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6. The 'P' Sure it's a hike, but the view is spectacular.

Hit first base at the REAL first base in Palomar's baseball diamond.

Is there a better way to "score?"

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Guitarist Keith Haman, of the band Disco Funk House, performs in front of the clocktower April 23.

Haman played as part of Palomar's annual Spring Fest, which took place last week. The festival is put on by the Associated Student Government and featured several bands and activities.

Many public, private, and home-schooled high school students are now taking classes at Palomar College in addition to their regular studies.

Of the college's 30,385 total students, 1,586 are in high school, said Herman Lee, Palomar's director of enrollment.

In fall 1993, 3.3 percent of the Palomar student body was under 18. Since then, the population of minors has remained at an average 3.8 percent.

Depending on their school board, young students can enroll to receive necessary high school credit. Many are earning college units before graduation. When they graduate, students have the option to transfer their units to a university.

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Wednesday was a busy day for the 24 students enrolled in the General 3. Parking Lot 9 Motors Marketing Walking each other Internship class as they to your cars after organized a promotional class? Hop ~· •. event, "called Quality time inand ~ enjoy the r::-. ~ is any time," for Quality ride ... just · Chevrolet at the Palomar keep an eye out for Campus Police. clocktower.

The event was a part of a 2. Under the Clocktower semester-long project that Everyone's got an the students are doing in exhibitionist side. co-operation with the local Pick a good time, say, noon' and Chevrolet dealer to prohead to the mote college students' Palomar landmark.

Sometimes it even awareness of Chevrolet. plays Sinatra, and "It's just like working for nothing spells love a company," said Bonnie like Sinatra.

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as she compared the class to a marketing and promotions agency.

She said the students formed different depart. ments, such as advertising, and public relations, administration, and did all the research and planning.

Besides competitions and live music, the event featured four cars which were all promoted within the theme.

According to Dowd, TrailBlazer was "Blazing Through Time," Cavalier "Time Well Spent," Camaro "Party Time" and S-10 "Racing Through Time."

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Two weeks ago the team of writers, musicians, political science majors and actors started its sweep in the State Championships held in Concord, Calif. They ranked sixth place and won 17 medals for various forms of speech and debate.

Joey Mavity won a gold medal for impromptu speaking; two silvers, one for both parliamentary debate and for extemporaneous speaking; and a -bronze for communication analysis.

Mavity, a second year PaJomar student who has only been on the team for one year, said he prefers impromptu and extemporaneous speech.

Both events have a brief preparation time. Impromptu provides an analysis of any given topic and extemporaneous requires the speaker to cite current events to back their arguments, which is why the extemporaneous speaker comes armed with a box full of news clippings.

"Impromptu gives you a chance to think on your feet, " Mavity said. "As you go about your daily life you don't always have time to prepare what you want to say." While impromptu and extemporaneous stress speed, other events require countless hours of practice with the coaches.

Ben Davis won a gold, two silvers and a bronze. Davis and Mavity are parliamentary debate partners.

Due to the ruJes of parliamentary debate, Davis and Mavity didn't know their topics

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Palonw's speech and debate tean plated sixth at a championship held Apri 7-13. Several members of the team won ind"IVidual awards. until t.hey began the match.

Some of the issues they debated were civil disobedience, juveniles being tried as adults and the invasion of Congo.

They won the silver for this event at the· state competition and went on to win the gold at the national competition.

Davis and Mavity won their event with a 3-0 decision.

Like Mavity, Davis has only been on the speech team for one year and he noted that the state competitions have the tendency to be more difficult than ·the national competitions.

The entire team returned from Texas ranking in lOth place for overall sweeps and 8th place for debate sweeps.

"California really mopped up.

As a state we did reaJly well at Nationals," Davis said.

PaJomar students who competed in speech to entertain

also did well at the competitions.

Crystal Lane-Swift, president of the team won a silver at the national competition and a bronze at state. She was also won a gold for prose interprefation.

Lane-Swift said she made the audiences and judges laugh with her humorous speech about the lack and need of courtship and flirting in our modern day society.

The Sylvia Mariner Award is given when a speech team accumulates a certain amount of points. A gold medal, for example, would produce more points than a bronze. Once the team wins the award, they start back at zero and have to begin building the points back up next year to win again.

