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Walker urges future CJCSGA withdrawal "If the new group is still active at next years Fall conference in San Diego, I personally would support Palom ar's withdrawal from the California Junior College Student Government Association (CJC SGA).
These were the words of Palomar ASB president Lloyd Walker after returning from the 47th semi-annual CJCSGA conference held late in April in Palm Springs. The new group of which Walker referred is the liberally-oriented New Junior College Assoc iation, an offs hoot of the Junior College Alliance , an organization dedicated to the betterment of California junior college student government programs.
A special dance program will be held beginning Thursday night in the dance s tudio. Performances are scheduled for
F riday and Saturday nights under the direction of Billie Hutchings. Shown here are five of t he performers to be seen.
T hey are (L to R) June Tatro, Cathy Hicks, Catherine Richards, Mary Neuru, and Kathleen Stuart.
THE TELESCOPE Palomar College · Volume 22 Number 47 · A Publication of the Associated Students ·
May 6, 1969
· San Marcos , Calif.
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Walker feels that if the NJCA presents itself at San Diego as they did a t Palm Springs., Palomar andnextspring's council s hould serious ly conside r joining the new organization. Approximate ly 25 schools in the state have already joined the liberal group, but Palomar is committed to CJCSGA until the conclusion of the Fall conference since Ar ea I, in which Palomar is a m e mber, is hosting the affair. "CJCSGA hasn't done anything in 20 years . Palomar is one of the most conservative junior colleges in the state and its about time we start moving with our program," commented the 32 year old ex-Marine ASB pres ident. Jim Blake, president of the Contra
Costa College delegation and head of the Junior College Alliance, made clear his feelings that the present system wasn't working, at the opening assembly meeting and Walker agreed. Later,atapresident's workshop, a proposal was made to es tablish a Student Government Communications Center in Sacramento. The purpose was to expedite the time element in inter-school communication and generally for a more overall effective relationship between the state's student governme nt programs. The proposal was brought to a general session of the 83 membe r schools and a 2/3 vote was needed to pass the proposal but it failed by seven votes. Area I schools favoring the proposal were Palomar, San Diego City College, San Diego Evening College, and Grossmont. Those opposing the proposal were MiraCosta, Southwestern, and Imperial Valley College. Walke r, who was joined at the confere nce by Council Members Ruth Ann Eicher, Pat Smith, and Karen Schmidt, MAYA representative Jim Valerio, and Deans Robert Bowman and Marjorie Wallace , is serious about the withdrawal and even more dissatisfied with CJCSGA because of its failure to operate effectively. "There's too much riff-raff and not e nough meaningful business being taken care of," he said .
Art Hoppe brings satire to campus I A six week summer tour of Mexico will be conducted by the Art Department as a part of a three unit class. Featuring visits to the Yucatan Penninsula and Mexico City, a special class unde r the direction of the Art Department will go on the road this summer. The tour is open to students, artists, photographers, anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, or anyone with a desire to improve theirpictorial ability and/or with an interest in the arts and culture of Mexico. Other locations to be toured by the· class include Taxco, Lake Patzcuaro Merida, Oaxaca, and Cuernavaca. Instruction will be provided in the basic approaches and- techniques of drawing, painting, and cand id photography. Stress will be on helping the student to gain a strong compos itional sense and a facility in his or her chosen media.
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"Vestiges of an Era", a black and white photographic collection by Justus Ahrend, Palomar photography adviser, is now on display in the Putnam Memorial library.
"Vestiges of an Era" was shot at Aspen, Colorado, and was later displayed in February at the Hunter Galler y at The Center of the Eye , in Aspen. Ahrends ' s show will be on display for several weeks . A new show is brought into the library every month.
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Dance students of Miss Billie Hutchings, modern dance instructor, will be presented in a concert May 8-10 at 8 p.m . in the dance studio. The twcrhour program will include group studies and solos composed and performed by the students, and six dances choreographed by Miss Hutchings. She also directs the program, and designed t he costumes and arranged the music. Her musical assistant for the production is Loren Baker, a Palomar student. Three of Miss Hutchings' dances, "Fire Night," "The Unanswered Question," and "Environment," were first seen in a concert last December. New pieces are "The Answer?", "Serendipity," and "On the Lawn. " Music for "On the Lawn" is a portion of Carl Orff's well-known choral and orchestral composition, "Carmina Burana."
