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In a tense meeting April 9 that saw the room packed with faculty members, the board gave a 3.66 percent raise to administrators and executives and a 3.41 percent raise to classified employees. Several faculty members, including the presidents of the faculty union, asked the board to hold off on approving the raises until the union and the district could decide how to compensate part-time instructors.

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Positions open in student elections

Counselor layoffs avoided

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Student interest in Palomar's student government appear to be low as few apply to run in upcoming elections. Associated Student Government officials have attributed low response to busy ASG members and an uniformed student body.

ASG election committee member Robert Sedillo believes many students do not want to get involved due to a lack of knowledge about ASG and the fact that Palomar College is a two-year institution. The short stay causes students to disvalue the experience the same way as in a university ASG, Sedillo said.

Also, many current ASG members were unable to attend candidate meetings due to a conference held in Washington D.C. A better turn out is expected at the next candidate meeting on Friday, April 12, Sedillo said.

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Leanna Goldschmidt (left), education director from Life Resource Network, takes questions from student Leah Zanzucchi after the presentation regarding abortion April 9.

Educator speaks out on abortion

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"Most women make the decision to have an abortion out of lack of knowledge and of fear," a member of the Life Resource Network, who's had an abortion, told Palomar students last Tuesday.

every day and that studies show that most of them are the result of lack of education and fear. "Fear is the gas in the car to make it drive," she said.

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Leanna Goldschmidt, education director for Life Resource Network spoke at Palomar College April 9 to inform women of the dangers of abortion and of safer alternatives.

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Palomar College's governing board voted April 9 to keep four counselors that it had considered laying off as a result of state budget cuts.

In response to a $26.8 million cut made by Gov. Gray Davis to the state matriculation budget, last month the governing board anticipated that five positions within the counseling department, including the director of matriculation, would be cut in May. Matriculation provides student services such as student orientation, assessment and course counseling.

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Palomar hosts teaching workshop

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Library: National Library Week features six displays open on second floor Through April 25

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Boehm Gallery: "Live the Questions Now" - North County Printmakers. Showing through April 20 . Free.

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Concert Hour: Computer MusicDr. Madelyn Byrne 12:30 p.m., Room D-10

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Baseball: Comets vs.

San Diego Mesa 2 p.m.

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ASG Election Packets Due 4 p.m.

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Free Film Series: "Priest" [R] 6:30p.m., Room P-32

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Softball: Comets vs.

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Brubeck Theatre: "Bent" by Martin Sherman - story set amidst Nazi Germany Mature audiences only.

Also shows April20, 25, 26 & 27 at 8 p.m., and April 21 & 28 at 2 p.m.

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Becoming a teacher is a complex process that more students will be pursuing as America faces a teacher shortage, said representatives from local universities last week.

At an April 3 meeting held in the Governing Board Room, the speakers talked about the growing demand for teachers, the benefits involved and where teaching is needed the most.

Representatives were there from the Southern California Teacher Recruitment Center, Cal State San Marcos and San Diego State University.

The process of becoming a teacher is fairly complicated., said Karie Lord, a student employment services coordinator. "There are a lot of details in the recruitment and education process," Lord said.

Representatives gave out pamphlets while explaining that teachers are needed in the areas of English, math, science, special education and bilingual education.

Students also learned that in order to become a teacher one must have a bachelor's degree, must pass the California Basic Educational Skills Test, demonstrate sub-

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0 Pass the California Basic Education skills Test.

0 Demonstrate subject matter competency.

0 Get a teaching credential There are two types of credentials: a single-subject for college and high-school and a multiple subject for elementary.

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Laurie Lindeneau speaks about becoming a teacher at a Palomar workshop April 3. ject matter competency and get a teaching credential.

By applying for a single subject credential, it allows teaching in departmentalized classrooms like those found in high schools.

By applying for a multiple subject credential, it allows teaching in self-contained classrooms typically found in elementary schools.

"I thought this was helpful when you don't now where to

start. It was good basic info about where to go when you want to find a job," said student Shannon Lemieux.

Representatives also gave out statistics on the business of teaching. In the next 10 years, American schools will need to hire two million teachers to meet rising enrollment demand and replace an aging teaching work force .

Excellent job opportunities will stern from the large nurn-

ber of teachers expected to retire over the next 10 years, particularly at the secondary school level. Also, according to the U.S. Department of Education, by 2006, America will educate almost three million more children than today.

This is more than 54 million students.

There were more than 105 people who attended the meeting, Lord said.

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following week, however, the District announced its decision to rehire all four faculty members and would direct the budget cut to an area other than faculty.

The cuts made to the matriculation budget are now being directed to the discretionary funds, which cover equipment and supplies, rather than to the staff, said Palomar President Sherrill Amador. The discretionary funds will undergo a 33 percent budget reduction.

According to Joseph Madrigal, assistant vice president of student services, the cuts made to the discretionary fund will not affect the students as much as cutting faculty.

The four faculty members who were given notice on March 15 have all been rehired as counselors, Amador said. In addition to those who have been rehired as counselors, the Director of Matriculation, Lynda Halttunen has been reassigned to a fulltime counseling position. As a result of the position cut, Halttunen will suffer a salary decrease by one month's pay, Madrigal said.

The reassigned faculty members will take the duties of the matriculation director, "which means more work," Amador said.

Amador said the faculty members were never actually laid off, but the education code requires the district to give notice of potential cuts by March 15.

Since the district has made the decision to rehire those who were given notice, the opportunity to make those cuts in May have been lost, Amador said. ''We have made our final decision no matter what the budget outcome is," Amador said.

From Bach to American Folk Music- Guitarist Arthur Golden 12:30 p.m., Room D-10

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Baseball: Comets vs.

San Diego City 2 p.m.

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Professional Achievement Tea honoring faculty who have recently published or received doctorate degrees 2:30p.m., Room D-10

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Brubeck Theatre: "The Women and Men of World War II"- Panel discussion 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.

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Baseball: Comets vs.

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MAY1: Concert Hour: Vocal Recital- Mary Joeb, soprano 12:30 p.m., Room D-10

1: Free Film Series: "Antonia's Line" [R] 6:30p.m., Room P-32

a: "The Planetarium: Cosmic Calendar" Formation and evolution of the universe Also shows May 10

a: Boehm Gallery:

Annual Student Art Exhibit - Free and

open to public Shows through May 22 If you know of any important events or dates to be listed please contact The Telescope at telescope@palomar.edu

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Palomar student Lisa Bogers works on a movie presentation usi1g the "F11131 Cut Pro" software usi1g a new computer i1 the graplics lab.