Palomar has won three of these awards.

Joey Mavity: Gold in par~ liamentary debate, and impron1ptu speech; bronze in extemporaneous ~peak­ ing.

Ben Davis: Gold in parliamentary and bronze in informative speaking.

Chris Champine: Bronze in parliamentary debate and impromptu speech.

Cynthia McClure: Bronze in impromptu and oral interpretation.

Kyle Otto: Bronze in parliamentary debate.

Crystal Lane-Swift: Silver in speech to entertain.

Andrea Zakov: Bronze in· speech to entertain.

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tions co-ordinator of the project, said everyone has been putting in a lot of hours in board meetings and working with their department. "We've learned a lot about communication, organization and even procrastination," he said.

Also, the budget for the project was only $2,500, yet the value of all the prices and other props at the event was about $35,000, Melena said, and added. that they were able to get a lot of donations from corporations and local busi- · nesses. "That's tremendous," he said.

According to Melena, Dowd is "a fantastic teacher," and the class has taught a lot to everyone involved.

"I love this class. I don't think you can take it and not be changed by it," said Shelly Duncan, one of three Masters of Ceremonies.

"It's a great class, especially with Bonnie Dowd. She's an awesome teacher. She knows business like nothing," said Chris DeLaCruz, another Master of Ceremony at the event. He stayed at the clocktower overnight making sure they were prepared for anything, even the rain. And rain they got.

Despite a bit of rain the day of the event, the organizers went through with it anyway.

"Since we were prepared for it, we might as well have it," Melena said.

The students had set up waterproof tents in case of rain, and the various contests and events were still held.

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Library begins taking food in ·place of fines The Palomar college library is starting its annual food for fines program that allows students to donate food in exchange for having fines forgiven. The library is running the program now through May 24.

All students, even ones without fines, can donate a non-perishable food item at the San Marcos and Escondido campuses. Students will have all fines forgiven with a donation.

The food benefits the Extended Opportunities Programs and Services food pantry.

EOPS is asking for food items such as rice, pasta, boxed cereals, baby food, any canned foods, coffee, peanut butter, jelly and jam, toothbrushes, toothpaste, diapers and can openers.

New kitchen equipment and some non-food items are also welcomed.

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Furniture Technology program receives award Palomar College's cabinet and furniture technology program was awarded the "Outstanding Program Award" from the California Community College Association for Occupational Education.

The association recognized the Palomar program and Steve Kirby, chair of the department of trades and industry, at its 2002 spring conference March 7.

Palomar's program is also being recognized for "Outstanding Achievement."

The CCCAOE is a 300-member statewide

organization whose mission, according to its president, Bill O'Rafferty, is "to provide leadership for occupational education and economic development professionals involved in workforce development and the enhancement of California's position within a global economy."

The statewide recognition follows years of local recognition at the Del Mar Fair for the outstanding works produced by students in Palomar's cabinet and furniture technology classes.

For more information about the program, contact Steve Kirby or Chris Feddersohn at (760) 744-1150 ext. 2555 or 2556.

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Health services hosts spring blood drive Donors are needed for Palomar's spring semester blood drive at the San Marcos campus.

The drive will take place on April 30 and May 1 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The mobile unit will be located in parking lot 11, next to Health Services and the E Building.

People who wish to give blood are only eligible if it has been a minimum of 56 days since their last donation. Perspective donors are advised to eat well and drink plenty of liquids before their appointment.

Sponsored by Health Services and the Phi Theta Kappa honors society; all donors will receive a T-shirt and refreshments. Donors can sign up for appointments at Health Services or call (760) 744-1150 ext. 2380. Walk-ins arealso welcome with picture ID. . · -

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lege students have the freedom of choosing whether or not to attend. · Palomar, however, does not give its younger students easier class work. ''We offer courses at a college level, and I don't expect that to ever change," Lee said.

People of all ages can attend Palomar; it doesn't stop at high school. Students under 15 are restricted to dance, child development, youth orchestra, and other classes that are designed for children, unless they show exceptional scholastic ability.

Diane McAllister, the assessment coordinator at Palomar, works with high school students and directs the Student Testing Advising, and Registration Services program.

STARS provides information about Palomar and assessments at local high schools. ''We do 36 schools now, which is the most we have ever -done," McAllister -said.

