The Telescope 50.13

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OPINION Is drug addiction a disability?

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ELESCOPE Friday, Feb. 14, 1997

Palomar College

San Marcos, CA

Volume 50, Number 13

King vows to challenge dismissal decision Suzette Clark Ct1-Editor-ln-Chie{

Lawyers for Michael King , the Palomar College professor who was sentenced to spend I0 months in jail for felony tax evasion, have taken preliminary steps to challenge the collcgc·s decision to dismiss him. King said Tuesday that he has retained a lawyer from the California Teachers Association and the Civil Ri ghts in Education Association to "vigorously fight" on his he hal f. "We have already requested my personnel records and arc getting ready for what is to come,'· said King ... In my 23 years at

Palomar, this single incident is all there is." king, one of five tenured African American professors , says that when he notified college officials of his pending conviction for tax evasion in February 1996, he was assured that it would not be grounds for dismissal. Although it has been alleged that King sold grades and falsi lied transcripts, no charge or conviction was forthcoming from the U.S. Attorney's office. Ycsmin Saidc, assistant U.S. Attorney, would not comment due to other related investigations that arc in progress. Dr. George Boggs, president/superintendent of Palomar College, acknow ledged that

he had been contacted by one of King's attorneys. "I will emphatically continue "T hey have called to to fight this, no matter what make inquiries , hut I have not received a formal reIevell have to take it to. " quest for a hearing as of -Michael King, yet," said Boggs, adding that Associate Professor King still has two weeks to request a hearing. While King is waiting for the hearing ''lf the United States Attorney's office process to begin, he has received support could not convict Michael King for grade from his former student Robert Jenkins. selling, then Palomar College should not Jenkins is now the first vice-president condemn him ," said Jenkins. of the North San Diego chapter of the In addition, Jenkins says the NAACP is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. See KING, Page 10

Choir kicks-off Black History Month Impeachment dead,

ASG looks·forward Suzette Clark Co-Ediwr-in-Chief

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The Uncoln Preparatory High School Choral, helped celebrate Black History month in the Student Union Wednesday. The choir sang traditional and contemporary gospel music.

Efforts by members of the Associated Student Government to oust their president have ended. Proceedings could not go forward without at least five ASG members endorsement. Within the past two weeks, one senator resigned and another withdrew their support of the plan. At the Jan. 29 meeting, David Espinoza, vice-president of state affairs. had presente<.l ASG president Berenice An·cwla with a letter informing her of plans to begin Impeachment proceedings against her. EspinoLa outlined charges that incluued failure to uphold the Constitution and Bylaws. specifically, Arrezola's attempt to dismiss him from office without putting it to a vote before ASG members. Jim Bowen. director of student

activities and ASG adviser, says that Arrezola' s alleged constitutional violations stem from contradictions within the document. ·'As much as we would like them to be, the Bylaws and Constitution are not perfect,'' said Bowen. There are no plans to revive impeachment plans against Arrezola. ASG members arc focused on fixing the bylaws to help avoid similar situations in the future. At Wednesday's meeting, the ASG approve<.! preliminary changes to the Bylaws that would clarif) the travel policy. and allow ASG members to travel on more trips utilizing the student representation fcc. It was revealed in the meeting that some members of ASG may be prevented from attending the upcoming annual trip to Washington D.C. for legislative lobbying. Theseehanges. once made retroactive, will ensure their attendance.

Feature Story usan McWilliams, an Amherst College junior, met her boyfriend at a campus party, which she describes as "lots of beer, lots of kegs and lots or drunk people." .. We never had a first date. It started as a hook-up,'' explained McWilliams, 20. Classmates arc still surpri~cd the relationship has lasted for two years, she said. "Most people go to parties on weekends, hook-up, and not necessarily talk about it ever again," she said. "Or it happens again the next week, and it goes on for months. This is not a romantic place. by any means." Indeed , long gone arc the days when campus courtships began with young men delivering roses and candy hearts to coeds. Instead of pairing off, students at colleges across the nation say they tend to go out in herds together, a phenom-

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The Dating Game Colleen DeBaise enon called "pack dating." "Dating is dead,'' said Arthur Levine, president of the Teacher's College at Columbia University in New York. He recently finished a four-year lifestyle study of 9, I00 students on several hundred campuses, including focus groups on 30 campuses. "The most startling finding was the majority of college students who said they've never seen

a successful adult romantic relationship,'' he said. "Some arc children of divorce; some are children of parents who didn't get along." But while today 's students say they've given up on dating and the romantic rituals that go with it, they haven't given up sex. Despite the fact that students have grown up with excessive warnings of AIDS and date rape, casual sex and one-night stands are

common, say students. "I know a lot of people who have had sex just meeting someone for the first time,'' said Palomar freshman Lei anne Jenkins. On a typical night out, students go out with a group of friends to a party, movie or somewhere to hang out, adds Jenkins. Romantic commitment isn ' t what most students are looking for, said Levine, whose book-length study will be published next year. Emotion and sexuality seem divorced in many student relationships, he said. "Everyone has hormones; it's [become] more a hormonal activity than emotional. That's the way life works." Even the slang terms students use to describe sex-scrumping, shacking, scamming-belie a lack of romance associated with the act, he says.

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