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stem cells, which come from partially-developed fetuses, and adult stem cells, which come from certain parts of an adult's body (such as blood and marrow). The latter, he said, tend to get the short shrift from the media. Six explained to the group that stem cells are basically "undifferentiated cells" - that is, cells that haven't developed any specific job in the body yet. Developing fetuses, obviously, contain lots of them, while they become increasingly rare with age. "But everybody has to have • SEE CELL, PAGE 2

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Among the 10 speakers were men who fought in the Pacific and the North Atlantic . theaters as well as women who served at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. Harriet Holmes enlisted in April 1941, just months before Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7 of the same year. She said she was sleeping when the attack began and initially thought her call to duty was a joke. She said as she was going to her post she saw a Japanese plane flying about level with her, with the pilot "smiling and waving." ''We waved back," Holmes said. Holmes said she wasn't able to get in touch with her family until two weeks after the attack.

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Agroup of 10 survivors of World War II share their experiences at Palomar's Brubeck Theater April29. The panel talked about several battles as well as life at home during the war.

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best classified employee of last year, said the cut has nothing to do with her performance . "It's not a personal issue, it's a funding issue," Lord said. The college, however, should try and find alternative funding to keep the services, Lord said. "We're trying to figure out why the school isn't as supportive as we think they could be," Lord said. Lord's work involves helping to connect local employers with students who need jobs, as well as critiquing resumes and doing mock interviews for students. Lord said she has talked to more than 1,500 students since July, either through the Career Center or through presentations she gives to classrooms . The district's current plan, which Madrigal said was a "worst-case scenario," calls for automating some of the tasks Lord handles. The plan includes referring students to a software program that would walk them through resume writing as well as a pre-recorded message for employers telling them how to post job listings online. Maria Miller, director of career services, said the plan was "inadequate."

Miller said she helped write the computer program. "It's a nice start," she said, but it's not as good as an actual person. Furthermore, Miller said that employers needed to have a contact on campus. "When employers call , they don't want a job-line - they want a person," Miller said. "They want to hand-pick students." Madrigal said the school used to use a recorded jobline and it worked well. At the same time, he wrote in his memo that the plan "may not replicate the present level of services for students." Madrigal said the school would like to be able to retain Lord, but just cannot pay her since Davis cut $58 million from the state's CalWorks budget, which paid Lord's salary. CalWorks is a program that helps low-income students find jobs. Madrigal said there was a chance the state legislature could restore some of the money, but that might not be finalized until September. As for Lord, she said she was considering the offer to work part-time during the summer. "I enjoy what I do here and I want to provide those service as long as possible," Lord said.

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"It's my hope that the students will get involved. It's a wonderful facility that Palomar has," Borevitz said. "They can come here and be with nature. There are trees. It's quiet and peaceful." Borevitz, who graduated from Palomar before there was an arboretum, said the student body supported it at one time. For instance, in the 1970s people were more interested in organic gardening. It was used for gatherings and theater, too. "The limitation here is people's imagination," Borevitz said. Borevitz has a background in farm supply, gourmet gardening and has an orange grove. His focus this year, aside from general tidying up, is to plant some legume trees that fix nitrogen. Another person instrumental in the Arboretum clean up was Russ Filbeck, who teaches furniture making in the cabinet and furniture making technology department. For the past five years, Filbeck has organized the event, brings all the gardening tools and then shows up with his husky dog named Raven and plenty of food for everyone. Last year Filbeck focused on pruning back a jungle of bamboo trees and clearing paths. Now, as well as beautifYing the Arboretum, he's extended the project over to the Cabinet and Furniture Making Department. This year Filbeck also brought his 6-year-old grandson Russ to help with the raking, cutting and painting. "We appreciate everyone's help," Filbeck said. "It's open to the public and it's a beautiful place. It just takes an awful lot of work to maintain it and there isn't any money budgeted to do so. So if a few people contribute a little bit we'll be able to keep it a nice place." On campus, there is another champion for the Arboretum. Rick Kratcoski has been a grounds supervisor at Palomar for 12 years and thinks that landscaping enhances the campus, which is why he comes out every year for the clean up. "I'm just here to facilitate the volunteer organization, to help Palomar maintain the Arboretum," Kratcoski said. In addition to Palomar faculty, grounds supervisors and

