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Board passes fee waiver for high school students By Matt Null
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In a move to boost enrollment at Palomar College, high school students can now attend Palomar for free. By waiving enrollment fees, Palomar President Robert Deegan said he hopes Palomar will gain 150 full-time students needed for the college to gain an additional $2.1 million from the state. Palomar receives $3,800 per full-time enrolled student from the state. The state community college average is about $4,100 per FTES. Deegan said if five students take three units each, the college would waive $390 in enrollment fees but would gain $3,800 for one FTES. Herman Lee, director of Enrollment Services, said the reasoning behind the fee waiver is to provide students the • SEE FEE
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Sgt. Frank Brito (left), Sgt. Mike Vafeados (Center) and Interim Police Chief Tony Cruz participate in a recent active-shooter training exercise on the San Marcos campus, March 24.
Campus police hold training p.m., was designed to teach officers and deputies how to deal with shooters on campus based on the Columbine and Santana High Huddled together and armed with blue plastic School shootings, said Cpl. Mike Strong of the guns, four Palomar Police Department officers Sheriff's Department SWAT team. crept between the buildings of the San Marcos · The training session, called Immediate campus searching for a mock shooter. Action Rapid Deployment-Critical Incidents On March 24, buildings on the north end of for Schools, contains a new set of tactics to the San Marcos campus were blocked off with capture a suspect because previous tactics police tape and barricades to mark the training were not working. This new training allows area for the Palomar College Police Department officers to contain a suspect as soon as possiand deputies of the San Diego Sheriff's ble and prevent deaths, Strong said. Department. The training tactics that the Palomar offi. The training session, held from 7 a.m. to 5 By Stephanie Tombrinck
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President holds foru01s to discuss state of the college By Donnie Boyle
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Palomar College President Robert Deegan spoke to an audience of about 120 faculty members, staff members, administrators and students during his first all-college forum March 16 in the Student Center. The forums, which Deegan said he plans to hold once or twice per semester, included reports from the college's vice presidents and a question-and-answer period with Deegan. Both Deegan and Joe Newmyer, interim vice president of Fiscal Services, discussed the importance of fighting for Palomar's share of state equalization funds. "It was great to see the president talking about equaliza-
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College celebrates women's history By Thomas May
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Five women who lived dur· ing World War II shared their experiences with an audience to help commemo· rate Women's History Month 1n front of the clock tower on the San Marcos campus March 16. Each of the speakers intro· duced themselves and then answered questions from the audience. "A lot has changed for women since World War II,"
said Lillian Swerdlow, who was an army nurse during the war. "When I was married just after the war and had applied at New York University, the woman there told me that an education would be a waste of time, since I would probably have kids. I can't imagine somebody daring to say a thing like that today." Marian Hamburg, another panelist, worked as a United Service Organization director during World War II and now has a Ph.D. in physical edu-
cation and health. She received her Master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, and New York University, where she later taught as a professor. Hamburg wrote one of the first curriculums for sex education at NYU during the 1970s. "I became a target of the religious right and endured a lot of criticism," Hamburg said. "To this day, sex education is still a touchy subject
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Holocaust survivor Yaja Boren speaks dumg Women's History Day March 16. The event, orgarized by the Associated Student Government, honored a group of women who ived tlnugh Wortd War II.
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