The Telescope 54.17

Monday, March 26,

2001 -Palomar College- Volume 54, Number 17

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Palomar Cheers!

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Performing Arts Department receives praise for an excellent show.

Cheerleading squad claims first place, and prepares to do it again.

Disney 's second happiest place on earth? Not even close.

Sports, page 8

Entertainment, page 7

Energy crisis strikes Palon1ar

Focus, page 6

Student Code of Conduct revised:

the final product Jo Appleton The Telescope

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Cafeteria p.m. supervisor, Kathy Stocklen (right) counts change manually, as Palomar strug· gles through its first rolling blackout experience March 19. The blackout lasted from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., closing the cafeteria completely.

Adjuncts • rece1ve office hours Sean J. O'Connor The Telescope

Many adjunct faculty or parttime faculty members have always had office hours and provided academic advisement for their students.

The difference this semester, however, is that they are getting paid for these hours. Rooms and

space are being allocated for academic advisement and counseling .

The governing board at its Feb. 13 meeting formally approved compensation for office hours for the spring semester only.

Mary Millet, the co-chair of the Palomar Faculty Federation, represents part-time faculty members at the governing board.

She said, "These paid office hours for part-time faculty members are a good first step."

She said, however, part-time faculty members have no binding

see Adjuncts, page 3

ASG seeks governing board OK for Student Activity Card Stephen Keller The Telescope

The recently proposed Student Activity Card was presented to the Governing Board at their March 13 meeting.

The card, which would provide students with various discounts both on and off campus, garnered no discussion from the Board Members.

An actual vote on the card is expected at the next meeting.

The card has already been unanimously passed by Associated Student Government, during their Feb. 14 meeting.

Rebecca Faubas, Vice President of Inter-Club Council,

said she thought the card was great.

"It's about time administration started looking out for students," Faubas said.

Sean Weimer, Vice President of State Affairs, echoed Faubas' sentiments.

They both cited such benefits as discounts on textbooks and parking, as well as access to a computer lab in the new Student Center that will open next year.

The project has been spearheaded by Bruce Bishop, director of student affairs.

"Most of the students I've talked to have been incredibly excited," he said.

see Card, page 3

Palomar's governing board passed the new student code of conduct policy at its Feb. 13 meeting. It replaces the code of conduct in place since 1982.

Bruce Bishop,Director of Student Affairs developed the code with some input from Associated Student Government.

It needed to be rewritten and updated to keep up with changes in the Education Code that have taken place over the last 18 years.

Assistant Superintendent Joseph Madrigal assigned Bishop the responsibility to rewrite the student code of conduct and the speech policy when Bishop took the position of interim student services director in 1999.

The new speech policy passed the governing board last year after being kicked back by the faculty senate and rescinded by the ASG for restricting and unclear language. The ASG, with all new members this year, endorsed the

new code of conduct first time round, said ASG President Shannon Gyde.

The speech policy addresses and regulates language and the code of conduct addresses behavior, but Bishop said where one policy ensures a student's freedom of speech rights, the other can lead the student to penalty for expressing such rights.

For example, if a student gets upset with an instructor and expresses that, his or her actions would be protected under the free speech policy, but under the Code of Conduct the student would be subject to discipline for offensive behavior, Bishop said.

The Code of Conduct regulates student behavior on campus and allows punishment for violations of the code. Parking regulations, theft or damage to school property, cheating on exams, plagiarism, the use or possession of alcohol or illegal drugs and possession of a weapon are included, Bishop said.

see Code, page 3

ASG travels to Washington seeking Pell Grant increase Stephen Keller The Telescope

Eight members of Palomar's Associated Student Government traveled to Washington, D.C. last week to lobby for the needs of students.

The trip, which lasted from March 11 through March 13, was part of an effort by the American Society of Community Colleges to lobby the federal government regarding issues related to community colleges.

ASG members met with highranking aides of several senators and representatives from California.

The main goal of the trip was to ask for an increase in Pell Grants. Specifically desired was an increase in the maximum amount of the grant, up $400 to a total of $5700 per school year.

The Pell Grant is a federal grant for students. It is currently funded through what is known as "discretionary funding," which means that money is assigned only after the rest of the federal budget is finished.

Rebecca Faubas, Vice President of Inter-Club Council, said she thinks the Pell Grant is important enough to be "directly funded," which means that it would be guaranteed a certain

amount of money per year.

Faubas said that 80% of community college students aged 20-49 are currently in the work force, and could make use of additional money from the Pell Grant. ''What it works out to is you have to get grants, get work study and also take out student loans. And who do you think gets the interest from those loans?" Faubas said.

Faubas was quite happy to see Pell Grants being discussed on the Senate Floor while watching C-SPAN on March 14.

Another major point of discussion was the federal Child Care Access Program. While it has been authorized for $45 million in funding, the program is currently receiving $5 million.

Faubas learned heavy paperwork is partially to blame for lack of funding and problems with the program. An aide in Congressman Hunter's office told Faubas that every child in the program requires 310 pieces of paperwork.

Inspired by the simple Free Application For Student Aid, Faubas suggested there might be an easier way. She said that Hunter's office seemed enthusiastic about the idea, and Faubas is sending Hunter a copy of the FAFSA for reference.

The final topic initiated by

ASACC were improvements to the Federal Work-Study program, which, according to ASACC, serves more than 700,000 students a year.

Citing the fact that most of the students served by Work-Study have annual incomes ofless than $30,000 a year, ASACC asked for an increase in the program of $77 million annually.

