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ETELESCOPE
Volume 22 Number 36 · A Publication of the Associated Students .
March 14, 1969
San Marcos, Calif.
92069
'Taste of Honey' will open run next Thursday Rehearsals are now in progress for Shelagh Delaney's modern drama, "A Taste of Honey," which will begin a seven night run at Palomar March 20 at 8 p.m. in the drama lab. The first drama effort of the spring semester, "A Taste of Honey" is being directed by Mr. Buddy Ashbrook and boasts a cast of five. Greg Krueger, veteran of "The Shrike" last semester, will play the part of the Negro seaman, Jimmie. Jim Southers , who played the lead in "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," plays the one-eyed, drunken wastrel, Peter. Rosemary Schwartz will play the part of the mother, and Michelle Craig, a transfer student from Sacramento, will play the part of the girl. The sensitive role of Geoffrey, the young homosexual boy, has been given to Richard Creighton. Rehearsals for "A Taste of Honey," to be presented beginning March 20,
are now in progress. Above, left, Greg Krueger and Michelle Craig re-
hearse a scene. At right are Rosemary Schwartz and Jim Southers, who
Speaker policy approved Palomar College's role as a place of free expression was affirmed by the Board of Governors in their meeting Tuesday night. The Board voted to approve the revised controversial speaker policy that will make it easier for clubs to present controversial speakers to the students. The Board considered the proposal for more than a month before taking the action Tuesday night. Under the new speaker policy, clubs or organizations presenting controversial speakers would not be obliged to present a speaker of the opposite persuasion to counterbalance the first speaker's viewpoint. Under the old policy, the club that invited a speaker had to provide an opposing viewpoint. Now, they may present an opposing speaker if they wish, but they are not forced to do so. "A college has the responsibility to develop informed, critical, and objective thinking," said Dr. Frederick Huber, president of the college. "Such thinking can best be encouraged in an atmosphere assuring free interchange of ideas." He went on to say that he hoped tha:t groups would try to present diverse speakers in the "best tradition of the American forum." Conditions which must be met by any off campus speaker are: The speaker's background should be made public to his audience as accurately as possible. The speaker should attempt to answer relevant, unselected questions from the floor if a question and answer period is provided. The speaker's remarks must be taperecorded and made available in the library for reference use. Dr. Richard Loomis, trustee, felt the clause on taping might cause trouble.
"If I remember correctly from my college experience, there might be some speaker with very valuable information, who might refuse to let his material be taped," Loomis said. "There is usually no problem with this, if it is made quite clear to the speaker that the taping is for educational purposes only," explained Huber. The policy still requires approval of a speaker by the group's faculty sponsor, the dean of students office and the Inter-Club Council. Failure to comply with any of the seven-point procedural
pattern for scheduling a speaker will result in cancellation of the activity. The other policy adopted by the board allows the district to provide a form of sick leave pay for employees who have used up their legal number of sick leave days, which is set by the state at one day for each school month. The policy is effective as of March 12. If needed this year, monies will be paid out of the district's cash balance. Provisions will be made to carry out the policy next year when the 1969-70 budget is adopted this summer.
Forensics squad travels over weekend to Whittier Invitational Consistent winners, the Palomar Forensics squad is scheduled to compete in the Whittier Invitational speech tournament this weekend. Approximately 75 colleges and universities were invited to the tournament. Some of these include Cal Tech, Arizona State, UCLA, USC, San Diego State, UCSB, Cal Western, UCSD and many more. Mr. Ray Dahlin of the SpeechTheatre Arts area termed the meet a Western Invitational. Twenty two speakers from Palomar will compete in six categories of competition. Competing in extemporaneous are Hank Pinto, Carl Yarber and Cathy Widrig. Expository includes Carrol Wycoff and Ruth Hada. Hank Pinto will be the only speaker in the impromptu competition. Oral interpretation speakers include RuthAnn Eicher, Carrol Wycoff and Tom Wheeler. Persuasive competition includes Carl Yarber, Ruth
Ann Eicher, Cathy Widrig, Tom Wheeler, Ralph Tolle, and Wayne Knott. Dahlin noted that five of the above speakers will be competing for the first time. These speakers are from speech fundamentals classes. Next weekend the team will be competing in the Pacific Coast Championships at San Diego State. According to Dahlin, "judging from the results of earlier tournaments this year the squad should finish in the top ten." The Forensics squad has made an impressive showing so far this year, collecting 14 trophies and a third in sweepstakes at the Fall Championships. In a tournament at Arizona Western in Yuma, the squad swept the tournament winning every event. Commenting on the team Dahlin said "the happiest note is that most of the people are beginners , which means we will have the strongest team ever next year.''
Curran innovates program based on productivity Health isn't what it used to be.! Not the way Michael Curran presents it anyway. Mr. Curran, health instructor and one of the latest additions to the faculty this semester, has innovated a study program based on the theory that "A teacher may plant a seed and he may attempt to water that seed, but the real answer to growth lies in the soil. Productivity depends on how rocky, shallow or rich the soil actually is." Students in Mr. Curran's classes are encouraged through group discussion, to analyze all sides of a given question and ultimately arrive at their own individual conclusions. Agreement with the professor's theories has no bearing on grades for the semester. The only requirement is that the student show a substantial basis for his deductions. While lectures are necessarily a vital part of the curriculum, in order that certain material be covered, these sessions are alternated with panel debates, films, tapes, and occasionally a guest speaker is invited to lecture.
