The Telescope 62.2

PALOMAR COLLEGE, SAN MARCOS, CALIF.

MONDAY SEPT. 15, 2005

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VOL. 62, NO. 2

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Blackouts cause cancellations Palomar

waits for funds

MELISSA RAYMOND THE TELESCOPE

Three times in the first three weeks of school, Palomar College students, faculty and staff found themselves in the dark.

Officials from Palomar College and San Diego Gas & Electric, the college’s power supplier, still do not know the exact cause of the outages. What they do know is that the problem is on Palomar’s side.To diagnose the problem, SDG&E installed monitors on Palomar’s transformers in order to track the schools usage and determine the reliability of the system. The monitors will record for a week and then be evaluated.

Around noon on Aug. 25, Palomar lost power from a blown fuse in a new transformer, according to President Robert Deegan.Then on Sept. 2, Palomar again blew a fuse causing the school to lose power. The third outage occurred on Sept. 9, with power out for 45 minutes before being restored.

In the first outage, SDG&E discovered a bad fuse on a new transformer that was installed last spring. During that outage, the school went into low-tech communication mode. Personnel went around with bullhorns announcing that classes were cancelled and the police assisted with notifying teachers, Deegan said.The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department was called in to assist with the traffic flow.

Shortly after the power went out at noon, SDG&E arrived and by 2 p.m. initial power was restored, but not all air conditioning throughout the campus was working.

“We should not have tripped,” said Bonnie Ann Dowd, Palomar’s, assistant superintendent/vice president of Finance and Administrative Services.

A new transformer was installed along with higher capacity fuses. These short-term solutions should support the college until the final phase of the electrical upgrades are completed in December 2009, Palomar officials said.

At the Palomar College District Governing Board meeting on Sept. 9, SDG&E officials

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YUKIE ZUILL | THE TELESCOPE

Freshman photography major Kristine Choy listens to a lecture in a photojournalism class during the power failure. were questioned about what needed to be done to prevent more outages and of the possibility of another outage.

“We will work with Mike (Ellis, Palomar College’s facilities director) and haul (ourselves) out here, if it happens again,” SDG&E’s Ronald Smith said.

Prior to the first outage there had been three power outages in the last year. Deegan and other school officials met on Aug. 29 with SDG&E and decided that another

transformer needed to be installed to accommodate the power needs of the school, both present and future. The date was set for installation of the transformer on Sept. 1.

However SDG&E called and cancelled the appointment. The next day, Palomar once again blew a fuse, causing the school to lose power.

The college administration insisted on TURN TO BLACKOUTS PAGE 5

Students feel parking crunch MAGGIE AVANTS THE TELESCOPE

With every new semester the same old problems arise, and on top of many students’ list of problems is the lack of parking on campus. For those students who are still searching for a parking space, help might be on the way.

School officials said parking will improve as the semester wears on and they are considering rezoning some faculty spaces for students.

During the first three weeks of school, it was common to see students stalking pedestrians leaving class in hopes of snagging their space.

For first year student Amanda Condie, it is a daily frustration.

“I get here an hour early to get a space, and still I have been so late for class that I’ve had to sit on the floor,” Condie said.

Condie added that she feels strongly that paying $40 for a parking permit should give her precedence over those who do not have permits and pay $3 a day to park.

Mike Ellis, director of facilities at Palomar College, said that whether a student buys a day permit or a semester permit, they should have equal rights to the parking lot.

“Those students may only have one class a week, and it wouldn’t make sense for them to buy a permit,” Ellis said.

Valerie Villanueva, also a first-year student at Palomar, speculated that more and more people are parking at the Sprinter lot across the street and walking to campus.

“But even that lot is full,” Villanueva said.

Ellis asked for students to be patient, as the parking situation will improve.

“It’s always like this the first two weeks of class. On

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All student parking spots in lot 12 were full by 9:20 a.m. the first day of school. the first day we ran out of parking at 9:20 a.m.,” Ellis said.

Ellis added that he has been on the job for 30 years, and seen this time and time again.

What he did want to stress was that the college is taking steps to mediate the situation.

“We recently added 251

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new spaces by redesigning the east side of lot 12 and creating a new lot above the soccer field,” Ellis said.

When asked about the open staff spaces in lot 12, Ellis explained, “When the college placed portable classrooms on the site of Lot 1, the staff lost 97 parking spaces. They

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“What budget?”

That is one school leader’s take on the state of Palomar’s funding.

Nancy Chadwick, Palomar College District Governing Board Trustee, means is that the California state budget that was due July 1 has not been passed by the state legislation as of press time. It is a new delinquency record for California; the old record was Aug. 30.

It also means that all the programs that operate off state funds, such as Palomar College, public schools, police, public transportation, hospitals and numerous other services, have been operating without that money for the last two months.

“It’s like starting a job, and asking what your salary is and they say we haven’t decided that yet,” said Palomar student, James Baker, 47, of the delay in passing the budget. “You work on your own money.”

“That makes me feel that my tax dollar is going to waste,” said Palomar student Kasey Allison, 21, of her thoughts on the absence of a budget.

Palomar has been operating on its reserves and a projected budget, according to Palomar President Robert Deegan. The projected budget is based on the amount of money that was given to the college last year. Usually, budgets are increased to compensate for higher costs of living. Palomar’s projected budget has no increase.

This does not allow for coverage of any increases in expenses that the college has incurred this year.

For example, the 3.2 percent enrollment increase or the new wage increases for teachers.

That means Palomar has cut 220 class sections along with class supplies in order to help balance the budget, Deegan said.

The cut in sections shows in the amount of students who are still trying to add classes two weeks into the semester, many of which are already full to capacity, Allison added.

“I have seen in all my classes that there are at least 10 people trying to crash,” Allison said.

The state legislation has been at an impasse on the budget with neither side reaching a compromise.

“There has been no movement to approve the budget,” Chadwick said.

If the budget is not passed by October the college will have to borrow from the county to continue operating. When the budget is finally passed the college will then TURN TO FUNDS PAGE 5

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Career Fair helps students get jobs

The Career Fair is coming to Palomar College Sept. 17 to offer students and residents of the community the opportunity to get information on different universities, network with professionals and even get a job.

The Career Fair began offering its services to the community more than three years ago and has about 50 employers and universities.

“Last semester we got over 100 companies offering jobs,” said Eddie Tubbs, Career Center coordinator.

According to Tubbs, the Career Center offers many services such as help with choosing a career, building a resume and providing information on various universities, among other services.

The Career Fair will be located in front of the Student Union near Student Services and the Clock Tower. For more information, contact the Palomar Career Center at (760) 744-1150, ext. 2194 or 2195.

Monday, Sept. 15 CAREER FAIR WORKSHOP Learn the ins and outs of career fairs. The workshop will teach how to dress, what to take and ways to impress the employers at the event.The workshop is designed for those who are going to a career fair for the first time.The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Governing Board Room in the Student Services Center.

For more information contact Eddie Tubbs at (760) 7441150, ext. 3125.

Tuesday, Sept. 16 COFFEE HOUSE NIGHT This event is free to any student with a valid photo ID. Coffee will be served and students will have the opportunity to fill out voter registration applications. The event will be held in the Student Union from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. For more information call Marilyn Lunde at (760) 744-1150, ext. 2594.

Child Care Center hiring assistants

The Palomar College Child Development Center is currently hiring qualified teacher assistants.

“We are always looking for teacher assistants,” said Pam Keinath, coordinator for the center.

The assistants are responsible for helping the teachers insure the students receive daily lessons, warm meals and plenty of time for play. The children have parents who may work at the school, be students at Palomar or simply live nearby.

“About 40 percent of our children are actually from the community,” Keinath said. “But we also work very closely with the child development program here at the college.”