McAllister recommends taking classes at Palomar to any high school student who can manage.

"It's very positive. It makes the later transfer from high school to a university easier. In our courses, we cover in a semester what they typically cover in a whole year," McAllister said.

David Lowenkron, a math teacher at Palomar, said the senior and junior high school students he has taught have done extremely well.

"One semester I had a 13-year-

old boy in my calculus class who scored higher than anyone else in the class," Lowenkron said.

"He later went to Cal Tech and received a graduate degree in physics."

Alisha Leone, 15, a literature major, is in her fifth semester at Palomar. Leone is graduating from high school this year. She has nearly earned her associate of arts degree.

"I wouldn't like public school," Leone said. "It's too artificial.

Here it's eclectic."

Leone also works part-time and tutors young elementary students. She is graduating from high school this year and plans on attending an Ivy League school.

Leone said she is thankful for the encouragement from her parents. ''We knew she would do well," said her father, Michael Leone. "It's been a good thing for all of us. She's gotten two years of college out of the way."

Brenda Connolly, 16, i;s in her third semester at Palomar and is also graduating from high school this year. Connolly said she has had encounters with some students, but help has never been far away. "People think I'm dumb because I'm home schooled but my teachers know I'm respectful. They stick up for me."

"If they want to learn, that's great," says David Berdan, 21, a freshman at Palomar.

"I did the same thing, and from being at that point, it's obvious that college students respect each other more than high school students do," Berdan said.

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threats and extremist propaganda.

For example, at an animal rights convention in Virginia, PeTA spokesperson Bruce Friedrich said, "It would be great if all the food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow."

When the audiences applause finally died down he added, "I think it is perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows and Halleluya to the people who are willing to do it."

Never mind if the facility is filled with employees or patrons. You know, human beings - people with families to feed and bills to pay.

PeTA founder Ingrid Newkirk expressed her opinion of Great Britain's devastating foot-and-mouth disease. She said, "If that hideousness came her, it wouldn't be any more hideous to animals, I openly hope it comes."

The messag~ rings loud and clear - clean air and animals are more important than humans. PeTA, ALF and ELF are human haters and they must be punished for the crimes they commit directly at humans physically and financially.

Many people who make donations to PeTA don't know what they're really supporting. My only hope is that they will be exposed - so society can see their true colors - because they aren't pretty.

People often run with the warm and cuddly thought of wiping out pollution and saving poor fuzzy cows without doing their homework.

Interesting how extremist groups forget the value of human life when they have a "valuable" political agenda to forward.

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Extremist groups on every front can be pretty scary. But those groups that place "animal rights" and "earth rights" above human rights are down right horrific.

The People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals and the American Liberation Front are two extremist groups directly responsible for homegrown terrorism.

PeTA, taking z ,...--------, full advantage of 0 their tax exempt status, organizes w the majority of funding and ALF i and other similar g groups like the Earth Liberation Front, take action by force. .

PeTA, ALF and ELF are all American terrorist groups willing to put humans in major physical and finartcial danger for the sake of animal and environmental welfare.

On the same day the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked ALF took credit for a firebombing of a McDonald's in Tucson, Arizona.

That very day the FBI released a statement calling ALF "a true domestic terrorism group that uses criminal activity to further their political agenda."

Although this act pales in comparison to the New York and Washington tragedies, Americans should be concerned because the violence doesn't stop there.

On New Year's Eve 1999 ELF set fire to Michigan State University's Agricultural Hall, causing over $1 million in damages.

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by Catherine Ives would "force" developing nations to use genetically engineered crops.

Ives' response to "60 Minutes:" "I lost basically my entire professional life. I was developing diseaseresistant crops to help feed starving Africans."· In 1999 British journalist, Graham Hall was kidnapped at gunpoint. The letters "ALF," four inches tall, were burned into his back with a branding iron, then he was released.

ALF's response according to

ConsumerFreedom.com: "People who make a living in this way have to expect from time to time to take the consequences of their actions."

Hall's crime: Freedom of speech he made a video documentary critical ofALF. In France, 2000, a McDonald's employee was killed in a firebombing. Again, ALF took responsibility - not quite as vocally this time because of the death - nevertheless they took responsibility.