Graphics lab gets new computers

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New, top of the line Power Macintosh G4 computers were set up in the graphic communications lab during spring break.

Upon returning from break, students found 21 machines up and running.

With the new equipment, the speed, quality and length of student productions will be greatly enhanced.

"It takes the multi-media presentation to the next level in terms of sound, interactivity and professional presentation. We're at the leading edge here at Palomar," said Lillian Payn, associate professor/chair of graphic communications. ''We can teach these higherend classes like Final Cut Pro, which is the program that's taking over Hollywood for cornrner-

cial production," Rollins said.

Four departments will share the new equipment: graphic communications, radio!I'V/filrn, art and photography.

"It's really cool to be able to let students work from all these different departments to put together something that is the best oftheir skills, that's as artistic as they want to be," Rollins said. ''We'll use the computers to create DVDs, to create CD-Roms, to create streaming video for the Internet and create full-length video productions," Rollins said.

Graphic communication and RTV and film both teach digital video. "Digital video is like the new wave of video editing called non-linear video editing," Rollins said.

The art department will take advantage of the 3D capacity the

new computers offer for creating animated images like "Jurassic Park," Rollins said.

"I think all the classes in there are a combination of art and science. It's one of the few places that you can find it. It's going to give us one of the best labs anywhere in Southern California," Rollins said.

Student Mike Bellona said, "I'm making a composite on illegal street racing, a little documentary on several areas in San Diego where people race at night. The new equipment will be much faster, rendering all my projects will be much quicker."

The new software includes an upgrade of Quick Time, a multi-media development package, DVD and CD ROM burners, a web server and color printer.

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alomar College's governing board members seem to have been struck with a disease that renders them incapable of saying anything other than the word "aye."

At the board's April 9 meeting, several faculty members made impassioned pleas asking the board not to vote for raises for administrators and classified employees until a system of raises can be worked out for part-time faculty.

The room was packed with instructors who launched into thunderous applause after each speaker.

The board, with virtually no discussion, unanimously passed the raises.

The sole dissenter was Associated Student Government President Sean Weimer who has an advisory vote. He implored the board to work with the faculty. ''We're fighting (Gov.) Gray Davis as it is, we don't need to fight each other," Weimer said.

The rationale for everyone else's vote was not given at the meeting, save for Chairman Robert Dougherty, who ignored the questions raised by faculty and said he was against withholding raises from groups that were already promised them. The other four members remained totally silent .

The fact that the board members would vote so overwhelmingly on such a controversial topic without explaining themselves is deeply troubling. The governing board should be the ultimate in Palomar leadership - they're paid to make tough calls, but they owe the school reasons for their actions.

This is not the first time this has happened. At its March 15 meeting, the board seemingly voted not to rehire several counselors, again with little explanation and over much dissent from faculty.

After that meeting, board members clarified that they were not laying off faculty, only leaving the option to do so open as a pre-emptive way to deal with state budget cuts, and that other ways of dealing with the problem would be sought.

Since then, the board has guaranteed the counselors their jobs.

The board made the right decision with respect to the counselors - after all, its hands were tied since the mandate came down from the state - but it could have helped its image with the faculty by simply saying why it voted the way it did.

The shared governance process that Palomar follows dictates that all the groups on campus work together in an open environment. The governing board's silence on important issues does not follow this model.

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U.S. needs to urge Israel to give land to Palestine SAUDI PROPOSAl COUlD END THE 40-

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n lieu of the ever-increasing Middle East violence, and our nation's current status with the Arab world, it is absolutely necessary for the United States to maintain its high-level involvement in negotiating a viable solution to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.

Many lives have been lost on both sides, but now more than ever it appears that the 40year war needs to stop, and the U.S. can help make it happen.

The three largest terrorist organizations in the world, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah, are currently active in Israel and have conducted suicide bombings every day for the last week, not to mention the last decade. It is the United States' responsibility to take an active approach on terror18m.

Seems simple. Send in the Marines and no more terrorism, right? Wrong, the situation is unbelievably complicated. The Palestinians want recognition of a state of their own, and their elected leader, Yasser Arafat, has no land whatsoever to call his own.

Currently his "regime" or quasi government is little more than a club. They have no official land, and are operating out of Israeli territories called the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The Israelis want peace for the citizens, but it seems that they don't want to lose any land or capitol in the process.

EDITOR IN CHIEF STEPHEN KELLER ASSOCIATE EDITOR SHEENA PROSSER NEWS EDITOR SARAH STRAUSE OPINION EDITOR MIRVA LEMPIAINEN ENTERTAINMENT EDITORS BEN GREENSTEIN, KRISTIAN SMOCK FOCUS EDITOR TOM CHAMBERS SPORTS EDITOR MARK BEERMAN ONliNE EDITOR CHARLES STEINMAN PHOTO EDITOR ARTHUR ANDERSON, NATALIE SCHRIK COPY EDITORS JAN HARLESS, DONNA JACKSON AD MANAGER KRISTIAN SMOCK DISTRIBUTION MANAGER MICHAEL JARED INSTRUCTIONAL AST. TOM CHAMBERS JOURNALISM ADVISER WENDY NELSON PHOTOJOURNALISM ADVISER PAUL STACHELEK

Peace, of course, is impossible to achieve when there are three major terrorist groups who plot and carry out acts of religiously and socially motivated violence nearly every single day.

The terrorists, unlike the Palestinian citizens, will not be appeased by the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

The only thing that could possibly stop the violence from their end is the elimination of Israel entirely, which is simply not going to happen. What a mess!

President Bush and his administration are desperately walking a fine line with the Muslim world, which is already very upset at our previous alliance with Israel, the attacks on Afghanistan and the Taliban, and our past and looming war with Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

President Clinton's administration nearly succeeded in negotiating peace twice, by allowing Israeli leaders and Yasser Arafat to escape the pressures of their own countrymen for a while, and inviting the two leaders to talk their problems out.

Unfortunately such a negotiation can't be done anytime soon. Israel has been forced into protecting itself from a large number of terrorist attacks and it seems that the violence just keeps increasing.

This is violence that the U.S. is too afraid to quell itself (and rightfully so), for fear of turning the entire Muslim world against us, and making an already horrible situation far worse.