Because the center provides a preschool curriculum for children aged 18 months to pre-kindergarten, it is a convenient place for child development students to gain needed work experience credits, she added. The positions, however, are also open to any other qualified persons. Candidates must have completed at least six units in child development to be considered for the job.

Hourly wages begin at $9, and teacher assistants usually work between 10 and 30 hours a week. The center hours are 7 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., and it is closed on weekends.

For more information call Keinath at (760) 744-1150, ext. 2578, e-mail her at pkeinath@palomar.edu, or stop by the Child Development Center located at the northeastern end of student parking lot 12.

Palomar launches green campaign

On Sept. 10 the topic of conversation at Palomar College was going green.

From 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the Student Union, eco-friendly organizations like Green Peace, the Vista Community Clinic and Recycling4You gave students the opportunity to do their part to save the environment as part of Be Green, an event to promote education about recycling and the environment.

Recycling4You President Cathy Thomas stressed the importance of keeping things like computer monitors and televisions and the dangerous chemicals they contain out of landfills, especially in this day and age people are replacing their appliances more frequently to accommodate the new, better models.

“We live in a disposable world,” Thomas

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Wednesday, Sept. 17 CAREER FAIR The career fair is a free event that will be open to Palomar students and the public. Attendees are encouraged to dress to impress and bring their resume. Free resume review and assistance will be provided. Over 100 businesses and colleges will be present with information on their institutions. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the lawn around the clock tower. For more information contact Eddie Tubbs at (760) 744-1150, ext.

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BART MAGOSKI | THE TELESCOPE

CLOCK TOWER

A different take on the Carillon Clock Tower that stands near the south end of campus.

said.

In this year of elections, Green Peace was also in attendance urging students write letters to congressional hopefuls, Nick Leibham and Brian Bilbray, to include measures against global warming in their election campaigns.

Annie Kascade, founder and president of www.greenedgekids.com, an online boutique for organic and recycled children’s clothes, wanted to get the word out about the benefits of going green when it comes to one’s wardrobe. According to Kascade, fabrics made from hemp are three times as strong as cotton and does not wrinkle as easily.

The Associated Student Government had posters set up in front of their booth with tips and tricks to go green and each table at the event featured some fact about the amount of pollution in the U.S.

Oceanside looking for volunteers Each year the Supporting Urban Neighborhoods Project brings together the city of Oceanside along with its residents, various volunteer organizations and corporate sponsors to beautify homes in Oceanside.

This year the event will be Sept. 27 with registration taking place at Joe Balderrama Park starting at 7:30 a.m.

Preregistration is highly encouraged to assist in project planning. Work begins at 8:30 a.m.

Those interested in attending can register individually or as part of a group.

Volunteers will be assigned to one house to work on with a project leader per site.

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All materials, as well as food and drinks will be provided by the city.

Work will mainly consist of painting, litter removal and fence replacement. SUN will be concentrating on the 1400 blocks of Puls, Higgins, and Lemon streets as well as the Eastside Neighborhood of Oceanside.

Minors are required to obtain permission from parents or legal guardians to participate. Additional information regarding parking can be located on the registration forms.

Registration and Minor Volunteer permission forms can be found at the Web site, www.ci.oceanside.ca.us. For more information contact Brendan Mangan in the Neighborhood Services Department at (760) 436-3385 or bmangan@ci.oceanside.ca.us.

Palomar arboretum receives donation

Edna Pulver, a charter member of the friends of the Palomar College Arboretum, was recognized along with several others at a special thank you event sponsored by the Friends of Palomar College Arboretum.

Pulver made a considerable, undisclosed monetary donation to the construction of an area near the Arboretum at the San Marcos campus. Pulver’s funding and donations from others will also go toward moving the Friendship Pavilion from the old site at the library to its new site, to the Arboretum and also for landscaping the site.

Also helping with this project will be the trade and industry department, as well as the staff and students from the woodworking department.

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CAMPUS EXPLORATIONS SEMINAR Wesley Schultz will be lecturing on using physiological science to achieve ecological sustainability. He is a psychology professor from Cal State San Marcos. The lecture will take place from 2 p.m.to 3 p.m.in room P-32.For more information contact Judy Wilson at (760) 744-1150, ext. 3645.

Thursday, Sept. 18 CONCERT HOUR Palomar College’s Artist in Residence, Dr. Peter Gach, will be doing a preview of his musical activities for the coming semester on the piano.Gach has been playing for Palomar for over 25 years and his appearances frequently sell out. He will feature music such as Bach and Chopin. The event will take place from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in D-10. For more information contact Kimberly Loya at (760)744-1150, ext. 2316.

Friday, Sept. 19 AUDITIONS Palomar Prof.Michael Mufson will be holding auditions for William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” at 7 p.m. in D-10. He asks that actors be prepared with a memorized, one-minute Shakespearean monologue.

Sunday, Sept. 21 PIANO LECTURE-CONCERT Dr. Peter Gach will be giving a piano lecture-concert.

General admission is $15 per person and advance ticket purchase is requested as Gach’s performances often sell out. The event is sponsered by the Lake San Marcos Friends of Palomar College. The event will take place at 2 p.m. at the Meadowlark Community Church in San Marcos. For more information contact Pam Grasso at (760)744-1150, ext. 2732.

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Record enrollment,slashed funding leads to overcrowding GRAIANNE WARD THE TELESCOPE

With an increase in Palomar’s enrollment and fewer class sections to choose from, students have found it hard to get a seat in classes they need.

Enrollment numbers have increased not only because there are more first-year students, but also because the sluggish economy has driven older students back to the classroom to upgrade their skills in order to change their careers, according to school officials.

“We only close the doors when there are no more seats to fill,” President Robert Deegan said. “We don’t turn anyone away, so it makes it harder.”

The school had to cut 220 sections but is offering 130 new ones. Those classes cost $4,000, which the school has to pay out of pocket, he added.

Deegan said that the school administrators are doing their best with a tight budget and a huge demand. They are predicting 340 full-time students over the normal limit but the state doesn’t have the money to pay for the increase. As a community college, Palomar gets most of its money from the state, not from tuition. Since the state is low on money this year, it won’t pay the $1.5 million it usually would for those 340 extra students.

“Tuition only makes up 10 percent of the money received,” Deegan said. “That 10 percent is sent to the state and the state sends it back to the school with 90 percent to match (the 10 percent).”

The school is working with the same budget they had last year but they are paying high costs for insurance and utilities, according to Deegan.

“The economy is tough right now; so we’re not getting as much money as we need and are over-enrolled,” Deegan said.

Some faculty members are

YUKIE ZUILL | THE TELESCOPE

Over-enrollment coupled with fewer available class sections has resulted in over crowded classes. Many students have been turned away from core classes that have no room to add. worried about the impact of fewer classes and more students.

“I’m very worried by the number of sections that have been chosen to be cut with the growth in numbers,” said Shannon Lienhart, a statistics teacher and the president of the Palomar Faculty Federation, the faculty labor union.

Deegan said it is up to the instructors whether they want to add students over capacity.

“You can only put so many cups of water in soup before it dilutes,” he said.

Lienhart agrees with Deegan on that point. She believes smaller classes improve the quality of education. Lienhart did admit to adding a few students into her classes, but while

she may have accepted two she had to turn away 30.

“My cap is at 40 and the students can’t get the attention needed if there are more students,” Lienhart said. “Adding beyond that limit puts everyone’s education in jeopardy.”

Reuben Aguirre, 22, said he counteracts the bigger class sizes by getting extra help outside of the classroom.

“When you come to college you’re there for yourself, no one else,” he said. “You have to assert yourself, you can go to tutoring and go to the teacher’s office and speak to them directly.”

Yuri Colima, 19, doesn’t agree with the idea of sitting around waiting for someone to drop a class.

“I feel like you’re wasting

your time,” Colima said.

A friend told her how a teacher didn’t accept crashers, kicking them out if they came in and were not on the attendance sheet or the top of the waiting list.

