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Black History Day hailed as success

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Benefiting from good weather and a variety of entertainers and speakers, Palomar College's Feb. 8 Black History Month celebration was hailed as a success by its organizers. "I think a lot of people appreciated what we did today," said. Lisa Galbreath, planning committee chairperson and Associated Student Government delegate. "People have been giving me lots of positive feedback around campus." Jerry "Rafiki" Jenkins, English professor and planning committee member also said he was pleased with the way things went. "It went really well, a vast improvement from last year," Jenkins said. 'We had a lot more time to plan things out, and I think the results of that were apparent today." Both Jenkins and Galbreath said the day's sunny weather was good for attendance, since last year's event was marred by rain. The event was held in front of the Student Center on the San Marcos campus, and included displays on famous black figures, an exhibit of

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Hula of Channel 933 draws names for Lester Ford Grants during a Fmancial Aid Department celebration Feb.l5. Two winners received $250 grants for the Fall2006 semester. The department held a series of events to raise awareness about different types of financial aid and approaching deadlines.

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The Palomar College Governing Board approved a full slate of new courses for the Fall 2006 curriculum at its Feb. 14 meeting. Am 0 n g Board the new approved courses are a series of classes in the Administration of Justice Department, specializing in a certificate and an associates degree for Homeland Security. The Homeland Security major will include classes in Introduction to Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Issues in Homeland Security. The board also approved certificate and degree majors in World Dance as well as Fire Technology, including in Emergency courses

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Facilities Director Mike Ellis delivers information about renewable energy to the governing board at a Feb. 14 meeting as college president Robert Deegan reviews the report.

Management and Disaster Mitigation. College president Robert Deegan said the new courses would allow Palomar to meet greater student needs and stay competitive with other advancing community colleges. 'We have one of the most competitive curriculums in the country with more than 300 options for majors and certificates," Deegan said. "Students coming here can get an idea of how to get a meaningful career and obtain their goals whatever they may be." Deegan said reviewing curriculum is an ongoing process by faculty and administrators to deem what is necessary

for the upcoming year. "There's a constant evolution of the Palomar curriculum," Deegan said. "Important work is being done outside the classroom to ensure proper coursework is being offered." During their reports, several board members discussed recent trips to Sacramento and Washington to meet with legislators on various issues facing community colleges. While in Washington, board members met with Sen. Barbara Boxer, DCalif, about the proposed congressional budget reduction in college funding • SEE

Club Rush happened indoors this semester. Cold weather, wind and the possibility of rain forced members from campus clubs to set up tables inside the Student Union area instead of outside, where the event wafl scheduled to take place. Club Rush is organized by the Inter-Club Council and is an opportunity for club members to promote their clubs and recruit new people. "I think it's really exciting because a lot of people don't know there are clubs on campus," said Melissa Bohl, ICC chairwoman. "I think the event's going really well," said Associated Student Government vice president Curtis Van Engel, who organized the event. Engel said he was happy that more clubs were represented than in the past. Thirteen clubs participated in Club Rush, compared to nine clubs last semester and seven clubs last spring. The clubs in attendance were the Palomar College Republicans, the Palomar College Democrats, the Anime Club, the Film Club, MEChA, the Archaeology Club, the Geoscience Connection, the Pre-Med Club, the Latter Day Saints Student Association, the International Club, the Extended Opportunities Programs and Services Club and Phi Theta Kappa. • SEE CLUB

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• Free film series "Vera Drake" 6:30 p.m. in Room P-32.

Carole Whyte spins out a bowl on the pottery wheel Feb. 13. The college offers several ceramics courses, which may be repeated up to four times.

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Career "how-~o". speech David Braums Will discuss careers in law and related fields. 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in the Governing Board Room.

• Last day to file for degrees and certificates Applications must be turned in to the Evaluations Office.

• Opening night of "The Magic Fire" 8 p.m. at the Howard Brubeck Theatre. Tickets available at the box office.

• Black History Celebration 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the Student Center

• Planetarium show ''The Sky Tonighf' will be presented at 7 p.m. and 7:40 p.m.

• Campus Explorations "Ethics: Evolution, Religion, and the Study of Science" Lecture and panel discussion from 2- 3 p.m. in Room ES-19. ANNAKA WICKSTROM I THE TEUSCOPE

• Associated Student Government meeting 1 p.m. in Room SU-18.

• Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society meeting from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in SU-203.

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Professor titillates students with Alllerican history Jahnel said he has had many positive educational experiences working at Palomar. He particularly remembers the case of a student who suffered from epileptic seizures and still managed to earn a C in his class. Unfortunately that student passed away the next summer. He will always By Linda Eckert TKE TElESCOPE remember that the stt,Ident never gave up and tried his best for a passing grade in his class. Palamar College has a history "Students constantly make me proud teacher with unique teaching and fashto be a teacher," he said. ion styles. That is Professor Bill Jahnel added that he has so many Jahnel, also known as "The Bow Tie good memories from working at Guy." Palomar College. Among them are a He started teaching history when he couple of lecture-related injuries. He was just 24 years old. From the very broke his toe in his first week of class first day, he started wearing a bow tie. at Palomar while trying to demonMost of his students were around his strate the Incans' method of message age or older, and he wanted to give the delivery. impression of being approachable, but Despite his mishaps, Jahnel said he thinks he has a good deserving respect. Apparently it worked 11 relationship with his J ahnel came to Siudenls tonst•ntly m•kl classes because he is Palomar five years ago me proud to be • te•ther." "fortunate in the fact and in 2002, he received that I seem to have a - Bill Jahnel strong retention and I the Distinguished PALOMAR HISTORY PROFESSOR seem to have students Faculty award. He said he loves histocome back and take the whole series with me," ry and his favorite part he said. of history is the American Revolution. Everyday he walks into the classHis favorite personalities of American History are Benjamin Franklin, room with a sense of joy and he Leonardo Da Vinci and Catherine the believes his students have a fun time, Great. He said he would love to play a too. hand of Spades with them. Jahnel was born in Pennsylvania, "I am called to teach," he said. He but also lived in New Jersey, Texas, said that what he likes best about Illinois and Colorado. He went to teaching history is the fact that his stu- Austin College in Sherman, Texas dents are willing to put their trust in where he met a great teacher who him and are "willing to explore with a became a mentor for him. His name tremendous sense of joy and wonder was Light Cummins. He was a minisand such a high level of knowledge." ter and professor of Physics and One of his students, freshman Lacey English who reminded Jahnel why he Pflibsen, took his History 101 course loved history, Jahnel said. Jahnel graduated from Austin last semester and returned for History 102 this semester. College with a bachelor's degree in his"He's vivacious and he makes history tory and English in May 1990. He is something other than a textbook about the only student in the college's history dead people," she said. "And his wild to successfully complete two separate impersonations in class are fun and theses and receive both departmental and college honors, according to his attention grabbing." He then went to Rice She added that she would recom- resume. mend him to other students because he University and earned his master's degree in History in May 1994. "makes you learn painlessly."

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History professor Bill Jahnel starting wearing his famous bow tie on his first day of teaching when he was 24 years old. Jahnel came to Palomar five years ago and received the Distingished Faculty Award in 2002.

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Wind tunnel si111ulates ca111pus environ111ent • Firm tests 11ir flow ol pol/ut11nls from new stiente building By Jessica Halston

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Constructing a steel building is like playing with an Erector Set - the pieces fit together to make a frame. With an Erector Set, the work stops there. On a life-sized steel structure like Palomar's new high-tech science building, the frame is only the beginning. In order to create a safe and S~m~BUILDING sturdy learning environment, a building goes through several inspections and tests to ensure its stability - including how it holds up in the breeze. Palomar Supervisor of Construction Activities Chris Miller said Palomar hired Fort Collins, Colo.-based wind engineering firm Cermak Peterka Petersen, Inc. to test a model of the science building in wind conditions simulating those in San Marcos. Miller said the college pursued a wind tunnel test after the building's architect, Marlene Imirzian, recommended the study, which is commonly performed on laboratory buildings. He said the goal of the study was to ensure pollutants emitting from the science building would not affect other buildings on campus and that the building would not take in pollutants through fresh air intakes. He said the college initiated talks with CPP in April 2005 and eventually agreed to a $25,000 deal that involved testing a scaled, miniature model of the science building both in its current surroundings in Palomar's "Redwood City" wooden trailer facilities and in the college's Facilities Master Plan, which includes new buildings for all academic departments on the San Marcos campus projected for completion in 2010. Miller said Imirzian recommended CPP, Inc., whose founders developed the concept of wind engineering at Colorado State University's College of Engineering in the early 1950s. CPP, Inc. Communications Manager Bob Fallbeck said in an e-mail that Palomar's science building is one of more than 1500 studies the company has performed since officially founding in 1981. He added that among co-

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Wind engineering firm CPP Inc. constructed a scale model of the San Marcos campus out of Styrafoam and wood and used a fan to simulate where the wind would blow pollutants emitted from the new high-tech science building. The test showed plans for campus projects were adequate for air quality standards.

founder Jack Cermak's early projects was the wind tunnel testing of the World Trade Center Twin Towers design in 1964.

The test Engineers at CPP, Inc.'s Colorado facilities constructed a model of the campus out of basic materials such as Styrofoam and wood over two-and-ahalf weeks during May 2005. Once the model was complete, the college sent representatives to attend a test run of the study on June 24, 2005 in Fort Collins. Kent Schafer, president of Consulting and Inspection Services and high-tech science building inspector, and Frank Shadpour, president of Shadpour Consulting Engineers and construction specifier both attended the test to assure the accuracy of the model from a mechanical engineering standpoint. Schafe said the design was incredible. "(The test) was one of the coolest things I've ever seen," he said. Schafer said the model was hooked up to machines that output a tinted neutral chemical, ethane gas, through the smoke stacks at the same rate emissions will leave the science building. The model is placed on a turntable

at the end of a tunnel. The floor of the tunnel is mounted with blocks that are meant to simulate the pathway of wind over the hills leading from the ocean to San Marcos. Wind is blown over the blocks toward the model both at average daily speeds and to simulate special conditions such as the Santa Ana winds. The turntable rotates to catch the breeze from all directions. When the wind blows the gas emitting from the smoke stacks at the buildings, small sensors on the model alert the engineers where the pollutants are detected. Schafer said the main concern was to see where the plumes of smoke go in relation to the air intakes on all the buildings. He said the results of the test could determine possible changes necessary to the construction of the building in order to meet health standards. Possible changes included altering the height and diameter of smoke stacks or changing a screen wall that directs the flow of air on the roof. The six-foot-high screen wall directs plumes up and away from the building's roof. Schafer said the official test ran later in June and took approximately 100 hours to complete .