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The hierarchy of the Catholic Church is meant to police itself. It represents the separation between · church and state.

Increasing disclosures and recent lawsuits targeting pedophile priests, 400 in New England alone, point up the grossly poor judgment exercised by church leaders.

Exhortations, suspensions and moving offenders from parish to parish, unbeknownst to police or parishioners, have spread the disease. There are 87 such cases outstanding in the Boston diocese where Cardinal Bernard Law officiates.

Law is charged with allowing serial pedophiles to continue to serve. Public sentiment calls for his resignation.

As with other child sexual molesters, pedophile priests should be tried in a court of law.

When convicted, pedophiles should be defrocked, jailed and administered

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Surgical castration involves removal of the testes only. Removal of the testes generally decreases the desire for sexual activity.

"If legislation and punishment alone cannot fully solve the problem, medicine and science need to be called into a-ction," Dr. Fred S. Berlin said.

Berlin is associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma.

Treatments of the past have failed.

Pedophiles tend to repeat their crimes irrespective of whether they receive psychological and rehabilitation treatment. Recidivism could be as high as 65 percent.

If one goes to prison because of a sexual attraction to adolescent boys, there is nothing about being in prison that will erase that attraction. And 90 percent of jailed sex offenders, sooner or later, will be free.

A proposed two strikes bill, aimed at habitual child molesters, mandates that any person convicted twice

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prison chemical treatments to dampen sexual urges. How about a first strike bill?

The only other options would be surgical castration or life imprisonment. The damage these pedophiles inflict on the psyches of the youth they prey upon is immeasurable.

Some of these pedophile priests are said to have had hundreds of victims.

The crime is especially heinous because ofthe breach of trust and the authority of the priest.

Pedophilia is close to home father, brother,. uncles.

Many molesters are· victims themselves.

One stated the only sure way to make him stop molesting children, would be to kill him.

In the Philippines, rape is punishable by death. A global issue, clergy in Poland, France, Ireland and England have resigned.

Resignation is not enough.

However, in a man's world, such as the U.S., the likelihood of adopting castration as a deterrent that befits the crime is probably slim. Maybe we should send them all to Guam.

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Ecstasy has made its way into the lives of two Palomar college students, who have spoken on condition of anonymity. They said they have felt a variety of emotions and have experienced the unthinkable due to · the little pills.

A 19-year-old Palomar college student has experienced life with this drug. On her 19th birthday, she first swallowed Ecstasy at a club in Korea Town, outside Beverly Hills, because she was curious. She took a pill her friend had gotten from a dealer in Encinitas.

"The first time I took it I almost puked," she said.

She became dehydrated and had to drink two bottles of water to quench her thirst. After about 30 minutes the feeling of nausea was so strong she almost passed out. Her friends later said her eyes were rolling toward the back of her head as she swayed on the dance floor.

After her bad experience, the 19-year-old tried Ecstasy again at a rave called Electric Daisy · at the Perris Fairgrounds by San Bernardino. She told herself that if the second time were a repeat of the first, she would never touch the drug again. But her second experience was markedly different - all she wanted to do was dance and meet new people.

At the rave, she said a teen-age boy came up to her and clasped his hand with hers. He then pulled a candy bracelet off his wrist and put it around hers. Candy bracelets are made with large beads of bright colors such as yellow, green, blue, red and orange. "[At raves] everyone loves each other - it doesn't matter. But you need to be careful because other people will try to take advantage of you," she said. She never goes to raves without her boyfriend because of stories when~ dancers were touched by strangers without their permission.

She said she has taken Ecstasy three times since September.

A 21-year-old Palomar student had a different experience the first time with the drug. He was 18 and at a friend's party when he took Ecstasy with his girlfriend

and two of her friends.

"It gave me a euphoric feeling," he said. The warm sensation started in his heart, and then slowly spread to his fingers and head. All he wanted to do was roll his eyes up and let them sink down into their sockets while he relaxed. He said he has taken Ecstasy more than 40 times.

He has been to about 10 raves in Los Angeles, but has always been sober. He said he doesn't like taking Ecstasy with other people and usually used it with his girlfriend at her apartment. He said he was lying on her couch one night when he hallucinated a bridge that extended from his eyes to a sowing machine across the room. He also hallucinated about a famous maple syrup icon.

