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Few students voted in a student government election.that had no contested races.

The election, held Oct. 2 and Oct. 3, drew 140 voters. Two executive positions and seven senatorial seats were elected.

Diane Vasquez was elected as Executive Vice President and Leo Melena was elected as Vice President/Chair of Inter-Club Council.

Of the nine candidates, only senatorial candidate Dana Burrows was not currently Student serving on Associated Government.

The other eight candidates had been appointed by t he ASG after its election last May. Appointed members are required to run for office at the first election after their appointments.

After the election, ASG still has two empty executive positions, Treasurer and Vice President of Social Affairs, and two empty senatorial seats.

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A planned journey to Egypt, part of Palomar College's Studies Abroad program, has been cancelled by school administration due to the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks.

"Our first priority is the safety of the students. We felt, given the current world situation, it would not be prudent to send our students off on airplanes over to that part of the world," said Palomar president Sherrill Amador.

The decision, made in an administrative meeting held Sept. 28, did not include program leaders, Language department chairman George Pesacreta and art professor Harry Bliss.

The Associated Student Government election, held on Oct 2 and Oct 3 in the Student Union, drew 140 voters.

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Camp Pendleton has been, ip a heightened state of alert since Sept 11, with tighter security and a longer wait at the gate · during peak hours. · First Lieutenant and public affairs officer Carrie Batson said from 7 to 8 a.m. people coming on base can expect long delays.

Valid identification, proof of insurance and current car registration is needed to enter the base Batson said. "Training routines are continuing and basic functioning is normal," said Batson.

"There is no comment on future operations," said Batson. .fanet Hoffman, manager of the Palomar education center and counselor at Camp Pendleton, said that they have had some active-military · Palomar students drop out because of increased military duties. She also said some students probably dropped classes because of being afraid to come

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Lieutenant Corporal Cesar Argueta, on base at Camp Pendleton studies. The base has been in a heightened state of alert since the ten:orist attacks Sept 11. on base. "The feeling out here is a sense of great sadness for what has happened," Hoffman said. Hoffman said people have a great need to feel secure at this time.

Ervin Ramos is administrative chief for the Camp Administrative Pendleton Center. With 17 years of service in the military, Ramos is also a student at the Palomar center

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on base. Ramos said security is heavier. "It doesn't matter which gate you're coming through, they pretty much check every vehicle," said Ramos.

"We are all upset about what happened, but you can't jump to conclusions and say who did it, cause you don't know," said Ramos. ''We just get ready and

used clause in a federal privacy act, already has asked some schools to turn over information on foreign students.

Some lawmakers also say they wjll push harder for implementation of a 1996 law that was supposed to create a national electronic monitoring system of all foreign l;ltudents; the system now includes only SEE FOREIGN, PAGE 3

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Saturday afternoon brought lots of fun, (llthough not too much sun, as the International Club gathered for a beach party in Oceanside harbor.

Students from all over the world got together for a night of barbeque, volleyball and dance, and even the gloomy weather couldn't bring the moods down.

"I think it's cool. I didn't

think so many people would show up ,~' said Eduardo Fioravanti from Italy, who was happy to see many Americans join the fun as well.

"It's a great party," said Brian Givens, whose friend brought him to the party. "It's a fun group."

The beach party was the second International Club activity since the beginning of the

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n the aftermath of Sept. ll's horrific attack on our freedoms and national seeurity, we must decide whether we are going to stand and fight or stand in fear.

For some male Palomar students, ranging in age 18-25, the question, "Are you going to stand and fight or stand in fear?" hits close to horne. For more than fifty years, America's young men have served as a backup system to fill the vacancies which cannot be occupied through voluntary means. For these young men who may be headed into the possibility of war, is the idea of a draft a concern? Should it be?

"I'd go, it's not a real big deal," said Palomar student Roberto Lopez, 20. Lopez said from the tim~ he was very young his family has instilled in him a sense of patriotism and love for his country.

"I don't think it will be a full-scale war like It was in WVvl. .. I think it Will be something like Desert Storm where we have technology basically taking over and dominating the war," Lopez said.

"It would be a multi-billion dollar country versus a thousand dollar, maybe million dollar country... it's like David and Goliath, we're basically going to crush them," Lopez said.

