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ELESCOPE Palomar Community College
Friday, October 22, 1993
San Marcos ,CA
ASG gives up Comet Week
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rJ NEWS
Inter-Club Council may take over event after personal differences are aired
• A student activist is awarded the Charles Hollins Memorial Scholarship. see page 3
By John Conzemius
Staff Writer The Associated Student Government announced at their Oct. 20 meeting that they would be dropping their sponsorship of Comet Week but not of the Homecoming Game this semester. According to Vice President of Social Events Sharon Hubbard, the decision to drop
rJ A&E • Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" opens in limited release this weekend as what many consider an instant classic.
Comet Week, which has always been funded by the ASG, was reached after a meeting on Oct 18 between herself and members of the Inter -Club Council. She said personal differences arose which were not resolved. After the meeting, Hubbard sent ICC Chairman Aaron Klapka a letter announcing the ASG's intention of dropping Comet Week, which was formed by a consensus of ASG members. Hubbard invited the ICC to
take over the project. The ASG will not fund Comet Week, according to ASG President Denny Ngo. The funds will be redirected to Homecoming. While Hubbard relinquished control to the ICC, two ASG senators volunteered their services. At the Oct. 20 ASG meeting, Senators Mike Royce and Matthew McNamera offered to take over Hubbard's responsibilities as Comet Week Chair, but ASG President Denny Ngo said that was not possible '
•See ASG, page 3
Women's group raises abuse awareness
see page 7
• CornedyCentral'scult classic "Mystery Science Theater 3000" gets a new host this weekend- will it survive? see page 6
By Francis T. Crowley
Staff Writer
rJ OPINION • The North American Free Trade Agreement stirs a hot debate on whether to keep businesses in the U.S. or broaden trade. see page 8 • Can we trust companies to create their own regulations to control air pollution? In the Green Column, Clinton's new policy is discussed. see page 9
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Volume 47, Number 7
SPORTS
• Cornets win and are now the undisputed No.1 football team in the nation. see page 10
Heather
WOMAN OW representatives so-and-so and so-and-so string up the T -shirts at Palomar that abuse victims painted themselves to promote awareness Oct.19.
They hung in the afternoon breeze, contrasting the peaceful surroundings; poignant displays of the tragedy of violence. Homemade T -shirts serving as a symbol of the abuse their creators have suffered. The Clothesline Project came to Palomar College this week. The survivors of rape, childhood sexual abuse, and battery, poru-ayed violations ag-ainst them by painting T-shins in stark colors. Red, pink and orange stand for those who have been raped or sexually abused. Yellow, brown, beige and tan were painted by women who have been battered by their partners. Survivors of incest or childhood sexual abuse painted blue and green shirts. Women battered because they are lesbians used purple. White is for those who have died. WOMANOW, Women's Organized Movement toward Autonomy NOW, hosted tl1e Clothesline Project, hoping to draw attention to abuse against women. The project, which started in the eastern United States, is also being presented at the Plaza Camino Real mall in Carlsbad. A combinatjon of social agencies and tl1e local police deparunents are working with women's groups to draw attention to the plight of women. Rebeka McDougall Malter, the president of WOMANOW, described the significance of tl1e shins. "Each one is created by a survivor, except the white ones," she explained. "Palomar students made a majority of tl1c T-shirts shown hanging here today ." •See CLOTHESLINE, page 3
STANDUP obtains national recognition Palomar group presents diversity program in Denver By Bjarne Olsen
Staff Writer At the request of the National Council on Black American Affairs of the American Association of Community Colleges, members of Palomar's PROJECT STANDUP (Students and Teachers Ac-
tively Nurturing Diversity-Uniting Palomar) and officials of the college recently attended the councils' Western Regional Conference in Denver. The four-day conference, held Oct. 7-10, consisted of various sessions and presentations that contribute to the advancement of goals
set for the increasing number of light of the whole conference," said Black American men and women Ruzich. She added that it was a great attending this nation's community opportunity to show other colleges college system. The invitation was given be- the progress Palomar has made in cause of wide spread interest in the the often heated debate of racial development of PROJECT diversity of staff on campus. PROJECT STAND-UP was orSTAND-UP, according to Margie Ruzich, President of Palomar Fac- ganized earlier this year as part of ulty Senate and member of an agreement made in April after student protests erupted over the STAND-UP. "Everyone seemed to be so in- lack of minority teachers at Paloterested in the program we had mar College. Students, led by RobertJenkins, developed, and we were the high-
Afrikan-American Student Alliance (AASA) president, and Ana Maria Prado-Verduzco, past president of MEChA, camped outside the campus for 11 days while the debate over the issue continued. Palomar President and Superintenent Dr. George Boggs and student leaders eventually signed a memorandum of agreement, pledging to work together to try and solve the growing ethnic •See STAND UP, page 4