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Campus o fficers tic keted mo in 2009, c re than 14 osting dri ,000 cars vers $36 per ticket Palomar police handed out $280,000 in parking tickets last year. Officers wrote 14,279 tickets in 2009 alone – that’s one ticket for every two students.

Students ticketed for parking in a campus lot without a permit, the most common offense, must pay $36 to the campus police department.

That money goes straight to the Palomar general fund, the college’s main bank account that holds money for a variety of programs and efforts.

The ticket money is earmarked for equipment, police officer training and parking permit enforcement, said campus police Chief Anthony Cruz.

“Bail amounts are reviewed annually,” Cruz wrote in an email. “Recommendations are made to maintain a reasonable level of consistency with other agencies for each type of violation.”

the police.

Once received, ticket money is split into two accounts. One goes to the campus police, and the other is used to pay state fees. In 2010, $90,000 in ticket revenue went to paying state fees, leaving $190,000 for the college.

The state fee levels directly affect ticket prices. When state officials raised fees by $5 last year, Palomar’s ticket prices jumped by the same amount. The price boost was ultimately approved by the SPC in Fall 2010. Two students were on the police committee that recommended the increase.

Palomar’s ticket cost is similar to other colleges in the area. Parking citations at Mira Costa College in Oceanside carry a $30 fine, according to Mira Costa police aide Karissa Aki. And ticket settlements cost $40 at San Diego State University, where enrollment and parking is much more impacted than at Palomar, said Jeri Mendiola, a student assistant with the SDSU police.

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The Strategic Planning Council, one of Palomar’s central governing groups, sets the ticket price. The council is staffed by college administrators and faculty, but has no student members, according to college documents. The campus police committee provides the council with a survey of area ticket prices to help council members decide on new ticket prices.

Money garnered from tickets is processed and considered separately from parking permit sales, which go through the administration, not

Tickets must be paid for within 21 days, or the fine will double – to $72. Students who fail to pay two or more tickets have a hold placed on student accounts, preventing them from registering for classes until the fines are paid, Cruz said.

“Delinquent fines are reported to the Department of Motor Vehicles, which will require payment prior to renewing registration for the turn to parking, PAGE 10

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Center offers veterans counseling, computers

Racheal Saucedo, a Marine Corps veteran, studied in the new Veteran’s Center at Palomar, room SU-22, on Feb. 28. (Rosa Galvan/ The Telescope) kaity bergquist The Telescope

Palomar’s veteran’s center has been getting increased use over the past few years as the number of student veterans increases, officials said last week. In the fall of 2008, the center provided services to 600 veterans. In the fall of 2010, they served 1,000 veterans. Now, only two months into the spring 2011 semester, the center has served 1,018 veterans.

“We have such an increased amount of traffic at the college because we have two wars going on,” said Mark Minkler, veteran’s specialist at the center. “We have one of the largest veteran populations of any college in the country.”

The veteran’s center consists of two areas, the veteran’s service center and the veteran’s lounge and counseling area.

The lounge and counseling area, which opened last October in SU-22, provides veteran students with a place to hang out, study, use computers and printers and get counseling for posttraumatic stress disorder.

“A lot of colleges are heading toward having veteran’s centers because it recognizes that veterans have special needs,” Minkler said. “If you’ve been in combat for a year or two and you come back and try to just get back into the college routine, sometimes you need a little extra help.”

Outside agencies like the San MarcosVet Center, which has a counseling center in San Marcos, are able to come Palomar.

On the first and last Tuesdays of the month, the center provides walk-in counseling sessions from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. turn to veterans, PAGE 10

Through internet, college students counsel high-schoolers on mastering admissions process, academics mark saunders The Telescope

Students looking for a second job have the unique opportunity to make money and counsel high-school students on their own paths to higher education.

CollegeSolved is a search-based website that allows students who are seeking information about college campuses to connect with college students attending various colleges.The website’s mission statement said they want, “to fill the information gap,” and, “to connect a global user base of confused applicants with the people that will help guide them.”

The counseling program, Collegiate Chat, students can sign up on the CollegeSolved website and set up phone appointments with student counselors across the country. Payment to students is based on the number of appointments taken.

Andrew Ullman, cofounder and COO, said turn to internet, PAGE 10

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Campus Headlines Students bridge culture gaps over lunch Program gives students opportunity to practice language development together The language teachers at Palomar saw that students desired extra practice outside of the language classroom.

Palomar officials are providing “Looking around at Palomar’s a free lunch for students who are diverse student population, we relearning a foreign language and alized that the language experts want to help others learn their were right under our noses,” said Lawrence Lawson, assistant professor of ESL, in an email.

Lawson noticed there were students who were studying a language, but those students didn’t know anyone who knew the language they were studying.

So, Lawson and adjunct professor of ESL, Karen Hamilton, started up “Language and Lunch.”

The program offers a two-directional type of learning in a conversational setting. This method is beneficial for students and is something not always provided in a classroom.

“Both students get to be the ‘teacher’ and the ‘learner,’” Lawson said.

For example, a student who speaks English and wants to learn French Students practice their language skills in the ‘Language and Lunch’ Program. Participants meet every would be paired with a student who speaks French other Wednesday from 11:30am-12:30pm. (Photo courtesy of Lawrence Lawson) Sydnie Taylor The Telescope

native language.

“Language and Lunch” is a program that pairs students with one another’s language and provides lunch and a comfortable environment for learning. The program meets from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. every other Wednesday on campus.

and wants to learn English.

The students would spend 25 minutes speaking in one language and 25 minutes speaking in the other language. Sitting and enjoying a meal together gives students the opportunity to practice conversing in the language they want to learn.

“They share food and culture and it’s a lot of fun,” Lawrence said.

“Language and Lunch” has been active for four semesters and the program pairs as many students together as they can with the languages that are represented.

The languages vary each semester, depending upon the students who express interest.

Lawson said he understands that students may be nervous when practicing another language.

“It’s not as scary as you think,” Lawson said. “Their partner is in

a similar situation, and usually after just a couple minutes, students feel comfortable and stop worrying about making mistakes.”

If you are interested in participating, email languageandlunch@ gmail.com. Within the email include your name, the language you speak fluently and the language you are studying. Once the program representatives find a partner for you, they will email the time and place of your next meeting.

Students should avoid just showing up without contacting them first because it does not give the program time to find them a partner.

Contact Sydnie Taylor, online editor at staylor@the-telescope.com

ASG to march for lower course fees Vanessa Mujica The Telescope

The Associated Student Government will be attending the March in March rally event held at the state’s Capitol on March 14 in hopes of lowering student fees and creating more classes at community colleges.

With the help of more than 40 schools in California, including nine from San Diego County, the march will grab the attention of legislatures and the media to keep enrollment easy and affordable.

This has been an ongoing battle for students enrolling at Palomar who say fees are too high and classes are full.

The ASG will be sending two of its representatives to voice action for Palomar, but one student said she had no idea the rally was taking place.

“I had no clue the ASG was even

attending. They should inform us by posting about the rally on the school’s website, sending emails via Blackboard or posting it on the school’s marquee,” said Mckinzey Borunda.

