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Presentation given by famous artist

By Shaia Moore THE TEleSCOPE

Renowned photographer John Sexton captured the attention of many during a recent lecture where he talked about his life in photography.

"It was one of the finest lectures that I have ever attended," Palomar photography student Jack !skin said. "Not just for the photography, but the content. [Sexton] is an outstanding speaker and his photography is breathtaking."

Sexton spoke to a full auditorium at Cal State San Marcos on March 28. The presentation of Sexton's newest book "Recollections: Three Decades of Photography" was originally scheduled at Palomar, but the number of people who showed interest in the event was so overwhelming that it outgrew the capacity of Room P-32 and organizers needed to find a larger venue.

He said the idea of using photography to "transcend the elements ofreali-

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Los Rodriguez de Sinaloa, a tour-man band from Escondido, played music at the Student Center duing the Cesar Chavez Day celebration March 29.

Cesar Chavez Day event held

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Palomar College students celebrated Cesar Chavez Day in front of the Student Center on March 29 to honor the labor leader's heroism.

"This is a great opportunity to remember Cesar Chavez," said Sonia Gutierrez, a Palomar College English professor. "The fact that students can walk by and remember Cesar Chavez ... that's good."

Chavez, a Mexican-American farmworker and civil rights activist, is most remembered for co-founding the

National Farm Workers Association and leading the strike of California grape-pickers on the historic farmworkers march from Delano to Sacramento. He also organized a fiveyear strike, which protested unfair wages for the grape-pickers.

"Social injustice is something we need to work on as a community," Gutierrez said.

Border Angels founder, Enrique Morones, was master of ceremonies for the event. Border Angels is an • SEE CHAVEZ, PAGE 3

ty," came from working with photographer Ansel Adams.

In 1979, at the age of 26, Sexton said his life changed forever when he became Adams' assistant. Adams, most well known for his 1941 photograph titled, "Moonrise: Hernandez," was the first photographer to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Sexton shared stories of their time together, referring to Adams as his teacher, mentor and friend . "[Sexton] is one of the biggest names in photography alive today. I knew he would draw an audience," said Palomar Photography Professor Donna Cosentino.

Once Sexton agreed to present, Cosentino wrote a North County Higher Education Alliance grant along with Deborah Small from Cal State San Marcos and Peggy Jones from a SEE ARTIST, PAGE 5

Students lobby government for changes to aid process

By Tara Asford THE TELESCOPE

Making federal financial aid more equitable to students was one of the issues Palomar students lobbied for at this year's American Association of Community Colleges conference held March 15 to 20 in Washington D.C. Five of Palomar's Associated Student Government members attended the conference.

ASG member Robert Frederick said Palomar representatives were ahead of the game by addressing an issue that was never brought to the attention of the congressional aides before - a modified financial aid process for students whose incomes drop when they take more class-

es. ASG vice president Joseph Park and ASG member Shawn Emamjomeh said they agreed that Palomar was well represented.

The idea of revising the Free Application for Federal Student Aid came from Palomar students, Frederick said.

The FAFSA factors students' income for the year prior to their current year of education. Students who cut down their work hours from one year to the next get penalized because the government calculates their aid from what they used to make, not what they are making, Frederick said.

He said the same is true for veteran students. Although veterans receive • SEE LOBBY, PAGE 7

Maintenance of college's lots one reason for possible permit cost rise

By Jason Dunn TH£ TELESCOPE

Proposed increases in the cost of parking permits and parking fines would pay for maintenance to Palomar's parking lots, Police Chief Tom Plotts said.

"If we put it off, the constant wear and tear may involve additional maintenance," he said.

He added that the cost of such maintenance might increase in the future.

The revenue from increases would also pay for emergency telephones in parking lots and more police officers, Plotts said.

The police department is · proposing raising the price of parking permits from $35 to $40 as well as increasing fines for various parking offenses.

Plotts said if the proposals become policy, they would probably not take effect until the Spring 2008 semester.

Pl9tts said that the proposal

is in the preliminary stages of the college's shared governance structure, and that there will have to be more discussion from various campus groups.

He said the Campus Police Committee voted unanimously for the increases.

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CllEIDAR • Campus Explorations Mary Cassani and Gil Noble will host a presentation titled "Poverty: Falling in, Climbing Ouf' from 2 to 3 p.m. in Room ES-19.

• Faculty Senate Meeting The Faculty Senate will hold its weekly meeting at 2 p.m. in Room SU-30. The meetings are open to the public.

• UC San Diego transfer workshop The Transfer Center will host a workshop for students in the Transfer Agreement Guarantee Program at 9 a.m. in Room SSC-1.

• Free Film Series "Waydowntown," a movie about workers in sterile environments, will screen at 6:30 p.m. in Room P-32.

Admission is free.

• Governing board meeting Palomar's governing board will hold its monthly meeting from 5 p.m. in the Governing Board Room. The meeting is open to the public.

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Admission is free.

• Transfer information for UC Riverside Representatives from UC Riverside will be available by appointment from10 a.m. to 2p.m.

Call (760) 744-1150 ext. 2552.

• Dental Orientation The Dental Assisting Department will hold an orientation for its program at 3 p.m. in Room S-11.

The orientation is open to the public and required for anyone interested in the program.

• Fashion show auditions The fashion merchandising and . design program will hold auditions for an upcoming fashion show at 6:30 p.m. in Room FCS-1. Anyone 16 or older may audition.

For information, e-mail rcampo-griggs@ palomar.edu

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Palomar Psychology Professor Judy Wilson hosted a discussion March 29 titled 'Gendered Career Paths: How Traditional Gender Roles Influence Career Planning' as part of the college's Campus Explorations program. Seminars are held 2 to 3 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room ES-19.

The theme of this year's seminars, which are free for anyone to attend, is 'work and poverty.'

• Associated Student Government meeting The ASG will hold its weekly meeting at 1 p.m. in Room SU-18.

The meeting is open to the public.

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Web-based fake diploma sellers easily evade prosecution

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Need a college degree to get ahead? Don't want to attend . classes to get it? Well, hop on the Internet and buy a fake transcript and diploma.

Phony diplomas are proliferating on the Web, leading to fears of academic fraud and a constant legal battle by universities to protect their good names.

Officials at Kansas State University, for example, recently instructed their trademarklicensing agent to send a ceaseand-desist letter to a Web site that offered a fake Kansas State University diploma and transcript for $249.99. On any given day, the same thing could be happening at many other universities.

Various Web sites advertise the documents as "replacement" or "novelty" diplomas.

Disclaimers on some sites say the diplomas should not be used in place of authentic certificates.

But education officials fear that the documents can lead to people pretending to have degrees or grades they did not earn.

"Diploma fraud is an enormous problem," said Barmak Nassirian, the associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers in Washington. "Stuff is coming at us so fast that we can't even gain awareness, let alone do anything about it."

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Ezell, who spent more than a decade investigating fake colleges and fraudulent degrees, said the industry is worth millions of dollars and is growing.

"It's whack-a-gopher," Ezell said. "One goes down, another one comes up."

Before shutting down, www.diplomasunlimited.com offered what it called the "finest quality replica diplomas in the world." The design templates, ink and paper were "custom created according to the college or

university you select," the Web site said. Officials with the company could not be reached for comment.

Kansas State University is a client of the Collegiate Licensing Co., a Georgia-based trademarklicensing firm that represents more than 150 colleges and universities. Jim Aronowitz, the associate general counsel at Collegiate Licensing, said his firm sends cease-and-desist letters to various businesses multiple times per day.

