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APRIL TESTERMAN THE TELESCOPE

Palomar’s Associated Student Government (ASG) elected a new vice president on Jan. 23 due to former vice president Angel Jimenez’s ineligibil-ity.

As with every semester, Office of Student Affairs Director Sherry Titus determines each officer’s eli-gibility before the beginning of the semester. ASG President Johnathan Farmer said that he was noti-fied of the vacancy about five minutes before the first ASG meeting, which took place on Jan. 17.

“What it comes down to is the vice president was not eligible to be in the ASG anymore,” Farmer said. He declined to state why Jimenez was no lon-ger eligible.

When asked, Jimenez also declined to comment on her resignation.

“There was not a clear line of succession as to what happens if the vice presidency is vacant. There is if the president is no longer eligible,” Farmer said. “There was some discussion and we decided that the most clear interpretation of the bylaw would be to declare there was a vacancy…then we went through the process of opening the floor to nominations.”

The ASG’s bylaws state that a senator shall be nominated then elected by the ASG board itself in order to assume the position of vice president.

At the ASG’s last meeting, three senators were nominated: Joe Hilliard, Dane Thorpe and Jenni-fer Gonzalez.

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KAITY BERGQUISTTHE TELESCOPE

Palomar College’s reach is starting to take root all over North County.

At the Jan. 8 Governing Board meeting, representatives Glenn Carels and Winston Bao from the ar-chitecture firm LPA Inc. gave reports on both the South and the North Edu-cation centers.

The Governing Board expressed excitement and appreciation to LPA for all the work done so far.

“I think that everyone in the room was very excited to see the architects’ drawings,” Public Information Officer Laura Gropen said. “It appears that they really thought about students in every area. We’re really excited about it.”

The construction of the South Education Center, located in Rancho Bernardo, is far along in the planning process. The center began with its kickoff and planning in October 2011.

The design was finalized in June 2012, and the current Division of State Architect submittal will be Feb. 6. Construction is expected to begin in the fall.

The property has an existing of-fice building and a parking structure, which the designers are using to their advantage. The land is located off Interstate 15 and Rancho Bernardo Road.

Carels said the “views are stun-ning” from the property, and the de-signers wanted to use those views to the advantage of the students.

“How do we take something that was made for an office building and make it a destination for education?” Carels said he asked himself before plans were drawn up.

The design approach to the prop-

erty is making it flexible. The design-ers want to take advantage of the natural gifts of the site.

Carels described the design of the site as being all about “people spaces.”

“Education also works in the social spaces,” Carels said. “This is about people space; this is about creating space around the building.”

With that comes enhanced paving and a campus green, described as the heart of the campus. There will also be an emphasis on natural canopies using greenery and a tree grove.

A meadow will be incorporated to give students a place to relax. The de-signers also want to put in an obser-vatory that will allow students a way to fully appreciate the views that the property has to offer. The purpose of the outdoor room is to be “something our students will really be inspired by,” Carels said.

“Taking what’s now a dirt lot and converting it into really a special kind of outdoor space that we hope will inspire people to discover and learn,”

Carels said.

On the inside of the building, there are currently four staircases in the core. The designers want to move all four staircases to the outside of the building so the inside floor plans are opened up.

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satellite campuses

NEW CAMPUSES PROVIDE STUDENTS FRESH OPTIONS

This file photo from Feb. 2, 2011 shows the existing office building on the Rancho Bernardo campus. Construction begins in the fall. • File Photo/Telescope

NEW ASG VICE PRESIDENT APPOINTED IN MIDDLE OF TERM

WHAT’S INSIDE 3 5 8‘DJANGO UNCHAINED’ STABLE

OPINION / Did the recent movie “Django Unchained” go too far in its depictions of racial tensions in that time period?

STAND-UP COMEDIAN LIFE / He does stand-up comedy, hosts radio shows, and works in television. He’s Chris P. Bacon.

YOUNG BASEBALL TEAM SPORTS / After a tough ending to last season, Palomar’s baseball team looks to freshmen.

Google Maps screenshot of the location of the future Rancho Bernardo campus.

