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ASG President Robbins reflects on term of office

By Richard Medugno On the door of the office was a name plate with the words ASG President printed on it. Bruce Robbins greeted me warmly and invited me into his cubicle.

The office was a small one, especially for a president. Also peculiar about the office was that the walls were bare. Robbins straightened his desk and sat down behind it.

I noticed another strange thing about the office as I sat down. There was a small first aid kit and a fire extinguisher on the floor. I guessed they were necessities for a president, especially if one is the president of a student government.

Robbin's term as president ends in May after having served a year as the top dog in Palomar's student government. Robbin's administration has been somewhat shaky due to the loss of both a vice-president and a treasurer and the student apathy level that's reached an alltime high.

This interview took place as the young political leader chewed tobacco:

QUESTION: What's been the biggest accomplishment of your term?

ROBBINS: Just being here. And giving the student view when the faculty and and administration have chahged things to accommodate Prop. 13.

QUESTION: What's been the biggest disappointment?

ROBBINS: I wish I had been better able to make students more enthusiastic about Student Government.

QUESTION: What were some of the problems?

ROBBINS: Time and money. The job requires a lot of time and doesn't pay any money.

QUESTION: What about problems in getting things done?

ROBBINS: The over-all attitude of the school is cooperative, however, BRUCE ROBBINS many people interact with each other and so to change anything Treasurer did not report a monthly requires a lot of communication. financial statement to the Just finding a time when everyone Telescope? can get together is difficult.

ROBBINS: Sure, sure. My answer QUESTION: Are you aware that is, find me a treasurer. the ASG Constitution was conQUESTION: Why the problem in sistantly violated in that the finding one?

ROBBINS: Student Government and interest in it, are roughly proportional to the emotional impact of an issue. Few students have interest in the dry experience of politics. Few students don't want to practice the art of diplomacy and political change during times when issues are bland but not necessarily unimportant.

QUESTION: Canlou explain the disappearance o your vicepresident. Leonard Schnedar?

ROBBINS: He left for the spring semester to go to Mesa College.

QUESTION: Why? ROBBINS: Mesa was closer to his home. He lives in La Jolla .

QUESTION: Did he run out on you?

ROBBINS: No, he did not.

QUESTION: Why wasn't there an attempt to replace the treasurer and vice-president? .ROBBINS: I made some small attempts but didn't work as hard as I could have because I was very busy.

In some ways I've been a poor president because I've also been active in statewide political activities and I attended many

THE TELESCOPE Palomar Colle1e

April 5, 1979

A Publication for the A..oclated Students

Volume 32 No. 15

San Marcos, CA

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DEFEND NATIONAL TITLE

Speech team travels to Minnesota

By Richard Medugno Defending National Champions.

That's the title the Palomar Speech will carry with it when it ventures to Normandale Community College in Minneapolis, Minnesota over Easter Vacation.

It was just a year ago when the team brought back the crown, defeating 90 other colleges, fouryear and two-year schools included.

They also won the title back in 1976 and several times in the earlier years when Virgil Bergman was the coach of the team.

That's right, Palomar College is to Forensics the way UCLA is to basketball and USC is to football.

And Dr. Ray Dahlin is the John Wooden / John McKay of the Comets.

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Dahlin, the director of forensics, isn't as optimistic this year as he could be. He says he'll be "happily surprised" if his speakers win the top spot again because he has "generally speaking, a rookie squad.

People with little or no experience."

Another reason for Dahlin's apprehension is that "speech teams have to go to tournaments. We normally go to twelve. This year we went to, I think, six." The problem, of course, is funds. It costs money to send 14 students and a couple of coaches to tournaments . Their funds, like everyone else's, were cut.

"A National Championship is based on one whole week. Not only do you have to be good but you have to luck out with the judges," continues Dahlin.

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Graphic Arts we 1comes

Swimming Coach Don Hubbard's men's swimming team will continue competition today in the Mission ConAfter a protracted labor, the ference Championships at the Com- Graphic Arts Department took et's pool. delivery of a new vertical process Palomar will be coming off three camera recently. consecutive victories over Southwestern, Citrus and El Camino.