Colleagues remember fonner Palomar By John Asbury

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Former Palomar College instructor, radio engineer and student Leta Bowen died Jan. 30 of a bronchial infection at her home in Escondido Jan. 30. She was 52. Bowen began taking classes at Palomar in 1995 and earned an associates degree and a certificate in electronics. She also held a certificate in FCC licensing. Bowen worked for the college from 1995 to 2000 as a radio engineer and a part-time professor in FCC trade and industry. Shortly before her death, she was attending classes in preparation for an associates degree in computer-aided drafting. Bowen was born in Maryland in 1953 to two deaf parents. She grew up in the deaf culture, becoming fluent in sign language to communicate. While in California, Bowen lived in a San Diego domestic violence shelter as a single mother, before taking classes and working at Palomar. During her time at Palomar, Bowen modernized the campus radio station, KKSM 1360 AM, said KKSM DJ Zeb Navarro. Navarro said Bowen was instrumental in developing the station's automatic music playlists. While the sta-

Final results The college received the results ofthe study in December 2005. Schafer said the conclusion, pulled from a textbooksized report consisting largely of math, was that the current design of the building is compliant - meaning the emissions measured on the sensors of each building were within federal criterion. He added that the college could lift one smoke stack higher off the roof to get the emissions readings to zero, but doing so was unnecessary, costinefficient and an "eyesore." Overall, he added, the building exceeded the necessary criteria. Schafer and Miller said the one recommendation made in CPP's report is to close the science building's air intakes during tests of the building's emergency generator, which should happen about every 60 days. Miller said the 400-kilowatt generator emits pollution equal to that of a diesel truck and closing the intakes will keep the emissions from polluting the building's air conditioning system. Schafer was pleased with the results and said the building is coming along great. "I've built a lot of buildings , and this is about as complex as they get," he said. "I'm really jazzed about this."

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tion would previously have to repeatedly play compact Despite any hardships, Bowen remained positive and discs on a continuous loop, Bowen helped create the for- generous to others she saw in need, Clayton said. mat linking digital music through computers. "She was always willing to help with school or any"It's very rare that you have a female engineer," said thing," Clayton said. "She would send food and literally KKSM General Manager and Palomar communications give someone the shirt off her back." Professor Meg Banta. "Leta broke through walls." Clayton said Bowen had a thirst for knowledge and Radio and Television Professor Pat Hahn said Bowen encouraged others to go above and beyond what was knew the business well and was always only a phone expected. She added that Bowen's personality was usucall away to help at the station. He added that she would ally reserved around other people, but that she would purchase supplies with her own money, eventually be outgoing with a dry sense even though she might have been 11She put •side everything of humor. pressed for funds. Bowen's death was a shock to most of "If something was wrong, Leta was lor students •nd her love her Palomar colleagues, with most staff 11 there at 2 a.m.," Hahn said. "She put lor the eo/lege •.. and friends recalled seeing her on campus only weeks before she died. aside everything for students and her - Pat Hahn "It's so hard when someone you· know love for the college and the radio staRADIO AND TELEVISION PROFESSOR · · tion." 1s sudd enly gone," Hahn sa1'd . <cv.LOU never saw her down or at least she never In 2000 Bowen took a position as an engineer at FOX 6 news in San Diego before being diag- showed it. She was always striving to do better despite nosed with throat cancer. She had been cancer-free for any obstacles in her life." two years before her death. Bowen leaves behind her 14-year-old daughter Corrie Bowen was also involved in the CalWORKs/REACH who is now staying with relatives in Maryland. A fund program for disadvantaged students. has been established with the Palomar College Upon being diagnosed with cancer, she lost her home, Foundation to assist with Corrie's education. For more job and savings, said CalWORKS assistant Debbie information contact the foundation at (760) 744 -1150, Clayton. Ext. 2664

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Boyle column off the mark~ reckless with negative words To Donnie Boyle: I have read quite a few of your columns in the past, but none left such a foul stench of disrespect as your "Jihad is on the March" column that appeared in the Feb. 13 issue. Let's begin with your opening paragraph where you criticized President George W. Bush for saying that "freedom is on the march." You hastily concluded that Bush's approach to spreading freedom and democracy to the oppressed people of the Middle East "will likely result in less freedom in the region and will worsen the threat of global terrorism." Are you saying that

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Twenty-eight registered sex offenders live in Palomar College's zip code. Chances are, one of them will attack again and then disappear. They should all be fitted with LoJaeks. That is the idea behind Jessica's Law, a long-overdue proposal requiring convicted sex offenders to wear Global Positioning System equipment for life. It also forces them to live more than 2,000 feet away from schools and playgrounds, and mandates stricter sentencing. Current legislation doesn't go far enough. Loopholes allow convicted sex offenders to repeat their crimes. The question is not if they will strike again, but when and where. Currently, sex offenders can return to our neighborhoods early for "good behavior'' such as filing books in the prison library. Sexually violent offenders can run out their parole time in a mental hospital, rejoining society with no parole monitoring. The judicial system cuts criminals a break while puttirig the rest of us at risk. Currently, sex offenders can simply disappear. Nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford was kidnapped, raped and buried alive by a registered sex offender whom authorities lost track of. As many as 33,000 registered sex offenders have eluded California authorities, and could be as close as the grocery store or the next-door neighbor. GPS devices would help authorities track sex offenders, even the ones officials lose track of. Critics call this electronic monitoring an invasion of privacy, but it's really a logical consequence. Sexual predators cannot be trusted to stay away from children, so GPS supplies supervision. Opponents argue that" monitoring all felony sex offenders would cost millions oftax dollars annually- so

what! The life of a child is worth every penny. Besides, the law requires offenders to pay for their own GPS equipment if they can, and specialized state departments would cover the rest. GPS could help enforce the 2,000-foot safety zone Jessica's Law creates around schools and parks, keeping sexual predators away from areas frequented by children. Experts say most sex offenders know their victims, and some kids walk past a sex offender's home every day on their way to school or soccer practice. Our youngest and most defenseless need a force field to keep predators away. The opposition claims the safety zone would dump sexual predators into rural areas, which lack schools and parks. This "Not In My Back Yard" mentality is misguided. An urban, kid-filled neighborhood faces a far greater risk than an empty rural road. When 7-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by a convicted sex offender who had quietly moved in across the street, the resulting Megan's Law broke new ground. Its Web site listed convicted sex offenders by name and zip code. But knowing they exist is not enough. _ Only harsh punishment and strict monitoring of sex offenders will keep our families safe. Legislators have lagged for too long; it's up to concerned citizens to vote for Jessica's Law on the November ballot. Proponents say they have far exceeded the required 380,000 certified signatures. California needs Jessica's Law. We have the most sex offenders in the nation, more than 100,000. Bring on the LoJacks.

these people don't deserve the same freedoms that you so clearly enjoy and take for granted; such as freedom of speech, the right to vote in open elections and so on? As your anti-American diatribe continued, you go on to quip, "Democracy fueling fundamentalist movement." This statement can be summed up in one word: Rubbish. And I suppose you thought you were quite scintillating in proclaiming, ''No one seems to consider that bombing Muslim countries with "American Idol" and Ashlee Simpson videos might be more harmful than dropping actual bombs." You owe an apology to each and every family of our brave military men and women that have lost their lives fighting the War on Terror. I will conclude this letter with a suggestion. If the

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pen is indeed mightier than the sword, it would be wise for you to utilize your infinite wisdom by offering positive messages to your readers with real solutions to the problems facing the human race in our modern world rather than your negative insults, cynical criticisms and unsubstantiated "opinions." In the interest of promoting the free exchange of ideas, any editor possessing journalistic integrity would print this rebuttal letter at their earliest convenience. Will you? · Grow up Donnie,

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Ca111pus TV station provides opportunities By Kat Goodwin

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Students can take advantage of a program that gives them hands-on experience with live broadcast production and high-tech professional equipment. Palomar College Television is an educational television department at the Palomar College San Marcos campus. It offers students a chance to take classes that they may not otherwise be able to attend due to full-time jobs or other obligations that keep them from regular trips to campus. The PCTV staff makes this possible by filming, producing and broadcasting shows from their studio in the ETV building. "We are a wide-ranging media service for the campus," said PCTV producer Bill Wisneski. PCTV produces video broadcasts that can be used in TV and teleweb classes as well as promotional videos for various departments and special projects such as documentaries and educational miniseries. TV and teleweb classes use videos and broadcasts of professors lecturing. TV classes typically meet six times on campus for exams or special projects with the rest of the material available on shows that air on cable. These shows Arron Capehart mans the camera during a Feb. 1 taping. Students in the Radio and Television program are also available for checkout from The project includes production, filming and editing. education center locations in Fallbrook, Ramona, Escondido, Mt. Carmel and San Marcos. The videos are also availeven become full staff members, styles," Wisneski said. "It is really beneable for download through Blackboard. deLeon said. ficial for us to film Concert Hour so it can reach more students." "It's a great opportunity for students Teleweb classes are the same except who want experience in the field ," Wisneski said he hoped the series will that all projects, discussions and exams air this semester with footage from last are done online. Wisneski said. "Students get the semester's Concert Hour performances. "PCTV serves two purposes," said chance to produce real broadcasts on cutting edge equipAnother project the PCTV program is staff assistant Marlene ment." deLeon. "Students learn "We lite 11 wide-flinging working on is a documentary on author and humanitarian Lely Hayslip. Hayslip through our TV classes PCTV is working with was the subject of Oliver Stone's film and also by working on medi11 service lor the the Music Department to create a "best of' Concert "Heaven and Earth." She has written staff throughout the pro- tllmpus." duction process." Hour series. Concert two books and is famous for her humanBill Wisneski Hour is a live musical itarian efforts during the Vietnam Students in the Radio PCTV PRODUCER performance that takes Conflict. Hayslip's son is a Palomar and Television program place every Thursday at do their final projects by graduate. producing in the PCTV studio. Their 12:30 p.m. in Room D-10. Each program PCTV has won numerous Emmy will be half an hour long and include awards for its programs, including the jobs include editing, filming and profootage from one to three Concert Hour National Academy of Arts and Sciences duction. Award in 2003, Animation and performers. DeLeon said many RTV students "Concert Hour is a long running, Photoshop Open, Discussion Interview receive internships to work for PCTV advantageous series that features a and end up working there for more Program and Student Spot diverse group of musicians and musical than a few semesters. Some students Announcement. In addition to Emmys,

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PCTV won five Telly Awards, six Hometown Video Awards and many others. A full list of the awards is available on the PCTV Web site www. palomar.edu/pctv. PCTV is also home to the California Community College Satellite Network. In May of 1999, PCTV received an $8.5 million grant to establish the network. CCSAT has its own staff, and creates programming that is broadcast via satellite statewide. Other community colleges can send in their own programming to air via satellite as well. 'We're the best community college in the state, maybe even the country, for learning the aspects of broadcast," Wisneski said. "The quality of work is phenomenal, we have a large studio, and our editing equipment and lighting grid are top of the line. It's a great environment for students to learn in."