TIMELINE

South Education CenterRancho Bernardo

Oct. 2011: Kickoff and planningJune 2012: Design completedFeb. 6, 2013: DSA submittal

Fall 2013: Construction begins

North Education Center Fallbrook

April 2013: Road will be completed Fall 2013: Design completed

2014: DSA review2014-2015: Constructions begins

ASG Vice President Joseph Hilliard is sworn in by ASG Presi-dent Johnathan Farmer Jan. 23. • Kaity Bergquist/Telescope

2 • NEWS Monday, January 28, 2013

The ASG has never requested moneys on behalf of the students the way that we have.JOHNATHAN FARMER • ASG PRESIDENT

New notification system for Palomar takes effect

Cross enrollment provides good look into university life

emergencies transferring online classes

Online education is in UC’s futureKaty MurphymCT CAmpuS

The University of Califor-nia has $10 million to expand online education in the gover-nor’s budget proposal. But no one knows what the programs will look like or how much money they will save the uni-versity, if any.

Gov. Jerry Brown, who at-tended a UC Regents meeting Jan. 16, stressed the potential of online coursework for cost savings, saying the university can’t afford to continue operat-ing as it has at least, not with-out raising tuition, which he has discouraged.

Brown also said the new ed-ucational offerings, harnessing the latest technology, would be stronger, not just less expen-sive. As he put it to reporters after the discussion, “What is being talked about is better, cheaper.”

Some leaders have floated the idea of encouraging under-graduates to take 10 percent of their courses online, particu-larly for lower-division courses.

Others have suggested the courses be made available to students who wish to transfer into the system.

UC Berkeley’s law school dean, Christopher Edley, pro-posed an entirely new charter campus devoted to online edu-cation, with faculty at the heart of it.

In short, the future of online education for UC could be any-thing. Maybe.

“What we’re talking about is exploring an option and seeing if the option works,” board chair-woman Sherry Lansing said.

UC’s campuses offer hun-dreds of courses online to their undergraduate students and some degree programs. But many of them are campus-spe-cific. The UC Online Education initiative aims to change that. It has 14 systemwide online courses for its students and aims to develop about 12 more per year by pairing faculty members with designers.

The founders of three lead-ing online education startups, Udacity, Coursera and EdX, made the case for the online programs. They spoke of the possibilities and the need for exploration.

They also noted that few students — about 10 percent — actually complete the free classes offered without credit. One campus leader said stu-dents do embrace the infusion of technology into their cours-es. “In essence, I don’t think online education is the grand solution to the UC’s problems,” she said.

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Blackboard Connect is the new emergency notification system of San Diego County for Palomar College.

This new system took effect Nov. 30 due to an expired contract with the previous emergency noti-fication provider. Students, facul-ty and staff rely on these notifica-tions for urgent, emergency news pertaining to the San Marcos and Escondido Palomar campuses.

Palomar patrons and employ-ees should have received an email from Blackboard by Nov. 30 con-firming their subscription to the notification service to receive email alerts.

Text alerts are also available. Those who provided eServices or Human Resource Services with a valid cell phone number would have received a verification text by at 5 p.m on Nov. 30.

An email from the school cited that the text alerts would come from the numbers 23177 or 63079. Students, faculty and staff are en-couraged to save the numbers in their cell phones as “PalomarCol-lege” for recognition purposes.

Data and message rates will apply per message and users can cancel text notifications at any time by texting “STOP” to either of those numbers.

If you are a student and wish to change your email address, cell phone number or check your notification preferences, visit https://eservices.palomar.edu/psp/pals9prd/?cmd=login. Fac-ulty and staff can change their information by visiting http://www.palomar.edu/HR/forms/addressnamechangeform.pdf and submitting the form to Human Resources.

photo Illustration by Kaity Bergquist/Telescope

april testerMaNThe TeleSCope

Over the break, Palomar’s As-sociated Student Government (ASG) achieved two specific goals it had in mind, both pro-mote student success.

During the Fall 2012 semester, the ASG voiced the students’ un-happiness with textbook prices. In response to that, Palomar’s bookstore manager, Emily Por-ter, agreed to purchase a large amount of used books to be sold or rented out to students at a 33 percent discounted price, ac-cording to the ASG president.

On Nov. 20, funds had been approved by Palomar’s Strategic Planning Council (SPC) to give to the ASG to improve and promote the Goals, Respon-sibility, Attitude and Determina-tion program (G.R.A.D.).