ASG also brought up some issues that weren't directly called for by ASACC. The biggest of these was the price of textbooks.

Textbooks for subjects such as calculus shouldn't have constant edition changes, Faubas said.

These changes often are made purely to increase profits for book publishers, and Faubas suspects they may occur through illicit business practices.· She is currently pushing for a congressional investigation into textbook prices, and said she would pursue this matter with our state government.

Marylin Lunde, attended as an advisor to ASG, said that she thought the trip went very well, even in comparison to previous years.

Lunde said that sometimes going to the source was the best way to solve problems. "I think that face to face contact means more than anything else," she said.

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Campus Beat Palomar honors Scott Joplin

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The Palomar College Artist in Residence, Peter Gach, is presenting . the "Scott Joplin Celebration" on the 95th anniversary of Joplin's death.

Joplin was a black American pianist who wrote ragtime compositions over 100 years ago.

"Joplin's rags were very popular in his time but it took nearly six decades after Joplin's death for him to receive credit for the high caliber of his composition," Gach said.

Today, Joplin is widely recognized as a musical genius.

Joplin's music received recognition in the second half of the 20th century because it was used in the soundtrack of the movie "The Sting" in 1972.

He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his musical compositions posthumously in 1976.

Gach will present a lecture and recital on Scott Joplin. He has selected excerpts from "Gladiolus Rag," "Bethena" and "Solace," which was featured on ''The Sting."

Ann Chase, a soprano who is known for her renditions of songs by American composers will sing "Pineapple Rag," "Maple Leaf Rag" and other Joplin pieces.

The "Scott Joplin Celebration" will be held in the .Howard Brubeck Theatre Sunday, April 1 at 2 p.m. For additional information, contact the Howard Brubeck Theatre at 760-744-1150 ext. 2453.

There is a program running on the Palomar Campus called cross emolment. This allows Palomar students to take a class at CSUSM, UCSD, or SDSU for $10.

This program lets students experience a real four-year university without being admitted, and it helps students complete lower division major preparation that Palomar does not offer. It will also reduce the fear that some students may have about transferring from Palomar to a bigger campus.

This has been kept quiet until recently, and because of that many students here have no idea it exists.

The deadline for the UCSD spring quarter emollment is March 30. If you are considering transferring to one of these ~ schools, or you don't know where you want to go yet this is a good opportunity to make your decision.

SDSU and CSUSM will not have sign-ups until August. For more information stop by the Palomar Transfer Center in the SU building, or call them at (7 60)7 44-1150 ext. 2684

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Student hosts T.V. show A show commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Korean War was hosted by former Marine sergeant Amy Forsythe, a full-time student at Palomar.

The ceremony aired on Oceanside's KOCT channel 18 and on Time Warner channel 22 during March.

The 30-minute program showed video clips of the ceremony from December 7, 2000 at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendelton and the assault at Red Beach by U.S. Marines and sailors of the first Marine Expeditionary Force.

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April shows at the Planetarium

Student Richard Singer relaxes with a raffle prize won in a drawing held after the artists reception of the Photography Club's student showcase, "The Way."

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Palomar students honored at annual photo exhibition Michelle Striler

Explorers of the Mauna Kea will premiere at the Planetarium, and will be open to the public.

Mauna Kea (translated as "White Mountain") is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii.

She hosts 12 large telescopes operated by astronomers from 11 different countries placed on her mountanous peak.

Mauna Kea is considered the largest international astronomical observatory on Earth.

Explorers of the Mauna Kea lead the observer into views through telescopes 15 times greater than the one on Palomar Mountain.

Dates are April 6 & April 13, May 4 & May 11. Tickets are $3 and $2 for Palomar students with a current PIC card and children 512 years old. For more information call (760) 744-1150 ext.

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An artists reception was held March 9 in the Hearth Gallery at San Marcos Community Center to cast off the annual Palomar College Student Photography Exhibition, "The Way." 'There are 101 images on display out of over 170 entries submitted in this year's exhibit," said Gwen Robinson, president of the student photo club.

"Photography is an expressive way of showing what you believe or what's important to you. The whole conceptual thing is looking at something everyone else sees and seeing it in a different way," Robinson said.

The show is like a celebration, honoring the students for doing great work, said Robert Barry, associate professor of photography and department chair for the Communications Department.

"It's like a reward, or an affirmation, so I think it's an incredibly positive experience," he said.

The images chosen to represent the students' best work were selected through a judging process done by three Palomar photography instructors.

Usually a student and a couple of faculty members judge the images, but this time there were no students judging, Barry said.

This year's celebration honored photography student Eric Evans, who was awarded the purple rib-

bon for "Chains," as the People's Choice 2001 winner. The winning photograph was selected during the artists' reception.

Honorable mention for flrst runner-up was given to Melissa Manning for her "Private Act #2" photograph.

Longtime Palomar photography instructor Donna Cosentino remembers the flrst student photography show, when she was a student at Palomar in the mid '70s.

These shows take months of planning, she said.

"I'm just very proud, the work is just wonderful."

Other artists who participated in the exhibit were Calethia DeConto, whose self-expression series captured the moment of her subjects in their lives.

Jack Iskin, a 77-year-old Palomar student has several works displayed. He helps instruct in the Polaroid manipulation and transfer courses in creative photography at Palomar.

"The Way," which continues through March 29, includes a variety of different gemes: landscape, abstract, still life, portraiture, digital photography, and Polaroid manipulation.

