The Telescope 71.09

Palomar College’s Independent Newspaper

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Vol. 71, No. 9 • Monday, April 23, 2018

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The Telescope Candidates for ASG president Amber Bancroft and EdySaucedo answer the questions asked of them from current ASG President Chris Hopp during forum in SU-Quad. April 16. Victoria Bradley / The Telescope

Student Government election week has arrived, what you need to know:

AMBER BANCROFT

EDY SAUCEDO

LINUS SMITH THE TELESCOPE

Palomar’s Associated Student Government (ASG) will be holding its annual election this week, however, there are numerous features that set this one apart from elections in years prior.

This will be the first election in years that there are numerous contested positions. There will also be a new constitution on the ballot that will create seven new executive positions to delegate duties out to board members more efficiently, among other things. There will be two other initiatives involving student representation and activity fees, that will be an optional $2 fee that students pay during enrollment. In addition, there will be an initiative to provide stipends to ASG members who put in significantly more hours than is minimally required by ASG bylaws.

During ASG’s election forum on April 16, two candidates for president, Amber Bancroft and Edy Saucedo spoke, as well as the candidate for vice president of communications, Kian Nourollahi, candidate for vice president of finance, Rachel Hargrove, and candidate for vice president of events Umida Lesicko.

One theme that was common for most of the candidates was the understanding that there is a disconnect between being a student at Palomar and being a part of ASG candidate Amber Bancroft at ASG forum. Linus Smith / The Telescope

the Palomar community.

“I think that the main missing experience that the average Palomar student has, is being part of something bigger,” Nourollahi said. “They usually, from my experience, they go to their classes, they sit through their classes and then they usually just go home.”

Lesicko is hoping to change this to a degree through the position vice president of events, if elected. One of the biggest things she would like to do if elected is host mental health awareness events, especially during the month of May, as it is mental health awareness month.

“I think it’s important to include that,” Lesicko said.

“Because there are students that struggle on campus, and giving them the resources and the help that they need is what will help them through their college years.”

Hargrove also noted the ASG needs to be an advocacy force for students, noting that it is important to step up in helping those in the student body who are homeless, or facing financial trouble.

Students should receive an email on their student account on April 23, it will include a link to the voting ballot that will ensure that all voters are registered students, and that no student votes more than once. If you do not have access to a computer, you may utilize the computers in the ASG senator’s office at SU-102.

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What’s on the ballot?

ASG candidate Edy Saucedo at ASG forum. Linus Smith / The Telescope

SB-2018-S1

SB-2018-S2

SB-2018-S3

ASG CONSTITUTION

Optional $2 student activities fee. This fee will go towards hosting ASG events, as well as providing funds to Palomar Clubs that make requests and are approved by the ASG board.

This will provide ASG Executives and Senators with stipends, to compensate those who work significantly more than the minimum requirement.

SB-2018-S1 must also pass for this to go in effect

Optional $2 student representation fee. This would be a $1 increase from the current representation fee.

The extra dollar would go to funding the advocacy group: Student Senate for California Community Colleges.

The most significant change to the constitution will create seven new executive positions on the ASG board. It will also establish more specific guidelines for existing ASG constitutional sections.

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2 • NEWS

Monday, April 23, 2018

t BRIEFLY t POLICE OUTREACH EVENT

Construction of the new police station is close to being finished. Emily Whetstone / The Telescope

WHITE NATIONALIST SAN MARCOS --- A flyer from Identity Evropa was found on a light pole off the main road on Comet Circle. As of press time, the flyer was still up.

The group Identity Evropa, describes itself as an “identitarian organization” whose goals are to create a better world for people of European heritage.

They also claim that ethnic diversity is “an impediment to societal harmony,” and want to retain their demographic supermajorities in the U.S. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti Defamation League (ADL) both label the group as a white supremacist organization that seeks to preserve white American culture by promoting European identity.

Both organizations also state

that Identity Evropa is actively spreading their messages across college campuses in order to recruit young white college aged men and transform them into the new face of white nationalism.

This has not been the first time the group has been at the college. Palomar was mentioned as one of the targeted college campuses on the group’s website under their “Postering” webpage.

ADL has labeled Identity Evropa as one of the most active groups in spreading white supremacist propaganda in the U.S with their presence reported in 158 incidents across the country.

— Cameron Niven

SAN MARCOS --- The Palomar College Police Department will be hosting their second annual Public Safety Outreach Event from 4 to 8 p.m. on April 26 in lot 12 next to the parking structure and new police station.

During the event there will be a helicopter landing, a K-9 demonstration, military police from Camp Pendleton, the San Marcos fire department, food and drinks, and more.

A fire rescue truck which was used in the aftermath of 9/11 will also be a part of the event. “Not just as a remembrance piece, but to educate us on why it’s important, and why [9/11] took place and how the world has changed since then is important,” San Diego Fire Department Fire Chief Brian Fennessy said.

Local businesses such as Gro-

cery Outlet and Sprouts Market will be at the event to donate snack bags. In addition, WinCo, Chick-Fil-A, Albertsons, Major Market, Papa Johns and Jerseys Mike’s are supporting the volunteers.

For those concerned, this event will offer the opportunity to relieve anxieties, questions and a lack of correspondence between law enforcement and the community.

“The mission for this event is to establish relationship based policing to build trust between law enforcement and the community in a positive environment. We want a relationship rather than a partnership,” Palomar College police Officer Gerard Perez said.

— Jenna Wilson

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH

White nationalist group Identity Evropa’s sticker found in a Palomar parking lot.

April 17. Cameron Niven / The Telescope

SAN MARCOS --- The month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Palomar College will be providing movie showings in participation.

Palomar College’s Student Health Center and Active Minds Club is teaming up with nonprofit organization Art with Impact, to host a free interactive workshop that will feature three stimulating short films, a discussion about mental health, and a resource panel with campus and community services.

Mental health is the level of psychological well-being, or an absence of mental illness.

According to the world health report, one in four people suffer from mental health issues at some point in their lives.

On May 10 from 3 to 5 p.m. you can join other students in

room D-10 on the San Marcos Campus. Palomar also offers personal counseling for those who need it.

They offer referrals to see a licensed therapist on campus, outside professionals, shelters and hotlines if needed. They also provide help with time management, stress management, and any mental health issues.

— Skylar Miller

THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1861 Robert E Lee was named commander of the Virginia Confederate forces during the American Civil War

SOUTH EDUCATION CENTER RANCHO BERNARDO --Palomar College will be be offering classes to those in the southern portion of our district in Rancho Bernardo, beginning this summer.

The ribbon cutting for the new South Education Center is set to take place early next month, and there is currently a list of over 50 classes available on eServices for students to enroll in for the summer semester.

“A lot of students don’t want to travel more than 10 miles to the community college,” Director of Public Affairs Laura Gropen said. “And if you’re living in the southern portion of our district, you’re gonna go more than 10 miles. So it’s more convenient for them.”

Among the classes being offered, most serve as general education requirements, such

as courses in speech, mathematics, history and science.

However, there are also courses being offered for more specified fields of study, such as computer science and business.

As more classes are offered in fall and spring, it will be possible for students to either complete, or mostly complete several degrees for various majors.

The campus has been under construction for over a year, and was funded through the $694 million Prop M bond, which was a Governing Board resolution approved by voters in 2006 that would provide funding specifically for construction and building maintenance.

— Linus Smith

The Palomar College South Education Center, located in Rancho Bernardo, will be opened early next month and begin hosting classes this summer. Trina McLeary / The Telescope

NEWS • 3

the-telescope.com AMBER BANCROFT

KRISTA MOORE THE TELESCOPE

Having enrolled in a full class load and drafted a new constitution for the Associated Student Government, ASG Vice President, Amber Bancroft, has set her eyes on the position of president.

“I believe the number one role of ASG is student advocacy,” Bancroft said. “And making sure that every single student gets the right to an education and sees representation of themselves in their classes.”

As Vice President, Bancroft ensures that every department in the ASG is doing their job and that all policies are up to date. In addition to being vice president, she has also taken charge as the ASG chairperson for the Policies and Procedures committee. This semester in particular she has utilized her position to help update the ASG constitution.

“I wanted to help implement the new constitution that I helped write,” Bancroft said. “I understand what each position needs to do.”

She believes that a smooth transition to the new constitution will lead to more events and legislation to benefit the Palomar student body.

”That project has been spearheaded by Amber and we couldn’t have done it without her leadership,” current ASG President Chris Hopp said about writing the new constitution. “She is ambitious, hardworking, and extremely dedicated to improving the lives of Palomar students.”

Bancroft is a bio engineer major with little time to spare. She has a full load of classes and a job in the stockroom at the chemistry department on campus so most of her time is spent at school. “I have a calendar app that sends me notifications when I need to be doing something. I also have a really good support system,” Bancroft said in regards to how she manages the work of being vice president in addition to being a full time student.

