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Mario Roccatani, who started teaching at Palomar College in 1989, died on Oct. 1, at Palomar hospital due to a blown aneurism. He was 63.

He died in the arms of his girl-friend of 17 years, Constance Hughes.

“He was a very kind, compassion-ate man. Authentic, one of a kind,” Hughes said.

Roccatani cared about the simple things in life. He loved taking care of his vegetable garden, and then cook-ing Italian meals with the produce he had harvested. He was also very proud of his son Dante, who meant a great deal to him, Hughes said.

Mario had many hobbies, includ-ing playing the bass guitar and har-monica. He loved Jimi Hendrix and played in a blues band when he was younger.

Most of all, Roccatari loved to read. His favorite authors were James Joyce and Joseph Cambell. According to Hughes, he had the most well-rounded library out of any-one she had ever met, Huges said.

Roccatani had a great sense of humor and loved to laugh. Under all of that personality, he was a roman-tic. He wrote poetry, liked medieval literature and philosophy. He loved living in the mountains in his Julian home.

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OCCUPY IMPACTS PALOMAR STUDENTS; PROFESSOR SAYS

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Citizens are expressing discontentment with government and economic interests as the Occupy protests in San Diego enter their second month.

A gap between the economic privileges of the wealthiest one percent of the country and the rest of its people fueled a series of protests.

Economic reform swept the country, start-ing in Wall Street, and got its start in San Di-ego on Oct. 7.

“Whenever there are economically poor times, that’s always going to be a spearhead for movements,” said Peter Bowman, politi-cal science professor. “Sometimes extreme movements.”

PARKING WOES CONTINUE

During football practice the Comet offense has to deal with shark-infested waters. And these sharks - the Comet defense - aren’t afraid to bite.

Toward the end of practice there is a period where the defensive backs and the wide receiv-ers go head-to-head. This results in much taunting and trash talking.

When a wide receiver scores, quarterback Da-vid Fisher gives a loud “touchdown” yell, while the receivers dance back to the line.

Then there are the defensive backs, who when a pass is deflected or the receiver is tackled be-fore scoring, the entire secondary jumps around and erupts in a chorus of cheers while putting their hand on their helmet, emulating a dorsal fin.

Thus, the sharks.

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In the midst of Palomar’s ongoing effort to create more parking spots for students and faculty, the destruc-tion of the 36-year-old Child Devel-opment Center is the latest casualty.

Palomar is replacing the current Child Development Center with a new one to be built near the soccer field sometime next year, according to Communications Director Laura Gropen.

While the construction of the new center is still in its pre-planning stages, concerns over the reasoning for the move and the design of the new facility have already arisen. Child Center staff members are worried their requests and concerns will be ignored.

Carol Mitton, the site supervisor of the Child Development Center, said she felt the staff hasn’t been ad-equately consulted on what they’ll

45 Days into The Occupy Protest and the cause has spread across the U.S. and the world

Palomar Professor Wade Rollins is fed up with the lack of parking.

With the construction of the new Humanities building being built where the B building once stood, Lot 11, has been made off limits. Rollins, the graphic communications depart-ment chair, sent a letter to President Robert Deegan to formally complain about the parking situation on behalf of himself and the faculty and staff who work in his department.

It was only a few days after Lot 11 was closed that he sent the letter, ac-cording to Rollins. He said his prima-ry concern was for adjunct professors who need to park nearby.

“My adjuncts usually come from another job and time is tight,” Rollins said. “I was worried that when they come over to find a parking space they are going to be driving around for a half hour.”

Deegan said that 160 new spaces were created in the front of campus specifically for faculty and staff. Deegan added that he realizes teach-ers like to park in proximity to their classes, but as long as Palomar is in construction mode, they will have to make due.

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NEWS: Economy Days pg. 10

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Students on the Student Union Quad Lawn were able to ask representatives from over 30 different institutions about transfer requirements at the college fair hosted by the Transfer Center on Oct. 18. (Jenny Veloz/The Telescope)

This Week at PalomarThursday

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Nov. 2Day of the Dead

The MEChA club will be sponsoring the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) at 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Nov. 2 in the Multi-Disciplinary Building Plaza.

There will be a small altar with offerings for those who have passed. Aztec dancers will be performing to celebrate the lives of loved ones who are dead.

Everyone is encouraged to add offerings to the altar to commemorate the memory of those they’ve lost.

For more information on this event contact John

Concert HourPalomar alumnus Nathan Hubbard will be

performing with The Passengers, a quintet of erstwhile improvisers from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 3 in the Performance Lab, room D-10.

Hubbard is a percussionist and a composer as well as an instrument builder.

His quintet members will be playing several different instruments including a vibraphone, electric piano, two electric base guitars and drums.

The band will be playing different pieces, in-cluding works from their “Pattern Field” album.

Homecoming Rally Celebrate the homecoming football game at a

rally from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 2 in the Student Union Quad.

The event will be hosted by the Associated Student Government. There will be free food and dance performances by Palomar’s Ballet Folklorico, Xtreme Talent and the Comet Cheerleaders. There will also be games and an Angry Birds tournament with prizes.

Don’t forget to wear your Palomar gear and bring your Comet Spirit.

College fairRepresentatives from U.C

Berkeley, CSU Northridge and Boise State were among 44 schools that attended the Annual College Fair and met with more than 150 students on Oct. 18, according to the Transfer Center.

“We offer the college fair to give students the opportunity to talk to representatives of universi-ties that they are considering and ones they might not have even thought about,” said the Transfer Center Director Elvia Nunez.

Students at the event were able to ask the representatives what is required to transfer.

Students asked questions rang-ing from what programs are of-fered and how much tuition costs to what scholarship programs are available.

“The future looks bright,” Jon-athan Heng said of his experience at the event. “I’m more motivated and focused after getting insight into what I have to do, and the re-quirements needed. I really appre-ciate Palomar for doing this.”

For the universities at the event this is an opportunity to reach stu-dents who aren’t in their sphere of influence.

“Humboldt State University gets a majority of their students from Southern California and that’s why I’m here,” said Hum-boldt State representative Stacie Lyans.

For more information on trans-ferring, contact the Transfer Cen-ter at palomar.edu/counseling/transfercenter/.

-Katelynn Vengoechea

Thanksgiving food driveThe 24th annual Thanksgiving

Meal Drive is under way and help-ing Palomar students who are less fortunate.

This program is designed to benefit EOPS/ Care & CalWorks students in the form of $25 gift cards to local grocery stores to sup-plement a Thanksgiving dinner. The goal is to supply the first 150 students who sign up with these gift cards.

Departments, clubs and stu-dents are encouraged to make a contribution by bringing their cash or check to the EOPS office or the Palomar College Founda-tion Office. The last day to donate is Nov. 21.

“EOPS students are economi-cally and educationally disad-vantaged students,” said Mary SanAgustin, director of financial aid, veterans and scholarship ser-vices. “The importance is to show our support to these students and their families that education and our support does not end in the classroom.”

Although $25 is not enough for an elaborate Thanksgiving meal, it is enough to supplement

a traditional turkey and mashed potatoes. Gift cards will be given out to students on Nov. 22 and 23. The support of staff and students is crucial to the success of the pro-gram, she added.

Although food donations are not being accepted for this event, they are accepted year round to help students at the Palomar Col-lege Pantry in SU-201. Any ques-tions regarding the Thanksgiving Meal Drive can be directed to San-dra Brown at sbrown@palomar.edu.

-Danielle Taylor

Trafficking presentationThe Phi Theta Kappa club at

Palomar is sponsoring a presenta-tion on human trafficking from 3:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 15 in room MD-157.

