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THE TELESCOPE Palomar College · Volume 22 Number 35 · A Publication of the Associated Students ·

March 10, 1969

· San Marcos, Calif.

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EDITOR TESTIFIES

Reasons lor campus unrest cited

By Steven A. Krueger.

If the leaders of today's students are to be believed, the main reasons for campus unrest are lack of equal campus opportunity tor minority group students and student participation in campus decisions.

That is the impression I have returned with following my testimony for the Assembly Subcommittee on Educational Environment, chaired by Assemblyman John Stull, R-Leucadia). The meeting took place Monday night, March 3, in Sacramento. I attended as the representative of the student council of Palomar.

In the testimony of other leaders from San Jose, San Francisco State, and and Davis, there came a uniform call for understanding by the legislature from Gov. Ronald Reagan. Almost every speaker said that campus unrest and, the student movement were caused by the ills of our society and the Establishment's failure to remedy them.

Frank Martinie, counselor, is shown at the last Board of Governors meeting as he presented a resolution concerning the

proposed two year catalog. He has also been appointed chairman of the budgetary committee.

Budget committee selected; Martinie appointed chairman Final selection of representatives from the administration, faculty and classified employees for the new Budgetary Committee was made last week, and a chairman has been appointed.

In addition to chairman Frank R. Martinie, faculty members are Robert E. Fullerto"n, James J. Felton, Joseph W, Brennan, Jack C, Quintero and Thomas Humphrey.

Administrative members are Charles A. Coutts, assistant dean of instruction, science-business-technology and Howard R. Brubeck, assistant dean of instruction, humanities, while Mrs. Ruth Serr was elected Thursday night by the classified employees.

The Board of Governors approved the new budget preparation procedure at their last meeting after several weeks of studying the proposal. The faculty has not been involved in the total budgeting process until now.

According to the "Budgetary Committee Proposal" as submitted to the Board, the administration will prepare an estimate of the funds that will be available and the legal restrictions on these funds pays any other fixed District expenses. They will also submit items that do not originate on the department or division level, such as adult education, library and community services.

The Budgetary Committee is authorized to submit recommendations, while only the Board of Governors has the final authority to legally adopt the budget in August of each year.

"This method of budget planning gives departments an opportunity to unde rstand why some budget items are grant-

ed while others must be denied," said Gene Jackson, chairman of the English department. It has been Jackson's task to present plans for the proposal to the Administrative Council and Board.

The idea for such a committee originated last summer with faculty members Oscar B. Gibbs and Fullerton. Dr. John Schettler, assistant superintendent in charge of business, will serve as advisor to the group.

Prior to submission of the preliminary budget, the committee will meet with the Associated Student Body Council or its representatives to review recommendations.

Faculty endorses freedom of press Complete freedom of the press and complete editorial freedom were endorsed recently in a resolution passed by the .F aculty Senate here .

The resolution especially admonished area student governments to maintain a laissez faire attitude toward junior college newspapers and that the publications should be able to operate without fear of penalties or reprisals for views taken on topics affecting student government, college administration or the student body itself.

The resolution did acknowledge an implied measure of control, however, since it advocates complete editorial fre edom only with regard to -school activities.

Student body president of UC-Davis, Steve Woodside, said, "I believe much of the crisis has been perpetrated by political reaction, in the form of bills or public statements." He went on to say that violence has been averted at Davis because students have a voice there in campus decision-making.

Dick Minor, student president of San Jose State College, spoke for nearly three hours on the ills of society and his college. He explained that if the money were available in unlimited quantities for education, that he would like to see it channeled into programs bringing education to the minority students.

INews at a glance I

Bob Nelson (left) listens as Adams comments on a photograph. Nelson is a photo-journalism major here.

The program, as he explained it, paid the expenses of qualified students who would otherwise be unable to attend college. Many were from the poverty areas of San Francisco and more rural areas of California.

However, in addition to the monetary aid to the students, the Student Body has established a tutorial service for the students. As a result of almost constant tutoring by scholastically sure students, the grade point average of the students involved in the program now is an average 3.8 out of a possible 4.0, acco rding to Minor.

One of the major problems discussed

by Minor and nearly all the other angry young men there was the program of teaching assistants. Minor said that many of the faculty at SJS are aban:doning research studies to teach full time. Because their contract says they must do so much research every semester, they are being fired.

He continued to say that many of the teachers on his campus weren't aware of what was going on on the outside world, and therefore the students should have at least an equal voice in running the college.