When asked about not communicating successfully with the student body, ASG President Channing Shattuck said they were going to be updating their Twitter page throughout the march so students can follow the rally and voice their opinions without physically being in attendance.

ASG’s plan for advocacy for the March in March includes joining forces with select schools in the county, calling it “Region 10.”

Schools from this group will march together and have agreed on solid campaigns for the rally to get their voices heard.

The rally will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. at the Automobile Mu-

seum of California where they will get together and march to the steps of the state Capitol until they are heard. Along with picketing and petitioning, there will be several guest speakers throughout the day’s festivities to engage and educate the youth leaders.

ASG members said last year’s event was a success and are hoping this year will be equally as successful. However, they want to make a bigger impression this time in order to get their point across.

“March in March is our way of saying that the students of California will not just lie down and take no for an answer when it comes to their education,” Shattuck said.

To stay connected with the March in March rally follow the ASG on Twitter @ASGpalomar.

Contact Vanessa Mujica, staff writer at vmujica@the-telescope.com

ASG President Channing Shattuck will be heading to the state Capitol for the March in March rally. (Photo by Brian Tierny/The Telescope)

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News to Know: Headlines students should know about

Protesters brandish guns as a defaced portrait of dictator Moammar Gadhafi is brought to a traffic circle in Agedabia, where local residents staged a large rally after prayers, Feb. 25. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

Del Mar pushes plan to save fairgrounds On Feb. 22, the Del Mar City Council approved spending up to $15,000 for a lobbying firm to gain support for Del Mar’s interest in purchasing the Del Mar Fairgrounds from the state, according to a Feb. 22 article in the Union-Tribune.

The lobbying firm, California Strategies, LLC, has been hired to convince local politicians and governments to support a bill currently traveling through the state legislature that authorizes the city’s purchase of the racetrack from the state.

The bill, Senate Bill 1, was introduced last December and will have to go through an assigned committee and then governor approval.

The purchase was previously agreed upon between Del Mar and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for $120 million, however, Del Mar officials became skeptical of Gov. Jerry Brown’s stance on the purchase after hearing comments he made about the purchase.

Brown expressed an unwillingness to move forward with the purchase, stating in a Feb. 9 news conference that it was a poor time to sell the venue and it can wait, according to the UT article.

The council will monitor the lobbying, approving up to $5,000 each month for three months upon review of the firm’s performance. The city estimated $200,000 would be spent in legal services related to the purchase.

Critics of the plan said they believe the city should be spending the money on more urgent projects.

“Unless you can pin down Jerry Brown…I’m opposed to your spending any more money on this until you know that he wants to sell,” said former council member

Brooke Eisenberg-Pike in the Feb. 22 article.

Racial unrest at UCSD In a recent email, Victor Brown, vice chair of the black student union at the University of California San Diego, claimed the school must do more to combat racism.

Racial tension reignited after a Feb. 9 email, containing racist language, was accidentally sent to all student-registered email accounts, according to a Feb. 25 article in the Union-Tribune. UCSD came under scrutiny last year after racially offensive events occurred on and around campus. However, campus officials claim the latest incident is minor compared to events of the past and incidental when taking into account the progress that has

been made since then.

“It was one student being a jerk,” said Judy Piercey, UCSD spokesperson, in the Feb. 25 UT article. Piercey also dubbed the incident as “minor.”

In his email to the university’s leaders, Brown wrote that UCSD is “just doing the small stuff” and recent events show “there is continued hostility and violence…toward black students…on campus.”

The student who sent the message has since been identified, however, the identity and possible disciplinary actions for the student have not been released.

Shooting at SD Naval base One sailor was shot and another taken into custody on Feb. 26 at San Diego Naval Base, according to a

Feb. 26 article by CNN. The sailors were stopped in the early morning of Feb. 26 by gate guards outside the naval base under suspicion of drunk driving. After another gate guard was called in for assistance, the two sailors drove onto the base and were then pursued by naval police. Upon trying to break through another gate, the vehicle collided with security vehicles.

One sailor exited the vehicle and the other continued to drive until naval police opened fire on the sailor still in the vehicle, eventually shooting him in the abdomen. The driver was reported to be in stable condition while the passenger is being held on base at the time of print.

Brain O’Rouke, Southwest Navy public affairs officer, said the naval police involved had recently gone through security training to prepare for incidents such as the one on Feb. 26, according to the same CNN article.

CNN reported that charges are pending against the two sailors.

Fashion show needs models Mark your calendars: ‘Media Days’ MARK SAUNDERS The Telescope

Do you have a strut that would put Heidi Klum to shame or aspire to be a male model? Then Palomar needs you.

Palomar’s design and merchandising program needs models for its annual “MODA Fashion Show.”

Auditions will be held on Tuesday, March 8 at 6 p.m. in FCS-1.

Auditions are open to males and females age 16 or older and of all sizes.

The MODA Fashion Show 2011 is scheduled for April 21 at the California Center for Performing Arts in Escondido.

The show is used as a way to showcase studentdesigned clothing and for aspiring models to be exposed to industry professionals who attend the event.

Rita Campo-Griggs, fashion instructor, said she has high expectations for the show. It has been moved into the CCPA’s concert hall after last year’s room became too crowded.

“It should be a spectacular show,” Campo-Griggs said. “One that’s going to exceed other shows in the past. The venue itself is amazing.”

Campo-Griggs added that international designer Zandra Rhodes would be attending the show.

The event also gives the community a chance to view the work of Palomar students.

Campus visitors who plan to audition can pick up a parking pass at the campus police station located in Palomar’s front entrance parking lot.

Campo-Griggs said she only had one thing to let prospective models know.

“Just being themselves is probably the most important thing,” CampoGriggs said.

Contact Rita Campo-Griggs at 760-744-1150 ext.

3047 for more information.

(Julie Fletcher/ Orlando Sentinel)

Contact Mark Saunders, news editor, at

msaunders@the-telescope.com

brings local experts to Palomar MARK SAUNDERS The Telescope

For more information, contact Media Days organizer Erin Hiro at (760) 744-1150 ext. 3762 or ehiro@palomar.edu.

Media experts will visit Palomar on March 8 and 9 for the annual Media Days, hosted by the communica- Contact Mark Saunders, news editor, at tions department. The event will consist of a series of msaunders@the-telescope.com forums featuring industry experts and is open to the public.

Media Days includes speakers from various fields of communication, ranging from newspaper and online journalism to multimedia and cinema. Students have the opportunity to meet and learn from experts working in the industry today.

Guests will spend the two days sharing what they have learned as well as teaching attendees what life is like in the current world of media.

“Media Days is valuable to students because they’ll have the opportunity to meet and listen to professionals working in the media industry,” said Wendy Nelson, event co-organizer. “I hope students will gain valuable information to prepare for a job.”

Speakers slated to attend include Robert York of the San Diego UnionTribune, Kent Davy of the North County Times and Chris Jennewein of Patch. com.

A multimedia panel consisting of three experts who are Palomar alumni is also on the schedule.

Media days will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 8 and 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 9. All talks will be held in the Governing Board room at the Student Services (Photo Illustration by Mark Saunders/ The Telescope) building (SSC).

