Monday, April 9, 2001- Palomar College- Volume 54, Number ·19
To the moon, mate!
Foooooooooooore!!!
Happy, happy, ... . .~r
New movie blasts off with story of lunar landing.
Palomar golf team tees off fore victory at Eagle Crest.
Animation is bigger, better and here to stay.
Entertainment, page 6
Sports, page 8
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Feature, page 5
New FW grade stirs opposing • • • op1n1ons
Who said white men can't dance?
Stephen Keller The Telescope
Students who stop attending classes late into the semester may be given an option other than receiving an F. The new grading system, which was proposed to the governing board at its March 13 meeting, will allow faculty members to
Wednesday, April4, Allen Tepper gives the students an eyeful while dancing to hiP-hoP OJ C4-Bomb (student Eric Merca,cfo). More dance and hoUse m..- will feature Wednesday, April 11th from 10:30a.m to 1:30 p.m. outside the Student Union during ASQ's ''Watma be faymouse., event.
Palomar's president search goes on Sean J O'Connor The Telescope
The presidential sea.r ch committee met at Quails Inn to interview 12 semi-finalists for the pos1t1on of superintendent/president of Palomar College, March 28-30. Barbara Baldridge, a member of the committee, said they interviewed outstanding candidates. Chris Barkley and Michael Rourke, both co-chairs of the committee, said because the
candidates were so strong, the search committee recommended six of them as finalists for the position. The next step for the governing board is to interview these candidates, April 16-20. On the last day of the interviews, the governing board will reduce the number of candidates to not more than three. The consultant from Community College Search Services, Al Fernandez, will initiate comprehensive reference reports on these candidates. This will give the governing board additional information for its deliberation. Dates set aside for the final three candidates to talk to
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employee and student groups at open college forums are April 23, 25 and 26. Each candidate will meet these groups in the morning and participate in an open college forum in . the afternoon. The college forum will take one hour. The forums are open to the public. Each candidate will make a 10 minute presentation and answer questions from the audience for the remaining 50 minutes. Jack Randall, interim superintendent/president, will moderate the forums. The governing board will choose the final candidates for the position April 27. · Two members of the governing board will then lead a team from the search committee for on-site visits to the campus of each candidate. The new superintendent/president will be introduced to the community at a future date.
April 9 - 12
-Chris Barkley Faculty Senate President
give students who stop attending classes past the drop deadline a FW grade. The FW grade, which still counts as an F as far as grade point averages are concerned, was proposed to the President's Advisory
Council and the Faculty Senate last February by Herman Lee, director of enrollment services. Palomar had a WF grade (which was identical to the FW grade) as recently as the 1980s, Lee said. However, the state abolished it. Recently, the Governing Board of California Community Colleges brought the .FW grade back as a local district option. Lee said his motivation behind introducing the FW grade to Palomar was to give faculty members more options. He said many students stop attending classes after the drop deadline for reasons beyond their control, and instructors den't always feel it's right to fail students for that. Chris Barkley, president of the faculty senate, agreed with Lee. She said that while an FW would have the same effect as an F on your GPA, it would be easier to explain it in a letter to anyone who was looking at your transcripts. "This grade is more accurate in terms of what really happened in the class," Barkley said. She said that in order to qualify for the grade, students would have to be actively participating in and passing the class prior to the point
see Grade, page 3
Student governm.ent elections are around the corner as shared governance. Essentially, Palomar is made up of numerous committees that encompass a wide array of Associated Student functions at the school. A student representative from Governrnent will hold its spring elections on April 24 and April ASG sits on almost all of these 25. All 16 positions are open for boards, and is given the chance to vote and influence what goes on. almost any Palomar student who "If you don't stand up for is interested in running. To run, students need to pick yourself, you become a drone," up an election packet from the said Sean Weimer, vice president of state affairs. He encourStudent Activities Office. aged anyone who was interested Applicants must get 50 signatures from Palomar students in having a say in what happens before they can begin cam- on campus to run. To be eligible for office, stupaigning. dents need to maintain a 2.5 There are six positions open for officers: President, GPA and enroll in a minimum of 10 units during the fall Executive Vice President, V.P. of State Affairs, V.P. of Social • semester. Three of these units will be in Events, V.P. of Inter-Club a leadership class taught by Council and Treasurer. In addition to those positions Bishop, which is currently listthere are 12 senatorial positions ed as Speech 197 A. The class i::. currently transferable as an available. ASG plays a very important elective. role at Palomar, participating in the decision making process as a whole through what is known see Election, page 3 Stephen Keller
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