“It’s basically promoting stu-dent success, and to highlight some stories that students have to tell and to keep students motivated and moving towards their goals,” ASG President Johnathan Farmer said.

Farmer added that there has never been a program that has targeted student success in this way.

“The ASG has never requested moneys on behalf of the students the way that we have,” he said.

The ASG will be receiving $5,000 to disperse to different clubs on campus. ASG members will require these clubs to partic-ipate in an event to take place in the Student Union this semester,

showcasing the clubs’ purpose, he said.

Based on the club’s involve-ment, ASG members will give the clubs money to achieve goals. The ASG will have to establish a policy for the new money.

“Since it’s never been done before, I want to make sure that all the t’s are crossed and the i’s are dotted before we start giving out money,” Farmer said. “We need to set the right tone and make sure that it’s fair for ev-erybody [in terms of amounts of money given].”

Farmer added that the ASG will be interviewing members of these campus clubs asking for their stories and majors, in ad-dition to their goals and aspira-

tions in a bio. These bios are hoped to be displayed dur-ing Palomar’s c o m m e n c e -ment.

Farmer said that during the SPC meet-ing Palomar College Presi-dent and Su-perintendent Robert Deegan was the only person in the

room who stood up for the ASG and said that the SPC should al-low funds to the ASG.

In other accomplishments, newly elected ASG Vice Presi-dent Joe Hilliard has been work-ing on potential volunteer op-portunities for the ASG. He has contacted senior centers in the area.

Farmer said this item will be put on the ASG’s agenda so members may volunteer their time and he is looking forward to this opportunity.

asG begins spring semester strong

diaNa ValdezThe TeleSCope

The Transfer Center cross- enrollment program that in-cludes CSU San Marcos, San Diego State University and The University of California, San Diego, allows students the op-portunity to enroll in one course and get a feel of the universities and how the classes are run. You can take these courses at SDSU, CSUSM or UCSD.

In order to qualify for the program, students need to fill out the cross-enrollment form that can be found at the Trans-fer Center. Students must also have a GPA of 2.0, be enrolled in a minimum of six units at home campus (Palomar College), have all of his or her home-campus fees for the current term paid, must complete any academic preparations requested by host (for example, if they ask for your transcript, you must comply to the request), and the student must be a California resident. Anyone who takes 6 units or more at Palomar College is eli-gible for the program.

Students must be aware that enrollment to the university classes are subject to space avail-ability and deadlines.

Some classes may have ad-ditional fees like lab or mate-rial fees. The current fee for one course to be taken at CSUSM is $10, SDSU is $52 and UCSD is $30 per unit. These administra-tion fees are nonrefundable.

The Transfer Center at Palo-mar College and host campus must sign off the application form before the student can be enrolled in any class.

Finally, students must be aware that by participating it can affect their community col-lege transfer eligibility. This does not apply to everyone.

It is recommended by the center to meet with a counselor to advise in what classes to take and how it will benefit the stu-dent.

The cross-enrollment pro-gram permits students to get a sense of the university and how classes are taught, allow-ing them to decide if the univer-sity suits them or not, ultimately helping students to decide when it comes time to apply.

Cross-enrollment gives stu-dents a head start on deciding what university to apply for. By being in the program, students get a sense of what it would be like at the univeristy and little cost.

For more information, call or visit the Transfer Center at (760) 744-1150, ext. 2552.

spring 2013 kicks off

palomar students sit in a full classroom for professor mark Clark’s Intermediate Algebra class on Jan. 24 in MD-229. • Christine Foronda/Telescope

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‘DJANGO UNCHAINED’: THE CONTROVERSY

With the recent school shootings, students were asked: “Do you feel safe on campus?”

SPEAK OUT

“I feel safe here, I just feel bad for the (Newtown) families though.” DAmIAN mICkEY

“I feel pretty safe on campus; I can’t picture this happening here.” STEpHANIE LOERA

“I feel safe on campus; they won’t mess with me.”JOSUE ORTEGA

“No, not really. But, I guess I’m just a lot more aware.” JAImE GUzmAN

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mARISSA mILLOYThe Telescope

Film Director Quentin Tar-antino’s movies are rough, rug-ged and raw; it’s the staple of his style of film making. When going to the theater to view his latest, you should expect to be offended, witness lots of gore, and cross far beyond the line of comfortable. No sugarcoating or dancing around sore subjects, he confronts controversial issues full-fledged and fearless. For this, he is no stranger to controversy.