Saudi-Arabia proposed a plan two weeks ago in an

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attempt to remedy the situation in Israel. It involves Israel turning over the Gaza Strip to Yasser Arafat (therefore creating a Palestinian state) in exchange for respect and official recognition from Muslim nations of Israel.

The plan, though it would seem to be a good solution, is not complete. It solves the Palestinian and Muslim plight, and helps their situation a great deal. But, it comes at the expense ofthe Israelis who are sacrificing land despite the fact that terrorists have basically assured that they will continue the violence.

My solution is that first we urge the Israeli government under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, to accept the Saudi proposal to create a Palestinian state. Then the Palestinians and the Muslim World will end their 40-year war. Additionally, the U.S. will benefit from the Muslim World realizing that we are fair and reasonable and not really out to get all Muslims in the world.

Our military forces could solve the problem of terrorism in Israel, since it clearly would not be just to prevent a Palestinian state from coming to fruition, and it helps to protect our own nation as well.

If the terror did continue against Israel or the U.S., we could rightfully go after the three countries that are sponsoring the Israeli related terror: Iraq, Iran, and Syria.

Kudos to President Bush and Colin Powell for supporting the Saudi peace initiative. As long as Israel is willing to sacrifice a piece of land no bigger than Rhode Island, peace could indeed become reality.

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Please allow me to say - I told you so. Once again nutty, nosey politicians are creeping into our private lives to implant their "important" values in us.

Senator Deborah Ortiz is proposing the California Soda Tax Act. Her goal is to use a 2-centper-12-ouncecan tax totaling $300 million annually to keep our children from getting fatter.

It's just another step in a direction that should really scare Americans. If we allow the fat police to take action, soon enough they will put restrictions on everything we ingest. From water and tofu to soda and steak, they will be watching us like hawks.

Besides their complete disregard for personal responsibility, politicians like Ortiz might want to consider the sheer stupidity of such a proposal.

The people who are so against the use of a particular product will actually rely on the sale of that product to meet their goal.

In other words, they promote the message, "Don't drink soda" using revenue from selling soda.

Initiating and increasing taxes in this manner is wrong. Taxes are never successful tools when used for social engineering.

But, fat police like Ortiz would argue a different case. She would claim that she is wholeheartedly concerned for all those porky pubescents that have grown up in the age of CocaCola. If her heart truly bleeds for them, then she should take money out of her own pocket to fund an education program for children's nutrition.

It might actually make a She miniscule difference. could be proud of her small accomplishment because she did it out of her own good will rather than stealing money from consumers who bought soda - BY CHOICE! If these politicians really want to keep kids skinny, they should propose soda prohibition. That way, even irresponsible parents couldn't even get their hands on the ever-sinful soda. Or they might propose to eliminate soda machines from schools. But that way they wouldn't make their pretty penny.

What it comes down to is a vicious cycle of idiocy held dear to liberal politicians' hearts.

They have nothing else to do but tax everything under the sun for so-called educational purposes.

My solution is called parental responsibility. Teach and respect family values that consist offamily dinners all equipped with broccoli and milk instead of throwing a Mountain Dew and a Lunchable at kids while they play video games.

And if those parents can't get their children to 'just say no" to soda at school, let them raise hell instead of letting politicians raise taxes.

Let upset parents attack the public school system and force them to prohibit soda. It might work, but it's a solution that involves too much common sense and not enough tax increase to please liberal politicians.

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am a master of great ideas and new inventions. They just pop into my head on a daily basis. It's been that way ever since I was little.

The fact that society is not aware of any of my innovations doesn't bring me down. As long as I keep thinking about inventions, anything is possible.

Somehow I feel like we are lacking individualism in today's ready-made world.

I hope my crazy ideas will inspire some of you to do at least a little bit of brain work to benefit humankind.

My first idea is a sky radio. I think it would be great if there were a boom box somewhere up in the clouds, playing music for all of us to hear while we go about our boring daily routines.

That would be the ultimate fun. People would party on the streets, sing a long wi1h familiar tunes, and be a lot more cheerful in general. Life would be a dance.

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figured out. There would be theme days and every Sunday we'd get a song schedule for next week, incorporating something for everybody. For example, Monday would be rock day, Tuesday pop music, Wednesday country etc.

If you didn't like the day's music, you could just put on your music blocking earplugs and not be bothered.

It's as simple as that. As to when and how this sky radio would be technologically possible, I'm not sure yet, but I'm working on it.

My second idea is a t urning hill. I came up with this one when I was 5 years old and had to ride my bicycle up a tiny hill every day. I was thinking to myself, "why can't the hill just turn itself to a downward slope every time I need to use it?"

That would be really convenient. You would never get sweaty while walking, running, roller blading or riding a bicycle on a steep hill. It would

always be a nice trip down. For those wanting to get exercise, there are treadmills. Besides, people would lose so many calories dancing to the sky radio every day that we could get rid of all the gyms. Now that's a good idea!

The third and last invention that I'll share with you is a new mode of transportation.

Goodbye cars and pollution, welcome future. I am talking about a travel swing. It is really quite easy to build.

All you need is an old car tire, which we would have plenty of since cars would be useless, and a bunch of metal rope.

The tire would be attached to a whole network of metal rope, eventually covering the whole world.

People would put their feet through the tire hole and hold on to the sides, while the tire

would cling from the metal rope and take you wherever you needed to be.

Operating the travel swing would also be simple. Every swing stop, which is like a bus stop, would have its own keypad. You'd type the address of your destination and off you would go.

Not only would the tire swing be a fun way to travel, it would be faster than the speed of light.

That would enable us to travel across the globe in no time. Crossing th e Atlantic would seem like passing Lake San Marcos.

As you can see, our lives would be so much more fun and more practical if my ideas became reality.

Of course that doesn't seem very likely today, but that is exactly why we need more people to start brainstorming and coming up with solutions.

Maybe one day these and many even wilder inventions will all be possible.

We wiil laugh at ourselves for thinking they were any more complicated than building cars once seemed.

This leads me to comment on word choice in the article.

Words such as retarded, mentally deranged/lacking/wanting, deformity and even handicap all have negative connotations which focus on problems and tend to describe (or dismiss) a person based on one attribute at the expense of the whole.

This is much like calling Einstein an overachieving dyslexic or calling Helen Keller a deaf-blind social liability, or to make a point, dismissing a college newspaper reporter as an SHWB (see above).

