Chappell brings variety to ASG Hailing from a life full of variety, Steven Chappell is this year's Associated Student GDvernment president. A 1969 graduate of Orange Glen in Escondido, Chappell, 26, has led a life full of different adventures. Raised on a ranch in Valley Center he traded the fields for a swimming pool. Chappell was a spring board diving champion during his high school days at Orange Glen . After graduation Chappell enlisted for a four-year duty tour with the Navy. He traveled throughout the United States and the world as a gunner's mate with many assorted assignments. When his enlistment was over he entered into a career in countrywestern music. Coming from a
family involved in the world of entertainment, he seemed to be following in their footsteps. "My mother writes poems which have been set to songs, and I have a cousin who was a movie star, Peggy Ryan. She made movies with Mickey Rooney and was last seen in Hawaii Five-0. "I always played the guitar and was on the Smokey Rodgers show when I was eight. Since then I have played mostly night clubs and dances until the service. Then after that I got involved in recording and touring, mostly on the east coast." Since then Chappell has settled down into a new career: architectural drawing. At least he had, until politics came into play. He com¡ men ted that a friend had asked him
to help with homecoming activities one year at Palomar. Before he realized it, he was not only involved with homecoming, but the whole student government scene . Chappell served as chairman of the executive cabinet last year before running for ASG president. He decided to run because he wanted to see things accomplished this year. Among those are tw of his biggest goals this year: to "see the students become more involved with the ASG and the administration, as well as establishing more tradition on campus." "I would like to see more of the traditional activities, such as Homecoming Week, brought back. I (Continued on page 4)
THE TELESCOPE Volume 31 No.2
A Publication for the Associated Students
September 23, 1977
San Marcos, CA
Student Government pushes highway barrier
ACCIDENT AFrERMATH - Remnants of tragic head-on collision which killed two Palomar students scatter a field only feet from Highway 78. ASG claims a barrier divider on Highway 78 would prevent such accidents.
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By Karen Letters, letters, and more letters! This is the theme of the ASG's major mail-out campaign to win support for the construction of a barrier on Highway 78 between Escondido and Vista. The barrier has been the target of ASG attack since the deaths ofthree persons in an accident July 12 on Highway 78 west of Nordahl Road. Palomar students, Jim Cason and Patricia Bailey, died and a college employee was seriously injured. Cason and Bailey were on their way to class that morning when a east bound car crossed the median into the west bound lanes, striking three cars, their motorcycle , and a light truck. The driver of the east bound car had apparently suffered a heart attack and also died in the accident. ASG president, Steve Chappell and Student Cabinet member, Mike Sheeran, have been working with the help of others to promote the construction of the barrier on
highlights coming events
In a concert designed for young people, the Odessa Balalaikas will perform their highly-expressive Russian folk music September 30, at 12:45 p.m. on the football field. Considered America's foremost balalaika ensemble, the group combines costuming and authentic Russian instruments with a deep understanding of Russian folk styles, transporting old and traditional songs into a new time and place. This Sunday the classical and romantic piano music of Lucy Leontides will be presented at 3 p.m. in P32. Born in Cyprus, Leontides began playing the piano at six, advancing to the Royal College of Music in
London where she spent five years. As the head of a music department in Beruit, Lebanon, Leontides continued her studies at the Academy of Music in Vienna where she met and studied with Oswald Johas, who is now in California. Now a lecturer with the Music Department at UC Riverside, her rare quality of true artistry has made her a featured performer at concerts in Egypt, England, the West Indies, Cyprus, Lebanon, Austria and at the United Nations in New York. Tickets for the performance are $2 per person, or $1 each with an ASG card or GDld Card. As part of the weekly non-fiction
film series, two films about the energy of the film movement in the USSR are scheduled Wednesday at 4 p.m. in room P-32. The first, Man With A Movie Camera, was filmed in 1929 as a daring experiment by Dziga Vertov, where the camera becomes a participant. The Train Rolls, On, a 1972 film by Chris Marker, relates the story of Soviet film teams spanning their country. And in the weekly film art series at 2 and 7 p.m. every Thursday, in room P-32, the mood of the 30's is captured in Thieves Like Us, a 1973 film by Robert Altman about the high adventures and a doomed love affair.
Ossenfort Highway 78. "We had been considering this barrier for quite a while ,'' says Chappell, "but the recent tragic loss of life of fellow students has hit us close to home. Now we are trying to do all we can to prevent another major accident." Having contacted government for support and obtained backing by local city governments, the students have managed to gain support from State Senator John Stull (REscondido) and Assemblyman William Craven (R- Vista) for the formation of the barrier. The students have also been in touch with the California Highway Commission, the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans), and the National Traffic Safety Committee. Their main contact has been with CalTrans whose primary responsibility is to the maintenance and operations of state highways and vehicle safety. Until a recent meeting with CalTrans, a spokesman had said that guidelines for construction of barriers indicated that one was not needed on Highway 78 between the Vista Melrose exit and Escondido. Chappell has said that "to the 15,000 students who attend Palomar -not to mention the 900 employees - Highway 78 is a major artery between their homes and this campus. This is why we feel so strongly about a protective barrier. If we don't act now, one of them might be next. None of us are immune." At the last meeting with Cal Trans, August 17, Mike Sheeran, representing Palomar, brought up fear for the students attending school this fall, in that the odds are greater for another accident to happen. (Continued on page 2)