Giving Grades on Padres' Chances for '94 Pagell
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THE Friday, March 18 1994
. . . LESC Palomar Community College
San Marcos, CA
Volume 47, Number 17
Call to Remove ASG Treasurer Unsuccessful
MTV Shows the Way on Mission Bay ...
•Amy Curtis Accused of Violating By-Laws Sara Rettus Staff Writer
Special to the Telescope
MTV spokesperson Daisey Fuentes cears up an eacer and willinc participant for one of the network's wacky pmeshows taped last week in Mission Bay durinc MTV's 11Sprinc Break '94". For a full wrapup of the events that caupt the fancy of over 200,000 San Dieco collece and sunshine sleuths, see our special feature on pace 7.
Student and Brother Attacked •Official Says Charges Filed in Stu~ent Union FightsJames Hatch Copy Editor
Battery charges have been filed by a Palomar student with the San Diego County Sherrif s Department against another student who allegedly struck him outside the Student Union, according to Campus Patrol Supervisor Boyd Mahan. The victim, Eri Hillyer received a gash below his left eye during a fist fight on Thursday March 10, according to a report filed by Campus Patrol
Officer Matt Schlotman. Hillyer informed Officer Scholtman that he was talking to a friend outside the Student Union when the suspect, a Palomar student in his twenties, approached him. "He asked me what I was staring at," Hillyer told Scholtman. "He was very pushy and wanted to fight," he said. According to Schlotman, Hillyer said that he tried to stand up and walk away when the suspect punched him in the left eye. Hillyer then responded by striking the man in the genital area,
according to Campus Patrol reports. "After a few more punches by both, an unidentified black male broke up the fight," Schlotman said in his report. ''Eri Hillyer and a friend then proceeded to Student Health Services." An hour-and-a-half after the attack on Eri Hillyer, his younger brother Jesse Hillyer, 16, was outside the Student Union, according to Campus Patrol Officer Ben Seavey. At that time he was approached by unidentified persons whom he recognized as friends of See ATTACK, page 5
A recommendation to remove ASG Treasurer Amy Curtis from the government, and confusion over ASG by-laws and the Brown Act consumed most of the ASG' s March 16 meeting. A report was handed out by Inter-Club Council member Stephen Hough, stating that Curtis had broken ASG bylaws and violated provisions in the Brown Act, California's open meeting law. Among some of the actions that Hough alleged were not in accordance with the Brown Act and ASG bylaws were not giving 24-hour notice for a special meeting held for the Budget and Finance Committee (which must be advertised in a place accessible to the public), not recording the minutes of the Budget and Finance Committee and allocating funds to WOMANOW withoutgoing through proper procedure. Hough said that he has nothing against Amy Curtis personally or WOMANOW. He said the reason he brought the report to the attention of Curtis the ASG was because he thinks that the government needs to be acting in accordance with the laws. ''Many of his allegations are unsubstantiated, invalid and ludicrous, but if they prove to be true then I accept full responsibility for them," said Curtis prior to the meeting. "I have nothing to feel guilty for, given the same situation again I would take the same actions. I can discount each and every one of his points, however, I do appreciate that he is an involved student." Yet, during the meeting Curtis only refuted that she had notes from the Budget and Finance Committee and not See ASG, page 3
Endangered Bird Brings Parking to Halt
Swapping Gnatcatchers
•Gnatcatcher Forces Temporary Delay of New Parking Lot
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Francis T. Crowley Open Forum Editor
With the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service {FWS) on their side, the gnatcatchers are winning the battle for Palomar parking spaces. After being turned down in their ftrst proposal to set aside land protecting the gnatcatcher habitat, Palomar College is awaiting approval on an alternate plan for exchanging preserves for parking areas. Because gnatcatchers nest on undeveloped college property, the proposed extension of parking areas to accomodate mem-
bers of the community who use theW ellness Center is on hold. As a result, student parking Lot 3 will be temporarily used as parking for the new Wellness Center. Palomar college's original environmental plan called for the college to set aside three acres of land for the acre of proposed parking lot, near the new Wellness Center, said Mike Ellis of Facilities. That plan was turned down by the FWS which requested that the City of San Marcos submit a plan covering the entire college. In an attempt to expedite the bureaucratic process, Palomar College's Environmental
Impact Review Committee has submitted their own recommendation hoping the FWS will approve the revised plans during theirnextmeeting in late April. According to Ellis, there is nothing worse than making plans and having to wait for a governmental agency to make a decision. The revised environmental plan calls for 25 percent of the campus property being set aside against any See BIRD, page 4
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