So when the filmmaker was again being reamed for being controversial, I was not shocked. However, the outrage sparked over its excessive usage of the ‘N’ word was a bit surprising.

For Tarantino to have kept the word out of the film completely would have been historically in-accurate and downplayed life as a slave entirely during the time period “Django” takes place.

There was no point in the mov-ie where I felt like the word was unnecessary or inappropriately

used. For this period in time, the word was completely appropriate in its context.

As a biracial African-American woman, perhaps my lax view on the use of the ‘N’ word comes from never being confronted with this issue in my lifetime. Unlike my family and ancestors before me. Yet, I hear it in my everyday life. The word is a staple in hip-hop/rap culture and language, used in songs and often times as a term of endearment within the black community. So maybe I’m desensitized to it completely.

For people like Spike Lee, a prominent black filmmaker, to come out so harshly against Tar-antino and the film was a bit dis-appointing. For someone who is very proactive in the black com-munity and forward thinking, I would think he would be proud that the story of his ancestors is being told and not see it as disre-spectful.

Tarantino’s film tells a differ-ent story, one not often touched on in film. Slavery is often avoided as a subject area in Hol-

lywood. This spaghetti western, black cowboy style was more em-powering before degrading.

We as a society have come such a long way from the days of 1858. I see it as this, the African-American community as a collec-tive has progressed extensively since the days of slavery. From the 1960s Civil Rights movement to now where the United States has elected its first black presi-dent, not once, but twice. While I’m not ignoring or overlooking

the fact that racism does still very much exist in our society today, how can we expect to move on from it when little occurrences like this spark outrage taking us back to square one?

A word is just a word until you give it power, be that positive or negative. Continuing to treat this word as taboo allows it to hold its racially charged negative conno-tation.

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Obama goes all in on guns: His proposals to curb gun violence make good senseJO IVEY BOUffORD mcT campus

This week Vice President Joe Biden will present a series of rec-ommendations as part of a na-tional effort to end needless and tragic gun violence. These recom-mendations were not created in a vacuum; rather, Biden sought to bring diverse voices to the table: those who see a ban on guns as a threat to their right to bear arms and those whose lives have been shattered by gun violence.

The debate around these rec-ommendations will more than likely focus on the constitutional-ity of proposed gun control laws, the lack of enforcement in exist-ing gun laws, greater scrutiny on background checks, and funding for mental illness treatment.

We can no longer ignore the annual U.S. toll of firearm deaths, by far the highest in the devel-oped world, as a pressing public health concern.

The current death toll from firearms, 31,000 lives a year, would properly be seen as intol-erable if it represented deaths from measles or contamination of the water supply. It exceeds the number of babies who die each year during their first year of life (25,000) or people who die from AIDS (9,500) or illicit drugs (17,000).

As a society, we address pub-lic health threats by identifying the root causes, reducing expo-sure and instituting protective measures. Advance identifica-tion of individuals who are likely to cause mass killings in schools, shopping malls or movie houses

is nearly impossible. And current laws do little to curb individual shootings, many of which in-volve household and neighbor-hood settings. We need to turn to protective measures, just as imposing speed limits and intro-ducing safety belts have mark-edly reduced automobile deaths.

Moreover, bolstering public policy control measures to pro-tect and enhance the health of the public is nothing new to our society. We require the immuni-zation of children against infec-tious diseases, we enforce laws that regulate food and drugs, and we work to maintain a safe and clean water supply. We have even imposed a tax on disease-causing consumer products such as ciga-rettes.

In the wake of recent tragic shootings, we should ask our-

selves what we will do to protect our neighbors and ourselves from this, as from any other, epidemic scourge. When we have made this decision, we will be ready to act to regulate firearms.

Most important, we must give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention greater ability to fully exercise its duties in both surveillance of the incidence.

In the wake of recent tragic shootings, we should ask our-selves what we will do to protect our neighbors and ourselves from this, as from any other, epidemic scourge. When we have made this decision, we will be ready to act to regulate firearms.

The evidence is clear: we must now take action to protect our neighbors and ourselves from this devastating public health crisis.

