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A Palomar film student died in a fiery wreck after colliding with a con-struction vehicle over the summer.

Spencer Smith, a 20-year-old Murrieta resident, died Aug. 2 from injuries sus-tained in a crash on Interstate 15 near the Old Highway 395 exit, according to a report from the San Diego County Medi-cal Examiner’s Office. His sedan swerved into a stationary construction vehicle in a mid-af-ternoon collision and was quickly engulfed in flames.

Smith attended film classes at Palomar for two years, his family said. He was described by friends as a budding filmmaker and versatile artist who also dabbled in music and drawing.

Family and friends gathered earlier this month to remember Smith’s life.

“What me and some others felt toward Spencer is truly unexplainable,” said longtime friend Adonay Pichardo. “It must be divine.”

Pichardo, who attends an art college, starred in and helped produce many of Smith’s film projects. A reel of music videos, time-lapse landscape panoramas and goofy buddy-clips made by Smith and his group of friends, who work under the collective title Undermovie Productions, was played after the service.

Joe Smith, Spencer’s father, said his son would have wanted his friends to carry on mak-ing movies and building Undermovie Produc-tions into a Hollywood-caliber business.

“That would be a great way to remember Spencer, to see that movie company take off,” Joe Smith said.

Spencer Smith took his keys and left home stressed on Aug. 2, according to his father. His mother, Patty, received a late-afternoon call in-forming her of the crash.

The wreck is under investigation by Califor-nia Highway Patrol officers in Oceanside.

“If he had a destination,” Pichardo said, “nobody knew.”Contact David Leonard, staff writer, at leonard@the-telescope.com

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Finance V.P. moves to new district, leaves gap in admin ranksAfter 20 years at Palomar College, Dr. Bonnie

Ann Dowd plans to resign, effective Aug. 31. Dowd currently serves as Palomar’s Assistant

Superintendent/Vice President Finance and Ad-ministrative Services. President Robert Deegan an-nounced Dowd’s resignation in an email on July 11 to all employees. Dowd will be joining the San Diego

Community College District as the Executive Vice Chancellor for Business Services. “Her leadership and commitment have been integral to the College’s success and growth,” Deegan said in the email. “Her years as a faculty member have touched the lives of many students, as well as her colleagues.”

Dowd is leaving Palomar because of her new op-portunity at a multi-college district.

“I have mixed emotions about leaving ... but I’m excited about the career opportunity,” she said.

The governing board has appointed an interim to take over Dowd’s position until they can perma-nently fill her place. Deegan sent out the job posting for Dowd’s replacement on Aug. 11.

Dowd has served in her current position since January of 2006, where she took responsibility in overseeing the district’s fiscal services; business and contract services; information services; and facilities

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Smoking is no longer allowed on Palomar College, the school’s governing board voted over the summer.

At the governing board meeting July 12, Palomar College officials voted to pass the smoking ban proposed last semester. The new ban is effective immediately. Students

will not be cited for smoking on campus but will be given literature to help quit smoking.

There will be more signs around campus reminding students that the campus is now smoke-free.

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Palomar displays a new banner between the palm trees by the main entrance to the college visable from Mission Road announcing the ban. (Deb Hellman/The Telescope)

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Palomar Campus Police’s policies concerning parking regulations will continue this semester, as students are required to display a parking permit on day one if they wish to park on-campus without receiving a citation. Parking permits are available at the cashier’s office and cost $40 for cars ($20 for BOG waiver recipients), and $20 for motorcycles. Citations typically start at $35 and increase depending on delinquency of payment. If fines are not paid the DMV is notified and a hold is placed the offending student’s vehicle, barring them from vehicle registration, as well as preventing students from registering for classes, according to the Campus Police website. (Photo illustration by Deb Hellman/The Telescope)

Governing Board President Mark Evilsizer called for a vote on the proposed ban without any further discussion. The board voted unani-mously to pass the smoking ban.

“It’s time we get real with the hazards of smoking, particularly sec-ond-hand smoke,” Evilsizer said in an interview with the North County Times.

Monika Brannick, who smokes, told the board that the smoking ban went against individual rights.

“I have no problem with (the smoking ban). I can go across the street, I have the leisure time to do that, but there are other employees and colleagues that do not have the time to do that.”

The smoking ban was largely supported by students in the spring semester and was championed by the school’s Associated Student Gov-ernment.

The governing board was sup-posed to vote on the smoking ban at the end of the 2011 Spring semester, but due to some administrative er-rors, the ban was delayed.