Many students seem to agree with the idea that the United States would dominate the war if one were declared.

"I'm not really afraid," said Palomar student John Upson, 18, "It will all be taken care of." · Others want revenge on the terrorists that committed these devastating attacks.· "I'd go ... payback's a 'witch,' " said student Eric Vause, 20, ''Whoever did this deserves to die." · "I'd die for any one of those people who died," said student Matt Ocampo, 19.

"I'd prefer not to die, and to fulfill the rest of my life," continued Ocampo, ''but if we don't act, it'll (terrorism) get worse."

Student Luis Perez, 19, said he would be scared if he was called to fight.

"I would do it just because I would be worried about something happening to my morn and sister," Perez said. · Another Palomar student, Jason Adams, 18, does not believe in violence, but if a draft were instituted, Adams said, "I'd probably enlist fast so I can get a job I want, one I could handle."

Many students hold passionate feelings about fighting for the freedom of our country. "Ifi was one of the unfortunate people whose number was drafted in the lottery, I'd go willingly because I love this nation. It would be my duty as an American to fight for my. country, and not only for my

family but for members of other families," said Palomar student Scott Brown, 19.

Robbie Mcsheehy, a Palomar student studying to become a pilot, agrees that as an American it is his duty to fight in a war if he were drafted.

"I'd be happy with it. We'd be fighting for a good reason, to keep American freedom," said Mcsheehy.

Although these students are willing to put their life on the line for their country and their freedom as .American citizens, other students object to the idea of war. They have adopted the theme that underlines the famous line, "make love not war." ''Why can't people be in peace?" asks student Polina Leyfer, 21. ''We need to learn to accept things; when evil comes to you, you fight back with kindness, not killing innocent people," Leyfer said.

"People should use language and come to one.

The questions should be; what are Americans doing about it? How do you get together as young Americans?"

"Our nation is becoming nothing but savages and barbarians," Bro\\'11 said. "We need to get together, sit down and work something out," Brown said. ''We should try to understand their (terrorists) idea about peace and try to work with them to prevent this from happening again."

Although Brown is against the idea of war and violence, he said tha.t if war IS really necessary, ;'We should send all of the convicted felons over there to fight instead of 18 and 19year-olci kids" .

They already know how to shoot and kill, unlike young men, agrees fashion major Jay Jones, 19.

Leyfer also has an alternative plan which would prevent young men from being involuntarily drafted into war. "If I were President, I would build up the CIA, and wouldn't send innocent boys who cannot fight," Leyfer said.

While some students try to concoct a plan that·would solve the acts of terrorism without facing the extremities of war, others lighten the fear with humor.

"It's a lot easier in comic books," Jones said.

"All you have to do is yell, 'Hey X-Man, we have terrorists,' and he'd come running."

It is true that life in the comic books is a lot simpler with super heroes such as the X-Men or Superman to fight our battles. However, in reality, it is the young men who have been preselected and involuntarily appointed to be our nation's "super heroes" in the time of war.

Is this the way it should be? Business major, Matt Goldstein, 23, said, "No.""I think the military drafts younger people because they feel they can mold them into what they want them to be. Young people are very easily influenced, and feel however people tell them to feel, which is what the military needs," said Goldstein, "the military is all about control."

"I would not go to war for this country," he continues, "I feel that war is a senseless act of violence."

Goldstein said he feels there are more effective ways in which the problem of terrorism could be solved. For instance, ''Truly targeting the people that have committed the crime ... there are a lot of innocent people that are going to die in an 'all out' war, rather than targeting the ·people that are directly involved," Goldstein said.

As the United States waits for retaliation and action from olir government on the recent tragic events, the American youth waits for their destination.

It is up to the students of Palomar College to decide for themselves. How will you stand?

Ready to fight, or in fear? Brown said, "Every college student must take a stand and look inside their heart to try to help the situation

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Bliss said administration should have obtained his and Pesacreta's input before making a decision. "Both George and I are probably more informed about these countries and their hazards than administration," Bliss said.

Both professors have spent large amounts of time and money to prepare and promote the program, Bliss said. "I think they believe we just throw out the word and everybody just rushes in to spend $2000 or $3000 to go on these trips. That's not the case. It

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21 colleges and universities.