Aronowitz said that most of those businesses have nothing to do with fake degrees, and ones that sell phony diplomas typical-

ly remove Collegiate Licensing clients from their lists of available schools after the firm sends a threatening letter.

One Web site that offers degrees, PhonyDiploma.com, lists more than 200 colleges and universities. The site says its diplomas include "actual designs" from schools such as the University of Texas and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prices for replica college diplomas start at $184.95.

Other products include high school diplomas and General Educational Development diplomas.

Elsewhere on the site is this

disclaimer - "PhonyDiplomas and transcripts may only be used for entertainment purposes, for your records, or for replacement of a lost or damaged document.

They are not real documents and cannot be used as real diplomas.

PhonyDiplomas are not meant to be used for unlawful purposes or any other illegal uses. This means that they cannot be used to pass as real diplomas under any circumstance."Comparable disclaimers are found on other such Web sites, but some sites also offer an array of transcripts.

The transcripts available at Backalleypress.com, the site says, use the same kind of security paper that most colleges use.

The transcripts also come with embossed seals, a registrar's signature, or both. The price - $50 per semester.

An official with Back Alley Press said in an e-mail - "We sell a lot of diplomas to people who have either lost their credential or want a second copy for their home and do not want to go through the long and hard efforts put forth by schools to replace them. The only thing our service provides is an easier way for them to get this." 'lb Nassirian of the registrars association, the suggestion that these products are designed solely for novelty purposes or to replace lost diplomas is laughable.

"Don't tell me they don't know how people are using this stuff," he said.

Besides, school officials say, alumni who lose their diplomas can get legitimate replacements directly from the institution.

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Council, th~n Palomar's governing board.

"At any time in this process it could be killed," Plotts said.

Plotts said the revenue from the increases would not nearly come close to covering the total cost of the maintenance the parking lots require, and that the remainder would have to come from Palomar's general fund .

"We are estimating the increase will only be about $158,000 per year," Plotts said.

He said Facilities Director Mike Ellis gave an estimate to the police department that the total cost would be about $3.5 million, a figure Plotts said he wasn't certain of.

Ellis refused a request for an interview.

Plotts said the law requires funds generated from parking permits and parking fines to pay for parking lot maintenance.

Plotts said the increased revenue would also pay for new phones in the parking lots to connect people directly with the police department "The phones that we have now are quite archaic," Plotts said. "They're very old and they don't work all the time."

Plotts said a portion of the money would also be used for more police officers. He said that in 1999, Palomar had 10 officers and in 2006, they had six.

In 1999, the number of full-time police officers at Palomar went from two to 10 after grants from the U.S. Department of Justice paid for the officers' salaries and benefits. About two

years ago, the number of full-time police officers went down to six. It was about the time that the grant money ran out.

Plotts said that between 1999 and 2006, the number of students, staff members and faculty members at Palomar has increased considerably, and that the police department has not grown with the increases.

Plotts said within parking lots, a police presence acts as a deterrent for theft and bad driving, and that a police presence in general deters crime.

The amount of the proposed increases in permits and fines came from the San Diego County Parking Penalty Committee, said Patty Ward, secretary to the Campus Police Committee who sits on the SDCPPC. She said the com-

mittee has representatives from universities and colleges in the area as well as local municipalities. The committee calculates averages and medians of parking fees and fines.

According to information distributed at Campus Police Committee's meeting on Feb. 15, students at MiraCosta College pay $35 for a parking permit, and students at San Diego Mesa College pay $30.

Plotts said students at some other colleges pay less than students at Palomar, but the other police departments' budgets are augmented by the school's general fund.

"The majority of our budget comes directly from the parking permits and fines," he said. He added that less than 20 percent comes from the general fund.

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organization that provides water, food and clothes to help individuals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert and surrounding mountains in San Diego County, as well as areas located around the U.S.-Mexico border.

Gutierrez spoke at the event.

She read passages about Chavez from several books. She also read her own poem, "From the Machete to the Shovel," which she dedicated to her father.

"As a young female Latina, I feel it's my duty to show leadership," she said.

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Madrigal said he donated photo catalogues to MEChA for the group to sell. The catalogues were from last year's Boehm Gallery photography exhibit "Cesar Chavez: His Soul and His Spirit." He said the catalogues celebrate the soul and legacy of Chavez. The photos depict actions Chavez made during his life. Half of the money from the sales will go to MEChA and the other half will go to the Cesar Chavez scholarship fund. The college will offer a new $500 scholarship to students who exemplifY the same characteristics as Chavez students who are committed to improve society, Madrigal said.

the death of Chavez, she said.

"The myth of how he died ... people didn't want to admit his death," Gutierrez said.

The Associated Student Government and the Palomar chapter of MEChA worked together to organize the second annual Cesar Chavez Day. The two groups gave away free food and drinks.

"Hopefully this will be an annual event and be bigger and better," said Joe Madrigal, vice president of Student Services.

Madrigal organized the first Cesar Chavez Day celeration at Palomar last year and turned it over to the students, he said.

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Tastelessly filling shelf space

By Karen Heller A culture can be defined, in part, by what it consumes.

America lists decidedly toward quantity over quality and, increasingly, navigates in the dark waters of the absurd. In this regard, supermarkets are appropriately named. They're bigger than they need be, and devoted largely to marketing rather than food .

Every visit invites new levels of astonishment, revealing an endless mutation of packaging masquerading as sustenance.

Why go to the movies to be

served simply and fresh.

Herr's produces 16 varieties of potato chips, which may be 15 varieties too many. Cap'n Crunch comes in seven varieties, including Choco Donuts, while still boasting of nutrients, an idea so absurd it was foreshadowed in a John Belushi "Saturday Night Live" routine. Oreo, in pursuit of global domination, offers 40 variations, including seasonal Easter yellow "creme" _ like it was patisserie or something.

When companies incessantly tinker with food, when they dust artificially

"Consumers talk thin but eat fat."

People know better, and yet will rationalize that Chocolate Lucky Charms with whole grains constitutes a healthy breakfast.

Pollan labels this the "American paradox," that is "a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthy." Which results in supermarkets the size of football fields, questionable food products, an oversized diet industry, and an oversized populace to consume all.

We're obsessed with food, yet most of us aren't consum-

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For there, in the snackfood aisle, I stood in a mild state of shock, mouth agape, perplexed, slightly amused as if, unwittingly, I had signed up for a minor walkon part in some surreal piece of theater, Pirandello perhaps, as I gazed upon the Herr's Philly Cheese Steak Kettle Cooked Potato Chips.

Mind you, these were not to be confused with the Herr's Kettle Cooked Baby Back Ribs chips. Nor should they be mistaken for the Herr's Kettle Cooked Buffalo Wing chips.

This is either bad science or exceptionally trippy science fiction.

Good food doesn't require chem experiments. It isn't necessary to play with it.

Asparagus or raspberries, fish or, for that matter, potato chips are splendid when

questionable products, this draws attention to the fact that it might not be food to begin with. Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," argues it isn't food at all. These items are variations on the stale joke: ''Waiter, there's a cheesesteak in my chips?" It's like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" but, instead, our alien life is food. innovation. This is lowhanging fruit." Or, more precisely, low-hanging Crunch.

These insipid food fights are also about real estate.

(Then again, isn't everything?) "Every inch of shelf space you have is an inch These products put the lie, a death sentence, if you will, to the idea that people are eating healthier. "Health doesn't sell," Golden says, without hesitation.

way. "A national eating disorder," Pollan calls this. Our junk is flooding into other countries, whose citizens are now emulating our bad eating habits, and dealing with similar obesity and health consequences.