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This letter is in response to the article about parking problems. This is so ridiculous. I get here at 7.30 a.m. and have no problem parking in the good lot 12. All you have to do is get an earlier class! A lot of colleges have an even worse situation than us.

Cal State San Marcos's parking is pretty much no way near the class rooms. If we have to fend for ourselves then the staff parki_ng areas should be abolished. They can get here early in the morning with the rest of us.

Sincerely, Erin Morgan

Re: "It's Penn or Crowe .. ."

Toni Chambers makes some valid, if not necessarily original, points in the article. Yes, the Oscars, as well as the public, give too much attention to roles of persons with disabilities. The response often comes more from sentimentality and pity than any true quality in the acting job.

Disabilities are often the subject of good, as well as bad, films. We are more iikely to go see a movie about a person with brain-injury (Memento) than about a Shaved-HeadWhite-Boy (SHWB) journalistJfilm critic with a puerile "spas" act.

Ron Haines DSP&S Director

Dear Sarah Strause, In response to your article, "Put your tongues back in your mouths, boys," I must voice my opinion of complete agreement. I applaud your article and your ability to be straightforward in expressing the obvious.

If more girls become willing to express how foolish these guys look when they bark and howl, then it may be possible that these dogs might actually understand that barking at a girl or growling will not bring her begging for a date.

Sincerely, Luke Lambert

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tudents cheat. Not all of them, of course, but many.

And those who do think it's no big deal.

That's what a national researcher found , and that's what former biology teacher Christine Pelton says she saw when 28 of her 118 sophomores plagiarized on a botany project at Piper High School in western Kansas City, Kan. "I think what happened was they kept putting this off," Pelton said. "They procrastinated and they panicked."

Those are excuses students often give for cheating. But the core reason for a perceived national increase in cheating is an overall decline in personal

integrity, with some adults setting poor standards, say researchers and those who deal with ethical issues.

From would-be Notre Dame coach George O'Leary, who lied on his resume, to the Enron scandal to the plagiarism accusations against historian Stephen Ambrose, examples are easy to find.

"If you look at the sports world and the business world and the political world and your personal world, you see a whole lot of cheating going on," said Phil Anderson, director of the honor system at Kansas State University.

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Term paper Web sites offer more hoopla than content Bv Arianne Yaughan

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After perusing several online essay sites, it seems far to to liken locating a decent essay to finding the perverbial needle in the haystack.

Unless on is of sub-standard intelligence, it would be far simpler and less expensive to compose your own essay, instead of searching online for mediocre that almost meets the requirements of the assignment.

EssaysFree.com is a site that would be resourceful for perhaps a high school freshman. Not only is a poor selection of topics, but the essays themselves are written in the voice of an average high school student. The essays available on this site seem to be directly off the high-school reading list, and will not be sufficient for college level students. CPA: 2.0 PlanetPapers.com is yet another site that seems formatted for high school students. It has a pathetic selection of essays that are so poorly written it would be unadvisable for even a high school student to use. The comments board at this site was crowded with angry students denouncing the quality of the essays. Additionally, there are not many links offered on the site. CPA: 1.0

BigNerds.com is a site with a good selection of topics. Again, it seemed that most of the available essays were commentary on books found on a high school reading list.

However, BigNerds did have a few decent essays to choose from, and large number of links to other sites offering a larger variety of essays. The majority of the links provided were costly and one can only view excerpts from the essays before paying to read them entirely. CPA: 2.0

Chuckiii.com is without a doubt the best site viewed. It is definitely geared toward college level work. There is a broad selection of topics, ranging from Anthropology to Zoology with more han 50,000 essays available. The essays are, for the most part, well written and cohesive.

Strangely enough, this was the only site that was laden with anti-plagiarism warnings, claiming the site was only for suggestions and resources only. Chuckiii.com also provides links to other sites. CPA: 3.5 CheatHouse.com has a mediocre selection with only 9,000 essays available in 40 categories. A decent essay is hard to find at this site, but is available after much searching. This site also has a lot of links to sites requiring payment for their services. CPA: 3.0 EviiHouseofChealcom is a site you must pay to enter. You may, however, preview excerpts from the essays before paying. The excerpts were mediocre at best, certainly not worth spending money on. This site offers (as do others) to create a custom essay for a specific assignment for $50. One needs to be cautious here, it is very possible to pay up to $50 and get an appalling essay in return. CPA: 2.0

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Teachers have a few tricks of their own

By Shannon Lopez

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Think using one ofthose assistance Web sites is going to score you an easy passing grade? Well, not once you get caught, cause not only could it cost you the grade on the assignment, but it could cost you the course.

"These Web sites are unethical, it's plagiarism and cheating," said Brent Gowen, associate English professor at Palomar College.

Gowen is talking about the term paper assistance sites where papers can be sold anywhere from $5.95 to $10 a page. But some you can get for free. They have papers with a variety of courses for high school and college. In less time than it would have taken students to study and

write a paper, they have come up with a passing grade paper.

You've turned it in and everything's great. Well, no it's not, according to Anne Hohman, director of Palomar College's English Department Writing Center.

"It's plagiarism," Hohman said. "The use of another person's intellectual property, words and ideas."

But teachers have a few sites of their own.

One, for instance, www.plagiarism.com advertises the Glatt Plagiarism Program. This is the first computer program made for detecting plagiarism. The Glatt Program took ten years to develop and has undergone extensive testing in classrooms and the results have been very accurate. Commercial, Webbased anti-plagiarism services have been successfully in use at several colleges.

Teachers are trying to find more Web-

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Getting term papers online is fast and easy, and saves students many hours of sweat and tears. However, the importance of academic integrity and the fear of getting caught seem to be keeping many Palomar students from taking the easy, and deceitful, way out.

"I wouldn't really want to get caught for that and get in trouble," said Amrita Pradhan, a new Palomar student.

She transferred to Palomar from Pennsylvania State University, and said the cheating policy there was really strict. "Teachers seem to know what's going on," she said.

Billy, a student at both Cal State San Marcos and Palomar, is familiar with the stresses of college life and the easy-access of online term papers.

"Personally I've never done it. I've been tempted though," he said, and added that he has gone to the websites to read through some papers and to get ideas.

He said he wouldn't buy a

paper, since spending $30 on one and then having to proof read and correct it several times would probably be more work than actually writing it.

However, Billy said he might borrow sections of other people's term papers, but never the whole thing.

"That would be outright plagiarism, I don't agree with that," he said.

He also said he knows people who have bought papers online and have received B's or C's on them.