With the ultimate goal of ASG president, Bancroft has created a mission for not only herself, but also for the next generation of ASG members. If elected Bancroft would like to turn the Palomar campus into a polling destination during the political season, and also has plans to help start a community garden on the campus.

EDY SAUCEDO

LINUS SMITH THE TELESCOPE

ASG candidates for president look to help shape the future of the Palomar community

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ASG presidential candidate looks to foster increased interaction with students of the Palomar community.

Edy Saucedo has been with the Associated Student Government since late August of last year. In his time there, he has remained a delegate, and has taken a position on the committee for Campus Wide Activities. He hopes to bring to the position of ASG president, a greater appreciation for direct student interaction, and better inclusion with students who don’t speak English as their first language.

“I want the student experience to be memorable,” Saucedo said. “ I don’t want the students to just come to school, go home, come to school, go home.”

Hosting ASG events, and keeping the student body informed about other events or workshops happening around campus is something that is central to Saucedo’s campaign, during the ASG forum on April 16, when the moderator, and current President Chris Hopp, asked him what he thought ASG’s role was in the campus community, Saucedo answered: “I think that we are really important for promoting events, or any-

thing that goes on with our students.

Saying there’s workshops, there’s events, there’s many things going on on campus … for our students we should be able to promote it, and let students know what is out there in our campus.”

Saucedo also noted that he would want to try expanding funds from financial services to help students, and would look into the Board of Governor Waiver as one of the ways to do this. However, he does not currently have a plan in place on how to do this.

Nayeli Vasquez, who sits as a senator on the ASG, said that she believes Saucedo would be the most qualified for the job. She noted that even though other candidates might have more experience, Saucedo is more sociable, and more interactive with the student body.

Saucedo is also bilingual, and Vasquez believes that will enable ESL (English as a Second Language) students to become more involved and integrated into the campus community.

“Whatever I put my mind to, I will do it no matter what the task is, no matter how big or small,” Saucedo said.

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Editor’s note: Although some members of the ASG endorse certain candidates, they are personal statements, and do not represent the opinion of the Associated Student Government board as a whole.

Candidates run for ASG executive VP position BETHANY NASH, TAYLOR MACKAY THE TELESCOPE

As students get ready to vote for their new ASG executive board, it is important to know about not just your potential president, but vice president as well.

The vice presidential election this year contains two candidates competing to advocate student voices and make positive changes on campus.

Angela Smith, is one of the students running for vice president of ASG this year. Smith is a Political Science major, with this being her second year on cam-

Angela Smith who is running for ASG vice president. Victoria Bradley / The Telescope

pus, as well as second year involved with the ASG. “I felt it was the way to get more involved,” Smith said. “I wanted to be on a more hands on level, and decided to work my way up.”

One of Smith’s old friends, Brittany Polar, explained why she feels that Smith is the best candidate for vice president.

“Students should vote for Angela because she is reliable, trustworthy, and an overall joy to be around. She is motivated and driven to create a better community and experience on campus,” Poler said. “Angela would make a great vice president because she is dedicated to her community.

She not only cares about her fellow classmates but she is proactive about getting them to be the best they can be.”

Michael Nagtalon, a current delegate for ASG, noted, “She is very passionate about what she does...and is emotionally supportive. She doesn’t want you to feel pressured and she is always worried about how you feel.”

Additionally, Palomar student Anthony White, is running for ASG vice president. White is in his second year on campus for business management. He is a retired marksman trainer in the Marine Corps and a single father with sole custody.

For a brief time, White was homeless and living out of his truck This drove him to be pas-

Anthony White speaking during ASG forum in SU-Quad. April 17. Linus Smith / The Telescope

sionate about making a change for homeless students on campus. He transferred from Mira Costa and decided he wanted to get involved at Palomar.

“I saw in the paper that ASG was having elections and I thought ‘what a great opportunity to represent my peers,’” White said. “I also felt compelled to do something, and be a part of something.”

One of White’s friends, Maxim Belov, shared that he served with him in the Marine Corps and mentioned, “He’s really motivated and goes above and beyond the bare minimal that is required of him.”

Blake Espes, a co-worker of White’s, stated, “He guided me through how things operated... and seemed very resourceful. He goes out of his way to help everybody. If he sees something that he can help improve, he will do his best. Believe it or not I have only known him for four months and he has become a great friend.

He has talked about how he in the future wants to run for President of the United States and is just extremely passionate about improving things and I believe he will do it well.”

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4 • NEWS

Monday, April 23, 2018

Palomar Emergency procedures JENNA WILSON THE TELESCOPE

Run. Hide. Fight.

This is the survival method that the Palomar College Police Department (PCPD) has prepared for students to use in the event of an active shooter on campus.

“Run-Hide-Defend (Fight) are concepts to enhance your survival,” PCPD’s Chief Chris Moore said in an email. “Run means get away from the danger if possible...

Hide relates to concealing yourself, shutting off lights in a classroom and pushing desks against the door and locking the door.

Defend requires a mental mindset of survival and using objects or brute force to neutralize a suspect if he were to enter a room that is not protected.”

After the recent alleged threat of a shooter on campus the PCPD has been working with instructors and the Associated Student Governing Board (ASG) to incorporate a more formalized level of training with faculty and staff in the fall, according to Moore.

To prevent an emergency on campus, the police have 24 hour dispatch, there are uniformed community service officers on campus 365 days a year and armed/uniformed police officers on campus 16-18 hours a day, five days a week according to Moore.

According to the PCPD website, if the campus were to be in a state of emergency that threatens the health or safety of the campus, a notification would be issued by the Public Information Office.

These notifications can be relayed via email, social media, informacast, loudspeaker and/or signage.

Informacast is an audio notification system that Palomar uses in emergencies and drills.

“We also rely on students, faculty and staff to make calls to Campus Police to report unusual or suspicious activity,” Moore said.

Students can help by reporting suspicious behaviors or threats through the Dispatch center at 760-891-7273 or Text-A-Tip at 760-891-6154.

Some suspicious behaviors to look for, according to Moore, are people appearing to be armed, someone wearing unusual clothing for the weather, for example a trench coat when it’s 90 degrees or someone saying disturbing things in class or on their social media platform.

“Campus Police is here to protect our students, faculty and staff,” Moore said. “We need your help as well to support suspicious activity on campus so we can investigate. It is also important to be aware of your surroundings in and around campus.”

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Palomar College called for additional security on April 19, when the shooter threat changed their target date. Cameron Niven / The Telescope

Student threatens campus JUSTIN ENRIQUEZ, LINUS SMITH THE TELESCOPE

A student threatened to carry out a school shooting at Palomar College’s San Marcos Campus on April 20, to commemorate the anniversary of the Columbine shooting 19 years ago.

On March 23, a general information email was sent out to the Palomar community from the office of public affairs. The email stated that Palomar College had received a Tarasoff warning, cautioning them about the threat, and that the al-

leged shooter threat had been identified. In addition, they mentioned no specific people had been targeted and the Palomar Administration had secured a temporary public restraining order against the student.

The student was detained under Section 5150 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code, which grants the jurisdiction of a qualified officer or clinician to “involuntarily confine a person suspected to have a mental disorder” that would indicate a danger to themselves, or others.

According to ABC 10 news, the threat intended on targeting areas

surrounding classroom exits from an elevated location. There was no specified individual the threat intended to target, likely the threat meant to shoot as many bystanders as possible. ABC 10 news also reported the student had made threats to the San Diego County Administration Center.

Once Palomar’s general information email was sent to the community, some faculty were left with a feeling of distraught.

“I don’t think that we as employees of Palomar or if I was a student, or anyone, should hear the details about what’s happening on my cam-

pus from the news,” Jenny Ferraro a member of the Faculty Senate said.

“I should hear it from my campus.”

Director of Public Affairs Laura Gropen, who sent the email, said that the reason the notice was limited in detail, was because information was either classified, or was unknown at the time.

Other members of the Faculty Senate, were upset over the lack of instruction given in the general information email. “If you are going to say ‘red alert,’ then follow that up,” Teresa Laughlin said. “Because we all feel powerless, we need to be able to have a plan.”

Palomar Police Chief Chris Moore, mentioned to the Faculty Senate that as far as law enforcement knew at that time, the shooter threat was not currently in possession of any firearms, and was prohibited from purchasing any firearms in the future.

During the Faculty Senate meeting the week following, Director of Student Affairs Sherry Titus, spoke to board members to provide further insight as to why there was a lack of information given in the email sent by the public affairs office.

Because the threat violated the student code of conduct, it is likely that the student will be permanently prohibited from entering any of Palomar College’s satellite campuses. However, it is up to the Governing Board to make the final decision on that matter, and when they do, they will not be permitted to publish their decision due to student privacy regulations.

