas of "white, male elitists." Others complained about the Biblical references in the writings of the Puritans.

It enraged me to hear my fellow "open minded" students complain about reading the ideas that founded our society because they were written by "white, male elitists."

I told a few of them to shut up and try using their "critical thinking" to learn what founded this country.

I, too, was expecting the so-called critical thinking demagoguery, but I wasn't looking forward to it. It was a surprise to find the writings of my white ancestors. It excited me to finally read the "white, male elitist" point of view.

Don't misunderstand me- it's wrong to exclude points of view, but that includes all points of view. In the education system's rush to include minority viewpoints and ideas, they've scrapped the European standpoint and history. So much emphasis is placed on other cultures that we aren · t learning about our own.

There's no problem with learning about other points of view: Cultures should be taught and learned. The varying cultures are what make up our great country.

However, by embracing these we shouldn't forget the "white, male elitist'' ideas that founded this country.

By studying these we will see that they are exclusionist as well, but we will also see that their ideology, although not always practiced, paved the way for the freedoms and acceptance we experience now.

It's doubtful this exclusion is a conscious effort by the entire education establishment - but it is definitely the "in" thing at colleges and universities. So much so that the curriculum repeats itself.

Many of my friends have complained that they seem to be taking the same classes every semester, just with different titles.

One of them has read 'The Color Purple" for at least three different courses - and her classes this semester are focused yet again on the disadvantaged women of the past.

If colleges and universities are going to continue the "critical thinking" push, then they should really teach us to think critically about all points of view - including the "white, male elitist" worldview. Who knows, we might actually learn something.

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Too much faith to atheism Dear Editor,

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I enjoyed reading the provocative opinion piece by Donna Williams, who proclaimed her belief in atheism (January 29). As a response, let me throw out some questions to consider.

Where did things come from? The universe had a beginning, one that was either caused or uncaused. Since all events have causes, the universe must have been caused. If so, it was caused by either personal or impersonal forces. If it was impersonal (event causation) there could be an infinite regression of such events, a logical impossibility. When event causation is an inadequate explanation, it makes sense to go to agent causation-personal will.

Where did morals come from? We all agree that torturing babies for fun is wrong. This moral rule, like thoughts, ideas, and values, is immaterial but powerful. In fact, most people would say the most important things in life (happiness, love, wisdom ... ) exist in this immaterial world. Are these moral rules an accident?

Then why should we obey them? Who cares about them if they are flukes? The

atheist can't condenm any moral choice or complain about evil if there is no absolute moral law.

Why does the universe appear designed? Recent discoveries, both on the microscopic scale as well as out in the universe, suggest that a lot of engineering took place to create DNA, the cell, the human body, the earth, and the entire universe.

How can atheists live consistent lives?

They believe life is worth ultimate meaning, death is the final state, there is no purpose to existence. But atheists, in order to live normal lives, must pretend that there is meaning, value, and purpose to all they do. This is inconsistent.

How much faith does an atheist have?

Such a person must believe all came from nothing, moral laws don't exist or they have come by accident, life came from nonlife, natural laws came from chance, order came from disorder, personal came from impersonal. I think it takes too much faith to be an atheist.

- Gary Zacharias English instructor

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Feb. 5, 2001

LEARNING 101

Brooklyn Davidoff

wha"t is learning? how .should r learn? whe~e is the library?

When people fade away

Should teachers be allowed to ·sleep with students?

This isn't covered There are ethical issues here in the book Brooklyn Davidoff

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magine you take a class and connect with your teacher, you get to know him or her and become close. As time goes by, the relationship moves forward and you discover feelings for each other.

Whether or not you want a serious relationship with this teacher or a fling, it's no one else's business.

Once you tum 18 you are legally an adult and can do whatever you want with whom ever you want, as long as you don't break any laws, or hurt anyone. Your life is yours to live. College years are a time to learn more about who you are before you become an adult and grow up.

A relationship with a teacher or administrator is no different than meeting someone in a bar and eventually hooking up with them. Some teachers are young, even younger than their students, so age should not be an issue.

Some people will say that students will do things with their teachers for better grades. First of all, that's stupid. How would a student approach their instructor on this plan? Raise their hand in class and ask about extra credit while winking at the teacher?