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Are lies harmful? When is it OK to lie? These are some of the questions that Palomar English professor Virginia Shabatay raised and discussed at a forum titled "Ethics: Truth, Lying, Honesty'' Feb. 15 as part of Palomar College's Campus Explorations program. "Lies are all too common in our everyday lives," Shabatay said in front of a science lecture hall that was about half full. "Even though lying is usually harmful, there are reasons for lying that are more acceptable than others." Some of these reasons, Shabatay said, include saving a life and being in a crisis in which the best choice would be to lie. Shabatay gave an example about someone who was visiting with a group of headhunters in the Amazon, and was served a plate of baby mice. "The man told the tribe that he was grateful for the food, but it was against his religion to eat the baby mice," Shabatay said. "He figured this was more polite and less embarrassing than trying the mice and upchucking on the food." There are several reasons why people lie, Shabatay said. "Liars believe that lies give them an edge," she said. "They think they can manipulate a situation in their favor by lying, and they often believe that they will avoid consequences by lying." But, more often than not, they get caught, Shabatay said. During the lecture, Shabatay asked the audience

where they think kids learn to lie. Some blamed tele- body knew of another person having an affair and did not tell the person's spouse. vision shows, movies, parents, friends and siblings. "If it were my friend who was being cheated on, I "Kids learn early that words can be manipulated," Shabatay said. "That becomes a habit that spans into would want my friend to know, so I would not be happy if my friend was keeping that a secret from me if it were adulthood." Shabatay also discussed some famous cases of lying. my husband who was cheating," said English professor One was former University of California San Diego pro- Barbara Neault Kelber, who was in attendance and is fessor Quincy Troupe. Troupe had been a highly also the Campus Explorations organizer. Shabatay asked the audience to think respected literature profesabout the consequences. sor and poet until it was "One of the worst consequences is prefound that he had lied about "lies lite 11/ltoo common dictability," one audience member said. having a bachelor's degree in our everyd11ylives." "A person that lies is expected to lie." on his resume before he was - Virainia Shabatay One student asked what should haphired. He was forced to PALOMAR i'NGUSH PROFESSOll pen if we admit we have lied. resign his position. ''What if Quincy Troupe had been "What surprised me most forthright?" he asked. 'Wouldn't he about that case was how much support that Quincy got from the community," Shabatay said. have faced the same criticism and chastising?" "Then, we better learn to cope better with the truth "His career was based on lies, as talented and popular as he may have been, and that is inexcusable- sad, but as a society," Shabatay replied. "It's better than living in a pretend world." inexcusable." Greg Ashley, a Palomar student said he has attended Some disagreed, however. "To play devil's advocate, they didn't hire Troupe on all the Campus Explorations seminars so far. "I thought this was a really great topic," Ashley said. the basis of that one degree," said Julie Ivey, a Palomar English professor who was one of several faculty mem- "It's very relevant to everyone. To me, this was one of bers in attendance. "They hired him on the entire body the best lectures so far in this series." After the seminar, Shabatay said the topic of honesty of his work." "That's true, but what if this was somebody in the is very important. "I chose this topic because it affects each and every medical field?" Shabatay replied. single person, and everyone lies," Shabatay said. "I Honesty in relationships was also discussed. "Trust is extremely important for the basis of a rela- hope people think more about the negative consetionship," said Shabatay before she spoke about infi- quences of lying and how it actually hurts themselves in the end. As a community, we can all benefit from delity in romantic relationships. An audience member asked if it was wrong if some- being honest with each other." /

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followed by blank stares from his staff. As Scott humiliates staff members, they look right into the camera in a uniquely comical attempt at showing their pain. The Dunder Mifflin staff includes a large variety of characters. The secretary Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) and a salesman, Jim Halpert (John Krasinki), have a blossoming romance that brings the slightest bit of normalcy back in to the show. This is short lived by the mix of other characters competing for the spotlight in this "mockumentary." Dwight Shrewt (Rainn Wilson) is the brown-nosing, prude who will stop at nothing in order to get the respect of his boss, whom he idolizes. He magnifies a character that many viewers may relate to having at their own jobs. Then there is Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak) the poor temp agent, who is stuck in the middle of the chaos. Howard is constantly being bossed around by Scott. The show is extremely fast paced. So much so in fact, that if the viewer laughs too long at one of the punch lines, he or she will most likely miss the next. The humor is crammed into 30 minutes of air time, which is a shame. When the show ends, it leaves viewers wondering what happens next . This is great for ratings however, because viewers can't wait for the next episode to come out. The first season is out on DVD and includes the first six episodes. The DVD also includes commentary and deleted scenes that are just as good if not better than the episodes themselves.

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Movie confuses audience with language, poor acting her idealistic views and motives are not enough to untangle the mysteries and complications buried in the un-clarity of Mander lay. The movie is hard to watch because of its limited scenery. The different buildings Hy Konrad Chomik . u ···•scan have no actual walls, but Lackluster scenery, a con- blueprints are drawn with fusing plot and bad acting chalk on the ground. The are rampant throughout scenery is left to the viewer's "Manderlay," a new movie imagination almost entirely. by Lars von ,..------, This is confusing ! 'Manderlay' because the viewer Trier. It is the second iS often can't determine fil . a t n'l ogy •111 '"u' ·' 0,F0-1,Jn,,"", .., >·.·····1 wh ere a scene IS . taking 1 m In place and what its conby the Danish j STARRING BRYCE writer/ director i DALLAS HOWARD, text is. and follows WILLEM DAFOE, This effect may DANNY GLOVER "Dogville," which NOTRATED have been implement..._~;..;.;;.;.;.;;.:;..--l ed for an artistic purwas released in pose, but it did more to con2003. Set in 1933, the movie is fuse than impress the audidifficult to understand ence. Because of the archaic because of the language and slang that was used during language and strange set design, the plot is unclear the time. The film follows the main and the viewer is uncertain character Grace, who is of what is going on. In contrast to "Dogville" played by Bryce Dallas Howard (star of M. Night where the story unraveled Shylaman's "The Village") clearly and was intriguing and her gangster father to the viewer, "Manderlay" lacks focus and becomes (Willem Dafoe). The two travel to boring quickly. Another downside to this Alabama where they discover a cotton plantation film is poor acting. In named Manderlay. She "Dogville," Nicole Kidman learns that the plantation is who did an excellent job of still worked by slaves and portraying her feelings, and goals attempts to free them and expressions acclimate them to the mod- played Grace's character. In comparison to Kidman, ern world. Grace later learns that Howard is horrible. For the

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first three-fourths of the movie, Howard has the same facial expression. This is irritating because she does not illustrate anything with her voice, body or face. Howard definitely has a hard task m filling Kidman's shoes, but it seems like she does not even try. Kidman's acting made it interesting to watch her character struggle through her ups and downs. Watching Howard, the

viewer hopes the movie will be over soon because it is so boring. The rest of the actors perform better and are more charismatic than Howard. Danny Glover does an excellent job playing Willielm, the oldest slave on the plantation. He reflects his character's feelings well, making the viewer feel his pain. The director could have chosen a better actress to

play Grace, or given her expression more importance in the production of this film. He could have also made the script clearer so it would not be so hard to understand the whole story. Lars von Trier dropped the ball with this movie, making it a disappointing sequel. "Manderlay" will be playing at the Ken Cinema in Hillcrest March 10 through March 17.

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Bryce Dallas Howard stars in "Manderlay,"the sequel to the 2003 film "Dogville." Howard plays Grace, a young woman who finds a plantation where slavery is still practiced in 1933.

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·sparks fly at Palomar's 'Magic Fire' By Jason Dunn TH£ TEUSCOP£

A family hid'es from a communist government. They have already escaped the Nazis in Germany, but have landed in an equally dangerous and hostile country: Argentina in the 1950s. Will this family give ! 'The Magic Fire' up? Or will they~ DIRECTED BY enjoy the small f PAT LARMER pleasures and :.... DATES l MARCH 3·12 IN THE HOWARD limited comforts BRUBECK THEATRE their new lives have to offer? This ADMISSION is the premise of sa STUDENTS, $12 GENERAL Palomar's latest ..__ _ _ __. theatrical production "The Magic Fire," which is set to open March 3. "I love the script," said Patrick Larmer, who directs the production. "I thought it was one of the best shows I had ever read." The play is told from the point of view of Lise, the child in the family. She narrates the play as an adult, telling the story of her young life. Larmer has directed theatrical productions at Palomar College since 1979. "The Magic Fire" was written by Lillian Groag and was first produced at the 1997 Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The title is a reference to a Wagnerian opera (based on Norse mythology) where a character is surrounded and protected by a magic fire. "I read it once and I just thought it was a great play," said Justin West, who plays Henri Fontannes. "It is one of the best plays I ever read." West has performed in other Palomar productions , including "Dark Rapture" and "Tartuffe." "It has everything a show should have," said Toni Ann Cafaro, who plays the adult Lise. Cafaro brought the script to Larmer in the 1990's. Due to copyright issues , Larmer was unable to produce the play until this year. Cafaro and many of the cast have performed in previous Palomar College productions. "This is a great cast," said Larmer. "There's a lot of experience in the cast. A lot of talent, and they've really dedicated themselves emotionally." Student Casey Palmer, who plays Otto, Lise's father, performed in previous Palomar College productions but "The Magic Fire" is his first time working with Larmer as director.

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Right - Heather Carlson plays the young Lise, a girl whose family fled Nazi Germany, only to be forced into hiding in Argentina in the 1950s. The story is told from the point of view of the adult Lise looking back on her childhood. PHOTOS COURTESY OF RANDY HOFFMAN

Cinema classes prepare students for careers in film By Leslie Simpson

minute movie on a topic of their choice. In Cinema 115, Creative Writing for Batman's tireless butler, Alfred, led a Television and Cinema, students develop complicated life. A young woman with a · their story ideas into viable screenplays for vendetta against pizza delivery guys television or film. found a violent outlet for her anger. "The discussion and feedback can be These stories may not have graced really helpful," said Eric McGill, a cinema the silver screen, but students in major. "We talk about problems we had Palomar's Cinema program have and how to avoid them next time." brought them to life in short films. Palomar grants an associates degree Palomar's hands-on program offers and a Certificate of Achievement in students a chance to write, produce, Cinema, which can lead to entry-level direct, edit and screen their own technical jobs such as shooting cinematogmovies, as well as analyze existing raphy or editing film. films and techniques. The community Robert Sheppard, the Cinema college environment features small Department chairman, said the proclasses and access to cameras, light gram prepares students for the rigors of kits, and editing bays. film school through a strong, balanced Cinema classes often require projects foundation in film making basics. that can strengthen a student's skills Sheppard said students serious about film making usually transfer to fourand resume. In Cinema 125 and 225, Film and year film schools such as USC or UCLA. Video Field Production, rookie film "When students go to film school to maker form groups and produce a 10- make their own pictures they're not

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reinventing the wheel," Sheppard said. "They've got a sense of what the medium is capable of." San Diego State University film student Bridget Anderson transferred from Palomar and s·aid community college prepared her for the move. Palomar cinema instructors get to know their students, she said, and challenge them to do their best work. "SDSU's classes are really big," she said. ''You just don't get that same intimacy that you get at Palomar, where you can talk about the movie in-depth with the professor and fellow students." With a bachelor's degree in cinema, many graduates go to work in Hollywood. Sheppard cited numerous Palomar success stories, including a high-ranking music video editor, well-paid screenwriters and a flourishing cinematographer. Sheppard said he encouraged students to question and think critically about the media in his classes.

Lisa Cecere, another full-time faculty member in the cinema program, said she teaches students to recognize the techniques film maker use to elicit emotional responses. "I hope that when students go to the movies to see any film they enjoy, that they can't look at it in quite the same way as before they took the classes," Cecere said. "For better or worse." Cinema students often enter their work in local competitions, including the San Diego Emmys. Five cinema students received Emmy nominations last year, including one who earned top honors for his short film titled "Big Foot- Resident in Foxwood." Although Palomar does not host any competitions, students screen their films for classmates and guests on the last day of class. Family members and friends attend by invitation only, and students welcome comments after each film.

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he first televised show aired from the Pantages Theater in Hollywood on March 19, 1953. .

he 78th Annual Academy Awards will be presented at 5 p.m. on March 5 at the Kodak T Theater, which is located across the street from the ceremony's first location at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. ' ' T h e Daily Show" host Jon Stewart will lead the proceedings, following in the footsteps of fellow comedians such as Bob Hope and Billy Crystal.

