Vol. 66, No. 2 • Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 1140 W. Mission Rd, San Marcos, Calif. Palomar College’s Independent Newspaper the telescope t CLASSES Rude behavior in college classrooms is often a matter of course LISA BLACK CHICAGO TRIBUNE/MCTCAMPUS.COM Lee Shumow doesn’t want to text her students, or be their friend on Facebook, but to their chagrin pre- fers an old-fashioned way to communicate: e-mail. The educational psychology professor at Northern Illinois University appreciates when students take the time to reply. It’s an extra treat when they don’t begin their message with, “Hey, Lee.” She and many of her colleagues believe such infor- mality has seeped into the college classroom environ- ment, citing student behavior that’s best described as rude or oblivious. As students begin a new semester this month, instructors bracing for yet another on- slaught blame technology for creating a disengaged generation whose attention is constantly diverted by laptops, phones and iPods. Others point to the unruly classroom as a reflec- tion of an increasingly ill-mannered society. Nearly 70 percent of Americans polled in 2005 said they believe people are more rude than they were 20 to 30 years ago. “I literally cannot imagine having addressed any teacher I had in my career as ‘Hey’ and then their first name,’ “ said Shumow, who has a doctoral degree and has taught 15 years at NIU. “I love them. I won an award for undergraduate teaching in 2005. But man, the world has really changed from when I was a stu- dent.” To their credit, most students are respectful and more inquisitive than ever, faculty members say. Yet professors also find they must devote space in the syllabus to ask students to refrain from surfing the Web, texting or answering cell phones during a lec- ture. Some have to remind students that, when mak- ing a presentation, they should remove the backward baseball cap and save the bare midriff for a beach party. Others complain that students randomly leave and enter the classroom during class. For their part, students are irked by others who slurp and chew food, doze off or dominate discussion. Palomar student Clement Edwards, 41, a business administration major said the rudeness depends on the the age and maturity. “Students right out of high school are rude,” he said recently. “After their first year of college students are less rude. Immaturity has a lot to do with if they’re rude to the teachers or not.” But student Jordan Vorabouth, 21, disagreed. “I don’t think so because we look up to them,” he said of professors. “We pay them (teachers) so we ex- pect them to have experience to be role models.” Some blame high schools for lowering the bar on classroom conduct, while others say the problems be- gin at home, when families fail to instill in children basic skills such as how to say “please” or “thank you.” TURN TO RUDENESS, PAGE 6 IAN HANNER THE TELESCOPE Just before sunset on Aug. 31, the Palomar Planetarium debuted their brand new solar telescopes that allow visitors to look at the sun like never before. The Coronado Personal Solar Tele- scope (PST) was donated by Oceans- ide Photo and Telescope (OPT) after Palomar hosted the organization’s event in July. The new telescopes al- lows users to view aspects of the sun that are usually blocked out by differ- ent forms of light. “The filters that it uses to make it safe to look at the sun are what’s called an H-Alpha Filter,” said planetarium telescope operator and Palomar stu- dent Shaun Haynie. “Basically, that allows only hydrogen emissions from the sun to be visible. It also makes the sun look red when you look through it because when hydrogen glows; it glows a reddish-pink color.” The PST is worth roughly $700, ac- cording to Haynie. In addition to the new PST, plan- etarium employees set out an eight- inch telescope that blocked out all forms of light but the visible light spectrum, said Haynie. It allowed the user to look at the sun without the blinding effects of other forms of radiation, seeing sunspots and other features not normally visible. TURN TO SOLAR, PAGE 6 PLANETARIUM Planetarium assistant and student Shaun Haynie sets up a solar telescope Aug. 31 in the planetarium courtyard. The Meade LX200 is one of two solar telescopes donated to Palomar College by the OPT store in Oceanside. • Andrew Szikla/Telescope FIRSTNAME LASTNAME POSITION ACCIDENTS OFF-CAMPUS ACCIDENT INJURES THREE IAN HANNER THE TELESCOPE Three drivers collided outside Palomar parking lot 12 Sept. 4 after one car failed to stop at a stoplight, flashing red due to maintenance. During routine electrical work being conducted by city professionals, the stop- light on N. Las Posas Road and Avenida Azul temporarily held the same rules as a stop sign. According to one of the CHP of- ficers on sight, Officer E. Rosas Jr., at least two of the individuals involved appeared to be Palomar students. “Two cars were making a left turn onto southbound Las Posas when the other vehicle was heading northbound in the number two lane on Las Posas,” Rosas said. “After inspecting the vehicle, it ap- pears he had some kind of mechanical malfunction and he was unable to stop the vehicle. He came through the light and hit one car first and then the other car.” TURN TO ACCIDENT, PAGE 6 SOLAR TELESCOPES BRING NEW PERSPECTIVE TO PLANETARIUM Firefighters review and assess the three-vehicle accident Sept. 4 at the corner of N. Las Posas Rd. and Avenida Azul.• Jassamyn Payne/Telescope str Ac wa ho str ve Ha M De th su tel ma nin ch tor on nig to ve be by yo Ha fer sh of eta La th we lea a c wi tio we mi
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Vol. 66, No. 2 • Monday, Sept. 10, 2012