For more information concerning the purchase of an unframed print, call (760) 744-1150 ext.

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Speak Out! What do you think about the new Student Activity Card?

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"I think it's a good idea, as long as I get the discounts ."

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"I think it's crap. It wouldn't do anything."

Ashley Lawless Zoology

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''I'm all for the discounts."

"I think it's a good idea, but people should have the choice of buying it or not."

"If it's really gonna work, I think it's a good idea."

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is not much demand, such as the middle of a semester (most students buy their cards at the beginning of a semester).

Proceeds from the sale of the cards will be used to both build and maintain the a computer lab in the new student center.

Bishop also hopes to create new uses for the money, and is considering ideas such as sponsoring field trips or other school related activities.

He is also working on getting local merchants to offer discounts to students who have the card.

The card has already been presented to both the Faculty Senate as well as the President's Advisory Council, and is awaiting only a final vote from the Governing Board.

The governing board will vote on this issue at its March 26 meeting.

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Among issues still to be worked out include the card will be sold.

Bishop's current plan is to incorporate the current PIC center and Student ID fees into the price of the card.

Students would pay $10 during registration for ID fees. This cost would include both the activity fee and the cost of the ID card, Bishop said.

Students who wish to pay only the standard ID fees would have the choice to not pay for the additional sticker.

Bishop would also incorporate the PIC center into his office, with ASG officers or students dealing with it when there

Adjuncts continued from page 1 contract which will continue beyond the ·spring semester.

Each adjunct faculty member will be allowed 1.5 hours for academic advisement for each unit taught.

Since most classes are three credit units, that would amount to 4.5 hours devoted to academic advisement or counseling.

This means if the adjunct faculty member teaches nine units - the full load for a parttime faculty member - he or she will be allotted 13.5 hours to hold office hours per semester.

"We recognize adjunct faculty members have provided counseling and academic advisement all along. This move on the part of the governing board is beneficial to student success," said Chris Barkley, president of the Faculty Senate.

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Other times and rooms will be posted on the door of SU-30 for open classrooms where adjuncts can hold office hours.

Adjunct faculty members may also make their own arrangements with students in other rooms or in the cafeteria or offer academic counseling through e-mail.

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Punishment is left up to the discretion of Bishop, unless the student requests a trial, then the matter would go before the Student Appeals Committee that hears all sides and then determines the appropriate penalty.

Palomar student, Anastasia Benzel said she thinks the new Code of Conduct is going to be problematic. After reading the initial draft she found it to have a zero tolerance type of clause for discipline which states possession of "any type of object that can be reasonably assumed to be a weapon."

"It sounds too vague. The word reasonable is open to interpretation- and that's dangerous," she said.

It raises the question of what a weapon is, and whose responsibility it is to "reasonably assume" what a weapon is, said another student.

The old student code of conduct did not address the misuse of or damage to computer and other equipment on campus, said Bishop, this one does. Bishop now has the option to seek restitution to cover costs to Palomar College equipment that is damaged in such a case. He also has the option to order the student to community service in lieu of or in addition to other penalties.

Some students feel that this is an improvement from the last code, which required the student to be placed on probation and or suspended or even expelled from the school altogether.

Gyde agreed saying the new code is a lot looser and less strict than the previous

one. As far as the vagueness of language used with regard to weapons on campus , she said, "everyone interprets things differently."

Another addition to the old code is the right for an instructor to now remove a student from class with "good cause." This would be at the discretion of the instructor and the student would not be allowed to appeal it. The guidelines require the instructor to inform the Student Activities Office of the circumstance and can suspend the student from up to two class meetings.

Administrative Secretary of Student Affairs, Marilyn Lunde said this would be a "cooling off' period for the student, "and the instructor is supposed to tell the Student Activities Office," she said.

Palomar student Lori Wise said the changes to the code sound positive, "if you ' ve broke something you should pay for it." But added that two days is too long to be suspended from a class because students would miss lectures and fall behind.

The old policy required the instructor to give a student written notification prior to suspending him or her.

Another Palomar student Dotti Hejka said the new policy sounds better than the old one, but felt the students should have had input on the changes made since it directly affects students. "We should have at least been informed of it," she said.

"I do go over to the student activities office, but I didn't see it posted. They should have posted it outside of classrooms," Hejka said.

Several instructors said they hadn't heard of the new Code of Conduct. When asked, one sarcastically remarked, "Does that mean you all have to wear uniforms now?"

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Oginion Brooklyn Davidoff

Student card does not add up Are you looking for great benefits on campus? Like cheaper parking, discounts on our great school food? Well you won't have to wait much longer.

The Student Activity Card is corning and it will save you money on your parking at Palomar next semester. Yeah, you will save a whole $5. Did I forget to mention that the parking fee will be going up $5 next semester.

Students can also save money at the campus book store. I don't know how often most students use the campus book store. I never do.

The money students pay for their cards will go to building a new computer lab in the new Student Center. That will be open until midnight for students, however the new Student Center will not be open until 2002.

How long have we been hearing about this? Construction on the center was supposed to have started begun in January.

We all know nothing has been started yet.

Most students attending Palomar now will not be here by the time the new computer lab is built. How many computer labs do we need at Palomar? And what is wrong with the ones we already have?

Most students have computers at their homes, and this is a community college so the majority of students are from the area.

Making the demand for a computer lab that would be open late at night, not so important.