In answer to the question by a member of the subcommittee that asked: "If that is true, why are you going to

school and the teachers teaching?", he said, "Fifty to 75 percent of the faculty are more in need of education than the students they are teaching.~ Other representatives attending the meeting were Charles Brown of the Afro-American Students Union; Bruce Angell of the Committee for Academic Environment at San Francisco State; California Young Americans for Freedom, represented by Patrie Dowd, the vice chairman; and Robert Reynolds of the Student California Teachers Association.

The statement by the Afro-American representative was one of the shortest of the hearing. He said in a prepared statement that the basic problems of the campus won't be solved until more Blacks are allowed into the campus situation.

Angell of San Francisco State showed a movie called "Now!", currently being used in Black Studies Courses at SFS. The Film, made in Communist Cuba, depicts mobs of white policemen beating helpless Blacks during various riots across the country. Many of the subcommittee members were shocked at this, and asked if it were proper for the taxpayers to be supporting this hate propaganda.

The hearing was one in a series devoted to campus unrest. Other hearings have heard witnesses from junior college districts, faculty representatives, college trustees, and law enforcement officials.

The San Diego Chapter of the Ma rch of Dimes will offer four awards of $500 each to students interested in preparing for certain health careers.

Those who are persuing careers in medicine, nursing, physical therapy, and occupational therapy may be considered for selection.

There will be four bases for selection: scholastic achievement, personal qualifications, professional promise, and financial need. • Applicants will be judged on a competitive basis by a selection committee, and must be citizens of the United States as well as legal residents of San Diego county.

Deadline for submitting all necessary material is April 15.

Application forms may be obtained from the San Diego rounty Chapter of the March of Dimes (Health Career Awards), 6156 Mission Gorge Road, (Room H), San Diego, California.

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Within this century, two percent of our population will be able to produce the goods and food needed for the other ninety-eight percent. For the first time in history man's environment is within his control.

But man's central problem remains unchanged: How to become human in this world. Will the generations freed from the work of the past be able to forge a new culture, a new life, a new selfunderstanding to sustain themselves in the years to come? Some possible answers will be discussed in the movie, "EDEN U.S.A.", to be sponsored by the Newman Club tomorrow in F-22. A discussion will follow the film, which is scheduled to begin at 11:15.

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Ansel Adams, noted photographer, attended a workshop at San Diego State last Saturday. Palomar photographer,

He pointed out that the ASB of San Jose State has begun a program with its own money to bring more minority group students onto campus.

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Posthumously honoring the famed artist John Altoon, who passed away last month, the La Jolla Museum of Art is presently exhibiting 10 of his works of art.

Having reached the pinnacle of art with dextrose imaginative creativity at age 43, Mr. Altoon's graphics and variedmedia drawings expressed the artist's positive peaceful mannerisms in contrast to our turbulent times.

One such pen and ink drawing, "Blind Accordian Player," are among those on display. All 10 works are a permanent part of the museums . . collection which are gift donations by art enthusiasts.

Of the many honors bestowed JohnAltoon in recent years were inclusion in the Fourth International Young Artist's Exhibition held in Toyko, Japan, a Tamarind Lithography fellowship, and being chosen from 37 competing artists by the Art of American's biennial for his "New Talent, USA".

Student leaders are now planning for the regular Area I conference to be held at Southwestern College. They are, (1. to r.) Ruth Ann Eicher, secretary; Pat

Smith, treasurer; Lloyd Walker, president; Jim Vaught, vice president; and Robert Bowman, dean of student activities.

Area 1 conference slated; student leaders to attend Some 30 student government officers and other interested students from Palomar will attend the regular Area I California Junior College Student Government Association Conference on Friday, March 21, at Southwestern College in Chula Vista.

The conference is scheduled to last from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Several important topics will be discussed in separate workshops. The four workshops are Curriculum, Current Campus Problems, Student Values and Campus Communication.

Interested students may still sign up for the conference in the ASB office.

Any resolutions or recommendations that are passed at the Area 1 Conference will then be presented to the statewide conference which will be held in Palm Springs in April.

"This conference is really a forerunner of the state conference in April," Lloyd Walker, ASB president said. "The state gives us a c hance to go over resolutions made previously."

Student Body presidents attending the Area I conf, ~ will have a separate workshop to discuss common problems that generally confront a student body president and his cabinet.

The conference is not limited only to

student officers, but presents a fine opportunity for interested students to become active in the mainstream of college life and to participate in student government.

All delegates who attend the conference at Southwestern College will have their expenses paid by their Associated Stu·dent Organization.