library people came a group of outside people to help. Larry Osen, a geography teacher from San Marcos High, brought some of his students over to lend a hand. The students that came with Osen are part of a group called Interact, which is sponsored by the San Marcos Rotary Club. The group encourages young people to contribute to their communities by volunteering. "I did community service before," said Freshman Lindsey Taveres. "And I like it." Osen said that he grew up by Cal State Fullerton and always loved its arboretum. "Palomar's Arboretum is a wonderful resource and I hope that more people ih the community will value it." Aside from being just a sanctuary for exotic and native plants, the Arboretum even has archeological finds in it. Borevitz said the Archeology Department has found metate stones in the area. That's why he prefers to call it an 'Environmental Resource Compound.' "It's such a nice resource and we can learn from it. It's here for everyone to use," said Borevitz. To help preserve, become involved or find out more about the Palomar Arboretum call 744-9233 or 744-9196 and ask for Richard Borevitz.

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Dorothy Tanner, whose husband Jack fought in the battle of Iwo Jima in the South Pacific, agreed that it was difficult to get news or information about family members abroad. ''When you couldn't get any mail, you knew they were in combat," Tanner said. She also talked about some of the hardships at home, such as rationing. Shoes, sugar, nylon and gasoline were among the items rationed during the war. Tanner said each person was only allotted one-and-a-half gallons of gasoline a week, "which doesn't get you very far." They were, however, willing to accept the sacrifice Tanner said. ''The rationing didn't bother us," she said. Will Sooter experienced hardships of a different sort. As a Marine in the Pacific, he fought in the battle for the island Tarawa in which 5,000 Japanese soldiers fought and all but 17 were killed. "The island was nothing but dirt, dust, smoke," Sooter said. Sooter also described one Marine who had a bunch of grenades strapped to him. As the man jumped down to exit a boat, one of the pins of the grenades snagged on part of the ship and pulled out, killing the man and wounding several others. "I helped clean that mess up," Sooter said. Harvey Benne was in the Navy, serving on a tugboat in the North Atlantic. The boat assist-

Th1 b111111 lor lwo li11111 The battle for the island of Iwo Jima was one ofthe bloodiestofWorld War II. Lasting over a month, the United States sent about 80,000 troops to fight some 20,000 Japanese soldiers that inhabited a complex system of tunnels inside the tiny island. Part of the "island hopping" that called for American forces to move through various islands in the Pacific eventually reaching Japan, the United States wanted the island to use as an airbase from which to bomb the Japanese mainland. Ultimately there would be mor.e than 25,000 American casualties. "It was a mighty expensive piece of real estate," said Marion Viera, a Marine who fought in the battle. Jack Tanner was also in the Marines during the battle. He said the fight was brutal on U.S. troops. "They were here today, gone this afternoon," Tanner said. The battle also gave rise to one of the most famous photographs of all time: the flag raising that was captured on film by Joe Rosenthal. . The raising took place on the fourth day of combat, but "that was just the start of it," Tanner said. Of the six flag-raisers in Rosenthal's photo, Viera said three died during the invasion. ed ships that had been attacked or run aground. "It's like a tow truck," Benne said. Benne said he watched once as a sailor drowned on a sinking ship because his leg was stuck and nobody could help the man. "Sometimes it was hell," Benne said. The panel also talked about issues like the role of women in the military and their attitudes toward the Japanese. Elva Ward worked for the Navy in the United States and said that she was treated well. "Generally we were welcomed," she said. Jack Tanner, wife of Dorothy, said that he felt no resentment

or anger toward the Japanese. Tanner said he understood that the war was about politics and resources for the Japanese, and wasn't a product of them being evil. The panel was organized by history professor Linda DudikLatulippe, who said she was particularly happy to see so many students attend. "The war has a captivating effect on many of us," DudikLatulippe said. She said more than 300 people attended. She said she is going to hold another panel Dec. 7 about Pearl Harbor. She also plans to eventually teach a class about the World War 2 generation in Spring 2004.