Until then, the student must remain at minimum 1,000 yards away from Palomar College, as outlined in the temporary restraining order.

“We will continue to do our due diligence to protect the campus community,” Gropen said in the general information email.

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Palomar hub opens to students JENNESH AGAGAS THE TELESCOPE

The new Palomar College Hub is officially open for students to gain access to essential resources to get them through the school year.

In SU-22, officials from the Student Affairs Office have created a living room type environment for students to feel safe and have a variety of resources to meet their basic needs.

“We are thrilled that the Hub is now open,” Chelsea Kott, Supervisor of Student Affairs said.

“We have already seen a great number of students utilizing the space and our services, even before we started advertising for the Hub. It’s a heartwarming feeling to know that students feel welcome and safe.”

Located by the new food bank, the Hub will act as an extension to the food pantry as well as the nutrition center to provide a helping hand for food insecure students. Originally, the purpose of the space was to inform stu-

dents about campus support and community resources. However, officials from the Student Affairs office wanted to make the Hub as flexible as possible to adapt to the evolving needs of students.

More than 20,000 students across 70 community colleges were food insecure, according to HOPE lab research

The purpose of the Hub is to change the system by increasing accessibility to nutritious food, stable housing, financial wellness, and emotional support. In many cases, students who are hungry may also experience other insecurities, such as homelessness, domestic abuse, or trauma.

“The day before the Hub opened, we finalized compiling a list of over 100 community resources throughout San Marcos, Vista, Escondido, and surrounding areas. These are community resources that are open to supporting students with various needs ranging from childcare support, to free food, shelters, counseling and more,” Kott said.

With the new Hub students facing any issue other than food insecurities will be supported by professional staff members, lead interns, or peer mentors.

The Hub will give students a chance to meet with their Calfresh representative to find out if they could be eligible for EBT or Food Stamps. “Since the Hub has opened, we have hosted Calfresh meetings in there to help students sign up for food stamps,” Kott said. “We opened up the doors for community members to use the space to have lunch and dialogue and helped students learn about community resources available to them.”

A student from Cal State San

Marcos, Marilyn Cervantes, Interns for the Hub and expressesd how it’s a great environment for students to seek comfort from the staff and how it will continue to grow to become what the students need. “I feel like this will be the space where a lot of dialogue happens behind food injustice and mental health assistance. It would be a place where students have all of the resources, despite whatever challenges they are facing there would be an answer for them here to help them,” Cervantes said.

While this is only the start of what to expect from the new Hub, officials say it will always be evolving. “social justice and community resources will be at the center of the purpose of the Hub, and mental health is so very closely connected to these critical pieces,” Kott said. “We are excited for these pieces to evolve, become ever more connected, and continue to support student success on and off campus.”

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NEWS • 5

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Escondido city council positioned with Trump CAMERON NIVEN THE TELESCOPE

The Escondido City Council voted to support Trump’s suit against California State’s sanctuary laws on April 4.

The council voted 4-1 in support of filing a legal brief in support of the federal government against California challenging the passing of “sanctuary city” laws.

The legal brief is not an attempt to sue the state, explained by City Attorney Michael McGuinness, the motion is only a filing in support of the Trump Administration who argues that California’s sanctuary laws violate federal law because they contend with federal immigration enforcement.

McGuinness also explained that this lawsuit is the reverse of the Obama Administration’s lawsuit against the State of Arizona in 2010, where it ruled that no state “may enact or enforce laws which obstruct or conflict” with the U.S. authority to enforce federal immigration law. The Obama Ad-

ministration challenged Arizona’s law that required police to check immigration status of people in custody.

Despite the council’s almost unanimous vote; there was a sizable crowd of protesters opposing the city’s filing. The San Diego Border Dreamers were among those protesting the city’s position and claimed that it would hurt Escondido’s immigrant population.

There was also a strong presence of those who supported the filing.

A few supporters intervened in the demonstration outside City Hall brandishing Trump and American flags yelling, “You must follow the law” through a megaphone.

This contention followed inside during the council meeting as more than 70 people on both sides raised their voices on theissue. Those who were not in favor claimed the issue was about compassion and would strain relations between the city, its law enforcement and the immigrant population.

A notable voice was 17 year-old

Inclusive organizer Kathy Stadler speaks to a crowd of protestors outside Escondido City Hall in opposition to the legal brief. April 4. Cameron Niven / The Telescope

Maria Martinez, an undocumented resident, who told the council that her father was deported in October of last year. “How shameful of you to think that tearing families apart will help the community,” Martinez said.

Many in the crowd who supported the motion said that this issue was not about race or xeno-

phobia but of upholding the law, a position that was echoed by almost all of the council members.

Escondido Mayor Sam Abed, criticized Gov. Jerry Brown saying, “Your Sacramento is now politically, ethically, and morally corrupt,” and also said that he hopes to deliver on his yearlong promise to sue state over this sanctuary law.

Olga Diaz was the lone council member in opposition to this motion firing back to Abed that she finally understands that the reason for filing this brief was over political grandstanding.

After the brief passed and the crowd cheered, Diaz said that she was still inspired by those who supported her in the crowd and that “I am alone on the vote but I’m not alone in support.”

Escondido joins Orange County, Los Alamitos, Yorba Linda, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, and Aliso Viejo in their support of Trump’s side in the lawsuit, but it is the first city in San Diego County to join.

Attendee speaks in favor for the legal brief supporting the Trump adminstration’s lawsuit against California’s sanctuary laws. April 4. Cameron Niven / The Telescope

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Attendees cheer as the city council votes to file a legal brief in support of the Trump adminstration’s suit against California’s sanctuary laws. April 4. Cameron Niven / The Telescope

Veterans condemn counselor services MONICA NAVARRETE THE TELESCOPE

Numerous student veterans have condemned Palomar College’s counselor services as being unhelpful, and disrespectful to them.

While veterans were in the student services building in the old veteran resource center, they complained that they felt they were being used as grunts at some points. “Everyone turns around when they need a crew to move their furniture but when we asked a counselor here on campus to help us find a clear pathway to transfer they crossed their arms,” a four-year veteran that is going on their third year

on campus said.

The same veteran then made remark on the substandard advice they get from counselors.

“It’s complete bullshit to say we traded books at the age of 18 for a rifle, and we come back to ask for guidance and all we get are numbers to call to,” they added.

Director of Public Affairs Laura Gropen, said that she was unaware that some veterans felt like this. “Well I’m surprised actually. I haven’t heard anything but just really positive things about the counselors in the veteran services area,” Gropen said.

There were some who did not believe that counselors had any malice toward veterans, and that what it boiled down to was a few

counselors who misunderstand the way the GI bill works. “Their ignorance is causing the veterans to take more unnecessary classes and have them pay out of pocket,” a former veteran mentioned when asked about their thoughts on the service counselors offer them.

When reading back the remarks made toward the counselors at the Veteran’s Center they said, “we understand it can be hard for veterans to understand that the process to go into college isn’t easy.”

“In the military they are given a scheduled day and then they expect it to be the same when they get out and into civilian life, it’s not like that so I have to

disagree on their remarks.” Tina Barlolong, the veterans counselor added.

However, there were other veterans who felt that the treatment from counselors were coming from a place of malice.

“It’s obvious when I go into the counseling office here on campus and ask for help, they do everything possible to keep you here,” an anonymous source said.

The source mentioned that they think the counselors are wasting not only their time, but yelled that they were wasting also their money.

When planning on the location in which the renovating veteran center would be placed, one member of administration

questioned whether the veterans would be okay being located next to the LGBTQ Pride Center, according to a military veteran, Marquis O’Dell. “One of the question we got from veterans when we moved was ‘is it going to be okay?’”

“It’s like a fucking slap in the face, we do so much for them, bend over backwards just to have them think we are going to harm our neighbors.” an anonymous source added. “We honestly don’t give a fuck about what they think about us,” an army veteran said.

“It’s just a shame they treat us differently.”

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6 • SPORTS

Monday, April 23, 2018

De Anda instills passion into her players LEXINGTON HOWE THE TELESCOPE

Four girls surround Coach Carly de Anda as she tells them to hit the ball down center-court.

“Lean into your swing,” she said, bending forward and giving a sweeping gesture with her arm.

This would be one of several different exercises to get the girls warmed up for practice that day.

Midway through practice, tennis balls were scattered around the court, at least a few dozen bouncing off the back fences and around the players. While practice is going on, the girls are moving up and down the court, mesmerized in a routine of different drills.

There are four players this semester: Summer Aguirre, Chihiro Nishijima, Eren Sugimoto and Brianna Wood. Alana Golderplays as well, but she comes as support, enrolled through the class, and does not play in the tournaments or other games.

De Anda has been playing tennis nearly her entire life. She was a Chaparral High School graduate, and then came to Palomar to play.