Many times the teachers have questions about the papers, but they can't quite nail the student, Billy said.

"I wouldn't pay anyone for writing a paper," said Tauna, a 21-year old Palomar student.

Tauna said she cheated in some high school tests with note sheets, but wouldn't do that in college. "I would never be able to pull that off. I'd feel too guilty," she said.

She also wondered, that since people come to college by choice, why would they want to cheat their way through it without learning anything.

based programs.

Consequences range from a failing The teachers interviewed say the way grade on the assignment, failing the they can tell if a student is using these course, prevention from re-enrolling in the sites is from how the student does their course, and suspension.

"Hoping the student has learned his or work. They often notice a dramatic improvement in the student's papers com- her lesson, I think giving them an 'F' on pared to work done in class. The teachers the assignment or even the course is say it just comes with being a teacher enough," English Professor Stephen thant they know if it's the student's work Wozniak said. "But not being able to rear not. They want students to think for enroll is too much." themselves, not take the easy route and _A;;......,.,....,..._ pull something off the Internet and call..,~~'~"" it their own.

"If students are using these sites, they aren't learning anything, so what's~~~~., the point?" Gowen said.

By using these sites, students risk breaking the Academic lntegxity Code of Conduct: cheating, plagiarism and false representation of another's work as one's ~~fi? own work.

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away with it."

Cheating is on the rise, researchers believe.

It's hard to know for sure because few comparable studies have been done over the decades. But a study conducted in 1993 by researcher Don McCabe of Rutgers University found that cheating at colleges had doubled since the early 1960s.

A study released last year found that 45 percent of763 college students McCabe surveyed in 1999-2000 reported one or more such incidents.

The numbers on plagiarism? Fifty-two percent ofthe students reported copying a few sentences from a Web site without citing a source.

And 15 percent said they had submitted a paper obtained in large part from a term paper mill or Web site.

The Internet has made it easier to cheat, McCabe said. It also has raised new questions for students.

"Clearly a lot of them are confused about what I describe as cut-and-paste cheating using bits and pieces without citation. In their opinion, if it's on the Internet, it is public information and doesn't need to be cited."

Students tend to believe there are degrees of plagiarism, with some instances more serious than others, said McCabe, the Rutgers professor.

"I think it's up to the teachers to help them understand," he said.

Some colleges, including Kansas State, have instituted honor systems to help deter cheating.

A student found guilty of plagiarism at Kansas State has to take an academic integrity class or the student's transcript will reflect that the student violated the school's honor code, said Anderson, the honor system director.

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Number of undergraduates who admitted to plagiarizing written material, according to a1997 Psychological Record study.

Percentage of students who said cheating was "no big deal" and that practically none got caught.

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By Ben Greenstein

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Nappy Roots member Scales says "when you think of nappy, you think raw and untamed" of the reason for choosing his hip-hop group's name.

However, "raw and untamed" are easily the words that least describe the Roots' rehearsed and polished sound.

With female The Nappy backing har- ;:: Roots monies and diverse (OUT OF FOUR STARS) grooves and 'WATIRMELON, samples, the CHICKEN, AND GRITS' a l b u m "Watermelon, Chicken, and Grits" is about as rough as a bowling ball.

Which isn't to say that the Nappy Roots are a generic, mainstream hip hop group. The deejaying on the record features loops of everything from mandolins and accordions to grinding synths, and the MCs avoid the macho cliches that have led many white listeners to avoid rap like the plague.

The rapping on the album is full of awkward and unexpected pauses and breaks in rhyme and rhythm.

Although many years behind expert rap wild cards such as Method Man or Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan, it is still enough to keep the backing grooves from becoming too repetitive.

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Standout songs are the singles "Headz Up," (featuring Barney the Dinosaur, or at least an incredible soundalike) and "Awnaw," and also the strong, spooky groove of "Country Boys," a perfect song to feature in a hip hop remake of "Deliverance."

The best song, though, is "Slums," which takes a sample of "Please Baby Don't Leave Me" and twists the original melody into a completely different hook, setting it over a hard mid-tempo beat and the most aggressive rapping on the album.

However, even though the DJ work is one of the album's best features, it is also the weakest link.

The samples and loops are always unique and interesting, but there are only a handful of good drum sounds.

Most of the percussion tracks sound as if they were taken directly from an old Casio keyboard, which simply does not work well with the rich other sounds.

A notable exception is "Headz Up," where the creative drum programming forms one of the song's main hooks. Too often, though, the beats sound cheap for a band capable of mixing other sounds so well.

Another problem is that not all of the songs are good, which is suicide for an album with almost 20 tracks.

"Ballin' On A Budget" slows the record down early on, with a hol-

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low, hookless sound, and the rap ballad "Po' Folks" is downright bad, with an irritating chorus and a soft-rock groove.

Also, the in-between song skits, which have become a staple· of hip hop albums since the late '80s, are unnecessary, irritating, and unfunny.

Clips of the group talking are only good if they have something

interesting to say - however, the tracks here are mostly incomprehensible.

Despite a few weak points, the album is still very consistent from beginning to end. Solid rapping and engaging grooves make for a positive hip hop experience - hopefully one that can be enjoyed by even newcomers to the genre.

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'Panic Room' a chilling modern thrille B' Ch1·istian Johnson

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David Fincher, the director of "Panic Room," is a genius.

I love all of his movies, and "Panic Room" is another great one to add to his resume.

The movie is suspenseful from start to finish, and the plot wraps up nicely. Th1s is odd for a director known for mind-benders like "Fight Club," "The Game," and "Seven."

The story is very simple; a single mother and her daughter move into a new house.

The house is huge and comes complete with a sanctuary built for the rich Panic Room and neurotic as a place to Ill (OUT OF FOUP. STARS) retreat to ;: STARRING JODIE in case of 0 FOSTER, FOREST JARED e m e r - :IE WHITAKER, LETO gency.

RATED 'R' On their FOR MORE CliCK ON palomar.edu/telescope first night m the house, there's a break-in, forcing the mother and daughter to lock themselves in this vault. Unfortunately, they find out that what the burglars w~nt is locked in there with them, and the bad guys won't leave without it.

As reported by the media, Jodie Foster took over the reigns of the lead role of Meg Altman from Nicole Kidman.

While everyone loved Kidman's performances in "The Others" and "Moulin Rouge," I have to applaud Fincher for going with Foster.