That you're paying for packaging and marketing and injected nutrients, chemical solutions, and shelf real estate, and that the produce aisle or the butcher shop, the fish store or the farmer's market is a far better place to find real food and happiness.

The solution is to eat better, consume more fruits and vegetables, spend more on better- quality food but buy less of it. Cheesesteak or wings, or baby back ribs for that matter, aren't healthy solutions to begin with, but they have no business propagating with the chips.

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Enough aboutAnna Nicole Smith already

EDITOR IN CHIEF JASON DUNN PHOTO EDITOR JENNIFER BAUER OPINION EDITOR ALMA HERNANDEZ ENliRTAINMENT EDITOR ASHLEY WARD SPORTS EDITOR JOHN SCAF£TTA ONLINE EDITOR SCOTT ERLER AD MANAGER DOREEN SCHULl INSTRUCTIONAL ASST DONNIE BOYLE INSTRUCTIONAL ASST CHARLES STEINMAN INSTRUCTIONAL ASST TOM CHAMBERS

In recent weeks, new channels, radio shows, and newspapers have been flooded with the latest news on the death of the 39-year old actress/model Anna Nicole Smith. The same information gets repeated again and again, just rephrased for audiences , and now enough is enough.

It is understandable for entertainment and talk shows to consistently bog their viewers with this same topic over and over again, but it really becomes an issue when networks like CNN and FOX News have more coverage on the explaymate's former drug and diet habits than they do on wars around the world.

Paying tribute to celebrities who have passed on is one thing, however, it is time to move on. Not only did the woman pass away over a month ago, but her celebrity status was a joke (and a bad one at that).

There is no reason why legitimate news stations should carry on for so long about a woman who is famous for marrying a man on his death bed, posing nude in Playboy, and gaining and losing weight multiple times.

Media and society's fascination with this woman is mind-boggling to me.

Reuters.com, an online news source, revealed that two of Anna Nicole's diaries were sold in an auction last week for $500,000 each. That is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a book that contains the inner thoughts of woman who rarely spoke without slurring her words.

A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press showed that 61 percent of adults '"\,,._ thought the topic received too much coverage. Be that as it may, this , story still holds an avid audience / ' with distinctly prominent attention mostly from women between ages 18-49.

So why, if the public seems to \ agree that we are beating a \ \ 1 dead horse with this topic, do _& ~ : legitimate media continue to JOQV h? cover it? ii ;. ~ There are channels and l / specific media that are 1 , • designed to cover this sort of / / "news", so why not leave it to 1 , t the experts? Channels like / ' CNN and NBC shouldn't , waste valuable news time '1 ,/ talking about such a useless subject. ,. -.-< If this is such an important and newsworthy topic, why not have a specific show informing it's eager fans of the latest and most important Anna Nicole updates?

She has already had her own show, which, not surprisingly, was canceled after only a few episodes. Why are people so intrigued by her life now, when they wouldn't turn in when she was alive?

Admittedly, the sudden and unexplained death of both her and her son within such a short period of time is intriguing.

But if the media insists on patronizing its audience with this topic can they at least give us something new to hear?

We know they don't know who the father of her child is, or if she was murdered , so why keep wasting coverage time in reminding us all of this?

If contrary to my belief, news stations still find this topic worthy of valuable airtime, they should give it a rest until there is an actual story to tell - one that may provide answers to viewers, not just the same old redundant information.

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MiraCosta College. Sexton's March 28 "Recollections" and much of his phopresentation was his fifth lecture in tography collection.

Southern California in six days.

"At that time, photography was not Sexton has been honored with sev- a part of my life, but landscape was," eral awards including a Lifetime Sexton said.

Achievement Award from the North Photography became a major part of Nature Photography his life while attending Cypress American Association in 2005. Over the last 30 College and Chapman University. years, Sexton has published four Sexton said he appreciated the award-winning books fea"nurturing" educational turing his work. background he received 11 His books are "Quiet Photogrtlphy is 11n at a community college.

Light," "Listen to the illusion. Hum11ns SH He told stories about his Trees," "Places of Power: years in high school and The Aesthetics of wh11t we expld 11nd college and the photogTechnology," and finally, w11nt to sH. Th111 raphy blunders that he "Recollections."

1111 lots ol diH111nt said shaped him as an About 240 people s11 the s11m1 artist. attended the event. Many w11ys to Sexton said it was his 11 held Sexton's new book as thing. best friend in high well as a pen and paper to school who first inspired - John Sexton him to become a photogtake notes during his lecPHOTOGRAPHER ture. Although the event rapher. was scheduled to begin at "It wasn't until I saw 7 p.m., Sexton greeted audience mem- Mark develop a print that I was at all bers and posed for photos until 20 interested in photography," Sexton minutes later. After an introduction said.

by Cosentino, Sexton began his presHe also spoke about their experientation. ences together as young photography Sexton spoke about his past and his students. perspective on photography and how "We didn't know what we were he views himself as an artist. doing with photography, but we were "I love photography," Sexton said. having fun," Sexton said.

"But I consider myself an amateur Sexton told the audience about his photographer. I love the magic, the recent trip to Palomar where he energy- I hate the frustration." viewed photography students' work in Sexton frequently referred to the the photo lab. world of photography as "magic."

"At Palomar, I didn't sense the same "Photography is an illusion," Sexton energy and excitement that I did at said. "Humans see what we expect Cypress. It was so much more," and want to see. Photographers Sexton said. exploit that. There are lots of differSexton ended his lecture by sharing ent ways to see the same thing." the motto that he said has guided his Sexton said he first visited Yosemite life and career. when he was 2 and was instantly "Do the best you can and try to do drawn to nature and the landscapes better tomorrow," Sexton said, "That's that would later become the basis of all anyone can do in their lives."

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'Vista Compatible' mitht be deceivint

By Benjamin J. Romano MCT HEWS SERVICE

A Washington woman who bought a computer in November 2006 marked as "Vista Capable" and later discovered it's capable of running only the most basic version of Microsoft's new operating system, has sued the company for unfair and deceptive marketing.

Dianne Kelley, represented

by Seattle law firm Gordon

Murray Tilden, filed a lawsuit March 29, alleging "Microsoft engaged in bait and switch assuring consumers they were purchasing 'Vista Capable' machines when, in fact, they could obtain only a strippeddown operating system lacking the functionality and features that Microsoft advertised as ' Vista."'

The suit seeks class-action status.

A Microsoft attorney defended the marketing practices in an interview March 27, noting that

the "Vista Capable" logo was one part of an "unprecedented effort" by the company to distribute information about the operating system's features and hardware requirements.

"Our goal is to give (customers) as much information as possible down to the precise technical specifications that they need" to operate the various versions of Vista, said Linda Norman, associate general counsel in Microsoft's litigation group.

In March 2006 , Microsoft began a program that allowed

Colleges checking admission

By Kathy Boccella MCT NEWS SERVICE

Along with SAT scores and extra-curricular activities, schools increasingly ask college-bound students to divulge information that may not be so flattering - their arrest and discipline records.

Since late summer, the Common Application, a form used by about 300 institutions, has asked students and guidance counselors whether the applicant has ever been convicted of a crime or been disciplined at school.

Students with rocky pasts may not make it beyond 12th grade.

In an effort to weed out troublemakers before they hit campus, colleges with their own forms also require prospective students to disclose behavioral black marks.

More are contemplating it.

The University of Pennsylvania put its admissions policy under review after the discovery in January that a 25-year-old child molester taking graduate courses was commuting from his Bucks County, Pa., prison cell.

