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LESC Palomar Community College San Marcos, CA
Friday, September 9, 1994
Key positions open for ASG elections
Volume 48, Number 2
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• Sept. 13 slated as deadline for submitting applications to Student Activities Office Jeff Vize
tentatively scheduled for noon Wednesday, Sept. 14 in the Student Union. By Bowen' s account, filling the vacant Recruiting new officers for the upcoming seats has become even more urgent in recent Associated Student Government elections weeks because of difficulty reaching a quowas the main focus of the ASG' s Sept. 7 rum at ASG meetings. meeting. According to ASG bylaws, there can be Open positions for this election include no official meeting unless a quorum of maseven senator seats, Executive Vice Presi- jority plus one is reached. Quorum is now set dent, Vice President of State Affairs, and at eight members because there are fifteen Treasurer. Four of the senator seats are pres- seats. Currently, the ASG consists of nine ently vacant. members. Students elected to the ASG serve for two ASG Treasurer Sharon Hubbard and ASG consecutive semesters. They are also re- Senators Steve Hough and Diana Devereaux, quired to attend genral ASG meetings held who were appointed as ASG officers during every Wednesday at 1 pm. the summer, will be running in the election Jim Bowen, ASG advisor, expressed con- election to keep their positions for the recern for filling the vacant seats. mainder of the school year. "I would like to encourage each ASG According to Bowen, the ASG' s Aug. 24 member here to go get a member [to run for meeting was the first in "six to eight weeks," office]," said Bowen. to reach quorum. The Aug. 31 meeting was ASG bylaws state that in order to qualify also cancelled for lack of a quorum. to run for office, a student must carry seven 'The problem," Bowen said, "is if two or more units with a cumulative GPA of 2.0. people don't show up then they don't have a First semester freshmen are not eligible to quorum." run for office because they carry no college In addition to the open ASG positions, GPA. there will be two proposed amendments to To have one's name placed on the ballot, the Palomar constitution, according to the potential candidate must obtain an appli- Bowen. cation form and gather 200 signatures from If passed, the first will establish quorum currently enrolled Palomar students. Appli- at a set number of eight. The second will cations are available in the Student Activi- allow for first semester freshmen to run for ties Office in SU-21. ASG office. Christian Butler, ASG senator, explained Elections are tentatively scheduled for that the deadline for submitting applications Sep. 20 and 21. Voting will take place at the for the upcoming elections is noon Tuesday, Student Union. Polls will open at 8 a.m. on Sept. 13. A candidate's press conference is both days, and they will close at 8 p.m. Staff Writer
Brian Wallace/ The Telescope
First semester Palomar student Jennifer Houesen requests a refund from a soda machine which took her 65 cents and would not dispense a cola. After some persuasion, the machine, located outside of the Student Union, gave her back $1.20.
Student enrollment increases to 20,185 this fall Rochelle R. Samilin
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The total enrollment of students taking credit classes increased from 20,167 students last fall to 20,185 students this semester, according to the Palomar census taken at the beginning of each September. The census, which is a running, daily count, is expected to change by the end of the semester. 'There are more day students than last year," said Herman Lee, director of enrollment services. "Those students are also taking more classes than last year." There are 5,362 students taking day classes, compared to 5,005 students who took day classes last fall. The rush for high-demand classes might
contribute to the increase of classes and schedules and the need to fulfill general education requirements, according to Lee. High level demand classes include English, math and science. In addition to the popular classes students strive to enroll in, Palomar's 3,000 educational sections attracts the students' interests and planned majors, according to Lee. "Palomar College is in a central location," Lee said. Students can "go to school and work part time." Palomar's two week drop and add policy also showed an enrollment comparison from last year. "Last year, 1,034 students withdrew," Lee said. "This year we had only 903 students who withdrew completely."