She has a real tangible presence in roles like this. Adding to the amazement is that she did this movie while pregnant.

Forest Whitaker did a wonderful job as Burnham, the

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Known for taking on a variety of character types in his career, Whitaker always delivers a truly heartfelt performance that really comes through in this movie making him almost as sympathetic as Fosters character.

Jared Leto, who plays Junior, appears to be compet-

ing with Brad Pitt to be the next Fincher golden boy.

"Panic Room" is his second appearance in a Fincher movie, following a memorable performance in "Fight Club."

Playing a very different character and sporting a very different look, Leto shows range as an actor in both Fincher films. He's even more interesting to watch in "Panic

These Tigers don't fly on debut

By Ben Greenstein

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There are thousands of bands in the world today making music that is unique, interesting, and thought provoking.

However, that doesn't keep the record industry from scraping the bottom of The Aying the barrel ;: T.gers first and Ill promoting :IE (OIJT OfFOUR S'lliRS) mediocre :a bands with recycled sounds as "the next big thing."

The Flying Tigers are one such band. Given a big name producer (Brendan O'Brien, who has also worked with Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, and Rage Against The Machine) and heavy promotion by Atlantic, they are still little more than a slice of 1994 alternative nostalgia.

Sonically, they perfectly follow the pattern of dozens of bands to come before them - formulaic heavy rock with loud, driving guitars and drums.

Surprisingly, the predictable guitar riffs are the best part of the band's sound, thanks to O'Brien's ear for juicy, unique tones.

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lyrics and melodies. For me, though, this is a godsend, as none of the lyrics or melodies are very good.

Singer Ryan Martin's words attempt to convey heartfelt personal experiences, but fail miserably, as they are made up of some of the tritest cliches in rock history.

Lines like "make me an offer/I can't refuse" and "I went through hell for you," have no doubt been written by thousands of self-loathing teen poets, and have probably ended up in a many similarly generic '90s rock tunes.

The songs themselves aren't all misses, though. The opener "Good People Bad News" has an acidic riff which, despite being about one note removed from Smashing Pumpkin's "Cherub Rock," still manages to get the listener's head moving.

"Drive (Come With Me)" is a great rocker that, aside from being one of the only relatively fast songs, has a verse that is far more catchy than the chorus hooks anywhere else on the record.

But for every passable song there's both a mildly catchy but utterly unconvincing slow rock song ("Detonate" and the single "Maybe") and a completely dull and predictable Stone Temple

Pilots knockoff (any one of the last four songs).

Least impressive are the dull ballads "Why" and "What's Become Of Me," where Martin seems to mistake writing a slow song for writing an "emotional" song.

There's about as much emotion in each as there is in toothpaste - Martin should have spent more time writing a nice, warm melody to fit his horrid lyrics rather than singing the first thing that came to his head.

The greatest mystery of the Flying Tigers is "why now?"

When alternative grunge's glory days are about ten years behind it, why is the record company promoting a band whose sound is placed so firmly in the past?

Are they hoping that the current '80s nostalgia will be followed by a wave of '90s nostalgia?

Do they think that teenage fans of Korn and Limp Bizkit will mistake this for the same type of music?

Do they actually like this band?

If so, why? Bands like STP and Pearl Jam may be years past their prime, but you can always buy one of their albums and hear this music done when it was still young and fresh instead of dull and recycled.

Room."

He's extremely animated which really brings life to a character that spends the entire movie either frustrated, angry, or desperate.

The real performance surprise in the film was that of Dwight Yoakam as the masked man Raoul. Of the three burglars Raoul was the wild card.

He doesn't get along with

BENT: CONllNUED FROM PAGE 8 is made to participate in Rudy's murder on the trip to Dachau. This sends Max to the breaking point, where he decides to hide his homosexuality and claim Jewish affiliation fearing that the treatment of homosexuals would be far worse than the treatment of Jews. After Rudy's death, Max meets Horst, a gay man, who's kindness and eventually love, help Max to overcome the fear and insanity of their situation. Together they triumph over their Nazi captors in the only way left. to them, learning to wear the Nazi ordered pink triangle, designating them as homosexuals, as a badge of pride rather than shame.

"To me, 'Bent' is about homosexuals, but not about homosexuality," said director Pat Larmer.

The title of the play "Bent" is a derogatory term used by the Nazis for gay as opposed to straight. The psychological torture plays heavy in the camps at the time of the plays setting according to play write

anybody and he's mean as hell.

Known mostly for his country music career, Yoakam does have a background in acting, which definitely shows in this performance.

I had the pleasure of seeing this movie twice before it was release publicly and as a testament to how good it was, I liked it even more the second time.

Shennan because although murders and executions took place, at the onset of the war the camps were termed "detention camps" and not "extermination camps."

While the play's subject matter focuses largely on the homosexual plight in WWII the underlying point is more universal. '"Bent' is about fear," said Larmer. "It is about repression and cruelty. It is unfortunately about the darkest side of human nature. It is therefore, quite fmally, about all of us."

The cast includes John De Carlo as Max, Colin Simon as Rudy, Jason Andrew as Wolf, and Brendan Slater as Horst to name a few.

With the sexuality and subject matter inherent in this play it is not recommended for children under age 13.

Opening night for "Bent" is April 19 at the Howard Brubeck Theatre. Larmer will conduct two open forums at the conclusion of the Saturday performances April 20 and 27, for audience discussion about the play.

For further information contact the Howard Brubeck Theatre at (760) 744-1150 ext. 2453.

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from personal experience.

Fresh out of college, she found herself pregnant and thought to herself, "I don't want to have an abortion, but I feel like it's my only option." She said her first reaction was shock, however her shock quickly turned to fear.

Not having the proper education about abortion and its effects, Goldschmidt had an abortion and soon after felt worse than she did before. She sought education on this issue and for the past seven years has been actively involved with the statewide program to educate high school students, college students and youth groups about abortion.

The purpose of the organization is to educate women about the development of life, alternative options and the physical and emotional complications that result .from abortion.

"This (Goldschmidt's speech) really opened my eyes to so many facts out there that I wasn't aware of," said student Madeline Aragon who attended · the presentation.

"I have my own opinion on the issue and I wanted to open my mind to the heated topic from someone who has experienced it," she said.

Goldschmidt used a video to show that it has been scientifically proven that human life begins at coneeption. "From

the moment of conception we were nothing but human," she said.

The video walks the audience through the life of a baby during its development stage, which is four tD 12 weeks after fertilization.