"It's an issue that's exploding," said Timothy Mann, dean of student affairs at Babson College, who is writing his doctoral dissertation on the subject.

The debate over whether to screen and for what is contentious. Opponents cite privacy issues and the risk of penalizing offenders twice. Education encourages rehabilitation, argues the United States Student Association, the nation's largest student group.

"Are we now putting institutions of higher education in the position of dispensing post-judicial punishment?"

Barmak Nassirian of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers asked.

Offenders can still slip in.

"No background check is foolproof," said Stephanie Hughes, a professor at the University of Northern Kentucky and security expert who owns RiskAware, which runs background checks on college employees.

Federal law prevents most schools from releasing educational records - including disciplinary information without parental approval. Counselors can leave the questions blank, a spokesman for the Common Application said. And schools don't always know about the trouble students get into off campus.

Access to more accurate information and increased expectations about college involvement in students' lives have spurred the trend toward preadmission screening, Mann said.

Though campus crime has not appreciably increased since 2003, according to the U.S. Department of Education, a few highprofile crimes committed by students with rap sheets have led institutions to reexamine their admissions process. The Common Application added its inquiries at the request of schools concerned about liability, executive director Rob Killion said.

Schools warn students not to omit information. If they're caught lying, they're disqualified. Administrators said they believe most comply.

A single after-school detention or graffiti incident isn't what schools look for, anyway.

In North Carolina, schools have imple-

makers whose computer machines met certain specifications to label them as "Vista Capable." The required specs included at least 512 megabytes of memory and a DirectX 9 graphics processor.

But PCs bearing the "Capable" logo "cannot run, or run poorly, with Vista Home Premium, the least expensive version of Vista that includes Vista's heavily marketed and most popular features ," Kelley's complaint said.

Microsoft later introduced a "Premium Ready'' designation for PCs with enough memory and graphics processing power to handle the additional features, including the translucent Aero user interface and many of the digital media applications and for photos DVDs. Jeffrey Thomas, an attorney at Gordon Murray Tilden, said the average consumer shopping for a new PC and seeing a "Vista Capable" sticker has a reasonable expectation of getting "the core experience that Microsoft has quite a lot of money advertising as the

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Vista experience."

Microsoft said consumers running the Basic version are in fact getting the "core Vista experience" of increased performance , better security and easier file searching.

Thomas said the marketing campaign around Vista, which emphasizes many of the visual and digital media features of the operating system only available in the Premium and higher editions, is "misleading, unfair and/or deceptive to the average consumer."

Norman said advertising is a visual medium so it's not surprising the snazzy translucent user interface called Aero and other visual aspects of Vista are highlighted.

"What customers are going to appreciate on a day-to-day basis is the underlying architectural changes that have increased the security and reliability of that experience - not something that's easy to put up on an advertising board and catch a consumer's attention," she said.

The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

It seeks certification of the class action and damages, such as the additional memory, video cards or other hardware and software needed to run the version of Vista that consumers thought they'd be able to do when they purchased their computers, Thomas said.

While Microsoft disputes the suit's claims and defends its marketing practices, a company attorney acknowledged that selecting the right combination of hardware and operatingsystem software requires more effort than it used to.

criminal records

mented additional precautions since students with rape and larceny convictions committed two unrelated murders at the state university in Wilmington in 2004.

In addition to being asked about their pasts, applicants to the University of North Carolina's 16 campuses are checked against a national database of suspended or expelled college students. The school investigates those who trigger suspicion.

Leslie Winner, general counsel for the 200,000-student system, said. As a result, 84 applicants were denied entry last fall.

Schools generally ask for a letter of explanation and consult counselors and others when a problem is reported.

Though juvenile records are sealed, colleges can run criminal background checks on those 18 or older.

Each school has its idea of a deal-breaking offense, Hughes, the owner of RiskAware, said. Even with murder, she advises not to jump to conclusions.

"What if they were defending themselves?" Hughes said.

"We look at it on a case-by-case basis," said Mark Lapreziosa, associate vice president of enrollment at Arcadia University, which uses the Common Application and which may revise its own form.

"We look for students showing growth or having learned" from their mistakes, he said.

So far, only two students have disclosed arrests, one for drugs and the other theft.

They never completed their applications, but options Arcadia considered required them to live off-campus and to keep in close contact with administrators.

"If it was a crime of violence we would have to think seriously," Lapreziosa said.

Pennsylvania State University, which has asked students about their criminal pasts since 1991, received an application in 1999 from a man in his 30s who noted an assault conviction. That confession and information the school received from another source prompted an investigation that revealed more time served for manslaughter and sex crimes.

The man was arrested again- on a gun charge -while the background check was underway.

Witold Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, worries that risk aversion may lead to overzealous enforcement. If getting arrested once was a consideration 35 years ago, he said an awful lot of people would never have gotten into college maybe even presidents.

Connie Clery would rather err on the side of caution. She founded Security on Campus after her 19-year-old daughter, Jeanne, was killed by a fellow student during a robbery at Lehigh University in 1986. The Jeanne Clery Act requires all colleges to disclose crime on and around their campuses.

"You never know who's going to be in the room next to you," said Clery, who has lobbied for background checks for everyon.e from faculty to students. "This is a violent culture and it extends onto all college campuses."

Something as benign as theft, the No. 1 campus crime, Clery said, can lead to violence, as it did in her daughter's case.

"If you lose one child, there's nothing in the world that can compensate for that and no way you can get over it if you're a parent," she said. "Why risk it?"

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The Capitol in Washington, D.C. Student government members lobbied for changes to financial aid during a recent trip.

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money from their G.l. bill, that aid is often insufficient to support the cost of living, he said.

Frederick said the system forces students to wait a year for their financial status to update to their current living situation and that during this transitional period, many students may not be able to afford both the cost of living and their educational expenses.

ASG members had the opportunity to speak to assistants for Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif, Diane Feinstein, D-Calif. and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista.

Frederick said Boxer's representative was particularly receptive to the idea of diminishing the transitory period in which students' financial aid is calculated. Frederick said the

assistant was unaware of the issue, but seemed eager to work toward a resolution.

ASG members also spoke to congressional assistants about students who are considered independent and are unable to receive financial aid if there is a change in the parents' income from one year to the next.

Frederick said there are many special circumstances the process doesn't account for when students apply for financial aid.

Frederick said one of the trip's highlights was a speech given by Ralph Nader, an attorney and activist who has run for president three times representing the Green party.

Frederick said he felt privileged to listen to such an experienced

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and knowledgeable politician.

He said Nader's speech inspired him.

"The overall conference was great," Frederick said.

ASG members also participated in several workshops, including one titled "10 Ways to Increase Voting on Campus," Frederick said. He said he found the issue crucial to the success of the school. Palomar has open positions for ASG members, however, many students are unaware of how to get involved, Frederick said. He said he felt the workshops enforced the things ASG members already do on campus.

"I would recommend any student to join ASG, even if it were just to attend the conference," Frederick said.

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rock band Avenged Sevenfold, is a complete denouncement of Los Angeles. This is amusing considGood Charlotte is having an ering it is Los Angeles-based Epic identity cns1s. Unfortunately, Records that launched "Good instead of dealing with their issues Morning Revival," which, to the by going to rehab like other trou- dismay of real music lovers everybled Hollywood stars, the boys of where, continue Good Charlotte's Good Charlotte released "Good reign over the corporate kingdom of Morning Revival," an album that commercial-radio, sell-out rock. will leave many scratching their Madden sings, "Baptized in the heads. river, I see a vision of my life and Led by brothers Joel and Benji I want to be delivered." Delivered Madden, Good Charlotte exploded from what? His girlfriend Nicole out of a small town in Maryland Richie? Fame? Fortune? If Madden and into the hearts of teenage girls is trying to get people to feel sorry everywhere. for him and his ridiculously indulWith cheese ball pop anthems gent lifestyle, he's going to have to such as "Life Styles of the Rich do a lot more than write a lacklusand Famous," and the appropriate- ter rock song like "The River."