Three FBI agents will be talk-ing about human trafficking on a national level. The agents are Spe-cial Agent Kristen Robinson, who specializes in crimes against chil-dren; Marissa Ugarte, who is the advocate representative for the bi-lateral safety corridor; and one to be announced later.

The event’s purpose is to show people that human trafficking is not just a problem in other coun-tries, but is still a reality here in the United States.

-Kaity Bergquist

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occupy movement lacks organizationPalomar women, have some self-respect

These are tough times finan-cially. One would be hard-pressed to find an economist who could make a case to the contrary. Just as civilization has in history, it again finds itself in the midst of widespread political unrest dur-ing a period of monetary woes; this time, it has the name Occupy.

While we at The Telescope un-derstand the underlying point of the Occupy Movement, we do not think the movement can move forward in such an unorganized manner.

Protestors of many walks of life have taken to the streets to show their distrust of the banks and their dissatisfaction with the government. It is the broadest base of supporters any movement has boasted in the last half cen-tury.

However, while the wide de-mographic range is a strength for Occupy, it is also its weakness. The abundance of opinions and personal goals amongst the mem-bers cause a contradictive under-standing of what the movement is all about.

It falls on the protestors to give the media, and by extension the people they’re trying to win over to their cause, a unified and co-hesive statement as to what it is they’re marching for.

From the beginning, the Oc-cupy Movement has been without a leader as a way to illustrate this is a movement of the people. To an extent they’ve been successful in that they have reached interna-tional notoriety without a figure-head.

On the other hand, the role of a leader is often to consolidate the grievances of those whom he/she represents. If they want to avoid a leader, they need to find another way to come to consensus.

In some locations the move-ment has spread to, protestors have been experimenting with volunteer committees and open forums to make decisions. Though they are far from perfect, they show a step in the right direction.

The Occupy Movement needs to first, on a national level, estab-lish a set of guidelines by which the chapters in locations across the country can govern them-selves.

The best option would be a re-volving-door-style democratic sys-tem in which representatives are regularly switched out and legis-lation that has already been rati-fied has to be unanimously voted against in order to be stricken.

With these parameters in place, the next step is to draft a list of core goals that represent the heart of the movement’s ob-jectives.

Finally, after getting an accu-rate count on the average num-ber of participants, they should take the list of approved goals to members on the street and ask each member to sign off on the mission statements. If they can get 70 percent of the protestors to accept the terms, the goals would be adopted. If not, it’s back to the drawing board.

No system will represent the movement perfectly, but at least with these guidelines, the pro-tests will no longer consist of un-organized malcontents without a clue what they want. Instead, the strength of the movement will greatly improve and the unifica-tion of protestors will allow the main purpose to be reached.

Since Matt and David were otherwise occupied and unable to write The Body Politic this week, we wanted to share our thoughts. They even were kind enough to give us permission on Facebook, which clearly makes it official.

There’s something we’d like to tell everyone.

It’s cold outside.Actually, it was raining on our

way home.We especially wanted all the

women on campus to know that the seasons are in fact changing, and what you wear should be changing too.

It’s not the appropriate season to be wearing your see-through lacy tops, even if it is long-sleeved. We don’t think that women un-derstand the fact that it’s starting to get cold now, and those tiny, thin clothes are not going to keep them warm. We do realize that we live in California, but it still gets relatively cold here.

Don’t even get us started on short skirts and long sleeve shirts paired with Ugg boots. This look was only cool for about a day back in 1999. Just because someone is wearing boots doesn’t mean that

the rest of her body is going to stay warm.

This brings up the lack of ap-propriate clothing on campus. We see outfits ranging from club attire, complete with five-inch heels, to dumpy sweatpants and sweatshirts. This is a college cam-pus. There is a lot of walking to be done, especially for those of us who have to park 10 miles from class. Even walking all that way in comfy sneaks is a pain. We don’t see how on earth someone could survive that walk in heels without their entire foot becoming one big blister.

If she’s dressing this way to try to get a boyfriend, do it in a more comfortable way. If a man expects a woman to always dress like a two-bit hooker, he’s doing it wrong. Haven’t the women on campus heard of self-respect? Any man who doesn’t respect her when she is dressed in jeans and Converse isn’t worth her time.

Are the high heels honestly so cute that she can’t leave the house without putting them on? We’re sure that she paid a month’s sal-ary for them, but save them for the club. School is where we go

for education, not to show off the latest Louboutins.

On the opposite side are the girls who are too lazy to look like they did more than get out of bed that morning. Do they even brush their teeth in the morning? We don’t want to sit next to them in class and find out if the answer. We get that we’re at school, and some don’t feel the need to dress to impress day in and day out. But there are people who actually have to look at her throughout the day – the least the women on cam-pus could do is brush their teeth and comb their hair.

We’re not saying that it isn’t necessary look cute at school; a “cute day” boosts a woman’s con-fidence ten-fold. Our point is that the women on this campus need a little more self-respect. Take the time to do your hair, throw on some make-up and pick out a cute-yet-comfortable outfit.

Most importantly, women need better friends. If we see our friends wearing an outfit that does not look good, we need to say something.

Friends don’t let friends look terrible.

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POINT OF CONTENTION

PRO CONA new Florida law says that people apply-

ing for welfare have to take a drug test. Not only is this drug test taken at the expense of the welfare recipient, but also, if they fail it, then they are denied welfare services for a year until they have the opportunity to take another drug test.

This may sound like a fair idea. We don’t want tax dollars going to supporting some-one’s drug habits. Logical? Maybe, but the

Supreme Court has agreed on several occasions that this is a clear violation of the Constitutional rights of citizens.

Interestingly enough, Gov. Rick

Scott signed this law into effect. This same governor also co-found-ed a company that op-erates drug screening among other services, according to the Jackson-ville Business Journal. Although this has not been proven to be a con-flict of interest, it does point to a hidden agen-da, especially since just prior to this law being passed, Gov. Scott also signed his ownership rights to the company into his wife’s name. Coincidence? We can only wonder.

In 2003, a federal court revoked Michigan’s

random drug testing law, because it violated the Fourth Amendment banning unreason-able search and seizure. Also, in 1997 the Supreme Court voted by a huge majority to repeal Georgia’s law that required drug test-ing for candidates of state offices. The Fourth Amendment states that probable cause must be present for the search of someone, or their possessions, including drug testing.

The “innocent until proven guilty” as-sumption seems to no longer apply here. Now the easily targeted welfare recipients are guilty until proven innocent.

This law fuels the fire of the stereotype that the poor are undeserving of benefits.

Several studies show that the bill creates a total farce about welfare recipients. A 1996 report from the National Institute on Alco-hol Abuse and Alcoholism found that the number of illegal-drug users did not show any significant difference between welfare recipients and non-recipients, and more than half of the drug users are employed full time.

This law is taking advantage of a depen-dent group of people, since most welfare recipients are already grouped into a stereo-typical category of lazy, so they don’t need the title of drug user, too.

Of the first 50 people drug tested in Florida, two got negative results, and one of those two is appealing their results. If this is supposed to be a cost-saving mechanism, as Gov. Scott marketed it to be, then why would the state spend a considerable amount to de-fend the law? The savings of about $120 per month does not justify the money spent on litigation fees.

Fees for the drug testing will be recouped to those who pass the drug test. The cost and benefit comparison simply does not add up.

Drug testing has a considerable margin of error. Urine tests have shown to be wrong up to 50 percent of the time, according to www.drug-testing-solutions.net. According to the article, these errors can be due to bad procedures at the manufacturer, mixed-up samples, second-hand smoke and reactions with some prescription drugs.

