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Board chairman alerts community to rapidly expanding college needs ..

by D r . Tipton L. Wood Chairman, The Governing Boar d The college bond and tax el ection Feb. 28 is of vital concern to every student on the campus today, to their families and friends, to the younger school c hildren of the district who will be tomorrow's students on our campus . The Board of Governors has thoroughly studied the needs for Palomar College expansion in 1980, as represented by the Master Plan. We recognize those needs. We are making fo r thright p r esentation of them to the people of the district. It will be their decision to make on Feb. 28. What we have to contend with here is to continue the educational service for

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which t his college is widely and favorably known, to maintain the quality that has become a trademark for Palomar, and to do t his in the face of enrollment that increases at an amazing rate. It is not a n easy responsibility. That the quality has been maintained, that full value received in educational services has been accorded every student, speaks well for the administration, faculty and staff, especially considering thatenrollment has been growing at the rate of 10 percent annually. We want to not only maintain our academic excellence. We wish to increa se, year by year, the services the college can afford to the community at large. Through these services, the North County area has been enriched by having

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in their midst an educational. cultural, vocational and avocational center. For the student engaged in an academic credit program, Palomar College has a reputation of the highest order--it is fully accredited, its transfer students are accepted by all colleges and universities. and literally hundreds ofthem have gained distinction in scholarship and subsequent life careers as a result of their combined junior college and university training. This is the type of program we wish to maintain at all times at Palomar College . To do so in the years ahead simply requires expansion and improvements in facilities to meet the popu-

A P UBUCATION OF THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS

lation gains ot this region and the corresponding rate of increase in student enrollment. You can help us to help YOU by lending your individual and collective efforts and influence toward passage of the bondtax election Feb. 28. We would urge you to not sit idly by when this crucial decision is made for your college's future. Please make it a point to have your family, neighbors and associates go to the polls on Feb. 28. This occasion could be Palomar's finest hour. Only the generous and e nlightened assistance of many citizens, of all ages, can make this ambitious undertaking become a reality.

February 21, 1967

San Marcos, California

Voters decide Palomar's progress February 28 ASB President

Urgent letter to students by Ed Johnston This is a plea for help addressed to you, the students of Palomar College. I believe the difference between the success or failure of the Feb. 28 bond issue election lies to a great extent in your hands. Many students have already contributed e nthusiastic support to the passage of the bond issue, but many of you have probably not gotten the full story of what we are trying to do and, therefore, have not given your committment to the cause. That is the main purpose of this edition of the TELESCOPE--to let you know exactly what is going on, and what you can do to help.

If the universities should cutenrollment, many students will flock to junior colleges throughout the state. Our college could in this case reach capaeity almost ove-rnight. Palomar grows now at almost 300 students a year. We have 12 percent more enrollments this February than in February of last year. If there is a migration to junior colleges next year, it is a reasonable estimate that we would get 700 new students instead of 300. Please keep in mind that it takes a couple years to construct and equip a building after the voters have given the "go-ahead." We must start now or face overcrowded classrooms in two years.

Every person's effort does count, especially in a loc al electiou of this kind. Here, specifically, is what you can do to help:

Here are a interesting facts concerning bond issues. In the spring of 1963 we held a bond e lection and lost by only 167 votes. What we lacked then is what we need now-extra student support above that given by your student council and club organizations. Only a few more people donating a few more minutes each would have turned that election in our favor. It takes a two-thirds majority to win an election of this type, so we r eally have to get out the vote. We are not alone in the failure to win all our bond e lections. Last November twe1 ve out of thirteen California junior college bond issues lost because of failure to get out that favorable vote. This is not meant to discourage you, only to show how necessary your assistance really is.

1. See that your parents vote in favor of the bond issue. Don't let them contribute· to the defeat by failure to go to the polls. 2. Put a bumper sticker on yourcar. These are available to you at no cost and help to advertise the election date, Feb. 28. 3. Many students are s e lling the "Grow with Palomar College" medallions. This raises money for financing the campaign and is also good advertising. Every student should buy one for himself. 4. We are organizing a get-outthe-vote telephone campaign for Tuesday, Feb. 28. Please give a little time that day. Between now and the 28th, however, everyone should constantly remind friends and neighbors to vote for Palomar on election day. 5. Appeal to all your neighbors, friends, co- workers on election day-urge them to cast thei r votes. These things really do help. If you consider the size of our present student body, it could be the winning force in the e lection if each member actively got out two o;r three "yes" votes.

The current e lection is even more crucial than our last one. We can't afford to fail now, and there is certainly no reason why we s hould lose from lack of effort. Our district has proven to be very · strongly in support of e ducation in general, and Palomar in particular. But when you ask people to spend their money, you must first demonstrate to them that it is for a good cause. The present capacity of Palomar is 2800 students. If growth continues at the present rate , Palomar will reach that total capacity by the fall of 1968. If a change in growth rate s hould take place, it would only be to accelerate this growth.

I realize as fully' as anyone that a student's time is limited; he is already committed to studies and various other obligations, but a week of your off hours invested in s upport of this campaign will surely he lp to guarantee a much greater educational institution he r e in future years. College students obviously have a high degree of intelligence a nd ambition or they wouldn't be college students . We ask you to c hannel some of those abilities into support of the bond issue in the final week of the campaign. It i s up to us, the students presently e nrolled at Palomar College to take this r espons ibility. In s hort, give s upport!