Book store sale set through week Friday is the final day of a special sale at the ASB bookstore.

For the duration of the sale, certain books are on sale for $. 25 and $.50.

These are used books and older editions of reference texts, explained Mrs. Virginia Dower, bookstore manageress Texts on chemistry, sports, English, literature, and history are included in the selections.

"This is a good time to pick up some excellent reference books," Mrs. Dower said.

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MOUTHPEACE

FROM THE RIGHT SIDE

Where else but here?

Conservation probed

By Steven A. Krueger

By Jim Strai n Until the Union Oil we ll of Santa Barbara gushe d oil onto the plush be ac hes of the idle rich of Santa Barbara, no one had much to say about the touchy problem of conse rving our natural surroundings.

However, now everyone from Gove rnor Ronald Reagan to Walter Hickle are jumping on the conservation bandwagon.

They're a little late, but better late than never, I always say.

The oil slick off Santa Barbara is tragic in that naturalists predic t that s ea life will be banished from the area for at least ten years. Our politicians decry this waste. They have little to say about the slaughter of other various wild animals by polluted lakes and rivers.

A beautiful bird called the Passenger Pige on used to fly the skies of America.

There are a few people who remember this bird. No one alive today will eve r again s ee one, though. And ne ithe r will our childre n or their childre n nor their childre n's children.

The P ass enger Pigeon is as extinct as a dinosaur.

An Ame ric an institution, the alligator, is well along the road to a s imilar fate.

Alligator shoes, handbags, wa llets, etc. , are claiming a murderous toll on the rough skinned beast of the swamps .

The affluent society in which we live has decreed that it is more important to have an alligator watch band than it is to have a live alligator.

At the turn of the century, the American Bison was doomed to a fate equal to that of the Passenger Pigeon. Only the alert work of conse rvation-minded Americans saved that proud beast. Today enough Bison are alive in National Preserves in the state s of Wyoming and Montana that they are harvested and their meat sold in supermarkets and fine restaurants.

The people who saved the Bison knew that once the last Bison was gone , there never would be another one.

That lesson still applies today. When the last Condor dies because of polluted air, or the last poacher kills the last alligator, or the last whale r kills the last whale , there will be no more to follow.

T he beas ts and bird s we r e here long

before man came to be. How do we claim the right to kill the m with pollution and poaching, simply because the ir skin looks nice on a man's foot or a woman's hand ?

There are many animals that have be en pushed to the edge of extinction by man. Some I have mentioned. Othe rs include the mountain lion, now only found in the r e motest parts of North Ame rica ; the Grizzly Be ar, confined to a few square miles of a few national parks; and the Mountain goat, allowed to live only in the remote mountains of Canada and Wyoming.

These aminals are things of be auty, things to be prized and admired. The thoughtless slaughter of them is a crime.

Many people claim that the de mise of our animal heritage is brought about by the thoughtless, bloody killing by hunters.

Long before it became popula r to c r y for c onservation, hunters were financing game refuge s all over t he continent with special taxes on ammunition and guns which they asked for. A great part of the fee for hunting license goes toward c onse rvation. As for the killing of game , it is needed .

Because we ha ve pushed all anim als back into the most r emote a r e as of the continent, their numbe rs must be thinned. Intellige nt hunters will not eliminate a species . If certain numbe rs of animals weren't harvested e ach year, all would starve and perhaps be too weak to r eplenish the he rds and flocks.

Hunte rs are not to blame. Mr. John Q . Citize n who has lamely sat back, polluted the air with auto exhaust, burned forests with thoughtless handling offire, dumped sewage inio the rivers, and clamored for the fine furs of the few remaining fur bearing animals is to blame.

The control of guns or hunting will not save the slaughte r of our game animals.

Only a concentrated fight against pollution in any form and stiff prison te rms for poache rs will.

Above all , man will have to le arn that s imply because a skin looks good on the ani mal doesn't mean it was meant to be used as a shoe .

Option offered or draft;

senator seeks student aid

By Jackie Easley Three decades ago, Senator Robert Taft declared the draft to be •absolutely opposed to the principles of individual liberty which have always been considered a part of American Democracy.'

In a radio address last October, Richard Nixon said, "We have lived with the draft now for almost thirty years.

It was started during the dark uncertainty before the Second World War, as a temporary, emergency measure. But since then we have kept it--through out ordeals in Korea and Vietnam and even in the years of uneasy peace between.

"We have lived with the draft so long, in fact, that too many of us now accept it as normal and necessary.