1140 W. Mission Rd, San Marcos, Calif.
Palomar College’s Independent Newspaper
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tCLASSES
Rude behavior in college classrooms is often a matter of courseLISA BLACKCHICAGO TRIBUNE/MCTCAMPUS.COM
Lee Shumow doesn’t want to text her students, or be their friend on Facebook, but to their chagrin pre-fers an old-fashioned way to communicate: e-mail.
The educational psychology professor at Northern Illinois University appreciates when students take the time to reply. It’s an extra treat when they don’t begin their message with, “Hey, Lee.”
She and many of her colleagues believe such infor-mality has seeped into the college classroom environ-ment, citing student behavior that’s best described as rude or oblivious. As students begin a new semester this month, instructors bracing for yet another on-slaught blame technology for creating a disengaged generation whose attention is constantly diverted by laptops, phones and iPods.
Others point to the unruly classroom as a reflec-tion of an increasingly ill-mannered society. Nearly 70 percent of Americans polled in 2005 said they believe people are more rude than they were 20 to 30 years ago.
“I literally cannot imagine having addressed any teacher I had in my career as ‘Hey’ and then their first name,’ “ said Shumow, who has a doctoral degree and has taught 15 years at NIU. “I love them. I won an award for undergraduate teaching in 2005. But man, the world has really changed from when I was a stu-dent.”
To their credit, most students are respectful and more inquisitive than ever, faculty members say.
Yet professors also find they must devote space in the syllabus to ask students to refrain from surfing the Web, texting or answering cell phones during a lec-ture. Some have to remind students that, when mak-ing a presentation, they should remove the backward baseball cap and save the bare midriff for a beach party. Others complain that students randomly leave and enter the classroom during class.
For their part, students are irked by others who slurp and chew food, doze off or dominate discussion.
Palomar student Clement Edwards, 41, a business administration major said the rudeness depends on the the age and maturity.
“Students right out of high school are rude,” he said recently. “After their first year of college students are less rude. Immaturity has a lot to do with if they’re rude to the teachers or not.”
But student Jordan Vorabouth, 21, disagreed.“I don’t think so because we look up to them,” he
said of professors. “We pay them (teachers) so we ex-pect them to have experience to be role models.”
Some blame high schools for lowering the bar on classroom conduct, while others say the problems be-gin at home, when families fail to instill in children basic skills such as how to say “please” or “thank you.”
TURN TO RUDENESS, PAGE 6
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Just before sunset on Aug. 31, the Palomar Planetarium debuted their brand new solar telescopes that allow visitors to look at the sun like never before.
The Coronado Personal Solar Tele-scope (PST) was donated by Oceans-ide Photo and Telescope (OPT) after Palomar hosted the organization’s event in July. The new telescopes al-
lows users to view aspects of the sun that are usually blocked out by differ-ent forms of light.
“The filters that it uses to make it safe to look at the sun are what’s called an H-Alpha Filter,” said planetarium telescope operator and Palomar stu-dent Shaun Haynie. “Basically, that allows only hydrogen emissions from the sun to be visible. It also makes the sun look red when you look through it because when hydrogen glows; it glows a reddish-pink color.”
The PST is worth roughly $700, ac-cording to Haynie.
In addition to the new PST, plan-etarium employees set out an eight-inch telescope that blocked out all forms of light but the visible light spectrum, said Haynie. It allowed the user to look at the sun without the blinding effects of other forms of radiation, seeing sunspots and other features not normally visible.
TURN TO SOLAR, PAGE 6
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Planetarium assistant and student Shaun Haynie sets up a solar telescope Aug. 31 in the planetarium courtyard. The Meade LX200 is one of two solar telescopes donated to Palomar College by the OPT store in Oceanside. • Andrew Szikla/Telescope
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OFF-CAMPUS ACCIDENT INJURES THREE IAN HANNER THE TELESCOPE
Three drivers collided outside Palomar parking lot 12 Sept. 4 after one car failed to stop at a stoplight, flashing red due to maintenance.
During routine electrical work being conducted by city professionals, the stop-light on N. Las Posas Road and Avenida Azul temporarily held the same rules as a stop sign. According to one of the CHP of-ficers on sight, Officer E. Rosas Jr., at least two of the individuals involved appeared to be Palomar students.
“Two cars were making a left turn onto southbound Las Posas when the other vehicle was heading northbound in the number two lane on Las Posas,” Rosas said. “After inspecting the vehicle, it ap-pears he had some kind of mechanical malfunction and he was unable to stop the vehicle. He came through the light and hit one car first and then the other car.”
