PALOMAR COLLEGE, SAN MARCOS, CALIF.
MONDAY OCT. 12, 2009
FOCUSED ON PALOMAR
VOL. 63, NO. 6
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INSIDE
ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 7
New kind of gallery
Stillborn
The Flaming Lips’ new album “Embryonic”fails to live up to the band’s reputation
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OPINION
Money trouble
U.S. debt to foreign countries spells disaster
FOCUS
With honors
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Club Phi Theta Kappa aims to excel
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SPORTS
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Men’s soccer Comets prevail against Coyotes
Merging the benefits
Movement pushes to join mental with health care
DON SAPATKIN MCT CAMPUS
Emily Duffy, a licensed social worker, was walking down the hall of her North Philadelphia clinic in August when she heard crying in Exam Room 3. She opened the door and met Patricia Stone, 26, and her children ages 5, 3, and 2. What happened next illustrates a paradigm shift in mental health care seamlessly integrating what is known as behavioral health into a primary practice that is gaining traction nationwide. While the children underwent routine physicals, Duffy learned that the 3-year-old’s father had died violently three weeks earlier. “She may have a delayed reaction,” she explained to Stone. Duffy, a behavioral health consultant at 11th Street Family Health Services of Drexel University, described how toddlers grieve. It was important, she said, that Stone provide consistency and keep the father’s memory alive. She gave the young mother a threepage handout. The effort is part of a national movement to embed a form of mental health in primary care. The idea is to give simple interventions in 15 to 30 minute visits that will address behavioral issues ranging from stress to traumatic reactions that often go untreated. Insurers, however, have been slow to pay even for brief visits, so the model is catching on mostly in settings where the same entity provides insurance and TURN TO
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Emily Duffy (left), Pediatric Behavioral Health Consultant, talks with Aaliyah Mitchell
Student places second in contest NIGEL HARRIS THE TELESCOPE
After many hours on the road and over a period of two semesters, a Palomar woodworking student was rewarded when he received second place in a national competition for woodworking projects. Daniel Graupmann won for his entry in the Fresh Wood category of a competition sponsored by the Association of Woodworking and Furnishings Suppliers. The competition’s main idea is to connect the woodworking industry and education, said Jack Stone, Palomar woodworking professor. A Corona resident, Graupmann drives to Palomar once a week to attend class. “I drive all the way from Corona to come to Palomar, I
did research on other schools before I started woodworking, and Palomar was where I decided to go,” he said. For
The House of Representatives is expected this week to back the overhauling and simplifying how college students receive financial aid. The rules for awarding and repaying loans would remain unchanged, but the government would make all loans itself, ending the practice of subsidizing loans made by private lenders. The Obama administration, which has made revamping the student loan system a major domestic priority, has hailed the bill as historic. “This is a big, big deal,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday at a news conference. He called the measure “the largest investment in higher education since the GI Bill” first passed in 1944 to help World War II veterans. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., vowed that the legislation THE would help students at “no GAME cost to taxpayers.” T h a t depends on how one interprets budget predicted to be data, however. saved over the The nonpar- next decade t i s a n Congressional Budget Office found that the loan program of the money changes should saved would be save the gov- spent on student ernment $86.8 aid and higher billion over the education next 10 years. It also noted in its official July report on the bill, however, that it would deficit could be spend all but created instead $7.8 billion of of saving money, that on aid to according to a students and recent report higher education. In an update last week, the CBO said economic changes could boost spending overall by $10.5 billion, meaning that the bill could add to the deficit.“The truth is, no one really knows how much this plan will cost,” said Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the senior Education and Labor Committee Republican. Independent analysts agreed. Changes in the loan program will “save a big chunk of money,” said Marc Goldwein, the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a watchdog group. “Will it be the right amount to offset the new
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INTEGRATED CARE PAGE 3 (right), 3, during a visit to a family health services center.
Two semesters and approximately 550 hours of work pays off
Student loans get harder to obtain
Graupmann the CTF program was a great career opportunity, he added. Graupmann built his project titled “Kurven” in about 550 hours. It is a hand-made sculpted desk of California walnut. Sculpting the desk presented a challenge.
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Student Daniel Graupmann placed second in a national woodworking competition.
“Building a non-square is hard, because there really aren’t any good places to measure from,” he said. The desk was one of 165 entries and was inspired by a 17th century German desk. Graupmann wanted to make his desk a unique and more contemporary look. He gives credit to his instructors Stone and Gary Russel for the skills that they helped him hone. “The timing isn’t really all that good for a student to make a project in one semester, the competition is normally around July, which makes it hard for students to complete and submit projects to competitions,” Stone said. Stone encourages students to enter in the competitions because he says it’s a great way for them to get their work recognized. Graupmann’s project also received best in class at the San Diego County Fair. He is currently working on a few personal projects at the moment.
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