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them," he clarified. The reason everybody wants the valuable cells is that they may hold the key to curing many serious diseases. For example, since they can potentially create any type of cell in the body, it might be possible to use stem cells to allow diabetics to produce insulin by themselves, freeing them from the constant injections they need with current treatments. Embryonic stem cells are obtained by harvesting them from a developing fetus, destroying it in the process. Adult stem cells, however, can simply be extracted from the body without doing any major harm. Six explained that it's actually possible to aid the body's recovery from chemotherapy by taking a patient's stem cells and replacing them after the treatment. But embryonic stem cells, he said, are much more "potent," and because of their great potential for growth, their role is greatly overplayed. Most of the advances in stem cell research have come with adult stem cells, he says, and experiments with embryonic stem cells in rats often lead to deadly cancer. And worst of all, according to Six, are the deadly measures required to obtain them. Throughout the presentation, he emphasized the wide-scale slaughtering of fetuses that would be needed to develop viable cures for diseases with embryonic stem cells. This, he

said, is simply unconscionable, particularly with viable alternatives already there. Under current U.S. law, only research with already-established embryonic stem cell lines is eligible for government funding. No further harvesting is allowed. Six expressed approval of scientists doing research within these bounds. As for cloning, Six dismissed the idea of creating cloned babies as quack science. He says that doctors like Severino Antinori, the Italian who claims to have a woman already pregnant with a cloned child, are a very small, radical minority. He pointed out that over 90 percent of cloned fetuses die, and those that are born often experience what he characterized as "devastating and subtle effects." No credible scientist, he said, would attempt to create a human baby so certainly doomed to a quick death. In a question-and-answer session after· the presentation, Six was asked about what might happen if these dangers were ironed out. "The motivation for wanting a clone is suspect," he replied, arguing that adoption is a much more practical solution in today's world than wanting a clone of yourself. And organ cloning, he said, is still too impractical to discuss intelligently. The event was sponsored by the Students for Life club. Club President Natalie Barton commented that she was impressed by the turnout for the stem cell presentation. "I was surprised," she said. ''There must have been 20 students there."

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This semester, I happen to be taking a class at another school down in Oceanside. Let's call it "Fira Costa.'1 I'm only there one day a week, so I'm generally oblivious to anything that happens there short of a stampeding herd of elephants. (And just to protect myself from a libel suit, there have not been any herds of elephants, stampeding or otherwise.) But when I got there last Tuesday, there was something that really caught my eye. Something so glaringly out of my experience as a Palomar student that I couldn't help but stop and stare like Bill Gates in front of a small corporation with a good idea. I was transfixed. There were posters and fliers everywhere. And not posters and fliers for donating sperm or acting in a low-budget student pictureno, these were posters for their Student Government elections! Now, an exclamation point might seem a bit extreme when talking about a Student Government election poster. This is most likely because you're a Palomar student. But seriously, they actually seem to care about their Student Government elections. I counted four candidates for President, and three candidates (for different positions, obviously) are running in a bloc. One candidate for President has his own Web site. They even know how to have fun with their elections: One candidate lists the "National Aquatic Stamp Collectors" as a major supporter of her platform. While you might not see the actual humor of the claim (and shame on you!), the point is that they're trying. Contrast this with Palomar's alleged "election" happening right now as I write this column. I was honestly not even sure that we were having a Student Government election until just this past week. And I work for the newspaper, people. Even as the election is getting to full speed, the majority of the advertising consists of a few posters

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saying, essentially, ''Vote for me." (I seem to recall a stated goal of eliminating student apathy. Maybe this is some sort of pseudo-Christian idea of taking the apathy of the student body upon yourself?) Of course, this is most likely caused by a certain fact. Not a single position in the student government has more than one person running for it. Why are there no students running for these things? Even with a $5,000 scholarship carrot dangling in front of them, nobody wants to run. Now, you might be saying, "But the administration has been known to disqualify a candidate it doesn't like even when she's already been elected. Maybe nobody wants to run in those conditions?" Well, I'm going to ignore that. That's no fun. It has nothing to do with that. I think it's because people don't know what a student government can do. They think of it as some sort of high school class president with a longer title. This isn't an entirely baseless assumption- many people here are only vaguely aware they're not in high school anymore. But an equally important fact is that nobody's really seen what the Student Government can do. Because they don't see any obvious examples of what good people can do as members of the Student Government, they assume that there isn't any good people can do as members of the Student Government. In this respect, it's actually good for the ASG that they haven't done so well. Imagine the competition if people thought they might ha~e some power. They might actually fill all the positions! In actuality, I would have to say that the problem is neither just the damned lazy students, as the ASG would like to think, nor just the damned lazy government, as everybody assumes. While it is undeniable that they are both damned lazy, I would have to say the problem is that nobody has any reason to care. I think we need to take the advice of the girl who's being backed by the fictional stamp collectors-have some fun with it. The problem goes right to the heart of what Palomar is these days. Nobody cares. Maybe nobody will care anytime soon, but at least we can get some people to notice.

