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Palomar College
Volume 35 No.6
A Publication for the Auociatecl Students
Friday, November 6, H~81
San Marcos, CA
this Monday
Junior college service fees considered By Lois Humphreys In the near future, students of Palomar may be paying as much as a $90 "Student Services Fee" if a bill sponsored by the president of another junior college is passed through the California State Legislature. The author, Thomas Fryer, Jr.,president of the FoothillDeAnza Community College District, first introduced the proposal at the Conference of Chief Executive Officers of Community Colleges in Monterey last October. The bill may be presentRd to the State Legislature in January of 1982. Dr. Omar Scheidt, Palomar president, attended the conference and voted, along with 83 other college presidents, on the issue. The administrators voted 49 in favor of the tuition , 27 undecided, and 7 opposed, with Dr. Scheidt voting undecided because he had not had an opportunity to discuss the pending legislation with the Governing Board of Trustees before the October conference . When asked his opinion on the tuition, Dr. Scheidt stated, "I have always opposed fees because it will limit the access to many students, and that is my main concern. The tuition will have a serious impact on the community college system. Who will serve these students who will not be able to attend college because of financial restraints?" On Octo her 26, the Faculty Senate also discussed the legislation, and according to Mark Edelstein, Senate president, the majority of the members voted against the tuition, based on the fact that there were," so many problems with the fees." Associated Student Government legislators also took a vote at their October 26 meeting, and again, the measure was soundly defeated. The proposed tuition bill, which has had several revisions, has two sections which would be added to the State Education Code. The first section describes in detail what the fees can be used for and includes the following services: counseling, health, safety and security, testing, placement, financial aids administration, social and cultural development activities, including student. clubs and organizations, housing and student services administration. Section one also states that "the governing board of a district shall decide the amount of the fee, if any, that a partrtime student is required to pay, and if any fee will be charged for summer session students. Such fees shall not exceed the amount charged per semester or quarter during the school year. The first section would also exclude governing boards from imposing fees to any students in approved apprenticeship training programs. All fees collected from the proposed tuition would be placed in a speci a] fund and used only for those purposes for which the money was collected. Section two of the bill states, "It is the intent of the legislature that local governing boards will use their own discretion in setting fees, and the Student Service Fee will not minimize the amount of other funds the district is entitled to." Dr. Scheidt added that he is distributing all the information available to the Governing Board of Trustees. and that the Board probably will not discuss the bill until some time in December.
By James Colford Five months after discussions began, and despite numerous delays, the Associated Student Government approved its 1981-82 budget at a 7 a.m. meeting October 22. However, inspection of an approved budget copy four days later revealed several typographical errors, addition mistakes, and inaccurate figures. When apprised of the situation, officials were unable to offer _an explanation for the inaccuracles. In addition, a revisions summary, printed on the back of the budget committee's October 22 minutes, deleted four of the thirteen changes from previous proposals that totaled nearly $5000.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT - Members of the 1981-82 ASG are: (left to right) Karl Waack, Mehran Izadi, Linda Johansen, Peter Ziskin, Tracy Hightower, Tim Jordan, president
Michelle M. Morey, Jeff Urry, Nadine Sheps, J C Lowery, and Jeff Cooke. Not pictured are Christ!' Perez, Rocky Cifone, Ramona Ray, and Phd Valle. (Photo by Sonny Miller)
Dance safety forces moratorium By Andy Wright Citing excessive alcohol use and rowdiness. the Administrative cabinet has placed a moratorium on all Palomar dances. ASG advisor Norman Price stated that safety is the main concern.
Methods of Batik showing Thursday Batik, an ancient method of designing cloth, will be demonstrated November 12, from 10 a.m. until noon in C-47. This particular type of Batik originates with the tribal hill people in Laos, called Hmongs. A woman who does Batik is called a Green Hmong. This demonstration will be made by a grandmother who is a Green Hmong. A Batik pattern is made by brushing hot wax into the cloth. The cloth is then dipped into a dye. When the wax is removed, the patten1 is revealed. Pa Dao needlework of the Hmong tribe will also be shown November 12, from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. in C-47.