"I swear, I looked down and when I looked up, Aunt Jamima was standing there in front of me," he said.

Both Palomar students said their parents knew about their drug use, but never did anything. They simply shared their concerns.

The Palomar students said they are now off Ecstasy and vow to never do it again. "I have no regrets in life," they both said about whether they would change the past.

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The humorous skit concerned the hockey-masked Jason .dispatching a crew of astronauts in classic "slasher" fash-

Friday the 13th (1980) - This movie is actually good, with a "Hitchcock-style" ending that elevates it above its many sequels.

Friday the 13th part II (1981) Jason returns to Camp Crystal Lake to kill more counselors.

Friday the 13th part III (1982) In 3-D when released, and the first featuring the hockey mask fetish.

Friday the 13th part IV: The Final Chapter (1984) - The series had become a joke, so make-up artist Tom Savini reportedly did this film just to kill the character.

Friday the 13th part V: The New Beginning (1985) - A turd !

Jason isn't even in it!

Friday the 13th part VI: Jason Lives (1986)- More Jason. Good!

Friday the 13th part VII: The New Blood (1988) - Telekinetic girl battles Jason. Pretty weak.

Friday the 13th part VIII: Jason takes Manhattan (1989) Awful - it's not even bloody or gory!

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) - A ripoff of Wes Craven's "Shocker."

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Now, nearly !I Jason X ten years :;: later, it seems that reality !I! (OUT OF FOUR STARS) > has mirrored O STARRING DAVID parody with CRONENBERG & JASON VOORHEES the release of RATED 'R' New Line FOR MOR£ GUCK ON Cinema's palomar.edultelescope "Jason X." This is the tenth outing in the "Friday the 13th" franchise, making it nearly 25 years since the young Jason first drowned at Camp Crystal Lake.

"Jason X" is a lot flashier than it's predecessors, but unfortunately it falls into the same predicable rut as many of the other "Jason" films.

Big Surprise, huh?

The film begins in the near future at "the Crystal Lake Facility" where Research researchers are studying America's most loveable sociopath, Jason Voorhees.

Researchers are fascinated with Jason's ability to regenerate dead tissue, and of course, the military wants to discover the secret for their own purposes. They cryogenically freeze the undead killer, transforming both Jason and his young female doctor into human popsicles.

While on a field trip to the barren planet Earth, a group of intergalactic biology students come across the research facility 455 years later.

The students find the frozen bodies inside the cryogenic lab, bringing them back to their mother ship for further analysis.

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Jason goes on yet another killing spree, this one in outer space, in the new "Jason X." they discover the truth about their passengers, but it's too late Jason has already thawed out and begun his in-flight killing spree.

At this point situations play themselves out in the predictable "Jason" fashion.

Jim Isaac makes his directorial debut with "Jason X," and in all fairness he does the best with what he has to work with. Isaac is the protege of cult horror film director David Cronenberg (who also appears in the film), and it seems he's .retained some of his master's technique.

Isaac has a sharp eye for detail, finding many imaginative ways to make this all too familiar premise interesting and fresh. Yet Isaac's

technique is unable to save the film from the cliches already established by the first nine installments. But at least he tried.

Fans of the "Jason" series should be happy that producers didn't cop out on the "splatter" like on some of the other sequels. Aware that nobody goes to these films for the inventive storylines, New Line Cinema has pandered to their audience by filling "Jason X" with inventive gore from beginning to end.

Beautiful, sexy young actors who would be more at home in an episode of "90210," are butchered, impaled, and broken into bloody crystallized chunks.

Fans will also be thrilled that the

film-makers kept with "the Friday the 13th" tradition of casual, premartial sex; the space crew in this movie has sex more than the average stoned-out camp counselor.

Overall the look of "Jason X" is very polished and slick, which is something many of the other films lacked - yet the plot line is still as simplistic as ever. "Toybox" studios beautifully crafted the futuristic technology, costumes, and space shots, but like always it seems the producers blew their budget on spe~ cial effects, forgetting once again to hire competent screenwriters. Jim Isaac has proven he can direct, so maybe he'll get a "real" project next time ... hopefully it won't be another sequel in this long dead series.

