THE TELESCOPE Palomar .college · Volume 22 Number 22 · A Publication of the Associated Students ·
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Diane Praytor has been se lected as Palomar candidate for s tud ent nurse of the yea r . She will be a c ontes tant in the division run off in San Diego and if s he is c hosen, will enter the fina ls in San Francisco in February.
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The resignation of Janet Stiles this week from her post as social chairman of the ASB has created a vacancy in the "Fabulous 40," headed by ASB president Kim R. Clark. Miss Stiles vacated her post when she left college.
These six Palomar speakers won third place in the Pacific West Coast Speech Championships held in Chula Vista.
They are, (L toR), Bonnie Hickerson, Jan Glasgow, Roger Scalice , Hank Pinto, Scott Ricks , and Ruth Ann Eicher.
Speech squad takes 3rd in coast forensics meet Led by Roger Scalice the Palomar College Forensics Team won the third place sweepstakes by taking 37 awards at the recent Pacific West Coast Speech Championships at Southwestern College in Chula Vista. Scalice captured the first-place trophy in debate, the first-place trophy in men's extemporaneous speaking with superior ratings in the three events. Mrs. Marie Hickerson was awarded the first- place trophy in the expository championship division, and Ruth Ann Eicher followed with another first- place trophy in the lower division bracket. Larry Me Cullough and Cathy Widrig placed third and fourth in the final round with superior ratings. Jan Glasgow received the first-place trophy in women's impromptu speaking In the same event Mrs. Jane Jackson and Hank Pinto placed third and seventh in the championship round. Scott Hicks won the first place trophy in oral interpretation as Mrs. Hickerson and Jack Murphy became the third and fourth place winners . Hicks also won an excellent rating in persuasive. speaking. Glasgow and Eicher became doubletrophy winners as they placed high in extemporaneous speaking. In the same event Gil Hain and Miss Widrig placed fifth and sixth, while Hank Pinto r eceived an excellent rating. In addition to the undefeated c hampions hip debate teams of Eicher- Widrig and Hain-Murphy, others were championship
finalists. Tom Wheeler and Steve Robinson won excellent ratings. Coach Ray Dahlin is now preparing the Palomar students for competition in the Matador Invitational to be held in Yuma, Ari z.
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Four student leaders attend state confab Four members of Palomar's "fabulous 40" spent a weekend recently discussing student government problems with student government leaders at Del Webb's Townhouse in Fresno. All told, 86 junior colleges were represented at the conference, which is an annual affair he ld by the California
Happiness IS: a warm nurse Warm, vital and extremely versatile are adjectives which best describe Jane Stocks. Mrs. Stocks, wife of an overseas serviceman and mother of two, is a P.C . student nurse by day and an Oceanside Community Hospital nurses' aid Friday and Saturday nights. She is a past presid e nt of SNAP (Stud ent Nurses Association at Palom ar) and the present correspondence secretary of SNAC (Student Nurses Association of California). Jane's father was a doctor and her mother does work in connection with welfare programs, so Jane probably comes by her inclination to help others naturally. Of the Palomar nursing program s he states that it is an intensive course geared to produce the finest nurses in the area. She is a lso enthusiastic about her work with SNAC and feels it is a most worthy organization. She states that the prime purpose of SNAC is to s timulate an interest in programs of the graduate professional nurses' organizations of California and the United States. Students are invited to lectures and workshops and they are made aware of nursing positions available and salaries paid. Advisors from the California Nurses Association and the California League for Nurses are on hand to offer assistance. Jane attends monthly SNAC meetings a nywhere from San Diego to San Francisco and keeps busy with correspondence to and from various coordinating organizations. Upon graduation from Palomar in June, Jane plans a career in the medical surgical field .
Junior College Student Government Association (CJCSGA). Such beneficial topics as should volleyball be given the rank of an intercollegiate sport and the hiring of a fulltime, paid general secretary to lead the organization between meetings. According to Ron Simecka, ASB vice president more was accomplis hed at the caucuses where student leaders sat down in smaller groups to discuss problems. "Their jaws dropped about three stories when we told them all we had here: representatives on the administrative council, curriculum committee, faculty evaluation. Most of the schools are trying to get just one of these things this year." He continued, "But then I told them that we have a different problem here: the inability to get students to take part in the student government." Several methods were discussed to remedy this situation, some of which may be adopted into student government next semester. The reso lution which was defeated last year in the s tate assembly making ASB cards mandatory was passed by the group in general assembly s ession. In addition, the r e was quite a hassle concerning a dress code asked for by the Del Webb management. "The code provided for shirts, ties, sport coats or suits for men and dressy dresses for the girls. This got a little rough when the general assembly would start at eight in the morning and go to six the following morning," lamented Simecka.
Novelist to speak Erskine Caldwell will react to being . catalogued as a member of the "naturalistic" school of writing in the third of the "Sound Seminar" taped series to be presented tomorrow at 11 a.m. in room P-2. "Naturalism and the American Novel" is Caldwell1£ topic. He is best known for two novels, "God's Little Acre" and "Tobacco Road". The tapes will be presented weekly through Feb. 26. Speakers include James T . Farrell, Stephen Spender, Arnold Toynbee , Charles Morris, Edwin G. Boring, Anna Freud and Arnold Gesell.
THREE PERFORMANCES Guitarist Manuel Lopez Ramos drew a capacity crowd Saturday night in P - 33.
