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ASSEMBLY
A student body assembly was held in the Palomar College student lounge on Wednesday, February 21st, for the purpose of making decisions on several important issues concerping ~tldent affairs. Because of the ~npos sibility of getting a large student gro~p together on Tuesdays or Thursdays during the activity period, and considering the importance of the meeting, shortened class periods were held in order to get the highest percentage of the student body to participate. Hunt charted on the black board · and explained the costs of p~t ting out an annual according to the two lowest bid~ r~ceive4 from bid~ ding companies. as compared with the possible income to be receiv~d from the sale of the year books and the ads for the book. Lo\li~
As conclusions were reached and decisions made, the discu$~ion came to a clo~e -- leaving the group with a feeling of enthu~iasm and hope for the futur~ s~pport and ev.cce3s of student aetivities. Geology Field Trip
Ronald Kenny, student body president, then opened the di~cussion and called for opinions and ideas from the students. Some of the students f~lt that the activity card sho~ld be sepa• rate from the fee for the annual, so that those who wished to buy the annual However, the majority could 4o so. of the students, accordtng to the vote that was ta~en, felt that both should be in~luded in the st~dent body card,and that ten dollars was a fair price for the purchasing of the card. A second vo~e was taken and pas~ed for the ~etting ot the dead line at Mar~ 7th for oard sales • in -<>rder to <;ieteridne the chance of having an ·annual. The. . necessity' of selling at le~st one hundred student body cards was stressed, meaning that the cooperation of close to one hundred per cent of the student body was nee~ed. To be successt~l, student body activiti~s must have the suppo~t of all the ~tudents. I
The members of the geology cla~s accompanied by Mr. Strutton, science in~tructor, went on a field trip Thursday, February 15. The clqes was the first to ride the new ~chool bus. They journeyed to the Ashley gem mine~ at Pala in the Pauma Valley. On arrival, the stud~nts were taken to Mr. Ashley's home to see his mineral colleeti,on which contained ma.ny beautiful and precious gems. Mr. Ashley then conduct~d a tour through one of his largest mine$~ He took the students through six at a time, explaining the rock formations. He pointed out the diff~renc~ between ordinar,y for.mations and those containing spodumene1 the of prismatic cr,ystals. CQons~te, the principle spodumene to be found in that area,is rarely found alaewhere on the North American continent.