Deegan said that there have not been many complaints.

“We offer 87,000 classes a year,” he said. “This year we’ve only been able to offer 81,000, which is still a lot, and most of those are filled.”

Patrick Aspell, 18, is in an over-enrolled math class where he was able to get a seat.

“I wish there was more room in the classroom but with reconstruction I expect there to be more displaced students.”

According to President Deegan, the construction has nothing to do with the Over-

enrollment. Deegan said that if anything, it will bring in more money because expanding the school means more students.

When asked what students should do in order to get needed classes, Lienhart jokingly said, “Pray.”

Deegan suggested students aim for more units.

“If a student is aiming for 18 units they may only get 15. If they want 15 they may only get 12,” Deegan said. “We’re doing our best to serve students and appreciate the work of the faculty. As soon as things improve we plan to add more classes.”

“It is what it is,” Aspell said about the situation. He said he doesn’t care about having a more or less crowded class. “I’m just there to soak up what the teacher has to say.”

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The past and future of McCain SACRAMENTO BEE MCT CAMPUS

Republican presidential nominee John McCain begins his campaign with a compelling life story, a need to redefine the past and a running mate who has energized the core of his party.

The story of McCain’s life — of the 5 years in a brutal North Vietnamese prison camp that turned him from a self-absorbed boy into a serious man dedicated to public service — is well known but no less moving for that. And in his speech to the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, McCain made it clear that he will stake his campaign on his biography, on the man he became as a prisoner of war.

By comparison, he said little about his 26 years in Congress and seems unlikely to say much more about it in the campaign.

— John McCain The GOP faithful, after all, find much to dislike in McCain's Senate record. And calling attention to his experience is risky, because to win he must overcome public dissatisfaction with the last eight years — when Republicans were in charge of the presidency and, for six of those years, of Congress as well. This is the past he must redefine, casting himself as a change agent without criticizing the President Who Must Not Be Named.

Hence his oblique approach at the convention.

“We were elected to change Washington,” he said, “and we let Washington change us.” That statement of the central quandary of his candidacy drew a muted response from the delegates in St. Paul. Voters struggling with the results of eight years of Republican rule may not be even that receptive.

Where McCain scored with delegates was in his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Her speech fired up the party’s conservative base and sent the campaign out of the convention with an energy that seemed improbable at its beginning. Whether he can build on that energy to make voters forget who has really been in charge in Washington since 2001 will do a lot to determine whether the story of John McCain’s future is as compelling as that of his past.

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We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us.

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America needs a change But who should lead it?

JARRED POWELL THE TELESCOPE

This year’s presidential election is shaping up to be one for the history books.

More than ever it is important to pay attention and vote in the coming election.

For the first time in history a minority and a woman are running for office. And after the election America will have a president or a vice president that is not a white male for the first time.

The country’s two major political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, recently nominated their representatives for president and vice president of the United States.

The Democrats nominated Sen. Barack Obama for president and he choose Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate. The Republicans nominated Sen. John McCain of Arizona for president, who chose Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.

Aside from these things, the presidential race is highly anticipated due to the actions of our current President George W. Bush and his political style.

When he took office in 2000, things in America were livable. We had our ups and downs as does every country, but we were not on the verge of a recession.

Things were affordable.

The working class and the middle class had a legitimate chance at succeeding in America and gas prices weren’t causing people to restrict their budgets.

During Bush’s eight years as president the country has regressed. Our military is on a mission that has no end in sight. Our troops do not know why they are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Oil prices

are at record high levels, the economy is almost in a recession, and America is the world’s most hated country.

Thank you, President Bush.

You’re just what we needed.

For the record, I am 32 years old. I remember as far back as President Jimmy Carter but I never cared about politics until I got older.

With the exception of our current president and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, every president, in my eyes, shared one common goal, they would take care of the U.S. first and focus on world politics second.

The past eight years it has been the opposite. This administration is more involved in spreading democracy and reaping a monetary benefit.

At the same time, the United States has been suffering with no end in sight and I believe now is the time for change.

Change will come slowly,

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but it will not come unless you vote.The change we need is going to take longer than four years, but as long the country takes small progressive steps and does not stagnate, then I am all for it.

While both candidates have swayed back and forth on certain topics, change has been Obama’s motto from the first time he made it known he would run for president of the United States.

He may have been unsure about certain issues, but he has remained constant with his call for change.

On the other hand, McCain has swayed back and forth on everything. This especially goes for his alliance to the current Bush administration, if it was not for the fact that other people have gotten things done for him, then he would not have a legitimate leg to stand on.

I highly recommend Obama to lead our country for the next four years. He is the change our country needs.

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Company uses survey to pair roommates BLACKOUTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

DANA HULL AND SHELBY MARTIN MCT CAMPUS

University of CaliforniaBerkeley sophomore Katie Nelson says that she always has one burning question about potential dorm roommates.

“You wonder if they are going to be a psychopath,” joked Nelson, 19. “After that, the next question is: Are they messy?”

Compatibility is key when it comes to communal living, particularly when the room is smaller than most studio apartments.

The night owl won’t appreciate the early riser, and the neat freak will have little tolerance for the total slob. So some Cal students have used StarRez, a company that specializes in housing and conference software, in their search for compatible roommates.

Think of it as Match.com for modern dorm life.

“It’s kind of like online dating,” said Martin Takimoto, director of marketing for residential and student services at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, which began rolling out the StarRez program last spring.

Students create an online profile and complete a survey. But instead of asking questions about majors and musical taste, the questions focus on the issues that can make or break roommate relationships: tidiness, sleep schedules, study habits and just how many friends they want dropping by at 3 a.m. The StarRez portal then spits out a list of their closest roommate matches, complete with a percentage representing each one’s compatibility. Students can send messages to potential matches and chat further.

“If you find out your potential roommate has a 6-foot python, you can still say ‘no way!”’ said Jason Dell, a spokesman for StarRez, which has 250 college campuses as clients.

Freshman Patricia Lin, 18, of Milpitas, used StarRez as she began the process of signing up for university housing.

Lin, who graduated from Presentation High in San Jose, was paired up with Joanna Lee, 17, of Torrance.

Their majors are different. Lin is studying psychology, Lee molecular cell biology. But the two, who moved into their new room in Davidson Hall last week-

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Roommates Kimberly Lam, 18, left, and Lauren Weiss, 17, haul their belongings into the dorms at UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley is trying a new pilot program using profiling software to match up compatible roommates. However, most students found their roommates through Facebook, MySpace and student orientations. end, were matched up in part because they both said they want their dorm room to be mellow and conducive to studying.

They’ve been placed in a “triple,” with a third roommate from Saratoga.

The first night the roommates spent together was Sept. 6.

Everything is going well, “but apparently I snore,” Lee said.

“Just a little bit,” Lin said.

Snoring is not a StarRez question.

In previous years, Cal students who received housing assignments were briefly surveyed via e-mail about their sleep schedules, level of tidiness and whether they smoked, and then were matched up based on basic criteria. Those who hadn’t requested a specific roommate were assigned one based on that survey.

But since February, students have been able to log on to the StarRez Web site to create more detailed profiles for potential roommates for the fall semester.

Users can use a screen name, make queries, direct fellow students to their Facebook or MySpace profiles, and accept or decline roommate offers.

Still, you never really know how something is going to work

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only gained 60 of those spaces back.”

The Facilities Department has been monitoring the use of the staff spaces, and the counts were taken before the Facilities Review Committee at its Sept. 11 meeting.

His goal by doing this is to possibly rezone some of the staff spaces that sit vacant on a regular basis, but he said that the rezone would first have to be reviewed by each of the individual departments. It will then be brought again to the next FRC meeting Sept. 25 for a final decision.

“This is a shared governance issue,” Ellis said. “I can’t make calls like this on my own.”