This means that welfare recipients, who need to pass this drug test to keep food on the table for their kids should give up their prescription drugs.

In an issue of Scientific American, Phil Smith argued that marijuana users had a higher rate of promotion within a company. As long as the productivity rate and the safe-ty issues are addressed, who is to say that all illegal drugs should continue to be illegal. Look at the debate in California about legal-izing marijuana.

Although this Florida law sounds like ob-vious, it is inconsistent. Instead of taking ad-vantage of an easy target, stricter laws should be applied to all people, not just those on wel-fare. The law requiring mandatory drug tests is unconstitutional, and includes a possible conflict of interest. I think it is time that Amer-icans step up and start defending the Consti-tution that keeps their basic rights in check.

Contact Danielle Taylor, staff writer, at dtaylor@the-telescope.com

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Should states be allowed to drug test welfare recipients?

The state of Florida is tired of paying for drugs.

In June, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill requiring all welfare recipients to take, and pass, a drug test before qualifying for benefits. The applicants must pay for their own test, which costs around $35, according to The Huffington Post. The state reimburses the cost of the test upon successfully passing.

Not all welfare recipients are drug users, but that’s not to say that there aren’t a few. Taxpayers should not be required to pay for any part of a drug user’s addiction. For the law-abiding taxpayer, this new law could not be fairer.

Someone who opposes the law is simply approving of the use of illicit drugs. The only person losing in this situation is the drug user.

Any person has the option to opt out of the testing. Of course, opting out would mean not qualifying for benefits. But there is no sense in opting out if a person is not a drug user.

The state may take a financial hit at first, but the long-term benefits of ridding the sys-tem of any drug-using recipients will balance the short-term losses. The state will no longer be paying for drugs, and taxpayers will no lon-ger be supporting these addictions.

In addition to cleaning up the system, the law will potentially help the user clean up. It gives an incentive to get off drugs and stay off of them. If someone is unable to find a job, and welfare is the only option to providing for his family, he is then forced to keep himself in a situation where he is able to receive the money.

Opponents of the law are quick to point out that some welfare recipients have a fam-ily, and his or her welfare income is the only means to providing food for his or her family. However, according to CNN, the parent can choose someone to receive the money on be-half of the children. This designation would mean that the abuser feels the consequences of his actions, while the children don’t suffer.

This law also brings up the issue of drug testing for employment. Many jobs require drug screening prior to receiving employ-ment with the company. Welfare is no differ-ent than a job.

Along with drug testing for welfare, Flor-ida laws allow any employer to conduct pre-employment drug screening and random drug screening as they see fit.

Florida’s Executive Order 11-58 requires

a pre-employment drug screening for every employee, as well as allowing random drug screening within every state department at any time.

Florida’s Drug-Free Workplace Act prom-ises a safe working environment for all state employees. It also declares drug use to be counter-productive to the workplace as a whole.

The act states that, “Drug use creates a variety of workplace problems, including in-creased injury on the job, increased absentee-ism, increased financial burden on health and benefit pro-grams, increased workplace theft, decreased em-ployee morale, decreased pro-ductivity, and a decline in the quality of products and ser-vices.”

Most people don’t complain when an employer asks him or her to take a drug test. Welfare recipients are receiving money from the state, which begs the question, why should they be differ-ent than an employee.

The ACLU has filed suit against Florida for requiring all state employees to undergo drug screening, and for the welfare law as well. The group claims that the law violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.

It isn’t unreasonable to expect employees to remain drug-free. In fact, it isn’t unreason-able to expect all U.S. citizens to remain drug-free. After all, drugs are illegal.

Welfare is not required; it is voluntary. If an applicant has a problem with the drug screening, then they have the option to not apply. But again, the only people who should have an issue with the new law are drug us-ers, no matter how few they may actually be.

Contact Colleen Peters, opinion editor, at cpeters@the-telescope.com

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HAPPENINGMonday, Oct. 31- Edgar Allen Poe: Jeffery Combs performs as the classical writer and poet in a biographical play “Never-more” taking place in 1848. Watch as Poe embarks on a cross country speaking tour that ultimately draws him to go mad for one night only beginning at 7:30 p.m. @ North Coast Repertory Theatre, Solana Beach.

Tuesday, Nov. 1- The Damned @ HoB, Downtown- Lydia Loveless @ Soda Bar, City Heights- Wild Flag @ Casbah, Little Italy- Mural Making Live: Watch the mural and graffiti group WriterzBlok create a wall size mural based on the “Mexican painting from the Andres Blaisten Col-lection” from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. through Nov. 8 @ the San Diego Museum of Art, Downtown.

Wednesday, Nov. 2- Simple Plan @ HoB, Downtown- Minus the Bear @ Casbah, Little Italy- Laura Roppe @ Belly Up, Solana Beach

Thursday, Nov. 3- Pink Mountaintops @ Soda Bar, City Heights- Mayday Parade @ HoB, Downtown- The Barr Brothers @ Anthology, Little Italy- Pretty Too Bad @ Belly Up, Solana Beach

Friday, Nov. 4- The Burning of Rome @ Soda Bar, City Heights- Dick Justice @ Brick by Brick, Linda Vista- Damn-Funk @ Casbah, Little Italy- Graham Parker @ AMSDconcerts, Normal Heights- Skid Row and Warrant @ Pechanga Resort and Casino, Temecula

Saturday, Nov. 5- Rubblebucket @ Soda Bar, City Heights- The Parlotones @ Casbah, Little Italy- Studio 8 @ Molly Malone’s, Ramona- Aaron Lewis @ Sycuan Casino Showcase Theatre, El Cajon

Sunday, Nov. 6- The Amanda Waggener Band @ HoB, Downtown- Gary Wilson @ Soda Bar, City Heights

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Hit a high note with the new Jack’s Mannequin

ALBUM REVIEW

Who: Jack’s MannequinAlbum: “People and Things”Why Listen: Jack’s Mannequin uses instrumen-tals and lyrics familiar to other albums.Rating: 5 out of 5

MOVIE REVIEW

What: The Thing, a prequel to the 1982 originalStarring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton Why Watch: Continues the storyline of the 1982 version and is guaran-teed to send chills down your spine. Rating: 3 out of 5

“The Thing” sequel disappoints cult fans“The Thing” may not be the

best or most frightening horror film you’ll see this year, but it has its fair share of thrills and chills.

Penned as a prequel to John Car-penter’s version of the film, 2011’s “The Thing,” directed by Matthijs van Heinjningen Jr., clears up ex-actly what happened at the Norwe-gian Research Facility prior to the 1982 film’s events.

The movie felt promising at first, but it felt a little bit like deja vu. In fact, for those familiar with the original film, it feels much more like a remake than a prequel. In the most basic sense, it essentially fol-lows the same plot as the original, topped with a new group of actors and some pretty amazing computer graphic special effects.

When the original “The Thing” opened it was met with a mixed re-ception and generally poor box of-fice sales. Despite the underwhelm-ing performance, “The Thing” went on to become a cult classic in the horror movie genre. It has been praised by fans of the genre for its groundbreaking make-up special effects and its tense, paranoia-in-ducing atmosphere.

The premise remains the same as the original. A shape-shifting alien who takes on the forms of its victims invades an Antarctic re-search facility. The remaining humans, reluc-tant to trust any of their comrades, must fight for their survival against a hidden threat.

The film stars a whole new cast of characters, in-cluding lead actress Mary Elizabeth Win-stead, who plays a level-headed, American paleontologist; Joel Edgeton, who plays a Vietnam Veteran and griz-

zled helicopter pilot; and Ulrich Thomson, the ambitious leader of the Norwegian research team.