Other ideas are to spend the money on field trips. The idea of a bunch of college students getting into Palomar Unified school buses and going on a field trip is a funny thing to picture. Where would the Palomar students possibly go? And who would want to chaperone a bunch of college students anywhere? Not the teachers, they have better things to do. Not most students I know, most of them have jobs.

More money will also be wasted on school activities. Why doesn't the ASG spend some money on getting fast food places to come on campus and sell a variety of food? Or the money could go to putting a new score board on the Comet's men's baseball field.

The money could even go to the students who need it more than the campus does. If we already have computer labs on campus why do we need more?

Why not have the labs that we do have with longer hours? As for the discounts on campus, students are busy and don't spend that much time on campus to benefit from them.

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

Monday, March 26, 2001

/ Name calling doesn't solve problem nother shooting in school, and this one very close to home.

President Bush's first reaction after he heard the news ? He called Charles Williams, the suspect, a coward.

Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black.

What would Bush know about courage? It would take courage to let the Florida votes that were NEVER counted (the under-votes) to be counted. It would take courage to let every voter be heard.

Once again in Santee, the little guy was not heard. So with the help of a gun and the expense of two young lives, he was.

Some of us here at The Telescope have some insight into the mind of the young Williams. A few years ago, one of our best and brightest, Mimi Bowles, committed suicide. Bowles was ambitious and talented. But she was picked on and made fun of by fellow students in Poway High School, and then again by those same students who subsequently enrolled at Palomar College along with her. Maybe Bush would classify people who succeed at these types of suicides as heroes in the same way captured spies who kill themselves are heroes.

The fact is, young students can be cruel and being an outcast, having no friends , can take its toll. Bush wouldn ' t know about that. His daddy bought him friends, influence, a degree at an ivyleague school (at the expense of someone more deserving), and now the presidency.

Whether you commit homicide or suicide, the end result comes from a system that failed. I've watched as teachers stood by and allowed students to inflict emotional or physical harm. Teachers

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and students need to be trained and held accountable. Our current presidential administration sees this as an opportunity to put religious-based after-school programs in place. Apparently, they see the door cracked open allowing them to move religion into the schools. Talk about having an agenda. This isn't an attempt to make our society better, it's a shot at solidifying the voter base. It's an attempt at imposing the tyranny of the majority on the minority, a practice our Constitution prohibits.

It would take courage to set up and incorporate non-sectarian programs in grade school curriculum to teach team work and tolerance. Not after-school religious programs that focus on the difference between right and wrong as Education Secretary Rod Paige suggested.

Now I can hear all the hypocritical types on the right saying, "It's not the teachers place to interfere with student problems." Really? Then why do we have police on the streets and referees on the playing fields? To make sure everyone plays fair and no one commits an infraction. If someone does digress, we teach them by writing a traffic ticket or moving the ball.

We've gone so far with this concept that our government doesn't call them

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prisons anymore but "correctional facilities."

We have a war on drugs because they are so pervasive in our society. Why? How does a drug habit get started? Does a dealer come up from behind and stab you with a needle? No. It's usually invited by a youngster who is unhappy at home or in school and starts looking for an escape. The war on drugs is failing because we are trying to stop the end result, the manufacture, import and sale.

Success in the drug war comes in the form of teaching kids why drugs are a scourge, and showing them how to live happier, more productive lives. We can't seem to stop kids from bringing guns and knives to school so we have to teach them why they don ' t need to.

Homicide and suicide are both cries for help. Unfortunately, they are both irreversible. We need to have the courage to look around us, to take our nose out of our own business, and see what we can do for others. To me, it takes courage to spend your time building homes for those who need it, a la Jimmy Carter. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to go to Calcutta, possibly the poorest, most disease infested city in the world, and help the sick and poor like Mother Theresa did.

It takes courage to go to someone's parent and tell them their kids are on the wrong path, or they seem to be depressed or upset. But we don't usually show that kind of courage. We just take the cowardly way out and do nothing. And children die. Then we go to funerals and cry "Why?"

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SATs don't predict success in handling a bad hangover Matt Lynch TMSCampus

When I took the SAT, I thought it would be a preview of college. That is the way they make it sound, at least - admissions officers justify its necessity because it is "a predictor of collegiate success" or a "test of potential."

Obviously, the SAT authors are not college students.

If they were, they would not ask the definition of juxtaposition, the length of the hypotenuse or any other triviality with no real bearing on college success. This and other realizations prompted University of California System President Richard Atkinson to call last month for the removal of the SAT from college admission standards.

But the removal of SAT requirements from the admissions process removes one problem by creating another. The SAT may be frivolous and unsuccessful in its goal of showing likely collegiate success, but the goal itself is important - admissions officers need some way to judge candidates beyond non-uniform high school grades, some way to determine whether or not their applicants will succeed in a college setting.

Enter the SCTCS: Situational Combat Training for College Students.

The concept is simple: Test high school seniors' college potential by grading their performance in a series of simulated challenges faced by real college students situations that, unlike current SAT questions, really show probable academic performance.

With that in mind, here is a rough outline of the kinds of challenges a truly meaningful admissions test would include, to take place over one weekend in the fall of the high school senior year:

FRIDAY Recovery

MORNING:

Hangover

Similar to the ability of top athletes to • play through pain, this portion of the skills test determines the subject's ability to attend morning class despite waking up on the bathroom floor, painted in magic

Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, I have been reading The Telescope · lately, particularly the sports section, since I have started coaching the Boys' Frosh Volleyball team at Valley Center High School. When I heard that Palomar's Men's Volleyball team had a game last week, I was excited to bring some of my students to watch. What was supposed to be a fun evening turned out to be rather embarassing.