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Women better educated, but still earning much less than men White house reports women status unchanged Kim Ode Star Tribune

What if the revolution is over?

The question is triggered by a new White House report out Tuesday, the first comprehensive federal look at women’s status since 1963.

Its statistics are familiar: the continuing wage gap, how women do more household chores than men.

But it’s the fact that women still lag in many areas despite all their strides that’s raising concerns.

Debra Fitzpatrick, director of the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute’s Center on Women and Public Policy, said it may be a significant signal that women’s gains have plateaued.

“We’re at a real turning point of where we’re going to go.” For now, she said, “we’re kind of stuck.”

Highlights of the report: Young women now are more likely than young men to have a college or a graduate degree. The numbers of women and men in the labor force are almost equal. Wages and income remain inequitable.

At all levels of education, women earned about 75 percent of what their male counterparts earned in 2009. Women still live longer than men, but the gap is closing as they are more likely to face certain health problems, such as mobility impairments, arthritis, asthma, de-

pression and obesity. On days that they worked outside the home, almost 9 in 10 married women also did household chores, compared with slightly more than 6 in 10 married men.

“Despite women doing all the right things to gain economic parity, we’re still seeing there is this tenaciousness to these issues,” said Fitzpatrick. “This all points to the fact that the revolution isn’t finished.”

Nancy Heimer remembers applying for her first job as a certified public accountant in the late 1970s.

“One of the men said, ‘I’ve never known a woman who wanted to be a CPA, but I’ve known a lot of bookkeepers.’”

She took the job anyway. Today, she’s a partner at Heimer Dixon Lindsey Ltd in Minneapolis.

“We’ve made strides, but then we’ve plateaued,” she said of women in the workplace, recalling meetings of the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants early in her career.

Despite women for years outnumbering men graduating with degrees in public accounting, “that hasn’t seemed to pan out.” Likewise, she added, the American Institute of CPA’s committee on women and family issues didn’t gain traction until men grew concerned with their longer hours.

Fitzpatrick said the White House report, “Women in America: Indica-

tors of Social and Economic WellBeing,” is useful to remind people that despite the perception that all the right things are being done, “there’s nothing necessarily inevitable about parity.”

Moreover, they considered the trend “unexplained” and “growing over time.” In 2008, male doctors starting out in New York State made, on average, more than $16,000 more than newly trained female doctors, compared to a $3,600 difference in 1999.

“We’re at a real crux,” Fitzpatrick said. “It’s not sustainable for women to continue to shoulder the excessive burdens. It shows up in mental health data, the droppingout syndrome, in younger women saying, ‘I’m just not going to do that superwoman thing.’”

The data in the White House report will figure into how individuals, families, workplaces and governments address issues of women’s well-being, socially as well as economically.

It’s possible, Fitzpatrick said, that people may decide that equity no longer is a goal, “that maybe we’re good enough.”

“But if you think it matters that people are getting paid equally for the same work, if a piece of the American dream is that equal effort should result in equal economic opportunity, then these studies point out there’s still some work to do.”

(Nate Beeler/MCT campus)

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the telescope Don’t buy into for-profit schools Monday, March 7, 2011 Vol. 64, No. 16 Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.

David Leonard

Editor In Chief

Matthew Slagle

Managing Editor

Mark Saunders

news Editor

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Asst. news Editor

Eric Walker

Opinion Editor

melina fickas

focus editor

dillon Albright

asst. focus editor

belinda callin

a & e Editor

nick shumate

asst. a&E Editor

matthew slagle

sports editor

kaity bergquist

Asst. sports editor

Sydnie Taylor

Online Editor

laura davis

copy editor

deb hellman

photo editor

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Erin Hiro

Journalism Adviser

Staff Writers| Camilo Barrero,

Colleen Collins, Juliet Freyermuth, Jeremy Hill, Natalie Hintz, Shaun Kahmann, Margaret Madrid, Vanessa Mujica, Kelli Miller, Joel Ramos, Anthony Schwartz, Natalie Soldoff, Hannah Villaruel

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For-profit colleges and universities are higher education’s boom sector.

From 1999 through 2009, student enrollment, either by mail, online or at various office-park “campuses” skyrocketed 236 percent. That’s 10 times the rate of growth at public colleges and universities and non-profit private institutions.

But the educational benefits to students are not clear, and taxpayers deserve an explanation.

The Education Trust, an advocacy group for low-income students funded by major philanthropies, has assembled troubling data.

The graduation rate for firsttime, full-time students seeking four-year bachelor’s degrees is just 22 percent.

The College Board, a nonprofit group that helps students access higher education, says the average annual cost of tuition and fees at a community college is $2,700. It is $7,605 at a public four-year college. It is $27,200 at a

private four-year college. And it is $13,900 at a for-profit college.

For-profit university students end up carrying huge debt loads, and they account for more than 40 percent of all federal student loan defaults even though they make up only 12 percent of enrollments and 24 percent of federal loan dollars.

The U.S. Department of Education has proposed rules that would protect taxpayers and students. They are called “gainful employment” regulations.

Under the proposed rules, schools that saddle students with excessive debt and have loan repayment rates below 35 percent

no longer would be supported with Pell Grants and Stafford Loans.

But this publicly subsidized multibillion industry has plenty of political clout.

On Friday, the Republicancontrolled House of Representatives (with the help of some Democratic members) voted to defund any attempt to implement, administer or enforce the Department of Education’s proposed rule.

This cynical vote is the “job killer.” It dooms students to heavy debt for training that provides dubious prospects of gainful employment.

Staying in school could save your life Eric walker The Telescope

With all the stress of classes, tests and essays, I honestly never thought school could be good for my health. A group of biomedical researchers just proved me wrong.

In a recent study, they showed a link between high levels of education and low blood pressure.

High blood pressure, which can lead to heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure, is a major cause for concern in our meat-and-fathappy culture.

Thankfully, there’s a cure, and it isn’t found in the doctor’s office, or at the pharmacist’s counter. Nope, try your local college library instead.

The researcher’s findings, collected over 30 years, demonstrated that college attendees and graduates have relatively low blood pressure compared to those who only attended high school.

This positive link was even more pronounced for students that attended college for longer than the 4 years required for a bachelor’s degree. Add in the benefits to income, education and life experiences gleaned from attending college, and higher education starts to look pretty enticing – even with poor job prospects for graduates looming.

The roughly 3,000 research

(Julo/Public domain) subjects divided into three groups by their years of education — 12 or fewer, 13-16 and 17 or more.

Other factors were taken into consideration. After accounting for smoking, alcohol and blood pressure medication, the positive effects of education were still notable for women. The effect of education on blood pressure for non-medicated men was less significant than on other groups,.

The researchers largely chalked these results up to the fact that women without a college-level education are more

likely to be single parents, suffer from depression and be below the poverty line.

Men, on the other hand, are more likely to have high-demand jobs with little control of their schedules. All of these factors impact blood pressure, researchers said.

This research makes it an obvious choice, but “health” is rarely on a student’s list of reasons why he or she continued on with school.

It should be.