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As a Fulbright scholar during the 2001-02 school year, I lived in Erfurt, the eastern German city where 16 people were slain inside Gutenberg school. When I heard the news, one of my first thoughts was that it is now clear how much America's influence has pervaded the oncecommunist former German Democratic Republic. Erfurt is a beautiful medieval town of 200,000 that was spared almost completely from World War II bombing. Resplendent with small community gardens and home to an international gardening center, Erfurt is known as the "garden city." But the town, like all of the former East Germany, is in transition from a communist to a free-market society. This is represented by stark contrasts. In the middle of our neighborhood of Soviet-designed, concrete apartment buildings, a mini-city of 40,000, squatted a recently built mall that looked for all the world like any mall found in the United States. You still can find Trabants on the road - small, Soviet-era fiberglass cars powered by little more than a lawnmower engine - but they have to share it with the big cars of the wealthy and successful. And though only a handful of Americans live in the town, America's influence is undeniable. Erfurt is home to McDonald's and Burger King, Pizza Hut, Woolworths and Ford dealerships. American logos are popular in German stores. American music fills the airwaves. A similar contrast - or gap exists between those old enough to recall what eastern Germans refer to as "former times" and those too young to remember life under communism. My university students, ranging from 20 to 23, are the last who have any memory of living in the GDR. Their younger siblings can't recall the fall of the Berlin wall. Robert Steinhaeuser, the 19year-old gunman in Friday's shootings, reportedly told a classmate, "One day, I want everyone to know my name, and I want to be famous.' He got his wish. He now becomes the poster child for the new eastern German, one whose memory does not include a time when the "e in "East" was capitalized, who has grown up with the conflicting tenets of western values. Steinhaeuser's legacy is now the methods he chose to cope with the system's new pressures. We in the West are far too familiar with those pressures - and, alas, those methods.

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Burning CDs is like stealing music of a CD as opposed to buying it causes the album's composers and performers to lose money. There are many justifications for CD copying, one of which is that burning takes more money from the gluttonous music industry than it does from the actual creative By Ben Greenstein TlfE TELESCOPE forces behind an album. There is some truth to this "Ooh! 'Violator' by Depeche many record contracts allow Mode! I've been wanting this bands to only a very small peralbum forever!" centage of an album's profits, "Nah, don't buy that. I have and the primary losers of money would be the record that CD, I'll burn you a copy." I've been hearing this con- company bigwigs who are versation and others like it loaded anyway. However, this is still a bullshit more and more often, and it's sparked a bit of a moral dille- justification. People don't make copies of CDs to "teach a lesson" rna within me. You see, I was a Napster to the music corportations, they junkie myself before the popu- do it so they can get something without paying lar music download for it. program was shut DIL•-•u•• The real way down about a year DIIWII1•n ago, and had no probto fight corpora... tions is to shop lems with stockpiling 1011110111 exclusively at hundreds of songs in independently electronic form. owned record Yet conversations stores and about the copying of labels - those CDs, which is actualare the only peoly illegal despite the ple who stand a fact that CDR technology is widely chance at putavailable, make me ting corporate feel like I'm listening America to an end, and buying to people discussing kidnapping. your albums from them is a Is burning CDs surefire way to right or wrong? Is it help. really stealing, or is it more akin to let• People who know my ting a friend borrow employment an album, as most writeable CDs only last two history may accuse me of having this opinion just because I years at most? Well, perhaps it's not "steal- work in one such store. ing," as no tangible object is They've got it backwards, being taken away from any- though -1 work in an indeone. But it is dishonest, at pendant record store because least the way people are cur- of these beliefs. How, then, do I justify my rently doing it. To make a copy

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own large stash of MP3s? Isn't downloading music as much of a crime as copying it? Well, it can be. Whenever someone downloads an album as an alternative to buying it, then they are basically stealing music. But I defend my downloading of music with this logic - I use music downloads as a way of sampling music that I wouldn't be able to hear otherwise. I'm not going to be able to turn on the radio and hear Klaatu, but I also think it's foolish for me to pay 13 dollars to buy a CD that I'm not sure is my type of music.

