OPINION
62-year-olds having babies: personal freedom or has a line been crossed?
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ENTERTAINMENT
SPORTS
Debbie Gibson gives The Telescope a peek at her latest attempt to recapture the '80s.
Ranked 6th in the state, women's tennis is sneaking up on the competition. See Page 12
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Palomar College
Friday, May 2, 1997
San Marcos, CA
Volume 50, Number 21
Proposed science building spurs debate Some feel loss of Schettler's Garden not worth new facility Suzette Clark Ne11 ·s Editor
Proposed sites for a new Science Building
Student Parking Lot 9
dents enjoy there? These arc questions we must ask as Palomar embraces this concept of 'outcome measurements'," said one Palomar official, who did not wish to be identified. "There arc educational values that likewise are not measurable - what is to happen to them ?"
Lines we re drawn at Wednesday's Associated Student Go vernm e nt meeting, when Kelley Hudson-Maclsaac, manager of fac iliti es planning and environmental health , and Associate Professor Pat Archer vied for stu"Schettler's Garden" dent support o ver the fate of proArcher thinks the site is worthy posed ' ite o f a._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of preservation new sc1ence "/ . as a natural sanctuary. building. The site ''1 recognize the need for which is called the greenbelt, /' · f more class" S c he ttl c r , 5 JUS room spaceGarden ," and the I'm just "Lower Arb'' opposed to the -Pat Archer location . This depending on who you talk to Professor, Social Sciences [Schettler ' s is located - - - - - - - - - - - - - Garden] is an adjacent to the area we ought library, and is a frequent destinato be co ncerned abo ut," said tion for students, faculty and staff, Arche r. "There are old growth in search of quiet areas for stud ytrees that wo uld have to be torn ing, meditati on, and relaxati on. down ." Some stude nt go ve rnment memThe garden in q uesti on is ho me bers have charac tcrited the hourto Hubc ll' s Arch. a brick sc ulpture long de bate that took place o n by· Ramo na arti st Ja mes Hubcll Wed nesday as a phil osoph ica l batthat was donated to the co ll ege 25 tle !he new "outcome based" years ago. 50-year-old trees values often embraced hy adminand archeological artifacts~ istrat1on. ag<~inst non-m,unstrcam Archer feels that the three- tor) values that arc hard to measure . fJuild1ng could be constructed 111 ''How do ) ou measure the one of t\\O other areas: ~wiT value of .1 \\alk through Parking Lot 7 or !'tall Parking Lot Schettler's GarJen . or the \alue II . neither of which would di~turb of the peace anJ tran qu ili ty stuS EE GARDEN , PAGE 4
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recogmze t e nee fior more classroom space, m opposed to the location. "
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Sites 1 and 2
Site 3
If this proposal 1s adopted, the sc1ence building would be located where the Child Care CerJter currently is [Site 2]. ~hen ~he Child Care Center would be moved to Site 2. No state fund1rg IS available for relocating the center.
Construction 1n what IS currently Staff Park1ng Lot 11 would not accommodate the 80,000 square foot build1ng that IS proposed.
Site 4 Known as Redwood City, th1s area is problematiC because there 1sn't
an area to hou se the programs that -currently operate in the temporary buildings.
Site 5 Recommended by the task force, this s1te is opposed by members of faculty, staff and student body, who want the space preserved.
100,000-plus students lied Budget approved for grant money last year in record time Adolfo Mendez College Press Service
While education officials have always known some college students falsify documents to get Pell Grants, it's only recently that they've been able to determine the extent of the lies. A new study reveals that more than 100,000 college students received Pell Grants during the 1995-96 school year who should have never received the free federal money.
According to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General, college students lied about their family income to get the award money. Worse yet, the Inspector General's office reported that colleges, by themselves, have no way of discouraging the practice. "We knew some people were lying, based on our past criminal investigations where we have found that students had lied," said Patrick Howard, director of student financial assistance programs for the Office of Inspector
General at the Department of Education. "We just had no idea of the magnitude." Just how large is the problem? The Inspector General's report found thousands of students are lying on their studentaid applications and costing the government millions as a result. Working with the Internal Revenue Service, the Inspector General's office compared family incomes reported on students' financial-aid applications with those reported on SEE
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Suzette Clark News Editor
Five minutes is all that was needed for the Associated Student Government to ratify the budget for the 1997-98 school year. What some ASG members characterize as an ··amazing feat" will leave at least one campus organization unsure of its viability as the fall 1997 school year approaches. Students and faculty who work on Bravura, Palomar's literary magazine, came to the April 30 meeting hoping the ASG would reconsider the $400 budget cut to
their program that was proposed at the April 23 meeting. Except for some minor allocation restructuring , all other campus groups that LE::lllll-.....~_j receive ASG Mike D'Aio funding were granted the same amount they were given last year. However, during an hour-long discussion on another agenda SEE
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