Wacky group loves • cars, speed, nOISe By Steve n A. Krueger Of all the many "cliques" that hang around the campus these days, there is one which stands out in my mind as the loudest, fastest , most wacky bunch of guys at Palomar. They are not the hippies, the ASB's " terrible 20" (half the fabu lous 40 is out of it, according to Ron Simecka), nor the football team. These gentlemen are the afficandos of things automotive, the wor shippers of 4-barrels and 429's . These, in short, are the proprietors of Palomar's "speed corner." Making their home in the uppermost corner of the parking lot between business and engineering, these young men sit around a ll day, between occasional classes, and discuss the virtues of the latest "bomb cars" from Detroit and Europe. Whether it be a Falcon Sprint, a T-Bird in mint condition, a Triumph or or a four year old Chevy SS, they seem to never tire of talking about cars. Their cars seem to come and go, too. A few weeks back, a battered old Dodge pickup showed up in the lot. Though it looked like a veteran of Custer's Last Stand (Custer's side), it shocked a few of the speed corner as it burned a ply or two of rear tire in e ntering the lot. Upon close investigation, it was learned that the sleeper carried a huge General Motors power house with a Turbo- Glide transmission concealed somewhere in the floor. It hasn' t been seen since. And so it goes. Day after day, these worshippers of the shiny and new, or merely the ragged and fast , go their
A form e r Palomar student has been murdered in Florida. Frank Darrough, 20, who attended PJC for one semester in 19 67, was shot to death in F lorida last Wednesday apparently while showing his car to a prospective buyer. Mr. Darrough was selling his car to buy an airplane ticket to return to Escondido for the Christmas holidays. He went to work at the Escondido Daily Times Advocate in March of 1967 and remained there until October 1, this year, when he quit in ord er to tour the country before entering the service. He and another Escondido youth had planned to visit relatives in Indiana and to later travel to New York City. There they appare ntly split up, Darrough had worked at an orange packing plant for three weeks prior to his murd er . A large number of Escondido area youth attend ed the Rosary and mass Sunday night and yesterday. Both were held at St. Marys Catholic Church.
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merry way, amid the squeal of tire rubber and the roar of straining engines . To t hem speed and power is a way of life . If their cars can't top 130 m iles per hour, the y are out of it. They never com pete at a track, merely in the parking lot. To hear them talk, it is undoubtedly true that they never drive sanely at a mode rate rate of speed. To them, the ultimate car is one which will accelerate to 140 in six seconds flat, stay the r e fo r miles at a time, have a power reserve for occasional "punching" (slang for fast, sudden acceleration), corner like a sports car, s top on a dime, and ge t 60 miles per gallon of gas . The importance is in that order, I might haste n to mention. To those of us who think the ultimate car is one that merely starts reasonably well on cold mornings, ge ts us where we want to go and back, trave ls about a constant 55 or 60 miles per hour, these m en sound like blithering idiots prepared to kill themselves for the lust of speed. But, most of the m are not. They are very sane, serious students, intent on an education. Cars are their first love, true. But school is t heir mistress. The day is coming when perhaps som e of these fast, young men will be the engineers designing cars for GM and Ford. When that day finally comes, we may have a car that will accel e rate to 140, stay there, have a power reserve for punching, corner like a sports car, stop on a dim e, and get 60 miles per gallon . Perhaps then, too, someone will find a place to drive safely at such speeds other than at a salt flat.
Vacation set Due to the birth of an obscure figure almost 2000 years ago, Palomar College will be c losed for two weeks. Beginning Monday, Dec . 23, and lastinguntil Monday, Jan. 6, 1969, school will be c losed for the Christmas Holidays.
Death Valley draws 25 PC geology students Twenty- five students and three ins tructors completed a three day field trip to Death Valley r ecently , and apparently they are ready to go back. Under the leadership of department chairman Joseph Hydock, Richard Noble, and Joseph Willis, the students left on a Thursday and r e turned Saturday night. Mr. Willis stated that the Death Valley region was chosen because "The faults and sedimentation are quite striking and recent. Because there is no vegetation, the area is completely visible." Among the geologic features they studied were The Uebe hebe Cr ate r, a 2000 year old feature sim ilar to craters likely to be found on the moon. In addition, the group visited the Eastern Sierra Front fault at Lone Pine and the Funeral Ranges . At night, while camping, the group studied the stars. In addition to geologic outcroppings, the group visited Scotty's Castle , home of two Hollywood producers in the 1920' s. Mr. Willi s termed the venture a success .
Dancers ready routines Palomar's Modern Dance group will present three performances of various routines today through Thursday in the dance studio. The programs will begin at 11 a.m.
drum, and flute. "Environm e nt" also danced as a group is a structured improvisation. "The Unanswered Question" is a solo to be danced by Jinx Snow.
Miss Billie Hutchings, dance instructor, has c horeographed three of the dances. "Fire Night" is a group dance to a Ravi Shankar composition for Sita r,
Dance rs are: Melanie Blanchard, Connie Campbell, Evonne Dahl, Larry De Puy, Jeanette Des Ermia, Cheryl Jones, Tom Leonard, Miche le McKenne, Susan Monaco, Gloria Pennington, Karen Schmidt, Jinx Snow, and Phil Stotts.
Performers in the Dance program to be presented in the dance studio have been practicing for several weeks to
perfect their form. THE TELESCOPE inadvertantly moved their performance up a week.