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Suppose they gave away Oscars, and nobody watched? The year of movies that nobody went to is about to become an Oscar show that nobody watches. The Academy Awards are about to become the priciest "niche audience" telecast in history. They are, a Los Angeles Times headline put it, movies with "depth" but not "breadth." Seriously. The slide in ratings for the big telecast has been pronounced for years, and the number of viewers is very much connected to people sitting down to watch their favorite stars compete on something that isn't a skating rink or dance floor. What do you get when the acting nominees are all character players, and the movies are all "sleeper hits," code for profitable cheapies that few people saw? When the producers of "Brokeback Mountain" feel compelled to let us know that they just became the top box office draw of the nominated films, passing "Crash," which has been out on DVD forever, and only after two solid months of being the only movie to generate any publicity at all, well, there's trouble in River City. · More people saw "Fahrenheit 9/11," a documentary, than saw any of the nominated films or performances. More people saw the penguin documentary. That's pathetic. Granted, the major studios didn't exactly fill the multiplex with movies the award-oriented could get behind. And some of the very best work of the year was recognized. But teeny tiny movies from "Junebug" to "Hustle & Flow," "Capote" to "Syriana," produced the nominees.

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their en"tertainment. Tom Hanks can lead us onto the streets of "Philadelphia," but he can't make us stay for a double , triple or quadruple feature. USA Today went after that idealistic notion that where Hollywood leads, audiences will follow. It probably won't happen. Yes, everybody's talking "Brokeback." It's in the lexicon, and it's still doing modestly well. But will we "quit" on the spit by March 5? Or will it reach $100 million and become, at least, an "English Patient" for the new millennium? That desert-love bore proved that the Oscars aren't a universal conversation starter when most moviegoers haven't seen your most honored movie. If the movies are to remain a part of the national/international dialogue, then the Oscars are going to have to be more representative than this. It's enough to make one long for the bad old days , when Miramax was so adept at working the Oscars, rallying support for its chic films in the face of Hollywood's biggest and most bloated. Urge the mainstream to get better, yes. But it's not chic when everybody nominated has "indie" cachet and esoteric subject matter. With all the surprises drained from this awards season and its relentless Hoffman I" Broke back" IAn g Lee/Witherspoon wins in the preOscars, that leaves us with an opening non-movie person Jon Stewart monologue (how very 2004), and hopefully Robin Williams or Celine Dion singing all three Oscar nominated songs - "In the Deep," from "Crash," "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" from "Hustle & Flow," and "Travellin' Thru," from "Transamerica." I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Celine.

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• CLUB RUSH: Event draws more clubs, participants than recent semesters CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

This semester a new club was also started at Club Rush. The Palomar Herbivore Club is a club that promotes vegetarianism. The club's founder, Katherine Burke, started the club to spread awareness about vegetarianism and was recruiting non-vegetarian members. "I've had people come over and not share my opinion and that's good," Burke said. "I always enjoy doing the opposing-view thing." The Palomar College Democrats table and the Palomar College Republicans table were in close proximity. Both had voter registration forms available. The Palomar College Democrats solicited support for a candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial "We like new members, we election. like to 11lso bring our ide~~s The Palomar C o l l e g e to the t11ble." Republicans col. - Kent Du Iecte d Signatures MEMBER, PALOMAR COLLEGE REPUBLICANS for an initiative to put Jessica's Law on the November ballot, and handed out copies of articles opposing affirmative action. "We like new members, we like to also bring our ideas to the table," said Kent Du, who manned the Palomar College Republican's table. "We're out to express our ideas." Most tables provided fliers for interested students. The Geoscience Connection table used different rocks as paperweights. The table also had a topographic map of San Marcos, including Palomar College. The International Club's table was decorated with hats, clothes and figurines representing different cultures. "We have people of all races and all countries," said Claudia Covarrubias, the club's president. "We're happy to have them." Some clubs sold "We h11ve people of 1111 r11tes food or candy to 11nd 1111 eountries. We'll raise funds, including the h11ppy to h11ve them." Archaeology Club - Claudia Covarrubias and Phi Theta INTERNATIONAL CLUB PRESIDENT Kappa. "Many people have stopped," said Lourdes Runk, who manned the Phi Theta Kappa table for part of the event. Runk told people about the benefits of membership in the honor society. "I'm kind of tired of talking," she said. The tables were manned between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. with some clubs staying later. A few of the clubs initially set up outside but later moved inside. "For what they had to put up with, I thought it was good," said Marilyn Lunde, Administrative Assistant to the Office of Student Affairs. "It's always a little tough when you get bad weather."

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(Above) Katherine Burke, president of the newlyformed Herbivore Club, hands out literature during Club Rush on Feb. 15. Clubs originally set up in front of the Student Center but were forced to move inside because of rain.

(left) The Republican Club, Phi Theta Kappa and the Palomar College Democrats were among 13 clubs forced inside the Student Center due to rain during Club Rush.

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and the grant elimination of the GEAR UP and TRIO mentoring programs. "The Bush budget is a disaster to higher education," said board member Nancy Chadwick. The governing board is also pushing for a state community college initiative that would increase funding and rollback student fees to $20 per unit. Th~ law would require that students would be given a 60-day notice of any fee hikes and any tuition increase would be capped at a maximum of 10 percent each year. Board members also approved a 4.23 percent cost of living raise for classified staff members. State funds granted to the college provided for the raise. Governing board vice president Mark Evilsizer said the funds are intended for all college funding, but have traditionally gone to assist with higher living expenses. The COLA raise comes as part of an agreement with the Council of Classified Employees union. CCE members were also given an expansion of vacation time by the board. While reviewing faculty and staff salaries and benefits, Evilsizer said the board has requested a report from

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Political science professor and Tenure Evaluations Review Board Director Mary Ann Drinan delivers a report on recent changes to the tenure evaluation processes for faculty, at the governing board's Feb.14 meeting.

Deegan's office on how Palomar compares with other community colleges. "We don't want to be in the bottom percentile," Evilsizer said. "We have to keep our finger on the pulse and stay competitive if pay raises may not have been .the

best in comparison with other colleges." During presentations, Facilities Director Mike Ellis presented a report on possible alternative energy methods for the college. While college officials are exploring

additional options to reduce energy costs, Ellis advised the board that the college did not have sufficient funds to convert some facilities to operate on solar power. Under the proposal, the state would match 33 percent, or $85,800 of the $260,000 project. "Energy conservation is not cheap," Ellis said. Ellis said the college is considering partnering with an outside contributor, such as Chevron, to secure funds that would go toward future projects. One future proposal would include building an off-site generator to supply power to the campus. "We want to continue progressive ways of identifying funding," said board member Ruth Larson. "We need to be visionaries and as we build buildings of the future, we have to see what we have done to identify energy." Under other action items, the governing board voted to raise out-of-state tuition from $151 to $157 per unit, but voted to eliminate the $25 application fee. Deegan said the college must maintain a delicate balance of fees so students don't choose to attend other schools.

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Study Abroad founder dies of ALS at 61 now San Dieguito Academy, and earned degrees from San Diego State and the University of San Francisco before joining the Peace Corps in 1970. Teaching was an easy transition when Pesacreta came to Palomar in 1972, his sister said. She said he was driven by his motivation to be with younger people and his pride in the By John Asbury Tlf£ TELISCOP£ Study Ab:road program. "He was a very generous, considerate person. He accepted all students in his Former Spanish professor George classroom," said fellow Spanish profesPesacreta never could stay in one place sor and friend Martha Evans. "He for too long while traveling around the cared about his students more than world, but he managed to stay at anything." Palomar College for 31 years. In addition to founding the Study Pesacreta died Jan. 16 at the age of Abroad program, Pesacreta was also 61, after a more than two-year battle instrumental in creating the college's with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's current Foreign Language Lab, Evans disease. His legacy includes the cre- said. ation of Palomar's Study Abroad pro"He fought for the college and did his gram. best to back his colleagues," Evans Pesacreta began teaching at Palomar said. "He was good at solving problems after a tour with the Peace Corps in -he knew how to move mountains." Peru. While teaching in the Foreign Pesacreta arranged French professor Languages Department he helped cre- Chantal Maher's first teaching job at ate student excursions to Spain, France Mesa College and later shared his and South America. office with her when she came to Palomar. "George was one of "HI WIIS 11 Vlf1 glnltOUS, those people who took Maher said he was off from home and tonsidltllll PilSOn." committed to all fornever looked back," eign languages. She - Martha Evans said his sister Jean SPANISH PROFESSOR added that he was a Smith of Carlsbad. polite and gracious person who under"His whole life was stood how traveling about traveling and meeting people - home was just a enhances students' ability to learn. stopping point to get ready for the next "He wanted students to learn the lantrip." guage, not be afraid of it," Smith said. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in "Language can be very intimidating 1944, Pesacreta moved with his Italian and he put students at ease and they family of four sisters and one brother to were very successful." Pesacreta retired in May 2003 after Encinitas when he was 10. Pesacreta attended San Dieguito High School, being diagnosed with the fatal disease.

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While spending most of his career corFamily, friends and colleagues responding through global postcards, remembered Pesacreta at a memorial he spent his last years surrounded by service Feb. 4. family and friends. A Study Abroad scholarSeveral of his ship was also created in Palomar colleagues "His who/1 lif1 w11s 11bout his name. remained at his side ltllvlling 11nd m11ting Maher said even after ,I II being diagnosed , leading up to his death. Weakened by Pesacreta remained his illness, it was diffi- .Jean Smith involved in department SISTER events, which often cult for Pesacreta to leave his Carlsbad brought faculty members home, said Evans who to his home. was with Pesacreta in his final hours. "It's hard to imagine knowing him for "He was one of my closest friends and such a long time and now having to say I really feel like I've lost something," goodbye," Maher said. "We'll always Evans said. "At least I know he's not keep talking about George - we won't suffering." forget him."

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C.C. Sanders, a local professional singer, sang the oldies at the Black History Celebration on Feb. 8. He said he is known for his rendition of Sammy Davis, Jr.'s "Candyman.''

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items invented by black inventors, as well as a podium for speakers and performers. Several students in front of the Student Center said they had not planned on coming to the celebration, but checked it out because they had time between their classes. ''This is a great idea," said Nancy Mendoza, a student who was watching the performers. "Younger generations should learn about stuff like this, so I think it's a really good thing." Reginald Owens, a representative from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and adjunct professor at Palomar, spoke about Carter G. Woodson, the African-American activist who first proposed having a Black History Month. ''Woodson hoped that whites would learn about the achievements and contributions of blacks," Owens said. "Sometimes people ask why there is no White History Month. The reason why is that the contributions of whites are widely recognized." Owens cited statistics about the achievements of blacks, such as 81 percent of black adults have high school diplomas and 61 percent are voters. He added that a big reason blacks are becoming more successful is more education. "Education has been the beacon to becoming more proficient," Owens said. "More African Americans are being educated, and that has led to more African Americans with successful lives. " C.C. Sanders, a local professional singer, provided live music for the event, singing a variety of songs, including hits by the Temptations and Sammy Davis, Jr. "I grew up in Topeka, Kan. during the Civil Rights Movement, and I saw segregation first hand," Sanders said. "It's very important for future generations to learn

about everything that has happened, so we never forget. Events like this one are great because young people might find out things that they never knew before." One of the performers, Josiah Diallo, sang songs accompanied by his acoustic guitar playing, including one about Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks and Underground Railroad leader Harriet Thbman. ''This is about support for culture of all people," Diallo said. "That starts with individual celebration of each person's culture, and that's what I'm doing today." Sharon Elise, a profe13sor of sociology at Cal State San Marcos, performed a poem called "Black Love." ''The poem is about ridding people of misconceptions about black people," Elise said. "People are often afraid of black people, or have negative thoughts when they see a black person. I want people to think oflove when they think of black people, and I hope people got that from listening today." Another student, Robbie Pollock also said he enjoyed the event. "It's a good reminder of what African-Americans have done for us," Pollock said. Jenkins said he hoped everyone paid attention to the message of the celebration. "One thing I hope that everyone got from this event is that everyone's history is valuable," Jenkins said. "Not just black history, but all people's history. When people realize this, and gain a desire to learn about other people, we all learn to respect each other more." Another Black History celebration will take place Feb. 28 in front of the Student Center from 10 a.m-1p.m. Ernie Carson, an employee of the college, will speak on the subject of organized labor and its effects on people of color. In addition, there will be dancing performances and live music from a percussion band.