Contact Eric Walker, opinion editor, at ewalker@the-telescope.com

Letter to the Editor “America’s unique system of rights and freedoms” are not unique.

However, it is quite true that your forefathers did not treat all rights equally. Namely, the basic human — much less civic and political — rights of the majority of the country’s inhabitants (non-whites, poor whites, and women) were not recognized at all.

I fully understand the main point of the article — I happen to thoroughly agree; journalism should act as a “watchdog,” “gatekeeper” and “promoter of public welfare.”

But shouldn’t everyone else too?

It’s clear that publications like the Koala do nothing of the sort. And to compare their “work” to news or journalism is almost as reckless as their behavior. The antics of the “writers” at the Koala are at best inflammatory and cowardly; at worst they threaten the existence and well being of women and people of color everywhere.

Personally, I take this type of behavior, and the mentality that produces it, as an attack on my personal and collective dignity. I know I’m not alone on this matter, and if the Koala persists in its antics, inevitably, there will be a price to pay.

This type of racist and misogynistic propaganda is hardly any different from the propaganda that justified the terror of slavery and Jim Crow.To ignore the fact that the Koala is carrying on that tradition is not only unsettling but will not be tolerated.

— Francisco Garcia, sociology major

OUR VIEWPOINT

Money for parking lot maintenence mismanaged With nearly $230,000 collected from campus parking tickets in 2010, there is no reason for our campus roads to look worse than those found throughout the county.

Palomar students pay high prices to park on campus, even more in parking tickets, and they have a right to know how that money is being spent.

There are two issues here: ONE: If isn’t already, some of the money from parking tickets should be spent on parking lot upkeep. (We asked a number of college officials in a few different ways if the money was spent on such repairs. We still haven’t received a straight answer.)

The parking lots here look terrible, and repairs are slow, if they happen at all. An infusion of cash into the facilities department could speed things along.

TWO: The ticket money that helps to pay for the police department is well spent, as young college-aged drivers need supervision if anyone is to feel safe walking across the parking lot to get to class.

The constant presence of police at Palomar continues to make for a safe campus. Paying a parking ticket may be a sour pill to swallow, but don’t do the deed if you don’t have the cash.

The roads, however, are the problem. Where is the money that is supposed to be spent on keeping the roads in shape?

There is constant construction going on in all corners of Palomar right now, but none of that has anything to do with the general maintenance required of the hightraffic Comet Circle, which runs through campus.

Comet Circle is slotted for an overhaul, according to the construction master plan, but the repairs won’t be done until 2022. In the meantime, the circle is a dizzying maze, parking lot 12 has potholes large enough to rip shreds out of tires and the parking lots nearest to the arboretum, which were once asphalt, are now gravel.

Are students to wait patiently until the campus master plan remodel is completed to see general maintenance on roads?

The campus police committee and the Student Services Planning Council decide the cost of ticket the fines each year. Here’s the kicker: there are no students on that governance council.

So, who is deciding how that money is spent? Not the students.

The students of Palomar need to start representing themselves.

We hand over our lunch money (and, for some of us, our cigarette money) to pay for permits and tickets. That money should go directly to general maintenance: our heavily trafficked roads, and frustrated students, deserve as much.

Students need to start documenting potholes and poor road conditions. Take pictures with your cell phones, send them to yourpics@the-telescope.com and we will put them up on our website.

The administration needs to take responsibility and start taking care of the roads we all drive on.

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The deaf like it loud

by Nick Shumate

You talkin’ about my generation?

A new day has dawned in the Middle East.

A revolution started by the youth, fueled by neglect and watched by the world has brought the true capabilities of Facebook and Twitter into view.

Because of their deep distrust for the government, and the confusion over the truth in state news reports, the Egyptian protesters relied on the only reporters they could – each other. When foreign journalists were banned and the country went “dark” (no really - the government unplugged the internet) social networking sites were the only reliable means of communication for the revolutionaries.

In the days after the overthrow of their autocratic president, Honsi Mubark, activists openly thanked Facebook and Twitter for their service to the Egyptian people.

“This revolution started online.

This revolution started on Facebook,” said activist Wael Ghonim, a Google employee who was kidnapped by pro-Mubarak forces at the height of the protests and soon became a public face of the youth oppositon in, on a CNN interview.

As Libya heads down a similar path of revolt against their leader Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi, an already attentive global community has set its eyes and ears fixed on the protestor’s pro-democratic megaphone – they can’t be silenced.

Honestly, I use Facebook for fun.

I post music links, pictures from my weekend shenanigans and the occasional rant about useless shit. But I never thought of using my FB time to organize a group to overthrow an oppressive government. Think about the way you spend your time online. What was the last thing you posted to your news feed about your community? When was the last time your tweet did some good for someone else?

(Buying a pair of Tom’s for yourself doesn’t count) Through social networking, we can gather friends to play beer pong, but what about organizing a trip to volunteer at a soup kitchen on a Saturday morning? Do you think your friends would go with you if you tired?

Besides nursing a hangover, usually my Saturday mornings don’t serve any purpose other than catching up on sleep plus I’m not a volunteering type guy. I’m not sure most places would even allow me in to help – I’m not enjoyable most mornings.

But knowing that some guy in Tunisia set himself on fire to defend his beliefs, sparking a revolution and entire region, I feel inspired.

Like hearing AFI for the first time inspired.

It also forces me to reflect on how much conviction I have in my own beliefs. Sure, I say that I care, and I tell people I try, but really, the jury is still out. I may not have a Molotov Cocktail in my hands but I do have a laptop.

Cheers and thanks for listening.

Hit Nick up at nshumate@the-telescope.com

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The Loft at UCSD offers a close, relaxed music venue for both musicans, students Nick Shumate The Telescope

A soft and intimate touch is the best way to describe the Loft at UCSD. A lounge setup featuring a modern feel with long, wood benches, clever lighting sculptures plus a stage and a full service bar, this place is perfect for seeing your favorite band. The vibe of a college hangout is completed with large, cozy ottomans.

On Feb. 26 I dropped in to the Loft and got a chance to talk to the guys from Young The Giant and listen to them take full advantage of the great sound system.

“We have played this place before and it is always fun,” bass player Payam Doostzade said.

Payam attended UCSD for a quarter and said he enjoys being back and playing in the San Diego area.

Originating for Orange County, Calif.,Young the Giant

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The Loft 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093 (858) 534-2230 went from college students who would commute and play gigs on the weekends to opening up for The Whigs and Kings of Leon within the past two years.

“We made it on the Top 10 most read of reviews on pitchfork. com, it wasn’t a great review but we’re happy,” Payam said.

At a meet and greet, the fans hung out with the band before the show and lead singer Sameer Gadhia said this was a perk of the job he really likes.

After seeing their interaction with the fans and their perfor-

mance – whether or not that’s true, YTG aren’t concerned with their “greatness.” Humble and extremely genuine best describes Young The Giant, both in action and music. Sincerity comes across in the notes played and the pictures taken with fans.

The close quarters let Gadhia, capture the audience with his haunting voice. Soft lighting and a gentle start, “Apartment” makes you feel like you were the only one in the room. I think the best song of the night was “Cough Syrup” and fans at The Loft agreed. A choir of attendees joined in the signing.