According to Goldschmidt, "There is no stage that is subhuman to the other. If it is okay to take human life in one stage, then it would be okay to take human life in any stage."

Goldschmidt also discussed alternatives to abortion such as open adoption which allows the mother to place her child in a home and to keep in touch with the adoptive family.

Currently, there are 2 million couples who are waiting to adopt a newborn baby, while 1.37 million abortions take place each year, Goldschmidt said.

Goldschmidt also discussed the physical and emotional complications that result from abortion. "It is clearly proven that abortion does affect the woman physically," she said.

Women who have abortions have a 30 percent greater risk of breast cancer and an increase in miscarriages and infertility, Goldschmidt said.

"Pregnancy is natural for the body-maybe not for the mindbut abortion is a shock to the body," she added.

Goldschmidt also focused on the emotional stress that results from abortion. "I regret the abortion. I took the life of my child. I cannot change that.

The memory does not go away."

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fact that her organization is not designed to persuade people into adopting a certain view on abortion, but is designed to educate people on the subject so they can develop an intelligent view based on facts.

"The only solution to social problems are social solutions, not death," Goldschmidt said.

"Abortion is something that affects all of us, whether we agree or disagree." .

The presentation on abortion was organized by student Natalie Barton, member of Students for Life at Palomar College. She said that she had heard Goldschmidt speak at her high school and was very impressed by her boldness and willingness to speak out about her experience and the topic.

from the student body.

"Personally, I don't think we are gonna have a full board elected," said Senator Carla Medina.

Currently only two students have handed in the election packets that are necessary to run.

One is Medina who is running for vice president of interclub council. The other individual applied for a senatorial position.

Neither of the two applications has been approved yet, said Marilyn Lunde, administrative secretary of student affairs.

Another requirement to run is to attend a candidate meeting. So far there have been two meetings, however no one has shown up, Sedillo said. Two more will be held.

Medina said some current ASG members plan to run, including incumbent president Sean Weimer.

Lunde said that a multitude of applications have been picked up.

Leo Melena, the executive vice president of ASG, feels students should get involved in student government because it is a good learning experience and builds leadership .

"We want to make life better for students and future genera-

tions of students. Plus, it's a lot of fun," Melena said.

A three-member election committee, chaired by Sedillo, Sally Serrin and Allen Van Moran, leads the election.

Students must turn in election packets containing 50 signatures from their peers in order to be considered.

Positions available are for the president, executive vice president, vice president of state affairs, vice president of social events, vice president/head of inter-club council, and four senatorial positions.

The students must complete the election packets, which are available in SU-21. Only after approval and attendance at a candidate meeting may the candidate can begin to campaign, Lunde said.

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Robert Taryan, one of the producers of KKSM-AM 1320, Palomar's radio station, has implemented a new program called the "free speech hour."

The free speech hour is a program in which students and faculty can voice their opinion and discuss current issues. It takes place every Monday morning from 9-10 a.m. at KKSM in Room Q-3. There is a microphone and headset placed outside the studio for all students and faculty.

In addition, there is a chalkboard outside, which poses a question of the week. Issues that will be discussed on the air include: What do you think about the war on terror? Should airport security be federalized?

Students and faculty can either comment on the question of the week or make comments about a topic of their choice, Taryan said. "My function would not be to debate but to ask a question or to make additional remarks regarding the issue," Taryan said.

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He sees the free speech hour as "an open forum to express yourself."

Ultimately, Taryan w'ants teachers from departments such as speech and political science to incorporate the open forum into their classroom.

Taryan had his own show until he graduated from the college in 1995. In August of 2000, he returned to North County and retook his position as producer of a show called "the R.T show," which runs every Monday from 6:3010:30 a.m.

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major three times."

The typical age of a Palomar student is 31, and while many students complete their studies within two years, more than one-third attend Palomar for five or more semesters partly because they balance both work and school.

"There's a higher number of part-time students at community colleges," said

Michelle Barton, Palomar research analyst. "Typically, they're also working - trying to work and take a full load is difficult."

Last fall 63 percent of Palomar's students enrolled in less than 12 units, while 23 percent were full-time students.

Another reason college officials and students give for the longer stay is affordability of higher education in California.

A full time student taking classes at Palomar College

pays $132 in tuition, while community college students in other states pay up to $1,200 a semester. When education costs more, students are under more pressure to finish sooner.

Barton said most students who enroll at Palomar have to remedial classes in math and English.

"If you have to make up basic skills, it's going to extend the length of time at a community college," Barton said.

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Saying he didn't think it right to hold the other raises ''hostage" while the faculty matter was decided, board chairman Robert Dougherty led the vote to approve the raises. The only dissenter was student government president Sean Weimer who has an advisory vote.

"3.7 percent! 3.7 percent!" shouted professor Daniel Finkenthal after the vote took place. When Dougherty told Finkenthal he was out of order, Finkenthal said, "And you're getting rich."

The money for the raises comes from the state as part of money the school gets for having enrollment growth. They are part of a "salary enhancement plan" implemented by the school in 1999. The district says the plan does cover raises for parttime faculty.

The faculty union asked the district to include the part-time faculty in the figures .

The district has refused. ''We have what I consider a legally binding contract," Dougherty

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said. He said that since the plan was approved by each group, including the faculty it would be wrong to change it now. ''The problem is, we have a flawed agreement that everyone signed off on," he said.

Christine Barkley, who served on the faculty committee that recommended the plan, said it was always the faculty's intention to include part-timers.

Palomar President Sherrill Amador said the faculty may have misunderstood the plan.

The actual agreement applies to "authorized/filled positions."

Amador said this legally means only full-time faculty.

Amador said it is up to the faculty union to decide whether or not to give the entire faculty a 2.5 percent raise or give only the full-time faculty a 3.5 percent rmse.

Barkley said she believed parttime faculty was "authorized" since the board must approve their hiring.

Bonnie Ann Dowd, who also served on the committee with Barkley, said she believed the plan covered both faculty groups.

"I am horrified by what I see as a legal technicality," she said.

Dowd said "there was never any discussion" about what the

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system began disenrolling students who didn't finish remedial course work by the end of their freshman year~ Many of those are being directed to community colleges to fulfill the requirement.

Sixty-two percent of Cal State freshmen needed remedial classes when they entered college with 81 percent completing those courses before the deadline.

