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Volume 25 Number 32 · A Publication of the Associated Students

Semi-final winners in the Bank of America's annual California Community College :\wards Program, including Palomar Coll ege entri es Gerald P. Cuffe a nd Lisa Waibel have adva nced to the Southern California finals scheduled April 28 in Los Angeles.

There, the ent ri es from nine area colleges will compete for the four $2,000 first place awa rd s . Second place award will be Sl,OOO and third place winners each will receive $500. A rea winners are assured of at least $250 each.

Cuffe was the area winner in the business division, and !\!iss \\'aibe l was winner in technica l- vocatio nal category.

Four students from each of the nine participating colleges competed in the area semi-finals at Hot e l Del Co ronado.

Other colleges repres e nted were Desert, Gross mont, Imperial \ 'alle y, 1\liraCosta, Palo Verde, San Di ego City, San Diego Mesa and San Diego Southwestern.

Graduation with honors deadlinetomorrow Tomorrow's meeting of Alpha Gamma Sigma, state honorary society, will be t he last general meeting where membership fees will be taken, according to Frank Martinie, advisor.

Applications for permanent membership and graduation with honors will be available. Graduation with honors requires 3. 3 overall gpa and membership for three semesters, or 3.5 overall gpa and membership for two semesters (this could include present spring sem ester) .

Interested students are invited to attend the meeting in S- 7 at ll.

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San Marcos , Calif.

Tenzing Norgay

ASG members consider 'Hot Counseling, money and what students will need to graduate in the future were the subjects on the minds of ASG members last week.

Afte r a few weeks waiting, representative Skip Panthen finally was able to present hi s guest expert on the subject of the propos ed Palomar "Hot Line" service . The speaker was Chuck Hale from Life Line, a North County young peoples' counseling se rvice.

Hale was quite pleased that the college has shown interest in providing s uch a service, calling it a good way to ''bring the college and the community together.'' When informed of a previous attempt at "peer counseling," Hale noted that the ''bottom seems to drop out'' of that service.

"Life Line can provide training .. . an informational and r efe rral bank . . . and group dynamics." It was then duly noted that the Couns e ling Department was willing to participate. Thus, representative Stan Flores moved that the department he inc lud ed in the committee for studying the proj ect.

Howeve r, chairman John Glenn, ins tead of asking for a vote on Flores' motion, moved on to other business from vice president Steve Miller.

Miller's business was money, particularly the forming of a comm ittee to study the so-call ed "Fullerton Plan" for payment of student government offic ia ls. A s ix-man com mittee was appointed consisting of Miller, president f1oh Garvin, treasurer Terri Miles and representatives Stan Flores, Kathy Ligon and Mike Loutzenhiser.

After approving the comm ittee, Miller turned hi s attention to the financ ial problems of the cafeteria which is run ning approx im ately $532.66 in the r ed .

Miller is propos ing that an efficiency expe rt he hi reel to r ecommend changes which would r e li eve this condition.

Finally, representative Mike O'Conne ll briefly discussed a proposal that would e liminate the American Institut ions's r equirement for the AA (Assoc iate in Arts ) degree, leaving PE as the only r equirement.

On thi s matter, Stan Flores e laborated further that the Board of Governors has been rumored to have an agreement with the a ffected department to retai n the American Ins titutions r equi rem e nt.

With that, the meeting was adjourned.

Aprill l, 1972

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Mr. Larry Livingston , music instructor, is pictured leading the band prior to their departure for a 6 day statewide

tour.

Both Chamber Singers and the band will be performing in 11 concert appearances April 9-15.

(Photo by Nora Cochrane)

Summer photography tour, workshoptooffer nine credits High school graduates and college students will have the opportunity to earn as many as nine Palomar College credits by enrolling in two separate programs.

The co llege will grant six units to students participating in the third annual photography culture tour sponsored by the Photography Instructors Association in cooperation with the Foreign Study League.

Three units will be granted in photography while three units will be granted in travel geography to thos e students successfully completing the six-week program which starts July 6 and e nds August 14. Followi ng the European tour an additional three units in art may be earned by enrolling in the two-week workshop "Design Through Photography" which starts August 21.