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Firefighters review and assess the three-vehicle accident Sept. 4 at the corner of N. Las Posas Rd. and Avenida Azul.• Jassamyn Payne/Telescope
The planetarium, which debuted last semester, has been striving to increase attendance to its Friday evening events. According to Haynie, the first few months the planetarium was open for business, they sold fewer tickets than they hoped. Since the summer though, they have experienced a string of sold-out shows, something Haynie attributes to ad-vertising outside of campus.
“A couple of months ago we [started] selling out,” said Haynie. “That’s partially because we did a mailer out to San Marcos, as well as the Del Mar Fair. We had an exhibit at the Del Mar Fair, so we got a lot of exposure that way. OPT did their event here at the planetarium, so we got a lot of expo-sure that way as well.”
Since it has been open, the planetarium has featured free telescope viewing on the patio outside the theater, but the main focus is the shows run every Friday. The first show run-ning every Friday is called “The Sky Tonight”, a constantly changing show narrated by Mark Lane, the planetarium direc-tor and astronomy professor at Palomar. The show is updated on a week by week basis with regards to the features of the night sky that week in San Marcos.
The second show is closer to a full-length film, according to Haynie. Currently, they’re running “Wonders of the Uni-verse,” but Haynie said he’s looking forward to the next show being held, “The Secret Life of Stars.”
“Secret Lives of Stars is a very good show and it’s narrated by Patrick Stewart, so that makes it a lot of fun, especially if you’re a science fiction fan or just a Patrick Stewart fan,” said Haynie.
Lane says he believes the planetarium has something to of-fer everyone at a reasonable price. Regarding which features should bring in viewers, he has a hard time narrowing the list of benefits.
“It’s an overall evening experience if they come to the plan-etarium and they purchase the tickets for the two shows,” said Lane. “They’ll have some interesting things to see inside of the theater, to learn about related to astronomy. And, if the weather is good, we’ll show them some of the things that they learned about inside. We’ll show them outside, and give them a chance to see them themselves. Overall the whole evening will be kind of an evening of entertainment as well as educa-tion.”
Ticket prices vary. Prices are listed on the planetarium website and discounts are available for students, children, military and seniors.
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Former Palomar Professor Thom-as Charles Dolan died Aug. 16 due to a brief illness. He was 78.
Dolan taught various forms of computer science for 16 years.
“Always one to tinker (his pre-vious jobs were in typewriter and office machine repair) Tom’s Mas-ter’s Degree focused wisely on the study of electronic functions and the workings of microprocessors,” Palomar President Robert Deegan wrote in an email sent to Palomar staff. “His studies prepared him for the microprocessor revolution in the late 1970s and early 1980s.”
Dolan was born on March 16,1934 in National City. He lived in River-side and in San Diego before he set-tled down in Escondido. He enlisted in the Navy in 1952 where he assisted as an aviation machinist. Four years later, Dolan joined the Riverside Fire Department until 1963.
In 1970, Thomas Dolan started teaching at Palomar as an hourly instructor. He then moved into the Business Department as a faculty member. Dolan became the assis-tant director of data processing in 1974. He retired in 1986.
Dolan left behind three daugh-ters: Sheri and Carolyn Dolan and Stephanie Moore; two sons: Robert and Michael Dolan and his separat-ed wife Judith Dolan.
A viewing was held on Aug. 23 at Alhiser-Comer in Escondido.
The Math Center has recently been remodeled and upgraded to become a more useful and wel-coming resource for mathematics students at Palomar College, ac-cording to Palomar officials.
The remodel was funded by the STEM II grant. STEM stands for Science, Technology Engi-neering, and Mathematics grants for K-12, educational non-profits and universities. More than 1,000 students use the Math Center every semester, according to Jay Wiestling, Mathematics Depart-ment chair.
“I was very surprised to see students come in, not to do any work, but just to see what the new math center looked like,” Wiestling said.
One of the biggest changes students will first notice is the newly remodeled layout. Before the renovation, computer sta-tions were scattered throughout the room, and there was some confusion on how to check in or where to find the rentable books, he said.
However, since the remodel-ing, the computer stations have been moved to be placed along
the walls, making it easier to find an available computer.
The center of the room is now filled with circular tables that have electrical outlets in the middle of them, so students can stay and do their homework on their laptops, or charge their cell phones.
Another way that the center has grown has been to increase the number of staff. They have added two new, full-time staff members to help run the center and tutor students.
Wes Robinson, a first-year at
Palomar said he uses the math lab two hours a week as required by his class. “I like that there are tutors available,” he said.
Style is one of the major differ-ences between the tutoring at the Learning Center and the tutoring at the library.
The library schedules tutoring sessions in half-hour increments, and offers one-on-one tutoring with an assigned tutor.