In my opinion, downloadable music should be viewed by people as an alternative to the radio, with the main difference being that you can listen to whatever you want. Writable CDs can be used in a similar, equally positive way. Several times, I have burned "mix CDs" for my friends, which they use to sample music that I know and they don't. If they like the music, they end up buying the CD. However, people seem reluctant to use MP3 and CDR technology in this manner. They'd much rather get one CD for the price of none, and

build up an album collection without giving one penny to the people who actually wrote the songs. Metallica lost a lot of fans when they spoke out against Napster, but they had a valid point. Burning or downloading music instead of paying for it does cause people to lose moneyand however dishonest the corporation owning the rights to the songs may be, the artist is still entitled to his share. At the very least, when you burn a CD, send 6 or so dollars to the performer or band. That way, they get their well-earned cash, and you get a discount everyone is happy.

Video games don,t need federal ratings By l\1ark Beerman

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Hi. My name is Mark and I'm addicted to video games. I was raised with a video game system since elementary school. From the original Nintendo Entertainment System to PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube, I find a great escape in gaming. Something that irks me though are parent groups hellbent on trying to get a federal ratings system established in the video game industry. The Canadian Pediatrics Society, the American Surgeon General, and the American Psychological Association have all done studies on video gaming and their impact on younger audiences. All of these studies have emphasized that video games are violent and they attribute to violence in adolescence. I have a problem with parents not investing any time in researching the types of games their children want. It's the lack of common sense on the parents part to buy a video game that they know could be violent, then give it to their child under the assumption that the game is going to be more Teletubbies than Resident Evil.

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Azombie attacks in Capcom's "Resident Evil'' video gcvne. Controversy has arisen over alowing chidren to play these kinds of gcvnes.

The Project Peacemakers, in partnership with the Mennonite Church in Canada, and Christian Peacemaker Teams, want to see that video games ratings in Canada are federally mandated and retailers are responsible for selling games to people of improper age.

That's going way too far. People in the United States should care about this, because these groups are looking to have this sort of system implemented here. I can see their point when making sure 11-year-olds don't get their hands on Grand Theft

Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2, or Resident Evil. All those games carry the MA (Mature Audience) rating and all it takes is common sense for a retailer and even a parent, to make · sure this type of game doesn't get into the hands of a 10- year-old.

If a game says it has blood, gore, and animated violence, any parent should question whether this game is meant for their child. A federally mandated ratings system isn't needed though. A game that carries a level of T (Teen) is nowhere near as bad as a game with an MArating. It's just that the Teen rated games have some questionable material. At the same tiille they should be available if a younger gamer wants it. The point I'm trying to make is that parents need to have control over what their kids watch or play. Parents can't stand around watching their kids 2417. The government shouldn't be involved in regulating what legitimate companies and retailers intend to sell. Video games allow people like myself to escape from an everyday world filled with stress and tension. And whether that's being on the gridiron of NFL 2K2 or saving a kingdom like in Zelda or Maximo, anyone should be able to experience this. But in the end, it's a judgment call on a parent's part. It's the parent that should make sure their child's well being is saved in the longrun.

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The warfare in Bosnia and Palestine has been extensively reported by American journalists. However, according to Joe Sacco they rarely delve into the lives of the people affected by politics. Sacco, a comic book journalist and visiting lecturer at Palomar College, takes on a more humane angle of these conflicts in his books "Palestine" and "Safe Area Gorazde." Through these books he depicts the experiences of the residents of war-torn countries as well as his own life among them. While his artistic style tends to be realistic, his depiction of himself is cartoony, as if he is making light of his own presence. Sacco began a career in journalism after graduating from the University of Oregon. He began an unsatisfactory reporting career writing for a paper in Portland.