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David Sandwell is a professor of Geophysics at University of California and a contributing author to the book entitled "Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth." On Feb. 7 at 2:30 p.m. Sandwell came to Palomar for the first time, to speak on "Exploring Earth Tectonics from Mars." Sandwell pioneered the use of radar altimetry, which gave researchers a visual display of the crustal structure of the Earth's ocean floor. Sandwell said the San Andreas Fault is the edge of a plate that runs along California. This is the most famous transform fault and it runs through Riverside and the Salton Sea. Movement ofthis plate accounts for the many earthquakes located in California. Sandwell said there are currently 500 GPS sensors deployed along this fault that are constantly detecting any plate movement. "Sandwell described plate tectonics as the motion of plates across the surface of the Earth. He used slides to give a visual to many of the formations that he · described. A computer animated slide was shown from Google Earth, to show a close up of Mount Rushmore. "There are three types of plate boundaries," Sandwell said. "Ridges, transform faults, and seduction zones." Sandwell was originally a physics major. "I didn't enjoy Quantum Physics, so I went into Geophysics," Sandwell said. He has been in the field for 25 years.

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able to see many different formations such as seamounts with this type of measurement. Seamounts are under-sea volcanoes. Sandwell showed a slide of a nuclear submarine that smashed into one of these volcanoes while going about 33 knots. Because the seamount was unseen by the ships sonar, it was smashed beyond repair. For the third mission they used seismometers and global positioning systems to detect plate movement. ''This really helped to reiterate everything and expand on the information of plate tectonics," said Palomar student Tara Chastain. Another student, Rebecca Sontag said, "It's a very informative lecture and the

graphics were cool." Sontag is in one of the Earth Science classes at Palomar. Last semester her class read the book that Sandwell contributed to. "I decided to go so I can actually meet the guy," Sontag said. "I use data from remote sensing satellites, but occasionally go out to sea," Sandwell said. When out at sea, Sandwell said he uses instruments located on the side of a ship, to take measurements of the bottom of the ocean. Sandwell said that he enjoys geophysics, as well as teaching his students at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the UC San Diego "I enjoy research more though," Sandwell said. ''Teaching is too hard."

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Scott Cassell (left) catches Harmony French after she performed a flip off of the trapeze bar. French was successful in completing all four of the flips that she attempted.

eight years. The trapeze became his passion and he started doing it everyday. Offering gymnastics as well as acrobatics, Trapeze High has helped many of its students overcome physical inabilities and has bridged a gap between people of various backgrounds , he said. All of Ayers' employees are volunteers who help out in exchange By And rea Lacuesta for flying time. THE TEUSCOPE Tommy Peterson, always wearing a smile on his face, has helped From ages 2 to 87 , trapeze Ayers out for two years. fliers of all ages, sizes and back"I was un-athletic, overweight grounds have graced the bar and lazy," Peterson said. "It was with their fluid movements. the trapeze that got me started in Dave Ayers, owner of Trapeze working out and the gymnasts who High, the flying trapeze school would come out to fly that let me on North Broadway in use their gym. " Escondido, said this hedonistic Peterson has been a veterinary ritual is the best physical and technician for 15 or 16 years and mental workout because any- holds a second job as an acrobat at body can do it. Legoland to feed his addiction . "It's the funnest thing in the Rushing through the parking world," Ayers said, basing his lot, a woman comes speeding into school anthem on the words, the school, baby carrier in hand. "wanna get high?'' "Tommy, can you please watch Swinging onto the list of mod- her?" she asked while strapping on ern day exercises, flying trapeze her harness. Peterson took the has made its way into the cen- baby carrier, placed it on the ters of Club Meds and other ground beside him and watched resort spas. Trapeze addicts another of Ayers' students prepare have so far built 14 different tra- her flight . peze locations all over the Kevin Six, a surfer and actor United States, extending even who owns his own dance school , is into Australia and Canada. another of Ayers' regular volunAyers has plans teers. He started to extend his school "/ w•s un-•thletit, volunteering to Logan Heights about three years and is looking for or~rweight•nd l•zy. It w•s ago when the an indoor place in the tr•peze th•t got me school was in the San Marcos/Vista st•rted in working out." Encinitaswhich he could turn Leucadia area. into a full-service - Tommy Peterson When more TRAPEZE HIGH VOLUNTEER space was needbuilding with a school, office and ed, one of Ayers' indoor gym. students volunteered her grandfaThe 35-foot ladder that climbs ther 's place in Escondido . In a up to the platform where trapeze year or so, Ayers said he will move flyers take off was Ayer 's biggest Trapeze High to his own backyard . setback . "My agent is calling," Six said as "No one has a greater fear of he finished his flight and rushed heights than me ," Ayers said. "If to answer hi s phone. anyone fears the trapeze, that Gymnast and MiraCosta student ladder part would be it." Jennifer Merrill has also been a It is a positive addiction volunteer for three years now. She because it exercises every part of said her mother saw Trapeze High the body. Once they try it they advertised on the news , and will often return, Ayers said. thought it was a wonderful idea on Living in Northern California, something related to gymnastics. Ayers · wanted to move to Merrill said she has been addicted Southern California and he said ever since. he thought starting a trapeze Ayers' most fascinating student school would be the best way to is a small six-year-old girl who has do it. Ayers has been flying for a segment an the Animal Planet

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show. Titled "Top 10 Babies" the show was taped when she was 4 years old. It describes her on the trapeze as being like a monkey swinging on trees . On the first day, a student at Trapeze High will learn how to swing back and forth on the bar with the correct posture, be caught by another flyer, and perform back flips off the bar.

Classes cost $40 per session. and are held Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Club members pay $100 a month and are able to fly when class sessions are not being held. For more information or to sign up for a trapeze class, visit www.trapezehigh.com .

Trapeze High student Lisa Spellman (foreground) warms up on the trapeze bar as Harmony French looks on while awaiting her turn.

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Dancers learn Haitian beat origins of the music and the fact that Vigo would be. "I had him for Afro-Cuban dance, and Students walking past classroom D-5 when I saw he was teaching this class, I on Palomar College's San Marcos cam- just knew I had to take it," she said. Though she is not dancing now, Maynrd pus at about 3 p.m. on Thursdays might wonder what is going on inside. said, ''when I get back to it, I think I'll have Drums played in the Franco Haitian a better connection with the musicians." Percussion and Song class can be heard The skills learned through the percussion outside the classroom. and songs in the class encourage the drum"Left, right, left, right," the instructor mers to keep up with their fellow musishouts above cians, taking cues from the drums "I h11d him lor Alro-Cub11n dtlntl, each other. resounding like lind when I SIIW hi WIIS tlllthing The class requires no a march, while pre-requisites or prior experience, but for those a passerby this tiiiSS, I just knew I hlld to hoping to take this peers through tllkl it." course next semester, a the window. The passerby - Michele M~nard great sense of rhythm observes eight UDENT would help. or nine students situated in a half-circle, Students of all ages sit with red faces drums in front of them, following the lead concentrating to keep up with the pace set by their instructor. The class began drumplayed by their instructor. The class, titled Topics in Dance, Franco ming at a relatively slow, steady pace, but Haitian Percussion/Song, is a first for sped up considerably toward the end of the Palomar and is being offered for the Spring two-hour session. 2006 semester. Silfredo Vigo, a Palomar "A yayo yopinge ... " the students sang dance instructor, is teaching the class. It as they played Pinge, a fast style of includes elements of percussion and song drumming mainly performed during traditionally played by people in Haiti, off Holy Day celebrations. the eastern coast of Cuba. Vigo said the Erin Bouche, who was observing, said music is played in Cuba, but originated on she loved watching the class. Bouche, a the western side of Africa around the areas belly dancer, said she prefers Middle ofthe Congo and Nigeria. Eastern drums. She was impressed with The music taught in the class is played the rhythms she heard in the class. Bouche at Cuban ceremonies and process!ons. had expected to hear drums, but was surTraditionally, much of it was played for prised upon learning of the specific variaroyalty. Today it can be heard at a carabali, tions: high, middle, and bass. or festival. Watching the class shows observers that Student Michelle Maynrd shared why it's hard, but a fun and challenging experishe decided to take this unique class. erice. Students pause whenever they can to "I have always been attracted to ethnic stretch out their arms and massage their dance," said Maynrd, who studied Afro- hands. At one point their concentration Cuban dance with Vigo. She said the was turned to expressions of triumphant deciding factors for her were the ethnic satisfaction when, toward the end of class, By Kristina Barton

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FAFSA starts students on the path to financial aid B Chrystal! Kanyuck " i 'EUStOPE

Want free money to go to college? The first thing to do is fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The California deadline for initial awards is March 2, but not to worry, there is still time to apply online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. Before you apply, you need to get information together. This includes the 2005 tax forms, your Social Security number, current bank account balances, information on any investments and information on business assets and losses for 2005. You also need all of your parents' information unless you were born before 1982, have served in the military, are married or have dependent children. "This is something students have a hard time with," said Francisca de Gonzalez, Palomar College Financial Aid Specialist. "Some of them haven't seen their parents in five years, so they don't want to put their parents' information." De Gonzalez said students are considered dependents of their parents until the age of 24. It's also a good idea to pick up a paper copy so you have something to refer to while filling out your application online. Once you have all the information together, read the application and directions carefully. The form has some user-

friendly color-coding to make things easier, but some questions are long and have additional notes at the end of the application. If you read everything before you start filling it out, you can clarifY any questions at the financial aid office. "Students can come in and ask questions any time," de Gonzalez said. She said everyone in the financial aid office is trained to help students with applications. For students who would like someone to fill out the online application with them, there is also a FAFSA specialist in the Career Center five days a week Once you have the application filled out, double check it to make sure there are no errors. If the information on a FAFSA is incorrect, such as the wrong social security number, it can take much longer to process. Also, it's important to include a working e-mail address when filing online to receive notification from FAFSA about your · application status. Even if you have miss the March 2 deadline, you can still apply to get community college awards through Sept. 1 ''We always encourage everyone to fill out the FAFSA," said Buddy Springer, Palomar College Financial Aid Specialist. "Almost everyone who applies can qualifY for a board of governor's fee waiver. That's $300, which is more than worth it."

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Students in Silfredo Vigo's Franco Haitian Percussion/Song class play a style of drumming known as Pinge.