Actors Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx in a scene of ‘Django Unchained.’•MCT Campus

4 • LIFE Monday, January 28, 2013PhotograPhy

Exhibit features Palomar photo students

SydnEy daviSon The Telescope

At the beginning of the month, Palo-mar photography students displayed their work in the Hearth Rotating Gallery at the San Marcos Community Center for its an-nual photography exhibition running now until Feb. 28.

The exhibit, titled “New Works,” gave any Palomar student the opportunity to submit their work for a chance to make it into the show.

Out of the 200 photographs submitted this year, 60 of them were selected to be in the show, with a total of 45 students rep-resented.

A reception for the public and the art-ists to further showcase their work was held Jan. 25.

This is the show’s second gallery open-ing. In the month of December, the artists were showcased in a gallery in Escondido and have now been moved to San Marcos for another month.

“The show has two lives,” said Donna Cosentino, Palomar College photography faculty member. “The department is ex-cited to bring it here closer to our school and community.”

Putting the annual photography exhi-bition together is the collaborative effort of the students, Photography department faculty and volunteers.

“This show represents the breadth of our department and what we work for. The exhibition showcases a variety of im-ages, landscape images, alternative pho-tography, dark room, black and white, dig-

ital, Photoshop and varied subject matter,” Cosentino said.

Palomar student and professional pho-tographer Brandy Sebastian had her com-posited work not only showcased in the exhibition, but also on the advertisements for the show. Sebastian said that the show was her opportunity to work with the fine art aspect of photography.

“It is a great outlet for photographers to showcase their fine art and to experiment more with photography,” Sebastian said.

Joni Fry also had a composited digital photography piece of work submitted into the show. Fry said that her work is more eccentric and whimsical. “Most of my work is a composite of separate photos of ordinary objects combined in a surreal way,” Fry said.

The students and their work represent a diverse group of people and artistic vi-sions.

Alternative Photography student Lucas Spenser, submitted two works into the show that used alternative techniques and processes from the 1800s.

“It’s been a great experience, and it’s great that our department has opportuni-ties like this for the photography students. It is a great way for us photography stu-dents to get our work out there,” Spenser said.

“In addition to acquiring strong techni-cal skills, students are encouraged to pur-sue their own expressive personal vision as evidenced by their work displayed in this exhibition,” Cosentino said.

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ABOVE LEFT: Terry ogden’s “monument val-ley - The duke”

RIGHT: Brandy sebastian’s “owl Wisdom”

BOTTOM: andrea matthies’ “poppy”

LIFE • 5the telescope

comedy

Kaity Bergquist The Telescope

Chris P. Bacon isn’t just his stage name - his father legiti-mately wanted to name him (and his siblings) in way that is remi-niscent of everyone’s favorite pig product.

“I was like dad, why would you what to hear that? And he was like, ‘Oh, cause it would be really funny.’ And I was like, what if I was a short fat brown kid named Chris P. Bacon? They would eat me alive...why would you torture me like that?” Bacon said with a laugh.

Bacon, known off the stage as Riley Bacon, is a second-year Palomar student who loves to do stand-up comedy.

He’s also involved with the communications on campus, working on the radio station and working with North County News in the Sports department.

When Bacon first started at-tending Palomar, he had no idea what he wanted to major in or pursue.

He randomly took the radio class and was instantly impressed.

“You mean I can work, but not really have to work?” he said. “Like, I’m all over it.”

He said the first radio class is an introduction to what radio does and the history of it.

He said that, at the end of the

semester, students do an in-studio live show for a while, and if they sign up the next semester, they can host their own show.

Bacon did just that, creating the show “Wakin’ with Bacon,” which had the goal of raising awareness of marijuana use.

Bacon was able to be open about the taboo topic because his show aired after 9 p.m., which is after the safe harbor hours.

Unfortunately, the show will not be continuing in the Spring semester because of Bacon’s work and school load.

Standup comedy will still be a big part of his life.

He said he has always enjoyed watching standup, but wasn’t sure how to go about being a comic.

He said that he interviewed a friend who does standup and was inspired to start doing it as well.

Bacon said that in a “good” month, he does six or seven shows. Most shows are at open mics, but he is able to get booked gigs as well by networking a lot.

“As for practicing, I’ll do it in front of the mirror a couple times and time it, and then try and go about it that way,” he said. “Not drinking and smoking too much helps a lot.”

