October 17, 1967
Volume 21, Number 4 Comets number one--see page three
Area I backs mandatory fee PASSES RESOLUTION A resolution that Area I of the California Junior College Student Government Association go on record in favor a state legislature "mandatory ASB cards bill was narrowly passed at the fall Area I convention Saturday at Mesa College. The seven colleges represented Grossmont, Mesa, Palomar, MiraCosta, Southwestern, San Diego City and San Diego Evening--were split on the issue, 4-3. Palomar's 27 delegates voted 14-13 in favor of casting an affirmative vote. The bill, if passsed on the state •. level, will require that the governing boar d of each college-set a student body
Photo by Mike
A scene from the play
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Mary" to open Thursday with p erformances in drama lab "Mary, Mary." one of the oiggest comedy hits of the early 1960's is coming to Palomar Thursday, at 8 p.m. The play will run from October 19-21 and October 26-28, with Saturday mat-. inees at 2 p.m. Performances will be in the drama lab, next to P-32. Tickets may be puchased in the student union or at the door for $. 75 for students with ASB cards, and $1.50 for general admission. Joann Winston will star as the young wife who can't s top bubbling over wiu droll remarks, and Marshall Strebin as her husband who feels beaten down by her continual waggeries. In the supporting rolls will be
Diane Redfern as a health-faddist who "has momentarily won his interest through her fascination with her diet and his digestion, Don Kreuger as a smooth movie actor who understands why Mary is compulsively funny, and Joyfl Sophos as a lawyer who uses the husband's income tax difficulities as an excuse for a meeting of the humor-sundered couple. Understudies are Danielle Corn as the wife, Jeff McKnight as the husband, and Glenda Bradely as the fiancee. Student director is Larry Rintye. Frank White is the comedy's director and Norman Gaskins is designing the set.
Speech team off to impressive start PalOmar College's forensics team will defend every citizen's right to aguaranteed cash income Saturday in a congressional debate at Mesa College. The Comets will be matched against nine other college teams after winning eight awards last weekend against 50 of the largest schools in the western states. Diane Landfear led the team in their impressive showing by capturing the honors in o r a to r y and i m p r o m p t u speeches at the San Fernando State College site. Charlotte Vickers, Jan Glasgow, Gill Rain, and Jim Strong also received "excellent'' accolades for impromptu oratories. Tom Wheeler and Bill Wright took top awards in debating. Palomar students numbered 15 out of the over 500 attending the match. Mr. Ray Dahlin, speech instructor and team advisor, says students may still join the team and re_ceive one unit of credit. On November 3 and 4, the Come t speakers will attend an El Camino College contest in extemporary speaking, oral interpretation, and debating. Southwestern College willhostthe team November 11 for an extemporar y, expository, impromptu, and persuasive speaking and oral interpretation contest.
Narcotics committee in planning stages, ASB council learns Dr. Frederick R. Huber, Palomar President, addressed the student council yesterday on the formation of a joint student--faculty--administration narcotics committee. Dr. Huber explained the purpose of the committee as to "explore the whole s ubject of narcotics as it relates to our college and community and society and further that the committee · would make every effort to make the large r group aware of the physical, psychological, emotional and intellectual effects of the use of narcotics." The counc il approved the formation at an earlier date. Members are those who volunteered from the student council and interested students. The first meeting was called concurrently by both Dr. Huber and Jon Mitchell, ASB president on Nov. 1 at 11 a.m. in the Conference Room in the Administration Building. The chairmanship of the committee could be a joint student-faculty arrangement. Further plans will be made at the meeting. Dr. Huber first made reference to the idea of the committee at his Convocation last month. He said at the counc il meeting, "I am not s tarting out with the idea that we have a narcotics problem on campus, only that the subj ect needs exploring. " He suggested that we s hould talk to police, psychiatrists, and other qualified people. He stated, "we need knowledge and background, and that's the opportunity being extended to the committee."
Apologies The Telescope extends belated c r e dit to George Anderson, Mike Christy and Mario Jiminez for providing the photogr aphs that made las t week's bomb scare picture page possible.
At Friday's lecturePhoto by Mike christy
Navy program nioves into second successful year at Palomar With enrollment of an additional 25 petty officers this sem ester, 50 u.s. Navy personnel- -including one women-are full- time students at Palomar. Members of the new group will join a pilot c lass which was initiated in September 1966, first in the Navy's new Associate Degree Completion Program for s elected enlis ted personnel. Palomar was one of three junior colleges in the United States chosen to participate in the program to provide career petty officers with special training r elated to their Navy jobs. Secondary objectives are aimed at re-tae.tion of outstanding enlisted specialists in the service and to increase proficiency in certain c ritically needed career fields . All participants are expected to achieve AA degrees during their. s tay.