Some lawmakers say it's important to establish better monitoring of foreign students even though they make up a small portion - an estimated 560,000 as of 1998 - of the 30 million total visa-holders in the country in any given year.

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takes a lot of advertising. The school does not give us money these to advertise courses."Amador said that Bliss was able to provide information to dean of humanities Gene Jackson.

Bliss disagreed, saying that while he had a brief meeting with Jackson, he wasn't able to fully brief him on the situation.

He also said that there was a total lack of communication with administration .

"I learned about the meeting second hand. I never got a letter or phone call to inform me that · this was going on. To know about this would have been helpful. What if I had a meeting for my group that would have overlapped with their meeting?

I could have been signing up

people for a program they were in the process of canceling," Bliss said.

Bliss believes students would not be in an inordinate amount of danger. "Egypt is the second largest recipient of aid from the U.S., in the world. Tourism is their major source of income."

Bliss said security within Egyptian airports is more thorough than their Americ;m counterparts. · Despite these reasons, Bliss said he would have cancelled the trip. He .said fear among students would have probably deterred them from participating.Further journeys abroad may be cancelled, including a May trip to Bali. If this occurs, Bliss plans to replace it with a trip to Europe.

wait," said Ramos. Mathew James Senior has been in the Marine Corp for 2 and a half years and is taking a multi-cultural studies class from the Palomar center on base. Senior said there are a lot of different safety measures that are being taken to ensure the safety of civilians, the Marines, and the sailors aboard camp pendlelton.

"Its gotten kind of strict and a lot of people complain about it, but its pretty much for our own good, to make sure the same thing that happened in .New

to have arrived on a student visa to attend flight school.

U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, RTexas, said the first action ought to be to enforce laws, that are already in place.

"I don't doubt now that the law will be enforced," said Smith, past chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

Detractors of the heightened measures worry that increased security means · eliminating foreign students' rights.

"It is going to erode the civil liberties of students on cam-

puses nationwide," said Julia Beatty, president of the U.S. Students Association. "What it will lead to is increased racial profiling of students based on their ethnicity, particularly if they're Asian, Middle Eastern or Arab students."

At least 10 colleges and universities, prompted by FBI requests for records, have sought guidance from the U.S. Education Department, spokeswoman Lindsey Kozberg said.

The department told the schools they should comply

under a clause in the 27 -yearold Family Education Rights and Privacy Act. Under the act, records may be released only with students' permission or with a subpoena, but the clause allows agencies to obtain the information in the case of a health or safety emer· gency. .

"This is unique it that it relates to the largest terrorist attack, the largest loss of life in the history of the United States," she said.

Under the 1996 law, colleges and universities already are

Power Point class oHered Palomar College will be offering a seminar in the usage of Power Point II this month.

This seminar will cover working with presentations, templates, graphics, and multimedia, how to create slides from an outline, and send slides to Microsoft Word. In addition, attendees will learn to customize the Power Point tool bars, build interactive presentations, and become familiar with collaboration features by creating online meetings and broadcast presentations.

The seminar will be held Oct. 20, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Palomar College Escondido Education Center, room 200. Participation will require a $59 fee. For further information call Admissions at (760) 744-1150, ext. 2164.

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Sewing classes oHered at Camp Pendleton Palomar Colleges Fashion Dept. will soon be offering courses in basic sewing at Camp Pendleton to encourage spouses of active military personnel to become students.

The classes, Basic Sewing I and II, take an industrial approach to fabrics and textiles for the purpose of providing possible vocational training in preparation for life after the military. Though active military families are targeted, these courses will be open to all Palomar students.

These courses are tentatively planned for the spring semester and will be held at the Abbey Reinke Community Center at Camp Pendleton. For further information call Christina Tejeda at (760) 744-1150, ext 2357.

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York doesn't happen to us as well," Senior said.

On the 200 square mi. base there are approximately 60 thousand people, 32 thousand Marines 3000 Navy, 4000 federal employees, 17 thousand military dependents and 3000 civilian employees.

