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The Telesco friday, October 18, f991
Palomar College, 1 140 West Mission Road, San Marcos CA 92069-1487
Volume 45, Number 7
Homecoming to return after one-year hiatus Theme to reflect college's 45th anniversary celebration By Mark Wiberg Staff Writer
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Move over Great Britain, Palomar College will soon have its own royalty. For the first time since fall 1989, Palomar will have a Homecoming Pageant and will crown a king and a queen. Alpha Gamma Sigma, along with the Associated Student Government and Inter-Club Council, are sponsoring and organizing the Homecoming celebrations that will the end the week long activities of Comet Week. "We want to revive the spirit of the school," said Bridgette Hudson, secretary for Alpha Gamma Sigma. Hudson said they will use Palomar College's 45th anniversary as this year's theme. "The theme of Homecoming this year is 'Returning to 1946,"' Hudson said. "We are going to try to stay with that theme." Homecoming organizers plan to use cars in the pageant that will keep in tune with the theme. "We are going to have a 1929 roadster, and we're working on getting more cars, older convertibles," Hudson said. Entry forms and qualifying rules can be picked up and returned to SU-10 (Comet Center), SU-7 (ASG office) or SU-21. "I believe we' re going to have the election here in the student union, similar to the ASG elections," Hudson said. She said preliminary elections on Oct. 30 and 31 will leave eight finalists to be picked on Nov. 6 and 7. Two candidates will be elected as king and queen and the remaining six will serve on the Homecoming Court. Both Homecoming King and Queen will be given a prize. "At this point," said Joanne Laviolette, member of Alpha Gamma Sigma,"we are looking at giving away two pairs of tickets to dinner." The Homecoming celebration will be held at San Marcos High School on Nov. 9 at 1:30 p.m., during halftime of the Comets football game.
Palomar revising policy for handicapped parking By Sean Fitting Staff Writer Confusion concerning parking for Palomar's disabled students has forced the college to change its policy regarding handicapped parking permits. It began "when Sheriffs officers cited Palomar College handicapped students for parking in state handicapped places," according to Campus Patrol Supervisor Boyd
Mahan. "At that point we made a decision to allow Palomar handicapped to park anywhere other than state-mandated handicapped spaces." This includes both staff and student parking lots. There are two categories of people who are authorized to park in handicapped spaces, which are indicated by blue curbs. "The state issues either license plates or placards. Most people look for the placards and they know what it means,"
said Director ofDisabled Programs and Services Ron Haines. "Unfortunately, most people and some police don't recognize the license plates." These plates all start with the initials DP or DB. Handicapped people are not the only ones that are in need of special parking, according to Haines. Because of the campus layout, it was decided that people with health aliments that curtail physical ac(see PARKING- page 12)
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Ron Haines is director of Disabled Student Services on campus.