She trained under Coach Ronnie Mancao at the time, and learned a lot, improving to the point that she obtained a scholarship from Seattle University (SU) to play for them. After finishing her time at SU, she came back and finished her masters at San Diego State University.

It wasn’t really a career goal she was initially looking for—she knew in high school she wouldn’t be playing professionally, that it was just an enjoyable hobby. After obtaining the scholarship and

improving, she came back to Palomar and was interested in coaching. She called Mancao and asked if there were any tennis positions open, and just the day before they had discussed the need for a new women’s tennis coach, and he told her to apply.

“It wasn’t necessarily a goal, it just happened that way, so I’m wanting to give that back: play a little bit and coach these girls so maybe they could apply themselves,” de Anda said.

“This year’s goal was just getting enough girls to play,” de Anda added, explaining that they had pulled their fourth girl last minute for this season. Chihiro Nishijima, who has been playing tennis for three and a half years, played so well last year she competed in the Ojai Tennis Tournament where top players from northern and southern California come and compete annually. She graduated from Odawara High School, and is from Kanagawa, Japan.

Nishijima’s goal is to compete again at Ojai, this time going round 16 in doubles, and winning a two-game single, finally going to quarter finals.

“She made it to quarter finals in our regional tournament, and they did really well, her and her doubles partner,” de Anda said, adding that all of the girls have really good technique and stroke, and they know how the game works.

Next year’s goals: get bodies, get a full roster team. De Anda added that from there, she’ll build up the team.

Scott Cathcart, Director of Athletics at Palomar, explained that since they pulled de Anda in late

Coach Carly de Anda talking to Comets player, Eren Sugimoto, March 13. Taylor Hardey / The Telescope

in the fall, it was hard to give her enough time to recruit. De Anda is in her first year at Palomar as head coach. For Cathcart, the program’s goals are to bring in those who love the sport and want to pursue finishing their degree, whether that be at Palomar or at a four year.

As the director, Cathcart wants to see the program grow, adding that as the players move forward in the season, he’d like to see “a positive athletic and academic experience, worthy of the intercollegiate title that is worn by our program in its entirety.”

For this year, it was hard going to the matches and knowing they were already going to lose by default since they didn’t have enough players, but the girls who did play, played well, and they improved a lot.

“It will be interesting to see who we get next year,” de Anda said. “If

I get girls who have played before, or if I get new players who I have to coach from the ground up. As long as I get my six though, I’ll be okay.”

Erin Sugimoto is also on the team this year, and she has been playing for nearly 10 years, finishing high school at Showa Women’s University in Tokyo. Her goal this year is to go to Ojai.

Alana Golder, enrolled in the class, added that she personally would like to improve with strategy. She has also been playing for 10 years, and de Anda wants to help each girl improve not just in their overall game, but in each of their goals.

When asked about what de Anda would like to see for next year, she personally wants to see changes in how practices are run, and how ladder is run (a ranking system of how each player moves up and down in position)—but

aside from team play, she would like to see some kind of hierarchy, so that the girls all know how to push each other.

“I would like to create solid practices next year, and once a week keep points of who moves up the ladder-number one, two and three, and at the end of each week have them compete for each spot,” she said, adding, “I can only push players so far as they want to go when I’m running drills, but it’s really helpful when you have your own partner pushing each other to be better.”

De Anda’s love of the game can be reflected through her players, and through her interaction with the girls on the court.

“I’ve been playing tennis my whole life,” de Anda said, “I love it.”

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Coach Mancao looks forward to season end CAMERON NIVEN THE TELESCOPE

30-year veteran Coach of Palomar’s Men's Tennis, Ronnie Mancao, looks forward to

another year of tennis despite this particular season’s external struggles.

“The difference with this season is that we have been struggling to get enough players,”

Palomar men’s tennis coach Ronnie Mancao jokes with the men’s tennis team before a match. April 15. Cameron Niven / The Telescope

Mancao said. “We had a lot of last minute transfers.”

Mancao said that they lost four players due to them transferring, but he added this is good for the past players despite being hard on the team.

What is also a struggle for the tennis team is the fact that class labs are usually scheduled during the afternoon, which is the time when the team usually practices and plays matches.

Student players often struggle to find time to commit to sports while juggling with school.

Despite these setbacks the team’s top two players, Patrick Trhac and Will Molenkamp, are defending singles and doubles champions for the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference with a record of 8-0 in doubles and individual records of 6-2 (Trhac) and 7-1 (Molenkamp).

This success has also brought attention from other universities with a possibility of a scholarship for at least one of these players.

Other achievements that have been felt by Stephen MacVean

and Ryan Miller, who both got their first wins in both of their singles and doubles matches against Imperial Valley on March 20. This was the whole team’s first win of the season overall.

On April 12 through 14 the Palomar men’s tennis team made an impression at the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference Singles and Doubles Championships at Grossmont College.

Patrick Trhac made it to final in both finals in both the singles and doubles with Will Molenkamp.

College of the Desert won against Palomar in the final singles match and won by default due to injuries sustained by one of Palomar's player's.

Despite the team’s loss in the finals Patrick Trhac has ranked 10th in singles and 9th in doubles with Will Molenkamp among all of California’s community colleges in the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA).

If Patrick Trhac makes it to the top 8 ranks by the end of the regional and state championship

he will be considered all American.

Both Trhac and Molenkamp will go as singles players and as doubles to the CCCAA southern regional championship at Ojai on April 26 to 27.

If either or both qualify then they will go to the state championship at Ojai April 28 to 29.

When asked how he feels whenever a player transfers to four year college or gets a scholarship to a four-year university Mancao said “It makes me feel good, it means that I’ve done my job.”

Mancao is looking to continue to improve the team even more as the state championship come up, but is confident in his players.

He laughs that when next season rolls along he will have to recruit six more players but welcomes it. As he said, “Here we go again.”

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From Spain to Palomar for the love of golf BETHANY NASH THE TELESCOPE

A little over a year ago, Jaime Sanz, left his homeland of Spain, his mother, and brother to join his father in America to follow his dreams of becoming a pro golfer.

“My father applied for a green card, and I wanted to study [at college] while I was playing golf. In Spain that is very hard to do. So, we decided to move here,” Sanz said.

Sanz is 19 years old and in his second season with Palomar’s men’s golf team. He began playing golf when he was 8 years old, and now he aspires to one day be a pro golfer.

Sanz’ dad got his green card, a job at a winery in Ramona, and worked to move Sanz to California with him after he finished high school, in hopes of him attaining both his golf and academic aspirations. Unfortunately, the entire family was unable to come. Sanz’ younger brother is still in high school and needs to finish his studies before his mother and brother can move here and the Sanz family can be reunited.

“It’s something that you have to do. If I want to reach my goals then I have to sacrifice something. So I feel like that is a sacrifice,” Sanz said.

“They (Sanz mother and brother) came here last month in February and I got to spend like a month with them, now they are back because my brother has a test to do in Spain.”

Sanz first joined Palomar’s men’s golf in the 2017 season, when his father gave head coach, Mark Halda, a phone call to get his son a tryout with the team.

Coach Halda said, “It’s interesting because I first got a phone call from his father, who was working at a winery in Ramona and said that his son is living in Spain and is going to come live with him and can he play golf at Palomar. So he came out last year and tried out, and hit the ball real solidly but wasn’t scoring well enough. So he didn’t play the first few matches last year.”

Coach Halda has been impressed

by Sanz in many aspects. As he has been settling in to living in a new country and learning a new language, Sanz has come a long way.

“The impressive things about [Sanz] is his work ethic, the way he hits the ball, and he has a great feel for the game,” Halda said.

Sanz explained that it was a bit difficult coming to a new place where he regularly had to speak a new language and adjust his life to

Top and Left images of Jaime Sanz during golf practice on April 17 at St. Mark Golf Club. Jennesh Agagas/ The Telescope

a new culture saying, “In Spain we learned more like grammar than speech, so when I came here first it was like I was rusty in my conversation, I wasn’t comfortable. But now I am more comfortable.”

Coach Halda felt that once Sanz adjusted to a new environment that he really began to rise to his potential as a golfer.

“I think that was part of coming from Spain to southern California, English is not your primary language, completely different culture, completely different area, it took him a while to settle in,” Halda said.

“Part of the cool thing was the team embraced him, and then once he felt comfortable in his surroundings…his scores started coming down and he started playing a little better.”

Patrick Gorman, a 20-year-old teammate met Sanz last season.

They spend even their free time hanging together doing golf-related activities.

“He is the best. He is from Spain

and he is probably one of our stronger internationals and he is going to do well this year,” Gorman said.

Aside from becoming one of Palomar’s top golfer’s, Sanz has also exceeded academically. He is working towards a degree in business and hopes to transfer to a four-year university in order to finish his bachelor’s degree.

