The Telescope 22.51

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Palomar College

ETELESCOPE

Volume 22 Number 51 ¡ A Publication of the Associated Students

May 23,1969

San Marcos, Calif.

92069

Mott wins by narrow margin lB vote edge

Brown studies • course awa1ts board OK

WILL GEER

Drama department to sponsor tonight's Will Geer festival The Will Geer One-Act Play Festival began last night and will continue with performances tonight and Saturday eveni ng. Tonight Geer and a panel of critics will present awards for Best Actor, Bes t Actress, Best Play, and Best Direction. In the play festival, six young playwrights have been given the chance to see their works come to life behind the footlights of the theater. Those students whose plays will be presented are part of a playwriting class . The submission of a play for the festival was the semester project of the class. The playwrights will have to share stage billing with 36 other students who are playing some 47 roles in the plays, a nd by 20 students involved in the technical aspects of the productions. Buddy Ashbrook, instructor in the theater arts department, and Norm Gaskins, instructor and department technical director, will be looking on at the perfo rmances, which they emphasis are student productions. "We are serving merely in an advisory capacity for this project. The students are getting the real t hing in production experience ," said director Ashbrook. Eighteen scripts were finally presented for consideration. Three were selecte d as the first festival offerings with all to be presented on each of the three evening run of the play in the drama lab. The second part of the festival will consist of the production of the remaining three plays, one each day at 11 a.m., beginning Monday. Adm iss ion to the dayti me productions is free, Ashbrook said . For the evening performances , admi s sion is $.5 0 with art ASB card, and $1. 50 without. Curtain time tonight and tomorrow night is 8 p.m. Reservations for to morrow night may still be made in the drama department or by calling the college. Authors of tonight's plays are Frances Greenough, Bill Holt, and Greg Krueger. The student playwrights whose creations will be staged in the second half of the series are Mary Lu Mazzerese, Rick Briggs, and Bob Hutchings.

Recommendation for the addition of two courses developed by membe r s of the campus Mexican American Youth Association (MAYA) and faculty r epresentatives was accepted by the curriculum committee and will be relayed to the governing board for adoption. Virgil Bergman, dean of instruction, announced that two additions to the curriculum would be three unit courses in "English for the Bi-Cultural Student" and "Indian and Mexican-American Cultural Influence in the Southwe st. " Gene Jackson, chairman of the English departme nt, and other faculty members worked on development of the course additions in cooperation with MAYA members. The committee representing MAYA at the curriculum committee session was composed of Tom Castaneda, James Valerio, Linda Valerio, and Marcos Abrego. The committee also suggested addition of a counselor of bi-cultural background, or, if that is not feasible, for a counseling team composed of MAYA members, and additionally proposed that MAYA be included in consideration of bi-cultural instructors and couns elors, with these suggestions referred by the curriculum committee to the administration. Bergman said the English course proposed for bi-cultural students will develop oral and writing skills and also provide teacher assistants for intensive tutoring. The other course will deal with Hispanic literature, behavioral sciences , and social sciences, r eflecting MexicanAmerican and Indian cultural influences on the Southwest.

Frank Mott narrowly defeated $10 Slate candidate Bill Hahlbohm for the office of fall Associated Student Body president Wednesday. Mott comes into office with a total of 277 votes to Hahlbohm's 259.

Phillip Abbott Luce, a former member of the Progressive Labor Party, spoke

Today at ll a.m. Les Atkinson, campus pastor at UCSD and member of the Quaker Society of Friend s, will be in the patio to advise any student wishing draft counseling. His appearance is being sponsored by MAY A 1 who will set up a table in the patio for this service. Quaker draft counselors are by reputation well-versed in the draft regulations and treat all their consultations as strictly confidential.

Ex-Communist Phillip Abbott Luce et<-pressed his views on the "New Left Movement" Monday in the Student Union before 300 students. Luce was a member of the Communist Party until his defection in 1965. "It's extremely difficult to be introduced as an ex- Communist," he said . "because that sets off, I discover, something similar to Pavlovian reactions among people. They either expect you to do something like run over to the corner and plant a Birch tree, or reach in your pocket and say 'I have in my possession a list of 50 professors at Palomar College that I know to be members of the international Communist conspirLuce explained that he had not come to discuss the whys and wherefores of his decision to join or leave progressive labor, but that he wanted to discuss the is sues and crises that we, as a nation, face, and the possibility of change. "I think we all realize that the United States is in one of the most dangerous and frightening positions it has ever been in its history. It is confronted with crisis of extreme enormity in all areas: the economic crisis the country faces,

* * * Sales grossing $1300 at last week ' s Stude nt Art and Pot Sale earned Art students nearly $1000 and added $300 to the Art Guild Fund and the Guild Ceram ics Fund. At least half of the 1200 items ente red for sale by 24 students were sold.

* * * "My Country 'Tis of Thy People, You're Dying," a dramatization of Buffy Saint-Marie's controversial song, will be presented Tuesday at ll a.m. in P 32. The film, which lasts about ten minutes, is being presented by Mr. Peter Bellington and student John Harwell.

