THE T E LESC@PE Palomar CoUege · Volume 24 Number 21 · A Publication of the Associated Students
Dec. II , 1970
· San Marcos, Calif.
92069
Students may drop 2-S; reclassified into 1-A status Registrants wishing to drop their deferments and be reclassified into Class .1-A status, to take advantage of a yearend policy announced last month by the Selective Service System, have been given until midnight, December 31, 1970, to file for reclassification. Suc h requests must be received by local boards by that date or carry a postmark dated December 31, 1970 or earlier. This announcement, with instructions, was issued to local board personnel by Dr. Curtis W. Tarr, national director of the Selective Service. These instructions alter previous policy, which stated that the application had to be in the hands of local board personnel prior to a December meeting of the local board. In particular, the instructions to local boards will be of interest to men who
hold high numbers in the 1970 draft lottery. Should a young man hold a number higher than that reached by his local board--No. 195 has been set as the highest number which any local board can reach--it is to his advantage to voluntarily give up his deferment for a 1-A c lassification. In such a case, he will move to a lower draft priority group on January l, 1971 with other members of the 1970 first priority group withunreachednumbers. According to Rick Jahnkow, student draft counselor, the above information is only for people who were 19-26 yearsold last year. Those who turned 19 this year are not in the 1970 lottery. Nineteen-year-olds who have received their lottery numbers this year, for
U.S., Mexico class I News Briefs I opens next Spring A new course titled "History of U.S. Mexico Relations" will be inaugurated at Palomar in the spring semester. Dr. Joseph F. Gordon, instructor and chairman of the History Department, said the course is open to all citizens of the district. Gordon said the first half of the course will deal with the history of Mexico, and that the last half will concentrate on relations of the two countries and their people. The class will meet from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.
'Bridge' depicts shattered dreams "The Bridge," second in a series of three films concerning the ironies of war, will be presented tomorrow at 8 P.m . in ES 19. "The Bridge" was produced in Germany with English dubbed dialog. Mr. Bliss, series director, said, "It vividly depicts the shattered dreams of seven teenage German boys as they are thrown into a last desperate fighting battle against the advancing allied armies in the closing days of World War 11. Admission is free.
''Ye Old Pleasure Faire," sponsored by the ASB, will be held January 8 and 9. A Renaissance theme has been planned. If your group would like to have a booth or activity, fill out an information sheet available in the ASB office, R-3. The Pleasure Faire committee will meet today in R-3 at 11 a.m. They need ideas and help, so come.
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Karanja Mungai, a native of the Kikuyu tribe of Kenya, will speak today at 11 a.m. in P-32.
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The California Indian Legal Service will be discussed on ''Palomar College Communicates" Sunday at 5:45 p.m. The program is heard on KOWN.
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Ski Club members wil receive new membership cards at the meeting today in ES-19 at 11:30 a. m . Plans for future ski trips will be discussed. A benefit concert for Paul Devine, who is in the hospital and in need of financial aid, will be held tonight in the Dome from 8 p.m. to midnight. Donation is $1.50 at the door and $1. 25 in advance. Raxo Speers, Big Lou, and Morning Glory will perform. Tickets are available ahead at Toby's and In The Alley, both in Escondido, and at the MECHA office, room P-2 here at Palomar. Anyone concerned about the Pit River Indians should be in F-22 at ll:30 a.m. on today. Ecology meeting in F - 22 today at ll a.m. There will be information for people who care.
next year, should plan on keeping their deferments until it is established how high next year's lottery call will go. "Students who are in this year's lottery and have high numbers need only send a simple note to their local board stating that it is their understanding that with their lottery number they are not draftable for this year and would like their deferments dropped . This note should be mailed via registered mail--return receipt requested--so that the rec e ipt will prove the letter was mailed. "No registrant should trust that his local board will always follow correct procedure, and the local board should not be relied on for correct information and handling of registrants files. Therefore, any registrants who have questions or need advice should see a qualified draft counselor, • • Jahnkow stated. Draft counseling is available in R-5 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3 p .m., Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p .m., and Thursdays from ll a.m. to l p. m. The types of deferments affected by the memorandum are high school and college deferments, occupational deferrments, agricultural deferrments, paternity and hardship deferments. The 1- 'y classification, unacceptable for military service except in national emergency, is not affected by this newpolicy. Men classified 1-Y are not able to voluntarily drop this classification.
Concert features 'Air Triad' dance Students of Palomar dance instructor Billie Hutchings will be presented in a short program of dance compositions by members of the creative dance class Tuesday and Wednesday. The program is set for 11 a.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday and 8 p.m. on Wednesday evening. Miss Hutchings said the public is invited and there is no admission charge. Both programs will be given in the dance studio on the campus. The concert, directed by Miss Hutchings, will feature her most recent choreography, "Air Triad," to music by J. S. Bach. Dancers will be Barbara Aptaker, Elsie Freeman, Mary Neuru, Kim Eckert, Carolee Kent, Sarah Kantes, Mari Ann Johnston, Carol Wicklund, Susan Rutherford, Kathy Martin, and Mary Honts.