Sanz had outstanding grades in the fall of 2017 semester and was just submitted to the state of Caliornia for Academic All State in golf.

“I would like to transfer to a fouryear university and finish my two years of work that I have, and then play professional,” Sanz said.

Coach Halda has big hopes for Sanz in his future with golf and in his career as a student. Halda feels Sanz has yet to show his best playing and is excited to see him continue to improve and become the best golfer he can be.

Halda explained: “When you come to Palomar we want you to be a better student than when you

showed up, we want you to be a better person socially then when you showed up, and we want you to be a better golfer. If you’re not, then we haven’t done our jobs. That is what I want for him. And to have the ability, the options, and the chance to continue his education and to continue to play collegiate golf.”

When asked about the differences between living in Spain and living in California, the type of food is what stood out to him. Even with all of his accomplishments at such a young age and a bright future ahead of him, Sanz still really misses his mother’s home cooked meals most of all.

“I ate better in Spain than here.

I feel like almost everything is fast food here. When we go out to a restaurant or something it’s like fast food. It’s very different than Spain,” Sanz said. “I like the fast food, but I don’t like that all is fast food. I miss my mother’s cuisine.”

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Is the Palomar gym cost effective for you?

JENNA WILSON THE TELESCOPE

There are a multitude of options to look at when deciding on a gym membership. Here are three practical and local choices.

Palomar College has their own gym on campus. According to Paul Boley, the college gym’s fitness center specialist, about three-fourths of the memberships belong to students and faculty and the rest being other members of the community.

Once a membership has been purchased at Palomar College’s gym, the member gains access to an array of workout equipment such as free weights, elliptical machines, treadmills and more.

Also, the membership includes

usage of the pool, towels, locker rooms and toiletries.

The cost of a month to month membership at Palomar is $20 a month with a $10 one-time admission fee. For a year membership it's $150.

Palomar’s gym is the least expensive option per year out of the three.

Crunch is a chain gym that has a location just about two miles from campus.

Crunch has the workout essentials such as free weights, cardio equipment, mats and leg and arm machines.

With the purchase of the base membership at Crunch, the member gets access to locker rooms with showers, an orientation, an online nutrition pro-

gram and circuit training. The base membership allows the member to workout at a single location only.

If you upgrade to the peak or peak plus membership then it would also include group classes, tanning, guest privileges, multiclub access and more for the addition costs of an upgraded membership.

“I went [to Crunch] for about two years. I had a premium membership. I liked that it was clean and big. Lots of equipment and lots of room to do independent workouts, which is what I like to do,” student Shelby Messenger said. Messenger ended up leaving Crunch because of a lack of child care which was needed in her daily life.

For an additional cost, personal training and/or small group training are available to add to any membership at Crunch.

Per month a base Crunch membership is $20. If paying month to month for the base membership, a year would be $289.95 including the annual fee of $49.95.

The third gym on this list is LA Fitness which has a location off of N Twin Oaks Valley Road about 2 miles from campus.

LA Fitness has two types of memberships they offer: singleclub access membership and multi-club access.

LA Fitness has the essential machines and workout equipment including free weights, cardio machines, mats and more.

With a membership, it’s possible to add-on features like personal training and “Kids Klub.” This is the only gym on this list that offers child care.

A membership at LA Fitness includes group classes, basketball, racquetball, a heated spa, sauna, indoor cycling and Wi-Fi. Out of the three gyms LA Fitness is the most expensive when looking at the basic membership only. Per month LA Fitness is $24.99 for the single-gym access.

For a year at LA Fitness with the same membership it would total at $398.88 including the initial fee of $99.

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Monday, April 23, 2018

Local artist spotlight: Flatsound

Flatsound’s website features many artistic works where images are layered on top of each other to create double exposures. This image is styled similarly. Savhanna Vargas / The Telescope

VICTORIA PRICE THE TELESCOPE

Imagine being so scared of the outside world, that you trap yourself in your house for 10 years.

What do you do with your time?

Do you paint, write, or just watch time go by? For Mitch Welling, he spent his time making music in his bedroom.

Mitch Welling, a San Diego native hailing from Fallbrook, has made a name for himself by making music in his house. He uses the name “Flatsound”, and has released multiple albums and EP’s since 2009. Welling has been very open about his fear, which is

called agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder that makes the person fearful or anxious in places or situations that they are unfamiliar with.

Flatsound fits perfectly into the spoken word, lo-fi genre that has had a huge surge in popularity within the past few years. His music was first posted on the SoundCloud app, where users can post their own music and content without the trouble of going through services like Spotify and Apple Music. In 2014, he posted a song called “You Said Okay”, which has since seen over 1 million listens. It went viral on social media sites like Twitter and Tum-

blr, and it has brought a lot of attention to his music.

Since 2014, he has released multiple EP’s and 5 albums, and has almost 200,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. His soft, spoken word music has become popular in the scene, and he’s done it all from his bedroom.

Welling has also dabbled in photography and art, and has created album and EP covers all on his own. In 2017, he released his most recent album “Hummingbird” and the cover of the album is a black and white picture of the stairs leading up to his old bedroom, where he spent years making and recording music. It was

also the last music he recorded before moving out and relocating to Carlsbad.

“The house that my agoraphobia confined me to for so long. But, more positively, the house that I had built a music career from nothing in. I made a very conscious effort to record the songs in the manner that I would record very early flatsound songs. I even used a lot of the same equipment.

Stand-alone multi-track recorders and microphones that I had used when I was a teenager,” he told Criss Cross Magazine last December.

Since his work has taken off, the demand for merchandise has

come. Since Welling works completely independent, he had to figure out a way to do it himself. And that’s exactly what he did. Welling runs his own merch store, printing his own t-shirts and pressing his own vinyl, packing and shipping everything himself.

His new music is arguably some of his most refined work yet, and there’s no stopping him yet.

He has confronted his phobia and left his childhood home, and is exploring the world further beyond, drawing even more influence, and fans look forward to new content from Flatsound.

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“Isle of Dogs” movie review

Photo courtesy of Vimeo, Isle of Dogs produced by Wes Anderson.

EVAN MONROE THE TELESCOPE

While movies have always been meant to entertain audiences, sometimes it can be easy to predict or anticipate certain arcs in films.

Wes Anderson’s newest movie “Isle of Dogs” side steps countless formulas and storytelling elements to create an utterly unpredictable film.

The film takes place in the fictitious Japanese city known as Megasaki City. In the city, viruses known as “Dog Flu” and “Snout Fever” have spread throughout the canine population. In order to stop the outbreak, all dogs are condemned to a

remote island outside of the city.

Months after the action is issued, a young boy named Atari travels to the island in search of his dog Spots.

A small group of five dogs then aids Atari as he searches for his lost dog.

Just like Wes Anderson’s 2009 film “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Isle of Dogs” is made with stop motion and hand drawn animation. In a world filled with computer animated movies, the stop motion work in “Isle of Dogs” feels quite refreshing.

In addition to the unique animation, the film received a PG-13 rating. This rating is almost unheard of for an American animated film. Because of its rating, the movie doesn’t feel targeted at a specific audience.

It also allows certain risks to be taken that most animated films would be too afraid to take.

In most movies about dogs, the world is illustrated as near-utopian.

Dogs are given to owners who own a good house and treat the dog well.

In the real world however, this is not always the case. Wes Anderson does not shy away from this fact with his approach to writing this film.

Dogs are shown fighting each other, caged, and even experimented on.

The film has imagery that will likely upset many animal loving viewers.

In spite of its harshness, “Isle of Dogs” still manages to be a heart warming film. The relationship between dogs and humans is explored

on both a large and small scale.

There are large political questions about the value of dogs, as well as quiet moments where the dogs interact with young Atari.

Every member of the extensive ensemble cast shines in their own way. Brian Cranston plays the leader of the five dog crew who assists Atari. He is the only dog who had not experienced a positive relationship with humans prior to being brought to the island. Therefore, he believes that dogs should learn to rely on each other rather than humans. Every other cast member comes off as memorable due to unique traits or scenes.

Alexandre Desplat conducts a

percussive musical score which utilizes foreign instruments. The score is only composed of a strict number of instruments. Because of its simplicity, Desplat’s score is far more memorable than conventional complex musical scores.

“Isle of Dogs” is a film which doesn’t fit into a typical film category or follow a conventional storytelling method. The film has percussive music, refreshing animation, an astonishing cast, and heart warming moments. It is a highly intelligent and unconventional masterpiece. Movie Rating:10/10 EMONROE@THE-TELESCOPE.COM

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Monday, April 23, 2018

Local coffee shop hops on marijuana trend

Bump Coffee employee Paul Lyon replacing coffee filters at their location in Encinitas. Aubree Wiedmaier/ The Telescope

SAMANTHA COX THE TELESCOPE

Coffee and Cannabidiol (CBD) oil go together like cookies and milk.

