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Palomar College
Volume 34 No. 24
A Publication for the Associated Students
Friday, May 22, 1981
San Marcos, CA
MAYFAIR'81 CONTINUES
Music highlights festivities Balloon rides . . . music ... mimes ... jugglers . . . knights in shining armor . . . games ... food ... MAYFAIR '81 has it all and much more! Expanded in scope and duration from the successful one-day MAYFAIR '80 this year's affair will conclude today and tomorrow. Each day festivities begin at 9 a.m. Events today include a fashion show, a model shoot for photographers, Chamber Singers recital, movies for children, and topped off with an evening concert featuring Richie Furay (formerly with Buffalo Springfield and Poco). Tomorrow's festivities feature a challenge match between Sir Aethelred the Jute and l.md Mishwakhan, both of the Barony of Calafia, after which there will be dancing in the Renaissance style to the music of recorders. There will be another photographer's model shoot on Saturday morning, and Jeff the juggler will return for additional performances. Saturday's main event is an outdoor concert on the golf driving range with 20/20, the Bratz, Tweed Sneakers, Incognito, This Kids, and the Lobsters. Both days will feature hot air balloon rides, mimes, magic shows, exhibits from the Marine Corps, cultural exhibits, movies and games of all sorts. There will also be American Indian, Arabian, African, Mexican, Iranian and Vietnamese foods. Mayfair '81 is a presentation of the Associated Student Government
part of the three day MAYFAIR '81 cultural and community exhibition sponsored by the Palomar Associated Student Government and Inter Club Council. The Saturday eoncert, headlined by 20 / 20 whose second Epic record, "look Out" is about to be released, includes other San Diego County bands. They are Bratz, The Tweed Sneakers , Incognito, This Kids, and The Lobsters. who are making their San Diego area de but. The show will be held on the campus golf driving range. Third-billed Tweed Sneakers has also gained extensive record industry attention for their original tunes , and new age rockabilly RICHIE FURAY covers. Tickets for the outdoor concert are and the Inter Club Council. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity $4 for Palomar ASG cardholders, $5 to improve community awareness of in advance and $6 day of show. the college and the many clubs and They are available in advance at organizations on campus. It gives the ucorice Pizza outlets in them a chance to recruit new Carlsbad , Escondido and Pacific members , exercise their planning Beach , Katmadu Trading Co. in and management skills, raise funds Carlsbad. Innerworld in Oceanside, and learn from and about each Lou's Records in Cardiff, Village other, as well as providing an Music in Encinitas, Natural Sound entertaining three days for the in Solana Beach, Off the Record general public. near SDSU. and at Palomar. Except for tonight's and the SaturA car stereo from Natural Sound day outdoor concerts, admission is and a custom. specially made surffree . For more information, call744- board from Offshore will be given 3610 or 744-1150, extension 461. away in a drawing. Big Beat ProducTop groups in San Diego County tions is assisting in coordinating the and Epic Records' 20 / 20 will be event. performing in an unusual outdoor For more information, call the concert setting tomorrow from noon Associated Student Government to dusk . office, 744-3610 or 744-1150 or 727The show. featuring six bands, is 7529, ext. 461 .
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT- The cast of "Scenes from American Life" rehearse for the initial performance May 28. The play presents a
youthful look at the hypcrisy of adult American life. (Photo by Lois Humphreys)
SONG FEST- Top musical acts performing this weekend will be Richie Furay, 20/ 20, and Tweed Sneakers. The concerts are presented in conjunction with MAYFAIR '81.
Forensic team members win ten maior awards Competing against 80 colleges from throughout the nation, the forensics squad won seventh place at the U.S. National Championships held in Sacramento, California recently. The one-week tournament, which included 500 contestants, saw the Palomar speakers win ten major awards which were accepted at the Grand Ballroom of the Woodlake Inn in Sacramento. The team was led by Michelle Backer who won gold plaques in persuasive speaking and poetry interpretation . Karen Jvey won gold plaques in persuasive speaking and oratorical analysis. Pat Baez won gold plaques in Lincoln-Douglas debate and impromptu speaking. Individual bronze plaques were awarded to Cathy Bach in prose interpretation . Mike Curran in expository speakjng , and Peter Ziskin in impromptu speaking. Backer. Curran, Ziskin and Bach also won bronze team plaques as did other members of the reader's theatre , Debra Bach, Rocky Cifone and Albert Del Bene. The Palomar team also included Yasuyo Kondo , David Beach, Ginny Kansas , Laurie Strong and Ross Miyashiro. Coaches Ray Dahlin, Pat Mills and Bruce Bishop coached the
national winning squad. Director of forensics Ray Dahlin said that the coaches were highly pleased with the excellent showing, considering that most ofthe team members were in competition for less than two semesters .
Author Henry
talks 'Sense' Marguerite Henry, author of children's books and winner of the Newberry award, will talk about writing at the Palomar Theater May 29 at lla.m. Henry, whose books usually center around horses, has titled her speech "Horse Sense is Stable Thinking," subtitled (What Starts a Person Writing). The presentation, which is sponsored by the Palomar College Child Development Department, children's literature class, includes a viewing of the film, "The Story of a Book." Directly following a 20 minute question and answer period, Henry will autograph her books which may pe purchased in the lobby of the Educational Theatre. The public is invited free of charge. For more information, call7 44-1150 ext. 423 or 537.
Problems plague 'Women in Transition' By Lois Humphreys The re-entry woman faces many challenges returning to school. Five Palomar women were interviewed for this twopart series and discuss their marriages, finances, children and how they manage to get an education at the same time. The purpose of this article is to create more awareness about this increasing social change in the '80's.
After high school I went to work in PAT: I grew up one of twelve children in . a factory and still lived at home. the midwest. My father was an Then I met my future husband, who alcoholic and worked for the was in the Navy and going to officer railroad . My mother was sick all the candidate school. time and since I was one of ¡ the He asked me to go overseas with oldest, by the time I was in high him and so we went to Italy for a school, I was pretty much running year. I trusted him and thought he the house and taking care of the would make a good husband other children by myself. I hardly because he was an officer. I guess I remember high school, probably thought he had lots of potential. I because I was home as often as I was wanted to be out of poverty, so I left. in school. It was a struggle to stay in I was really afraid when we were school. in Europe - I went through a very
deep depression and began drinking heavily. I was afraid to leave the apartment. We returned from Europe, got married and moved to California. I tried several jobs but I couldn't find anything that I could do well. After we had been married for three years, I got pregnant. Twelve days after the baby was born we moved to a Pacific island and were there for three years . There was nothing to do there except have parties with all the other Navy personnel, so my drink-
ing problem worsened. I really had trouble adjusting to Navy life, and was continually depressed. We came back to California and I had another child. I tried dieting, quit smoking, but continued to drink. I thought maybe I was crazy or something. My three year old would ask me questions, and I didn't know how to answer her. All I knew was that I wanted a better life for my children than I had. I was unhappy all the time. My (Continued on page 2)