Vigo smiled and said, "That was very good. That was very good." At one point Vigo even began dancing to his students' music, eliciting appreciative smiles from everyone. It's clear how much Vigo enjoys teaching the class. He said he hopes the class will be

offered again next semester. For more information on this class, DNCE 197H, contact the department office at (760) 744-1150, ext. 2316 or advisor Patriceann Mead at (760) 7441150, ext. 2969, or by e-mail at pmead@palomar.edu.

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Most people consider April to be crunch time on taxes. But families with college students know January is the month to get cracking, since much college aid is based on early tax-return data.

For a lot of families, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is pretty much the last free thing associated with college in America. On the form, which can be completed online, families basically are asked to reveal the location and copper content of every cent they own - before hauling it all to the bursar's office. • http://www.fafsa.ed.govI

Colleges say they do not know how much aid to offer until a student files the federal form called FAFSA (see below). But first you have to do your tax return - or at least estimate the figures that will go on it. For forms and instructions, the Internal Revenue Service home page is here: • http://www.irs.gov

Follow The Money The U.S. Department of Education has a Web page explaining its programs that provide grants, loans and so forth. New legislation could raise interest rates on college loans, so some advisers urge families to lock in rates soon.

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Sehol11rship Se11reh A loose, changing network of private groups offers scholarships in addition to aid doled out by colleges using the FAFSA data. CollegeBoard.com, where students go to register for the SAT, has a service that matches personal profiles with a database of $3 billion in grants, loans and internships. • http:/I apps.collegeboard.com/cbsearch-

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Deadline to submit entries for literary journal nears· 8 Scott Neth

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What is significant about March 10? If you're inteTested in poetry, prose writing, or visual art, March 10 is the deadline to submit work for this year's Palomar College literary journal, also known as Bravura. Every spring, English 137 students put Bravura together. The class teaches students how to assemble the magazine, how to bid out the job of "It's 11 gre11t r~nue 11nd publishing it, as well as what to look forum lor the erHtiVI voice for in good writing of P11lom11r College." and how to make - Rocco Versaci their own work betENGLISH I 3 7 PROFESSOR ter. The class is being taught this year by Rocco Versaci and Carlton Smith. Bravura is a year:ly publication of students' poetry, short fiction, art, and photography. This year's edition will be published the week before final exams and is open to all students. Versaci said most Bravura students have taken a creative writing course and are interested in pursuing creative writing or other English majors. Others are more interested in publishing, but there are no prerequisites to take the class. "I hope they deepen their love of literature and writing, and that they take some skills that will help them pursue their own literary careers," Versaci said of his Bravura students. In addition to getting their work published, students are eligible for cash prizes. First prize is valued at $100, second at $50 and third at $25. Bravura class members will also be the guests of

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English professor and Bravura adviser Rocco Versaci discusses this year's edition with students in his English 137 class. Bravura is a student-produced literary journal that features Palomar students poetry, short stories, art and photography.

honor at an April meeting of the Sunset Poets, an Oceanside-based poetry club. April is national poetry month. These students will also have a public unveiling of the completed magazine on May 17 at the Brubeck Theatre. The class is set to read selections from the magazine to the attendees. Bravura students offer tastes of their work throughout the semester. On Thursdays, the class meets at the Student Center to edition. Students are encouraged to submit their creative works, which can be dune in person via the submis-

sion box in Room P-2, or as an e-mail attachment sent to rversaci@palomar.edu. Work can be submitted as a hard copy, on a disk, or as an electronic file, and all hard copies of artwork can be retrieved later. Versaci said he encourages any student who would like to submit their work. "It's a great venue and forum for the creative voice of Palomar College," Versaci said. "We hope students take advantage ofthis magazine so they can see how gratifying it is for their work to be published."

The Palomar College GEAR UP Program is looking for outgoing and energetic students who are seeking a leadership role.

We're currently accepting applications for the following positions:

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Here's what you can expect as a Palomar College GEAR UP employee: • Excellent direct experience for future teachers/educators • Give back to your community and younger students • Work in San Marcos or Vista Middle/High Schools • Participate in fun activities, events, and field trips • Start working right away{$ for the holidays) • Get great work experience for your resume • $9.00 per hour, starting salary • Or, volunteer/serve! For information on how to apply

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Palomar student government has some new leadership. Newly appointed Vice President of the Associated Student Government Curtis Van Engel said that he is good at solving problems and hopes to use this skill in his new position. "I just want to make things more positive in general for students," Van Engel said. Former vice president Malia Basset transferred to Chico State University this semester. ASG President Neill Kovrig appointed Van Engel as a replacement to finish Basset's term, which ends this May. Van Engel started at Palomar in 2001 as an engineering major with plans to become a civil engineer. In May, he will have completed all the coursework for an associate degree in water technology education. He plans to stay at Palomar, however, until he finishes some more prerequisites for his new major - history. "In my spare time, I would always be reading history books," Van Engel said. He said his time at Palomar has helped him realize his strengths. "I'm seriously considering becoming a historian," Van Engel said. "It would be really cool to work for the Smithsonian doing historical research." He added that as an alternative, he may pursue teaching at the community college level. The new vice president has served as an ASG senator since Fall 2005. As a senator, his duties included serving on the bookstore advisory council and the campus police advisory council. Now as

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Associated Student Government Vice President Curtis Van Engel discusses the ramifications of a complaint the International Students Office lodged against ASG members for noise coming from their office. Van Engel was appointed vice president after serving as a senator and the Inter-Club Council Chairman.

vice president, Van Engel will also manage the Associated Student Government Office in the Student Center, serve on the Student Services Planning Council and take Kovrig's place leading ASG meetings if the president is unable to attend. "I know that he will do a great job as vice president," Kovrig said, after

appointing Van Engel at the Jan. 25 ASG meeting. ASG elections are set for this May. Van Engel said he may run for president, but that it depends on his schedule. "I don't want to do it if I won't have time to do a good job," Van Engel said. Even when he is not on ASG duty,

Van Engel said he is generally still on campus. He works at the Comet Center 16 hours a week, issuing student ID cards. He has also been the president of the Anime Club since 2004. The club, for fans of Japanese animation, meets every Friday from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. There are about 13 members, and Van Engel said the club takes up a lot of his time. "It's worth all the time and energy," Van Engel said. "It's a really great group of people." Van Engel's membership in the Anime Club contributed to his interest in the language. For the past two years, he has taken Japanese language classes at Palomar College. Van Engel was the impetus behind the college offering a fourth semester Japanese class. Although listed in the catalogue of classes, it had not been offered in several years, until this semester, he said. To get the college to offer the class, Van Engel had to get signatures of interested students and bring it to the foreign languages department and the department of instruction. The school had to hire a new instructor to teach the class. Van Engel said the class difficult, but it will help prepare him for a Feb. 28 trip to Tokyo. He will be making the trip to purchase Japanese comics, also called manga, for an American Manga company. Van Engel said he also gets to attend various anime conventions while working at the company's table. "I feel fortunate to get to do this," Van Engel said. "It's a hobby that I really enjoy." Van Engel added that this will be his fourth trip to Japan.

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Penn State senior Ari Paul plays three poker hands simultaneously in his dormitory room. Last summer, he said, he would routinely log on to online poker "rooms" with $3,000 and stay 12 hours.

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PHILADELPHIA (KRT) - Ari Paul's dorm room at the University of Pennsylvania has the trappings of the contemporary collegiate male: acoustic guitar, Hooters calendar, supersize bag of tortilla chips on the floor, and dual flat-screen computer monitors at which he's playing three simultaneous hands of online poker. The game is Omaha high, close to Texas hold 'em. Cards flick across the screens at a speed no casino dealer could match.The stakes are low by Paul's old standards, a total buy-in of just $500 at the three virtual tables. A political science major in a grueling senior year, he has reined in his game since last summer, when he routinely logged into online poker "rooms" with $3,000 and stayed 12 hours. His win rate (he calls it "expected value") has tumbled from $150 an hour to $30.Still, he claims to be up about $30,000 over two years. If his accounting is accurate, Paul is far more skilled and certainly luckier than most of the estimated 1.6 million, overwhelmingly male college students nationwide who in the last few years have become regular - some admit addicted players of Internet poker. Twenty-six percent of college men gamble in online card games at least once a month and 4 percent once a week or more, up from 1 percent a year earlier, according to a 2005 survey by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center. The vast majority are betting on poker. "We keep waiting for it to peak," said Dan Romer, director of the Risk Survey of Youth. "So far, it hasn't." For generations of college students killing time, penny ante was a staple of dorm life. Then along came television's million-dollar prime-time tourneys about five years ago to gild poker in trendiness. By 2003, the fever was sweeping the Internet. The Justice Department considers Internet gambling illegal at any age. So the online poker rooms - at least 300 of them - are based outside the United States, with many in Canada but the largest in Gibraltar. Their profits come

from raking in a very fat pot: $60 billion bet worldwide last year, according to London analysts who research the online poker industry for investors. At any given moment, the rooms are filled with thousands of players seated up to 10 per table and known to one another only by handles such as ElDonkerino and Chiptaker32. All it takes to get in the game is a computer and a credit card. And what college student doesn't have those? Greg Hogan did. The 19-year-old son of a Baptist minister from Ohio, he was president of his sophomore Class of 2008 at Lehigh University. He also was an avid online poker player, although not quite as good at it as Ari Paul. On Dec. 9, he walked into an Allentown, Pa., bank, handed a teller a note claiming he had a gun, and left with $2,871. The young man's motivation, his attorney said, was $5,000 in poker debts. Now in a gambling addiction program in Louisiana, Hogan faces a preliminary hearing early next month. A guilty plea or a conviction could land him in prison for up to 20 years. Romer, of the Annenberg Center, said he hoped the bizarre heist would make colleges and parents take notice of what's going on behind closed dorm doors. ''The awareness is just not there yet that some kids who are exposed to this are going to get hooked," he said. ''These kids are pretty smart, and they think poker is a skill-based form of gambling that they can control. But a lot of them can't." Colleges have done little to break up the game. "I'm sure students are playing it," said University of Pennsylvania spokeswoman Phyllis Holtzman, ''but it's not on anyone's radar screen administratively." Some schools are even playing along. At Lehigh University - the ill-starred Greg Hogan's almost-alma mater - students in one computer science course are instructed to create a "bot" that simulates a human poker player. The class features $13,000 worth of software donated by a firm called Poker Academy. Federal prosecutors and state attorneys general, among them New York's Eliot

Spitzer, have made sporadic attempts to curb online gambling, principally by pressuring banks to decline credit-card charges made at poker sites. Many banks went along, but it didn't matter much: Middlemen sprang up to take charges and transfer the funds to online rooms. Meanwhile, the poker sites market themselves relentlessly to the college demographic, hiring "student representatives" to promote the game and sponsoring ''Win Your Tuition" tournaments. One site, AbsolutePoker.com, recently boasted in a news release that the winners of its last two tuition competitions weren't "lazy, beer-swilling, up-all-night bums," but "4.0 students and model citizens." ''We believe that this program is one of the best ways to create real added value for college students," Michael Edwards, AbsolutePoker's business manager, said in the release. A hard sell isn't necessary. So many accomplished students are seduced by online poker because "it's a test of will, a test of intelligence," said Paul. "It's psychological warfare" - a battle they're confident of winning because they believe they're smarter than their opponents. The most obsessed often come to describe their play as a "job" requiring constant, and sometimes tedious, discipline. ''You learn your odds, all of the math behind it, the correct strategies," said Jason Leinbach, a third-year Drexel student who keeps a blog of his poker exploits. To gain an edge at a table where opponents' facial tics, nervous smiles and other "tells" cannot be seen, players can use sophisticated software to track their own play and analyze the tendencies of other gamblers. According to his software, Kent, also a third-year Drexel student, has played 17,190 hands of online poker in the last three months. The count would have been higher a year ago, he said, but his GPA was taking a battering from the 13- to 15-hour daily sessions. "I didn't go to any classes," he said. After a tete-a-tete with his father, Kent cut back and his grades improved. But he still plays plenty and claims to win about $100 a night.