During the summer meeting, one Palomar student said the ban was necessary because smokers are infringing on the health of others. “I’ve gone up to students and said, ‘Excuse me, I just want to let you know this is a non-smoking area, here’s where they are,’ and you hear the student saying ‘Oh no, I’m not go-ing to walk that far, I’m just going to smoke right here,’” Palomar student Jennifer Knapic told the board.

Knapic added that students in the Palomar police academy should be assigned citing duties for stu-

dents who do not comply with the new smoking ban at the start of the 2011 Fall semester.

Brannick countered that many smokers feel attacked even when following the rules.

“I feel like there is something be-ing forced on me because I am again in a minority,” Brannick said.

According to sdcounty.ca.gov Grossmont College, Cuyamaca Col-lege, Mesa College in San Diego, Point Loma Nazarene College in San Diego, Southwestern College in Chula Vista, San Diego City College are all smoke-free campuses.

When asked what he thought about the ban, ASG Vice President Cody Dean said, “Campus police will not be handing out tickets, and students will not be written up or sent to the principal or anything like that, it is merely a policy to let students know that when they light up a cigarette on campus they are doing something that is frowned upon and disapproved of at Palomar College.”

The smoking ban has long been an issue that the ASG has been trying to accomplish. Former ASG President Channing Shattuck felt the smoking ban was a great accom-plishment.

“This is proof where the students determined a problem and the ASG determined the solution. That’s what they’re there for. This is abso-lutely a victory, for students and em-ployees alike at Palomar College,” Shattuck said.

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

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services. She was also respon-sible for overseeing the districts’ $100 million general fund and the $694 million Proposition M Bond.

Dowd also served as a tenured business professor for 16 years. She received several awards and honors during her career at Palomar.

“Palomar has been a wonderful place,” Dowd said. “Everyone there is wonderful – the faculty and the staff. I wouldn’t have been there for 21 years if it wasn’t.”

Dowd was involved in many

ways on campus. She served on numerous committees during her time at Palomar. Dowd also served as Faculty Senate President; Fac-ulty Senate Secretary and Senator; Faculty President and Vice Presi-dent; Faculty Academic Technology Coordinator; Faculty Professional Development Coordinator; and Business Education Department Chair.

Contact Sydnie Taylor, news editor, at staylor@the-telescope.com

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Palomar officials held a groundbreaking ceremony to commemorate the beginning of a complete overhaul of the Howard Bubeck Theatre.

Palomar faculty, governing board members, district officials and students attended the cer-emony. July 28 in front of the per-forming arts complex.

To kick off the ceremonies, officials thanked attendees for making the renovations possible through the enactment of Propo-sition M, a $694 million bond measure created to help revive Palomar’s campuses.

“You (the voters) will provide a valuable learning experience for our students,” Dean Norma Miyamoto said on behalf of As-sistant Superintendent Berta Cuaron. “This will be a new era of learning and performing.”

“When completed this per-forming arts complex will be second to none,” said Darrell McMullen Vice President of Palo-mar’s Governing Board.

McMullen was one of several Palomar representatives to speak about the outlook of the project. “This will be a state-of-the-art facility worthy of the outstand-ing performing art students we

have here at Palomar,” said Bon-nie Ann Dowd vice president of Finance and Administrative Ser-vices.

Dowd explained the renovat-ed theater will include state-of-the-art lighting, a new black box theater and new dance studio. One concern many of the speak-ers emphasized was what is to become of the Performing Arts Department during construction.

The renovation is estimated to

take 20 months and requires the performing arts classes to move to temporary locations scattered around campus.

“We recognize the overwhelm-ing task but we are sure it will be worth while,” McMullen said.

“I do want to assure that dur-ing the projected period of con-struction we will continue to be an active performing arts depart-ment,” said keynote speaker, Pe-ter Gach Performing Arts Depart-ment chair. “With an emphasis on the –ing in performing.”

“An active performing arts program on a community college campus is a statement of a bold kind,” Gach said. “It is saying the arts belong to everyone and are created by everyone for every-one.”

Following Gach’s speech the governing board and vice presi-dents stepped forward and cer-emonially broke ground with a chrome shovel.

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

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A digital rendering of the new performing arts complex. (Mea Daum/ Palomar College)

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EDITORIAL BOARD MISSION

The Telescope editorial board seeks to explain, deconstruct and keep campus government accountable.

Device is prepared for use to restrain a baby during circumcision procedure in pediatrician’s office. (Mark Dufrene/McT campus)

A San Diego-based group wants voters to outlaw circumcisions.

Their mission is a righteous one. Circumcision of infant boys violates their basic rights.

