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EiffSCOpE VOL. XV, NO.7
San Marcos, Calif_ornia
Story Behind Trick or Treat See page 2
Monday, October 29, 1962
Patrons Endorse Prop lA by Unanimous Vote Proposition 1A has been endorsed unauimously in a vote by the Patrons of Palomar College Executive Board. The voting took place October 22 at a monthly meeting here. "Under the Master Plan for Higher Education the junior colleges are equal partners with the State Colleges and the University of California in public
Palomar Coed Stars in 'Little Theater' Comedy
THE CIRCLE K sponsored twin candidates for Homecoming Queen, Sharon (L) and Karen Griffith, were announced the winners Saturday night during halftime ceremonies. They reigned over the Homecoming dance after the game.
'Vitally Necessary"
CACJ Head on Bond Issue The $20,000,000 earmarked for junior college construction in Proposition 1-A is vitally necessary to their education task under the California Master Plan, Dr. G. A. Collyer, President of the California Junior College Association, said recently. "During the years ahead, under provisions of the Master Plan adopted by the Legislature, more and more students will begin their college education in junior colleges, transferring later to state colleges, campuses of the University, or to private colleges for their junior and senior years," Dr. Collyer said. He pointed out that this movement has already begun and estimated that by 1975, 50,000 more students will enroll in junior colleges than would otherwise have been there. "This will impose on junior colleges an intolerable financial burden unless it is shared by the State," Dr. Collyer asserted. "The $20 million for junior college buildings, in Proposition 1-A, recognizes this obligation." The diversion of some students to junior colleges will save money for the state, he said. "Otherwise it would be necessary to provide space for these students in more expensive state colleges and university buildings. Moreover, students and their parents will save large amounts in lower costs of living at home while attending college. " Proposition 3, defeated in the June primary, also provided $20 million for junior colleges, but the funds could have been used to retire bonded indebtedness on buildings already erected. "Funds in Proposition 1-A must all go to new construction," Dr. Collyer said. He denied that the proposed legislation would mean any increased state control of junior colleges, pointing out that any junior college district would be free to apply for funds or ·not, as the local governing board saw fit. "We in the junior colleges see no danger in Proposition 1-A whatever, and the California Junior College Association is solidly on record in support of the measure," he added.
The San Dieguito Little Theater will present the comedy play "Low and Behold" by John Patrie in December. Susan Willoughby, the feminin lead, said that the play is "fast moving" and "very light comedy". The play is about Milo Alcott, a Nobel Prize winning author, and his inexperienced house keeper, Daisy Durdle. The plot thickens when Daisy, played by Susan Willoughby, accidently kills Mr. Alcott with too much rich food. In his will Mr. Alcott leaves one third of the estate to Harvard, one third to his doctor, and keeps the remaining third for his spirit to haunt. When Milo returns to attend to his haunting he finds that he must compete with the ghosts of a mad southern belle and an Indian maiden whose lover threw her from a cliff. Meanwhile Daisy and the doctor have fallen in love. The late Mr. Alcott tries to influence the events on the earth he has left.
Reporter Compiles Notes on Essay, Points Out Significance of H Blast Editor's Note - the following is a review of an essay by Dr. Tom Stonier, Ph. D. , Yale. The essay, entitled "What Would It Be Like?" (an H-Bomb blast), is the second of twelve included in Breakthrough To Peace, a book published by New Directions.
by Bettina Giordano
The equivant to 20 million tons of TNT could easily ignite at least one million fires within New York City alone. A 20-megaton thermonuclear explosion could easily extend itself west to the Hudson River and span eastwardly until it crossed the East River to Queens. Visualize the disaster one megaton device could concur in San Diego: the instant incineration of General Dynamics-Convair, and North Island. It is not surprising that thoday with the CubanRussian threat dangling over President Kennedy's head that a megaton threat, whether it is a 20-50 ton device, is farfetched. Supposing that a 20-megaton explosion occurred at ground level, it would blast a hole, in granite, half a mile wide and 240 feet deep, big enough to contain a 20-story building. In New York, it would penetrate all three subway systems. A blast wave traveling in a tunnel loses its energy much more slowly than when it is traveling in open air, causing the possibility of the deathdealing force to run through the entire underground-connected portion of the subway system.
The thermonuclear explosion would begin expanding a heat radius of approximately four miles wide, creat-· ing the center portion of the bluishwhite incandescence to be that of the sun itself. Once the contents of the fireball begins to condense and spread out, a mushroom cloud forms at altitudes of ·five to 10 miles. At the approximate levelation of 25 miles, the cloud burns itself out. Meanwhile, a huge pressure wave traveling initially at speeds many times that of sound has spread out from the center of the explosion, crushing everything in its path until finally it loses its force. Immediately trailing the shock front, winds at speeds initially exceeding a thousand miles per hour begin toppling over whatever might still be standing. A study indicates that almost six million out of eight million New Yorkers would perish within the first few days, mostly from blast and heat. In San Diego, approximately 300,000 out of the 500,000 would perish. Near the center of the blast, most people would be killed almost instantly from heat. At the distance Del Mar is from San Diego proper, people might receive third degree burns; in Oceanside and Vista, second degree burns; in San Marcos and Escondido, first degree burns might be suffered. Second and third degree burns received under these circumstances could prove fatal. Only Continued to PfJ.pe 3
higher education, and the $20 million junior college allocation in Proposition 1A provides relief for local taxpayers," explained Mrs. Gordon Wight, President of the Patrons. Proposition 1-A requests bonds to provide state college, junior college and university facilities. If the proposition is passed , two University of California campuses at range County and Santa Cruz will be constructed. Two State Colleges will be constructed in the San BernardinoRiverside area and m Southwestern Los Angeles. Major student capacity increases will take place at 16 existing State Colleges. Throughout the State, new classroom construction will get underway for public junior college campuses. This act provides for a bond issue of two hundred seventy million dollars ($270,000,000). Eighty percent (80%) of the total amount of the bond issue will be used for building construction, equipment and site acquisition needs for the California State Colleges, California. Voters will go to the poles NovemberS.
Secreta ria I
Club Offers Typing Aid Do you want your homework or term-papers typed? It can easily be accomplished by contacting a member of Alpha Kappa Omicron. Being a secretarial service club, Alpha Kappa Omicron presents to the students of Palomar College this service, for a fee, in hopes that it will benefit each student or faculty member wanting help. Mrs. Evanell Renick, club advisor, announced that, typists will be available on campus for both students and instructors. Nominal fees have been set and each customer is to furnish his own paper, with additional carbon copies costing five cents each. Anyone interested in this club service may receive further information by contacting Mrs. Renick in room B-21.
DR. HERBERT YORK, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, addressed a student assembly audience Wednesday. He talked about the part that the San Diego campus would play in the total UC program.