ED JOHNSTON

Palomar College district citizens will go to the polls next Tuesday to cast ballots of decision in the school's bid for the largest expansion project in its 20-year history. At stake is a master plan of construction to be spread over a seven-year period and costing $12.5 million. A second proposal in the Feb. 28 election is a 10-cent tax inc rease in the basic college district levy, to aid in financing day-to-day operations and maintenance. NO OPPOSITION The two issues have encountered no organized opposition, according to leaders of the Citizens Committee For Palomar, a distric t-wide group of community r epresentatives who have been working for weeks fo r the passage of the proposals. John Cosh, Vista, and Dr. Doyle Dannenberg, Escondido, co-chairmen of the committee, said in a joint statement, "We ask everyone to try to visualize the splendid educational plant this planned new construction would cause to rise here in our region. It will be something that everyone will be proud to see, to visit, to show to the world. It will provide the essential cultural and educational foundation to balance with, and make worth while, all the other forms of North County economic and population progress." Students can give greatly-needed help to the election success by actively working fo r a large turnout of voters Tuesday, Cosh and Dannenberg said. Specifically, they stressed that students might "see to it" that parents and relatives go to the polls, that ne ighbors and associates are reminded to vote. TELEPHONE ASSISTANCE •we need all the telephone assistance possible on Feb. 28," the committee chairmen told the TELESCOPE. "We mean by that, students lite rally spending all the hours possible at their telephone, calling friends and associates to r emind them to vote. School bond elections have been losing all over California simply because people failed to go to the polls on election day." TWo-THIRDS NEEDED T he s uccess of the bond issue requires a two-thirds majority vote--for every opposition ballot, two favo rable vot es are required to •stay up."

The program planned from the bond issue would be executed in four stages of contracts and construction, sp!fced at about these intervals and amounts!: . July 1967-Dec. 1968: $3 , 800,000. Jan. 1969-Jan. 1971: $3,800,000 . Jan. 1971-Jan. 1973: $3,700, 000 . Jan. 1973-Jan. 1974: $1,094,000. Facilities of special interest in the seven-year construction plan include: Buildings and laboratories for inaugurating a full-accredited nurses training program, the first such project on the campus; the courses, in cooperation with Palomar, Tri-City, and Fallbrook hospitals, would produce registered nurses, and other courses would produce medical technicians, laboratory technicians, and medical secretaries who are already receiving training in the business department. NEW BUILDINGS A five-story library building which would also include c lassrooms. A new business education center. Swim pools for the physical education department, providing for the first time the means not only of meeting physical education credit requirements but additionally making possible muchneeded courses in life-saving, water safety and first aid, for a large population closely oriented to water activities but heretofore without facilities for related instructions. A men's physical education building, field house and stadium. Close- circuit television for extension of instructors' coverage and broadening certain fields of instruction with opportunities not now possible. Various industrial technology and other vocational c lassroom buildings and related l aboratories.

More parking space, street improvements, and the addition of acreage to the present campus. All these factors are brought to a nearcritical stage by enrollment increases, college officials pointed out. Spring e nrollme nt this month was 12 percent up from the spring semester a year will zoom to 5,000 students or more by 1976, according to projections made of pupils already in the district public schools and the rate of North County population growth.

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(Bob Hicks, now a pre-law student at Stanford University, was president of the Associated Student Boay las t year and was chosen for the outstanding state honor of the Bank of America Award. as "Man of the Year" for 1966 among entries from all junior colleges in California.) There are enough former students of Palomar College living within the college district to WIN this election on Feb . 28 if they will only go to the polls and cast their votes. Let each alumnus nawe himself a commtttee of one NOW to cast what may be the deciding vote. After rece1vmg so much ourselves we can hardly renege on our responsibility to provide tne same opportunity of

SLIGHT INCREASE The tax rate increase would have a range f rom about 11 to 18 cents per $100 valuation to meet bond redemption requirements, the variation being related to the bonds sold in each succeeding contract increment. For the average homeowner, officials said that the yearly cost of the bond issue and tax override combined would amount to only about $12.50 a year increase.

DAY

EVENING TOTAL

2.141 2,783

3.207 3.400

3.628

3.550

5.3+8 6,183 7,178

:THE DANGER POINT EXISTING BUILDINGS WILL BE illlli!. TO CAPACITY WITH GLASSES ON AN 8AM- SPM SCHEDULE IN 1969-70. BONDS APPROVED IN FEBRUARY 1967 CAN RESULT IN NEEDED BUILDINGS NO EARLIER THAN SEPTEMB[R 1969

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Ex-president Hicks

Dr. Frederick R. Huber, president, said the master plan and the four-stage construction approach "make a manageable and workable system for meeting our needs . T his method gives local contractors an opportunity to bid on the various increments. We will reach our present plant capacity in enrollment in 1968, and the projects presented are considered essential. All of them have undergone a year and a half of intensive study by both college committees and representatives of the district public."

Got a PC election sticker on your car bumper? If not--get moving. A limited number left, available first-comefirst-served, are at the Student Activity office . Advertising Feb. 28 with a bumper sticker will help. Most school bond elections are lost' because people forget to go to the polls. Another suggestion--take one home for the family Cadillac .

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wp quality education for Palomar students in the immediate future. We must see to the continuation of Palomar· s growing with the best of colleges. If Palomar had not given me personalized direction along with education I would never have discovered the strong interests and high aspiration which I hold today. Anything constructive that I might be in the future has its toundation and credit in tne years I spent at Palomar College. It is our turn to show our appreciation of what we have received by keeping pace with the continuing and necessary development of a reputable and progressive college. Rooert Hicks


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