Palomar Charger Girls follow team to Super Bowl
Famous phone pranksters move to the big screen in "The Jerky Boys"
Men's hoops loses to first place Southwestern
NEWS PAGE 6
SPORTS PAGE 16
THE
LESC Friday, February 3, 1995
Palomar Community College
San Marcos, CA
Volume 48, Number 12
Dream Day features international themes Donny Van Zandt StuffWnter
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Eric Runningpath, a Navajo member of the Eagle Talon Dancers, performs a bibute to the Bald Eagle. The dance group was a part of this year's Martin Luther King Dream Day celebrations at Palomar's main campus.
"Building The Dream" was the motto for Palomar's Dream Day '95, which was pronounced a success by organizers and participants in spite of a smaller turnout than hoped. The main event was held Jan. 28 and included several speakers, workshops, international entertainment, food and crafts from Arizona to Zaire. The highlight of the celebration was the Saturday fair on campus where, despite several cancellations by lecturers and entertainers, most attendees managed to have a good time. Student Jenny Ehn enjoyed the fair and called the atmosphere "relaxed." ''I'm very happy that there are so many different international things here today," said student Deseree Gardener, refernng to the multifarious arra) o f booths and entertainments. Colorful clothing, scented lils, interesting gadgets, books, boxes and bags of all sorts from near and far had patrons pulling out their wallets time and time again. The small turnout was, however, a disappointment to some of the vendors who sold their merchandise at the fair. "I definitely won't participate in the next one," said sculptor Dave Richards, who claimed he was misled by the letter he received concerning Dream Day A center stage held most of the action Saturday with such diverse acts as a magic show, a customized bicycle show and the Children's International Choir. Several dance troupes performed traditional Native American, African and Guatemalan dances. Workshops for teenagers and adults stimulated thought and suggested solutions to problems students face in Palomar College's rap-
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Margarita Page was one of the featured performers at the Hollis Gentry concert Friday, Jan. 27 at Palomar. idly diversifying campus, and information booths offered paraphernalia on a wide range of subjects. Quincy Troupe, renowned poet and Dream Day keynote speaker, gave a lecture and poetry reading Saturday evening to end the festivities. Troupe, who refers to himself as a "community cultural worker," spoke on setting and attaining goals, the importance of
See DREAM DAY, Page 3
Faculty receives raise after four-year wait • 2.2 percent increase approved Kate Nelson News Editor
After the Faculty Salary Task Force worked for more than four months with the administration, the Governing Board has granted the faculty a 2.2 percent salary increase as of Jan. 17. Classified staff munhers also received salary increases hascd upon how long they had been employed by the college. The salary increase is retroactive to July I, 1994, meaning that faculty and classified staff members will receive a raise on their salaries going back to July I, 1994. The increase was made possible after funds were reallocated or redirected from other sources. "We're not cutting back on any services, we're not culling back on any expenditures. It's just a matter of reallocating," said Bonnie Dowd , president of the faculty.
Members of the Faculty Senate said they were satisfied with the increase, but that the task force, which consists of representatives of the faculty and classified staff, would remain in place, and they would continue to look for more funds to put in a "piggy bank" so they can have another increase in the future. Faculty Senate members said they were satisfied with the increase, and they were satisfied with how the Senate had worked with the administration in an amicable way. "It's a beginning. Probably more than being happy about the raise, I'm happy about the process that achieved the raise. It was a collegial effort," said Doug Key, a member of the Faculty Senate. Dowd said that the increase makes the faculty a main concern of the district. She said, "In the direction we're going, we're becoming aware of the need to put the human
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Gain in Consumer Price Index Faculty Cost of Living Raise
The graph at left illustrates that the faculty salary increase of 2.2 percent, approved by the Governing Board Jan. 17, adds up to less than half the increase in the Consumer Price Index. The faculty has not received a raise for four years, during which time the Consumer Price Index has risen 11 percent.
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resources of the district before any other needs of the district." Dowd said her biggest complaint about not receiving a salary increase in four years was that the cost of living had gone up. but the faculty members salaries had remained the same. "The cost of living has gone
up in the last four years ... we're making less money than we were four years ago," said Dowd. "The 2.2 percent obviously doesn't make anyone in the district anywhere close to what the cost of living change has been , but it's better than nothing."' She also said she thought the
Faculty Senate's recommendation last September that faculty members stop going to certain committee meetings to draw attention to the faculty's fight for an increase had worked. "We were not tr; ing to
See RAISE, Page 7