The action feels rushed in some parts, es-pecially before the creature fi-nally appears. There are quite a few startling moments in the film, although most were pretty predictable, there were a few that actually were surprising, such as when Win-stead’s character is being chased

by the monster through an alien spacecraft. It disappears for a few

seconds, before bursting through a wall to scare Winstead (and the au-dience).

The monsters of the film were certainly chilling and nauseating, appearing like twisted, horribly deformed versions of their victims. Admittedly, the CGI felt a bit over-done in places, especially when compared to the simple but effec-tive make-up techniques used in the original John Carpenter film. Still, the goriness and the grotesque quality of the aliens were two as-pects that worked well.

The acting was basic and plain, nothing horrible but nothing spec-tacular either. The cast didn’t feel as colorful or interesting as the one John Carpenter put together in 1982, and the characters weren’t very memorable. In fact, it was pret-ty hard to distinguish most of the

minor characters from each other. It’s hard to try and gain sympathy from the audience when all of the victims of the alien are basic horror movie stock.

Whereas the original “The Thing” was so novel through its use of practical yet frighteningly realistic effects and its underlying sense of paranoia and uneasiness, the 2011 release has little of these things characteristics.

All in all, van Heijningen Jr.’s ver-sion had its enjoyable moments, but it wasn’t enough to really enough to achieve the cult status of Carpen-ter’s version. Although not a hor-rible film in any sense of the word, it certainly doesn’t live up to the bar set by the original film.

Contact Mike Peterson, staff writer, at mpeterson@the-telescope.com

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Jack’s Mannequin’s new-est album “People and Things” was released on Oct. 11 and proves its unique style is present, showing that the band has stayed true to the form of music that first made it popular.

Many aspects go to cre-ate the unusual and beauti-ful sound that the group has produced, which is a clever blend of rock music rhythm with instruments more com-monly found in other genres.

The first song, “My Rac-ing Thoughts,” combines guitar and drums with piano music, to create an experi-ence that’s both calm and exhilarating.

Jack’s Mannequin start-ed as a side project from the existing band Something Corporate. Lead singer An-drew McMahon began writ-ing songs independently .

Jack’s Mannequin’s first two albums, “Everything in Transit” and “The Glass Pas-senger,” were met with ex-plosive popularity, debuting

No. 37 and No. 8 respectively on Billboard’s Top 200 Al-bums chart. The group’s new album is no exception, com-ing in at No. 9 in the Top 200.

The band not only rede-fines the style in which they record music; they also fuse unique sound with personal and realistic lyrics. Though many of Jack’s Mannequin’s songs initially come across as dark, the honesty of the words quickly becomes fa-miliar, and their uncompro-mising nature gives an un-censored view of the world.

Such a phenomenon is clear in the song “Hey, hey hey (we’re all gonna die).” Though blunt, the song is true to its name, containing the lyrics “We’re all gonna die someday.” Despite its ini-tially depressing message, this song, along with many others, provides a taste of re-alism and honesty with the finite nature of life and the inevitability of death.

The deep lyrics and beautiful sound of these two songs aren’t isolated incidents. Fantastic musical quality is present through-

out the album, providing no reason to criticize its success. Not only does the album fol-low its predecessors in style, it gives variety in tempo and sound, as demonstrated by the songs “Hostage,” a quick and somewhat heavy song, and “Restless Dream,” a more mellow song.

Regardless of what criti-cism the music will receive, the numbers don’t lie. Mu-sic lovers are eating up the band’s new album. A clever combination of deep, intro-spective lyrics and unique sounds have wrought a si-multaneously soothing and thought provoking product.

Jack’s Mannequin contin-ues to be a breath of fresh air in an ever-shrinking world of talented musicians with songs both heart-wrenching and uplifting. Above all, this wonderful group gives hope with each new song it re-leases that the truly talented will always remain the truly talented.

Contact Joshua Meihaus, staff writer, at jmeihaus@the-telescope.com

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, battles The Thing on a science base in Antarctica. (Image courtesty of IMDb)

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The third album “People and Things” from Jack’s Mannequin was rea-leased on Oct. 11 and came in at No. 9 on the Billboard top 200 chart. (Images courtesty of Warner Bros. Records)

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Halloween is a time for dress-ing up, carving pumpkins and of course curling up on the couch, turning off the lights and watch-ing your favorite scary movie to get your heart thumping. According to Palomar students, there are several different genres of movies that are fun to watch on the scariest day of the year.Classic Films

The most popular Halloween movies among students on campus are old-school, scary movies. Some of the most frequently mentioned titles include “Halloween,” “Friday the 13th,” “Texas Chainsaw Massa-cre,” and “The Omen.”

Freshman Kevin Cass said that he loves classic scary movies. His favorites include “The Shining” and “Silence of the Lambs.”

“If a movie scares me, they did a good job,” Cass said. “It takes a lot to scare me.” Modern Horror

Most students agree that as time goes on, horror movies are defi-nitely getting scarier and scarier. The latest horror films to hit the-aters have been causing more girly screams from audience members than ever before.

“You can never go wrong with the ‘Saw’ series,” said freshman Michael Blasband.

A modern day scary movie buff, Blasband also suggested watching

the “Paranormal Activity” series, the “Descent,” and “Insidious” for a night of blood-curdling terror.

Sophomore Michael Garcia loves gory movies. In his opinion, the more blood and guts, the better.

“The new ‘Friday the 13th’ is rad, as is ‘House of Wax,’” Garcia said. “Paris Hilton getting stabbed in the face by a pike is all sorts of awesome.” Horror Humor

If you’re like sophomore Niko Bowman, horror movies aren’t re-ally your thing.

“I can’t stand some horror mov-ies. I hate getting scared,” Bowman said.

For some, it’s better to die laugh-ing than to watch someone die.

Luckily there are a lot of com-edies that incorporate frightening themes with laughter.

Some of the best Halloween humor can be found in films like the “Scary Movie” series, “Shaun of the Dead,” “Zombieland,” and “Young Frankenstein.” Check out these movies if you want to avoid tossing and turning in bed after a scary movie marathon.Family Fun

For those who want to embrace their inner childhood trick-or-treater, feel-good family movies are a must. A great Halloween movie doesn’t have to make you scream bloody murder.

“Casper,” “Ghostbusters,” and “Harry Potter” are just a few choices you could consider.

“Don’t judge me but I love ‘Ho-cus Pocus’ and ‘Halloweentown,’” sophomore Anna Richter said.

Tim Burton movies are another favorite among Palomar students. “Corpse Bride” and “Edward Scis-sorhands” are just a couple of his timeless creepy classics.

“’Nightmare Before Christmas’ is my favorite movie to watch be-cause Danny Elfman did the mu-sic,” Sophomore Chad Martel said. “I love Oingo Boingo!”Zombie Flicks

Movies such as “28 Days Later,” “Dawn of the Dead,” and “Night of the Living Dead” are some of the many brain-eating thrillers avail-able. The great thing about zombie movies is that they’re the perfect combination of freaky and funny.

“I like to watch old school zom-bie movies that are so bad and cheesy that you can’t stop laugh-ing,” Sophomore Katherine Sand-ers said.

Sanders is a fan of some of the more lesser-known zombie films. She suggests watching the movies “Return of the Living Dead” and “Diary of the Dead” if you like to laugh at corny movies.

This Halloween, when you’re contemplating which movies to watch for a night of ghosts, mur-derers, zombies and witches, check out these flicks suggested by fellow Palomar students for a movie night of bone-chilling fun.