If you love coffee, but hate the feeling of heightened anxiety after drinking a cup, CBD oil might be your new best friend. CBD oil provides the medical and therapeutic effects of marijuana, without the stereotypical ‘high.’ Bump is the first coffee shop in the area to serve CBD oil in any of their handcrafted drinks.

While it is great to not nearly have a panic attack after drinking a second cup of coffee, CBD oil provides long term health benefits.

It has been proven to help with conditions such as depression and anxiety, something that unfortunately, many people suffer from. It can also help prevent type 2 diabetes and ease menstrual cramps.

It all starts with the beans.

Bump’s espresso is certified organic and roasted in San Diego. These beans are carefully roasted in order to ensure consumers get the most out of their coffee. Antioxidants fight off elements that are naturally found in the environment that damage cells and have been found to cause cancer. By drinking the daily recommended dose of coffee (2-3 cups), you are reducing the chance of getting heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes.

“Americans get more antioxi-

dants from coffee than any other source,” Joe Vinson a chemistry professor at the University of Scranton said. Bump is making it easier for Americans to get antioxidants by providing delicious, top of the line coffee with a few drops of CBD oil.

When you combine organic roasted coffee beans with CBD oil, you are getting even more antioxidants which means you are putting yourself at an even lower risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Since CBD oil is legal you can find CBD oil at nearly any health store, or even on Amazon. Just a few drops of this in your cup of coffee can provide you with intense relaxation, and medicinal effects. Bump is the only coffee shop

around that carries CBD oil to put into coffee.

CBD oil and coffee both have an effect on the adenosine chemical found in the body. This chemical tells the body when it’s time to stay awake, and when it’s time to go to sleep. Caffeine ‘blocks’ the body from being able to feel the calming effects of adenosine. CBD, on the other hand, increases the amount of adenosine for the body to use. When taking coffee and CBD oil in one dose, you will find yourself awake and more alert, but you won’t get jittery.

CBD itself is known to boost your mood and give you energy.

Because like most people, we find ourselves in the best mood when we are awake and ready to take on

the day. When regularly taken, you will find it easier to wake up in the morning and fall asleep at night, because CBD contains serotonin.

The coffee industry is constantly changing and creating new trends. We have all heard of “bulletproof coffee,” which is essentially a tablespoon of pure butter in coffee, and most of us went straight to Starbucks after seeing the new unicorn frappuccino on instagram. Considering CBD oil is high in antioxidants, it may be a good idea to incorporate it into your daily routine and the best way to do so is to enjoy it in your morning cup of coffee.

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San Diego Music Awards a tribute to old and new artists PAT HARTLEY THE TELESCOPE

The 2018 San Diego Music Awards rocked the House of Blues with genre’s as diverse as the people of San Diego. Local rock band P.O.D. headlined the show that featured Jazz, Blues, Hip-Hop Folk and Pop bands dropping their latest hits.

“It’s dope, it’s a real good crowd tonight, like, they had a good vibe” Parker Edison said, a rapper of the trio Parker Meridian and nominee for Artist of the Year.

The event featured reunions

and tributes to San Diego Music legends like The Paladins and The Beat Farmers (now called The Farmers). Thomas Yearsley, bass player for The Paladins accepted a lifetime achievement award for the band that pioneered the Rockabilly craze of the 1980’s. Yearsley and the Paladins have toured the world and opened for Stevie Ray Vaughn among others.

Yearsley was also there to support his son Evan Yearsley, drummer for the Casey Hensley Band that were nominated for Artist of the Year.

“Yeah it was awesome!” Evan

(Left) Rebecca Jade, (right) Whitney Shay. Courtesy of Gale Force Productions.

said. “Its very great seeing The Paladins getting the lifetime achievement award. They definitely deserve, it they work hard,” Evan said.

Thomas Yearsley also gave a shout out to his late wife and legendary local Blues woman Candye Kane that had won several San Diego and National Music Awards.

“Yeah it was like a family night for us, and yeah the second he said her name I just started tearing up.

Sometimes it just gets me, it was super sweet,” Casey Hensley, lead singer for the band said.

Also taking home awards for Best Jazz album was local artist Rebecca Jade. Collaborating with local legends like Peter Sprague, the album revisits the classic songs of Cole Porter. “The idea was a Cole Porter Tribute that we decided to actually record, so it was beautiful to see that idea come to fruition.”

Rebecca’s versatility is growing after releasing her debut neo-soul album in 2011, then winning in 2015 for Best Blues album and now a tribute to a music legend.“It was beautiful music back then it’s an honor to keep the tradition going, and I’m grateful to be able to tag along and interject myself into this among such great people and great musicians.”

The music flowed all night from the cinematic funk-jazz of Surefire Soul ensemble to FolkRock up. While P.O.D. debuted

Thomas Yearsley (right) bass player for the Paladins and Diane Gonzales (left) mother of Paladins Lead guitarist/singer David Gonzales. Photo courtesy of Gale Force Productions.

new songs and classics like “Youth of the Nation,” the crowd grooved and embraced the many styles and levels of the San Diego music experience.

It’s really an amazing community because so many people are able to make a living in so many different genres,” Whitney Shay said, 2018 winner of Best Blues album, adding, “we have such a diverse community in so many different scenes and we get to come

together for this great event and it’s always a blast.”

Stanz The Sixteener nominee for Best Hip-hop/Rap Album explained how the San Diego Music Awards motivates artists to grow. “For sure you’re vulnerable bro, you’re putting your heart out there and its nice to receive feedback and recognition.”

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“40 Things I Wish I’d Told My Kids”

BOOK REVIEW

LEXINGTON HOWE THE TELESCOPE

Some of the simplest lessons are best learned by life experience.

Over the years, John Allcock wrote emails to his kids, detailing simple life lessons that he’d learned,

and was now passing on. Some of these emails were forwarded on to others, and this was how the book “40 Things I Wish I’d Told My Kids” got started.

Allcock has been studying mindfulness for nearly 15 years. He also co-founded Sea Change Prepatory

Photo courtesy of Kelli Daniel.

Focus Gallery

Photos by Belen De Anda and design by Savhanna Vargas / The Telescope

School in Del Mar with his wife, Cheryl Allcock, and over the years their vision of providing a “rigorous, relevant, mindful education which transforms and empowers its students” is a method they have sought to bring forth daily, within the school and outside of it. Allcock graduated with honors from both Boston College and Harvard Law School, as stated in his book, but this he feels is not what qualifies him to write it—but his life experience, and his dedication to mindfulness—“it allows the student to realize that fear and doubt are not real—only figments of their imagination—and to free themselves of it,” Allcock stated in a press release, adding that being mindful of these thoughts and other negative connotations can be the first step in overcoming obstacles we put in place for ourselves.

Many of the life lessons covered in the book include defining happiness, controlling what thoughts we allow ourselves to think, positive or negative, and simple truths such as not being worried over things we can’t control, and understanding that life does not always work in our best interest, but it’s our mindset that can out win them all.

“Those of us who grew up in the United States (or the West in general) have been taught for generations that you need to change the externals of the world in order to achieve happiness and success,” Allcock stated in a Q &A, adding that this is a result of culture, and many of us either learn these concepts later in life, or in fact too late or not at all. Condens-

John Allcock. Photo courtesy of Kelli Daniel.

ing these fundamental ideals in one book allows for individuals, young or old, to understand and relate to these concepts, perhaps even changing the habits they would like to be rid of.

“Mindfulness allows us to recognize those thoughts (or core beliefs) which are unrealistically negative, investigate them to discern their accuracy, and then replace them with more accurate (or positive) beliefs and intentions, which allow us to live a happier, fuller, and more meaningful (and productive) life,” Allcock said.

Allcock’s book was released in March, and is available at all major bookstores, including online.

Allcock wrote the book at a time in his life that was particularly challenging, but he admits it’s not his credentials from Harvard or Boston College that allow him to write this book, but his own failures in life. “Anyone who has never failed big time has no business writing a book about successful living,” Allcock writes in the opening pages of the book, adding, “This book is about the things I learned from great teachers, living and dead, whose guidance inspired and informed this book. The crucible of great challenges, combined with wise teachings, turned me in the right direction.”

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Homelessness is a bigger issue than art budget cuts SAMANTHA COX THE TELESCOPE

You’re homeless, cold, and hungry. But at least you have a nice mural on the back wall of your local liquor store to stare at, right?

Mid 2017, Mayor Kevin Faulconer proposed a two percent budget cut of arts and culture funding. Part of which would go to programs and projects to help the homeless population in San Diego. In December 2017, the city’s arts commissioners voted to reject them all.