Mr. Michael Curran, new health ed instructor, encourages group discussion.
The health text serves only as a guideline for the course, and where : -necessary Mr. Curran does not hesitate to deviate from it, so that students may have a fuller understanding of their subject. Covered in the course are such provocative topics as the senses and perception, drug addiction, cigarette smoking, alchoholism and sex. These are considered from a psychological standpoint. Health is one of the most significant courses offered on college campuses today, since it deals with many tormenting problems faced by youth in this era. Mr. Curran feels that after all available information on a given subject is presented to the student he will, through open and frank group discussion, arrive at a conclusion by which finally, he must live . Mr. Curran earned his Masters Degree at Los Angeles State. He· taught at Citrus College and Mount San Antonio College in Pomona and more recently at Monte Vista High in San Diego.
play the mother and the one-eyed wastrel. The play will run through March 29.
News at a glance I Philip Moore was awarded a $200 cash prize for his sculpture titled "T.Q.Q.M." at the •california South VII" exhibit sponsored by the San Diego Art Guild. Moore's entry was one of 59 selected for display from 383 paintings, graphics and sculptures screened for showing in the exhibit. The works displayed were from artists along the coast as far north as Santa Barbara. Also accepted for showing in the collection was a vacuum-formed sculpture by Russell Baldwin of the Palomar faculty. The show at the Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, will continue through April 20. Another Palomar art student, Mark Ross, was the winner of a prize for his entry in the second annual San Luis Rey Art Festival, which had contest categories for professionals, adult students, and students under 21.
"A Taste of Honey" was written about 10 years ago when Miss Delaney was 19. She turned out a powerful portrayal of the life she knew in the seamy suburbs of Lancashire, England. The story is of an 18-year -old girl and her semi-prostitute· mother who move from one slum apartment to another and share a home where love and mutual trust are unknown. The mo:her manages to get a younger man to marry her, and they turn the daughter out of the house. She finds a brief period of happiness and love with a Negro seaman on leave. He goes back to sea not knowing that she has become pregnant. Desperately in need of someone who cares, she finds an ally in an effeminate youth who cannot fall in love with her but shares her home and helps her prepare for the birth of the baby. The calm is shattered by the reappearance of the mother, whose new marriage has collapsed, and who ends the girl's hard-won security, spurning the youth and driving him away, destroying the things he has made for the baby, and finally turning her own back when she learns that· the father of her unborn grandchild was of a different race than her own. Mr. Norm Gaskins is again handling technical direction for the play. His scene design is in keeping with the naturalistic style, where tiny details and accurate depiction supercedes design.
La Jolla Museum of Art offers • display of Lopez' ceram1cs The second in La Jolla Museum of Art's Spring series of lectures and demonstrations, "The Artist Speaks for Himself," will be held at the museum Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Mrs. Rhoda LaBlanc Lopez, instructor of ceramics for the University of California, San Diego Extension, will display .a nd discuss several aspects of the ceramist's art. With the aid of one of her s tud ents , Bruce Fry, Mrs. Lopez will . demonstrate the use of the potter's wheel and will show the construction of a ceramic wall relief. A recently conpleted fountain, a commissioned work will be exhibited , as an example of a finished relief, along with other ceramic works by the artist. Mrs. Lopez studied at Scripps College in Claremont, California; the University of Michigan, and Cranbrook Art Academy. She has taught University of California Extension classes since 1964. Previously s he served as a teacher for the Art Center School in La Jolla and gave classes in ceramics In Ann Arbor, Michigan where her husband, the late F . Carlos Lopez, was a professor of art at the University of Michigan. In 1968, she added MiraCosta Junior College to her teaching schedule. She has been accredited to teach in California colleges on the basis of eminence. The artist has held one-man shows in Michigan, Chicago, and San Diego, and her work has been represented in many group exhibitions, both locally and nationally. Her plans for the future include a two-man show with Jim Hubbell, for the benefit of the San Diego Youth Symphony, in the late Spring, and a Lopez Family Retrospective Exhibition in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this summer. Works by Mrs. Lopez her late husband and
their son, John, also a painter and ceramist, will constitute the exhibition. An article in the Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, on Mrs. Lopez' work, appeared in January featuring the individually-sculptured architectural bricks she has created. The 2:30 p .m. event is free and open to the public.
Minority recruitment sought by senate, AFT Increased employment of minority groups here is the goal of a resolution passed by the faculty senate last Monday. The resolution, which was passed by a 12-4 vote, calls for increased efforts in recruiting of persons of ethnic minorities to fill both teaching and classified postions on the college staff. The measure is now before the Board of Governors who must approve it before it can become official school policy. An almost identical resolution, which was passed by the Palomar chapter of the American Federation of Teachers is also before the Board, but the AFT document includes provision for curriculum changes to add courses dealing with minority group problems. Both the Faculty Senate and AFT recommendations call for the administration to "actively solicit applications from qualified persons ofnon-Caucasian ethnic background and of non-western cultural heritage and should seek to develop and maintain both a qualified faculty and curriculum genuinely representative of the breadth and diversity of the American experience."