F amed "fictional" characters general Zip- Zapp and Elbie Jay will be invading the Student Union tomorrow as satirist and columnist Art Hoppe brings "Satire and Other Blunt Instruments" to Palomar College. Hoppe will be appearing as part of the Community Services Guest Speaker series. The liberal satirist's columns often appear in the Escondido Daily TimesAdvocate. In them, he uses the instrument of satire to probe bluntly the condition of the human society. Though his columns often attack severely the accepted institutions and figures of the American Scene, he softens the barbs with artful satire. The noted columnist and roving reporter combines satire with facts and his daily humorous political column runs the gamut from the Washington scene to whimsical take-offs on cause-espousing societies. Hoppe, a 1949 Harvard graduate, joined the San Francisco Chronicle soon after leaving those ivy- covered halls. As a reporter he covered many outstanding national stories in the following years, became an ardent yachtsman, traveled extensively, and reported the Alaska to
Florida political campaigns of Presidential candidates Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. Of his writings, Hoppe has said, "Col-
umns s hould express outrageous opinion to be of any value. I don't know anything. I want to stir people up so they'll do their own thinking." Some of Hoppe's favorite targets are the War and the past and present occupant of the White House . He will appear at 10 a.m. in the Student Union. There is no admission charge and the program is open to the public.
BULLETIN Yesterday the ASB council passed by an 11-3-1 vote the budget for next yea r. A last minute move by Nick Ashcraft toremove all funds from FOCUS magazine was defeated without opposition.
Art Hoppe
BRAVURA, the English department literary magazine, was slashed from the budget during the three- hour-long meeting. Unless reinstated by the board of governors, BRAVURA will not be published next year. Neither BRAVURA advisor Gene Jackson or editor Victoria Richardson was available for comment on the cuts.
Art department quality grows By Eleanor L. Halliwell From the days of mud and quonset huts, when Palomar was often referred to as the "wet-back camp", the Art Department has grown to one of the finest facilities in the junior college system . From a one mandepartmentwithabout 75 students, it has grown to the present six instructors with about 400 students. The present compl ex, built three years ago, is many times larger than the original buildings, and is equipped to handle five times as many students. Yet t he facilities are being used to near saturation point at the present time, said John E. Barlow, head of the Art Department. . Every year the Art Department is al. · lotted a sum of money by the Patrons of Palomar to purchase new paintings or sculpture for e ither the Boehm Gallery or the campus grounds. This allows the art student to do individual projects, if he has submitted an acceptable idea for sculpture or mosaic which would be impossible to fit into a regular class. Much of the art work around Palomar has been done by students. The art complex covers a wide range of media. From the fundamentals of art, to sculpturing, oesign, painting with oil or water colors, life drawing, crafts, lettering, and perhaps the most popular, ceramics.
Head of the Art Department, Mr. John Barlow, watches one of his students
put the finishing touches on a sculpture.
The term "ceramics" --from the Greek 'keramos" meaning clay-- covers a consfderable range of products that are made by shaping moist clay, or similar substance. They are then dried and fired in a kiln to give the finished product strength and permanence. Ceramic products include bricks, tile, and porcelain fittings,
as well as bowls, pitchers, plates, and other decorator items. "There is pleasure and satisfaction in handling and molding clay, explained Barlow. It is undoubtedly the nature of the medium that makes it such a popular craft -- soft, moist, pliable clay, so easily formed into study pottery pieces. Because the material is so responsive, it gives a degree of success, regardless of the skill of the worker. It can be used as a recreational activity, or for theraputic or educational purposes." Most students have probably seen some of Barlows creative works around the campus. One outstanding example of his work is the brick relief in front of the Boehm Gallery, another is the sculpture in the fountain by the planetarium COII"posed of oynx brought up from Baja California. Then there is "Happy Daze" near the entrance to the Boehm Gallery. At the Administration building entrance are four colorful bird mosaics, and opposite is another suspended sculpture . These were done as an example to his students and to encourage them to use their c reative talents. The mosaic near the science area was done by students during the quonset hut days. Students have ranged in age from teen age rs to an 84 year old woman. Students in ceramic classes offer some of their products for sale around the· first of December and near the end of the school year. The semi-annual "Pot Sale" includes many shapes and varieties of ceramics, such as cups, bowls, ash trays, planters, and various decorative objects. Besides seramics Barlow supervises
the teaching of crafts, which includes three dimensional matter other than ceramics. Emphasis is placed on characteristics of craft materials with their limitations and ptentialities fordevelopment. There is a wide diversity of projects -- one student is working on an inlaid bar for his home, while another is working on a piece of jewelry. One of the rare "ones", a native Californian, Barlow was born and raised in San Diego, except for a year in Phoenix, Ari zona. He attended San Diego schools and graduated from San Diego State with a BA degree, and received his Master's from Clairemont Graduate School. He recalled that while teaching elementary grades in Escondido, he built a unique trailer and went from school to school teaching ceramics. He held class outside under covered patios with his trailer near-by. Being outside theywere not concerned with messing up the rooms with clay. He said it has given him a new sense of satisfaction since coming to Palomar that students have remembered him and said, "Aren't you the man with the trailer that used to come around to our school and teach us ceramics?" He taught elementary and secondary school in Escondido for 16 years prior to coming to Palomar. His wife is also a teacher. This summer, Barlow and his wife are planning a trip to Alaska. They will drive to Vancouver, British Columbia, then take the inland passage ferry to Prince their camper to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, then board a ferry -- camper