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THE TELESCOPE May 24, 1968
Palomar College · Volume 21 Number 44 · A Publication of the Associated Students ·
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San Marcos, Calif.
Seven one-act plays to be presented next week
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I Alice Coulter (right) and Dorothy Komac discus meal preparation in the
cafeteria. Mrs. Coulter is the Food manager of the cafeteria and snack bar.
Manager relates problems in directing school cafeteria , snack bar By Ken Kline What would Palomar be like without a cafeteria or a snack bar? Few students would care to find out. And as long as Mrs. Alice Coulter is food manager, they needn't worry, Mrs. Coulter began her career in lunch programs as a part-time helper in elementary school. In 1954, she became food manager of Escondido High School and in 1955 was hired as Palomar manager by then-president Phil H. Putnam. "l still regard my job as a great challenge," she remarked, "and I really · enjoy it. " As food manager Mrs. Coulter is responsible for creating the menus, purchasing equipment and hiring and firing as the case may be. "However,_ most of my employees have been with me 3-1 4 years," she remarked. "we have few turnovers." "Currently, the cafeteria-snack bar employs 10 women, one night manager and five to eight student helpers. "We always have to cut down on our payroll during the second s e m e s t e r though, Mrs. Coulter said, "since the· students simply don't spend as much money then." She also mentioned that the salaries are all paid out of the receipts. "We receive absolutely no district or government aid," she said. •we start with nothing in September and we usually end up with nothing in June." Since the start of the first semester, the food complex has taken in close to $90,000 a figure which should swell to about $100,000 by the end of June. "We serve about 2,000 to 2,500 students per day," Mrs. Coulter commented. "That's around $500-$600 a day." "1 remember the day of the bomb scare," she added. "It was at the height of the lunch hour, and all of a sudden, there came this announcement to clear out in 20 minutes. We had hamburgers on the grill and pizzas in the oven. I'd say we lost $300- $500 that day." She also pointed out that the hot food line serves about 300 on Monday,wednesday and Friday, while it serves only 300 on Tuesday and Thursday. The evening plate serves 30-45. Although the food is purchased about a week ahead of time, it is always prepared on the day it is served. "All doughnuts and bread are fresh every day," Mrs . Coulter said . "We pick them up about two hours after they ' re baked." We try to come as close to home cooking as possible,she added. "We use small amounts, not the usual institution-size tubs." The food is purchased from wholesalers such as Hostess, Central Meat, Palomar Foods and three to four other ven-
ders. Mrs. Coulter noted that although Palomar buys vast quantities of various ingredients, she emphasized that no mixes of any kind are used. She said that the vending machines by the business wing are not connected with the regular food complex, but are placed there only for the convenience of the students. Palomar's twin semesters may occupy nine months of the year, but the job of food manager an obscure but indispensable one, is an 11 month job. It certainly is no job from twelve to one with an hour off for lunch.
Seven one-act plays written by Frank White's playwrighting class and one by an English · instructor will be performed over the next two weeks in the Drama Lab. The plays will be presented on a one-a day schedule beginning Monday at 11:10 a.m. The plays involve 37 actors, eight directors and 27 technicians. Admission is free to students, faculty and public. " I think this is a very interesting experience because it gives theplaywright a good chance to see and hear his play in production," White stated. "This is the way a playwright learns to write plays." he continued. "You don't know what you have written until you have seen and heard it." The one-act plays will mark the last connection that drama instructor White will have with the Palomar theater as he is leaving for Hollywood to seek work as an actor. White has been chairman of the Theater Arts Department since its inception in 1965 . During his time here he has directed students in such productions as "King Lear," "Oedipus Rex,• and the latest offering, • Mother Courage and Her Children. • "I want to get back to my own acting rather than teaching other people how, or directing, • White commented. • I don't want to do any directing for at least two or three years. Directing is a terribly nervous strain." White will be best remembered for his December presentation of Dickens' "Christmas Carol. • Vernon Ashbrook from Escondido High will be taking over White's duties in the drama department in the fall. On Monday "9022 Harratt• will be presented. The play was written by Scott
AMS to spread 3500 pounds of lime on'P' Seventy 50 pound bags of lime will be used next Friday as the Associated Men Students sponsor a re-liming of the .qu,_. Meeting in the Student Union patio at 2 p.m., members of AMS and their guests and interested students will first be driven to the foot of the mountain and will then trek the remaining few yards to the site.