The department is also monitoring the six Child Development Center spaces that are reserved for drop-off and pick-up of children. His idea is to have these spaces be 30-minute parking for the parents from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The spaces would be open for general parking between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.

out until you meet the old-fashioned way: in person.

Graydon Rose, 18, of San Diego, met his roommate, Allen Cheong, 18, of San Leandro, for the first time Sunday, as both students arrived with their parents and mounds of back-toschool gear in tow. Rose and his folks were already organizing the closet when Cheong arrived.

The two shook hands, then got down to business.

“I thought we could put the refrigerator here and then the microwave here,” Rose told Cheong.

Rose is studying political science, Cheong civil engineering.

“For me, I don’t mind partying as long as he doesn’t come home really, really late,” Cheong said.

“And I guess another thing for me is I don’t like it when people borrow stuff without asking.”

The pair weren’t sure what part of their profiles made them a computer match.

San Jose State University uses another software program to match freshmen moving into university housing. Stanford University matches incoming freshmen in a similar way, but they won’t know who they’ll room with until they move on campus next month. Stanford

While these are all short-term fixes to the parking problems facing the campus, there is a larger long-term goal. A cantilevered parking structure is in the master plan that will add 229 new spaces to the east of lots 3 and 5, but it could take three years to finish.

Part of this delay is because the Facilities Department has to conduct an Environmental Impact Report, which it will then send out to local agencies. They will have to prove that the parking structure will not interfere with any of the native coastal sage on the campus. There are also 13 registered archeological sites on the campus that must be protected.

“Our ultimate goal is to have one space per every four students,” Ellis said. “We are currently at 4.7 students per space. After the cantilevered structure is added, we will be at 4.1” There are currently 3,500 parking spaces on the campus, while the number of registered students is about 33,000. This number, however, does not reflect how many actually attend the San Marcos campus, as the number is district wide.

also uses teams of staff and students to help match roommates.

But as with online dating, any Web-based profile is sure to gloss over personality flaws.

Maggie Saremi, 19, of the San Fernando Valley, felt her first roommate wasn’t the best fit.

“I was my roommate’s third roommate,” Saremi said of her match last spring. “I’m more of a morning person, and she was up until the crack of dawn.”

She acknowledges that the way she answered the questionnaire could have skewed her profile.

“I don’t think I honestly answered all the questions because I didn’t want a psychopath,” she said. “So I was like, I never party, because I didn’t want to room with a big partyer.”

She didn’t have to worry. The roommate didn’t party. She stayed up all night on her laptop, often with a blanket pulled over her head.

This fall Saremi is rooming with two good friends.

Cal’s StarRez survey avoids things like hobbies, academic majors and musical taste.

“We do want students to be exposed to the diversity that is Berkeley,” Takimoto said.

another transformer, which would double current full capacity, be installed as soon as possible.

Palomar’s power was turned off between 11 p.m. Sept. 4 and 7 a.m.

Sept. 5 for the installation.

“It should solve the electrical problems at the college,” Deegan said after the Sept. 2 outage.

The solution was of concern to many of the students who had to sit and wait for classes to be resumed.

“It’s kind of hard to hang out anywhere because it is way too hot, there is no air conditioning,” said Palomar student Liz Fleming, 22.

Some students were not concerned by the power outage.

“When you have a condensed area it is bound to happen,” said Palomar student Alyssa Carlsen, 20. “It’s not the end of the world, I like sitting under a tree.”

“It hasn’t affected me too much,” said Palomar student Tyler Heckman, 18. “It happened right after my astronomy class. No more classes for a few hours, just hanging out.”

Students were not the only ones affected.

“It is hard because the instructors are going to be stressed out,” said Sandy Smith, an interpreter for hearing impaired students at Palomar. “I feel bad for them. It makes it stressful for everyone.”

The Aug. 25 outage was still affecting students a half hour after the restoration of power, with a sign on the door of the Student Services building saying “power outage building is closed” and no one around to answer questions or direct students. The library was also closed with signs on the doors after power was restored.

“I think it is interesting that they didn’t anticipate something like this,” Fleming said.

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pay back what was borrowed plus interest, Deegan said.

Administrators know that the budget will not be good. Now it is just a question of how bad it will be when it is passed, Deegan said. Administrators are hoping to get at least a 1.6 percent increase in growth when the budget is passed.

“Things seem really slim as they are. I can’t imagine cutting anything,” Baker said. “It’s kind of ridiculous because the people in those posts should have the budget as a priority.”

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The 24th annual Street Scene promises to be bigger and better when it makes its way back to downtown San Diego on Sept. 19 and 20.

Street Scene originated in 1984 as a semi-annual event showcasing musicians in the Gaslamp Quarter, however, over the years, the event outgrew its original stomping grounds.

The music festival was forced to expand from occupying a single block at Fifth Avenue, between J and K streets, to several blocks in the Gaslamp and eventually to Qualcomm Stadium in 2005 and 2006. It was this expansion that was able to bring in known artists such as Kanye West, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Tool.

However, this year’s Street Scene is going smaller in an attempt to revisit the past and revamp the multi-stage festival.

“This is a return to our roots both musically, with a band like X who played our first year in 1984, and our location that started in the streets of downtown San Diego,” Street Scene founder and producer Rob Hagey said in a statement.

Hagey is collaborating with The Casbah’s Tim Mays to help revive the 24-year-old event.

Their new partnership will also bring a fresh feel to the event while staying true to its origins.

Many of the featured artists have

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This year Street Scene officials hope to return it to its roots by making the venue smaller than in the past. The multi-stage event will return to the streets of downtown San Diego. performed previously at The Casbah, due to Mays’ new affiliation with Street Scene .

“This year’s line-up, with acts like DeVotchKa, Spiritualized and Hot Chip, and being back in the streets will have such a cool vibe with so many great indie artists in an urban setting,” Mays said.

The lineup includes: Beck, The Black Crowes, Justice, STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Michael Franti & Spearhead, The National, Spoon, TV on The Radio, Atmosphere, Cat Power, Hot Chip, Tegan and Sara, The New Pornographers, X, Vampire Weekend, The Hives, Cold War Kids, Ghostland Observatory,

Spiritualized, Antibalas, Man Man, The Mother Hips, Tokyo Police Club, DeVotchKa, The Night Marchers, Nortec Collective presents Bostich + Fussible, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, Del The Funky Homosapien, Eagles of Death Metal, Foals, The Muslims, Dengue Fever, MGMT, Sea Wolf,

West Indian Girl and Chester French.

Altogether there will be over 30 different acts on four stages.

Street Scene will be held at Tailgate Park at 4 p.m. to midnight both nights of the event.

Tickets for a two-day pass are $75, but there are only a limited number of tickets available.

Television is back!

Find out whatÕs worth watching EMILY MIKSAK THE TELESCOPE

With so many new shows on television and not enough time to watch them all it can be hard to choose which shows are worth watching. Here is a guide to what shows are COURTESY PHOTO | MCT CAMPUS good this season, includSophia Bush and ex-husband Chad Michael ing HBO’s new upcoming Murray star in the drama “One Tree Hill.” series “True Blood,” “One Tree Hill,” “The Hills,” and the HBO favorite “Entourage.”

‘One Tree Hill’ “One Tree Hill” portrays a group of friends growing up together. This CW series is dramatic and enticing, there’s no wonder why it just started off its sixth season. In the previous seasons of “One Tree Hill” the main characters were in high school and had to deal with the hardships and complexities that came with being adolescents.

The sixth season focuses on the group having to deal with adulthood.

Watching “One Tree Hill” there never seems to be a COURTESY PHOTO | MCT CAMPUS dull moment. The show airs at 9 p.m. on Mondays.

Lauren Conrad arrives at the premiere for “The Hills” at the LG house in Malibu.