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Late night comedians have taken a field day since Vice President Dick Cheney accidently shot a 78-year-old lawyer in the face with a round of buckshot while hunting quail. Late Show host David Letterman opened his show Feb. 13 proclaiming, "We can't get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney." Among his "Top Ten Cheney Excuses" were, "I thought the guy was going gay cowboy on me."

Guinsaugon, Philippines Rescue efforts continued for residents of a Phillippino village ravaged by mudslide Feb. 17. Nearly 1,900 people were feared dead after the mountain collapsed. Rescuers have found no survivors in the village, since the first hours of the disaster. An elementary school was buried during mudslide and at least 16 other villages in the area were evacuated.

Washington The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case questioning the legality of partial-birth abortions. The high court's ruling will determine if a federal ban is constitutional. Justices will hear the case in the fall, which may set the stage for a potential battle on abortion rights.

Jerusalem - The Israeli government cut off funding to Palestine following the election of the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas. Israeli officials said they will not maintain any contact with Palestine while Hamas is in power. Hamas historically claimed responsibility for several violent attacks in Israel.

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WASHINGTON Brushing off public demands from the two top Republicans in Congress, President Bush said that a deal allowing an Arab company to run six major U.S. seaports should go forward and that he'd veto any effort by Congress to stop it. Both House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. , and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said that the proposed port takeover by Dubai Ports World, a stateowned company from the United Arab Emirates, posed potential national security risks. Both said they wanted the deal stopped immediately pending a more thorough review. And Frist said that if Bush wouldn't stop the deal, he'd introduce legislation to force a halt, echoing a call by a growing number of lawmakers from both parties. Bush and senior administration officials in charge of port security insisted that the pending port takeover poses no security risks, but independent security experts weren't so sure, issuing mixed opinions. But one thing was dear: The rare public quarreling between Bush and the Republican leaders of Congress underscored that, at the very least, the White House has a major political problem on its hands. "I am very concerned about the national security implications that this could have for the safety of the American people," said Hastert, usually a Bush loyalist, in a public letter to Bush. "Therefore I believe there should be an immediate moratorium placed on this seaport deal ... " Under the deal, Dubai Ports World would pay $6.8 billion to acquire a British company, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which has been running commercial operations at the ports of Miami, Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, Baltimore and New Orleans. Critics of the deal note that some of the S~pt. 11 hijackers used the United Arab Emirates as a base and that the country's banking system has been used by groups connected to alQaida. Bush sternly defended the deal in remarks to reporters traveling with him aboard Air Force One, then spoke again on the subject immediately upon

Anabtral gas tanker approaches a port off the coast of Maryland. The port of BaHimore is one of six U.S. ports that may be purchased by a corporation owned by the United Arab Emirates government.

arriving at the White House. ''The company will not manage port security. The security of our ports will continue to be managed by the Coast Guard . and customs," Bush said on the South Lawn. He said his administration had thoroughly reviewed the proposed deal :md found no security threat in it. He sJid that the UAE has cooperated in the war on terror and tbe company has agreed to cooperate with U.S. security agents. He added that it's important for U.S. policy in such transactions to appear even-handed. "I really don't understand why it's OK for a British company to operate our ports, but not a company from the Middle East," Bush said on Air Force One, ''when our experts are convinced that port security is not the issue." But independent experts split on the question. ''The security in the ports is very lax, as we all know. In an ordinary container, you could put a dirty bomb with a GPS (global positioning system) or a cell phone and set it off in the middle of a city," said Warren Leback, who ran maritime administration under President George H.W. Bush. "If the United Arab Emirates decides they are clandestinely supporting terrorists, they could put pressure on personnel to look the other way on the containers." But former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, a Republican who chaired the Advisory Panel to

Assess Domestic Response Capabilities Involving Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction, called the transaction a "good deal." ''The fact that ownership has changed shouldn't change anything," Gilmore said. "I think what you're seeing is people demagoguing things." Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, who co-chaired the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission, took a middle-ground position. He said port security has improved since the terrorist attacks, noting that more cargo is inspected before it reaches U.S. shores. ''The optics are bad," Kean said. "It doesn't give you a lot of confidence. I understand why people are concerned, given the

history of the country." Kean's emphasis on how the deal looks may point to its biggest fault line - the Bush administration's failure to consult Congress about it and sell it politically before the news became public last week. As a result, lawmakers and governors of both parties - including the Republican executives of New York state and Maryland - erupted when they heard about it. Bush reacted to the blowback from Frist, Hastert and other lawmakers with characteristic insistence that they should simply trust his judgment. ''They ought to listen to what I have to say about this," Bush said. ''But if they pass a law, I'll deal with it, with a veto."

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''While I don't like the idea of another country controlling our ports, I could see how it could bring an economic benefit."

"As a business they still have to abide by our same laws. Until there's a set standard, it's still touch and go."

"I think it's wrong to support it when they destroyed the Twin Towers. Not all Arabs are bad, but they're still not too fond of us."

"I don't think it's a problem since U.S. citizens will still be taking care of it. It has nothing to do with terrorism."

"I don't see a problem, why would they buy it ifthey're going to blow it up? The countries aren't the problem, it's the extremists."

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U.S. rejects U.N. report on detainees By Drew Brown

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WASHINGTON (KRT) - The United States should close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, immediately and end violent treatment that amounts to torture, U.N. human-rights investigators said in a report released Thursday. The White House rejected the report. The report recommended that the U.S. government either put the detainees on trial before an international tribunal or release them. Those facing trial should be transferred to detention facilities on U.S. soil, it said. The report also found that excessive violence against detainees, including kicking and punching and force-feeding those on hunger strikes "must be assessed as amounting to torture" as international defined in the Convention Against Torture. White House spokesman Scott McClellan dismissed the 54-page report as a "rehash of allegations" made by lawyers representing some detainees. "We know that these are dangerous terrorists that are being kept at Guantanamo Bay," McClellan said. "They are people that are determined to harm innocent civilians or harm innocent Americans." He added that U.S. servicemen and women must deal with prisoners who are "trained to provide false information." An interim report earlier this month by lawyers representing two

Guantanamo detainees found that 55 percent of the detainees haven't been found to have committed any hostile acts against the United States or its allies. Only 8 percent were characterized as al-Qaida fighters and 86 percent were handed over by Afghan forces or Pakistanis at a time when the United States was offering financial bounties for suspected enemies. The U.N. report was based on interviews with former Guantanamo detainees, lawyers for some current detainees, information from the U.S. government and other data, including reports by nongovernmental organizations. Among the five investigators was Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture. McClellan criticized the investigators for not visiting Guantanamo. The investigators had declined to do so after the government refused to let them interview detainees privately. The United Nations said in a news release that private interviews are accepted procedure in all countries that its human-rights investigators visit. McClellan said it was a "discredit to the U.N .... for rushing to report something when they haven't even looked into the facts." The report said that the U.S. government should refrain from any practice "amounting to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" of detainees and that "all special interrogation techniques" approved by the Department of Defense should be

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A detainee holds a Koran while standing in the door way to his cell at Camp 4 of the maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, .Cuba, on Aug. 26, 2004. The U.N. issued a report recommending the prison be closed and prisoners be tried or released.

revoked, including exposing detainees to extreme temperatures. It said some now-discontinued techniques used at Guantanamo, such as stripping prisoners naked and using dogs , could have amounted to torture. Other recommendations in the report: The U.S. government should ensure that all torture allegations are investigated by independent authorities and "that all persons found to have perpetrated, ordered or condoned such practices, up to the highest level of military and political command, are brought to justice." Detainees who have been tortured or abused should be compensated. No prisoners should be transferred to

countries where they believe they would be tortured. The U.S. government should provide guards adequately trained in human rights issues. The military prison at Guantanamo opened in January 2002 to hold suspected terrorists. The Bush administration contends that the detainees are "enemy combatants" who aren't subject to the usual prisoners' rights under the Geneva Conventions and that they can be held as long as they are a threat to the United States. A military board is supposed to review the status of each detainee and determine whether he should be released, turned over to another country or tried by military commission.

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_.alomar to add women's golf to roster 0 By John Scafetta THE TELESCOPE

The Athletic Department received a stroke of confidence from Palomar Feb. 20, when the college's executive administration approved the addition of a women's golf team. Set to begin play in August in the Orange Empire Conference, the women's program is the 20th team to be added at Palomar and the first since women's cross country in the mid 1990s. Athletic Director John Woods said · lack of money was the main reason for the wait, in addition to the growing cost of officials and transportation. ''Your'looking at $20,000 to $25,000 (to create a sport), honestly, the money wasn't falling in our direction," Woods said. "The institution in the last few years has become more business oriented." Woods said once the final proposal between TaylorMade-adidas and Palomar athletics was in place, then Woods made that proposal to Vice President of Student Services Joe Madrigal. "He carried that forward to the executive administration and they carried out the process," Woods said. The sponsorship between Palomar and TaylorMade-adidas will benefit both the men's and women's programs. Along with providing a sponsorship, the company will supply uniforms, golf balls and a 40 percent discount on all TaylorMade products. "That's huge," Woods said. ''You're talking about drivers that cost $300 to $500, with the discount you're looking at around $150 to $200." TaylorMade-adidas will give players access to the TMag practice facility in Carlsbad, which is a

teaching and training center. They will also donate $5,000 in TaylorMade equipment that will be used at a fundraiser to sponsor an upcoming golf tournament. Woods said the connection with TaylorMade-adidas was huge for Palomar and will be a key recruiting tool. Along with the announcement of the team, the Athletic Department announced Mark Eldridge, current softball head coach, as the coach of the women's team. Eldridge has a proven track record with the college, not only accumulating more than 1,000 career victories and three state softball championships, but also devoting the past 29 years to many Palomar sports including football. "I've known Mark 30 years and I've watched him," Woods said. "He is very successful with female student athletes and he has demonstrated that with the success he has had in softball. We feel like he was the perfect choice." Eldridge said he would continue to coach softball as well as taking on golf. He added that he did not plan on changing coaching strategies, despite a different sport. "I'm just going to do what I always do, I'm going to recruit and help improve," Eldridge said. "I'm not in it to win, but to improve and enjoy it, and I think the rest of it takes care of itself. A lot of people ask me about winning with softball, but I learned a long time ago, don't get caught up in the winning, get caught up into learning how to do it and get better at it." With the new women's team, Palomar contin-

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ues to adhere to the requirements of Title IX, which provides equal opportunities to women in sports. "This gives females an opportunity to participate in collegiate sports," Eldridge said. "There are a lot of four-year opportunities to female golfers, its growing nation wide." Woods said Palomar must continue the progress of offering women's sports, and said he would like to have the full compliment of 11 sports for both the men and women. Both Woods and Eldridge are in the early stages of recruiting and are looking at a minimum of 10 roster spots and a maximum of 15. "I've asked Jonas Crawford (men's golf head coach) to assist, I think he's a valuable resource" Eldridge said. "I think we may have some reentry students that have taken up golf but haven't been in college in a while. But I think it's going to be okay, because this is an area that has a lot of golf interest." Women with golf experience who are interested in joining the team can contact Eldridge at 7441150, ext. 2469 or at meldridge@palomar.edu.