In 2005, the American Association of Pediatrics restated its circumcision policy and announced it would not recommend its routine use. But an astounding number of Americans still circumcise their infant boys and believe it is well within their rights to do so. They’re wrong.

According to the Cornell University Law School’s website, children and adults possess equal rights under the “equal rights” clause of the 14th amendment to the Constitution.

Circumcision is a permanent alteration to the anatomy, and it follows a man into adulthood and partially shapes his sexual identity. In infancy, it is a non-consensual, cosmetic procedure that arguably no one but the most religious of individuals would ever agree to have performed on themselves if it wasn’t forced on them.

While the decision to circumcise isn’t one that is always made out of religious tradition, there does appear to be a strong correlation between those who are religious and those who circumcise their infants even if it isn’t necessarily done for religious reasons.

In 2007, the overall number of American men who reported being circumcised was 75 percent. In Australia, of males 16-to-59, it was 59 percent in 2006. In the UK, of males 16-to-44, it was 16 percent in 2003. In China, among males 3-to-23, only 2.7 percent were circumcised in 2008. The website also

indicated that a majority of men in middle-eastern countries have been circumcised, according to circinfo.org.

Even accounting for the age discrepancies in these samples, men in the more religious countries had the procedure performed in much greater numbers.

The primary secular argument for circumci-sion is AIDS prevention. A few studies, conducted in small communities mostly in the third-world, have shown that men who have been circumcised display a lowered incidence of HIV and AIDS. But as wonderful as this may sound, circumcision will only serve as a preventative measure for a sexually active person. Circumcision will not help infants who contract the disease as a result of the mother, and because infants are not sexually active, there is absolutely no reason to have it performed on a male before he can consent.

UNICEF, an organization that supports circumci-sion in countries like Kenya, reports that Japan and Germany, two countries that perform circumcision at lower rates than in America, report a similar number of AIDS-related deaths.

UNICEF also refers to any form of female circumcision as genital mutilation, even though the purported benefits are the same.

Every individual, however young, should be en-titled to a degree of control over their body. A per-son’s religious rights should end with that person.

Contact Shaun Kahmann, opinion editor, at skahmann@the-telescope.com

Put the cancer sticks away kids, because effective Aug. 22, students can’t smoke anywhere on campus, including areas that had been for-merly designated for lighting up, due to a new campus-wide ban passed by the Board of Trustees in July.

We, at the Telescope have sup-ported a campus-wide smoking ban for years, and have watched as the bans were repeatedly shot down in spite of overwhelming student sup-port and the Associated Student Government’s best efforts to move forward with a ban last spring. However, as glad as we are that the Board of Trustees has finally green-lit a ban, we feel that the manner in which the ban was passed left stu-dents out of the loop, and the lack of enforcement implied by the ban may only serve to make the prob-lem worse.

For starters, the ban does not empower campus police to issue ci-tations for on-campus smoking. This essentially means the ban, while all-encompassing, will not be enforced. The only measures this new policy stipulates is that notices about the ban will be posted around campus and those students who are caught smoking will be offered classes: As if smokers didn’t already know smoking was bad for them.

In addition to a lack of enforce-ment measures, the ban also does away with designated smoking areas. This is understandable con-sidering this is an outright ban, but because tickets will not be issued to offending students, and the des-ignated areas successfully encour-aged at least some of Palomar’s smoking population to congregate in said areas, students will likely be found lighting up anywhere they like, in even greater numbers than they were before.

The way the Board enacted the ban in also an issue. Passing it just as the spring 2011 semester ended, many students will not know of the ban until they arrive on campus for their fall classes. The problem with this is two-fold.

First, it seems a little weak-kneed on part of the board to pass this when seemingly no one was looking. And while it is known that the majority of students support a ban, students in opposition never had an opportunity to voice their opinion.

The second problem is aware-ness. If the board had passed a ban while a large percentage of the stu-dent population was actually in at-tendance and frequenting the cam-pus on a regular basis, spreading awareness would have likely been much easier than it will be in the coming months.

As it is now, students will likely return to campus assuming noth-ing has changed and light up just as they did before. And they will have the convenient excuse of not know-ing about the ban, courtesy of the Board of Trustees. As of this writing there is still nothing on the Palomar College website homepage that mentions the ban.

We applaud the Board for try-ing to do right by students with ill-nesses and health issues who would otherwise be resigned to inhaling second-hand smoke. But the way they went about doing it, coupled with the complete lack of enforce-ment measures, make this a hallow victory. We expect more from the Board of Trustees.