Batson said since the tragedy on Sept. 11 the public affairs office has been very busy. "We have been putting in 15 hour days," said Batson there has been increased national interest in Camp Pendleton. ''We are getting bombarded with questions from the media there has been an incredible interest in us," Batson said. There has also been a huge increase in media events on base as well as a lot of tours being given Batson said. supposed to report whether visa holders are enrolled at school. The law was intended to replace a paper tracking system with a computerized one.

But the mandated monitoring system has gone through several starts and stops since 1996. In February 2000, the program was put on· hold because of the $35 million cost.

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includes an official Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Walk/Run T-shirt.

For more information, contact Linda DudikLatulippe, (760) 744-1150, ext. 2420 or visit the website www.honorourhistory. com -Mirva Lempiainen

Green Card Lottery begins Application for the Green Card Lottery is available in the international stud-ents office at Student Service Center, room SSC-45. Until Oct. 31 any legal non-resident with a visa is able to apply through the Immigrant Diversity Visa Program or DV 2002. Each applicant is entitled to complete one application only from a qualified country. A lottery will determine the recipients.

Office hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Oct. 15; 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. after; Friday 8 a.m. to .4 p.m. Contact the U.S. State Department at www.state.gov for fgrther information.

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Concert Hour is a music enrichment series hosted by the Performing Arts Department. Appearing October 11 is the Supernova Saxophone Quartet from San Diego State University.

The program, from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m., is held in the performance lab, room D-10. Seating is on a first come basis. There is no admission charge.

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Fund-raiser benefits women The Escondido/San Marcos branch of the American Association of University Women is sponsoring a walk/run fundraising event Oct.13 at 8 a.m. at the San Marcos High School track.

The money raised will benefit the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund, which supports academic studies of women and girls. There will b~ a $15 participation fee, which also

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s Have the terror attacks affected your willingness to fly~

Logan Stout UNDECIDED

"It hasn't affected me at all. Pretty soon I'm going to visit my sister in Northern California."

Pamela Coss COMMUNICATIONS

"Not at all, they are so strict now. I'm going to Florida for Christmas."

SiiDeon Cowart NURSING

"It hasn't affected my willingness to fly at all. I think its so cowardly what they did so I would never let them win."

Rosalynn Landazuri PHOTOGRAPHY

"Not even the slightest. They realize the security is going to be heightened so they wouldn't do it again."

Alex Sheehan COMMUNICATIONS

"I think now it is safer to fly with all the security. And there are great airline specials."

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heir first victory was achieving mass casualties on our welcoming soil. Using our very own technologies and education facilities they turned ordinary airplanes into highly explo-· sive bombs.

Victory number two came when immediate panic followed by a wave fear seeped into every corner of our happy homeland.

They may rightfully claim two victories against this great country, but it is our job, as freedom fighting Americans, to prevent them from claiming a third.

This third terrorist victory lingers in the shadows unnoticed and we all have the power, right now, to ensure it never prevails.

In order to do so we must continue to ensure our freedom .

It is everything this country was built on and stands for today. If we · begin to reduce our freedoms terrorists can claim victory number three and terrorism itself will win full circle .

While increased security in airports is understood it is important we keep things in perspective.

Our increasingly "big brother" style government has a reputation for over ·stepping its boundaries with a "quick fix" rather than initiating long term problem solving.

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New anti-terrorist laws would This country has had problems allow the government to confiscate . with taking drastic measures just the assets of any foreign person for like these. Think ofthe.internment merely being accused of having of Japanese-Americans during links to terrorist activity.

World War II and FBI surveillance It would also enable the govern- of civil rights activists in the '60s. ment to lock up those deemed "terThe problem with laws like rorist suspects" for 48 hours, and these is that they do little or noththen deport them without any evi- ing to actually catch terrorists dence of wrong doing or trial. while drastically curbing the free-

doms of everyday Americans.

We must focus on attacking the terrorists rather than attacking our very own freedoms.

Prosecuting the guilty and protecting the innocent are the foundation of our justice system and by removing either the system falls apart. Ensuring our individual freedom will ensure our country's justice.

Jackson is the Editor in Chief and·can be reached at donnaleelee@earthlink.net

The news media might have got it right for once

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ur nation has suffered possibly the worst disaster of its 200 plus year old history. Yet in this tragedy a part of our society actually stood up and shined.