In "Misery," Madden decides it ly titled "The Anthem," in which lead singer Joel Madden sings would be fun to impersonate rock"Sing if you're with me/ another er Sting circa 1983. Sting and The loser anthem," Good Charlotte Police may be reuniting, but that turned MTV-friendly bubble-punk doesn't give anyone, especially an into chart-topping success. ostentatious Hollywood It-Boy like The band's fourth release, "Good Madden, permission to butcher Morning Revival" is yet another their classic sound. loser album. The album Played side by side, "Misery" is almost the fluctuates from dark and !

'Good exact beat of The Police brooding atmospheric i Morning hit "Synchronicity." This tracks with borderline • depressing lyrics, to may explain why Madden songs fit for a night of sings, "They've proclubbing at Studio 54 grammed their feelings/ under a shiny disco ball.

They're synchronizing and It appears the only thing criticizing."

Good Charlotte has kept The thing is, no one from their former image is black would criticize Good Charlotte if eyeliner. they could actually come up with .

The album's first single, "The something original.

River," featuring vocalist M. "Dance Floor Anthem" and Shadows and guitarist Synyster "Victims of Love" showcase Good Gates from brethren mainsfream Charlotte's new love affair with

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"Dance Floor Anthem" sounds like the band invited a:vant-rockers Panic! At the Disco . and The Killers to a rave in West Hollywood and this song was the result.

"Victims of Love" is lyrically laughable. Even more laughable is how seriously Madden sings lines such as "Thinking of a way that I can make an escape/ It's got me

caught up in a web and my heart's the prey."

Good Charlotte was so much better when they stuck to singing about girls, guys, cars and money.

Just as before, listeners will either love or hate Good Charlotte's new album. Say a prayer that public consensus will be the latter and the world will be spared from any future Good Charlotte revivals.

Gym Class Heroes show had crowd begging for more

By John Scafetta THE TElESCOPE

Not much remarkable comes out of upstate New York. To name a few things, there's the headquarters of Kodak and Xerox, the accustomed snow to your waist and, of course, yours truly.

However, Geneva, N.Y-based hip hop band Gym Class Heroes performed at SOMA on March 28 in front of a sold-out audience with the intentions of becoming a more memorable icon for the Upstate.

With a full slate of hip hop scheduled, lead-off man and Canadian dwelling rapper K-os started the night off in superior fashion with a solid showing of thoughtful, and at times, inspiring lyrics that were mixed with stunning vocals.

Minnesota-bred rapper P.O.S followed with a ridiculously bothersome, in-your-face demonstration.

For some bizarre reason, though, a large number offans seemed to enjoy his performance - which had to be those that also appreciated an Eminem-type emcee, who marred the ferocity and corniness of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst.

Local rock band RX-Bandits followed with a sturdy performance that was accompanied by clouds of smoke, which occasionally floated from the pits ofthe audience. Looking past the puffs, the band's strong stage presence was hampered by poor audio quality.

Following the openers, supporters were graced by the melodies of Hall and Oates and such classics as "I Can't Go For That" and "You Make My Dreams," which fed off the aptly titled "Darryl Hall for President Tour," a favorite duo of Gym Class Heroes' lead emcee Travis McCoy. As the lights dimmed, the evening stuck with the presidential premise,

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Gym Class Heroes (from left to right} bassist Eric Roberts, guitarist Disashi LumumbaKasongo, lead emcee Travis McCoy, and drummer Matt McGinley.

as the crew walked on stage to the to the audience that the group does tune of "Hail to the Chief." McCoy not want to be viewed as merely a oneproceeded to grab the mic, and began hit wonder, with its current chart topeffortlessly rapping over the opening per "Cupid's Chokehold," which has riff of "Papercuts," off the much received much attention despite underrated major label debut "The being more than two years old.

Papercut Chronicles."

McCoy proceeded to take fans Though the opener was shaky in through some of the 10-year-old places, McCoy urged the audience on band's earlier material, off the unapas nearly every hand on the preciated "For the Kids" floor shot up and remained ! album. Beginning with airborne the rest of the - Gym Class the relaxing "A Beautiful >.., Heroes evening.

• Day," the set quickly at SOMA turned to "Extra Extra" The band hit its stride in ; the delivery of the night's pinunder a perfect sampling nacle performance, "Shoot ofN as' "Hip Hop is Dead." down the Stars," where McCoy The flashback conclud1ouroFFOURSTAFIS) ed with "Eighty-Five," sang an almost perfect hook which was followed up with which McCoy rapped over the fan-favorite "Taxi Driver" - an Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" ode to the band's favorite indie musi- riff, showing his ability to control any cians. beat handed to him.

McCoy displayed his quirky perThe foursome stayed on track with the catchy "Make Out Club," which sonality and his love for his 1980s quickly converted into a breakdown childhood rhyming, "I'm on some of Busta Rhymes "Touch it," as Tom Hanks s**t, you ever seen the McCoy flipped lines with ease, hover- movie "Big?" My heart is trapped in ing between soft and thunderous '85, the coolest place I've ever been verses. in my life. We watching Smurfs, Similar to The Roots, Gym Class eatin' cinnamon LIFE. Never knew Heroes is equipped with actual a crack rock, cause it was Fraggle ... instruments rather than relying on We playin' Hungry Hippos til our the ordinary sampled loops that hands hurt." infest radio stations across the counThe band continued to illustrate try. Their musicianship excelled its love for the oldies, paying homwith the aid of guitarist Disashi age to the Beach Boys with a strikLumumba-Kasongo and his inspir- ing rendition of "Good Vibrations," ing solo in "On my Own Time (Write along with a tribute to the late on!)" and his rock-oriented riff in James Brown.

"The Queen and 1," off their current The show was capped off by the album "As Cruel as School Children." audience pleading for an encore, During the latter, the band was chanting "GCH, GCH," until the graced with two flying bras that band agreed to one more song with landed on stage, which later ended up the alluring "Clothes Off1" confirmon the headstock of Eric Roberts' ing that the group may just last longer than an upstate New York bass.

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Recent plays give audience double-dose of entertainment "George Bush at the Cheese and Olive," in which the president is tricked in an April Fool's Day trick Palomar actors performed when told that there were tera double feature March 29- ! '365 Days/ rorists hiding under a table April 1; Susan Lori-Parks' ! 365 Plays' at the restaurant. This was "365 Days/365 Plays" and • with 'Savage met with laughter from the John Patrick Shanley's ' and Limbo' audience as the president hid "Savage in Limbo." under the tables and scurried Pulitzer Prize-winning about the room.

(OUT OF !=t.){JR STA.P.S) author Susan Lori-Parks "Savage and Limbo," writwrote "365 Days/365 Plays" ten by John Patrick as an experiment to have a different Shanley, the writer of the play for each day of the year. The film "Moonstruck," was not, plays are being performed around the per se, an Oscar-winning country by more than 600 theaters, script, but was a great opporeach taking a week of the schedule. tunity to spotlight the incredThe skits ranged from soldiers ible actors of the evening, and feigning death, to a tour of the sup- their director, Michael posed napping ground of George Mufson.