Coinic book artist gives presentation at Paloinar Comic artist Robert Crumb as well as master artists such as Local comic book artist Mary Albrecht Durer have influenced Fleener, well known among under- Fleener's work. Like Crumb she ground independent comic artists deals with personal issues and also discussed her art and life as an · takes a satirical view of the world artist in Palomar College class on around her.

Fleener did not seriously take up comic books.

Taught by Rocco Versaci, the the pen as a comic artist until class r\)adings for English 270 1984, three years after she moved include Fleener's book "Life of the to Encinitas from Los Angeles.

Party" which is a compilation of her However, "I always had a propensi"Sluttburger" series. The class also ty toward art and music," Fleener includes comic books by under- said.

Music eventually led Fleener to ground and avante garde artists such as Robert Crumb and female comic art. She drew her first comic artists Debbie Dreshler and strip in 1976 after coming home from one of the Ramones' first gigs.

Roberta Gregory.

"Her stories don't really deal Soon after, a friend sent her an with women's issues," Versaci said. article from the Los Angeles He included her in his course load Reader written by Matt Groening, because he wanted to show a spec- creator of the Simpsons. It talked trum of female voices in the comic about a new trend of underground artists that was becoming someworld.

Her work has an autobiographi- what popular. One of the artists he cal focus, Versaci explained. "Hers wrote about was Crumb.

"I realized I had to do this." Her is less introspective, but it does focus on the weirdness of life," first comic was at this point was an eight-panel strip called "Little Versaci said.

Fleener's visit to the class began MOFO.". She sent it to Crumb for with a demonstration of her style advice. In response he told her that called her "automatic drawing the comic had made him laugh out technique" in which she drew an loud.

She got many of her first jobs abstract cubist scene of faces showfrom underground women's comic ing a range of moods.

This style is often used to publications like "Real Girl."

Despite the fact that the maindescribe wild hallucinations or an stream comic industry is testosexpanse of time.

She also made a rudimentary terone driven, the underground comic strip in class about why she welcomes and sometimes favors female artists, Fleener said. had been late for her presentation.

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"My original stuff wasn't very good but it gave me confidence to have it printed in women's comic books."

Sam Bridgman, one of Versaci's students, spoke of Fleener's work.

"I like her take on subjects. Her approach is kind of innocent, and she's not apologizing for anything."

"Most of the students who take

this read mainstream and I wanted to show them something different," Versaci said of his reason for choosing Fleener.

Fleener was glad to come to the class so students would know about her art. "I love doing comics, but the sad reality is that only in a class like this will you find out about this work," Fleener said.

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Palomar's 'Bent' is just ·about flawless lh K1·islian Smock

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Palomar's Arts Department has done a beautiful job with Martin Sherman's controversial play "Bent."

"Bent" is a funny, touching, and ultimately horrific tale of the persecution of homosexuals during the holocaust of Nazi Germany.

The story is told from a gay perspec(OUT OF FOUR STARS) tive with an ~ \'/HERE HOWARD all male cast, • BRUBECK THEATl!E STARRING JOHN and while Iii Ill DECARLO, COLIN SIMON that may FOR MORE CliCK OH turn off some, """'""".eW/teles<ope it is really just a tale about love and loss that all people can identify with.

"Bent" is a play about the evils of fascism, and the disastrous effects it has on humanity. The play is raw andpotentially offensive in its choice of language and delivery, but that's what makes it so compelling.

There are many scenes in "Bent" that may be difficult to watch - at least I hope they are, because that's. the whole point.

The play is meant to make us empathize with the poor victims . of the Nazi reign, not because they were gay, but because they were human beings that were treated less than human.

"Bent" has an effective message, which forces us to confront the horrors of the past so they may never be repeated again.

Director Pat Larmer sums it up eloquently by stating, "Bent is about fear. It's about repression and cruelty. It is unfortunately about the darkest side of human nature. It is therefore, quite finally, about all of us."

The play begins in Berlin, and centers on Max and his roommate Rudy.

The two are gay college students with a fast-paced social life that's filled of sex, drugs,

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Horst (Brendon Slater) is threatened with execution by the Nazi captain (Phillipp Fischer-Gissot), while a guard (Richard Stowers) stands watch.

and booze.