On the show Friends, Ross had a relationship with one of his college students. In the show Dawsons Creek, Pasey slept with his high school English teacher. In the show Boston Public, Milton is a teacher is having a sexual relationship with a high school senior, Lisa. On Beverly Hills 90210, Andria slept with one of her professors. It does happen, and not only on TV. Last year, a high school basketball coach was arrested for running away with one of his students. Yes, most of my examples are of high school students, but college kids are doing the same thing. Maybe it's not the smartest thing to do, or your teacher is not the best choice to be doing it with, but that's life.

High school kids are extremely vulnerable because they easily missplace feelings, mistake infatuation for love, and sometimes are looking for someone to take the place of a missing parent. But college-age students are old enough to be responsible for their actions.

People learn from making mistakes, from doing things wrong and learning to correct themselves. If sleeping with a teacher, co-worker, or your boss is wrong, than Bill Clinton must have missed that lecture too. · It's a fact that working with someone who you get along with sometimes leads to something more. Everyone knows that, working in the theatre on a production the crews becomes close. And things happen between people that otherwise would not have.

Even by being a writer on the newspaper you become close to people sometimes the ones who are in charge of you, and things do happen. Who is to say what is wrong and what is right in anyone else's life? esse

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et's just suppose that you want to have sex with your teacher. I don't think I'm alone when I say that teachers, in general, are a fairly seamy bunch. But suppose you go for that sort of thing. Is it right to jump into bed with your teacher? I should hope not.

The issue of sex outside of marriage can be damaging in the first place. I must fir t iterate that it is none of my, the schools', or anyone else's business whom you sleep with.

Lord knows we don't want a government telling you whom to to have sex with, but that's another issue. The issue at hand here is sleeping with an educator. Sleeping with someone whom you have elected to better your brain and understanding.

What is a teacher anyway? Technically what we are dealing with here are professors: "a college or university teacher who ranks above an associate professor," according to The American Heritage College Dictionary.

They are people with rank deserving a little respect, considering that they have possibly been in school longer than you've been chewing your own food.

All government, "Big Brother," paranoid delusions aside, it does matter whom you are sleeping with; let us glance at the consequences.

Ethically, there are several qualms. Ignoring the age issue - which is rarely an issue, especially in college - this could be looked on as a very shameful and degrading way to raise a grade, or pass a class. Especially since it might not work.

This "fling" with your teacher, if it does in fact boost your grades, would make you an easy target for sexual abuse later on. It also gives you an unfair advantage over the other students who aren't as willing to sink so low.

As for the teacher, this could only be thought of as a vile abuse of a student and a gross violation of student/teacher relationships everywhere. A student could also go public with the relationship, and then the teacher's career is ruined.

Yes, this is abuse. A teacher can refuse the advances of a student, but should a student refuse a teacher, it's open season on your GPA. Our bodies are temples, both spiritually and physically.

When you share yourself with somebody, you are blind to think that that has no meaning and doesn't effect you. Don't take sex lightly, and don't ruin your body, it is not your own.

Back to the issue at hand. Suppose you two - student and teacher- truly are "in love".

That's a whole different issue. The feelings are mutual, and no one plans on abusing the other. Have the decency to remove yourself form the class and continue your relationship outside of the classroom setting. Save your school, teacher, and peers the uncomfortable situation of your affair.

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"You broke my heart," he said looking straight into my eyes. And I wanted to cry.

He hugged me, and I heard echoes of what we used to be.

It's strange how people have so much effect on our lives.

But obviously he's stronger than I am.

Because I've still got a bunch of stuff I haven't said to him yet.

We hadn't talked in months, and then out of the blue, a few days ago, I got a phone call. I almost called him on his birthday, but mine was a week before his, and I didn't get a call so neither did he.

A few days before the phone call, I wrote a thing about how I never wanted us to become what we had. What I thought we had walked into, or more correctly walked away from.

Walking around everywhere, looking for him, and at the same time trying to avoiding him. Thinking I would go through the rest of my life with unanswered questions. Wanting to talk to him, but not having the guts to call.

Wanting to reach into our past together and change the way I had acted, some of the things I said. But most of all the way I had kept quiet and let the rest of him slip away from me.