Washington to an April Fool's Day The acting was enough to joke on President George W. Bush. sustain even the most tepid For part of the segmented skits, the viewer, with brilliant peractors dressed up in Hawaiian T- formances; the characters shirts and took the audience to a were brought to life in an patch of ground where they said emotional roller coaster outGeorge Washington slept. lining some of life's ques"How do you know it was George tions.

Washington?" the actors argued. "How "I see what could go wrong, do you know it wasn't?" so I do nothing," said Preying on the political skepticism, Hannah Lott-Schwartz, who this portion of the evening's enter- played Linda Rotunda, the tainment was intriguing and enter- looser of the ladies in the taining as the actors talked to the play. Lott-Schwartz, in a audience as ~f it were a real tour, genial performance, resemblurring the line between the per- bled a New Jersey Betty formance and reality. The question Page, with her black leather arouse; why should you believe what jacket, red leg warmers, someone says? over-teased hair, and bright, Theater arts major Nicole Lewis red lipstick, played a characsaid she likes this type of theatre, ter who expressed her "off the wall but you can still under- desire for a change. stand it, experimental and avant The other side of the coin guard." Lewis also said she liked the is Denise Savage, played by directing and the choreography.

P.J. Anbey, a virgin at the The best received portion of the age of 32 who is holding out "365 Days/365 Plays" was titled for something better. Tony

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"You put a guy in jail for seven years and he's still in jail, no matter where he is. The jail is in his heart,"

Tony explained.

Other lessons, such as control and insanity, are outlined by the characters Murk and April White, played by Jared Spears and Sandy Tate.

All in all, "365 Days/365 Plays" and "Savage and Limbo" were both interesting and entertaining plays that stepped away from the conventional and became something special.

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Arcade Fire's 'Neon Bible' electrifies lation arose about Arcade Fire's follow up. Fans and critics alike awaited a second album with It begins quietly but notice- tremendous expectation. ably, like jets dropping bombs Lyrically, the bands previous along a distant horizon, a slow album, "Funeral," tackled the but steady build up of noise colossal pain associated with made by piano and percussion. death, due to the passing of sevThen Win Butler's eral ofthe band's famivoice emerges, eerie ly members shortly and powerful. When Ill before the album was 'Neon accompanied by his i recorded. Whereas, Bible' wife Regine "Neon Bible" takes on Chassagne's delicate the much more worldly soprano, the track topics of government, "Black Mirror" turns religion, the military into a noisy blend of and the media. riveting instrumenAccompanying these tals and haunting vocals, which telling lyrics are the shrill resonate together seamlessly. sounds of the pipe organ, melod"Black Mirror," the first track ic strings, and steady, pulsating on Arcade Fire's sophomore drums that lend to the band's album "Neon Bible," is followed distinct sound. Such heavy by 10 more tracks, all of which instrumentals may be difficult are equally as intriguing as the to consume for some, but their first. "Neon Bible" deputed at use creates a majestic sound No. 2 on the Billboard 200 which, when accompanied by charts when it was released the aggressive lyrics, make a March 6 by Merge Records and bold album. sold 92,000 copies the first Most of the tracks on the week. This phenomenon attests album sound upbeat, with the to the idea that this sort of exceptions of the title track experimental indie pop, which "Neon Bible" and the tracks at first listen may seem too com- "Ocean of Noise," "Windowstill" plex for many, may have mass and "My Body is a Cage." "Neon appeal after all.

Bible" is a short, sinister-soundThe septet, which consists of ing track, with Butler's voice Butler, Chassagne, Richard remaining hushed as he and Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Chassagne taunt, "It's the Neon Sarah Neufeld, Jeremy Gara Bible/the Neon Bible/Not much and Butler's younger brother chance for survival/if the Neon William, recorded "Neon Bible" Bible is right." in a church just outside "Ocean of Noise" stands out Montreal during most of 2006. with mysterious piano and Arcade Fire's first album, stormy sounds in the back"Funeral," released in 2004, ground. "Windowstill" sounds received praise from critics as rebellious, as a sweet-sounding well as the emergence of a large acoustic guitar builds up to fan base, including U2 who high-pitched strings and practiasked the band to open for them cally every verse beginning on their 2005 "Vertigo" tour. with "I don't want to."

With such a great deal of sucBy far, the most experimental cess and only one album, specu- is the album's last track, "My

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Body is a Cage," with a steady drumbeat and gloomy organs providing a bare background for Butler's somber lyrics, which take command as he sings about being oppressed by his body, with his mind being that which holds the key to setting his body free.

Of the more melodic tracks, "No Cars Go," which first appeared with far less frills on Arcade Fire's EP released in 2005, stands out the second time with a much more elaborate sound that includes horns,

the accordion and what sounds like a full symphony as Butler and Chassagne sing boastfully about a place they know of in which no planes, ships, subs or cars go. The album's second single (the first being "Black Mirror") is "Keep the Car Running" an infectious, poppy track plagued by paranoid lyrics.

"Neon Bible" offers an eclectic sound, with instrumentals that range from ordinary to pleasingly unconventional. Along with lyrics that are captivating

in a unique way, are two exquisite voices, courtesy of the husband and wife duo.

It sounds like all the critical acclaim, legions of devoted fans, and attention from U2, didn't make Arcade Fire try any less. In fact, Arcade Fire doesn't seem too worried about the ruckus that accompanied their first album. They seem to care more about creating grandiose music, which, it turns out, inevitably creates a ruckus, but one that sounds pretty flawless.

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MANIA For: Nintendo Wii Anyone still aching for a sequel to the Game Boy's brilliant "Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble" can put away the ice pack, at least for a while. "Kororinpa: Marble Mania's" arcade-like levels set it apart from "Tumble's" adventure-game stylings, but the fundamental resemblance is otherwise unmistakable.

The object of "Mania" is to guide a marble around a game board, collect a handful of gems, and reach the goal as quickly as possible without falling off the board and into marble oblivion. If that sounds exactly like "Super Monkey Ball," here's the difference: You control the board rather than the marble, tilting it any number of 360 degrees in any direction to roll the marble toward the goal. You can make the marble "jump" with a quick wrist flick, but that's it.

"Tumble" did this with an embedded motion sensor attachment, but "Mania" merely requires the Wiimote. Hold it level, and the board stays

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put. Tilt forward, and the board nudges forward. And so on. Happily, precision never is an issue: The game registers everything from twitches to flips with remarkable accuracy.

But while "Tumble's" technology severely limited your tilting power, "Mania" lets you go nuts and flip the entire board over if it befits you.

Some optional but rewarding secondary gems crop up throughout the game, and you have to perform some fancy axis acrobatics to collect them.

It's never required, nor is achieving a gold-medal time a requisite for advancing to the next level. But the pursuit of such achievements, and what those achievements unlock, is what makes "Mania" such a fun game to play and replay. (If you disagree, you have a problem; "Mania" will end in a few hours for you.)

"Mania's" themed areas are rich with personality and pretty pleasing to the eye, and the levels are smartly designed so as to engage players of different pedigrees. (Yes, two-player split-screen is available.) But the game's most inspired feature may be its selection of unlockable marbles, which vary in theme (traditional, animal faces, sports and more) and attributes. The pig marble, for instance, is noisy but ideal for unsteady hands, while the basketball is faster but perilously bouncy. The footballshaped marble, meanwhile, speaks more to Hudson's sense of humor than anything else.