Justus Ahrend, photography instructor, will be a counselor for the third consecutive yea r for the photography tour. This year's tour will visit seven countries in central Europe including France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany and England .

In France, the group will be housed in Paris where the students will visit and photograph such points of interest as the Louvre, the Eiffe l Tower, Notre Dame Cathed ral with a side trip to Versailles. Moving on to Rome for an e ight- day stay the stude nts will visit the Vatican a nd St. Peter's , the Colosseum, the Catacombs, the Roman Forum, Spanish Steps and many other points of interest.

Transferring by train to Florence, the

students will stay in a 15th century villa.

While in Florence the students will see many of the works of Michelangelo in the National Academy, the Cathedral Santa Maria del Signori and the chapel of the Medicis. The next stop in the itinerary will be Wangs, a small town in northeastern Switzerland, an area noted for its alpine scenery and its numerous ski resorts . Highlights of the Swiss stay will be side trips to Zurich, Liechtenstien, and Austria.

The next stay will be at Weisbaden in the Rhine and visits to the quaint city of Heidelberg and to Trier, capitol of Roman antiquity in Germany. The crossing of the English Channel will be either by hovercraft or ferry after a bus trip through Belgium. The last stop of the trip will be in London for nine days which will provide an opportunity for the students to see such points of interest as Buckingham Palace and the changing of the guard, house of Parliament, Westminster Abby, Picadilly Circus.

Added attractions will be a side trip to Hampton Court and a West End musical.

The low cost, all inclusive package, covers tuition, jet fare to and from Los Angeles, all meals, lodging, tips, admission fees to museums, shows , s id e trips, tours and all transfers by rail, bus and boat.

Famed mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who once stood on top of Mt. Everest (29,002- ft.) with Sir Edmund Hillary, will relate s ome of his mountain-climbing experiences over the world in a talk at Palomar at 8 p.m. tomorrow.

Norgay's appearance is a featured program in the college's Community Lecture Series. The program in the Student Union is free to the public.

The climber, a Sherpa of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, along with Hillary, of New Zealand, conquered Everest, the world's highest mountain, May 29, 1953.

Born in a village high in the Himalayan foothills of northe rn Nepal, Norgay began mountain- climbing in his youth, and was a climber with six expeditions attempting the monste r mountain before it was conquered. Sixteen men died on the slopes attempting to scale its peaks.

In the early days, Norgay fought his way up Nanga, Parbat, Katchnjunga and scores of the hundreds of Himalayan peaks, before the conquest of Everest.

On his path through life he became a l inguist, learning first his native tongil.e, Sherpa, then Hindi, Nepalese, Tibetan, the language of Pakistan, French, English, German and Italian.

He was decorated with the St. George Medal by the Queen of England, became a lifelong frie nd of Nehru, l ate prime minister of India, and met and was acclaimed by both Sir Winston Churchill and President Dwight Eisenhower.

"In 1970, Larry Pugsley, of Escondido, met Norgay in Darjeeling, India, and they became friends," the college announcement said . "In July, Norgay along with Pugsley will lead South American and African ventures, guiding 30 travelers through the mountains, rivers and forests of two continents, sponsored

by Club Extraordinaires of San Diego.

Instructor addresses historical convention Charles J . Hanleh, instructor in history and political science at Palomar College, was a speaker on the program at the recent meeting of the San Diego Congress of History.

The two-day convention, in the Casa del Prado, Balboa Park , drew an attendance of 200. The Congress is made up of about 55 historical organizations in the county.

The topic of Hanlen's paper was, "Ricardo Flores Magon: Is the United States Any Place to Foment Mexican Revolution?''

Hanlen, who holds bachelor and master's degrees from San Diego State, de veloped Palomar's first course in U.S.-Mexican Relations. He joined the college evening staff four years ago, and became a full-time instructor last fall.

Tenzing Norgay, noted mountain climber who scaled Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, will be joined by two other famed explorers for a Harold Keen Show interview on television Channel 8 at 10 p.m . tonight.