Contact Dariel Walker, staff writer, at dwalker@the-telescope.com

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BY ASHLEY KRUG

HOW-TO GURU

Goblins, ghosts, and witches galore; pumpkins, bats, and vam-pires are all signs that let us know Halloween is here. Trick or Treating and dressing up is fun, but all that candy can leave a person feeling a little more tricked than treated.

Instead of filling up on Snickers and Skittles all night, here are a few delicious Halloween goodies that are a real treat this time of year.

Popcorn HandsPopcorn hands are as simple as

they sound. Whether you are making them for trick or treaters, or a party favor on Halloween night, these easy to make treats are ready for travel.

First you will need a clear non-la-tex glove to use as a form for the pop-corn hand (remember to get a glove that does not have powder inside). Take candy corn and put at each tip of the glove as a fingernail.

Next, fill the glove with any type of popped popcorn you choose. Once the glove is full, tie the top with deco-rative ribbons to add an extra touch. If you want your popcorn hands to be decked out for Halloween, you can put a spider ring on one of the fingers. For more detailed directions on how to make these hands, go to ehow.com.

Cheese-Finger FoodsFinger foods are a favorite at any

gathering. However, with this clever snack, finger foods are taken to the next level.

To create a cheese-finger, you will need mozzarella string cheese, cream cheese, and green bell peppers. First, use a knife to cut each string cheese in half and cut a shallow area for the fingernail at the tip.

Then to make joint marks as on a normal human finger, make slight slivers into the cheese stick. Finally to make the fingernail, cut small square sections out of the bell pep-per and attach them to the finger with a small dollop of cream cheese. Once set, plate and serve.

For more details, go to familyfun.go.com and take a look at their Hal-loween recipes section.

For more how-to fun, email me at akrug@the-telescope.com

How to: homemade Halloween goodies

Ingredients:1 cup ice1 ounce black vodka2 ounces cherry juiceFresh raspberries & blueberries

TURN HEADS WITH THESE HALLOWEEN LOOKS

Seriously, they’re hot.

Halloween is an excuse to let out your in-ner diva, wild child or even that little demon.

Everyone who dresses up for the holiday has a different method to their madness. Some people dress up to impersonate celebrities or historical figures, some hope to be scary or creepy and some just want to give those around them a good laugh.

“I always try to be creative,” student Jer-emy Martinez said. “I want my costume to be simple and cheap, but get people to notice me too.”

Without a doubt, Halloween lends itself to creative costumes as well as costume trends.

“I always have fun deciding on what my costume will be every year,” student

Gretchen Pearson said. “I like to have a costume not many people will think

of.” Picking out a costume is pretty easy these days

when all you have to do is walk into your local Hallow-

een store and pick from the plethora of

pre-packaged accessories and outfits.

“Most of the time peo-ple come in here and buy prepackaged costumes and masks instead of looking for pieces

to put together their own,” said Carol Colclasure, a

student who works at the seasonal Spirit Halloween store in San Marcos.

A lot of people like to just go with what is popular for Halloween each year, and follow the trends of the season.

“As always we sell a ton of skimpy costumes to ladies,” Colclasure said. “For

most the shorter the skirt the better. As for guys, they either just go with what

their girlfriend tells them, or they buy a funny or scary mask.”

For the womenPopular costumes for women

this year center around storybook characters, according to the Spirit store. Shorter, sparser versions of Snow White, gypsies, and military or sailor costumes have been favorites.

For the menAs for the men, masks are

the biggest sellers. “We have animated masks this year, which

are huge,” Colclasure said. “They have mouths that move when you talk, a lot are creepy, but some are really funny.”

Some of the bigger sellers this year have been zombies, politicians, pirates and Charlie Sheen masks. Impersonating historical figures and celebrities isn’t anything new; but every year there seems to be a few of these cos-tumes that hit a high note on the popularity scale.

Being uniqueFinding a unique twist on

what is already out there is the true challenge. Coming up with inspiration for a costume no one else will think of can be daunting, but all that needs to be done is simplify.

“This year, I’m dressing up as an In-N-Out worker,” Pearson said. “It’s some-thing that everyone sees everyday, but no one thinks of it as a costume. Plus, it lends itself to dress up with other people, you can be a whole staff of In-N-Out workers.”

For some, all it takes is finding a key piece of clothing or accessory to inspire their costume to come to life.

“This year I’m dressing up as President Lincoln,” Martinez said. “I just walked into a store and tried on a top hat, then all my friends pointed out how much I look like Lin-coln with my beard grown out.”

Some might think putting together a cos-tume on your own is a task not worth the time nor the money, but making your costume from scratch can allow you to get as creative as you want.

No matter where you get your costume dressing up is the epitome of the holiday. It’s all about stepping into another world, and being anyone and anything you want for one night.

“Halloween’s a great holiday,” Martinez said. “It’s a day where no one cares who you are, just what you look like, so you might as well go all out.”

Contact Natalie Soldoff, A&E editor, at nsoldoff@the-telescope.com

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Halloween isn’t just for kids anymore, and the Berry Scary Martini will make you want a lit-tle less trick and a lot more treat.

This spooky cocktail com-bines black vodka and cherry juice with fresh raspberries and blueberries.

The black vodka may scare you off, but don’t worry, it goes down just as smooth as regular vodka and compliments the sweet yet tart taste of the cherry juice.

The stark, eerie color of the Berry Scary Martini is sure to be a hit at any Halloween party.

With only three ingredients it’s easy to recreate this simple cocktail at home.

For a real chill, place the martini glass in the freezer 15 minutes before you start mixing. Then, combine one cup ice, one ounce black vodka and two ounces cherry juice in a cocktail shaker, shake hard, then pour.

It’s up to you if you want to drop in a few raspberries and blueberries or garnish it by

threading the berries through a cocktail skewer, like you would with olives in a regular martini.

The berries add a sweet touch to this tart treat. To add a sour kick, rim the glass with sour flavored sugar rocks.

Whether you’re scaring it up at a party or passing out candy to little monsters, the Berry Scary Martini is the perfect treat for Halloween, so pass on the candy corn and pour yourself a killer drink.

Contact Kelli Miller, Focus editor, at kmiller@the-telescope.com

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BY KELLI MILLERLIFE, LOVE & LIP GLOSS

As much as I love guys, I would NEVER want to be one.

They can’t wear lip gloss, they constantly seem to be adjusting themselves in public and are com-pletely obsessed with 11 padded men throwing around a pig skin.

Since my column is usually cen-tered on shoes, hair products and glitter; I wanted to switch things up a bit and give a huge shout out to all you guys out there.

Gentlemen, I’m sure you’ve caught on by now that ladies tend to be very vocal when it comes to things we dislike.

But something you might not be aware of is that there are a few things that we complain about but secretly adore.

Esquire Magazine published a hilarious article online where 1,000 women put in their two cents trying to give guys a little insight into our beautiful, shiny heads.

SportsIn a man’s world, sports usually

ranks high on your wants and needs list. And we get it, we feel the same way about shoes, but your obsessive need to be camped out in front of a TV for three hours isn’t attractive.

What is cute is your commitment level to something you really love, even if they’re losing.

We’re just secretly jealous that you’re paying more attention to a guy with a ball and helmet than your beautiful girlfriend. At 916 on Esquire’s list Adriana Ball added “It’s true: We always want to be your top priority.”

StyleI can bet money that your mom,

sister or girlfriend has critiqued your “sense of style,” and seeing that most of you still wear shirts that fit in the ninth grade, it’s warranted.