‘The Hills’ “The Hills,” a MTV series in its fourth season, is a hit among young women. “The Hills” is a by-product of a previous popular MTV show, “Laguna Beach,” that features Lauren Conrad, also known as “LC” as well as some of her “posse.” The show documents Conrad’s glamorous life in Los Angeles, including her infamous fall-out with ex best friend Heidi Montag, and her hatred toward Montag’s boyfriend Spencer Pratt. “The Hills” is so jam-packed with drama that it may leave people wondering if everything is staged.

Overall the show is entertaining, fun and worth watching if you aren’t looking to watch something full of substance.

“The Hills” airs at 10 p.m. on Mondays.

‘True Blood’ A new show airing on HBO with seemingly large potential is “True Blood,” as the show appeals to a diverse

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Kevin Dillon, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly and Jerry Ferrara unleash their fifth season of “Entourage.” group of viewers. “True Blood” is a new series based on Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire mystery books.

The show takes place in a small town in Louisiana where humans and vampires are forced to coexist. Student Elizabeth Hansen cannot wait for the season to start.

“I love shows that are different and original,” Hansen said. “I think this show is going to set the

standards for other new shows.”

“True Blood” airs at 9 p.m. on Sundays.

‘Entourage’ The HBO original comedy “Entourage” is in its fifth season and continues to gain a bigger fan base. This show is about the life of a movie star and his friends. This HBO series is like the “Sex and the City” for men.

Palomar Student Kirsten Cassedy said she is a huge fan.

“What I really like about this show is that it is appealing to men and women,” Cassedy said.

“My boyfriend and I don’t have to fight over the remote as much. It keeps us both entertained and it’s something we both look forward to watching together.” “Entourage” airs at 10 p.m. on Sundays.

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‘The Women’falls short of ‘Sex in the City’ movie that only gets messy in a Messing-driven childbirth scene, with hand“The Women” is “Sex held camera, jumpy action and the City” without the and the cast really mixing sex, without the bitchy it up. Every other scene is edge. That's not to say it static, too carefully lightisn't the chickier of the ed, to flatter actresses of a two “chick pictures,” certain age. It's a movie of with better actors trying one-shots, with the ladies their hand at the same staying in their flattering sitcom-polished sort of light, delivering their lines patter. But the “good to someone who reacts to girls” of “The Women” that clever line in the next feel a little old-fashioned one-shot. next to the bad girls of Eva Mendes goes full vaSATC, understandable va-voom as the “other since “Women” is based woman.” Oscar winner and on a 1930s Clare Booth TV vet Cloris Leachman Luce play and 1939 film. makes a funny housekeepAfter years of being er, and Debi Mazar steals the most talked-about her scenes as the gossipy remake in Hollywood, manicurist who gives it all with many an actress away.

(Julia Roberts, for one) And Bening and Ryan trying to get it on the are quite good, giving emoscreen, “The Women” tional heft to their women, returns as a Meg Ryan one whose career is in production and Meg jeopardy because the Ryan vehicle, a some“hip” world is passing her what updated take on by, the other whose husgirl-bonding and the genband has taken up with a COURTESY PHOTO | MCT CAMPUS erational wars that “the young hottie. younger, other woman” Eva Mendes stars in the remake of the 1939 Geore Cukor film “The Women” along with rock star cast Meg English also turns out can stir up in a marriage Ryan, Annette Benning, Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie Fisher, Candice Bergen, Bette Midler and Debra Messing. some gems in the script, or in the workplace. about feminine spirit and Ryan is Mary, queen ambition that “shrinks to Much kvetching players the best lines. bee of her little circle of ladies ensues, as Sylvie tells Candice Bergen is per- fit” whatever her spouse lets her MOVIE REVIEW who luncheon. She's the some- the ever-pregnant Edith fectly cast as Mary's be. This is a movie world without ‘The Women’ time clothing designer who mar- (Debra Messing) and lestoo-understanding, too- men, which, considering how lackried well and juggles family, char- bian writer friend HH catty mom. She com- ing the lads were in “Sex and the OUT OF FOUR STARS ities and work and “has it all.” Or Miriam (Jada Pinkett ments on a bad facelift. City,” probably wasn't a bad move.

Meg Ryan, so she thinks.

But “bad” is what's in short Smith). Should they tell? STARRING: “She looks like she's Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett But gal pal Sylvie (Annette Should they keep Mary Smith, re-entering the Earth's supply in “The Women.” It's not Debra Messing Bening), the magazine editor, gets from finding out? That'll 1939 anymore, and while human atmosphere!”

RATED: PG-13 a tip from a chatty manicurist at never work.

Or, “Don't be bitter, nature and female nature haven't Saks. A “perfume girl” in the Murphy Brown vet Mary. It leads to botox.” changed, attitudes certainly have.

Manhattan store is having an Diane English adapted and But English has difficulty mak- This is like catching up on the gosaffair with a married man. And directed “The Women,” and she ing this pleasant-enough confec- sip with an old friend who's too he's Mary's husband. gives her sitcom-vet supporting tion hit all its marks. It's a prim nice to really dish the dirt.

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‘Smallville’ cast shrinks in season eight BILL RADFORD MCT CAMPUS

TV’s “Smallville” has weathered cast losses before. But this season, the eighth, faces a special challenge: Michael Rosenbaum, who played Clark Kent's archenemy, Lex Luthor, and Kristin Kreuk, Clark's first love, Lana Lang, have left the cast.

And, behind the scenes, the show’s creators, Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, are gone.The show is moving forward, though. And this season, which begins Sept. 18 on The CW, will feature major new villains, the return of some old allies and a new chapter in Clark’s life as he moves closer to his destiny as Superman.

With Millar and Gough gone, the series is now in the hands of Kelly Souders and her three fellow executive producers, who have all been with the show since Season 2.

Clark’s relationships with Lex and Lana have been key underpinnings of “Smallville,” Souders acknowledges, and so the departures of Rosenbaum and Kreuk are more than just bumps in the road. “When we heard neither would be back full time, to say it was devastating is not overstating it,” she says. “However, we have these other great characters.”

While Kreuk is no longer a regular, she will be back for a handful of episodes, Souders assured.

Similarly, while Laura Vandervoort, who played Clark's Kryptonian cousin last season, is gone from the cast, she'll make a return appearance.

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“Smallville” opens the new season without two of its leading cast members, Michael Rosenbaum and Lana Lang.

As for Rosenbaum, “the door is always open,” Souders says. And Lex’s presence will still be felt, she says, even if he’s not there.

Meanwhile, there are other relationships to explore, such as the one between Clark (Tom Welling) and Lois Lane (Erica Durance), who will become co-workers at The Daily Planet in Metropolis.

The two stars have an undeniable on-screen chemistry, Souders says, it is a good thing, since it's Lois, not Lana, whom

Clark is destined to be with. This season's theme is double identities. As Clark spends more time in the big city instead of Smallville, he’ll find it tougher to swoop in to save the day and then escape unnoticed, Souders says.

“In Smallville, there were often only cows watching him.”

The double-identity theme also encompasses Clark's best friend, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack). “Chloe has some sort of secret life going on that we will

discover as well,” Souders says.

And then there’s new cast member Sam Witwer, who plays paramedic Davis Bloome. Bloome’s alter ego is Doomsday, the creature who killed Superman in the comics, though Bloome, himself, is apparently unaware of his double identity. Over the course of the season, Souders says, Bloome will discover he's not necessarily from this world and he's not the good guy he thought he was.

“It’s kind of a tragic turn of events for him.” Adding to Clark’s headaches: Cassidy Freeman as Tess Mercer, acting chief executive of LuthorCorp in Lex's absence. “You will sense very quickly that she has been mentored closely by Lex,” Souders says. “There's a little bit of Lex in her.”

At least Clark will have some help against these new threats.