Throughout Tuesday and the following days, the media world coalesced into a well-oiled and smoothly run machine. Very dif. ferent than the media that bungled the presidential campaign or hounded officials for news on the Chandra Levy case.

Watching the early moments of the disaster provided actual glimpses of the human beings behind the camera and the news anchor desk. Reporters and cameramen were near the buildings as they collapsed, and their horror and fear seeined to transmit itself

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Even amongst such strong words Early on, reports and rumors flew around like a molested hive of hor- and determined minds, some people nets. Apparently there was a report tried to stir up even more news stoof a car bomb at the State ries and ended up looking like fools.

Peter Jennings condescended and Department in Washington.

While some of the news systems, railed on President Bush for deciin reminiscence of the presidential sion to fly into Omaha into a campaign, reported new develop- bunker, claiming that Bush

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should've been at the seat of the nation showing that he was not afraid in this moment of terror.

Later it turned out that Bush had little to say in his own safety. The Secret Service chose to fly the president around the .country.

Another much disputed matter before the disaster actually proved a blessing in disguise for people, is the mergers of all the news agencies.

At any given time on Sept. 11, you could turn to just about any station and see the exact same thing and get the exact same news. · CNN dominated most stations, taking over even MTV and VHl. So even in the midst of tragedy, the journalists stepped up, did their jobs and actually showed the nation and the world an unbiased view of the greatest travesty in our history.

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semester. About 65-70 people attended the event, estimated Shayla Sivert, a faculty adviser of the International Club. "This is the best party we have had in years," she said.

Linda Wijnands from the Netherlands said the party had a great atmosphere. She just moved to California a few months ago and joined to club "to meet other people, to make friends , to learn about other cultures and to have fun."

Romano, an Paola Argentinian student, said it was really nice to have people from different countries at the beach party. "Not because of the diversity of the ideas but for maintaining a union between countries," she said.

Sivert has been involved in the club for three years and said that the club has really taken' off this semester, mainly

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The club intends to organize various events twice a month.

The up-coming activities include a movie and a dinner date Oct. 14 and a bowling night Oct. 26.

Sivert said the clubs' goal is to get people to socialize. "A lot of times people fe_el kind of lonely when they come from different countries and this is a way to socialize."

She said that more Americans have also joined this semester than before.

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"The idea that you can achieve any increment - any at all - to your national security by monitoring foreign students and not monitoring the other 30 million people that come in on other visas is absurd," Johnson said.

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Asian Film has had a major. impact on the big Hollywood film in the last couple of years.

This impact has come in the form of directors such as J ohn Woo and Ang Lee, as well people like stunt choreographer Xin Xin Xiong bringing Hong Kong action to Hollywood.

Asian filmmakers (including a few Palomar students) were able to showcase their work at the second annual San Diego Asian Film Festival.

The festival took place Sep. 27 and Sep. 30 at the Hazard Center Mann 7 Theatres. The SDAFF is a non-profit event of the Asian American Journalist Association and the proceeds went to scholarships for the local AAJA. "Is this a festival?" said Long Pham, a student at San Diego State University, as he walked into the theatre. This statement sums up the event, which felt more like an average trip to the theatre than a convention.

Although the lack of informative booths was a drawback, the festival did provide plenty of movies for people to watch.

The festival featured 103 films, which were broken into 16 feature films, 12 short programs, 6 documentary programs, and an animation program.

The festival also featured two short films from Palomar College students.

"This is a great accomplishment," said Greg Baker, "since over a hundred film s are turned down from the festival. " Greg Baker is the Instructional Support Assistant for the Radio and Television Department at Palomar College.

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Actor Rick Yune ("The Fast and the Furious") points to audience members asking them to bid higher at the 2nd Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival's charity auction. Actress Michelle Krusiec (NBC's "One World") holds up a "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" book autographed by the film's director, Ang lee.

The films from Palomar were from producer David Dawson for "The Big Date" and producer Reiko Otani for "Origami House." Both of these movies were also nominated for 2001 Emmys in the San Diego chapter.

"I heard there wen~ movies, so I came," said Steve George, a student at Palomar College.

