Expansion phase nears finish By Mike Johnson Steps to relieve campus overcrowding will soon make a bright point on the h orizon , with the first of many planned expa nsi o n s sch eduled for use as early as November. Dr. John Schettler, assistant superintendent in charge of business, explained that three classroom workshop a dditions to the art building a re n earing comple-
tion, as well as a four classroom expansion to the business building. T h ese new additions are just the first of a planned facelift to the c ampus , whi ch will improve Palomar's classroom , parking and administrative facilities over the next three years. In December, nine relocatable classrooms will be installed in the parking lot east of the Industria l Tech building, in the north center part of campus.
The relocat ables will house the journalism a nd grap hi c arts facilities for t h e Telescope, a reading lab-learning center , a statistics lab, beh avioral science classrooms, nursing classrooms and offices, two Extended Opportunity P r ogram a nd Service offi ces a nd audio visual production rooms. Site work for the structures is "essentially" finished , with occ up ancy pl a nn ed for February of 1978. Parking a nd street improvem ents
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SDS satellite discussed for North County By Linda Kenny A satellite campus offerin g upper division courses a nd a dv a n ced degrees for North County residents was discussed in a forum recently at MiraCosta College. About 75 to 100 North County residents voiced the need that the area wanted a state-run higher education program. North County h as two junior colleges, but upper division a nd graduate level students must travel to SDSU or oth er institutions to complete their education. SDSU currently h as 15,000 fulltime students (those carrying 15 units per semester) and a n additional 7,000 part-time s tudents, as well as a 6,000 member staff. Officials were told that the overcrowding at SDSU a nd its dista n ce from North Co unty made atten- REMARKABLE ROCKER- Paintings sc ulptures , an d other art forms are currently on display at this year's multi-media show in the dance difficult for a rea residents. North County residents have been Boehm Gallery. Featuring processes by the Palomar art faculty, the asking the state for a fo ur-year show will run through October 4. 1Photo h v f-1-Pd Hemra) college for more than 10 years, and many of the persons at Tuesday's meeting h ave been in on the battle for the entire time. Carol Cox of Encinitas, who has been acknowledged as a driving force behind the effort, said she believed the session went well, I.F. Stone, one of the top political research into government records despite the fact that she co uld get n o reading on the p anel m embers' critics and writers in the country, begin where others leave off, and his will make a guest l ec tur e results are revealing, and always to feelings. She said she believed, however, appearance Wednesday at 8 p.m . in the point. A n ew series featuring lecturers in that state assemblyman Bill Craven the Student Union. A contributing editor of the New the field of meta physics will begin (R-76th) may have favorably influenced the panel, which is to make York Review sin ce 1964, Stone has Monday with Jaine Smith on " The a report for the state legislature due been exposing governmental figures Esoteric Meaning of Love a nd and agencies for 19 years from his Marriage." October 15. Director of the Esoteric Speakers The proposed satellite would focus weekly publication. He has taken on parties, governmental P latfo rm in Phoenix, Arizona, on business, social sciences a n d political humanities concentratons, offering agencies, intelligence activities and Smith h as worked extensively with upper division and graduate courses the military in his articles, which the Association of Research and only, since junior college courses are continue to probe for truth un- Enlightenment with the Edgar already available in North County. derneath the " facts" issued by the Cayce Foundation. She will speak at 7:30 p.m. in P-32, on the physical, Such a satellite would not be government. Co nsid ered an unorth odox emotional, mental a nd spiritual located on a single, centr al campus, but would work from storefront newsgatherer, Stone is a vigorous aspects of love and marriage. Series tickets may b e purchased offices and classrooms spread lecturer and contends "Every government is run by liars. " His for this as well as six other lectures throughout the area.
on the west side of campus have been un derway and should be lined by November to replace current parking lots that are planned for co nstruction." After the lining, we'll probably be able to accommodate twice as m any cars as are out there now, because they (students) are parking pretty loose," Dr. Schettler said. Once the relocatables are utilized, some of the rooms which now house current classes in the student union building will be vacated, remodeled a nd reassigned a nd used for student conference rooms, club offices and a wom a n 's center, with the student government offices. A large n ew wing is plann ed for th e east s ide of the Student Union for some of these offices an d rooms Dr. Sch ettler indi cated that t h e addition will be contracted m January of 1978, to be ready for occupancy in January of 1979. Included in th ese plans a re a television lounge and storage a rea , the Stud ent H elp Center a nd the U ndefeated C lu b, remodeled a nd doubled restrooms, th e Share tutoring service, gam e room a nd cl ub offices for t h e American Indian O rg anization , Black St u dent Allian ce, Interclub Co un cil and MEChA. A futu re $2.1 million Indus tria l Tech building will be co ntracted in November to be northwest of the C hi ld Developm ent Lab,¡ with sched ul ed occupa ncy in J a nu a ry of 1979. The fa ci lity wi ll include a body shop, transmi ssion lab, carburetor lab, di esel m ech anics area, s ma ll engin e room, motorcycle lab, m eta l trades worksh op and a wood shop. At the same time inN ovember, Dr. Sch ettl er 's departm ent will contract for a n addi tion to th e science building, to be funded by state and local funds. Its occupancy is also s lated for January of 1979, and will feature a n earth science lecture h a ll , life science lab, rock storage area , darkroom , geology lecture and lab room a nd offices. To be located west of th e planetarium , th e. addition is valued at $780,000. A $2.5 milli on ed ucational theater
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Political critic lectures We dnesday for $5, with $1 for sin gle tickets to the m etaphysics coordinated by Palomar in structor Elaine F eick. The weekly non-fiction fi lm series presents th ree films by British filmm a kers of the 1930's. The Granton Trawler, by John Grierson (1936), Night Mail by Harry Watt, Basil Wright a nd John Grierson (1 936), and Nort h Sea by Alberto Cavalcanti a nd Harry Watt (1937) will be featured in P-32 this Wednesday, at 4 p.m. The weekly film a r t series every Thursday in P -32 will present Federico Fellini's production filmed in Italy in 1972, Fellini's Roma. The story of a city, seen t hrough t h e fantastic vision of this Italian, will be seen at 2 and 7 p.m.