Three boys and I showed up at Palomar's gym on Friday night.... only to be extremely disappointed.

First of all, there was no signage indicating whether or not a parking permit was required for the evening.

Additionally, there was no security staff at the main entrance to help us out. Finally when we got to the gym, we were surprised to discover that there was an admission fee! None of us had brought any money and I didn't have my ATM card with me.

Fortunately, the boys were understanding and reassured me that it was "no big deal."

What I would like to know is this: If there is an admission charge, why isn't it advertised in their scheduel?!

This certainly could have saved me some embarrassment on my part.

Melani Barnes

marker courtesy of his or her friends, with no memory of the previous eight hours.

It is a fitting first challenge for prospective students because it is one of the most common in early collegiate life: resisting the temptation to sleep off nausea and headache, disregarding self-consciousness by going to class without showering and managing to focus in class despite daydreams about being in bed.

This is the first test for the likelihood of collegiate survival. If a student can pass the Hangover Recovery challenge proving he or she values school highly enough to study through pain - it is a solid indicator of future success.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Brutally Boring Lecture Survival This test, while applicable to potential college students, could also be used in. screening for the CIA. It is basically the ability to resist mental torture: Despite monotone, poor organization or any other painful fault of some professors, the test-takers must not only stay awake but take relatively coherent notes.

Few can avoid the lure of sleep, daydreams or a crossword puzzle when presented with such a challenge ... but those who can certainly have an increased potential for success in college.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Jackass Avoidance I Recovery The skills evaluated in this particular situation are valuable not only in a college, but throughout life. The test-taker should be placed in a high-risk setting, like a bars tool next to an unlikable (or, even more dangerous, attractive) T.A. while feeling mild intoxication, for instance - and have his or her reactions examined.

The best candidates will avoid making asses of themselves altogether, but those who do screw up ("You know, I really wasn't sick the day that paper was due ... ") and manage to recover ("Actually, I was at a rally for increased teaching assistant wages ... ") are almost as impressive.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: Stayingin-Bed-Ail-Day Resistance Due to its location in the weekly lineup,

Saturday naturally lends itself to waste.

This challenge tests the student's ability to accomplish something on a day generally spent wearing pajamas and watching college sports. Few can resist the siren song of Saturday television - particularly during a James Bond marathon on TBS but those who can are definitely solid prospects for academic success.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Monday Paper Crisis Management Every college student, regardless of major, will at some point be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice: spending a weekend in the library to write a paper for a Monday class. This is perhaps the best indicator of college success, for there are few places as lonely or depressing as the library on a Saturday night.

Those who can shed their dignity and study when absolutely necessary are good candidates. Those who cannot resist going out even in cases of academic emergency, regardless of their SAT scores, are not.

Such a test, I understand, might not be wholly realistic or completely objective.

But if standardized tests are necessary, they might as well be meaningful. The SAT measures vocabulary and basic math skills. Period.

While it might be helpful to possess this knowledge, the true predictors of college success are more practical than trivial. It is not whether students can determine the analogy between imbibing and regurgitating, but whether they can make it to lecture despite doing both the previous night.

But despite Atkinson's proposal, the SAT is in little danger. As long as admissions officers require some uniform way to compare students, standardized exams will be the norm, and the SAT - the oldest and most familiar of these tests - will survive regardless of its frivolity.

But if they truly wanted to find some way to judge students' likelihood for college success, these officers would be better off testing the way they deal with hangovers, bad professors, laziness and temptation.

At least that analogy would be accurate.

Matt Lynch is a sophomore majoring in English and political science at the University of Wisconsin.

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Sean J. O'Connor

Let's play ball! e watching an NCAA basketall game, I had a eureka moment bout the idea of play and its connection with something round which influenced my life in a big way. The symbolism of the ball intrigued me. In time, I came to see play as the way we should ideally live our lives.

As the basketball went from one pair of hands to another, the thought came that in just about every sport, there is something round: a baseball, a hockey puck, a soccer ball, a ping pong ball, football, shuffleboard, bowling - you name it.

The wheel, the symbol of speed, is round.

So is the wedding ring, a symbol of eternal love. And, even though the universe is endless, we refer to it as a cosmic bubble. King Arthur of Camelot decided on a roundtable, a symbol of justice and equality.

We refer to the strong bonds of the family circle. We have our circle of friends.

Man by himself is incomplete. So is woman. Both are semicircular. When they embrace in love, they are complete. The embrace is circular. The earth is round and orbits in a circle. And we talk about having a square meal, we prefer to have it on round plates. Roundness is everywhere.

Roundness carries with it the idea of equality, strength, eternity, infinity, love, justice, speed, completeness, perfection, and, yes, playfulness. All of these are attributes of divinity.

Can it be?

Can it be that the ball is a symbol in different ways and circumstances of divinity?

Can it be that the divine elements of the universe are joyful and wished to be vied for, handled, fondled, grabbed and possessed by men and women in the act of play?

My thesis is fairly simple: there is much more to play than meets the eye.

In playing a sport, we exert a 100 percent effort. It involves the mind. It also involves the body, the emotions, the spirit. When we put out, we are actually trying to go beyond where we are now, or to grow more. And, it seems the harder we play, the more we enjoy what we are doing.

We take our play more seriously than anything else we do in life. Perhaps, we should take it even more seriously and take a long, hard look at play to see how it applies to our existence.