Max wakes up hung over one morning unable to remember the night before.

He learns that he brought home a man named Wolf, and with his mind wiped of the previous evening, he can only imagine what's ensued between he and the other man.

Unable to pay the rent, Max and Rudy try to figure out a way to squeeze some money out of their overnight guest.

They soon learn that Wolf is wanted by the Gestapo, and during a raid on their apart-

ment, Max and Rudy slip away to freedom.

Mter a brief stint on the run, the two are picked up and shipped to Dachau where the real terror begins.

Larmer's direction is fluid and flawless with transitions between scenes and locations; everything is perfectly orchestrated.

Larmer was lucky to have such a brilliant cast to bring "Bent" to life.

John De Carlo is amazing in his portrayal of the main protagonist, Max.

De Carlo's vast range of delivery beautifully shifts from sardonic, to heart-felt, and ultimately to gut wrenching.

Colin Simon, who plays the part of Rudy, is just as equally effective in his performance of a depressed dancer turned hobo.

And Brendon Slater plays Horst, a homosexual prisoner that Max bonds with in Dachau.

Slater's performance is chillingly haunting, and dramatically sincere, often stealing the show in scenes where he's

schooling Max in the ways of the concentration camp.

"Bent" is a powerful tale of survival told from a unique perspective.

It's nice to finally see a story that deals with the homosexual's struggles during the holocaust.

Homosexuals have never had a strong voice that called direct attention to their attempted genocide at the hands of the Nazi's, and it's refreshing to see the issue handled so professionally and dramatically on the stage.

Palomar teacher gives school's computer music an upgrade

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Music made played by computers is no longer a thing of the future .

The current Palomar computer music program, directed by professor Madelin Byrne, is a unique blend of traditional and electronic music, combining musical composition and technology.

Upon her arrival two years ago, Byrne said she found the computer music program to be a little lacking and outdated.

"The program was a little limited, I was hired to beef up the computer music program.

We got some up-to-date equipment," Byrne said.

"Before then, most of the equipment available to us was 1980s type of stuff. Now we have better computers which provides a variety of options."

The computer music courses explore the science that exists behind traditional music applications.

Students enrolled in the classes can compose classical

music, soundtracks to films University guest composer.

"It went well, people seemed and video games, or produce to really enjoy the concert," music for local bands.

"I do not push students sty- said Byrne.

"I think I got mixed reaclistically, they can compose the score for a video game, or tions to the more theatrical something more classical, I stuff, but theatre is about takwant them to develop as musi- ing chances."

Byrne plans on performing cians, and diverse styles in the classroom is healthy," empha- her compositions annually for Concert Hour. sized Byrne.

The computer music proThe software used in the classroom includes Musical gram fs also beginning to team Instrument Digital Interface up with the Graphic Art partnering (MIDI), Digital Audio, and Pro Department, graphic design with electronic Tools.

Students do not have to be music.

"Working with the Graphic competent with these programs to enroll in the courses, Art Department is an excellent but a basic understanding of opportunity, because students reading music is strongly sug- can put music to video games, or make music to match gested by Byrne.

"You really should know how designs," said Byrne.

The computer music proto read music before taking Computer Music classes. I gram is currently preparing suggest taking Music 103 or for the Sonic Sampler Concert Music 150 before or concur- Series. rently," Byrne said.

The second concert of a Concert Hour on Thursday, three part series will be held April 18, featured the comput- on May 3; at 8:00pm in er music compositions of Palomar's Howard Bruebeck Byrne, a former Columbia · Theatre.

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Palomar instructor Madelyne Byrne takes questions regarding her MIOI piano, which plays pre-programmed music from a com~uter disc.

The concert will showcase student compositions and performances.

"The concert is going to be awesome, it is going to rock," Byrne said.

"We . have a concert at the

end of each semester so students can show off what they've learned."

"There will be a huge variety of music, it really is an exploration of voice for the students involved."

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The showdown April 20 featuring the top two teams in the Pacific Coast Conference proved that baseball is indeed a game of the little things.

In a hard fought pitcher's duel that allowed little room for error, the little things got the best of Palomar as first place Grossmont College cashed in on two Comet miscues and went on to win 2-1.

The loss put the Comets (21-15, 12-8) three games out of first place with five conference games left in the season.