The stage crew is getting the set ready for the up-coming productions of "The Little Mermaid" and "The Sorcerer's
Apprentice," mini - musicals to be presented by the dram·a department on December 17- 20 . L.M.McDaniel photo
Forensics Squad aHains honors at Fall West Coast Championship Sweeping to a second- place sweepstakes finish at the Fall West Coast Championships held in Los Angeles, the Palomar Forensics Squad added another honor to their list of many. Palomar wins were against teams from Chaffey, L.A. Valley, Modes to, Cerritos, and Riverside. Wendy Wetzel, who won the firstplace trophies in extemporaneous and improptu speaking, teamed up with Larry DeBoever to capture the third place trophy in debate. The team lost to Orange Coast College, who later won the debate title. In persuasive speaking Joe Cosenza and Jan Caswell placed third and fourth
respectively in the championship round. Darlene Laskowski placed fifth in the championship round of oral interpretation. Miss Caswell received an "excellent" rating in the same event. Besides Miss Wetzel wi nning the extemporaneous and impromptu events, DeBoever received a "superior" rati ng and Terri Miles and Steve Kildoo received "excellent" ratings . Kildoo, Miss Laskowski, and Ji m Smith, making up another debate team, won four of six debates and were presented wi th "excellent" ratings . Chuck Jackson and Joe Cosenza we r e both awarded the coveted "Hitler Trophy" as a result of their debate s howings.
AUTO TECHNOLOGY PROJEa
'Little Giant' ready for all competition By AI Simmons "Little Giant" will turn it on again tomorrow night at the Carlsbad Raceway. At its last appearance at the Orange County strip the Palomar Vocational Auto Club entry won in its class, adding another trophy to the club's collection, totalling six this semester. Piloted by Jim Some rs, a professional driver from Garden Grove, the G gasser eliminated a modified VW , despite mechanical problems. ''It looked like a couple of lame ducks running down the strip," explained Mr. Larry Bertram, club adviser and Auto Technology instructor. "We were missing on one cylinder and so was the bug.'' "Little Giant" was built and financed entirely by Palomar students. Repairs, modifications and routine maintenance are carried out in the Auto Tech Department. Last minute tuning is usually done at the drag strip. Less than a year ago the car was running in the 12 second elapsed time bracket and Bertram predicted a break-
Denny scholarship set
Participants in the dance program next Tuesday and Wednesday are (1. to r.)
Barbara Aptaker, Mary Neuru and Elsie Freeman. Ken Wheeland photo
ADCOP student Michael Denny, who was killed in an accident October 18, has had a scholarship established in his name . Begun by the ADCOP students here on the Palomar campus, it is called · the Michael Denny Memorial Scholarship Fund. If you would like to make a contribution your money will be accepted in the ADCOP office located in the Administration building or by contacting Mr. Dick Norlin in his office, P-SG.
through into the "elevens." The best time to date is 11.88 seconds, less than a second away from the National Hot Rod Association class record. Now Bertram predicts, "One of these days 'Little Giant' will ·.run the record." Powered by a highly modified six cylinder engine, the car is a 1950 English Ford Prefect with a lightweight fiberglass body and weighs 1770 pounds . The body was hand-made from molds of the original steel body. It could be called a four-door version of the English Ford Anglia. "At the strip, the car's an underdog," commented Mr. Bertram. "It's also a crowd pleaser. The crowd likes to see that little six-haler do a job on V-8's." And it does eat up a lot of V-8's, thanks to the heart of the machine: a 250 cubic inch Chevy six-cylinder engine. That "little six-haler" gets a lot of help from the special equipment and modifications done by Palomar Auto Tech students. It breathes through a trio of specially prepared Rochester 2-barrel carburetors, capable of delivering a combined peak flow of 1350 cubic feet per minute. Valve timing is the job of a McGurk roller cam, and ignition is supplied by a Vertex magneto. Stock bore and stroke is retained making this a high-reving "oversquare" engine design. Power is transmitted through a Turboclutch unit, which is actually a competition Turbo-hydramatic transmission with a manual clutch linking it with the engine. At the rear end is the narrowed Oldsmobile differencial running 4. 88 gears. Traction is handled by a pair of Mickey Thompson 1000- 15 slicks, in-
flated to a low pressure of around six pounds per square inch. At the recent Orange County drags those slicks posed a few problems. On the first run during time trials, "Little Giant" pulled a five foot wheelie due to the slicks' excellent traction. When the front wheels came back down the hard landing bent the suspension. Repairs in the pits led to the second run where the valves floated, due to excessive wheelspin during the initial burnout. This resulted in two bent pushrods. After more repairs the Palomar hot rod squared off against a radically modified Volkswagen for the trophy run. Ironically, neither car was running well and "Little Giant" limped to the G gas victory with an elapsed time of 12. 88 seconds. According to Bertram repairs and modifications are quite frequent in drag racing. "We solve one thing and half a dozen others come up." Just recently a radiator was added to allow practice burnouts without overheating the engine. This procedure heats up the slicks for increased traction. Overhauls are also very common in this sport. The car's engine will be torn down and gone through about every five miles. "This is our third engine in two years," said Ber tram. "We wore out the first one and the second engine had a defective block. " The present engine is almost brand new, and the club is confident of continued success. Tomorrow's event will be the last competition for the car until after Christmas vacation.