In a memo written to Faulconer from the Commission for Arts and Culture, Janet Poutre and Tyler Hewes exposed that the two percent budget cut would actually cut 31 percent from current funding. The two state that this would “destabilize that ecosystem, endanger the economic contribution that the arts and culture assets provide the city, and diminish our quality of life.” To say that taking away art funding would “diminish our quality of life,” is extremely ignorant towards the homeless whose lives have already been diminished by their own society.

Dave and his dog Lucy on Pine Avenue Pier, Long Beach. Seji Gaerlan/ The Telescope

Jose, a film student, explained that the city avoids many social problems. “They should be helping out with the homeless instead of kicking them out to a different part of town. Where are they really going to go?” he said, “why should we pay more taxes to pay for things that our government officials should already

be paying for? We have billions of dollars in a reserve fund when much of that money can be used for things right now.”

There has been a decrease in homelessness in downtown San Diego due to the Hepatitis A outbreak.

Are we relying on deadly diseases to “help” our homeless problem?

In January, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported 20 deaths and 395 hospitalizations due to the Hepatitis A outbreak, bringing the grand total to 577 cases. The Hepatitis A outbreak was the result of poor hygiene among the homeless community. Streets were closed, leaving the homeless no choice but to travel elsewhere.

San Diego has a lack of affordable housing, the homeless are having trouble finding shelters with vacancy, and homeless people have a difficult time finding free, public restrooms to use. We all know how annoying it is when you need to use the restroom, and are unable to find one that is free to use in a large city.

Most restaurants and stores have a policy in which you have to buy something in order to use the restroom.

Now imagine how inconvenient it would be if you needed to bathe, use the restroom, and make yourself look decent - but had nowhere to do so. If this issue does not get resolved soon, San Diego will suffer from another Hepatitis A outbreak.

San Diego residents are well aware of the issue. The problem is that these greedy people don’t want to give up their fund to help others in need.

Leaders of the local arts community state that they have a $1.1 billion impact on San Diego County. The arts & culture industry would rather see the homeless continue to live on the streets than give up a portion of their budget even though artists themselves spend most of their career, if not all, struggling financially.

Mayor Faulconer states that the 2018 budgets will help establish safer and more “livable” neighborhoods by addressing San Diego’s affordable housing crisis. Homeless service initiatives, as well as the San Diego Misdemeanant At-Risk Track (SMART) program, will gain from the new budget with the improvement of indoor homeless shelters and initiatives. Without these programs, some would be living on the streets.

It’s time for the arts & culture department to give up their greed and help those whose lives are at stake.

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The second amendment Care to conspire? need to be repealed KEANU MARBLE-SMITH THE TELESCOPE

It is time to declare that owning a gun is not a human right and to stop equating it with the ideals of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.

The love for guns in America is a virulent hidebound ideology that has perverted the American conscience and educed more terrorism than any of the supposed Islamic bogeymen our leaders and media wring their hands over. Convictions with too much moderation are no convictions at all, and liberals would do well to learn from their conservative counterparts and dismiss the desire to be so moderate or accommodating.

As of April 12, the United States has had 88 mass shootings in 2018.

Ninety-one percent of all children shot in the industrialized world are American. We see videos of either massacres or police-enacted executions on an almost daily basis here. Nations with Narco monopolies and active terrorist groups are only slightly ahead of,

Photo illustration by Aubree Wiedmaier / The Telescope

and sometimes behind, America in terms of gun deaths/injuries per capita.

But our national conversation about guns is not allowed to consider this. Facts do not matter when it comes to our gun idolatry that protects a hobby above the lives of thousands of innocents.

This narcissism is why we find ourselves in this world of routine mass violence.

It is an irony that of all of our constitutional amendments, the most publicly cherished is the most opaque. Our entire national policy and gun culture springs from an archaic and vague phraseology composed when the US had no standing military and required arms for killing natives, repressing slave rebellions, and hunting for food. The “well-armed militias” of yesteryear were not to defend against corrupt government but to cut down Native Americans who fought against colonists, and later citizens seizing their land.

There are no politicians in the U.S. who dare confront the sacred Second. They limit themselves to repeating pablum like “commonsense gun laws,” pretending there is pan-cultural consensus on this issue. Year after year the money rolls into the NRA’s coffers which then finds its way into the pockets of feckless politicians on the lobbying group’s payroll who then will stop at nothing to get as many guns into as many hands as possible.

What future does America have with the highest per capita of guns owned by private citizens and a government who can offer only thoughts and prayers for the thousands who are murdered every year by private citizens? I believe there are three paths before us.

The first is to become a security

state. This would entail Israeli-style surveillance with metal-detectors framing every heavily trafficked entrance, invasive internal surveillance, diminishment of the Fourth Amendment, police (both hidden and visible) protruding into all spheres of life, military forays into civilian safety measures, and inculcating an uneasiness of open spaces and public gatherings within the population. The psychological and corporeal effects of this on a society are severely caustic.

The second is to repeal the second amendment. It is irrefutable at this point that large-scale killings will not be any conduit for change on this issue. Unnervingly large amounts of Americans believe that the massacres are fake and orchestrated by a shadowy deep state.

State legislatures rarely achieve even half-measures like banning semi-automatic weapons or high-capacity magazines. The only way for consequential gun reform to happen (meaning a dramatic reduction of gunviolence nationwide whether it be performed with legally, illegally, or police-owned firearms) is for the Democratic base to abandon the legitimacy of the Second Amendment and turn the issue into a “make-or-break” policy.

The third option is to do nothing.

Our country is in a psychosis on this topic and we must snap out of this obsession with the Second and embrace our immediate material reality. We have a huge problem.

Gun ownership is not just killing us, it is stripping away our value of human life and societal wellbeing above our own preferences.

KMARBLE-SMITH@THE-TELESCOPE.COM

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Its seems no matter how hard you try, you somehow learn about a new crazy conspiracy with today’s world. That being said, heres another one for me to shove in your face.

Mark Zuckerburg is a half reptile half human sentient who created Facebook to gather data on what it truly means to be human since he isn’t fully a human himself.

The origin of the reptilian idea come from world renown conspirator David Icke who claims that all the main powerful figures in the world are actually evil reptilian aliens. His research on the matter is scary believable.

Now if we look at the basics of what kind of people are reptilians, Zuckerburg falls perfectly into the category. But what makes the theory with him shockingly evident isn’t the fact that he is rich and powerful, it’s his looks and reactions to these accusations.

Just one look at the guy and you can tell something is off. Many commentators on the subject all argue that the longer you look at him, the stranger and stranger he appears. To explain, it just appears as though his skin is plastered on like a detailed Halloween mask.

Besides his appearance, whenever he is asked about being a reptile, he swiftly brushes off the questions by saying “what a silly question” and then goes on and ignores it. The fact he refuses to truly answer proves the point altogether.

It’s now extremely clear and proven that Facebook analyzes and tracks any data you have on the site.

The use for this is described as for better ad placement, however, this is just a coverup statement.

Zuckerburg seems to be getting less and less socially awkward as the years go by. This is because he keeps accessing more and more data to himself feel more and more human.

GROSEN@THE-TELESCOPE.COM

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Faculty is not prepared for a shooter

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Focused On Palomar Monday, April 23, 2018 Vol. 71, No. 9 Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.

BETHANY NASH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LINUS SMITH MANAGING EDITOR NEWS EDITOR GEHRIG ROSEN OPINION EDITOR LEXINGTON HOWE ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR HAYLEY STEVENSON TAYLOR MACKAY ONLINE EDITOR

EDITORIAL Palomar College needs to prioritize revisiting emergency procedures for the campus community.

In the fallout of the threat of a shooter made to Palomar College before spring break, some faculty were left with a feeling of uneasiness, as the realization that they don’t know what to do in the case of a shooter event dawned on them.

This is something that should be troubling to everyone involved in the campus, especially given Palomar College’s prominence in southern California, and that there has

been nearly 200 school shootings in the United States since the year 2000.

During Faculty Senate, several members of the board complained about the lack of information, and instruction when the general information email about the shooter threat went out. They argued that they needed more details to disseminate information to their students about what to do.

While we agree that the general information email was ambiguous, faculty should not put off taking steps to prepare for an active shooter event until administration tells

them what to do.

The Palomar Police Department’s website has resources available to inform students (and faculty) on what actions need be taken to keep the class safe in the event of a shooter.

Faculty, from art to administration of justice, should dedicate at least half an hour each semester to basic “Run, Hide, Fight” training in each of their classes.

In regards to what the administration should do incase of future scenarios such as the one we saw this last month.

Faculty are correct, the email

sent out was highly ambiguous, and even if administration did not at the time have all the information, they could have kept the community updated. For example, Chief Moore mentioned during Faculty Senate that the shooter threat was not in possession of a firearm, that would be important to send out in an email.

These are simple, but important steps that ought be taken to put students’ minds at ease, so that they can focus on what they’re supposed to be focused on. Learning for Success.