The movies were what enticed most people to the festival , and there was enough of a variety to

keep everyone happy. "The Green Dragon," the closing fiim of the festival, is what drew Long Pham.

Pham was interested in the movie because it described the flight of Vietnamese refugees fleeing Vietnam to America at the end of the war.

Pham himself emigrated to America when he was three years old.

The variety of film at the festival included five Korean and Korean

American films, four Filipino films, and a documentary of San Diego Japanese Americans that were forced into internment camps during World War II. The festival also featured the documentary "Galaxy Far Far Away", which followed people waiting to buy tickets for "Star Wars The .Phantom Menace."

The screening of this movie was free to anyone wearing a Star Wars costume.

Jason Mraz gives wordly blend of .folk on debut CD

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There's a particular seed planted in San Diego that thrives in Jason Mraz intimate and stale-air coffee-houses..._and JASON MRAZ - ' baristas.

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and branching out to acts like John Katchut and Mesa Blue, have begun their successes in coffee shops, and many times starting out merely by word-of-mouth promotion.

Yet there are moments when the hissing espresso machine. momentarily stops, the and chatter abruptly stands still, interrupted by a voice so clear and arresting; a star is in the making.

Meet adventurer Jason Mraz. It's only appropriate that he recorded his new live, self-titled release at

Ocean Beach's 'Java Joes' , the very place that adopted and embraced him.

He is accompanied by the vocals and djembe-drumming talent of San Diego local, Toea Rivera.

It brings his music -a worldly 'dancing barefoot' sort of feel , a refreshing spiritual journey, much like a carefree drive with the top down and undulating your hand through the passing wind, or even waking from a deep sleep.

What's refreshing is that Jason approaches his lyrics like a four-

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year boy; innocent , anxious, unafraid, dreamy however silly, and embracing life like he would his own mother.

Yet his lyrics are testament to his greater instrument- his voice.

Aged, resilient, effortless and finely tuned.

Like deeply personal epistle to himself, his style draws in the listener with voyeuristic curiosity.

In the song entitled "Running", 'Satisfied by your seduction/ like a handshake would do the job/ never know how long I've waited! anticipated! your smile/ to be pressed against mine.'

Each breath is not wasted; he belts out his scats and rambling tangents literally.

You can almost see the withered smiles when you hear the light laughter of the audience as J ason lyrics make rambling reference to 1980s dance music.

Anyone growing up watching Punky Brewster when they were seven years old will catch the humor and sentiment of Mraz's charming, clever craft.

Poking fun at himself may be the key to keeping his music so real. In "The Dream Life of Rand MeN ally" , 'I dreamed I went to Singapore/got bored and robbed a liquor store/what for? Know body knows, I only took a couple of Marlboros' His music is currently available only at his live shows, or through JasonMraz.com by PayPal. If ybu've already discovered the ear nestne ss of Ani DiFranco, awareness of Traci Chapman, happy-go-lucky style of Nick Drake and . Jack Johnson, you'll find Jason Mraz a hidden treasure.

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FoOtba I shut-down by El Ca111ino • COMETS DEFENSE FALLS APAIIT IN THE SECOND HALF 8} l\1ark Beerman

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In what seemed to be the Comets toughest game of the season, the Palomar College football team was one quarter away from escaping with their perfect record intact. However that didn't happen.

In a game that looked like a near win, the Comets were on the receiving end of a 27-0 second half run by the El Camino Warriors, inroute to a 35-31loss at home.

The problem for the Comets, same as the Warriors, was that they both exchanged big plays. It's just that the Warriors seemed to be able to dial-up the big play when they needed it.

"We gave up the big play on defense and they're a little bit more skilled group offensively. We never seen seen a-team that good," Head Coach Tom Craft said.

Palomar gave up plays of 36, 67, and 52 yards. All those plays resulted in touchdowns for the Warriors.

"I felt personally they had better people than we did. And for us to win we're going to have to play close to the· best game. I don't think we're as good as we were ranked," Craft said.

Mental lapses in the defensive secondary allowed El Camino running back Alvin Marshall and wide receiver Bennie Bishop to run wild on the receiving end.