McDonald. It is a comedy about three young men who share an apartment with each other and, at various times, with a hippie, an airline stewardess and a go-go dancer. Tuesday's play will be "The Recreation Room" written by Richard Peacock, English instructor. The play depicts a crisis in a Catholic men's college which is precipitated by student unrest. "A Sultan's Feast" will be Wednesday's play, written by Deva Marie Day. It is a children's play about a wandering minstrel who befriends a sickly lad and earns their living by his wits. No plays will be held on Thursday, Memorial Day, a national holiday. On Friday "Sour Grapes" written by Sally Fleming will be presented. It is a comedy in which God is stunned when His authority is challenged by an ancient rival. The problem is resolved through a series of s it u at i o n s skillfully engineered by God's youthful aide. The plays will be c o n t i n u e d the following Monday June 3. "Comfort in Despair" written by Jon Sophos will then be performed. The play shows the day of judgment for a wealthy Savannah family
ASB candidates to be elected on Wednesday ASB elections will be held Wednesday. Kim Robert Clark, Jerome Poduska and Ron Tracy are running f_o r the ASB presidency. Steve Schnieder and Ron Simecka are vying for the ASB vice-presidential post, which duties include the presidency of the Inter-Club Council (ICC). Karen Schmidt and Kathy Taff are competing for the job of ASB treasurer, while Linda Welch goes unopposed for ASB secretary. Linda Matz, Kathy Taff, Betty Taylor and Ann Spencer have declared for four positions as cheerleaders, who will be elected in the same election. Running for four open representativesat-large seats on the ASB Council are Dan Connelly, Tom Galloway, Tom Leonard, Jerry Nicholas, Alan Rattye, Betty Taylor and Cheryl Tucker. Joe Wu is running unopposed for Sophomore Class president.
Zoologists capture specimens
Students go surfing zn desert •
By Ken Kline Have you ever opened a flashlight to find :Lt full of scorpions? How many times have you tried sliding down sand dunes on a surfboard? If neither case occurs frequently, it may be because the Palomar Zoology Department makes only one expedition per year. A recent three-day visit was taken to the Glamis desert, so named for the bustling metropolis which graces that region 30 miles east of Brawley. Whether Glamis deserves a spot on the map is debatable, especially when one considers the fact that the average traveler will miss it entirely.
involves walking around kicking bushes until one or more fringe-toed lizards leap out. After inspiration for this activity had dimmed, the group adjourned to the canal where everyone enjoyed the dubious pleasure of swimming in the graywater, loaded with such tidbits as broken glass, tangled weeds and assorted dead rats. That evening, Bostic instructed the students on how to set traps. Another nocturnal project was "running the road," a process which consists of driving slowly up and down the paved roads and scanning the illuminated area
It sits astride the railroad tracks, a trash-surrounded shack labeled the Glamis Store fronted by two ancient gas pumps on the south; and on the north, several vintage-unknown piles of driftwood that serve as shelters for the maybe 10 inhabitants. The only other domestic denizens of the "town• are a pair of dogs that may have been kicked by General Custer.
for night creatures . Sidewinders, sand snakes, scorpions, rats and several varieties of lizards were seen. Many new methods and uses of equipment were employed by the novice zoologists, usually by accident, but always by necessity. A frustrated birdhunter, unable to snare his elusive prey, waited for it to fly across the road, whereupon he punched the engine and bagged the bird with a headlight. Others, running out of specimen bags, utilized pillow cases, dirty socks and flashlights in which to deposit their catches. The large numbers of scorpions induced many to sleep off the ground, resulting in a weird array of roof-top perches and makeshift cots. Palomar was not alone on the desert. Wednesday morning, world-famous herpetologist and author, Dr. R. C. Stebbins, 62, of U.C. Berkeley, visited the camp. Armed with a snake-snatching stick in one hand, a bottle of beer in the other and a week's beard on his face, he inquired as to the whereabouts of a "Doctor Boswick."
The 28 adventurers, led by zoology professor Dennis L. Bostic, left Tuesday morning. Around noon, the light vehicle caravan stopped near the Desert View Tower on Highway 80 to hunt for chuckwallas, large vegetarian lizards, second only in size in North America to the Gila monster. When alarmed, the chuckwalla will scurry into a crevice between two rocks and proceed to blow itself up by swallowing air, thus making extraction virtually impossible.