Closing the set with the lead single of the self-titled album “My Body,” a great drum line and the instant fan explosion brought the energy through the roof. Huge smiles and shouting of the chorus while the band rocked out was a perfect way to end the night.

Check out the bands Website youngthegiant.com, great group of guys that you will be hearing more of.

With North County in need of another outlet for entertainment without having to drive to downtown, the Loft is just what we need. Run by students for students, The Loft keeps their main attendance in mind. With music sharing capabilities and a visual art display that students can upload personal photos to, places a sense of ownership to the students that spend any time there.

With tons of different type of entertainers and acts coming through the venue, you can find something for everyone. Check out their Website and get to a show!

Theloft.ucsd.edu

Contact Nick Shumate, assistant A&E editor, at nshumate@the-telescope.com

East Coast burger joint invades SoCal tuce and pickles to jalapeño peppers and A1 steak sauce.

The burgers come tightly wrapped Watch out In-N-Out, there’s a new in silver tinfoil while French fries spill guy in town- five, to be exact. out of a white cup. The entire meal is Five Guys Burgers and Fries raised presented in a low-key, brown paper the bar for North County’s burger bag with a bunch of napkins. industry with excellent burgers and The new restaurant has all the even better French fries during its traits of an all-American burger place. grand opening event on Feb. 25, in The charming red and white checkSan Marcos. Five Guys is located next ered walls are splashed with awards to Sprouts Farmand ratings from ers Market on S. newspapers and Restaraunt Review Las Posas Road. magazines. A red Biting into Five Guys Burgers and Fries countertop is poone of their 151 S. Las Posas Road, Ste. 170 sitioned against a burgers oozing huge floor-to-ceilSan Marcos, CA 92078 with melted ing window, plus cheese, grilled a quaint outside onions and patio houses red From $2 to $7 mushrooms and metal tables and Food: Fast food nestled between chairs. golden buns is Tom Petty pure heaven. Not to downplay their plays through the speakers, peanut delicious fresh-cut fries that you just shells scatter the floor and stacks of can’t get enough of, however. bags full of fresh Idaho potatoes decoFive Guys’ menu is moderately rate the restaurant. priced, ranging from $2.00 to $7.00.

The friendly staff matches their Their menu consists of burgers, hot surroundings in their red uniforms. dogs, soft drinks, fries and sandwiches They happily greet every customer without meat. Their goal is to focus and take orders quickly to get through on a few items and serve them to the the long line of guests. best of their ability, according to their During the opening, the restaurant website. was jam packed with families, couFor over 20 years, they not only ples, businessmen, friends and more have been known for their great food, waiting to try the newest burger senbut also for providing peanuts to snack sation that has hit town. on while waiting.They cook all of their The enjoyable atmosphere comproducts in 100 percent peanut oil, so bined with great food, friendly service if you have any allergies, beware. All and good prices makes Five Guys menu items are served plain but come Burger and Fries worth your while. with an option to add an array of topping choices at no extra cost.

Contact Kelli Miller, staff writer, at The toppings can range from let- kmiller@the-telescope.com.

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Above: Five Guys Burgers and Fries celebrated their San Marcos grand opening at the on Friday, Feb. 25. Below: Five Guys Burgers and Fries San Marcos exterior on Friday, Feb. 25. (Chris Gebhardt/The Telescope)

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR Looking to have some fun, get some culture, and live it up in the North County?

We’ll help.

Local shows: March 8 March 9 March 10 March 10 March 11 March 11 March 12 March 14

Morcheeba @ HoB, Downtown Deicide @ Brick by Brick, Linda Vista Yann Tiersen @ Belly Up, Solana Bch. Louis XIV @ Casbah, Little Italy Unwritten Law @ HoB, Downtown DeVotchKa @ Belly Up, Solana Bch. Dead Man’s Party @ Belly Up, Solana Bch. Cave Singer @ Casbah, Little Italy

Get cultured: March 1 to May 8 Ranunculus Rainbows The Flower Fields with 50 acres of giant ranunculus flowers are blooming again, in Carlsbad. Visitors may stroll pathways or take a wagon ride ($5 general), visit sweet pea maze. Season passes available.

Take your talent to the university level Hannah Villaruel The Telescope

Going to an art university can mean the difference between paintings secluded in your room or masterpieces displayed in The Louvre in Paris.

The average art bachelor’s degree costs around $90,000, according to Academy of Art University in San Francisco. This university seems to be the most popular choice for the art students at Palomar, but not every student has that kind of money.

Donna Cosentino, a photography professor at Palomar, said she would recommend going to art school if students are passionate about the subject.

“It’s hard to create art in a vacuum,” Cosentino said. “A lot of synergy you get in school, you can’t get anywhere else. Students and teachers inspire each other.”

Cosentino said she has had many students who have transferred to different art programs.

“There are so many universities with good art programs, but they

are all fairly expensive,” Cosentino said as she listed a few of those schools. “San Francisco State, NYU, Fullerton, Art Center in Pasadena…they all have good programs.”

In contrast to the well-known quote from the Bible: “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” Cosentino said, “If you don’t go to school, what are your options?

You can never give up on your dreams; there is always a way. If you have a passion you will find a way.”

San Francisco and Los Angeles are two very popular locations for art and music schools because of the huge art scenes in the area.

“The Academy of Art University has a really good art program, and San Francisco is so full of art,” said Autumn Sanfird, who plans on attending school there and majoring in commercial photography.

Sanfird said many art students want to be in an atmosphere where they are surrounded by art.

Palomar student Stephen Scisney is majoring in music and plans on transferring to the Los Angeles Recording School.

He said he does not think that

Top right: Breana Steele is a Palomar photography student who is transferring to Cal State Fullerton. Above: Music major Stephen Scisney works on beats in the Palomar College Recording Studio, Feb. 18, 2011 (Kiigan Snaer/The Telescope)

students should view money as a reason not to go to school.

“People go through debt over some silly things that they could’ve prevented,” Scisney said. “So why not go for something that will benefit them in the long run?”

Scisney said as a child, people would have to pull him off his piano or drum set for playing too long.

Art universities open many doors and provide unique opportunities. Two film students and one recording student were selected to work for the John Lennon Tour bus at the Anaheim-based NAMM,” according to the Los Angeles Recording School’s website.

Unlike Scisney, some students give up on art school because of financial issues.

“I know so many students who are amazing, talented artists that want to go to school but they don’t have the money,” said Jessica Andrade, who wants to minor in music at Cal State San Marcos.

Art is a getaway for many artists, and money should not get in the way of that.

Contact Hannah Villaruel, staff writer, at hvillaruel@the-telescope.edu

March 8 Mardi Gras in the Gaslamp Celebrate Fat Tuesday with party promising dance crews, beads, live music, carnival action, food and parades @ the Gaslamp Quarter, Downtown 7:30 p.m.

March 10 Chery Blossoms Coming of Age Film Festival continues with Doris Dorrie’s bittersweet exploration of “the concept of accepting life as a constantly changing process that we can never truly prepare for.” @ Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego 6 p.m.