The Learning Center offers a more informal approach which requires no appointment, and to simply ask for help on work, stu-
dents raise their hand until an available tutor can assist them. Students are greatly encouraged to take advantage of the learn-ing center, for help with math homework and for a quiet place to study.
To be able to use the free Math Learning Center, students must first enroll in N BASC 202 #73567. This is a zero unit lab and is used to track student hours in the cen-ter. For more information, visit www2.palomar.edu/math/mlc.
The Office of Student Affairs will hold a Remembering 9/11 event on the morning of Sept. 11, Student Activities Coordinator Lindsay Kretchman said.
Kretchman is asking for volunteers to arrive at the Student Union lawn at 6 a.m. to help set up over 3,000 miniature American flags on
the grass. The setup will occur from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., followed by a “quiet, static event with in-formation about the events of 9/11” from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the quad.
This is the second time the event will be held. The first was in 2010, but last year the event had to be cancelled because a region-wide blackout closed the school on Sept. 10 and 11.
Teams of Palomar students are partici-pating in a year-long campus-clean-up com-petition to earn points for their clubs.
According to Student Activities Coordi-nator Lindsay Kretchman, registered clubs will gain points by working on projects to beautify campus until the end of spring se-mester.The projects include gum removal, trash pick-up, dusting, cleaning windows, staircase and rail clean up and collecting bags of recycling throughout the campus.
The club with the highest number of points at the end of the year is awarded money from the Office of Student Affairs. According to Kretchman, the money comes from the funds raised by student activity card purchases.
All Palomar clubs are encouraged to par-ticipate and can register by going to the Of-fice of Student Affairs. On Sept. 8 the Office of Student Affairs set up a tent in the Stu-dent Union for a small kick off event where, “teams can register, so they can start their projects,” Kretchman said.
A larger event, also hosted by the Office of Student Affairs, called Mission 2B Green, will take place on Oct. 8. Vendors will set up in the Student Union, and talk to students about the importance of being eco-friendly.
“We are doing this campus clean up com-petition so that clubs have an opportunity to earn points, which turn into money for their clubs. It’s also a good way for clubs to get involved and for students to meet new people,” Kretchman said.
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The DREAM Act: To dream or not to dreamMarissa MilloyThe Telescope
President Obama’s decision to pass the DREAM act is one of the worst decisions he’s made regarding immigration.
As of June 15, the Obama Administration, without the consent of Congress, decided it would defer the deportation of young undoc-umented immigrants for two years, so long as they meet a certain criteria. The act applies to children who were brought here illegally as minors when their parents immigrated into the U.S.
In order to be eligible for the program, immigrants must have entered the U.S. be-fore the age of 16 (and be younger than 30 to apply), graduated high school or obtained a GED, with no criminal record, and spent at least five consecutive years in the U.S. Tem-porary legal status is then granted for up to six years.
This act is not only unfair to the American people, but to previous generations of immi-grants as well. The process to gain citizen-ship in the United States usually takes sev-eral years; the DREAM Act makes it almost instant.
With so many people trying to gain citi-zenship the right way, why should “DREAM-ers” be exempt from going through the same process. No one should be getting such an easy pass, especially after violating the law.
The DREAM Act is a short term fix to the long term problem of immigration reform. Eventually it’s only going to backfire and it’s only avoiding the bigger problem at hand.
Essentially, the DREAM Act rewards ille-gal immigrants with a loophole to legal resi-dency even though they violated the law.
With new temporary legal status, immi-grants reap better benefits than natural born citizens and law abiding legal immigrants.
One condition of the act is that immi-grants must continue on to an institution of higher education in order to remain in the U.S. Undocumented children who continue on to college are only required to pay in state
tuition all while receiving aid. Not only does this take away education
spots from American residents but financial aid to pay for school as well.
Why should someone who arrived here illegally have priority and entitlement to something that should only be exclusive to legal residents, just because they may have been brought here without their own con-sent?
Something else that needs to be con-sidered is the DREAM Act’s impact on the economy. Steven Camarota at the Center for Immigration writes, “On average, each illegal immigrant who attends a public in-stitution will receive a tuition subsidy from taxpayers of nearly $6,000 for each year he or she attends, for total cost of $6.2 billion a year, not including other forms of finan-cial assistance they may also receive.”
With an already burdened economy, Americans should not have to pick up the tab for people who aren’t here legally.
Legal residents should be a priority, but clearly that isn’t the case.
The DREAM Act also encourages further
immigration into the country. With the ben-efits the act has to offer, it’s guaranteed im-migrants all over the world will jump at the opportunity.
“It’s bad messaging,” says journalist David Frum, “DREAM sends a message to every teenager on planet Earth: Come to America. If you enter the United States before age 16, and if you can remain here for five years you’re as good as a citizen al-ready. No deportation proceedings. No risk that your application will be used against you. Lenient and subsidized requirements for permanent residency. What’s not to love?”