He was one of my best friends, and he knows almost everything about me. I loved him with all my heart.

But things change, and people change.

Your dreams can die before you realize you were locked in your false reality.

And then I got to the point where I was almost afraid to call him. He taught me more about myself than anyone else in my life.

He taught me to love myself, and mostly to be who I have to be to be happy. We broke up a year ago and I still can't imagine my life without him. Without talking to him, because keeping silent doesn't make you forget. Avoiding your exes doesn't make you not care about them, or stop thinking about them.

We lived together for six months of our relationship, and I cherish that time we had together. I grew up with him, I got used to having someone make me feel good about myself.

New guys may be intimidated by my still having my favorite ex boyfriend hanging around, but that's their problem. He is one of my best friends and I trust him. I can talk to him, and I can cry on him.

Communication isn't a challenge with us anymore. I don't have to worry about how I word stuff, I just say whatever I want and he listens.

When I talk to him, I know he's interested in what I have to say, and that he does want the best for me. I will never let us go back to not talking, or being afraid to call each other.

Yeah, he can hurt me more than anyone, but our connection is far more important.

Sometimes it's hard to say I'm sorry.

Especially when you know you hurt someone really bad.

It's even harder when you care about them a lot. But I'm giad he got the guts to call me after three months, because I did miss him. His calling just made me think that there are a lot of people out there I'd like to talk to that I haven't in a long time and I wish I had the guts to call all of them.

Especially the ones I care about.

Because you never stop wondering about certain people in your life. You either get in touch with them, or you retreat not doing it.

Davidoff is the Opinion Editor and can be reached at brooklynglitter@hotmail.com

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orts Tennis match a piece of cake Women's tennis has easy win over IrvineValley Julie Devaney The Telescope

A prepared Skye Boyd awaits the arrival of a serve by Irvine Valley.

It was almost a total victory for Palomar's Womens Tennis Team as they played its secondpractice match of the season Tuesday, Feb. 6, against Irvine Valley.

The first part of the match was doubles with all three of Palomar pairs defeating Irvine Valley College.

Coach Nan Haugen said, "Its probably the strongest team we've had here in three years here at Palomar, mostly freshman, very talented. They have been working very hard at practice, and I have already seen improvement."

Just after the Comets 8-1 victory- over Irvine Valley in a doubles match, Serra Decastillo of the number one doubles team

said, "Did well today, we are not over hitting, very controlled."

Decastillo's partner Abby O'Leary said, "Its awesome to finally win one after our defeat last match."

"When a player masters what I call the CD's; Control, Direction, Depth, and Spin, they should become a decent tennis player," said assistant coach Cheryl Olivas.

The teams number one singles player Skye Boyd played a tense game, mentally and physically as she continued and continued to play against a human backboard, Kathy Chen from Irvine Valley. Chen, a very experienced player is a Pharmacist and in her mid 40's. Haugen said, "Our girl is playing a human backboard, she hits everyone back, nothing special."

"I commend her mental ability to stay with it. This is the toughest kigd of opponent to win, She hits everyone of them back, could probably go on like this for hours," said Olivas.

Boyd finally did win, 6-3,46,6-2. High fives and hugs were

the scene, and cheers from the other team members.

"It's the most frustrating match I have ever played, I couldn't find my forehand today. She was quick and would hit back, so I had to play smart," said Boyd.

Yoko Suzuki defeated Minnie Nakajima 6-7, 6-0,7-5. 20-year old Suzuki when asked what she was thinking as she was playing, she said, "I try to make me think I can do it I can do it."

It was a very tough match between the last two off the court. But Irvine Valley finally got one win over us when German born Nikola Blast from Irvine Valley defeated Palomar's Mylinh Tran 7-5,7-5.

The team is practicing hard.

Delcastillo said coach Ronnie Mancao is making them workout weekly at the Palomar fitness center, with a partner from the men's tennis team. "O'Leary and Delcastillo said, "he makes us hit with the guys."

"Its all about the team winning," said Boyd.