March 11 The Garden of Earthly Delights Artist Rebecca Goodman presents a living art performance incorporating fire and other materials. Painter Sharif Carter will capture her moves “in his live painting.” @ the Oceanside Museum of art, 7 p.m.

Through March 19 Ten-Minute Madness IV North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe presents six new short plays: “comedy, satire, and a look at future travel.” @ 8 p.m.

Through March 27 Little Miss Sunshine La Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of this musical comedy, music and lyrics by William Finn, book and direction by James Lapine, based on the Academy Award-winning film. @ La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, contact for showtimes.

Through April 23 MiXtape A musical journey through the music of the 1980s. Contact the Horton Grand Theatre, San Diego for showtimes.

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Exercising on a schedule How to fit exercise in to the schedule of a busy college student Fitness Center at Palomar and four days a week at LA Fitness.

Another great use of exercise is stress relief.

“When I’m feeling stressed about classes and stuff, I come and workout and I feel much better,” student Eddie Magana said.

Student Samantha Wagner recommends working with children to stay active.

“There’s lots of activities with kids that you can do: playing in the park, going to the zoo, taking walks on trails,” she said.

Sign up for a dance or yoga class at Palomar or in your home city. There are many small studios in the San Marcos area that offer all kinds of classes that give you a good workout. You can also sign up for classes through the city of San Marcos, or whatever city that you live in.

Another resource is workout videos online. It’s easy to look up a website, like exercisetv.tv, and choose a full-length workout from different categories of exercise.

If you really can’t find the time during the day, you may have to wake up an hour to an hour and a half earlier than usual to exercise three or four times a week.

Vetter recommends three parameters of fitness: strength that will incorporate muscle balance, cardio that encourages endurance and flexibility. He said that they should be done three days a week, 20 to 30 minutes a day.

“Health needs to be a priority,” he said.

“You only exercise eight hours a week. You need to have self-discipline and be able to make sacrifices.”

If you don’t think that you can stay on an exercise program consistently by yourself, join up with a friend or sign up for a class.

“Most people need a structure,” Vetter said. “People usually don’t come unless they have an obligation.”

Most importantly, exercise should be enjoyable and beneficial to your mental and physical health.

“At the end of the workout session, you should feel good,”Vetter said.

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Let’s face it. Students don’t have much time for anything but sleeping, eating and studying.

Count in the factor of tiny incomes, which leads to cheap food eaten on the run, and you can see that students don’t get enough exercise.

“Students who have a full load of classes and are also working a job need to set aside time for exercise,” HOW TO said Bob Vetter, department chair of the physical education Helping department. “It may require you do the them to take time, that they would usually use to be on the stuff you computer, to work out.” always The key to starting an exerwanted to cise program is realizing that you can’t just lose those 15 extra pounds instantly. It takes a lot of time and dedication.

“Many times, people who are going to start an exercise program approach it the wrong way,” Vetter said. “Getting back in shape is not going to happen all in one week.”

Vetter pointed out that most programs in our country are designed to finish something as quickly as possible. It’s not so with exercise.

“There’s no finish line,” Vetter said. “Our society today is focused on instant gratification, but this is a life-long process.”

Knowing that, you need to design a realistic program that fits your goals.

One of the options that are available at Palomar is the Wellness Center. Signing up for the Physical Education 128 class allows you to use all the equipment in the Fitness Center whenever you want with the supervision of instructors.

An easy way to add a few extra minutes of exercise into your day is to park as far away as possible from your classes. You may have to leave a few minutes earlier, but most of you are probably parking far away anyway, so you might as well see it as an opportunity to burn a few extra calories.

Student Maria Munoz said she uses the beach as motivation to go to the gym.

“I want to look better for the summer,” Munoz said. She exercises two times a week at the

Student Nick Wiater works out at the Wellness Center. (Kristen Cambell/The Telescope)

Contact Kaity Bergquist, Assistant Sports Editor, at kbergquist@the-telescope.com

Fire club helps students achieve goals Margaret Madrid The Telescope

cation of our members and how they are able to communicate with the public— two very important qualities,” said Su Coy, Chief of the Fire Club.

Similar to the fire service, the club has rankings from Member to Deputy Chief to Chief.

Aside from hands on work, the club helps students prepare for the hiring process. The club offers resources such as resume building workshops, which also engage in mock interviews.

“We have several veterans, club members and students who are already working in the field that can provide essential information to those just starting out, for those looking to promote or who want to further their education,” Coy said.

The Fire Club also tours specialty stations, fire dispatch facilities and local firehouses such as Camp Pendleton HazMat, Ramona Air Attack Base, Marine Corps Air Station and Palomar Airport.

“I envision the Fire Club continuing to be a leader in community service and, just as it is today, have its name associated with integrity, education, opportunity and spirit,” Su Coy said.

The Fire Club meets at the Public Safety Training Center, every first week of the month, on Monday and Thursdays at 9:10 a.m. in room 2-A. Contact Lofthouse for more information at clofthouse@palomar.edu.

Palomar’s Fire Club provides students an opportunity to experience what being a firefighter is all about.

“We get students that have wanted to be a firefighter since they were young and students in their mid-30s who have decided to change their career,” Club Advisor Carl Lofthouse said.

Lofthouse, who served 26 years in the fire service, started the Fire Club in 2006, when he saw the need for a club that would bridge the gap between the busy schedules of the fire technology classes and fire academy.

Fire Club members take part in community service events such as blood drives for the American Red Cross, toy drives and assisting local, state, and federal fire agencies.

Members also perform training exercises such as Mass Casualty Incident, where some members pose as victims in a scene with casualities.

“We want to know what you do in the community out of the kindness of your heart,” said Lofthouse when speaking about qualities of a firefighter.

In the last year, the Fire Club has done five blood drives including the most recent one on Palomar campus, when they collected 212 units of blood, which could save the lives of 636 people.

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Students have been found countless times using drugs to improve themselves mentally. With an increase in population at Palomar, more and more students are turning to drugs for assistance. (Nathan Serrato/The Telescope)

The steroid of studying: Many students are seeking help through Adderall Joel Ramos The Telescope

They’re called “study drugs” and they can be a college student’s best friend, or worst enemy.

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin have been used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) for years, but they also have been used as a stimulant by students who wish to cram for a test or write 15-page papers.

In the United States 8 to 10 percent of children are currently being treated for ADHD and of those, 50 percent will reach adulthood with the disorder. A patient with ADHD has a hard time con-

centrating and trouble organizing thoughts.

Drugs like Adderall (amphetamine and dextroamphetamine) and Ritalin (methylphenidate) are central nervous system stimulants that help patients with ADHD become more focused and able to organize ideas without constant wandering thoughts to distract them. Kelsey Johnston, a student at Palomar is currently taking Adderall to cope with her ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder).

“I want to be a physical therapist and I don’t think I can do seven years of school without it. I stopped taking it and I was failing

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The Beerita is the perfect combination of a tasty margarita, cold beer and fizzy 7-up. The unique ingredients deliver an assortment of flavors that complement one another without overpowering each other. This drink may sound a little strange but this concoction won’t disappoint.

With its lemon lime taste, the Beerita is so cool and refreshing it might go down a little too smooth, so remember to pace yourself.

