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Volume 45, Number 21
Students respond well to government election By Mark Wiberg News.Editor Hidden between Earth Day celebrations and the upcoming Springfest Cultural Fair, elections for associated student government positions went ahead this week with openings for the presidency, vice-presidency, and senate seats up for grabs. During the election, held on April22 and 23, five candidates competed for four senator spots. One candidate, Senator Lowell Kepics, ran uncontested for the open vicepresident seat. Kepics said for him, there wasn't really a need to campaign heavily. Treasurer Sara Garcia is another candidate ran alone for the treasury position. Election committee organizer Senator Massimo Bordi said the election went "surprisingly well." "The students responded quite well", Bordi said, "despite the lack of information." "There's a lot of people voting," said Senator Kyla Maney, who will resign her position for personal reasons today. Bordi said the information gap for the election, which was held the first week back from spring break, was the result of a lax publicity campaign on the part of his committee and the candidates. Results of the election were not available at press time, but will be announced today.
ELECTION SPECIAL: Results of this week's student government election will be published In a Telescope special edition on May 1. ASG president Paul Raineri campaigned to be re-elected while student Darlene Schuck-Larimer challenged him. The election committee had to reprimand one candidate during the election and warned another. Treasurer Sarah Garcia was officially reprimanded with a warning by the election committee for violating election rules, according Senator Kyla Maney. Maney said Garcia was telling people to vote for her during the election, which is against rules, she said. Garcia said it would not happen again. Raineri received a warning for apparently asking students to shout in favor of his campaign in the Student Union during the election, said both Maney and Bordi. This year, the election committee chose to use scantron ballot sheets to speed up the tally of votes. Next year, they hope to utilize a computer system that will allow students to use their PIC cards to vote. Ted tcanefSIII/fPhoto~rtJ(Jhu
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Health fees may jump to $10 if state assembly bill is passed By Mike LaJoie
Staff Writer Student health fees could jump from $7.50 to $10 next fall if an assembly bill is put on the June ballot and passed. Students on campus showed little alarm for the fee increase in a recent survey sponsored by the Associated Student Govememnt Fifty percent of the 200 students surveyed favor an increase if it would improve conditions at the Palomar Health Center where students obtain health services for the fee they pay each semester. Surprisingly, 80 percent of those surveyed report that they never use the PHC. The health fee increase is a part of an · assembly bill called "The Budget Package" that California College officials will try to place on the June ballot. If the bill is passed, it will authorize the increase for college services and tuition, which includes the health fee.
"Fees can be increased as long as they are done gradually," said Palomar President/ Superintendent George Boggs. In a recent interview Boggs said that raising the fee $2.50 is not a drastic increase compared to other health policies one might fmd outside Palomar. The PHC is almost entirely supported by the health fee, with only a small portion of the budget coming from federal funds, according to Palomar officials. Jayne Conway, Director of the Palomar Health Center, said that medical insurance for the center has risen 20 percent this year and that the health fee must go up. "We don't see it as that big of an increase," said Conway. "We've just hired six nurses, one with eight years emergency room experience. With the new fee we can get more services like these for the students." In the past few years the PHC has had to make cutbacks in their staff. With the in-
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