"I say it's time we took a new look at the draft--at the question of pe rmanent conscription in a free society."

At long last it seems someone actually is taking a look at the draft--and doing something about it.

Two years ago, Senator Mark Hatfi~ld of Oregon introduced S. 1275, a bill substituting a voluntary armed forc e for the present selective service s ystem. The bill was never directly considered by the Armed Se rvices Committee and efforts to incorporate amendments in the Selective Service Acts were defeated. · In a letter sent to THE TELESCOPE, Senator Hatfield cites the continuance of the draft as emphasis of "the inconsistency of government coerced service with America's concept of freedom," and urges Palomar students to support S. 503, the Voluntary Military Manpower Procurement Act of 1969, which he has newly introduced to the 91st Congress session.

He says, "This year, the chances of passage are somewhat better that in 1967. Major new magazines such as TIME and NEWSWEEK have contained articles commenting favorably upon a voluntary military, President Nixon supports the concept as well as well-known figures from both sides of the political spectrum including John K. Galbraith, James Farmer, David Dellinger, Milton Friedman, and Barry Goldwater.

"However, well-known political leaders, economists, and even the President may not be the catalyst for ending the draft. In order to move the nation it will be necessary that those who have fought conscription over the past few years enter the discussion and make their views known. The present Selective Ser-

vice Act will not te rminate until 1971 unless we take action to change that situation now.

"Efforts aimed at s ecuring committee consideration by ge ne rating and influencing local forces would be instrumental in building support for draft abolishm e nt. In addition to lette rs to your own Congressm e n and the Arm ed Services Committe e, I would recomme nd letters to the editor of your local newspaper; e ncouraging labor, business, farm and professional leader s as we ll as civic and educational organizations to e xpress the ir views ."

During the Congressional session in which he introduce d the Voluntary Military Manpowe r Act, Se nator Hatfield said we must "be willing to accept the challenges of new realities and have the foresight and confidenc e to accept logic ove r habit and reason over the retarding s e curity of traditional."

In closing he said, "I be lieve the voluntee r force ts a working alte rna tive, that it will remove the ine quities of the old system which have caused tension and division, and that it will help restore unity to this Nation. "

New juke box gets seal of approval Regardless of the complaints from members of the cafeteria staff, most students see m to be enjoying the new juke box in the student union.

Besides the sheer enjoyme nt it gives to music starved students, it has a very real and practical value -- money.

At no cost to the students or any other area of academia, it provides a substantial income for the ASB. Money received will go into a special fund to provide for the maintenance and improvement of the student union.

The arrangement is for a 50-50 split between the eompany that maintains the machine and the ASB. There is no cost whatsoever to the students except, of course, the $.10 a play, three for $.25.

The money is yet to be divided. But the machine is in constant use by students.

The students enjoy it and it brings in needed revenue.

How many otber college expenses can claim that?

Associated with t he Boehm gallery is the 4,5 00 book fine arts library.

Baldwin, students keep Boehm art gallery tops among junior colleges

By Loi s Cavalier Crates and packages of intriguing shapes and sizes arrive periodically at the door of Dwight Boe hm Galle ry.

The y di s appear insid e along with bucke ts of paint, plan ske tc he s, gallery design stud ents and Russe ll W. Ba ldwin, art instructor and galle r y director.

Such activity precedes each of about ten exhibits whic h offe r a wide variety of art forms and artists to the student body and community e ach s chool year.

"The function of the galle ry is to s e rve as an educ ational me dium in the North County a rea," Baldwin said. "We wantto make people awa r e of where art is today, where it has been and , whe n possible , where it is going. " For the "Figures Inte rnatio nal, 1967- 68" s how last s emester, huge orange and yellow crates , one me asuring five feet high and ten fee t square , c ontained such strictly mode rn works as the 91" by 65" "Woman With Green Bir d", a polyester resin-form c anvas painting by we ll-known artist Roy Schnackenberg. Part of a taxi cab emerged to be fitted to Australian Brett Whiteley's painting "New York I".

In c ontras t, the Leonardo da Vinci 's e xhibit whic h just closed displayed working mode ls of many of da Vinc i' s 15th century inve ntions .

F r om the sm all, c'a refull y-wrapped package s which have arrived for the upcoming show "Objects- To Us e and P e ruse " that began yeste rday, com e such i terns as handwoven he adwork hangings

by Barbara Waskaj of Chula Vista. The i nte r estingly textured hangings , with names like "C a me lot" and "P hoenix Preserved", are fas hioned with preColumbi an beads, topaz, a mbe r , animal fur, wool and silk. Wood work , stained glass , s m all sculptures and jewelry will als o be s hown.