But what you don’t know is that some girls find it adorable that you’re not always pulled together perfectly. We want to be the one with the matching shoes, so it’s actually really cute to see you clueless. But FYI camo print should be reserved for the woods.

Number 313 out of 1,000 says “It’s cute when you don’t quite know how to dress, so long as you’re not know-ing doesn’t involve jean shorts or a fanny pack,” Cassie Rodenberg said.

The little thingsIt’s obvious that most girls love

big, grand gestures, just watch any Nicholas Sparks movie and you’ll figure it out. But sometimes the little things are just as special, because all those little things eventually add up .

Ranking in at number 877 sug-gests “Replacing the roll of toilet paper counts as one of those ‘little things’ that we love,” Beth Malonos-ki said.

Hopefully some of these tips help you better understand what’s going on in our pretty heads. I may not have all the answers in the world but I do know girls. After all I am one.

Have any questions or comments? Email me at kmiller@the-telescope.com.

On-campus employment is availableStudent employee Hilary Burris works on campus at the bookstore, busily cashing out a fellow student who is making a purchase on Sept. 27. (Renee Gonzalez/The Telescope)

On-campus jobs offer students a plethora of employment oppor-tunities that are tailored to their academic needs.

Palomar attendees can become a student worker or participate in work study funded by the federal government.

To become a student worker, students can search the Palomar website for job listings made avail-able by different departments and contact their directors to find out whether they have openings.

Jobs students can persue in-clude library clerk, grounds keep-er and campus maintenance.

To qualify, students must be enrolled in at least 12 units for the Fall or Spring semesters or six units for the summer. To maintain eligibility they must maintain a 2.0 GPA and complete all units at-tempted, this means no dropped classes. Student employees make about $9 per hour and may not work for more than 20 hours per week, according to Palomar’s job postings website.

There are currently 416 student

employees working on campus, according to Laura Gropen, direc-tor of communications and public affairs.

“Two years ago we had a bud-get of $41,000 for student em-ployees. Our budget now is $18,000,” Terry Gray, academic technology su-pervisor said. “We have to rely on federal work study stu-dents.”

Similar sen-timents were shared by Di-rector of World Languages Lab Carlos Pedroza.

“It’s really limited us,” Pedroza said. “Now we’re having to spe-cifically look for students who qualify for work study. We highly depend on those students because it doesn’t come out of our budget.”

Unlike student workers, work study students obtain employment through the financial aid office, and may apply for any available jobs posted by each department.

Funding for work study comes

directly from the federal govern-ment and is not affected by local budget fluctuations.

However, similar academic standards still apply, and federal regulations limit students to 20

hours per week, according to Mary San Agus-tin, director of financial aid.

S t u d e n t s are awarded in $2000 install-ments each se-mester that are earned as they work.

Celina Fer-nandez, a work

study student who is currently em-ployed at the fitness center, said her grades have improved since she started working on campus.

“I like working on campus be-cause I get to have a flexible sched-ule,” Fernandez said. “My GPA is really good right now because of this job.”

Unfortunately, there are disad-vantages to work study. Unlike stu-dent workers, work study students aren’t allowed to work weekends

or during the summer. Also, it is possible for students to earn the entirety of their $2000 dollar al-lotment before the semester ends, leaving them jobless unless they qualify for work study again the following semester.

Terry Grey, who once had to let a work study student go, said it is one of the systems flaws.

“That’s the problem with work study. They’re granted a certain amount of money and when their money expires, you lose them,” Grey said.

While becoming a student worker and work study both have drawbacks, both provide localized employment, as well as a potential in-road for becoming a full-time employee.

Judy Cater, interim dean of social and behavior sciences said that she’s seen students who start-ed out as student employees go on to earn full-time positions for the college.

“Today’s student employee could be tomorrow’s child develop-ment teacher,” Cater said.

Contact Shaun Kahmann, staff writer, at skahmann@the-telescope.com

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child development teacher.” -Judy Cater

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This one’s for the guys

Students turn to smartphone for helpIs your laptop too heavy to

carry to school? Do you have smartphone? Do you have an App that makes school work easier?

According to computerhope.com, the first truly portable computer was released April 1981.

Although there were machines with memory storage and data dis-play, it wasn’t until the 80’s when machines became portable.

Now there are smart cell phones with the same capacity that laptops and computers have.

“Smartphones are a good thing, students can do school work in class, if the teacher allows it. The student can learn important facts right then and there,” stu-dent Dalone Epton said. “I have a Dictionary app on my iPhone that helps me with my homework when I come across a word I don’t know.”

The Dictionary.com app is free and one of the most modern elec-tronic dictionaries on the market. It includes nearly 1 million words and definitions.

The app also features a the-saurus with nearly 90,000 syn-onyms and antonyms along with phonetic and audio pronunciation, word origin and history and voice-to-text search,

according to fastweb.com “If a student needs help in

class, a smartphone can teach them something they should already know,” student Justin Ervin said. “If I have a chance to use my smartphone after class I will bookmark a website where I can go to and research school work.”

Ervin also mentioned his iPhone comes with a YouTube app where he can watch videos that his teacher played in class.

Time Magazine considers the Graphing Calculator app as one of the top 10 best applications for school according to fastweb.com.

This app turns your smart-phone into a graphing calculator.

The app can also quickly input and solve multiple equations on the same graph.

It also has a feature where you can email graphs to yourself and find the exact coordinates for roots, intersections, minimums, and maximums.

This app is perfect for any stu-dent with math in their schedule and can be right at their fingertips for only $1.99.

“I have a droid where I check up on my blackboard. I also use my phone to check on my emails,” stu-dent Eric Martinez said. “I check

my schedule at work with my smartphone and check up on my bank account as well, the calcula-tor on my phone is helpful when it comes down to numbers.”

According to degreecentral.com the iplanner is an excellent organization app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch for students.

Rate My Professors is an app that can lessen the stress for stu-dents by giving them access to re-views and comments on over a mil-lion professors nationwide.

Evernote is a great app that is helpful when it comes to note tak-ing, according to phonedog.com.

The beauty of Evernote is the option to synchronize voice record-ings, pictures and more. It’s free and it is very easy to use. There is also a paid service available for more memory capacity if the user desires more megabites.

There are also tons of apps for smartphones that students like to use to stay connected with friends, family and co-workers like Face-book, Twitter and Linkedin.

For sports fans student athletes there are great apps like ESPN sports center that keep fans up to date with their favorite teams. Contact Gio Nieto, staff writer, at gnieto@the-telescope.com

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Most of all, Mario was very committed to his students and cared for each of them as individuals. -He taught at Palomar College for 22 years as a part-time English teacher. Even when Mario was in the hospital right before he died, his first concern was his stu-dents. He knew that they would suffer as well, and felt terribly about it.

Mario lived a good life in his opinion. He once told his girlfriend, “Constance, I

could go right now and I would be a happy man. I have lived a good life. I thought I would be alone, I had been for some while. And now I am not. I am happy. You will be the one suffering when I am gone.”

Mario is survived by his girlfriend, Con-stance Hughes, his son, Dante, and everyone else who cares for him. Mario will always be remembered by the ones he loved, by his students, and by his co-workers at Palomar.

Contact Erin McGlone, staff writer, at emcglone@the-telescope.com

need for the new center. According to Mitton, they were originally told the site would be lo-cated near the arboretum and would be as large as they needed.

“We were originally told we could have as much property as we could fence in, now the foot-print is smaller,” Mitton said.

Palomar College President Robert Deegan said that the child development was consulted on what they needed, and stressed that they would continue to have opportuni-ties to voice their concerns in the future.