Senior Chief Petty Officer H.A. Van Ness, liaison official for the program here said that since the Navy students attend classes furing all three semeste r s, most of 1967 pilot group would comple te r equirements at the end of the present term in January. Students who enrolled in the program this year, and presumably most in s ubsequent grups also, may have shorter s tays since some may have credit from attendance at other colleges before going into service, or from correspondence and Navy courses. Van Ness pointed out that all of the 50 were specially selected with outstanding records and motivation toward a full service career. He added that since e nrolling here the Navy students have maintained a "high B" grade average and more than half have made the Dean's List. (Continued on page 4)
membership fee for a full-time student. The students would be required to pay this fee unless the fee would prevent them from attending college. Under the present law, payment of a student body fee is not mandatory. In other action, the assembly passed resolutions: - -favoring doing away with a state law that prohibits distributions of partisan, sectarian or denominational publications on campuses. --favoring liberalization of social restrictions at CJCSGA state convention. Palomar's delegates and their workshops were:
Business-- Ted Konopisos, Janis Rose, Bill Johnson, Don Bilworth. Creative Arts-Debbie Hayward, Margaret Williams, Vicki Hass, Audrey Jaques, Rita Schmidt, Kathleen Sweeney. Communications--Steve Woodall, Carl Hammer, Brice Larsen, Ron Simeca, Sann Sweeney, Glenn Hayashi. Religion-- hosted by Palomar and chaired by Mason--Kent Jacobson, Cheri Chambless, Sharon Dempsey, Sandra Foster, Bill Mason, Sandy Phelps, Janis Johnson, Linda Causey. John Mitchell attended the Presidents Workshop and Joan Widrig was the resolution committee representative.
Larsen elected Frosh presiden t Brice Larsen was elected Freshman Class President last Wednesday with a 192-99 margin over opponent Cheri Chambless. His first job is to appoint the remaining class officers. Phil Robinson, frosh vice-president, is the only one to be named thus far. Larsen, a Business Administration major who plans to becom~ an attorney, has many fresh ideas to introduce to Freshman Class.
Larsen would like to organize a class competition later on this year. It could possibly include a tug-of-war, and track events. The idea is open for suggestions, which can be submitted either to Larsen or other ASB officers. Other ideas include a suggestion box to be placed in the library for those who don't know who the ASB representatives are. Larsen will work on the publicity angle of club functions.
Hecsh cites _p rdJlems of alienated in Frichy Humanitiei Lecture "Always carry a dime in case you are arrested so that you can call your lawyer," was one of the many advisory statements Samuel Hecsh presented to his audience in the second in a series of humanities lectures last Friday. Hecsh pratices law in San Diego, where he has been active in local politics and the American Civil Liberties Union. Sightless, he was accompanied to the speaking platform by a seeing-eye dog. The topic of his lecture was "Rights of the Alienated." According to Hecsh, there is a wide variety of alienated groups within in our society. "Criminal lawyers are di.scriminated against. Women are discriminated against. The aged, juveniles, physically and mentally handicapped are discriminated against. And post- criminals are discriminated against, said Hecsh. "The Pledge of' Allegience ends with 'with liberty and justice for all.' But what we really mean is 'with liberty and justice for all if you happen to be an adult, male, white, Anglo-Saxon with money. This is the basic statement of our whole problem of alienation he said. "Women are certainl y discriminated against. There are labor laws which say women can't work as long as men. Equal opportunities must be provided by the legisl ature." As far as divorce laws, Hecsh believes women are definitely alienated. They may get money, the house and most of the
possessions, he said, but what most people fail to remember is that the women usually also have responsibility for the children. "They can't get a good enough job to pay the babysitter to take care · of the kids , so the result is that they net nothing," said Hecsh. Senior Citizens all over the U.S. are really separate and apart from the r e st of the groups. They cause an employment dilemma. They could retire at 65 if they lived that long when social security laws were passed. Now they are living past 65 and society doesn't know what to do withthemwe hand them a paycheck- and tell them not to go to work." The physically handicapped such as those with heart conditions or diabetes is another alienated group. "If you fall into this category," he joked, "my advice to you is to enter upon a field of endeavor in which no one has to hire you. Self- employment is just about the only answer. These people can get no group insurance at wor k. This is definitely an econom ic discrimination. "A post-criminal is immediately labled as a second class citi zen. Little or nothing can be done to about arrests. They go on job applications, which limits a pe rson's chances . A Felony convictions make you practically unemployable . You can't e nter professions or the military and are ve ry limited." Hecsh brought the examples he c ited from case s he has read or has defended himself.
News brief-s - - - THE PHILHARMONIC ARTISTS ASSOCIATION invites all students to Palomax- College music department in C-5, TODAY at 3:30p.m. Dean of Humanit ies, Howard Brubeck, will be the host and he will briefly r eview the concert to be presented by the young pianist, Lois Carole Pachucki. Refreshments will be served. A special s tude n t reception i s also being held for Miss Pachuc ki immediately following her conce rt at Pilgrim Hall Oct. 24.
* * * MARY, MARY, a comedy begins on THURSDAY EVENING in the drama lab at 8 p .m . General admis sion is $1.50, s tude nts with ASB cards, 75~ . Tickets will be s old in the student union and at the door.
AS S OCIAT E D WOMEN'S STUDENTS continue their orientation WEDNESDAY with speaker presentations designed to interest the new frosh and uninvolved sophomore women. The prese ntations will deal with the comm ittees set up within the main organization such as the spring fashion show committee and the service club. R - 3 at 11 a.m .
* ** CROSS COUNTRY MEET FRIDAY with Mesa at 3 p .m . on our field .
* * * F 0 0 T BA L L against San Diego Me sa at 8 p.m . in San Diego. ROOTERS BUSES will lea ve SATURDAY at 6:15 for Mes a. Cost is 25 ~ per pe r s on. It will cost 50 ~ with an ASB card for admittance to the game. Students sign up in the Student Activitie s Office .