Play is a symbol of how life should be lived. Life should be lived intensely and involve a full-court press. We enjoy ourselves and get satisfaction from our work, only when work becomes play. Getting on the ball is the easy part. Staying on the ball is the hard part -and a lot more fun.

In the last century, one act, which symbolized the best of our efforts, happened in the 60s, when man, in an act of transcendence, reached for a ball in the sky. Why did the astronauts risk their lives? Why did they leave the safety of this earth?

We really don't know. We are at a loss for an explanation for this act as we are for why we lunge for a basketball or why we thrust forward to catch a football.

I would suggest the question cannot be answered by responding to the question, "For what?" but "For Whom?" We are actually reaching out for God. We are trying to grasp some small measure of the divine an? ~ that playful act, we are thoroughly enJoymg ourselves.

Did not Neil Armstrong skip and dance when he landed on the moon?

Far from representing a retreat from reality, play actually provides an opening, an insight into ourselves and our world. Far from being a postscript, play is the most central act of our lives. Like the ideal of peace, however, playfulness is elusive.

Nonetheless, it is worth striving for.

It is in our nature to be playful. That was the idea in the Garden of Eden. Jefferson said the same thing when he wrote that the pursuit of happiness was an inalienable right which all have. It is an idea that just won't quit. We long for that sense of joy and happiness that comes from a playful attitude.

The ball is in your court now. Have a ball!

O'Connor is Co-Editor in Chief, and can be reached at shnlin@aol.com

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Focus

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When it first was built in the 1950s, Disneyland immediately set a new precedent for amusement parks. While earlier parks were little more than carnivals, Disneyland was an elaborate city, with rides and attractions in place of stores.

Since then, a few more stores have appeared, ticket prices have gone up, and the park has undeniably become focused on providing secondary income to Disney Films.

However, despite the overblown commercialism that repels some from the park, Disneyland is still the best theme park around, with more than enough to keep anyone entertained for days.

The question is, "Is Disneyland's new neighbor, Disney's California Adventure, a worthy successor?"

In most ways, the answer is no.

The main problem with the new park is that admission is separate from that of the original, and is of equal cost. At the same time, there are less than half as many attractions, so a $43 admission price seems a little too high.

Also, the f r o m quality of the Florida's attractions is Disney/MGM debatable. While the Studios, is a worthy three biggest rides (the experience, the similar "California Screamin'" (but messier) show, "It's Tough roller coaster, the "Grizzy River To Be A Bug," is best left ignored.

Run," water rafts, and the dynamic blockbusters such as Other shows include "Step In "Soarin' Over California" flight "The Indiana Jones Adventure" Time," which is not too bad if simulator) are all of top quality, and "Star Tours." you're really into high school the rest of the park is made up There is much more of a dance shows, and "Golden of lesser features.

Dreams," a Some of the ridiculous film smaller rides are about the hislittle more than "IS ff MEJ\N'I' '1'0 REMIND 'I'OIJRISTS OF tory of non-portable carCalifornia.

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Disneyland's exploiting rocket ride, and immigrants the "Grizzly Peak and native Recreation Area," Americans. while entertaining, is little more focus on shows than at the older While I think it's nice that than a fancy playground. park, but the shows are not nec- Disney has progressed away All of these are far less enter- essarily more interesting than from its original policies regardtaining than even the oldest and ing minorities (when the origithe rides. mellowest Disneyland rides, not While the three-dimensional nal park first opened, African to mention the more recent, "Muppets 3D" show, an import Americans were not allowed to

work there), I hardly think that making light fun of Japanese mail-brides and Chinese railroad workers is really a step in the right direction.

Of course, not everything about the park is bad.

"California Screamin "' is a truly great roller coaster.

Watching people get drenched at the end of "Grizzly River Run" is a real experience.

Urn ... the girl working at the limo ride was pretty cute ...

And that's about it. Besides a few great attractions, the new park is tacky and overpriced.

Perhaps for a lower price the park would be worth it, but as it is, your $43 would be much better spent on the original Disneyland.

Perhaps the most bewildering thing about Disney's California Adventure is what the purpose of a giant, interactive travel brochure for California is doing in the middle of the state itself.

Is it meant to remind tourists of all of the things they could have done that day if they had NOT paid the high admission, and had instead taken a trip to one of the many landmarks portrayed in the park?

Or is it just there to make Disney a few extra bucks?

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Entertainment It's not your average shave and haircut Arriane Vaughan The Telescope

Palomar College Performing Arts Department presented the twisted tale of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" at the Howard Brubeck Theatre, Friday March 2 through Sunday, March 11 .

The morbid melodrama of "Sweeney Todd" was created by George Dibdin-Pitt and performed for the first time in London in 1847 at The Britannia, a theatre known for showing macabre and dark plays.

The story has been adapted by Christopher Bond, and is what the musical thriller is based on.

The story of "Sweeney Todd" is one full of mystery, tragedy, and revenge.

The play opens as Sweeney Todd arrives in London and quickly makes his way to Fleet Street.

On Fleet Street he finds a meat pie shop owned by Mrs. Lovett.

Mrs. Lovett almost immediately recognizes Todd as Benjamin Barker, a barber who many years lived above her shop with his pretty wife and daughter Johanna.

Mrs. Lovett recounts the tale of how the influential Judge Turpin had lusted after Barker's wife and convicted Barker on fraudulent charges, sending him to Australia for life.

Judge Turpin then raped his wife, leaving her to live in the streets, and took Barker's daughter in to live with him.