"All art s hould be a question, and we

hope that e verything that appears in the gallery will offer questions to the viewers," Baldwin commented. "We want pe ople to think about the materials used and the validity of e ach piece of work."

The gallery was named for Dwight Boe hm, dean of humanities at Palomar Colle ge from 19 63 until his death in 1965. It was ope ned and dedicated along with the art-music complex in the Spring of 1966, and Baldwin has served as director s ince tha t time .

Boe hm and his wife colle cted works of art from all ove r the world and the ir pe rsonal collection of cera mics , paintings and tapestries has been featur ed in t he gallery.

"We have a gr e ate r numbe r of shows each year than any junior c ollege in California that I know of, and the results of a college questionnaire which we answe r ed left no doubt in my mind that we rate tops not only a mong junior colleges but among state c olleges and univers ities , many of whom offe r only four or five mediocre showings a year, " Baldwin s aid.

Although he will r e ma in as an art instruc tor, Baldwin will give up his position as galle r y director at the end of this seme ste r to devote time to othe r a rt projects.

Members of the Gallery Design class assist Baldwin with r e-arrangement of the galle r y between shows, and all pedestals and tables use d for e xhibits are given a fre sh coat of paint each time to r e move finger marks and scuffs, even though the s ame color may be r eapplied.

The type of exhibitor Boe hn Gallery does attrac t will be evident in the upc oming show, which will featur e work by the inte rnationally famous Woolleys, whose e name lled copper work is used extensive l y and controve rsially in the new San Die go Civic Center Concourse.

The whole trouble with this place is that it has no Soul.

Whe re else but at Palomar College could a play like "A Taste of Honey," a timely story of interracial love, be presente d by an all white cast?

Where else but at Palomar could ll college bookstore, the traditional literary eye of the college community, stock hundreds of mystery novels and yet carry less than ten volumes of poetry in the whole place?

Where else but at Palomar could the most controversial item ever to appear on the editorial page of the college newspaper be not an editorial at all, but an advertisement for Tampax?

Our educational plant is superb. Our faculty is dedicated and imaginative.

Our administration is one of the most progressive in the state. Our student gove rnment, if not ambitious , is effic ie nt and p ractical. And yet t he whole t hing is a cra s hing bore.

We lack t he pos itively charged atmosphere, t he e nt husiasm for the total lear ning experie nce which are the ha llm ar ks of higher education. We have s o successfully maintained our cool that we are all slowly freezing to death. So far have we turned inward that we have almost completely turned off to the world around us and especially to the world of Palomar College, the world with whic h we may be in danger of becoming involved . It is easy to rave about Vietnam or Berkeley or any of the hundred things which fill the daily papers, but not our daily live s. But what about San Marcos , California? What about Palomar Colle ge ?

The critics of junior colleges maintain that they are little more than fancy high schools. They claim that the students in such institutions are there only because they had nowhere else to go.

Junior colleges, these critics claim, are mere have ns for those who lack either the intelligence or the ambition to enter a "respectable" college or university.

A walk through the Student Union here c ould not but r einforce such an opinion.

It doesn' t have to be t hat way. A case in poi nt is Oakland ' s Merri tt Junior College. A concerned student body combined with the built-in issue of a 40 percent black enrollme nt have c apapulted that school to national prominence in educational cir cle s. Last June Merritt bec ame t he fi rs t school in California to award an AA degr ee in Black Studies. The degree has been r ecogni zed by the State Bord of Educ ation as a te mporary qualification to teach in e lem e ntary and high schools if the student obtains a four-year degree. All of this came about not because of the liberality of Dr. Rafferty and his ilk, but through the powe r of a few imaginative and active students. Whether or not you approve of the end goal, this is a marvelous example of what student activism at its most constructive and creative can accomplish.

There's nothing wrong with dances or beer parties or four barrel c arburetors or a new hair-do1 but what we here have yet to learn is that there is much much more to college life than those things.

The rich harvest of e ducation, in the most profound me aning of the word, is ready and waiting. We have but to gather it . Dig it!

P e ace.

THE TELESCOPE Dentistry majors' deadline extended Published Tuesday and Friday of each school week, except during fina l examinations or holidays, by the Communications Department of Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif., 92069. Phone: 7441150, Ext. 40. Advertising rates are $1.50 per column inch.

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