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WOMEN'S BASKOBALL The Comets lost on the road to Cuyamaca 69-37 on Feb. 15. The loss dropped the Comets back into a tie for second place in the Pacific Coast Conference. Three days later, in the regularseason finale, the Comets used 23 points from Mickey Young to beat Southwestern College, 71-59. Tannaz Darian scored 19 points, Latoria Morrissette added 16 points and Fernanda Morales had 10 points and nine rebounds for Palomar which ended the season with an 11-17 overall record and 6-4 in the Pacific Coast Conference. In other women's basketball news, Palomar's head coach Sherry Titus was voted Coach ofthe Year in the Pacific Coast Conference by conference coaches. Morrissette and Danielle Levasseur were also named to the All-PCC first team. Mickey Young received honorable mention.

MEN'S BASKOBALL Sophomore point guard Manny Alcala, one of only two sophomores on the Comets roster, was recently named by Pacific Coast Conference coaches as conference Co-Player of the Year along with Cuyamaca's Marlon Pierce. Palomar head coach John O'Neill, who helped guide the Comets to the PCC championship, was unanimously voted Coach of the Year.

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Palomar teammate E.J. Ross joins Alcala on the first team. G.P. Wells was selected to the second team. John Hotaling received an honorable mention. Ross was also named Men's Co-Athlete of the Week for the week of Feb. 13. Ross scored 52 points for the champion Comets in two games last week. In the opening round of the Southern California Regionals on Feb. 22, the Comets lost to Mt. San Anotino College 96-90. Ross led the Comets with 27 points. Chris Jackson (19 points), Alcala (16 points, 12 assists) and Wells (10 points) also scored in double figures for the Comets.

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At the Rio Hondo Invitational on Feb. 17, Palomar placed ninth in a 21-team field, with a 382, 15 strokes behind champion College of the Canyons, at the California Country Club in Whittier. Nate Lynch tied for second individually, shooting a 1under par 71. Jared Russo had a 76, Steven Maldonado 77, Chad Smith 78 and Matt Geudtner 80. Two days prior, the defending Southern California champion Comets opened there Orange Empire Conference season as they defeated Cypress 381-382. Lynch carded a 74. Smith and Lyndon Barril each shot a 76, Geudtner a 77 and Maldonado a 78. Freshman Marshall Thompson

The Comets, ranked No. 1 in the state along with Antelope Valley College, started off the week splitting four games in the Green and Gold Tournament at Irvine on Feb. 11 and 12. Palomar dropped a 2-0 decision to Long Beach City College, bouncing back to blank Ventura 13-0 on Melissa Lerna's three-hit shutout, beating Moorpark 9-1 and then losing to Fullerton 2-1. Days later, the Comets went to Cerritos College and beat the Chargers 10-7. Clarissa Maldonado went 4-for-5 with two doubles and 3 RBis and Kelly Schmeiser was 3-for3 with two doubles and two RBis as the Comets won on the road. Lerno, who recorded the win in relief, went

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3-for-5 with a pair of doubles. On Feb. 17, the Comets traveled to Palm Desert to play College of the Desert. The Comets demolished the Roadrunners with their best offensive output of the season. Jerica Fa'asua went 3-for-4 with two home runs, Melanie Medina went 3-for-3 with a home run and Maldonado went 2-for-4 with a home run and a double to led the hitting attack. Lerno recorded the win as she teamed with Janielle Nickels to throw a two-hitter. In a double header versus Victor Valley College on Feb. 22, Nickels pitched her first no-hitter of the year in a 8-0 victory over the Rams. In the second game, Victor Valley did not fair much better as Lerno pitched a 1-hitter as the Comets pounded out 18 hits and 16 runs to improve their overall record to 13-7. The Comets begin Pacific Coast Conference play March 1, versus Southwestern College.

MEN'S VOLLEYBALL The Comets lost for the second .time in as many matches Feb. 17, as Palomar lost to Santa Monica College 3-1. Santa Monica took the first game 18-25, but allowed Palomar to tie it up on the next game, 25-22. However, that is all the Comets would get as they were beaten in the next two sets (18-25, 19-25) to give Santa Monica the win. Sophomore middle blocker Jon Girten had 10 kills for Palomar.

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Comets .win game, conference title By John Scafetta

when Cuyamaca went on an eight-point run to take the lead at 68-67 with four In a face-off between conference power- minutes 25 seconds left. With four minhouses, the Palomar College men's basket- utes left, the Comets trailed by three ball team guaranteed itself a playoff berth, when Alcala came up with two big defenedging out second-place Cuyamaca in an sive stops that set up consecutive three pointers from G.P. Wells (18 85-80 victory Feb. 15. The Comets (16-11, 12-1) COYOTES 80 points) and E.J. Ross (29 points). stretched their winning streak COMETS 85 ·With two minutes 34 seconds left, Palomar tried to secure the to 11 straight and 14 of their last 16, while capturing their first division lead when Ross picked off his defender and headed down court for a fast break title since the 2002- 2003 season. "It hasn't really hit me yet," co-captain dunk. As he attempted to put it down, the Manny Alcala said. "It feels great right ball hit the back edge of the rim, and riconow." cheted back into the hands of a Cuyamaca After opening the season 2-9, the defender. "I took him over (to the side), and said Comets turned things around at the start of the conference season, losing only once 'don't worry about it, we're going to win by to Imperial Valley in a thrilling, double- more than two,' so that took the pressure off him,'' head coach John 0 ' Neill said. "I overtime, one-point defeat. "When we first came out here, we were don't know, it took the pressure off me by losing," freshman Chris Jackson said. "I saying that." Ross then redeemed himself. Off an would have never thought we would be Alcala steal, Ross was led down an open this good." At the start of the game, Palomar was court, in which he layed the ball in and pressured by a tough Cuyamaca man-to- was fouled on the way up. Ross converted man defense. The strong defense led to the 3-point play. Ross finished the game, scoring 21 ofhis errant passes, and the Comets were down by as much as nine points with 11 minutes 29 points in the second half, propelling the left. Manny Alcala, who garnered a game Comets to the victory and title. ''We're going to have to start keeping high 10 assists, orchestrated Palomar's comeback as the offense got on track. The him out," O'Neill joked about Ross' secondlead changed 10 times throughout the rest half performance. ''We can't let him shoot that much." of the half, ending in a 33-33 tie. On a low note the Comets suffered a loss The second half continued with the lead sWitching back and forth. Within a 20-sec- five minutes into the game. Following a ond span, Jackson opened up the lead for drive to the basket, Chris Williams went the Comet's with consecutive three point- down hard on his knee. Williams, a key ers with a little less than nine minutes left. contributor off the bench, did not play the "That gave us some good momentum," rest of the game, and was later diagnosed said Jackson, who had 13 points off the with an ACL injury. ''We can't miss anybody,'' O'Neill said. bench. "It was a boring game, until I hit ''We need every one of our guys. They all those threes." Palomar saw its six point lead collapse pick us up, and they're all a part of some-

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Palomar freshman G.P.. Wells goes up for a lay up versus Cuyamaca on Feb. 15. Wells scored 29 in the win.

thing. When you have one guy who's not playing, it takes away from everybody else." Despite the loss of Williams, Palomar is looking forward to its first taste of playoff action in more than three years. ''We're going for the (state) champi-

onship," Jackson said. "We're coming in as underdogs, but we're confident. People always undersize us, saying we're little." Alcala echoed Jackson's assurance. "We feel very confident," Alacala said. "Hopefully we can get a ·good seed and cause some damage."

Palomar fights back for latest victory By John Scafetta

one in the top of the second inning, the Comets took the lead The Palomar College baseball back in the bottom half of the team revenged an earlier loss to inning, when right fielder Ben L.A. Pierce College by returning Caple scored on an RBI single off the favor on the visiting the bat of first baseman Brahmas in a 12-4 victory on Cameron Penny. Palomar then Feb. 18 in the Comet ,...-------, tacked on another run, BRAHMAS 4 as shortstop Ricky Invitational. ll Imperiali slapped a The Comets (9-4) COMETS bounced back from base hit past Pierces' their 15-4 loss to Pierce two days diving second baseman Ryan prior, pounding out 16 hits in the Richardson, scoring Penny and victory at Meyers Field. taking a 3-1lead. "I tried to forget Thursday," "When we first scored two runs, it gave us head coach confidence," said Buck Taylor Imperiali, who said. "It's completely out of went 2-f-or-3 with two RBis my mind. We came back and and one stolen base. "We figplayed better, which is all Who: Palomar versus Southwestern ured out what he was throwing." you can ask What: Conference game Palomar put for. It proves When: 2p.m., March 2 two more runs we can bounce Where: Palomar baseball field back after a on the board At stake: The Comets face off couple losses." with a Capel against the Jaguars for the first time sacrifice fly in Palomar • this season as the Pacific Coast the third inning scored in all Conference season begins. These two and an Imperiali but one inning, teams played eight times last year, RBI single in the behind a · fourth inning. strong pitching splitting the series four games apiece. performance The Comets Southwestern handed Palomar four of opened the by freshman their lllosses last season. game up in the right-hander Nick Vincent. Vincent (2-0) sixth. After a Gordon Stevens pitched 7 1/3 innings with six · (3-for 4, two RBis) double, strikeouts, while giving up Penny bunted him over to third, and later came home on three earned runs. Vincent said he felt better a successful suicide squeeze later in the game. bunt by second baseman "I left a couple pitches up, Trevor Boucher. Imperiali folbut I was hitting all my spots lowed by being hit by a pitch, and changing speeds. They stealing a base, and coming home on a hit-and-run single were good hitters." After Pierce tied the score 1-1 from Tyler Perkins. THE TEUSCOPE

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Comets sophomore second baseman Trevor Boucher attemps to turn a double play versus visiting L.A. Pierce College on Feb. 18. The Comets beat the Brahmas 12-4 and improved their overall record to 9-4.

Palomar then added two more runs in the seventh inning, with RBI singles from Stevens and third baseman Jeff Tezak. Tezak went 4-for-5 with two doubles, while finishing the week 9-for16. Vincent ran into trouble in the top of the eighth, when Brahma first baseman Derek Perrin hit his second home run ofthe day. The solo shot, which was the third home run given up by Vincent, ended his day. "He made a couple mistakes and they hit them. Good teams

will do that," Taylor said. "Hopefully he learns something, but he's going to be a guy we rely on all year, so he can pitch, and he's going to be alright for us." With two outs in the top of the eighth, Taylor brought in reliever Brian Duffy who pitched a strong 1 2/3 innings. "We pitched well, they hit three bad pitches and they hit them out," Taylor said. "But offensively we executed about as good as you can. We strug-

gled the last couple of games. We've been hitting the baseball, getting those base hits, but not getting hits with runners in scoring position, and today we were clutch all day." · Despite the recent split, Taylor said he is confident heading into the rest of the season and conference play. "We're still young," Taylor said. "We're finding out stuff we need to work on, but I love this group of kids, they are all great kids. We'll be alright."