Bacon said some of his favor-ite places to perform include the Comedy Palace and the Comedy Store.

He said one problem is that

there aren’t many stand-up ven-ues in North County.

“A lot of people don’t know where to find it,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing in North County; there’s no place to do comedy.”

With Bacon’s involvement in radio, standup, TV, acting and producing, he found it hard to pin-point what exactly he wants to do after graduating.

“Dream job...it would be pro-ducing and giving myself little parts in acting, and still getting to do standup comedy whenever I’d like; to have that freedom to do stand up comedy or do what I want to do,” he said.

Bacon describes himself as al-ways being one to push the rules. He said he was getting into trouble even in kindergarten, but that he was misunderstood.

“I’m not a problem. You just don’t know how to deal with me.

I’m just making my own way. That’s how it’s been forever. I just try to live my life and everybody keeps me down,” he said.

“Tries to,” he adds with a laugh. On Feb. 1, Bacon will be hosting

a major show called “Wakin’ With Bacon Presents” at the Mira Mesa Epicenter featuring over 16 come-dians and musicians.

Learn more about Bacon and his upcoming events at his web-site, www.wakinwithbacon.com.

kbergquisT@The-Telescope.com

Colleen PetersThe Telescope

The dismemberment of 13-year-olds is not typically thought of as a positive step for society, but in Neal Shusterman’s “Un-wind” series, readers are forced to contem-plate that very idea, while struggling with thoughts of their own feelings of morality. While Shusterman tries to constantly push his moral agenda, the storyline will keep even the most distracted reader enter-tained.

The series consists of two full books and a novella. “Unwind,” the first book, was released in 2007. “UnStrung,” the novella, and “UnWholly,” the second book, were re-leased over five years later in 2012. Accord-ing to goodreads.com, a third full book, re-portedly titled “UnSouled,” will be released in October 2013.

Sometime in the near future (readers are led to believe it is around 100 years) the United States has a second civil war. This time, the civil war takes place between pro-life and pro-choice supporters. Each side gets its hands on weapons and a deadly war breaks out across the country. Both sides re-fuse to give in to negotiations, thus the war continues.

Finally, the “Bill of Life” is proposed as a constitutional amendment. The accord said that abortion is now 100 percent il-legal, however lives can be retroactive. Once a child reaches the age of 13, until he or she is 18, his or her parents can de-cide to have the child unwound- dismem-

bered entirely and the life completely wiped from record. The dismembered body parts are then given to people who need them. If a woman goes blind, she can buy a new eye. If a man loses his hair, there is now a fix for that. The society has a cure for everything- including cancer.

Throughout the entire series, Shuster-man’s point is obvious; both sides need to be able to find a middle point they can agree on. He doesn’t mean both sides of the civil war; he means both sides now. His point can be hard to ignore since he is con-stantly reminding us of the lives lost due to unwinding. However, once the reader is able to move past the obviousness, the se-ries surpasses expectations by playing to

sympathies of the reader.The series is not the strongest; it prob-

ably won’t even be compared to the “Hun-ger Games,” a book with a similar dystopian theme. However, the purpose is more pow-erful, more important than the writing. The purpose is what will be important to the reader.

Of the two books and novella currently released, there was only one part that was difficult to read. Shusterman describes the unwinding of a teen in detail, from the teen’s point of view. He created the charac-ter as an anti-hero. He is someone the read-ers are not supposed to like; we’re supposed to be glad he is being unwound. As each part of his body is removed, the reader is taken

through his words and his thoughts until, finally, the hippocampus and medulla are removed and the unwinding is complete.

What it did was remind the reader what was really going on. These teenagers’ lives are being destroyed. Even though the read-er isn’t supposed to like him, Shusterman makes his strongest play to the sympathies of the readers and they are left feeling sorry for characters as their futures are torn from them, limb by limb, piece by piece.

The novella, “UnStrung,” was confusing. The reader is introduced to new characters that seemingly have no consequence to the storyline. If the reader is clever, he or she will understand early in “UnWholly” what the purpose was. However, it is never en-tirely revealed why we had to meet these characters.