Weighing in at 400 lbs., with dimensions of 70" by 45", the Women's Basketball delivery took about four hours.

Led by Becka Watkins' 14 points, Coach Vi Jeffery's women's cagers, The new arrival is the DSC-618-C defeated San Bernardino 55-42 Companica 5161. One of the March 30. Sara Jane and Cindy highlights will be the larger film size Hollins were also in double figures of up to 20" by 24" for both line and for the Comets with 11 and 10 points, halftone copy. respectively.

On March 28 Jane poured in 18 It has 260mm and 150mm lenses. points and pulled down 20 rebounds Reproduction ranges from 200 peras Palomar defeated Citrus 61-55. cent to 50 percent with the 260mm, and 500 percent to 20 percent with Women' a Tennla the 150mm lens.

Losing the final doubles match, Letty Brewster, teacher of Coach Nan Haugen's women's tenGraphic Arts, took pictures of the nis team lost 5-4 to Saddleback event, while Gary Cohen, pressman, March 22.

Van Willard, salesman, and Miguel Now 4-3 in conference, the team Acosta, service manager, uncrated has an outside chance for first place, and installed the new camera. but Haugen will be pleased to finish second. She feels they played well The Compamca 5161, was against Saddleback and that the purchased to replace the old process two teams were pretty equul in skill. camera, which can no longer serve The women host Chaffey this the needs of the college.

Tuesday at 2 p.m.

new camera

The coach does hope to finish in the top ten. That alone is quite a feat for the 14 member squad with only four returning orators from last year's team.

They are John Lombard, Beda Farrell, Carol Hoskins and Kerin Essex.

Dahlin is assisted by two highlycompetent instructors, Bruce Bishop and Pat Schwedtfeger.

The other ten members of the team are Don Hunt, Jerilou Bonnell, Sheri Visser, Marc Newman , Arne Alsin, Lorna Maxwell, John Mencshing, Karen Stults, Sharon Stults and Neil Pedersen.

Self-improvement classes offered Self-help workshops are being offered by the Counseling Department. "Speaking Out For Yourself' will be offered April 17 followed by "Be The Leader You Want To Be" April 18 and "Career Planning" on April24.

All workshops are free of charge and open to the community. One, two, or three units may be available for workshop attendance. For more information, contact the Counseling Department, staff building 4, room A-66 or call 744-1150, extension 251.

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,L enTOrCemenf wor k 1•ng we II

By Derace Orput In regard to the ongoing enforcement program implementing the laws of the perimeter road, Campus Patrol Director John Kratt states, "Personally, I think it is very effective."

The program has been recently started with the double cooperation of the Palomar Campus Patrol and the San Diego County Sheriffs Department. One of the main objectives has been to severely crack down on violations of stop signs and flashing lights, speed laws, and wrong way violations. These violations place pedestrians in a very real danger of being injured or killed because of failure to comply with the perimeter road laws. In lieu of the two fatal accidents this year in front of the college, one very recently, students and faculty alike are showing increasing concern about this problem.

Included in the enforcement program is a regular patrol of at least one sheriffs unit. So far anywhere from one to nine citations have been issued daily. In addition, a Palomar student was recently stopped and a knife and a quantity of marijuana were confiscated.

The program encourages students to obey the rules of the road for their own safety as well as for that of others.

"We will continue to enforce violations committed on the perimeter road just as we have in the past," concludes John Kratt.

Curtain closes on drama year Palomar choir Sherlock Holmes, the Theatre Arts production, will close out its run with three performances; tonight, Friday night and Saturday night.

Curtain is 7:30 p.m. in P-33. the Drama Lab. Tickets are $3 for adults and $2 for students and senior citizens.

This is the final play of the year due to the incompletion of the new theater and the refurbishing that must take place on P-33 to make it into a television studio.

ventures south Palomar's Chamber Singers will venture south of the border this Spring Vacation to sing in the Collegiate Choral Festival in Mexico City.