Of Palomar students who took a placement test, 85 per-

62 percent are freshmen 24 percent are full-time students p percent takecredit dasses · w27 percent take night dasses

cent were not ready to take college-level math and 72 percent needed to take remedial English.

Jason Alexander, a 19-yearold Palomar student, has to take both remedial math and English. He works part time and takes four classes.

"I have no idea what I want to do," Alexander said. "I'm taking different classes to see what I like. Right now I'm just filling GE units, then I want to transfer to San Diego State."

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85 percent need remedia1 math 72 percen! need remedial Engtish

26 percent need remedialreading

The Telescope wins awards at conference

By Jan Harless

T!!l TEUSCOP£

"It's amazing to be in a room with 600 students and have your paper called out as one of the best in the state," said Tom Chambers, Telescope focus editor.

The paper won the award for general excellence at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges' annual conference held April 4-6 in Sacramento.

Accompanied by adviser Wendy Nelson, the 13 Telescope staff members received awards in each of the categories of competition they entered.

There were 49 California schools represented.

Two separate categories of awards were given. The mailin competition included stories and layouts judged in advance of the conference.

On-the-spot competition gave reporters a chance to experience "the real feeling of

being a reporter with deadlines," said News Editor Sarah Strause.

Having endured some long hours producing the newspaper this year, Stephen Keller, the editor-in-chief, said, "Our hard

work really paid off. It's a validation of my work and of my staff."

Nelson said, "I'm proud of the students for all their successes at the conference."

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MAIL-IN COMPETITION Sheena Prosser, s~cortd place fot advertising, honorable mention and third place for inside page design.

Donna Jackson, third place for column whting and honorable mention for editorial writing.

The Telescope staff, general excellence and first place for front page design; opinion writing, honorable mention.

Nancy Seuschek, honorable mention for opinion writing; and sports feature photo honorable mention.

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Tom >Chambers, first place. for ;,tdverti.sing.

StepHen Keller, third place for news writing imd thirdpla,ce for editorial writing.

Sheena Prosser, fourth place for copy editing.

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Sarah Strause, honorable mention for feature writing.

Natalie Schrik, second place for feature photo.

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THE TELESCOPE • MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2002

Co111ets destroy Jaguars in victory • PALOMAR REMAINS UNBEATEN IN CONFERENCE PLAY B~ Tl{[

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Bridget Starry gets a hit for the Comets. As a pitcher, Starry has a record of 13 - 2.

with four players each collecting three or more.

Second baseman Dara Webb and first baseman Crystalie Wolfe each went three - for - four with two REI's.

While center fielder Amber Bermudez went three for five with a RBI. The Comets broke the game open in the fourth inning, sending 14 batters to the plate.

Sophomore Samantha Hansen, who finished the game four - for four - with four runs scored, had two hits in the inning and scored twice.

Starry and right fielder Crystal Lee delivered the big blows with base clearing doubles to the left field fence.

Seven hits and four errors later, Palomar had scored eight runs and left the inning with a 13 - 0 lead.

In the few moments that Palomar's defense was on the field, most of the plays were routine as the Southwestern hitters failed to produce much more than weak grounders and pop-ups off Starry.

However, inning ending double plays in the fourth and sixth helped secure the shutout for the Comets.

Palomar is atop the Pacific Coast Conference, winning 24 of their last 25 games.

"I think we're playing pretty awesome," said Hansen. ''We keep firing back when we get down.

We're strong because all 20 of us can hit."

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Southern California's top women's softball team remains pelfect in conference play after a 16 - 0 drubbing of Southwestern College April 5.

Palomar, ranked number one in Southern California's coaches' poll, continued to receive sturdy play offensively and defensively, showing why they're the top team in the area.

"I thought we played really well from the beginning of the game," coach Mark Eldridge said.

"We came out real focused, ready to play - I was pleased with the effort."

Sophomore Bridget Starry pitched a complete game shutout, running her record to 13 - 2. Starry allowed only four hits, struck out four, and helped her own cause by driving in five runs at the plate.

Palomar's offense supported Starry by hitting early and often.

Freshman Lacey Craft lined a two out single to center field in the first inning, bringing in two runs for a 2-0 lead.

Despite escaping the first inning with minimal damage, Southerwestern's defense would spend the majority of the afternoon chasing balls.

Palomar had 18 hits in the game,

Chargers look to NFL Draft to solve key problems

T

he third weekend in April, a time Charger fans used to dread - understandably so.

Under Bobby Beathard, the NFL Draft was looked upon with aspiraz tions of doom and gloom.

C In a reign that 15 saw future first round picks trad., . ed more often I! than Disney I ~......;.........................:J stock, the Chargers were left with a closet full of busts and reaches.

Now John Butler gets his second crack at what Beathard couldn't do in his last days in San Diego: draft quality talent.

So who are the Chargers looking at? Here are a few names to listen for within the first three rounds: Bryant McKinnie, Offensive Tackle, Miami (Fla.)- Standing at

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6'8", 330 lbs., this Hurricane standout is probably the best left tackle prospect since Jonathan Ogden a few years back.

He not only dominates, but destroys opposing defensive ends.

Pass-blocking is his forte, but he's an almost equally skilled run-blocker. One of the most polished players in this draft.

Mike Williams, Offensive Tackle, Texas - Another monster tackle at 6'5", 370 lbs. Could be a better athlete than McKinnie, but not as polished.

If the Chargers had to pick between the two, McKinnie is their man. That doesn't mean Williams doesn't have talent.

He can dominate in the running game, but he doesn't have his passblocking down yet.

Some scouts think he co-uld be a left tackle eventually, but probably

a right tackle for Davis can also now. return punts and Javon Walker, kick-offs on special Wide Receiver, teams.

Likely, Florida State another second Walker figures to be round pick. a second round Mike Rumph, selection.

Cornerback, Miami But he has the (Fla.) - Considered size at 6'2", 205 lbs. one of the best and the speed to be defensive backs in an intermediate-tothe nation entering downfield threat the 2001 season. the Chargers need.

Rumph fell down Could be an instant the charts a little starter as a number Bryant McKinnie bit thanks to undertwo wide receiver. classmen and fellow Andre Davis, teammates Ed Reed Wide Receiver, Virginia Tech - An and Phillip Buchanon. extremely speedy wideout who's just He has ideal size at 6'1", but there starting to put it all together. are some questions about his manHis hands are somewhat shaky, to-man coverage skills. but his potential as a playmaker is Could be the cornerback the one of the highest in the draft.

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