Palomar's Kyle Thompson and Grossmont's Scott Shumaker stole the spotlight and made the game into a defensive battle as both pitchers had solid outings.

"It was a great ballgame. I thought both (pitchers) pitched extremely well," said coach Bob Vetter.

"Shumaker is always tough, and we respect that. But our kids battled and I'm very proud of them."

The Comets got to Shumaker in the first inning, scoring their only run of the game.

After a Ralphie Marin double to right center, freshman Sean Richardson grounded a single to right and brought in Marin for a 10 lead.

After giving up the ru-n in the first, Shumaker would blank the Comets the rest of the way, allowing one run off six hits and striking out seven.

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Freshman Brian Robinson is shown taking an at-bat in the Comets 2-lloss April 20. Robinson currently plays first, base for the Comets. first miscue for the Comets would lead to a Grossmont run.

With one out and a runner on third base, Palomar first baseman Brian Robinson had what looked to be a routine pop up in foul ground.

Trying to shade the sun with his glove, the ball skimmed off the end of Robinson's glove and kept the atbat going.

The potential out turned into a sacrifice fly to center field for Grossmont, bringing in the tying run from third.

The go ahead and eventual winning run for Grossmont came in the top of the seventh. After two quick

outs~ Thompson hit his second batter of the game to put a man on first. The next batter hit a slow dribbler to Kyle Floquet at shortstop and looked to be the final out of the inning.

Floquet flipped the ball to Cliff Hinkle at second for the force.

But the ball grazed off the top of Hinkle's glote and · everyone was called safe.

Grossmont capitalized on the mistake with a run scoring single to left, making the score 2-1. · Thompson left the game after the seventh, having allowed two runs on three hits while striking out

three and walking five .

The Comets couldn't get ·anything going in the last three innings of the game, dropping a chance to pull within one game of first place Grossmont.

"We still have a shot at first (place)," said Vetter.

"We never count ourselves out until the end, until we're mathematically out of it."

Marin and freshman Bryan Lee combined for five of the six Palomar hits.

Pitcher Brian Girgenti pitched two scoreless innings of relief and struck out two.

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Bridget Starry pitches against Grossmont in the Comets 9-0 win. The Comets are looking to go undefeated for the 2002 season in Pacific Coast Conference play.

With the Pacific Coast Conference title clinched, Palomar didn't have to play at its peak to beat Grossmont.

Someone didn't tell the Comets that.

With a 9-0 Comet win, April 19, Palomar laid waste to their conference rival and kept their undefeated conference record on the season intact. "(Grossmont) had a record of27-8, that's a good record ...it feels good to pin another (win) on them," said coach Mark Eldridge.

"We want to win every game we play. It would be nice to go undefeated," Eldridge said.

Comet pitcher Bridget Starry pitched a two hit shutout and ran her record to 15-2 on the season.

Starry also helped her own effort by going one-for-three at the plate with a double and two REI's.

The only scare Grossmont put on the Comets was when Palomar committed two consecutive errors and put two runners on base in the top of the third inning.

At that point, Eldridge had his team huddle around the mound.

"I think that we realized we needed to pick it up and that this was a tough team to beat," said infielder Lacey Craft on the team discussion.

At that point in the top of third

inning, Palomar only had a 1-0 lead.

Then after consecutive outs, the Grossmont threat was put to a halt.

Infielder Dara Webb led off the bottom of the third inning with a single.

Then after an error on a Grossmont infielder, both Webb and teammate Crystal Meyer were on base.

They both eventually came home on Starry's two-run double.

After . committing two outs, Bittany Yolo and Samantha Hansen both singled and drove in one run apiece.

At the end of the third inning, Palomar had a 5-0 lead and Grossmont was left in the dust.

The end for Grossmont came in th~ form of Lacey Craft.

The Palomar infielder hit a solo home run in the fifth inning, then doubled in the sixth inning driving in two REI's.

After the Craft double, the game was called since Palomar went over the eight run mercy rule the PCC enacts in conference games.

With the regular season pretty much over with, the Comets have started to turn their attention to the post-season.

"There's a ways to go, ·but I'm pretty happy with the pitching. It starts there. Both pitchers pitch well," Eldridge said on how pleased he is with the team heading into the post-season.