Joe Stanford is director of the singing group and will be taking the ~ member choir to sing with four other colleges from around the United States in various sites of the captial city of Mexico.

meetings and have raced ahead of the general student political interest here. And I have not done quite enough to bring others along into my interest.

I feel one thing that I have done is to keep the pathways of student political activities clear so that they will be there for other students to use during times of more interest. It (Student Government) is very effective when used.

QUESTION: You appointed the Judicial Advocates, did you not? .ROBBINS: Yes. QUESTION: Isn't it their job to oversee the elections?

ROBBINS: Yes. QUESTION: What do you think of the way they are handling the present elections?

ROBBINS: Their performance is commensurate with the attitude of Palomar students. In the interest of making things better their performance could be better. They received no direction from me.

QUESTION: What is your opinion on the rewriting ofthe Constitution?

ROBBINS: I think Student Government needs to be reorganized to create better communication, involvement and follow-through.

QUESTION: Are you for lowering the number of units taken in order to hold office?

ROBBINS: Certainly. The average Palomar student is taking 8 units. Torequiremorethan8unitsis effectively prohibiting the involvement of the majority of Palomar students.

QUESTION: Do you have any advice for the incoming President?

ROBBINS: Pay attention to everyone. listen to what everyone has to say. Control your temper.

Work as hard or harder than everyone else. And have sometime free each day as your own.

QUESTION: What are your plane for the future?

ROBBINS: I haven't decided yet.

Most probably I'll transfer to the University of California. I'm not sure which one but I still will be enrolled in a community college because I represent community college students for several agen cies in Sacramento.

QUESTION: Any final statement?

ROBBINS: Yes . Student Government is a lot offun. It's been the best experience of my life.

RN program sets Aprill 0 for due date Students planning to enter Palomar College's Nursing Program in the fall need to apply before April 10.

The RN program at Palomar offers an Associate in Arts degree in registered nursing plus the opportunity to gain advanced standing by transfer of previous nursing cla3ses or challenge. There is also a 30-unit option program available for licensed vocational nurses.

Completed applications and transcripts need to be sent to Cheri Barker, counselor assistant for Allied Health. I tis the responsibility of each of the prospective students to request that all their transcipts be sent to her prior to that date.

Barker advises that due to the limited space it would be wise for applicants to send in their applications as soon as possible.

Applications and further information may be obtained from Barker on the Palomar campus.

Students may contact Cheri Barker by calling 744-1150 or 7277529 or writing to the college at 1140 W. Mission Rd. in San Marcos, 92069.

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'Holmes' play uneven

By Richard Medugno On opening night, Sherlock Holmes, the current Theatre Arts production fell in between the categories affair and good, but no doubt the play will move up to the latter category by the end of its run.

There were a few good performances and a lot of average preformances probably due to the fact that the show boasts a few experienced actors and a lot of inexperienced actors.

Michael J. Fredericksen in the lead role as the famous detective showed he was one of the most experienced actors, however, his lack of height and lousy posture really hurts his portrayal.

In their Palomar-College debuts, Tanya Lockhart, Kirk Webb and Valerie Bree Pruitt gave admirable preformances though all three slipped in and out oftheir so called English accents.

Dr. Rollin Coleman and Gerard Reyes turned in good jobs in their supporting roles. In cameo roles, Culli Stanton and Larry Borgen were amusing and interesting.

Despite a few dead spots, the play moved pretty quickly. There were two excellent scenes. The first was when we see Holmes and Moriarty meet for the first time. They match wits and brains with our hero coming out on top nicely.

The other scene was the "strobe light chase" scene where Holmes and th e distressed maiden are trapped in a gas cham her with four bad guys. They manage to escape when Holmes puts out It's hard to break the mold of a lights and leaves the crooks to beat on character when for almost a hundred each other in the confusion.

