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EASY ESCAPE TRANSFER PROGRAM ENCOURAGES STUDENTS TO EARN AA DEGREE TO GAIN GUARANTEED ADMITTANCE TO CAL STATE SCHOOLS
the telescope Palomar College’s Independent Newspaper Vol. 66, No. 12 • Monday, March 11, 2013 1140 W. Mission Rd, San Marcos, Calif.
WHAT’S INSIDE
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PALOMAR PASSES AUDIT
NEWS / Earlier this year, Palomar received AM audit report during a Governing Board meeting. Palomar’s spending has been in line with regulations.
PROP. 8 NEEDS A COMEBACK OPINION / An argument for same-sex marriage and why restricting it is like enabling slavery.
This map shows the 23 California State campuses.• Courtesy calstate.edu
SUBMIT CREATIVE WORK
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LIFE / The Bravura literary magazine is looking for submissions of poetry, fiction and graphic art.
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CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS
Palomar officials are working on new degrees that will guarantee students admitance into a CSU. SB 1440, the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act (STAR Act), which was signed into law in September 2010 by then Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, established the Associate De-
SPORTS / The Palomar women’s basketball team won its conference and is deep in the playoffs.
EVENTS CALENDAR MARCH 11 MOVIE MONDAY FEATURING “MONA LISA SMILE.” FREE ADMISSION AND SNACK WTH STUDENT ACTIVITY CARD. 1 P.M. SU-204
March 11-15 aids memorial quilt on display at the library all this week .
march 12 free coffee and snack with student activity card at 4 p.m. in the escondido lobby.
March 13 free and confidential hiv testing available between 1 and 4 p.m. at the health services center. all participants Receive a prize and their results in 20 minutes.
March 13 The Palomar softball team plays against San Diego mesa at home at 3 p.m.
March 14 The Palomar baseball team plays against Southwestern in a conference game at 2 p.m. at myers field.
ASG election information Candidate Application Packets for the positions of President, Vice President, and Senators are now available. Students can pick them up in SU-201. The Application Packet will be due no later than noon on April 19. Forums for all candidates will be held on April 30 and May 1. The time and location are to be determined. Election week begins 8 a.m. on May 6 and ends at 11:59 p.m. on May 9. Election results will be posted on the morning of May 17.
THE TELESCOPE
gree for Transfer program. It is designed to encourage California Community College students to earn an associates degree, while providing students with a GPA of 2.0 or higher a guaranteed and more efficient path to a CSU. “By fall 2013, the expectation is that 80 percent of the colleges will have SB1440 degrees in place for all of their transfer pathways and 100 percent by
fall 2014,” the minutes for the March 4 meeting of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges explains. The Associates of Arts Transfer (AAT) and the Associates of Science Transfer (AS-T) degrees were created for students who already know what they want to major in.
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LAWSUIT
ANALYSIS
COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF ASG
MS DOESN’T KEEP THEM DOWN
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COLLEEN PETERS
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A Vista Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of Palomar College’s student government after a year-long lawsuit on the separation of the student government from Palomar administration. On March 4, 17 days after the initial hearing, Judge Robert P. Dahlquist made the decision to not compel Palomar’s Associated Student Government (ASG) to accept the Coalition for Democratic Education’s proposition to separate the ASG from any administrative oversight. “I think that really the students won here—and not the faculty,” ASG President Johnathan Farmer said. He added that a lot of other work had been neglected because of the lawsuit. Now that it’s over, the ASG will be able to restore focus on Palomar’s student
body. Both Farmer and Public Relations Chair Rachel Keeney expressed the ASG’s contentment with the decision. On the other side, Coalition member Alberto Nunez said, “It’s sad...We tried to better the student government so that it could really represent students because right now, no one really knows the student government.” Nunez had run for ASG president in the past, but said he feels that he was not selected because he had a dissenting opinion on how the ASG should carry out its affairs. The Coalition’s main focus, according to Nunez, is bringing power back to the students and having a student government that actually represents the students. They believe that the Office of Student Affairs is corrupted and should be run by non-administrative faculty members only-- much like the Coalition.
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THE TELESCOPE
After a Padres game one night, I decided that falling asleep on a public bathroom floor was a good idea. Logically, I kept telling myself it didn’t make sense, but I did it anyways. It was in this moment that I knew something must be seriously wrong. Until then, I thought I was fine. I had been drinking, but nothing excessive. Nothing that would even come close to make me thinking the bathroom floor would substitute for a bed. Internally, I was cursing everyone who had been around me, because I swore I was drugged. To me, it was the only logical explanation. The next day, I noticed that it was slightly difficult to see out of my left eye. It started slowly and then quickly became a problem. I spent a few days trying
to convince myself that the blindness was nothing, and that it would go away soon. I even made it a joke and bought an eyepatch and Instagrammed photos of myself. Outside it was one big laugh. The truth was, inside I was freaking out and had no idea what was going on. I spent a considerable amount of time at the hospital and doctor’s offices in the next few weeks.
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