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Child circumcision violates 14th amendment rights

Smoking ban won’t work without teeth

Welcome to the 21st century Palomar — or not.

When the Governing Board quietly passed a long-anticipat-ed campus smoking ban over the summer, it looked like the college had come to its senses. Finally, officials seemed ready to leave the smoky 1960’s behind and join the ranks of restau-rants, hotels and beaches across California that no longer accept smokers.

If only. . .Perhaps the college gover-

nors crossed their fingers under the table when they voted to ban smoking. Or maybe they were holding a cancer stick, or two, be-hind their backs.

The new regulation, it turns out, is an elaborate ruse.

It has no teeth – no enforce-ment mechanism, no way for police or campus safety officers

to actually stop an errant addict. The board’s decision states vio-lators may not be targeted with “disciplinary” action.

That’s right, despite the fact that it has been 47 years since the U.S. Surgeon General is-sued a landmark report saying cigarettes were bad for you, our college still refuses to take real, significant action to curtail smoking on campus.

“It’s time we get real with the hazards of smoking, particu-larly second-hand smoke,” board President Mark Evilsizer told the North County Times after the ban was implemented.

Funny stuff, right?Here’s the skinny: this ban

needs to be strengthened to ac-tually do something. We cannot sit idly by while the selfish puff-puff into our faces.

The solution: the board should

amend the ban to include a hefty penalty for any student (or staff) who decides they want to give us lung cancer. First-time offenders can cough up $10. Second-timers and on should pay $50.

All monies collected from fines for smoking ban offend-ers should be committed toward smoking cessation programs, in-cluding free non-credit courses to give students the tools to over-come addiction and the distribu-tion of nicotine patches or other products to aid in quitting.

This is 2010 people.In San Diego, you cannot

smoke at the beach, in Petco Park or Qualcomm Stadium. And California restaurants long ago eliminated in-house smok-ing sections.

Get wise, Palomar, or we’ll all be stuck in the past. And the past smells terrible.

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4 [A&E] Aug. 22, 2011

This summer was an incredibly hectic one. It seemed to me like the time was so precious I didn’t re-ally stop and enjoy the good things about summer: a beach sunset, a lazy day spent in the freshly-cut grass, a morning surf session. Every-thing great about summer seemed too outdated for these modern times and busy schedules, but one thing endures: summer flings.

They come in all shapes and forms. They can be a hottie at an ex-otic summer getaway or the cutie in the back of the class taking her last class before transferring to a far off university. Whatever way they come about, it can be an extremely excit-ing and passionate thing to experi-ence.

According to LoveisRespect.org summer flings are a great way to meet someone that you wouldn’t otherwise have met, whether it’s someone on a vacation or someone who is normally too busy.

During my personal experience with a summer fling I enjoyed the most carefree kind of love. There’s something definitely liberating when you’re able to escape the pres-sure of having to make a relationship work and you’re allowed to just en-joy the perks of romance and love as well as passion. We savored the good times because we knew there was a limited supply. I remember going in the ocean with our clothes on and rolling on the beach just completely in sync with each other and out of tune with the rest of the real world.

The best things about summer, especially in Southern California, are the beach and summer nights; combine the two and you’ve got the perfect setting for a great time with a summer fling. However sexy Hollywood makes it seem, sex on the beach can be messy and rather uncomfortable, best bet is to take a blanket; like so many other things: a little preparation goes a long way.

In the event that a summer fling defies the odds and endures the colder nights in September, it’s al-ways good to remember that school and work will take a toll on the re-lationship and things may not go as easy as they did in the lazy days of summer when sleeping in until noon was a viable option for a Wednesday.

Keep the relationship fresh by having a date at the old summer hangout. It’ll be good to revisit a place when the days seem endless and the relationship was free of some of the pressures of life as a col-lege student.

UniversityLanguage.com advises that you should always be upfront in any relationship; at no other time is open communication and mutual understanding more important than during a summer romance. The best thing to do is talk about one anoth-er’s expectation before anyone gets their hopes up. Get on the same page, be safe and enjoy.

WHAT’S HAPPENIG

Tuesday, Aug. 23- Derek and the Evergreens @ The Belly Up, Solana Beach

Thursday, Aug. 25 - Salute to the Rolling Stones - Listen to the Stones most famous songs through the sounds of the San Diego Symphony @ The Embarcadero Marina, Downtown 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $17 - $76.

