The Telescope 50.22

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SPORTS

The Lady Comets' softball team wins the conference title ... for the 12th straight year!

FEATURE

ENTERTAINMENT

Palomar students celebrated the National Day of Prayer in their own way.

Jurassic Park attacks San Diego's Natural History Museum this summer.

THE Friday, May 9, 1997

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Palomar College San Marcos, CA

Volume SO, Number 22

Professor appeals college's dismissal

Cinco de Mayo celebration ...

Suzette Clark News Editor

Felipe Rangel {left) leads his Azteca-Xicano dance group, Danza Oceolotl, in a song of praise dedicated to a mural near Palomar's pool on Cinco de Mayo. The group visits Palomar annually on May 5 to perform. SEE PHOTO ESSAY PAGE 8

A hearing date has been set for Associate Professor Michael King's appeal of his dismissal from Palomar College. Palomar's Governing Board voted to dismiss King Jan. 28 after released court documents indicated he pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion in May 1996. The documents indicate that in exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors agreed not to pursue additional charges of selling grades, the sale of fraudulently obtained high school diploma's, and soliciting and accepting bribes from foreign students. The hearing, scheduled for May 12, will be presided over by an administrative law judge agreed upon by both parties. After both sides present their witnesses, the judge will decide whether to uphold the Governing Board's decision to dismiss King. Court documents released to date indicate witnesses "admitted to buying grades from the defendant [King]" in taped depositions, grand jury testimony, and in sworn statements. But according to Dr. George Boggs, president/superintendent of Palomar College, requests by the college that the courts open these sealed documents have been denied. "We have the pre-sentencing documents, but they [the U.S. Attorney 's Office] refused to release these materials," Boggs said. King has denied that he ever sold grades, and said in a January interview with The Telescope that students told him they had been "pressured and intimidated" to SEE KING, PAGE 17

Summer will be trial of open -stacks success Chris Tribbey Editor-In-Chief

Palomar's bookstore is on schedule to complete the conversion from a closed to an openstack text book system, making summer session a trial run for the new system. "Essentially it is a test Summer isn't as bad as fall and we can work the bugs out of the system if

At a Glance .Beginning June 16: • Students must find their own books. • The bookstore will no longer print book lists for students. • Students must bring a list of their classes, teachers, and course numbers.

we encounter problems," said bookstore manager Michael · Schaeffer. "Our main concern now is that fall runs smoothly." The decision was made in midMarch to update the closed-stack system after numerous complaints over the years concerning students waiting in line for nearly two hours to buy books. The new system requires students to find and collect their own books from open racks in the store, where before a personal book list was made for each student and school employees retrieved books for students . Students must bring their registration slip or class schedule to find out what books they need off the shelves. There will be 14 cash registers operating during peak hours of text book sales. "I don't know that it will be necessarily easier. It depends on the students. Some come in totally helpless while others come in on the ball," said Schaeffer. He SEE BOOKS, PAGE 17

Student hits the 'Wheel of Fortune' Carla Van Wagoner Advertising Manager

Carla Van Wagoner I The Telescope

Palomar student Kristin Micheloni avoids going bankrupt during her spin on "Wheel Of Fortune's" college week.

· Under the watchful gaze of "Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak, Palomar student Kristin Micheloni spins the wheel and takes a chance on walking away a winner. Micheloni, an elementary education major, is participating in "Wheel of Fortune's College Week" where college students spin the wheel and solve the puzzle for prizes and money. The half-hour syndicated show was on location at the San Diego Convention Center, May 1. A little over I 00 students were at the April 25 audition. Other Palomar students present at the tryouts were: Tanuel Major, George Singletary, Malcolm Caswell, Stephanie SEE WHEEL, PAGE 11


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