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MONDAY, MAY 4, 2009
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Spring Fest 2009
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The first of two presentations of “The Music of Native Technical difficulties were no America” took place April 21 problem to Professor Alan in a nearly full Governing Board Lechusza Aquallo, who Room SSC-1. The second was April replaced 22, at technology t h e with Native Va l l e y American Center songs during Library. a special presT h e entation last presenmonth. — ALAN LECHUSSA AQUALLO t a t i o n The audiPalomar Professor t o p i c s ence listened ranged as Aquallo performed various from traditional to contempotunes from a variety of flutes, including one that was made of rary Native American music. It included information on Lemonwood,
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This is a wake-up call to the importance and meaning of music.
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Powwow music, bird singing, native hip-hop, native rock and other genres. Aquallo spoke of the different instruments used by Native Americans including drums, rattles, shakers, rasps and flutes, along with explaining the role of whistles and screams in the music. He described how Native Americans use symbolism in their music. An example is the drumbeat, which reflects a heartbeat. “This is a wake-up call to the importance and meaning of TURN TO MUSIC PAGE 3
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Spring Fest is in the air
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Marco Martinez dresses up and joins in the festivities at Spring Fest last week.
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Sunshine and live music made some students dance in the quad at the western-themed Springfest April 28 and 29. Springfest is one of many events sponsored by the Associated Student Government with help from the Office of Student Affairs. According to Melissa Talwar, activity director for the Office of Student Affairs, students had been asking for live music for a while so she wanted to provide it at some of the campus events.Talwar said the
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response to both bands, the James Douglas Show and Jasmine Commerce, was very positive. KKSM helped with the concerts and promoted Palomar College’s radio station. Station Manager Zeb Navarro said he wanted students to know that a “real radio station” exists on campus meaning it is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. Many campus clubs offered food and carnival-style games in an effort to raise money and awareTURN TO SPRING
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Anyone stopping into this semester’s archaeological lab analysis class (ANTH 215) at Palomar College would most likely mistake it for an arts and crafts class. And for good reason. This semester the archaeology class is concentrating on artifact making and identification, an important part of any archaeology curriculum. The department tries to rotate between practical learning classes, field surveying and actual excavations, giving the students a complete and wellrounded experience in the field of archaeology, said Jim Eighmey, assistant professor of the archaeology department. Last semester, the department had two crews in the field. One worked the Sikes Adobe historic site at Lake Hodges while the other excavated the Luiseno Indian site in San Marcos. While working the Sikes Adobe site, student Dean Kaufman found a couple Indianhead pennies and a rare, abalone shell button. Instead of merely lecturing, Eighmey said he has his students involved in a hands-on method of learning. The students make artifacts from scratch, without any modern tools.This helps them learn to identify the processes used by ancient Luiseno Indians. “The classes are set up to give the students practical field experiences to be better able to identify certain artifacts when seen in the field,” Eighmey said. With folk music playing for ambiance, the students spend their Friday afternoons studying and crafting different artifacts. In one lab session, the students made atlatls, which are instruments used by the native Indians for launching spears. The lab included flaking, or flint napping, the spearheads out of obsidian and sanding the wooden atlatls with stones. After the class, the students went out to a field and launched their spears using the atlatls. “This is the most interesting class I’ve ever taken,” said student Marty Jorgensen, “because we’re actually doing it.” He added that what is important is learning what each artifact was used for. Recently, the students picked through owl pellets
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Student Danny Marrow participates in a Floral Analysis lab by separating seeds from dirt so he can identify which continent the seeds came from. to identify the remains of animals that the owls fed on.Then they sifted through chicken and fish bones, separating them to figure out the actual count of each. This line of study is important to archaeology because it can show the subsistence patterns of ancient people. It also gives clues to environmental changes of animals according to its habitats. In another lab, the students studied manos and metates, which are ancient grinding implements
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