In search of something more meaningful, Sacco funded his own trip to the Middle Eastern territory of Palestine in the early nineties. He chose to represent Palestinians to counteract the prevalence of Israeli-biased journalism that is dominant in the United States. English Professor Rocco Versaci, who invited Sacco to Palomar, said news media rarely shows how individuals that are affected by war, whereas comics put a face on these events and educates outsiders about strife existing beyond their v1ew. Sacco regarded his personal combination of comics and news writing as an accidental thing that he fell into. "In retrospect, I make it sound like I knew what I was doing, even though I didn't," Sacco said. Sacco is part of a tradition of journalists such as Truman

Capote, who embrace more than just facts in a marriage of art and journalism. His preference for comics as a medium is based on its accesability as well as its ability to draw a reader into a time and place in a way that printed journalism cannot. For instance, when a writer constructs a story, he might mention an area was covered in mud to set the scene. With comics, the image of mud is reiterated again and again, creating an indelible image in the mind of the readers. Sacco showed slides of his work as he spoke about his life in these areas. He told of how crucial it was to endear himself to the people whom he lived with to get his stones. As a cartoonist, Sacco was able to further separate himself from these journalists because he had not been regulated by a publication

the way these reporters were since he was freelancing his work. Palomar College President Sherrill Amador who had read Sacco's books for the lecture said Sacco's drawings "really brought home that all of us are in the world together. and when people suffer, we all feel it." His visit was especially significant because comics are not highly respected in the United States and the event "brings awareness of him as well as the medium itself," Versaci said. Versaci, who teaches English 270, a class which examines comic books as literature, proposed the visit last semester to initiate an annual event that brings artists to the college. Versaci's class studies the works of many important comic artists, including Sacco. Many of Versaci's students who had spent time studying "Palestine" were given a chance to meet the author.

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PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT • "Supercalafragilistic Expactations" - The Palomar Youth Chorale present renditions of classical, folk, and contemporary music, including tunes from "Mary Poppins.". Friday, May lOth at 8 pm in the Howard Brubeck Theatre. • "Performing Arts On The Edge" - Peter Gach and Michael Mufson follow up last year's successful "Wireless City" project, with a similar avant-garde combination of theatre and music. Saturday, May 11 at 8 pm and Sunday, May 12 at 2 pm, in room D-10. • "Objective: Dance" - The dance department presents a combination of ballet, tap, jazz, modern, and ethnic dances in their seasonal ·d ance show. Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18 at 8 pm, and Sunday, May 19 at 2 pm in the Howard Brubeck Theare.

• "Stolen Moments" Memorable compositions of modern jazz artists, performed by the Palomar Jazz Ensemble and Repertory jazz ensemble. Wednesday, May 22 at 8 pm in the Howard Brubeck Theatre. • "Spring Music Social" A presentation of memorable concert band music, including stage tunes and classical pieces, performed by the Palomar College Concert Band. Thursday, May 22 at 8 pm in the Howard Brubeck Theatre. Tickets are $10 for general audience, $8 for seniors/staff, and $6 for students with ID.

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Twelve essential facts about 'Spider111an' By Mike Szymanski

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Don't want to be left out of the "Spider-Man" craze? Want your kids to think you're hip and in-the-know about the super hero with spider-like tendencies? The "Star Wars" sequel may be simple by comparison. We've compiled a list of things that you should know even if you've never picked up a comic book with the redmasked guy on the cover. You don't need to know this stuff to enjoy the movie, but some of these fun facts will certainly impress your friends. 1. Peter Parker is the real identity of Spider-Man. He gets his power after being during a high school field trip by a spider. genetically-a! tered Parker suddenly realizes he's developed arachnid-like powers. 2. Parker is a free-lance photographer who lives in New York City. He was orphaned when his parents were killed in a plane crash, and he was raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. In school he was a studious geek, shy but extremely bright. 3. It was rumored that Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage was wanted for the lead, but the director actually wanted Cage to play the bad guy, the Green Goblin, not tP.e lead. Scheduling problems prevent-

ed that, and the bad guy role went to "Shadow of the Vampire" star Willem Dafoe. 4. Tobey Maguire, who plays the title character, starred in "The Cider House Rules" and "Wonder Boys," but more recently served as the voice of Lou the Beagle in "Cats and Dogs." 5. Kirsten Dunst, the love interest, made an early splash in "Interview · with the Vampire" and, more recently, in the cheerleader comedy "Bring it On." But she's wowing critics as Marion Davies in the just-released indie "The Cat's Meow." 6. Spider-Man first appeared in the Marvel comic book Amazing Fantasy No. 15 in 1962, which is now valued at $25,000. 7. Spider-Man's powers consist of the ability to cling to most surfaces and scale buildings vertically, as well as an innate sixth sense that warns him of impending danger and incredible strength. 8. In the comic book, SpiderMan creates mechanical wristmounted web-shooters, but in the movie, those come from his wrists as part of his malformation. The tough flexible fiber sticks to victims and allows him to swing from building to building like Tarzan. 9. Some of director Sam Raimi's usual stable of actors appear in the film, including

CD burning By Josh Clements

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CD Burners plus students equal budget friendly music To buy or to burn: that is the question Palomar College students face when deciding how to spend their money on music. Janet Carmody, 20, a second year student, was at the Borders Books & Music m Carmel Mountain with a friend. She was eyeing "Elva," the newest CD by the local band Unwritten Law. "Oh I can burn it for you," her friend said. She gave it no extra thought and walked out without buying the CD.