THE GODFATHER: THE DON'S EDITION For: Playstation 3 AND THE GODFATHER: BLACKHAND EDITION For: Nintendo Wii

With "The Godfather: The Don's Edition" and "The Godfather: Blackband Edition," EA has now farmed out its "Godfather" game to seven systems over the last year. But who can complain, as long as a once-surprisingly

good game keeps improving?

Content-wise, "The Don's Edition" stands as the definitive version. The graphical improvements and feature additions found in last fall's Xbox 360 edition make the move to the PS3, and "TDE" slathers on some gravy in the form of more rival families, more contract hits and the ability to take over rail yards and shipyards. The streets are noticeably livelier (and smarter, and more violent), and some subtle but welcome tweaks are evident in how the game thinks and controls.

"Blackhand" doesn't boast quite the same feature set as "TDE", and it's distinctly (though not massively) less easy on the eyes. But playing "The Godfather" with Wii controls-the Wiimote as your right hand, the Nunchuk attachment as your left-reinvents all that racketeering and revenge as a cardiovascular good time.

"Blackhand" isn't spot-on precise: It occasionally registers one motion as two punches, and it sometimes confuses jabs with hooks and vice versa.

But these issues are more annoying than truly problematic, and they take little away from the joy of wailing away by

actually wailing away. As compensation for its imperfections, the control scheme offers some inspired little touches. Swing both controllers simultaneously while your character holds a bat or similar object, for instance, and he'll (usually) perform a two-handed swing in kind.

The Wii touch extends down the line, from execution maneuvers (hold A, follow the onscreen prompt) to grappling to firearms (with both lock-on and free-aim controls available on the fly). Everything takes more practice than any other "Godfather" game required, but it's hard to argue with the results.

Between "The Legend of Zelda" and now this, it's clear the Wii is plenty capable of hosting-and arguably improving on-the kind of traditional games once feared impossible to enjoy with such a unusual controller setup.

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THE TELESCOPE • MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2007

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Pitching coach educates .off mound

By Kristina Moreno THE TELESCOPE

Tyler Kincaid, pitching coach for the Palomar baseball team, is going from bullpen to books.

In his second season as pitching coach, Kincaid is looking to share his experience and knowledge of pitching with more than just the Comet staff. He is preparing to publish a coaches how to guide for pitchers.

"Every year I write a little pitching guide that I give to my players." Kincaid said. "It's basically every topic I cover when teaching these guys throughout the year."

Kincaid, 29, has yet to handout copies of his pitching guide this year, but he plans to circulate them in the future.

"A parent from one of my travel teams owns a publishing company and came up to me and wanted to sell it on there." Kincaid said. "He talked to me about writing it in my own words. It's just something I have done for the past five years, it's not a big deal."

While Kincaid may be modest about his work, others associated with the Comets have plenty of confidence in him.

"He is a real asset to our team." said head coach Buck Taylor. "He was always a student of the game.

He didn't have all the ability in the world, but he did have the ability to pitch and he had to work at that.

That's the kind of guy you want teaching and I hope he can instill that in these guys."

Kincaid is in his second year at Palomar and is about to enter his third season this summer as pitching coach for the Chatham Ns of the Cape Code League. In the summer of 2006, Kincaid, along with the rest of the Ns coaching staff, lead their team to the second lowest ERA in the entire league.

In 2005, Kincaid coached current Detroit Tiger and former first-round draft pick Andrew Miller, who received the Most 'Outstanding Pitcher award for the Cape Cod Baseball League.

After excelling at the professional level, Taylor recruited Kincaid to become Palomar's pitching coach.

Kincaid originally played for Taylor at SFSU. Kincaid has continued to display his ability to mold young pitchers, as he currently coaches Palomar's Joe Cates. The right hander was selected by the San Diego Padres in the 30th round of the June 2006

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KRISTINA MORENO I THE TELESCOPE

Palomar baseball pitching coach Tyler Kincaid (left) worils with pitchers James Mclaughlin (middle) and Nick Roberts (right) on medlanics. Kincaid is in his second season with the Comets.

Major League Baseball draft.

Aside from developing young pitchers, Kincaid also teaches health and tennis classes at Palomar. Kincaid received his California teaching credentials from SFSU. "I teach 11 classes a week, and coach the West Coast Bulldogs with Ben (Adams). They are a 14 and under travel team," Kincaid said.

Kincaid's abilities still stretch further than Palomar and the summer leagues. Kincaid was also the pitching coach at SFSU for three seasons, where he led the pitching staff in

2004 to their first 30-game win season since 1995.

First year Palomar bullpen coach Ryan Leake said that Kinciad is always eager to help others better their game and constantly runs new ideas past him to help him learn.

As Kincaid helps young pitchers and coaches develop their skills, he also looks to better himself.

"The main goal for me is, I was told by one of my summer coaches that is very difficult to find quality pitching coaches," Kincaid said. "So if you can build a name for that, then do it."

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went 3-for-3 and her sister Jade hit a matchup with Grossmont, as they guard Jolene Hurd (Pima, AZ).

Boone, 5-foot-10, averaged 5.5 hammered the Griffins 19-6. grand-slam to lead the way.

Palomar men's tennis falls Freshman Nikki Jaime was 2-for-3 Palomar (20-16, 8-1), started the points, and 2.8 rebounds a game for Cowley ·county. inning with 12 consecutive hits. with two RBis and a walk. to Knights Hurd, 5-9,averaged 17 points for Jerica Fa'asua led Palomar by going The Comets scored 15 runs in the The Palomar men's tennis team Cienega Hihg in Vail, AZ. 4-for-4 with two home runs and three 30 third inning of their March dropped a PCC match to San Diego RBis. The Comets also got multipleCity 6-3 on March 27. Shane Sanford hit performances from Jade Fa'asua was victorious in No. 3 singles, defeat(3-for-4, grand-slam homerun, five ing the Knights Duane Smith 6-3, 6-1.

RBis), Rachel Wright (3-for-4, stolen base) and Corey Boss (2-for-3, steal).

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Comets shuts out Olympians

Men's and Women's swimming trampled by Tigers

The Comet women's team defeated San Diego Mesa 7-0 on March 27, advancing to 7-5 overall and 7-1 in conference.

Mara Nissinoff won by default in No. 1 singles and teamed with Melanie Dutra to win 8-2 in No. 1 doubles.

The Palomar men's team suffered its first loss of the season March 30 to the hands of Riverside 122-99.

Despite the dissapointment, Drew McCracken was a bright spot for the Comets, winning the 200-meter butterfly in 2:10.11.

Riverside won the women's meet 199-73. The Comets' Kai Pursehouse won the 50 -meter backstroke in 29.54.

Softball continues domination of conference

The Comet softball team grabbed Women's basketball lands sole possession of the Pacific Coast Conference March 27, defeating San two transfers Diego City 5-0.

The Palomar women's basketball Gina Lee-Davis and Rachel Wright team secured two Junior College JEllY HOLLIE I THE TELESCOPE slugged home runs for the Comets. transfers for the 2007-2008 season On March 28, Palomar pounded Palomar tennis player Kyle Anderson plays on March 27 in forward Nikki Saddleback 10-4, as Jerica Fa'asua in a 6-lloss to San Diego City on March 27. Boone (Cowley County, KS) and

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CALENDAR • Baseball Palomar at Southwestern -2p.m • Women's Tennis Palomar at San Diego City -2p.m • Men's Tennis Victor Valley at Palomar -2p.m

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-7p.m.

• Softball Palomar at San Diego Mesa -3p.m.

•Golf Irvine Valley at Palomar - 1:20 p.m at Twin Oaks

• Baseball Southwestern at Palomar -2p.m.

• Women's Tennis Grossman! at Palomar -2p.m.