Friday, Aug. 26- The Butthole Surfers @ 4th&B, Downtown- The Airborne Toxic Event @Del Mar Summer Concert Series

Saturday, Aug. 27- Aizen @ Brick by Brick, Linda Vista- Beach Blanket Movie Night - Settle down and watch the surf film “Stoked and Broke” at the seventh annual free movie night @Fletcher Cove, Solana Beach 6 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 28- 100 Monkeys @ HoB, Downtown- Art Walk - Walk a one-mile stretch of Highway 101 at the Leucadia Art Walk, enjoy live music, art and a beer garden @10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Downtown Encinitas

Finding carefree romance in a summer fling

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

Above: The “In Their Own Words” exhibit is on display at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park through Sept. 5. (Natalie Soldoff/The Telescope)

Below: “Mermaids Brother” by RobertFreeman is an acrylic painting that was created in 2010 and is on display at Mingei. (Natalie Soldoff/The Telescope)

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A Palomar professor has helped showcase what it is like to be a southern Californian Native American in a museum exhibit downtown.

The exhibit “In Their Own Words” on display at the Mingei International Museum in Bal-boa Park is a gathering of Native American art that spans hun-dreds of years.

Running through Sept. 5. the exhibit blends classical Native American art with contemporary paintings by southern Californian Native American artists.

Adjunct American Indian Art professor Jennifer Garey was in-vited to put together the exhibit after a planned gallery show fell through, she said.

“Usually museums will plan

exhibits for 3 to 5 years out,” Gar-ey said. “I told them if I’m going to do the show in this time period I have an exhibit I’ve always want-ed to do, and they said, ‘Go for it.’”

The exhibit’s classical art on display in glass cases placed throughout the gallery floor hold ancient pottery, 19th Century wo-ven baskets and jewelry made from silver coins, turquoise and bones.

The walls are lined with con-temporary sketches and paintings created by four southern Cali-fornian Native American artists hand picked by Garey.

Chosen because of their unique styles, the artists showcase an array of personal messages about Native American identity and culture.

“We incorporate things around us and what’s going on in our life into what we are doing, I wanted

to show that,” Garey said.She added that she wanted to

create a connection between the audience and the art.

“Every visitor is different, ev-ery person is going to have a dif-ferent reaction to different art-ists,” Garey said. “As long as there is some sort of connect and under-standing between art and viewer, my job is done,” she added.

To view the exhibit you will have to pay an admission fee of $8. If you bring a student ID the cost drops to $5.

The Mingei International Mu-seum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

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

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BY JOEL RAMOSBETWEEN THE SHEETS

Paying for college is very troubling during these hard economic times, but there are many scholar-ships available that students are missing.

To some students, financial aid is confusing but little do they realize that knowing more about the scholarship process could save them thousands of dollars when trying to cover the cost of their edu-cation.

“Scholarships come in a va-riety of forms, but are generally considered to be ‘free money’ for college,” Professor Alan Lechusza Aquallo said. Unlike loans, scholarships do not have to be repaid to the scholarship provider.

There are hundreds of mil-lions of dollars in scholarship monies available in the United States, and many, if not most of these scholarships are attainable by regular students with regular accomplishments.

A Palomar counselor, April Woods, said that there is a common misunder-standing that scholarships are only for “straight-A” students. In reality, there are all types of scholar-ships, including for those with less than perfect ac-ademic records. Some scholarships are for athletes, some are for students planning to study in specific fields, and others are for community service. Some scholarship providers just want to reward students for living in a certain city or state.

Several different types of providers issue schol-arships: clubs and organizations, charitable founda-tions, businesses, schools, universities, government agencies, and others.

Students also mistakenly believe that only college-bound high school seniors can apply for

awards, said another counselor, Katie Morris. Scholarships are available for all levels of college study, from freshman undergrads to graduate and doctorate students. There are also scholarships available for non-traditional and returning adult students.

“Finding scholarships can be a very time-consuming process and sometimes you run upon scams and it’s just flat out difficult,” student Abby Klass said.

But according to Professor Dillon Emerick, if students use a reputable and accurate scholarship search service on the Internet, like Scholarshi-pExperts.com or just talk to a counselor, students would save a lot of time. He also added that students should contact the Financial Aid office at the college or university they plan to attend to learn if they qual-ify for any awards provided by the school.

Each scholarship appli-cation has its own deadline.

There are thousands of scholarship programs with spring and summer deadlines, and thousands more with fall and winter deadlines. The key is to never stop searching for new scholarships, even after be-ginning the freshman year in college. A good rule is to continue searching for scholarships for the dura-tion of the college career.

The bottom line is this, said Professor Aquallo, “You don’t have to be a superstar to win scholar-ship awards — but you will probably feel like one when you pay for your tuition with free money!”