Now as a disclaimer, I have nothing against immigrants or immigration. I am all for immigration reform, the system to making illegal immigrants citizens should be reevaluated into a faster and more efficient process to achieving legal sta-tus. But, I do not believe the DREAM Act should be one of those solutions.
Students and Dream Act supporters rally at the Federal Office Building in Los Angeles •Courtesy of MCT Campus
Palomar is the first step in the right directionDanielle taylorThe Telescope
Yes, an education is expensive; there are no debates on that. However, I am tired of hearing Palomar students complain about the price of their education.
According to the NPR article “Why is Col-lege So Expensive?” University of California, Berkeley tuition used to run about $700 per year in the 1970s. Now students can expect to pay upwards of $15,000 per year. That is a 2,000 percent increase in 40 years.
The California State University, San Mar-cos (CSUSM) schedule of fees states that one year tuition for an undergraduate runs about $6,000. To put that into perspective, that is about enough money for two Palomar stu-dents to obtain an associates degree.
The silver lining is that as a Palomar stu-dent, you’ve already taken the first step to saving a lot of money. Community colleges not only offer the perfect transition into the four-year university system, but also offer great prices for classes.
Palomar is also offering over 200 different scholarships this year in addition to work-shops about financial aid to help students get on the right track to taking advantage of all the ways they can creatively pay for college without going into debt.
Besides the obvious cost of tuition, the extra expenses category can be a tricky one. “College is very expensive. Out of control expensive,” said Palomar illustra-tion major student Manny Martinez. “The price of units keeps going up, and the price of materials keeps going up too, especially for my major since art supplies are very ex-pensive.”
Every semester here at Palomar I hear constant banter about atrocious parking. Be-ing a former CSUSM student, let me assure you, parking here is a dream for one reason: the money.
Parking at CSUSM is $643 per academic year. I dealt with the same issues of over-crowding and that long hike to classes at CSUSM as I currently do at Palomar. We only pay $80 per academic year here at Palomar
for parking. Yes, we may deal with the issues of Comet Circle, but at least we aren’t over-paying for that luxury.
If $40 per semester is still too much for parking, consider carpooling, it’s a great way to cut transportation and parking costs dra-matically; split the pass and split the gas.
One of the downsides to living in San Diego County is the housing prices. With apartment rent costing upwards of $1,000 per month, the most effective way to save money is to find yourself some roommates. By splitting the bills, you will save a lot more money. You’ll need it for graduate school because prices just go up from here.
Although college can be dauntingly ex-pensive, money should not stop anyone from reaching their goals. With a little ingenuity and a lot of research, college students can find many ways to make the ends justify the means- without thousands of dollars of debt. We have nothing to complain about when it comes to fees at Palomar.
For the first time in the school’s history, the Palomar Performing Arts Department is pouring the realms of art, communication and news into one cup of coffee.
The department is introducing four informal discussion panels, known as “Coffee Talks,” over the course of the school year to exam-ine topics relevant to the perfor-mances’ themes.
“It’s something we as teach-ers naturally want to do, which is get the audience to be in a frame of mind where they are ready to think about what they’re watch-ing,” said Christopher Sinnott, assistant professor of Palomar’s technical theater and design and coffee talks moderator. “We want to have a guided conversa-tion where we can get the entire audience prepped to watch the show and help make the topics a little more poignant so audience members are more engaged while watching.”
There will be one panel per show with coffee provided. The free discussions are open to the public and Palomar students’ friends and family. They will occur on one evening during the middle
of a show’s 10-day run and will be-gin two hours prior to curtain.
Each panel will feature Sinnott, as well as the show’s director and various Palomar faculty members whose backgrounds will provide expertise in the topics of discus-sion.
Advanced performing arts stu-dents will also assist the panel. They will help start conversations and provide technical assistance to the panelists. In addition, they will be required to write a paper on the topic of discussion.
The first panel will occur at 6 p.m. on Oct. 5 prior to a perfor-mance of “Paragon Springs.” The topic of conversation up for dis-cussion is global warming.
Palomar Earth Sciences distin-guished professor Alan Trujillo is slated to sit on the panel. Trujillo is co-author of the textbook “Es-sentials of Oceanography,” and will bring his knowledge of cli-mate change to the discussion.
“These panels are an interest-ing idea,” Trujillo said. “Even though some of the other topics are outside my realm, I come from a scientific background. I hope to address concerns and questions about global warming because I’ve done the research and done the studies.”
With future topics ranging from cellular communication to abor-
tion, Sinnott and the performing arts faculty are trying to stay as pertinent as they can to topics that students and adults should openly discuss.