"Some students don't understand that we're not against students. We just want Saturday night to be more than just a drinking party." In the past, bathrooms have been damaged and windows knocked out, but the main concern remains the alcohol use. According to ASG vicepresident. Linda Johansen, the people who cause the problem are not so much Palomar students as local high school students. However. because Palomar is a community college, attendance to dances can not be limited to just Palomar students. Both Price and Johansen stated that the moratorium should be lifted in the middle of this month. "The students are taking an interest in the problem, and we're setting up a security system which aU clubs will have to follow," said Price. One dance did take place under the moratorium October 17, 695 people at.tended, making it one of the largest dances in recent years. The dance had minimal problems and the administration was en-
Drawing class begins tomorrow A new class in portrait and figure drawing and painting will be offered here beginning tomorrow. The six-week class will meet from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays in C-41, and the fee is $18. Students can register in advance or at the first class meeting. For further information, call the Department of Continuing Education at 744-1150 or 727-7529.
Film shows Sunday Community Services will be presenting "The Roof the World," a film about the Himalayas. The film, personal1y narrated by film-maker Frank Klicar, will be shown Sunday at 1 p.m . and again at 3:30p.m. in P32.
SING PRAISE The Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir p erform in the Dome 8 p.m. Saturday.
couraged by what it saw. A dance that was not permitted to take place was the Halloween dance sponsored by the Black Student AHiance. Tim Grace, president ofBSA, was disappointed. "I feel it is unfair. We have had it (the dance) every year with no problems. We just don't think they're taking the right positi.on. " The October 17 dance, according to Price, was permitted to take place because of the lack of time to notify the sponsors about the moratorium. However. Grace stated that the BSA was not.~ otified one way or the other until one week before the dance was scheduled to take place.
Speech team
wins awards Nine members of the Comet Forensics team were finalists in the D.L. Mil1er Tournament held at Cal Poly, Pomona recently. 250 students from 25 colleges and universities in California, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona attended the tournament, which opened the 198182 season . Cathy Bach placed first in the championship round of oral interpretation of literature, Denise Harrelson c.ame in third, and Debra Bach placed fifth. Peter Schultz was a double winner, taking third in extemporaneous speaking and sixth in impromptu speaking. De bra Bach teamed up with Rocky Cifone to place in the championship round of dramatic duo interpretation of literature. Cifone also placed in the final round of extemporaneous speech. Other trophy winners were Ginny Kansas , for persuasive speaking and Peter Ziskin who won third place in expository speaking. Comet speakers Jim Hawn, Melissa Corbett, Rick Hall, Deborah Grottke, Jim Anderson, Lee Monson, and Michelle Stallings also competed.
Also, the total expenses listed on the budget (exclusive of a $3650 typographical error) were $650 less than actual expenses. Legislator Tim Jordan indicated October 27 that he had rectified the problem he had adjusted the figures so the addition would be correct. The 1981-82 budget has been plagued by problems from the start. The traditional deadline for passage had passed by the time specific discussion had begun. The committee held summer meetings (without prior publicity) at a member's home. They kept no minutes and made no budget copies. Then, they lost the original copy. Attempts to locate it have proven futile. Later in the summer, during an August. retreat at an Apple Valley desert resort, student leaders again began discussion. Apparently the committee reached a decision with which it was satisfied, so it retired to wait for the beginning of the fall semester and final approval. But the budget committee was unprepared to deal with "phantom" budget proposals when it reconvened in September. Atone point during an early fall meeting, legislators were ready to approve the budget when one member discovered that certain figures disagreed with recollected figures of the Apple VaHey proposal. Further inspection revealed that the budget proposal was not the one proposed earlier. Legislators claimed that Dr. Kenneth Burns, the dean of student personnel services, submitted the new proposal without their knowledge. Since then, the ASG abandoned the "Burns" budget and received another budget proposal, supposedly the Apple Valley budget, at the October 19 meeting. This too was a "phantom," allegedly supplied by student advisor Norman Price. No trace of the Apple Valley budget remains. So, after the summer budget, the Apple Valley budget, the "Burns" budget, and the "Price" budget, ASG scheduled the October 22 special meeting to approve the "real" (#5) budget. At Monday's regular ASG meeting, legislator Tim Jordan was quick to blame former treasurer (and committee chairman) Travis Win den for the #5 budget discrepancies. However, Jordan and legislator Rocky Cifone had previously taken credit for doing the majority of work on #5 and had received Norman Price's praise for "a job well done." ASG has scheduled another budget meeting for 2 p.m. Monday. It remains to be seen if ASG will have bettRr luck with budget #6.