The junior Justice League Green Arrow, Black Canary and Aquaman - will show up in the season's first episode to bail out Clark. And Justin Hartley as Green Arrow will be sticking around as a regular. “He's just fascinating to play against Clark,” Souders says. Though the characters are allies, “there are parts of each other that they really don't like about each other.”

While there have been reports that the eighth season will be the last, Souders says that hasn't been decided - and that there are plenty of stories left to tell. “We are doing our best, everyone’s working really hard, in hopes that this isn't the last season.”

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Thursday, Sept. 18 Who: Fratellis w/ the Airborne Toxic Event & Electric Touch What: Rock/Alternative Where: House of Blues San Diego Cost: $14 More info: (619) 299-BLUE

Saturday, Sept. 20 Who: Janet Jackson What: Pop/R&B Where: San Diego Sports Arena Cost: $50-$125 More info: www.sandiegoarena.com

Sunday, Sept. 21 Who: Luis Miguel What: Latin Where: Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre Cost: $30-$250 More info: www.livenation.com

Monday, Sept. 22 Who: Anthony B What: Reggae Where: Belly Up Tavern Cost: $18-$20 More info: (858) 481-8140

Tuesday, Sept. 23 Who: Railroad Earth What: Progressive Bluegrass Where: Belly Up Tavern Cost: $18-$20 More info: (858) 481-8140

Wednesday, Sept. 24 Who: Paul Wall What: Rap/Hip-hop Where: House of Blues San Diego Cost: $19 More info: (619) 299-BLUE

Thursday, Sept. 25 Who: Dark Star Orchestra What: Adult Contemporary Where: House of Blues Anaheim Cost: $25-$27.50 More info: (714) 778-BLUE

Saturday, Sept. 27 Who: Switchfoot & Third Day What: Adult Contemporary Where: Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre Cost: $19-$119 More info: www.livenation.com

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Horoscopes

By Lasha Seniuk

Sept. 15-21

ARIES (March 21-April 20)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)

Intuitions or sudden hunches will have a strong appeal over the next few days.

Many Aries natives will now receive a meaningful glimpse into the future.

Revealing comments should be closely studied: watch for loved ones to probe for revised romantic ideas or new time expectations. After mid-week home finances may require extra planning.

Key issues may involve delayed payments and time sensitive agreements.

Ask for detailed paperwork: minor facts will soon prove vital.

Authority figures may be critical or unresponsive this week concerning issues of seniority, regulations or time sensitive instructions. Play the diplomat and watch for revised assignments or new workplace roles. Moodiness will soon be replaced by rapid progress: take your time and respond only to reliable facts and documents.

After Saturday contact distant loved ones and pay special attention to complex family discussions and new money issues.

TAURUS (April 21-May 20)

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

A colleague may this week challenge the authority of a key official. Remain distant, however, and watch for subtle agreements: before Wednesday workplace discussions will be complex but healthy. If possible, find positive ways to include younger or new employees.

Late this week many Taureans will encounter an unexpected romantic overture. Planetary alignments indicate several weeks of social intrigue will now arrive. If so, stay quiet and watch for obvious breakthroughs.

Loved ones will now regain their optimism and social vitality. Early this week watch for a powerful wave of revitalized interest to arrive in all key relationships. Close relatives will no longer view past mistakes as overwhelming. Provide encouragement.

Wednesday through Friday minor money matters may prove briefly problematic. Check calculations and avoid overspending: all is well. Later this weekend friends and relatives will demand clear social promises.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)

Early this week family decisions or unexpected financial obligations may significantly change daily plans.

Before October some Geminis may be asked to take on expanded home or money responsibilities. If so, remain balanced and expect work officials to also compete for your support.

Thursday through Sunday highlights unexpected discussions with a close friend or romantic partner. Key issues may involve recent family disputes or last minute cancellations: stay focused.

Over the next 11 days renovations, small repairs and costly home projects may require special attention. Check paperwork and daily figures for hidden errors. Some Sagittarians will soon experience increasing family demands. If so, expansion will be slow but consistent. Remain patient. Later this week a trusted friend may reveal an unexpected romantic attraction or private social triangle. Avoid offering an opinion: minor criticism will be quickly seen as disapproval.

CANCER (June 22-July 22)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 20)

Lessons from the past will be a continuing theme over the next few days.

After much inward reflection, key relationships will now experience an intense phase of redefined goals or revised home values. In the coming weeks fast social progress and new romantic promises will be unavoidable. Don't be shy. Friday through Sunday a close colleague or trusted business partner may press for new or unusual legal agreements. Your intuitions will soon prove valuable.

In the coming weeks investment opportunities or new property agreements will bring lasting success. Pace for slow growth and research all longterm options. Tuesday through Friday romance overtures will be passionate and mildly unethical: expect seductive comments and rare social invitations.

Wait, however, for concrete romantic promises and public affirmation before taking emotional risks: after mid-October new relationships will bring rapid and favorable results.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)

Early this week business negotiations will work strongly to your advantage.

For many Leos several weeks of disjointed work communications and lost information is now ending. Remain attentive and probe officials for valuable opportunities, new payment plans or revised agreements: you won't be disappointed. After Thursday family members will ask for added social attention and renewed daily commitments. Go slow: a cautious approach will bring the desired results.

Before mid-week nostalgia will captivate the attention of loved ones. Old memories and yesterday's obligations now need to be brought to the surface and resolved. Let close friends and lovers set the tone: deep emotional change and a renewed faith in romance may be at issue. Thursday through Sunday accents unusual creativity and surprising business proposals. Listen to the comments, ideas or suggestions of others: unique opportunities will soon prove worthwhile.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)

Recently distant friends or lovers will this week seek your approval. Loyalty is now a vital concern in all close relationships. Use this time to discuss complex family or romantic decisions: before next week loved ones will provide support, encouragement and meaningful advice. Thursday through Saturday a rare business or financial mistake may trigger short-term workplace changes. If so, expect ongoing miscommunications and revised team assignments for the next 20 days.

Group events and planned celebrations will be highly appealing this week. Watch for friends or colleagues to offer unusual invitations. Travel proposals, cultural experiences or creative hobbies will all provide lasting interest. After Thursday check financial records for mistaken dates or missed payments. For some Pisceans key officials may this week reveal an unexpected error or series of misleading comments. Calculations and daily payments may require attention.

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SPORTS ON DECK

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Palomar needs five games to defeat Chaffey

Monday Sept. 15 Compton at 4 p.m.

WOMEN’S GOLF Palomar vs.

College of the Desert at noon at Mission Lakes Country Club (Practice Round).

Wednesday Sept. 17 WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Palomar at L.A. Pierce at 6 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER Palomar at Santa Ana at 4 p.m.

WOMEN’S GOLF Palomar vs.

College of the Desert at noon at Mission Lakes Country Club.

Thursday Sept. 18 BASEBALL The first day of the Mt. San Antonio Tournament at 2 p.m. at Mt. SAC.

Friday Sept. 19 WOMENS’S VOLLEYBALL The Comets compete in the first day BART MAGOSKI | THE TELESCOPE

of the SD Mesa Tournament all day.

MEN’S SOCCER Riverside City at Palomar at 1 p.m. at Minkoff Field.

WOMEN’S SOCCER Imperial Valley at Palomar at 3:15 p.m. at Minkoff Field.

WOMENS’S WATER POLO The Comets compete in the first day of the Mt. SAC tournament all day at Mt. San Antonio College.

Saturday Sept. 20 WOMENS’S VOLLEYBALL Final day of the SD Mesa Tournament.

WRESTLING Palomar competes in the Mt. San Antonio Duals all day at Mt. SAC.

FOOTBALL Palomar at Victor Valley at 1 p.m.

WOMENS’S WATER POLO The final day of the Mt. SAC tournament all day at Mt. San Antonio College.

For updated Comet scores, go to www.the-telescope.com.