“As a community college ,these are the kinds of issues and topics we really should be exploring,”
Trujillo said. Even though this is the inau-
gural year and the Coffee Talks are still in the process of being put together, Sinnott has high aspira-tions for the discussions.
“The ideal goal is to videotape and live stream the discussions
with a running chat screen so those who are watching online will be able to take part in the dis-cussion. We’re really hoping this is something that takes off and we can continue every year.”
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professor christopher sinnott instructs students Kazutaka Ando (left) and miyuki miyakoishi (right) in his Intro to technical theatre class on Sept. 5 at the GJ building room 2. • Sebastian Humphreys/Telescope
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With the routine stresses that come from school, it’s important that stu-dents take time working off that stress with some exercise.
Regardless of one’s schedule, there are plenty of ways students can get in shape.
From going to the gym, biking to school or dancing on the weekends, students seeking fitness engage in a va-riety of activities to stay fit.
Student Ryan Chulte said to stay fit he workouts everyday and watches what he eats as well as taking part in fun activities, such as surfing and fish-ing.
If you are someone who needs more structure to stay fit, try taking a health class, which gives the student access to Palomar’s Fitness Center and has a certain number of required hours to keep students motivated.
Palomar student Ashley Colvin said tak-ing Health 100 has helped her a lot so far.
She said, “I like the variety of the class. We are in the gym, running on the track, or playing a sport.”
Enrolling in a class can help students make sure they spend certain hours
working out. But, if you are a student who already has a heavy class load, you can always become a member of the Fit-ness Center and workout whenever it is convenient.
The Fitness Center on the San Mar-cos campus offersmemberships for $24 a month plus a $20 activation fee when you first join.
“Student attendance has been con-stant and consistent,” said Michelle Fi-field, coordinator of the Palomar Fitness Center. “We look forward to another
happy, healthy semester.” The center provides a myriad of ma-
chines and equipment to workout with, as well as a helpful staff to answer any questions and help with your workout.
If going to the gym just isn’t for you, there are many other options to staying healthy during the semester.
Try hiking or running on the many local trails around San Marcos. Palo-mar College even has some trails sur-rounding the campus that can make for a short hike after class.
Students can enroll in dance or swim classes on campus, or pick up a game of basketball in the quad to stay active.
Good eating habits can also ben-efit students. Avoid the pizza and sweet treats, and go for a salad or a healthy sandwich for lunch between classes.
Palomar even offers nutrition classes that can provide helpful tips for main-taining a better diet.
Palomar student Marcos Cruz uses the free weights on Sept. 5 in the Fitness Center located on the San Marcos Campus• Jassamyne Payne/Telescope
We look forward to another happy, healthy semester.
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Palomar students find local spots to get away
Southern California is full of ways for students to find relax-ation and recreation when the weekend comes around, accord-ing to Palomar College students.
As residents of San Diego County, Palomar students have a plethora of ways to relax, all in their own cities.
Neighborhood parks, local beaches and short day trips offer optimal fun with little travel time.
Palomar student Yesenia Del-gado said she spends her week-ends doing something as simple as going to the park.
She said it is a place where you, “can just sit down and enjoy the view.”
Student Christopher Wright agrees with Delgado.
Not only does the park provide an escape for him it also presents an opportunity to further bond with his family and friends, he said.
Some students choose thrill over tranquility when planning their weekends.
Brian Anderson said in his free time he enjoys “going surfing and
long boarding.”With approximately 70 miles
of coastline in San Diego, going to the beach is a popular getaway for many students.
Palomar student Erica Saldana said she likes to go to the beaches in Oceanside, Carlsbad and La Jolla to "lay out in the sun and relax.”
For those who are burned out on the beach, taking a short ride on the Coaster to Los Angeles to see the sights is the perfect way to spend a weekend, according to Palomar student Michael Miller.
With Halloween approach-ing a good scare could be what students need, and Knott’s Scary Farm starts Sept. 21.
Although these are great ideas to spend the day, some students point to crowds as a source of frustration.
According to Palomar student Saundra Cardoza it helps to, “think outside the box.” She said, “I like to have the freedom to do what I want, such as long hikes.”
What do you do to relax? Please post your suggestions at www.the-telescope.com.
[email protected] Moore eyes her line as she attacks a wave during her quarterfinals heat at the Huntington Beach Pier during competition at the Nike U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California, on Aug 3. Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times/MCT
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The planetarium, which de-buted last semester, has been striving to increase attendance to its Friday evening events. Ac-cording to Haynie, the first few months the planetarium was open for business, they sold fewer tick-ets than they hoped. Since the summer though, they have experi-enced a string of sold-out shows, something Haynie attributes to advertising outside of campus.
“A couple of months ago we [started] selling out,” said Haynie. “That’s partially because we did a mailer out to San Marcos, as well as the Del Mar Fair. We had an ex-hibit at the Del Mar Fair, so we got
a lot of exposure that way. OPT did their event here at the plane-tarium, so we got a lot of exposure that way as well.”
