Whether doing the "soul grind" or the "Superman slide," skating trends are growing by leaps and bounds and scrapes and ...
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OPINION
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This is your mission should you choose to accept it: arrive at Palomar early enough to acquire a legal parking space and reach your classroom rendezvous point on time. Page 5
The season goes into full swing for the Comets' baseball team
PALOMA~ COLLEGE
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ESCONDIDO CENTER
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Plans for • neww1ng take off Beatriz Banuelos Swff Wmer
If everything goes as planned, the construction to retrofit the original wing of Palomar College E condido Education Center, will begin this summer. The "600" wing is located in the southeast part of the center where a taco shop once operated and its ne ighbor, a dentist office, c arries on as usual. The dental office will be relocated in May to another part of the cente r whe n con struc ti on begins. No noticeable c hanges will be seen from the outs ide because cons tructi on will ta ke place ins ide where the floors, ceilings and walls will be knocked out and reco nstructed to con vert the building to a Departme nt of State Arc hitect earthquake-sate approved s tructure. Pa lomar 's Dental A ssis ting Department has shown an interest in the Escondido Ce nter 's 600 wing, but no offic ial proposals have been submitted. Acc ording to Kelle y HudsonMaclsaac, manager faciliti es planning/environme ntal health & safe ty, faciliti es, the 600-wing expans ion could allow the dental assisting program mo re space and support future extended classroom use o n bo th ca mpuses . Palom a r Coll ege owns the Escondido Center, purc hased with state fundin g in 199 1, and leases o ut space to businesses. Director of Fac ilities Mike E llis said the cost to conve rt the 600 wing from a c omme rc ial building to a DSA approved building will be an estimated $300,000. · "Sometimes the wheels w o rk slow on making a detenninatio n," aid E llis. The entire 600 wing will be available for c lassroom use after retrofitting, but no de finite lay-out plans have been proposed o r dete rmined . DSA approval could ta ke anywhere from s ix weeks to s ix months, Elli s said .
Photos hy Becky Va n Doorn I The Telescope
Palomar student Russel Bowers, member of the Latter Day Saints Student Association, takes a much-needed rest during the club's effort to fix-up the ·"P."
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Annica Gerber Managing Ed11or
Dana Bellafaire \taff Wmer
Our c ountry 's c apita l has the Was hington mo nument, New Y9rk has the Empire State Building and Palomar pronounces its prese nce with our very o wn capital P. T he letter " P" which is located o n the hill that overlooks Palo mar college's main campus was o ri g inall y given to the college as a g ift from the 1952 sophomore graduatin g class to he lp make the campus m or~. n oti ceabl e. Director of the Latte r Day Saints Stude nts Association Blain M organ and the me mbers o f the Pa lomar Co ll ege c lub were in c harge of the "P" uptake, whic h included replacing the limestone that gives it it white color and re moving overgrown weeds.
Relva Whetton and Nathan Broderick stand in the shadow of the landmark and work-in-progress "P."
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Jared Stucki shovels lime on to the hillside to bring out the white in the Palomar "P." The 50-pound bags of lime had to be carried up the hill.
Campus crime exists, but -Security says it could be worse Natalie Petrovic
. A-~ Crime Scene 0 Q) Palomar Year End Report
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Imagine walking to your car a fter class only to find it is not the re. Though this is a real ity fo r some Pal omar students, is it as big of a probl em as it sce ms 7 " No," sa ys Campus Security Supervisor Mike Alle man. "We are ve ry fortun a te, given the size of the stude nt bod y and the number of trans ient persons vis iting o ur earnpu s, that we haven' t suffered any tragedies." A llem an is re ferring to recent mu rders at two colleges. T he first inc ide nt took place a t South Texas Community College. Two masked g unme n a rmed w ith autom a tic weapons killed a security guard and injured three o thers while students reg istered for c lasses . T he thieves
took abo ut $800 collected in reg istratio n fees . The second inciden t was the beating and killi ng of a Uni vers ity o f Texas Campus Securi ty O fficer by a me nta ll y ill man. Closer to home, rapes a nd sex ua l assaul ts occurred a.t Universi ty of California campuses in both Los Angeles and San D iego. At Palomar, the biggest tragedy is the fact that between 1996 and 1997 vehicle thefts and burglaries doubled, a nd vehicle tamperi ngs nearly quadrupled. A lleman says, however, th at Campus Security is a lready on top of the prob lem, taking measures to prevent this activity. High levels of both vis ibil ity and observation arc j ust two ways Campus Patro l Offi cers arc atte mpting to lower the risk of theft.
Acco rd ing to a m e morandum released by the National Center for Educatio n regard ing na tionwide statistics, Palomar has a sig nificantly lo wer crime rate because there is no campus housing. There have been no rapes or murders repo rted at Palom ar College. Thefts and burglaries are also signi fica ntl y lower than national college campus stati stics. Accord ing to Alleman, "The m ain reason we arc striving so hard to upgrade Campus Security to po lice · standards campus wide is that we have student, s taff a nd fac ulty aware of the critical crimes ta king place on other campuses. T hey [student, staff and faculty] have a g reat deal of insight and proacti ve thinking fo r wanti ng a hig her level of security," Alleman than ks them for that a nd says, " It 's a smart move."