“We definitely need Stephanie,” said Palomar’s The Palomar College Women’s Audrey Green. “She’ll recover Volleyball team won its season fast though. She’s a trooper.” opener against Chaffey College Green led the team, recording Sept. 4, achieving victory in the 14 kills during the game. final set by beating Chaffey (25“As an individual I think I did 20, 18-25, 25-19, 24OK, but I just need to 26, 15-9). get out some of the COMETS 3 The sets went PANTHERS jitters,” Green said.

2 back and forth “But in the last set, I UP NEXT between Palomar think I turned it on.” and Chaffey with Alex Barsotti had Palomar at L.A. Pierce Palomar winning the five aces and not far Sept. 17 first set with the behind her was greatest scoring Courtney Tanner 6 p.m. streak at four points. with 24 digs and four The team lost the aces.

AT STAKE second set after hav“I think we still ing a serving battle Palomar plays L.A. Pierce, a have a lot of work to with Chaffey for the non-conference foe, before do and we are first 12 points, competing in the San Diego pulling though that,” Chaffey then began Barsotti said.

Mesa Tournament scoring 3-to-1. The As far as Haley’s team recovered and injury Barsotti said: won the third with almost the “She’s strong, but we do need her, exact opposite results of the sec- she’ll be all right …and the most ond set. important thing is we didn’t give In the fourth set the teams up and we just kept fighting.” started becoming more aggresMaria Cabrera, who scored the sive. The service exchanged point last point off of an assist, had 2 ? for point until the 11th point blocks. Cashel White, an outside where Palomar went into a three- hitter, had 23 digs. Laikin Miller point service streak. On Palomar’s had 25 assists, one of which led to 14th service, Stephanie Haley the final kill. Setter Ariel Hampel suffered an injury that removed had 25 assists. her from the remainder of the Palomar came off of a second game. place finish in the Pacific Coast Both teams had long volleys Conference last season and hopes that brought excitement to spec- to win conference this year. tators. Tension started to rise as The team members said they Palomar had a comeback and still feel that more work is necesagain went point for point with sary in order to reach the level Chaffey until it ended in they want to be at.

Chaffey’s favor. Palomar then won “We won and that’s what the final set with a five-point serv- counts but there is still a lot we ice streak, the longest of the need to work on,” said head coach night.

Karl Seiler.

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Palomar freshman Maria Cabrera spiked the ball in the Comet’s win over visiting Chaffey.

Cabrera had 2.5 blocks as the Comets needed all five games to beat the Panthers.

COMET SPORTS IN BRIEF Unsteady Comets drop first game of season to Vikings

An unprepared Palomar men’s soccer team fell to Long Beach City College 7-0 Aug. 27 at Minkoff Field.

“Actually I thought we played fairly well since this was the first time playing together. I am pleased with the effort we had,” head coach Carlos Hernandez said.

Long Beach City College finished No. 6 in the national rankings in 2006 and has appeared in the Southern California playoffs each of the past four years.

“They’re always good. We have a big battle with them every year,” Hernandez said. “One year they beat us and the next year we beat them and unfortunately they have beaten us the last couple of times. We split with them before and we never play them this early in the season. They played a little more as a team and it showed.”

Long Beach forward Manuel Bautista had two goals in the first half as Palomar went into the half down 4-0. Long Beach came out in the second half and scored two easy goals when they pulled the goalie up out of the box.

Bautista finished with three goals with forward Ryuta Iihama scoring two goals and midfielder Pedro Chavez and forward Oimarou Idrissa scoring goals for Long Beach.

“At times, we were good and at

other times, it looked like we quit and weren’t focused," Palomar forward Zach Bass said. "We were playing the hard balls when they should’ve been easy balls. I think we were too scared and nervous to play our first game. We expected it to be a good, physical game and it was.”

Hernandez said that there were also problems with eligibility.

“We are still working on getting guys eligible,” Hernandez said.

“We didn’t have the full team and only had 14 guys that could participate. The guys that played did a heck of a job and it taught us a lot about what we need to work on. I am pleased with the effort.”

Palomar is coming off consecutive second place finishes in the Pacific Coast Conference and are looking to try and capture the title this year.

“We have to play the easy balls and focus on little one touch passing to open up and not play so many long balls and look for switching,” Bass said.

Water polo wins first three games of the season After the Palomar MiniTournament, hosted at Wallace Memorial Pool, and facing conference rival Southwestern Sept. 3, the Palomar men’s water polo team has started its 2008 season a perfect 3-0.

The Comets won both games

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Sean Moser scored one of three goals in the game in Palomar's 18-10 win over Southwestern in the tournament they host, defeating Santa Ana (16-9) and Chaffey (19-11) Aug. 29.

Sophomore Bo Sidhu scored 13 goals in the tournament, with six goals in the first game and seven in the second game.

Bryant Garretson did his part, scoring nine goals in the tournament.

Goalie Jordan Tonne had a total of 29 saves on the day, with 19 of those coming against Chaffey.

Palomar then faced Pacific Coast Conference rival Southwestern Sept. 3 at Palomar, defeating the Jaguars 18-10.

Sidhu had seven goals and two steals to lead the Comets.

Michael Jordan had two assists and two steals and sophomore

Sean Moser contributed three goals.

Palomar tailback Leiylon Myers out for the season

Palomar runningback Leiylon Myers has told to the Telescope that he is out for the season.

Myers suffered a shoulder injury in an Aug. 29 scrimmage at Chaffey. Myers, a preseason second team All-American, was coming off a freshman season where he rushed for over 800 yards.

Due to the injury, Myers will redshirt this season.

Head coach Joe Early was not reached for comment.

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Neuheisel has UCLA well on its way MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 2008 | THE TELESCOPE

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The first time he met with his new players at the University of Washington, coach Rick Neuheisel told them he was bringing back gold helmets.

Nine years later, he stood before his new UCLA team last winter and also invoked history.

He told the B r u i n s about playing in the 1984 Rose Bowl, the feeling, the week leading up to it.

The magic of it.

“We were kind of hanging on his every word,” says linebacker R e g g i e Carter.

No wonder: Here is where Karl Dorrell, Neuheisel’s predecessor, got the Bruins in his five seasons: The Silicon Valley Classic. The Las Vegas Bowl. The Sun, Emerald, Vegas again. They lost four of five.

That got Dorrell pink-slipped.

Enter the charismatic, controversial Neuheisel from the Baltimore Ravens’ staff after a long search that vetted to UCLA’s satisfaction his sundry missteps at Colorado and Washington.

“Now you’re excited about all the stuff that’s going to lie ahead; maybe that’s the most fun,” Neuheisel says of his return to college coaching. “Now there is a future, as opposed to wondering whether it’s ever going to happen.”

Here is more history: At

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Colorado, Neuheisel had quarterbacks — Kordell Stewart (as an assistant) and Koy Detmer. He had them at Washington — Marques Tuiasosopo and Cody Pickett.

It’s debatable whether the Bruins are so blessed. That issue was already out there for Ben Olson, who suffered the latest in a dizzying string of injuries to U C L A quarterb a c k s when he broke a foot Aug. 9.

P a t C o w a n ’s career was already finished with a spring k n e e — RICK NEUHEISEL i n j u r y .

U n t i l Head football coach UCLA O l s o n overcomes his sixth injury-related absence since he arrived at UCLA in 2005 — he is to return in October — the job goes to JC transfer Kevin Craft. He is a 6-foot-5 former starter at San Diego State, where his dad, Tom, coached from 2002 to 2005. The elder Craft also coached at Palomar, where he was head coach where he compiled a 115-56-1 record in 16 years at Palomar before going 19-29 in four seasons at SDSU. During the long haul, UCLA hopes to curtail injuries with the hire of strength coach Mike Linn.

One of the Bruins’ summer regimens was a 300-yard shuttle drill in 50-yard increments, done three times, followed by squat-lifting.

Players found it diabolical.