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Toby MacGuire plays Peter Parker, a crimefighter with superhuman climbing skills in Columbia pictures' "Spiderman." his "Evil Dead" star Bruce Campbell as the Ring Announcer during the wrestling match and Raimi's brother Ted as Hoffman, the publisher's assistant at the Daily Bugle. 10. Parker doesn't help a guy who's being mugged and later he discovers the criminal is the guy who kills his uncle, and that catapults him into a life of being a superhero.

11. Aunt May doesn't know that Parker's secret identity is that of Spider-Man even though she is personally attacked by the Green Goblin, who knows his identity. She's played by Rosemary Harris, who played Cate Blanchett's grandmother in Raimi's last film "The Gift." 12. When everyone around you cheers in the audience, that's Lucy Lawless from the former action adventure TV

show "Xena Warrior Princess" doing a cameo in the film as a punk rocker who calls SpiderMan "so handsome," and that's the pro wrestler Randy Savage as Bone Saw McGraw who tries pummeling the superhero in the film. With these facts in hand, you should have no trouble holding up your end of any conversation about the film. By the way, call him "Spidey" if you really want to sound cool.

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A study by the American Recording Industry found that since CD burners have become available, and people have begun sharing music, the overall population of music buyers has spent less money on CDs, LPs and tapes. College-aged consumers, according to the survey, spent the same amount. However this doesn't seem to be for Palomar College students such as Lisa Middleton, 22. She said in any given month, she might buy one or two CDs since she acquired her CD burner. This is two to three CDs less than she would normally buy.

The technology of CD burning, the transferring of music or other data from an existing CD by the use of lasers, has become common in households nationwide. CD burners now come standard in most new computers the cost of CD-Rs, recordable CDs, and are much cheaper than buying a prerecorded ones. At Borders Books and Music stores, new CDs cost anywhere from $12 to as much as $20. A pack of 10 Sony brand CDRs at the online store Buy.com costs $6.99. Closely related to CD burning is shared music --trading music files for free on the

Internet. The music can then be burned onto CDs. This topic has received much attention with the temporary close of Napster, a company that was notorious for letting subscribers freely trade copyrighted music with their software. Artists who felt they were getting cheated out of money sued Napster and its creator Shawn Fanning, forcing the program to be shut down. Other Web sites that specialize in file sharing include Music City, Audio Galaxy and Kazaa. Carmody said she feels that "they (the artists) get enough

money and if people like them, we (consumers) will go to their concerts and the bands will make money that way." Most students, like Carmody, only used Napster and other sites to make a mix, a CD with many songs by different artists. But, Carmody said she will still buy prerecorded CDs. In the last month she has bought two CDs. "If I like three or more songs by an artist, I'll go ahead and buy the CD," she said. Middleton said she feels that until something happens to prevent people from burning CDs she will continue to share music.

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Starry shines brightly for Palomar • Comets soltbtlll pl•yer Bridget St•rry exteeds her own expeet•tions . By l\1a•·k Bt'erman

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As an All-American softball player, Bridget Starry has reached heights she never thought she could achieve. Starry made the All-American team in 2001 and helped propel the Comets program. But what isn't known, is that Starry almost gave up the sport she loved before coming to Palomar. "(Coach Eldridge) actually helped me come here," Starry said. "I wasn't going to play softball anymore and he convinced me to come and play. And I promised I'd come one day, then got suckered into staying." "I'd known her when she was younger and I felt she was a college caliber player. I thought she could certainly help us," said coach Mark Eldridge. "I looked at a big, strong, motivated player who could really help us," said Eldridge. Batting was Starry's strength as a freshman. But Eldridge cites her pitching as the key reason for why she is so good in her sophomore campaign. "For the four-and-a-half month fall semester, she looked okay. But in February, after the Christmas holidays, I felt she reached a different level as far as her pitching goes. "And I think she's still getting better," Eldridge said. What isn't lost is the example Starry has on and off the field. "I think she's very determined when she's out on the mound and she has a drive that pushes her. She has this desire to win more

