Palomar College
Volume 38 No. 4
A Publication for the Associated Students
Friday, October 26, 1984
San Marcos, CA
IEquus' ends two-week run tomorrow
Equus cast members discuss the play with the audience fa/lowing the opening night performance October 19. Six actors carry metal pieces
which they wear as symbolistic horse heads. Director Buddy Ashbrook (left) fa/lows the discussion. The play finishes its run Saturday night. (Photo by Jeffrey Norfleet)
Extends services to outlying regions
Board meets at Pauma reservation By Cyndie Claypool PaumaReservation'sAmerican Indian Education Center was the site of a Governing Board meeting for the first time on September 25. Palomar is the only community college with nine tribal reservations in their district, according to Dr. Theodore Kilman, assistant superintendent/ vice president, instruction. Con sidering this fact, the trustees have tried to meet the needs of the large district by extending their services to the outlying regions. Classes are taught at the American Indian Education Center in order to have classes easily accessible to students in that area. Last spring the Indian community requested that a board meeting be held on their premises as they had done a few years ago for Poway and Fallbrook. According to Dr. Kilman, the Board likes to hold the bi-monthly meetings at their satellite centers as much as possible in order to avail themselves to the community. "This is the fastest growing county," says Dr. Kilman. "In order to meet the needs, we had to have satellite centers." Palomar leases rooms in which to
hold the satellite classes, such as Camp Pendleton, Mt. Carmel and Pauma Indian Reservation. Steve Crouthamel, head of the American Indian Studies Department, explained that it helped the Indians to have easier access to classes, since some of them live 71 miles away from Palomar. "It reduced driving time in half for some," he added. "Pauma is a satellite for all people to take courses at, not just Indians," Crouthamel stressed. "They are all open classes." According to Crouthamel, most classes at the education center are geared toward fullilling the general education requirements and / or vocational skills. "We have graduated over 80 Indians, with A.A. degrees, through the satellite program," he said. They are now developing a system to enable these students to attain a higher education from SDSU, UCSD, and University of Long Beach. This program, called The Learning Circle (TLC), was presented to the Board at their last September meeting by the American Indians Studies Department. "Having the meeting and presentation at Pauma allowed the Board to have a better understanding of the
structure that they are dealing with," he said. Crouthamel and his department passed out pamphlets to the trustees, describing the signifLcance of TLC. The pamphlet read: "The Learning Circle is a consortium of Southern California institutions of higher edu-
cation, i.e., community colleges, state colleges, universities, and education centers, such as the American Indian Education Center at Pauma, which seeks to encourage and enable more American Indians to realize their educational goals. Concurrently, services of particiapting institutions are made available to the Indian commun ities."
"Equus," Peter Shaffer's Tony Award winning play, will complete its two week run with performances tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30p.m. "Equus" is the complex, compelling and disturbing two-act play, written by Peter Shaffer, that tells of a boy who blinds six horses and his psychiatrist's attempts to unravel the boy's mysterious behavior. As Dr. Dysart, John Douglas investigates the young man's boyhood experiences and begins to peel off the layers of Alan's psyche, he raises personal and universal questions regarding man's need to worship and express passion. Alan is portrayed by Scott Strand and is accompanied on stage by six "horses," played by Mathew Bergin, Michael Lloyd, Ray Rose, Marta Tallerup, Christy Davis and Tony DuPont. The cast of horses is impressive as metal framework horseheads and sixinch "hoofs" stand the cast members over eight feet tall. "Costume preparation has been tricky," says David Boyd, technical director. "We rented the hoofs from another theater and with properties design expert Pat Larmer and student Ed Sadkowski the horse heads were constructed and the results are intricate and realistic representations." Alan's relationship with those horses is fascinating -loving and complex ... ultimately fatal. Ticket prices are $5 general admission and $4 for seniors and students. For more information, please call the Palomar Community College Theatre box office at 744 -1156 Mondays through Fridays from 12 noon to 4 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.
