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Pa lomar Community College San Marcos, CA
Student suspended for offensive conduct
Volume 48, Number 21
May daze
• Woman reports unsolicited attention Davila approached his latest victim April 27 while she was sitting on a bench by the Human Resources building, located on the Following an eighth incident involving west side of campus in front of the C building, offensive conduct at Palomar, a student has and initiated a conversation with her, say patrol reports. At one point in the conversabeen suspended until May 1997. The student is identified as 55-year-old ' tion, Davila asked, "Have you kissed anyone Alex Davila of Carlsbad, who has been a before?" which led the victim to feel suspirepeat offender of offensive conduct at cious of him . Next Davila asked, "Would you kiss me?" Palomar since July 1992, according to Camfollowed by "Don't tell anyone," which conpus Patrol reports . Davila added one more offense to his sequently led the victim to walk away from already lengthy school record by attempting Davila-but Davila still followed her to the to acquaint himself with a female in an offen- cafeteria, where the victim finally evaded sive manner, patrol reports say. Davila com- him and contacted Campus Patrol immedimitted offensive conduct and failed to com- ately thereafter, patrol reports say. ply with a college official, according to the See SUSPENSION, Page 3 Student Handbook.
Steven Zivanic Staff Writer
ASG approves budget with unanimous vote Jeff Vize Staff Writer
Battling higher monetary requests from several departments, the Associated Student Government passed its budget unanimously May 3 for the 1995-96 school year, despite an estimated zero increase in income. The ASG' s budget of$93,000 covers funding of 33 itemized department budgets on campus. Overall, 10 items received funding
Health, safety fair scheduled Student Services is holding the second annual Health & Safety Expo, Wednesday, May 10 from 9:30a.m. to I p.m. on the lawn in front of the Student Union. The campus health fair is scheduled to host over 35 campus and community organizations and will feature various demonstrations and exhibits. Health & Safety Expo '95 day events include the follwing: United Studio of SelfDefense is having a 10:30 a.m. seminar displaying a variety of self-dense techniques; Palomar College Wellness Team is giving a fitness demonstration; and the Vallecitios Water District will help students test their water. Participants can receive free skin cancerscreeningsfrom 11 a.m. to I 2:30p.m. Health Services will also provide free testing for blood pressure, visual acuity, and ,lung capacity. -Carla Mays
increases, while eight saw cuts. The remaining 15 were unchanged from last year. Among the hardest hit by the cuts were diversity education and the ASG retreat fund , with each losing $1,000. In addition, ASG assistance for the independently published annual student handbook was reduced by $2,000. Locker funding was the only line item eliminated. The largest increase came for the hourly salaries fund. After receiving $150 this year, the salary line item will jump to $4,150 in 1995-96, to cover costs ofPalomar' s recently expanded summer tutoring program. The ASG also doubled its election budget to $1 ,000. Several members believed that this would help them to draw greater voter turnout than the I percent average in elections this year. Most prominent in voicing disapproval to the ASG's budget was the Inter-Club Council, whose budget of $5,550 was unchanged from last year. Members were upset because they had been originally granted a preliminary increase of $3,550. This increase was granted at the budget and finance committee, which reviews department requests and drafts the budget proposal which is voted on by the ASG. According to ASG budget approval procedure, the committee ' s decision is not final and their budget version is strictly preliminary. As a result, the ICC found their increase eliminated and redistributed to other line items. Several members thought the sudden retraction of the money was planned. "The only reason they gave [the preliminary] increase was to to pacify me," said Robert Jenkins, whose term as ICC chairper-
See ASG , Page 5
ABOVE: Robert Driscoll, guitarist and singer for The Rugburns, performed during the M ay Day concert festival held in Missle Park, San Diego. LEFT: Jeff Aaffedt, drummer for The Rugburns, gets into the spirit of a jam session. A Rugburns song, "Hitchhiker Joe," has been receiving airplay on local radio stations. See page 12 for more photographs from May Day
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