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Bridget Starry has dominated the opposition for the 2002 season. Starry is one of the Comets' keys to a possible state championship.

than most people," said teammate Lacey Craft. Craft described Starry as a vocal leader and someone who leads by example. Craft also talked about Starry's focus in practice. "When she's doing her pitching workout, she doesn't want to talk or socialize or anything. She really focuses on what she's doing," Craft said. Starry relies on catcher Brittany Yolo to help get her out of jams. But she emphasizes that it's a team effort when the Comets are playing defense. "(The team) helps us the most. I mean, without the infield and the outfield, Brittany and I would be nothing. I'm definitely a groundball pitcher, I'm not a strikeout pitcher," Starry said. When Starry isn't on the mound,

she has plenty of support to rely on to get through some of the tough times. Starry emphasized that her boyfriend, R.J., a former Palomar College athlete, her parents and grandmother are the four people who support her the most. Starry also mentioned that her sister, Nicole, had a large influence on her during her years of playing softball. "Nicole was my catcher all my life until she left my junior year (in high school). She went to the University of Wisconsin to catch there. She influenced me the most. She probably made me the pitcher I am today," Starry said. With all of this family support, how did she pick up softball? The answer is very surprising. "My parents have always played.

My mom was actually pregnant with my sister when she was playing and went into labor on the field. Ever since we've been born, we've been on the field," Starry said. With softball virtually instilled in her since birth, Starry reflected on her decision to play at Palomar and the role it has played in her life. "This is the best experience I've ever been through. And before I didn't think so because my high school coach wasn't as good to me like Mark and the girls have been," Starry said. Although, with the strong season Starry has had, she is quick to deflect the attention that's been brought upon her. "I think I've played very well, a few errors every now and then," Starry said in a playful voice.

Palomar· used as springboard for four-year schools By Eric Wood

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Every year about 500 student athletes take the long road to their goal and commit to Palomar College, hoping to catch the attention of university sports programs. Heading straight for the hype of university sports may seem more practical for some, but many have found the community college approach favorable in reaching their goal of playing at a four-year school. Palomar is one such school that exemplifies this. Palomar has gained a reputation as a successful launching pad for university level athletics. From 1994-99, Palomar student athletes from 11 different sports earned more than 150 full-ride scholarships to universities, totaling more than $4 million worth of scholarships. "We're measured by our transfer ability and where our athletes go," said Palomar athletic counselor Steve White. "Our transfer rate is around 92 percent onto four-year schools. Eighty percent of those student athletes go to Division I programs," White said. Not only is a transfer rate of nine-out-of-10 athletes high, it is

averaged over 18 sports, 12 of those being both men's and women's teams. The number of sports and the success in each of them is one reason for the high transfer rates to universities. Palomar athletic director John Woods points to the balance of the school's athletic success as the defining characteristic of the program. From 2001 to 2002, 14 out of the 18 Palomar sports had winning records, with only men's water polo, men's volleyball, and men and women's swimming falling under the .500 mark. "In my mind, student athletes are student athletes. Whether they're football players or tennis players, men or women, it doesn't make a difference," Woods said. "They all need to have opportunities and access for success. I think that the most dominant thing of our program is our balance of success. Students come here because they know that they're

going to have an equal opportunity to compete." Another factor, often overlooked, of the transfer success is the "student" in student athlete. Bridget Starry, a Palomar softball player who will attend Jacksonville University next year, said, "I came to Palomar instead of a university because academically I wasn't ready." Palomar's academic advisement plays a significant role in prepping the student athletes for the fouryear schools. Palomar staff closely monitors the student athletes' academic status to make sure the right classes are being taken to be eligible to transfer by NCAA rules. On top of that, all of Palomar's student athletes are under grade screening and are required to be tutored if their grades reach a Caverage or below. "I'll get calls from instructors if a student athlete is being a bonehead," said Woods. "Our faculty supports student athletes. This is a community that works together, and that's what it takes," said Woods. "Academics are more important than the athletics. Students come here to compete, but academics is what gets them out."

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