Applications for spring semester priority registration now available Applications to receive priority registration appointments for the 1985 spring semester will be available beginning October 29 and will be accepted at the Admissions Office through January 17. New students intending to register for spring semester classes should file an application, as should persons who have attended Palomar in the past but are not currently enrolled in college credit classes. Early application is advised as appointments are assigned on a firstcome, first-served basis. Appointment registration is sched-
uled to begin January~"' ' with open registration beginning January 31. Classes begin February 4. Class schedules should be available by the flrst of the year. Continuing students intending to register for the spring session will receive "Intent to Register" cards in the mail after November 2. Cards must be returned to the Admissions Office or Mt. Carmel or Camp Pendleton satellite centers on or before January 17 to receive priority status. Priority is determined by college units accumulated since summer session, 1983.
Registration appointments for students returning "Intent of Register" cards after January 17 will be distributed on the same basis as new applications received. Students currently attending credit classes but not receiving an "Intent to Register" card by mid-November should contact the Admissions office. Admissions office hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Fridays. For more information, call744-1150 or 727-7259, Ext. 2160.
Accreditation self study is in progress By Chns Reynolds Committees are currently being formed to conduct a self-study for accreditation. The process, which takes place every five years, gives community colleges a chance to, "see where they are, see where they're going, and to see how they'll get there," according to Palomar president Dr. Omar Scheidt. Dr. Scheidt also feels that it is this year's "Number one" priority. The procedure, which will ultimately involve thousands of people from all segmentsofthecampusandcommunity, is used by the college as a means of measuring the success of past proposals (made by other self-studies) and planning future growth of programs. The study is a four-part operation that includes: 1. Description: Fact gathering by committee members that also affords them a chance to formulate questions for a survey to be circulated among
students, faculty, admmiStrators and the community. 2. Appraisal: Methods employed to evaluate programs. 3. Planning: Checking the appraisals and formulating goals. 4. Responses to past recommendations: An overview of the way in which the recommendations made by the last evaluation team were addressed. The study will be co-chaired by Janet Hafner, instructor of English as a sec- . ond language in the Bilingual Education Department and Ronald Page, Director of Television Operations and Production. Both Hafner and Page have had experience with the selfstudy procedure. Hafner was previously a committee chairperson and Page was a subcommittee chairperson in 1975 and a cochair of the last evaluation that took place in 1980. The "bottom line", as Hafner puts it,
IS to
rece1ve accred1tat1on for programs to insure that credits students attempt to transfer to four-year colleges are acceptable. "An institution wouldn't want to lose its accreditation. There's value in being able to have the status of accreditation," said Hafner, adding, "It's a process that involves all community colleges." But, as Page points out, the benefits of the study are two-fold, stating that, "One of the most valuable parts is to seehowwellyou'redoing.It'sanaggregate of all other issues, because it's an all-encompassing process." Nine standards will be reviewed by the committees: Goals and Objectives, headed by Gene Sager; Educational Programs, chaired by Brenda Montiel; Institutional Staffing, Toni Griffith; Student services, Richard Nation; Community services, Katheryn Garlow; Learning Resources, Rita White; Phys-
1ca! Hesources, Pat Ferris; Financial Resources, Dick Aufmann; Institutional Governance, Judy Carter. Hafner and Page stressed the need for an open, objective approach because once the report is submitted to the board of trustees in June, it will be followed up by an independent evaluation team that will "validate fmdings". The team will consist of five members of the accreditation commission for the community and junior colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Accreditation is separate from the State Chancellor's office. It is not a function of the state. The evaluation team offers an in dependent and objective view, calling attention to inadequate areas, making sure that policies reinforce and extend the college's continuing pursuit of excellence and assure that the institution merits reaffirmation of accredita-
t10n. Although there will be approximately 100 people involved in the actual committees, with 1000s more to be surveyed, there is, "a conspicuous absence of student participation," according to Page. "We would hope to have more students participate," continues Page. "Without students you get the administration and staffs input but not the student's and that's the reason we're here." Both co-chairs stated that experience is not a necessity if students wish to participate in the study. "They'll be in much the same boat as anyone else," stated Page. "The committees have just begun their research." Any interested students may contact the chairpersons listed in this article if they wish to take part in the study.