For information on Palomar’s scholar-ship and financial aid opportunites, visit http://www.palomar.edu/fa/.

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BACK TO SCHOOL

BEAUTY TIPS

Just because summer’s long gone doesn’t mean the fun has to be. Just take one sip of this Strawberry-Co-conut Daiquiri and it will take you right back to those carefree, sizzling hot days of summer, minus that nas-ty sunburn.

This fresh-off-the-vine cocktail is overloaded with the delicious taste of real, juicy strawberries. And the tanginess of lime juice adds a little kick, while the coconut flavored rum adds a rich, tropical taste that just screams summer.

But the best part about this drink is that it’s only 112 calories! So not only is it packed with flavor but it’s also full of Vitamin C, fiber and anti-oxidants. You won’t have to sacrifice your summer beach body for this frosty treat!

It’s super easy to create it at home; all you need is a blender, some measuring cups and a chilled glass. Combine the chopped straw-berries, sugar and lime juice togeth-er in a blender. Blend that until it’s smooth and then add in the ice and rum and blend it until it’s nice and frothy. Lastly, just pour into an ice cold glass and enjoy!

And if you want to add a little bit of a kick to this sweet drink, run a lime around the rim of the glass and cover the rim with some lemon-lime flavored sugar.

If there’s one thing that can hold you over until next summer, it just might be this.

Disclaimer: You must be at least

21 years of age to enjoy this bever-age. Do not drink and drive and please drink responsibly.

Welcome back ladies! Classes are in session, but it doesn’t look like the summer heat is going anywhere.

It’s no secret that looking good is a must for the new semester, so I, with a little help from those girls over at Glamour.com, have picked out some back to school beauty tips, that will help your skin beat the heat and look fabulous for fall.

These high temperatures obvi-ously play a number on your skin and the look you want to go for is a subtle glow, not an oily mess. To start with, try exfoliating your skin with a wash cloth two to three times a week, it will wash away all the dead skin cells and let your fresh, healthy skin shine through.

The next step is a primer. Make up primers are every girl’s secret weapon to keep the oil low and stay-ing power high. Primers even out skin tone and allow your make up to stay, so use one daily before make up application and let it soak in for about five minutes.

And the best part is that most primers contain SPF so you’ll be fighting off harmful rays while look-ing good. Your make up will thank you.

Glamour Magazine suggests to get that perfect dewy look, without looking sweaty, simply dampen your make up sponge and then apply your foundation. It will go on so light and even, it will make the dullest skin shine.

Another trick of the trade to keeping your make up from melting off is hairspray. Yes, not only does it keep your hair in place, it can get your make up to stick.

After you’re completely done ap-plying your make up, lightly spray your face. Don’t go Jersey Shore cra-zy with the hair spray because you want to make it lock in your make up, not make it sticky.

If all else fails and you find your-self half way through the day with a little shine, stop into the restroom and blot your face with a seat protec-tor.

I swear by this little trick, it soaks up any excess oil and is a free alter-native to those pricey oil absorb pa-pers.

The first week back to school is stressful enough for any gal, so the last thing you should have to worry about is your skin. Try some of these tips and tricks so you will be able to glow from the inside out.

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LIFE, LOVE & LIP GLOSSSIP OF THE WEEK

6 [Sports] Aug. 22, 2011

Colleen PetersThe Telescope

For some, it may be difficult to imagine working with a sibling. But for Joe and Dan Early, two of Palomar’s football coaches, it makes their jobs enjoyable.

“I don’t think, ‘I’m going to work with my brother,’ I’m just going to work. It does make it easier,” Dan said. “We can troubleshoot with each other and bounce ideas off each other. It really makes for a nice work environment to know that we can do that.”

According to Palomar’s website, Joe is in his 20th season coaching and 9th season as head coach at Palomar. This is Dan’s 13th year as an assistant coach for Palomar.

Prior to coaching, both Joe and Dan played football for California State University Long Beach, be-fore the program was disbanded. At Long Beach, Joe played defense, while Dan played offense. Joe said that may be a reflection of who they are as people, Joe being the more competitive of the two.

“I am probably competitive to a fault at times, and that’s just always been my mindset,” Joe said.

“He’ll play harder, I’ll just play smarter,” Dan quipped.

The brothers grew up in Escon-dido and attended Orange Glen High School. As a kid, Dan remem-bers watching Joe play football at Palomar, and it was part of why he returned to Palomar his first two seasons.