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Teachers are told to read the emergency guidelines when they ask what to do in case of a shooting. Art by Adam Baisley

Diversity reaches the film industry VICTORIA PRICE THE TELESCOPE

In 2018, it’s time that we give mainstream media recognition to movies featuring characters who aren’t straight white people.

Directors and filmmakers have gotten backlash for years due to white washing casts, and rightfully so. It seemed as though the hope of getting an accurate cast of people of color actors seemed bleak, and then came “Black Panther.”

Released in February 2018 by the Walt Disney Company (under Marvel Comics, of course), the film is being named one of the best of all time.

The movie follows the character of T’Challa, who goes back to his home of Wakanda (based on countries in Africa) after his father’s death.

In early April, “Black Panther” dethroned “Titanic” from their position on the highest grossing films of all time (in unadjusted earnings), taking the number 3 spot, following “Avatar” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” “Black Panther” has been praised for its casting and characters, and has changed mainstream film forever. “Black Panther” proves the negative effects of white washing and the importance of people of color (POC) representation. It also proves the success of movies who get

it right the first time. featuring gay characters, it’s usually and straight white characters. The For example, does anyone re- more related to taboo, or it’s some successes of these movies prove that member the movie “Pan?” You strange indie film with characters Hollywood hasn’t been getting it probably don’t, and for good reason. who smoke four packs of cigs a day right for decades, and we can only People were angry, not about the or party all the time. But “Love, Si- hope that they inspire films to feadirector, or the graphics or the sto- mon” is excellent in the way that it’s ture the representation of the differryline. That film cast actress Rooney average. It’s a regular story for the ent people that we share the world with. Dear Hollywood, great things Mara, a white actress, as Tiger Lily, a regular teenager.

Native American character, and was We’re not even halfway through can happen when you do it right. subject to large amounts of backlash. 2018 and these films are already It’s safe to say that its box office flop putting up a fight against the mov- VPRICE@THE-TELESCOPE.COM was due to casting issues. Thankful- ies featuring predictable storylines ly, “Black Panther” got it right.

Everyone knows it - boy meets girl, girl meets boy. They fall in love and go through some cheesy love story that makes the repetition of it hard to watch. Every teen love story is the same: they’re both straight, and they’re both white. We get it, and it gets tiring. That’s where “Love, Simon” comes in.

“Love, Simon” might as well be the first mainstream “teen” movie to feature not only a gay main character, but a POC love interest. “Love, Simon” takes the stereotypes of average teen love stories and throws them out the window - and it’s what we need.

Based on the novel “Simon vs the Homosapien Agenda” by Becky Abertalli, the film follows high school senior Simon Spier, who has been hiding the fact that he’s gay for Teen Titans Go! To The Movies image Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures years. When people think of movies

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To smoke or not to smoke CON TAYLOR MACKAY THE TELESCOPE

Students who create clouds of smoke on campus should not only feel responsible for diminishing the health of others, but also feel guilty for breaking the smoke and tobaccofree campus policies established at Palomar since 2015.

Palomar's policy states, "the District shall provide and maintain a workplace and learning environment that is smoke and tobacco-free to promote the safety and health of students, employees, and the public. Smoking, vaping, and the use of tobacco products are prohibited on all indoor and outdoor property," yet the campus still faces a daily struggle with enforcing these policies as students choose to continuously break them.

It also seems as though students who do smoke on campus are deliberately breaking this policy. "I don't really see people smoking on campus. But when I do it's at this little corner on campus that has a nosmoking sign," Eric Lopez, a student

at Palomar, said.

Not only do these "campus smokers" break policies, but they also jeopardize the health of students and staff around them. The American Lung Association states, "Secondhand smoke contains hundreds of chemicals known to be toxic or carcinogenic, including formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic ammonia and hydrogen cyanide."

When something is considered carcinogenic, it means that substance has been known to cause cancer through different active agents in the ingredients.

Along with releasing these carcinogenic chemicals in the air through secondhand smoke, smokers on campus can also cause heart attacks; even relatively brief exposure can trigger a heart attack, according to a report by the Institute of Medicine.

Surely no one wants to be held responsible for causing something so severe, so the only solution is to follow campus policy.

This is part of the reason they're banned in the first palce.

Daryl Legaspi, a second-semester nursing student on campus, along with his some of hid colleagues, expressed that when students smoke

on campus it affects their ability to breathe, especially when they have allergies that already affect their breathing daily.

In contrast, people who do smoke may question why they don't have a right to smoke on campus, because in some cases people need it. Many college students with anxiety and other emotional issues related to it need smoking as a coping mechanism. "Brain scans have revealed that nicotine does indeed have a calming effect, something smokers have claimed for years," Kristina Fiore, a staff writer at MedPage Today said.

Although it may be true that smoking helps people deal with emotions like anxiety, regulations on where you can smoke are created for a reason. The negative effects outweigh the positive effects. This is why there is an age limit to buy cigarettes and other things you smoke, as well as why doctors advise pregnant women to quit smoking if they are already.

Palomar smokers should not be in power to decide how someone's air quality is effected. Keep your clouds off campus.

SPEAK OUT

Craziest thing you've done over spring break “The wildest thing I’ve ever done, I jumped off a cliff in Boulder City, Nevada. I was kinda scared at first but I just went for it. When I first jumped I thought my life flashed before my eyes, but closed my eyes so I wouldn’t smack the water too hard” Katie Bageman 18, Psychology major

“I went with my bro to Papas and Beers, especially one of my bros, Omar Fuentes, we went in and partied, we were getting girls and getting drunk. We did a two day thing, we went to a hotel brought a couple girls over and party the next day, grinding, drinking had so much fun.”

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Miguel Duran 19, Computer Science major

Will Glasband 22, Communications major

Poll taken by Palomar students. Design by Maurice Thomas and Savhanna Vargas/ The Telescope

PRO SEJI GAERLAN THE TELESCOPE

Sleepless nights, anxiety induced finals and countless pages of essays. College students have it rough, all we ask is for a chance to smoke in permitted areas.

The notorious smoking spot by Palomar's library is already common knowledge for students despite the no smoking policies that the school has established. The policies against smoking in campus are not even enforced as much by the campus police reason as to why these specific locations have become smoking spots amongst students. And frankly, nobody really cares that much.

Christopher Franklin, a Palomar student said, "Smoking should be allowed in campus but should be allowed in one spot. Just give them a designated zone, so it kinda pleases both (smokers and nonsmokers) they have their own little

zone." advocating for the idea that there shouldn't be any problems for students to be able to smoke in permitted locations around campus.

College students are adults, and they know the health risks that smoking could bring. But regardless, they should still have the right to do as they please as long as they do so responsibly in permitted areas around the campus. "We're all adults and you can choose whatever you put in your body, and I don't think it should be anyone else's business," Alexander Voloria, a Palomar student said. "And even if they don't do it in the designated areas, people are still going to do it in their fucking cars."

These non smoking policies that are implemented in school are nothing but mere inconveniences to the students themselves, forcing students to go further away from their classes during their breaks causing them to be late.

People have a myriad of reasons why they smoke, yes it is ad-

dicting and that is one of the consequences that smoking may bring.

But smoking can help people cope with anxiety and proves to be therapeutic. According to Smokefree. gov, "Many people smoke because it’s a way they’ve learned to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, negative moods, and the stress of daily life."

To those who feel as though their health would be compromised due to second hand smoking, the simplest solution is just to stay away from these designated smoking areas and there wouldn't be any more problem.

It is understandable that these smoking health risks may be dangerous to some people. That's why it would be smart for them to at least know where these permitted smoking spots are and just avoid these areas and not be a snowflake on a mission to compromise other people's rights to smoke.

SGAERLAN@THE-TELESCOPE.COM

Raekwon Mosteller 19, Kinesiology major

Francisco Aguilar 18, Sports Commentator major

“A Jewish Passover, you go and celebrate with your Jewish family members and you read a book while you do it and you eat fish and horse radish, it's a red pinkish substance sometimes it's white and you eat kosher food and talk about hardships that Jews been through and I brought my girlfriend who is not Jewish and that was funny she ate horse radish, she looked like she almost died.”

“We went over to my friends house and he laid down a trampoline next to the pool and he decided it will be a great idea to go the roof and test who can jump on the trampoline and land on the pool, and somebody who was drunk tried it first and with his uncoordinated movement he got in and then he’s like, ’Hey Rae go for it lets see if you can do it’, and so I dove backwards landed on the trampoline bounced forward and landed in the pool."

“The first time I had a little substance known as marijuana, I was having a good day at the park with one of my friends, and he said, ’hey man do you wanna try this’, and I was like, ‘well you know what, I'm 18 it's time to try some stuff,’ and so I tried it and went to a carwash and honestly for the life of me I felt like the carwash was three hours long and I was in Disneyland because I had no idea what was going on."

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