The final three performances are years it's been played by an actor who is tall, straight, slender and hawkish of tonight, Friday night, and Saturday face . Fredericksen could have been night with 7:30 curtains. Tickets are $3 helped out with better costuming. adults and $2 students and senior Elevated shoes, sharper and neater citizens. clothing might have made character of Holmes a little more visible. Holmes' mind being so sharp, one would figure he would dress sharp too.

Despite these physical flaws for Holmes, Frederiksen did capture the confidence of the always right investigator with his clear and precise Attending college may be hazardous to diction and English accent. your health.

Professor Moriarty, played by Darnell Like a sniper shooting randomly into a Lathan, did not lack height or talent.

Lathan's ability to tower over everyone crowd, suicide kills thousands of college gave much strength to his villainous role students every year.

According to Marv Miller, Ph.D., a Lathan gave a powerful performance consultant in suicidology based in San though not equivalent to his last one in Diego, suicide was the second leading Slow Dance on the Killing Ground. He cause of death on American campuses in though was guilty of sometimes sl-'eaKmg 1978. Only accidents were responsible for too fast and slurring his words in both more collegiate deaths and many acplays. cidents are actually disguised suicides.

Moriarty's costuming left something to be desired too. Because Lathan is so tall, The real tragedy of collegiate suicides is it looked as if they had a problem getting that the situation appears to be growing him a tux that fit. The best they did was worse . For example, in 1955 the suicide getting one a couple sizes too small. At rate for people aged 20 through 24 was 5.6 times, the poor evil villain looked like he per 100,000. By 1965 the rate had risen to should have a tin cup and be next to an 8.9 per 100,000 and by 1975 it had leaped organ grinder. all the way to 16.5 per 100,000.

Long time Palomar performer, John "With the suicide rate among young Mensching, gave his usual threepeople almost tripling in 20 years, it dimensional, well acted portrayal. appears that a near epidemic of selfMensching uses his props and clothing to destructive behavior is now evident in the add that third dimension. His soft-spoken United States," Dr. Miller observes . character provided much of the humor in The problem of suicide on campuses the play though with a noisy audience has become so widespread that people one had to strain to hear him . who attend college have at least a 50 percent greater chance cf dying by suicide than do young people in the same age group who don't attend college.

What can you do to help? Learn the warning signs of suicide and be persistent in obtaining professional assistance for a friend when you spot the clues in their life.

One of the strongest clues is a previous attempted suicide, especially if the attempt was serious enough to have caused death.

Related behavioral clues are the typical depressive symptoms such as loss of the ability to sleep, concentration , energy, sex drive , appetite and the zest for life.

Sometimes college students in a presuicidal state will give away a valued possession, such as a stereo set or a pair of This paycheck could be yours - wt thou t expensive skis and say: "Take this; I cutti ng classes' won't be needing it anymore."

Weste rn has ma ny types of good-paying t em p ora ry clerica l, marketmg and l tgh t indusSituational clues might include the tr ial assign m en t s avai lable. Un li ke perma nent sudden ending of a relationship with a pa rt -t ime jobs, temporary wo rk can be tailored spouse or lover, a drastic drop in grades, t o f tt you • schedu le, si nce you tak e only th e asstgnme n ts you want. being fired from a job which the student RegiSter at our of f tce today for Easte1 needs in order to remain jn school, or loss vacation work or summer jobs. Come 1n any ti me you w ant to ma ke ext ra money. See h ow of other financial assistance. we can hel p you earn w h tle you learn.

Much information on the subject of suicide is readi ly available. To obtain a Wes t ern free list of books , ar ticl es, and TEM PO RAR Y SERVICES,INC bibliographies, send a stamped , self1207 ELM AV ENUE SU ITE H addressed, legal size envelope to: THE CARLS BAD , CA 92 008 CENTER FOR INFORMATION ON Cle r 1c al ( Weste r n G 1rl) · Ma r ket1ng ln dliStna l · Sen t ry M e d 1cal T ec hn1 c a l Santa Ph oto V1 cl e o tape SUICIDE, P .O. Box 19832, San Diego, EO E M / r California 92119.