Norgay will be joined for the interview by John Goddard, who "shot" the Congo River, and Thor Heye r dahl of Kon Tiki fame.

Angeles Adve nturers Club and the Sierra Club.

Norgay has said, "I have climbed many mountains outside of my own country. Among my favorites are the beautiful mountai ns of the Pacific Northwest, where I have climbed Mt. Rainier in Washington and Mt. Hood in Oregon. These mountains are not half the height of Everest, but the view is still magnificent and t he t hrill of reaching the top comes back. "

Vets can use GPA benefits ''Most veterans attending Palomar are not usi ng the full benefits available to them," according to Robert Burton, dean of student personnel services "few are taki ng advantage of the tutorial assistance program now bei ng offered." ''One of the avenues through which tutorial benefits are available at Palomar i s through General Profess ional Assoc iates (GPA) , an organizati on run by educators,'' said Burton.

A 1970 supplement to the Veteran's Assistance Bill provides veterans with tutorial assistance if they are e nrolled in a n approved institution, provided the Vets attend more than half- time , according to Dean Burton.

GPA was organized in 1971, to help a veteran utilize his tutorial benefits and reduce the numbers of Vets who drop courses or school because of course difficulties.

Stephen Nau , representative of GPA believes there are two reasons for the Vets apparent failur e to take advantage of the GPA program. ''One is a general lack of knowledge about the program and secondly is t he amount of paperwork required to participate in the utilization of this program.

Anyone who would like more information on this program should inquire at the Veterans office or call GPA at 291 - 9080.

Baja expedition

views gray whale

EYE provides counseling Palomar stud e nts may earn college units working at the Escondido Youth Encou nter (E YE) .

The EYE provides a hotline, counse ling and a teen center for local youth.

Cr eated by the peopl e of Esco ndido, EYE provides a 2-! hour hotline I days a week for counse li ng r efe rr al s and information conce rning drugs, abo rti ons, suicides etc. Bi - lingual volunteers man the telephone around the clock . All the inform ation is kept confid e ntial as the EYE's philosophy is "1\'o Bust·•.

Personal counseling is ava ilab le on walk-in basis week da~· s from 8:30a.m . to 5 p.m. or by appointm e nt anytime.

The Teen Cente r is open ~Iond ay thru Friday and Sunda ys I 'JJ. m. to 10 p.m.

Besides volunteer he lp, the EYE ha s a professional staff to ca rry out its youth services.

For information. concerning volunteer work for collegeunitscall747- 6281. For personal counseling the number to call is 747-0833.

The climber is in California to engage in pre-expedition planning. Other personal appearances being made in the area include programs for the Los

:\Irs. George Acker and Mrs. John Cosh examine items donated for the ::\1ay 12-13 Pink Elephant Sale to be

held in the dome . Proceeds will benefit scholarship funds and t he Student Work Aid Program.

Possibly the last trip to Scammon's Lagoon was taken over Easter vacation by 30 Palomar student to observe the breeding of the Cal ifornia gray whal e .

In conjunction with the H and M sport- fishing fleet of San Di ego , Palomar has concluded for this year several popular natural history fie l d trips to the islands of the Baja Californ ia coast and Scammon's Lagoon in p articul ar.

In February, the Mexican government dec l ared Scammon a sanctuary to protect the endangered whale. Only wi th special pe rmission was the Easter trip allowed.

Aside from cl ose -up observance of the California gray inside the l agoon, several nearby islands were visited for study of such wildlife as e l ephant seals, California sea l ions, pelicans, and tremendous varieties of s he ll fish and marine life .

Of special interest to the student s was observance of t he osprey, an endangered species of bi rds of prey, whic h abounds on the Baja peninsula .

Several students expressed that an experience such as this expedition was uni que in that the adventu r ous s pirit of learning could never be captured in the confi nes of an indoor class room.

EDITORIAL

Letters...

Amnesty seen as inevitable The war in Vietnam, which has been notorious for raising large-scale legal and moral questions, has given rise to another consideration- - that of amnesty.