Beeritas are very easy to whip up at home. Mix all ingredients together in a pitcher, pour over ice and serve, it makes about six to eight drinks. To make them even better salt the rim of the glass and add a slice of lime.

A pitcher of Beeritas and some chips and salsa may be ideal for a hot summer day by the pool. But why not try them in the middle of winter. Serve up a pitcher of these babies at a study group or party and it will surely liven up the dullest of get-togethers.

This good-time-in-a-glass will definitely add a little excitement to these cold drab winter days we’ve

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Spanish, by the end of the semester I had a B+ because I started taking it again,” Johnston said.

In a person who does not have ADHD the drugs can be extremely helpful in completing large or difficult tasks with unusual, super-focus.

“It frustrates me because I take it to be normal and people who don’t have ADD take it to be at a superior level,” Johnston said.

Because of the many life challenges facing college students today, students across the nation say that taking a “study drug” like Adderall is the only way they can achieve a high GPA. Two jobs, 15-unit course loads and tons of extra-curricular activities are some things all too familiar to the modern-day college student.

While the drugs are tempting, they come with a risk.

Those risks include building up a tolerance to the drug, causing the user to seek more and more powerful doses, which in turn can lead to a very serious addiction or even death. Student Brynn Aufhammer was never diagnosed with ADD or

ADHD, but after seeing a psychiatrist, she got a prescription to help her focus better.

“I couldn’t feel anything. I wasn’t happy or sad I was just blah.

I also became really anti-social and lost many friendships when I was on it,” Aufhammer said.

The effects felt after a dose of Adderall are similar to those from the street drug meth. Instant “high” feeling can be felt followed by extreme alertness and an unusual ability to focus on a single task.

The health community is aware of this type of abuse among college students according to Palomar nurse practitioner Cheryl Butera “(Adderall) is a stimulant. It can be dangerous because too much can cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure that can lead to an angina,” Butera said. “Taken with MAO inhibitors (common in anti-depressants) can cause sever life-threatening kinds of side-effects,” Butera added.

According to Eric Heiligenstein, Director of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, drugs like

Adderall and Ritalin allow you to be more structured and rigid; they do away with the impulsiveness behind most creativity. This is just another cost of getting the “A” on the paper or passing the final with flying colors.

“I took Adderall to study for a test and right before my final as well. I didn’t feel like I was concentrating, more like daydreaming. I don’t really remember taking the final, but I did really well, I got a 97 out of 70,” said student Erin Nenow who has ADD, but now treats her disorder with fish oil pills.

In the coming weeks students will begin to prepare for midterms. Some will find the perfect hangout for all-nighters, some will find a study buddy, and others will just hunker down in their rooms and cram as much information as they can. However, some students will take a more drastic measure and turn to a dangerous little pill known as the “steroid of studying.”

Contact Joel Ramos, Assistant News Editor, at jramos@the-telescope.com

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that students will be able to look up students who fit their search criteria to help answer specific questions and form a more personal conversation with prospective students.

“It’s really about building a search tool where you can find the right match,” Ullman said.

“We’ve taken the student ambassador model and virtualized it.”

One student said he though it was a great idea.

“It would be easier to get into contact with counselors,” said Quentin Stevens, first-year student.

“It would be easier to make money, right now its ridiculous to get a job.”

Ullman said the search system places students on a confidential,

hosted phone conversation for a maximum of a half an hour.

Hayward Majors, cofounder and CEO, said the system is shooting for a mid to late March release date, in time for students to enter the final phase of the acceptance process to their chosen campuses.

“Now we can’t guarantee you that you’ll get ten calls a day,” Majors said.

“What I would say is that we’re going to have a rating system. The more highly rated you are by customers the higher you’ll show up on our search.”

One student said she was speculative of how it would be received.

“It’s a smart idea to use he new tools,” Jordan Peck, junior, said. “People might not take it se-

riously. It depends how good the information is.”

Majors said the rating system will advise college students to make sure they are engaging in meaningful conversations to best help prospective students.

Both founders said the site is great at giving user the power to work on their own terms and schedule.

Users decide how many phone calls they choose to accept and when they want to hold them.

“We do empower the college student to decide ‘this is exam week and I’m just too busy,’ they can opt out for that time period,” Majors said.

other reasons as well.

“The conflicts that we’ve been fighting have been going on for 10 years and at any one time, we have 150,000 troops over there,” Minkler said. “But over a 10-year period, over 2 million soldiers rotate in and out, so we really have (had) millions of young people at war over the past 10 years.”

“It’s a combination of things: we’ve got more people coming out of the war, the economy has been bad and there’s this new education benefit that helps people get back to school.”

The GI Post-9/11 Bill gives veterans the opportunity to go to

college. Minkler said this bill has been vital to campus veterans.

“It’s a new benefit and it’s a better benefit,” Minkler said. “It’s more generous and it gives more money for help, for living, for books, for tuition.”

“The very first president of Palomar College was a veteran, and the very first student of Palomar College was a veteran,” Minkler said. “Literally, ever since the college has been in existence, there has been a veteran’s services office.”

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veterans Continued from Page 1 “If it’s easier on the student’s schedule, the counselor can now meet the student here,” Minkler said.

“The students can do their counseling sessions right on campus instead of worrying about the transportation of getting from here to there.”

In addition to these offerings, the center employs 10 veterans in the center through work-study.

“I really, genuinely love what I do,” said former Marine Nicole Linsenmann, who works in the center. “I like being able to help people and interact with them.”

The center has been busier for

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vehicle which was cited,” Cruz said.

Once citations are issued, students can choose to contest them through an appeals process or get an administrative dismissal. If a student can prove they purchased a parking permit prior to being cited, they are allowed one administrative dismissal per calendar year. However, there is no limit to the number of citations a student may contest through an appeal, Cruz said.

For some students, the appeals process is too long, too confusing or the ticket fee is too insignificant to make a ticket contesting a ticket worthwhile.

“I got a ticket the first day of school while I was in line getting my parking permit,” student Ben Okun said.

“I wasn’t willing to take the time to challenge it because of work and school. It cost me the same amount as my parking permit.

“I genuinely hate the way parking is set up at school.”

And, for some, the dizzying speed with which officers seek out an unpermitted car was frustrating – and expensive.

“I was parked in front of the financial aid office (when I received a ticket).

I was gone for literally four minutes to ask the counseling office if I needed a parking permit,” student Corey Spotswood reported. “When I went to go contest, (the police) said there was no point be-

cause the signs were posted.”

“It was $85,” Spotswood said. “It was ridiculous.”

David Leonard and Joel Ramos contributed to this report.

Contact Shaun Kahmann, staff writer, at skahmann@thetelescope.com.

Palomar Police Officer Tim Mayor looks through his ticket book in parking lot 12 on Feb 28. (Photo

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Ryan Wilkins, however, still looks to his dad for guidance.

“He helps me out with everything. He is out here when I am pitching most of the time,” Wilkins said. “He taught me my best pitch.”

Dean Wilkins has not just been a pitching influence, but a career influence. The younger Wilkins noted that his father’s professional career has motivated him to pursue his own. Too young to remember his father’s professional career, he said that it still has never crossed his mind not to play baseball.