Since it has been open, the planetarium has featured free tele-scope viewing on the patio outside the theater, but the main focus is the shows run every Friday. The first show running every Friday is called “The Sky Tonight”, a con-stantly changing show narrated by Mark Lane, the planetarium director and astronomy professor at Palomar. The show is updated on a week by week basis with re-gards to the features of the night sky that week in San Marcos.
The second show is closer to a full-length film, according to Haynie. Currently, they’re run-ning “Wonders of the Universe,” but Haynie said he’s looking for-
ward to the next show being held, “The Secret Life of Stars.”
“Secret Lives of Stars is a very good show and it’s narrated by Patrick Stewart, so that makes it a lot of fun, especially if you’re a science fiction fan or just a Patrick Stewart fan,” said Haynie.
Lane says he believes the plan-etarium has something to offer everyone at a reasonable price. Regarding which features should bring in viewers, he has a hard time narrowing the list of benefits.
“It’s an overall evening expe-rience if they come to the plan-etarium and they purchase the tickets for the two shows,” said
Lane. “They’ll have some inter-esting things to see inside of the theater, to learn about related to astronomy. And, if the weather is good, we’ll show them some of the things that they learned about inside. We’ll show them outside, and give them a chance to see them themselves. Overall the whole evening will be kind of an evening of entertainment as well as education.”
Ticket prices vary. Prices are listed on the planetarium website and discounts are available for students, children, military and [email protected]
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The vehicle that failed to stop was a BMW that sustained frontal impacts.
The female driver of the left-most Honda experienced trau-matic injuries and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. The other two drivers sustained only minor leg injuries.
Witnesses on site reported po-lice arrived within five minutes, fire departments officials arriving within 10 minutes.
The status and identity of the female driver was not made public.
[email protected] Two of the vehicles involved in the Sept. 4 accident are towed at N. Las Posas Rd. • Ian Hanner/Telescope
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In some cases, par-ents are more obnox-ious than their off-spring. One professor re-ported hear-ing from an irate father whose child had failed a class. The fa-ther insisted he had paid enough tu-ition for “at
least a D.”Yet experts believe there is more to col-
legiate rudeness than perhaps a feeling of entitlement.
The attitude often is: “I don’t need you, I have the Net,” said P.M. Forni, director of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University and a professor of Italian litera-ture.
“These are students for whom the com-puters are the training wheels of their knowledge since early childhood. Many of them will think nothing of starting to text as you convey a commentary on Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’ “
Although the decline in classroom manners has not been documented in evidence-backed research, Forni said, the “anecdotal evidence is so massive it be-comes rather reliable.”
There is a sense, he said, that the rela-tionship between student and teacher is now likened to one between a client and service provider.
“The prestige of the teacher and the professors as providers of knowledge and wisdom has decreased as the importance of the information technology has in-creased,” he said.
Professors should set a tone of relaxed formality and define boundaries from day one, Forni said.
For instance, he begins his classes by explaining that he grew up in Italy dur-ing a different generation, where wearing caps in a classroom was considered rude. He considers it a distraction.
“I say, ‘Listen, I cannot enforce this. I am just asking you as a favor not to wear a cap in class for this reason,’ “ Forni said. “Nobody from that moment on wears his cap in class.”
Palomar students agree that the teach-ers can set the rules and will largely be obyed.
-”If the administration (teacher) sets the precedence from the first day of class, students are less inclined to become dis-tracted and use social media during lec-
tures,” Edwards said. “But there will al-ways be those students that are going to use it regardless.”
Students usually respond well, teach-ers say, when they understand what is ex-pected of them and what they can expect from the professor — including respect.
Rebecca Lessenberry, 19, of Waukegan, Ill., and a classmate would agree. They were stung last spring by an instructor’s reprimand when they arrived for a speech class at the College of Lake County in Grayslake.
“We smelled like cigarette smoke and our teacher decided to humiliate us and say, ‘Do not smoke before my class and sit next to me,’ “ Lessenberry said.
In response, “We would just smoke even more before class,” said Allyce Doo-rey, 21, of Lake Villa, Ill. The two recalled how they wet their hair before smoking, to be sure the odor stuck.
Students also have little patience for instructors who ramble off topic, talk ex-tensively about their personal lives or es-pouse political views or religious doctrine.
The very nature of some class subjects can provoke discussion — or arguments that offend.
“I think it’s all in the way the instructor approaches the particular situation and addresses students,” said Kerry Lane, as-sistant English professor at Joliet Junior College. She assigns readings on topics such as race and faith that can be delicate.
“When we are 18, we may not be aware of how different our views are from oth-ers’,” Lane said. “I find it is interesting and worthwhile territory for us to cover, but at times it can be challenging.”