“User-groups are always involved,” Deegan said, referring to the people who will be working in the buildings. “It’s not that we just hire an architectural firm, they go and design something and come back and say ‘here it is.’”

While the coordinator for the center was repeatedly consulted on the plans for the new facility, staff members who work closely with the children like Karen Sentinella, said she felt left out.

“There are so many people who are un-educated about kids,” Sentinella said. “They don’t really know their needs.”

One concern Mitton said she and her fel-low staffers had was that they feel their con-cerns have been overlooked in the past. She said many aspects of the current center were not built to proper specifications for children and expressed many concerns, including a plumbing issue she claimed has been a prob-lem for the center for more than 15 years. The issue in question, a problem where wa-ter pressure is reduced whenever a toilet is flushed, is still an ongoing problem. In spite of repeated requests for repairs.

“The problem is starting a brand new building and fixing the problems before they start,” Mitton said. “Our big concern is that the architect will not listen to us and it will be too late to change the problems.” Contact Shaun Kahmann, staff writer, at skahmann@the-telescope.com

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for the 19 lectures was 80 students, that means that over 1500 students attended Political Economy Days; a figure three times that of the students who voted for current Associated Student Government President Evelyn Lucero.

“I am realistic enough to know that the turnout was manufactured,” Bow-man said. “Without the extra-credit and the requirement, most of the students that went would not have gone, but be-cause it was required they did go...they were exposed to ideas, truths and per-spectives and a whole new horizon of not only contemporary relevant issue, but the actual disciplines of political science, economics, history and philosophy.”

Ian Hanner contributed to this article.Contact Joel Ramos, news editor, at jramos@the-telescope.com

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“What we’ve done is to ensure that if you go to Lot 1 or 2, you’ll have a space,” Deegan said. “And yes, it might mean having to spend 10 minutes walking across campus, but I think that’s reasonable.”

In addition, Palomar has purchased three acres of land behind the gas station in front of campus that will be made into a parking lot designated for con-struction workers. It will be made available to stu-dents and staff once construction has ended, accord-ing to Deegan.

Rollins took issue with the fact that exclusive fac-ulty and staff spaces next to the Multidisciplinary building have been painted over and made available to students. Rollins suggested making those spots ex-clusive to employees again, at least during the day.

“In order to add staff and faculty spaces to Lot 12, we would have to remove student spaces, something

we aren’t willing to do,” Deegan said.Deegan said that there were plans for a parking

structure, and that it would be possible to apply funds from the voter-approved bond called Prop. M to do it.

“It’s likely that there will be, at some point, a park-ing structure,” Deegan said.

The structure might be built in the vicinity of Lot 9 but there are many dimensions to take into ac-count, including legal and environmental concerns.

“The trick to rebuilding this campus is, how do we build all the buildings we want to build and operate a college that accommodates nearly 30,000 students,” Deegan said. “While construction is underway, park-ing will continue to be a concern.”

Contact Shaun Kahmann, staff writer, at skahmann@the-telescope.com

Nallely Bacci in the Child Development Center reads to kids. (Dan Chambers/The Telescope)

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DID YOU HEAR THEM?

PROBABLYSANFORD LAKOFF

Ph.D., Political ScienceTeaches at UCSD

Lakoff, a Harvard graduate, discussed the possibility for

democracy in the Middle East. He described the economic issues

that could keep the region from democratizing.

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MICHAEL LUSBYM.A., American History

Faculty Mwentee at Palomar

Lusby, an expert in American his-tory and the presidency, lectured

about gay and lesbian history and the experiences of gays in America

to a packed Governing Board Room on Oct. 20

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ARTHUR HUTCHINSM.S., Economics

Studies at Norwich University

Hutchins, a scholar of military history and expert on the Vietnam War, dissected Operation Frequent

Wind, a last-ditch effort to evacu-ate Vietnamese at the end of the war that he termed a “dishonor.”

Photo by David Leonard

Political Economy Days lectures continue to draw largest crowds of any college event

Palomar’s Political Economy Days lectures remain one of the college’s best-attended events.

The two-day set of 19 lectures and discussions drew nearly 1,500 students this year, according to or-ganizer Peter Bowman.

“We had as much as a little over 150 (students) for the lectures in the MD-157 lecture hall and our smallest crowd was 40,” said Bow-man, an associate professor of po-litical science at the college.

Political science professors let their students out of class to attend lectures. Some econom-ics and history professors offered

extra credit for attending the lec-tures. All the efforts by the depart-ments of political science, history and economics made the two-day event one that students participat-ed in much more than any other on campus.

“It takes about three or four months of planning, but it’s a labor of love. I couldn’t have put this on without the help of Teresa Laugh-lin, Sheila Atkins and Judy Cater who helped with all the logistical planning of the event,” Bowman said.

UCSD Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Dr. Sanford “Sandy” Lakoff gave what could be described as a crash course on Middle Eastern government and the possibility of establishing de-

mocracy in the region in light of the recent Arab Spring, as it has been named.

“You have to have a willing-ness on behalf of all of the groups in a country to get together and accept a major-ity rule,” said La-koff.

He founded the UCSD Political Science Department that 36 years later is one of the top five in the country, according to Bowman.

Palomar professors who spoke at the lectures include Joe Limer, adjunct professor of political science who talked on immigra-tion and the tension between federal and state laws; Rodolfo Jacobo, assistant professor of multi-cultural and Chicano stud-ies who talked about the tension with identity by Latino youth and their feelings of rejection from the American culture because of racism; Marsha Trigas, adjunct professor of history, gave a rel-evant talk comparing the Great Recession of recent years to the Great Depression.

“I probably wouldn’t have gone if I didn’t get any extra credit just because I’m busy, but it does inter-est me,” said Daniel Rodriguez of the lecture after attending La-koff’s lecture. “I got extra credit for my Western Civilization and Macroeconomics class.”

Recent student government elections had merely 1.5 percent of the student body participate.

If the average student turnout

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This season, the Palomar Com-ets men’s and women’s basketball teams have upped their defense.

Men’s team hopes to win This season, Palomar’s men’s

basketball team hopes to make it to state by focusing their efforts on defensive tactics, according to Head Coach John O’Neill.

In what seems to be a promis-ing year, there are many returning players hoping to make their sopho-more year full of wins for the Com-ets, such as point guard Jake Duffy.

“Duffy’s strengths are his bas-ketball and shooting. He’s a great leader,” O’Neill said.

Duffy is a 6-foot-3-inch sopho-more player averaging 5.59 points last season and is hoping to make

this season one of the Comets’ best. “We’re trying to be one of the

better defensive teams in the con-ference,” Duffy said.

Another returning sophomore hoping to have a promising year is 6-foot-8-inch center Vuk Ekmecic.

Ekmecic is focused on making this year better than last. The team was 13-15 (8-8 conference) last year.

“Last year Southwestern was really good and San Diego City Col-lege,” Ekmecic said. “Those are the teams to beat. Last year we sucked at defense so that’s what we’re try-ing to work on.”

During the team’s practice what stood out was the camaraderie be-tween teammates.

“We are working on team com-munication and defense right now,” Duffy said.

“These are the best kids I’ve had in 30 years of coaching. They get

along well, they like each other. The chemistry is un-believable,” O’Neill said.

The Comets open the season at the San Diego CC Tournament on Nov. 11.

Women’s team looks to improve

As the Palo-mar’s women’s basketball team recov-ers from last s e a s o n ’ s

tough losses, the team plans to focus on its defense in order to win every game, according to Coach Leigh Marshall.

