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Friday, March 3, 1995
Palomar Community College
San Marcos, CA
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Volume 48, Number 14
Palomar student wins 1995 Campus Patrol Miss San Marcos Pageant to carry mace "
Steven Zivanic
Jessica Estrin
Stllff Writer
Staff Writer
he City of San Marcos has a new queen. In ceremonies held at the San Marcos Community Center Feb. 11. Palomar College sophomore Julie Rose was crowned Miss San Marcos 1995. Rose, a graduate of San Marcos High School. is currently studying pyschology and hopes to work with abused children in the future. She works part-time in the fitness industry, attends school and volunteers at retirement homes. Rose's responsibilities as Miss San Marcos include representing the City of San Marcos as one of 35 finalists competing for the dual title of 1995 Fairest of the Fair and Miss San Diego County. The Fairest of the Fair will serve as the official hostess at the 1995 Del Mar Fair, which runs from June 15 to July 4. The Fairest of the Fair will also compete as Miss San Diego County at the Miss California USA Pageant. Other Palomar students honored at pageants were Detra Eckman and Casey Arnold. Eckman, a 20-year-old sophomore, was named second runner-up for the title of Miss San Marcos. Arnold, an 18-year-old freshman, was named second runner-up for the title of Miss Poway. The contestants in the Miss Poway pageant also voted her Miss Congeniality.
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Student Julie Rose (right) was crowned the new Miss San Marcos Feb. 11. last year's winner, Jasmine Jurling , also a Palomar student, presides over the ceremony.
Student Services Dept. undergoing automation
Prompted by "violent and uncontrollable students," the Palomar Campus Patrol has been authorized to use mace as of Feb. 23, according to Campus Patrol Leader Boyd Mahan. The decision to equip patrol officers with mace was made by Mahan who cited an increase in violent activity in the school, especially in the past two years. The College's Safety and Security Council and the President's Advisory Council both approved the idea of patrol officers being equipped with mace, said Mahan. For now, two patrol officers will be authorized to carry mace while on duty. Various incidents in which students became violent toward faculty members triggered the need for mace, Mahan said. One year ago, the Director oflnstructional Operations and Services, Catherine Ott, was confronted by a student who was yelling 'Til kill you, I'll kill you." A patrol officer intervened and diffused the situation, Mahan said. "The patrol officer had to get between Mrs. Ott and the attacker, and shield her with his body, placing himself at risk. If he would have had mace, a sim ple five-second spray in the face would have subdued the attacker until the Sheriffs
Deputies arrived," said Mahan. Ott, who supports the use of mace by Campus Patrol officers, said, "People are confronted at Palomar, and we need to have an effective way to deal with it. Mace should have been in use a whtle ago." Patrol officers will be using mace as a defensive weapon to protect themselves along with the students and faculty of Palomar, not as an offensive weapon, said Mahan. Police officers at Mira Costa College in Oceanside have been using a combination of mace and pepper spray for over five years, and have been quite successful in controlling extreme situations, said Robert Norcroff, Mira Co~ta Campus Police supervisor. "Instead of having to beat them (the attackers), we would just spray them," said Norcroff. Mahan added, "Mace will definitely help us get extreme situations under control. Ifl' m confronted by, or have to deal with a guy that's 6foot-2, and I'm only 5-foot-9, then without mace, I'm pretty much in trouble." Only two patrol officers, Gerard Perez and Eric Verella, will be permitted to carry mace on patrol. Both officers have completed six months of police academy training and have had form~ mace and pepper spray training. Students who are patrol
See MACE, Page 5
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• Department hopes to be able to provide its services to students over the telephone Brian Wallace Managing Editor
Palomar's Student Services Department wants to let you reach out and touch your grades, financial aid status and other Student Services related information via your home telephone. The capacity of Palomar's phone and register (PAR) system will soon be tripled and Student Services would like to use the extra lines to provide automation of many, if not all, of its services. "We have a commitment to make as much information as possible as easy to access as possible," said Dr. David Chappie, assistant superintendent/vice pr:esident of Student Services. "Any information in our computers
that you would ordinarily have to come down to campus and stand in line for, you should be able to access on your own." Right now Student Services has the hardware to allow students to access their financial aid status over the phone, but the system cannot start operati on until some programming work is done by the Information Systems & Services Department. The opportunity to allow students more access to information via the telephone comes thanks to a new interactive voice response system (IVR), part of a campus-wide effort to update Palomar's outdated infrastructure. "Right now we have a very antiquated old system that deals with 161ines," said David
See SERVICES, Page 5
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Demonstrating the importance of hand and voice signals for controlling canines, Sgt. Chuck Byrne from the Camp Pendleton Marines K-9 unit provided a 45-minute, on-campus presentation to the Criminal Justice Club Feb. 22. The dogs are also trained to identify odors and detect bombs.