• Men's Tennis Palomar at Southwestern -2p.m.

Guy Willeford Sport: Baseball Position: First baseman High School: Ramona Year: Freshman

Palomar first baseman Guy Willeford slugged a two-run home run March 24, and went 3-for-4 with three RBis March 31, to finish the week with seven total RBis. Willeford is batting .342 on the season, playing in all 30 games, with three homeruns and 30 RBis. The freshman from Ramona High School, was a second-team All-Valley League selection his senior year, hitting .450 with five homeruns.

• Men's and Women's Swimming Pasadena Invitational -All day 4/13-4/14 • Softball Palomar at Southwestern -3p.m.

• Men's Volleyball Palomar at Grossmont -6p.m.

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THE TUESCOPE • MONDAY APRIL 9 2007

Palomar pounds Knights in victory Simmons, roughing him up for at least one run in each of the first five innings. Simmons Sometimes it only takes a went only four and one-third single outing to turn it all innings, giving up six earned around. runs, while walking seven.

For Palomar starting pitcher "We did a great job of exeoffensively," said Nick Vincent, that's all he cuting needed. Following his worst Taylor, whose team bounced start of the season, in which he back from a 10-9 loss to the gave up seven earned runs to Knights on March 29. "We San Diego Mesa, the , . . - - - - - - - , were able to get lead sophomore returned KNIGHTS l runners on base, 9 move them over and to form as the Comets COMETS hammered San Diego we also did a good City, 9-2, on job of hitting March 31, at with runners in Meyers field scoring position. in a Pacific After scoring C o a s t V$ · one run in each of Conference ~ ~ the first three match-up. ~ ~ innings, the Vincent (3Comets tacked on 2) surren- Who: Southwestern CoBege two runs in the dered just two What: Pacific Coast Conference game fourth as second baseman Tim earned runs in When: 2 p.m., AprillO seven innings, Where: SouUtwestem College Deering scored while striking At stake: ~wiD travel to from second on out four and SouUtwestem,continuingitspushfora an error by San giving up only conference tiHe with just over three Diego City shortstop Scott Isbell one hit after the fourth weeks left in the season. The Comets and centerfielder have won two of lhree games against the Eric Rodriguez inning.

"I don't Jaguars this season. scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat know if that (the March 24 start) had some- of first baseman Guy Willeford thing to do with spring break, (3-for-4, three RBis). but he was better today," Palomar blew the game open Palomar Head Coach Buck in the fifth inning, bringing Taylor said. "I still think he four runs home, as eight can be better. He didn't have straight Comets reached base. his best stuff, and we're just The inning was capped off by a going to find a way to keep him two-run double from shortstop in his routine so when he goes Ricky Imperialli (1-for-5) and a out there he gives us a two-run single from Willeford.

"I was seeing the ball well shot to win."

Vincent said that after giv- and hitting it where it was ing up two early runs in the pitched," Willeford said. "We first three innings, he was able got lead guys on and we exeto settle down and find cuted by hitting the ball well. his groove.

Whenever you do that, you win "(After the third inning) I ball games."

From there, the Knights' felt like I was back to my usual self," Vincent said. "I haven't bats were kept quiet as relievhad it in a while, but I finally ers Drew Widemark and got on top of the ball. It might Cameron Aspaas completed have been the two-weeks (ofD. scoreless eighth and ninth I might not have been pre- innings to secure the victory. pared. I wasn't mentally Despite the lopsided win, focused in that game and the Taylor said the Comets must whole time I just felt off on do a better job of finishing the mound." out games.

"We played as good as you While the Comets' ace excelled on the hill, it was can play offensively for the Palomar's offense that took first five innings, and then we advantage of the Knight's kind of shut down after that, starting pitcher Goldie which is something we've been

By John Scafetta

THE TUE$C:OPE

ELLIOT DE LISSEI I THE TELESCOPE

Second baseman lim Deering connects with a pitch on March 31 in a 9-2 victory over San Diego City. Deering was 1-for-2 on the day with two runs scored for the Comets, who moved their record to 17-13 (10-5) on the season.

working on," said Taylor, whose squad has won nine of its last 11 games, which included a seven-game winning streak. "We've found a way to win. We're learning how to win by putting those seven in a row together. We've built some obviously confidence."

Heading into the stretchrun of PCC play, Taylor said he is confident in his team's ability to play to their potential.

"It's wide open," Taylor said.

"Everyone's beating everyone.

Either our conference is down, or teams have a little more depth and arms. I definitely think our team should be the best in the conference, and I think when we play well we are."

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Second baseman lim Deering tags out a San Diego City baserunner, one of two runners thrown out by Palomar catcher Zane Chavez on March 31

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while reaching 4-3 in conference. average.

"I missed a serve which I shouldn't do," Palomar has also won two straight and Payne said. "I also had a couple bad posithree of its last four.

Outside of conference, the Palomar "Every player knows their role," Ursillo tions on my sets."

Casey Sawyer was the main source of men's volleyball team has had its share said. "Each player is offense, scoring 12 kills, of struggles. However, in Pacific beginning to followed closely by Ross Coast Conference play, the RUSTLERS 0 realize what UP NEXT Johnson and Steven Comets have looked like a dif- COMETS J we expect of Schleicher, who each had ferent team. them as play11 kills.

Golden West felt the effects of ers and they're doing it." --iiiil:l!t. _, ~ "I think I played conPalomar's recent conference surge Ursillo did his best to sistent and I think that's March 28, losing to the Comets 3-0 be even-keeled, but recog- --~~ what the team needs ," (30-28, 30-26, 31-29). nized the efforts of one Who: LA Pierce Colege Schleicher said. "We Head Coach Al Ursillo couldn't help individual: setter Garrett What: Conference game focused our energy really but be pleased with the signs of Payne.

Willi: 7p.m., Apri 11 well. We came together improvement.

"We got six, seven guys and there weren't any With the win, the Comets swept the that can come in and do Wilen: LA Pierce Colege individuals out there." two-game season series against what they're supposed to At stale: Mth my foil' ganes left in The Rustlers were able Golden West. really well," Ursillo said. the ~season, Palomar wllook to to keep all three games "We're getting better every game," "Garrett's setting was tum it li'OIIId in its last IIOIH:OIIferenc close before the momenUrsillo said. "They're a young team very good tonight match of the season. This wl be the that's starting to mature. Now they're though." frst tine the Comets meet the Brahmas tum would sway over to the Comets. starting to learn how to win and it is Payne had a strong this season.

"They pushed us real really starting to show on the court." game as he accounted for After going through its first stint of 41 assists to lead Palomar. All that hard tonight," Ursillo said. "They scored non-conference games without winning, Payne could say of his great night was 28, 26, and 29. Now that's a the Comets advanced to 4-8 overall that he thought his performance was tough match."

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from Rustlers The Comets spent the majority of the first game trailing closely. Down 27-25, the Comets rallied off five points to take the game.

Miscues played a major role in Game 2 as the Rustlers lost a crucial point.

Down 28-24, Golden West came out of a timeout to score a point and on next possession send the ball out of bounds. All that was left was for Palomar to score one more point to win the game 30-26.

Palomar got caught behind Golden West again in the third game. After trading points, the Comets went on a 7-2 run to take the lead at 27-24.

After Golden West called a timeout, the Rustlers got within one, forcing Ursillo to call a timeout. Immediately out of the timeout, Golden West served the ball into the net, giving Palomar enough breathing room to win the game 31-29.

Payne said his teammates came through when it counted.

"We made some mistakes but we all came together - better than usual," Payne said.