Brandishing thoughts of future favors, "Dr." Bostic graciously consented to donate many of the specimens which Stebbins had been unable to capture. The whole group then fanned out to locate addition a 1 specimens for Dr. Stebbins.
The future desert ecologists later reassembled in the sand dunes five miles east toward Glamis where they received an introduction to the sport of "fringetoed napping." This particular activity
In addition to aiding the desert ecology class at Berkeley, the expedition brought back enough specimens for an exhibit terrarium and for individual student projects.
While most were frantically chasing lizards all over the desert, one group merely waited for one lizard to crawl into an old can. Kent Jacobsen prepares a snake for display following a recent three-day zoology expedition into the Glamis desert.
as it is threatened with destruction when the son brings home a foreign bride. On June 4 "Goosebernes" written bv, Carole S. Gill is scheduled. It is a tale of the imaginary kingdom, Stachelbeere, and its fun-house mirror inhabitants who have all their problems solved by sheer wizardry. "A Fine Sense of Execution" written by Jim Strong will be performed on June 5. It is a melodrama involving a psychotic girl and her egocentric mother and sympathetic father. "Rosemary" by Debbie Hayward will be the final production of the one-act plays and will be presented on June 6. The play depicts a prostitute who seeks comfort with the proprietor of a "greasy spoon" restaurant. Actors participating in the dramas are: Peter Dupre, Carl Dykema, Vicki Barcott, George McF a r 1 and, Deva-Marie Day, Adana McKenna, Angela Richards, Tome Leonard, Be 1 it a Felgen, Mike Blake, Scott McDonald, Bill Holt, Verne Pershing, John Scott, Jon Sophos, Ken Eiland, Chuck Hamacher, Jeannettedes Ermia, Sharon Palecki and RichardArtiaga. Also performing are: Jim Strong, John Rabe, Rita Schmidt, Mike Gunderson, Karen Schmidt, Robert Hutchings, Kellene Eiland, Elizabeth Gunderson, Albert Fleek, Tim Scott, William Holt, Marjorie Groh, Kathleen Daugherty, Tom Bates, Jim Downing, Danielle Corn, Glenda Bradley, Bob Thoreson, Linda Welch, Bill Lehrke and Don Bartletti,
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Sledge hammers will fly today as the Inter Club Council sponsors a moneyraising car bash. Demolishment of the donated car will cost hitters 5 cents a blow or six for 25 cents, according to Paul Hauptman, ICC chairman. The massacre starts at 11 a.m. in the dirt parking lot between the snack bar and Men's locker room.
* * day to see the Today is the * final Student Art Show in the Boehm Gallery. Over 60-odd objects comprise the show featuring all medias of art. Kicked off two weeks ago with a gala "happening," five-$10 prizes and three honorable mentions were awarded to student artists. Southwestern College art department chairman Richard Robinson judged the show. Receiving the cash awards were Mike Conlen, Craig Fuller, Barbara Gross, Sheryl Lewis and Butch Tufts. Fuller, Joannie Laib and Christine Spencer received honorable mentions for their creations. Next Monday's opening will be the art work of evening art students. i< i<
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Carl Orff's Carmina Burana will be presented by the La Jolla Civic Chorus Sunday at 3 p.m. in P-33. Students will be admitted free. In Carmina Burana, Orff took twelfth and thirteenth century texts and used medieval musical forms, turning them into a timely production. The work has three parts. The first deals with the wanderings of Fortune, the second with the delights of country life and the third with the many facets oflove. i< i<
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Alpha Gamma Sigma, campus honor society, is holding its annual banquet tomorrow night in the Student Union at· 7 p.m. Featured guest speaker will be Thomas Chase from Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Three $100 scholarships will be awarded to deserving club members by Adolph Heyne, advisor.
* * *' will sponsor a Circle K members barbecue Sunday at 4 p.m. in front of p -32. Films of the Circle K tricycle race held during club week will be shown. Returning men students interested in service to the college and the community while having fun doing it are invited to attend. Food will be furnished by the club. Purpose of the event, according to Tom Galloway, club secretary, is to stimulate area unity among the "K" movement and to interest returning men students to join the club to make next year's club. i< i< i<
All students should return overdue books and periodicals, and settle accounts with the library to avoid transcripts being withheld now or at any future date of request.