The team has gone through a total overhaul by recruiting more than 10 new members for this year’s team. Among the new members are Ashley Wither-spoon, from Mission Hills High School and Alliya Pickney from Mount Carmel High School, both freshmen standouts that the Com-ets are lucky to have, Marshall said.

“We actually only have two re-turners from last year. We worked hard in the off-season to get out to the local high schools to get some talent,” Marshall said.

Witherspoon, a 5-foot- 7-inch

wing, helped lead Mission Hills to a 22-7 record for Mission Hills High School. Pickney, a 5-foot-4 inch guard, averaged 7.5 points and was

a defensive specialist for a 24-9 team at Mount Carmel High School as well as the Sundevil’s Girls Athlete of the Year.

“We’re small and fast, so de-fensively we’re trying to get af-ter people, you know pick them

up full court and just get a fast-paced game going,” Marshall said. “We have a lot of bodies, we can run in and out so that’s one of the things offensively that we can do.”

Last year the Comets didn’t win a single game and the

team plans to do better this season by focusing on

their defensive tactics, according to Marshall.

“We got stomped on last year by every-body because it was a thrown-together season,” Marshall said. “So we’re kind of looking to pay a little of that back against any team that we meet.”

Tiana Dominick is a returning sopho-

more and starting point guard who Marshall is

eager to have back on the team this year. “(Dominick) was an All-

Pacific honorable mention last year. She was All-Conference and we’re excited to have her back,” Marshall said.

The Comets open the season at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 at the Dome against Santa Ana.

Contact Joel Ramos, news editor, at jramos@the-telescope.com

While all of this showmanship and fawning of the feathers may seem a bit over the top and creat-ing a divide between the offensive players and the defensive players, it does quite the opposite.

It gives the guys an outlet to com-pete during the week of practices.

“The competition gets me ready for game day. Guys are constantly talking, and trying to get in my head,” freshman wide receiver Alex Wheat said. “It’s only motivation to take my assignment that much more seriously because at the end of the day I’m trying to beat that guy in front of me.”

Quarterback David Fisher agrees.

“It’s all fun, there has to be competition,” he said. “Everybody knows practice isn’t the most fun

thing, and when you have competi-tion everybody wants to win that one battle or beat that one player.”

The competition breeds an envi-ronment that give a feel of a game, Head Coach Joe Early said.

“We like to put them under pres-sure a little bit,” he said. “See how they are going to react because that is what is going to happen on Satur-days.”

Even though at times it can get tense between offensive and de-fensive players, in the end they are teammates with the same goals.

“We go at each other during practice to get each other better,” sophomore safety Devin Taverna said. “It’s nothing personal, when the pads are on it’s competition. “

Taverna also mentioned the exis-tence of the “A.F.R.O.S.” as a major

influence on the defense to shut the receivers down.

The “A.F.R.O.S.” (America’s Fin-est Receivers On Saturdays) consist of Wheat, Nigel Westbrooks, Kyle Greenwood and Mike Hodges.

No matter what the motivation, Early likes the atmosphere during practice. Even if it means his play-ers can be found screaming like teenage girls at a Justin Bieber con-cert after a big play during practice.

“I think it is good,” Early said. “We started the year that way and we have kind of been in a funk a little bit, and it is good to see them back out here energetic. I like it, it gives us an opportunity to get better.”

Contact Matt Slagle, online and multime-dia editor, at mslagle@the-telescope.com

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basketball teams look forward to new season

left: Palomar men’s basketball players Vuk Ekmecic, Austin Cloes and Chamron Morga do drills during practice. (Brian Korec/The Telescope) above: Palomar women’s basketball player Ashley Witherspoon shooting a layup in the Dome during practice. (Romain Brumby/The Telescope) below: One of Palomar’s practice basketballs. (Deb Hellman/The Telescope)

Wide receiver Andrew Jones leaps for the ball during practice.(Deb Hellman/The Telescope)

12 [Sports] the telescopeMonday, Oct. 31, 2011

Sports On Deck

Tues., Nov. 1Women’s Soccer

Southwestern 1 p.m.Minkoff Field

Tues., Nov. 1Men’s Soccer

Southwestern 3 p.m. Minkoff Field

Tues., Nov. 8Women’s BasketballSanta Ana 5:30 p.m.

The Dome

Tues., Nov. 8Women’s Golf

CCCAA SoCal Tournament Twin Oaks Golf Course

Cheering on the home teamashley krugthe telescope

Palomar College’s cheer squad was already achieving great things before the performance season had even begun, according to its coach.

This year’s squad is a co-ed team made up of 19 women and eight men who attend cheerleading com-petitions in the Spring and cheer for Palomar sports teams in the fall, ac-cording to Cheerleading coach, Ja-mie Arroyo, who has been the man leading the team to victory for the past three years.

He said the team’s skill level is extremely high partly because “they have a very good chemistry to-gether.”

The bond stems from the team participat-ing in activities outside of practice. Team barbeques, bowling trips and dinners are all ways that the team gets together to mingle and cel-ebrate after camp week and compe-titions, team members said.

The team’s season fast forwards into the spring semester when its competition season begins. This is when the men and women get to create routines and cheers spe-cifically for competition in which they have a chance to compete at nationals.

The team earned the opportu-

nity to compete in a national-level competition this past summer in Las Vegas. They beat out 18 teams and were one of only three teams to receive gold and to move forward and compete in the NCA Collegiate Championships, according to the coach.

“After winning our bid in Vegas to go to nationals, we are practicing really hard,” said John Lopez, cap-tain of the cheer squad. He added that the team hadn’t won nationals in many years and this year’s squad was going to be the one to finally

bring home a win next spring.

In the past, the team received a silver partial paid bid, and before that it had been about eight years since its previous win.

The NCA Col-legiate Championships competition is to be held April 11-15, 2012, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Palomar is in the largest of all the divisions with about 35 teams in the community college divisions.

Until then, the cheer team is focusing on supporting its fel-low athletes. The team attends all home football games for Palomar, and this season is particularly spe-cial, because the team debuted its brand new uniforms at the first football game.

When Arroyo was asked about

how the team was feeling before its first home football game perfor-mance he said, “They are very, very excited…we have a lot more fun and showy stuff to perform.”

Arroyo said that this year, the team has had a lot of support from Palomar’s Athletic Depart-ment, especially with purchasing of new uniforms.

The Athletic Department foot-ed the bill for new red and black uniforms that they wear for foot-ball games and new black uni-forms for competition season.

Although football season is a ma-jor part of the cheerleaders’ season, the coach said that the team per-forms at both the women and men’s basketball games in the winter and entertain at school fundraisers as well.

Along with many of the fundraisers the squad does throughout the year, a fa-vorite is Flips for Tips.

According to members of the team, Flips for Tips is an ongoing fundraiser, where the squad goes along the beach in hopes that people will donate money and in return they do a trick for them.

“Any donation we get, we do a flip or throw a girl in the air,” Lopez said.

Contact Ashley Krug, staff writer, at akrug@the-telescope.com

Cheerleaders aim to win national championship in spring

Right: Palomar cheerleader Sarah Mitchell, top, strikes a pose as team-mates Amanda Treanor, Lauryn Sandoval and Taralyn Hemphill hold her up in front of the crowd during Palomar’s Sept. 17 football game at Escondido High School. (Renee Gonzalez/The Telescope)

below: Palomar cheerleaders per-form their routines during a Sept.27 football game. (Renee Gonzalez/The Telescope)

Upcoming Football GamesSat. Nov. 5 - Saddleback @

Escondido High School 6 p.m.Sat. Nov. 12 - Grossmont @

El Cajon 1 p.m.