The biggest disappointment came at the end of “UnWholly,” the second book. I ex-pected some sort of conclusion, but there was nothing. It left readers on a cliffhanger, wondering if society would ever change. However, “UnSouled,” the final book, is expected to bring a conclusion to all unan-swered questions. An email to Shusterman about the contents of the book was unan-swered.

Overall, the series isn’t on my must-read list, but if you’re looking for an entertaining series and enjoyed “Hunger Games,” then put “Unwind,” “UnStrung” and “UnWholly” on the to-read list. You won’t be disappoint-ed.

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They said they aren’t demoing large amounts of the building but moving things strategically.

There’s a lot of emphasis on ver-tical circulation with the outdoor staircases, which Carels said are modeled in the idea of the staircas-es in the MD building on the San Marcos campus.

The first floor of the building is set apart for administrative ser-vices – a bookstore, a food court, fi-nancial aid and tutoring, as well as study areas and a community room that can be used for special events, guest speakers or lectures.

The second and third floors are committed to classrooms, labora-tories and faculty offices, along with common areas where stu-dents can study, talk, hang out, use computers, etc.

The fourth floor includes the technology department, the li-brary and a learning center with

more areas for students to hang out.

Designers placed the class-rooms on the outer edges of the building to take advantage of natu-ral lighting.

As they gave the presentation, Carels and Bao showed a slideshow with floor plans and architects’ renderings.

“It’s a campus in a building,” Carels said.

The progress on the South Edu-cation Center far outweighs the progress on the North Education Center.

The timeline of the North Cen-ter shows that the road will be com-pleted in April 2013. The design of the center will be completed in fall 2013, with the DSA review in 2014. Construction on the site should be-gin in about 18 to 24 months.

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During the Jan. 23 meeting a two-thirds majority vote was cast on Hilliard. Shortly there-after, Farmer swore Hilliard in and the meeting continued.

“It’s a tremendous opportu-nity to represent our constitu-ents [Palomar students] at this level… I look forward to advo-cating the students as well as re-cruit quality individuals [for the ASG],” Hilliard said.

Hilliard began at the ASG as

a delegate around June 2011, and then became a senator in August of the same year.

He said he wanted to take things slow to gain experience and ensure quality in a higher position.

“I had definitely aspired to be in an executive role,” Hilliard said.

He said his main focus as vice president is to continue advo-cating the students in addition

to reaching out to the commu-nity.

Hilliard, 39, is working to-ward an associate’s degree in physics, which will be his first. He said he then hopes to trans-fer to Cal State San Marcos in Fall 2014. After he receives a bachelor’s degree also in phys-ics, he plans to attend Stanford’s Physician’s Assistant program.

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Despite a roster filled with freshmen and the lack of an off-season program, Head Coach Bjorn Dahl said he is confident there is enough talent on the Palo-mar men’s volleyball team to reach the playoffs this season.

The Comets’ season is set to start with a doubleheader at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Feb. 3 in Wood-land Hills.

This team is filled with youth. Add to that the lack of an offsea-son program due to budget cuts and you have real problems on your hands as a coach.

The odds are continuing to build against the 2013 squad.

However, Coach Dahl expressed confidence in his team.“This year is a very unique group of fresh-men, because most of them have played club volleyball. They have a higher volleyball IQ than most freshmen that start out.”

He also pointed out that on top of playing high school volleyball, his athletes also participated in traveling clubs during the offsea-son.

Dahl said he was unsure if they have the size and physicality to be able to win the conference, but believes they have what it takes to finish in the top three.

This would put Palomar in the playoffs where every team has a shot to win.

To reach this point, the men’s volleyball team must execute its game plan. “For these guys it’s all about controlling the ball, really. We are not going to be physical enough to kill the ball at will, but we will be able to wear guys down as the game progresses,” Coach Dahl said.

Sophomore Ariel Milo is at-tempting to catechize this point into this team.

“I’m just going to have to teach

these guys that ball control is the key for this team because we are undersized,” Milo said.

Milo is optimistic that his team will be able to adopt this mentality for many reasons.

He said he’s surprised how this team is gelling despite never play-ing together before.

He hinted that their work ethic is a key factor.

Others concurred.“Everyone on this team works

hard. We give it 100 percent every practice, and we communicate great,” freshman Christian Bola-nos said.

Coach Dahl’s athletes have ap-parently begun to embody his con-fident attitude.

“We are looking to go all the way. We want that championship.” Bolanos said.