Approximately 75,000 Americans, both draft dodgers and deserters, have sought refuge in foreign countries rather than participate in a war they consider immoral and unnecessary. Now the question of what to do with these exiles has entered the political arena.

There is really no question as to whether amnesty will someday be granted.

Even President Nixon has given his tacit approval to amnesty, promising to consider the situation more thoroughly after the end of the war.

The questions, then, concern how, when and especially under what conditions amnesty will be effected.

Although some proposals for universal, or unqualified, amnesty are under consideration, most debates center around propositions for qualified amnesty.

Qualified amnesty is selective, allowing only those who would serve the country, whether in the armed forces or in another service, to return.

Proposals Too Strict Qualified amnesty is widely accepted, however most proposals have unnecessarily strict restrictions upon reentry.

Senator Robert Taft of Ohio sets stiff conditions for amnesty which are related to most others under consideration. Taft would have exiles pay a price for expatriation-- a price of three years to be served in the armed forces, VISTA, or in a Veterans Administration or Public Health Service hospital. The federal service would be performed at minimum pay with no eligibility for normal federal employee benefits.

Bills such as Taft's fail to take on extremely important factor into consideration. Namely, while repatriation measures assume that exiles are so anxious to get back into the United States t hat they will accept the humiliation of apologizi ng and being treated like naughty children, this is hardly the case.

The exiles do not want to be treated as if they are guilty.

Resisters Not Gullty A common, and understandable, view among both war resisters and deserters in Canada is that they, after all, have done nothing for which they must accept fo.rgiveness. Many would choose not to be subjected to the indignity of accepting an amnesty offered self-righteously as well as condescendingly. As one exile put it, "In a choice between being criminals in Southeast Asia, being treated like criminals in American prisons and stockades, and a new life in Canada- -we chose Canada. If and when amnesty comes, we will be launched on Canadian careers, have Canadian wives and Canadian children. Amnesty will mean being able to take the kids to visit their grandmother instead of her having to visit them here."

Why then, if many of the exiles are happier in Canada, should any attempt be made to allow them back? Why not just let them die there, as those who fled previous American wars have had to do? Why amnesty?

Simply because the 75,000 youths now

living out of the United States as exiles represent a valuable and important segment of our population-- a segment too valuable to be tossed away because it committed the crime of following its conscience instead of its government.

Liberal, although qualified, amnesty provisions s hould allow the war resisters to come home and work for a period of time--not as a penalty, not to "prove" their rehabilitation, but rather to give them a chance to put their idealism to work. Social help organizations as well as ecological groups could put such help to good, effective use--something for the good of this country, rather than for the destruction of another.

Two common arguments are often lodged against liberal amnesty proposals such as these. The first of these, one of the ideas promoting the stiff conditions underlying the Taft bill, is that universal amnesty would be unfair or disrespectful to the 55,000 American dead in Vietnam and the three million who served there.

War Victims Matched This logic does little more than pit two tragic victims against each other: the dead and wounded in Vietnam against the refugee. And few people think to ask the veteran what he thinks about this; if he wants his sacrifices used to deny forgiveness to the evaders . Actually, Veterans organizations, instead of being agai nst amnesty, are very often the most active antiwar and pro-amnesty elements on campus. While the Veterans sacrificed time and lives , the exiles made the moral poi11t.

Another argument used against amnesty is that it would wreck the draft, and that, in event of future wars, no one would stay around to fight.

The threat of this happening, however slight, could serve as a deterrent in many ways . For one, if American leaders knew that, in a controversial war, there might be widespread evacuation when the draft rolls were called , it might require them to think much more before embroiling the nation in another war as highly controversial as Vietnam. Also, it might prevent the army from being used in the way it was sometimes used in Vietnam; it could cut down on the number of Lt. Calleys and My Lais by removing the gross apathy that allowed these atrocities to be committed.

Exiles Took Moral Stance Amnesty is a coming thing. But readmittance should not be wielded as a weapon, or used as a form ofpunishment.

The exiles should not be coddled, but they certainly must not be punished for taking a moral stance, something the government largely failed to do.