“I used to be able to come, as a little kid... in the end zone running around. I came back because it is the community that I grew up in,” Dan said. “There are some things that I want to instill in some guys that, realistically, I don’t think I was smart enough to figure out on my own for a while.”

The brothers have an eight-year age difference, and were never able to play on the same team. However, Head Coach Joe Early did coach his younger brother when Dan played for Palomar. It may sound like a tricky situation to be in, but Joe didn’t think of it that way.

“He had to compete for the right

to play. Based on that competition was going to de-termine who was going to play,” Joe said. “I think that is how you earn respect. I think it helped me earn the respect of the players, be-cause they saw that I wasn’t playing favoritism.”

Today, the brothers know that they have to work together and get down to business. Now they aren’t just brothers, they are co-workers. And just like when Joe coached Dan, Joe is still in charge.

“As the head coach, what I do now is, I have the ability to go from position to position, watch the drills, put my input in if need be, and re-ally manage the coaches,” Joe said.

Coach Joe Early focuses on the team as a whole. When a player needs instruction, Joe approaches the player as an individual, or speaks with the position coach to make the change. But, his coaching is not passive, and his players know how he operates.

“When Coach Joe Early wants something done, he will let you know and he will be a little loud about it,” said sophomore quarter-back David Fisher.

For his part, Dan works spe-cifically with the offensive players. When he makes a change, he ad-dresses the whole offense so that everyone is on the same page.

“When we come together, that is when my voice can be heard by everybody, so that there is not one thing that one person is saying that is different than I am saying. Be-cause then, the result can confuse the person,” Dan said.

When they leave the field they are not only close with one another, but with their siblings as well. Con-versations are not always focused on football, though.

“When you put all four of us

[brothers] together now that we are older, it’s kind of funny to have those conversations that we didn’t have growing up,” Dan said about his siblings. “It used to be just like ‘hey did you guys win?”

The brothers have a cohesive-ness that allows them to work closely and separate their work re-lationship from their personal rela-tionship. The Early brothers’ chem-istry both on and off the field is palpable and, that is something that the players say they appreciate. It not only helps with team cohesive-ness, it makes the team willing to play and learn from their coaches.

“You can see the chemistry of the two. Their coaching styles are pretty much the same,” Fisher said.

Contact Colleen Peters, opinion designer, at ccollins@the-telescope.com

Brothers team up as coaches on gridiron

Offensive Coach Dan Early (left) and Head Coach Joe Early (right) coach more then 120 players who showed up for fall practices on Aug. 12. (Deb Hellman/The Telescope)

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Matthew SlagleThe Telescope

Palomar’s football team needs a new quar-terback. Good thing there are six on the prac-tice field during summer and fall workouts.

With former quarterback Nate Ong now enrolled at Old Dominion for the Fall 2011 se-mester the Comets are looking to replace the 2,090 yards and 18 touchdowns Ong threw last season and the 226 yards and one touch-down he ran which contributed to the team’s 5-5 record.

The two potential replacements are front-runner sophomore David Fisher out of Vista High School and sophomore D.J. Zapata out of Mission Hills High School, who is also a transfer from Montana State.

Head football coach Joe Early said he is excited at the prospect of watching the two compete for the role during fall practices.

“They both bring a lot to the table, they are both mature guys and are athletic and it’s going to be a good battle,” he said. “I think having both of those guys is going to be an asset to our team and we will see how it plays out.”

This is Fisher’s second year at Palomar. Last year he was the third-string quarterback backing up Ong and Tynan Murray and only attempted two passes during the season. But

that history gives Fisher the upper hand for the starting spot.

During a recent prac-tice, Fisher showed his abil-ity to run in the first full pad

practice by busting out a six-yard run that was prematurely

blown dead by coaches to avoid contact and potential

injury.

“Me, I like to run the ball a little more. I am more of a dual-threat quarterback; I can run the ball and pass the ball,” Fisher said.

Zapata said he knows he is at a disadvan-tage against Fisher since Zapata spent last year at Montana where he never made it into a regular season game.

“It’s my first year in this offense, I am still catching up,” Zapata said. “(Fisher) has a leg

up because he has a year in this system.” Despite being behind in the playbook,

Zapata’s accuracy will come in handy once he does catch up.

“We are both really good quarter-backs and very different, he is

a great p o c k e t

passer, he has great accuracy,” Fisher said. In the end it will come down to who will be

able to help the Comets win the most games in 2011.

“I think we are both great leaders, so I don’t think it will be a matter of leadership, I think it will be a matter of decision making,” Zapata said. “We are both accurate; I would even give him a leg up with athleticism in the pocket.”