Sweeney Todd has returned to set up shop and give everyone the closest shave they ever will receive.

"Sweeney Todd" is the story of the razor blade-wielding barber who has returned to seek his revenge.

The voices of the cast members were absolutely fantastic.

Sweeney Todd, played by Jason Lee, was an incredibly convincing madman, whose very stage presence seemed murderous and menacing.

Lee did not seem to miss a beat between his singing, choreography, and slaughter.

Mrs. Lovett, played by Maura C. Brigham, almost stole the show. Her voice was extraordi-

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Sweeney Todd (Jason Lee) contemplates the perplexities of his shaving instrument while Judge Turpin (Joe Stanford) prepares for his shave with death.

nary, and she kept the audience chuckling as she and Todd sang about turning his victims into her meat pies. Brigham turned the eccentric and sinister Mrs. Lovett into an endearing character.

Judge Turpin was played by Joe Stanford, a music instructor at Palomar College.

With Stanford's deep professional voice he made a very convincing and authoritative Judge Turpin.

The costumes were striking and did an excellent job of portraying the mid nineteenth century. The set design was also very realistic and it was clear that a lot of hard work went into preparing and creating the set.

The entire ensemble all had tremendous voices and did a superb job onstage.

The orchestra also did a magnificent job. The music was beautiful, and they too seemed to

be rehearsed to perfection.

Admission was between $10 and $16 and in my opinion it was worth every cent. It was overwhelming and a pleasant surprise to see that much talent onstage.

Palomar College The Performing Arts Department certainly made it a pleasure to view the musical thriller "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

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Catching a moinent of Southern California Leslie Donovan The Telescope

The Boehm Gallery is currently featuring an exhibit called "Moments Captured."

The show focuses on two artists whose paintings and drawings seize everyday moments and freeze them onto canvas.

"It never would have occurred to me to paint these things.

They're just too common. On the street, these things are ugly.

Here, they are beautiful," said Thomas Borovac, a fine arts major from San Diego State University.

Cordelia McKenna and Suong Yangchareon are the artists whose work is on display.

McKenna's art mainly features scenes from daily life in an Asian community.

Yangchareon focuses on scenes one would find while in Los Angeles or San Diego.

Both painters capture familiar scenes people often take for granted, such as the way light

from a streetlamp hits cars in a parking lot or the patterns telephone polls make on asphalt.

"The pictures are so normal, so lifelike. It's almost eerie to see paintings of everyday things mounted on a wall in a gallery," said Borovac.

Most of Yangchareon's works featured in the Boehm are of Southern California.

The pieces are of houses, old buildings, fences, telephone polls, and so forth .

They are stunningly realistic and simple.

These pieces lack the glorification many artists give to paintings dealing with California.

"It's because they are painted without airs that they have a kind of peacefulness to them most gallery pieces don't have. I can see so many neighborhoods depicted in one painting ...

"I feel like I can connect with these works, like they're on my level, not above or below me," said Palomar College student Jody Smith.

A small group of day care children were herded into the gallery.

Their presence somehow added to the normality of the paintings.

Most of Yangchareon's landscapes are void of people, while McKenna's were almost entirely about people.

Two of the children stood in front of a painting while their teacher frantically hollered "Don't touch anything! " The two boys argued over which of their friends were in McKenna's "Hilltribe Boys" and tried to figure out why one of the boys in the painting has blue feet.

The younger boy, Patrick, declared, "I can paint these.

They're just about stuff."

It was paintings of "stuff' which had the ability to arrest the attention of two young boys for a full fifteen minutes.

Their teacher, Lucy Carlile, was amazed. "I take these kids all over the place, trying to show

them some culture other than television.

"They weren't the least bit interested in the San Diego Museum of Art. But here they are, actually talking and thinking about the content of a painting."

The Boehm Gallery will be featuring "Moments Captured" until March 30.

The gallery is open Tuesday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The gallery closes Sundays and all school holidays.

Admission is free.

The Boehm Gallery is located near the visitor's parking lot, by the Howard Brubeck Theatre.

For more information, contact the gallery at (760) 744-1150, ext. 2304.

Yangchareon's work is also being shown at the Pratt Gallery in San Diego.

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A season of hope Score 5-0 March 15

Left fielder Jake Guzman went two for three at the plate while grabbing two REI's and two runs scored. Third baseman Kyle Floquet also had a good game, going three for thee with two REI's.

Pitchers Ashley Dunlap, Brian Girgenti, and Paul Sweeney combined to get the shutout with Dunlap as the winning pitcher and Sweeney recording his third save of the year.

Palomar cheerleaders show their stuff during practice at West Coast Gym in San Marcos. The cheerleaders will travel to the National Cheerleading Association Finals in Daytona, Florida, April 5 • 8.

Cheerleaders 'take it for the team' Heidi Uebelher The Telescope

Double header March 20 Score 4-3 Score 14-0 In the first game the winning pitcher was Bridgett Starry.

Key player was Brittney Yolo batted 2-3. In the second game the winning pitcher was Michelle Martinez. Martinez had her second consecutive conference perfect innings out of 10. Key player was Briggett Starry with 2-3, one double and four REI's.

Won three of four matches March 9 Mike Minnich had 12 kills, 34 attacks and eight errors.

Amanda Escobar and Jeremy Pecoraro demonstrate the chail'sit during practice at West Coast Gym

The Palomar College cheerleading squad took the first place trophy at the United Spirit Association College Championships held last February in Las Vegas.