“After you run one, you’re pretty much exhausted,” says tight

We can recruit the finest in the land to come to UCLA. There are 103 nationalchampion trophies one floor below where I sit. We can recruit.

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DEAN RUTZ| MCT CAMPUS UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel will look to San Diego product Kevin Craft to fill in at quarterback in Neuheisel’s first year with the Bruins.

end Logan Paulsen. “So those days are definitely tough.”

This team shouldn’t fail for lack of coaching acumen. Neuheisel retained respected defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker, keeping him from the clutches of Washington’s Tyrone Willingham, and, on the other side of the ball, he lured quarterback guru Norm Chow from the Tennessee Titans with a three-year contract.

The Neuheisel-Chow dynamic will be worth watching. The two are rock-star figures — Chow in a more understated fashion — and it is worth remembering Chow and USC coach Pete Carroll had a publicized split after early success.

“When I found out he was going to be our offensive coordinator, I was a little shocked,” Paulsen said. “He’s such a big name and there’s a lot of hype around him.”

“I think he’ll have a huge influ-

ence,” Neuheisel says. “I guess the biggest noticeable influence is that every quarterback in the country calls us, wanting to see if they can come. There’s a great allure to Norm Chow.”

Walker’s unit likely will have to carry this team, because the offensive line includes a mere two players who have seen time at the position.

Meanwhile, Walker has a pair of sturdy tackles in Brigham Harwell and rising star Brian Price. At linebacker, Carter moves from outside to the middle, in front of an inexperienced secondary.

Nonetheless, says Carter, “As an entire defense, I think we’re going to shock the country.”

In time, Neuheisel’s mission will be to contest the USC dynasty, not settle for the Emerald Bowl.

“You have to embrace it,” says the 47-year-old Neuheisel, refer-

ring to the USC challenge.

“They’re that elephant in the living room. You can’t be the head football coach at UCLA and not find a way to compete successfully with USC.” It’s not going to happen tomorrow or next week, only with a couple of more letters-of-intent days.

“He tells us we’re rarely going to see him,” says Carter, “because he’s out recruiting.”

The Bruins are the most decorated all-around athletic program in the country, so the USC monster represents only one deficit for Neuheisel.

“We can recruit the finest in the land to come to UCLA,” he insists. “There are 103 nationalchampionship trophies one floor below where I sit. We can recruit.”

Someday, the story here might be more about the Bruins than about Neuheisel. But not yet.

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Despite injuries, Comets get win over Southwestern JARRED POWELL THE TELESCOPE

With several players out with injuries suffered in the preseason and with 100 players making their college debut, the Comets started the 2008 football season with a 21-19 win over visiting Southwestern.

With the win, the Comets have won 28 straight games over San Diego County opponents.

“We got our first win, but that’s not how we anticipated it,” said head coach Joe Early.

“We let a lot of opportunities slip by us this game. We left 35 points up on the board. We

can’t use inexperience as an excuse anymore. We got our first game under our belt, now all those freshmen are sophomores.”

The Comets won a game that was filled with penalties and miscues on both sides of the ball. The Comets committed 10 penalties and had three

HUGH COX| THE TELESCOPE Palomar runningback Andrew Fraiser ran for 81 yards in the Comet’s win over the Jaguars Sept. 6 at Escondido High’s Wilson Stadium.

turnovers that kept the game Standout free safety Arthur close.

Render is also out but the Palomar started off slow, but Comets hope to have him back got on the scoreboard early this week against San Diego with a 3-yard touchdown run by Mesa. freshman Orenzo Davis in the With Myers out of the lineup, second quarter. the Comets dis21 Just before half- COMETS played their depth JAGUARS 19 time, the Comets at the running back scored again on a position pilling up UP NEXT touchdown pass 306 yards rushing from Steven Palomar at San Diego Mesa the ball.

Sept. 20 Carroll to Maurice Tyler Levea lead Patterson. the way with 123 6 p.m.

“We were getting yards on 18 carries. the ball on a short Andrew Fraiser AT STAKE field and we didn’t added 81 yards on take advantage of Palomar looks to extend a 20 carries. Fraiser it,” Early said. “Not also added 164 28-game winning streak our best showing yards from kickoff against San Diego teams but we’re happy to and punt returns. when they play SD Mesa. get the win.”

Davis made his sucThe Comets went cessful debut with in to the game missing several 63 yards on six carries, and a significant players who con- touchdown. tributed to the team’s success“The offensive line played ful 7-3 campaign in 2007. Most great today,” said Early. notably was preseason All“Our offensive line worked American runningback Leiylon hard all week, all summer.

Myers. Myers was hurt in the There in the trenches everyday Aug. 29 scrimmage at Chaffey pushing people around, making College. holes to give us the glory,” “I don’t know if it was from a Fraiser said after having over hit or from me falling on my 200 total yards. shoulder against Chaffey,” Carroll had a rough start in Myers said. He hopes to be his college debut; throwing 2 back next week, but later found interception but is optimistic out he will be out for the sea- about the future. son due to the injury.

“I haven’t played in a year.

“I just have to step my game Once I got out the first game up and do what I best. It’s not jitters and calmed down things about me no more but about started to work out for me,” what I can do for the team.”

Carroll said. “We have a lot to Also missing from the improve on as a team, but we Comets lineup, preseason All- will get things right.”

American defensive lineman The next game for the Comets Caleb Evans, who had a back will be at 6 p.m. Saturday Sept. injury in the preseason. Evans 20 against San Diego Mesa will be a medical redshirt this College at Cathedral Catholic season.

High School.

After near flawless season,wrestling hopes to go perfect in 2008 way, from being overweight to being in top shape Even with the loss of teammate After an 18-1 season last year Chris Crothwaite due to a left knee Palomar College wrestling team is hop- injury, the team is focus on winning ing to win another gold title, said coach another gold title.

Not being distracted by the injury, Byron Campbell.

Campbell added that this team has the team has changed its conditioning by not overstressing players before potential of winning 19-0. matches. Coach Campbell “We have a strong line said he wants to make sure up this year,” said returneveryone is healthy and ing sophomore Aaron UP NEXT ready to go.

Erberhart.

Campbell is in his 15th Even though the team year with the team and lost 18-13 to Cerritos last Mt. SAC Duals fourth as head coach. When season, the team wants to Sept. 20 asked about the upcoming redeem itself by going 19-0. season, Campbell said, “It The players are looking forAll Day changes year from year, but ward to Nov. 1 when they we are expecting a great face Cerritos at home.

AT STAKE season, but we still have a Many of the players on the team feel that Cerritos is The Comets open the 2008 lot of new guys on the team.” the team’s rival as far as season at Mt. San Antonio Clayton is one of the new competition.

College in the quest of wrestlers weighing 157 Erberhart, weighing 165 having a perfect season. pounds. He attended Vista pounds, said the loss to High for three years and Cerritos Oct. 31 was an “eye opener” to the team as well as a transferred to Poway during his senior learning experience. Erberhart also year. He won CIF masters, fourth place at said, “This is my year and we have state and said he feels that the team has some pretty big shoes to fill due to last trained hard this summer.”

Erberhart said he feels confident year’s season of 18-1.

“I need to prove myself to the team,” about the new wrestlers such as Alfredo Solis. Solis previously attended Santa freshman Clayton Macfar said.

Jose Herrerax is a new member of the Ana High, where he spent all four years team who wrestled for three years in on the wrestling team.

“I love to fight and we all take those high school and took seventh in the extra steps to be ahead of the game,” state. Herrerax, who weighs 141 Solis said. ”I see this place as a fight pounds, said he has felt a team chemclub instead of a college sport. I have a istry that will help in the team’s quest lot of heart when it comes to wresting to have a perfect season.

“We are really bonding as a team,” as well as many of my teammates.”

Solis said that he has come a long Herrerax said.

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Palomar wrestlers practice takedowns in the preseason at the team looks to have a perfect record this season.