Sophomore wide receiver Nigel West-brook, who had 39 catches for 458 yards and one touchdown, said he thinks it will be a tough decision to choose between Fisher and Zapata.

“They both bring something completely different to the table, that’s the tough

part,” Westbrook said. “I got a bias be-cause D.J. was my quarterback in high school. D.J. is more of a pocket passer and David’s got legs.”

Even sophomore Safety Devin Tav-erna, who led the defense with three

interceptions and 78 tackles last year, said he thinks it will be a

tough call to name the starter. “They are both great quar-terbacks, they are both very smart,” he said.

“Fisher is very good at getting out of the pocket and

making a play and D.J. will sit back there and pick the defense

apart,” Taverna added. “Whatever the coaches decide is going to be a

great decision.” In the end it might end up being

a platoon where both Fisher and Za-pata get game time, depending on the situation.

“Each guy does something a little different, David can do some things where he is strong suited and D.J. can do some things where he is strong suited. So it might be a situation where D.J. is in and having him do things David wouldn’t do and David might be in doing things D.J. wouldn’t do,” Coach Early said. “So it gives us a lot of flexibility and a lot

of options.”

Younger, deeper team this yearReturning only a few starters

from last year’s team, mostly on the defensive side, the

team is decidedly younger.Despite the youth, Coach Early said he

thinks there is more talented depth this year. “We are real young; we have over 100

freshman and new guys in here,” he said. “We only have about 10 guys off of last year’s team that have any playing experience.

“We are going to be really young, but we are going to be athletic and guys are flying around on both sides of the ball. It’s a work in progress, but we are excited.”

As one of the returning wide receivers Westbrook agreed, “We are real young and have very few returners that have playing time last year. We have a lot of talent; I think we have more talent than we did last year. We have a few weeks to get everybody on board.”

Westbrook added that helping the young-er players catch up and showing the coaches they can get the fundamentals down is a big part of the veteran players’ job during sum-mer and fall practices.

“We are so young right now we are just try-ing to show them we know the plays,” he said. “Knowing where to line up, knowing about what we are trying to achieve on the play and a lot of guys don’t know that yet. They already know what we can do athletically; we just need to show them the mental part.”

First practice in full pads The afternoon practice on Aug. 13 was the

first practice in full pads. Energy and testos-terone was high as players got to hit other players for the first time.

There was a lot of smack talking as the of-fense and defense scrimmaged.

As the leader of the defensive unit last year, Taverna said he was excited to don pads.

“It’s fun, coming from the defensive side of the ball,” he said. “That’s what you look for-ward to.”

Despite being a quarterback, Fisher said he too was excited to bang some heads.

“I ran a few people over running the ball so it felt good,” he said. “For me, it was defi-nitely a fun day. I thought it went better than it would go. Overall, it is great to be back in pads. It has been too long.”

While the players were excited to start hit-ting each other, Coach Early said he was more concerned with the level of play on the field: “I think it went okay. Obviously we aren’t where we need to be or want to be, but we had a good start. The guys are working hard.”

Fisher also mentioned the need to im-prove the players’ discipline. “Our biggest thing is be disciplined, know where we are go-ing, know your assignment and go balls to the walls and just go fast.”

Coach Early talked about how the coach-ing staff stressed the importance of a high-energy level from the very first day.

“That’s one thing we have been talking about all summer,” he said. “We talked about it in our orientation and the guys are respond-ing and that’s the key.

“When the kids respond to what the coaches are giving them that’s a good sign. We want to keep that energy level up as high as we can on a consistent basis,” Early added.

Notes• Quarterback Miles Godfrey from Orange

Glen High School will greyshirt this season to preserve his four years of eligibility as Fisher and Zapata battle for the starting spot.

• Running back Jacob Kuchinski, Rancho Buena Vista High School, injured his ankle during practice on Aug. 13, he is likely out for the year and will redshirt.

• As of Aug. 13 there were around 120 guys regularly attending practice. Coach Early an-nounced plans to trim down the roster to 99 by their season opener against Southwestern on Sept. 2 at 6 p.m.

Contact Matthew Slagle, online and multimedia editor, at mslagle@the-telescope.com

Young football team looks for new QB

Above: Running back Joel Yosevitch getting tackled by (left) linebacker Jeremiah Kosh and (right) David Moodie during the first practice in pads on Aug 13. Bottom left: Potential starting quarterback David Fisher throw’s the ball to a reciever during fall practice. Bottom right: Potential starting quarterback D.J. Zapata in the middle is shown throwing the ball during fall practice. (Deb Hellman/The Telescope)

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