BARRIER AMONG ACHIEVEMENTS
Chappell reviews fall semester .
By Karen Ossenfort
~tsteve Chappell, ASG President,
cited many accomplishments that the Student Government worked for and achieved this fall semester. A review of this fall semester shows: the "settlement" of the Rbuilding situation, a planned addition to the Student Union, a student voice in local and state government with the result being the approval of a safety barrier on Highway 78, "better communication between ASG officers as a working body" and ''better communication between
ASG and the student body." The first two accomplishments were the center of controversy last spring resulting in rifts among ASG members and varied organizations (on campus).
R-BUILDING OUTCOME The controversy stemmed from proposed designation of the different rooms in the R-building that would be available when the Journalism and Graphic Arts departments moved to their new buildings this spring.
Different campus organizations wanted to be able to move from their present locations into their desired rooms in the R-building. Controversy arose over what organization would occupy which of the rooms. Now that is settled and as soon as the new relocatables are in use for the Journalism and Graphic Arts departments, ASG will move from R3 to R-4A (temporarily). SHARE will move from R-3 toR4B. Dr. Kenneth Bums, Dean of Student Personnel Services, will remain in R-3 as will the Student
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Help Center. MEChA will also remain where they are presently located in R-5. The American Indian Organization and the Black Student Alliance 'Yi.ll temporarily remain in the Fbuilding until the Student Union addition is completed. When the new addition to the Student Union is completed ASG will again move into the new building and AIO and BSA will move into R-4 . After the Student Union addition is completed the R-building will be revamped and the plans will be opened up to enable other campus clubs to choose their desired locations. In the meantime, R-1 will be used as a conference and storage room.
THREE LIVES LOST Construction of a safety barrier on Highway 78 is another ASG and student accomplishment. A campaign to have a safety barrier constructed in the median of Highway 78 between Escondido was triggered when two Palomar students Jim Cason and Patricia Bailey were killed in a five vehicle accident on their way to class July 12, 1977. The driver of an east bound car suffered a heart attack and crossed over the open median into the west bound lanes striking three cars, a light truck, and the motorcycle on which Cason and Bailey were riding. The campaign for the barrier claimed that at least two of the three deaths in that accident could have been spared had there been a safety barrier.
BARRIER CONSTRUCTION
KEEP ON CRANING- A huge hoist crane positions a portion of a module classroom into place as construction continues on the north end
of campus. Upon completion, the portable relocatables will house an assortment of classes, including the Telescope. (Photo by Randy Urbauer)
Dome designer lectures Friday Buckminster Fuller, a man who has been called the greatest living genius of industrial-technical realization in building, is scheduled to speak in the Dome January 20 at 8 p.m. Fuller's talk is part of the joint lecture series sponsored by MiraCosta and Palomar Colleges. There is no charge for admission. Palomar's geodesic Dome is only one of Fuller's many inventions and ideas that have pushed mankind into the future. He holds world patents in 55 countries and 20 U.S. patents for his futuristic designs. His Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth in 1969
demonstrates his popularly trusses,' 'synergetics' and 'tensegriaccepted stature as a global ty .' But he is best known of all for his architect adn consciousness massive mid-century breakthrough designer. known as the geodesic done," a Time His awards, honorary degrees and magazine writer editorialized. Fuller's domes have covered more accomplishments seem endless. The exhibition of Fuller's Dymaxion square feet of the earth than any House at Harvard in 1929 was the other single kind of shelter. U.S. first in his long career of innovative Marines have lived and worked in design which continued to unsettle them from Antarctica to Okinawa. conventional architectural thought Fuller is acclaimed by one throughout the decade. architect as "the most creative man "He is famous for houses that fly in our field and the only one who's and bathrooms without water, for dealing with something that's totalcars and maps and ways of living ly dissimilar to what everybody else bearing the mysterious word is doing. He's tried to find out how 'Dymaxion,' for things called 'octet nature really works."
According to Chappell, "all the hard work paid off and barrier construction is scheduled to begin this summer." Regarding ASG and the student body Chappell said that the communications within the ASG and between the student body were good but feels that it could be better.