Marshall had 89 yards on four receptions with two touchdowns,

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Palomar's Rory Palmerr, #17 breaks through fellow comets Edrick Contreras block towards the endzone during the El Camillo defeat.

while Bishop had 116 yards on 3 receptions for one touchdown.

"They had our backs against the wall the whole game, but we kept fighting, scratching and hanging in there. I've always said 'the harder we work the luckier we get'. I felt we got some real breaks in the end," Warriors coach John Featherstone said.

The other key to ·the Warriors win was the defensive stand they were able to produce through much of the second half. ''We really haven't played that bad of defense. We've just made

bad plays at bad times," Featherstone said. Featherstone stressed that the Warriors front seven played well, but that they played soft in the secondary because of their overall youth at cornerback and safety.

The most deceiving stat of the game came from El Camino quarterback Ryan Gilbert. Gilbert finished the game with only 13 competitions on 29 pass attempts. But he was able to get 289 yards passing and four touchdown passes in the process.

"I feel that Bennie Bishop, our

receiver, stepped up big and our offensive line gave us time," Gilbert said.

With the win still having the El Camino players a-buzz, Gilbert had already soaked in most of the win.

"It felt pretty good. A number of people were saying they (Palomar) were the number one team in the state and possibly the nation, we just played real well and it feels pretty good," Gilbert said with a smile.

Comet go on the road against Fullerton college on Oct. 20 at 1 p.m.

Tony Gwynn announces plans after the Padres • GWYNN IS READY TO TAKE OVER AS HEAD COACH OF AZTECS AlTER THE ZDDZ SEASON the next year and a half he will serve as an assistant to his former •if£ UESCOPE college .coach Jim Dietz, who is the With an overwhelming standing current Aztec coach. Gwynn said ovation and cameras flashing, that it would be important to make Tony Gwynn saluted the crown one a slow transition back into college last time. Gwynn played the final baseball, "We want to be a team game of his career on Oct. 7 in that annually competes to make it front of to the College at World Series."

64,000 Qualcomm IT'S NOT RW.LY A BEGINNING, The last time stadium. the Aztecs BUT A CONTINUATION" Gwynn will made it to the -Ton} Gwynn College World be trading in his Padres ' ' Series was uniform for 1991.

Not a SDSU uniform. He wili head a only will Gwynn coach a team he few miles east on Interstate 8 to once played for but he will coach coach the SDSU baseball team. his son Anthony Gwynn Jr. , who is Although witnessing Gwynn a sophomore on the Aztec team.

Gwynn's presence on the team step in the batters box and hit one of his patented line drives in the will allow the program to recruit a ,'5.5 hole' will no longer different tier of players, since playhappen,watching his players will ers will have the chance to learn be possible to see. Last month from not only a future Hall of Tony Gwynn decided to go back to Farner, but perhaps one of the his alma mater, San Diego State greatest hitters to ever play the University, but this time to coach. game. Gwynn will also bring other "It's not really a beginning, but a factors to his new team; a man who continuation," Gwynn said. Gwynn won five gold gloves, plated in 16 will not officially become the head All Star Games, stole 320 bases, a coach until the 2003 season. For lifetime .339 career batting aver8} Dal id Ewnson

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Tony Gwynn speaks to the media during his press conference at San Diego State Sept. 20.

age and only struck out 435 times in 10,205 plate appearances.

Gwynn made hitting an art and to be great at an art you need to study it and practice it continually.

One of Gwynn's first tasks is to get a video system set up for SDSU's

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Gwynn will be long thought of as one of the greatest Padres to ever play and will now share his knowledge with the Aztecs . "I'm an Aztec and I'm a Padre and I'll always be "

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PLAYED AT HOME ON SEPT. 28- Palomarwasledby

PLAYED ON THE ROAD SEPT. 28- Palomar was led by Lisa

Rosendo Orazco, he scored the game winner.

Almandarez, she scored the game winner in the last minute

Meredith,he won his match 15-1 in the 165 pound weight dass.

NEXT GAME: Oct. 10 at Palomar 3:15 p.m.

NEXT GAME Oct.10 at Imperial Valley 3:15 p.m.

NEXT MATCH: Oct 10 at Ml San Antonio College

PLAYED ON THE ROAD SEPT. 28- Palomar was led by Buck