John Koepke, an electrical engineering instructor at Joliet Junior College, once had to dismiss a student for tossing wads of paper around the room. The two talked about it before the next class, and Koepke said he learned that the student didn’t feel challenged and was acting out because of that.
He encourages students to drop pre-conceived notions and try to figure out what class material they can apply in their lives.
On a positive note, “They feel more comfortable asking questions than in ear-lier years,” Koepke said. “It used to be al-most all dictation.”
Ill-mannered students don’t just grate on the teacher, they also irritate class-mates.
“I always have the one (classmate) who thinks they know everything,” said Natalia Garcia, 21, of Waukegan, a CLC student. “They actually argue with the teacher sometimes. It’s annoying.”
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8 • SPORTS Monday, September 10, 2012FOOTBALL
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Men’s soccer starts season with victory as women fall in double home-openers
Football team looks for another good season
Left: Palomar men’s soccer player Brian Paleo (10) takes the ball up field during the season’s home-opener on Aug. 31, at Minkoff field against Victor Valley. The Comets won 3-2 • Robert Trousas/Telescope. Right: Palomar goal-keeper Samantha Madonado aims to block the goal on Aug. 31 against Irvine Valley at Minkoff Field. The Comets lost 0-3. • Andrew Szikla/Telescope
Palomar football coach Ron Rockett watches defensive drills during team practice on Sept. 5 at Palomar. • Anthony Guerrero/Telescope
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After losing to Cerritos College 45-28 in the playoffs last year, the Comet football team looks to up-hold a long tradition of winning and return to the playoffs for a second consecutive year.
They started out on the right foot with a 20-7 win over nation-ally ranked No. 12 El Camino Com-munity College (0-1) in Torrance, Calif. on Sept. 1.
The Comets (1-0), No. 16 na-tionally ranked by J.C. Grid-Wire / JCFootball.com, scored 17 unan-swered points in the second half to win the season opener.
“El Camino is always tough; they are very athletic,” Head Coach Joe Early said. “I know they were expecting to play better than they did, but we got a great win under our belt.”
Sophomore running back Chad Dobbins had a career night rush-ing 31 times for 170 yards includ-ing a 92-yard run.
That is the second-longest run from scrimmage in Palomar’s his-tory.
While a ratio of 41 rushes to 28 passes is unusual, Early said he has no problem going with what-ever the specific game dictates.
“We’ve got to establish the run,” Early said. “If we can get the run going, it will open up play-action and open up the passing game.
The Comets were having suc-cess running against the El Cami-no defense, so they went with
what worked.“We’re not going to try and
force something,” Early said. “If they can’t stop it, then we will stay with it.”
Having Dobbins there will make this possible. Last year he lead the team in rush attempts with 178, had 758 rushing yards and five touchdowns.
“I definitely got my fill of run-ning the ball,” Dobbins said. “Thirty-one times, that sounds like something someone does in high school. It felt good to get the ball that many times.”
Going into the season, the ros-
ter was comprised of 68 freshmen. According to Early, this year’s
roster may not have as many star players, but the roster is deeper with talent.
“We’re talented and athletic, but our inexperience is going to be something we have to overcome early,” Early said.
Twenty different freshman logged game stats in the season opener.
Going into the season, one of the biggest question marks was the quarterback position.
According to Early, this is the first time in five or six years where
they didn’t have a returning quar-terback from last season.
Ryan Lamb, a true freshman from Oceanside, was named the starter before week one and post-ed a solid stat line in his first start.
Lamb went 14-28 for 146 yards, two touchdowns and an intercep-tion.
“He hasn’t played in over a year. I know he had to be a little nervous, but he did a good job, and we were able to move the ball and put some points on the board,” Early said.
The one area where bonafide sophomores log a majority of the
game time is the offensive line, where four of the five are return-ing starters from last year and they all are sophomores.
The guards are Doug Saeks and A.J. Kaplan, tackles Kolby Drew and Nate Devan, and center David Villanueva.
Early has previously said that the offensive line will be a big help in setting the tempo and being the anchor for the rest of the offense.
The large and experienced O-Line gives Dobbins a lot of large holes to run through, evident by the 5.5 yards per carry in the first game.
“I love it. Those dudes are big,” Dobbins said. “It was a pleasure.”
The other top performer of the game on the offensive side of the ball was sophomore wide-receiver Mike Hodges who caught three passes for 63 yards and scored the only two touchdowns of the game.
“I try to make it as easy as pos-sible for him (Ryan Lamb),” Hodg-es said. “I tell him that if he is in trouble, throw me the ball and leave it to me to make the play. I don’t want to have him to think too much.”
The defense, which has the most new players, had a great first showing. The defense forced four turnovers and four series that end-ed in a punt with a three-and-out.
After the win, the Comets’ na-tional ranking went up to No. 10, behind only two other California Community Colleges.
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