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Other sophomore transfers are Josh Galae I, Running Back, who will transfer to Hawaii. While Charlie Dehoney, Left Tackle, and Shaun Fletcher (brother of the San Diego Chargers running back Terrell Fletcher), Cornerback, will both transfer to San Jose St. Both Hawaii and San Jose St. are members of the Western Athletic Conference.

Other Division I sophomore transfers are Brian Marquardt, Defensive Tackle, who will transfer to Weber St. and Mark Spencer, Punter, who will transfer to Montana.

Two players will be transfering to Cal Poly SLO, David Williams, Outside Linebacker and James Woodford, Defensive Tackle.

As the semester goes on, Craft pridicts more players transferring to four-year colleges.

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Palomar Comets football program not only produces wins on a yearly basis, but talent as well.

This year will be no different as Palomar looks to put seven players in Division I football programs.

"This is our smallest starting sophomore (transfer) class," said head coach Tom Craft. "We didn't have a lot of starters who were sophomores. The rest of our (starters) were freshmen," said Craft.

Some of those transferring sophomores are Tyson Thompson, Tight End, and Tommy Kirovski, Place Kicker, who will both transfer to San Diego St. of the Mountain West Conference.

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When it comes to preferential treatment in college admissions, minorities, musicians and the children of alumni have nothing on varsity athletes.

It will surprise no one that football and basketball players are heavily recruited and coddled by colleges.

The common wisdom is that colleges covet brawny athletes because they bring in money by filling the stands.

But news that players of squash, tennis, lacrosse and every other varsity sport have an edge on admissions, and bring down the overall academic achievement levels of the student body, might raise a few eyebrows.

That's one of the findings of a new study, "The Game of Life," by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

There is a growing gap between student athletes and their classmates in aptitude, values, interests and academic achievement, according to the study, authored by James L. Shulman, a Mellon officer, and William G. Bowen, the foundation president and former president of Princeton. They find the contributions varsity athletics make to campus life have been seriously overrated.

The study evaluated the entering classes of 1951, 1976 and 1987 at 32 selective public and private colleges and universities, and found the gap in SAT scores between athletes and other students has grown considerably. In 1951, the scores of athletes and non-athletes were virtually the same.

The performance gap between athletes and their fellow students is not limited to big-time university football or basketball programs. Varsity tennis players at coed liberal arts colleges, for

example, slipped 140 points behind their classmates' SAT scores in the study's most recent year. Student athletes earned lower grades than their fellow students. Is it that athletes just don't have time to study? Well, students engaged in other timeconsuming extracurricular activities tended to produce higherthan-average grades. The study also found that big, expensive campus sports programs generate surprisingly little profit, even for the big bowl-winners. Winning seasons don't appreciably increase alumni contributions. And the alumni-athletes themselves give less than their former classmates and, when they do give, are more likely to limit their donation to the athletic program.

None of that is likely to make much of a difference in the feverish enthusiasm Americans tend to give to college sports. "Jock culture" seems to have become almost everyone's culture on campus. College administrators should take a little time out to ask themselves how much of a contribution their varsity sports programs are making to the ideals of academic excellence, not just athletic excellence.

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Comets sweep San Bernardino in a 15-3 game.

Dana Jacobs hit the winning run. Joleen Metz hit a homerun in the first inning.

Michele Leisen had six RBI's. (top) Michelle Martinez, opens up with her pitch in the first inning. Martinez is a returning ace from last seasons championship team. (right) Jolean Metz, runs around second base to help the Comets win their first game of the 2001 season.

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The Palomar College Comets took the field in the warm sun for the Palomar College Invitational last week (DATE).

They walked off with a 6-5 victory over visiting Pierce.

After the performance it seems the outlook for Palomar's baseball team is a promising one.

Sunday Feb. 4, Palomar's mostly rookie team played Pierce College swinging into victory.

They took a 2-0 lead which freshman pitcher Brian Jones (21) held in the third inning.

Steve Guthrie made a 5-4-3 double play in the second inning, and a nice diving catch for the first out in the third.

Palomar's third baseman, Gurthie will be playing for UC Irvine next season. Guthrie hit .313 with 10 home runs last season.

The Comets struggled in the ninth inning to re-gain control of the game when catcher,Keegan Moore came up to the plat(. He would give the Comets the winning run in the bottom of the ninth, 6-5.