The team's performances as a squad and as pairs helped Palomar prepare for the National Cheerleading Association Championships to be held in Daytona, Florida, April 5-8.

The squad consists of 22 members, 10 of whom are male.

"I signed up as a cheerleader as a prank in high school. My friends and I used to make fun of the guys cheering, so as a prank, I signed up and decided I really liked the sport. That was six years ago," said Ryan Hardy, Palomar cheerleader.

The squad has been practicing three times a week for two and one half hours a day. The coaches and the team works out at West Coast Gymnasium in San Marcos. Practice costs the team an average of $1,000 a month.

The team receives no financial support from the college "All costs are out of our own pockets. It is a big commitment

to be on the cheer squad," said Jessica Gremett.

"ASG does, however, provide $7,000 a year that mostly goes to our cheer camps," said Tim Passalacqua, cheerleading coach.

Recently ASG awarded $6,000 to the team to help with NCA travel costs.

"The whole team showed up at the ASG meeting and made a challenge that if we raised $6,000 in two days , they would match the dollar amount.

Everyone said we couldn't do it, but we did and now we are going to Daytona!" Gremett said.

A positive outlook for the team is expected at nationals.

"Everyone has come together in the last month and given a total team unity," said Jason Allison, Palomar cheerleader.

"We are competing as a junior college in the co-ed division, but if we win in the junior college division, we will go against Four-A schools like UCLA and others," Hardy said.

The cheer squad will be leaving for the National Cheerleading Association Championships in Daytona April4 and returning on April 9.

Coverage can be viewed on ESPN, USA and NBC networks. Look at local listings for times.

Men's tennis loses 6-3 Eric Jones The Telescope

Palomar's men's tennis players spent part of their spring break hosting conference rival Grossmont College on March 15.

The Comets played tough early in the match, but the Griffins went home with the 6-3 victory when it was all over.

"It was a very close match," said head coach Ronnie Mancao. "We played much better campared to the first match we played against them."

Palomar's number one player, Zac Markham played a long three-setter against Griffin's Brice Daniels. Markham started off quickly in the first set, winning it 6-1.

In the second set, both players exchanged games early on, but the momentum turned Daniels way and he took advantage and put the set away 6-3, tying it up with one set a piece.

Entering the third and fmal set, both players traded games back and forth. Markham took control of the set near the end and took the 7-5 final set and the 6-1, 3-6,7-5 victory.

The Griffms won the next three matches to

take the 3-1 match lead, but Palomar wasn't going to let up a bit. Number five player Danny Canning battled strongly throughout the match against Grossmont's Martyn Lower. In the opening set, Lower played strongly, but it was Carming that came out with the 7-6 tie-breaker when the first set was over.

In the second and final set, Canning played inspired tennis that allowed him to make all the shots. Canning walked away with the 6-0 set and the 7-6, 6-0 match.

Going into the doubles, Grossmont was up 4-2. The number one doubles team, Matt Copeland-Zac Markham played strong in their against Brice Daniels-Cyrille Kurz, taking the match 6-2, 6-1, cutting the Grossmont lead to 4-3. That was close as Palomar got.

"Right now we are in second place in the conference," Mancao said.

"We have a tough schedule and my main concern is to continue to improve. It's just a matter of getting everything together and hopefully by the end of the season conference tournaments, the guys will be playing well."

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Matt Copeland rushes for a pass during last week's Grossmont match

The 2000 version of the San Diego Padres turned out to be a bust.

Tony Gwynn was injured for the millionth time. Ruben Rivera missed every breaking ball in sight, and the Padres defense ranked as one of the worst in the game.

So, what is in store for the 2001 season?

The Padres will try every conceivable gimmick to get you to trek down to Qualcomm Stadium. But if you look past beach towel night, $5 dollar Mondays, and the KGB Sky Show, you might find something else. A good and young baseball team.

Ever since the dream season of 1998, the Padres have sunk to the bottom of the National League West while losing or trading some of their best player.

Padres management preached patience, but the fans went away.

Now the Padres have a group of young players mixed in with some veterans here and there.

The young players I just mentioned have had either a year or two playing with the Padres or one of their affiliates.

So what does that mean?

Well, the Padres won't be horrible for much longer.

Phil Nevin, Ryan Klesko, and Damian Jackson will spear-head a possibly potent line-up that could be one of the better ones in the NL West.

Matt Clement, Adam Eaton, and Woody Williams will form a formidable one, two, three punch in the pitching rotation.

And Trevor Hoffman will once again save over 35 games.

Mix those players in with the Bubba Trammell 's and Mike Darr's of the world and the beginnings of a dangerous team will start to take form.

I'm certainly not saying the Padres will win the NL West.

But the possibility of them winning 80 games or more suddenly enters the equation.

Let's be honest, after the San Francisco Giants, the positioning in the NL West is one of the hardest to call in the game. The Dodgers have drastically underachieved for nearly half a decade now. The Diamondbacks are an old team with not much left in the minors, and the Rockies overspent for two groundball pitchers to pitch in one of the worst infields in the game.

With the unbalanced schedule, the Padres will have to rely on their pitching and hitting to win their games this season.

By mid-July, every division game could feel like a play-off game. No one in the division can simply wait for the three-run home run anymore. Good pitching, hitting, and defense will lead the way to victory.

If the Padres can be good in two or more of these areas though, they could give some of the bigger teams in the league a reason to worry. Why not?

Simply put, the Padres could be back and dangerous. But what do I know, I'm just a Giants fan.

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