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After missing the playoffs due to a discrepancy last season, Palomar’s base-ball team is looking forward to a new season with a majority of young players.

After the final game of the season in 2012, the team was mistakenly told that it had the No. 1 playoff seed, and that it would host the first round of region-als. Two days later, they were notified that there was a mistake in the playoff assignments and the season ended with Palomar in a three-way tie for first place in its conference.

Palomar was eliminated because Southwestern and San Diego Mesa had better overall season records. Palomar ended the season with an overall record of 18-18, 15-10 conference.

“We were a good club last year; we were just inconsistent,” Head Coach Buck Taylor said.

Taylor said the majority of this year’s team consists of freshmen.

The only returning sophomores are

two pitchers, Rusty Edwards and Kyle Montiel, and two outfielders, Nico Gar-bella and Chris Sanders.

There are other sophomore transfers, but as far as players with experience at Palomar, those are the only four.

According to Taylor, the infield may be made up of all freshmen.

Taylor said half of the pitching staff, six players, are left-handed, which is very unusual.

He said the mound was “rebuilding,” especially because only two played for Palomar last season.

The number one pitcher will most likely be Anthony McIver, a left-handed sophomore transfer from Notre Dame who throws between 89-92 mph.

“We have good arms, but we’ll see how they do when another team shows up,” Taylor said.

McIver, originally from Rancho Bue-na Vista High School, said he was excit-ed to be playing closer to home.

“I’m looking forward to being a start-ing pitcher and probably leading this team to a championship game,” he said.

Taylor said, as always, the team’s goal is to win conference and focus not only on the game, but also academics.

“First and foremost is to win our con-ference. That’s our goal. We don’t come out here to not win. We come out here to compete, and the kids are here to go to school and move on after two years here.

“It’s the same thing we work on every year,” he said. “Doing things the right way, having integrity, and making sure we’re good students before we’re good ballplayers.”

Overall, Taylor is hopeful for the up-coming season as the freshmen build confidence and learn to work together as a team.

“I think in the long run, we have a good group,” Taylor said. “We’re defi-nitely inexperienced, but we have a lot of talent.”

The team opens the season at 2 p.m. Feb. 1 at Myers Field against Golden West

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The vast majority of Palomar students have been staying up late and sleeping even later this winter break. The women’s softball team, however, has been hard at work in the batting cages and fielding ground balls during the holiday season.

The Comets softball team looks to lead off the 2013 season against Saddleback College at 6 p.m. on Jan. 25. The team is looking to im-prove on its second place finish in conference last year.

This year’s team is filled with youth, but has the talent and dedi-cation to overcome any obstacles that may manifest from the lack of experience, according to its coach. Head Coach Lacey Craft said she

believes this team can compete for the Pacific Coast Athletic Confer-ence (PCAC) crown.

“The sophomore class set a dif-ferent tone and work ethic than last year,” she said.

She continued, “They have put in more time and effort this season since they are hungry to be better than they were last year.” Coach Craft added that she believes this mentality has rubbed off on the freshmen as well.

Although the team has lost a few key players during the offsea-son due to injuries and personal reasons, Craft said the freshman class can successfully fill these holes.

Sophomore outfielder Jasmine Vogel and Sophomore pitcher Brenna Parker have been pegged by Coach Craft as the leaders of

this team.Vogel, who led the team last

year hitting .525, believes this off-season has been a success. “We started off with a lot of girls, but we have got it down to the girls that really want to be here and work hard consistently.”

Vogel has a lead-by-example approach for her younger team-mates. “I am going to show them how to conduct themselves on and off the field,” Vogel said.

Vogel’s teammate agreed.“This year’s team is more fo-

cused and driven to obtain a single goal: win ball games,” Parker said. “We expect to go hard every day to reach the playoffs and win our conference.”

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palomar softball player mercedes montez chases down haylee Williams as Jasmine Vogel (left) and Ashley Wisma watch during a team practice on Jan. 16. • Peter ahsue/Telescope

palomar left-handed pitcher anthony mciver pitches on Jan. 18 dur-ing team practice at Myers Field. • Peter Ahsue/Telescope

Palomar second baseman Matthew Matlock covers first base during a play at team practice on Jan. 18 at Myers Field. • Peter Ahsue/Telescope