The word amnesty means, literally, forgetfulness, which is something more than the forgiveness it is usually taken to mean. Forgetfulness means accepting everyone back without trying to impart feelings of guilt and sentiments of naughtiness to the exile. It means admitting that there are no absolute answers to moral questions, especially to those as weighty as war, hate and especially killing. It means accepting new viewpoints and reconciling them to old ones. And it means , more than anything, finding peaceful outlets for the energy of those who chose not to kill.

Dear Editor, A credibility gap has hit t he Telescope.

A review of t he play, "Lion in Winter, " in the March 21st edition of the Telescope , tells us of an admirable production presented by our Dr ama Department. Does this show exis t ? I looked and found a fizzle where I was told the hot torch of creativity burned.

The review in the Telescope tells me t hat the individual perfor mances were "strong" and " extremely c r edible.''

I found them a ll , but with one exception, to be uninspired, uncreative, uninterpretive, lacking in energy, and hindered by bad or incorrect accents .

The actors would have done better to learn what they were saying in addition to learning their lines.

The one exception me ntioned above was the performance given by Jill Moore who played the Queen Mother, Eleanor.

Jill presented a feeling for her role and the play that was both refres hing and filling to starved theatre goers. Jill's intrepetation could have carried her through any production of the play. With this cast she shone divinely.

Praise was given to scenery and tech crews.

Scenery was adequately designed and gave a calculated, stark atmosphere, and the tech crew can be complimented on set construction. However, the stage crew was the worst in the world. Scene changes added 30 minutes to the "3 hour play." Average time for a scene change was 4 minutes.

After looking at the set I estimated an average of 45 seconds would be considered long. If the stage crew wonders how, I would be glad to show them.

Education in theatre comes from accurate critique of performances. It's true that mutual admiration and back patting doesn't make waves, but they do not give good sailing lessons either.

'I want all my sons back!'

Bob Kendrick

Instructors debate question of amnesty Bill Salomone For me, the very word, "amnesty," and all of its connotations causes a problem. Amnesty implies forgiveness and these people are not looking for forgiveness. They do not feel that they have committed a crime, nor do I. They have refused to act against their own moral code.

They feel that the Vietnam War and perhaps all wars are immoral.

For this reason there are some 70,000 expartiots in Sweden and Canada.

It is worth noting that the people who refused to serve in the war and who left are called deserters and expatriots, and the people who either activelywaged the war or lent their hand by passive acquiescence, are called patriots.

I would suggest that just the opposite is true; especially in light of the publishing of the "Pentagon Papers."

Those who left, who are now in Canada or Sweden are perhaps the true patriots for they have by their acts awakened the deadened conscience of America to the extent that it has been awakened.

Therefore, I feel that they should be welcomed back, not with the attitude of a father to a child who has gone astray, but with gratitude and with the attitude that we need people with such a strong sense of the sanctity of human life that they would be willing to give up their homes for it.

From all that I have heard or read about them, I feel that these people do wish to return, but not under the conditions of forgiveness, and I believe we would be foolish for not welcoming them

back with impunity. However, we will probably remain foolish.

Dr. Joe Gordon I do not favor total and immediate amnesty.

In fact, I do not favor any action until we have resolved completely one way or another all aspects of the war including the prisoner-ofwar issue.

Then I think we should take a hard look at each individual defector (after all, there are not that many) and try to gear a response which will reflect in part the circumstances which surrounded the action in the first place.

I am hoping the results might create about three categories.

First, I hope a few of the characters will be banned permanently from the U.S. even if we have to pay some other country to see them. On the other end of the stick, particularly as it applies to young offenders who defected after we obviously were disengaging ourselves from the war, maybe we will decide they have suffered enough.

In between will be probably the largest group. This group would not receive amnesty but would have their civil rights restored after the completion of some type of a probationary period which might include some other public services.

I find I cannot be too hard-nosed, and arbitrarily severe on young men who have had confused thoughts about serving in a war which their government supported only half-heartedly and many of their fellow countrymen never supported at all.