Play Review

College suicide rate increasing

Earn while you learn.

MOVIE REVIEW

'China Syndrome' a ci~Ssic

By Dan Bennett Very few motion pictures have been made that can reach an audience, not only on a level of intensity that cannot be interrupted, but also where that audience's only concern is that story's characters and its outcome.

The best of these are sometimes called classics. The Maltese Falcon, East of Eden and The Godfather have all been hailed to fit under this ultimate category.

The above requirements are what a film has to fulfill to fall in that category. The China Syndrome has joined the ranks of the elite.

The China Syndrome is the story of a television news reporter (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) who while doing a routine story at a nuclear power plant, witness and experience a near catastrophe, when a subsystem of the plant malfunctions.

They return to the T.V. station hoping to have an exclusive, but are told by the station manager that because of the nature of the film they have, it would be irresponsible, as well as illegal to broadcast it.

The situation blows over until a chief controller at the plant (Jack Lemmon) discovers more potential danger. When he confronts a company inspector with the problem, he is reprimanded and threatened. This leads to an intense power struggle that is resolved in a terrifying, then genuinely touching final scene, which is as excellent as the talent that created it.

Direction by James Bridges, who won critical acclaim as the director of The Paper Chase, has surpassed his prior

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work. His talents will be in great demand in the near future .

Performances range from good to outstanding. Michael Douglas; who produces the film, and who originally wasn't going to appear in it (Richard Dreyfuss was originally sought) surfaces after a lengthy absence from the screen.

He comes back with a bang. His character is easily identifiable, and his performance enjoyable.

Jane Fonda, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Coming Home has probably insured herself 'of another nomination next year. Fonda's attribute as an actress is her ability to play off other actors with a skill that · is rarely seen. She demonstrates this ability again in China Syndrome.

Then there is ,Tack Lemll1on . If you have had the opportunity to see Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses, The Odd Couple, or Save The Tiger, you know his talent. He, like his director Bridges, meets his own talents head on, then surpasses them, in what I think is his finest performance to date. If Jane Fonda has assured herself of an Oscar nomination, Lemmon has walked away with his already. He is possibly the finest actor still working today.

Now, I feel a little guilty about all the raving I've done. I imagine that if I intently examined the movie, I could find technical and artistic flaws. But Ihaveno intention to do so. I was entertained without any of these flaws slapping me in the face. Go see The China Syndrome. In these times of in creasing movie admission prices, this is one that is worth its. weight.

READER'S FORUM

Reader thanks Editor Richard Medugno , Thank you for your contribution as Telescope Editor-in-Chi ef. Keep it up.

Frank Barberi Palomar Class of 1973.

A Nation Adrift To the editor: A Na tion Without Confidence in its Institutions is a atio n Adrift.

We can no longer blind ourselves to the fact th at co ncentrated eco nomi c power has become reckl ess. ruth less a nd coercive as co nce ntrated politi ca l power.

We can no longer attack s ubsidies for Lhe poor whi le s upporting eve n f,rreater subsidies for the ri ch .

We ca n no longer speak of protective freedom in th e wor ld by turning the world into protective ha m lets. We can no longer

oppose tyranny by emulating it .

We cannot speak of individual freedom and free communities, self-reliance and self responsibility while honoring the assembly line, promoting demolition and making a fetish of commodities.' We cannot s peak of honest work while honest working people are alienated from that work a nd tnfate_d as mere extensions of their machines.

We cannot attack the abuses of arrogant a nd bureaucratic industrial and business leaders.

We cannot speak of a land ofliberty and a national-security state in the same breath . We must defend freedom at home if we are ever to have freedom in the world.

We cannot speak of a sweet land of liberty when the very land is soured by ~he greed of thos e who turn the Iandscape 111to real e tate , who turn the rivers into open_ sewers. who see in everything nothmg but a dollar in process.

Karl G. Waack