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Palomar student Mike Hernandez works to install an insert in a cylinder head during a diesel engine rebuilding class March 6. The college's diesel technology program recently received a $20,000 grant from Caterpillar and its local dealer Hawthorne Machinery. See story Page 3.
Famous photographer to speak at Palomar By Eric Bennett THE TELESCOPE
Award-winning author and photographer John Sexton will come to Palomar on March 28 to present some of his latest work. Sexton became an assistant for famous artist Ansel Adams after meeting him at a photography exhibition. Sexton will give a lecture about photography and his work, and give anecdotes about his time with Adams. Palomar Photography Professor Donna Cosentino organized the presentation.
"I have seen him speak before and he is approved. Sexton will hold other lectures a great and entertaining speaker," she in Southern California including one about said. Adams. Cosentino said she met Sexton years ago "This fit right in with his schedule and while taking a photography class at he is very happy to come," Cosentino said. Palomar. She asked him last summer if he Sexton was born in Maywood in 1953 would be interested in doing a presentation and by the 1960s he was already in love with photography. He would aspire to be here. "Part of his background is with a com- an industrial-advertising photographer munity college like this, so he has quite an after graduating from Cypress College in affection for community colleges," 1975. Sexton attended a photography exhibiCosentino said. After Sexton agreed to come to Palomar, tion in Pasadena where he encountered Cosentino wrote a North County Higher • SEE PHOTOGRAPHER, PAGE 8 Education Alliance grant, which was later
There has been no new progress in the Associated Student Government's campaign to allow transfer students to walk during commencement. The campaign hit an impasse in the Faculty Senate last year, and has not moved beyond it. "We're at a stand still," said Brent Gowen, faculty senate president. The Faculty Senate passed a resolution last year allowing transfer students to walk in the ceremony but without a cap and gown. ASG members objected to the stipulation, and College President Robert Deegan forbade it. Gowen said the Faculty Senate has spent more time addressing the transfer issue this semester than at any other time in the past. He said the senate has a long agenda and there is only a certain amount of times they can revisit an ISSUe.
"We just need to move on," Gowen said. To get around the impasse, the ASG created a petition in support of transfer students' full participation in commencement and asked full-time faculty members to sign. According to its constitution, the Faculty Senate must revisit an issue when presented with a petition signed by 10 percent of fulltime faculty members. ASG members spent three weeks collecting 84 signatures out of 328 full-time faculty members, a little more than 25 percent. Faculty Senate members rejected the petition on the grounds that ASG members didn't present it to full-time faculty members as a call for the Faculty • SEE TRANSFER, PAGE 8
Speakers discuss wage disparity By Jason Dunn THE TELESCOPE
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Child care workers Jamie Hernandez (left) and Carol Adams (right) feed snacks to children at Palomar's Child Development Center on March 7. Child care workers' wages was the subject of a recent presentation on campus.
A child care worker makes about the same as an untrained, uneducated hotel security guard, according to a recent presentation hosted by Palomar child development professors. The wages received by child care workers was the focus of discussion at the college's weekly Campus Explorations seminar Feb. 28. This year, the seminars have a theme of "work and poverty."
Professors Jenny Fererro, Diane Studinka and Bob Sasse from the Child Development Department hosted the seminar and said child care workers do not get adequate compensation for their work. "It is worthy work, so let's get rid of the worthless wages," Sasse said during the seminar. Fererro said child care workers receive between $8 and $14 per hour on average.
The professors started their presentation with a skit they called "A day in the life of a child care worker." Fererro played a harried child care worker dealing with children, parents and administrators, all of whom Sasse played. During the skit, Fererro had to deal with multiple tasks and problems, all of which Studinka said were typical in a child care worker's day. • SEE WAGE, PAGE 8
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