Beauford Chambless The essential question is not whether or not there should be some pardon forthcoming but whether there should be amnesty, or group pardon.

There are undoubtedly those who refused to serve their country because of what they considered highly ethical reasons.

Some profess not to believe in war. Others say that the Vietnam conflict is an undeclared war and, therefore, unconstitutional as far as the United States is concerned.

Of course, many young men who held similar views did answer their country's call because of their realization that everyone cannot take the law into his own hands and decide for himself what is constitutional and what is not.

For if the constitution and the law of the land can be broken or disregarded for a good reason, it can be broken for any reason at all because what is good or bad is a point of view.

If those politicians who favor amnesty have their way and mass pardon is handed out, then whatever is left of the constitution is gone. More immediately, the entire military system is jeopardized, for the philosophy on which it is based will have been undermined.

My own view is that the great majority of the young men who fled the United States rather than serve the country were primarily concerned with their own fears of military service in combat rather than the morality or legality of the Vietnam war, and they are fully deserving of censure and punishment.

Political exiles' futures discussed by students ; opinions divided With the issue of amnesty creeping into the forefront of politics, students at Palomar reacted in the following manner the question: "Should amnesty be granted to those individuals who fled the country prior to being drafted and to military deserters?"

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SSgt. Paul Cruikshank USMC (MADCOP): Since deserters broke the law knowing full well the consequences, they should be prosecuted.

If amnesty were to be granted, it should be handled the way other presidents did after the Civil War, World War I, World War II and Korea. The draft dodgers and deserters at that time were granted amnesty only after their cases were reviewed, prosecuted, and had served their sentences.

I feel that some of the 43,000 or more men who lost their lives in Vietnam were doing the jobs that some of the draft dodgers and deserters should have been doing.

Bill Jones: The issue is not new. It also happened during the Civil Warwhen the North and South conscripted young men for service.

Society should not label deserters as cowar ds.

If students leave the country prior to being

drafted, they are reflecting their attitudes toward social conditions. In doing this their moral convictions are stronger than those of our society today.

Those individuals who join the military and then decide to deser~ lack the moral fiber to fight the system through its own means.

The military system should be revised so that deserters would be allowed to return without any punishment and be allowed to serve in a capacity other than as a member of the combat forces.

I would like to add that America is

Bill Jones

Paul Cruikshank

Eric Wagner Lynne Rowley a great country and everybody has a duty to help preserve it. Not everyone, however, should be forced to kill other human beings because the present administration says it's your duty.

Eric Wagner: A deserter from the military shouid not be granted amnesty.

They should be allowed to return into the Armed Forces and serve out the remainder of their service time as the only form of punishment.

Those individuals who fled the country prior to military service should be allowed to return without prosecution.

Their obligation to serve in the service should also be waivered.

Lynne Rowley: I don't even believe in the war. As a Christian I believe deserters should be granted amnesty with some form of punishment for having violated the law of the land. War is man's solution to his problems. If everybody would get right with Jesus' teachings we wouldn't have these problems.

Military deserters should be allowed to return and be reprimanded the same as the other s and likewise the truth for them (the military deserters) lies in the teachings of Jesus.

Leslie Osmus

Dick Weber

Leslie Osmus: "Because my father is in the Mil!tary, I can sympathize with the problems draftees have to go through when they are drafted.

If placed in the same situation I would do anything to evade the draft.

Deserters should be allowed to return without reprimands . I feel sorry for those individuals who got drafted and ended up in the service.

I have never been anti-war.

Because of this feeling I feel that anybody that wants to go there (VietNam) voluntarily they should be allowed to do so.

What really bugs me is sending someone who doesn't want to be there.

Dick Weber: If a man is sincerely against the war and violence they should file for conscientious objector status.

In view of this, it is my opinion that if a man knowingly violated the law after not reporting for induction he is a criminal and should be treated as one.

Deserters should be allowed to re- . turn after being made aware that legal actions was pending against them when they return. Military deserters should also be allowed to return and prosecuted and accordance with existing laws that apply to that situation.