It looked like trouble for the Comets in the top of the fifth. when Jones hit batter Luke Worgan in the top of the fifth to load the bases. Worgan almost caused a fight on the field, which ended having the umpire tell Pierce's team they were not allowed to leave the bench or the players would be thrown out of the game.

The top of the fifth Palomar was trailing by one, Pierce walked Jesse Schmidt outfielder, and Kyle Floquet outfielder with 0 outs. Ralphie Marin second baseman hit a sacrifice fly that brought Schmidt to third.

Skip Adams walked to load the bases for Jacob Guzman catcher who brought two of them home.

"We came together as a whole, everyone pitched in. It was a team effort," Paul Sweeney first baseman said.

In the bottom of the sixth Floquet was hit by a pitch, and Sweeney came up and hit a double. Later in that inning Floquet stole third.

In the bottom of the eighth, Justin Jennings, center fielder bunted safely and stole second.

Schmidt hit a ground out sending Jennings to third. The inning ended leaving Jennings on base.

"They got better each day, this team has lots of potential," Joe Dottore the infield coach said of his teams performance this weekend.

Marin got hit by a pitch in the

bottom of the ninth "He's the best hitter on your team ," one of Pierce's players fathers said when Marin came up to bat.

Adams hit a sacrifice bunt sending Marin to second. Guthire was walked intentionally, putting runners on the corners.

Moore a freshman catcher won the game with his first hit and RBI of the season.

"We have a good mix of sophomore strong leaders to help the freshmen stay focused. We will work hard to be there in the ninth," Adams said.

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When tragedy strikes University men's basketball players and eight OSU employees in a plane crash that happened on route between Boulder, Mark Colorado and Stillwater, · Oklahoma, even sports falls vicBeerman · tim to tragedy.

Whether it's a death by way of a crash or an overdose of drugs in a players house, all of the events Many people believe that become tied together. sports are a reflection of our Some athletes are taken too society. Athletes are worshipped soon in the cases of Roberto as heroes in the cities in which Clemente, Jerome Brown, and they play. The athletes lives are Payne Stewart. lived under a microscope and any Roberto Clemente was one of mistake becomes news. the drivirig forces of the But when tragedy strikes, the Pittsburgh Pirates world champigame is forgotten for a short onship teams of the 1960s and while. early 70s. He hit the 3,000 mark As witnessed 30 years ago in one of his last at-bats for the when the entire Marshall Pirates. Then after an earthquake University football team died in ravaged his homeland of a plane crash to the recent death Nicaragua, Clemente left on a of two Oklahoma · State goodwill mission to deliver relief supplies to the victims of the quake. Then without warning, his plane went down off the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico and one of baseballs greatest players was lost.

His body was never recovered, but his spirit lived on as he was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame and set an example that still lives on in some of todayfs athletes as they have become goodwill ambassadors to some of their own countries.

Jerome Brown was a defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles in the late-80s and early 90s. Brown had made himself into one of the games best defenders on one of the most Courtesy of Roberto Clemente Page dominating defenses of his era.

Roberto Clemente, 21, of the But his career, which some say Pittsburgh Pirates before his would have rivaled that of teamairplane crash that killed him.

mates Reggie White's, died in an automobile accident in his home state of Florida. The sports world was in shock that someone with that much potential was ripped away from his team and from his family at such an early age.

Payne Stewart was one of golf' s most charismatic players.

Wearing knickers and sweaters that matched the colors of NFL teams in the cities that he played, he was one of golfs best examples of how to have fun and win at the same time. He was starting to rejuvenate his career after his U.S. Open win in 1999. But little did we know that he, his agent, and some friends would die in a plane because of possible depressurization. That jet would then fly off course and eventually crash in rural South Dakota, nearly 2,000 miles away from the jets intended destination of Dallas, Texas.

Losing athlete's in such a way is heartbreaking to say the least.

It seems to happen every year.

It's just that we don't anticipate it coming and when it does happen, we think that we ve lost a member of our family.

Maybe it's because we're there for these athletes greatest accomplishments or that we become more than just their fans.

Sports is not immune to what happens everyday in society, but the level of impact will always hit a little harder because we have lost someone who s a true inspiration.

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

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