FATHER RIVERS

Monday on the "New Left" and his ideas on political and economic freedom.

fx.(ommunist Phillip Luce discusses leftist movement

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Father Rivers here today Father Clarence Rivers will present a lunch hour concert in the Student Union today at 11 a.m. A priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinati, Father Rivers has become nationally and internationally known as a composer of contemporary church music and has launched a r evolution in Catholic Church music with his publication of "An American Mass Program." He received a standing ovation when he performed a mass dedicated to "The Brotherhood of Man" at the Newport Jazz Festival. Father Rivers has starred in two television specials for the ABC network, "We Shall Be Heard", a civil rights documentary, and "New Born Again," an hour long special celebrating "salvation history" through the medium of Negro poetry and music. Father Rivers received an MAin philosophy from the Athenaeum of Ohio, and did further graduate study in English literature at Xavier University in Ohio.

elects fall ASB leader

Concert choir to perform in San Diego Representatives of Palomar College Concert Choir, directed by Joe Stanford, will sing in a 300 voice chorus tonight with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra The chorus and orchestra will perform at 8:30p.m. in Civic Theater in achoral program including Chichester Psalms by Leondard Bernstein and Symphony No. 2 in C Minor by Gustav Mahler. Also on the program is fanfare for the common roan by Aaron Copland. The choral group will be joining with the San Diego Symphonic Chorale and .representaives of vocal groups from four other junior colleges in the San Diego area. Robert Emile , director of the symphonic chorale and assistant conductor of the symphony orchestra, is preparing the chorus. Also represented on the program will be singers from San Diego City College, Southwestern College, Grossmont College, and San Diego Mesa College. Featured as soloists will be sorprano Marilyn Rue and contralto Carolyne McDaniel who will be heard in the Mahler work and David Geistweit and Michael Dewart who will perform together in the boy soprano role in the Bernstein composition. Zoltan Rozsnyai, music director and conducter of the San Diego Symphony, will conduct the orchestra in the final pair of concerts in the 1968-69 winter series. Tickets for the concerts are available at the Civic theater box office.

The final tally was reached after Hahlbohm requested a recount yesterday. The first totals showed Mott had 276 votes and Hahlbohm 260, but an error of one vote discovered in the recount changed the totals. $10 Slate candidate Mark Iacuaniello received a plurality of 196 votes in the race for vice-president, but did not get a majority which is required to win. Cand idate Nick Ashcraft was second in the polling with 141 votes, Jim Carter had 130, and Mariechen Demchak got 56. A run-off election between Iacuaniello and Ashcraft is scheduled. No date has been set. Incumbent Ruth Ann Eicher, who was secretary this semester, recaptured the position of ASB secretary with 310 votes to Slate candidate Barbara Hulbert's total of 226. Miss Eicher had the highest vote total of any candidate in the race.

the crises among you ng people and old people, the crises on the campus, and certainly the crises of the ghettos. "W e see, as we look around, any number of people that are angry and frustrated; people who feel that the changes that must come about in this country must come about immediately, people that feel that we have waited too long to solve the proble ms that we do have, people that speak to us in part of love and feeling, people that would tell is that if we trusted them that they would change things in such a way as to make it better for all of us -- but at what price? And that's the part that bothers me," Luce explained. "I think that we do face all of the problems. I think that the country has got to make the changes necessary. I think that obviously you recognize just as I do t hat unless we as a country change and we as individuals change, that we don 't know what we'll end up with in this country. "What I fear is that what some young people are talking about and are advocating is not at all going to change things for the better -- they're only going to change them for the worse," he continued. Luce used Students for a Democratic Society as an exampl e of one of the many circling organizations on the New Left, and admitted that the organization differs from school to school , saying that some are controllP.d by progressive labor groups and some are free and independent and take their own position. Luce advocated the right of SDS to exist and propagandize on campus , and said, "I believe in a free market place of ideas." However, he objected to SDS and New Left organizations thinking that they have "total truth" and attempting to implement the truth by force and violence. "It's one thing to stand up and advocate (Continued on Page 2)

When initial filing closed last week, there were no contested positions in the election. One person had flied for each position open, and only four students had signed up as candidates for representative. A meeting of the Elections and Credintials committee extended the filing deadline, and the slate of candidates signed up as a result of a suggestion by political science instructor Pat Archer.

FOCUS, Palomar's feature magazine, has arrived. Editor Phil Moore puts a few last minute touche s on the spring e dition before it goes to the press. Copies will be distributed beginning

today free of charge to ASB card holders. They will be available in the Student Union beginning at 10 a.m. Some of the featured articles include life drawing, surfing, and sense awareness.

Pat Smith, also an incumbent, received the second-highest number of votes for any office with 305 votes to Sarah Gonzales' 229. Miss Smith was ASB treasurer during the past semester. Six representatives-at-large were chosen from a field of 14 candidates. Jack Buchans received the highest number of votes with a total of 302. Maryanna Cheung was second with 273. Catherine Widrig received 259 votes. Jon Engle was fourth with 245 votes. Carol Petta netted 235 votes, and Sam Edwards r eceived 232. Five of the six candidates e lected to representative posts ran on the $10 Slate. In selection of A MS and AWS presidents, Greg Salo netted 233 votes to Darrell Wilburn's 183 to win, and Mary Chimarusti beat Susan Montalvo with a 215 to 187 vote margin for the AWS office. The $10 Slate of candidates rallied behind the goals of a $10 ASB card and reduced bookstore prices, and challenged a group of student policy making. Led by presidential candidate Hahlbohm, the s late added extra voter interest to what appeared to be the worst candidate turn-out for ASB elections in school history.


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