“It (has) been my dream to play professionally, since I can remember. And I guess that comes from me wanting to do what my dad did,” Wilkins said.

Although the boys went to different high schools --- Wilkins went to Cathedral Catholic and Bellez to Mira Mesa -- their friendship remained strong.

Now that they are at the same school, their bond improves their performance.

“I think they feed off one another, (if) one guy does well the other guy will also do better, which is why they are where they are,” Taylor said.

This friendship allows the boys to coach each other. Knowing each other’s pitching motion helps them work together. They say their relationship is like two brothers. They can give advice and criticism and at the end of the day, no one leaves angry.

Their friendship doesn’t end when they leave the field. Wilkins and Bellez share an apartment with two other Palomar players, Casey

Husband and David Baum.

Wilkins notes that they keep each other in check on and off the field, whether it is staying out of trouble or passing their classes, each is respectful of the dreams of the other.

“I guess they are the odd couple.

One looks after the other and vice versa,” Coach Taylor said.

The future for both Wilkins and Bellez is promising. However, they don’t necessarily contend that they are a package deal any longer.

“When we committed to SDSU it was a package deal. We were stoked about going together,” Bellez said. “We had a plan and it didn’t work out.”

They will likely part ways when they leave Palomar.

Wilkins has committed to playing baseball for North Carolina State University next year. He said that his dream is to play one year before being drafted.

Bellez is ranked No. 15 of the top 50 Junior College baseball players in the country by Sporting News Magazine.

Though a great honor, Bellez felt it added some pressure on him to perform.

“Seeing that kind of excites me, and kind of makes me nervous at the same time because it’s something you have to prove,” Bellez said.

“But, it is definitely a motivator, definitely a push to show everybody that I got that spot.”

When asked about Bellez’s future, Coach Taylor said, “He’s going to sign with schools… if he has a good year he will be rewarded handsomely.”

“They’re good kids. They’re here to go to school and they’re both really good at baseball,” Taylor said.

“They can both kind of create their own path if they want. It’s kind of up to them.”

Contact Colleen Collins, staff writer, at ccollins@the-telescope.com

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[Sports] 11 Cheerleaders compete in prelims Palomar College’s cheerleading team competed in the 2011 USA Collegiate Championship Prelims on Feb. 26 at the small Co-Ed Show Cheer two-year College division.

They competed against North Idaho College, College of Southern Idaho and Ventura College. They did not advance to the finals.

The 2010-11 Palomar cheerleading team: Ariann Jordan, Arya EtemadHaeri, Aubree Balkan, Cassie Gonzalez, Chelsea Noel, Christy Merriken, Curtis Peels, Danielle Phillips, Debbie Howard, Erica Verdin, Edgar Quintana, Enrique Ramirez, Heidi Haskell, Jasmine King, Joanna Magoulas, Joey Evans, John Lopez, Josh Hill, Josh Johnson, Katherine Gratas, Kendall Fisher, Kevin Patrick, Kristen Lundt, Lindsay Schafer, Lizzie Pope, Marlon Biete, Mykel Sullivan, Nicole Borges, Sammie Dunham, Ty Alarcon, Victor Mortezazadeh.

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Head tennis coach Ronnie Mancao has won 400 games at Palomar. The win came on Feb. 11. He has coached the men for 16 years, and the women for 11 years. His full record is 402 wins, 223 losses and two ties. He was selected as the PCAC Coach of the Year for the men’s team in 1998, 1999, 2002 and 2004. He was selected for the PCAC Coach of the Year for the women’s team in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010. (Brian Tierney/The Telescope)

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the telescope Monday, March 7, 2011

The boys of summer, winter, spring, fall

Childhood friends anchor pitching staff for top ranked Comets Colleen collins The Telescope

Above: Justin Bellez, closer, (left) and Ryan Wilkins, starting pitcher, (right) stand in front of the home dugout after a recent practice.

Below: (Left) Bellez looks on as Wilkins pitches. (Right) Wilkins pitches against Grossmont on March 2, he got the win throwing a . Right: Wilkins (left) and Bellez (right) toss the ball on the mound before a busy week of games. (Deb Hellman/The Telescope)

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Ryan Wilkins and Justin Bellez have been best friends since they were 7 years old. When it was time for them to go on to college, they informed recruiters that they were a package deal.

Their request didn’t go unnoticed; their senior year of high school, they both committed to play baseball for San Diego State. At the last minute Wilkins backed out from his commitment because the pitching coach whom he liked at SDSU had left for another school.

So Wilkins chose Palomar instead because he had played for Palomar baseball Coach Buck Taylor before and liked the way he coached.

Meanwhile Bellez had another decision to make as he was drafted out of high school, in 2009, by the Los Angeles Angels.

“I decided not to turn pro because I felt that I had a lot more to learn about pitching. I thought that since I’ve only really pitched for a couple years I could just better myself and then get drafted again,” Bellez said.

Instead, Bellez redshirted his freshman year at SDSU. A year later he decided to transfer to Palomar, not only because Wilkins was already playing there, but because of the school’s outstanding baseball reputation.

“I just felt that I needed to take a different road,” Bellez said. “This was a better decision for me.”

Now the high school pair are reunited in college.

Both Wilkins, 20, and Bellez, 19, are right-handed pitchers. Wilkins is a starting pitcher and Bellez has recently become the closer.

The two have been playing baseball since they were 4. But, they didn’t meet until they were 7, playing in the Mira Mesa Youth Baseball league.

When they were 10, they decided it was time to play ball at higher skill level. Wilkins’ father, Dean, who was a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs,

helped start a travelling baseball team, the San Diego Stallons, of players from the Mira Mesa league.

Wilkins and Bellez weren’t the only future collegiate athletes on the team. Many of their former teammates are currently playing NCAA Division I baseball. Their friend, current Stanford running back, Tyler Gaffney, was also on the team.

It was a strong team that had talented players. They were consistently winning games and tournaments.

When the boys were only 11, the Stallions went on to win a national tournament championship.

“As a team, our record was something ridiculous,” Bellez said.

Wilkins added that as the team was together for four years the boys were bonding and the parents were developing friendships. As they spent a lot of time together at tournaments and practices, the team eventually became like a family.

Though the boys have grown up, the families are still close.

“We always celebrate Christmas and July 4, and a lot of (other) traditions,” Wilkins said.

But, they weren’t always pitchers. As a kid, Bellez played left field, while learning to pitch from Dean Wilkins. In high school he moved into third base. He said a coach saw how he threw while playing infield and encouraged him to try pitching again. So he started pitching again junior year of high school.

Wilkins was a shortstop until he was 12 years old, when he decided he wanted to pitch. Having a father who was a professional pitcher was a big influence on him and his decision. He always wanted to pitch, and he turned to his dad for guidance, Wilkins said.

They both attribute their pitching skills to Wilkins’s father. They each had the arm and talent that pitching required. When it came to mechanics, it was Dean Wilkins who taught them both. Now that he is older, Bellez doesn’t regularly seek guidance of the elder Wilkins. turn to Baseball page 11

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